You ever notice that your cell phone battery suddenly wears out and you did not use your phone all that much? Or you touch your phone and it is warm to the touch as if it has been on for quite some time. Well it just may have been on and someone somewhere had been listening through it's microphone. Who knows who has the ability to do this? A lot of people think about this. But most of us don't care, what do we have to worry about. Ever use an app~killer on your phone and you notice how many apps are turned on all the time?
"We have a sense that surveillance is bad, but we often have a hard time saying exactly why. In an interesting and readable new article in the Harvard Law Review, law professor Neil Richards argues that surveillance is bad for two reasons — because it menaces our intellectual privacy (our right to read and think freely and secretly) and because it gives the watcher power over the watched, creating the risk of blackmail, persuasion, or discrimination. The article is available for free download, and is featured on the Bruce Schneier security blog."
"HBO programming president Michael Lombardo not only says that illegal downloading of Game of Thrones isn't hurting the show, but goes far as to say it's 'a compliment' and worries about the image quality of pirated copies" Michael thinks outside of the box.
Here is another person who also thought outside of the box...
"The Mercury News reports that Nolan Bushnell, who ran video game pioneer Atari in the early 1970s, says he always saw something special in Steve Jobs, and that Atari's refusal to be corralled by the status quo was one of the reasons Jobs went to work there in 1974 as an unkempt, contemptuous 19-year-old.
'The truth is that very few companies would hire Steve, even today,' says Bushnell. 'Why? Because he was an outlier. To most potential employers, he'd just seem like a jerk in bad clothing.' While at Atari, Bushnell broke the corporate mold, creating a template that is now common through much of Silicon Valley.
He allowed employees to turn Atari's lobby into a cross between a video game arcade and the Amazon jungle. He started holding keg parties and hiring live bands to play for his employees after work. He encouraged workers to nap during their shifts, reasoning that a short rest would stimulate more creativity when they were awake. He also promised a summer sabbatical every seven years.
Bushnell's newly released book, Finding The Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent, serves as a primer on how to ensure a company doesn't turn into a mind-numbing bureaucracy that smothers existing employees and scares off rule-bending innovators such as Jobs.
The basics: Make work fun; weed out the naysayers; celebrate failure, and then learn from it; allow employees to take short naps during the day; and don't shy away from hiring talented people just because they look sloppy or lack college credentials. Bushnell is convinced that there are all sorts of creative and unconventional people out there working at companies today.
The problem is that corporate managers don't recognize them. Or when they do, they push them to conform rather than create. 'Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts,' says Bushnell, 'One guy had been in jail.'"
The movers and shakers could be overlooked and marginalized by the uninformed. But then again I know a George Castanza type who hides out in big companies until they notice that he produces nothing at all. Then he moves on to the next big company...
While we are on the topic, did you know that you can make a product and call it the ipad mini and apple can't touch you?
"It would appear that Apple has lost an attempt to trademark the 'iPad Mini'. This time it’s not nefarious foreigners subverting the just order of things simply by trademarking something several years before Apple did. No, that was what happened in Brazil with the IFone. Nor is it people nefariously selling the rights to everywhere but China but Apple’s lawyers didn’t notice, as happened with iPad in China. No, this time it’s the US Patents and Trademarks Office saying that Apple simply cannot have a trademark on “iPad Mini”. For the simple reason that the law doesn’t allow them to trademark something which is just a description of the product."
Now when someone asks, "What are bitcoins?" you can show them this and confuse them even more. Watch and listen to bitcoin transactions in real time.
(Beatles) Abbey Road Crossing is more fascinating to watch.
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