I would love for this to happen, but sadly they've (officially) stopped the unwarranted wiretapping. Maybe they're still doing it without telling us, but I guess that remains to be seen.
I now know who cares and who doesn't.
I got a letter back within about a week from Jim Matheson, our Representative, who seemed very adamant about how wrong this proposed legislation is. He even went on in detail about why he wanted internet radio to stay the way is is (or become free, even).
Bob Bennett didn't respond.
Orrin Hatch, who is himself a recording artist (in a loose usage of the term), seemed to be sidestepping the issue in the letter he sent back. It was almost as though he agreed with the rate hikes. How someone who gets paid to make music can support the RIAA is beyond me.
Though I guess Roarin' Orrin's reply didn't really surprise me, I guess there are things in life you never get used to.
The thought occurred to me when Safari for Windows was first released that it was mainly meant for primarily Mac users so they'd feel more at home when using Windows.
Although I agree what's happening here is wrong and we shouldn't stand for it, if you honestly believe that Americans are the most oppressed people on Earth then you have a very narrow world view.
They actually built the arrows according to "Robin Hood standards", meaning that the arrows were much thicker than those used today, as well as made of a different wood, and finally: they included a piece of goat horn in the nock which was used in the medieval era to strengthen it. Furthermore, a split would have been a statistical anomaly, and based just as much on luck (if not more) as on skill.
Rather than banning cloned food altogether, they're simply informing consumers which is cloned and which is not. It's entirely possible that in the next 10, maybe 15 years, eating non-cloned food will be relegated to the same type of people who eat organic food today.
I've been getting credit card offers since my senior year of high school. No Child Left Behind makes it legal for schools to do pretty much whatever they want with your information, and you can't stop them (at least this was my school's excuse). Furthermore, from what I've been told, the school is required to give information to any military branch that requests it.
How do I know it's the school that's been doing it? They've always spelled my name Zajary instead of Zakary on all their mailings, and that's who these are addressed to (on the plus side, I can't legally open these letters since they aren't addressed to me).
I love this one, but be careful with it: some versions of the extension ping the site far more often than is needed, and others ping it as often as possible just out of cruelty.
How about we constantly bash a law for being unfair, unnecessary, and convoluted, and then turn around and expect a corporation to follow it to the letter! Even better, let's put forth that it was wrong of them to disobey this law we think is unjust, and side with a woman whose only purpose in the actions was to goad the NFL into suing her. All this so that she could claim they were breaking a law: something she had already done (the same law, as a matter of fact) and should be responsible for.
This is a non-story in my opinion.
I actually have seen studies in medical areas with similar technology. For one, direct-brain systems are implemented in things like cochlear implants, and soon may be used in "bionic eyes." Another related system I saw used a head-mounted camera to send signals directly to the tongue, allowing the vision-impaired to "see" objects in front of them, and even allowing a blind test group to navigate through a small obstacle course.
Further, I've heard of several cases in which stroke victims or people who have had spinal injuries were able to manipulate a cursor onscreen to point to different words, allowing them to speak, as it were.
Last but not least, several different groups are working, many of them very close to being finished, on lines of mechanized limbs which interface with the nerves rather than detect adjacent muscle movements.
It does seem strange that it's entering the entertainment field first, but the technology is being used widely in medical research, and has already done a lot of good. It's just that it's a lot more complicated to interface with real-world objects than with ones whose rules and laws are so easily redefined to fit one's needs, i.e. virtual objects.
The system I've been using (I'm not familiar with the name or who makes it, since I've been going to a therapist to undergo the procedures) actually does have a highly variable amount of channels of control; the example I gave was just the first "game" I had been subject to. Even that one, however -while its only purpose was to measure the amount of activity going on in a single hemisphere of my brain- had 3 separate levels of control, and through concentration and practice I was able to manipulate each of those. The others have been more complex in design and implementation, requiring more electrodes (seeing mockup pictures of the product in question on Engadget, I know it has around 25-30 contact points on it) more training, though nothing anybody committed to learning the system couldn't handle.
I've been using a system called bio-feedback that interfaces with the brain through a series of very small electrodes, sometimes as few as 3 (one on the back of each earlobe, and one on either of the hemispheres). It works by displaying your brainwaves in a way which the brain finds easy to understand, and forcing you to enter a certain frame of mind to control the program. This means the treatment is often done in the form of games. The games the treatment uses are usually very simple (for example, one called Space Race forces the user to relax and to concentrate in order to cause one spaceship to speed up and two others to slow down), but with enough electrodes in the right places, and with an (indeterminate to someone outside of the industry by myself, and probably varying from person to person) amount of training, I can see this coming to fruition in the near future. I really don't know whether 2008 is a realistic date, but it is coming, and sooner than a lot of you think.
On a related note, the laptop in my therapist's office required that the electrodes enter a box, which output to a parallel connection, which they had to send to a parallel/serial adapter, then to a serial/USB adapter. Needless to say, it took me a while to trace the amalgam of cords sitting on that desk.
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I'm pretty sure child porn trumps looking in a customer's folder.
I would love for this to happen, but sadly they've (officially) stopped the unwarranted wiretapping. Maybe they're still doing it without telling us, but I guess that remains to be seen.
Sorry, my mistake. Yeah, Matheson is against the rate hikes.
