Now is that a million first class air miles or cargo class in box. It kind of makes a big difference. If they are offering free trips in a aluminium death tube, they had better make them at least comfortable trips. Even better they could offer a million cruise ship miles, then the journey is the fun.
So perhaps key allergen tests are required at schools to measure specific allergen pattern responses and getting gene data based around that allergen testing. This prior to blanket immunisation, could be done at the birthing hospital prior to release of the child. Thus facilitating more safe immunisation as well as pointing out the child's future dietary et al problems to the parent prior to experiencing those problems.
The do not own the data, they just have a idea where it is and there power is not in providing access to it but in the exact opposite, hiding it. The dominant search engines power is not in providing access but in denying it by burying it on page, well any page beyond page 10 of search results. I sometimes do take a quick look at page 1 of the results and then skip to page 10 and beyond, sometimes those results are more interesting.
Well, I would suppose that means that image recognition is just a matter of opinion of the viewer of the image. Not so much artificial intelligence as bias in pattern recognition. Currently the best goal for artificial intelligence is accurate in context translation services. First the written word and then the spoken word.
I am sure 'MSpy' wrote in all sorts of stuff in the EULA to ensure that all your data belong to them. Perhaps they felt there was more money in selling the data than in looking after it. Unencrypted means only one thing, they did not care about keeping it secure internally ie they were already trawling through it all for the juicy bits. They do have a Seychelles office http://www.taxjustice.net/2014... which puts them immediately under extreme suspicion.
The other method is to simply be born a psychopath with an absence of conscience. So what point the test when 1% of the human population, 20% of the prison population and 50% of violent crimes are the statistics for psychopaths. So what are they trying to achieve, let 50% of violent crimes go unprosecuted when those psychopaths readily pass the test.
Paper Ballot. Manual count of votes with representatives of all those running for the election checking the count being done by paid election officials. Elections to be held on the weekend. More polling stations. More social event with charity drives ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... at the polling stations. As many people as possible involved in the election process. Democracy is about people and as should people should be involved as much as possible in it the most important element of democracy the vote. I am sick of cheap ass conservatives fucking up everything taking idiotic short cuts.
For fools like you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.... Who, you gonna call, no one. "Ice cores containing thin nitrate-rich layers have been analyzed to reconstruct a history of past solar storms predating reliable observations. Data from Greenland ice cores, gathered by Kenneth G. McCracken and others, show evidence that events of this magnitudeâ"as measured by high-energy proton radiation, not geomagnetic effectâ"occur approximately once per 500 years, with events at least one-fifth as large occurring several times per century. However, more recent work by the ice core community (McCracken et al. are space scientists) shows that nitrate spikes are not a result of solar energetic particle events, so use of this technique is in doubt. Beryllium-10 and Carbon-14 levels are considered to be more reliable indicators by the ice core community. These similar but much more extreme cosmic ray events, however, may originate outside the solar system and even outside the galaxy. Less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported. The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec. On July 23, 2012 a "Carrington-class" Solar Superstorm (Solar flare, Coronal mass ejection, Solar EMP) was observed; its trajectory missed Earth in orbit. Information about these observations was shared first publicly by NASA on April 28, 2014."
Now imagine the havoc of the inevitable solar flare on all this connectedness that can not run with out being connected. Keep in mind, major solar flare with our planet just happening to be in it's path is not if but when, it will happen. How long will it take to repair the damage when all the information systems required to repair the damage is down.
New regulations are required to ensure essential infrastructure can be maintained manually and repaired manually. That hard copies are retained on sites for repair and maintenance procedures.
One down the cloud will go down and go down hard for quite a long time in digital terms and it will cause huge problems.
Contractual obligations are not rights, don't get confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... That there are individuals who will seek to abuse the rights of others is indisputable, that many are psychopathic employers is also indisputable. Rights no, just over excessive contractual laws but keep in mind all contract law is subject to criminal and constitutional law. Apart from current corrupt practices, the law itself demands all peoples rights are equal, that has just been corrupted in application by corrupt individuals.
Either that or more women will be into playing computer games and watching porn and thus compatibility is re-achieved. So what is the real problem here, is it because playing computer games and watching free 'pron' is way, way cheaper then the older mass consumer demanded methods of male female social interactions. Expensive restaurant, theatre, suitable clothing, suitable jewellery, suitable car, suitable make-up and proof of interests by spending a suitably large amount of money on the relationship and of course the individual involved all pretending to be the marketable image of what a person should be. So wanted, gamer porn watching pal to share relationship or wanted mass consumerism victim of marketing pal to share relationship (you can guess which relationship will end up with a bigger bank balance and enjoy early retirement to spend more time playing games and watching free 'pron' together).
