Head tracking would presumably enable a more stable and better job of adding captions or labels to street signs, business store fronts or whatever it is. The point is to project something like Google Street view with captions onto the real world.
Ideally these things look like regular glasses or are simply contact lenses but that's likely to be a few years down the road.
Vernor Vinge won a Hugo for Rainbow's End whose story to a certain extent revolved around exactly this technology. Store fronts and business end up completely bland because everybody is looking at "skins" projected by the hud in their contact lenses or glasses.
Most hypervisors allow you to discard changes to a disk on restart. If you segregate, OS (possibly programs) and data disks then you can use umask and ACLs to restrict execute permission on the data.
The user can't add new programs to the OS partition because they don't have permission then they can't add new programs to the data partition. If they somehow do manage to make changes to the OS then those changes get discarded after every VM restart.
I don't wonder at it all. The two most powerful mind control tools ever invented are PR/Advertising and TV, and fashion and style were two of the first things that both of these tools were applied to.
Just think how long it took the average American to stop drinking the Bush/Cheney kool-aid. If that wasn't mind control I don't know what is.
Now where is that tin-foil? Up to a couple of weeks ago when I went all digital mine was wrapped around my TV antenna. Made a world of difference.
I mean, I'm not a huge fan of psychology myself but for the New York Times to file this under Fashion & Style gives me the impression that all the cool kids are joining gang stalking support groups... makes one wonder what will the next fad be?
Did anybody notice? I spent 5 minutes looking at the NIST site on this and as a interested layman I'd sure love to have a working licensed PE walk me through the draft report. The NIST video leads by saying that no tall building had ever collapsed primarily due to fire previous to 9/11 so they clearly know they had some 'splaining to do.
Anyway, it's open for public comment through September 15. If you can see any glaring holes in their logic, if they've omitted pertinent facts, or if they've simply got something wrong you have a couple of weeks to get it together and let them know they're full of BS or maybe even to get your favorite tenured or emeritus engineering faculty member to do it for you.
Ick. Maybe that actually explains why the authorities haven't gone after the botnets (which on the face of it shouldn't be that hard). The botnets might be just the force multiplier that could be used to create the "collateral damage" the generals wants. I wonder what he has in mind. Somes guesses--there are the traditional sorts of military targets--power plants, TV and radio, but with a botnet you could maybe drain lots of people's bank accounts, send them scary personalized spam emails (personalized propaganda based on the content of their computers), download kiddie porn and send accusatory emails to the local police. Garbage-in, gospel out never sounded so scary to me.
Given all this, if you run a business or do business over the internet, you might want to think carefully about how you do that.
This raises about as many questions as it answers but the Britannica say: "In Italy truth seldom excuses defamation, which is criminally punishable there."
I saw equipment at Recognition Equipment Inc. in 1982 or 1983 ago that did exactly that--scan checks and store the images. How can they have issued a patent on this.
In discussing using click-through rates to measure the effectiveness of branding campaigns, Starcom USA Director of Connections Research and Analytics Grant Prentice says "Natural Born Clickers (the study) shows us that we can't count on click-through rate as our primary success metric for display ads; Starcom is more reliant on shifts in brand attitude metrics and analytics tying on-line exposure to sales as the true measures of online advertising efficacy."
Who'd a thunk these guys were trying to sell something...
BTW, the TFA also said that the study result doesn't apply to direct marketing campaigns.
That sort of makes sense but it strikes me as irrelevant. Since I'm a dumbass humor me, which bit specifically of the GATT treaty terms is unconstitutional? The language on the face of it clearly allows the president with the advice and consent of the senate to make law via treaty.
You could call it abandonment of sovereignty but it was done our government with a really complicated multilateral trade treaty (GATT or General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade started by the US) that established the WTO as the arbiter of disputes. Since Article VI, paragraph 2 of the constitution says:
"all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution [of any State] or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
The main point here is that GATT was started by the US to promote "free" trade. Of course, some people (read multinational coporations) are more free than others. So, yes in order to get something, essentially a leveler playing field for American business we've (the presumably US multinationals) have given something--a portion of US sovereignty ceded by treaty to the WTO.
If you don't like it, it's pretty much tough. We'd be screwed economically without it since all of our trade policy is built around it.
Am I really the first person to google up "penzim" from the referenced article? This is an over the counter health food store remedy made and presumably sold in Iceland with all sorts of claims being made for it. The story doesn't say whether the "research results" were in vivo or in vitro or give any other relevant details that would allow you to even begin to evaluate the claim. Doesn't anyone else think this most likely overblown hype? It'd be great if it weren't hype, but c'mon....
That aside, I don't see what the big deal is here. It's not as if this is being imposed as a requirement for attendance at the University, it's being instituted as a condition of accepting a free education in exchange for participation in an extra-curricular activity. If you as a student athlete find that unacceptible, you can always take out a loan like the rest of us did.
I'd agree with you except that the University's statement turns the notion of privacy on its head. It's my private business what I put on my blog or social networking site. Just as I would as an athelete fight like hell any intrusion on relationships I had with player representatatives or pro teams recruiting, I'd also fight what amounts to interfereing with what amounts to low-level marketing of my celebrity. Who does that minor celebrity belong to, the player or the University? We know what the University's opinion is...
