The bigger risk is not criminals getting forged ID chips, but having their chip re-linked to an innocent persons record, effectively over-writing that person's claim to their own identity. Done right it would be incredibly hard to disprove and nightmare-ish to reinstate.
The 'file' will only be as good as the records management system used to maintain, store and secure such records. Given how poor most large scale record systems are, I would still expect identity theft to be rife, just harder to restore.
The advantage to icons over words is that they are language and dialect independent.
Updating the floppy disk icon to an SD card just means we'll have another 'useless' icon in another few years when everything is in the 'cloud', or whatever buzz word we're using by then.
I read ebooks on my iPad all the time. And browse the web from the couch or the train if I'm not in the mood to read my book. People keep telling me the screen is terribad to read from, but I have it set to 'sepia' and it's fine.
I sometimes notice the weight, but as most of the books I was reading in the past were either trade paperbacks or hardcover new releases, the form factor is smaller and the weight is similar to the dead tree version.
You're making the assumption that there will ONLY be those two 10 second announcements. There will probably still be another 5 minutes of crap on top of that.
I'm currently re-watching Life on DVD, every time I turn on the DVD players I have to sit through minutes of unskippable (un-fast-forwardable) warnings and trailers, and they are on the start of every disc in the set.
An AI is more likely, or an 'educationally programmed RealDoll TM', why spend all that money making glass boxes for teacher when you can replace the teachers with an android which will deliver an identical teaching experience for all students, which will guarantee a consistent educational result for all students [1].
[1] The consistent result probably being a crap education for all, but hey, no child left behind....
Freakonomics had an article on this in the original book, most street drug dealers still live at home because they make less than they would at McDonalds.
As the multitude of shows based around grifters like to say - you can't con an honest man. As a general rule, most cons only seem to work against people who would be prepared to take an unfair advantage over others.
When you say the Beauty books, do you mean the ones by Anna Sewell or Anne Rice. Both of which have been found in the children's section of our local library.
On the whole I thought securityemo constructed a well thought out paragraph for someone who probably didn't have English as a first language (they refer to being from Sweden). There are plenty of people for whom English is their first language who can't tell the difference between ensure/insure, affect/effect, etc...
Werribee is in the 'City of Wyndham', the electorate is Tarneit. I live in the suburb next door - Hoppers Crossing. It sounds like it should be some rural hamlet somewhere rather than it's current sprawling suburbia.
I'm a voter in Gillard's electorate. Last election we nearly voted an Austrlaian Sex Party candidate into the Senate and the Greens candidate had by far the largest increase in votes for the Lower House seat.
I don't see this particular piece of stunt electioneering being very effective. They'd be better off throwing their weight behind Fiona Patten or the local Greens candidate. Both of whom are sympathetic to their cause and more likely to get in.
While our privacy may not have been protected by statute, historically people have been afforded privacy due to the difficulty in monitoring and recording their behaviours. If you think about the effort to record information about someone and communicate it over any significant distance comparing today to as little as 50 years ago. Long distance phone calls were still special then, photographs had to be telegraphed at great expense or mailed. The available bandwidth for transmitting data was significantly restricted, so only 'important' data was sent with any speed.
Privacy was the default state because of the effort to expose someone was so great. These days people broadcast nearly everything about themselves on publically viewable channels, and what they don't broadcast themselves is probably captured by corporate or governement agencies for their own benefit.
The examples of personal activities listed by the original poster could possibly be done on a tablet like an iPad. The only variable would possibly be the type of games he likes to play, but if he's a serious gamer he will have a specifically specced rig at home already, otherwise there are plenty of causal tablet games available to play while on the road.
I'm currently playing through Lego Harry Potter on the iPad. I have hundreds of books (mostly sci fi or crime/mystery) loaded in iBooks and have web/mail via 3G. I wish I'd had this kind of convenience when I was travelling for work a few years back. I used to take 2 laptops on the road and play WoW on my personal laptop from hotel rooms to spend time with my other half from the other side of the country.
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The bigger risk is not criminals getting forged ID chips, but having their chip re-linked to an innocent persons record, effectively over-writing that person's claim to their own identity. Done right it would be incredibly hard to disprove and nightmare-ish to reinstate.
The 'file' will only be as good as the records management system used to maintain, store and secure such records. Given how poor most large scale record systems are, I would still expect identity theft to be rife, just harder to restore.
And Leverage and The Guild and random other stuff in passing and doing audiobooks and voiceover work a fair bit.
The advantage to icons over words is that they are language and dialect independent.