Is just that males have stopped buying into mass consumerism designed relationship before females, simply because males tend to be less socially conformist than females (hunter versus gatherer) and are women catching up https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
It looks like M$ will be shifting toi nickle and diming customers with Windows 10?(seriously version 10, buggers still can't count and a lamely copying apple again X=10). So you'll be paying for part upgrades at varying marketable intervals, for some bits months and for some bits years but over basically being forced to pay for the exact same software over and over and over and over and over ad nauseam (how many version are we actually up to) again. So smaller bites at more regular intervals, rather than a single bigger bite, easier to sell. So the first one will come with some bit of software padding bundled in to slowly warm up the frog 'er' spa.
Just because they own it, they do not have the right to track it when they lend it to you to use out of hours. So do landlords have the right to fit cameras in their rental properties, specifically in the bedroom and toilets, so they can sell the video obtained for profit. Their properties, their laws or is that a false premise. So corporate rights, is it all just PR=B$ in order to justify ego power trips by executives and a lust driven desire to control their employees lives.
If past history is anything to go by. What happens when governments bring in a publicly community minded person into a 'deputy' position? They are tooled around as propaganda pieces, whilst the same old same old keeps going along, until they finally quit in disgust and then they are attacked for being loonies, communists, unrealistic liberal thinkers or spies, often all of those at the same time. Uncle Tom Obama, the Choom Gang Coward, is not looking so cool any more and is desperate to rewrite his history so that it will more readily feed his ego and of course his recommendation to elect his partner in crime the so called or is that soon to be 'pretend socialist feminazi' Hillary Clinton.
So when it comes to slashdotters, who do they think the Uncle Tom will support, another corporate Clinton or Bernie and of course if the Uncle Toms name is mud what is his support worth.
You really don't need all that much CPU power to 'securely' push around data and that's is what will become the number focus for government, 'SECURELY' pushing around data. Any country that does not produce it own chips and tech components leaves itself a slave to those countries that do. A simple shut down code can be embedded anywhere in hardware and be virtually impossible to discover until activated. No country can be trusted with that kind of power over another country. One flick of the switch and all your infrastructure could be shut down, until all of the equipment controlling it has been replaced and this when all of the infrastructure needed to manage that replacement has been shut down. A completely manual process that would take weeks even months, with all digital communications shut down. With a population left to go hungry in the dark with the communications infrastructure required to manage food handling from farm, to processing, to warehousing, to retailing and of course computers in vehicles. Of course defence forces will have insured their transport vehicles are free of digital control systems to ensure electronic durability with a lack of electronics, oh wait. Computers are handy but they are as vulnerable as hell. One ill time major solar flare and we have some pretty severe problems, much like a now opposed country hitting the off switch (the country in the world least to be trusted, should be pretty bloody obvious to everyone by now, USA, USA, USA, well done - not).
If you read the indictment, they did not just create the code, they actually used it themselves and showed others how to use it by demonstrating it. Now of course comes much greater consequences, their customer base is also in the firing line and they will all be turned over for a reduced sentence. This could lead to a whole bunch of crimes being exposed.
The issue here is all about public relations and the reality being hidden behind it. LaGuardia Airport airport is a low lying airport basically surrounded by sea. So, shh, we are still playing denial, it is likely to be flooded by sea level rise(pretend you did not read that). So they are looking to replace before it 'er' 'um' is less able to serve the public need in 'er' 'um' changing economic circumstances and 'er' 'um' altered commercial demands. So expect a series of infrastructure projects based around relocating at risk infrastructure elements but being dressed up as anything but global sea level rise due to man made climate change. You simply can not wait for them to be flooded before doing something about it, so a whole serious of PR=B$ lies about a range of similar projects.
Not so much people but environmental conditions, the more lax the environmental laws the worse the problem and it seems it is substantially related to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.... It is becoming apparent that no amount was safe https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/healt... as further studies are indicating.
In fact if you look at the whole pseudo conservative pseudo Christian revival (people who claim to be something they behave nothing like) it is all likely tied to lead poisoning (pay close attention to the dominant average age in this group and thus the toxic lead polluted environment of their youth). They behave like brain damaged idiots because well, to be blunt, they are people suffering from the toxic effects of lead poisoning "No safe blood lead level has been identified" http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitori....
