Tech The Week in Geek
posted by on June 1 at 15:41 PM
Smile, you’re on Google Maps! - Google Maps introduces “Street View,” street-level photos of major cities available on their mapping application. Of course, if you happen to be wandering by (or sunbathing) when the Google Van rolls by, you’re in the system forever. Predictably, some people are all upset about violations of their fantasies of privacy. Listen: If you’re in public, you’re not in private. Public != Private. Got it? If you want to cheat on your wife, wear a ski mask like everybody else.
Be sure to check out some of the many hilarious discoveries made so far on Google Sightseeing, Street Viewr, and Threat Level.
Drop in Bucket - Spammer asshole arrested, spam continues unabated.
Oh Please, Oh Please - After at least two years of taunting, the Comcast-Motorola-TiVo DVR is threatening to launch later this summer. Now I only have to manage to avoid taking a sledgehammer to my current Comcast DVR before then. Not going to be easy.
Damn, that’s cool - A TED talk on Photosynth - a mind-blowing photo viewing thingie which sadly only works on Windows PCs.
Billionaire Summit - Jobs and Gates share a stage, say nice things about each other, don’t get in fist fight. Video and exhaustive and pointless recap here.
Robot Family - These are weird.
I’m learning a new programming language this week. Here’s my first stab at it:
HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
I HAS A VAR
IM IN YR LOOP
PLZ OPEN FILE VAR+".TXT"?
AWSUM THX
VISIBLE FILE
O NOES
INVISIBLE "ERROR!"
UP VAR!!1
IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE
Most hated made-up, thinks-its-cool-and-webby-hip-but-totally-sucks-ass word of the week: Webinar.
Fuck that word.
Not so funny if they've snapped a pic of the front door of your formerly-secret domestic violence shelter, though.
We've boycotted "webinar" at work. We use websem. Not a huge fan of that either, but at least it doesn't make me want to gauge my eyes out.
by the time I finish the lolpunx site i'm working on, the lol____ will have jumped 10billion sharks. :'(
At least now I can use the word Tivo correctly when recording something on my Comcast DVR. The box pictured is the same one as I have now. Only the software will change, according to a letter I received from Comcast not too long ago. It should be up and running before the end of June. (And the problems we have been suffering with our current boxes, ie. stuck on fast forward, is caused by the existing Microsoft software.)
fnarf...the women had it coming. obviously theyve done something so bad they need to go in to hiding.
Ugh! I was just in a "webinar" yesterday morning and I spent way too much time thinking to myself about lame web jargon (my least favorite being "blogosphere") and I learned next to nothing about Offermatica. Heh.
Oh, shit, I missed that. Sadly, I work at a place where the employees think that being invited to a "webinar" means they are being invited into the inner sanctum of interwebs hipness. Sigh. Sadly, these people think that downloading the Real player with all the spyware and spam intact makes them associates of Tim Berners-Lee. It makes me want to batter and deep fry them.
@4
elsie, the po(o)p-culturist
you're so comcaschtick!
Go fuck yourself keenan.
Seriously, Keenan, what's the deal? You appear from your posts here to be a total douchebag. Why?
Fnarf,
Do you think Zoellick, new president of the World Bank, will use the latest technology to continue 'helping' the Third World. The technology will also be instrumental in keeping the U.S. in Iraq. It really might help locate Wolfowitz's WMDs.
There's a difference between being in public and being under surveillence.
IMO, it has to be edited just right so the appearance is upstanding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Zoellick&action=history
@12.. If you're in public, you should assume people can see what you're doing, and they might photograph you if they choose. It's not surveillance, as the purpose of the photographs is not to keep tabs on you, but to document the location or create art, or take a picture of something near you, etc. It's your responsibility to mind what you do in view of others, all the more so in this internet-tastic age.
Be careful out there.
So, where is this city? What festival has all these scantily-clad...er I mean what fun cultural activities it looks like going on. I'd love to educate myself more....
Oh shit, thanks for not linking to icanhascheezburgers.com.
Reasonable expectation of privacy. According to the law, you have none while you're in public. Did Google violate anyone's privacy? Nope.
Lolcode is the wave of the future. I'm looking forward to seeing a Python interpreter implemented for it..
For what it's worth, "webinar" isn't the same flavor of made-up word as "blogosphere;" it's the name of an actual product, so its irritating-made-up-word status is alongside "Zune" or "Flowbee." We use Webinar to train clients on our software, and it actually works fairly well. I don't mind using Webinar, at least.
Just sayin'.
I live in an obscure corner of Denver so it's going to be a long time before my street is on google maps streetview. Hell, the image of my neighborhood is at least 2 years old - you can still see the satellite dish in my backyard that we made the previous owner remove as a condition of buying the house.
We'll just keep upzoning. That'll fool 'em!
If you ain't never been to the upzone. Don't ever come to the upzone, 'cause you wouldn't understand the upzone.
Webinar my scriggiddies. Webinar. Just like that Mixalot album only more hyphy.
Webinar.
@17:
U CAN HAS PYTHON
I *hate* webinar. I just read it recently and said aloud to myself, I hat that word. Thanks for the affirmation. (also hate "wellness")
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