Speaking is the core of human social behavior. Does anybody else think it's bizarre and maybe counterproductive to attempt to separate the behavior from society of any sort?
Here's some information on the vaccines mentioned in the article. There's one from Xenova and another developed by Scripps . Both work by creating antibodies to Cocaine. The Xenova vaccine has had a phase II trial.
I wonder if the specificity of the antibodies is really a settled question. If not, then you might find that pleasure, pain, and sex or something more subtle wouldn't be quite the same thing again. Not something I'd want to mess with. It seems silly, if not scary to be considering giving it to children at this point.
Here are the folks at the UK Brain, Science, Addiction, and Drugs although they don't have much up.
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>Yes, it's technology, so in that sense it may be of interest to nerds, but why front page stories about every single minor event that occurs WRT e-voting several times per week ?
What's more basic and important to a democracy than voting? The message that this equipment and the companies involved are questionable doesn't seem to be getting out to the major media as much as it should. This is cheap publicity and many Slashdotters feel strongly about the issue. That by itself should be enough but if you want more detail or excuse:
1. The Diebold machine's software seems to have been designed to make fraud easier:
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/scoop/S00065.htm
Any competetant secretary who knows MS Access could jimmy this software without much help at all.
2. One of the other two companies that makes voting machines, ES&S, is owned in part by a Republican senator, Chuck Hegel, who was elected Senator two years after Nebraska bought his machines. He didn't see fit to disclose his substantial interest in ES&S, or the fact that he had formerly been chairman and CEO of this company in his FEC filings. Moreoever, there was an attempt to supress the publication of a story on this topic by a Republican political lawyer.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=New s&new_topic=8
3) Oh, and don't forget that along with the uncertified software on the Diebold machines in California, and the felons on the payroll reported in this sotry there are apparently some irregularities with certification records from the 2002 election in Georgia where Max Cleland was defeated (despite his having lead the all the polls up the election).
Don't you think that important criteria chosing the vendor for voting machinery should include the appearance of trustworthiness, and that the machine's be designed with security in mind and audited by software industry accepted outside experts? With the voting machine companies that appearance is entirely to the contrary, and the every reputable expert that has looked at them has concluded that they don't meet basic security criteria. Rather than attempting to remedy these shortcomings they've hired PR companies to spin the news.
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Head tracking would presumably enable a more stable and better job of adding captions or labels to street signs, business store fronts or whatever it is. The point is to project something like Google Street view with captions onto the real world. Ideally these things look like regular glasses or are simply contact lenses but that's likely to be a few years down the road. Vernor Vinge won a Hugo for Rainbow's End whose story to a certain extent revolved around exactly this technology. Store fronts and business end up completely bland because everybody is looking at "skins" projected by the hud in their contact lenses or glasses.
Most hypervisors allow you to discard changes to a disk on restart. If you segregate, OS (possibly programs) and data disks then you can use umask and ACLs to restrict execute permission on the data. The user can't add new programs to the OS partition because they don't have permission then they can't add new programs to the data partition. If they somehow do manage to make changes to the OS then those changes get discarded after every VM restart.
I don't wonder at it all. The two most powerful mind control tools ever invented are PR/Advertising and TV, and fashion and style were two of the first things that both of these tools were applied to.
Just think how long it took the average American to stop drinking the Bush/Cheney kool-aid. If that wasn't mind control I don't know what is.
Now where is that tin-foil? Up to a couple of weeks ago when I went all digital mine was wrapped around my TV antenna. Made a world of difference.
I mean, I'm not a huge fan of psychology myself but for the New York Times to file this under Fashion & Style gives me the impression that all the cool kids are joining gang stalking support groups ... makes one wonder what will the next fad be?
Oops. Here's the link: http://wtc.nist.gov/media/comments2008.html
Did anybody notice? I spent 5 minutes looking at the NIST site on this and as a interested layman I'd sure love to have a working licensed PE walk me through the draft report. The NIST video leads by saying that no tall building had ever collapsed primarily due to fire previous to 9/11 so they clearly know they had some 'splaining to do. Anyway, it's open for public comment through September 15. If you can see any glaring holes in their logic, if they've omitted pertinent facts, or if they've simply got something wrong you have a couple of weeks to get it together and let them know they're full of BS or maybe even to get your favorite tenured or emeritus engineering faculty member to do it for you.
Ick. Maybe that actually explains why the authorities haven't gone after the botnets (which on the face of it shouldn't be that hard). The botnets might be just the force multiplier that could be used to create the "collateral damage" the generals wants. I wonder what he has in mind. Somes guesses--there are the traditional sorts of military targets--power plants, TV and radio, but with a botnet you could maybe drain lots of people's bank accounts, send them scary personalized spam emails (personalized propaganda based on the content of their computers), download kiddie porn and send accusatory emails to the local police. Garbage-in, gospel out never sounded so scary to me.
Given all this, if you run a business or do business over the internet, you might want to think carefully about how you do that.
