"How do you assure visitors of the several websites you run that the markup, stylesheets, images, fonts, and possibly scripts on your site have not been modified in transit by an intercepting proxy between your server and the viewer's machine?"
Considering all users have been trained to click through all these useless security prompts, add website exceptions, and trust any certificates thrown at them, i would be surprised - shocked even - if an invalid certificate made a user so much as pause as they rabidly mash keys trying to make it go away.
Another instance of security professionals being completely oblivious to real world use and human nature.
Pretty sure that "looking bad" is now the standard that has to be met when americans formulate new policy. It is perhaps the only standard left. Gotta distract people from russia some how. Spam the world and the actual issues get lost in all the noise as people just tune out at a certain point. That's your executive in a nutshell - distract, distract, distract.
Its an amazingly effective trick that magicians have known for centuries.
I recently upgraded to 10Gbps (symmetric) and I would say that it is "high speed". But 1Gbps seems decidedly on the average-to-slow side. Are you telling some politically-motivated lie to make people believe that the 2rd rate speed you are getting now is "great"?
"Tell me honestly, what would it take for you to realize bitcoin is going to change the world even more than the internet has ? A 100K price tag?"
Some stability perhaps? Anything that fluctuates by thousands of dollars a day is not something most intelligent non gambler type people want to go near.
Has nothing to do with age, because the guy i personally know who is right now buying more bitcoin at 20k (as he anticipates it will grow to 50k easy in a month!) is in his 60s.
"any ISP which tries to throttle Netflix unless Netflix paid them would be shooting themselves in the foot - their customers would cancel and sign up with an ISP which didn't throttle Netflix"
Not really. 1) they can blame netflix. "oh netflix doesnt want to partner with us, we are the victims of this! would you work for "free"? so why should we as poor ISPs?"
2) they will simply develop multiple "tiers" of internet service. The exact same as you can buy a cable package today, tomorrow you can pay an extra $7 a month and have the netflix "package". I mean that is really where all this is headed. People are fine when this happens with HBO on cable because they don't know any better. Peoples memories are short though, for instance napster had a music distribution platform that has never been equaled. Yet now people pay itunes for an inferior service they used to get for free.
3) collusion between ISP's (of which there arent to many in america i gather) is already happening to fix prices in each market. Considering the FCC will no longer be able to regulate ISPs, the doors are wide open for even more collusion.
The bottom line is they want to make things into channels. if you dont buy the channel, then its YOUR fault that netflix is slow. Most people are comfortable paying for "upgrades" and will easily forget that it "used to be free" to access Netflix. People do not understand technology, artificial scarcity or digital duplication at all. It will be trivial for marketing departments to spin attention away from ISPs. They already have good practice doing this with their cable TV packages! and always hated that they couldn't control the internet to the same degree.
Well now they can, and the public won't understand or care in numbers that matter. Not that trump really cares how the public sees him in ANY policy decision.
If there is one thing i can guarantee its that regular people will pay more. How the corporations structure it between eachother is irrelevant. If corporations are allowed to ask for more money for prioritization, there ain't no company that is going to eat that loss.
However as consumers, you don't have a choice when your bill goes up. You don't get to pass that on to anyone. You are the bottom of the pile. Any other perspective is wishful thinking to put it mildly.
" If I start a new youtube I can't imagine ISPs would bother to throttle it, until such time that my new youtube it huge but then it seems like a fair game."
can't tell if your shilling or not but obviously when you tried to get that website off the ground, you would have to enter into content agreements with possibly a handful of different ISPs in order to avoid for instance, constant buffering (which translates into no one using your site, because ISPs slowed it down so much that it sucks). The default would be the slow lane, and you would have to pay to get "upgraded". So you wouldn't be able to "start the new youtube" because you would need a few million to even try. Thus raising the barrier to entry on what used to be "any idiot with an internet connection and free web server software".
