That doesn't make any sense. Trolls eat billy goats and unwary travelers crossing bridges. I'd say billy goats is a fair term for troll feeders. Don't be a billy goat kids, friends don't let friends feed trolls!
You can buy a replacement board, it takes like 5 minutes to pry the case open, remove a few screws, pull out a couple of ribbon cables and slap the new charging/headphone board in. I've had to do it twice now, on a pair of Nexus 7 2012's I got for my daughters. Of course, there's a good chance the replacement boards are getting the same problem...
Because talking about making software that emulates "ancient" hardware is exactly the same as reimplementing, as closely as possible, an entire portion of a game which is still being sold. Not to mention redistributing said reimplementation.
Autonmous features are already finding in their way into high end models, as we speak. Here's a self driving Mercedes. They're also advertising features such as automatic stopping of the vehicle if some obstruction appears in the road. Many mid to high end brands also advertise self-parking features, which would envolve many of the same "smarts" as needed for the car to drive itself. I'm no sage, I don't know how long it's going to take for autonomous cars to be mainstream. But given that these features are already appearing in high-end vehicles, it's only a matter of time before your crummy Ford Fiesta can do the same thing. And it's only a relatively small step from there to fully autonomous vehicles.
I would agree, however, that the legislature is going to drag their feet about legalizing these sorts of autonomous cars. I honestly don't know if my daughters are going to need to learn to drive or not, but a part of me can't help but feel like they probably wont. We may not be experiencing the technological singularity, but you've got to admit that the pace of technological development is moving faster and faster. It's folly to predict exactly what the future holds. That being said, I have little doubt that whatever forms the new technology takes, the desire for the modern security state to retain, or gain, control over unprecedented aspects of human existence will not be easily stopped.
If your kids never learn to drive its likely either because they live in a dense urban area with good public transit or are too rich to drive themselves.
Well I can assure you neither of those are true, but if Google and Tesla are to be believed self driving cars are much nearer to reality than not.
These automatic driving features are already being rolled out by premium brands like Mercedes or BMW. I saw a commercial last night about a Mercedes that could stop itself if necessary. That's not to mention the self-parking features being added to the high-end models. Some of those features probably even find their way to the mid-range brands like Buick.
The self-driving car isn't going to be a "totalistic" phenomena, we're going to see more and more autonomous features added into "regular" cars, until at some point they become more autonomous than not. Perhaps you can press a button to take manual control, but the autonomous car revolution is upon us and cannot be stopped.
Much better than their bank account getting siphoned.
Unless, of course, it's OEM's doing the siphoning. Surely they don't want cyber-criminals to get an edge on a protection racket they could themselves get evolved in. Let's charge premiums for CPU clock speed, maximum install-able RAM, etc. The possibilities are endless, and if the existing tablet/phone manufacturers are any indication, PC makers are lagging behind the extreme monetizing techniques available to a modern day PC maker.
Freedom is, in all aspects, "pining for the fjords." With regards to the manufactures of gadgets, it isn't in their interest to allow even the slightest bit of freedom. You can't install your own OS on the device you paid for, you can't install software that wasn't blessed by the prevailing curator of the local app store. We're moving towards a society in which you (as a consumer) don't own anything, it's leased or rented or provided "gratis", so long as you remain in accordance with whatever contractual terms they wish to impose. And before the Desktop centric crowd chimes in with "I own my box!", sure, you do now. But the current business practice is to retain ownership of everything and dole out access with as many restrictions as possible. It isn't that big of a leap to presume that sometime in the future you'll only be renting your motherboard, and may even have to pay extra to enable more memory access or "Premium CPU interconnects". Hell, you might be already! Have you read through the entirety of the terms of use provided with every component present in your machine? Do you really think Intel has your best interest at heart? These corporate scumbags can stuff end user agreements with whatever they want, knowing full well that practically no one is either going to read it, or have the financial means to fight it out in court.
