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Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong?
dryriver writes: If you look at the last 15 years in tech, just about everything that could go wrong seemingly has gone wrong. Everything you buy and bring into your home tracks you in some way or the other. Some software can only be rented now -- no permanent licenses available to buy. PC games are tethered into cloud crap like Steam, Origin and UPlay. China is messing with unborn baby genes. Drones have managed to mess up entire airports. The Scandinavians have developed a serious hatred of cash money and are instead getting themselves chipped. CPUs have horrible security. Every day some huge customer database somewhere gets pwned by hackers. Cybercrime has gone through the roof. You cannot trust the BIOS on your PC anymore. Windows 10 just will not stop updating itself. And AI is soon going to kill us all, if a self-driving car by Uber doesn't do it first. So: What has -- so far -- not gone wrong in tech that still could go wrong, and perhaps in a surprising way?
It's going to happen on a massive scale at some point. THen what?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
SkyNet hasn't been become sentient yet, maybe... All hail our new lord and master!
An electric powered penis pump could rip someone's cock off?
capta: inflate
Eventually you will not be allowed to connect to the Internet unless you are using a closed "approved" hardware device using "approved" software that has been registered with your real name. It is coming.
advances ALWAYS have problems. you CAN'T get the upsides without the downsides. you can do this exercise with the industrial revolution too but would you rather have a world that didn't go through it?
Microsoft haven't written software for self-driving cars... yet.
I'm a long-time developer, stuck in code maintenance role hunting down other crappy coders' bugs in a software project written in the 1980s. I already see everything in a negative light. "Get off my lawn" kind of thing. And now you submit stories like this!? May as well pass the razor blades.
If we knew about it ahead of time, we’d probably be able to prevent - or at least ameliorate - it.
#DeleteChrome
The LHC hasn't created a black hole that eats the planet and sucked us all into another dimension.
Perhaps, out of sheer disappointment, this is the reason they are building an even larger collider :P
At least anonymous cowards aren't getting upvoted on Slashdot.
Or they're off their medication again.
Elon finally pushes the red button in his secret mountain lair, unleashing a "The Cars That Ate Paris" scenario where killer Tesla's roam the streets looking for unsuspecting victims?
I've scratched my share of game disks and with the amount of games I have, the last thing i want is 100 boxes of games cluttering up my home
if PC games were still sold in boxes we wouldn't have 1/4 the variety you see on Steam these days. None of the indies would be able to survive
Is dryriver vying to be the new Bennet Hasselton? His submissions are about as dumb.
Has Slashdot become this guy's personal blog?
Jurassic Skynet!
Hmm...tech hasn't yet launched nuclear weapons...but it's not unimaginable.
It hasn't yet crashed global financial markets (in a serious way)...but it's not unimaginable.
It hasn't yet destroyed the earth's ability to support life...but it's not unimaginable...
The worst possible thing is that hardware and software both get more expensive and stay expensive for everyone forever.
Since we're probably losing our capacity to design or even maintain the sophisticated technology we've inherited, with MBAs systematically did anything industries throughout the chain, and with zombie corporate giants being kept alive forever by credit and bailouts, there's little to stop tech prices going the way of house prices.
I mean, how many CPU companies can there be?
When that happens, people will make do with the hardware, and software they have and tech will implode into a neutron star of hardcore nerds and patent lawyers. The Soviet Union collapsed eventually too, and can you really say the tech industry is more efficient than 1980s Russia?
Well, nobody has created AI that's actually Intelligent yet. Because FSM help us when they do.
Google releases Fuchsia or some other OS like it, replacing Linux with it everywhere interesting - Android, Chromebooks, and with time, even servers. Eventually, Google decides to relicence Fuchsia with a non-open licence but offer it for free (Microsoft drops Windows to $0 soon after). Open source forks of last free version do not manage to come close to competing with Google's vast resources and the special support it gives to its version of Fuchsia in GCP.
All of this makes Linux marketshare drop precipitately, hardware vendors don't even bother helping with drivers and soon all Free OSs become niche products barely working on current hardware.
** Note that I don't believe Fuchsia is bad in itself. The question is what Google will do with it if it controls the project.
That would be incredibly wrong.
... but Lennart Poettering could code one at any time.
... for being a commie, or assassinated by a for-profit software cabal.
That's easy: Linux.
Communist China pre crime detection comes to the free West.
The use of words, the ability to publish, comment:
SAS vans down UK streets for people who publish online using the wrong words, politics and terms?
People in the free USA having to give city and state gov their social media accounts to get their rights approved?
City and states go full Tenth Amendment to restrict all other rights in their city/states?
The EU expands its nations blasphemy laws and uses social media to find anyone questioning how faith is practiced and the history of a faith/cult.
Movie and TV series get a veto on any online review of their work. Only approved professional reviewers will get search results.
Terms like "learn to code" is not found by gov approved search engines and not allowed on social media.
NGO's, NATO, the EU put more efforts into finding people who still want the freedom to publish views about the news and link news.
PRISM gets invited into every home with an intelligent assistant at OS level. Cameras and microphones aware of every word spoken, new face, search term, voice print.
The power off on a smart phone did nothing to stop tracking and collection.
Changes to OS, ads and browsers.
Every big brand US OS ships with software to approve news and links in real time.
OS supported browsers show approved ads and block any attempt to use software to stop ads.
Creating lists to block ads will be more difficult to get into an OS, any OS approved browser.
Creating lists of ads to block is a sin. OS and browser alterations are blocked to remove any easy user level attempts to block ads and tracking.
Police and NGO charity software detects and reports back on every file downloaded and created on any big brand networked computer as part of "free" realtime AV efforts.
Every image, movie and data file gets a real time checksum on a new OS.
Governments keep all internet ISP logs for decades.
Full VPN logs show up years later to get connected to ISP IP accounts.
CC brands and payment processors block all types of payments to all political groups/businesses they don't support for political reasons.
Medical database sharing:
Past medical DNA tests get fully shared between gov/police/private sector.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Cars are completely replace by self-driving vehicles. Unfortunately, that did not mean an improvement in security practices. One day, some variety of jihadists finds a security hole that allows them to take control remotely. The result is a massive worldwide terror attack that makes 9/11 look trivial. Few non-sdv cars are available so the nation is paralysed. Politically, the nation goes haywire in ways that will make people longingly miss the Patriot Act.
If some bug or malware afflicted masses of planes, trains, and/or automobiles at the same time; it could clog up a large portion of the population's commute, commerce, and emergency handlers.
