This entirely misses the point of 8k....8k is supposed to be the ultimate, the final form of 2D television. NHK, the people behind it, skipped over 4k because it's just a stepping stone to perfection. If anything is to blame here, it's 4k being a half measure and 8k not arriving quickly enough.
Speaking of missing the point, let me help translate exceeding the capabilities of your eyes.
That means 16K, 32K, and 64K televisions will be made and marketed because there will always be enough dumb consumers who will spend thousands on "the best", regardless if they can actually fucking tell or not.
The Star Trek society had other motivations. Money and greed were rarely discussed.
The only realistic thing that should be taken from Star Trek is the fact that it takes place in the century most likely for any of the rest of that bullshit fantasy to become a reality.
Greed N. Corruption runs the world. That ain't gonna change for a long damn time.
Maybe don't go out in public if you're that scared of having your picture taken?
Ah, a world full of narcissists, and I am the one who gets punished? Yeah, fuck that. And this isn't merely having your "picture taken". Future solutions will be streaming 4K video live with HD audio.
When someone parks drones outside every window of your home 24 hours a day, let me know how accepting you'll be to "Maybe don't ever open your curtains."
When every country demands access to your social media accounts at every border crossing, let me know how accepting you'll be to "Maybe don't ever use social media."
When every employer monitors your personal internet activity, let me know how accepting you'll be to "Maybe just don't ever go online."
The sad reality is people won't understand the value of privacy until it's far too late.
Want to know what happens when you have or create laws without enforcement or punishment?
A perfect example would be the actions not taken to control, prohibit, or regulate Greed N. Corruption from causing another economic disaster driven by the Banking Industrial Complex. There's nothing to prevent 2008 from happening again.
More laws are fucking worthless without enforcement and punishment. If you don't want to do that, then don't fucking bother wasting time drafting and passing laws and regulations.
Well, I've certainly had my unfair share of calls disrupted, so turnabout is fair play.
They're common carriers. We just want their transport and can do without all the expensive add-ons that they want to cram on our bills. But that's not a sexy business model.
Electricity isn't "sexy". Neither is city water or trash disposal services.
Common carriers are a necessary component driving many other services, and given the demand I'm failing to understand how or why any of them are struggling.
it's all about the data gathering.. stuff like this does NOT need to be "cloud-connected", does not need to 'share' data with the manufacturer.. but they do it anyway because the data is an extra profit center and companies just can't resist that temptation.
They do it anyway because no laws have been created prohibiting such activity.
They do it anyway because demand makes the activity profitable.
They do it anyway because adults are just as stupid and ignorant about the risks of "cloud-connected" devices.
Speak for yourself. I want better lifelogging; I find the current state of lifelogging apps, like Sony's "Lifelogger", quite poor. I'd love an app that logs *everything* I do, from as many sensors as it can, constrained only by realistic storage / bandwidth constraints. If something like this could be built into my cellphone or a cheap cell accessory, that would be awesome.
The main problem with it being simply an app on a cell phone is that cells have only front and rear cameras, but for a cell in your pocket what you really want is a side camera (which nobody has). But I can picture solutions for that problem...
Please understand that while you may want to record *everything* you do, the rest of us do not, nor do we want to be included.
And to clarify, the main problem we have here is technology like this bullshit does not leave us with a fucking choice to NOT participate. I have enough cameras and invasion of privacy going on right now, paid for by my taxes. I sure as shit don't need more.
And right now, I can't "picture" a solution to solve for the endless amount of narcissists invading society that seek to destroy the concept of privacy altogether.
You apply an arbitrary black and white label to something with various shades of grey.
Ask a teen tweeting their lives away on social media if you can watch them having sex in their bedroom. Expect them to say no, because privacy isn't a black and white matter.
Ask a person who used their same password on their facebook page since primary school why they also have a concealed carry permit. Expect them to take a defensive stance because security isn't a black and white matter either.
I applied an online label to the problem I was describing. You brought the physical world into your examples, which I was not addressing at all. Yes, people naturally value privacy and security in the physical world. My point was people ignorantly dismiss it on the online space, and there is an endless amount of evidence that shows the risk and damage when you dismiss that, which tends to make it rather black and white.
