Comment Re:A smart phone is rarely convenient (Score 1) 248
One of them actually screamed.
tell their parents not to bother with that college fund.
One of them actually screamed.
tell their parents not to bother with that college fund.
thank god we phased out flash so things like this wouldn't happen
The process of legalizing/formalizing something
being formalized is a good thing, because the limits / uses of that data are publicly part of that formalization. otherwise you are just in an arms race with unscrupulous corporations that will of course win in the end. but then again, maybe your PGP will protect you huh?
You have the chance of being mugged right now, but you know your life will change if mugging was legalized. It's a bit of a simplistic analogy, but it is still disturbingly accurate.
right, because having my name in some database as having traveled to Switzerland is pretty much the same as being mugged. touché my friend.
You clearly haven't even thought about what kind of technologies
no, i'm just not a fool about the pace of technology. i really hope you are right though, it's a nice thought that i'll be able to download into a fresh new body before i die.
if you think that in "decades" we'll be able to grow bodies in VATs, and download our minds to them, or otherwise have free-roaming android avatars that either have downloaded minds or are remote controled from anywhere in the world, i have a nice bridge to sell you.
moreover, do you really think we'd develop such technologies, but we'd remain stagnant, or regress our ability to track these things?
moreover, do you think you'll be able to afford such technology?
and yes, clearly, i have thought about these technologies,
http://www.amazon.com/Altered-...
the harder we work to avoid it
you are already trackable, you know that right? this new EU law is only about formalizing / standardizing the process. you've already lost. do you really think that you could travel to a foreign country and back and be able to hide it?
that's completely the wrong thought path.
technology will soon be (if it isn't already) at a point where it will be impossible to escape surveillance. so stop worrying about that. the problem isn't that you are being surveilled, it's what can be done with the data. fight for laws about how the data can be used, and stop worrying about the existence of the data itself.
merely that it won't be able to hold its position at the top
top of what? search? is there anything even close to google? and don't say bing, because it's freaking terrible.
the rise of facebook is not going stop anyone from using search. facebook and google are orthogonal (disregarding google+). regardless, all FB can do is cram more ads into places where people don't want to see them.
trying to find something as good as google was five years ago
look for a startup that isn't held responsible to investors.
"Google doesn't create immersive experiences that you get lost in,"
thank god. this is at least one of the reasons why google beat out every competitor. while yahoo! was giving you seizures with massive full screen flash ads, google shows you text based ads related to your search.
i'm sure they are right, immersive ads do work, but that's only if you have a captive audience that can't get away and are essentially forced to watch. think old-school TV ads pre-DVR. people have tried to make the web captive, and failed. if i load a news site that has popops / overs i just close the page. not because i'm anti-ad, but because it's too much.
So, I simply tell my honest experience with something, and some asshole tells me I'm wrong and to fuck off, and *I'm* the one with the problem? Fuck you.
how old were you when you discovered the "F" word makes you a big man?
If the police hired smart people, they would question laws they are told to enforce and refuse to enforce the ones they thought were unjust... and we cant have that.
yeah good plan. let's have police officers running around deciding which laws they want to enforce. also, let's have them enforce things that aren't laws that they think should be.
the idea is that before something is put into law, it's been vetted, discussed, debated and even voted on. obviously that system isn't perfect and we have a lot of terrible laws, but it's way, way better than having a group of roaming thugs deciding the law for themselves.
Uber recently announced plans to develop self-driving cars, a longtime pet project at Google
Google has been developing self-driving autos for 5+ years pouring hundreds of millions into the project. Uber has a press release to announce plans to look into self driving cars.
Google should be worried.
man i saw that red "foe" icon, and you didn't disappoint.
you're a bright, shining example of humanity. don't let anyone tell you different.
You're wrong, and here is the reason I will give you: I've seen it done. There it is, all your hypothetical reasons proven wrong because of data.
you clearly have no specific domain knowledge on this or you'd be giving examples. i suspect when you do give example, you are going to point out sharing of some math libraries or something similarly platform-inspecific, or sharing across mobile platforms that are based on similar architectures.
i'm talking iOS and Android, which is really what matters here.
OK, so you don't do it lol.
no, it's not done, for the reasons i already stated. lol back at you friend. i'm talking Android and iOS which is what matters.
but hey, don't take my word for it. go and write a simple app that gets the users' location and displays it on a map. see how much you can factor into a shared library. the average app isn't a bunch of generic number crunching algorithms. it's platform specific code. it's interfacing with the file system, maps, databases, keystores, bluetooth, location, and so on. none of that can be shared because the API for using it isn't common across the platform.
and to your point of if it's a simple app then don't bother, i'd say if you *can't* do it for even a simple app, then it sort of indicates a problem in the plan.
Computer Science is merely the post-Turing decline in formal systems theory.
