Another problem with voice activation, and audio versions, is privacy, and hearing loss. If everyone goes to using microphones and earphones all day long, we'll probably see a rise in both people talking to themselves/phones, and losing their hearing at a young age.
"The age of religious-controlled nations dominating information is coming to a close."
*keeping my mouth shut about Bush administration and Fox News...
Seriously though, it will never be completely out of style, since the method works to keep a population fearful, ignorant, and in line with the incumbent government. It wouldn't matter if it were a Democrat in office, because they'd find some media outlet(s) to suck from their trough of pre-chewed drivel.
"WGA. "Certainly that and other things have contributed to us thinking deeply with how we provide security and privacy"
Is that why you have to sell your first born to Microsoft if you install Windows Media Player 11, and break the EULA? I bet you didn't know that was in there! It pays to read EULAs, unless you want rid of that kid.
And if they've learned from the WGA fiasco, why are they still requiring XP users to install it to get all updates?
I recently offered to help a federal Canadian party as their copyright/technology critic. I've yet to hear back by email a couple weeks later if they even got my application.
I've also offered to help my Yorkton-Melville Conservative MP understand the dangers of Bill C-60 [Canada's DMCA] tabled by the competeing Liberal party, last year. He never replied even when I asked for a response.
Politicians had better start listening to techies who know how laws are going to screw the masses.
I'm guessing the approximate rate of value for a meteorite changes when it is this large. Because I'd love to have a 157lb ~ 71.2140021 kilograms when 1 gram is worth about $10 Canadian [$8.80 US]
Well said. It's a good thing there is something like YouTube around in a time like this one. Actually, I wonder if its presence tends to lead people to think they are being heard, when actually they are not. A hypothetical situation we can't ever know the parallel outcome to.
I doubt the EU is on the right track though by restricting blogging. It's not appearing to be an effort to encourage people to enter politics, it's more like an effort to shut them out of it.
"The scientists have used a method named photoacoustic detection, which uses a laser to make cells vibrate and ultrasound techniques to pick the sound of cancerous cells."...I wonder if that's how medical tricorders work...
And if not, let's get this down to a portable size soon. The 23rd Century isn't far off.
How closely is Google Slack, tied to Slackware? If it's not, why did they choose that name? The Slashdot icon and URL suggests this story has to do with Linux.
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I didn't know the history of Oracle's head Larry until I saw this the other day. Who knows, he might even have a brother or two named Darrel out there.
Coincidentially I started the Teleban movement last night before I read this Slashdot article or the autism "relationship".
Please feel free to join my movement, I'm hoping it will become much more powerful than Fox News, and Pat Robertson combined. I will have details on free membership benefits later, and there is no cost or even effort required to participate other than letting me know you want TV banned too. It's all in good fun, and we're saving the children, so please leave a message.
Remember the Teleban motto: Friends don't let friends watch Friends.
I'd get a kick out of Vista using its DRM badness to block McAfee and Symantec from running. Something along the lines of: "This software is unathenticated, and could be malware. Would you like to: Block / Permit once / Report this problem to Microsoft and Continue"
I think a company should release a "game" where the point of the software is to monitor how the computer user, uses their computer. At the end of the day the "game" reports the results to the maker of the software, and gives the user points, based on how much porn, violence, and YouTube the user consumed. Sending emails to family decreases the score, while sending emails to people you meet online increases your score. The user's score could be displayed in the corner of the screen at all times, and the rules of the game wouldn't be made known to them, they could only see the result of the score after they take an action, and thus act how they think the game is supposed to be played.
The thing about privacy these days, is that enough Americans are afraid of their neighbours, that the government can exploit their fear to take away privacy from everyone. Americans see what happens to people who speak out against the administration: Colin Powell, and V. Plame are prime examples of people who have had their careers destroyed because of the current administration. No one in power is fighting for the average American. Instead the government and its media mouthpieces tell Americans what they should be afraid of: veggies, terrorists, Canadian beef, and analogue TV, so their friends in industry can continue to get away with indirect murder while they rape the earths resources for their own benefit. It's a nice little racket for them.