Table-ized A.I.
The soviet doomsday switch hasn't ever accidentally launched a retaliatory strike by itself (yet)...
And don't taunt Murphy either.
We have not seen mobile malware able to jump back and forth to desktops.
...you may just find out what else could go wrong...
Biologically engineered super viruses used offensively in acts of war?
Some asshole unleashing Samaritan?
Mandatory electronic tracking of everyone by government agencies? (GPS locator in skull, cellular modem enabled microphone / camera in ear / eyes, Telescreens in every room style.)
Kitchens bursting into flames because of hacked IoT stoves? (Yes, that's a video game reference for those who can tell.)
There's plenty of ways it can get bad. But what are you trying to achieve here by asking this question? To create some sort of way to measure the severity of an incident? To demand change? To find out every possible way a hack might bite you in the rear? This question is rather pointless without an objective.
Severity measuring is difficult with this issue because humans don't consider what happens to others as a "bad" thing they should help prevent. Especially when they are not directly impacted.
If you're looking to list every possible avenue of attack, good luck. New ones are created each and every day, and the exact way it can harm anyone is dependent on a variety of factors including, but limited to: integration with society, integration with other systems, trust, accessibility, prevention measures taken, hardware used, etc.
Demanding change is about the only realistic use of this question, but the act of demanding change is a problem in and of itself. Because anything short of reeducating the general public on proper use, changing their expectations, and a move away from the "it's an appliance" mentality is not going to make much of a dent. If you're waiting for some "they destroyed a city" level of BS before actually considering making serious commitments to change, you'll be waiting for a good while longer due to the above. Put simply, demanding change is difficult when the public is apathetic to the issue.
If it's not any of these, then what is the purpose? Please enlighten us.
The most fundamental principle of the open source movement is that, intentional or accidental, adversaries are not able to openly modify other people's original work in secrecy.
It largely seems like the threat of it happening at any time has been enough to control the populace.
Children's' toys turn into homicidal knife wielding maniacs, all because of some hacked proprietary software code in a popular toy.
The thing that terrifies me is a slow virus - something that spreads very slowly, using multiple attack vectors/OS types. Something like Stuxnet but for the general population, not SCADA centrifuges. Every so often, it changes a few values in a randomly-selected excel spreadsheet (Accounting), or deletes a few things from a DXF/DWG/SLDDRW file (CAD/Engineering), or switches a few numbers in Quickbooks, fiddles with DB formats, deletes a page or two from a Word document, or randomly deletes a line or three from *.php/html/cpp/etc, or damages JPG/MP4/etc in some small way.
Most viruses draw attention to themselves via shoddy coding (RTM, script kiddiez), being too greedy (most ransomware), or grinding system performance (thus prompting a call to tech support), etc.. A well-designed virus (State actors, or world-burn-for-the-lulz) that plays a long game.... something that subtly corrupts many types of data over a long timeframe, hides well and avoids detection (possibly by "fixing" broken files when opened by user processes, but not when accessed by backups) - means that months/years/*decades* of backups are contaminated/suspect across every sector of society.
For extra points, have a command-control botnet that keeps moving/hiding/mutating this thing, as well as monitoring tech blogs. When this thing is finally discovered, start wiping/encrypting all drives... thus forcing a restore from unknowingly-tampered backups (for the people who have backups, at least).
Th scenario that Mozilla goes bankrupt after losing too much confidence in them after too many “experiments” causing Chrome to have a virtual monopoly with surviving mozilla forks having sub 1% market share and chromium forks having to have their adblockers crippled. For the sake of the web get a clue Mozilla and restore XUL before it’s too late.
You can say these things about anything, whether it's tech, cars, steam engines, things go wrong, things blow up, things kill people. What hasn't gone wrong is the entire industry being supplanted by another.
Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
If you look at the last 15 years in tech it looks a lot like the 15 years before that.
Everything you buy and bring into your home tracks you in some way if you don't know how to limit it or block it.
Some software can only be rented now, just like the first computers that were ever made.
Steam has benefits to playing online but works perfectly fine without a network connection for games that aren't inherently multiplayer.
China is a sovereign nation that just arrested a doctor for crossing ethical lines by messing with unborn baby genes.
Drones, like other flying things, are being used by idiots to mess up entire airports. Which is why we have governments, police and things like the FAA to put the thumbscrews to stupid (and occasionally non-stupid but evil) people.
CPUs never had security that was worth a damn.
Every day some huge customer database somewhere gets pwned by hackers but now we get told about it and it's news.
Unless you wrote it yourself you've never been able to trust the BIOS on your computer. (Looking at you, old broken Sparcstation that forces me to write a bios every boot.)
Windows has always been an upgrade treadmill but now it runs the treadmill on its own.
Unethical people might try to use "AI" systems to kill us all, instead of using a gun, knife or rock like they did in the old days.
Maybe someone will take a look at the sad state of affairs and realize that people, not tools or processes or products, are the cause and solution to problems.
Then all us techie people would suddenly be out of a job when the marketers can't sell people on our latest gizmo to solve a problem people caused using last year's model of gizmo.
It would be an absolute IT apocalypse.
But P.T.Barnum's money is on people continuing to be idiots. There will always be a lot of customers you can convince to buy whatever snake oil. At the worst just tell them it helps them raise their kids, improve their sex life and win the lottery. Software specifications are not even as honest than that.
Well, 3d-printed ghost guns haven't become a major problem, particularly in countries where gun ownership is heavily restricted. 3d printing hasn't really led to any major problems I've heard of.
Space tech has never had a disaster worse than a launchpad explosion killing a bunch of people at the launch site, and that was several decades ago. Worse as in, say, a rocket crashing into a city. We haven't hopelessly contaminated every body in the solar system with Earth microbes. We haven't had a major Kessler Syndrome incident that wiped out a large portion of satellites in orbit. We haven't had an Andromeda Strain-type incident.
We haven't had a large-scale Luddite backlash against technology, if that counts.
We haven't had a Jurassic Park-style disaster where revived/genetically-modified animals go on a rampage. Where's the GM bioweapons selectively wiping out certain ethnic groups or only active at certain latitudes? GM food causing (proven) mass sickness or poisoning to populations. GM babies leading to prejudice against them (or against unmodified people) a la Gattaca.