If you look here , it indicats that Italian courts have decided that if the content is availble in Italy, then Italian courts have jurisdiction.
This raises about as many questions as it answers but the Britannica say: "In Italy truth seldom excuses defamation, which is criminally punishable there."
Thank you. Very much appreciated. Now I get it.
I saw equipment at Recognition Equipment Inc. in 1982 or 1983 ago that did exactly that--scan checks and store the images. How can they have issued a patent on this.
In discussing using click-through rates to measure the effectiveness of branding campaigns, Starcom USA Director of Connections Research and Analytics Grant Prentice says "Natural Born Clickers (the study) shows us that we can't count on click-through rate as our primary success metric for display ads; Starcom is more reliant on shifts in brand attitude metrics and analytics tying on-line exposure to sales as the true measures of online advertising efficacy." Who'd a thunk these guys were trying to sell something... BTW, the TFA also said that the study result doesn't apply to direct marketing campaigns.
That sort of makes sense but it strikes me as irrelevant. Since I'm a dumbass humor me, which bit specifically of the GATT treaty terms is unconstitutional? The language on the face of it clearly allows the president with the advice and consent of the senate to make law via treaty.
You could call it abandonment of sovereignty but it was done our government with a really complicated multilateral trade treaty (GATT or General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade started by the US) that established the WTO as the arbiter of disputes. Since Article VI, paragraph 2 of the constitution says: "all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution [of any State] or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." The main point here is that GATT was started by the US to promote "free" trade. Of course, some people (read multinational coporations) are more free than others. So, yes in order to get something, essentially a leveler playing field for American business we've (the presumably US multinationals) have given something--a portion of US sovereignty ceded by treaty to the WTO. If you don't like it, it's pretty much tough. We'd be screwed economically without it since all of our trade policy is built around it.
Am I really the first person to google up "penzim" from the referenced article? This is an over the counter health food store remedy made and presumably sold in Iceland with all sorts of claims being made for it. The story doesn't say whether the "research results" were in vivo or in vitro or give any other relevant details that would allow you to even begin to evaluate the claim. Doesn't anyone else think this most likely overblown hype? It'd be great if it weren't hype, but c'mon....
That aside, I don't see what the big deal is here. It's not as if this is being imposed as a requirement for attendance at the University, it's being instituted as a condition of accepting a free education in exchange for participation in an extra-curricular activity. If you as a student athlete find that unacceptible, you can always take out a loan like the rest of us did.
I'd agree with you except that the University's statement turns the notion of privacy on its head. It's my private business what I put on my blog or social networking site. Just as I would as an athelete fight like hell any intrusion on relationships I had with player representatatives or pro teams recruiting, I'd also fight what amounts to interfereing with what amounts to low-level marketing of my celebrity. Who does that minor celebrity belong to, the player or the University? We know what the University's opinion is...
Speaking is the core of human social behavior. Does anybody else think it's bizarre and maybe counterproductive to attempt to separate the behavior from society of any sort?
Here's some information on the vaccines mentioned in the article. There's one from Xenova and another developed by Scripps . Both work by creating antibodies to Cocaine. The Xenova vaccine has had a phase II trial. I wonder if the specificity of the antibodies is really a settled question. If not, then you might find that pleasure, pain, and sex or something more subtle wouldn't be quite the same thing again. Not something I'd want to mess with. It seems silly, if not scary to be considering giving it to children at this point. Here are the folks at the UK Brain, Science, Addiction, and Drugs although they don't have much up.
>Yes, it's technology, so in that sense it may be of interest to nerds, but why front page stories about every single minor event that occurs WRT e-voting several times per week ?
w s&new_topic=8
3) Oh, and don't forget that along with the uncertified software on the Diebold machines in California, and the felons on the payroll reported in this sotry there are apparently some irregularities with certification records from the 2002 election in Georgia where Max Cleland was defeated (despite his having lead the all the polls up the election).
w s&new_topic=4
What's more basic and important to a democracy than voting? The message that this equipment and the companies involved are questionable doesn't seem to be getting out to the major media as much as it should. This is cheap publicity and many Slashdotters feel strongly about the issue. That by itself should be enough but if you want more detail or excuse: 1. The Diebold machine's software seems to have been designed to make fraud easier:
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/scoop/S00065.htm
Any competetant secretary who knows MS Access could jimmy this software without much help at all.
2. One of the other two companies that makes voting machines, ES&S, is owned in part by a Republican senator, Chuck Hegel, who was elected Senator two years after Nebraska bought his machines. He didn't see fit to disclose his substantial interest in ES&S, or the fact that he had formerly been chairman and CEO of this company in his FEC filings. Moreoever, there was an attempt to supress the publication of a story on this topic by a Republican political lawyer.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=Ne
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=Ne
Don't you think that important criteria chosing the vendor for voting machinery should include the appearance of trustworthiness, and that the machine's be designed with security in mind and audited by software industry accepted outside experts? With the voting machine companies that appearance is entirely to the contrary, and the every reputable expert that has looked at them has concluded that they don't meet basic security criteria. Rather than attempting to remedy these shortcomings they've hired PR companies to spin the news.