I worry about A.I
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
The nonsense the media says
Markup and styling are inseparable in web technologies, so they ought interact appropriately
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
Pricks tugging on a knee jerk rope of patriotism annoy me again
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
Every computer language has flaws.
I chose Ruby over Python
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
Would someone, please, pay a good designer to work on desktops for Linux.
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
What difference is there between my ethical position and anothers' religious practice?
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
People eager to constrain their identity within a recognisable national sterotype are pissing me off
How does Firefox's location service know where I live? I thought it'd use my IP address and maybe figure out it was in a block assigned to customers of my ISP in my city, but it pinpointed my address exactly.
I don't expect my ISP publishes that informtion, so how the hell did Firefox know? If you're using Firefox 3.5 (or any other borwser offering Geo location services) check out what it's telling the world here.
Apparently it's Google that supplies the information, Firefox just hands reponsibility for Geo location requests to pre-configured providers of such information. By default that's Google.
So how does Google know where I live? Is this an exampe of data mining and matching disparate information found on websites with activity from my IP?
That would be worrisome. But according to Google that's not how it's done. It apparently uses information gleaned from Wireless access points seen by my notebook.
But thinking about this still worries me - exactly when did a piece of software on my PC access Wifi information and send that info to Google, attached to my IP?
I suppose it was when Firefox asked me if it could pass Geo-location on.
Firefox was thoughtful enough to let me know when a site asked for Geolocation information. How many other applications will be so kind? I don't think there's anything in my operating systems structure that protects whatever interfaces Firefox thought to ask to use to glean geolocation revealing information.
I wonder how long it'll be until sites check outs are pre-populated with delivery details, even befroe you tell them anything?
And how does sniffing Wifis provide that information in the first place? There's no business WiFi near me broadcasting loction infomation, only my own and neighbours Wifi. Did Google sniff Wifi station identities at the same time they drove by to produce street views?