Nuclear terrorism has yet to happen. Large-scale nuclear exchange has never happened. Physics tech has yet to create bombs more powerful than thermonuclear. Directed energy weapons aren't superior enough to lead to an arms race. Hypersonic missiles have yet to lead to significant political/military conflicts. Space weapons have remained in the realm of rumor and innuendo (and a couple failed projects). Killbots 'exist' but are mostly remote-controlled waldoes, no AI has used poor judgment to decide to intentionally kill someone without a human in the loop (AFAIK).
Cloud seeding hasn't evolved to weather control that destabilized the planet's climate.
There are an infinite number of ways that humans can err and things can fail, so it's impossible we'll ever approach the infinite. However: "If something can go wrong, it eventually will." - Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
almost nothing!
Seriously? There are entire genres of literature devoted to answering this question, quite creatively. Here's my favorite anthology:
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
Take a look at "Dystopian" and "Post Apocalyptic" literature. Those two terms will help anyone interested. There are probably subgenres I'm not exactly aware of, but those broad classifications are a good starting point.
If anyone actually believes that everything that could possibly go wrong, has gone wrong, they are not very creative in their imagination of potential things to go wrong....
The next slashdot post after this "what else could go wrong" survey is titled, "facebook pays teens to install vpns that spy on them" So there you are.
Even more pessimistically:
Bigdata analysis has been studying human behavior to see what is most effective at keeping human eyeballs on site for longer. Looks like the answer turns out to be to slowly radicalize humans.
We will soon (perhaps a bit longer than soon, but not very much longer) find ourselves fighting in Facebook driven wars. And I do not mean that metaphorically...wars, like with death dealing weapons in the physical world. It is already happening in Burma.
Sure, today's software is buggy and crash prone as hell, but at least the bugs do not usually kill people.
Something tells me that will change once we start getting mass produced self driving cars, and more computer controlled and network connected medical devices. The "release early, release often, fix the bugs and security holes later" mantra of modern software development combined with those products is going to be a fatal combination.
Oh, wait ...
Zuck already knows where my house lives and resold that info 7 times to the highest bidder.
The airport drone scares are largely a ploy to get hobbyists out of the airspace which will be used for commercial delivery drones. Today will be the next generation's "good old days", when humans could still earn slave wages by delivering crap for Uber Eats and Amazon.
Bonus round:
I don't think the concept of purchasing movies is going to be around for too much longer, either. Hollywood has been pushing for a full-on subscription/pay-per-view business model ever since Circuit City's ill-fated Divx disc format.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
The rapid advancement of technology is exposing much of the population to materials and phenomena that do not occur in nature. An unanticipated mechanism might cause serious consequences, possibly only after a long period of exposure. For all anyone knows, 25 years of smartphone use could be uniformly fatal. And no one has survived 15 years of Facebook.
If such a scenario seems unrealistic, let me point out that similar events have happened before. The Roman empire made great use of lead for plumbing (our word comes from the Latin "plumbum", meaning "lead") and even as a food additive (!). The causes of the fall of the empire are complicated, but it is a respectable theory that lead poisoning was a significant contributing factor. (Google "lead poisoning roman empire" for much more information.) And don't forget that tobacco smoking was introduced to Europe with an emphasis on its supposed health benefits. ("tobacco medicinal use")
It's a brave new world
Stop worrying about buggy software and start worrying about the large scale use of killer drones!
You have a metric fuckload to learn.
Grab yer spoon and start slurpin' the shit, noob!
Two examples:
1. SalesForce charges a premium to enable encrypted-at-rest for your data. This means the company is charging to protect your data from possibly being compromised by SalesForce's own employees.
2. ZenDesk basic plans allow user passwords to be any five characters. No policy can be applied requiring more digits or types of characters (alpha, case, numbers, punctuation, etc.) unless your organization subscribes to the "Professional" or "Enterprise" level. Zendesk is using the threat of end-users having their accounts compromised to encourage customers to pay extra for the ability to enforce safe password policies.
It seems that some public cloud proprietors intend to mimic real-world ghettos. If customers want the cheapest rent for their cloud service, then thugs and criminals may break in and steal your data. Pay higher rent and you get protection.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
coronal mass ejection
EMP
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse
Your CPU could be "sold" on a subscription basis, if it can't verify that you've paid your subscription your hardware won't power up.
See subject: Via APK Hosts File Engine 2.0++ 64-bit for Linux/BSD h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r L i n u x . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing u hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploit!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 Linux/BSD (soon 4 MacOS)!
(Better vs. Windows model)
APK
P.S.=> Protects vs. scripts/trackers (kernelmode faster vs. usermode slower NoScript vs. 3rd party script)/ads/DNS request tracking + redirect poisoned or downed DNS/botnets/malware download/malcript/email malicious payload
"classic Windows hosts trick to block the Coinhive or Crypto-Loot domains" - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/a-new-player-joins-coinhive-on-the-browser-cryptojacking-scene/ - BLEEPING COMPUTER
ZD NET http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/ "Hosts files really shine by letting you block ads, spyware sites, malware sites, & tracking sites"
SANS ("A related approach to the DNS issue is to create a hosts file on each system that sends requests for spyware to some place else" hosts by myself & RAMU right @ START of "malware explosion" mid 2005 on) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di...
Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&.cid=49747129/
Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/
Spybot S&D uses hosts.
APK
P.S.=> Malwarebytes' hpHosts hosts & RECOMMENDS my program forum.hosts-file.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4290
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* That's only recently while I've been on Linux (July 2018) & 100's of times vs. MANY other botnets/malwares etc. in the past circa 2006-early 2018 while I was on Windows: CONCRETE VERIFIABLE UNDENIABLE REALITY (see those links as proof). ... & that's ONLY what /. reported on (there were FAR more)
APK
P.S.=> "It's working: Neville... it's working!" - "I AM LEGEND" + HOSTNAME USE IS DOWN IN MALWARE https://unit42.paloaltonetwork... (my ACT OF FAITH is JUSTIFIED by fact)... apk
Who did it 1st: China or me? I did - dates are my proof https://theregister.co.uk/2017... w/ the FACT China rampantly STEALS U.S. Intellectual properties & military secrets!
* IMITATION truly IS the SINCEREST FORM of FLATTERY!!!
(... & proves hosts work vs. DNS faults in tracking you via dns request logs (since you avoid it & resolve FASTER locally using hosts) + DNS being downed OR Kaminsky REDIRECT security flaw misdirected poisoned (or vs. DNSChanger))
ESPECIALLY AS I DISCOVERED MODEMS CHINA MAKES EVEN YOUR ISP CAN'T GET INTO FOR DNS CHANGE (but China can) https://slashdot.org/comments....
