I don't see why there's a huge panic over it when wearable recording devices have been on the market for at least 10 years, including I believe one from Microsoft quite a while ago. I seem to remember the discussion at the time being amazement that someone would sacrifice their own privacy, not that of others. As others are stating here again and again, people have been able to, and have actually been recording you without your consent for decades.
All this hyperbole about invasion of privacy is nice and all, but isn't anyone interested in the fact that they open-sourced the code? This means that if you want you can probably get custom firmwares in the near future that have no internet connectivity at all and do exactly what *you* want like a good piece of hardware should. Stream video to your own servers for example?
Even in "first-world" countries this may help a little with some police abuse. Conversely though, you may find you get a "warning" for speeding, etc, less frequently.
A smartphone in a belt case with the camera on is effectively the same as Glass. I'm pretty sure you'd notice someone taking an "up-skirt" shot with Google Glass much more than with a cell phone, especially if they were actually wearing them at the time.
I find it strange that there wasn't a huge outcry when Microsoft release the Kinect, a device that always has a camera on inside your house. Personally, I trust Microsoft a lot less than I trust Google.
It's not quite that easy. Apple seems to want to keep iTunes as part of its platform lock and doesn't have an iTunes app for Android. If they were interested in actually selling content rather than locking in users you'd think they'd have one.
That was before outsourcing. You know, back when people used to hire the best people for the job rather than the cheapest people for the job. Back before people thought you could always replace quality with quantity.
Funny, but insightful. Typical email is almost the same thing security-wise. As with everything else on the internet, if it's private and you insist on sending it or storing it, make damn sure it's well encrypted.
It might also be a good reason not to visit a country. Of course, if all countries keep heading towards police states like they seem to be currently, it won't really matter where you go. Goodbye privacy, "papers please".
Both branches are still open-source. Have a look at what the commiter of the un-forked webkit has done with XMPP (iMessage), SIP (FaceTime), eBub (iBooks) to see how they feel about open standards. I think having another branch will be a good thing, if only for a little friendly competition.
As it's in Google and Opera's interest to have an open web, I'd have a closer look at people using the un-forked WebKit as being more likely to not play nice. I'm really hoping everyone keeps working together though. The 'defacto standard' approach seems to be working relatively well so far.
You haven't tried the IBM kool-aid yet. Those people whose jobs currently rely on mainframe expertise are very happy with them. They do have better error-checking but everything else is at least an order of magnitude out of whack with commodity hardware price/performance, and in many cases, several orders. You can reduce some of the costs on their zSeries by buying specialised processors for DB2, Java, and Linux (~100K a pop) so you don't have to may for MIPS usage but the costs are still astronomical for the performance. If it was cost effective, don't you think Amazon would be running its cloud services on them?
Big data is more readily done with racks of commodity hardware. You get orders of magnitude better performance for the money. Do you seee any of the big web companies moving to mainframes? If there was cost or performance improvements in it they'd have done it in a second.
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I don't see why there's a huge panic over it when wearable recording devices have been on the market for at least 10 years, including I believe one from Microsoft quite a while ago. I seem to remember the discussion at the time being amazement that someone would sacrifice their own privacy, not that of others. As others are stating here again and again, people have been able to, and have actually been recording you without your consent for decades.
All this hyperbole about invasion of privacy is nice and all, but isn't anyone interested in the fact that they open-sourced the code? This means that if you want you can probably get custom firmwares in the near future that have no internet connectivity at all and do exactly what *you* want like a good piece of hardware should. Stream video to your own servers for example?
Even in "first-world" countries this may help a little with some police abuse. Conversely though, you may find you get a "warning" for speeding, etc, less frequently.
A smartphone in a belt case with the camera on is effectively the same as Glass. I'm pretty sure you'd notice someone taking an "up-skirt" shot with Google Glass much more than with a cell phone, especially if they were actually wearing them at the time.
I find it strange that there wasn't a huge outcry when Microsoft release the Kinect, a device that always has a camera on inside your house. Personally, I trust Microsoft a lot less than I trust Google.
It's not quite that easy. Apple seems to want to keep iTunes as part of its platform lock and doesn't have an iTunes app for Android. If they were interested in actually selling content rather than locking in users you'd think they'd have one.
... except that in this case you actually can install Linux on Android.
Look where that got us. The current crop of politicians thought 1984 was an instruction manual.
It's interesting that they picked Forbes. For about the last year, Forbes seems to have become a major Apple fanboy magazine.
Machines should think. People should work.
That was before outsourcing. You know, back when people used to hire the best people for the job rather than the cheapest people for the job. Back before people thought you could always replace quality with quantity.
Funny, but insightful. Typical email is almost the same thing security-wise. As with everything else on the internet, if it's private and you insist on sending it or storing it, make damn sure it's well encrypted.
... or, you could be a racist douche-bag. The possibilities are endless.
It might also be a good reason not to visit a country. Of course, if all countries keep heading towards police states like they seem to be currently, it won't really matter where you go. Goodbye privacy, "papers please".
Based on the ones that were exposed when they screwed up dealing with B&N, the patents are pretty worthless.
It's not even relevant. If they won't show which ones they're threatening with they should be charged with extortion.
Same with a Nexus 4. Even a thick case causes problems. I'd actually like to have a bit more range for reading NFC tags.
Both branches are still open-source. Have a look at what the commiter of the un-forked webkit has done with XMPP (iMessage), SIP (FaceTime), eBub (iBooks) to see how they feel about open standards. I think having another branch will be a good thing, if only for a little friendly competition.
As it's in Google and Opera's interest to have an open web, I'd have a closer look at people using the un-forked WebKit as being more likely to not play nice. I'm really hoping everyone keeps working together though. The 'defacto standard' approach seems to be working relatively well so far.
A flu? Have they been updating the moderation capabilities again?
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Yes, because if there's one thing Chinese companies respect, it's patents.
... and you pay for using those processors in addition to the cost of the machine.
Ever check the cost of those 'low-cost' IBM terminals?
You haven't tried the IBM kool-aid yet. Those people whose jobs currently rely on mainframe expertise are very happy with them. They do have better error-checking but everything else is at least an order of magnitude out of whack with commodity hardware price/performance, and in many cases, several orders. You can reduce some of the costs on their zSeries by buying specialised processors for DB2, Java, and Linux (~100K a pop) so you don't have to may for MIPS usage but the costs are still astronomical for the performance. If it was cost effective, don't you think Amazon would be running its cloud services on them?
Big data is more readily done with racks of commodity hardware. You get orders of magnitude better performance for the money. Do you seee any of the big web companies moving to mainframes? If there was cost or performance improvements in it they'd have done it in a second.