Once the BIOS is locked down, why wouldn't manufacturers require extra payments for increased CPU throughput or maximum available RAM? Sure, your new mobo comes with slots for 64 GB, but it's only licensed for 16GB, any more requires an extra payment. These components are getting so sophisticated that bits and pieces of what used to be considered standard functionality, parts which were once hardwired, will be doled out as premium add-ons and DLC-like upgrades. There's nothing stopping them, it's only a matter of time before each and every aspect of the computing environment is held ransom by one company or another.
In the current environemtn of governments denying their spying activities, do you really think they'd be this bald-faced about enacting new powers for themselves? If the government really wanted to take control of the internet, they'd just fucking do it, FCC and procedure be damned. As far as I can tell the FCC is doing the right thing in spite of the fact that the tendency of modern governmental institutions is to seek more and more control over everything.
If the new rules were meant to be a governmental take over of the internet, either they'd just say "We're running this now. Fuck you" or you'd never even know it happened in the first place.
They're leaned on by the copyright cartels to believe that all torrent activity is engaged in copyright infringement. Don't fool yourself into thinking that just because you're seeding Ubuntu ISO's that they believe torrents are anything but pirate activity.
It isn't really the contracts that keep American's from switching cellular companies, its more that instead of GSM being the standard radio technology, as it is in Europe, is that there are several competing radio technologies in the US which keeps consumers tied to a particular provider. In the States we have T-Mobile and ATT&T using GSM, and Sprint and Verizion using CDMA2000. The fact that you can't take your Verizon phone over to ATT&T is part and parcel why cellular services are as locked in and non-competitive than they are in other areas.
Don't bother feeding the trolls. The new technologies arguable happened because of the regulations, not despite them. That doesn't mean, however, that just because the entrenched monopolies managed some innovations that they deserve to capitalize on them without reservation. So the telco's are doing the same thing in a new medium? Good for them, doesn't mean they deserve an automatic regulatory pass.
Yet once the government was pretty much out of the picture, we got cell phones, internet, mobile email, even high-definition video on devices you can wear on your wrist.
Basically once the government was out of the picture, in less than two decades we went from incremental improvements in 19th century technology to tiny mobile devices that are more advanced than what was shown as science fiction not too many years ago.
Sorry, I don't want the stagnation that comes with government regulation.
What does any of that have to do with the FCC's regulation of telephone lines? If anything, you should be arguing this new regulation is a GOOD thing, since in an effort to escape from said regulation the entrenched monopolies will seek new technologies to get around it.
Except there's no positive purpose of this technology outside of driving home to your kid that you don't trust them, ever, or for any reason. Discount for the moment the fact that this sort of technology is also intended to keep tabs on where every human is all the time, do you really trust your kid so little to do the right thing that you need a technological solution to a complete non-problem? Why the fuck even give them a car if you can't bring yourself to trust that they'll do the right thing?
It isn't just safety in a driving sense, safety has become an all encompassing ideal. Life isn't good unless you and your own are safe at all times, from all things, even from themselves. Just look at all the baby boomers pushing the encroachment of CPS (CHild Protective Services) into all aspects of parenthood? Don't you DARE let your children roam free (exactly how those baby boomers did), or the authorities will descend on you with full fury. Don't you DARE let your young adults experience even a small amount of freedom from constant supervision, make sure they're SAFE at all times by keeping tabs on their movements and implement technological solutions that serve to wrest any and all autonomy from them.
Well consider yourself lucky to be among one of the last generations who got to experience even a slight amount of freedom from parental, and State supervision. This technology has less to do with easing parents minds, than providing the security services a convenient "in" for the complete surveillance of everyone's movement. Do you really think the tracking turns "off" when you're driving?
