We are used to more freedom than the rest of the world. Unlike Germany, our country did not try to conquer the world and start the largest war in human history, all because a bunch of idiots all started following one charismatic lunatic genius. Therefore American leaders traditionally trust citizens more than German leaders. However, every time we give our leaders an inch of leeway with our freedoms, they take several inches we did not give them, and it usually does not work out in the people's favor.
It also does not help that our government has very bad history in terms of corruption. Our political system allows our leaders to take huge amounts of money to campaign with, most of which comes from large corporations and rich people. In return, those politicians spend their terms chasing after more money while their staff write laws that favor corporations and rich people, and screw everyone else.
American police also do not help any. Because of the huge number of guns in America, and a tendency among many people to support police actions of any sort, many of our police departments (See recent exposes on local police brutality by any newspaper put out in Los Angeles, New York, or Washington D.C..) abuse that power and do some really horrible things, and the good officers feel a duty to not get rid of the bad ones. While the system is great for people who do not break the law, we are often afraid to give our police too much power, lest they stop just arresting and beating black males and start going after everyone else, too. If police could randomly stop people to check ID cards, it could get pretty nasty.
Americans do not want to live somewhere like Germany or Israel. For the most part, we are a nation of peaceful people who work hard and keep out of trouble. We do not want to end up being watched, going through checkpoint, and carrying ID cards. Part of the reason the terrorists target us is because they cannot understand how wonderful freedom is, and thus fear it. For us to give up any freedom because of this is disgusting, wrong, and in our culture, essentially immoral.
How about things that are actually important in a car, like:
1- Self driving.
2- Standard Built in GPS for those of us who frequently go to unknown places.
3- Built with modern polymers, not metals and older plastics, so that the car weighs less (Resulting in better fuel efficiency than any hybrid engine can give you.), costs less (Polymers stronger than steel are already nearly equal to steel in price, and will drop in price as use rises and more is produced on a massive scale.), and is safer (Polymers allow for strength in the frame to be better distributed in a crash.).
1- Security companies need exploits to keep going. Ever wonder why lists like bugtraq stay up? Because the security firms that run them making a fortune charging other companies a crapload of money for advice related to all the exploits that get posted to their lists.
2- Software companies do not care about security. Most big exploits are buffer overflows, which are a result of lazy coding. Multiple free tools exist that analyze source code for such bugs, and overflows are still popping up all the time. Getting companies to fix these bugs takes too long, and often the only way to get it done is to embaress them by making the exploit public.
3- Many of the people who disclose exploits want the attention, not security. They see credit for exploits as fame, and make sure to slap their names all over ever bug report they can put out. This seems to be directly related to the tendency of security hackers to be lacking in the area of social life.
Ok, I can definately see how this is cool, both in terms of miniaturization and the number of transistors that can fit into large spaces (Such as big-assed Pentium IV CPUs.).
What I want to know is; how does power consumption scale in regards to transistor miniaturization? If I can make a chip require ten times less space, how much less power will it need? If size and power scale ~equally, how does this mean that Dragonball CPUs will soon be crammed into watches?
"So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency?"
I would startup space tourism. Immediately after, I would set up a brothel on the space station, where there are no laws governing prostitution. Just like people are attracted to the internet for porn, people would be attracted to paying for space travel if they knew there was zero-gravity nookie involved. Once the program got rolling NASA's money problems would be over, and they could start spending the cash on all the cool things congress will not fund.
This just gives Kyle more reasons to burn out CPUs pushing them too damned far. The poor little dears, stressed to death trying to find the limits of cooling methodolgies...
This article really brought home why Microsoft might be able to succeed with.Net and application subscriptions; vendors will now know that if their software sucks, customers are on a multiyear subscription paid for periodically, and could simply refuse to keep paying if the software sucks.
Personally, I like that idea. Imagine thousands of Outlook users suddenly having credit card companies deny payment to Microsoft because of nasty bugs in Office. Of course, once UCITA takes affect doing so would be illegal. Come to think of it, does.Net really need UCITA to work in Microsoft's favor? Hmm....
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Actually, I currently run Mandrake 8.0 and SuSE 7.2. As I stated, I have not touched Gnome in a while (Nor do I desire to.) and have been playing with KDE for the last year or so, on numerous laptops and desktops, and have seen segfaults in Konquerer, some of the games, the PDF viewer (Which seems best at bringing up blank pages anyway.), ksirc, kmail, different aspects of the KDE configuration tools.
