Exactly. This "opened" and "not opened" email vernacular are just arbitrary virtual terms designed to mimic real world snail mail terminology. Email is just a digital file and whether or not somebody has read the contents of the file has nothing to do with the governments authority (or lack there of) to read it without warrant.
"to keep my brain from overheating I spend several hours a week surfing the web (usually reading tech news but also a few stops on Facebook, email, etc). I should add that I am interrupted a few times per day."
You said you usually work about 10-15 hours per week. So that means that on some weeks, you fuck off on the internet for 30 hours a week!?! Sorry you to hear you get "interrupted a few times per day" while Facebooking. You poor, poor thing.
Oh, and by the way, I'm on my daily 10 minute break. Back to actual work for me. Have a nice 8 hour day doing.....whatever it is you do.
Sure, while people who have the expertise, time, and desire to circumvent "censorship" may just view censorship as a mere "complication", for the rest of the population who are work hard all day and lack both the energy and prowess and are afraid of being arrested, it's still censorship.
And it's more than just censorship, it's stuff that fills the void of truth like propaganda and disinformation. Just mix it all together and you have most of the populace which is misinformed and under, for lack of better terms, a soft form of mind control.
Part of "fun" is uncertainty, a sense of challenge and the subsequent realization when you succeed, when there is no threat to more basic needs. Such feelings would be lessened if solving the problem was a sure thing
That's what my wife said when I asked her why she cheated on me.
Bill Carlton was actually in a documentary called "High Score" which covers his attempts to beat the 80 million point high score of Missile Command (arcade version). Bill Carlton has a lot of bad luck with his machines resetting during marathon attempts. He never loses his cool though, the man is a machine.
Which is great and all, until you put on sun glasses or have a lazy eye. Here's the part that you don't want to think about: Once they have head/eye tracking, the insurance companies will get VERY interested in the recordings of that data, not only after a crash, but during everyday driving. They will be able to use that data to categorize drivers into highly refined risk levels.
They will be able to determine if your eyes are looking at your phone, sleepy, etc., and the HUD could give visual emergency warnings reminding you are displaying dangerous behavior, and if you don't correct it, the car will begin to slow down, perhaps alert the police, and even give you a ticket!
Oh, the joys of the future. Soon the car will be filled with sensors recording everything going on inside and outside the car, and said information can be used by advertisers, insurance companies, lawyers. Everyone's car will be, in effect, a real time version of Google's Street View.
I went to the University of New Mexico at 14. Graduated at 19, Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in engineering. Masters from Purdue at 21. I'm now 23 and a semester away from my Ph.D.
Believe it or not, I am extremely social!
You may be "social", but I guarantee most people find you obnoxious and annoying when you are trying to be "social". Look at the way you introduced yourself. QED.
If you have 1800 highschool students being monitored by their webcams on their laptops, IN THEIR BEDROOMS, you know some of those kids were probably masturbating to internet porn or having sex with their girlfriend/boyfriend. IN HAPPENS. They are humans.
These school officials are entering a world of hurt.
"...bolts seemed to be causing the interference. [b]He removed all eight bolts[/b], saying the clearance would be tight but that the cover likely would fit. It did, with some coaxing Sunday."
...And in other news, the International Space Station exploded and fell apart for some [i]unknown reason[/i] today.
Everyone knows autism is caused by plastic contaminated foods.
Vaccines? Is that guy crazy? Maybe he ate too many of those cheese & cracker snacks you could make tunnels in the cheese with, using that little red cheese spreader knifey thing, all of which was made of plastic.
If they wanted mules, they'd use mules. Problem is, it's kind of hard to ask your mule to scout ahead 100m, scan territory, and post an "all clear" message back to your squad, while providing live video feeds and fire support (it may even deploy it's own microUAV during maneuvers). Old No. 7 isn't going to do that for you.
...then 1 attorney taking 2 or 3 hours of time to review the facts, compose the letter, and handle internal billing paperwork is surely worth $400,000. What goes around comes around. When grandma gets penalized millions of dollars for having her grandson download 20 songs over bit torrent, surely lawyer fees must be worth much more.