The reason higher intellect people seem to have escaped the problem, well, not you didn't, you just had capacity to spare and simply failed to achieve what you might have achieved but still remained socially democratic and more community minded (down the other end of the IQ scale, even a little damage can do a lot of harm).
From an old dude who actually experienced and understands employment cycles, the safest job market. Where once in, your are fairly safe and as long as you are relatively reliable will keep working. The job that can not be outsourced and it always local. In fact a hugely varied job in many markets, many labour conditions but fairly demanding working hours (not so much total but when you are needed you are needed). The one area of the market most people forget about except of course the experienced older generation because they know and don't often say. "ANYTHING TO DO WITH MAINTENANCE" fixing stuff. Pretty regular work and, insurance companies often pay the best. Lots of contractor type choices, people also tend to prefer older more experienced people. Older people tend to drift to it but nepotism brings in it's own recruits who do pretty well, whilst keeping fairly quite about the lucrative nature of the maintenance industry, in which ever segment of the market it is in.
This comment is only accurate if "their pre-determined world view", actually means their greed. Believe it or not, many of them do not believe the shite the spout, however it does feed their greed or at least they believe their denial of science will feed their greed. Child hood jealousies also pay a larger role than most people would believe, yep, they are actively denying what the smart once kids now adults say because nyah, nyah, teachers pet (a lot of it really is that childish).
There are other considerations as well. Houses require sewers and you do not want sewers filling full of salt water, it tends to cause lots disease when it floods out. Electricity is also problematic when it floods. Not to forget no, good people do not stand by, when people are being ripped off. The whole absurd notion of what business is if of mine when I see people being ripped off, seriously, do unto others and yes I would appreciate being warned when I am about to be ripped off. What the bloody hell, do people not understand about that.
Except of course altering bios boot queue and shifting it to USB and booting say an Ubuntu image to fix and clear the hard disk drive. So still pretty much targeted at amateurs. Infected computer, once discovered, immediately reboot from a secure stable OS image on a thumb drive, Linux preferable as way to expensive to pay for a second copy of windows just for emergency boots. Then have a good hard look at what is going on with regard to that OS image on the hard disk drive, what files are where and, what they actually are. That lesson was learnt many years ago, getting caught deleting bad stuff only to have it reappear on reboot was to be expected. So normal tactic was to have a non aggressive look around, see what protective software was actually doing and based upon that do a reboot to CD and fix the problems on the hard disk drive, with thumb secure response and repair thumb drives properly set up, the fix is much easier now.
If my mobile phone was just a phone, I would not have a mobile phone. That sense of isolation and freedom when you are out and about is worthwhile (except maybe for out going emergency calls). So as much screen real estate and reasonable possible, lots of reasonable and accessible features as possible without installing additional apps. this to make carrying the thing worthwhile. PC convergence, why? When I get home I do not throw my phone in the bin, it is still fully accessible sure transfer data that is pretty much it. As a remote for a large screen device it is a bit small, so a tablet coming with that large screen device simply works better, again screen real estate (you simply can do more when you can see more and parts of your work are not hidden).
So lets see more Ubuntu on the big screen, lets crack that large display barrier and force manufacturers to drop their own locked heavily censored smart TV interfaces. All in one computers need to kick up their size to the plus 40 inch range and beyond with a tablet as the remote.
It's called research. Police types going to one of those events will never be in trouble as long as they write a follow up report and attend a debrief if requested. In fact they would receive browny points for doing so. So feel free to attend them all, see if you can be spotted but do not forget the follow up observational report, including whether you were or not you were spotted, how you were spotted and whether or not you traded a mug for a T shirt (ain't nothing wrong with that, unless the mugs were not provided for that purpose ie not stolen). Showing a sense of humour ie having fun when you are annoying some and just some people, promotes good relations with the public. Two way street there, fellows. When it comes to computer crime the best resources is not the FBI (most certainly not the NSA the NSA are foolishly proud to be law breakers) but a public that will support the efforts of quality responsible policing. So open a booth and hand out, no wait, swap mugs and a good T-shirt for naughty T-shirts (do not forget a biological containment device for the sweaty T-shirts).
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Now is that a million first class air miles or cargo class in box. It kind of makes a big difference. If they are offering free trips in a aluminium death tube, they had better make them at least comfortable trips. Even better they could offer a million cruise ship miles, then the journey is the fun.
