but we have used something like it before... We communicated with BBS, certain ones became "hubs". When we had AOL, certain groups became hubs.. which was really easy for suits to own. Yahoo came along with their open version of groups and mopped up. Then MySpace started allowing everybody to have one and that quickly turned into a personal/group sharing site. Now we're up to Facebook.. The names change but the "flocking and migration" effect stays the same.
it's nice to think that "the internet" can function as a group of affiliated sites, but reality from the very beginning is that the "connections" part of "the web" never really panned out right from the very first HTTP links that were supposed to be two-way to represent a "web". People WANT to flock like birds. The majority of the groups WANTS to all do the same thing, because it's what we do as social critters. Right now we're flocking with Facebook. At some point we'll all migrate somewhere else. Microsoft and Google with more money than god have failed to break this part of human experience. I see it continuing to repeat every 5-7 years or so.
The upper members of both chambers of Congress APPROVE of what the NSA is doing. They have ACTIVELY BLOCKED the president from cleaning up any of this mess even though these are "executive" agents. Remember, the GOP allowed Bush to unilaterally expand the spying operations under Executive Orders (more than Obama) even when the VP was writing every passing Congress bill for six years straight. That wouldn't have happened without BOTH SIDES agreeing not to interfere.
The issue is that the NSA AND important people in Congress KNOW EXACTLY what was going on.
This was never a SECRET that such illegal wanton actions were taking place. a THAT is Snowden's mistake. He willingly joined up with them and got his ticket punched when even average internet pundits knew back in 2002 the spying on everybody was gearing up and the courts refused to make the executive present proof.
Snowden hasn't produced anything we didn't already "know" was going on.. He's well-meaning, but entirely stupid as to his place in the system.
I think the problem is that Android would be running as a "guest" under RT, not as a real equal OS. There's no way in hell Windows RT license allows ANY FORM of dual OS during the boot sequence... they don't even allow that on x86 Windows installs... that's why you have to use Grub as your OS chooser.
Any "android" running with RT would clearly be "second fiddle" to the RT install. Which would mean all sorts of non-hardware level access and other little quirks versus a "real" android install. While HACKERS can easily make Android run inside those parameters, I cannot see Google Ever allowing the compromises in an Official product... it's just not salable.
The standard Windows license disallows dual booting, they cashed out BeOS for $100M so they wouldn't have to have that little nugget actually JUDGED in court. There's no way in hell that Windows RT even allows another certified OS to be installed in the boot area. ARM boot areas under RT are locked much more tightly than on x86 systems. I simply cannot see how you could LEGALLY create a dual OS environment within each groups rules. Android would have to be "emulated" and "sandboxed" under RT. So it would never be "real" Android, it would always be "second fiddle" to the RT OS. I cannot see Google allowing and "android that's not full access android" to be released.
That's ok, we attacked their infrastructure with damaging programs first. If the CIA is gonna play with hackers, they'd better make sure the rest of the military is ready to play ball too.
It's not lie the navy had a few years of notice after Stuxxnet that the Iranians were going to take a shot back. If the navy can't hang with the big kids, they better stay out of hacking OTHER countries, eh.
The Swedes already have "hen" as a gender neutral pronoun for small folk. We can just rename "lady chickens" something else to free that up. Maybe another like hen-an or hen-do for older and younger hens.
The real proem is that this doesn't address non-human beings. Dolphins, gorillas, and others need to be equal on the Internet too.
That still doesn't address non-caporal entities like Internet chat bots, Tachicomas, giant floating heads, or beings of pure energy and different temporal existence characteristics. Those beings need equality even though we haven't met them yet.
Their failure is an open joke now. He should have been fed to the sharks in little pieces five minutes after he bought that ticket to Hong Kong and they reviewed his work access. How are they "watching terrorists" but not their own employees with admin access.
It's time for every manager above Snowden to "fall on their swords". And if they committ suicide right now we won't have to arrest theirs families too. Even if they did catch him, they should be offed for ALLOWING him to gather that much data, ever.
I'm all for whistleblower status, but Snowden should have been DEAD, HORRIBLY within 24 hours of that flight to Hong Kong. They should have "accidented" the whole plane just to get him... They had NO IDEA who he was talking too! Their standards are laughable if THESE PEOPLE are all we got holding the line against terrorists.