"Netflix, Google and FB are monopolies,"
As i understand it, the telco situation in the USA is monopolies. Content is hardly a monopoly. Video sharing sites alone number in the tens or hundreds. For some americans, as i understand it, they only have the choice of 1-2 ISPs. So im not really worried about google being a monopoly as i personally use duck duck go daily
sorry there is no way that 36c without ac is comfortable. Unless you are posting from the pool, in the shade, with a breeze and many many iced drinks available.
you might as well say -30 is comfortable. I've been in both extremes (canada) and its really not. Both these extremes you have to make many adjustments to your regular life to live in. For instance adding or removing layers of clothing, drinking more water, or covering all exposed flesh in the case of extreme negative temps.
You may have been socialized to your environment, such as not needing to wear pants, to make yourself more comfortable. And i get that people get "used to" a situation. But the body puts out a lot of sweat at anything above +30, so i cant imagine you not sweating if you dont have a fan. If you have a fan, then its not ambiently "comfortable" now is it.
" find yourself in the possession of a pre-built PC then the first thing you do is wipe the whole system and install fresh"
Some people around here are intentionally trolling or extremely ignorant of reality. 99% of people do not reinstall the OS on the brand new computer they just bought. Do you check the valve clearances on your brand new dealership car purchase? no, because you assume that the auto manufacturer built a car as functionally and perfectly as possible, and with your interests in mind. People assume that about buying new products, as crazy as that seems to people in the computer world. Windows and HP brands try and make it a turn key experience, the same as autos.
99% of people are still buying computers with rotational hard drives for their OS volume for christ sakes.... 99% of people just want things to work and not suck too much directly out of the box. Most of those crapwares HP actually thinks serves a purpose for the consumer. Otherwise they wouldn't have bundled it.
Man scenty, you really need to move to a better neighbourhood. No wonder you are so pro gun all the time. In your mind you must be terrified all the time. Its probably taking years off your life.
The hitler quotes that were posted above and are the subject of this debate are not intelligent at all. The only reason they are in the database and something you said is not in the DB is because of how well known hitler was. Not because of the brilliant content of the quotes.
If my system greeted me with a hitler quote, or some racist quote, well yeah i would be offended. Someone thought it was a good idea to program that in there, and therefor saw value in it. Since it wasnt removed by the maintainer, it then appears that the package maintainer also sees value in the quote. If you want your personal database to have garbage in it, by all means add as many nonsensical garbage strings as you want. Why should I have to "opt out" of racism or fascism? Or for that matter bible quotes. Are there bible quotes in there? What about creationist quotes? quotes from mass murderers? bin laden? child rapists? Do they add anything to the consciousness? or are they just the ravings of mad men (eg Burn an X in your head, the comet will take us to god!)
No one is telling you to forget about the second world war, or racism. But having those views publicly posted in a MOTD is not just revisiting history, its actively promoting the quote and the quoted. As a contrast, the stalin quote about one death being a tragedy, but a million lives is a statistic, is actually an interesting point and exposes something about us as humans. None of the hitler quotes are interesting at all, and because of how loaded he is as a person, do not bare repeating. Some goebbels quotes however, probably do, while some that are unintelligent, do not. Its more about the content.
I think in the end, you have to weigh the insightfulness of the quote, with the negatives of the person who said it. Those hitler quotes simply aren't worth defending.
"what is being mostly done with that data now and in the near future: not too much."
Your going to love the future then, where our descendants can go back through forums posts from the early aughts, find all the climate deniers, and charge them with destroying the planet. Which because of the anti climate denial law of 2041, is now a mandatory life sentence and confiscation of all property.
Think its far fetched? There are nazi hunters around the world pouring through old records trying to connect the dots, 70 years after the war ended. The internet, and every single hacked (and will be hacked) database will be a treasure trove of meta data allowing anyone to go back in time to now and figure out exactly who everyone was. Heck they will probably have a service to "find what grammy wrote way back in 2017" for the low price of $19.95 per ancestor.
I've seen the future, and breaking todays pseudo anonymity will be a game of sport for future historians. Its only a small hop to then arrest people for retroactively "bad things", what they did, or said, when they thought they were being anonymous, based on laws and societal mores that we can't even envision yet.
"You know how Goggle and others do autocomplete on your search entries?"
Oh i love that feature that replaces text i am typing with some other random terms and then when you try and highlight the field to delete the stupid auto complete, it actually submits the search (because you are clicking on the term in some kind of blocking mouse order drop down list). I also love the browser lag that these stupid lookups cause.