As for KDE and Gnome catching up, they will never catch up to anything, because playing catch up is all they seem to do. KDE and Gnome are constantly trying to be Mac OS, Windows, each other, and whatever else people want to emulate. Lack of any real identity is the largest flaw in both suites, leading to a strange kludge of design ideas that makes the Windows XP GUI look compact. This is why I like Apple's Aqua, rather than try to push the old Mac ideas much farther, most of it was dumped for something new. The result is a bit odd and lacking at times, but at least they know what they want and where they want to go.
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That is exactly my point. I want stability, not unstable development stuff on Solaris. Keep the wacky code in Linux distros where it belongs.
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- Disclaimer - This is a pissy rant by someone who at this point has a very hard time using the words "KDE" and "Gnome" without variants of "fuck" involved.
Gnome is not ready to go into Solaris. Or Red Hat. Or SuSE. In my experience Gnome was a dysfuntional, unstable pig of a desktop, full of garbage apps were a pain to use and rarely worked correctly. I eventually gave up and switched to KDE, which seems to have only two real advantages over Gnome, Konquerer, and a cute error window to let me know about all of the segmentation faults that the newest so called "stable" release of KDE seems to bring up repeatedly when I try to use Konquerer.
Crap like that might cut it in the world of free software geeks, but it has no place in the world of serious UNIX servers. Sun manages to sell their slow, overpriced hardware because people want stability - not flashy desktops that come with more half finished applications than any Windows install.
And yet the Open-Source world continues to rally around Gnome and KDE, proclaiming them to be saviors of the Linux desktop, when in truth those same programs are likely to help keep Linux off the desktop of people who want a computer that works - and not just a klude of annoying junk smushed together into a monstrosity that makes me realize why Apple's simple OS X/Aqua desktop has captured my computing soul in a way that nothing has since my father would lug his computer home from work and let me play Pac-Man on it.
Gnome and KDE, whatever. Just give me a stable enlightenment with a few nice themes, StarOffice 5.2 (Like a rock, baby!), and keep the silly mess that is Gnome/KDE in the gutter with the rest of the trash.
"And just how did this ridiculous practice become not only commonplace, not only de rigeur -- but accepted unquestioningly?"
1- Kickbacks. Microsoft probably sells for less to OEMs that install Windows on all PCs. This can be implied as strongarming, ie "Do as we say or pay more than everyone else so they can sell systems for less money than you.."
2- Standardization. Most users will order a machine with the present consumer version of Windows on it. Other may want 2000 or whatever. When the install is done, the system is simply loaded with a prebuilt hard disk, which is just pulled of the proper shelf. Very few will want a blank system, so adding a shelf for blank discs incurs extra costs. (Technically an OEM could send one out with Windows on the disc and no license to use it, but I guarantee M$ would sue.).
Given that image based steganography has been around for a while, and there are probably at least a few thousand people online experimenting with it, they should be turning up a lot of these. That doesn't even begin to factor in that criminal organizations all over the world are probably playing with the stuff, especially given recent coverage of steganography in the news.
What does this really mean? Perhaps finding well hidden messages is a hell of a lot harder than anyone expected- and it will only get harder. If criminals are using this to communicate, they may be justified in feeling safe doing so.
Of course, it is probably a bad idea to put stock in anything that comes from guys trying to grab the spotlight by reporting an image created by abc news as a steganographic image found "in the wild." If nothing else it reminds me of idiots who try to get attention reposting known securiuty vulnerabilities to BuqTraq.
Microsoft's attacks on ebay extend beyond simple software, to just about anything they produce. Twice this year I have tried to sell a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick, specifically stating that it was just the hardware with NO software. Both times Microsoft had ebay shut the auction down because the M$ search bot told ebay that I was selling software innaproprietly. I replied to Microsoft's email stating that I was only selling hardware, and threatened to sue for libel. My email was ignored, and the auction unable to proceed.
My only real recourse to this action would have been to actually sue Microsoft. Unfortunately I do not have the time to sue Microsoft over a small matter, especially given that they could likely blame the software and get away on technicalites.
