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  1. Re:Their country, their rules on First Video Broadcast From Mt. Everest Peak Outrages Tourist Ministry of Nepal · · Score: 1

    "human right of white people to exploit the Third World". you do realize this has been going for the last 1000 yrs and the Chinese are just as bad.

  2. Re:Their country, their rules on First Video Broadcast From Mt. Everest Peak Outrages Tourist Ministry of Nepal · · Score: 1

    So you live in Somalia or Syria then?

  3. Re:Their country, their rules on First Video Broadcast From Mt. Everest Peak Outrages Tourist Ministry of Nepal · · Score: 1

    but thats not how it works with the US government. Its Don't like the rules, invade the country, destroy their infrastructure, military and disrupt society for at least 10 yrs and finally replace the leaders with sycophants that will change the rules you didn't like.

  4. Re:About to change on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 1

    This will happen when Muslims and Jews agree to live in peace and harmony. Sony and Microsoft hate each other and delight in making their games so hard to code for so you dont do cross platform games. There will never be a golden age of gaming, unless you are taking about japanese handhelds.

  5. Re:What They Want on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 1

    I would so mod you up. This is why there is a console death spiral. I seriously want Sony to die and devoured by Google or somoene else. I want Microsoft to go through what IBM did in the 80s and be blocked from ever putting the crap they are doing now. I so want their gaming section to be bought off and broken into parts like they did to so many other companies.

  6. Re:Consoles aren't profitable? on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 1

    actually yes it does. Otherwise those shareholders will sell sell sell.

  7. Re:Really? on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 2

    Article summary should be re-written;

    Console market isn't profitable because there are few games being made gamers want.

    Fixed that. Seriously, Xbox one is being marketed not as a gaming console but a dvr.

  8. Re:Really? on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: 1

    compared to what? Think about this. An xbox is useless if unconnected to the internet. Same for a PlayStation 3. So really they have no choice. Oh and when you are talking about the new Xbox one, this video was from its launch. I love how it was edited to point out the obvious. Very little games. Isnt that the purpose of a console? I mean if I want another dvr I can get a non microsoft or sony one right? Watch this and count the number of times any game or game logo appears. Then ask how of that 2 billion was actual games.
    http://youtu.be/KbWgUO-Rqcw

  9. Re:Frist psot on Console Manufacturers Want the Impossible? · · Score: -1

    What exactly is a frist psot? Probably a next generation gaming platform that is profitable? LOL. Seriously, the answer above is no and it will never be so. Its a niche market now and the three remaining players need to accept that.

  10. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    let me guess its for security and unless someone damages the room or engages in illegal activities there the footage is never viewed and remains in a secure location?

  11. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    upskirts are illegal because of its purpose. I don't need to spell that out. A camera in the bathroom is there not to catch you f***ing the servers or you significant other its there to prevent theft. Same as a locker room camera. You dont think Gyms have them? You sign a waiver in your contract that says you are aware you are being videotaped foe the purposes of security and it will be cloud stored for the use in court cases. Reasonable expectation of privacy is dead. Its like separate bathrooms for non whites in Alabama. It exists but being legislated out of existance long ago.

  12. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    no such thing as a secret camera. unknown to you. But when you walk into a store and see all those black half spheres in the ceiling. They have sound now too.
    So to repeat: No secret cameras no expectation of privacy anyway that is considered public (federal buildings [airports], arenas and military bases are not). So no need. This is the problem. Laws have changed.

  13. Re: Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    yep because they gave up the right when they stepped out into the public.Only caviat is selling the image. If you are videoing for the purpose of sale, you have to inform them because then can sue if you dont so most do.
    So really your statement doesn't exist as everyone acknowledges the taking of pictures is acceptable the moment they exit their front door.

  14. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 2

    So you are saying that you want to be able to get away with things are are criminal or socially unacceptable without recrimination? As for Public surveillance is totally different in that the common public doesn't typically access it, and it's typically not available to upload on a whim to the net where it could potentially live forever. You want me to give you the links to all the public serveillance that is viewable on the internet? http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=20104
    Thats one of 1000s. Its isnt creepy. You think its creepy because you were brought up that way. If you got a migrane everytime you went to drink coffee you never would.
    No one SHOULD have anything to hide. Because certain things that society has deemed creepy shouldnt be creepy. This will break people of it. What it boils doen't to is self control. You don't want to be judged for that a nasty habit of picking your nose or buying RID at the pharmacy or throwing Chicks with Dicks out in your trash, (seriously you use LGBT as an example of bad?) staring at your brothers wife's ass at the family reunion and having it uploaded afterwards, picking up HIV drugs at the pharmacy, etc
    None of those things posted should be creepy. Really. They are normal things. The problem is prejudice. Glass reveals that. Creepy = fear and prejudice.