"...the Na'vi seemed like actors in blue makeup, not "so alien you don't even associate them with humans"
I agree 100% with that statement as that's how I described the experience to friends/family after opening night. I literally had to remind myself that those images of Na'vi faces weren't masks being worn by real actors being shot by a real camera - they were digitally created faces whose movements were being controlled by point cloud inputs created by facial performance capture devices mounted in front of the actor's face.
My point is, I felt like I'd crossed the uncanny valley and arrived to the "future". I actually had goose bumps, realizing that this is just the beginning of a fantastic future of film/game/virtual interactions that appear to be real.
Congrats! You actually took the effort to take a Twitter comment OUT OF CONTEXT (they are at most only 140 characters). You conveniently left out the first part, the most important part, of the guy's Twitter comment: "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got...."
Wow. If I had mod points, I'd label you (-1, Misleading). The word "Crap!" at the beginning clearly changes the tone of the post and the fact that you deliberately left it out just underscores that point. Agenda much?
...about Google's "Smart Meter" for your home. It seems like Google wants to know everything about everybody. The only difference between them and other entities that what this much information is that Google's gradually arriving to that goal.
Yes, but they are called "touch screens" so why should it be an issue to touch it if you are holding it? There is no reason why they couldn't program in the "gesture" of holding the book so that the screen doesn't respond to a holding gesture.
...it is a very ugly piece of hardware. The silver plastic looks cheap, and the wide frame surrounding the screens is a major step backwards in display design. I would be shocked if this ugly mid-90's looking DS tablet sells well at all.
Design is important in hardware sales because it creates the emotional response in the potential customer. Even if logic dictates that this is a "good" piece of hardware, emotion will over rule it by saying, "yeah, but it's kind of ugly, so it can't be that good...". And emotion is always what wins over the masses.
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Exactly. This "opened" and "not opened" email vernacular are just arbitrary virtual terms designed to mimic real world snail mail terminology. Email is just a digital file and whether or not somebody has read the contents of the file has nothing to do with the governments authority (or lack there of) to read it without warrant.
"to keep my brain from overheating I spend several hours a week surfing the web (usually reading tech news but also a few stops on Facebook, email, etc). I should add that I am interrupted a few times per day."
You said you usually work about 10-15 hours per week. So that means that on some weeks, you fuck off on the internet for 30 hours a week!?! Sorry you to hear you get "interrupted a few times per day" while Facebooking. You poor, poor thing.
Oh, and by the way, I'm on my daily 10 minute break. Back to actual work for me. Have a nice 8 hour day doing.....whatever it is you do.
Sure, while people who have the expertise, time, and desire to circumvent "censorship" may just view censorship as a mere "complication", for the rest of the population who are work hard all day and lack both the energy and prowess and are afraid of being arrested, it's still censorship.
And it's more than just censorship, it's stuff that fills the void of truth like propaganda and disinformation. Just mix it all together and you have most of the populace which is misinformed and under, for lack of better terms, a soft form of mind control.
This is the year of the Linux Tablet!
Part of "fun" is uncertainty, a sense of challenge and the subsequent realization when you succeed, when there is no threat to more basic needs. Such feelings would be lessened if solving the problem was a sure thing
That's what my wife said when I asked her why she cheated on me.
Bill Carlton was actually in a documentary called "High Score" which covers his attempts to beat the 80 million point high score of Missile Command (arcade version). Bill Carlton has a lot of bad luck with his machines resetting during marathon attempts. He never loses his cool though, the man is a machine.
That's pretty bold of them, attempting a round the world solar powered flight test during the Apocalypse. God speed.
The Bill Pullman speech is very funny when read by this man: Engrish!
"Slamming spam lands spammer in slammer"
Now his ham will get hammered in that slammer!
Which is great and all, until you put on sun glasses or have a lazy eye. Here's the part that you don't want to think about: Once they have head/eye tracking, the insurance companies will get VERY interested in the recordings of that data, not only after a crash, but during everyday driving. They will be able to use that data to categorize drivers into highly refined risk levels.
They will be able to determine if your eyes are looking at your phone, sleepy, etc., and the HUD could give visual emergency warnings reminding you are displaying dangerous behavior, and if you don't correct it, the car will begin to slow down, perhaps alert the police, and even give you a ticket!
