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Re: We expect too much of geeks

Eric Rice — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:44:04 -0000

Until you consider the year he was 19.

Re: Social Network: The Movie

Eric Rice — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:20:16 -0000

I claim Jeff Goldblum.

Re: Goodbye Facebook

Eric Rice — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:03:04 -0000

As someone involved in the so-called social media industry, how do you stay current on facebook developments outside of second-hand reporting and not first-hand experience? It would seem a strength would be in dealing with FB's evolving BS, purely as part of ongoing career education.

Re: Much ado about privacy on Facebook (I wish Facebook were MORE open!!!)

Eric Rice — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:57:19 -0000

Meyers-Briggs.

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | Five Morgan Hill students sent home for wearing American flag T-shirts

Eric Rice — Thu, 06 May 2010 14:42:37 -0000

This!

Re: What the Lost iPhone Case Could Mean for the Future of Media

Eric Rice — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:31:04 -0000

Apple sits on the steering committee of a cybercrime unit, along with a couple dozen other silicon valley companies, go fig. Someone call Keanu Reeves, quick!

I agree with the concept that this isn't a shield law issue at all, rather, it's a stolen property issue. The shield law spin makes for great headlines, in a 'but who protect the children from socialism?!' kind of way.

Re: Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?”

Eric Rice — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:35:30 -0000

I bet he's completely missed the social media/anti-social media divide part of the story.

Re: Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?”

Eric Rice — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:30:48 -0000

Just for kicks, go find all the Twitter Hype articles and the Twitter un-hype articles "Why Twitter will Fail" and do a Find/Replace for "Twitter" & "Second Life".

It's like everyone used the same template.

Re: Is Second Life about to enter its “second life?”

Eric Rice — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:28:51 -0000

"Third, the technology has been steadily improving."

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Re: Coming soon: the disruptive molecular age of information

Eric Rice — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:39:50 -0000

We started as "me and you" and moved towards "me me".... And I think the prefixes you might explore should be 'info/nano/bio/cogno-' for areas of disruption/re-invention that lead to enhanced human performance.

Re: Calacanis’ tablet tweets accidentally hoax mainstream media

Eric Rice — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:22:49 -0000

Have to admit, I actually skipped straight to the solar panel part, thinking WOW someone finally steps up in that space.

Re: Committing Location Based Service Suicide

Eric Rice — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:54:46 -0000

Same thing with kids. Even if you don't check in at the school, just knowing where the area you live can provide insight into school districts, etc. Then again, that could make your life just *boring*. Work, school, home, work school, home. I'm less worried about security than abject dullness.

Still, all of this can be cross-referenced with flickr photos, facebook/twitter posts-- so it's beyond just a simple 'show up where you are' thing. An entire aggregated profile can be created on any individual, enabling a someone to really crawl inside someone else's head.

Our vanity and false sense of 'networking' (and passive acceptance of Facebook corp outlook) makes it oh-so easy for complacency to advance.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Proposition 8 is back, again

Eric Rice — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:45:23 -0000

I just want to know if procreation is a requirement of marriage; if so, what happens when two elderly widowers marry? Or is that not allowed?

Give it time. Gay marriage will happen, and then so can gay affairs and divorces-- and there can be alllll sorts of step-parents and half-siblings and alimony/palimony, and the whole thing can be just like traditional family units. /sarcasm

Re: Why Facebook’s Change in Privacy Settings is Detrimental to Users

Eric Rice — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:31:18 -0000

I'm less concerned about the privacy issues (which are completely valid) than I am about spamming myself to death. My wall was rather tidy because I didn't feel the need to share each. and. every. time. I. liked. something. I go through waves of being unsubscribed to because I'm 'too spammy', but that's simple mathematics. The amount of people I interact with cause that to happen. I lost that choice, so I'll just live be with being annoying (inadvertantly or otherwise :).

Re: Oh, Joe, the world doesn’t need a Tablet? Really?

Eric Rice — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:11:40 -0000

The Apple Tablet would most likely not a) be a Windows tablet like those before and b) would have the aesthetics and form unlike those before it and c) it would give something to the world to be copied and imitated so we can eventually get 'there' from here.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Litigation threatened as district seeks to save with solar

Eric Rice — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:18:53 -0000

I believe the technical term is NIMBY (Not In My Backyard), the same principle that causes some cellphone towers to be 'disguised' as random, out-of-place, synthetic pine tree.

As aside, I love when solar arrays are used as parking shelters, making use of the void space in parking lots to generate energy and providing protection from the elements for cars. I believe Google has this at their Mt. View campus.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Police search for sexual assault suspect

Eric Rice — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:34:08 -0000

I often wonder if Realist is a student of Gobineau. At any rate, the oft-repeated blame on a race's presence (aside from being, well, racism) is a logical fallacy known as a hasty generalization or secundum quid. It's tired and incorrect, period. It's also disrespectful to the victims, the topic, and other commenters who get lured into babysitting the bad seeds among us, instead of focusing on the actual issue of rape and domestic violence.

I imagine if the attacker was white, it probably wouldn't -soften- the blow, since the woman was still RAPED.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Editorial: Comment section reflects the good and the bad

Eric Rice — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:51:38 -0000

The comments on the op-ed about comments' quality is ironically delicious.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Letters: Socialized health care is the only real rational solution

Eric Rice — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:27:16 -0000

I love the irony in how actual socialists view the current gov't views as too right-wing and, slippery slope arguments notwithstanding, not socialist.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Gilroy police briefs: Man attacked in predawn hours, 'childhood dispute' settled in park

Eric Rice — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:19:49 -0000

It's because you are displaying a type of logical fallacy called 'hasty generalization'. When you misuse the 'data' the way you've been doing, it's an inductive generalization. This data can be rearranged to note that the police blotter is filled with all MALES or all YOUNG people or ROMAN CATHOLICS (if we estimate 80-90% of Mexicans being Roman Catholic).

That, and perhaps the *way* you are doing it. on. every. post. What exactly are you trying to gain? A ballot measure to just start rounding up all brown-looking people JUST IN CASE? Awesome sci-fi movie material.

But heck, you called me a -douche-, so I expect any type of reasonable discourse is out of the question. It operates on the principle that much internet discussion is based upon: anonymous vitriol. No need to worry about having accountability for words.

That's why you're in the wilderness.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Possible Gilroy gang stabbing continues weekend violence

Eric Rice — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:10:16 -0000

Any military industrial complex can explain this. Out-number. Out-gun. Especially when side A needs to defeat side B. That is all.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Update: No arrests in Friday homicide

Eric Rice — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:19:28 -0000

Thanks for your comments, Norm. It drives me up the wall seeing the snark in the comments that devolve the whole gang situation as "buncha punks we gotta git 'em deport 'em shoot 'em", without any regard to the massive, MASSIVE infrastructure and organization that is North American gangs. It loops from the streets to prisons to the respective home countries and back. But hey, we live in the Twitter world now. It's soundbites or nothin'.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Decisions about downtown leave a lot to be desired

Eric Rice — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:53:02 -0000

I think it's a Constitutional Right to have vast landscapes of parking to prevent the slightest bit of exercise or interaction with fellow citizens. /sarc

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Morgan Hill Welcomes Wal-Mart

Eric Rice — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:37:41 -0000

If I recall, it was an issue of density (or lack thereof). MH wanted Whole Foods, but they didn't want MH. Not enough population with a certain area to justify.

Re: MorganHillTimes.com | Third Street construction plans for local businesses poorly executed

Eric Rice — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:56:59 -0000

Blue,

See http://www.morganhillrda.ca... and http://www.morganhillrda.ca...