APK
P.S.=> Folks, It's NOT EASY being "World-Class" like me (lol - 100,000++ users prove it for me) - enjoy the fruits of my labors for FREE + going FASTER/SAFER/MORE RELIABLY online (w/ a bit more anonymity too via my program)... apk
Your software is just fine - well written, functional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts program is actually pretty good by xenotransplant August 10 2015
his hosts tool is actually useful for those cases in which one does indeed want to locally block stuff outright while consuming minimum system resources by alexgieg September 25 2015
I like your host file system by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK guy, I use his host file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
I personally use a HOSTS file blocker produced from a genius called APK by 110010001000 October 27 2017
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient/better MERGE feature too - More coming... apk
Apk has the answer for that - really... kill automatic updates by adding a hosts file entry setting updates.steam.com or whatever to 127.0.0.1. You have to find the right hostname for each software you want to block updates on by raymorris (2726007) on Friday July 06, 2018
APK your posts on this and the hosts file posts, and more, have never been in error and/or bad advice by BlueStrat (756137) on Wednesday June 21, 2017
I support APK's stand on the hosts file and can't see why it's not used more than it is. My hosts file is 144247 lines long (4,332 Kb) it & a firewall serves me very well - by Trax3001BBS (2368736)
ABP is insufficient as a solid hosts file does everything APK reminds us about fast turtle September 17 2013
You need APK's hosts file - by Teun (17872) on Wednesday August 06, 2014
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
APK is totally right on this count. Adblock Plus on Firefox mobile is a dog on older, or lower end, phones. A hostfile based adblocker makes for a much better experience in this context. Of course, your phone has to be rooted, which isn't the case with Firefox + adblock." - by chihowa on Saturday May 16, 2015
APK solution STILL relevant Thud457 June 11 2015
In a footnote, I would like to note that I find your hosts file admirable - by vel-ex-tech (4337079) on Tuesday November 24, 2015
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment - by Culture20 on Thursday November 17
you're right about hosts files - by drinkypoo (153816) on Thursday May 26
APK, I know people give you a lot of shit regarding hosts, but please don't ever stop - by nasredin (958927) on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:34PM
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
APK is kinda right... I've given up on JS based adblocking and gone to blackholing in /etc/hosts, just like it was back in the 90s. The computational load has gotten intolerable for any ad-blocking using JS. I've tried his hosts file generating software. It works. - by bmo (77928) on Thursday October 15, 2015
get around to 'installing' a hosts file list, not sure which one, likely the one from someonewhocares.org. If it works as well as what I used for a while about ten years ago, I'll be happy. And grateful to APK for the lesson and the reminder. - by kermidge (2221646) on Wednesday March 27
I actually went and downloaded a 16k line hosts file and started using that after seeing that post, you know just for trying it out. some sites load up faster. - by gl4ss (559668) on Thursday November 17
dammit MS, you proved APK right about something by lgw
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature - More coming... apk
We just don't FULLY know what already went wrong. Like new crimes by Facebook are being posted each week. I guess other companies have quite some skeletons hidden. The most scary thing is actually when AI will pwn us -- we wouldn't know. We would be too stupid to even notice...
(APK) is still right a hosts file really does work. It even blocked a some of the video ads that were inserted into a stream OrangeTide February 10 2016
the Host File Engine performs exactly as promised - by mmell (832646) on Thursday February 16, 2017
I do use APK's host file on all my systems at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's good - by BronsCon (927697) on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:48PM (#51491263)
(Toss on 100,000++ users worldwide too!)
* For the Win32/64 model...
APK
P.S.=> Linux model's faster/more efficient + BETTER merge feature... apk
It's like AI run a muck but worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You don't see the challenge in changing the tyres on a moving car?
Easy one, a solar flare takes us all back to zero.
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... technology dystopia can't be avoided under a private ownership model. You can't hold tech and software companies accountable when they are 100's of miles away.
The reason why the world is corrupt as fuck and why human culture is being destroyed and corporations rule the world, is because people are politically and historically illiterate. If one looks objectively at the facts. We live in a lawless oligarchy and have for 200 years if intellectual property law is anything to go by. So no, until people start to really understand how their society actually works and stop falling for oligarch asskissing free market fundy ideology, the madness will continue.
George carlin said it best about humanity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Most normal people don't, sadly. Myself, I did In-Flight Missile Repair in the Air Force so I get you 100%.
MacOS version's coming of my already multiplatform program (lol, once I can FINALLY "let go" of Linux - I like it SO much I "make excuses" NOT to setup my NEW Mac-Mini I got + other "factors" in the REAL WORLD like a business I've run for 12++ yrs. now get in the way (more important)).
* It'll happen & once I get that system going, probably only take me a week or two @ most to get the MacOS model done (didn't take me much longer to port the Windows one to Linux & I IMPROVED IT on Linux in speed/efficiency & better 'merge' features).
APK
P.S.=> It's a fun hobby for me, does others right & is part of a completion of "self-actualization" for me really (a personal goal I'm completing on that note - it's taken 1/2 a century++ after all in LIFE, so I can afford to be a BIT patient on the MacOS build)... apk
What I'm waiting for is some disgruntled employee, l337 haxor or "axis power" to push a "security" update ... think windows 10... with a time bomb that destroys hundreds of millions of computers simultaneously.
Would wipe all data then destroy the operating system. It could try and brick/corrupt any hardware containing field upgradable firmware (disk drives, NICs, GPUs, mgmt engines, keyboards, system firmwares...etc)
The current system in my view is simply too dangerous. It costs too little to fix programming mistakes and normalizing constant perpetual updates as if this is a normal and healthy exercise is an exceedingly dangerous local optima to fall into.
Likewise there is nothing wrong with field firmware updates so long as they are distributed upon boot and physically unable to persist after reboot. Current practices are simply too dangerous.
was cheap fast processors and almost infinite memory... Programmers are nothing more than LEGO stackers now.... and it shows.
Look up the Carrington event. Realize that it's not a question of if, but of when the next X-class solar flare hits the Earth. It will be like an EMP, but it will last for days, not milliseconds, and it will be global. If we don't prepare for it, most electrically powered equipment will be destroyed, and in consequence most humans will die.
He is just playing with them. Jokes aside, free market has reached it's limit. As we have no scale for morality, it all depends on each individuals morals versus selfishness. And when ones decisions affect somebody out there, the later gets its ways. Morals get one around just the closest circle. For some it is wider and he helps old dog children, for others with a red button, does not even extend to a meter.
