Well, it COULD get worse: we could have finger-tip embedded keys (call it DorkKB) which respond to thumbs, but also to fingers-overlays (rub and tap).
CCR (Carriage Carriage Return/Line Feed (umm, not Credence Clearwater Revival, heheheh (dating my self...)) could be by actioning the arm in the air.
Combine that with those bluetooth earbud/microphones for the cells and (and some tree or tea leaves to be token-tapped) and you suddenly will have the most of or the whole cell phone-using population looking like lunatics who escaped an asylum.
To the UK government and NXT for turning what would have been a money-sucking venture (in the near-term application, assuming war/conflict/helo-deployment NOT inevitable) into a commercial spin-off and apparent success.
(No, I'm not dissin' DARPA, I just don't know of/haven't seen in the new an intended DOD effort that nearly-IMMEDIATELY spun off into commercial success. I don't doubt they exist, I just have to Google them...)
Now, I wonder if those sound conductors will work in love chambers... gotta keep the neighbors awake...
control the whole SHEbang, but ms are going after the whole HEbang...
"Why not? Most of those posting anti-MS comments seem to think that if any version of Windows makes it to the XO, then MS will completely control the whole shebang"
Just build a damned high-power sub-molecular neutron scanner that looks for "evil" or dual-purposed items. If none found, passenger moves on. Whether or not any found, passenger picks up some rads, but so what. They'll probably pick up more radiation up at 40k feet than on the ground or in the airport.
Speaking of radiation, are there any laptop bags to protect laptops and data devices from long-haul radiation exposure? (hint: idea for someone with contacts and capitol... that doesn't include me... But, i reserve the right to go and seek this productization at ANY point if there is not an EXISTING-NOW product in commercialization...)
I have traveled to numerous "foreign" countries and have yet to have been made to pay duties on entry to the US or any other country or on exit from any country.
However, I hope whoever made the "TSA's BEEN HERE" locks makes a LOT of money off any patent they might have filed for the entry detection indicator. And, if the TSA's bypassing that color indicator, I hope a NEW design comes out to combat that bypassing, too.
rolls out in SF. I wonder what the consumer-pricing tiers will be, though, when they go full-active instead of technology demonstrator to the Bay Area (or SF).
Honestly, I don't think cable is worth $50+ per month. It's nice enough to be able to go to the library. If SF main cuts off public (2 or 3 hour) internet access, I'll just go to San Jose State/MLK Library. There, they don't even make you get a library card and sign into some lame-ass, per-day, time-restrictive crap that SF does. For such a liberal city, San Fran is trounced by SJ when it comes to allowing the public to surf and download. I downloaded about a GB of upgrades in under 55 minutes at SJSJ/MLK's (DSL?) connection.
The conspiracy-theorist-bug in me makes me think comcast and t-moble have a bug up their asses and don't want SF tampering with their their business models. I think they've paid off somebody to limit patron access. Even if you only go to SF Main 2 times a week, once your day's two or 4 hours is up, that's it, unless someone else with time on that day generously gives you access on their card. Of course, that's risky, sharing time to a stranger.
Does anyone know if SFSU allows the public to come in and surf via one's own laptop? I know SJSJ/MLK is a special case: it's university and county/city sharing, not private like campus-students only.
When they read your documents, they can rip an envelope, read them, and probably aren't going to fire up a cig lighter to your docs. But, to read your laptop or peripheral disks, they have to get the carrier to fire them up. I don't know about YOU, but I have hundreds of gigs of cruft, lots of it on the SAME disk (yep, I tend to from time to time lose it all when slaving them to the wrong reader connectors, and *I'M*** not EVEN trying to frag my own data) through my own ineptitude.
These people will likely sluff thru disks ALL day long, get tired of seeing the same old thing. Then, they'll get orders to ignore the file names and READ the documents, or parse them to a supercomputer to search and INDEX them for keywords for the usual things: evidence of activity with porn or terrorism, tax evasion, etc.