The FCC just "fixed" that and allows companies to encrypt basic cable "free" channels now. My cable co put out a memo like days later saying they'd need to "update" people with just TVs to using a box now.
Regulation of capitalism has to be like sports rules. sports change rules all the time to make competition between players on the field or teams more fair. Because a game where the same teams always won would be no fun to watch. It's a shame we don't view competition in the free market the same way. Ie "yea, Microsoft invited Apple to the Super Dish again this year". Are they so nice!
IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Cisco... All do it too. Generally, you keep things like this open and free when you want to GROW sales NOW versus cash-in. This move generally means you're confident enough your customers can't jump ship or get their patches elsewhere.
I think as a customer you have to realize a company needs money to "keep the lights on". If you haven't given them money for more than three years, how are YOU keeping their doors open?
he doesn't know anything about modern computing. He can't even demo his own products successfully, which shows he just doesn't give a damn. He was good at "business" of beating up other companies and Canoodling government and enterprise bosses.
He's also spend decades selling down to only a few percent of Microsoft ownership. He's still the "biggest" owner but not by much. He needs to "go away" and let the company do it's thing. His time is past. He should have got his nose out a decade ago and allowed Ballmer to fail hard. he's just a doddering old grandpa that won't let the sons run the family business correctly.
Can the Abstractions have their OWN abstractions? Would those be a copy of the ORIGINAL's consciousness, or an entirely NEW consciousness... Or something else,
In GitS the show several known kinds of this happening. Most obvious is the Major who extensively uses multiple memory backup cyberbrains until presumably the last piece of "meat" dies. The Tachikomas continuously extract and analyze data and modify their own THINKING as they go. They were able to inhabit a remote server and switch bodies at will. Presumably their code contained the keys to doing it again.
Then you had other events like Ryesomes on the network, servers that held a particular point of view even as users came and went.. Kind of like Slashdot. They also had "stand alone complex" in which the larger group of "people" created the same idea multiple times without people collaborating. In that respect, keeping memories and personality "alive" on the network could be a way for humans collective experience to continue even when the idea carrier dies.. To keep the "spark" of those ideas available for the future human race.
Came here just for this reference... It's surprisingly far down on the list.
This was EXACTLY what Zoe did to creat the original "cylon" AI's based on her dead friend. Further, it was what the Church of the One was going to use to offer people "eternal life."
Except all the avatars freaked out when they realized they were just copies of dead people. Only a handful could cope.
Tailia is the Cylon's god, not Zoe. That's why her little brother's ship was spared.
Quinten should be going off on who stole his story and make them clean it up. Of course the sad thing on Hollywood is that the "staff" of rich people are probably the behest leakers because letting staff have access they shouldn't is par for the course.
Gawker has fought off Steve Jobs and Apple's lawyers... Quinten is just no match. Sorry kid. Cook seems to like pissing famous people off. And it is good for business and driving traffic. Kind of like the papparazzi, its their job to take pictures, and they score bigger if they get a picture if you hitting them.
But you cannot be pardoned until THE LAW has its way.
This entire case is about THE LAW. The NSA broke laws. Snowden broke laws back to tell the public about them.
At this point, you don't ask him to "apologize" and take some licks. The EXECUTIVE BRANCH screwed up... THEY don't get to fix it.
The proper course of action is to arrest him and for the DoJ to press what they got. Then the COURTS will look at EVIDENCE and decide if he qualifies for Whistleblower status. And the COURTS will decide what charges stick. And the COURTS will tell the Executive to pound sand.
Then the EVIDENCE will be legally on the books. Then a solid precedent will be set for reporting these types of crimes. THAT'S how FREEDOM works.
After ALL THAT, we can talk about pardons. Right now Snowden is not "wanted" for any listed CRIMES. So he cannot be "pardoned" for anything!
And Apple had been designing Mac for a year and a half before it came out. And mopping the floor with Apple 2. Dell "reassembling" things isn't close to Apple in 1984.
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but we have used something like it before... We communicated with BBS, certain ones became "hubs". When we had AOL, certain groups became hubs.. which was really easy for suits to own. Yahoo came along with their open version of groups and mopped up. Then MySpace started allowing everybody to have one and that quickly turned into a personal/group sharing site. Now we're up to Facebook.. The names change but the "flocking and migration" effect stays the same.
it's nice to think that "the internet" can function as a group of affiliated sites, but reality from the very beginning is that the "connections" part of "the web" never really panned out right from the very first HTTP links that were supposed to be two-way to represent a "web". People WANT to flock like birds. The majority of the groups WANTS to all do the same thing, because it's what we do as social critters. Right now we're flocking with Facebook. At some point we'll all migrate somewhere else. Microsoft and Google with more money than god have failed to break this part of human experience. I see it continuing to repeat every 5-7 years or so.