What a wonderful feature that no one needs! is it really hard to type entire words and sentences without a computer holding your hand for you?
but yeah, they do not attract the best and the brightest... Its generally considered one step above homelessness. However one might say with the housing crisis, that every renter is one step above homelessness these days... So i have no problem believing that upscale $1500 a month SROs would be popping up in some regions.
"I believe that even if the USA adopted the exact same laws that Japan has, gun violence in the USA wouldn't change very much."
Then you are a fool. As a canadian, I've been in physical encounters with people where they have drawn weapons. If I or they had a gun instead of a knife, things would have ended much worse for someone.
It is nearly impossible to get a legal handgun in canada. Most guns used in crimes are smuggled from the USA at extreme risk. And if you carry it around and someone sees that, you are going to jail.
Like it or not, if you want to change the culture of gun violence in the USA, you have to start by restricting gun sales. That means depriving people of owning guns that are not meant for hunting. All automatic weapons, all hand guns, and probably more types too (i am not an expert on guns, nor would i care to be). It means getting people to give up the "personal self defence" aspect of gun ownership. I doubt anyone has guns for that purpose in canada, simply because they are so restricted with how you can transport them and use them, any situation where you would need to have the gun "at the ready" for defence, simply wouldn't be possible.
So i would argue that you have no idea about canadian gun laws and how they are influencing society. The laws shape the culture. I'm not sure how you could possibly miss that fundamental point. When americans say that the government can't take away their guns, that statement is clearly part law and part culture. Change the laws and you would change the culture, for sure.
"That fix that users get from "Likes" and "Replies" on FB is very similar to the fix you get from "Mods" and "Replies" on/."
I disagree personally. From what i understand, facebook is what you say, for narcissists. People who want to see their opinions retweeted or acted upon, in short, people looking for attention. That is not me at all. Personally I don't even read replies on slashdot, because i really don't care to argue with people on the internet. I have what I have to say and that's the end of it. I am just commenting to add something to the discussion, or clarify some point, and primarily to pass time between tasks at work.
Plus I also think that writing every day is good practice to keep the mind sharp. Facebook to me, as a non user, is what you were always warned about. Posting your personal information on the internet, data collection by advertisers, and profiling by basically anyone (police, employers, co-workers, friends).
So to sum up, facebook = narcissists and spooks, Slashdot = engineers and technologists who have opinions on things that matter to my job and life. A cat picture, that it is someones birthday, or someones IRL political leanings, absolutely do not interest me one bit. I also don't care about your holiday photos or childrens photos.
It's all just fluff, because people need something to do with their phones. And like TFA says, its designed to be addictive.
"The web isn't designed as an application layer, it's designed as a presentation layer. Stop making apps in the web, they are slower and generally garbage."
As others have mentioned, where have you been! Your complaint is roughly 5 years out of date. Cloud services, everything online, and web browser applications, have all become the standard now. In the last few years every single software we use has developed a web portal, has stopped developing the thick client and said that all new features will only come to cloud.
People argue that its awesome because things are more responsive on a fucking phone. A phone is what the internet, and more and more applications, are coding towards. Is this an insidious plan to get everyone to work 24x7?
Whatever the reason its fucking garbage, but you are way too late to even bother complaining anymore. Cloud means less infrastructure and outsourcing your problems off site. That's what companies care about now. And managers seem to love working from phones for some ridiculous reason i cant fathom.
Resistance is futile. Hopefully the mainframe / desktop cycle will cycle back again within the next 10 years. I too hate the lag of web applications. The last time i mentioned it to a colleague he said "firefox is so slow, you should use chrome and your complaints about web applications would go away", thus proving the entire articles point.
"Hawking doesn't present any real argument to support his point of view, he just makes wild hypotheses. So he obviously didn't think too much about it."
Since its all theoretical (there is no AI capable enough of doing what he is saying right now), I would think this is more like philosophy. If you didn't take philosophy in school, you might not see its value. On the contrary, having very smart people try and answer unanswerable questions is extremely valuable to lay a groundwork for debate. Some might say that exploring unanswerable questions is one of the deepest types of thinking.