This incident was what really pushed me away from Microsoft. I have had mixed opinions about the company for a very long time, and over the years moved away from Windows anyway, but when they pushed me around with legal muscle, I decided to just walk away for good. Of course, it worked out well in the end, as I now get to enjoy Apple's OS X.
Polaroid needs to give up on manufacturing entirely, and just trade on the name. They can do what half the tech industry already does; buy dirt cheap asian hardware, silkscreen a logo onto it, package it with some bad software and double the price.
The point for the RIAA is not to protect SDMI, but to keep people afraid of talking about technologies that come up down the line. If the government sees that the RIAA is already wavering on DMCA issues, our elected officials might be more likely to start pushign against such laws.
Listening to the lobbyist IS a way of listening to you. And your friends. And their friends. By sending out a lobbyist, thousands of people are able to unite into one common voice that is able to study issues full time, already knows the officials and their staff, and can generally get a point across faster and more efficiently.
Felten needs to go present his work publicy, RIGHT NOW. If the judge thinks that this case is too preemptive, Felten should announce that he will be presenting his case at a public place in a major city sometime in the next few days, and make sure to get the time and place listed on/. so that people attened. Felten should also contact the RIAA and the press, so that they can be there. At that point the RIAA will either have the FBI arrest Felten and press charges, at which point the case can proceed, or they can back off, showing that even they do not really have the balls to push the DMCA, giving anti-DMCA forces more ammunition.
I know that my elected officials respond to email, because I have twice recieved personal, thought out responses from Virginia officials (Former Governor Jim Gilmore and Sen. John Warner.) after sending in email. I know from talking to others that Senator Allen also gives some serious weight to email. Of course, tech is extremely important to the economy in Virginia, I somehow doubt that officials in the midwest pay as much attention to email.
Right now people trying to get involved need to realize that the government does not have much time to talk with us. Both email, snailmail, and phone calls are flooding capitol hill faster than staffers can deal with the correspondence. Officials are extremely busy legislating, meeting with each other, with the president, foreign officals and diplomats, and other people who are generally more important than the guy back home who wants an audience of some sort to talk about things that any ACLU lobbyist knows more about.
That does not mean, however that the officials are not listening. Staffers keep track of every email, letter, and phone call, and keep the officials posted on what the voters want. If you want to get a point across, keep up the letters. Support groups that lobby your point of view. Just remember to cut your officials some slack for not getting back to you during these trying times.
I never assumed that there was not a distinction between the two. I was pointing out that leaking business information has become far too common in the internet era, and were it to spread to military operations, the results would be disasterous.
Wow, another new CPU that current RAM and bus architectures cannot keep up with. Is it just me, or does it seem we would be better off if they just got RAM, data storage and bus speeds up to snuff so that data is able to pass between the system compotents at full blast?
That applies to more than just the military. It amazes me how many corporate endeavours are threatened by leaks. At my last employer, an important buyout that kept us afloat was almost killed because someone kept sending internal memos to the media. People knew that dozens of jobs were resting on keeping things silent until everything was said and done, and yet every important bit of information hit the net within minutes of being released internally. If this sort of thing starts happening in the military, it would endanger numerous American lives jsut because someone wants the satisfaction of starting trouble.
Until my computer scans my brain and knows what to do, nothing is going to matter. Speech interfaces will change things for certain applications, but because computers are still oriented around words, it will be cumbersome to work with a computer in applications where a mouth just is not fast or versatile enough (I can speak one word at a time, but I can idepedently operate at least four keyboard+mouse buttons simultaneously.). Speaking to a computer is also useless for much of the computer using community, as many people become hoarse from talking over extended periods. It would also make offices intolerable, as the noise would become a terrible racket, and phone calls impossible.
Others have mentioned eye motion tracking. A cute concept, but worthless for anyone who regularly moves his head while using a computer (As I do endlessly, moving back and forth between books, a phone, and several PCs at once, typing nonstop.).
Touchscreens have been around for decades, anyone familiar with one already knows why we don't use them.
To advance at a higher level, computers must become able to interperet thought. It sounds mad, but it is an imperative.
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Being an American, let me tell you why.
We are used to more freedom than the rest of the world. Unlike Germany, our country did not try to conquer the world and start the largest war in human history, all because a bunch of idiots all started following one charismatic lunatic genius. Therefore American leaders traditionally trust citizens more than German leaders. However, every time we give our leaders an inch of leeway with our freedoms, they take several inches we did not give them, and it usually does not work out in the people's favor.