Oh, the joys of the future. Soon the car will be filled with sensors recording everything going on inside and outside the car, and said information can be used by advertisers, insurance companies, lawyers. Everyone's car will be, in effect, a real time version of Google's Street View.
I went to the University of New Mexico at 14. Graduated at 19, Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in engineering. Masters from Purdue at 21. I'm now 23 and a semester away from my Ph.D.
Believe it or not, I am extremely social!
You may be "social", but I guarantee most people find you obnoxious and annoying when you are trying to be "social". Look at the way you introduced yourself. QED.
If you have 1800 highschool students being monitored by their webcams on their laptops, IN THEIR BEDROOMS, you know some of those kids were probably masturbating to internet porn or having sex with their girlfriend/boyfriend. IN HAPPENS. They are humans.
These school officials are entering a world of hurt.
I count 7 windows. So the headline could read, "Nasa Installs Windows 7 on the ISS," and scare the crap out of the world.
"...bolts seemed to be causing the interference. [b]He removed all eight bolts[/b], saying the clearance would be tight but that the cover likely would fit. It did, with some coaxing Sunday."
...And in other news, the International Space Station exploded and fell apart for some [i]unknown reason[/i] today.
And now we know the REAL reason the airlines want full body scanners.
"Sorry sir, but according to the 3-D scanner, the computer has determined you will not be able to board the plane with 1 boarding pass."
Everyone knows autism is caused by plastic contaminated foods.
Vaccines? Is that guy crazy? Maybe he ate too many of those cheese & cracker snacks you could make tunnels in the cheese with, using that little red cheese spreader knifey thing, all of which was made of plastic.
...like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-uLjXQaMo
I'm surprised this never made it on the news.
If they wanted mules, they'd use mules. Problem is, it's kind of hard to ask your mule to scout ahead 100m, scan territory, and post an "all clear" message back to your squad, while providing live video feeds and fire support (it may even deploy it's own microUAV during maneuvers). Old No. 7 isn't going to do that for you.
It will never last with an acronym like that. Should have called it National Education by Research Department.
...then 1 attorney taking 2 or 3 hours of time to review the facts, compose the letter, and handle internal billing paperwork is surely worth $400,000. What goes around comes around. When grandma gets penalized millions of dollars for having her grandson download 20 songs over bit torrent, surely lawyer fees must be worth much more.
I agree 100% with that statement as that's how I described the experience to friends/family after opening night. I literally had to remind myself that those images of Na'vi faces weren't masks being worn by real actors being shot by a real camera - they were digitally created faces whose movements were being controlled by point cloud inputs created by facial performance capture devices mounted in front of the actor's face.
My point is, I felt like I'd crossed the uncanny valley and arrived to the "future". I actually had goose bumps, realizing that this is just the beginning of a fantastic future of film/game/virtual interactions that appear to be real.
Congrats! You actually took the effort to take a Twitter comment OUT OF CONTEXT (they are at most only 140 characters). You conveniently left out the first part, the most important part, of the guy's Twitter comment: "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got...."
Wow. If I had mod points, I'd label you (-1, Misleading). The word "Crap!" at the beginning clearly changes the tone of the post and the fact that you deliberately left it out just underscores that point. Agenda much?
...about Google's "Smart Meter" for your home. It seems like Google wants to know everything about everybody. The only difference between them and other entities that what this much information is that Google's gradually arriving to that goal.
Yes, but they are called "touch screens" so why should it be an issue to touch it if you are holding it? There is no reason why they couldn't program in the "gesture" of holding the book so that the screen doesn't respond to a holding gesture.
...it is a very ugly piece of hardware. The silver plastic looks cheap, and the wide frame surrounding the screens is a major step backwards in display design. I would be shocked if this ugly mid-90's looking DS tablet sells well at all.
Design is important in hardware sales because it creates the emotional response in the potential customer. Even if logic dictates that this is a "good" piece of hardware, emotion will over rule it by saying, "yeah, but it's kind of ugly, so it can't be that good...". And emotion is always what wins over the masses.