In the real world, I believe it. But in the digital world it is possible to leave no traces but wiping the data clean and flushing the RAM and all the caches and well, maybe you have a point!
We will never know about the top evil hackers of the Internet, they will not leave a single fingerprint. All we will find is the results of their "exploits."
I find the last few lines interesting. They give titles to good books on the Internet. Nobody said that many books will be replaced or subsumed by the Internet. I really do think that another 10 years will see more changes from today than found in comparing this artifact from 1994.
American voters will become as mad as hell and stop taking it from the elected but unrepresentative lawmakers and executives in Washington by changing the constitution.
The poor and declining middle class will redistribute the excessive wealth of the wealthy.
Our country will stop the import of foreign oil by switching to alcohol for all internal combustion engines.
Our foreign police will become "Leave us alone and we will leave you alone." All US troops will come home, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, and Korea.
1 Menu for everything feature 2 Keyboard shortcuts for frequent tasks I would die without Ctrl A Ctrl C and Ctrl V 3 Function key Did you know F12 brings up Save As dialog in most all MS apps 4 Right click context sensitive menu
By the way can you move a window if your mouse locks up? Alt SpaceBar
Google and Wikipedia = sum of human knowledge
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Google Earth In 4D
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· Score: 1, Interesting
In the near future we will be using Web services for all human knowledge and culture.
History, Geography, Government, Music, Literature, Research, Art, Education...
We will all routinely wear earpieces and wrist displays and the words telephone, television, media, network will disappear just as the words {carriage} footman, {switchboard} operator and typist. George Orwell got so many, many things right in _1984_ especially Newspeak.
A Brave New World, NOT! Just a routine upgraded world.
because they would be able to travel faster than light AND back in time
In fact, the reason that so many UFOs were sighted in the early 50s was Earth TV was so interesting that many galaxies sent talent scouts. Of course, the reason we were never invited to the Universal Television Network was we only produced boring programming. (They made one exception and aired the first 5 seasons of Saturday Night Live.)
Seems to me that he is just trying to get a "OH, WOW" reaction from BT and everyone who reads about him. His predictions are so precise, especially around 2015, that it makes him a joke. We will still have governments, taxes, terrorists, TV, higher energy costs, disease, over-eating, computers, internets and even SPAM, probably video spam saying that it is from "grandma" when it is actually from BT.
I'm certainly not convinced of his intelligence, let alone AI.
Finally, as a public high school science teacher, every student I know would rather talk to friends rather than pay attention and learn. But that isn't going to provide skill for a job--telemarketing is dead, long live the sound of silence.
I got fooled bad by Tricky Dick Nixon and now so many in the country have been fooled by the Bush Bunch. The war in Iraq is bad, but history will record that loss of privacy and other government excesses marked the end of "rule by law" in the USA. When the Executive Branch does not obey the laws of the Legislative Branch every citizen loses.
This HP employee exceeded her mandate; the HP board of directors better get rid of her pronto. You seldom can shine up a tarnished image.
Consolidation of operating systems is not good for computer science. Variety increases knowledge just as travel expands the mind. Everything is heading for the day when there is one primary OS on one primary HW platform. Let's hope that creativity spawns many new creations.
National ID and passport--fingerprint, PIN etc.
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E-Passport In the Works
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In light of terrorism, illegal immegration, identity theft and white collar crime, we will need not only passports with chips, but national IDs with smart chips too.
Not just your appearance, but your fingerprints, iris pattern, voice patterns and probably eventually unique DNA markers will be necessary. And a good long PIN or passphrase.
Those predicted bar codes on the forehead and arm look pretty likely, too.
"I'm sorry officer, my USB port is down. Could you use my saliva?"
Unless the government could make money on selling the bookstore the info that I drive a Porche, speed and that there is a new book on Porche history or one on how to beat the traffic courts.
Seems to me that eventually I will trust my backup to a transparent, automatic, secure system that puts it on the Net somewhere. I currently use FTP to back up and transport from work to home and back. The hard disk is the sameone my website is on; and it is co-located. But someone will make better software to automate everything. I hope it is open source freeware.
Slashdot Mirror
In the real world, I believe it. But in the digital world it is possible to leave no traces but wiping the data clean and flushing the RAM and all the caches and well, maybe you have a point!
We will never know about the top evil hackers of the Internet, they will not leave a single fingerprint. All we will find is the results of their "exploits."
I find the last few lines interesting. They give titles to good books on the Internet. Nobody said that many books will be replaced or subsumed by the Internet. I really do think that another 10 years will see more changes from today than found in comparing this artifact from 1994.
American voters will become as mad as hell and stop taking it from the elected but unrepresentative lawmakers and executives in Washington by changing the constitution.
