I dont like uma thurman...

[Arcdelad]

...which is why me thinking of gattaga everytime i use this new work furnished laptop is driving me crazy...

since i dont have a usb mouse to plug in, i am dutifully whisking my palms around the wrist wrest here and i managed to swipe over a tiny, one inch reflective bar....which in turn brought up this thing called a "Credential Manager" - i was intrugued so i played around with it.

Despite the obvious implications of a typist of my...er....manual dextierity banging out anything of significance on the crunched confines of a laptop keyboard, this little fingerprint gadget is pretty scary...

sure...i can now apparantly log into my email by swiping my forfinger over that sensor...i can get into mt work applications, bank account, and virtualyl anything else through the reasurring knowledge the computer gets that i am me and my fingerprints dont lie...

where, may i ask, is the anonymity in computer use going? in a world where i can pretend to be a 200 LB buff babe magnet with millions in the bank (which I am!!! really!!!), here comes this little technological gizmo out to flawlessly identify exactly who, and the paranoid part of me (i call him billy) WHAT i am through miles of fiberoptic discovery linked to meticulously created databases...

whats next? am i going to look into a red beam and its going to give me the weather and my last 10 debit transactions? will i piss in a urinal only to have it read my dna and tell me not only do i drink too much coffee, but that my kid just recieved an A on his last test?

...and yes....msot importantly...i dont like kill bill...i do like pulp fiction in spite of her...uma therman is a terrible acctress...and most definitely an every other...

[Alassana]

rofl! Your rants never cease to make me smile. I agree though, technology is getting kind of scary.
But I like Kill Bill...even though I dont really like Uma either =/ I think she's odd looking..

[Nasanna]

...the paranoid part of me (i call him billy)...

...i dont like kill bill

COINCIDENCE???


Anyway...

whats next? am i going to look into a red beam and its going to give me the weather and my last 10 debit transactions?

Is that bad? Then you don't have to carry your checkbook and debit card around with you. It might prevent identity theft... someone would need your eyeball to hack into your bank account then instead of your PIN and your SSN. And having some device that analyzed your urine for certain substances would actually be pretty cool. Maybe employers could use something like that to see if their employees used illegal drugs . Sure you could modify the test to see if you're drinking too much coffee but is that so bad? Maybe if your urinal reminded you that you drank too much coffee every time you used it, you'd start drinking water instead.

The fingerprint sensor on your computer just take the place of you typing in your password, again, making your computer more secure. Then you don't  have to worry about changing your password to something with 3 numbers, 2 capital letters and at least 8 characters every month. It would take someone a lot more effort to get a copy of your fingerprint than your username and password.

Yes, I have seen Gattaga and I see what you're saying. Our technology might lead to some kind of national registry where everyone's DNA is cataloged and the government will use this information and always know what you are doing. However, that would be a very expensive and time-consuming project with the technology we have now. I think that it could happen sometime in the future, but why? Who want to know what we are doing every single minute of our lives (besides our bosses and maybe our parents)? Who would approve of this project? Who would pay for it?

Just my 2 cents

[Shadowwolf]

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

[Buzan]

I like her there's something special about her  .

[Arcdelad]

shes an every-other, like that seinfeld episode...pulp fiction - shes okay looking, payback, shes fugly...gattaga shes okay, truth about cats and dogs shes fugly...her acting skill, though, are horrible always...

i understand what your saying nas..i guess im always more get the heebie jeebies when someone tells me that by giving up all my privacy and personal info im going to be protected from all the bad guys in the world...

besides...who knows what person you know who buys a new laptop has some kind of trackable baggage...i personally think panzer has a viggo mortenson "history of violence" like past ghimself

[Shadowwolf]

The stories I could tell you about what is possible with technology these days. I have tons of fun sitting in the airport whenever I have to fly somewhere and messing with the latest cell phones and PDA's using only my PDA. Its actually very frightening to think about how easy it is to do also if you have a little bit of technological saavy. All this push for ease of use and flexible functionality and they are forgetting that the majority of people who will put this stuff to use has no concept of the ways it could be used against them.

[Shadowwolf]

I saw this on family guy last night and I thought immediately of this thread, lol.

[kajunlady]

The stories I could tell you about what is possible with technology these days. I have tons of fun sitting in the airport whenever I have to fly somewhere and messing with the latest cell phones and PDA's using only my PDA. Its actually very frightening to think about how easy it is to do also if you have a little bit of technological saavy. All this push for ease of use and flexible functionality and they are forgetting that the majority of people who will put this stuff to use has no concept of the ways it could be used against them.

somehow shadow always seems to scare me with her amazing tech intelagence ( ok i just woke up so spell is way off as usual) or it could be she was a marine and could snap me like a twig...lmao ..

[Shadowwolf]

Ive dedicated my life to technology, heh. I was taking things apart and programming computers before I was a teenager and at the encouragement of my grandmother made it a career choice =)

Ill never claim to be an "expert" in any field, but I will say that there is no aspect of technology I am unfamiliar with.

[Drygioni]

I heard the fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone attached to it. can you confirm or deny this?

[LastDyingBreath]

Ive dedicated my life to technology, heh. I was taking things apart and programming computers before I was a teenager and at the encouragement of my grandmother made it a career choice =)

Ill never claim to be an "expert" in any field, but I will say that there is no aspect of technology I am unfamiliar with.

are you familiar with modern machine tools?  care to start a mfg co so I can work for you and not the douche flotilla I currently labor for?