a neat idea, for collaborative brainstorming or throwaway conversations perhaps, but i hope that nobody is planning on using this for any communication that is mission critical, in it's current form anyway.

just like "clouds", "waves" do not reside on your computer, but rather *out there* somewhere, that you can *probably* get access to if:
-the service is up and functioning properly
-you have the required hardware and software
-there are no connection issues between you and the server

if your internet goes down, suddenly you've lost access to even internal communication at your office, as well as all archives and logs of past communication. Without local storage, you cannot do efficient search and retrieval of your own information.

there are serious privacy issues as well, no doubt google will be surfin the "waves" looking for terms to market to you, but perhaps it is more shady than that even. google has agreed to censorship in foreign markets over the years, does it really make sense to let them hold onto your data in this way?

then again.. it's cool technology, and now that it's being open sourced, it means feasibly you can run your own "waveserver" and mitigate the issues above somewhat.

Disclosing an idea to someone but not letting them steal it is really easy, i have the perfect process.

but i can't tell you what it is, sorry, you might steal my idea.

till someone else steals your information, submits it information for a search on the DB, then you watch the repo men come take all your stuff?

what a terrible, illegal, stupid idea this is. cheers britain for leading the way in eroding freedom and privacy in the new age!

i'm a little disturbed at just how familiar you are with the sex scenes in this game..

Does it know exactly what *you* look like? if not, when you go for lunch and someone else sits down, does it just show them the same thing you'd see?

Article, website, nor video mentions facial recognition, only gaze tracking. he literally waves his hand over the webcam to make it switch the screen, which all switches at once. lame! I don't see any useful security application for this at all, though the technology of gaze tracing is neat, especially the expensive stuff linked above.

make my mouse pointer go where i look and i'll be impressed.

whats wrong with using CTRL+ALT+DELETE, ENTER to lock your box?

imagine if you just used CSS

If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?"

no.

cloud data may suck to lose, but it's nothing compared to what else is proposed here.

if the US is allowed to do this, you could lose:
your freedom to communicate and voice your opinion
the data on your own computer
the connections you have with others

aren't those more important to you?

unfortunately, we've already lost some of those freedoms, but at least we had a fighting chance in court. this bill exceeds and overrides all that, giving them carte blanche to pretty much do anything they want.

the internet used to be free. but they've built it JUST the way they need it to try some smartass bullshit like this.

and it's going to happen anyway :(

Here in Victoria BC if i am down on the beach facing Seattle, i'll get a txt message saying "welcome to the US!" then if i use my blackberry i am charged international rates. i called Rogers there is "nothing they can do"

it IS a technical problem, one that works out in the cellphone companies favor though, so they don't really have much interest in fixing it i imagine.