NOW, you not only have the issue of forced invasion of privacy with no initial wire taps or LEGITIMATE or even TENUOUS suspicion of criminal involvement, these assholes will be archiving umpteen billions of gigs of data at taxpayer expense. We ALL know people steal. What will the Hollywood, IT, and tax industry pros think when suddenly they weigh the particular bonehead congress and senate memebers who ram this down our throats. It's ONE thing to file or declare summarized information for duty reasons; it's another to have one's planned creative or product ideas basically STOLEN before one may even finish product development. Since people steal, what's to stop a corrupt functionary or security agent from stealing your ideas, passing them to information brokers, and then depriving you from gaining from your previously undisclosed ideas, ideas which you MIGHT not even be able to prove were stolen, depending on the time frame that you realize you've been beaten to the market.
They need to look for f*cking BOMBS, chemicals and other weapons, not bits and bytes. Bits and bytes searches can be dealt with by existing or evolving wiretap laws when triggered to shift into search and seizure of PHYSICAL evidence.
NObody should be forgiving these assholes for demanding that citizens OR foreigners surrender their laptops or data devices for read-access under duress. That's just PLAIN ASSHOLERY! Then, if they munge your data, they'll say, "So what you didn't sign a waiver, and we wrecked your data, and too bad your travel-backups got trashed, too, necessitating you return home to restart your trip."
Hopefully, there is a massive foreign backlash that threatens the tourism-business travel industry lobbyists to make the government desist on this stupid avenue of porn and terror hunting.
this stupid search mandate is to teach ALL (even the perps) to put the data on an SD or mini-SD card and declare that all suspicious data is NOT on the computer (and if it is regularly true, then let the statistics argue to dispense with or repeal that law/order). Or, get them to be regularly found downloading the "illegal" files from the web and not being findable on the laptop.
The assholes, rummaging through a hard drive means LOOKING into someone's personal life, proprietary information, or the like. Rummaging through a suitcase doesn't involve asking for receipts of when, where, and for how much the clothing or toiletries were purchased, or for or by whom the purchases were made.
This has less to do with protecting the public than it does with further conditioning the public to EXPECT to surrender for ANY reason, even without suspicion or due process or valid warrants.
Why, just WHY should the public trust some low-level functionary or scanner operator to NOT heft away with product ideas?
I don't know whether or not commercial planes have self-sealing or puncture-healing tanks in the wings, but wouldn't a shot or two straight thru the wing or even the turbine (yeh, I know the turbines have titanium or exotic blades, and fire won't necessarily bring down a plain considering they've got fire suppression or extinguishing bottles) cause an incindiary effect?
But, back to my earlier assumption: flak or tracer rounds lighting up ahead would scare the hell out of ANYbody, ex- F-15 jock or not. Not as if they can roll those 747s in evasive and recover easily from lost altitude or lift. One or two of those scares and I'll NEVER go aloft again, at least not in US airspace...
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"As I understood it, the real problem was that their upper management didn't have any vision whatsoever,"
Maybe they were developing "ColecoVision"?
And, assuming your desk was not metal (Mr. Bender), then that job was probably your first major woodie. Compute?
Well, it COULD get worse: we could have finger-tip embedded keys (call it DorkKB) which respond to thumbs, but also to fingers-overlays (rub and tap).
CCR (Carriage Carriage Return/Line Feed (umm, not Credence Clearwater Revival, heheheh (dating my self...)) could be by actioning the arm in the air.
Combine that with those bluetooth earbud/microphones for the cells and (and some tree or tea leaves to be token-tapped) and you suddenly will have the most of or the whole cell phone-using population looking like lunatics who escaped an asylum.
"position that can only be felt with the delicate hands of a surgeon. I constantly lose the home row position."
Well, that depends on whether you're a patient of Dr. Feelgood or Dr. Strangeglove.
HEHE, Yeh, that's an obvious one, and I should have said "recent" spin-offs...