My kids, who just turned 8, are unlikely to even learn how to drive. They'll live in a world where all cars are self-driving, and which report all location data to the security services for National Security. We'll be sold on the convenience of self-driving cars, in return for the manufacturers knowing where every car is at every moment. Since self-driving cars will be leased, and not sold (even if they were sold, vehicle registration takes care of the identification), they'll know, more or less, who is driving where and when. Those who drive themselves will be viewed with suspicion, and likely treated as subversive actors. Only a criminal would care if there's a record of their every move.
Before you shrug it off as "well so what if Ford knows where went?" Consider that the security services will certainly have complete access to all of that data, for National Security purposes, of course.
This isn't "tin foil hat" territory any more, it's standard fucking practice.
And the third thing is going to be the security state's jackboot crushing their neck for subverting "lawful" surveillance of all human activity. In all likelihood the parents will be held equally responsible for their children's terrorist activity.
This has less to do with "shit head 20 somethings" then the modern trajectory of keeping tabs on your children in any and all circumstance. Compare the ideas presented in this story with the recent stories of parents getting Child Protective Services called on them for letting their children walk home unattended. This is just an extension to the idea that children (or young adults) can't be trusted to act properly on their own, and must be under parental--or failing that, state--surveillance at all times.
Somethings gone horribly awry in our society when we can't even trust a young adult to act according to traffic laws and this technology is simply a proxy for the idea that children/young adults need to be under constant supervision, lest they have the temerity to develop an autonomous identity.
How in the hell did civilization ever manage to develop as far as it has without children and young adults being under the constant watchful eye of parents or other authority figures? If you find yourself asking why people aren't more concerned with shit like the NSA's surveillance, look at stories like this, where people are encourage to distrust their own flesh and blood to be able to make responsible decisions! How much longer until we're deluged with stories about chipping children, much like we chip pets, in order to ensure they're safe at all times!
The security state flourishes in this country because we want so much to be safe that we'll give anything and everything for even a slight increase in the feeling that we (and our children) are safe from anything and everything, thanks to the valiant efforts of our security services and corporations.
Let's not pretend for a second that the companies pushing this technology give a flying fuck about the safety of your kids, they want more data, more control, more ways to encroach on areas that used to be free from opportunities for advertisement and the wholesale monetization of human existence. You don't need to know the exact location of your 20 year old kid, you don't need the peace of mind that they're not speeding and sowing chaos. You want it because you've bought into the idea that everything and everyone is out to get you and yours and only the crushing embrace of the modern security apparatus will grant it to you.
Congratulations, you know where your kid is at all times, and in the process crushed the humanity out of them in preparation for the cradle to grave security state surveillance they'll be subjected to.
So you're asserting that their gathering "full blown data telemetry of exactly how and when you use the product, collected behind the scenes and reported/sold based on whatever terms the company feels like today." Obviously you must have some proof of that. Maybe some Ethereal captures of data being sent off to some server someplace? No? You just noticed they track how many hours you played?
Where's the beef? Otherwise your tinfoil hat may be a bit too tight, or possibly built with the wrong polarity. I think their microwaves may inadvertently be frying your brain.
And yes, you sound like one of those crazy people that stands on the sidewalk with 500 words written in sharpie on a repurposed pizza box trying to tell everyone how Obama's chemtrails are making your teeth liberal.
It's true! Gabe N. has a swimming pool filled with the data collected from your game playing. He even drowned some hookers in it. OPEN UP YOUR EYES!
Not to mention that getting around Steam requires little more than a single hacked DLL. Steam's DRM is bollocks, it doesn't stop anyone from anything. Steam's DRM is basically making it easy to keep all your games centrally located and easy to launch. Let's not mention the frequent sales and deep discounts; it's all a cynical ploy to destroy consumer freedoms.
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That doesn't make any sense. Trolls eat billy goats and unwary travelers crossing bridges. I'd say billy goats is a fair term for troll feeders. Don't be a billy goat kids, friends don't let friends feed trolls!