Updating the floppy disk icon to an SD card just means we'll have another 'useless' icon in another few years when everything is in the 'cloud', or whatever buzz word we're using by then.
I read ebooks on my iPad all the time. And browse the web from the couch or the train if I'm not in the mood to read my book. People keep telling me the screen is terribad to read from, but I have it set to 'sepia' and it's fine.
I sometimes notice the weight, but as most of the books I was reading in the past were either trade paperbacks or hardcover new releases, the form factor is smaller and the weight is similar to the dead tree version.
You're making the assumption that there will ONLY be those two 10 second announcements. There will probably still be another 5 minutes of crap on top of that.
I'm currently re-watching Life on DVD, every time I turn on the DVD players I have to sit through minutes of unskippable (un-fast-forwardable) warnings and trailers, and they are on the start of every disc in the set.
I know a number of professional Mistresses, there's more than a few people who pay for punishment.
Though, mostly, it's negotiated in advance what is acceptable. Why is there no safe word for all this rubbish?
From memory it was around $17 to see it in 3D at our local Village Cinema in Melbourne. Sounds like the cinema in Townsville is gouging you.
An AI is more likely, or an 'educationally programmed RealDoll TM', why spend all that money making glass boxes for teacher when you can replace the teachers with an android which will deliver an identical teaching experience for all students, which will guarantee a consistent educational result for all students [1].
[1] The consistent result probably being a crap education for all, but hey, no child left behind....
Dan Brown certainly catapults you through the plot at a rate of knots. Irrepressable, but unmemorable.
I think you're giving Tony Abbot far too much credit, surely he's the cow pat.
No one actually drinks that piss down here mate.
Freakonomics had an article on this in the original book, most street drug dealers still live at home because they make less than they would at McDonalds.
As the multitude of shows based around grifters like to say - you can't con an honest man. As a general rule, most cons only seem to work against people who would be prepared to take an unfair advantage over others.
What movie was it? This one?
There are no naked girls in Lord of the Flies. Though you could stir up trouble by mentioning naked boys eating each other...
When you say the Beauty books, do you mean the ones by Anna Sewell or Anne Rice. Both of which have been found in the children's section of our local library.
Teaching fantasy in the classroom will not lead to a broadened understanding of the real world. Not even by anology.
If you want to be closer to the truth, try starting with facts.
On the whole I thought securityemo constructed a well thought out paragraph for someone who probably didn't have English as a first language (they refer to being from Sweden). There are plenty of people for whom English is their first language who can't tell the difference between ensure/insure, affect/effect, etc...
Werribee is in the 'City of Wyndham', the electorate is Tarneit. I live in the suburb next door - Hoppers Crossing. It sounds like it should be some rural hamlet somewhere rather than it's current sprawling suburbia.
I'm a voter in Gillard's electorate. Last election we nearly voted an Austrlaian Sex Party candidate into the Senate and the Greens candidate had by far the largest increase in votes for the Lower House seat.
I don't see this particular piece of stunt electioneering being very effective. They'd be better off throwing their weight behind Fiona Patten or the local Greens candidate. Both of whom are sympathetic to their cause and more likely to get in.
While our privacy may not have been protected by statute, historically people have been afforded privacy due to the difficulty in monitoring and recording their behaviours. If you think about the effort to record information about someone and communicate it over any significant distance comparing today to as little as 50 years ago. Long distance phone calls were still special then, photographs had to be telegraphed at great expense or mailed. The available bandwidth for transmitting data was significantly restricted, so only 'important' data was sent with any speed.
Privacy was the default state because of the effort to expose someone was so great. These days people broadcast nearly everything about themselves on publically viewable channels, and what they don't broadcast themselves is probably captured by corporate or governement agencies for their own benefit.
If you would like to read a book that explores this concept further, I can recommend Blind Faith by Ben Elton.
The examples of personal activities listed by the original poster could possibly be done on a tablet like an iPad. The only variable would possibly be the type of games he likes to play, but if he's a serious gamer he will have a specifically specced rig at home already, otherwise there are plenty of causal tablet games available to play while on the road.
I'm currently playing through Lego Harry Potter on the iPad. I have hundreds of books (mostly sci fi or crime/mystery) loaded in iBooks and have web/mail via 3G. I wish I'd had this kind of convenience when I was travelling for work a few years back. I used to take 2 laptops on the road and play WoW on my personal laptop from hotel rooms to spend time with my other half from the other side of the country.
Less Godzilla, more Leviathan. :)