To the UK government and NXT for turning what would have been a money-sucking venture (in the near-term application, assuming war/conflict/helo-deployment NOT inevitable) into a commercial spin-off and apparent success.
(No, I'm not dissin' DARPA, I just don't know of/haven't seen in the new an intended DOD effort that nearly-IMMEDIATELY spun off into commercial success. I don't doubt they exist, I just have to Google them...)
Now, I wonder if those sound conductors will work in love chambers... gotta keep the neighbors awake...
Yeh, maybe they just want a little "Prairie Home Companion(ship)"...
control the whole SHEbang, but ms are going after the whole HEbang...
"Why not? Most of those posting anti-MS comments seem to think that if any version of Windows makes it to the XO, then MS will completely control the whole shebang"
... new jack SHITTY...
(assuming there'll be technical impositions alluded to elsewhere...)
Just build a damned high-power sub-molecular neutron scanner that looks for "evil" or dual-purposed items. If none found, passenger moves on. Whether or not any found, passenger picks up some rads, but so what. They'll probably pick up more radiation up at 40k feet than on the ground or in the airport.
Speaking of radiation, are there any laptop bags to protect laptops and data devices from long-haul radiation exposure? (hint: idea for someone with contacts and capitol... that doesn't include me... But, i reserve the right to go and seek this productization at ANY point if there is not an EXISTING-NOW product in commercialization...)
So, the Humble Hubble is about to be universally unhobbled?
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I have traveled to numerous "foreign" countries and have yet to have been made to pay duties on entry to the US or any other country or on exit from any country.
However, I hope whoever made the "TSA's BEEN HERE" locks makes a LOT of money off any patent they might have filed for the entry detection indicator. And, if the TSA's bypassing that color indicator, I hope a NEW design comes out to combat that bypassing, too.
I will read a physiques ... umm physics book while testing out my vacuum and vacuum-filling tubes...
Not Million Electron Volts, but
"Male Enhancer Volume System Product"
How much juice/oomph can YOUR tubes deliver?
Too bad that:
http://lunapark6.com/usb-hdtv-tuner-stick-for-windows-linux-hauppauge-wintv-hvr-950.html
won't be of much use as an off-the-air device (the coax part will still be useful) by the time the government OTA switch-kill happens.
I can't WAIT til Meraki:
http://meraki.com/
http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/03/05/meraki-rocks-the-casbah/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/03/meraki-mini-wifi-router-also-does-mesh/
rolls out in SF. I wonder what the consumer-pricing tiers will be, though, when they go full-active instead of technology demonstrator to the Bay Area (or SF).
Honestly, I don't think cable is worth $50+ per month. It's nice enough to be able to go to the library. If SF main cuts off public (2 or 3 hour) internet access, I'll just go to San Jose State/MLK Library. There, they don't even make you get a library card and sign into some lame-ass, per-day, time-restrictive crap that SF does. For such a liberal city, San Fran is trounced by SJ when it comes to allowing the public to surf and download. I downloaded about a GB of upgrades in under 55 minutes at SJSJ/MLK's (DSL?) connection.
The conspiracy-theorist-bug in me makes me think comcast and t-moble have a bug up their asses and don't want SF tampering with their their business models. I think they've paid off somebody to limit patron access. Even if you only go to SF Main 2 times a week, once your day's two or 4 hours is up, that's it, unless someone else with time on that day generously gives you access on their card. Of course, that's risky, sharing time to a stranger.
Does anyone know if SFSU allows the public to come in and surf via one's own laptop? I know SJSJ/MLK is a special case: it's university and county/city sharing, not private like campus-students only.
They'll search your ass via supercavitation... (LOL)
Who gives a RAT's ass what the courts think?
When they read your documents, they can rip an envelope, read them, and probably aren't going to fire up a cig lighter to your docs. But, to read your laptop or peripheral disks, they have to get the carrier to fire them up. I don't know about YOU, but I have hundreds of gigs of cruft, lots of it on the SAME disk (yep, I tend to from time to time lose it all when slaving them to the wrong reader connectors, and *I'M*** not EVEN trying to frag my own data) through my own ineptitude.
