If you're a systems type working at any US national security TLA*, your job is going to get a whole lot harder. Maybe your whole life, since you're going to be under massively more suspicion and scrutinly ALL THE TIME. And the tools you need to do your job (not just software tools, but interactions and communications with those you're supporting) will be harder to use, and much more restricted, and viewed with more suspicion.
NSA may just wind up cutting itself off at its technical knees in a rampage of self-inspection and the internal purges I suspect are underway right now.
*TLA: Three-Letter Agency. By odd coincidence, most organs of the U.S. intelligence apparatus seem to name themselves by three-word names, and therefore are colloquially named by three-letter initialisms.
Will it still leak oil straight off the showroom floor like a '57 Jaguar?
Or, more relevantly, will it leak fuel straight off the assembly line floor like its predecessor?
At rest on the ground, fuel leaks out constantly, since the tanks in the fuselage and wings only seal at operating temperatures. There is little danger of fire since the [SR-71's special] JP-7 fuel is very stable with an extremely high flash point.
How many times to you see a clerk walk up to a 16 year old girl and point out neckties or walk up to a 80 year old man and point out capri pants?
Since you're asking for anecdotes, I'll answer with one. "Never." As in "never, does a clerk walk up and presume they know what I need." Instead, in my country*, they walk up and ask if I need help. And they accept when I tell them I don't. And stop bothering me.
Which doesn't seem to be a viable option any more, thanks to Minority Report Jr.
*In my case, the United States of America. We have many things badly screwed up, but "sales associates" still know their place.
So, your anecdote suggests a good general rule: "To maximize the user experience of using Windows 8.1, use as little Windows 8.1 as you can get away with."
Running Headless Horseman event ONE MORE TIME on every character eligible, then weeping inconsolably and raiding the kids' candy buckets when I don't get the Horse of the Headless Horseman mount in spite of over 50 attempts. Because World of Warcraft is fun!
I think the issue is they (police) do not know what else you are doing, such as playing tetris at a stop light
More to the point, the police can make a safe bet that whatever's being displayed in Google Glass is completely unrelated to the safe operation of a motor vehicle. Whereas the contents of a HUD in a warplane is 100% concerned with the operation of the aircraft. No "Words With Friends" plugin there, and aircrews already have perfectly usable hands-off voice comm to eliminate texting.
The comparison fails at the most fundamental level: a HUD is constrained to the mission, but a Google Glass is open-ended within its capabilities (comparable to a smartphone). Which means that Glassing while driving is almost certainly a distraction, not an enhancement, because of all the things it can do, only a couple might be legitimate at the wheel (like GPS, for instance).
Ya gotta love Slashdot... a lecture on the unreality of one trivial but effective plot detail in a clearly admitted pseudo-SF fantasy series involving immortal time travelers and neverending existential threats to (fictional) life throughout the (fictional) multidimensional multiverse.
I find your selective lack of suspension of disbelief amusing.
Well, a corp with smart non-majority shareholders who are also CxOs or directors, and with zombie puppet majority shareholders, would certainly act a lot like a corp with ravenous smart aggressive majority shareholders, in terms of greed and evil. Just that the evil plans are hatched and managed in fewers brains.
Capt. Ragnaros yells: TOO SOON! YOU HAVE AWAKENED ME TOO SOON, SGT. EXECUTUS! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS INTRUSION?
Sergeant Executus yells: These mortal infidels, my lord! They have invaded your sanctum and seek to steal your secrets!
Capt. Ragnaros yells: FOOL! YOU ALLOWED THESE INSECTS TO RUN RAMPANT THROUGH THE HALLOW COMMAND CENTER? AND NOW YOU LEAD THEM TO MY VERY LAIR? YOU HAVE FAILED ME, EXECUTUS! JUSTICE SHALL BE MET, INDEED! [pulls out pistol and shoots hapless Sergeant]
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I can safely predict one thing:
If you're a systems type working at any US national security TLA*, your job is going to get a whole lot harder. Maybe your whole life, since you're going to be under massively more suspicion and scrutinly ALL THE TIME. And the tools you need to do your job (not just software tools, but interactions and communications with those you're supporting) will be harder to use, and much more restricted, and viewed with more suspicion.
NSA may just wind up cutting itself off at its technical knees in a rampage of self-inspection and the internal purges I suspect are underway right now.
*TLA: Three-Letter Agency. By odd coincidence, most organs of the U.S. intelligence apparatus seem to name themselves by three-word names, and therefore are colloquially named by three-letter initialisms.
I sued there because he could win there.