You can buy a replacement board, it takes like 5 minutes to pry the case open, remove a few screws, pull out a couple of ribbon cables and slap the new charging/headphone board in. I've had to do it twice now, on a pair of Nexus 7 2012's I got for my daughters. Of course, there's a good chance the replacement boards are getting the same problem...
Because talking about making software that emulates "ancient" hardware is exactly the same as reimplementing, as closely as possible, an entire portion of a game which is still being sold. Not to mention redistributing said reimplementation.
Fail troll is fail.
Autonmous features are already finding in their way into high end models, as we speak. Here's a self driving Mercedes. They're also advertising features such as automatic stopping of the vehicle if some obstruction appears in the road. Many mid to high end brands also advertise self-parking features, which would envolve many of the same "smarts" as needed for the car to drive itself. I'm no sage, I don't know how long it's going to take for autonomous cars to be mainstream. But given that these features are already appearing in high-end vehicles, it's only a matter of time before your crummy Ford Fiesta can do the same thing. And it's only a relatively small step from there to fully autonomous vehicles.
I would agree, however, that the legislature is going to drag their feet about legalizing these sorts of autonomous cars. I honestly don't know if my daughters are going to need to learn to drive or not, but a part of me can't help but feel like they probably wont. We may not be experiencing the technological singularity, but you've got to admit that the pace of technological development is moving faster and faster. It's folly to predict exactly what the future holds. That being said, I have little doubt that whatever forms the new technology takes, the desire for the modern security state to retain, or gain, control over unprecedented aspects of human existence will not be easily stopped.
If your kids never learn to drive its likely either because they live in a dense urban area with good public transit or are too rich to drive themselves.
Well I can assure you neither of those are true, but if Google and Tesla are to be believed self driving cars are much nearer to reality than not.
These automatic driving features are already being rolled out by premium brands like Mercedes or BMW. I saw a commercial last night about a Mercedes that could stop itself if necessary. That's not to mention the self-parking features being added to the high-end models. Some of those features probably even find their way to the mid-range brands like Buick.
The self-driving car isn't going to be a "totalistic" phenomena, we're going to see more and more autonomous features added into "regular" cars, until at some point they become more autonomous than not. Perhaps you can press a button to take manual control, but the autonomous car revolution is upon us and cannot be stopped.
Much better than their bank account getting siphoned.
Unless, of course, it's OEM's doing the siphoning. Surely they don't want cyber-criminals to get an edge on a protection racket they could themselves get evolved in. Let's charge premiums for CPU clock speed, maximum install-able RAM, etc. The possibilities are endless, and if the existing tablet/phone manufacturers are any indication, PC makers are lagging behind the extreme monetizing techniques available to a modern day PC maker.
Freedom is, in all aspects, "pining for the fjords." With regards to the manufactures of gadgets, it isn't in their interest to allow even the slightest bit of freedom. You can't install your own OS on the device you paid for, you can't install software that wasn't blessed by the prevailing curator of the local app store. We're moving towards a society in which you (as a consumer) don't own anything, it's leased or rented or provided "gratis", so long as you remain in accordance with whatever contractual terms they wish to impose. And before the Desktop centric crowd chimes in with "I own my box!", sure, you do now. But the current business practice is to retain ownership of everything and dole out access with as many restrictions as possible. It isn't that big of a leap to presume that sometime in the future you'll only be renting your motherboard, and may even have to pay extra to enable more memory access or "Premium CPU interconnects". Hell, you might be already! Have you read through the entirety of the terms of use provided with every component present in your machine? Do you really think Intel has your best interest at heart? These corporate scumbags can stuff end user agreements with whatever they want, knowing full well that practically no one is either going to read it, or have the financial means to fight it out in court.
Once the BIOS is locked down, why wouldn't manufacturers require extra payments for increased CPU throughput or maximum available RAM? Sure, your new mobo comes with slots for 64 GB, but it's only licensed for 16GB, any more requires an extra payment. These components are getting so sophisticated that bits and pieces of what used to be considered standard functionality, parts which were once hardwired, will be doled out as premium add-ons and DLC-like upgrades. There's nothing stopping them, it's only a matter of time before each and every aspect of the computing environment is held ransom by one company or another.