  15. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    You can't follow because you are unwilling to accept that its true because that is horrific to you. I do computing. Its true and horrifying. Glass isnt a viable product, its a corn cob tossed into the pigpen to see the level of squealing so the real product can be made and introduced without it.

  16. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    This is the problem.

    It's not that Glass looks weird.

    It's the idea that everyone and everything may soon be recorded, tagged with facial recognition data, stamped with GPS data, and floated off to the internet forever.

    Wearable computing may have some exciting uses, but it ultimately portends the end of most of what privacy remains from government and others.

    That is what people are reacting against.

    Soon? IS! Airports have security cameras with sound. Coffee shops have cameras even grocery stores have cameras. your phone marked your position right now, even if gps is off (cell tower triangulation) everyone and everything is being recorded, tagged with facial recognition data, stamped with GPS data, and floated off to the internet forever. People like 4chan and anonymous can call it up. How do you think those football players in OHio got arrested and charged. Their information was out on the net already. All glass does is remind everyone its already dead. When glass fails, the next one will come in quietly and without fanfare. The deed will be done and Orwell will be right. The only thing wrong is we are our own big brother.

  17. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    which is why we have laws.

  18. Re:Something It Isn't on Google Glass: What's With All the Hate? · · Score: 1

    The better question is why do you care if they are recording you? Security does that all the time. So do satellites. That's the root of the animosity. This abject fear that people will record you. Most people are clueless about editing video. Yea, you are in the mall today. You know that your cell phone transmits that info while its on regardless of the settings. Thats how it works.
    So google knows well I am. All android phones tell Google that. Nothing has changed. Anyone who has a phone tell Google/apple, their provider and the givt where they are while its on. Security footage recording you anywhere its on.
    Yet an individual with a low grade people of tech which is basically a smart phone taped to their forehead walks by and its OMG IM BEING ABUSED? Seriously?! You lost that ability when the IPhone came out.It was given up voluntarily.
    Glass scares people because it forces them to realize that have no control over their image or privacy. Its privacy's grave-marker, and we gave Apple the gun first.
    Sure glass will fail and all this teaches everyone is that you can't be public about it. If I truly want a picture or video of you I can get it in a public place without you knowing. I have never had that desire. I don't expect to.
    I expect most people will delete all that raw video.
    As for Google using it, what else is new. Of course it will be used for marketing. We live in a capitalistic society. Business need to know what we do so they know what to sell. Is it wrong? that's a moral question. Our generation will be just like the one that saw the advent of radio, the advent of rock music, the advent of cable tv, and the internet. In 30 yrs everyone will wear their phone because it wont be a phone. It will be an earpiece and a glass screen. We wont drive either because the car will do it via gps. We will ride along. Will we be less free? Yes. We right now are less free than our fathers and them before us.
    We are less because we willing give up privacy for sake of convenience. Then we complain about those who go off the grid.
    So next time you complain about glass or its decendants remember that phone in your pocket or purse. Remember the security camera above your head and smile.

  19. Re:Start here on White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care · · Score: 1

    So now is the best time to invent immortality in the USA so in say oh 100 years we can convert everything back?

  20. Re:The forbidden fruit was knowledge.... on African Soil Mapped For the Very First Time · · Score: 1

    Knowledge is power, power can liberate or oppress, but this knowledge is in the open, meaning nobody has distinct power advantage because of access to this knowledge alone. Besides, this isn't local knowledge, it covers the entire continent. The map is unlikely to be used directly by local farmers living hand to mouth on the family plot. Rather it will be used by governments and NGO's to make better use of infrastructure funds for irrigation channels, grain silo's, etc. Yes it will also be used by corporations, but what those corporations do with it is ultimately at the mercy of the people. You can like or loath agribusiness, but if they disappeared tomorrow 3-4 billion people would starve to death in the following 6-12 months.

    This is going to sound harsh, but isn't THAT the solution to overpopulation. And lets see where are those people? Africa, India and Yes, China which can take care of its self. Well Now I know what Anonymous is protesting Monsanto

  21. Re:Brohoof on The Bronies Get Their Own Charity · · Score: 1

    Jar-Jar Binks has fans? I thought he was the star wars equivalent of the mountain dew goat.

  22. Re:Service pack on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 0

    Yes, 8.1 is a service pack nothing more.

  23. Re:Wohoo! on Windows Blue Is Officially Windows 8.1, Free For Existing Users · · Score: 2

    NO. What gave you that Idea? The orb is an icon that simply links you back to metro. The rest is still windows 8. Oh there is an arcane way to get to the desktop without first entering metro but you will still have to deal with it alot

  24. Re:grow up, you entitled shit on Has Google Shut Down SMS Search? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a concept that needs to be killed with fire.

  25. failure on What Modern Militaries Can Learn From Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    They could learn that a significantly advanced technology could give up all advantages and live in caves without protest. Sorry there is nothing in BSG that could help our military. Its fiction and a briefling.