"Would you like to play a game"
So far, we haven't had machines start global thermonuclear war. So far.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
If the climate doesn't get its act together soon, we may have to just take it upon ourselves and launch all of the nukes.
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Probably because you aren't looking. Could you name which phone you have that can connect to the cellphone tower and not be provisioned by the company? Even if you buy a burner from walmart, they know you bought it. You can clone a phone, steal an ID, get someone else to buy it, etc so the system isn't perfect at this time. I suppose that it isn't "perfect" yet because there hasn't been a need for enforcement. All our government would need to put this into enforcement mode would be to force use of military-style Common Access Cards for all transactions. With that, the best you'd be able to do is steal an already activated phone, or clone one- which isn't easy with a CAC system. Extending these same principles to a normal internet modem is not hard at all.
Better not post any idea, or people will certainly use em.
Ohhhhh. So it CAN get worse.
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I'd say things are pretty good.
Cheer up!
politicians are like babies' nappies: they should both be changed regularly and for the same reasons
But that already happened, too. (Spectre, etc)
Nothing has gone wrong in tech from the macro level. Everything that is brought up is chump change. When people are rounded up and shot by the government using the data that is available then we have hit things going wrong. When the government installs the listening devices in homes, then we have gone wrong. When the temptation of weaponizing that info becomes too strong and the rule of law is broken, then things have gone wrong. So far, no government is pulling a Stalin or Pol Pot. And, yes, I know of China. They are getting close with the social credit system, but they have not started just rounding up the low end yet using "just" tech. They were doing that to undesireables before, just in a low tech way. So no change there. Just imagine the wet dream Stalin would have with all this tech. People are seeing the wrong side of humanity, not tech, with the killings in backwater villages being stirred up by forwarded group messages. There is nothing fundamentally different in that from a town gossip going around spreading rumors. Now, it is just done with electrons, not whispers. But humans are humans. We have not changed fundamentally in thousands of years. We try to pretend we have, but go read some of the histories from ancient Greece and Rome. Change the names and those are tabloid stories. Just like today. When we get to government scale, systematic killings using this information, then things have gone wrong. Up to that point, it is all fixable, it just requires will. Once it get to the internment camps for wrong think, using all of the data collected about us, then we have a problem.
2. ZenDesk basic plans allow user passwords to be any five characters.
WTF? From ZenDesk
Note: If an end-user or agent fails to enter their password correctly ten times in a row, they are locked out and cannot sign in again until they reset their password.
Am I missing something? I get locking an IP address out of a system if too many incorrect login attempts are tried, but locking the whole account down? Doesn't this just give, to anyone, the ability to lock anyone's account that they know the username, but not password, for?
Seems, to me, that this policy just begs for denial-of-service attacks against entire lists of usernames..
Although the data breaches of today are bad, just wait until the IoT devices of today are aging and unsupported containing critical security vulnerabilities that can be attacked with real world consequences. Think any "Smart" appliance of today 10 years from now where an attacker could remotely overload something like a compressor in a fridge or an oven to start a house fire. The same goes for automobiles. Imagine that done on a massive scale not just by some hacker, but by a nation-state.
This could also create future headaches for selling anything significant like a house or car. Imagine line items in the inspection report of a home or car for sale that call out security flaws in any aging IoT device.
Despite the fears from the kale-munching, OMG-I-can't-deal-with-artifice crowd, I for one have yet to hear of any actual widespread problems from the dissemination of GMO crops on humanity.
Sure, business practices of e.g. Monsanto may not be great for farmers, but the actual products themselves don't seem to be problematic AFAICT.
Change my mind ;-)
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." --Groucho Marx
We aren't in the Matrix yet, so all is not lost. Just keep taking that blue pill and everything will be ok.
Australian running a company that does C# / C++ / Java / SQL / Python / Mathematica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... A huge geomagnetic storm shitting on all our satellites and electronics at once.
When Bitcoin was introduced, I would've bet a fair amount of money that it would be hacked into inoperability within months if not weeks -- if only because there was so much monetary incentive for doing so, and any new, non-trivial software always contains bugs if you look hard enough. Non-trivial massively-multiuser software running on untrusted hardware should've been easy pickings... and yet, it soldiers on -- not taking over the world, exactly, but without any cataclysmic failure yet, either.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
But once it is complete, boom! One unforeseen problem and suddenly the power grid is down and now internet is down and now nothing wants to come back up because A service needs B service, which needs C service, which won't start until A service is back up, all while F service decides there is a problem and tells A service to wait to restart until Z service is restored, which depends on B...
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
I just read on The Verge that iRobot, makers of the Roomba, have created a lawnmower version. I'm wondering if someone's pet is going to be ground to a pulp by that ilttle murderous lawnmower robot.
https://www.theverge.com/circu...
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The general gist of this is, "Dang. Stallman was right". I wonder how much more miserable technology would be making our lives without the precedent of things like the GPL. I applaud the man for having the foresight to see the dark days that were coming and trying to hold them back with something that benefits society.
Two examples:
1. SalesForce charges a premium to enable encrypted-at-rest for your data. This means the company is charging to protect your data from possibly being compromised by SalesForce's own employees.
Encrypted at rest means your information is secured when offline, and the key is always secured. If not, and they wanted to compromise it, they still could. It’s more about protecting against a disk walking away, getting lost, mishandled, returned to the manufacturer etc. after it’s no longer needed but still containing sensitive info. That or you just need it for legal/contractual reasons.
- PC policing with immediate fines like in "Demolition Man"
- A Super Bug that spreads faster (antibiotics fail.)
- Lacking net neutrality, those nightmares begin to grow.
- ISPs join a privatized legal system to punish/fine for ToS violations involving other industries. (such as loss of internet if you don't pay for hearing a song.)
- Quantum Computing actually works. Encryption dies.
- GMO designed disease; mad scientist or gov leak or mutation.
- Self-driving cars are exempt from liability... or like cars became after smearing pedestrians etc. jay walking... but now it's you driving that is 2nd class.
- Government quality automated attack using the existing massive data breaches.
- Such as identity theft millions at once (USA)
- Bank money routing
- power grid goes down
- Stock Exchange Hacked (by machine, not the few human scams at the edge of happening.)
- Government requires backdoors into tech... openly legalized by many governments; making it even more of a mess
- Cash is no longer forced to be allowed by law for all for payment of all debts.