I now know who cares and who doesn't. I got a letter back within about a week from Jim Matheson, our Representative, who seemed very adamant about how wrong this proposed legislation is. He even went on in detail about why he wanted internet radio to stay the way is is (or become free, even). Bob Bennett didn't respond. Orrin Hatch, who is himself a recording artist (in a loose usage of the term), seemed to be sidestepping the issue in the letter he sent back. It was almost as though he agreed with the rate hikes. How someone who gets paid to make music can support the RIAA is beyond me. Though I guess Roarin' Orrin's reply didn't really surprise me, I guess there are things in life you never get used to.
So you're complaining that Slashdot isn't running a story detailing the horrors of the mayonnaise industry? I hardly see why they would.
The thought occurred to me when Safari for Windows was first released that it was mainly meant for primarily Mac users so they'd feel more at home when using Windows.
Although I agree what's happening here is wrong and we shouldn't stand for it, if you honestly believe that Americans are the most oppressed people on Earth then you have a very narrow world view.
The sky is blue, more at 11.
Yeah, that's... what he was saying.
Kinda the point there, champ.
They actually built the arrows according to "Robin Hood standards", meaning that the arrows were much thicker than those used today, as well as made of a different wood, and finally: they included a piece of goat horn in the nock which was used in the medieval era to strengthen it. Furthermore, a split would have been a statistical anomaly, and based just as much on luck (if not more) as on skill.
Rather than banning cloned food altogether, they're simply informing consumers which is cloned and which is not. It's entirely possible that in the next 10, maybe 15 years, eating non-cloned food will be relegated to the same type of people who eat organic food today.
I've been getting credit card offers since my senior year of high school. No Child Left Behind makes it legal for schools to do pretty much whatever they want with your information, and you can't stop them (at least this was my school's excuse). Furthermore, from what I've been told, the school is required to give information to any military branch that requests it.
How do I know it's the school that's been doing it? They've always spelled my name Zajary instead of Zakary on all their mailings, and that's who these are addressed to (on the plus side, I can't legally open these letters since they aren't addressed to me).
Yet another great policy from our Government.
I love this one, but be careful with it: some versions of the extension ping the site far more often than is needed, and others ping it as often as possible just out of cruelty.
I like playing around with settings, and I'm never really content with the way my computers run, so I'm always changing stuff just to kill time.
I have a great idea: why don't we all take video games a little more seriously?
That one's a fairly common misconception, Liberty and Ellis islands are approximately a mile apart from one another.
You actually went to New York in the game, but the UNATCO HQ was located on Liberty Island, the real-life location of the Statue of Liberty.
Stop allowing Dvorak's crazed sensationalist rants in as news stories. Thanks.
How about we constantly bash a law for being unfair, unnecessary, and convoluted, and then turn around and expect a corporation to follow it to the letter! Even better, let's put forth that it was wrong of them to disobey this law we think is unjust, and side with a woman whose only purpose in the actions was to goad the NFL into suing her. All this so that she could claim they were breaking a law: something she had already done (the same law, as a matter of fact) and should be responsible for. This is a non-story in my opinion.
How, with such a system, would you send out your requests and whatnot? Surely you won't have to have your own broadcast tower?
I actually have seen studies in medical areas with similar technology. For one, direct-brain systems are implemented in things like cochlear implants, and soon may be used in "bionic eyes." Another related system I saw used a head-mounted camera to send signals directly to the tongue, allowing the vision-impaired to "see" objects in front of them, and even allowing a blind test group to navigate through a small obstacle course.
Further, I've heard of several cases in which stroke victims or people who have had spinal injuries were able to manipulate a cursor onscreen to point to different words, allowing them to speak, as it were.
Last but not least, several different groups are working, many of them very close to being finished, on lines of mechanized limbs which interface with the nerves rather than detect adjacent muscle movements.
It does seem strange that it's entering the entertainment field first, but the technology is being used widely in medical research, and has already done a lot of good. It's just that it's a lot more complicated to interface with real-world objects than with ones whose rules and laws are so easily redefined to fit one's needs, i.e. virtual objects.
The system I've been using (I'm not familiar with the name or who makes it, since I've been going to a therapist to undergo the procedures) actually does have a highly variable amount of channels of control; the example I gave was just the first "game" I had been subject to. Even that one, however -while its only purpose was to measure the amount of activity going on in a single hemisphere of my brain- had 3 separate levels of control, and through concentration and practice I was able to manipulate each of those. The others have been more complex in design and implementation, requiring more electrodes (seeing mockup pictures of the product in question on Engadget, I know it has around 25-30 contact points on it) more training, though nothing anybody committed to learning the system couldn't handle.
(Sorry for the huge block of text, I forgot /. uses HTML and didn't add a line break tag in there.)
I've been using a system called bio-feedback that interfaces with the brain through a series of very small electrodes, sometimes as few as 3 (one on the back of each earlobe, and one on either of the hemispheres). It works by displaying your brainwaves in a way which the brain finds easy to understand, and forcing you to enter a certain frame of mind to control the program. This means the treatment is often done in the form of games. The games the treatment uses are usually very simple (for example, one called Space Race forces the user to relax and to concentrate in order to cause one spaceship to speed up and two others to slow down), but with enough electrodes in the right places, and with an (indeterminate to someone outside of the industry by myself, and probably varying from person to person) amount of training, I can see this coming to fruition in the near future. I really don't know whether 2008 is a realistic date, but it is coming, and sooner than a lot of you think. On a related note, the laptop in my therapist's office required that the electrodes enter a box, which output to a parallel connection, which they had to send to a parallel/serial adapter, then to a serial/USB adapter. Needless to say, it took me a while to trace the amalgam of cords sitting on that desk.