Ever worry about the way online photo services encourage their customers to save all their photos online? (and of course with a number of added expenses for doing so).
Hack into any of those accounts and you'll instantly know a hell of a lot about the family it belongs to - license plat on the car, lay out of the home, what the pets look like, maybe the pet's name.
If you're looking to either rob the place or abduct their kids you couldn't get better information.
60 Minutes just ran a piece on jewel thieves from the 70's and 80's who used profiles and photos of the wealthy from Forbes, Reader's Digest, and Architectural Digest to plan their operations - and it worked so well they were in and out in 3 minutes.
That was old school and apparently now there are a whole new generation of jewel thieves who are using the same kind of techniques to start a robbing spree again.
I wonder if anyone is tapping into the onlien archives for criminal research and if they are, if any of the photo companies will disclose it?
Privacy concerns aren't just for people who like to take dirty pics of themselves.....
Forget feature movies for now.
The obvious first step is to start off small and infectious.
Watch Apple announce an integration with Google Video. There was an iTunes/Google rumour or hint going around.
Video Podcasts, Viral videos, home-made clips, free shorts and portfolio clips
The Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa, Leeeroy
Let the first Video iPod trade in that content to get the ball rolling.
This is a great way to test the water, check the popularity, security, and potential business models for video.
Experiment with selling music videos at first, then after all that go for feature movies.
Invader Zim!!!
It features a hostile alien force trying to destroy our planet, but get this, he's the star!! And we're meant to identify with him!
It may just be a cartoon, but it explores more areas of science fiction that half of that list combined.
Oh and Spaced, while technically not a real science-fiction series, again more seriously discusses the human condition in an imaginitive context than, well, again half of what's on Boston.com's list.
I looked around NextFest and saw that it was never meant for the Slashdot crowd, that it was for the 9,000 inner-city kids who came in on buses on the first day to do school reports, that it was for the parents looking for a neat event to take the ramblers in the minivan to. Simple, visually stimulating, yet very interactive displays that for the common person capture the imagination beyond the norm - flying cars, self-healing plastic, cloned cats.
Kids got to play in interactive light shows, step into virtual worlds, climb into next gen submersibles, play brainball, shake hands with a robot, watch plastic bleed, etc. etc.
You know, there actually are plenty of expos, conventions for our community - GnomeDex, ComDex, CES, CTIA Wireless, E3, WWDC, etc. most of which are industry-only and would bore the corneas off of most of the public.
NextFest reached its maximum attendance, the place was packed and full of people who I saw having an absolute blast.
From that point of view it was a wild success.
If you can't look at something and understand its purpose, its intent, and properly gauge its success and not explain it or put in into context for your audience, what good are you as a tech reporter?
Being snide and cynical does nothing but to perpetuate the stereotype of being part of the pocket-protector club, living in a Dilbert snowglobe.
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Ever worry about the way online photo services encourage their customers to save all their photos online? (and of course with a number of added expenses for doing so). Hack into any of those accounts and you'll instantly know a hell of a lot about the family it belongs to - license plat on the car, lay out of the home, what the pets look like, maybe the pet's name. If you're looking to either rob the place or abduct their kids you couldn't get better information. 60 Minutes just ran a piece on jewel thieves from the 70's and 80's who used profiles and photos of the wealthy from Forbes, Reader's Digest, and Architectural Digest to plan their operations - and it worked so well they were in and out in 3 minutes. That was old school and apparently now there are a whole new generation of jewel thieves who are using the same kind of techniques to start a robbing spree again. I wonder if anyone is tapping into the onlien archives for criminal research and if they are, if any of the photo companies will disclose it? Privacy concerns aren't just for people who like to take dirty pics of themselves.....
Forget feature movies for now. The obvious first step is to start off small and infectious. Watch Apple announce an integration with Google Video. There was an iTunes/Google rumour or hint going around. Video Podcasts, Viral videos, home-made clips, free shorts and portfolio clips The Star Wars Kid, Numa Numa, Leeeroy Let the first Video iPod trade in that content to get the ball rolling. This is a great way to test the water, check the popularity, security, and potential business models for video. Experiment with selling music videos at first, then after all that go for feature movies.
Invader Zim!!! It features a hostile alien force trying to destroy our planet, but get this, he's the star!! And we're meant to identify with him! It may just be a cartoon, but it explores more areas of science fiction that half of that list combined. Oh and Spaced, while technically not a real science-fiction series, again more seriously discusses the human condition in an imaginitive context than, well, again half of what's on Boston.com's list.
I looked around NextFest and saw that it was never meant for the Slashdot crowd, that it was for the 9,000 inner-city kids who came in on buses on the first day to do school reports, that it was for the parents looking for a neat event to take the ramblers in the minivan to.
Simple, visually stimulating, yet very interactive displays that for the common person capture the imagination beyond the norm - flying cars, self-healing plastic, cloned cats.
Kids got to play in interactive light shows, step into virtual worlds, climb into next gen submersibles, play brainball, shake hands with a robot, watch plastic bleed, etc. etc.
You know, there actually are plenty of expos, conventions for our community - GnomeDex, ComDex, CES, CTIA Wireless, E3, WWDC, etc. most of which are industry-only and would bore the corneas off of most of the public.
NextFest reached its maximum attendance, the place was packed and full of people who I saw having an absolute blast.
From that point of view it was a wild success.
If you can't look at something and understand its purpose, its intent, and properly gauge its success and not explain it or put in into context for your audience, what good are you as a tech reporter?
Being snide and cynical does nothing but to perpetuate the stereotype of being part of the pocket-protector club, living in a Dilbert snowglobe.