- Social Rating scale like in Black Mirror... minor forms exist already but it's not there yet.
- Right to Repair backfires and it becomes illegal to repair
- Solar power taxes protectionism for old power companies
- AI systems that are "stable" have ghosts set off by simple triggers. Like a sticker on a stop sign causes them to drive off the road.
- Dick Cheny's mind is successfully simulated on a computer. It's crazy flawed but half US voters can't tell.
Democracy Now! - uncensored, anti-establishment news
It's human that have gone wrong with their use of tech. The blame should never be laid on a piece of technology just because some magnate decided he could use it to oppress his fellow human beings a little more.
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Those with the worst nightmares get the most power/influence in disaster planning.
Weaponized Psychology:
App addictions to distract, control, and misinform the masses -- and customize techniques towards having a personal psychologist messing you up. We've only a hint of the start of this.
Cult-like control freaks AS AN APP. Isolation from friends/family/community replaced with hollow additions... Faster and more capable than a talented cult leader. Tech is already incidentally isolating people ironically in the communications tech age...
Continues to advance to the point where democracy is impossible in practice.
Slavery but you love your tiny freedoms! I get to choose the color of my shackles!
Democracy Now! - uncensored, anti-establishment news
Geez, do you think there's a day so sunny that this guy won't be able complain about the clouds? Sure, there are some problems with tech, but let's reformulate this just a bit:
If you look at the last 15 years in tech, it's just amazing! Everything you buy contains more processing power than an
supercomputer. You don't have to keep buying and re-buying software - it comes as a subscription that you use just as long you want.
With services like Steam, games "just work" - no more installation problems and driver nightmares. Gene editing to correct
birth defects is just around the corner. Drones give us amazing aerial photography, and they're so cheap that anyone
can play. We have new alternatives to currency, experiments from chips to Bitcoin, which may change the future of commerce.
And on, and on... The security problems on today's PCs are no worse than they were 10 years ago, just different. Cybercrime
is through the roof? Only because so much more of modern life is online - crime as a whole has certainly not increased; it
has just moved online along with the rest of our lives.
The author needs some serious counseling...
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
He could be trying to be the next JonKatz
You try to turn off a robot, but it turns itself back on.
A large-scale intentional attack of on-the-road autonomous vehicles causing rapid acceleration to a high rate of speed, veering off the road, crashing into eachother, walls, etc, resulting in mass casualty, inability to access roadways and congestion in medical centers, etc.
An evil terror organization led by Orban and disguising as an islamist djihad operation hires a ninja hacking club from Kazakhstan which takes over hundreds of self-driving cars (via a vulnerability in their IoT air-conditioning controller), which, at the same time, go rampant in bigger cities around the world.
Or something.
High-powered and relatively cheap devices are in the pockets of most people - what they do with the sum of Human knowledge? Spend all day playing Candy Crush and sexting of course!
Thus far nobody has instituted penis-based biometric sensors which randomly short out and electrocute or flay your member.
I assume this is just for the sake of equality, since it could only be used to oppress ~49% of the population.
Some day technology will advance far enough that it will be feasible to develop nuclear weapons without the massive state infrastructure required today. Today it is unthinkable, but give it 100 years and see where things stand, then.
Counterpoint: We actually live in a golden age of free speech. Even a decade ago the idea that people could make a career out of shitposting on YouTube was hard to imagine, yet here we are. With social media individuals with no corporate or government backing have more ability to reach more people than ever before, and post things that they would never dare to offline.
The kind of stuff you can find on YouTube and Twitter and Facebook in seconds today would never have been broadcast or widely published 30 years ago.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Everything.
I'm much more concerned about things staying on course and continuing the way they are. I could list a myriad of reasons but statistically it will most likely be something we never thought of or saw coming. Every living thing has a way to defend itself. For our particular primate niche, it's fists...we have these bony clubs on the end of our arms for pummeling...But at the same time, we have the most highly dexterous appendage of any animal. This has allowed us to make use of highly specialized tools to manipulate our environment, in almost all instances to the detriment of all other living things on the planet. In short...Our tool wielding fingers that we use to Lord over our environment are also attached to a hand that can make a fist to beat you to a bloody pulp... lol@technology
Robocops arrest everybody for jaywalking or being naked under clothes, and jail doors won't malfunction.
That's the biggest threat we know for sure exists, i.e. is already out there.
Antbiotics in livestock and CISPR are bound to someday breed a global killer that measurably reduces the global population. I'd expect something like this to perhaps cost 50 to 100 million lives before it can be stopped.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
We have thousands of nukes out there. How about that gov't shutdown? Do the nuke herders count as essential staff?
and the trolls responded.
Well, that's what went wrong there. Amongst the medical and political news that doesn't belong on here (news for nerds left the building a long time ago)
Some virus or a targeted attack makes self driving cars run through shopping malls or drive off bridges.
This could even happen if there is a GPS glitch making all maps offset by 100m to the east and the selfdriving software being buggy and assuming the GPS is right and the camera is wrong.
On one DrWho episode (or was it Torchwood?) there is an automated car system which is tricked into killing it's drivers on purpose.
Atari rules... ermm... ruled.
I am waiting with bated breath for someone to trot out a new methodology to fix all that is wrong with Agile. (Not that it is not in serious need of fixing or even better, nuking from orbit. It's just that I'm pretty sure that people that have brainfarts like that are capable of even greater malice.)
My own article on this has a more extensive list of what is wrong in IT, and why all the technology is so non-robust and untrustworthy.
We haven't had a man made virus go crazy yet and wipe out some percentage of the population.
No aliens have been successful in decoding all the radio signals and probes we send out, then following them back here in an attempt to wipe us out.
While we can manipulate memories (we can remove all your emotions from one) and muscles, there isn't a standard device you can implant into someone to control them or do a proper job of wiping their memories. We do have devices to implant into insects to control them, but no remote controlled people, yet. This tech is coming, it helps people with damage nerves.
But it's still only January. There's plenty of time left in the year for those things to happen.
Your smart locks opening for all the wrong people, and staying locked for you.
Appliances not working or changing settings to "recommended" ones without asking, ruining your food.
Environment controls (heat and A/C) reverting to outside defined settings, possibly cooking or freezing people.
Digital Assistants trying to counsel you, based on input, or even alerting the Police (or other authorities).
The IoT being hacked on a much wider basis.
Still, a great case for "Certified Dumb Device" (TM)
The ultimate thing that can go wrong is when you're unable to build your own computer and manage your local files. Everything else can be controlled or worked around.