The poor and declining middle class will redistribute the excessive wealth of the wealthy.
Our country will stop the import of foreign oil by switching to alcohol for all internal combustion engines.
Our foreign police will become "Leave us alone and we will leave you alone." All US troops will come home, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Europe, and Korea.
I swear that malicious code ejects to my speaker, DVD drawer, printer...and it is funny, NOT!
1 Menu for everything feature
2 Keyboard shortcuts for frequent tasks I would die without Ctrl A Ctrl C and Ctrl V
3 Function key Did you know F12 brings up Save As dialog in most all MS apps
4 Right click context sensitive menu
By the way can you move a window if your mouse locks up? Alt SpaceBar
Why would a major manufacturer of motheboards want to stay away from Linux for BIOS?
What do Award and Phoenix have better than Linux?
...yo mama
In the near future we will be using Web services for all human knowledge and culture.
History, Geography, Government, Music, Literature, Research, Art, Education...
We will all routinely wear earpieces and wrist displays and the words telephone, television, media, network will disappear just as the words {carriage} footman, {switchboard} operator and typist. George Orwell got so many, many things right in _1984_ especially Newspeak.
A Brave New World, NOT! Just a routine upgraded world.
because they would be able to travel faster than light AND back in time
In fact, the reason that so many UFOs were sighted in the early 50s was Earth TV was so interesting that many galaxies sent talent scouts. Of course, the reason we were never invited to the Universal Television Network was we only produced boring programming. (They made one exception and aired the first 5 seasons of Saturday Night Live.)
If you have killed 2 or more androids you might be a redneck.
Never underestimate the power of beer, the right to bear arms, feelings of inferiority and anger. I'm not worried about the rise of AI.
Seems to me that he is just trying to get a "OH, WOW" reaction from BT and everyone who reads about him. His predictions are so precise, especially around 2015, that it makes him a joke. We will still have governments, taxes, terrorists, TV, higher energy costs, disease, over-eating, computers, internets and even SPAM, probably video spam saying that it is from "grandma" when it is actually from BT.
I'm certainly not convinced of his intelligence, let alone AI.
Finally, as a public high school science teacher, every student I know would rather talk to friends rather than pay attention and learn. But that isn't going to provide skill for a job--telemarketing is dead, long live the sound of silence.
I got fooled bad by Tricky Dick Nixon and now so many in the country have been fooled by the Bush Bunch. The war in Iraq is bad, but history will record that loss of privacy and other government excesses marked the end of "rule by law" in the USA. When the Executive Branch does not obey the laws of the Legislative Branch every citizen loses.
This HP employee exceeded her mandate; the HP board of directors better get rid of her pronto. You seldom can shine up a tarnished image.
Consolidation of operating systems is not good for computer science. Variety increases knowledge just as travel expands the mind. Everything is heading for the day when there is one primary OS on one primary HW platform. Let's hope that creativity spawns many new creations.
In light of terrorism, illegal immegration, identity theft and white collar crime, we will need not only passports with chips, but national IDs with smart chips too.
Not just your appearance, but your fingerprints, iris pattern, voice patterns and probably eventually unique DNA markers will be necessary. And a good long PIN or passphrase.
Those predicted bar codes on the forehead and arm look pretty likely, too.
"I'm sorry officer, my USB port is down. Could you use my saliva?"
Amazon and Google and MySpace are too complicated to work...wait they work very well.
It is funny and chilling at the same time.
When the system is in place, Winston Smith with use his Speakwrite to go back to August 8, 2006, and revise Slashdot to delete all the comments here.
Unless the government could make money on selling the bookstore the info that I drive a Porche, speed and that there is a new book on Porche history or one on how to beat the traffic courts.
Otherwise terrorists could easily evade the system.
And we ALL have many things to hide.
Abuse of the info will happen, so let it never be allowed, anywhere!
"I have a right to buy those, but please officer don't tell my boss or my wife or my kids!"
Seems to me that eventually I will trust my backup to a transparent, automatic, secure system that puts it on the Net somewhere. I currently use FTP to back up and transport from work to home and back. The hard disk is the sameone my website is on; and it is co-located. But someone will make better software to automate everything. I hope it is open source freeware.
I was wondering.
Now I know.
I have successfully used AVG and Avast for several years. Zone Alarm (free) has a warning with Avast, but I've never seen problems.
Also recommend Spybot Search and Destroy (especially with TEATIMER as a resident watch on registry) and Ad Aware.
In every email message mention cocaine, opium, attack the instillation, anthrax, bombs, nuclear, atomic & etc.
wouldn't this slow down the efforts?