So perhaps key allergen tests are required at schools to measure specific allergen pattern responses and getting gene data based around that allergen testing. This prior to blanket immunisation, could be done at the birthing hospital prior to release of the child. Thus facilitating more safe immunisation as well as pointing out the child's future dietary et al problems to the parent prior to experiencing those problems.
The do not own the data, they just have a idea where it is and there power is not in providing access to it but in the exact opposite, hiding it. The dominant search engines power is not in providing access but in denying it by burying it on page, well any page beyond page 10 of search results. I sometimes do take a quick look at page 1 of the results and then skip to page 10 and beyond, sometimes those results are more interesting.
Well, I would suppose that means that image recognition is just a matter of opinion of the viewer of the image. Not so much artificial intelligence as bias in pattern recognition. Currently the best goal for artificial intelligence is accurate in context translation services. First the written word and then the spoken word.
I am sure 'MSpy' wrote in all sorts of stuff in the EULA to ensure that all your data belong to them. Perhaps they felt there was more money in selling the data than in looking after it. Unencrypted means only one thing, they did not care about keeping it secure internally ie they were already trawling through it all for the juicy bits. They do have a Seychelles office http://www.taxjustice.net/2014... which puts them immediately under extreme suspicion.
The other method is to simply be born a psychopath with an absence of conscience. So what point the test when 1% of the human population, 20% of the prison population and 50% of violent crimes are the statistics for psychopaths. So what are they trying to achieve, let 50% of violent crimes go unprosecuted when those psychopaths readily pass the test.
Paper Ballot. Manual count of votes with representatives of all those running for the election checking the count being done by paid election officials. Elections to be held on the weekend. More polling stations. More social event with charity drives ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... at the polling stations. As many people as possible involved in the election process. Democracy is about people and as should people should be involved as much as possible in it the most important element of democracy the vote. I am sick of cheap ass conservatives fucking up everything taking idiotic short cuts.
For fools like you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.... Who, you gonna call, no one. "Ice cores containing thin nitrate-rich layers have been analyzed to reconstruct a history of past solar storms predating reliable observations. Data from Greenland ice cores, gathered by Kenneth G. McCracken and others, show evidence that events of this magnitudeâ"as measured by high-energy proton radiation, not geomagnetic effectâ"occur approximately once per 500 years, with events at least one-fifth as large occurring several times per century. However, more recent work by the ice core community (McCracken et al. are space scientists) shows that nitrate spikes are not a result of solar energetic particle events, so use of this technique is in doubt. Beryllium-10 and Carbon-14 levels are considered to be more reliable indicators by the ice core community. These similar but much more extreme cosmic ray events, however, may originate outside the solar system and even outside the galaxy. Less severe storms have occurred in 1921 and 1960, when widespread radio disruption was reported. The March 1989 geomagnetic storm knocked out power across large sections of Quebec. On July 23, 2012 a "Carrington-class" Solar Superstorm (Solar flare, Coronal mass ejection, Solar EMP) was observed; its trajectory missed Earth in orbit. Information about these observations was shared first publicly by NASA on April 28, 2014."
Now imagine the havoc of the inevitable solar flare on all this connectedness that can not run with out being connected. Keep in mind, major solar flare with our planet just happening to be in it's path is not if but when, it will happen. How long will it take to repair the damage when all the information systems required to repair the damage is down.
New regulations are required to ensure essential infrastructure can be maintained manually and repaired manually. That hard copies are retained on sites for repair and maintenance procedures.
One down the cloud will go down and go down hard for quite a long time in digital terms and it will cause huge problems.
Contractual obligations are not rights, don't get confused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... That there are individuals who will seek to abuse the rights of others is indisputable, that many are psychopathic employers is also indisputable. Rights no, just over excessive contractual laws but keep in mind all contract law is subject to criminal and constitutional law. Apart from current corrupt practices, the law itself demands all peoples rights are equal, that has just been corrupted in application by corrupt individuals.
Woosh, it is about the abuse of the word 'right' not laws. What 'rights' do employers have over workers, FUCKING NONE.