First Post I've ever read that is complete FUD. Wake up and see the world for the good place it is.
Someone invents a teleporter, then wonders around the world beaming anything of value out of every property on earth. We're then forced to rethink 'value' and 'wealth' because people that used to have traditional wealth suddenly don't have it any more, and those without have the same as they had before.
Unlike the lame ass examples you put in the summary, this would be real harm if done at the wrong place. Subscription software and auto updating windows are in part reactions to things that went wrong and not necessarily wrong in and of itself. But this is Beau we are talking to so
Slashdot is permanently slashdotted, and no longer keeps me informed of the status of the giant bat-like creatures that fly between the power lines in front of my house, each grasping a shiny metal cylinder containing what was once the soul of a COBOL programmer, their leathery wings black as the inky depths of space, from where they originate. Why they fling the cylinders at the chemtrails originating from Canadian aircraft is as enigmatic as the diminutive chauffeur piloting the black Cadillac SUV used by Richard M Stallman on his mysterious assignations with "the lossless ones". These eldrich entities appear with uniforms sporting epaulets and cummerbunds, but it's impossible to see their faces which are wrapped in steaming, writhing "bandages". These facts are IGNORED BY INFOWARS and only reported on Slashdot, and then only by looking at the steagonographic messages hidden in the graphics from the adverts. But I digress. Where did I put my meds?
Just the washing instructions on life's rich tapestry
Your software is just crap - written in crayon, fictional... I'm going to continue using the Host File Engine as a punchline to a joke by mmell February 17, 2017
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is fucking insane - by JazzLad April 20, 2016
his hosts "program" is actually a broken batch file by xenotransplant August 10 2015
I do use APK's host file in all my memes at home by OrangeTide December 01 2017
I've never tried to belittle (APK's work), I've flat out said it's crap - by BronsCon (927697)
I like your tinfoil hat by Karmashock September 09 2015
that APK nut, I can't get him to stop talking about his piece of shit file by rogoshen1 Tuesday March 03, 2015
P.S.=> When YOU do better than THAT by our /. registered peers, then talk (from behind your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIE of a "so-called" WASTED life) - ok? apk
This is not free speech. It is controlled-BS-speech in order to keep us distracted from the things that really matters.
Counterpoint: N-word, anything that sound remotely like the n-word. Anything that offends the "pound me too" group. Eddie Murphy's faggot standup routine.
At least JavaScript hasn't become the world's most popular language.
Because when people urge caution and say slow down and think of ramifications everyone shrieks at them for hating technology, being a religious or far right wing ectemeists zealot, or a tin foil hatter.
All the while they don't realize they're the corporate pawns, the extremists and zealots, the new religious.
corporations and governments are not your family and friends, they're going to use you to their own end, regardless of the economic system you're in.
Seems to be a thing now a days to fight for a company like it's a person that you care about because those companies market to the masses this idea that they have political ideas (they don't. it's marketing you morons.) Stop it. Look at what you've allowed.
Apparently marketing has become too successful, as the flock just needs to hear the right message and they'll try and get rid of fundamental inalienable rights
How about the software industry being flooded with a bunch of progressive opinion writers turned software developers who put the same effort into coding as they did to factual content after being told to "Learn to Code"?
Slashot: "just about everything that could go wrong seemingly has gone wrong."
Technology: "hold my beer."
Honestly, there is an infinite list of what could go wrong but hasn't yet.
- All Nest thermostasts set and locked to 40C ... playing the latest Celine Dion's hit in loop!!! ...
...)
- All Phillips light flashing everywhere
- Like one said, all smart locks opening randomly
- All connected security cameras broadcasted to everyone
- Alexa, Google Home,
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And then all thoses IoT devices DDoS attacks on Cloud providers (Goog,e Amazon, Azure,
Will $CURRENT_YEAR be the year of the Linux Desktop?
I fully expect all of our power supply plants to be shut down (or worse), as they have already admitted multiple times that they are extremely vulnerable to computer attacks. Maybe an enemy country will do it. Maybe some insane hackers or religious extremists will do it. Either way, it will result in mass chaos, after which, the State will clamp down even harder on personal freedoms.
That's correct. If you can brute-force guess, phish, or steal usernames you can merrily start locking everyone out.
I mean, that's why it was invented, right?
copyrighted APIs...
What you start to describe is the commercialization of free speech, which cannot be a good thing for us plebes: they've fully incentivized our race to the bottom, to making speech meaningless.
We also have what Trump says, which while it may be allowed due to "free speech", should not be allowed due to lack of accuracy, incitement, lacking an ounce of morality or dignity, etc.
Alternatively, places like Groklaw shut themselves down before the U.S. government took action, ie. ACTUAL INFORMATION AND INFORMED DISCUSSION about things currently happening in the world.
R.I.P. freedom of information and communication.
Well Russians aren't making posts to scare people on Slashdot. Wait... (squints at the article)
The world still hasn't had World War III, but AI could lead the world mistakenly into World War III. It doesn't matter who the users of AI are around the world. AI does not necessarily consider the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, when it makes decisions. Humans in any part of the world may overlook this flaw in AI, when they use it without proper oversight.
Likewise, AI, without proper oversight, could lead humanity into irreversibly degrading the natural environment on earth. This hasn't happened yet, but the clock is ticking.
Ask Slashdot: What Could Go Wrong In Tech That Hasn't Already Gone Wrong?
Sexbots. Sexbots gone wrong. Sexbots out of control rampaging across the countryside having you whenever they want.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Seriously. Stop it. Don't give anyone any ideas.
Free speech is not related to the number of people you can reach or the number of people who are willing to listen.
We live in the golden age of old wives tales. It has nothing to do with free speech.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I've got enough to start my new dystopian tech novel now. You guys are great!
You forgot: U.S. retroactively declares Germany and Poland are property of the Israeli empire and orders their populations carted off to slavery.
Here's an idea: instead of letting tech companies who only want our money track us let's throw them out and let the government tell us what to do.
Oh wait. That's been tried over and over. It's called communism. Didn't work either.
The volume of bits flowing over the Internet goes up and up, but investment in infrastructure goes down, and current infrastructure decays. Latency goes up. Streaming services have pauses, intermittent failures, Interactive websites have flaky responses. Everything that depends on a continuous connection becomes irritating and unreliable. "Always connected" becomes a dream. Major businesses fail.
A vaccine has never caused autism. Yet....
