I've only read a few comments down but already I'm hugely reminded of the "ghost-hacked" people in the movie "Ghost In The Shell"..
From the Wikipedia page: "It turns out that the man has been ghost hacked himself and has no idea of his identity. He thinks he is a high-ranking member of a criminal organization, but is in fact a low-level thug, another puppet being controlled by the Puppet Master. The interrogation of the garbageman reveals that he too has had a simulated experience, or a false memory implanted into his brain. It turns out that he does not really have a family at all."
"My whole house could disappear as a JPEG compression artifact."
Holy crap, have you ever seen that 3d-animated show Reboot? I just got this really vivid image of a neighbourhood being destroyed as though it was whipped up in some kind of digital tornado, and sucked up into whatever unknown void... "AAhhhhh shit THEY USED JPEG!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!"
Um, I've been calling about 20 stores every day, for nearly 2 weeks now, and no shipments have come in (Vancouver, Canada). I'm starting to get pretty pissed off at the complete lack of systems in this area. Apparently Best Buy is getting a shipment on Friday but they told us to "show up the night before because people will be lining up". What the fuck? The system launched 3 weeks ago and I'm supposed to camp overnight for it? Great.
"concentrate most of their effort on the former offenders most likely to be most dangerous"
So we already know which are most likely to be dangerous, and we're going to use some simplified-down-to-40-attributes computer software to.... reassure us of what we already suspected? Hmmm..
Ouch, the first thing I see when I load the page is a big Xbox 360 ad filling the content area (which then minimized down to the "small" square it is limited to when the page finishes loading...
"I'd be very interested to see just how many other people his age feel similar with society the way it is today."
Probably more than people would like to think... considering all of my close friends and I throughout high school said nearly exactly the same things at one time or another, and well, I guess I can't say all too much more than that, or anything;)
"Subjectively I know more and more people who ditch their Windows machines for Macs or even Linux."
Me too, actually.. almost everyone in my circle of friends had Windows machines at home when i first met them, but now a good portion of them use Macs, with many others planning to get a Mac as their next home computer.
Dude, it's not even hacking when you just use the program. That's the worst part, actually... no actual "hacking" is really required.. Just open the.dmb in Excel, done deal! Now u r 31337! lol
This page explains the "it's a trap" inside joke well enough, although I don't know what the deal is behind tagging comments with itsatrap today in particular.
OK, what is the big deal about this, though? Last night people were lighting off explosives of a completely recreational sort that would DEFINITELY shatter windows. It's fucking halloween. It was 99% likely some teenagers who happened to be in the area and thought "hey sweet, let's shoot [this firecracker/firework] at the PayPal building, lol!"... Seriously, why are people bringing up "terrorism" and crap about how it was some kind of deliberate planned "attack" against PayPal? Jeez..
This happens constantly with the SkyTrain ticket machines here in Vancouver Canada - I press the "2 zone" button on the touch screen but it thinks I chose 3 zones because the touch screen is not properly in line with what's actually on the display...
The fact that the US is using the same technology for an election really bothers me... It makes me feel embarassed for these people that they aren't able to realize pen & paper is the only reasonable way to properly do an election of such significance. Although, now that I think about it, I just feel angry because it seems much more likely that they know damn well how inaccurate the machines are, and are using it to their advantage.
This article comes just a few days after a/. article describing how unbelievably simple it would be for someone to "hack the vote" and manipulate poll results on electronic voting machines.
heheh, yeah, no I know a simple layer of tinfoil wouldn't block it - I tried doing a double-thick layer to shield my studio monitors (speakers) from the high powered GSM signal when my phone comunicates with the cell tower.. didn't do a DAMN THING. My next attempt will be a faraday cage of primitive sorts, some chainmail-like wire mesh to wrap around the speakers (mesh instead of solid so as to allow the sound to pass through unscathed of course)...
YES, I agree 100%. I just wrote a post about this further up in the comments. It defeats the purpose of even building the shit when Lego has already built your entire castle for you in a single piece (yes, exagerration for effect)...