In the current environemtn of governments denying their spying activities, do you really think they'd be this bald-faced about enacting new powers for themselves? If the government really wanted to take control of the internet, they'd just fucking do it, FCC and procedure be damned. As far as I can tell the FCC is doing the right thing in spite of the fact that the tendency of modern governmental institutions is to seek more and more control over everything.
If the new rules were meant to be a governmental take over of the internet, either they'd just say "We're running this now. Fuck you" or you'd never even know it happened in the first place.
They're leaned on by the copyright cartels to believe that all torrent activity is engaged in copyright infringement. Don't fool yourself into thinking that just because you're seeding Ubuntu ISO's that they believe torrents are anything but pirate activity.
It isn't really the contracts that keep American's from switching cellular companies, its more that instead of GSM being the standard radio technology, as it is in Europe, is that there are several competing radio technologies in the US which keeps consumers tied to a particular provider. In the States we have T-Mobile and ATT&T using GSM, and Sprint and Verizion using CDMA2000. The fact that you can't take your Verizon phone over to ATT&T is part and parcel why cellular services are as locked in and non-competitive than they are in other areas.
Don't bother feeding the trolls. The new technologies arguable happened because of the regulations, not despite them. That doesn't mean, however, that just because the entrenched monopolies managed some innovations that they deserve to capitalize on them without reservation. So the telco's are doing the same thing in a new medium? Good for them, doesn't mean they deserve an automatic regulatory pass.
So which part of the new FCC rules stipulates that you have to lease anything from anyone?
Yet once the government was pretty much out of the picture, we got cell phones, internet, mobile email, even high-definition video on devices you can wear on your wrist.
Basically once the government was out of the picture, in less than two decades we went from incremental improvements in 19th century technology to tiny mobile devices that are more advanced than what was shown as science fiction not too many years ago.
Sorry, I don't want the stagnation that comes with government regulation.
What does any of that have to do with the FCC's regulation of telephone lines? If anything, you should be arguing this new regulation is a GOOD thing, since in an effort to escape from said regulation the entrenched monopolies will seek new technologies to get around it.
Except there's no positive purpose of this technology outside of driving home to your kid that you don't trust them, ever, or for any reason. Discount for the moment the fact that this sort of technology is also intended to keep tabs on where every human is all the time, do you really trust your kid so little to do the right thing that you need a technological solution to a complete non-problem? Why the fuck even give them a car if you can't bring yourself to trust that they'll do the right thing?
I agree - and this technology will give more parents the peace of mind to hand over the keys to their kids. I only see good coming from this.
While simultaneously wresting any sense of agency from them. How perfectly modern.
It isn't just safety in a driving sense, safety has become an all encompassing ideal. Life isn't good unless you and your own are safe at all times, from all things, even from themselves. Just look at all the baby boomers pushing the encroachment of CPS (CHild Protective Services) into all aspects of parenthood? Don't you DARE let your children roam free (exactly how those baby boomers did), or the authorities will descend on you with full fury. Don't you DARE let your young adults experience even a small amount of freedom from constant supervision, make sure they're SAFE at all times by keeping tabs on their movements and implement technological solutions that serve to wrest any and all autonomy from them.
Safety trumps EVERYTHING.
Well consider yourself lucky to be among one of the last generations who got to experience even a slight amount of freedom from parental, and State supervision. This technology has less to do with easing parents minds, than providing the security services a convenient "in" for the complete surveillance of everyone's movement. Do you really think the tracking turns "off" when you're driving?
