William Shatner Temporarily Kicked Off Google+

Who Fing cares, especially about another in your face social networking fad.

A 'fad' that's involved hundreds of millions of people for the last decade then. Where exactly have you been?

Do you live at home, alone, with 15 cats?

Captain's log, Stardate 07192011: Hello Everyo...................................................................

Captain's log, Stardate 07202011: WTF?!!

A few weeks ago, while surfing Wikipedia randomly I came upon a piece of information that stunned me. I had an epiphany:

William Shatner was 50 years old when he was filming Star Trek 2 in 1981...

That means: WILLIAM SHATNER IS EIGHTY YEARS OLD... EIGHTY... 80

I NEVER would have guessed he was anything more than 65! Dang, he aged well...

EIGHTY!!!

And the man is on twitter and Google+...

Yeah I'm so happy I can go to Toms for links to cheap clothing!

i would not have believed it unless i google'd it my self

But she's in the pool!!!!!

Can't wait till residents of Fort Gay, FL are kicked-off Google+. I think Tom Anderson (MySpace founder) had a good comment about how what makes Google work is the automation (everything determined by algorithms), yet, there's nothing Social about a computer controlling a Social Network, so he's interested to see if Google can actually implement something human, and not just computer controlled.

Tying it back in, did some human being actually shut-down Shatner's account, or was it some computer that saw too many red-flags, and auto-banned him from the site? If we aren't William Shatner, how likely are we to get our account back when it was banned just because our stupid parents named us ESPN (espen) or Shithead (shi-thade)? What 14-year-old has valid ID that will pass Google's muster? I didn't have a passport until a year ago, and most kids can't drive till 15 or 16.

Dont mess with the Shatner!!!

@hellwig. If you want an ID card and are willing to pay a few dollars for one. Most DMVs can help you out and get you a government ID card. Besides that have you ever heard of a birth certificate? Plus, in agricultural provinces (alteast in Canada) you can get your farmers/tractor license at 14 (which turns into a learners drivers license at 16). I'm sure farming states in the USA aren't that different.
So yeah, if you really want/need something to prove your identity -- it's not that difficult to source.

Think about it for a moment, when the first season of star trek was filmed. All of this technology, was only a dream back then. The biggest thing at the time, expensive like a iphone or handheld gaming unit, used leading edge technology at the time was a battery powered transistor radio.
Most would boast how many it had in it and print it on the radio something like "9 transistor radio". Stereo was also new and expensive. And color tv's were as expensive as today's 65" lcd tv's (in today's dollars).
Except for the transporter (actually research is being done on that and they claim to have transported a few single atoms (proving Steven Hawking's theory ), warp drive(the physics and concept has been laid out by Steven Hawking),Time travel (Steven Hawking says it's possible actually),alternate universes or worlds (Steven Hawking again), basically every device that was dreamed of and used in star trek is now for sale and you can buy one in a store somewhere or the military has one. Even when Steven Hawking tries to explain his theory's in simple terms, I still don't get it.

-handheld medical scanners (handheld mri's)
-handheld communication device (cell phones)
-handheld computers (smart phones and laptops)
-tiny speakers/mic (blue tooth headsets)
-flat screens (lcd's)
-talking computers (voice recognition and text to speech)
-computer a.i. (almost there)
-computer knowledge bank (modern search engines and the internet)
-phazers (high powered lazers)
-guided heat seeking missiles (cruise missiles)
-gps
-3d medical imaging (cat scans and mri's)
-implants to restore sight and sound,limbs and mobility (still primitive today but progress is being made)
-spacestation
-drone airplanes
-hubble telescope
-computers with color 3d graphics (i think that one has been covered, lol.)
-plasma drive (controlled nuclear fission) (still working on that, the holy grail of energy)
-Captain's log stardate 070023 (send a email or tweet to the crew that i will be out on a away mission for a while)

The list goes on and on. No tv show or movie predicted more things that came true than this series, ever.

Without William Shatner and the star trek cast and crew dreaming up these things to later to be made, maybe google and google+ would not even exist today.

Given the fact that the best part of social networking would be the human parts of it, but to say that a social site running off algorithms isnt much a socail site to be at, then you should speak up and see what it can compute for what you have to say, cause if anything, you are just as much part of the site them as the algorithm when you input something. Probably only then though to say. Given theres others there to talk too, other then computers to say.

Or something along these lines, hopefully.

But a good point though.

