Why is the Rock Band kit not a HID in the first place?
Probably because regular drumsticks are already HID's... granted, they usually generate a negative response, but they are definitely effective at the whole interfacing thing.
If they have no video games they'll go outside and play... and then encounter other children who are being forced to have 'fun'... which of course will result in some altercations... a percentage of these will be violent... and viola! They no longer need video games to incite violent behavior. Problem solved.
GPS is just a number to you or me, but it's a real location someone or some company with a the ability to use those numbers (if my cell phone can show me where I am on a map someone's servers can too). What's to prevent a wireless carrier from selling that location data just like a company tracking license plates can?
Government and law enforcement don't need a warrant to get the info on where you've been. Some wireless carriers even have internet portals to make it as easy as possible.
Sure GPS is just a number - it's the combination to the history of your movements.
The government put its chemists to work designing ever more unpalatable toxins — adding such chemicals as kerosene, brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone.
These days we call this stuff 'preservatives' and add them to everything from frozen pizza to Entenmann's snack cakes.
Personally I think we're all embalming ourselves one day at a time by eating this stuff.
Sorry by carrying a cell phone does not place a tag on you butt with you name and address. Location information for a cell phone is not available to a person standing next to you but a car license number is available to anyone looking at the car.
If you're standing next to me then you don't need the cell phone GPS to know where I am, now do you? By your logic tracking the movement of my car by its license plate only tracks the car and not necessarily the owner of the car. Who knows who parked it there? Maybe it was a guy wearing a monkey mask and not me? Maybe it was me wearing a monkey mask?
I didn't know any of this. I had a mild stroke back in '98 and I wasn't allowed drive for 6 months so I feel a little of your pain. If I had a mod point I'd mark you 'Interesting' (even though I'd be tempted to mod you 'Dork' too 'cuz you ride a bike).
So remember as you drive, not all bicyclists are exercising yuppies. Some of us are just fucked.
Now I'm going to feel bad every time I splash a guy riding a bike with my car.
Driving is pretty much required in the US. Tracking license plate 'location related activity' is analogous to tracking your cell phone's GPS. Just because you're "out in public" doesn't mean your movements should be logged or recorded.
I have nothing to hide, but I'm still not comfortable with someone/government tracking my movements just because they can.
The UN doesn't really do anything very well... and this won't be any different. Their contribution will most likely be just another thumb on the political scale of this controversial topic.
Why do people bother using 'old' with P4 and especially a 286, 386, C64? Is is that there are 'new' ones that you can just buy on the market? Seems redundant.
I'm pretty sure the older you are the more often you use 'old' to describe things (I am, in fact, considered a 'dinosaur' in programming parlance). That being said, yes you can buy them new if you were so inclined.
I could point out that the cost of replacing this mainframe would mostly involve rewriting its applications to run on modern hardware. But then you'd be deprived of your joke, even if it is a pretty lame one.
You are correct, and I hope someone gives you an 'Informative' point. Alas, this is/. Those of us who are 'early posting Karma monkeys' get modded up simply because people with Mod points don't want to slog through all the posts in a thread so they use them early and move on.
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Have you officially been inducted into the vague tautology club yet?
Kind of.
Why is the Rock Band kit not a HID in the first place?
Probably because regular drumsticks are already HID's ... granted, they usually generate a negative response, but they are definitely effective at the whole interfacing thing.
Man, do I feel like a dumbass ... I use my keyboard to play online poker. Thanks for opening my eyes to the error of my ways ...
BTW, can anyone loadn me a few chips? I only need three cards to hit this inside straight.
If they have no video games they'll go outside and play ... and then encounter other children who are being forced to have 'fun' ... which of course will result in some altercations ... a percentage of these will be violent ... and viola! They no longer need video games to incite violent behavior. Problem solved.
Ugly multitasking on an Android is not better than slick single-app execution on an iPhone. It's only a different experience.
Why would yo fold it?
To keep it in my pocket just in case I ever needed it. Sheesh.
... you fold the paper your 2D key is on? Tears, that's what. Tears.
do the rest of a world a favor and either kill yourself or get some education and find out what a preservative is.
I am killing myself ... one day at a time with preservatives!
Your GPS position is just a number.
GPS is just a number to you or me, but it's a real location someone or some company with a the ability to use those numbers (if my cell phone can show me where I am on a map someone's servers can too). What's to prevent a wireless carrier from selling that location data just like a company tracking license plates can?
Government and law enforcement don't need a warrant to get the info on where you've been. Some wireless carriers even have internet portals to make it as easy as possible.
Sure GPS is just a number - it's the combination to the history of your movements.
The government put its chemists to work designing ever more unpalatable toxins — adding such chemicals as kerosene, brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone.
These days we call this stuff 'preservatives' and add them to everything from frozen pizza to Entenmann's snack cakes.
Personally I think we're all embalming ourselves one day at a time by eating this stuff.
Sorry by carrying a cell phone does not place a tag on you butt with you name and address. Location information for a cell phone is not available to a person standing next to you but a car license number is available to anyone looking at the car.
If you're standing next to me then you don't need the cell phone GPS to know where I am, now do you? By your logic tracking the movement of my car by its license plate only tracks the car and not necessarily the owner of the car. Who knows who parked it there? Maybe it was a guy wearing a monkey mask and not me? Maybe it was me wearing a monkey mask?
So remember as you drive, not all bicyclists are exercising yuppies. Some of us are just fucked.
Now I'm going to feel bad every time I splash a guy riding a bike with my car.
Wow - it's like you're already following me around and documenting my life. How do you know all this about me anyway? Hmmm?
I think he probably meant to reference Mussolini. He's the one who made public transportation run on time.
Dr Zoidberg: Hey, look, everybody! It's a Slashdot trifecta! That place knows everything ... perhaps too much?
Driving is pretty much required in the US. Tracking license plate 'location related activity' is analogous to tracking your cell phone's GPS. Just because you're "out in public" doesn't mean your movements should be logged or recorded.
I have nothing to hide, but I'm still not comfortable with someone/government tracking my movements just because they can.
The automobile is cultural heroin, and countries, as they "modernize", are lining up at the pusher's corner.
I hope they're allowed to part at his corner or they'll end up with another ticket and we'll be right back to where we started again.
From what I've seen though, "living within your means" isn't what Americans are best at.
Well, saying what we mean isn't exactly our strong suit either.
I'm guessing the $600 also includes the encrypted DB of 'cars destined to be re-homed'.
Lots and lots of bubble wrap?
Since I have an unnatural fear of vowels I'm waiting for a protocol who's acronym is constructed solely of consonants.
UN agrees to let scientists disagree ...
... and this won't be any different. Their contribution will most likely be just another thumb on the political scale of this controversial topic.
The UN doesn't really do anything very well
It must have been his first time.
Why do people bother using 'old' with P4 and especially a 286, 386, C64? Is is that there are 'new' ones that you can just buy on the market? Seems redundant.
I'm pretty sure the older you are the more often you use 'old' to describe things (I am, in fact, considered a 'dinosaur' in programming parlance). That being said, yes you can buy them new if you were so inclined.
I could point out that the cost of replacing this mainframe would mostly involve rewriting its applications to run on modern hardware. But then you'd be deprived of your joke, even if it is a pretty lame one.
You are correct, and I hope someone gives you an 'Informative' point. Alas, this is /. Those of us who are 'early posting Karma monkeys' get modded up simply because people with Mod points don't want to slog through all the posts in a thread so they use them early and move on.
Thanks for understanding.