glass is a very worrying invention. no expectation of privacy in public is very different then lots of people being able to record everything they see. wait 'til a bunch of peeping tom videos start appearing, or people taking videos of kids on the beach, or until someone with glass gets shot because a dealer thinks they might have recorded that drug deal. the surveillance we have now, we can at least vaguely hope no one is using it for fap material, or won't put it out to embarrass us. does your nose itch? better not scratch it, there's three people with google glass over there and you'd hate for them to record it and put it up on youtube looking like you're picking your nose. is there even a light showing people that its recording? laptops sometimes have those, that'd be something at least
well, you must be new to the internet, that has long been peeping tom videos (called voyeurism vids), and yes, pictures of kids at the beach. Already online. Hey, even naked kids because you can find nudist pictures easy.
Drug Dealers shooting you because they think you recorded them, sounds like any of the Cop TV Show plots. Chances are if you stumble on any serious enough drug deal that they are carrying guns, they are going to be shooting you regardless if they think you recorded them or not. That of course, is based, like your assumption, off TV cop shows. In reality, the chances of the cops accepting your video as proof to arrest someone for drug dealing is slim, to none, unless they have it out for the dealer. You recording them isn't proof enough, unless it's a recording of an undercover buying drugs.
If you are worried about people recording you in public, get some IR lights, put them around your face while in public (lighted of course), and it should, in theory, shine bright enough on camera that no one can make out your face.
I think the author is a prime example of how having better tech doesn't make you smart.
Aliens, are well, Aliens. They probably wouldn't be human, and thus, would evolve along a different type of path.
Another point, even with having all the tech in the world, sometimes it's nice to stretch your legs. I got computers, TV, phone, I don't have to leave home, everything I need is here or can be delivered. And yet I still go outside just for the heck of it.
And while I can't speak for Aliens, I can speak for humans and we tend to do things just because we can do it. Travel to other stars? I'd guess humans are going to figure out how to do it and start doing it before our sun expands. Or maybe we'll kill most of each other off and live in caves. But either way, we ain't going to get the tech and knowledge, then do nothing with it.
Internet-connected. The next Xbox must be Internet-connected to use. This is the source of the “always on”/“always online” rumors and isn’t as Draconian as many seem to believe.
MS, the only people who don't think an always on Internet connection isn't Draconian works for you or game publishing companies. Most of your consumers think it's very Draconian.
The "summary" isn't a summary. It's a blog article written by Bennett Haselton who posts blog articles directly to Slashdot every once in a while because he likes Slashdot as a discussion forum and wants to hear what Slashdot's userbase has to say about his ideas.
Here in Seattle (and other places), we have Gigabit Squared (https://www.facebook.com/GigabitSquared) that is trying to put in Gigabit speeds into various neighborhoods. Will it happen? Will it be affordable? Only time will tell, but at least we are starting to get choices.
Even if you don't use Ubuntu, seed the torrents for a few hours. It is one way we can all contribute to Open Source - no dev skills, documentation skills, etc. required!
So, you are telling me to waste my bandwidth, downloading something I don't want, just to help others out? Socialist.
I have files on my Hard Drive that are encrypted, with the key being stored on a USB dongle. Unfortunately, that dongle went missing.
So I now sit on a lot of files that I can't access and couldn't turn the key over (but hey, if you find the dongle in your search, be my guest), but I know the moment I delete them I find that darn dongle...
In this case, you can encrypt the whole collection with like truecrypt, this time use a passphrase you won't forget. This way, if someone else finds the dongle, they can't access the files without the passphrase, and if you find the dongle, you are golden. But meanwhile the files are safe under another layer of encryption...
Genesis, Amiga, Playstation, fuck ya, I played the game. I mean, I played the game.
If i want to relive the game, I got so many choices. That's why I'm not worried that the new game, Road Redemption, has added more on to it. So we got samurai swords and guns now. Sure, compared to the original game, it's different, but dudes, you can still play the original game. In fact, if this was just updated graphics of the original game, I'm sure people will be bitching that it's not any different.
Look, shit we enjoyed in the past, we can't get the same sort of joy out of it now, so we get something new. Relax, enjoy.
I'm going to point out that I really don't use the chain, bat or kicks much in Road Rash, they slow you down. Just a little dodge and zoom on past the dudes. After all, you are more racing the clock then the other opponents.
