Every time I read an article on how much a virus has cost the corps it always seems to be a large amount of money yet they never explain why it cost that much. True to my cynical nature I believe it's all hype. shades of WMD's
Does anyone think a moldering rocket lying on it's side is going to inspire anyone? I can remember as a kid seeing "monuments" that were run down and they are not inspiring. So fix it? hell no why waste the money?
Finally the prelude to "corporate policing" where in the corporations relieve the tax payer of the burden of enforcing copyrights and leaves it up to the corporation whose copyright has been infringed. It makes so much sense it's almost scary we didn't think of it before, finally Sony, Microsoft, and others will have a global "security" force and if they lobby it right the will have full powers to engage, enforce, incarcerate. I have to go now I'm late for my chip implant (it's the new visa chip)
Fiorina claims our education system is one of the reasons they ship jobs overseas even though the same education system is where the people that built her company and the tech boom in general got their educations, and if it isn't our God given right to have a job...then I guess we can ship her job overseas as well....how much would HP save then? Let me make my feelings clear, we are in a world of hurt when corporations make the decisions, just take a look at our government. When will we finally do more than "protest"?
in hearing Will Smith was chosen, now it's a guaranteed schlock film (think MIB 1 &2 or any Will Smith vehicle) when I think of what "I robot" could be it reminds me of another mistake, letting Steven Spielberg direct AI (which should have been done by, or died with Kubrick)
As in Europe there are retina scanners now in place in some American cities so that children can get their lunches without needing a card, it's being done in Europe under the notion "so we don't embarrass the poor kids" sounds like bullsh*t to me, the thing is, kids don't have a choice and once scanned that data is good forever (barring eye transplants)so down the road protest will be futile because *they* already have the data...did I just say "protest will be futile"? Nawwwww/I goes back to watching NG reruns with Borg.
It doesn't matter that the technology doesn't work well currently, what matters is children grow up with RFID, face scanning, retina scanning, bio this electronic that and they get used to it, they get chipped/printed/scanned because our "culture of fear" (see Bowling for Columbine)requires it. Once they grow up with it and are used to it, they (the parents) see no reason their children shouldn't have the same. Over the generations it becomes as common place as vaccinations, or the Nike swoosh (talk about being a tool) We can not change this, the momentum that exist will carry this type of technology thru any protest, you can't convince a worried mother that it's better her baby isn't chipped because the technology may be abused.
Telemarketing that cost every time I get it, land lines work when power failed cell phones did not, cutting off telphone communication just got that much easier. Will wireless ever be as reliable as a physical line?
I think your assesment is fairly accurate, it was a bit of a troll as I am familiar with the crowd here. I also stand by what I said and I won't bother to supply data because as you said your self
"I would agree that if MS were to suddenly fail many many more bugs and insecurities would be found in whatever replaced it." sums it up. I found Linux obtuse to the average user (me) and Windows intuitive.
It took M$ this long to get a decent OS out and to actually start listening to people, however if Windows were to suddenly fail and linux became the server of choice, then it would be shown that Linux is a bug ridden hackers delight that may well be less secure than a M$ product. At any rate windows is easier to use.
Lets see... I need a kidney who is on my list =) Why not offer more funding to cloning of organs so we don't have the ethical and physical problems that come with organ donors.
I see your point, but I still feel that any "network" or "electronic" voting is a bad thing, the convenience you speak would be not having to go to the polls in the first place which you would do anyways with electronic voting, as for counting the votes the possibility for tampering out weighs any convenience. I say as long as the paper is still in the system lets just keep it paper all the way after all the system is obviously easy enough to mess with take a look at the 2000 *election*
yeah several come to mind, what is the average user going to do with the paper take it to a lawyer, take it somewhere o be counted again? by whom? and so on and son on. How many people do you think can keep track of their own shopping list much less a voting chit, once you shove the paper into the machine to confirm you're right back where you started from. Basically this electronic voting is going ahead whether you like it or not in case you haven't noticed our government and the corporations that run it are tired of our *interference* and want to by pass the middle man, namely the american public.
Except that flying atomic powered cars are stupid, we aren't going to let the morons on the road today fly atomic bombs around not to mention the logistics of 3d navigation for the average huma. Robots however, are another matter they are here already and the article is right, if the vision systems and AI keep pace with whats happening currently this *will* happen. I think it will happen in the next 20 years not 50.
How many fast food companies can afford a completely robotic store? Think of all the break downs and complaints not to much the scams to get around the hardware, I really don't see it happening.
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Every time I read an article on how much a virus has cost the corps it always seems to be a large amount of money yet they never explain why it cost that much.
True to my cynical nature I believe it's all hype.
shades of WMD's
Does anyone think a moldering rocket lying on it's side is going to inspire anyone? I can remember as a kid seeing "monuments" that were run down and they are not inspiring.
