1. Creating a fair number of on-line fake ID's. Because when legislation like this becomes popular, your real name and address absolutely will wind up making you available in the real world to hate groups, stalkers, and other varieties of creep.
Two things are certain: there will be wholesale leaks of personal information, and this kind of legislation will contain provisions to protect governments and corporations from the consequences those inevitable leaks.
What a lot of them got is the shaft. Remember when John Stewart exposed Jim Cramer's record of providing appallingly bad financial advice? It's still up on YouTube.
Short sellers have always had a relationship with financial news media that worked well for both sides, but not so much for people who actually counted on those media for objective information. Short sellers plant a story about how Company X is experiencing some kind of problem. The media dutifully reproduce it with a minimum of fact checking...basically just ensuring that they aren't publishing outright lies. Company X's stock declines in value. Short sellers are happy. The financial news media write stories about how the "troubled company" is now struggling to survive, so they're happy because they get two stories for the price of one. The cycle is complete when those same short sellers vaccuum up the company's stock at a much-reduced price and suddenly it's once again a great place to invest.
But this long-time tactic starts to fail when average investors become aware that they're being manipulated, and begin to question the timing of those planted stories. And maybe they start to doubt whether Company X's troubles are really bad enough to justify a stampede to sell. Add in an insanely rich company owner who delights in shoving a barbecue brush up the bum of short sellers and their news media enablers, and we have this situation. Finally, those of us who have watched helplessly as time after time Wall Street insiders profited by manipulating the system in a manner that is dishonest, if not illegal, can sit back and enjoy a good laugh.
Yeah, if one or two of these guys decided to take the fastest route to street level, I'd be more than willing to award a score for the quality of their last, long dive.
Google also detailed applications of the technology that the company will not pursue, including A.I. for "weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people"
So AI could be used to pinpoint the exact location of the families of enemy soldiers, but it would be an actual human who executed the command to kill or imprison them.
I hear Pruitt's scientific proof will be based on the fact that a particularly nasty storm having no connection at all to Global Warming apparently blew up out of a bunch of Chick-fil-A emails.
The potential cost of getting hacked just keeps going higher and higher.
And I wonder how long it will be before some bright light in law enforcement tries to make the case that if you let your phone open your car (or home), you've given up your right to refuse entry to those places to nosy people with badges, as long as they can find some legal pretext to demand access to the device itself.
Does anybody doubt we'll be seeing something similar in American schools, stores, police stations and workplaces before long?
American corporations have been telling us for years if we allow them to modify their wares to meet Chinese demands, the end result will be a China that is more free and more open.
Instead, often with the assistance of Apple, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other corporations, China is tightening the screws on its population. Meanwhile, privacy in America is becoming a thing of the past, and the powers of "Free World" corporations and governments are increasing every day.
I think I've finally figured out why we're getting more and more stories like this on Slashdot. Politicizing the site is a sure way to generate more and more traffic as even long-time members get sucked into pointless, lengthy political debates. The process has been aided and abetted by commenters who seem to have come out of nowhere with multiple accounts and a willingness to abuse the "Anonymous Coward" feature.
This kind of story is money in the bank, because it is certain to foster pointless debate over a purely political issue. One side can claim Trump is standing up to Kim. The other will say Kim has trolled Trump beautifully and left him looking like the poor sucker who shows up at somebody's house for a party held the previous week.
In either case, those of us who valued Slashdot for its coverage of mostly tech-related stuff are increasingly being alienated.
Not all humans. Just people like you. Or maybe don't kill yourself. Just quit acting so much like a dick and do some basic, easy stuff...like using a water bottle instead of buying endless half liter bottles and throwing them away in parks when you're done with them, or maybe walking half a mile instead of taking the car.
But we know you're too selfish and lazy to do things like that. It's a lot easier to just yap at people who actually do try to make a difference.
If you're bright enough to write a poem like "Jabberwocky", and include even of your own custom-made words, you can very easily have a password far longer than 14 characters that's perfectly easy to remember.
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1. Creating a fair number of on-line fake ID's. Because when legislation like this becomes popular, your real name and address absolutely will wind up making you available in the real world to hate groups, stalkers, and other varieties of creep.
Two things are certain: there will be wholesale leaks of personal information, and this kind of legislation will contain provisions to protect governments and corporations from the consequences those inevitable leaks.
What a lot of them got is the shaft. Remember when John Stewart exposed Jim Cramer's record of providing appallingly bad financial advice? It's still up on YouTube.