As far as how you manage your online space and authentication, I have no comment. You already know the risks of recycling passwords. Mitigate as you see fit.
What in the FUCK makes you think that kind of consumer gives a shit about emphasizing security when privacy was dismissed long ago?
Because security and privacy are two very different things.
In the online space, the ignorant masses blur the line. They use the same shitty password they had in high school, and share their entire lives on social media. Privacy is dead, and security has always been considered an annoying inconvenience.
For corporate gmail, the "can you give me a new password" request goes to the administrator of your corporate gmail. It does not go to Google.
That raises the bar slightly. First the hackers have to know who that is. Second they have to determine what the practices and procedures for making the request are for your organization and third what a possible way to subvert them are...
*hacker gleans CxO names and titles from the corporate website, along with major customers from PR postings*
"Yes, Hi. My name is Mr. Smith. I just started last week and lost my token. Mr. [name-drop CEO] stated it was urgent that I contact someone to get access immediately because we have [name-drop customer] waiting on a million-dollar order!"
Yeah, the bar was raised alright. By an inch.
...Should be different for all organizations.
When it comes to social engineering, little has changed.
Pretty much if you're on a train (especially a Tube train) then you bought a ticket from A to B or - in London - you bought an Oyster card which records your every journey as you have to tap-in and tap-out.
This is quite normal for any train/subway system. What information do you think they are going to glean from Wifi that they can't glean in this manner about travel patterns?
Travel patterns are not the gold mine here. Browsing habits are.
Gathering browsing habits of people who spend XX hours every week in the tube is worth more than you know. Putting ads in front of your eyes for that entire trip is valuable to a lot of companies, since they know you spend 95% of that time staring at a phone screen.
Because they will spend the money on USB keys and then not bother with creating some form of identity validation policy, cue the "I lost my USB key, can you give me a temporary password?" phone hack in 3...2...
Social Engineering. Because hacking ignorance, is timeless.
Ok Google, I get it. Us plebs don't deserve good security.
Well, certainly no other account in a company would be worth securing, right? I mean what access would those piss-ant IT SysAdmins have? I mean, it's not like they control the entire server farm...
When and only when this shit is completely autonomous with no need for internet access. I won't have my shit spying on me and I won't ask an external entity to control shit in my own home. I'll drill my own hole in my own firewall and control my devices directly with no 3rd party intervention.
Looks like you better get busy then. DIY is clearly the answer here, especially when the other 99.999% of solutions will continue to be made for the masses who don't give a shit about security, and will sell their privacy for peanuts.
Unless the OS security, both internal and external isn't a LOT better than what we're getting from the Internet of Crap, this will be another disaster.
The Internet of Crap consumer has purchased an always-on listening device buried deep inside the most personal spaces of their life. What in the FUCK makes you think that kind of consumer gives a shit about emphasizing security when privacy was dismissed long ago?
Oh, and "manual override"? That would assume the consumer A) knows how, or B) wants to learn. The entire point of automating the shit out of every little thing is so they don't have to bother with manual anything anymore.
"a stagnating credit reporting agency with a 'culture of tenure' and 'average talent'...earned a gross profit margin of 90%."
Wait, don't tell me, let me guess...you spend all your obscene profit on equally obscene executive bonuses and therefore you can't afford anything more than "average" talent?
Not that parachute-lined CxOs will start giving a shit anytime soon, but this is what happens when coddling top management becomes THE priority above all else.
.... got fed up being put through to some idiot in Bangalore who couldn't solve his own shoelaces whenever there was an issue who then had to escalate it 3 levels up before there was even a satisfactory response, never mind a solution. Of course IBM arn't the only ones guilty of this. You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
You really think the person who's getting a fat bonus every quarter really gives a shit about what "companies" think?
Once again, pure unadulterated greed stands out. The only thing that matters is their benefit from managing a number at the bottom of a page, no matter what that takes. Banking executives have certainly proven unethical and even illegal activities are worth the effort and risk.
My current apartment is full of IKEA products (wardrobe, computer desk, kitchen table, coffee table & TV unit). All bought in early 2014 and none has failed on me and its all still in good condition.
The apartment I had before this one (where I got rid of my furniture rather than move it cross country at great expense) was full of IKEA furniture as well and that stuff never failed me in all the years I owned it (I did replace the top of a computer desk but that was only because I needed a larger one)
In terns of how much use I get out of IKEA furniture vs what I paid for it, IKEA has represented good value to me.
It may be a decent value, but you've already hinted as to why your IKEA furniture has lasted quite a long time.
Once you assembled it, you never moved it.
Disassembling or otherwise physically moving IKEA furniture is filed under "Shit You Never Do"
I like how they add that innocent little phrase. "...as well as some citizens".
If you're a naturalized citizen, you're as much of a citizen as the Founding Fathers. Don't let anyone tell you different. Unlike citizens that were born here, you've proven that you can actually pass a civics test. You belong here. You have all the rights of any American.
"You have all the rights of any American".
I like how you add that little innocent phrase as if it actually still means anything anymore...
Give up your cell phone for a week. See how insignificant it is for you to not have communications you've grown to rely on to organize your life and coordinate with your friends, family, and employer.
Now multiply that impact by 3 million. In a disaster zone.
"In exchange for this, we get access to ostensibly "free" services...
They aren't "ostensibly" free. They're actually free (as in beer), which is the main reason people today will happily trade their digital soul in exchange for a zero-cost app or service. The fastest way to offend a Millennial is to make them open their wallet for an app, social media, email, web hosting, or WiFi service.
"...while simultaneously helping to train new technologies which may one day put large numbers of us out of business."
Uh, when speaking to the IDGAF generation, try and remember that they only care about the FOMO moment. They're rather YOLO about all that "one day" future shit.
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This entirely misses the point of 8k....8k is supposed to be the ultimate, the final form of 2D television. NHK, the people behind it, skipped over 4k because it's just a stepping stone to perfection. If anything is to blame here, it's 4k being a half measure and 8k not arriving quickly enough.
Speaking of missing the point, let me help translate exceeding the capabilities of your eyes.
That means 16K, 32K, and 64K televisions will be made and marketed because there will always be enough dumb consumers who will spend thousands on "the best", regardless if they can actually fucking tell or not.
The Star Trek society had other motivations. Money and greed were rarely discussed.
The only realistic thing that should be taken from Star Trek is the fact that it takes place in the century most likely for any of the rest of that bullshit fantasy to become a reality.
Greed N. Corruption runs the world. That ain't gonna change for a long damn time.
Maybe don't go out in public if you're that scared of having your picture taken?
Ah, a world full of narcissists, and I am the one who gets punished? Yeah, fuck that. And this isn't merely having your "picture taken". Future solutions will be streaming 4K video live with HD audio.
When someone parks drones outside every window of your home 24 hours a day, let me know how accepting you'll be to "Maybe don't ever open your curtains."
When every country demands access to your social media accounts at every border crossing, let me know how accepting you'll be to "Maybe don't ever use social media."
When every employer monitors your personal internet activity, let me know how accepting you'll be to "Maybe just don't ever go online."
The sad reality is people won't understand the value of privacy until it's far too late.
Want to know what happens when you have or create laws without enforcement or punishment?
A perfect example would be the actions not taken to control, prohibit, or regulate Greed N. Corruption from causing another economic disaster driven by the Banking Industrial Complex. There's nothing to prevent 2008 from happening again.
More laws are fucking worthless without enforcement and punishment. If you don't want to do that, then don't fucking bother wasting time drafting and passing laws and regulations.
Well, I've certainly had my unfair share of calls disrupted, so turnabout is fair play.
They're common carriers. We just want their transport and can do without all the expensive add-ons that they want to cram on our bills. But that's not a sexy business model.
Electricity isn't "sexy". Neither is city water or trash disposal services.
Common carriers are a necessary component driving many other services, and given the demand I'm failing to understand how or why any of them are struggling.
it's all about the data gathering.. stuff like this does NOT need to be "cloud-connected", does not need to 'share' data with the manufacturer.. but they do it anyway because the data is an extra profit center and companies just can't resist that temptation.
They do it anyway because no laws have been created prohibiting such activity.
They do it anyway because demand makes the activity profitable.
