If the ISP messes with your thermostat it is their fault. If they do it in the middle of the night when you're asleep, it's their fault. If they do it when you're away and your pipes freeze and flood your house, it's their fault.
They have no business messing with your thermostat. They aren't the police, or the FBI. It's not their job to enforce the law.
And if I had the misfortune to be a customer, you can bet I'd be shopping for another ISP right about now.
Please re-read that clusterfuck of a summary to help avoid misinterpretation. They are NOT controlling or messing with your thermostat. They are merely stating that bandwidth throttling may interfere with an owners ability to remotely control their own thermostat.
And quite honesty, if a homeowner has spent the money to buy and install a smart thermostat and yet fail to have it programmed to automatically avoid the ridiculous speculations of freezing pipes or freezing humans, then they are stupid enough to deserve said catastrophes.
...the only thing this rather bizarre policy will do is cause Americans to become lackadaisical about our fourth amendment rights. Then again, maybe that's the point.
99% of Americans couldn't recite the fourth amendment if it was tattooed on your forehead when you ask them.
I find it rather bizarre that you assume otherwise. Obscene ignorance has created rampant abuse.
UBI will become nothing more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses.
And? That's half of the "bread and circus" you need to avoid a revolution. If you got food on the table, clothes on your back, roof over your head... you don't start a revolution simply because it's not nice enough.
This comparison is invalid. In the days of bread and circuses, 80% of the population wasn't living like kings before you turned them into the welfare class. As you stated before, Revolutions happen because the poor get poorer, and you amplify the shit out of that justification when you turn every class into the poor.
So they are going to try and close Vandenberg AFB and take a chunk out of California's economy?
I kind of doubt SpaceX is the keeping Vandenberg AFB off the chopping block, particularly given the fact that Vandenberg serves as a key coastal missile defense position. Hell, Trumps Twitter account is keeping Vandenberg alive more than SpaceX at this point.
And a handful of SpaceX launches per year affects the California economy about as much as taking a piss in the Pacific ocean.
No. The goal of late is to completely control information. Obviously. AI isn't real in this context. Just a control mechanism. There is a man behind that curtain.
The creation of Social Media will go down in history as one of the most important things to ever happen to capitalism.
Within the framework of Social Media, you are the product being bought and sold. Because of this, one could argue the main goal is to completely control people, but that does not dismiss the capitalistic reason for engaging in that activity. If Greed were not being fed by Social Media, it would likely cease to exist. Chances are the man behind the curtain has the same agenda as many others; nothing more than a corporate puppet master looking to pull the strings of Greed in their favor. In fact, with Google being involved, this is all but guaranteed.
Sound like they are only bridging the router, using 802.11g/n/ac and tcp/ip.
all router can do that...
I configured WDS across three WRT54GS routers running 3rd party firmware. Boosted output power to over 100mW, which fed WiFi to four houses and covered over 3 acres in a rural area.
I did all this well over a decade ago. Nice to see that manufacturers are at least trying to catch up.
Now we'll watch those who mock the open-source community heap praise upon their vendor lords for releasing this "new" feature...
Greed has also proven that clicks are more valuable than facts these days. The nanosecond AI gets in the way of revenue, it will lose.
And we're a long way off from finding a cure that perpetuates bullshit over facts. AI isn't going to change that, because a lot of people enjoy living in a bubble of ignorance. It's one of the main reasons bullshit is so profitable.
Sad to say, but this is a losing proposition from the start.
Since they're being open about a bug that "accidentally" captured user telemetry data, would Mozilla now care to share what they've done with that data since March of 2017 when v52 was released? Who else has that data? Has it been bought and sold already?
When it comes to controlling not-so-anonymized information, a half-assed effort is essentially fucking worthless.
You are correct. At $29 they will take a loss on the battery replacements.
So you have access to validated internal cost detail for a company who buys this specific component in massive bulk?
And regardless if you are technically correct here, this move by Apple exists for two reasons; to keep you as a customer, and to maintain share price. Both of those are worth a fuckton more than a few dollars lost on the handful of people who managed to do more than just bitch about their crappy battery life.
Every election the American People are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. 300 million Americans seem to enjoy electing cow shit to battle against horse shit in one hell of a crappy race to the bottom.