It also does not help that our government has very bad history in terms of corruption. Our political system allows our leaders to take huge amounts of money to campaign with, most of which comes from large corporations and rich people. In return, those politicians spend their terms chasing after more money while their staff write laws that favor corporations and rich people, and screw everyone else.
American police also do not help any. Because of the huge number of guns in America, and a tendency among many people to support police actions of any sort, many of our police departments (See recent exposes on local police brutality by any newspaper put out in Los Angeles, New York, or Washington D.C..) abuse that power and do some really horrible things, and the good officers feel a duty to not get rid of the bad ones. While the system is great for people who do not break the law, we are often afraid to give our police too much power, lest they stop just arresting and beating black males and start going after everyone else, too. If police could randomly stop people to check ID cards, it could get pretty nasty.
Americans do not want to live somewhere like Germany or Israel. For the most part, we are a nation of peaceful people who work hard and keep out of trouble. We do not want to end up being watched, going through checkpoint, and carrying ID cards. Part of the reason the terrorists target us is because they cannot understand how wonderful freedom is, and thus fear it. For us to give up any freedom because of this is disgusting, wrong, and in our culture, essentially immoral.
How about things that are actually important in a car, like:
1- Self driving.
2- Standard Built in GPS for those of us who frequently go to unknown places.
3- Built with modern polymers, not metals and older plastics, so that the car weighs less (Resulting in better fuel efficiency than any hybrid engine can give you.), costs less (Polymers stronger than steel are already nearly equal to steel in price, and will drop in price as use rises and more is produced on a massive scale.), and is safer (Polymers allow for strength in the frame to be better distributed in a crash.).
Just some food for thought...
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1- Security companies need exploits to keep going. Ever wonder why lists like bugtraq stay up? Because the security firms that run them making a fortune charging other companies a crapload of money for advice related to all the exploits that get posted to their lists.
2- Software companies do not care about security. Most big exploits are buffer overflows, which are a result of lazy coding. Multiple free tools exist that analyze source code for such bugs, and overflows are still popping up all the time. Getting companies to fix these bugs takes too long, and often the only way to get it done is to embaress them by making the exploit public.
3- Many of the people who disclose exploits want the attention, not security. They see credit for exploits as fame, and make sure to slap their names all over ever bug report they can put out. This seems to be directly related to the tendency of security hackers to be lacking in the area of social life.
-just my
Ok, I can definately see how this is cool, both in terms of miniaturization and the number of transistors that can fit into large spaces (Such as big-assed Pentium IV CPUs.).
What I want to know is; how does power consumption scale in regards to transistor miniaturization? If I can make a chip require ten times less space, how much less power will it need? If size and power scale ~equally, how does this mean that Dragonball CPUs will soon be crammed into watches?
"So if you were NASA's next director, what would you do with the agency?"
I would startup space tourism. Immediately after, I would set up a brothel on the space station, where there are no laws governing prostitution. Just like people are attracted to the internet for porn, people would be attracted to paying for space travel if they knew there was zero-gravity nookie involved. Once the program got rolling NASA's money problems would be over, and they could start spending the cash on all the cool things congress will not fund.
This just gives Kyle more reasons to burn out CPUs pushing them too damned far. The poor little dears, stressed to death trying to find the limits of cooling methodolgies...
This article really brought home why Microsoft might be able to succeed with .Net and application subscriptions; vendors will now know that if their software sucks, customers are on a multiyear subscription paid for periodically, and could simply refuse to keep paying if the software sucks.
.Net really need UCITA to work in Microsoft's favor? Hmm....
Personally, I like that idea. Imagine thousands of Outlook users suddenly having credit card companies deny payment to Microsoft because of nasty bugs in Office. Of course, once UCITA takes affect doing so would be illegal. Come to think of it, does
Actually, I currently run Mandrake 8.0 and SuSE 7.2. As I stated, I have not touched Gnome in a while (Nor do I desire to.) and have been playing with KDE for the last year or so, on numerous laptops and desktops, and have seen segfaults in Konquerer, some of the games, the PDF viewer (Which seems best at bringing up blank pages anyway.), ksirc, kmail, different aspects of the KDE configuration tools.
