Comment Re:Global Warning (Score 2, Funny) 877
I know how to make beer, so will bring the beer to the BBQ. I hear slow roasted long pig goes well with a good cold brew.
value of the recording vs penalty...
The value of the suspected recorded content may give the owner of that content far more political leverage than some stupid law gives his oppressor. This, of course, only applies if there exists some sort of [even potential] automated dissemination of the aforementioned data. If the oppressor knows the user has the only copy of potentially incriminating evidence, it would be a very different and dangerous circumstance for the user.
Perhaps they'll hook it up to a television receiver. I can imagine it now that when you're told to "Stop staring!" you can respond "I wasn't staring, I was checking out the Red Sox score.""The idea of dynamically changing the appearance of the fabric of a garment, for example, is highly desirable and certainly attractive for designers and the fashion industry. There are a number of display devices that utilize informational and decorative manipulatives. Attempts so far include embedded LEDs, thermochromic liquid crystal, and electroluminescent materials applied to the fabrics. However, these techniques employ additional manufacturing efforts and costs.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke