How it works in Silicon Valley is you find the most desperate person in Southeast Asia willing to work 80 hours a week for slave wages, take their CV, remove their name, and turn it into a job posting.
Funny how Fascism in the US only starts creeping in after most of the men and women that fought it (and would recognize all this for what it is) have passed away.
Genesis 6:3 NIV
Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."
The clueless (and mostly co-opted) Fourth Estate will dutifully parrot the statements from all the various spokespersons and maybe even the CEOs... who intentionally don't know shit.
The CTOs and their senior staffs on the other hand...
One of these days, Ecuador is going to have a press conference:
You know what? Yes, the US and UK are obviously Imperialist a-holes, even to the point of lying the world into a war that has massive consequences including so many people fleeing the West-caused destruction, that is threatening the future of the EU itself...
but Julian Assange is just as big an a-hole; you can find him rolled up in a carpet in our alley.
Use the source code to create malware that disables the functionality of the insecure devices. When it becomes apparent that massive numbers of them stop working soon after installation, sales will drop through the floor and that is the only thing that will make manufacturers change their behavior.
So they lock themselves out of a *third* sale? Doubtful. Easier to just change brand names; boxes and labels are cheap to make in the Pacific Rim.
They are the same idiots who fell for the tea party. They are the conservative version of occupy wall street. Petulant simpletons falling for the myth of the simple solution.
The funny* part is that the GOP / Kochs lost control of this rabble, as evidenced by Trump winning the nomination.
* Not funny ha-ha, more like funny, here comes Idiocracy.
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Next conference, at the closing ceremony, Lennart Poettering will be burned in effigy.
How it works in Silicon Valley is you find the most desperate person in Southeast Asia willing to work 80 hours a week for slave wages, take their CV, remove their name, and turn it into a job posting.
"Won't someone think of the Rich White Men!!"
Damn! Now we're even outsourcing our IQ tests!
Funny how Fascism in the US only starts creeping in after most of the men and women that fought it (and would recognize all this for what it is) have passed away.
Zuck maybe the most dangerous silicon billionaire of all.
"Funny how after everyone had phones with cameras, the number of UFO sightings really dropped off."
You don't 'fine' scum like this: you. part. them. out.
"Challenge accepted." -- Dick "El Diablo" Cheney
his cozy relationship with the CIA, and increasingly Amazon as well. But I have to admit: he has hired some smart folks for his hobby.
Until that is phased out for being 'too expensive', meaning 'impossible to real-time track everyone using cash'.
"What a striking photo!"
"Yeah..."
Now, you too can construct a Faberge Egg inside a shitbox with no brakes.
The clueless (and mostly co-opted) Fourth Estate will dutifully parrot the statements from all the various spokespersons and maybe even the CEOs... who intentionally don't know shit.
The CTOs and their senior staffs on the other hand...
"Google Gets Serious About Surveillance."
Soon - much to the delight of Dr. Farnsworth - their products will be so invasive as to be offered as a suppository.
"89? 89 what?"
"I don't know, but you have to admit, it sounds like a lot of them."
Well, it was mostly funded by slip-and-fall attorneys, so... /s
Getting fire to look right in VR is tough.
So they lock themselves out of a *third* sale? Doubtful. Easier to just change brand names; boxes and labels are cheap to make in the Pacific Rim.
I'll be sure to avoid this like the Plague, just like your more full-featured surveillance platform.
"Look up Standard Oil."
The funny* part is that the GOP / Kochs lost control of this rabble, as evidenced by Trump winning the nomination.
* Not funny ha-ha, more like funny, here comes Idiocracy.
Hot-buttered Karma; so delicious.
AS INTENDED.