Sort of like how after you walk off a cliff, you don’t start falling until you look down.
An early bird in the hand gets the low hanging fruit in the bush.
Sort of like how after you walk off a cliff, you don’t start falling until you look down.
Sounds like A Nice Morning Drive. As noted in the archived page above, that story inspired the song Red Barchetta by the band Rush.
Sounds like Facebook’s going to get some new features.
It’s a reference to this scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986).
Scotty, having traveled back in time to the year 1986 as part of a mission to rescue some whales, attempts to use a computer by speaking to it and then mistakenly tries to use the mouse as a microphone when the machine does not respond. He is prompted to use the keyboard instead of verbal commands and gives information on how to manufacture transparent aluminum. This material was not invented until about 150 years later according to the pre-trip history of the Star Trek future but Scotty has given it a head start.
Shit company is capable of doing the right thing once in a while. Now they can go right back to being evil.
If you want to see someone who really deserves that title, check out Brendan O’Connor’s talk about the CreepyDOL project at DEFCON 21. Nice reminder of how much information most of us are leaking in the RF spectrum for anybody interested in listening and piecing things together.