What if kids use an Android phone and now you *can't* turn off tracking? Can Google be sued? Google is passing location info to apps, so that is "online." And I would say this is partly offline tracking as well, and much more sinister than simply tracking kids in order to serve them adds. This is your child's physical location.
Big Pharma is only one of five industries spending big money to keep it illegal. The rest are aggravating, too. Private prisons, prison guard unions, and actual law enforcement are also involved. Law enforcement should just enforce the laws, in my opinion. They should not be involved in lobbying for or against them, though.
If we really wanted to make the world a better place and invoke the space race analogy, then the race should be about getting us off fossil fuels. Better energy storage technology, rapid charging, etc. Anything that gets us off oil as quickly as possible. Look at the misery the Middle East has caused the world, and it's all over oil.
The types of foods you eat make a difference as well. Calories aren't just calories. Insulin tells your body to store extra calories as fat, so foods that spike insulin levels help make you fat. Well, guess what foods overweight people love to eat? Carbs, and piles of them. Guess what carbs do. They spike your insulin levels. Get a copy of a book called Why We Get Fat. Excellent book.
This is being written by someone that just dropped between 85 and 100 pounds and I've kept it off for going on a couple of years now. I devised some simple rules and eat a reasonable amount of healthy foods. One of my rules is, watch what fat people eat... and don't eat that . You would be surprised how well that one simple rule works.:) The other thing I did was give up 1 to 2 sitcoms a day and get off my ass and exercise. Yes, I'm a database admin at work, so guess what I did a lot of. Sitting. I can do a 5K and smoke people half my age or more now. Three - Four years ago, I could hardly walk.
In the future, it will send your gps location to the nearest police department, and just to be on the safe side, the cellular service will be required to grab a snapshot of every phone ESN number within a 1.2 mile radius of the woman's position.
Yes. Nothing screams security like copying every packet that crosses your LAN and storing it into the *cloud* somewhere. This is an NSA wet dream. They don't even have to take up their own drive space to store every packet, just get a warrant (hahaha) and get the data from Amazon.
And of course, we make ourselves vulnerable to cancer from the crap we eat and the lack of exercise. Younger and younger people are now getting cancer, so we are making ourselves good hosts from a very young age:
Once considered an older person’s disease, colorectal cancer is showing up in individuals as young as 20 years old.
It may sound like the stuff of conspiracy buffs, but it is in fact a true story. Doctors had to go in front of congress and testify to get the contaminated vaccines pulled.
I had a brother in the age range to have gotten this polio vaccine, and he died from a brain tumor in his early 50s. Anecdotal, yes. Dead, yes.
That one guy thought a dashboard for the college would be great. IT said, yeah, we can do that, and then when the guy left the meeting, they all looked at each other. If they pull this off, I'm going to request the feature be added where you can zoom in on someone's eyeball to see the reflection of what they were looking at. This will be so cool.
Both sides can be filming and it not stop a shooting, too. Here is a video where the officer had a body camera and the teen had a cell phone recording. It didn't stop the officer from shooting him: https://youtu.be/h-uXeAvpVHk
Neither version helped convict the officer, either. It was ruled justified. I lean heavily in favor of the teen, but I can see the officer spin it enough to make it sound like a legit shooting. The poor kid should have sucked it up more and did what the officer said. But still, in the same situation, I would not have shot the teen. The officer called for backup, but did not wait.
There seem to be two camps of people. Those that think we will be living on mars and have fully autonomous cars in a couple of years, and those that actually look into it and see how hard it is going to be. For some reason, the media seems to prefer the first one. Reality prefers the second one.
And odd sleeping patterns did carry over into the Western world, too. It's called segmented sleep and there are tons of old books that mention it. What we are doing now came about as a result of the industrial age, when we started to have to work 8 - 10 hour shifts.
I've read quite a bit about how hunter gatherers sleep. Because of predators and other dangers, at any given point during the night, someone is usually awake. The teens stay up late, the old people wake up early, and then there are women with children that are up at odd hours with the baby. This works out so that there is always someone watching the tribe or village.
The big difference between Westerners and hunter gatherers is that if they get tired during the day, they can take a nap. We can't do that. In fact, there are a lot of places, Mexico, for instance, that let people sleep an hour or so in the afternoon.
It doesn't matter how much sleep I get, about 2:00ish, I get sleepy, just like a lot of people in the rest of the world. The difference is, a fair amount of the rest of the world can actually go to sleep.
