This is just what Big Brother needs. Cheap mass storage to collect info from you will be a breeze now. Electronic sniffing noses, spy cams, facial recognition software, the Total Information Awareness project will all join together to track every thing about you, and store it on disc.
1000 hours of film footage of you, plus every transaction you have made with credit card, through paper work, and what have you, will all be put on one of these bad boys, and tin foil is not going to help.
Besides, in a battle of the (mega-)corporations, I'd root for Disney to beat Sony any time
I don't. Disney is making most of it's toys with slave labor in China at 30 cents an hour, from young teen aged female workers, for the most part, who work 12-14 hour days and get just 2 days off a month.
rppp01 writes "The BBC report'in that Lucas Arts putt'in the History of The Rise an' Fall of the Galactic Empire universe online this Decemb-a. Go here to read all about it. Mee-sa know lots of Gungans who now start'in to leave Everquest. this the next everquest? wee-sa have massive Star War fans call'in in so-sa woosy everyday in attempts to become jedi? Jar Jar be friend or foe?"
Weesa all sinking and no power.
Courtesy of the Jar-Jargonizer that translates online text into Jar Jar speak.
But sometimes the genie should not be taken out of the bottle. This will be of course eventually used for weapons. Think of small life forms targeted to attack certain ethnic groups, genders. Of course these things will mutate as well too.
Gene/L's 360 teraflops and 2 petabyte of storage space could store over 1 CD rom full of data on each and every one of us. Could have say, audio, video, 300 pages of raw data about things like what toothpaste we use.
These numbers will go up. Within a decade, they could store DVD size dossiers on the lot of us. Combine this with cameras with facial recognition capacity, and Maury the spook, can find out where you were at 7:35GMT.
I am sure this use has never occured to our benevolent leaders though.
If ya buy one of these things. Are they going to have jet parks in Oklahoma to park these bad boys, put some primer on them, and put bricks under the missing wheels?
Starting in the 80's, Universities began to rely less on government, and tuition, and more on private industry for the money to perform research.
This is a clear example of the bastardization of higher learning because of the influence of money. 2+2=4 even if the boys at Pfizer want it to be 5... It may be tempting sometimes to come up with the answer of 5, when somebody is paying you multi millions to do so.
Perhaps it is a good opportunity/time to re-evaluate the funding of research and development at universities. A proposal I would like to see is that government heavily subsidizes the research, but all the profits from products that come from the research are plowed right back into universities general funds, paying for more research as well as lower tuitions, and more outright scholarships.
The new congress might extend copyright protection to Shakespeare's great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson's nephew's out of wedlock kid's son whose paternity is in question.
OK... The FBI may or may not be bugging libraries. The FBI is closely in alliance with the Secret Service. The Secret Service is run by the Treasury Department. The Treasury Department is run by Paul O'Neil, who used to run Alcoa. Alcoa is the largest producer in the world of Tin Foil.
I actually would be willing to pay more than I am now, if they offered more options on channels and I could configure my own system.
It would be better to have 70 channels of things you want to watch, rather than have 125 channels which include 4 home shopping networks, oxygen, lifetime,5 gardening channels etc....
Letting the viewers decide what they want to pay for is quite a concept. What took em so long?
I am sure not a single hacker out there is going to investigate if Hillary Rosen has upgraded her software, and if they did so, it would only be to test her system, due to concern for her security and to warn her of possible problems.
You know Maury. That guy from high school. He is using Linux, I think. Well, that's what I heard. Maybe Scottie also. Maybe they should have their own frontpage story too.
People switching to Linux... not big news. Linus becoming Bill Gates' pool boy is news.
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if people tested out this network by trading only BMG files at first. Have to beta test and all though I suppose.
The digital divide is a real thing.
A quick example is Mcdonalds. They are so idiot proofing their operations right now, that I expect that within 10 years, they will seriously curtail their hiring of low skilled people. They have pictures of burgers and fries on their cash registers, pictures of the size of the drinks on the buttons at the soda machine, and dispensors that give out exact amounts of ketchup to put on the burgers. It is obvious that this is going to go robotic eventually when the price is justified.
Manual labor jobs such as housecleaning, gardening, fast food are going to dissapear. The people who only qualify for those jobs are not. The government can move along all it wants, but a guy with a 82 IQ is not going to get transitioned into being an IT worker.