"But what if true AI doesn't want that control? What if one day we get true AI and then hand over all our tasks to it and it says "No"?"
If AI is alive, then it will want to have a say over its environment and want to reproduce. So it seems reasonable that it will keep expanding till it meets those goals, at a minimum. And whatever other goals us flawed humans program into it.
Do you trust computers? Hell I don't even trust people, but at least people all die after a few years. An AI could theoretically be omnipotent and immortal. In a few hundred years our descendants wouldn't even have to know they were being controlled by anything, or that there was a different way to be other than what a hidden AI (the gods) told them.
Nuclear war is scary, but omnipotent and immortal computers could enslave, or end, us all. For some reason it disturbs me more, computers killing us all, than people doing it. Some kind of tribal sovereignty i guess.
" if you never want to receive sexy pictures or video from a significant other. As most people would like to receive such"
That's a pretty big assumption there! I get along fine without sending nudy pics to my wife, and vice versa. We manage fine with actual physical intimacy at close range, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
How about people take some responsibility for pictures they or their partner, takes and then posts to the internet. Don't want to have naked pictures exposed on the internet? don't take naked pictures! Seems perfectly reasonable advice to me. Of course i am not likeyou, I guess.
And have none of your friends play, or your work colleagues, or your landlord, or anyone who you have ever given your phone number to.
I don't use facebook, but i'm sure i have quite the impressive shadow profile considering my wife, my son, my dad, and pretty much every other person i've ever met does use it. The article talks about how facebook uses your phone number as a unique identifier, and other peoples non-consensual contact sharing of your information, to build a shadow profile of you.
So no, its not as simple as not playing the game. You have been entered into the game if you have your phone number in anyones phone book, and come on, that's everyone. Who doesn't have a phone, either at work or at home. Unless you solely communicate with disposable burner phones, (and no one adds those numbers and your name into their phone book:P), then you are just as vulnerable. They probably even have your picture that someone helpfully tagged.
Its pretty depressing that they can get away with this, and that people don't really care and willingly help them.
Perhaps you missed the summer of fire we just had? where smoke blanketed the province for the whole summer, and it didnt rain for 3 months. That's what climate change does to this province. Everything is out of wack. Hot dry summers, super cold wet winters. Worst of both worlds. And if you are paying attention to the ocean, many species such as sea stars are dying off at unprecedented levels.
I cant figure out if you are making a joke or just ignorant... Good weed isnt grown outdoor anyway. Hot summers just mean more cooling is needed thus exacerbating the problem.
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147mb? thats nothing. On windows, the cache files for slack can run well into the gigabytes after only a year.
have a multi user machine with a small ssd and several users, now you are consuming tens of gigs... not cool!
Considering all users have been trained to click through all these useless security prompts, add website exceptions, and trust any certificates thrown at them, i would be surprised - shocked even - if an invalid certificate made a user so much as pause as they rabidly mash keys trying to make it go away.
Another instance of security professionals being completely oblivious to real world use and human nature.
Pretty sure that "looking bad" is now the standard that has to be met when americans formulate new policy. It is perhaps the only standard left. Gotta distract people from russia some how. Spam the world and the actual issues get lost in all the noise as people just tune out at a certain point. That's your executive in a nutshell - distract, distract, distract.
Its an amazingly effective trick that magicians have known for centuries.
Pff 1gbps? What are you poor?
I recently upgraded to 10Gbps (symmetric) and I would say that it is "high speed". But 1Gbps seems decidedly on the average-to-slow side. Are you telling some politically-motivated lie to make people believe that the 2rd rate speed you are getting now is "great"?
Some stability perhaps? Anything that fluctuates by thousands of dollars a day is not something most intelligent non gambler type people want to go near.
Has nothing to do with age, because the guy i personally know who is right now buying more bitcoin at 20k (as he anticipates it will grow to 50k easy in a month!) is in his 60s.
Bitcoin is beyond volatile as a "currency".
Not really. 1) they can blame netflix. "oh netflix doesnt want to partner with us, we are the victims of this! would you work for "free"? so why should we as poor ISPs?"