Note: the proper mod for this comment is "troll"
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
Someone finds a backdoor or VM escape in a major cloud provider and immediately exposes all the data from the customers. Even better if they do it over a few months years to make it look like the customer was hacked in other ways.
Forget a single bucket being public... Think every bucket everywhere being wide open.
Yes, these are the scenarios I am referring to when I say "being compromised by SalesForce's own employees." Encrypted-at-rest means it prevents some extraction of your data that would involve a SalesForce employee as a part of the compromise. Charging for encryption-at-rest is profiting off of preventing the vendor from being a threat vector.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
maybe just "sloppy" tech in the guise of "it's going to be obsolete in 2 years anyway, so we don't build it to last".
after the tech plateaus, the next new function that obsoletes the two year old device will only be the "better color of the case" but that "new" model will also only last two years.
stone-age battery tech that cannot be replaced forcing the user to throw everything else high-tech inside the device (cpu, ram, display, modem, sound, network, etc. etc.) to the land fill t-hehehe
I'm waiting for the inevitable fall-out when a large-scale cloud product is shut down due to criminal or financial problems at the parent company.
What happens to the thousands of school districts that rely on GSuite to get their work done if Google decides to exit that business or declare bankruptcy.
Not many people thought GM could ever go bankrupt - yet they did.
= single point of failure.
It makes some sense for Salesforce to charge extra - because their platform is on the Oracle database. And the Oracle version that supports encryption at rest is more expensive - so they are passing along the extra cost to their customers. Don't blame Salesforce - blame Oracle !
I hear you.
s/SalesForce/Oracle/g
No less disdain for SalesForce, though.
$5 / month hosted VPS on linux = awesome!
Rather that think about malicious intent, I prefer to interpret this question as: Despite our best efforts, what can still go wrong?
In that respect, I think the answer it "plenty".
The reason is that as we gain better-and-better understanding of how stuff works, we design in less-and-less safety margin. Eventually, someone's design point will cut it too close, something bad happens as a result, we learn about some previously unknown phenomenon, adapt our models, improve out safety margins, and move on.
Re "golden age of free speech"
Where social media report users to governments?
Movie reviews get banned?
Governments are considering more blasphemy laws?
Shadow bans and the tracking of users publication and speech?
Free speech, the freedom to publish is not a "dare" its a right.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Shadow bans are a free speech violation now?
Keep in mind we didn't even have social media 30 years ago, so even if your movie review is banned it's not like there used to be an alternative way to publish to millions of people for free.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
I was expecting this thread to be a whole bunch of descriptions of things exactly as they are, followed by "Oh, wait...".
David Gould
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Thats really the different between social media been just a utility. Passing on each uses comments.
:) :)
The user is the person to made the comment.
Social media becomes a publisher of only users "comments" the social media brand approves of.
Social media becomes the publisher of all approved comments.
Social media is not for "free". Thats what all the tracking and ads are for
"Free" does not pay for the workers who are needed to approve comments and make profits
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
The LHC still hasn't found the All-bottoms-up particle
What's really problematic is triggered snowflakes trying to silence everyone they disagree with, e.g. by modding them troll.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Oh no you need an Internet connection once a month in 2019, and hard drive space to store your games on a media that is less likely to fail than an optical disk.
I suppose you might be a dumb drm cunt, but drm existed long before Steam and if you're that salty, but from GOG.
Remember when they wanted to close the USPTO because "everything that could be invented, already had been"?
That was in 1899.
Now we're here wondering what possible mischief could possibly be invented, that hasn't already been invented?
We are only just getting started!
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All the stop lights in NYC turn green (in all four directions) at the same time. Predicted in the early 1960s by Irwin Lewis, "The Day They Invaded New York" (published as short story, later published as book in 1964), along with the counterfeiting of over-sized subway tokens (blocking turnstyles--but now we have electronic ways to do that).
And I wonder how much better Stallman's efforts would have turned out if he hadn't insisted on his ludicrously stringent and idiosyncratic redefinition of the word "freedom", as if there could only be one kind, and it was his way or the highway.
Even with Stallman, the CPU and BIOS and much of the rest of the hardware remains a malware mosh pit (just how many state actors do you have on your machine?)
He wasn't ever going to win his battle to establish the one true ecosystem of copyleft all the way down, but still he found it necessary to characterize the BSD licence as "non-free".
What could actually go wrong that hasn't yet is that all these named horror shows could actually lead to the collapse of civilization, instead of eternal, long-winded speculation.
It's almost like we have some kind of guardian-angel dark matter that keeps the world turning despite our worst efforts.
Shame if someday something happened to our guardian-angel dark matter.
Corporate Progressive Nazi assholes sure do have contempt for freedom of speech.
Common people could conclude that privacy and technology are mutually exclusive, and since technology is so darn convenient, they'll stop asking for privacy, thinking "with AI cameras everywhere as the new normal, and everybody getting hacked once in a while, bedroom pics floating about the internet isn't a big deal any more". Once that mindset gets a hold, we're on our way to a hive mind.
So criticizing someone else (aka, down-modding them) == bad, but silently making it that their words are never heard (aka, shadow-banning them) == good. You've got some fucked up beliefs.
You've also completely failed to understand the "triggered snowflake" insult, but I'm not sure if that is related or not. For future reference, it is the left that has the triggered snowflakes. The right has.. I'm not actually sure, I just know that "triggered snowflake" is an insult used by the right against people on the left.
Everything else.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I think machine learning and expert systems are going to take over much of the decision-making that is today done by humans.
1. They'll be better than humans, statistically. We already see this in e.g. cancer diagnosis.
2. They'll be cheaper than humans.
Expert systems will control or play a major role in healthcare, insurance, employment, tax, social benefits, courts..
The problem is, already today algorithms created by ML are too complex to follow. We can only test and simulate to ensure they're at least more reliable than humans - in the end we'll just have to accept they're almost always right.
That's a bloody scary thing when your doctor says "Well, the computer says you need surgery so we'll just have to let it do that", but the reasons are too complicated for both your doctor and you to understand.
No sig to see here. Move along.
I think it's a matter of choosing what technology you will allow to enter your life. I usually wait for it to mature and never adopt anything in the early stages. I'd never have a Voice assistant in my home for such reasons shown in the article. And probably never will. I also cancelled my Facebook, instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn 3 years and 9 months ago and proudly wait for every anniversary. I really don't miss any functionality off them. Choose what tech you will grant access to your life before buying or participating.