So fix it? hell no why waste the money?
Guilty waiting to be proven innocent.
sounds like bacteria soup to me, imagine a palm scanner during "cold n flu" season =)
show it off to everyone, in an odd way a watch is cooler than a palmpilot or some software.
Tangible.
Finally the prelude to "corporate policing" where in the corporations relieve the tax payer of the burden of enforcing copyrights and leaves it up to the corporation whose copyright has been infringed.
It makes so much sense it's almost scary we didn't think of it before, finally Sony, Microsoft, and others will have a global "security" force and if they lobby it right the will have full powers to engage, enforce, incarcerate.
I have to go now I'm late for my chip implant (it's the new visa chip)
Fiorina claims our education system is one of the reasons they ship jobs overseas even though the same education system is where the people that built her company and the tech boom in general got their educations, and if it isn't our God given right to have a job...then I guess we can ship her job overseas as well....how much would HP save then?
Let me make my feelings clear, we are in a world of hurt when corporations make the decisions, just take a look at our government.
When will we finally do more than "protest"?
It's called prime time TV =)
Once the "trusted computing" ala palladium takes off, if there will be a market for old hardware...
Ya think?
in hearing Will Smith was chosen, now it's a guaranteed schlock film (think MIB 1 &2 or any Will Smith vehicle) when I think of what "I robot" could be it reminds me of another mistake, letting Steven Spielberg direct AI (which should have been done by, or died with Kubrick)
As in Europe there are retina scanners now in place in some American cities so that children can get their lunches without needing a card, it's being done in Europe under the notion "so we don't embarrass the poor kids" sounds like bullsh*t to me, the thing is, kids don't have a choice and once scanned that data is good forever (barring eye transplants)so down the road protest will be futile because *they* already have the data...did I just say "protest will be futile"? Nawwwww /I goes back to watching NG reruns with Borg.
It doesn't matter that the technology doesn't work well currently, what matters is children grow up with RFID, face scanning, retina scanning, bio this electronic that and they get used to it, they get chipped/printed/scanned because our "culture of fear" (see Bowling for Columbine)requires it. Once they grow up with it and are used to it, they (the parents) see no reason their children shouldn't have the same. Over the generations it becomes as common place as vaccinations, or the Nike swoosh (talk about being a tool)
We can not change this, the momentum that exist will carry this type of technology thru any protest, you can't convince a worried mother that it's better her baby isn't chipped because the technology may be abused.
Telemarketing that cost every time I get it, land lines work when power failed cell phones did not, cutting off telphone communication just got that much easier. Will wireless ever be as reliable as a physical line?
I think your assesment is fairly accurate, it was a bit of a troll as I am familiar with the crowd here.
I also stand by what I said and I won't bother to supply data because as you said your self
"I would agree that if MS were to suddenly fail many many more bugs and insecurities would be found in whatever replaced it." sums it up.
I found Linux obtuse to the average user (me) and Windows intuitive.
It took M$ this long to get a decent OS out and to actually start listening to people, however if Windows were to suddenly fail and linux became the server of choice, then it would be shown that Linux is a bug ridden hackers delight that may well be less secure than a M$ product.
At any rate windows is easier to use.
2001: A Space Odyssey (C) 1968
I rest my case (what ever it was)
I want a Holodeck.
Lets see... I need a kidney who is on my list =)
Why not offer more funding to cloning of organs so we don't have the ethical and physical problems that come with organ donors.
I see your point, but I still feel that any "network" or "electronic" voting is a bad thing, the convenience you speak would be not having to go to the polls in the first place which you would do anyways with electronic voting, as for counting the votes the possibility for tampering out weighs any convenience.
I say as long as the paper is still in the system lets just keep it paper all the way after all the system is obviously easy enough to mess with take a look at the 2000 *election*
yeah several come to mind, what is the average user going to do with the paper take it to a lawyer, take it somewhere o be counted again? by whom? and so on and son on. How many people do you think can keep track of their own shopping list much less a voting chit, once you shove the paper into the machine to confirm you're right back where you started from.
Basically this electronic voting is going ahead whether you like it or not in case you haven't noticed our government and the corporations that run it are tired of our *interference* and want to by pass the middle man, namely the american public.
Consider our current Administration in Washington and you have to wonder if the machines might do a better job of things than we have =)
Except that flying atomic powered cars are stupid, we aren't going to let the morons on the road today fly atomic bombs around not to mention the logistics of 3d navigation for the average huma. Robots however, are another matter they are here already and the article is right, if the vision systems and AI keep pace with whats happening currently this *will* happen.
I think it will happen in the next 20 years not 50.
Your old manager was correct.
How many fast food companies can afford a completely robotic store? Think of all the break downs and complaints not to much the scams to get around the hardware, I really don't see it happening.
Till the Liberian banks pay off