And to be fair, I first bitched about Road Rash 3D not being the same exactly as the Road Rash I've come to love from the Genesis (and Amiga) version. But guess what? It was decent enough in itself. Granted I think it's the N64 version that sucks dogshit...
I have a problem, I don't hear that much new music. I don't listen to the radio, I don't listen to internet radio stations, and I don't have any friends. So hearing that twitter is going to have new music suggestions from celebrities, I couldn't be happier! If there is anyone who knows what I will like, it's the rich, super popular celebrities.
I can't wait, Ashely Tisdale recommends her new album. The Black Eyed Peas recommends their new album! Shit, the Rolling Stones recommends their new album!!!!!
How does MS feel about an always on Internet Requirement for all games on the Xbox? Obviously the customers don't like it, but does MS care what it's customers want?
If the US did play entirely by the rules, the USSR would win the Cold War. The USSR was a fascist country, although the red sort of fascism, and observed no rules in its quest for dominance over Eurasia. I am glad the West's only country capable of standing against the USSR had politicians like Dr Kissinger that were focused on winning.
Why is everyone going gaga over Android consoles? You can already hook up many existing tablets or other Android devices to HDMI and see games on your television. These new Android consoles are unlikely to get lots of games specific to just that console, so they will mostly run ordinary Android apps. They'll probably be used mostly to run emulators and media players on a TV--except that you can jailbreak a Wii to get that and the processing power of Android game consoles is weak enough that they have no advantage over a Wii for emulators (and only an advantage for media players because they have hardware decoding).
What if you don't have any android devices, ie, tablets or smartphones? Wait, the world evolves around you, right?
lol, that made me laugh. Customer Centric Approach. I think that means they didn't actually plan on telling anyone, you'd have to find it out for yourself when you buy the systems and the games. I'm sure on the back of the game box, in small letters, will say, "Requires an Always On Internet Connection".
The truth is, our Senators are failing at their jobs. They make laws they know nothing about, and make a lot of laws that seems to be straight from corporation playbooks. But the sad truth is, the law makers do NOT understand Technology.
Look, if video games were that bad, then most of us would be killers. Instead of me laughing at dumb ass people, I'd shoot them. Since I've played a lot of Grand Theft Auto, in reality I must be stealing cars and killing people right and left. But oddly enough, I don't. You can't say it's because I'm not criminally inclined, because I am.
The truth is, some people are just plain fucked in the head. And they are going to lash out in a way that is public and we don't like. If you want to play the blame game, it's our faults for not giving everyone the mental health care they might need. Shit, I didn't get any till I was in my 30's. Why don't we put more money into the health care (mental included) for everyone in the United States, like a good government would do for it's people. That is, if they really cared about the people.
A bigger pity that Google will get down on their knees and deepthroat the MPAA like a good little whore.
Your perspective is skewed. Google isn't doing this because the *AA asks them to, they are doing it because it is the law.
If the *AA's get out of hand, Google could easily just buy the entire industry. Every single one of those companies. With cash. Several times over. You don't seem to understand the amount of money Google has. They aren't kowtowing to private corporate interests at this point, they are simply doing what the law requires them to do. If you get a take-down notice, you have to take it down. If the *AA's begin to make the world suck too bad for Google, they could just purchase them and eradicate all of it.
If google could, they should. Buy them all up, and put everything 14+ years old in public domain. That would be a nice "do no evil" move.
Let's take heroin addiction for example. You know how many heroin addicts that get clean, yet go back to using the heroin? Pretty much all of them. Turning off the "addictive" cell won't change that. It's not about the addiction, it's about the high. It's about how the drug makes you feel.
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Well, just got a Dad left, and I never text him. I call him if I need or want to talk to him, but text? Never.
I do text my weed dealers though.
... when the mice become self-aware.
I'm more scared of the day when the mice decide human meat is the best way to feed their species.
glass is a very worrying invention. no expectation of privacy in public is very different then lots of people being able to record everything they see. wait 'til a bunch of peeping tom videos start appearing, or people taking videos of kids on the beach, or until someone with glass gets shot because a dealer thinks they might have recorded that drug deal. the surveillance we have now, we can at least vaguely hope no one is using it for fap material, or won't put it out to embarrass us. does your nose itch? better not scratch it, there's three people with google glass over there and you'd hate for them to record it and put it up on youtube looking like you're picking your nose. is there even a light showing people that its recording? laptops sometimes have those, that'd be something at least
well, you must be new to the internet, that has long been peeping tom videos (called voyeurism vids), and yes, pictures of kids at the beach. Already online. Hey, even naked kids because you can find nudist pictures easy.