My kids, who just turned 8, are unlikely to even learn how to drive. They'll live in a world where all cars are self-driving, and which report all location data to the security services for National Security. We'll be sold on the convenience of self-driving cars, in return for the manufacturers knowing where every car is at every moment. Since self-driving cars will be leased, and not sold (even if they were sold, vehicle registration takes care of the identification), they'll know, more or less, who is driving where and when. Those who drive themselves will be viewed with suspicion, and likely treated as subversive actors. Only a criminal would care if there's a record of their every move.
Before you shrug it off as "well so what if Ford knows where went?" Consider that the security services will certainly have complete access to all of that data, for National Security purposes, of course.
This isn't "tin foil hat" territory any more, it's standard fucking practice.
And the third thing is going to be the security state's jackboot crushing their neck for subverting "lawful" surveillance of all human activity. In all likelihood the parents will be held equally responsible for their children's terrorist activity.
This has less to do with "shit head 20 somethings" then the modern trajectory of keeping tabs on your children in any and all circumstance. Compare the ideas presented in this story with the recent stories of parents getting Child Protective Services called on them for letting their children walk home unattended. This is just an extension to the idea that children (or young adults) can't be trusted to act properly on their own, and must be under parental--or failing that, state--surveillance at all times.
Somethings gone horribly awry in our society when we can't even trust a young adult to act according to traffic laws and this technology is simply a proxy for the idea that children/young adults need to be under constant supervision, lest they have the temerity to develop an autonomous identity.
How in the hell did civilization ever manage to develop as far as it has without children and young adults being under the constant watchful eye of parents or other authority figures? If you find yourself asking why people aren't more concerned with shit like the NSA's surveillance, look at stories like this, where people are encourage to distrust their own flesh and blood to be able to make responsible decisions! How much longer until we're deluged with stories about chipping children, much like we chip pets, in order to ensure they're safe at all times!
The security state flourishes in this country because we want so much to be safe that we'll give anything and everything for even a slight increase in the feeling that we (and our children) are safe from anything and everything, thanks to the valiant efforts of our security services and corporations.
Let's not pretend for a second that the companies pushing this technology give a flying fuck about the safety of your kids, they want more data, more control, more ways to encroach on areas that used to be free from opportunities for advertisement and the wholesale monetization of human existence. You don't need to know the exact location of your 20 year old kid, you don't need the peace of mind that they're not speeding and sowing chaos. You want it because you've bought into the idea that everything and everyone is out to get you and yours and only the crushing embrace of the modern security apparatus will grant it to you.
Congratulations, you know where your kid is at all times, and in the process crushed the humanity out of them in preparation for the cradle to grave security state surveillance they'll be subjected to.
Good fucking job America.
PS. It hasn't been called Ethereal in almost a decade, dude
I know, but I couldn't be bothered to find out whatever the fuck they call it now. Grabbing an ethernet capture log is the important bit.
They should acquire Ubisoft. Consolidation will fix everything that is wrong with the games industry today! /s
So you're asserting that their gathering "full blown data telemetry of exactly how and when you use the product, collected behind the scenes and reported/sold based on whatever terms the company feels like today." Obviously you must have some proof of that. Maybe some Ethereal captures of data being sent off to some server someplace? No? You just noticed they track how many hours you played?
Where's the beef? Otherwise your tinfoil hat may be a bit too tight, or possibly built with the wrong polarity. I think their microwaves may inadvertently be frying your brain.
And yes, you sound like one of those crazy people that stands on the sidewalk with 500 words written in sharpie on a repurposed pizza box trying to tell everyone how Obama's chemtrails are making your teeth liberal.
It's true! Gabe N. has a swimming pool filled with the data collected from your game playing. He even drowned some hookers in it. OPEN UP YOUR EYES!
Not to mention that getting around Steam requires little more than a single hacked DLL. Steam's DRM is bollocks, it doesn't stop anyone from anything. Steam's DRM is basically making it easy to keep all your games centrally located and easy to launch. Let's not mention the frequent sales and deep discounts; it's all a cynical ploy to destroy consumer freedoms.