Could you sleep at night if you were a lawyer, knowing all the evil shit you'd done? Hang on, I'm implying lawyers have a conscience - objection withdrawn.
The New Zealand government is also discussing mandatory GPS tracking on all mobile phones. We've had a few outages of the 111 emergency services number, and they figure getting to people requiring assistance will be easier if they know where everyone is all the time.
I was shouting at the radio the other day, listening to a chat panel saying how great this would be.
Thankfully the privacy commissioner is raising objections. I doubt this will ever get beyond the discussion stage, but it still makes me shudder, thinking about it. What's next, bar-coding at birth?
Our PM, John Key, will roll over and take it up the ass from the U.S all day long in the hope he'll get a free-trade deal one day. I sure didn't vote for the Smiling Assassin.
It'd be quite nice to be able to talk to people, say emergency services, if you fell off your bike and there was no one around... Ditto for your car breaking down on a back road in Bumfuck, Kansas, or similar locale.
I found the end of the Obi-Wan vs Anakin fight to be trite. Anakin couldn't attack because Obi-Wan held the high ground? Pffft. And that whole fight went on for far too long. What little investment I had in the outcome was long expired by the time Anakin got sliced and diced.
What if you stay conscious during the transfer to a new substrate? To use a car analogy, say you drive your car up a ramp into a large truck, step out of your car, dump the car off the truck, then continue driving in the truck.
What about the animated station logos? I was watching a downloaded copy of Supernatural this week, and it has this stupid animated The CW logo that keeps moving and hogging more and more screen real estate. It's really distracting (which I guess is the point) and takes you out of the moment.
That and blatant product placement such as the Ford crap in the last House episode - fucking annoying, to put it mildly.
The Zones were also a clever device for dealing with the singularity, i.e having a post-singularity universe that's still comprehensible to human level intelligences.
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Could you sleep at night if you were a lawyer, knowing all the evil shit you'd done?
Hang on, I'm implying lawyers have a conscience - objection withdrawn.
Haha, bus error - nice one :-)
Crying isn't appealing
The New Zealand government is also discussing mandatory GPS tracking on all mobile phones. We've had a few outages of the 111 emergency services number, and they figure getting to people requiring assistance will be easier if they know where everyone is all the time.
I was shouting at the radio the other day, listening to a chat panel saying how great this would be.
Thankfully the privacy commissioner is raising objections. I doubt this will ever get beyond the discussion stage, but it still makes me shudder, thinking about it. What's next, bar-coding at birth?
"Within our dataset of several million visitors, only one in 64,462 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours."
I'm special! I knew mother was right!
Our PM, John Key, will roll over and take it up the ass from the U.S all day long in the hope he'll get a free-trade deal one day.
I sure didn't vote for the Smiling Assassin.
Yep, that was a nasty freudian slut.
Every time I see that word, that damned song pops into my head. Why is it such an earworm?
Don't you use PsExec?
Hang on, I thought people wanted jobs exported from China to the U.S? Geez, there's no pleasing some people.
Wow, and I'm the fanboi? Too funny.
The "very large seventeen-inch touchscreen" referenced in the summary is a metric touchscreen. Typical noob mistake.
Typical NASA mistake - FTFY
It'd be quite nice to be able to talk to people, say emergency services, if you fell off your bike and there was no one around...
Ditto for your car breaking down on a back road in Bumfuck, Kansas, or similar locale.
I've stopped going to tea breaks with our team because they all sit in the cafe playing Minecraft or Temple Runner on Galaxy S2s :-(
I found the end of the Obi-Wan vs Anakin fight to be trite. Anakin couldn't attack because Obi-Wan held the high ground? Pffft.
And that whole fight went on for far too long. What little investment I had in the outcome was long expired by the time Anakin got sliced and diced.
What if you stay conscious during the transfer to a new substrate?
To use a car analogy, say you drive your car up a ramp into a large truck, step out of your car, dump the car off the truck, then continue driving in the truck.
What, no Snow Crash references?
This is 2011, basic spelling and grammar checks are just a few mouse clicks away.
As are the grammar police pedants, it would seem.
What about banning those annoying-as-fuck translucent station IDs, especially the animated ones?
What about the animated station logos? I was watching a downloaded copy of Supernatural this week, and it has this stupid animated The CW logo that keeps moving and hogging more and more screen real estate. It's really distracting (which I guess is the point) and takes you out of the moment.
That and blatant product placement such as the Ford crap in the last House episode - fucking annoying, to put it mildly.
I'm not wearing any pants
The enterprise admin in me wonders if it will be centrally administrable and have reporting features.
This is what happens when your movement has no, or very loosely defined, goals.
A loosely defined movement, otherwise known as diarrhoea?
If this thing was going to hit the Earth, is there any organisation or government who has a plan to deal with an asteroid impact threat?
The Zones were also a clever device for dealing with the singularity, i.e having a post-singularity universe that's still comprehensible to human level intelligences.