I don't own a Google Home device or use any voice assistants.
Google has the manpower to curate their results to the extent that they could block everyone. But a better approach would be to make an example of the first asshole who openly abuses the system. That would save them a good bit of effort.
Put whatever you want in your podcasts, won't bother me even if I run across them, but I still consider you an asshole.
Well I'm glad that someone without a vested interest in banking secrecy has some idea about what's going on. If the NSA sees terrorists laundering money or companies violating sanctions they can tip off the relevant authorities.
I'd say that the FBI and IRS should be monitoring all global banking. along with their equivalents in every country. Interpol as well, sure.
This is a war Google could win quickly and decisively. They could block all questions about BK's Whopper, or even all questions about BK at all. They're playing with kid gloves on, even against a blatantly malicious enemy.
I think I'd prefer if the NSA *could* see those bank transactions. I'm not a fan of privacy in banking. If you want to do a transaction privately, that's what cash (and maybe cryptocurrency, that genie's out of the bottle) is for. Any privacy beyond that only provides enhanced convenience to criminals IMO. I'd prefer if all bank transactions were visible to law enforcement and tax authorities.
I don't think the torrenting system as we know it today will be replaced, it will just be moved onto a darknet. It's already possible, there's just a ton of inertia keeping people running their torrents in the clear and little incentive to move onto a darknet.
Torrents are technically superior to all of those other technologies you listed.
What makes this so difficult for many people is that their expenses are nearly as much as their income with little to no room to decrease expenses. They struggle along to save money and then some surprise expense hits, and they're suddenly in debt which takes ages to crawl out of. It's easy to tell someone to live within their means when there's more than breathing space between "living" and "means."
It's also worth considering that much of the American right sees Russia as a friendly country with common interests. They're socially ultra-conservative, highly capitalist, authoritarian, militarily adventurous, heavily invested into fossil fuels, and overwhelmingly white. These are all upsides to all but the most moderate of today's American right.
To them, the issue of Russian interference is a minor issue that they'd like to downplay because it gave good results. How upset do you think the left would be if Canada used propaganda and hacked info to tilt the playing field for Hillary when the alternative was a catastrophe? That's how the right looks at Russian interference.
I'm not sure how the right feels about Russia trying to retake former Soviet states, propping up dictators, and interfering with elections in other Western democracies. I'd think that might run against their interests, but they seem to be cool with it.
Came here to say this. This nightmare scenario is no worse than current reality, unless you see the fact that an AI is doing instead of a human to be worse somehow.
Mankind is already ruled by a distributed resource-management AI that is indifferent to human suffering, it's called capitalism. It seems to consider the executive class to be "goodlife."
When I read the title I thought NASA was advertising Earth for adoption by aliens, after it had been neglected by its native inhabitants. That actually makes more sense:-P
There is a drug that can do this, can't find info on it now but I read an article on it in Wired a few years ago. People testing it were sleeping for just 2-3 hours a night and woke up feeling like they'd slept 8. There are other drugs that can defer the need to sleep. I think the only reason it hasn't caught on and made 13-hour work days the new normal is the overabundance of labor.
Clearly there's some kind of "design flaw" in human biology then. Probably something that evolved since the industrial revolution. We should find a way to correct it so that we can get back to working stupid hours for our flawless, benevolent economic system.
They created SELinux and a set of military cryptography standards that differs from the civilian ones, strongly suggesting that the civilian ones are weak. That's all I can think of. They've certainly done a lot to damage the security of the Internet.
Well as for the strike itself, I'm not really against it. On one hand the US does risk getting themselves into another middle-eastern quagmire. On the other hand, it's disgusting that humanity has done so little to stop Assad from genociding his political opposition. We've decided to sit back and let him kill hundreds of thousands unimpeded just because the problem is complicated. So I'm glad someone finally struck back at Assad, even if it was triggered by an emotional outburst and even if it's after Assad has almost finished murdering everyone who disagrees with him being dictator for life. A little token consequence for committing genocide is better than none.
If Pai is trying to compel service providers to put the principles of an open Internet in their service contracts, why not just mandate net neutrality by law?
Because by making the ISPs pinky-promise to not do what they will inevitably do in the absence of net neutrality, Ajit Pai can avoid looking like a mustache-twirling cartoon villain. He's not responsible for tying that lady to the railroad tracks! He just llfted the overreaching, oppressive law that kept the Traintrack Killer from owning ropes and made him pinky-promise not to tie any women to the tracks.
Republicans always set up a weak excuse for their actions to avoid earning the image of mustache-twirling villainy that they should rightfully have.
you are just further reinforcing socialist's/communist's opinions that all companies are greedy, immoral, and care about nothing more than the bottom line.
Isn't it weird that companies do this every single time they're given the chance? It's almost like the socialists are right. Weird huh?
Remember Hillary Clinton calling for the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Syria - which would put the US in direct military confrontation with Russia since we are talking about the Russian air force?
I wonder where all the Trump supporters who were worried that Hillary would get the US involved in Syria are now. They'll either go full hypocrite or will have the most satisfying look on their stupid faces. HAHAHAHA!
Taharrush Gamea: A mangled spelling of the Arabic phrase for "group harassment," referring to a fictional Arabic practice of organized sexual harassment and robbery, made up by the far-right. That was indeed informative.
Microsoft gave up on the desktop/mobile convergence nonsense after Windows 8. When a hybrid desktop/mobile device becomes practical, it'll just need two different desktop environments for the two different interface modes. Simple.
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I don't own a Google Home device or use any voice assistants.
Google has the manpower to curate their results to the extent that they could block everyone. But a better approach would be to make an example of the first asshole who openly abuses the system. That would save them a good bit of effort.