Drug Dealers shooting you because they think you recorded them, sounds like any of the Cop TV Show plots. Chances are if you stumble on any serious enough drug deal that they are carrying guns, they are going to be shooting you regardless if they think you recorded them or not. That of course, is based, like your assumption, off TV cop shows. In reality, the chances of the cops accepting your video as proof to arrest someone for drug dealing is slim, to none, unless they have it out for the dealer. You recording them isn't proof enough, unless it's a recording of an undercover buying drugs.
If you are worried about people recording you in public, get some IR lights, put them around your face while in public (lighted of course), and it should, in theory, shine bright enough on camera that no one can make out your face.
I think the author is a prime example of how having better tech doesn't make you smart.
Aliens, are well, Aliens. They probably wouldn't be human, and thus, would evolve along a different type of path.
Another point, even with having all the tech in the world, sometimes it's nice to stretch your legs. I got computers, TV, phone, I don't have to leave home, everything I need is here or can be delivered. And yet I still go outside just for the heck of it.
And while I can't speak for Aliens, I can speak for humans and we tend to do things just because we can do it. Travel to other stars? I'd guess humans are going to figure out how to do it and start doing it before our sun expands. Or maybe we'll kill most of each other off and live in caves. But either way, we ain't going to get the tech and knowledge, then do nothing with it.
Internet-connected. The next Xbox must be Internet-connected to use. This is the source of the “always on”/“always online” rumors and isn’t as Draconian as many seem to believe.
MS, the only people who don't think an always on Internet connection isn't Draconian works for you or game publishing companies. Most of your consumers think it's very Draconian.
The "summary" isn't a summary. It's a blog article written by Bennett Haselton who posts blog articles directly to Slashdot every once in a while because he likes Slashdot as a discussion forum and wants to hear what Slashdot's userbase has to say about his ideas.
And yet, I still don't care.
Here in Seattle (and other places), we have Gigabit Squared (https://www.facebook.com/GigabitSquared) that is trying to put in Gigabit speeds into various neighborhoods. Will it happen? Will it be affordable? Only time will tell, but at least we are starting to get choices.
Guess you don't need to read the article for this one, it's in the summary.
not bothering reading any of it. thanks though!
I might of checked out the site, but the super long summary made me think someone (looking at you timothy) is getting paid if I click on the link.
Even if you don't use Ubuntu, seed the torrents for a few hours. It is one way we can all contribute to Open Source - no dev skills, documentation skills, etc. required!
So, you are telling me to waste my bandwidth, downloading something I don't want, just to help others out? Socialist.
I have files on my Hard Drive that are encrypted, with the key being stored on a USB dongle. Unfortunately, that dongle went missing.
So I now sit on a lot of files that I can't access and couldn't turn the key over (but hey, if you find the dongle in your search, be my guest), but I know the moment I delete them I find that darn dongle...
In this case, you can encrypt the whole collection with like truecrypt, this time use a passphrase you won't forget. This way, if someone else finds the dongle, they can't access the files without the passphrase, and if you find the dongle, you are golden. But meanwhile the files are safe under another layer of encryption...
https://www.google.com/#safe=off&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=animals%20flee%20before%20earthquake&oq=&gs_l=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45175338,d.cGE&fp=144025172efe81&biw=1155&bih=844&pf=p&pdl=300
You will find some animals flee before earthquakes, some act peculiar, as in, will be afraid or seemingly barking for hours before they hit.
I'm sure you wanted a more scientific answer, but sorry, while the scientist do great stuff, predicting shit that happens isn't one of them.
Look, I grew up on Road Rash. I love the game.
Genesis, Amiga, Playstation, fuck ya, I played the game. I mean, I played the game.
If i want to relive the game, I got so many choices. That's why I'm not worried that the new game, Road Redemption, has added more on to it. So we got samurai swords and guns now. Sure, compared to the original game, it's different, but dudes, you can still play the original game. In fact, if this was just updated graphics of the original game, I'm sure people will be bitching that it's not any different.
Look, shit we enjoyed in the past, we can't get the same sort of joy out of it now, so we get something new. Relax, enjoy.
I'm going to point out that I really don't use the chain, bat or kicks much in Road Rash, they slow you down. Just a little dodge and zoom on past the dudes. After all, you are more racing the clock then the other opponents.