Either that or more women will be into playing computer games and watching porn and thus compatibility is re-achieved. So what is the real problem here, is it because playing computer games and watching free 'pron' is way, way cheaper then the older mass consumer demanded methods of male female social interactions. Expensive restaurant, theatre, suitable clothing, suitable jewellery, suitable car, suitable make-up and proof of interests by spending a suitably large amount of money on the relationship and of course the individual involved all pretending to be the marketable image of what a person should be. So wanted, gamer porn watching pal to share relationship or wanted mass consumerism victim of marketing pal to share relationship (you can guess which relationship will end up with a bigger bank balance and enjoy early retirement to spend more time playing games and watching free 'pron' together).
Is just that males have stopped buying into mass consumerism designed relationship before females, simply because males tend to be less socially conformist than females (hunter versus gatherer) and are women catching up https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
It looks like M$ will be shifting toi nickle and diming customers with Windows 10?(seriously version 10, buggers still can't count and a lamely copying apple again X=10). So you'll be paying for part upgrades at varying marketable intervals, for some bits months and for some bits years but over basically being forced to pay for the exact same software over and over and over and over and over ad nauseam (how many version are we actually up to) again. So smaller bites at more regular intervals, rather than a single bigger bite, easier to sell. So the first one will come with some bit of software padding bundled in to slowly warm up the frog 'er' spa.
Just because they own it, they do not have the right to track it when they lend it to you to use out of hours. So do landlords have the right to fit cameras in their rental properties, specifically in the bedroom and toilets, so they can sell the video obtained for profit. Their properties, their laws or is that a false premise. So corporate rights, is it all just PR=B$ in order to justify ego power trips by executives and a lust driven desire to control their employees lives.
If past history is anything to go by. What happens when governments bring in a publicly community minded person into a 'deputy' position? They are tooled around as propaganda pieces, whilst the same old same old keeps going along, until they finally quit in disgust and then they are attacked for being loonies, communists, unrealistic liberal thinkers or spies, often all of those at the same time. Uncle Tom Obama, the Choom Gang Coward, is not looking so cool any more and is desperate to rewrite his history so that it will more readily feed his ego and of course his recommendation to elect his partner in crime the so called or is that soon to be 'pretend socialist feminazi' Hillary Clinton.
So when it comes to slashdotters, who do they think the Uncle Tom will support, another corporate Clinton or Bernie and of course if the Uncle Toms name is mud what is his support worth.
You really don't need all that much CPU power to 'securely' push around data and that's is what will become the number focus for government, 'SECURELY' pushing around data. Any country that does not produce it own chips and tech components leaves itself a slave to those countries that do. A simple shut down code can be embedded anywhere in hardware and be virtually impossible to discover until activated. No country can be trusted with that kind of power over another country. One flick of the switch and all your infrastructure could be shut down, until all of the equipment controlling it has been replaced and this when all of the infrastructure needed to manage that replacement has been shut down. A completely manual process that would take weeks even months, with all digital communications shut down. With a population left to go hungry in the dark with the communications infrastructure required to manage food handling from farm, to processing, to warehousing, to retailing and of course computers in vehicles. Of course defence forces will have insured their transport vehicles are free of digital control systems to ensure electronic durability with a lack of electronics, oh wait. Computers are handy but they are as vulnerable as hell. One ill time major solar flare and we have some pretty severe problems, much like a now opposed country hitting the off switch (the country in the world least to be trusted, should be pretty bloody obvious to everyone by now, USA, USA, USA, well done - not).
If you read the indictment, they did not just create the code, they actually used it themselves and showed others how to use it by demonstrating it. Now of course comes much greater consequences, their customer base is also in the firing line and they will all be turned over for a reduced sentence. This could lead to a whole bunch of crimes being exposed.
The issue here is all about public relations and the reality being hidden behind it. LaGuardia Airport airport is a low lying airport basically surrounded by sea. So, shh, we are still playing denial, it is likely to be flooded by sea level rise(pretend you did not read that). So they are looking to replace before it 'er' 'um' is less able to serve the public need in 'er' 'um' changing economic circumstances and 'er' 'um' altered commercial demands. So expect a series of infrastructure projects based around relocating at risk infrastructure elements but being dressed up as anything but global sea level rise due to man made climate change. You simply can not wait for them to be flooded before doing something about it, so a whole serious of PR=B$ lies about a range of similar projects.
Not so much people but environmental conditions, the more lax the environmental laws the worse the problem and it seems it is substantially related to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.... It is becoming apparent that no amount was safe https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/healt... as further studies are indicating.