They do it anyway because adults are just as stupid and ignorant about the risks of "cloud-connected" devices.
Speak for yourself. I want better lifelogging; I find the current state of lifelogging apps, like Sony's "Lifelogger", quite poor. I'd love an app that logs *everything* I do, from as many sensors as it can, constrained only by realistic storage / bandwidth constraints. If something like this could be built into my cellphone or a cheap cell accessory, that would be awesome.
The main problem with it being simply an app on a cell phone is that cells have only front and rear cameras, but for a cell in your pocket what you really want is a side camera (which nobody has). But I can picture solutions for that problem...
Please understand that while you may want to record *everything* you do, the rest of us do not, nor do we want to be included.
And to clarify, the main problem we have here is technology like this bullshit does not leave us with a fucking choice to NOT participate. I have enough cameras and invasion of privacy going on right now, paid for by my taxes. I sure as shit don't need more.
And right now, I can't "picture" a solution to solve for the endless amount of narcissists invading society that seek to destroy the concept of privacy altogether.
You apply an arbitrary black and white label to something with various shades of grey.
Ask a teen tweeting their lives away on social media if you can watch them having sex in their bedroom. Expect them to say no, because privacy isn't a black and white matter. Ask a person who used their same password on their facebook page since primary school why they also have a concealed carry permit. Expect them to take a defensive stance because security isn't a black and white matter either.
I applied an online label to the problem I was describing. You brought the physical world into your examples, which I was not addressing at all. Yes, people naturally value privacy and security in the physical world. My point was people ignorantly dismiss it on the online space, and there is an endless amount of evidence that shows the risk and damage when you dismiss that, which tends to make it rather black and white.
As far as how you manage your online space and authentication, I have no comment. You already know the risks of recycling passwords. Mitigate as you see fit.
Those arguing that "gatekeepers" failed you, should be careful what you ignorantly accuse and demand from information providers.
Especially when you're rather busy protesting censorship and promoting free speech.
Really it's not a massive jump from the competition. Which is not to say I'm going to buy one, but I'm also not buying a new Samsung.
Labeling Samsung as the "competition" is like trying to pretend the only two makers of automobiles on the planet are Ferrari and Lamborghini.
There are plenty of other choices that are considerably less expensive than the product lines reserved for the narcissistic elite.
What in the FUCK makes you think that kind of consumer gives a shit about emphasizing security when privacy was dismissed long ago?
Because security and privacy are two very different things.
In the online space, the ignorant masses blur the line. They use the same shitty password they had in high school, and share their entire lives on social media. Privacy is dead, and security has always been considered an annoying inconvenience.
For corporate gmail, the "can you give me a new password" request goes to the administrator of your corporate gmail. It does not go to Google.
That raises the bar slightly. First the hackers have to know who that is. Second they have to determine what the practices and procedures for making the request are for your organization and third what a possible way to subvert them are...
*hacker gleans CxO names and titles from the corporate website, along with major customers from PR postings*
"Yes, Hi. My name is Mr. Smith. I just started last week and lost my token. Mr. [name-drop CEO] stated it was urgent that I contact someone to get access immediately because we have [name-drop customer] waiting on a million-dollar order!"
Yeah, the bar was raised alright. By an inch.
...Should be different for all organizations.
When it comes to social engineering, little has changed.
Paranoia much?
Pretty much if you're on a train (especially a Tube train) then you bought a ticket from A to B or - in London - you bought an Oyster card which records your every journey as you have to tap-in and tap-out.
This is quite normal for any train/subway system. What information do you think they are going to glean from Wifi that they can't glean in this manner about travel patterns?
Travel patterns are not the gold mine here. Browsing habits are.
Gathering browsing habits of people who spend XX hours every week in the tube is worth more than you know. Putting ads in front of your eyes for that entire trip is valuable to a lot of companies, since they know you spend 95% of that time staring at a phone screen.
Because they will spend the money on USB keys and then not bother with creating some form of identity validation policy, cue the "I lost my USB key, can you give me a temporary password?" phone hack in 3...2...
Social Engineering. Because hacking ignorance, is timeless.
Ok Google, I get it. Us plebs don't deserve good security.