People tend not to take on things much bigger than them. When the leading front runner for a president to replace the one we have now, is the wife of the previous president, people should smell something is rotten in Denmark. But even if they did realize that it's fishy only two or four families have a shot at governing the country of 300,000,000 people, what's one person going to do about it if they have to work 9 hours a day just to live and eat where they are?
I can't help but think of Red Hat, and get into the naming frame of mind when I hear that distribution's name. It makes me wonder what other Linux distros we could come up with.
Maybe: White Boy Linux - it's can't play DDR games very well, but it likes to try. Green Worm Linux - made just for kids that like to shove gross things into the faces of girls. Black Velvet Linux - when you positively, absolutely, HAVE TO impress a spouse with the computer.
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood because my pet just died, but isn't it depressing that all of the medical technology in the world can't give one of the greatest minds in the world a semblence of a healthy body?
Still, it's good that such a smart man is getting all of this media attention. The world could use more role models in movies, instead of relying on the ones that take steroids to break sports records.
Anyway, I'd not trust Sony to make an eBook reader that wouldn't install a rootkit anyway. Installing Sony software is about as good an idea as installing sofware from MyWebSearch. They messed up Audio CDROMs for cripes sake, now we want them to control a book format too?
I find nothing pounds "performance" into the ground better than a loss of power and then data. If you're playing games, then data loss is acceptable, but if you need what the computer is keeping, then data loss is End of Game.
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Another problem with voice activation, and audio versions, is privacy, and hearing loss. If everyone goes to using microphones and earphones all day long, we'll probably see a rise in both people talking to themselves/phones, and losing their hearing at a young age.
"The age of religious-controlled nations dominating information is coming to a close."
*keeping my mouth shut about Bush administration and Fox News...
Seriously though, it will never be completely out of style, since the method works to keep a population fearful, ignorant, and in line with the incumbent government. It wouldn't matter if it were a Democrat in office, because they'd find some media outlet(s) to suck from their trough of pre-chewed drivel.
I think we should beat Iran to the punch, and Ban TV here before it's too late. Join the Teleban too, and save the children.
It's just a modest proposal to save the world!
"WGA. "Certainly that and other things have contributed to us thinking deeply with how we provide security and privacy"
Is that why you have to sell your first born to Microsoft if you install Windows Media Player 11, and break the EULA? I bet you didn't know that was in there! It pays to read EULAs, unless you want rid of that kid.
And if they've learned from the WGA fiasco, why are they still requiring XP users to install it to get all updates?
I recently offered to help a federal Canadian party as their copyright/technology critic. I've yet to hear back by email a couple weeks later if they even got my application.
I've also offered to help my Yorkton-Melville Conservative MP understand the dangers of Bill C-60 [Canada's DMCA] tabled by the competeing Liberal party, last year. He never replied even when I asked for a response.
Politicians had better start listening to techies who know how laws are going to screw the masses.
I'm guessing the approximate rate of value for a meteorite changes when it is this large. Because I'd love to have a 157lb ~ 71.2140021 kilograms when 1 gram is worth about $10 Canadian [$8.80 US]
Well said. It's a good thing there is something like YouTube around in a time like this one. Actually, I wonder if its presence tends to lead people to think they are being heard, when actually they are not. A hypothetical situation we can't ever know the parallel outcome to.
I doubt the EU is on the right track though by restricting blogging. It's not appearing to be an effort to encourage people to enter politics, it's more like an effort to shut them out of it.
"Medical tricorders don't work." :-(
Next you'll tell me that Bones wasn't a real doctor.
The link in the summary loads a page with horrible popover advertising that floats in the way.
Here's the on the page.
"The scientists have used a method named photoacoustic detection, which uses a laser to make cells vibrate and ultrasound techniques to pick the sound of cancerous cells." ...I wonder if that's how medical tricorders work...
And if not, let's get this down to a portable size soon. The 23rd Century isn't far off.