And to be fair, I first bitched about Road Rash 3D not being the same exactly as the Road Rash I've come to love from the Genesis (and Amiga) version. But guess what? It was decent enough in itself. Granted I think it's the N64 version that sucks dogshit...
Hawking is a cool dude, he has a wheelchair that communicates for him.
Other then that, I don't listen to him, he's a bit unbalanced mentally, IMO.
Dude is smart, had a brilliant mind. Now though? I think he's feeling old and frail and his fear of death shows in his statements.
I have a problem, I don't hear that much new music. I don't listen to the radio, I don't listen to internet radio stations, and I don't have any friends. So hearing that twitter is going to have new music suggestions from celebrities, I couldn't be happier! If there is anyone who knows what I will like, it's the rich, super popular celebrities.
I can't wait, Ashely Tisdale recommends her new album. The Black Eyed Peas recommends their new album! Shit, the Rolling Stones recommends their new album!!!!!
No wonder I don't use twitter.
How does MS feel about an always on Internet Requirement for all games on the Xbox? Obviously the customers don't like it, but does MS care what it's customers want?
when the thieves come in thru the window. (No, not Windows OS, but the actual window.)
I always thought blowtorches has tanks of fuel, not magazines of fuel. Damn public school education!
If the US did play entirely by the rules, the USSR would win the Cold War. The USSR was a fascist country, although the red sort of fascism, and observed no rules in its quest for dominance over Eurasia. I am glad the West's only country capable of standing against the USSR had politicians like Dr Kissinger that were focused on winning.
lol, i'd mod ya funny, but i posted instead.
The two analog sticks aren't even aligned vertically... what's up with that?
The Xbox 360 controllers do not have vertically aligned analog sticks either.
Why is everyone going gaga over Android consoles? You can already hook up many existing tablets or other Android devices to HDMI and see games on your television. These new Android consoles are unlikely to get lots of games specific to just that console, so they will mostly run ordinary Android apps. They'll probably be used mostly to run emulators and media players on a TV--except that you can jailbreak a Wii to get that and the processing power of Android game consoles is weak enough that they have no advantage over a Wii for emulators (and only an advantage for media players because they have hardware decoding).
What if you don't have any android devices, ie, tablets or smartphones? Wait, the world evolves around you, right?
lol, that made me laugh. Customer Centric Approach. I think that means they didn't actually plan on telling anyone, you'd have to find it out for yourself when you buy the systems and the games. I'm sure on the back of the game box, in small letters, will say, "Requires an Always On Internet Connection".
The truth is, our Senators are failing at their jobs. They make laws they know nothing about, and make a lot of laws that seems to be straight from corporation playbooks. But the sad truth is, the law makers do NOT understand Technology.
Look, if video games were that bad, then most of us would be killers. Instead of me laughing at dumb ass people, I'd shoot them. Since I've played a lot of Grand Theft Auto, in reality I must be stealing cars and killing people right and left. But oddly enough, I don't. You can't say it's because I'm not criminally inclined, because I am.
The truth is, some people are just plain fucked in the head. And they are going to lash out in a way that is public and we don't like. If you want to play the blame game, it's our faults for not giving everyone the mental health care they might need. Shit, I didn't get any till I was in my 30's. Why don't we put more money into the health care (mental included) for everyone in the United States, like a good government would do for it's people. That is, if they really cared about the people.
A bigger pity that Google will get down on their knees and deepthroat the MPAA like a good little whore.
Your perspective is skewed. Google isn't doing this because the *AA asks them to, they are doing it because it is the law.
If the *AA's get out of hand, Google could easily just buy the entire industry. Every single one of those companies. With cash. Several times over. You don't seem to understand the amount of money Google has. They aren't kowtowing to private corporate interests at this point, they are simply doing what the law requires them to do. If you get a take-down notice, you have to take it down. If the *AA's begin to make the world suck too bad for Google, they could just purchase them and eradicate all of it.
If google could, they should. Buy them all up, and put everything 14+ years old in public domain. That would be a nice "do no evil" move.
till i realized it was white dwarf, not Red Dwarf...
Let's take heroin addiction for example. You know how many heroin addicts that get clean, yet go back to using the heroin? Pretty much all of them. Turning off the "addictive" cell won't change that. It's not about the addiction, it's about the high. It's about how the drug makes you feel.