The difference is before they could shut off the tower. Thats fine, thats like the FBI shutting off power in Die Hard, expected. This is control over the physical device itself. To an I.T. person this is absolutely abhorrent. Its like saying all comps in a corp network need a government kill switch to protect from botnets.
The purpose of the kill switch is to ensure Law Enforcement has an unimpeded path to absolutely control comms at the device level if needed. The only thing that keeps them in check on this is political capital. This is a VERY BAD THING.
You are on Slashdot and you wonder how simple data like that was obtained? There are about a hundred ways to track a person now. Hell most people carry a tracking device on them.
This is why i run my own 'cloud' service using Synology NAS boxes. I cant stand how much file manipulation all the big consumer cloud vendors do. I want my cloud files to feel EXACTLY like a folder in a share over a slow link. Stop scanning, interpolating, deduplicating etc, jsut store my files.
Apple themselves are all but ignoring it, and have for its entire life. It could be so much more, but they let it rot. They dont even expose the bluetooth module so you can get headset audio from it......
Sorry, but i will never support putting people in cages for 'stealing' intellectual property, EVER. Copyright is a social bargain, and the other side has taken FAR too many liberties. Lets not make it any easier for them. WE are in a golden age of culture generation right now, there is no social need for such strong IP protections.
I agree that physical correction is sometimes necessary. The problem is very few people know how to properly apply it, and fewer still will take the message to heart. It escalates more than anything else. I often lament that i cant jsut go pound the crap out of my neighbor instead of calling the cops, but it would escalate into true violence and possibly vendetta.
We dont lose 30,000+ people a year to cellphones (U.S).... Your analogy is bad. The main purpose of autonomous cars will be to remove human ego and error from the equation. No modified cars will be able to even run on the autonomous roads in the not too distant future. You might not even be able to own a private car that operates on them, but only use them as a form of individualized mass transit wit ha standard issue vehicle.
Any modified car wont be allowed on the autonomous lanes at all. Getting caught operating a modified car on the 'no human operator' sections will induce heavy fines, loss of use of private vehicle, etc.. In short no, your cyberpunk dreams arent going to happen. The whole point of autonomous cars is to remove human-drive ability altogether.
There is a fine line here. R/C aircraft are absolutely legal, so making specific behaviors illegal without infringing Liberty is tricky. The solution needs to be INCREDIBLY narrow.
I learned an important lesson from Charles Winchester III on MASH. Hawkeye and BJ were feasting on some goods sent from home and keeping it from Charles. HE smiles and says ~ 'Not to worry, your middle class morals will force you to share it with me'. It seemed to me that a ton of 'moral fiber' idealism is handed down from the elites to keep the proles in line.
Autonomous cars will be slaves, they wont be making choices for themselves. They will follow the ruleset the Road Computer sets for them. Cars will be in constant contact with the road with beacons giving them differing rulesets (speed, school nearby etc). No person is going to have selectable ethics.
WRONG. I was booking a trip to Flagstaff, AZ the other day via train and there were many track warnings of BASF doing track upgrades, resulting in passengers being taken off the 'network' entirely and shoved into buses.. Trains are NOWHERE near 5 sigma in any way. The Pacific Surfliner route has a 78% on time record....not great (amtrak publishes their reliability stats).
I dont want a 3rd party thinking its ok to raid my digital locker without true cause. I'm sorry you feel that is ideologically impractical. ITs fine, i run my own private cloud anyways, but im still going ot look down my nose at police-state shit like this. P.S. Im not childless.
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They are using the term 'federated' to describe the relationships.
The difference is before they could shut off the tower. Thats fine, thats like the FBI shutting off power in Die Hard, expected. This is control over the physical device itself. To an I.T. person this is absolutely abhorrent. Its like saying all comps in a corp network need a government kill switch to protect from botnets.
Ask Sony about how well hardcoding physical hardware works out for them..... (PS3 encryption keys)
The purpose of the kill switch is to ensure Law Enforcement has an unimpeded path to absolutely control comms at the device level if needed. The only thing that keeps them in check on this is political capital. This is a VERY BAD THING.