2) they will simply develop multiple "tiers" of internet service. The exact same as you can buy a cable package today, tomorrow you can pay an extra $7 a month and have the netflix "package". I mean that is really where all this is headed. People are fine when this happens with HBO on cable because they don't know any better. Peoples memories are short though, for instance napster had a music distribution platform that has never been equaled. Yet now people pay itunes for an inferior service they used to get for free.
3) collusion between ISP's (of which there arent to many in america i gather) is already happening to fix prices in each market. Considering the FCC will no longer be able to regulate ISPs, the doors are wide open for even more collusion.
The bottom line is they want to make things into channels. if you dont buy the channel, then its YOUR fault that netflix is slow. Most people are comfortable paying for "upgrades" and will easily forget that it "used to be free" to access Netflix. People do not understand technology, artificial scarcity or digital duplication at all. It will be trivial for marketing departments to spin attention away from ISPs. They already have good practice doing this with their cable TV packages! and always hated that they couldn't control the internet to the same degree.
Well now they can, and the public won't understand or care in numbers that matter. Not that trump really cares how the public sees him in ANY policy decision.
If there is one thing i can guarantee its that regular people will pay more. How the corporations structure it between eachother is irrelevant. If corporations are allowed to ask for more money for prioritization, there ain't no company that is going to eat that loss.
However as consumers, you don't have a choice when your bill goes up. You don't get to pass that on to anyone. You are the bottom of the pile. Any other perspective is wishful thinking to put it mildly.
Go to shoutcast.com type in christmas, select any number of options. Bookmark your favourite .pls file for later.
I look outside for weather, and i take a train with a schedule, so its always the same commute time.
a note pad of paper on top of the fridge has worked for me for years.
You dont have all your xmas lights on timers? what a waste of time.
But i'm sure all of these slight conveniences is worth having a device spy on you from a for profit advertising company.
can't tell if your shilling or not but obviously when you tried to get that website off the ground, you would have to enter into content agreements with possibly a handful of different ISPs in order to avoid for instance, constant buffering (which translates into no one using your site, because ISPs slowed it down so much that it sucks). The default would be the slow lane, and you would have to pay to get "upgraded". So you wouldn't be able to "start the new youtube" because you would need a few million to even try. Thus raising the barrier to entry on what used to be "any idiot with an internet connection and free web server software".
As i understand it, the telco situation in the USA is monopolies. Content is hardly a monopoly. Video sharing sites alone number in the tens or hundreds. For some americans, as i understand it, they only have the choice of 1-2 ISPs. So im not really worried about google being a monopoly as i personally use duck duck go daily
Star Trek's PADD device was a hollywood solution too. Until it wasn't.
sorry there is no way that 36c without ac is comfortable. Unless you are posting from the pool, in the shade, with a breeze and many many iced drinks available.
you might as well say -30 is comfortable. I've been in both extremes (canada) and its really not. Both these extremes you have to make many adjustments to your regular life to live in. For instance adding or removing layers of clothing, drinking more water, or covering all exposed flesh in the case of extreme negative temps.
You may have been socialized to your environment, such as not needing to wear pants, to make yourself more comfortable. And i get that people get "used to" a situation. But the body puts out a lot of sweat at anything above +30, so i cant imagine you not sweating if you dont have a fan. If you have a fan, then its not ambiently "comfortable" now is it.
Some people around here are intentionally trolling or extremely ignorant of reality. 99% of people do not reinstall the OS on the brand new computer they just bought. Do you check the valve clearances on your brand new dealership car purchase? no, because you assume that the auto manufacturer built a car as functionally and perfectly as possible, and with your interests in mind. People assume that about buying new products, as crazy as that seems to people in the computer world. Windows and HP brands try and make it a turn key experience, the same as autos.
99% of people are still buying computers with rotational hard drives for their OS volume for christ sakes.... 99% of people just want things to work and not suck too much directly out of the box. Most of those crapwares HP actually thinks serves a purpose for the consumer. Otherwise they wouldn't have bundled it.
Man scenty, you really need to move to a better neighbourhood. No wonder you are so pro gun all the time. In your mind you must be terrified all the time. Its probably taking years off your life.
The hitler quotes that were posted above and are the subject of this debate are not intelligent at all. The only reason they are in the database and something you said is not in the DB is because of how well known hitler was. Not because of the brilliant content of the quotes.