Short sellers have always had a relationship with financial news media that worked well for both sides, but not so much for people who actually counted on those media for objective information. Short sellers plant a story about how Company X is experiencing some kind of problem. The media dutifully reproduce it with a minimum of fact checking...basically just ensuring that they aren't publishing outright lies. Company X's stock declines in value. Short sellers are happy. The financial news media write stories about how the "troubled company" is now struggling to survive, so they're happy because they get two stories for the price of one. The cycle is complete when those same short sellers vaccuum up the company's stock at a much-reduced price and suddenly it's once again a great place to invest.
Everybody wins...well, everybody except honest investors.
But this long-time tactic starts to fail when average investors become aware that they're being manipulated, and begin to question the timing of those planted stories. And maybe they start to doubt whether Company X's troubles are really bad enough to justify a stampede to sell. Add in an insanely rich company owner who delights in shoving a barbecue brush up the bum of short sellers and their news media enablers, and we have this situation. Finally, those of us who have watched helplessly as time after time Wall Street insiders profited by manipulating the system in a manner that is dishonest, if not illegal, can sit back and enjoy a good laugh.
Yeah, if one or two of these guys decided to take the fastest route to street level, I'd be more than willing to award a score for the quality of their last, long dive.
That's an interesting analysis. Thank you.
Why is it that every time I see "Theranos", I read it first as "Thanatos"?
Google also detailed applications of the technology that the company will not pursue, including A.I. for "weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people"
So AI could be used to pinpoint the exact location of the families of enemy soldiers, but it would be an actual human who executed the command to kill or imprison them.
That's comforting!
I hear Pruitt's scientific proof will be based on the fact that a particularly nasty storm having no connection at all to Global Warming apparently blew up out of a bunch of Chick-fil-A emails.
Excellent point.
It should be legal to hunt them...no season, no limit. In fact, there should be a bounty.
One has to ask: was this neutrino born sterile, or was it "fixed" because it lepton some poor physicist and left a meson his leg?
A sneaky fart in mid-winter Yellowknife produces similar results. Of course, there might be a small amount of hydrogen sulphide contamination.
For years, my standard response to the panhandlers infesting our downtown area has been, "Do you take debit?"
If this catches on, I'll have to revert to my former practice of politely asking them to fuck off.
The potential cost of getting hacked just keeps going higher and higher.
And I wonder how long it will be before some bright light in law enforcement tries to make the case that if you let your phone open your car (or home), you've given up your right to refuse entry to those places to nosy people with badges, as long as they can find some legal pretext to demand access to the device itself.
Good question.
I guess you didn't know the push for this idiocy started under Harper.
Does anybody doubt we'll be seeing something similar in American schools, stores, police stations and workplaces before long?
American corporations have been telling us for years if we allow them to modify their wares to meet Chinese demands, the end result will be a China that is more free and more open.
Instead, often with the assistance of Apple, Google, Microsoft and dozens of other corporations, China is tightening the screws on its population. Meanwhile, privacy in America is becoming a thing of the past, and the powers of "Free World" corporations and governments are increasing every day.
Can you imagine trying to get between their back legs to milk them? And for sure you'd keep losing the bucket.
At least when the machines are actively trying to kill us, we can be fairly sure that once in a while they'll screw up and leave their victim alive.
And your mom but be sorry she farted and left the best part of you on the sheets.
True, but neither were as prominently represented as now.
I think I've finally figured out why we're getting more and more stories like this on Slashdot. Politicizing the site is a sure way to generate more and more traffic as even long-time members get sucked into pointless, lengthy political debates. The process has been aided and abetted by commenters who seem to have come out of nowhere with multiple accounts and a willingness to abuse the "Anonymous Coward" feature.
This kind of story is money in the bank, because it is certain to foster pointless debate over a purely political issue. One side can claim Trump is standing up to Kim. The other will say Kim has trolled Trump beautifully and left him looking like the poor sucker who shows up at somebody's house for a party held the previous week.
In either case, those of us who valued Slashdot for its coverage of mostly tech-related stuff are increasingly being alienated.
Hacked and disseminated: Scotland's contribution of several million "up-kilt" escalator shots.
Wouldn't it be funny if somebody hacked the site and put their mugshots up on it!
Not all humans. Just people like you. Or maybe don't kill yourself. Just quit acting so much like a dick and do some basic, easy stuff...like using a water bottle instead of buying endless half liter bottles and throwing them away in parks when you're done with them, or maybe walking half a mile instead of taking the car.
But we know you're too selfish and lazy to do things like that. It's a lot easier to just yap at people who actually do try to make a difference.
If you're bright enough to write a poem like "Jabberwocky", and include even of your own custom-made words, you can very easily have a password far longer than 14 characters that's perfectly easy to remember.
Here's an example:
"Anonymous" and "Coward"
Words identifying fools
Known for sloping, apelike foreheads
Also noseflaps shaped like tools