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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Senior Health)
Sun Oct 20 09:05:10 2013
To: linuxch-announce.discuss@charon.mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 06:05:07 -0700
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Medicare enrollment period for 2013. Compare plans before the deadline...
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an eagerness to play around without
knowing what exactly to do. The lesson: Read the directions.Tap the touch-sensitive
temple piece or simply tilt your head up and the screen activates,
displaying the time and two words: Ok Glass. Speak them aloud and
the voice-activated device gives you a menu with a few simple options:
Google, take a picture, record a video, get directions, send a message,
make a call, hang out.Ask the device to Google something and, thanks
to a Bluetooth link to your smartphone or the built-in Wi-Fi, it
will search the Web almost immediately. I tried Googling the length of
the Golden Gate bridge (8,980 feet), how to say I love you
in Japanese (Watashi wa anata o aishite), and checking the weather (No,
it isnt raining in New York, the weather is 58 and clear).The
future is a robotic voice literally telling me to skip the raincoat,
apparently.Pictures with Glass are reasonably good; it has a 5 megapixel
camera, comparable to that of a newish smartphone. Thats not the greatest
quality, but it works. I immediately found myself wanting to edit images,
crop out the backgrounds and boost the colors. You can do that
all on Google+, of course, but theres little interface directly through
Glass itself.The real charm of Glass comes in sharing, however, not touching
your temples. Glass integrates deeply with Google+, which youre probably
a member of already, like it or not. Its no Facebook, sure,
but it does have tens of mill
This April 2013 image shows Yosemite Valley at Yosemite National Park in
California.APTwo months after the sequester hit, the Department of Interior
continues to warn of coast-to-coast cuts for the country's national parks
-- and even the partial shutdown of a critical flood warning system.But
Sen. Tom Coburn says there's "no shortage of potential savings," pointing
out that the department is nevertheless spending millions on newly created
monuments and landmarks.The Oklahoma Republican, who has been hounding federal
agencies for weeks about questionable spending under the cloud of sequester,
aired his grievances with the Interior Department in a letter to Secretary
Sally Jewell Tuesday."It makes little sense to expand the number of sites
at the same time the budget of every other park is being
cut and visitors are being turned away from visiting the White House,"
Coburn wrote.Coburn pointedly questioned department efforts to name new
sites and expand others -- decisions that will contribute to the department's
annual costs. Coburn said the National Park Service has designated 13 new
historic landmarks and three new monuments since the sequester hit March
1. One of those landmarks, he noted, is a whiskey distillery --
the George T. Stagg Distillery in Kentucky. Other newly created landmarks
include the Connecticut home of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, the
historic bridge crossed by civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala., and an
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">President Obama said he is unaware of longstanding efforts by Republican
lawmakers to question survivors of the Benghazi attacks but pledged to investigate
the issue.Im not familiar with this notion that anybody has been blocked
from testifying, the president said during a White House news conference
on Tuesday. So what Ill do is I will find out what
exactly youre referring to.Obamas pledge to find out more came as officials
at the State Department pushed back against allegations -- first aired Monday
on Fox News -- that career employees at the agency have been
threatened if they furnish new information about the Benghazi attacks to
members of Congress.The State Department is deeply committed to meeting
its obligation to protect employees, and the State Department would never
tolerate -- tolerate or sanction -- retaliation against whistle-blowers
on any issue, including this one, spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters
at a briefing on Tuesday. Thats an obligation we take very seriously
-- full stop.Four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens,
were killed in terrorist attacks on U.S. installations in the port city
of Benghazi, Libya, on the night of Sept. 11, 2012. While the
FBI investigation into the attacks continues, no known instances of any
perpetrators being brought to justice have yet been reported.Rep. Darrell
Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee,
will hold the fi
ions of users.Using the simple MyGlass
smartphone app, you can configure the Google+ sharing features on Glass:
Which of your contacts you want ready access to, which groups you
want to share videos and pictures to, and so on. For what
its worth, Google+ actually does social networking better than Facebook
in some ways, and sharing pics with groups and individuals is as
easy as taking them.On the other hand, social networking is both a
Glass strength and its Achilles Heel: Everyone I saw while wearing Glass
stared, then eventually asked me if I was recording them. Are we
live right now? Is this online?For the record, no, Glass is not
violating your privacy. No, it is not surreptitiously recording you. No,
it does not do face recognition. No, I am not seeing through
your clothing.While Googles wild invention does raise those questions, the
device is designed to skirt them all: To start recording a video
or snap a shot, you need to actively turn it on. And
theres no red light on the front to indicate activity, but whoever
youre speaking with should be able to see the active screen.And Google
told me face recognition would require some processing power thats simply
out of the question, at least for now.That said, what it does
do is tantalize. Want directions? There they are. Want to share a
picture of your trip? Done. Need a fact to wow a dinner
party? There it is.Just dont wear Glass during the dinner party. At
least, thats what my wi
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