Does anyone else find it a bit annoying that a corporate computer giant billionaire like Zuckerberg is wearing a HACK T-Shirt?
Is he trying to be ironic or cool or something?
If you can prove that a business is ruining the environment and economy through sound scientific methods, OF COURSE big businesses will try to stifle research, innovation and facts in order to continue their relentless pursuit of money. Unabashed greed and facts do not mix well.
The worst-case scenario is never knowing the truth about anything because businesses have completely obscured reality in order to continue their pursuit of massive profits.
My guess is that graphene is going to make the manufacturing of computers and chips much less expensive and reducing the price of computers even further. I predict that pretty soon a super-fast, always on laptop will cost around $99.00 in the near future.
If everything has a sensor on it, and systems are talking to each other and making the entire system smarter and more efficient, can't we just replace people with machines to do our day-to-day mundane tasks in our jobs? This would free up time to concentrate on more important things, and giving us more free time.
I, for one, welcome Google helping me make my coffee, drive my car, navigate to my work, send me meeting reminders and read and filter my email...all before I even step in the office or the home-office.
Just don't let Google get too good at it or we will be competing with machines for our careers.
Instead of doing common-sense, easy, and reasonable things to stop global warming like moving away from fossil fuels...we will create a giant solar shade which will cost taxpayers BILLIONS! Smithers, get R&D on the horn. I need to build a some expensive sunglasses.
Kent Brockman: Uh, Mr. Burns, people are calling this a meltdown.
Mr. Burns: Oh, meltdown. It's one of these annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus.
"They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies. They're a DATA spill just waiting to happen. And like it or not, they're already inside your enterprise"
Wait, are we talking about social networking here? or the Borg invasion from 'Star Trek: First Contact?'
...and it is the end of privacy as we DON'T know it!
Mark Zuckerberg sure has a predisposition to violating people's privacy and trust.
I would quit facebook but then I would risk losing my 300+ distant, casual acquaintances:(
I will try Ubuntu on a spare desktop and try to use it for a while and see if it holds up.
It will be interesting to see where it fails and where it succeeds, but my friends have all said it runs very well.
And maybe, I will never purchase an OS again.
Because they are huge and have tons of cash
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Why Microsoft?
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Microsoft will pay you well and you feel you are part of a community.
The downside is that you have to hide your MacBookPro and iPhone from public view.
After hearing repeated stories of these drones missing their targets or hitting innocents, how do we know they are accurate with or without pirated software?
Does anyone REALLY know if they did hit their intended targets? No one is actually on the ground to confirm the accuracy of their hits.
After all, they are remote-controlled and target based on information that could easily be inaccurate.
"The goals for the first run of the most powerful particle collider (and the most energetic storage ring since ISR) were recently surpassing the 10^32 level of luminosity, with a destructive 15 MJ energy per-beam."
Wait, are they trying to study particle behavior or build a Death Star?
The complexity of modern policing is trying to figure out if a petty criminal is more dangerous to a large group of citizens than a corporation committing massive fraud.
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I know what you mean, they don't go out in public or have any privacy...er, wait that is just a typical facebook addict...nevermind.
Does anyone else find it a bit annoying that a corporate computer giant billionaire like Zuckerberg is wearing a HACK T-Shirt?
Is he trying to be ironic or cool or something?
If you can prove that a business is ruining the environment and economy through sound scientific methods, OF COURSE big businesses will try to stifle research, innovation and facts in order to continue their relentless pursuit of money. Unabashed greed and facts do not mix well.
The worst-case scenario is never knowing the truth about anything because businesses have completely obscured reality in order to continue their pursuit of massive profits.
My guess is that graphene is going to make the manufacturing of computers and chips much less expensive and reducing the price of computers even further. I predict that pretty soon a super-fast, always on laptop will cost around $99.00 in the near future.
If everything has a sensor on it, and systems are talking to each other and making the entire system smarter and more efficient, can't we just replace people with machines to do our day-to-day mundane tasks in our jobs? This would free up time to concentrate on more important things, and giving us more free time.
I, for one, welcome Google helping me make my coffee, drive my car, navigate to my work, send me meeting reminders and read and filter my email...all before I even step in the office or the home-office.
Just don't let Google get too good at it or we will be competing with machines for our careers.
Instead of doing common-sense, easy, and reasonable things to stop global warming like moving away from fossil fuels...we will create a giant solar shade which will cost taxpayers BILLIONS! Smithers, get R&D on the horn. I need to build a some expensive sunglasses.
Kent Brockman: Uh, Mr. Burns, people are calling this a meltdown.
Mr. Burns: Oh, meltdown. It's one of these annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus.
...was to debunk the myth that a black man can't be elected president.
So how many minutes will it be before we have to update Reader X after we install it?
Just wondering if these new standards comply with Net Neutrality? Or we are to assume they will?
"Unity is fully touch-enabled – those big icons are screaming out to have a digit poked at them."
I think most socially-awkward computer nerds are NOT happy with this condescending double-entendre!
"They're a vector for malware and a gift for corporate spies. They're a DATA spill just waiting to happen. And like it or not, they're already inside your enterprise"
Wait, are we talking about social networking here? or the Borg invasion from 'Star Trek: First Contact?'
Thanks for the information!
Driver issues and gaming apparently are the big showstoppers for Linux OS.
...and it is the end of privacy as we DON'T know it! :(
Mark Zuckerberg sure has a predisposition to violating people's privacy and trust.
I would quit facebook but then I would risk losing my 300+ distant, casual acquaintances
I will try Ubuntu on a spare desktop and try to use it for a while and see if it holds up.
It will be interesting to see where it fails and where it succeeds, but my friends have all said it runs very well.
And maybe, I will never purchase an OS again.
Microsoft will pay you well and you feel you are part of a community.
The downside is that you have to hide your MacBookPro and iPhone from public view.
As soon as we get a free, stable, and useful free desktop OS...Windows is done. Ubuntu perhaps?
According to PCWorld, the Linux Desktop is dead(?)
After hearing repeated stories of these drones missing their targets or hitting innocents, how do we know they are accurate with or without pirated software?
Does anyone REALLY know if they did hit their intended targets? No one is actually on the ground to confirm the accuracy of their hits.
After all, they are remote-controlled and target based on information that could easily be inaccurate.
For our privacy rights as individuals, it should ALWAYS be opt-IN for this, not opt-OUT!
Dump the middleman who is profiting from the hard work of the musicians and producers and just buy the music directly from the artist.
For example: Purchase Radiohead In Rainbows for 7.5 pounds or $12 US.
Seems fair to me.
I was driving along and all of a sudden I woke up to a really annoying sound WHILE crashing in to a tree.
I prefer not to have loud alarms going off while I am trying to get much-needed rest!
Maybe if we had a lower income-gap, better paying jobs, and opportunity for people this wouldn't be such a problem?
Alternatively, you can just switch everything to buried cable, fiber-optic preferrably.
I've been to the Hinterlands and boy is it boring. My level 80 Warrior rusted his armor crying in lonliness.
"The goals for the first run of the most powerful particle collider (and the most energetic storage ring since ISR) were recently surpassing the 10^32 level of luminosity, with a destructive 15 MJ energy per-beam."
Wait, are they trying to study particle behavior or build a Death Star?
This is not new.
The complexity of modern policing is trying to figure out if a petty criminal is more dangerous to a large group of citizens than a corporation committing massive fraud.
...is this surprising? The Patriot Act "dramatically reduced restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records."
;)
Facebook just makes it easier.
So, Slashdot...what information are you divulging to our government overlords?