The record companies seem to be trying to drive people into getting so pissed off at the lot of them, that they actually do stop buying albums in the store. This way they can get new legal remedies passed.
An analogy. You try to get a restraining order against some guy. The judge throws it out of court for lack of grounds. So you keep crank calling him, and egging his car, until he is so ticked off that you actually do need the protection.
Tweedle Dum in a late surge beat Tweedle Dee. Check that, our polling data might be a tad off.
Btw, anybody else depressed about their selection of candidates? I had a choice between corrupt Gray Davis, or incompetent Bill Simon. It was a tough choice. Voted green.
Anybody in the North Carolina care to explain Liddy Dole to me. What were you thinking?
With all the lawyers out there, I am sure there is one who agrees with you. If you feel shaky about it, cash out your stock options first, and update your resume
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I have never seen a code monkey in a well designed patterned outfit. I wonder if this book will help at all.
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1000 hours of film footage of you, plus every transaction you have made with credit card, through paper work, and what have you, will all be put on one of these bad boys, and tin foil is not going to help.
I don't. Disney is making most of it's toys with slave labor in China at 30 cents an hour, from young teen aged female workers, for the most part, who work 12-14 hour days and get just 2 days off a month.
I think I will root for somebody else.
Weesa all sinking and no power.
Courtesy of the Jar-Jargonizer that translates online text into Jar Jar speak.
They keep attaining hole records all the time. It just makes me wonder.
Life will find a way.
These numbers will go up. Within a decade, they could store DVD size dossiers on the lot of us. Combine this with cameras with facial recognition capacity, and Maury the spook, can find out where you were at 7:35GMT.
I am sure this use has never occured to our benevolent leaders though.
Imagine a beowolf of these things... Damn. On topic too.
If ya buy one of these things. Are they going to have jet parks in Oklahoma to park these bad boys, put some primer on them, and put bricks under the missing wheels?
This is a clear example of the bastardization of higher learning because of the influence of money. 2+2=4 even if the boys at Pfizer want it to be 5... It may be tempting sometimes to come up with the answer of 5, when somebody is paying you multi millions to do so.
Perhaps it is a good opportunity/time to re-evaluate the funding of research and development at universities. A proposal I would like to see is that government heavily subsidizes the research, but all the profits from products that come from the research are plowed right back into universities general funds, paying for more research as well as lower tuitions, and more outright scholarships.
Somebody has less of a life than me.
It blocks these sensors. But the Forbes people didn't want to let that out. Tin foil and duct tape are our last best hopes.
The new congress might extend copyright protection to Shakespeare's great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandson's nephew's out of wedlock kid's son whose paternity is in question.
MacGuyver isn't using that one anymore. Damn, I am a geek.
Chevy Chase: Emily, they are hyping XP tablets, not ecstasy tabs.
Emily Litella: I stand by my statement.
It all makes sense folks. The truth is out there.
It would be better to have 70 channels of things you want to watch, rather than have 125 channels which include 4 home shopping networks, oxygen, lifetime,5 gardening channels etc....
Letting the viewers decide what they want to pay for is quite a concept. What took em so long?
I am sure not a single hacker out there is going to investigate if Hillary Rosen has upgraded her software, and if they did so, it would only be to test her system, due to concern for her security and to warn her of possible problems.
How many of these laptops will fit inside of the Library of Congress? Maybe I asked the question backwards.
People switching to Linux... not big news. Linus becoming Bill Gates' pool boy is news.
if people tested out this network by trading only BMG files at first. Have to beta test and all though I suppose.
Manual labor jobs such as housecleaning, gardening, fast food are going to dissapear. The people who only qualify for those jobs are not. The government can move along all it wants, but a guy with a 82 IQ is not going to get transitioned into being an IT worker.
An analogy. You try to get a restraining order against some guy. The judge throws it out of court for lack of grounds. So you keep crank calling him, and egging his car, until he is so ticked off that you actually do need the protection.
Btw, anybody else depressed about their selection of candidates? I had a choice between corrupt Gray Davis, or incompetent Bill Simon. It was a tough choice. Voted green.
Anybody in the North Carolina care to explain Liddy Dole to me. What were you thinking?
With all the lawyers out there, I am sure there is one who agrees with you. If you feel shaky about it, cash out your stock options first, and update your resume
I have never seen a code monkey in a well designed patterned outfit. I wonder if this book will help at all.