How closely is Google Slack, tied to Slackware? If it's not, why did they choose that name? The Slashdot icon and URL suggests this story has to do with Linux.
I didn't know the history of Oracle's head Larry until I saw this the other day. Who knows, he might even have a brother or two named Darrel out there.
Coincidentially I started the Teleban movement last night before I read this Slashdot article or the autism "relationship".
Please feel free to join my movement, I'm hoping it will become much more powerful than Fox News, and Pat Robertson combined. I will have details on free membership benefits later, and there is no cost or even effort required to participate other than letting me know you want TV banned too. It's all in good fun, and we're saving the children, so please leave a message.
Remember the Teleban motto: Friends don't let friends watch Friends.
I'd get a kick out of Vista using its DRM badness to block McAfee and Symantec from running. Something along the lines of:
"This software is unathenticated, and could be malware.
Would you like to:
Block / Permit once / Report this problem to Microsoft and Continue"
I think a company should release a "game" where the point of the software is to monitor how the computer user, uses their computer. At the end of the day the "game" reports the results to the maker of the software, and gives the user points, based on how much porn, violence, and YouTube the user consumed. Sending emails to family decreases the score, while sending emails to people you meet online increases your score. The user's score could be displayed in the corner of the screen at all times, and the rules of the game wouldn't be made known to them, they could only see the result of the score after they take an action, and thus act how they think the game is supposed to be played.
That wouldn't be spyware, that would be "fun".
The thing about privacy these days, is that enough Americans are afraid of their neighbours, that the government can exploit their fear to take away privacy from everyone. Americans see what happens to people who speak out against the administration: Colin Powell, and V. Plame are prime examples of people who have had their careers destroyed because of the current administration. No one in power is fighting for the average American. Instead the government and its media mouthpieces tell Americans what they should be afraid of: veggies, terrorists, Canadian beef, and analogue TV, so their friends in industry can continue to get away with indirect murder while they rape the earths resources for their own benefit. It's a nice little racket for them.
People tend not to take on things much bigger than them. When the leading front runner for a president to replace the one we have now, is the wife of the previous president, people should smell something is rotten in Denmark. But even if they did realize that it's fishy only two or four families have a shot at governing the country of 300,000,000 people, what's one person going to do about it if they have to work 9 hours a day just to live and eat where they are?
Good point, punctuation can kill. However, you're maybe not aware that my cat's mind was protected from world observation in a way unlike most pets ;-)
Darn. I guess Eggshell White Boy Linux is still a go though? I bet every PS3 luser would love to have that on their system.
I can't help but think of Red Hat, and get into the naming frame of mind when I hear that distribution's name. It makes me wonder what other Linux distros we could come up with.
Maybe:
White Boy Linux - it's can't play DDR games very well, but it likes to try.
Green Worm Linux - made just for kids that like to shove gross things into the faces of girls.
Black Velvet Linux - when you positively, absolutely, HAVE TO impress a spouse with the computer.
Good point. The same could be said about the Bible, and the Printing Press in the Middle Ages too I suppose.
Perhaps I'm just in a bad mood because my pet just died, but isn't it depressing that all of the medical technology in the world can't give one of the greatest minds in the world a semblence of a healthy body?
Still, it's good that such a smart man is getting all of this media attention. The world could use more role models in movies, instead of relying on the ones that take steroids to break sports records.
I saw one last weekend at my hometown's regional park. It even takes coins. Oh you mean with a booth and doors? In Rhein, SK, a couple months ago.
"Well worth a read."
Was that some pun humour in the summary?
Anyway, I'd not trust Sony to make an eBook reader that wouldn't install a rootkit anyway. Installing Sony software is about as good an idea as installing sofware from MyWebSearch. They messed up Audio CDROMs for cripes sake, now we want them to control a book format too?
I find nothing pounds "performance" into the ground better than a loss of power and then data. If you're playing games, then data loss is acceptable, but if you need what the computer is keeping, then data loss is End of Game.
Is someone about to stuff Element 118 down their pants?