As for KDE and Gnome catching up, they will never catch up to anything, because playing catch up is all they seem to do. KDE and Gnome are constantly trying to be Mac OS, Windows, each other, and whatever else people want to emulate. Lack of any real identity is the largest flaw in both suites, leading to a strange kludge of design ideas that makes the Windows XP GUI look compact. This is why I like Apple's Aqua, rather than try to push the old Mac ideas much farther, most of it was dumped for something new. The result is a bit odd and lacking at times, but at least they know what they want and where they want to go.
That is exactly my point. I want stability, not unstable development stuff on Solaris. Keep the wacky code in Linux distros where it belongs.
- Disclaimer - This is a pissy rant by someone who at this point has a very hard time using the words "KDE" and "Gnome" without variants of "fuck" involved.
Gnome is not ready to go into Solaris. Or Red Hat. Or SuSE. In my experience Gnome was a dysfuntional, unstable pig of a desktop, full of garbage apps were a pain to use and rarely worked correctly. I eventually gave up and switched to KDE, which seems to have only two real advantages over Gnome, Konquerer, and a cute error window to let me know about all of the segmentation faults that the newest so called "stable" release of KDE seems to bring up repeatedly when I try to use Konquerer.
Crap like that might cut it in the world of free software geeks, but it has no place in the world of serious UNIX servers. Sun manages to sell their slow, overpriced hardware because people want stability - not flashy desktops that come with more half finished applications than any Windows install.
And yet the Open-Source world continues to rally around Gnome and KDE, proclaiming them to be saviors of the Linux desktop, when in truth those same programs are likely to help keep Linux off the desktop of people who want a computer that works - and not just a klude of annoying junk smushed together into a monstrosity that makes me realize why Apple's simple OS X/Aqua desktop has captured my computing soul in a way that nothing has since my father would lug his computer home from work and let me play Pac-Man on it.
Gnome and KDE, whatever. Just give me a stable enlightenment with a few nice themes, StarOffice 5.2 (Like a rock, baby!), and keep the silly mess that is Gnome/KDE in the gutter with the rest of the trash.
Wow, a new chip from transmeta. Let me know when someone outside of niche asian markets can sell me a useful device running a first generation chip.
"And just how did this ridiculous practice become not only commonplace, not only de rigeur -- but accepted unquestioningly?"
1- Kickbacks. Microsoft probably sells for less to OEMs that install Windows on all PCs. This can be implied as strongarming, ie "Do as we say or pay more than everyone else so they can sell systems for less money than you.."
2- Standardization. Most users will order a machine with the present consumer version of Windows on it. Other may want 2000 or whatever. When the install is done, the system is simply loaded with a prebuilt hard disk, which is just pulled of the proper shelf. Very few will want a blank system, so adding a shelf for blank discs incurs extra costs. (Technically an OEM could send one out with Windows on the disc and no license to use it, but I guarantee M$ would sue.).
Given that image based steganography has been around for a while, and there are probably at least a few thousand people online experimenting with it, they should be turning up a lot of these. That doesn't even begin to factor in that criminal organizations all over the world are probably playing with the stuff, especially given recent coverage of steganography in the news.
What does this really mean? Perhaps finding well hidden messages is a hell of a lot harder than anyone expected- and it will only get harder. If criminals are using this to communicate, they may be justified in feeling safe doing so.
Of course, it is probably a bad idea to put stock in anything that comes from guys trying to grab the spotlight by reporting an image created by abc news as a steganographic image found "in the wild." If nothing else it reminds me of idiots who try to get attention reposting known securiuty vulnerabilities to BuqTraq.
Microsoft's attacks on ebay extend beyond simple software, to just about anything they produce. Twice this year I have tried to sell a Microsoft Sidewinder joystick, specifically stating that it was just the hardware with NO software. Both times Microsoft had ebay shut the auction down because the M$ search bot told ebay that I was selling software innaproprietly. I replied to Microsoft's email stating that I was only selling hardware, and threatened to sue for libel. My email was ignored, and the auction unable to proceed.
My only real recourse to this action would have been to actually sue Microsoft. Unfortunately I do not have the time to sue Microsoft over a small matter, especially given that they could likely blame the software and get away on technicalites.