Worrying about social media election issues is like arguing over what color to paint a nuclear warhead.
Possibly, the thing is I don't see at this point why many people need to attend university.
Because HR people don't get fired for hiring a fuck-up with a proper degree.
What the hell does HR have to do with it?! They don't "hire" people; that is the responsibility of a department manager or executive, who should have figured out if someone was a fuck-up during the interview. If they turn out to be a fuck-up at a later date, again it is the supervisors responsibility to correct that, or fire the person if it can't be corrected. Within this whole process, HR is responsible for pushing the relevant paperwork around. That's about it.
School isn't about education, it's about passing job criteria.
If school isn't about education anymore, then the fucking job criteria is wrong. Plain and simple. An unnecessary prerequisite is as worthless as the idiot insisting it needs to be perpetuated because "tradition".
"I didn't kill anyone because I didn't pull the trigger"
Wow. No, you just fooled a bunch of heavily armed people into thinking they were going to be confronting an armed and dangerous person who had already killed one person. No way could you have POSSIBLY predicted that situation could potentially lead to a death.
This idiot should be locked away for a very, very long time to think about what he did.
This keeps being reported as the first swatting-related death. Given that fact, it's perfectly plausible that this kid assumed it would not lead to someone's death, regardless of the rather horrific report of criminal activity used as a catalyst. History has shown that humans often assume nothing bad will happen...until it does.
On a separate note - the cops need to be royally reamed. They know swatting is a thing, they know getting the address wrong is a thing... yet they roll up and without any confirmation of what's going on they shoot the guy who answers the door. FFS, no hostage-taking murderer with a gun is going to open up the front door to the police without a hostage in front of them anyway.
10:1 the shooter had bad trigger discipline. Odds are even better that what blame the cops can't avoid will be so thinly distributed that pretty much no punishment results despite the fact they killed one of the people they're charged with protecting.
This issue should probably be addressed first and foremost. Not saying the kid doesn't deserve his own just rewards, but the viral attention of this case creates the perfect scenario to dismiss a bad shoot.
I think the big test for us is coming up shortly. Technology is shifting from being a labor-saving device to a labor-eliminating device. And unlike previous shifts, the employment losses are going to be at all levels of intelligence. How we respond to this is going to be the difference between having a peaceful transition to a lower level of work and a revolution.
Unfortunately, if you look at history and human behavior, the answer has already been written.
The chasm between the wealthy elite and the other 99.999% of the human race is growing wider, not shrinking. Greed will ensure we continue to race down the road of automation and AI as fast as possible regardless of the consequences. Automation is already consuming jobs. And for those assuming AI is still a minor risk, understand it will take merely good-enough AI to start replacing humans.
Millions of humans will not merely be unemployed. They will become unemployable, because our timeless mantra/excuse of "Go Get An Education" will eventually become irrelevant. We talk of things like UBI to establish a basic income for the unemployable, but the reality is UBI will have to be funded by taxing the rich, which is already an exercise in futility. The rich abuse loopholes and funnel trillions into untouchable tax havens, and when forced to fund UBI, they will lobby to pass legislation to minimize their UBI tax burden. UBI will become nothing more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses.
Will there be uprisings in the US? Most likely. Will they be successful against a powerful military who has militarized every local police force over the last few decades? I highly doubt it. It will likely just be very bloody.
All of this will happen because Greed N. Corruption killed Common F. Sense long ago.
Let's not even fucking pretend we give a shit about being malevolent. Greed welcomes that activity.
Funny that the devil you don't know might not be nicer. Suppose we create a place where greed is allowed but malevolence is not. I don't know, would that be a place to be?
There's nothing wrong with Greed itself at a reasonable level. We all have goals, and strive to better ourselves and our families. The problems arise when Greed becomes Fucking Obscene Greed, which requires a dismissal of ethics, and often champions immoral and illegal behavior.
When you look at what a person can reasonably spend in a lifetime, there is essentially no reason that a millionaire should strive to become a billionaire. And yet we have billionaires striving to become trillionaires. A massive imbalance of global wealth serves no purpose, and negatively impacts billions of people.
Greed can be used as a positive motivator for most. For some, it can grow into an addiction, and become as damaging for a society as any cancer. It is the latter we must find a cure for.