A lot of IP cameras will record on motion and store clips to an FTP server. How easy is it set up an FTP server on Linux. Pretty easy. You can even have the cameras email you on alerts. And of course, the IP cameras are running either Linux or a BSD, so not only is this setup easy to do, but meets your requirements almost all the way around.
Oddly, I'm much more comfortable with Chinese spyware than the American spyware that is installed here. I have used two THL phones, and was mostly really happy with one of them, and one of them was a piece of junk. What does China care where my location is or that I read Slashdot?
This exchange from Buffy the Vampire Slayer seems to fit tech work so well:
Buffy: Mom, I hate that these people scared you so much. And I-I know that you're just trying to help, but you have to let me handle this. It's what I do.
Joyce: But is it really? I mean, you patrol, you slay... Evil pops up, you undo it. A-a-and that's great! But is Sunnydale getting any better? Are they running out of vampires?
Buffy: I don't think that you run out of...
Joyce: It's not your fault. You don't have a plan. You just react to things. I-i-it's bound to be kind of fruitless.
That's tech work. Problems pop up, you undo them. There is no plan, and yes, it's kind of fruitless.:)
A lot of tech work is reactionary. And if all you have to do is put out fires, it isn't terrible. But you are usually expected to work at other things between fires. Which means the second you start doing one thing, you have to stop and go fix six other things. Always feeling like you are getting pulled in eighteen different directions sucks.
My son picked up a cheap Windows phone. I told him he was crazy. He used it for less than a month and is back on Android. Just as I expected, he hated the Windows phone. Not only the lack of apps, but it was flat out buggy.
It's not really saving you any money if you have to spend money on a bunch of cheap phones before you find one that actually works! And I know this from experience.:)
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Server them ads. I wish posts could be edited. :)
What if kids use an Android phone and now you *can't* turn off tracking? Can Google be sued? Google is passing location info to apps, so that is "online." And I would say this is partly offline tracking as well, and much more sinister than simply tracking kids in order to serve them adds. This is your child's physical location.
Conservatives tell people whatever they want to hear, and then vote the opposite. Fool me once.
Big Pharma is only one of five industries spending big money to keep it illegal. The rest are aggravating, too. Private prisons, prison guard unions, and actual law enforcement are also involved. Law enforcement should just enforce the laws, in my opinion. They should not be involved in lobbying for or against them, though.
http://www.republicreport.org/...
If we really wanted to make the world a better place and invoke the space race analogy, then the race should be about getting us off fossil fuels. Better energy storage technology, rapid charging, etc. Anything that gets us off oil as quickly as possible. Look at the misery the Middle East has caused the world, and it's all over oil.
The types of foods you eat make a difference as well. Calories aren't just calories. Insulin tells your body to store extra calories as fat, so foods that spike insulin levels help make you fat. Well, guess what foods overweight people love to eat? Carbs, and piles of them. Guess what carbs do. They spike your insulin levels. Get a copy of a book called Why We Get Fat. Excellent book.
This is being written by someone that just dropped between 85 and 100 pounds and I've kept it off for going on a couple of years now. I devised some simple rules and eat a reasonable amount of healthy foods. One of my rules is, watch what fat people eat ... and don't eat that . You would be surprised how well that one simple rule works. :) The other thing I did was give up 1 to 2 sitcoms a day and get off my ass and exercise. Yes, I'm a database admin at work, so guess what I did a lot of. Sitting. I can do a 5K and smoke people half my age or more now. Three - Four years ago, I could hardly walk.
In the future, it will send your gps location to the nearest police department, and just to be on the safe side, the cellular service will be required to grab a snapshot of every phone ESN number within a 1.2 mile radius of the woman's position.
Yes. Nothing screams security like copying every packet that crosses your LAN and storing it into the *cloud* somewhere. This is an NSA wet dream. They don't even have to take up their own drive space to store every packet, just get a warrant (hahaha) and get the data from Amazon.
And of course, we make ourselves vulnerable to cancer from the crap we eat and the lack of exercise. Younger and younger people are now getting cancer, so we are making ourselves good hosts from a very young age:
Once considered an older person’s disease, colorectal cancer is showing up in individuals as young as 20 years old.
http://www.havasunews.com/opin...
