circuitslave

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Comment · 10 years ago

yes, software dev / northeast US / small to medium research companies & manufacturing and no to a small software startup.

Comment · 10 years ago

The verification could be on either end - maybe a packing & shipping service that verifies an item was packed (with photos, etc).

Comment · 10 years ago

Configured as Other Linux 64bit w/12gb of disk and 2gb of memory it booted for me in VirtualBox

Comment · 10 years ago

It almost paints a picture of the old AOL and MSN services where you entered some corporation's version of the internet.

Comment · 10 years ago

I am right there with you. I am in my 40s, and have a solid career as a corporate & solo dev. and I have started feeling that weight as well. You might just be describing a "modern" mid life crisis. Self reflection without the need to buy an impractical car.

Comment · 11 years ago

That's a good one, with our dystopian technocracy it's easy to pull from the world of cyberpunk for similarities.

Comment · 11 years ago

RoboCop - Detroit is broke and crime ridden. How long before Google & an armored PETMan(1) show up to save the city?

1 - http://www.bostondynamics.com/robot_petman.html

Comment · 11 years ago

For the same reasons (size) I picked up an Amazon Fire phone inexpensively, rooted and reloaded it with Cyanogenmod. It's 4.7" with decent hardware (nothing cutting edge). So far so good.

Comment · 11 years ago

This reads much like "The Minority Report" which was written in 1956. While this author has a modern spin and is attaching it directly to a company we all know - how is it any different? Has science fiction given us these ideas and led us to this point, or has it been a neon warning we've been ignoring all this time? Maybe this path was inevitable?

Comment · 11 years ago

I second this - and am happy to see an ipdb.org link - there is a ton of information there. I picked up an old Xenon - http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?gid=2821 - worked it over with guides online and it still runs great 10 years later. If I had the room I'd have more!

Comment · 11 years ago

Couldn't you say they were a big data company as well? It seems that all that consumer data is what makes them such an effective ad company.

Comment · 11 years ago

I scanned these comments and didn't see any mention of it - I used to work for a company - http://www.teletrax.tv/ - that used Philips made hardware to encode video watermarks that were not easily detectable. We would then use detector hardware in the top (n) markets of the US and "detect" whenever some channel broadcast a watermarked piece of video. This was usually used to enforce things like Sony licensing you to show a movie of theirs (n) times over a given period of time. There's competitors in that space as well like Nielsen, etc. I am sure HBO is using more than just a visible watermark to track their content.

Comment · 11 years ago

Rexx - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx

Comment · 11 years ago

You'd have to worry about them becoming "Specist" with us :)

Comment · 11 years ago

RoboCop predicted the fall of Detroit before it happened, with Google piling money into Robotics seems like a short distance to a corporate branded police force stepping in where local assets are too thin to cover...