In fact if you look at the whole pseudo conservative pseudo Christian revival (people who claim to be something they behave nothing like) it is all likely tied to lead poisoning (pay close attention to the dominant average age in this group and thus the toxic lead polluted environment of their youth). They behave like brain damaged idiots because well, to be blunt, they are people suffering from the toxic effects of lead poisoning "No safe blood lead level has been identified" http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitori....
The reason higher intellect people seem to have escaped the problem, well, not you didn't, you just had capacity to spare and simply failed to achieve what you might have achieved but still remained socially democratic and more community minded (down the other end of the IQ scale, even a little damage can do a lot of harm).
From an old dude who actually experienced and understands employment cycles, the safest job market. Where once in, your are fairly safe and as long as you are relatively reliable will keep working. The job that can not be outsourced and it always local. In fact a hugely varied job in many markets, many labour conditions but fairly demanding working hours (not so much total but when you are needed you are needed). The one area of the market most people forget about except of course the experienced older generation because they know and don't often say. "ANYTHING TO DO WITH MAINTENANCE" fixing stuff. Pretty regular work and, insurance companies often pay the best. Lots of contractor type choices, people also tend to prefer older more experienced people. Older people tend to drift to it but nepotism brings in it's own recruits who do pretty well, whilst keeping fairly quite about the lucrative nature of the maintenance industry, in which ever segment of the market it is in.
This comment is only accurate if "their pre-determined world view", actually means their greed. Believe it or not, many of them do not believe the shite the spout, however it does feed their greed or at least they believe their denial of science will feed their greed. Child hood jealousies also pay a larger role than most people would believe, yep, they are actively denying what the smart once kids now adults say because nyah, nyah, teachers pet (a lot of it really is that childish).
There are other considerations as well. Houses require sewers and you do not want sewers filling full of salt water, it tends to cause lots disease when it floods out. Electricity is also problematic when it floods. Not to forget no, good people do not stand by, when people are being ripped off. The whole absurd notion of what business is if of mine when I see people being ripped off, seriously, do unto others and yes I would appreciate being warned when I am about to be ripped off. What the bloody hell, do people not understand about that.
Except of course altering bios boot queue and shifting it to USB and booting say an Ubuntu image to fix and clear the hard disk drive. So still pretty much targeted at amateurs. Infected computer, once discovered, immediately reboot from a secure stable OS image on a thumb drive, Linux preferable as way to expensive to pay for a second copy of windows just for emergency boots. Then have a good hard look at what is going on with regard to that OS image on the hard disk drive, what files are where and, what they actually are. That lesson was learnt many years ago, getting caught deleting bad stuff only to have it reappear on reboot was to be expected. So normal tactic was to have a non aggressive look around, see what protective software was actually doing and based upon that do a reboot to CD and fix the problems on the hard disk drive, with thumb secure response and repair thumb drives properly set up, the fix is much easier now.
If my mobile phone was just a phone, I would not have a mobile phone. That sense of isolation and freedom when you are out and about is worthwhile (except maybe for out going emergency calls). So as much screen real estate and reasonable possible, lots of reasonable and accessible features as possible without installing additional apps. this to make carrying the thing worthwhile. PC convergence, why? When I get home I do not throw my phone in the bin, it is still fully accessible sure transfer data that is pretty much it. As a remote for a large screen device it is a bit small, so a tablet coming with that large screen device simply works better, again screen real estate (you simply can do more when you can see more and parts of your work are not hidden).
So lets see more Ubuntu on the big screen, lets crack that large display barrier and force manufacturers to drop their own locked heavily censored smart TV interfaces. All in one computers need to kick up their size to the plus 40 inch range and beyond with a tablet as the remote.
It's called research. Police types going to one of those events will never be in trouble as long as they write a follow up report and attend a debrief if requested. In fact they would receive browny points for doing so. So feel free to attend them all, see if you can be spotted but do not forget the follow up observational report, including whether you were or not you were spotted, how you were spotted and whether or not you traded a mug for a T shirt (ain't nothing wrong with that, unless the mugs were not provided for that purpose ie not stolen). Showing a sense of humour ie having fun when you are annoying some and just some people, promotes good relations with the public. Two way street there, fellows. When it comes to computer crime the best resources is not the FBI (most certainly not the NSA the NSA are foolishly proud to be law breakers) but a public that will support the efforts of quality responsible policing. So open a booth and hand out, no wait, swap mugs and a good T-shirt for naughty T-shirts (do not forget a biological containment device for the sweaty T-shirts).