This incident was what really pushed me away from Microsoft. I have had mixed opinions about the company for a very long time, and over the years moved away from Windows anyway, but when they pushed me around with legal muscle, I decided to just walk away for good. Of course, it worked out well in the end, as I now get to enjoy Apple's OS X.
And yet millions of Americans still believe that campaign finace reform is a bad thing.
Does anyone in a FREE nation need a young Solaris/Linux admin? I have a passport and can start tomorrow...
Polaroid needs to give up on manufacturing entirely, and just trade on the name. They can do what half the tech industry already does; buy dirt cheap asian hardware, silkscreen a logo onto it, package it with some bad software and double the price.
The point for the RIAA is not to protect SDMI, but to keep people afraid of talking about technologies that come up down the line. If the government sees that the RIAA is already wavering on DMCA issues, our elected officials might be more likely to start pushign against such laws.
Listening to the lobbyist IS a way of listening to you. And your friends. And their friends. By sending out a lobbyist, thousands of people are able to unite into one common voice that is able to study issues full time, already knows the officials and their staff, and can generally get a point across faster and more efficiently.
And if the court refuses to believe him, he should show them just how "cold" DMCA enforcement can be.
Felten needs to go present his work publicy, RIGHT NOW. If the judge thinks that this case is too preemptive, Felten should announce that he will be presenting his case at a public place in a major city sometime in the next few days, and make sure to get the time and place listed on /. so that people attened. Felten should also contact the RIAA and the press, so that they can be there. At that point the RIAA will either have the FBI arrest Felten and press charges, at which point the case can proceed, or they can back off, showing that even they do not really have the balls to push the DMCA, giving anti-DMCA forces more ammunition.
I know that my elected officials respond to email, because I have twice recieved personal, thought out responses from Virginia officials (Former Governor Jim Gilmore and Sen. John Warner.) after sending in email. I know from talking to others that Senator Allen also gives some serious weight to email. Of course, tech is extremely important to the economy in Virginia, I somehow doubt that officials in the midwest pay as much attention to email.
Right now people trying to get involved need to realize that the government does not have much time to talk with us. Both email, snailmail, and phone calls are flooding capitol hill faster than staffers can deal with the correspondence. Officials are extremely busy legislating, meeting with each other, with the president, foreign officals and diplomats, and other people who are generally more important than the guy back home who wants an audience of some sort to talk about things that any ACLU lobbyist knows more about.
That does not mean, however that the officials are not listening. Staffers keep track of every email, letter, and phone call, and keep the officials posted on what the voters want. If you want to get a point across, keep up the letters. Support groups that lobby your point of view. Just remember to cut your officials some slack for not getting back to you during these trying times.
I never assumed that there was not a distinction between the two. I was pointing out that leaking business information has become far too common in the internet era, and were it to spread to military operations, the results would be disasterous.
Wow, another new CPU that current RAM and bus architectures cannot keep up with. Is it just me, or does it seem we would be better off if they just got RAM, data storage and bus speeds up to snuff so that data is able to pass between the system compotents at full blast?
That applies to more than just the military. It amazes me how many corporate endeavours are threatened by leaks. At my last employer, an important buyout that kept us afloat was almost killed because someone kept sending internal memos to the media. People knew that dozens of jobs were resting on keeping things silent until everything was said and done, and yet every important bit of information hit the net within minutes of being released internally. If this sort of thing starts happening in the military, it would endanger numerous American lives jsut because someone wants the satisfaction of starting trouble.
Until my computer scans my brain and knows what to do, nothing is going to matter. Speech interfaces will change things for certain applications, but because computers are still oriented around words, it will be cumbersome to work with a computer in applications where a mouth just is not fast or versatile enough (I can speak one word at a time, but I can idepedently operate at least four keyboard+mouse buttons simultaneously.). Speaking to a computer is also useless for much of the computer using community, as many people become hoarse from talking over extended periods. It would also make offices intolerable, as the noise would become a terrible racket, and phone calls impossible.
Others have mentioned eye motion tracking. A cute concept, but worthless for anyone who regularly moves his head while using a computer (As I do endlessly, moving back and forth between books, a phone, and several PCs at once, typing nonstop.).
Touchscreens have been around for decades, anyone familiar with one already knows why we don't use them.
To advance at a higher level, computers must become able to interperet thought. It sounds mad, but it is an imperative.