Comment Re:Breaking the stranglehold of other countries (Score 3, Insightful) 332
So switch from one import of power to another? I think that's kinda defeating the whole point.
So switch from one import of power to another? I think that's kinda defeating the whole point.
This is not about DVDs or songs.
This is about hacking into the social security database and downloading the whole thing possibly with intent to sell to the highest bidder.
70 Virgins?
Holy crap, even the afterlife is cutting corners now. Used to be 72 just a few years ago. Maybe too many muslims died and they're rationing the remaining virgins?
IF $height>220cm THEN drive straight into it.
So it smells like your average public men's restroom?
frikken lazerz
Let's see what we can come up with of insults based on that name. Hmm
So is North Korea.
Of COURSE wireless carriers are draconian.
They transmit everything through the air. Dragons fly in the air. Therefore they're draconian.
Where does Game of Thrones fit in that list? Or do adaptations of books also count?
Which means it has been like this for ALL OF THEIR LIVES.
At least old people have the excuse that it's relatively new to them.
> Writing a fancy word.
> And doing it incorrectly.
Wasn't there a case not that long ago where a judge allowed a summons to be sent through Facebook because that was the only way of reaching someone? Combine that with this and you have a rather scary scenario.
"Meh, I'm bored. Nothing ever happens on my WAIT THAT GUY LOOKS LIKE THAT PHOTO I SAW LAST WEEK!" *bullrush*
See, this is the kind of thing we have RIGHT NOW.
Yeah, those. What of it? You don't have that in America?
The first thing to spring to mind about false positives is they'll (in most cases, one would hope) be pulled aside and questioned, while the Glass runs a more in-depth analysis of their face rather than just the quick scan necessary to look out over a crowd. Various science-fiction movies and shows already give ideas in this regard, I believe. It's not like computerized facial recognition when a police officer looks at you is a new idea.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton