Ok, and i give the same answer to people who whine about DNA databases.
make it voluntary, but everyone who doesnt will immideately be locked up for any crime committed untill they can find a better way of proving their innocence. let see who gets bored 1st.
Im not unreasonable, and i wouldnt seek to make it compulsary, but as a person who doesnt mind, i naturally feel suspicious of those who do, what are you hiding? equally, i dont feel that we are given enough say (like a vote) in what freedoms we are and are not prepared to sacrifice for greater security. otherwise its just a question of who is the most outraged liberal shouting out at the time-- thats not democracy, thats propaganda
mind you, in the uk, we have a new scheme where paedophiles are put in teaching jobs around the country. i think its Tony Blairs way of reminding them what they've done
I've got nothing to hide, so i'll be sitting pretty in a job while your wallowing in self-pity.
workers have too many sodding rights. do you have any idea how hard it is to actually sack someone who cant do their job? in europe certainly, it'll get to the stage where small business no longer employs people other than friends and family and then where are we?
To me at least, there seems an obvious and wide gap between the tracking of your location and watching you on the toliet- but whatever turns you on i suppose
The liberal view is always to reduce how much is known about people, yet when crimes are committed we all expect swift justice. We are all tracked every day of our lives, unless you dont own: a mobile phone, a credit card, a car, a house, a computer, etc.
What exactly are you up to which you dont want us to know about?
imo, thats the point, you have a choice! you arent being secretly implanted with gps at birth, effort is required to have a mobile phone.. if u dont like it, quit
i've always believed that if i have done nothing wrong, i've nothing to hide. equally, i'd sacrifice some of my freedom (actually my freedom isnt limited, its just tracked) to enable swift capture of criminals, and tbh people skiving from work
if i was caught in the pub, but the benefits of this tech from other angles, such as finding missing people or giving people better directions have got to outweigh the ocasional reprimand for a quick half down the local.
Liberty should be spending their time on real problems. i think most people who own a mobile phone realise they can be (to some extent) tracked, and accept it. its not like we're being tagged, there is an element of choice in it.
Am i seriously the only one who isnt interested in whether or not 90% of these people live or die? (the 10% are-like in the article- innocent passengers)
at $30/key, i for one am not welcoming the new optimus overlord.. my keyboard has upward of 100 keys.. even if they manage to make these suckers 10 times cheaper, thats still twice what my graphics card cost.
It is a great idea (assuming it ships etc) but the price is gonna have to fall a long way to get my interest
I admit i dont know much about this, but dont we spend thousands of pounds filling rockets with aluminium foil to fol incoming missles? the earth is pre-chaffed!
I seem to remember the whole point of the internet was to maintain communications in times of war by being a.. wait for it.. NETWORK!!.. otherwise we're at constant risk from JCB's of mass destruction.
Its a minor whine, but i find the new naming convention arbitrary and unhelpful. i grew up with the concept of MHz and FSB, and i know what they mean. i can also accept that the rate of increase will fall as we approach the limits of current tech. The change of name is exactly what used to annoy me about AMD's XP N000+ range, it was a marketing gimmick to trick idiots. BRING BACK MEGAHERTZ!
I think its a contraction rather than just lopping the 'ematics' bit off.. it doesnt seem to follow into other subjects or we;d be learning chemy and geogy. If ur english, even saying math sounds rediculous, as im sure the S does to americans. i dont think either is more correct as they are just colloquial abbreviations
I;m still gaming when im 40. I think that could be one of the most obvious changes to the family over the last few hundred years. When parents and children can enjoy the same pass time (and i mean enjoy, not just tollerate) surely we're looking at a revival of a more cohesive unit?
I bought a DVD burner and a TFT screen from www.scan.co.uk, the drive arrived fine, but i got a £10 pc case instaed of the TFT. after what must have been an hour i finally got through to someone who asked if i was sure it wasnt the TFT (-idiot). it took 2 weeks of phone calls (on hold for upto an hour each time) before they would finally dispatch the screen as they still didnt believe i'd got the wrong product. they didnt even apologise
Computers are only any use if the kids can read and write, i didnt use computers in my school life till i was 12, now even nursery children have regular access. Equally the UK goverment (probably not alone) is putting alot of pressure onto teachers to use PC's without ensuring that the usage is relevent or properly planned. Coupled with the lack of training and technical assistance in smaller schools, the computer is seen as a burden by the staff and a game by the kids.
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I'd much rather see a Native windows build than an iOS gimmick
Ok, and i give the same answer to people who whine about DNA databases.
make it voluntary, but everyone who doesnt will immideately be locked up for any crime committed untill they can find a better way of proving their innocence. let see who gets bored 1st.
Im not unreasonable, and i wouldnt seek to make it compulsary, but as a person who doesnt mind, i naturally feel suspicious of those who do, what are you hiding? equally, i dont feel that we are given enough say (like a vote) in what freedoms we are and are not prepared to sacrifice for greater security. otherwise its just a question of who is the most outraged liberal shouting out at the time-- thats not democracy, thats propaganda
agreed.
mind you, in the uk, we have a new scheme where paedophiles are put in teaching jobs around the country. i think its Tony Blairs way of reminding them what they've done
I've got nothing to hide, so i'll be sitting pretty in a job while your wallowing in self-pity.
workers have too many sodding rights. do you have any idea how hard it is to actually sack someone who cant do their job? in europe certainly, it'll get to the stage where small business no longer employs people other than friends and family and then where are we?
To me at least, there seems an obvious and wide gap between the tracking of your location and watching you on the toliet- but whatever turns you on i suppose
The liberal view is always to reduce how much is known about people, yet when crimes are committed we all expect swift justice. We are all tracked every day of our lives, unless you dont own: a mobile phone, a credit card, a car, a house, a computer, etc.
What exactly are you up to which you dont want us to know about?
but imagine if they could... 'Miss.. the dog did my homework!'
imo, thats the point, you have a choice! you arent being secretly implanted with gps at birth, effort is required to have a mobile phone.. if u dont like it, quit
i've always believed that if i have done nothing wrong, i've nothing to hide. equally, i'd sacrifice some of my freedom (actually my freedom isnt limited, its just tracked) to enable swift capture of criminals, and tbh people skiving from work
if i was caught in the pub, but the benefits of this tech from other angles, such as finding missing people or giving people better directions have got to outweigh the ocasional reprimand for a quick half down the local.
Liberty should be spending their time on real problems. i think most people who own a mobile phone realise they can be (to some extent) tracked, and accept it. its not like we're being tagged, there is an element of choice in it.
..I'm not an alky.. my shervers been shlashdotted, i wash jusht adding more bandwid..
for repeat offenders, a golf-ball sized grenade..
YEEHAAAW!
Am i seriously the only one who isnt interested in whether or not 90% of these people live or die? (the 10% are-like in the article- innocent passengers)
at $30/key, i for one am not welcoming the new optimus overlord.. my keyboard has upward of 100 keys.. even if they manage to make these suckers 10 times cheaper, thats still twice what my graphics card cost.
It is a great idea (assuming it ships etc) but the price is gonna have to fall a long way to get my interest
Alot of slashdot seems to be 'X takes aim at Y'.. sort this out please
Agreed!! the pricing and DRM thing will need to be looked at, but this is finally some progress.
Also, think of the waste we could eliminate by doing away with dvd's and cd's
I admit i dont know much about this, but dont we spend thousands of pounds filling rockets with aluminium foil to fol incoming missles? the earth is pre-chaffed!
I seem to remember the whole point of the internet was to maintain communications in times of war by being a.. wait for it.. NETWORK!!.. otherwise we're at constant risk from JCB's of mass destruction.
This enormous archive will devour us all.. ARGHH!
Its a minor whine, but i find the new naming convention arbitrary and unhelpful. i grew up with the concept of MHz and FSB, and i know what they mean. i can also accept that the rate of increase will fall as we approach the limits of current tech. The change of name is exactly what used to annoy me about AMD's XP N000+ range, it was a marketing gimmick to trick idiots. BRING BACK MEGAHERTZ!
I think its a contraction rather than just lopping the 'ematics' bit off.. it doesnt seem to follow into other subjects or we;d be learning chemy and geogy. If ur english, even saying math sounds rediculous, as im sure the S does to americans. i dont think either is more correct as they are just colloquial abbreviations
I;m still gaming when im 40. I think that could be one of the most obvious changes to the family over the last few hundred years. When parents and children can enjoy the same pass time (and i mean enjoy, not just tollerate) surely we're looking at a revival of a more cohesive unit?
I bought a DVD burner and a TFT screen from www.scan.co.uk, the drive arrived fine, but i got a £10 pc case instaed of the TFT. after what must have been an hour i finally got through to someone who asked if i was sure it wasnt the TFT (-idiot). it took 2 weeks of phone calls (on hold for upto an hour each time) before they would finally dispatch the screen as they still didnt believe i'd got the wrong product. they didnt even apologise
how good is it as a scanner? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/08/153620 0&tid=126
Its all well and good, but where the hell am i meant to keep my prize collection of rare-earth magnets?!
Nothing to see here
Computers are only any use if the kids can read and write, i didnt use computers in my school life till i was 12, now even nursery children have regular access. Equally the UK goverment (probably not alone) is putting alot of pressure onto teachers to use PC's without ensuring that the usage is relevent or properly planned. Coupled with the lack of training and technical assistance in smaller schools, the computer is seen as a burden by the staff and a game by the kids.