Dr Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT, has written his take on the events, and why he's not worried about it. I haven't finished reading this story yet (it's quite a few pages), but it's pretty interesting so far.
Actually, that's a rather frightningly creepy idea. Google is so much on top of gathering and processing data that by now, or quite possibly even years ago, they should be able to predict certain behaviour in it's users. I wonder how much of their motto "Don't be evil" will be left in the near future.
Sorry, gotta go, there are some nice gentlemen at the door who want to talk about my interests..
If you have network racks, use a glass wall for the "server room". That way you can always space out for a couple of hours looking at the gazillion of pretty blinking lights..)
Or people who are in other ways visually impaired, like beeing blind completely.
They always depend on the soft- and hardware that was built to aid them in using computers. I know there are braille boards on wich they can "read" plain text. With the right software this can (and probably is) be used to get quite far with computer use.
I think for such handicaps, it would be easier and much more flexibel to use text as a visual confirmation in stead of images. This way it is much easier to make the software compatible with numerous of other systems, and of course blind people will be able to use the technologie too.
Nevertheless I do doubt this development. Sure it is a great "solution", but it will require cooperation of the mayor browser companies, and there has to be a way to tell the browser your site is legit, wich may come down to thesame problem as SSL, namely registering your certificate (or in this case, the use of the security hash), and that often costs you money and lots of effort.
On the other hand, training users to recognise sinister situations on the web has been proofed to be a endless frustrating time consuming mind numbing effort too, so basically it's about choosing the road with the least obstacles.
For me, and probably most of Slashdot, I find it a more than great idea to develop a braille system for images. Say, to feel the image..)
"Cat powered by compressed air"??
I did. But maybe it is caused by the fact that I uhhm, utterly dislike cats.
Would be a nice idea though, maybe I should try it with some cats in my neighbourhood.
Makes me wonder, what would helium do?
Another thing, it also seems that Ballmer is taking a much more agressive approach to "fight" linux than Mr. Gates did. I guess Billy was a little softer than Ballmer, but it got him rich anyway..)
pfffew, don't you just get tired of this type of news? I see the amount of lawsuits just growing as if it's a hype. Everyone sues everyone. Makes me want to be everyone's lawyer then..)
And then the patents, okay, it's good to get credits for your work, but this is just insane, looking through every bit of code to see if you can sue someone for it. Boy do I like the open source spirit, still one place you can feel a bit of love whereas all the patent-lawsuit stuff makes you shiffer..
But well, I guess bad publicity is publicity nonetheless..)
But serious, I find this a great invention! And I truly believe that this wil advance; the pill will get smaller and better in time. To me this is another step towards the micro-robot technology, where one can inject micro-robots that can fix you from the inside..)
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Dr Josef Oehmen, a research scientist at MIT, has written his take on the events, and why he's not worried about it.
I haven't finished reading this story yet (it's quite a few pages), but it's pretty interesting so far.
ouch, good point. +1 that
Actually, that's a rather frightningly creepy idea. Google is so much on top of gathering and processing data that by now, or quite possibly even years ago, they should be able to predict certain behaviour in it's users. I wonder how much of their motto "Don't be evil" will be left in the near future.
Sorry, gotta go, there are some nice gentlemen at the door who want to talk about my interests..
Duncan Idaho...
My thoughts exactly.
Three deaths for the scientists. The last one for no better reason than the first..
If you have network racks, use a glass wall for the "server room".
That way you can always space out for a couple of hours looking at the gazillion of pretty blinking lights..)
It must be done.
So here it is..
*ahem*
I for one, welcome our new autotron overlords.
Thank you.
In mid-May 2006, Samsung unveiled a prototype hybrid hard drive (HHD)
shouldn't that be HHDD then?
..maybe the tapes show giant ants walking arround.. Probably the government doesn't want us to know about our giant ant like overlords.
This is a case for the mythbusters, obviously. I think Kari would do nicely for this one, or well, any myth for that matter..)
It's not a worm, it's a caterpillar! Just look at the image..)
..does it run Li.. oh, nevermind.
From the site: "Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help." Guess there's no glass in space for dummies..
Or people who are in other ways visually impaired, like beeing blind completely.
They always depend on the soft- and hardware that was built to aid them in using computers. I know there are braille boards on wich they can "read" plain text. With the right software this can (and probably is) be used to get quite far with computer use.
I think for such handicaps, it would be easier and much more flexibel to use text as a visual confirmation in stead of images. This way it is much easier to make the software compatible with numerous of other systems, and of course blind people will be able to use the technologie too.
Nevertheless I do doubt this development. Sure it is a great "solution", but it will require cooperation of the mayor browser companies, and there has to be a way to tell the browser your site is legit, wich may come down to thesame problem as SSL, namely registering your certificate (or in this case, the use of the security hash), and that often costs you money and lots of effort.
On the other hand, training users to recognise sinister situations on the web has been proofed to be a endless frustrating time consuming mind numbing effort too, so basically it's about choosing the road with the least obstacles.
For me, and probably most of Slashdot, I find it a more than great idea to develop a braille system for images. Say, to feel the image..)
Ofcourse it "disappears". In 5 years Google is just simple known as "The internet", duh!
"Cat powered by compressed air"?? I did. But maybe it is caused by the fact that I uhhm, utterly dislike cats. Would be a nice idea though, maybe I should try it with some cats in my neighbourhood. Makes me wonder, what would helium do?
..which will lead to these kind of situations..)
Another thing, it also seems that Ballmer is taking a much more agressive approach to "fight" linux than Mr. Gates did. I guess Billy was a little softer than Ballmer, but it got him rich anyway..)
pfffew, don't you just get tired of this type of news?
I see the amount of lawsuits just growing as if it's a hype. Everyone sues everyone. Makes me want to be everyone's lawyer then..)
And then the patents, okay, it's good to get credits for your work, but this is just insane, looking through every bit of code to see if you can sue someone for it. Boy do I like the open source spirit, still one place you can feel a bit of love whereas all the patent-lawsuit stuff makes you shiffer..
But well, I guess bad publicity is publicity nonetheless..)
But serious, I find this a great invention! And I truly believe that this wil advance; the pill will get smaller and better in time. To me this is another step towards the micro-robot technology, where one can inject micro-robots that can fix you from the inside..)