I'm far from a gun nut but I can see why someone who had a gun for self-defense wouldn't want this, the chance of malfunction isn't worth it (if you really believe the chance of needing the gun to save your life is greater than the chance of your gun being used against you or a loved one, correctly or not).
This would be good for a gun used just for target shooting or hunting small game. If the lock fails, no big deal, and it would make the gun much harder to be used "illegitimately" (have to swap out parts with "dumb" replacements).
Actually some do. My parents bought a safe with a digital lock that requires batteries to power the lock and retract the deadbolt in the doors. When it locks all their stuff in I'm just gonna say "told you so."
Evolution doesn't give a damn how much of an irresponsible moron you are, only how much you reproduce. And irresponsible morons are especially good at that.
The more I learn about the place the less I like it. It's amazing that it's acquired a reputation as a progressive/liberal business environment, it's actually the most ruthlessly Randian business environment in the US. Silicon Valley libertarians have absolutely no qualms about producing products that make the world worse in any way possible (social networking, drones, "mechanical turk" clones and other race-to-the-bottom accelerators, mass surveillance for marketing purposes...literally anything), with the possible exception of when it's making the world worse through government interference e.g. NSA spying - and even in that case most of them rolled over for it. Of course none of them have any qualms with ridiculous tax avoidance schemes. And they're racist and sexist as all hell in terms of hiring practices, but if you cover it up with trendy interior design and hipster fashion nobody notices.
It may weaken an unfair advantage the western world had in international diplomacy through spying on foreign governments - something they shouldn't have had anyway IMO. Spying on foreign governments should only be done in war for strategic purposes. Saying that we have to be bad because the other guys are being bad is just rationalizing an awful race to the bottom. I'd say it's good that the leaks have shown that the western world is becoming more like the genuine authoritarian regimes and offer some chance of correcting it.
I find it hilarious the hoops they jump through to make it technically legal, with the secret FISA court and their secret interpretations of laws. Those might actually provide them legal cover...sadly. Why can't they just have the balls to say "fuck you, this is effectively an authoritarian police state now and we can do whatever we want." I'd appreciate the honesty.
Probably because they kill people when they show the first signs of dissent, long before they ever get to the point where they could leak something. Shouldn't all nations aspire to such iron-clad, practically unconditional government secrecy?
So if we use the same tactics for prostitution...? (rather than an undercover cop acting as a hooker, put a robot)
You bet your ass it'll happen when they get cheap and realistic enough. Hey maybe when there are "fully-featured" fembots they'll actually let the john go through with the act and wait until he hands over the money to call in the raid so the case will be bulletproof.
If they make the bot good enough it'll become too hard to tell a kid from a bot with enough certainty for a pedo to be sure they're not walking into a police trap by meeting with the kid...in which case, mission accomplished.
I'm saying that OSC's anti-gay efforts shouldn't impact anyone's opinion of his art, just whether they're going to financially support him. I'm not saying to separate the moral implications of supporting the artist from the act of paying for their works.
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Depends on the distro. I think recent versions of Ubuntu are set up like this, they have the "controversial" stuff in a separate repo.
if you are irresponsible then you should not have a gun.
Yes but that can't be fixed through legislation, so this is an attempt to fix it through technology.
there's some ideas about giving the soldiers tags that would let them use their militarys guns.
Army gun activation bracelets! Collect 'em all and unlock every weapon on the battlefield!
I'm far from a gun nut but I can see why someone who had a gun for self-defense wouldn't want this, the chance of malfunction isn't worth it (if you really believe the chance of needing the gun to save your life is greater than the chance of your gun being used against you or a loved one, correctly or not).
This would be good for a gun used just for target shooting or hunting small game. If the lock fails, no big deal, and it would make the gun much harder to be used "illegitimately" (have to swap out parts with "dumb" replacements).
Actually some do. My parents bought a safe with a digital lock that requires batteries to power the lock and retract the deadbolt in the doors. When it locks all their stuff in I'm just gonna say "told you so."
Should've sent the boat the long way around.
Hey, he had kids already, evolution says he's doing better than any of us who don't have kids.
Mod parent up, was just gonna say this.
Evolution doesn't give a damn how much of an irresponsible moron you are, only how much you reproduce. And irresponsible morons are especially good at that.
The more I learn about the place the less I like it. It's amazing that it's acquired a reputation as a progressive/liberal business environment, it's actually the most ruthlessly Randian business environment in the US. Silicon Valley libertarians have absolutely no qualms about producing products that make the world worse in any way possible (social networking, drones, "mechanical turk" clones and other race-to-the-bottom accelerators, mass surveillance for marketing purposes...literally anything), with the possible exception of when it's making the world worse through government interference e.g. NSA spying - and even in that case most of them rolled over for it. Of course none of them have any qualms with ridiculous tax avoidance schemes. And they're racist and sexist as all hell in terms of hiring practices, but if you cover it up with trendy interior design and hipster fashion nobody notices.
It may weaken an unfair advantage the western world had in international diplomacy through spying on foreign governments - something they shouldn't have had anyway IMO. Spying on foreign governments should only be done in war for strategic purposes. Saying that we have to be bad because the other guys are being bad is just rationalizing an awful race to the bottom. I'd say it's good that the leaks have shown that the western world is becoming more like the genuine authoritarian regimes and offer some chance of correcting it.
I find it hilarious the hoops they jump through to make it technically legal, with the secret FISA court and their secret interpretations of laws. Those might actually provide them legal cover...sadly. Why can't they just have the balls to say "fuck you, this is effectively an authoritarian police state now and we can do whatever we want." I'd appreciate the honesty.
Probably because they kill people when they show the first signs of dissent, long before they ever get to the point where they could leak something. Shouldn't all nations aspire to such iron-clad, practically unconditional government secrecy?
The invisible jackboot of the market has many more ways to socialize the losses (one hinted at in your sig).
They died off because all the kind of user who would have read that mag is the kind of user who would replace a PC with a locked-down toy tablet.
I actually thought of the word from this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia_(car)
GORGON STARE is real.
Addendum: And I guess ASSOCIATION is too obvious for mention, that's naming as straightforward as an old Microsoft product.
I thought the most telling names were FASCIA and BANYAN.
FASCIA: Immediately makes me think it has something to do with face recognition
BANYAN: Named after a parasitic tree that grows in the cracks of other trees. Uh huh...
So if we use the same tactics for prostitution...? (rather than an undercover cop acting as a hooker, put a robot)
You bet your ass it'll happen when they get cheap and realistic enough. Hey maybe when there are "fully-featured" fembots they'll actually let the john go through with the act and wait until he hands over the money to call in the raid so the case will be bulletproof.
(Is it illegal to write a chatbot that simulates a 14 y.o?)
Some countries already have laws about animated stuff and written erotic fiction...
If they make the bot good enough it'll become too hard to tell a kid from a bot with enough certainty for a pedo to be sure they're not walking into a police trap by meeting with the kid...in which case, mission accomplished.
Does anyone believe that being once removed by virtue of a private company makes you any less part of the police state?
Sadly most either think so, or don't - but don't care.
I think he's generally right but certainly not in the case of THIS conference.
Followed by a drone strike at his family barbecue.
I'm saying that OSC's anti-gay efforts shouldn't impact anyone's opinion of his art, just whether they're going to financially support him. I'm not saying to separate the moral implications of supporting the artist from the act of paying for their works.