These people will likely sluff thru disks ALL day long, get tired of seeing the same old thing. Then, they'll get orders to ignore the file names and READ the documents, or parse them to a supercomputer to search and INDEX them for keywords for the usual things: evidence of activity with porn or terrorism, tax evasion, etc.
NOW, you not only have the issue of forced invasion of privacy with no initial wire taps or LEGITIMATE or even TENUOUS suspicion of criminal involvement, these assholes will be archiving umpteen billions of gigs of data at taxpayer expense. We ALL know people steal. What will the Hollywood, IT, and tax industry pros think when suddenly they weigh the particular bonehead congress and senate memebers who ram this down our throats. It's ONE thing to file or declare summarized information for duty reasons; it's another to have one's planned creative or product ideas basically STOLEN before one may even finish product development. Since people steal, what's to stop a corrupt functionary or security agent from stealing your ideas, passing them to information brokers, and then depriving you from gaining from your previously undisclosed ideas, ideas which you MIGHT not even be able to prove were stolen, depending on the time frame that you realize you've been beaten to the market.
They need to look for f*cking BOMBS, chemicals and other weapons, not bits and bytes. Bits and bytes searches can be dealt with by existing or evolving wiretap laws when triggered to shift into search and seizure of PHYSICAL evidence.
NObody should be forgiving these assholes for demanding that citizens OR foreigners surrender their laptops or data devices for read-access under duress. That's just PLAIN ASSHOLERY! Then, if they munge your data, they'll say, "So what you didn't sign a waiver, and we wrecked your data, and too bad your travel-backups got trashed, too, necessitating you return home to restart your trip."
Hopefully, there is a massive foreign backlash that threatens the tourism-business travel industry lobbyists to make the government desist on this stupid avenue of porn and terror hunting.
this stupid search mandate is to teach ALL (even the perps) to put the data on an SD or mini-SD card and declare that all suspicious data is NOT on the computer (and if it is regularly true, then let the statistics argue to dispense with or repeal that law/order). Or, get them to be regularly found downloading the "illegal" files from the web and not being findable on the laptop.
The assholes, rummaging through a hard drive means LOOKING into someone's personal life, proprietary information, or the like. Rummaging through a suitcase doesn't involve asking for receipts of when, where, and for how much the clothing or toiletries were purchased, or for or by whom the purchases were made.
This has less to do with protecting the public than it does with further conditioning the public to EXPECT to surrender for ANY reason, even without suspicion or due process or valid warrants.
Why, just WHY should the public trust some low-level functionary or scanner operator to NOT heft away with product ideas?
No, you woke up in an amoeba in an amoebius strip-shaped unparallel uniwerse...
restated for those with a sense of humor or who are not ms shills... (well, even a shill can have a sense of humor, right?)
nO, yOU wOKE uP iN aN aMOEBA iN aN aMOEBIUS sTRIP-sHAPED, uNPARALLEL uNIwERSE.
Yeh, and they'll be scared shitless if there is a huge green Gei... umm, gecko waiting for them.
I don't know whether or not commercial planes have self-sealing or puncture-healing tanks in the wings, but wouldn't a shot or two straight thru the wing or even the turbine (yeh, I know the turbines have titanium or exotic blades, and fire won't necessarily bring down a plain considering they've got fire suppression or extinguishing bottles) cause an incindiary effect?
But, back to my earlier assumption: flak or tracer rounds lighting up ahead would scare the hell out of ANYbody, ex- F-15 jock or not. Not as if they can roll those 747s in evasive and recover easily from lost altitude or lift. One or two of those scares and I'll NEVER go aloft again, at least not in US airspace...
They'll have to go to Morgan Stanley, and even then, in this sub-prime market, what are the odds?