If my system greeted me with a hitler quote, or some racist quote, well yeah i would be offended. Someone thought it was a good idea to program that in there, and therefor saw value in it. Since it wasnt removed by the maintainer, it then appears that the package maintainer also sees value in the quote. If you want your personal database to have garbage in it, by all means add as many nonsensical garbage strings as you want. Why should I have to "opt out" of racism or fascism? Or for that matter bible quotes. Are there bible quotes in there? What about creationist quotes? quotes from mass murderers? bin laden? child rapists? Do they add anything to the consciousness? or are they just the ravings of mad men (eg Burn an X in your head, the comet will take us to god!)
No one is telling you to forget about the second world war, or racism. But having those views publicly posted in a MOTD is not just revisiting history, its actively promoting the quote and the quoted. As a contrast, the stalin quote about one death being a tragedy, but a million lives is a statistic, is actually an interesting point and exposes something about us as humans. None of the hitler quotes are interesting at all, and because of how loaded he is as a person, do not bare repeating. Some goebbels quotes however, probably do, while some that are unintelligent, do not. Its more about the content.
I think in the end, you have to weigh the insightfulness of the quote, with the negatives of the person who said it. Those hitler quotes simply aren't worth defending.
Your going to love the future then, where our descendants can go back through forums posts from the early aughts, find all the climate deniers, and charge them with destroying the planet. Which because of the anti climate denial law of 2041, is now a mandatory life sentence and confiscation of all property.
Think its far fetched? There are nazi hunters around the world pouring through old records trying to connect the dots, 70 years after the war ended. The internet, and every single hacked (and will be hacked) database will be a treasure trove of meta data allowing anyone to go back in time to now and figure out exactly who everyone was. Heck they will probably have a service to "find what grammy wrote way back in 2017" for the low price of $19.95 per ancestor.
I've seen the future, and breaking todays pseudo anonymity will be a game of sport for future historians. Its only a small hop to then arrest people for retroactively "bad things", what they did, or said, when they thought they were being anonymous, based on laws and societal mores that we can't even envision yet.
Oh i love that feature that replaces text i am typing with some other random terms and then when you try and highlight the field to delete the stupid auto complete, it actually submits the search (because you are clicking on the term in some kind of blocking mouse order drop down list). I also love the browser lag that these stupid lookups cause.
What a wonderful feature that no one needs! is it really hard to type entire words and sentences without a computer holding your hand for you?
I think the technical term is SRO (single room occupancy)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
but yeah, they do not attract the best and the brightest... Its generally considered one step above homelessness. However one might say with the housing crisis, that every renter is one step above homelessness these days... So i have no problem believing that upscale $1500 a month SROs would be popping up in some regions.
Then you are a fool. As a canadian, I've been in physical encounters with people where they have drawn weapons. If I or they had a gun instead of a knife, things would have ended much worse for someone.
It is nearly impossible to get a legal handgun in canada. Most guns used in crimes are smuggled from the USA at extreme risk. And if you carry it around and someone sees that, you are going to jail.
Like it or not, if you want to change the culture of gun violence in the USA, you have to start by restricting gun sales. That means depriving people of owning guns that are not meant for hunting. All automatic weapons, all hand guns, and probably more types too (i am not an expert on guns, nor would i care to be). It means getting people to give up the "personal self defence" aspect of gun ownership. I doubt anyone has guns for that purpose in canada, simply because they are so restricted with how you can transport them and use them, any situation where you would need to have the gun "at the ready" for defence, simply wouldn't be possible.
So i would argue that you have no idea about canadian gun laws and how they are influencing society. The laws shape the culture. I'm not sure how you could possibly miss that fundamental point. When americans say that the government can't take away their guns, that statement is clearly part law and part culture. Change the laws and you would change the culture, for sure.
I disagree personally. From what i understand, facebook is what you say, for narcissists. People who want to see their opinions retweeted or acted upon, in short, people looking for attention. That is not me at all. Personally I don't even read replies on slashdot, because i really don't care to argue with people on the internet. I have what I have to say and that's the end of it. I am just commenting to add something to the discussion, or clarify some point, and primarily to pass time between tasks at work.