>The Banking Industry creates a housing crisis and global financial collapse, with zero punishment or deterrent to repeat it.
If the banking industry stops lending to low income deadbeats then they will be tagged as racist and attacked by SJW. Better to cause a major financial crash than be labelled racist, am I right comrade?
If someone is labeled a deadbeat, then there's a damn good chance they've earned that label.
Pay your bills on time. Don't live beyond your means. Don't drown yourself in debt. Debt to income ratios and other common sense lending practices are colorblind, so the racist excuse doesn't work.
And a slight speed adjustment allows the distance to return to normal after the merge
The problem is that a road runs at maximum capacity when speed is high and distance is minimal. A slight speed adjustment, like you suggested, has the effect of decreasing maximum road capacity.
That means that the road after the merge point not only has to deal with more cars, but also with a lower capacity to carry those cars. This lower capacity will propagate backwards to the road before the merge point. And that's how you end up with a traffic jam.
As we've all seen, one bad car accident on a freeway during rush hour makes the merge problem look like nothing by comparison, which tends to highlight the real problem to solve; human drivers. Maximum efficiency is the priority here, not maximum capacity. The capacity problem will hopefully be solved by removing the bullshit excuses that force humans to commute to large buildings to perform jobs that can easily be accomplished by using technology (internet/VPN/teleconference/cloud, etc.). We need to champion doing more from home and get rid of the old-fashioned mentalities that deter it. Education alone would be a large step in removing unnecessary congestion; traffic is significantly less on days where schools are closed. Workplace efficiency could have a rather massive increase as well; an hour-long commute to a full-time job translates to 40 hours a month wasted sitting behind a wheel.
The leader is an impatient/enraged/drunken/drugged/distracted human, incapable of removing those traits that have tainted damn near every mode of transportation ever invented, which is why we're now looking for an autonomous leader.
if you and everyone else on the road kept an equal distance between the cars ahead and behind, traffic would move twice as quickly.
Yes, because no one would be merging into traffic anymore.
If everyone kept an equal distance and followed a standard merging pattern of every other car, then it would likely solve the merging problem as well. Long ago we were shuffling decks of cards in a much less practical and inefficient way until certain physical moves were found to increase that efficiency ten-fold.
It's also well-known that impatience creates stop-and-go traffic patterns, which is but one of the many human factors that autonomous solutions will be looking to solve.
In Germany all commercial sellers have to register with the tax office. They get a ID and have to pay VAT. Foreign sellers have to do the same when selling goods in Germany via Amazon. Still most Chinese sellers neither register nor pay VAT. That's clearly tax fraud and an offence. Since Amazon doesn't check if the Chinese sellers have a valid German tax ID if they wan't to sell their goods in Germany, Amazon is aiding the tax fraud. It's time that Amazon is held responsible for that.
Taxes are for the plebs who can't launder their income through Ireland. Obscenely rich people don't pay those; they use their tax money to buy governments instead.
Besides, it's obviously more important for Bezos to wear the Richest Asshole crown.
The Birkenstock crowd has a rep for being the laid-back hippie Earthmother types. This guy sounds like he's engaged in a scorched-earth battle with Amazon and is willing to burn down anyone else who gets in his way.
No, he sounds like a guy fed up with unsatisfied consumers who bought "beercanstocks" thinking they were authentic, which will damage a reputable brand and product.
And if the manufacturer allegedly stopped selling valid product to Amazon US customers a year ago, no wonder he's pissed. Amazon hasn't done jack shit to deter counterfeiters from selling knock-offs. There's a fucking Birkenstock Amazon store which features their logo, valid photos, obscene prices (one pair had a $130 - 817.78 price range?!), and plenty of reviews warning people about fakes.
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If the ISP messes with your thermostat it is their fault. If they do it in the middle of the night when you're asleep, it's their fault. If they do it when you're away and your pipes freeze and flood your house, it's their fault.
They have no business messing with your thermostat. They aren't the police, or the FBI. It's not their job to enforce the law.
And if I had the misfortune to be a customer, you can bet I'd be shopping for another ISP right about now.
Please re-read that clusterfuck of a summary to help avoid misinterpretation. They are NOT controlling or messing with your thermostat. They are merely stating that bandwidth throttling may interfere with an owners ability to remotely control their own thermostat.