Welcome to Slashdot, Mr. Mosely.
I'd like to introduce you to a couple of our friends here: Barbra Streisand, and the Preview Button.
Reminds me of the famous bumper sticker (paraphrased for context):
"Bite my lip and close my eyes,
Take me away to paradise..."
-- "Longview"
Will it still leak oil straight off the showroom floor like a '57 Jaguar?
Or, more relevantly, will it leak fuel straight off the assembly line floor like its predecessor?
http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/sr-71/
I ate in a U.S. Army chow hall (operated by the very lowest of bidders) for years on end. I'm gastrointestinally indestructible.
The panopticon is the same, regardless of whether it's operated by the State or some random corporation.
You're shilling pretty hard for this. You need to disclose your interests in the topic.
How many times to you see a clerk walk up to a 16 year old girl and point out neckties or walk up to a 80 year old man and point out capri pants?
Since you're asking for anecdotes, I'll answer with one. "Never." As in "never, does a clerk walk up and presume they know what I need." Instead, in my country*, they walk up and ask if I need help. And they accept when I tell them I don't. And stop bothering me.
Which doesn't seem to be a viable option any more, thanks to Minority Report Jr.
*In my case, the United States of America. We have many things badly screwed up, but "sales associates" still know their place.
It is never too late to turn something off.
And yet, even if turning it off is waaaay overdue, does it ever happen? Let's ask the PATRIOT Act.
Tesco is a British chain and brand.
In keeping with history and culture, I recommend Guy Fawkes masks instead.
A useful benefit is that you'll find out what types of advertising recommendations Anonymous members usually get.
So, your anecdote suggests a good general rule: "To maximize the user experience of using Windows 8.1, use as little Windows 8.1 as you can get away with."
Makes perfect sense.
Seriously, people, learn some respect and manners. It won't kill you.
And even if it does, it'll give your buds some good opportunities to take more selfies at your funeral, so it's all good.
Running Headless Horseman event ONE MORE TIME on every character eligible, then weeping inconsolably and raiding the kids' candy buckets when I don't get the Horse of the Headless Horseman mount in spite of over 50 attempts. Because World of Warcraft is fun!
I can build my drone control module and my drone swarms and take the battle to the dirty Methanoids!
The Solar System, and the entire Galaxy, will be Humanity's!
I think the issue is they (police) do not know what else you are doing, such as playing tetris at a stop light
More to the point, the police can make a safe bet that whatever's being displayed in Google Glass is completely unrelated to the safe operation of a motor vehicle. Whereas the contents of a HUD in a warplane is 100% concerned with the operation of the aircraft. No "Words With Friends" plugin there, and aircrews already have perfectly usable hands-off voice comm to eliminate texting.
The comparison fails at the most fundamental level: a HUD is constrained to the mission, but a Google Glass is open-ended within its capabilities (comparable to a smartphone). Which means that Glassing while driving is almost certainly a distraction, not an enhancement, because of all the things it can do, only a couple might be legitimate at the wheel (like GPS, for instance).
Ya gotta love Slashdot... a lecture on the unreality of one trivial but effective plot detail in a clearly admitted pseudo-SF fantasy series involving immortal time travelers and neverending existential threats to (fictional) life throughout the (fictional) multidimensional multiverse.
I find your selective lack of suspension of disbelief amusing.
"Because."
And also, "Just because."
And finally, "Do you want some of this too? If not, shut up, mind your own business, and move along, Citizen."
Also, the government is not subject to any law it finds inconvenient, limiting, or uncomfortable. Or any damn law it feels like ignoring.
Okay, Poe's law and all that. I write a lot of colossally dumb stuff, and I struggle to separate the dumb stuff from fine comedy.
FTFY.
I know I'll never look at the Statue of Liberty quite the same way ever again.
I'm shocked. SHOCKED.
Markets, like life, find a way.
I don't know; a series of aluminum (or aluminium, since this story is English) tubes makes for a damn fine Internet.
OHM teh h@xx0rs are 3d-printing Intarwebz of Mass Destruction!!!!111oneoneelventyeleven
the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has received bipartisan support and has a real chance of passing.
This is absolutely true, because zero is a member of the set of real numbers.
Well, a corp with smart non-majority shareholders who are also CxOs or directors, and with zombie puppet majority shareholders, would certainly act a lot like a corp with ravenous smart aggressive majority shareholders, in terms of greed and evil. Just that the evil plans are hatched and managed in fewers brains.
Worst... Trap.... Evar.
Like Molten Core, without a lewtbomb and the end.