You can have nice, efficient, LED bulbs with no WiFi in them. Go to Amazon, Home Depot, pretty much wherever you like. The Philips L-Prize bulb is the one I'd recommend. Very nice spectrum, more efficient than most other LEDs, long life.
Or I suppose you could just whine on Slashdot about a product that isn't on the market yet.
There are various diseases, dysmorphia, accidents and disorders that affect how one perceives one's gender and which affect how other's perceive one's gender.
If we want an accurate Object definition for Class>>Gender it has to be implemented to have a pair of small integers as attributes and presented/interacted with as a pair of Sliders.
Imagine the tantrum North Korea will throw when one of these drifts through its airspace and gives the population unfiltered Internet access.
Pissing off the North Korean government is indeed a nice extra feature... we enjoy pissing them off, they enjoy being pissed off. It's win/win!
Of course it won't help the North Koreans citizens much unless they have a compatible antenna and a computer to attach to it, which seems unlikely for the forseeable future.
Most will fall in the sea. Then they will get eaten by turtles. Think of the turtles...
Wi-fi enabled turtles, hacking into through the Google backbone and taking over the Internet. You'll long for the good old days when it was only the NSA...
Why would you put control circuitry that doesn't wear out into the replaceable part that *does* wear out instead of into the fixture that holds it?
One of the advantages of LED bulbs is that they don't wear out for a very long time. It wouldn't surprise me if they outlast the control circuitry.
Exactly: numerous scientific studies have found that people generally like to be around other attractive people, even regardless of sex (e.g., women prefer to be around attractive women rather than ugly women, men prefer to be around attractive men than ugly men, and of course both sexes like to be around attractive members of the opposite sex). So it's to a business's advantage to hire attractive people, of either sex, to interact with customers.
What's even more obnoxious is that the men who are most virulently anti-gay are themselves, in fact, homosexuals in denial. Just look at Ted Haggard and also Michelle Bachmann's husband.
Why is it that I never hear anyone bitch about the Chippendales, and how they objectify men's bodies?
doesn't mean that there aren't other mechanisms in place to collect a lot more data without specific requests. For example, the NSA could be collecting data where Facebook's servers connect to the Internet.
Apparently SSL encryption at all of the large internet corps is handled by dedicated front-ends - and the network between the SSL front-ends and the real guts of entities like facebook, google, etc are all in the clear. That makes for a perfect location for the NSA to drop their sniffers in, no need to compromise any SSL certs at all, no forward secrecy, etc, just wide open traffic perfect for raw harvesting.
And, of course, you have to assume that the Utah data center is going to be used to store something, and it ain't gonna be data obtained from just 20000 Facebook-related requests, because those would fit on my hard drive.
I think that bears repeating - the NSA ain't building data silos (there are others, like one in san antonio, texas) that consume as much electricity as a small city for nothing. They are collecting literally tons of data on us, its gotta be coming from somewhere.
I simply cannot wrap my head around this. How is it in public's interest to be constantly surveiled in violation of the bill of rights?
That is what happens when the people in power become convinced of their own righteousness. It is not an evil plot, it is simply the natural result of fact that basically no one ever thinks of themselves as the bad guy. So if they are the good guys, then whatever they do must also be good. They convince themselves that any harmful side-effects truly are minimal (easy to do when the side-effects don't impact them directly) and are a necessary cost for the greater good.
Well, there's Nekomimi - cat ears controlled by brain waves. They recognize "relaxed", "alert", and "startled".
It's amazing how advanced the Romans were and how some of their technology stayed "lost" for so long. The fall of Rome was a great societal reset. There may be another at hand.
We're no longer constrained by the need to have deep specialized knowledge in the low-level components to get basic access to this technology.
That's what it is really about. The unit of computational resource is a standardized, empty server. It's not "maintained", it's wiped and reloaded. If something goes wrong with it, its load is sent elsewhere, and eventually the unit will be replaced by someone who unplugs it and plugs in another one. Nobody in the data center really has to have much of an idea of what's going on with the computers. Their concerns are power, cooling, cabling, and physical security.
Most of them will be paid at security-guard levels.
I like this scheme too. Makes it practical for works that produce little or no income in their early days, or have perhaps 15 or 20 years of profits, but makes it definitely not worthwhile to sit on 'em forever. Under such a scheme, Mickey Mouse would now cost several billion a year (if not more, I didn't bother to do the math) and certainly would not look like an attractive asset to Disney's shareholders.
"They" may ignore them. Neutral observers, though, notice that you have done nothing but make groundless, usually emotion-driven accusations with absolutely no facts to back them up, and when called out on them you go off to pout, or resort to call people something "contards" or something equally as juvenile.
Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