And quite honesty, if a homeowner has spent the money to buy and install a smart thermostat and yet fail to have it programmed to automatically avoid the ridiculous speculations of freezing pipes or freezing humans, then they are stupid enough to deserve said catastrophes.
...the only thing this rather bizarre policy will do is cause Americans to become lackadaisical about our fourth amendment rights. Then again, maybe that's the point.
99% of Americans couldn't recite the fourth amendment if it was tattooed on your forehead when you ask them.
I find it rather bizarre that you assume otherwise. Obscene ignorance has created rampant abuse.
UBI will become nothing more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses.
And? That's half of the "bread and circus" you need to avoid a revolution. If you got food on the table, clothes on your back, roof over your head... you don't start a revolution simply because it's not nice enough.
This comparison is invalid. In the days of bread and circuses, 80% of the population wasn't living like kings before you turned them into the welfare class. As you stated before, Revolutions happen because the poor get poorer, and you amplify the shit out of that justification when you turn every class into the poor.
So instead of a person bring responsible for pressing a button there is now AI making that decision.
Better get used to that. It's our future whether we like it or not.
So they are going to try and close Vandenberg AFB and take a chunk out of California's economy?
I kind of doubt SpaceX is the keeping Vandenberg AFB off the chopping block, particularly given the fact that Vandenberg serves as a key coastal missile defense position. Hell, Trumps Twitter account is keeping Vandenberg alive more than SpaceX at this point.
And a handful of SpaceX launches per year affects the California economy about as much as taking a piss in the Pacific ocean.
...this is as much security theatre as the TSA.
And you fucking know it is.
No. The goal of late is to completely control information. Obviously. AI isn't real in this context. Just a control mechanism. There is a man behind that curtain.
The creation of Social Media will go down in history as one of the most important things to ever happen to capitalism.
Within the framework of Social Media, you are the product being bought and sold. Because of this, one could argue the main goal is to completely control people, but that does not dismiss the capitalistic reason for engaging in that activity. If Greed were not being fed by Social Media, it would likely cease to exist. Chances are the man behind the curtain has the same agenda as many others; nothing more than a corporate puppet master looking to pull the strings of Greed in their favor. In fact, with Google being involved, this is all but guaranteed.
Sound like they are only bridging the router, using 802.11g/n/ac and tcp/ip. all router can do that...
I configured WDS across three WRT54GS routers running 3rd party firmware. Boosted output power to over 100mW, which fed WiFi to four houses and covered over 3 acres in a rural area.
I did all this well over a decade ago. Nice to see that manufacturers are at least trying to catch up.
Now we'll watch those who mock the open-source community heap praise upon their vendor lords for releasing this "new" feature...
Greed has also proven that clicks are more valuable than facts these days. The nanosecond AI gets in the way of revenue, it will lose.
And we're a long way off from finding a cure that perpetuates bullshit over facts. AI isn't going to change that, because a lot of people enjoy living in a bubble of ignorance. It's one of the main reasons bullshit is so profitable.
Sad to say, but this is a losing proposition from the start.
Since they're being open about a bug that "accidentally" captured user telemetry data, would Mozilla now care to share what they've done with that data since March of 2017 when v52 was released? Who else has that data? Has it been bought and sold already?
When it comes to controlling not-so-anonymized information, a half-assed effort is essentially fucking worthless.
You are correct. At $29 they will take a loss on the battery replacements.
So you have access to validated internal cost detail for a company who buys this specific component in massive bulk?
And regardless if you are technically correct here, this move by Apple exists for two reasons; to keep you as a customer, and to maintain share price. Both of those are worth a fuckton more than a few dollars lost on the handful of people who managed to do more than just bitch about their crappy battery life.
Every election the American People are forced to choose between the lesser of two evils. 300 million Americans seem to enjoy electing cow shit to battle against horse shit in one hell of a crappy race to the bottom.
Worrying about social media election issues is like arguing over what color to paint a nuclear warhead.
Possibly, the thing is I don't see at this point why many people need to attend university.
Because HR people don't get fired for hiring a fuck-up with a proper degree.
What the hell does HR have to do with it?! They don't "hire" people; that is the responsibility of a department manager or executive, who should have figured out if someone was a fuck-up during the interview. If they turn out to be a fuck-up at a later date, again it is the supervisors responsibility to correct that, or fire the person if it can't be corrected. Within this whole process, HR is responsible for pushing the relevant paperwork around. That's about it.
School isn't about education, it's about passing job criteria.
If school isn't about education anymore, then the fucking job criteria is wrong. Plain and simple. An unnecessary prerequisite is as worthless as the idiot insisting it needs to be perpetuated because "tradition".
"I didn't kill anyone because I didn't pull the trigger"
Wow. No, you just fooled a bunch of heavily armed people into thinking they were going to be confronting an armed and dangerous person who had already killed one person. No way could you have POSSIBLY predicted that situation could potentially lead to a death.
This idiot should be locked away for a very, very long time to think about what he did.
This keeps being reported as the first swatting-related death. Given that fact, it's perfectly plausible that this kid assumed it would not lead to someone's death, regardless of the rather horrific report of criminal activity used as a catalyst. History has shown that humans often assume nothing bad will happen...until it does.
On a separate note - the cops need to be royally reamed. They know swatting is a thing, they know getting the address wrong is a thing... yet they roll up and without any confirmation of what's going on they shoot the guy who answers the door. FFS, no hostage-taking murderer with a gun is going to open up the front door to the police without a hostage in front of them anyway.
10:1 the shooter had bad trigger discipline. Odds are even better that what blame the cops can't avoid will be so thinly distributed that pretty much no punishment results despite the fact they killed one of the people they're charged with protecting.
This issue should probably be addressed first and foremost. Not saying the kid doesn't deserve his own just rewards, but the viral attention of this case creates the perfect scenario to dismiss a bad shoot.
I think the big test for us is coming up shortly. Technology is shifting from being a labor-saving device to a labor-eliminating device. And unlike previous shifts, the employment losses are going to be at all levels of intelligence. How we respond to this is going to be the difference between having a peaceful transition to a lower level of work and a revolution.
Unfortunately, if you look at history and human behavior, the answer has already been written.
The chasm between the wealthy elite and the other 99.999% of the human race is growing wider, not shrinking. Greed will ensure we continue to race down the road of automation and AI as fast as possible regardless of the consequences. Automation is already consuming jobs. And for those assuming AI is still a minor risk, understand it will take merely good-enough AI to start replacing humans.
Millions of humans will not merely be unemployed. They will become unemployable, because our timeless mantra/excuse of "Go Get An Education" will eventually become irrelevant. We talk of things like UBI to establish a basic income for the unemployable, but the reality is UBI will have to be funded by taxing the rich, which is already an exercise in futility. The rich abuse loopholes and funnel trillions into untouchable tax havens, and when forced to fund UBI, they will lobby to pass legislation to minimize their UBI tax burden. UBI will become nothing more than Welfare 2.0 for the unemployable masses.
Will there be uprisings in the US? Most likely. Will they be successful against a powerful military who has militarized every local police force over the last few decades? I highly doubt it. It will likely just be very bloody.
All of this will happen because Greed N. Corruption killed Common F. Sense long ago.
It's odd that America tends to sustain its position as one of the best medical systems in the world
These latest studies tend to confirm that it's simply the best at marketing the appearance of being one of the best.
I guess if you're gonna be a bullshit artist, don't just be a good one. Be the motherfuckin' best.
Let's not even fucking pretend we give a shit about being malevolent. Greed welcomes that activity.
Funny that the devil you don't know might not be nicer. Suppose we create a place where greed is allowed but malevolence is not. I don't know, would that be a place to be?
There's nothing wrong with Greed itself at a reasonable level. We all have goals, and strive to better ourselves and our families. The problems arise when Greed becomes Fucking Obscene Greed, which requires a dismissal of ethics, and often champions immoral and illegal behavior.
When you look at what a person can reasonably spend in a lifetime, there is essentially no reason that a millionaire should strive to become a billionaire. And yet we have billionaires striving to become trillionaires. A massive imbalance of global wealth serves no purpose, and negatively impacts billions of people.
Greed can be used as a positive motivator for most. For some, it can grow into an addiction, and become as damaging for a society as any cancer. It is the latter we must find a cure for.
>The Banking Industry creates a housing crisis and global financial collapse, with zero punishment or deterrent to repeat it.