Plus I also think that writing every day is good practice to keep the mind sharp. Facebook to me, as a non user, is what you were always warned about. Posting your personal information on the internet, data collection by advertisers, and profiling by basically anyone (police, employers, co-workers, friends).
So to sum up, facebook = narcissists and spooks, Slashdot = engineers and technologists who have opinions on things that matter to my job and life.
A cat picture, that it is someones birthday, or someones IRL political leanings, absolutely do not interest me one bit. I also don't care about your holiday photos or childrens photos.
It's all just fluff, because people need something to do with their phones. And like TFA says, its designed to be addictive.
As others have mentioned, where have you been! Your complaint is roughly 5 years out of date. Cloud services, everything online, and web browser applications, have all become the standard now. In the last few years every single software we use has developed a web portal, has stopped developing the thick client and said that all new features will only come to cloud.
People argue that its awesome because things are more responsive on a fucking phone. A phone is what the internet, and more and more applications, are coding towards. Is this an insidious plan to get everyone to work 24x7?
Whatever the reason its fucking garbage, but you are way too late to even bother complaining anymore. Cloud means less infrastructure and outsourcing your problems off site. That's what companies care about now. And managers seem to love working from phones for some ridiculous reason i cant fathom.
Resistance is futile. Hopefully the mainframe / desktop cycle will cycle back again within the next 10 years. I too hate the lag of web applications. The last time i mentioned it to a colleague he said "firefox is so slow, you should use chrome and your complaints about web applications would go away", thus proving the entire articles point.
Since its all theoretical (there is no AI capable enough of doing what he is saying right now), I would think this is more like philosophy. If you didn't take philosophy in school, you might not see its value. On the contrary, having very smart people try and answer unanswerable questions is extremely valuable to lay a groundwork for debate. Some might say that exploring unanswerable questions is one of the deepest types of thinking.
If AI is alive, then it will want to have a say over its environment and want to reproduce. So it seems reasonable that it will keep expanding till it meets those goals, at a minimum. And whatever other goals us flawed humans program into it.
Do you trust computers? Hell I don't even trust people, but at least people all die after a few years. An AI could theoretically be omnipotent and immortal. In a few hundred years our descendants wouldn't even have to know they were being controlled by anything, or that there was a different way to be other than what a hidden AI (the gods) told them.
Nuclear war is scary, but omnipotent and immortal computers could enslave, or end, us all. For some reason it disturbs me more, computers killing us all, than people doing it. Some kind of tribal sovereignty i guess.
That's a pretty big assumption there! I get along fine without sending nudy pics to my wife, and vice versa. We manage fine with actual physical intimacy at close range, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
How about people take some responsibility for pictures they or their partner, takes and then posts to the internet. Don't want to have naked pictures exposed on the internet? don't take naked pictures! Seems perfectly reasonable advice to me. Of course i am not like you, I guess.
And have none of your friends play, or your work colleagues, or your landlord, or anyone who you have ever given your phone number to.
I don't use facebook, but i'm sure i have quite the impressive shadow profile considering my wife, my son, my dad, and pretty much every other person i've ever met does use it. The article talks about how facebook uses your phone number as a unique identifier, and other peoples non-consensual contact sharing of your information, to build a shadow profile of you.
So no, its not as simple as not playing the game. You have been entered into the game if you have your phone number in anyones phone book, and come on, that's everyone. Who doesn't have a phone, either at work or at home. Unless you solely communicate with disposable burner phones, (and no one adds those numbers and your name into their phone book :P), then you are just as vulnerable. They probably even have your picture that someone helpfully tagged.
Its pretty depressing that they can get away with this, and that people don't really care and willingly help them.
Perhaps you missed the summer of fire we just had? where smoke blanketed the province for the whole summer, and it didnt rain for 3 months. That's what climate change does to this province. Everything is out of wack. Hot dry summers, super cold wet winters. Worst of both worlds. And if you are paying attention to the ocean, many species such as sea stars are dying off at unprecedented levels.
I cant figure out if you are making a joke or just ignorant... Good weed isnt grown outdoor anyway. Hot summers just mean more cooling is needed thus exacerbating the problem.