Put whatever you want in your podcasts, won't bother me even if I run across them, but I still consider you an asshole.
Well I'm glad that someone without a vested interest in banking secrecy has some idea about what's going on. If the NSA sees terrorists laundering money or companies violating sanctions they can tip off the relevant authorities.
I'd say that the FBI and IRS should be monitoring all global banking. along with their equivalents in every country. Interpol as well, sure.
This is a war Google could win quickly and decisively. They could block all questions about BK's Whopper, or even all questions about BK at all. They're playing with kid gloves on, even against a blatantly malicious enemy.
I think I'd prefer if the NSA *could* see those bank transactions. I'm not a fan of privacy in banking. If you want to do a transaction privately, that's what cash (and maybe cryptocurrency, that genie's out of the bottle) is for. Any privacy beyond that only provides enhanced convenience to criminals IMO. I'd prefer if all bank transactions were visible to law enforcement and tax authorities.
A torrent site hosted on Freenet, maybe one that regularly publishes magnet archives as a torrent?
I don't think the torrenting system as we know it today will be replaced, it will just be moved onto a darknet. It's already possible, there's just a ton of inertia keeping people running their torrents in the clear and little incentive to move onto a darknet.
Torrents are technically superior to all of those other technologies you listed.
What makes this so difficult for many people is that their expenses are nearly as much as their income with little to no room to decrease expenses. They struggle along to save money and then some surprise expense hits, and they're suddenly in debt which takes ages to crawl out of. It's easy to tell someone to live within their means when there's more than breathing space between "living" and "means."
Paying for a Win10 license will cause a period of financial vulnerability all by itself.
It's forkin' time!
Hey now, many of them do suck cocks:
http://www.cracked.com/blog/a-...
It's also worth considering that much of the American right sees Russia as a friendly country with common interests. They're socially ultra-conservative, highly capitalist, authoritarian, militarily adventurous, heavily invested into fossil fuels, and overwhelmingly white. These are all upsides to all but the most moderate of today's American right.
To them, the issue of Russian interference is a minor issue that they'd like to downplay because it gave good results. How upset do you think the left would be if Canada used propaganda and hacked info to tilt the playing field for Hillary when the alternative was a catastrophe? That's how the right looks at Russian interference.
I'm not sure how the right feels about Russia trying to retake former Soviet states, propping up dictators, and interfering with elections in other Western democracies. I'd think that might run against their interests, but they seem to be cool with it.
Came here to say this. This nightmare scenario is no worse than current reality, unless you see the fact that an AI is doing instead of a human to be worse somehow.
Mankind is already ruled by a distributed resource-management AI that is indifferent to human suffering, it's called capitalism. It seems to consider the executive class to be "goodlife."
When I read the title I thought NASA was advertising Earth for adoption by aliens, after it had been neglected by its native inhabitants. That actually makes more sense :-P
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There is a drug that can do this, can't find info on it now but I read an article on it in Wired a few years ago. People testing it were sleeping for just 2-3 hours a night and woke up feeling like they'd slept 8. There are other drugs that can defer the need to sleep. I think the only reason it hasn't caught on and made 13-hour work days the new normal is the overabundance of labor.
Clearly there's some kind of "design flaw" in human biology then. Probably something that evolved since the industrial revolution. We should find a way to correct it so that we can get back to working stupid hours for our flawless, benevolent economic system.
They created SELinux and a set of military cryptography standards that differs from the civilian ones, strongly suggesting that the civilian ones are weak. That's all I can think of. They've certainly done a lot to damage the security of the Internet.
Well as for the strike itself, I'm not really against it. On one hand the US does risk getting themselves into another middle-eastern quagmire. On the other hand, it's disgusting that humanity has done so little to stop Assad from genociding his political opposition. We've decided to sit back and let him kill hundreds of thousands unimpeded just because the problem is complicated. So I'm glad someone finally struck back at Assad, even if it was triggered by an emotional outburst and even if it's after Assad has almost finished murdering everyone who disagrees with him being dictator for life. A little token consequence for committing genocide is better than none.
...screams every right-winger simultaneously.
Well clearly the influence of the DEEP STATE is at work here, to report such un-American job numbers!
I wonder if Trump will request a secret investigation into how many deep state henchmen are in the labor department XD
If Pai is trying to compel service providers to put the principles of an open Internet in their service contracts, why not just mandate net neutrality by law?
Because by making the ISPs pinky-promise to not do what they will inevitably do in the absence of net neutrality, Ajit Pai can avoid looking like a mustache-twirling cartoon villain. He's not responsible for tying that lady to the railroad tracks! He just llfted the overreaching, oppressive law that kept the Traintrack Killer from owning ropes and made him pinky-promise not to tie any women to the tracks.
Republicans always set up a weak excuse for their actions to avoid earning the image of mustache-twirling villainy that they should rightfully have.
you are just further reinforcing socialist's/communist's opinions that all companies are greedy, immoral, and care about nothing more than the bottom line.
Isn't it weird that companies do this every single time they're given the chance? It's almost like the socialists are right. Weird huh?
Remember Hillary Clinton calling for the enforcement of a no-fly zone over Syria - which would put the US in direct military confrontation with Russia since we are talking about the Russian air force?
I wonder where all the Trump supporters who were worried that Hillary would get the US involved in Syria are now. They'll either go full hypocrite or will have the most satisfying look on their stupid faces. HAHAHAHA!
Taharrush Gamea: A mangled spelling of the Arabic phrase for "group harassment," referring to a fictional Arabic practice of organized sexual harassment and robbery, made up by the far-right. That was indeed informative.
Microsoft gave up on the desktop/mobile convergence nonsense after Windows 8. When a hybrid desktop/mobile device becomes practical, it'll just need two different desktop environments for the two different interface modes. Simple.