The upper members of both chambers of Congress APPROVE of what the NSA is doing. They have ACTIVELY BLOCKED the president from cleaning up any of this mess even though these are "executive" agents. Remember, the GOP allowed Bush to unilaterally expand the spying operations under Executive Orders (more than Obama) even when the VP was writing every passing Congress bill for six years straight. That wouldn't have happened without BOTH SIDES agreeing not to interfere.
The issue is that the NSA AND important people in Congress KNOW EXACTLY what was going on.
This was never a SECRET that such illegal wanton actions were taking place. a THAT is Snowden's mistake. He willingly joined up with them and got his ticket punched when even average internet pundits knew back in 2002 the spying on everybody was gearing up and the courts refused to make the executive present proof.
Snowden hasn't produced anything we didn't already "know" was going on.. He's well-meaning, but entirely stupid as to his place in the system.
I think the problem is that Android would be running as a "guest" under RT, not as a real equal OS. There's no way in hell Windows RT license allows ANY FORM of dual OS during the boot sequence... they don't even allow that on x86 Windows installs... that's why you have to use Grub as your OS chooser.
Any "android" running with RT would clearly be "second fiddle" to the RT install. Which would mean all sorts of non-hardware level access and other little quirks versus a "real" android install. While HACKERS can easily make Android run inside those parameters, I cannot see Google Ever allowing the compromises in an Official product... it's just not salable.
The standard Windows license disallows dual booting, they cashed out BeOS for $100M so they wouldn't have to have that little nugget actually JUDGED in court. There's no way in hell that Windows RT even allows another certified OS to be installed in the boot area. ARM boot areas under RT are locked much more tightly than on x86 systems. I simply cannot see how you could LEGALLY create a dual OS environment within each groups rules. Android would have to be "emulated" and "sandboxed" under RT. So it would never be "real" Android, it would always be "second fiddle" to the RT OS. I cannot see Google allowing and "android that's not full access android" to be released.
That's ok, we attacked their infrastructure with damaging programs first. If the CIA is gonna play with hackers, they'd better make sure the rest of the military is ready to play ball too.
It's not lie the navy had a few years of notice after Stuxxnet that the Iranians were going to take a shot back. If the navy can't hang with the big kids, they better stay out of hacking OTHER countries, eh.
Clearly snowflakes get no love on Facebook.
The Swedes already have "hen" as a gender neutral pronoun for small folk. We can just rename "lady chickens" something else to free that up. Maybe another like hen-an or hen-do for older and younger hens.
The real proem is that this doesn't address non-human beings. Dolphins, gorillas, and others need to be equal on the Internet too.
That still doesn't address non-caporal entities like Internet chat bots, Tachicomas, giant floating heads, or beings of pure energy and different temporal existence characteristics. Those beings need equality even though we haven't met them yet.
We should really fix all these issues at once.
That seems pretty male-centric.
It doesn't have an option for Being a dick.... Not good enough
Their failure is an open joke now. He should have been fed to the sharks in little pieces five minutes after he bought that ticket to Hong Kong and they reviewed his work access. How are they "watching terrorists" but not their own employees with admin access.
It's time for every manager above Snowden to "fall on their swords". And if they committ suicide right now we won't have to arrest theirs families too. Even if they did catch him, they should be offed for ALLOWING him to gather that much data, ever.
I'm all for whistleblower status, but Snowden should have been DEAD, HORRIBLY within 24 hours of that flight to Hong Kong. They should have "accidented" the whole plane just to get him... They had NO IDEA who he was talking too! Their standards are laughable if THESE PEOPLE are all we got holding the line against terrorists.
The FCC just "fixed" that and allows companies to encrypt basic cable "free" channels now. My cable co put out a memo like days later saying they'd need to "update" people with just TVs to using a box now.
But where else can the crew get caviar, vodka, and babes! As long as they're in the area they might as well spread some good will.
