Comment Sorry, not gonna move to a MS solution (Score 2) 75
Yeah, sure, use bitlocker as sourceforge says.... because MS totally doesn't open backdoors for the NSA that makes goatse jealous. *snort*
Yeah, sure, use bitlocker as sourceforge says.... because MS totally doesn't open backdoors for the NSA that makes goatse jealous. *snort*
People can get a decent smartphone for under $80 here already, this one with no plan:
http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mo...
I've seen it under $70 just a while back but Walmart must cycle the prices every so often.
See the Milgram study and Stanford Prison experiment.
As long as people in charge say it's okay, most subordinates will perceive things as okay.
The virtuaboy was DOA because it was a 5lb monochrome (red/black) monstrosity that had to sit on a table, with barely 3D wireframe games, no tracking, etc whose original creator never intended what was released to be the final product (besides, as seen, it was 2 decades too early for the tech out there.)
Oculus Rift weighs less than a pound and can be worn on the head. It will be bought by 3D shooter enthusiasts would would otherwise buy multiple video cards/monitors just for gaming. I assume it will have a microphone.
I really fail to see what the two have in common. If I were into 3D shooters, I would be saving up for such a system.
This is like claiming in January 2007 the iPhone will bust because of the Apple Newton.
That's why we have libel and slander laws.
I also think police and prosecutors should be held to libel and slander. When they raid a house and find a kitchen scale, they should not use biased terms such as "drug paraphernalia" that poisons the jury pool and reputation of the person they are investigating, in fact they and the prosecutor should not speak until trial and let it go there where the other side has an equal voice.
Also, the sex laws in place are ridiculous and need to be laxed.
But I don't recognize the right to be forgotten. I just don't. Too many pitfalls. It's not a right, just a wish.
This thinking if why America is in such incredible trouble right now, and it's how people are going to go into generational slavery soon.
Are you kidding me? Sears and Roebuck, America's biggest retailer up to the late 1980s, built it's business on mail order back in the late 1890s. Mail order catalogs were huge up to the 1990s, internet merely replaced it, didn't invent it.
That said, the USPS still cut it's distribution centers in half a while back:
http://www.federaltimes.com/ar...
Just par for the course for the internet, with snail mail being it's first and biggest victim (and slowest to die).
A more interesting question to me, is what future libraries will look like bereft of physical media.
Who knew, when they were building thepiratebay, they were simply making the library of the future? Not just in an idealized sense, but in an actual sense of keeping the industry somewhat honest, like what the used car or textbook business does.
That might be great for fighter pilots, but they're talking about making flight more accessible.
It seems the effort is losing Steam.
What is brain controlled? That the mind points to where it wants to go, and the computer has to figure out how to get there without stalling, crashing into things, going into a spiral and what not?
Because withouth knowing the concepts of aerodynamics, what exactly is the brain going to contribute?
And what happens when the mind wanders?
I fail to see how this is better than a touch screen interface that would turn it into a self-flying plane.
And all that will be negated by cost. There will be 5 major costs in taxi afaik:
-driver
-fuel
-insurance
-car (initial cost)
-maintenance
I tried to rank them by what I think will be highest to lowest. Self-driving car will eliminate the top cost. It should lower insurance (not guaranteed) and will maximize fuel.
Add in electric vehicles to the mix and fuel will be lowered and maintenance by a whole hell of a lot but of course that can be done with drivered cars as well.
Cost and availability will kill many human cab services. But the good thing is that finally the boondock areas will get taxi service unlike today. Excellent for seniors and disabled. Taxi and rental car services will merge in fact. Nothing more annoying than an idle fleet.
I bet the old ones aren't even that old. And these stupid things cost many 10s of millions.
They should design them modular so that additions can be built when needed.
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