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I agree you CAN get photo ID, my point was, how many 14-year olds actually have one? And yes, farming states allow driving at 14, but many coastal-states (where most of our population resides) do not.

As for a birth certificate, Google isn't a government institution, but I've never been allowed to use a birth certificate as ID. Proof of citizenship, yes, but never as ID.

That would be The Shat...

The use of algorithms by computers to filter things was thought up on the show too. Long before computers could do that sort of thing. But yes even on the show the computer required interaction to work.

Googled for it too. Damn...80 friggins years old. He looks 60 or 70 at most. He looked 30ish when he was in Star Trek. How the hell...?

cool, so can i buy a phazer at radio shack?

i actually understand most of the concepts that he talks about. but time travel is a can of worms you never really want to open. because there are a few ways it can play out.

the first would be you cant change anything, as in you get a gun, and try to kill your parents before they have you, if the gun cant or wont fire, than you have the answer. at this point, everything in the world is prediturmend, that would be the most depressing thing ever. than there is also the though that if time travel does exist, it may not be our universe you travel to, but one that is the complete same as ours, only you presences is there again at a different time.

but more to the topic, crediting startrek with anything like that is complete bs. as those ideas would be there whether it existed or not, however the show probably inspired some people to go into those fields of research.

well, lets face facts. all social medium has been fads so far.
the croud that uses them move from site to site, picking up more people along the way, but generally they all fade out of existence at some point.

google+ so far i have one friend using it, and we did that hangout thing last night, its a great idea and simple to use. i use it as a communications tool right now.
it shouldn't spam like facebook, and that was my BIGGEST problem with facebook.

and question, anyone know how to get the hangout thing installed on xp? it wont see that im the administrator and i cant get passed it, had to use my laptop and i hate that damn thing.

Things tend to break because they don't evolve, though. MySpace is a classic example of a social network that never evolved - it never changed with the times and Facebook offered something genuinely better. Same goes for poor old Bebo.

Google+ isn't offering anything that Facebook isn't. You can't just expect close to a billion people to ditch something that isn't broken. It just won't happen. It's the same reason why no video sharing website has come close to YouTube, and the same reason Bing will never completely de-throne Google.

What, no picture? I immediately thought of his facial expression in Star Trek II when he was yelling "KAHN!!!"

Stability of the Google platform is a start. Facebook has more bugs with its fundamental features (like chat) than a New York hotel. The fact that Google already has so many other applications like a productivity suite (Google Docs) and a solid email system (gmail) as well as their own voice network (Google Voice) and chat system (Google talk)... And even a mobile phone platform (Android) not to mention a potential OS (Chrome)... They just need a way to bring it all together in a social format to pry people away from Facebook... If they offer at LEAST what Facebook does in terms of 3rd party apps.

Google can't leverage their own mobile phone platform to make some kind of superior social network. What would happen to everyone who doesn't use an Android handset? The whole idea of social networks is that the WEB is the platform. Nothing else should matter. I certainly don't log onto Facebook and wish that I could share word processor documents and spreadsheets with my friends.

Google doesn't need to make Circles exclusive to Chrome/Android to leverage their platform. All they have to do is add some additional functionality to Android to make it worth users' while when making a decision to purchase a phone/use a browser.

For example, I have almost every Google BlackBerry app. However, when I see just how much better Google Maps works on my brother's Virgin LG Optimus V than my BB, because of the turn-by-turn navigation (that behaves much like a free lifetime automatically updating Garmin GPS), I realize that 'killer app difference' that is minute, but tangible, is a big reason my next smart phone may be an Android...

All Google needs to do is, for example, integrate video chat with Google Circles, but exclude that integration on iPhone/BB/WP7, and all of a sudden there is an incentive to switch...

Don't be an idiot. You have to go to Phaser Shack.

its just social networking. nobody fking cares. if you had real friends you would have their cellphone number anyways.

Well you can buy a tiny version of a "phazer" called a lazer pointer, and your dvd burner has a tiny one in it too.

The military has larger ones that can burn holes through walls and stuff. The more powerful lazers are kept away from the public for good reason.

http://www.wickedlasers.com/lasers [...] 96-37.html

True the writers of the show would have borrowed stuff from things being researched as well, read lots of science magazines for ideas, but i am sure making them well known inspired many. It also got people more interested in technology.

Aparently the Borg collective thought it was a bad idea!
"Resistence is not futile! You will not be assimilated!"

Gotta love Shatner