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'Dumb' Watches and the Technology in our Lives

posted by janrinok on Monday March 24 2014, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the 1st-world-problems dept.

Xenex writes:

"In the wake of the Android Ware [Video] announcement, I have been giving thought to the impact these watches could have on our life. 'The more I read about smartwatches, the more I appreciate my "dumb" watches' writes Shawn Blanc. 'But I don't just wear a watch to know what time it is. Part of the reason I wear one is as an excuse not to pull out my iPhone.' Basically: when you look at a watch you see the time, when you look at a smartphone for the time you also see notifications. Avoiding my phone is definitely a factor for me nowadays, and a 'smart' watch might just be another distraction."

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @01:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @01:13PM (#20339)

    "nice watches" and "kids go to a separate school"? How much money do you think an NSA employee makes? Plus, outside of the game Splinter Cell, please elaborate on these NSA "agents." I'm aware of FBI agents and CIA agents, but what is an NSA agent? Are there Housing and Urban Development agents? Or NIH agents? How about those Bureau of Indian Affairs agents? Are all Federal employees "agents" with cool ID badges and carry unregistered PPKs?

  • (Score: 1) by EvilSS on Monday March 24 2014, @01:47PM

    by EvilSS (1456) on Monday March 24 2014, @01:47PM (#20382)

    Not to feed this paranoid thread too much, but the NSA does have an internal investigative service (attached to the NSA OIG) members of which are referred to as special agents. They also have an internal police force. They are not anything nefarious, however (probably the most benign job at the NSA at the moment actually). Investigators investigate, mostly background security checks, security breaches, internal fraud, etc. They are NOT spooks in any sense of the word (despite what POI may portray). The police force is in charge of campus security at their facilitates.