For probably that reason alone, I just stopped even caring about Lego. I remember how all the crazy awesome castles and etc. I wanted were being replaced by retarded molded-piece sets that eliminated the possibility of creative usage of the pieces.
I completely agree man. I've felt more and more "disenfranchised" by the new entire-castle-in-a-single-piece Lego of late. It's like, why are you taking all of the fucking imagination out of it? I might as well get action figures and RC cars for my kids instead because Lego is building the entire fucking item themselves anyways.
My friends and I built entire crazy-ass cities and had buckets full of lego pieces. We could just sit there for hours and hours and create the most totally awesome little cities and places etc. But as more and more stylized pieces came out, well, you lose the ability to "mix and match" between sets because frankly a neon orange window doesn't go well in my medieval castle, which happens to be guarded by Bionicle creatures from the year 2834 (or whatever)...
I once heard a quote that said something along the lines that high tech consumer technology is old news to high tech military research. That idea really came to mind when I was reading this - I immediately wondered just how secure this feature is and whether or not it would be easy to use for "other" purposes. Even worse, who knows if there is back door code in the phones firmware???...
Actually this makes me think of a great new product - tin foil cell phone faceplates? OK, maybe not...
Sure, sure, but in that case it's some kind of high tech shrapnel engineered specifically for that task, not just a handful of carpenters' nails glued to the outside of a grenade... Of course I guess since the only description we got was "nail grenade", that could mean exactly what you mentioned, especially since it's translated from Swedish with questionable accuracy...;)
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I've only read a few comments down but already I'm hugely reminded of the "ghost-hacked" people in the movie "Ghost In The Shell"..
From the Wikipedia page: "It turns out that the man has been ghost hacked himself and has no idea of his identity. He thinks he is a high-ranking member of a criminal organization, but is in fact a low-level thug, another puppet being controlled by the Puppet Master. The interrogation of the garbageman reveals that he too has had a simulated experience, or a false memory implanted into his brain. It turns out that he does not really have a family at all."
"My whole house could disappear as a JPEG compression artifact."
Holy crap, have you ever seen that 3d-animated show Reboot? I just got this really vivid image of a neighbourhood being destroyed as though it was whipped up in some kind of digital tornado, and sucked up into whatever unknown void... "AAhhhhh shit THEY USED JPEG!!!!!!! Run for your lives!!"
Yeah, but I guess he was too busy inventing the internet that he wasn't really able to successfully publicize his satellite idea.
haha yes I know, it was a joke :(
That's crazy. How do they know it's called an axion? ... ;)
Um, I've been calling about 20 stores every day, for nearly 2 weeks now, and no shipments have come in (Vancouver, Canada). I'm starting to get pretty pissed off at the complete lack of systems in this area. Apparently Best Buy is getting a shipment on Friday but they told us to "show up the night before because people will be lining up". What the fuck? The system launched 3 weeks ago and I'm supposed to camp overnight for it? Great.
Art, is that you?
"concentrate most of their effort on the former offenders most likely to be most dangerous"
So we already know which are most likely to be dangerous, and we're going to use some simplified-down-to-40-attributes computer software to.... reassure us of what we already suspected? Hmmm..
Ouch, the first thing I see when I load the page is a big Xbox 360 ad filling the content area (which then minimized down to the "small" square it is limited to when the page finishes loading...
Actually I just noticed this:
Battery Life: 6-12 hours
Nice! I don't know of any laptops today that can get even near that sort of battery life.
Yes.
Released in 1989: Macintosh Portable, 16mhz, 1mb RAM, 15.8lbs, $6500 USD
Gotta love the 9.8" non-backlit 1-bit monochrome LCD display...
Damn, you stole my joke :( Unfortunately my patent on that joke hasn't been processed yet, but you just wait, the lawyers are coming!!
"I'd be very interested to see just how many other people his age feel similar with society the way it is today."
