When I first heard about Defiance coming out I was excited to see another new Scifi series coming out. I have been waiting for Falling Skies to start up and thought perhaps Defiance might give me a good scifi fix while I'm waiting for that to start.
So far it's been a mixed bag which generally is not the most reassuring. The concept was somewhat exciting. Rebellion of survivors the loner joins forces and helps the colony. Felt just like Terra Nova when that came out and we know what sort of success that was.
The two hour pilot to me was a huge let down. Here in the first interaction ever with the protaganist Jeb Nolan he manages to find amazing alien energy tech only to have to use it in a huge battle against an army of mechanized warriors sought on destroying Defiance. Once he uses the energy device and blows away the bad guys he is offered the job as Sheriff which he accepts.
I am horrified that this could be the best episode all season. They threw absolutely everything into the pilot. Epic battles, incredible alien tech, intriguing love story and even a boxing match. While I say that scifi fans are the biggest bunch of hypocrites around, this story does not hold up. It's way overdone and over the top.
I'll continue watching it and I may end up eating crow if the show improves but I dont have my hopes up. Rockne S. O'Bannon is the writer on the show and except for Farscape the rest of his shows have been utter failures. The new V which while it could have been so cool, failed miserably. Alien Nation was "ok" but seaquest DSV was just terrible.
I think the show is going to run out of gas quick. I don't see this as anything but a cheezy western. How cheesy? The Sheriff's name is Jeb. We just need now is Hoss, Little Joe, Adam and Ben and we'll have Bonanza all over again.
I can hope that this show improves but I don't think it will. I should have known better with a video game that goes with the show this was all over hyped. My guess is that in another year the game will be at GameStop for $3 and the show will end up getting cancelled.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Twitter peeking at your tweets to target ads.
Appy Geek is reporting that Twitter will mine people's tweets to target ads. Scanning your eMail and Tweets is starting to become the norm these days. Google has been doing it for some time, now twitter is going to start doing it.
There are whole army of people against this and I posted about it with the Scroogled.com website. I still don't see the issue with this. If you feel your electronic information is safe you are living under a rock. Information Security is a very false sense of security. Hackers, employees, social engineering it all comes down to one thing. People. Your data is only as secure as you think it is.
Try this social experiment. Walk into a McDonalds and sit a table next to a group who just received their food. Wait about a minute then walk up to the counter and say "Yeah, I'm with the group over there, we were short one double cheeseburger". See if you get one. 9/10 times you will with no questions asked.
Your security works the same way. I personally know that with a little dumpster diving you can grab a bank statement, and call the bank and find out all sorts of things about an account. In fact you can even ask to have a duplicate debit card sent to you because the magnetic stripe is wearing out. They wont deactivate the old one just ship you a new one. I have had the bank tell me "Make sure you destroy the old one because both will work.". Now if I was a malicious attacker I could use your debit card (The new one I requested) while you were able to use yours.
The whole point here is that Twitter and Google are mining your data to target ads to you. Frankly I'm ok with that. Why? Its better than random nonsense or tampon ad's when I have no use for them. I dont mind seeing ads for cool gear I might be interested in.
Microsoft though better get on the ball and register Twittled.com or something so they can strike fear into twitter users to use Bing.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
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