Between 1954 and 1963, close to 98 million Americans received polio vaccinations contaminated with a carcinogenic monkey virus, now known as SV40.
http://amzn.com/0312278721
It may sound like the stuff of conspiracy buffs, but it is in fact a true story. Doctors had to go in front of congress and testify to get the contaminated vaccines pulled.
I had a brother in the age range to have gotten this polio vaccine, and he died from a brain tumor in his early 50s. Anecdotal, yes. Dead, yes.
That one guy thought a dashboard for the college would be great. IT said, yeah, we can do that, and then when the guy left the meeting, they all looked at each other. If they pull this off, I'm going to request the feature be added where you can zoom in on someone's eyeball to see the reflection of what they were looking at. This will be so cool.
https://vine.co/v/iKBwKEhELpX
OK, seems to be a slow news day.
Both sides can be filming and it not stop a shooting, too. Here is a video where the officer had a body camera and the teen had a cell phone recording. It didn't stop the officer from shooting him: https://youtu.be/h-uXeAvpVHk
Neither version helped convict the officer, either. It was ruled justified. I lean heavily in favor of the teen, but I can see the officer spin it enough to make it sound like a legit shooting. The poor kid should have sucked it up more and did what the officer said. But still, in the same situation, I would not have shot the teen. The officer called for backup, but did not wait.
Apparently space travel was much easier back then.
There seem to be two camps of people. Those that think we will be living on mars and have fully autonomous cars in a couple of years, and those that actually look into it and see how hard it is going to be. For some reason, the media seems to prefer the first one. Reality prefers the second one.
And odd sleeping patterns did carry over into the Western world, too. It's called segmented sleep and there are tons of old books that mention it. What we are doing now came about as a result of the industrial age, when we started to have to work 8 - 10 hour shifts.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
I've read quite a bit about how hunter gatherers sleep. Because of predators and other dangers, at any given point during the night, someone is usually awake. The teens stay up late, the old people wake up early, and then there are women with children that are up at odd hours with the baby. This works out so that there is always someone watching the tribe or village.
The big difference between Westerners and hunter gatherers is that if they get tired during the day, they can take a nap. We can't do that. In fact, there are a lot of places, Mexico, for instance, that let people sleep an hour or so in the afternoon.
It doesn't matter how much sleep I get, about 2:00ish, I get sleepy, just like a lot of people in the rest of the world. The difference is, a fair amount of the rest of the world can actually go to sleep.
Apparently females can tell reality from fiction a lot better than males. And maybe even minority males can, as well?
Alphabet got rid of "Don't Be Evil." So now they can carry on with a clear conscience.
And funny, I have always had a hard time remembering how to spell conscience, so I had to look it up on Google. :)
A lot of IP cameras will record on motion and store clips to an FTP server. How easy is it set up an FTP server on Linux. Pretty easy. You can even have the cameras email you on alerts. And of course, the IP cameras are running either Linux or a BSD, so not only is this setup easy to do, but meets your requirements almost all the way around.
Oddly, I'm much more comfortable with Chinese spyware than the American spyware that is installed here. I have used two THL phones, and was mostly really happy with one of them, and one of them was a piece of junk. What does China care where my location is or that I read Slashdot?
This exchange from Buffy the Vampire Slayer seems to fit tech work so well:
Buffy: Mom, I hate that these people scared you so much. And I-I know
that you're just trying to help, but you have to let me handle this.
It's what I do.
Joyce: But is it really? I mean, you patrol, you slay... Evil pops up,
you undo it. A-a-and that's great! But is Sunnydale getting any better?
Are they running out of vampires?
Buffy: I don't think that you run out of...
Joyce: It's not your fault. You don't have a plan. You just react to
things. I-i-it's bound to be kind of fruitless.
That's tech work. Problems pop up, you undo them. There is no plan, and yes, it's kind of fruitless. :)
A lot of tech work is reactionary. And if all you have to do is put out fires, it isn't terrible. But you are usually expected to work at other things between fires. Which means the second you start doing one thing, you have to stop and go fix six other things. Always feeling like you are getting pulled in eighteen different directions sucks.
This wouldn't happen if we could track immigrants like FedEx packages!
My son picked up a cheap Windows phone. I told him he was crazy. He used it for less than a month and is back on Android. Just as I expected, he hated the Windows phone. Not only the lack of apps, but it was flat out buggy.
It's not really saving you any money if you have to spend money on a bunch of cheap phones before you find one that actually works! And I know this from experience. :)