James Gleick brings this up often in his book entitled "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything"
It's an interesting read, focusing on the way society seems to be so time-oriented, losing sight of the truly meaningful things.
To all you people who haven't read the web site, it DOESN'T send the actual keystrokes, just the number of keys pressed since the last update. If you are really wary, you could just grab the packets that the program sends out, and look for your own-dumb-self to see that it doesn't contain all of your keystrokes(or any, for that matter) nor is it large enough to contain any confidential information. What...it should be 4-10 bytes at the most, BIG security risk.
Well, children aren't made in one day(yet), but we still recognize the day they are output to the world as their birthday, and not "the day of a childs expulsion from the womb".
It's a good read. I guess most of you by the time you read this will have read it. Everything he says in here has been told elsewhere, but this time it comes from the horses mouth, so I guess its authorative.
The CCD in the Gameboy camera only picks up infrared light which is near visible(red) light - which is approx. 780 nm i believe. The infrared light emitted by humans and animals would not be perceptable by the contraption, I think.
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James Gleick brings this up often in his book entitled "Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything" It's an interesting read, focusing on the way society seems to be so time-oriented, losing sight of the truly meaningful things.
To all you people who haven't read the web site, it DOESN'T send the actual keystrokes, just the number of keys pressed since the last update. If you are really wary, you could just grab the packets that the program sends out, and look for your own-dumb-self to see that it doesn't contain all of your keystrokes(or any, for that matter) nor is it large enough to contain any confidential information. What...it should be 4-10 bytes at the most, BIG security risk.
Wow This man...this is a work of art Not a very good work of art, but art none the less.
Well, children aren't made in one day(yet), but we still recognize the day they are output to the world as their birthday, and not "the day of a childs expulsion from the womb".
It's a good read. I guess most of you by the time you read this will have read it. Everything he says in here has been told elsewhere, but this time it comes from the horses mouth, so I guess its authorative.
The CCD in the Gameboy camera only picks up infrared light which is near visible(red) light - which is approx. 780 nm i believe. The infrared light emitted by humans and animals would not be perceptable by the contraption, I think.