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Comment Re:Obligatory Quote (Score 2) 583

No, it means that by making what he has available to everybody, both the American people and the enemy can get it.

To me, this situation can be summed up the same way they sum up our situation. The government loves to tell you that if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. I feel the same way about them.

Comment Rotating-disk TV (Score 1) 134

There's a 1942s book, "Television, Today and Tomorrow", about the Baird and other rotating disk systems. At the end, there's a chapter about "electronic television", but it's dismissed as too complex and expensive. All those tubes!

Yes, I know about Zworklin and Farnsworth and Sarnoff and the progression from the iconoscope and the image dissector to the image orthicon. Then came color, which meant three of everything, including camera tubes.

Comment Re:you don't think people would check normally? (Score 1) 286

Ideas are easy. I've got dozens. Marketing is hard, it's why I'm not a millionaire. In this case I wrote the app for myself, after having an extended text conversation where a girl I really wanted to talk to was texting me at odd intervals while I was driving, forcing me to stop every two miles and pull over to respond.

Comment Re:how do you deal with homophones? (Score 1) 286

Agreed, its better not to text at all. You're at least somewhat distracted when you do. But lets face it, some people won't do that. My belief is to lower the danger as much as possible for those who insist on texting, and since you keep your eyes on the road I do believe its safer.

As for homophones- voice dictation software these days operates on a sentence. 99% of the time you can differentiate between those words based on context. For the 1% you can't, you flip a coin and possibly send the wrong one. Hardly the worst autocorrect mistake you'll ever make. I'd bet on making fewer mistakes with a readback prompt than you make in normal tapping.

Comment Re:Obligatory Quote (Score 5, Interesting) 583

"Then two other things must also be remembered: First, Benjamin Franklin opened other people's mail for intelligence purposes during the Revolutionary War. Second, there are two qualifiers present: essential and little temporary."

More straw-man arguments. They were at war with their own government. We are not... yet. The situation is hardly comparable.

As I spotted philosoraptor saying on G+ this morning, Snowden is being accused of Treason (aiding The Enemy) for sharing information with the American People. Does that mean the American People are The Enemy?

Comment Re:Bull Shit! (Score 1) 584

I've come to the opinion that there is certainly a limit to American (human intelligence.) Figure the simple space in a human head with which to form connections has an upper limit. On the other hand, the lack of intelligence seems boundless. Anytime you're certain you've just met the numbest skull in the universe, someone mouth breather will come along and make him look like a Nobel Laureate.

Comment Re:Snowden is fucked (Score 1) 583

Obama lectured on Constitutional Law at University of Chicago, in a position equivalent to a low level faculty member.

While that generally requires a good knowledge of the topic it DOES NOT make you one of the foremost experts in the field. That accolade belongs to people who have a long history of insight and research, and have devoted their lives to the topic.

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