If the banking industry stops lending to low income deadbeats then they will be tagged as racist and attacked by SJW. Better to cause a major financial crash than be labelled racist, am I right comrade?
If someone is labeled a deadbeat, then there's a damn good chance they've earned that label.
Pay your bills on time. Don't live beyond your means. Don't drown yourself in debt. Debt to income ratios and other common sense lending practices are colorblind, so the racist excuse doesn't work.
And a slight speed adjustment allows the distance to return to normal after the merge
The problem is that a road runs at maximum capacity when speed is high and distance is minimal. A slight speed adjustment, like you suggested, has the effect of decreasing maximum road capacity.
That means that the road after the merge point not only has to deal with more cars, but also with a lower capacity to carry those cars. This lower capacity will propagate backwards to the road before the merge point. And that's how you end up with a traffic jam.
As we've all seen, one bad car accident on a freeway during rush hour makes the merge problem look like nothing by comparison, which tends to highlight the real problem to solve; human drivers. Maximum efficiency is the priority here, not maximum capacity. The capacity problem will hopefully be solved by removing the bullshit excuses that force humans to commute to large buildings to perform jobs that can easily be accomplished by using technology (internet/VPN/teleconference/cloud, etc.). We need to champion doing more from home and get rid of the old-fashioned mentalities that deter it. Education alone would be a large step in removing unnecessary congestion; traffic is significantly less on days where schools are closed. Workplace efficiency could have a rather massive increase as well; an hour-long commute to a full-time job translates to 40 hours a month wasted sitting behind a wheel.
"...and as the practical barriers to their malevolent use begin to lower."
The Military Industrial Complex champions warmongering for profit.
Big Pharma continues to put opium in a bottle, creating millions of addicts.
The Banking Industry creates a housing crisis and global financial collapse, with zero punishment or deterrent to repeat it.
Let's not even fucking pretend we give a shit about being malevolent. Greed welcomes that activity.
There, solved it.
The leader is an impatient/enraged/drunken/drugged/distracted human, incapable of removing those traits that have tainted damn near every mode of transportation ever invented, which is why we're now looking for an autonomous leader.
if you and everyone else on the road kept an equal distance between the cars ahead and behind, traffic would move twice as quickly.
Yes, because no one would be merging into traffic anymore.
If everyone kept an equal distance and followed a standard merging pattern of every other car, then it would likely solve the merging problem as well. Long ago we were shuffling decks of cards in a much less practical and inefficient way until certain physical moves were found to increase that efficiency ten-fold.
It's also well-known that impatience creates stop-and-go traffic patterns, which is but one of the many human factors that autonomous solutions will be looking to solve.
I'm not sure what justifies the need for body cameras more, the death of an innocent man, or the Slashdot comments being posted here.
Comments being posted here make the SWAT guy look like a monk. Talk about trigger-happy.
In Germany all commercial sellers have to register with the tax office. They get a ID and have to pay VAT. Foreign sellers have to do the same when selling goods in Germany via Amazon. Still most Chinese sellers neither register nor pay VAT. That's clearly tax fraud and an offence. Since Amazon doesn't check if the Chinese sellers have a valid German tax ID if they wan't to sell their goods in Germany, Amazon is aiding the tax fraud. It's time that Amazon is held responsible for that.
Taxes are for the plebs who can't launder their income through Ireland. Obscenely rich people don't pay those; they use their tax money to buy governments instead.
Besides, it's obviously more important for Bezos to wear the Richest Asshole crown.
The Birkenstock crowd has a rep for being the laid-back hippie Earthmother types. This guy sounds like he's engaged in a scorched-earth battle with Amazon and is willing to burn down anyone else who gets in his way.
No, he sounds like a guy fed up with unsatisfied consumers who bought "beercanstocks" thinking they were authentic, which will damage a reputable brand and product.
And if the manufacturer allegedly stopped selling valid product to Amazon US customers a year ago, no wonder he's pissed. Amazon hasn't done jack shit to deter counterfeiters from selling knock-offs. There's a fucking Birkenstock Amazon store which features their logo, valid photos, obscene prices (one pair had a $130 - 817.78 price range?!), and plenty of reviews warning people about fakes.
Even hippies have their limits. Everyone does.