Well, certainly no other account in a company would be worth securing, right? I mean what access would those piss-ant IT SysAdmins have? I mean, it's not like they control the entire server farm...
When and only when this shit is completely autonomous with no need for internet access. I won't have my shit spying on me and I won't ask an external entity to control shit in my own home. I'll drill my own hole in my own firewall and control my devices directly with no 3rd party intervention.
Looks like you better get busy then. DIY is clearly the answer here, especially when the other 99.999% of solutions will continue to be made for the masses who don't give a shit about security, and will sell their privacy for peanuts.
Unless the OS security, both internal and external isn't a LOT better than what we're getting from the Internet of Crap, this will be another disaster.
The Internet of Crap consumer has purchased an always-on listening device buried deep inside the most personal spaces of their life. What in the FUCK makes you think that kind of consumer gives a shit about emphasizing security when privacy was dismissed long ago?
Oh, and "manual override"? That would assume the consumer A) knows how, or B) wants to learn. The entire point of automating the shit out of every little thing is so they don't have to bother with manual anything anymore.
"a stagnating credit reporting agency with a 'culture of tenure' and 'average talent'...earned a gross profit margin of 90%."
Wait, don't tell me, let me guess...you spend all your obscene profit on equally obscene executive bonuses and therefore you can't afford anything more than "average" talent?
Not that parachute-lined CxOs will start giving a shit anytime soon, but this is what happens when coddling top management becomes THE priority above all else.
.... got fed up being put through to some idiot in Bangalore who couldn't solve his own shoelaces whenever there was an issue who then had to escalate it 3 levels up before there was even a satisfactory response, never mind a solution. Of course IBM arn't the only ones guilty of this. You'd think companies would have started to realise now that outsourcing isn't always the solution to their problems, sometimes it IS the problem.
You really think the person who's getting a fat bonus every quarter really gives a shit about what "companies" think?
Once again, pure unadulterated greed stands out. The only thing that matters is their benefit from managing a number at the bottom of a page, no matter what that takes. Banking executives have certainly proven unethical and even illegal activities are worth the effort and risk.
My current apartment is full of IKEA products (wardrobe, computer desk, kitchen table, coffee table & TV unit). All bought in early 2014 and none has failed on me and its all still in good condition.
The apartment I had before this one (where I got rid of my furniture rather than move it cross country at great expense) was full of IKEA furniture as well and that stuff never failed me in all the years I owned it (I did replace the top of a computer desk but that was only because I needed a larger one)
In terns of how much use I get out of IKEA furniture vs what I paid for it, IKEA has represented good value to me.
It may be a decent value, but you've already hinted as to why your IKEA furniture has lasted quite a long time.
Once you assembled it, you never moved it.
Disassembling or otherwise physically moving IKEA furniture is filed under "Shit You Never Do"
I like how they add that innocent little phrase. "...as well as some citizens".
If you're a naturalized citizen, you're as much of a citizen as the Founding Fathers. Don't let anyone tell you different. Unlike citizens that were born here, you've proven that you can actually pass a civics test. You belong here. You have all the rights of any American.
"You have all the rights of any American".
I like how you add that little innocent phrase as if it actually still means anything anymore...
Not really
Give up your cell phone for a week. See how insignificant it is for you to not have communications you've grown to rely on to organize your life and coordinate with your friends, family, and employer.
Now multiply that impact by 3 million. In a disaster zone.
(Equifax) - "Hello! Nice to meet you! I understand you're interested in buying our assets."
(Buyer) - "Yes, we are! We just have to get through some background stuff. How's your credit score?"
The only catch I see here is - don't other parts of that area also need support?
Communications is rather vital to coordinate and execute many other critical projects related to health, infrastructure, etc.
"In exchange for this, we get access to ostensibly "free" services...
They aren't "ostensibly" free. They're actually free (as in beer), which is the main reason people today will happily trade their digital soul in exchange for a zero-cost app or service. The fastest way to offend a Millennial is to make them open their wallet for an app, social media, email, web hosting, or WiFi service.
"...while simultaneously helping to train new technologies which may one day put large numbers of us out of business."
Uh, when speaking to the IDGAF generation, try and remember that they only care about the FOMO moment. They're rather YOLO about all that "one day" future shit.