LOL. Good luck getting any coins out of that ARM CPU. Also it was DogeCoins, not BitCoin
You are on Slashdot and you wonder how simple data like that was obtained? There are about a hundred ways to track a person now. Hell most people carry a tracking device on them.
Other OS removal, persecution of GeoHot, attempted trampling of the 1st Amendment (regarding Geohot)
TO be fair, WESTERN Sony execs arent nearly as bad as the old Japanese guard. IM glad Kaz Hirai (Western) is in charge of SCEI now.
This is why i run my own 'cloud' service using Synology NAS boxes. I cant stand how much file manipulation all the big consumer cloud vendors do. I want my cloud files to feel EXACTLY like a folder in a share over a slow link. Stop scanning, interpolating, deduplicating etc, jsut store my files.
Dont get your hopes up for an Enterprise Apple. They have always dipped their toe, but they have never stepped into the water.
Apple themselves are all but ignoring it, and have for its entire life. It could be so much more, but they let it rot. They dont even expose the bluetooth module so you can get headset audio from it......
Sorry, but i will never support putting people in cages for 'stealing' intellectual property, EVER. Copyright is a social bargain, and the other side has taken FAR too many liberties. Lets not make it any easier for them. WE are in a golden age of culture generation right now, there is no social need for such strong IP protections.
I agree that physical correction is sometimes necessary. The problem is very few people know how to properly apply it, and fewer still will take the message to heart. It escalates more than anything else. I often lament that i cant jsut go pound the crap out of my neighbor instead of calling the cops, but it would escalate into true violence and possibly vendetta.
We dont lose 30,000+ people a year to cellphones (U.S).... Your analogy is bad. The main purpose of autonomous cars will be to remove human ego and error from the equation. No modified cars will be able to even run on the autonomous roads in the not too distant future. You might not even be able to own a private car that operates on them, but only use them as a form of individualized mass transit wit ha standard issue vehicle.
Any modified car wont be allowed on the autonomous lanes at all. Getting caught operating a modified car on the 'no human operator' sections will induce heavy fines, loss of use of private vehicle, etc.. In short no, your cyberpunk dreams arent going to happen. The whole point of autonomous cars is to remove human-drive ability altogether.
There is a fine line here. R/C aircraft are absolutely legal, so making specific behaviors illegal without infringing Liberty is tricky. The solution needs to be INCREDIBLY narrow.
Pump your brakes kid, that man is a national treasure.
I learned an important lesson from Charles Winchester III on MASH. Hawkeye and BJ were feasting on some goods sent from home and keeping it from Charles. HE smiles and says ~ 'Not to worry, your middle class morals will force you to share it with me'. It seemed to me that a ton of 'moral fiber' idealism is handed down from the elites to keep the proles in line.
Autonomous cars will be slaves, they wont be making choices for themselves. They will follow the ruleset the Road Computer sets for them. Cars will be in constant contact with the road with beacons giving them differing rulesets (speed, school nearby etc). No person is going to have selectable ethics.
WRONG. I was booking a trip to Flagstaff, AZ the other day via train and there were many track warnings of BASF doing track upgrades, resulting in passengers being taken off the 'network' entirely and shoved into buses.. Trains are NOWHERE near 5 sigma in any way. The Pacific Surfliner route has a 78% on time record....not great (amtrak publishes their reliability stats).
You think its right and normal that the NSA can spy on 7 billion souls? You re ok with that? Disgusting, you really dont belong here.
Then perhaps its time we change the definition of treason to cover this stuff. The 4th is more important than the NSA will ever be.
Airplay is buggy and not nearly as reliable as a wire. I have had 3 Apple TV boxes for years now. They dont work consistently.
I dont want a 3rd party thinking its ok to raid my digital locker without true cause. I'm sorry you feel that is ideologically impractical. ITs fine, i run my own private cloud anyways, but im still going ot look down my nose at police-state shit like this. P.S. Im not childless.
The reason you cant yell fire is due to the IMMINENT and IMMEDIATE harm it could induce. Your analogy is bad.