Did anybody else notice that in some of the images the people well behind the pad (but still in the image frame) are showing up as well? Just how much EM do these things ACTUALLY emit?
In my last will and testament, I will request that the record be played on the anniversary of my death, or the assets they received from me will become public property.
On the record itself - a recording of me banging their mother / grandmother / great grandmother. Take that leeches!
I could understand this being posted as "idle" if the person was misinformed about the consequences of losing his organs, but this guy seems to have his ducks in a row.
With our system of publicly funded hospitals, you'd have to have "Do Not Revive" tattooed on yur forehead to opt out.
Which brings up an interesting question about national health insurance: Can they require members of the Church of Christ Scientist to participate in such a plan?
If you go for a period of time without auto insurance, i.e. not driving, you fall into the automotive indemnity bracket (steeply inflated rates) when you acquire another vehicle and insure it. You are, in effect, punished for not consuming the mandated good.
Heaven forbid that the only clear alternative, aside from either cheap contracting or paying more taxes, might be to decrease government spending in the first place.
It always seemed to me that the greatest benefit of tracking the position / geometry of a user's eyes would be for determining their focal point. The user will look at your information directly if it's needed, but if it was always in focus they will be less fatigued by constantly changing focal points. In handheld devices this would allow you to glance at your phone by bringing into your field of view without having to take your focus off the road / sidewalk. Refining the technology enough that people could use computers at work without having to have corrective lenses on / in would do wonders.
It's easy to do amazingly positive things with a corporation, so long as you don't have public shareholders. Organized business is not wholly evil. You should try owning one sometime, it's a blast!
I'm completely atypical in this respect, but I first learned to program in x86 assembly. Why? Because I was poor and the only computer I had was an XT clone that was given to me. I had no development tools except what came with DOS. I'm 27.
I think the absolute best thing you could do is give him a computer to experiment with. Provide all of the tools for development, but don't try to prod him into your following. If the interest is there then curiosity will spur the pursuit.
What'd probably happen is about five years (as the travelers perceive it) after launch we'll develop faster-than-light travel and interrupt their journey. Or maybe just let them ride it out as a curious time capsule to cruise by and show buttcheek to.
I'm not saying that it justifies it in any way. I'm merely pointing out that scapegoating a company that does genuinely good things while ignoring the company that routinely dicks its customers is odd. Plus, if you had read yesterday's article, you would understand that google is purging IP addresses from the records.
The one thing that strikes me as silly about the "what if Google datamines our DNS requests" concern is that those people assume their ISPs aren't already doing so.
I'm fairly certain that ShadowRangerRIT was talking about local networks only. He's referring to internal QoS, which will in no way affect the total bandwidth he's using relative to the ISP. The connection is saturated in both scenarios. Using QoS internally, he's just prioritizing his traffic.
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I second, and I am openly in the USA :)
Did anybody else notice that in some of the images the people well behind the pad (but still in the image frame) are showing up as well? Just how much EM do these things ACTUALLY emit?
Scheisse!
In my last will and testament, I will request that the record be played on the anniversary of my death, or the assets they received from me will become public property. On the record itself - a recording of me banging their mother / grandmother / great grandmother. Take that leeches!
I could understand this being posted as "idle" if the person was misinformed about the consequences of losing his organs, but this guy seems to have his ducks in a row.
America... FUCK YEAH!
open : mac
Gabe : thin
"Pirates sue Rockstar for using and distributing unlicensed cracks."
As fun as this would be to watch, Rockstar's legal Cthulhu can beat up any software cracking group's legal Peewee Herman. Unless the EFF stepped in...
I'd be willing to wager that the traits making him a person of interest are:
- coming from a county known to have a large islamic population
- being non-white
- having " al" or "bin" somewhere in his name
But rest assured, we're being protected from something, somewhere, for some reason!
1) accept zero money
2) gpl / lgpl
3) funky name that barely hints at the original
4) original artwork
unless the company happens to be in an IP troll mood, you'll probably be fine
...he always wants to show you something new, and it's always in the back of his van along with the puppies and candy.
With a title this inflammatory I could have sworn I was about to read a kdawson piece.
Auto insurance is mandatory.
Only if you drive. Some people don't.
With our system of publicly funded hospitals, you'd have to have "Do Not Revive" tattooed on yur forehead to opt out.
Which brings up an interesting question about national health insurance: Can they require members of the Church of Christ Scientist to participate in such a plan?
If you go for a period of time without auto insurance, i.e. not driving, you fall into the automotive indemnity bracket (steeply inflated rates) when you acquire another vehicle and insure it. You are, in effect, punished for not consuming the mandated good.
Results like this make Enceladus one of the most exciting places we've found in the solar system.
... besides planet Earth.
What you already have rarely stays exciting. This is why affairs happen.
Heaven forbid that the only clear alternative, aside from either cheap contracting or paying more taxes, might be to decrease government spending in the first place.
It always seemed to me that the greatest benefit of tracking the position / geometry of a user's eyes would be for determining their focal point. The user will look at your information directly if it's needed, but if it was always in focus they will be less fatigued by constantly changing focal points. In handheld devices this would allow you to glance at your phone by bringing into your field of view without having to take your focus off the road / sidewalk. Refining the technology enough that people could use computers at work without having to have corrective lenses on / in would do wonders.
It's easy to do amazingly positive things with a corporation, so long as you don't have public shareholders. Organized business is not wholly evil. You should try owning one sometime, it's a blast!
Holy crap... when I compare your comment with mine I can only conclude that we're doppelgangers!
I'm completely atypical in this respect, but I first learned to program in x86 assembly. Why? Because I was poor and the only computer I had was an XT clone that was given to me. I had no development tools except what came with DOS. I'm 27. I think the absolute best thing you could do is give him a computer to experiment with. Provide all of the tools for development, but don't try to prod him into your following. If the interest is there then curiosity will spur the pursuit.
Quit thinking in terms of chemical rockets. Put something massive in orbit, then attach ion engines and say best of luck.
What'd probably happen is about five years (as the travelers perceive it) after launch we'll develop faster-than-light travel and interrupt their journey. Or maybe just let them ride it out as a curious time capsule to cruise by and show buttcheek to.
I'm not saying that it justifies it in any way. I'm merely pointing out that scapegoating a company that does genuinely good things while ignoring the company that routinely dicks its customers is odd. Plus, if you had read yesterday's article, you would understand that google is purging IP addresses from the records.
The one thing that strikes me as silly about the "what if Google datamines our DNS requests" concern is that those people assume their ISPs aren't already doing so.
I'm fairly certain that ShadowRangerRIT was talking about local networks only. He's referring to internal QoS, which will in no way affect the total bandwidth he's using relative to the ISP. The connection is saturated in both scenarios. Using QoS internally, he's just prioritizing his traffic.
No, it's time to market sheet rock with embedded tight mesh chicken wire and grounding points at all of the seams.