Regulation of capitalism has to be like sports rules. sports change rules all the time to make competition between players on the field or teams more fair. Because a game where the same teams always won would be no fun to watch. It's a shame we don't view competition in the free market the same way. Ie "yea, Microsoft invited Apple to the Super Dish again this year". Are they so nice!
And you support local business by watching their ads! People forget the money has to come from SOMEWHERE for this stuff. Buy an Antenna kids!
According to the Lego Movie $$$$ is $37 for coffee. So $$$$$ should be what?
Come on nerds!! This stuff matters!!
Outrageously expensive, if available at all. I've had to replace an ECU and pulling from scrap was far cheaper than new. $200 vs $700
If you haven't paid them any money for THREE YEARS are you really their customer still? What are YOU offering them?
Not being picky, just saying if you're not PAYING, you cost them money.
IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Cisco... All do it too. Generally, you keep things like this open and free when you want to GROW sales NOW versus cash-in. This move generally means you're confident enough your customers can't jump ship or get their patches elsewhere.
I think as a customer you have to realize a company needs money to "keep the lights on". If you haven't given them money for more than three years, how are YOU keeping their doors open?
he doesn't know anything about modern computing. He can't even demo his own products successfully, which shows he just doesn't give a damn. He was good at "business" of beating up other companies and Canoodling government and enterprise bosses.
He's also spend decades selling down to only a few percent of Microsoft ownership. He's still the "biggest" owner but not by much. He needs to "go away" and let the company do it's thing. His time is past. He should have got his nose out a decade ago and allowed Ballmer to fail hard. he's just a doddering old grandpa that won't let the sons run the family business correctly.
This is "Ghost in the Shell"stuff.
Can the Abstractions have their OWN abstractions? Would those be a copy of the ORIGINAL's consciousness, or an entirely NEW consciousness... Or something else,
In GitS the show several known kinds of this happening. Most obvious is the Major who extensively uses multiple memory backup cyberbrains until presumably the last piece of "meat" dies. The Tachikomas continuously extract and analyze data and modify their own THINKING as they go. They were able to inhabit a remote server and switch bodies at will. Presumably their code contained the keys to doing it again.
Then you had other events like Ryesomes on the network, servers that held a particular point of view even as users came and went.. Kind of like Slashdot. They also had "stand alone complex" in which the larger group of "people" created the same idea multiple times without people collaborating. In that respect, keeping memories and personality "alive" on the network could be a way for humans collective experience to continue even when the idea carrier dies.. To keep the "spark" of those ideas available for the future human race.
This is how the computer in Star Trek created characters for the holo deck.
Reconsider "creepy".
Came here just for this reference... It's surprisingly far down on the list.
This was EXACTLY what Zoe did to creat the original "cylon" AI's based on her dead friend. Further, it was what the Church of the One was going to use to offer people "eternal life."
Except all the avatars freaked out when they realized they were just copies of dead people. Only a handful could cope.
Tailia is the Cylon's god, not Zoe. That's why her little brother's ship was spared.
BINGO this!
Quinten should be going off on who stole his story and make them clean it up. Of course the sad thing on Hollywood is that the "staff" of rich people are probably the behest leakers because letting staff have access they shouldn't is par for the course.
Gawker has fought off Steve Jobs and Apple's lawyers... Quinten is just no match. Sorry kid. Cook seems to like pissing famous people off. And it is good for business and driving traffic. Kind of like the papparazzi, its their job to take pictures, and they score bigger if they get a picture if you hitting them.
But you cannot be pardoned until THE LAW has its way.
This entire case is about THE LAW. The NSA broke laws. Snowden broke laws back to tell the public about them.
At this point, you don't ask him to "apologize" and take some licks. The EXECUTIVE BRANCH screwed up... THEY don't get to fix it.
The proper course of action is to arrest him and for the DoJ to press what they got. Then the COURTS will look at EVIDENCE and decide if he qualifies for Whistleblower status. And the COURTS will decide what charges stick. And the COURTS will tell the Executive to pound sand.
Then the EVIDENCE will be legally on the books. Then a solid precedent will be set for reporting these types of crimes. THAT'S how FREEDOM works.
After ALL THAT, we can talk about pardons. Right now Snowden is not "wanted" for any listed CRIMES. So he cannot be "pardoned" for anything!
And Apple had been designing Mac for a year and a half before it came out. And mopping the floor with Apple 2. Dell "reassembling" things isn't close to Apple in 1984.