;)
Probably more than people would like to think... considering all of my close friends and I throughout high school said nearly exactly the same things at one time or another, and well, I guess I can't say all too much more than that, or anything
"Subjectively I know more and more people who ditch their Windows machines for Macs or even Linux."
Me too, actually.. almost everyone in my circle of friends had Windows machines at home when i first met them, but now a good portion of them use Macs, with many others planning to get a Mac as their next home computer.
sorry, meant .mdb :(
Dude, it's not even hacking when you just use the program. That's the worst part, actually... no actual "hacking" is really required.. Just open the .dmb in Excel, done deal! Now u r 31337! lol
This page explains the "it's a trap" inside joke well enough, although I don't know what the deal is behind tagging comments with itsatrap today in particular.
OK, what is the big deal about this, though? Last night people were lighting off explosives of a completely recreational sort that would DEFINITELY shatter windows. It's fucking halloween. It was 99% likely some teenagers who happened to be in the area and thought "hey sweet, let's shoot [this firecracker/firework] at the PayPal building, lol!" ... Seriously, why are people bringing up "terrorism" and crap about how it was some kind of deliberate planned "attack" against PayPal? Jeez..
This happens constantly with the SkyTrain ticket machines here in Vancouver Canada - I press the "2 zone" button on the touch screen but it thinks I chose 3 zones because the touch screen is not properly in line with what's actually on the display...
/. article describing how unbelievably simple it would be for someone to "hack the vote" and manipulate poll results on electronic voting machines.
The fact that the US is using the same technology for an election really bothers me... It makes me feel embarassed for these people that they aren't able to realize pen & paper is the only reasonable way to properly do an election of such significance. Although, now that I think about it, I just feel angry because it seems much more likely that they know damn well how inaccurate the machines are, and are using it to their advantage.
This article comes just a few days after a
heheh, yeah, no I know a simple layer of tinfoil wouldn't block it - I tried doing a double-thick layer to shield my studio monitors (speakers) from the high powered GSM signal when my phone comunicates with the cell tower.. didn't do a DAMN THING. My next attempt will be a faraday cage of primitive sorts, some chainmail-like wire mesh to wrap around the speakers (mesh instead of solid so as to allow the sound to pass through unscathed of course)...
YES, I agree 100%. I just wrote a post about this further up in the comments. It defeats the purpose of even building the shit when Lego has already built your entire castle for you in a single piece (yes, exagerration for effect)...
For probably that reason alone, I just stopped even caring about Lego. I remember how all the crazy awesome castles and etc. I wanted were being replaced by retarded molded-piece sets that eliminated the possibility of creative usage of the pieces.
I completely agree man. I've felt more and more "disenfranchised" by the new entire-castle-in-a-single-piece Lego of late. It's like, why are you taking all of the fucking imagination out of it? I might as well get action figures and RC cars for my kids instead because Lego is building the entire fucking item themselves anyways.
My friends and I built entire crazy-ass cities and had buckets full of lego pieces. We could just sit there for hours and hours and create the most totally awesome little cities and places etc. But as more and more stylized pieces came out, well, you lose the ability to "mix and match" between sets because frankly a neon orange window doesn't go well in my medieval castle, which happens to be guarded by Bionicle creatures from the year 2834 (or whatever)...
Yup, just another step towards digital tracking and/or ceased privacy of all people... mmm a dictator's dreams come true...
I once heard a quote that said something along the lines that high tech consumer technology is old news to high tech military research. That idea really came to mind when I was reading this - I immediately wondered just how secure this feature is and whether or not it would be easy to use for "other" purposes. Even worse, who knows if there is back door code in the phones firmware???...
Actually this makes me think of a great new product - tin foil cell phone faceplates? OK, maybe not...
Sure, sure, but in that case it's some kind of high tech shrapnel engineered specifically for that task, not just a handful of carpenters' nails glued to the outside of a grenade... Of course I guess since the only description we got was "nail grenade", that could mean exactly what you mentioned, especially since it's translated from Swedish with questionable accuracy... ;)