"We didn't spy on Congressional office holders, or their staffers. We don't conduct mass surveillance. We track only metadata. Our Agency leadership has been exceptionally truthful at all times, under every circumstance. We have never lied about these things in general public statements or in sworn testimony. Edward Snowden is a bad man, a liar and a dangerous enemy of the people of this country."
I think we can really fuck with them. Chaff, deception traffic...
Let's get started on making more hay for their stacks, people! Hell. You'll run a client for SETI, why not run one to preserve your intelligent life, here on Earth!
Yes. Enjoy 15-30 years of BEARABLE slavery. But you OWN something... Just ask the taxman.
You have Stockholm syndrome - and don't recognize it. You should read about Edward Bernays, some time - before lashing out in pseudo-moral rage against a proposition who's arguments you fo not actually comprehend.
Lem was critical of Government, of official bureaucracy - whether public or private.
He never singled out the US as a specific target, and could be construed as subtly/subversively anti-authoritarian, in ways that were passable by the Communist governments of Poland and USSR.
The US is now no different than those. We just have Nike Fuel bands, and two cars in front of our debt-bondage. Whoops! I mean home.
Governments and corporations are fictional persons. They have no "moral consciousness" of any kind, outside of rhetorical and ideological fantasy.
So, this will not be a question of moral or immoral use. It will be amoral, in the hands of those who have advanced themselves through manipulation of the aforementioned ideological rhetoric.
You continue to believe that there is hope for this modern, post-industrial society. But there is none. We as people have increased the sophistication of our tools and our reach - just as relentlessly as we have avoided the refinement of our own beings.
In the end you don't get Star Trek. You don't even get Starship Troopers. You get Scanner, Darkly And hope there is Valis.
Right. Can they get it to gaseous form first?:-) Or do they sublimate straight from pure energy, right to solid state?
Also, point of clarification (pun intended): Does this crystalline light need to be first observed as a particle, or will a wave observation prove to be equally effective in achieving desired result?
I appreciate your concerns about NFC. But NFC is really a transport, not a privacy control. If simple privacy controls were implemented, relying on limited NFC range for reducing attack opportunity? That's a problem itself.
I am lead to believe that intercepted transactions with the Apple payment model are nearly useless. They may ultimately reveal predictable sequences, to establish later unauthorized transactions - but this is speculation. The transaction is privacy-protected with its own cryptographic tokenization and handshaking in the application design, which include having the device for 2-factor, not the SIM or IMEI, etc. Handshakes and transactions are one-time, limiting usefulness for spoof, replay, reuse, etc.
I'd be more worried about the twisted-pair or local wifi for in-store magstripe readers, than I would Apple payments.
Apple doesn't middle-man the banking/merchant transaction in their model.
Unlike Google/Samsung/Amazon, they are not collecting or monetizing transaction or location info of buyers. They limit their liability and focus on where they make real money.
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"We didn't spy on Congressional office holders, or their staffers. We don't conduct mass surveillance. We track only metadata. Our Agency leadership has been exceptionally truthful at all times, under every circumstance. We have never lied about these things in general public statements or in sworn testimony. Edward Snowden is a bad man, a liar and a dangerous enemy of the people of this country."
But you have cookies, and browser fingerprints, and logons, and device ID / Application ID info...
Riding on a free uplink doesn't do jack.
I think we can really fuck with them. Chaff, deception traffic...
Let's get started on making more hay for their stacks, people! Hell. You'll run a client for SETI, why not run one to preserve your intelligent life, here on Earth!
It depends on what you need to do, and what you know about it.
If you are not willing to walk away from it, on short notice? Then buying nothing is wise.
The trick about big financing is that you don't own a house - a bank owns you. Your on their plantation.
If you didn't barter or pay cash, you are on Massah's rules, Massah's time.
Yes. Enjoy 15-30 years of BEARABLE slavery. But you OWN something... Just ask the taxman.
You have Stockholm syndrome - and don't recognize it. You should read about Edward Bernays, some time - before lashing out in pseudo-moral rage against a proposition who's arguments you fo not actually comprehend.
Perhaps Lem comes off less morose in jzyk Polski
Lem was critical of Government, of official bureaucracy - whether public or private.
He never singled out the US as a specific target, and could be construed as subtly/subversively anti-authoritarian, in ways that were passable by the Communist governments of Poland and USSR.
The US is now no different than those. We just have Nike Fuel bands, and two cars in front of our debt-bondage. Whoops! I mean home.
Governments and corporations are fictional persons. They have no "moral consciousness" of any kind, outside of rhetorical and ideological fantasy.
So, this will not be a question of moral or immoral use. It will be amoral, in the hands of those who have advanced themselves through manipulation of the aforementioned ideological rhetoric.
You continue to believe that there is hope for this modern, post-industrial society. But there is none. We as people have increased the sophistication of our tools and our reach - just as relentlessly as we have avoided the refinement of our own beings.
In the end you don't get Star Trek. You don't even get Starship Troopers. You get Scanner, Darkly And hope there is Valis.
"I still can't allow you and Cmdr. Poole to jeopardize this mission, Dave."
In Ukraine we have achieving technological dominance again for one time more!
Announcing for world first time, biggest ever microchip. Ability to the processing power of more data is an explosive growth phenomenon.
Now it is Ukraine again the leader!
Single atom says:
"Help! I'm trapped in the four-dimensional space-time string, isolated from the 12-dimentional multiverse!"
Gaseous? So it is an element. ARRGH!
I complained to the FCC....
I didn't see enough of Janet's breast to compensate for watching the Superbowl.
I read that as Excursion Funerals. Twice. It really sounds like a good idea though. I have to update my will now.
"Excretion Funerals" here.
Same disease, smells worse...
Seriously? A crystal?
Right. Can they get it to gaseous form first? :-) Or do they sublimate straight from pure energy, right to solid state?
Also, point of clarification (pun intended): Does this crystalline light need to be first observed as a particle, or will a wave observation prove to be equally effective in achieving desired result?
Can we hope it ends this farcical "progress" and return the planet to steam and gaslight?
I think an Apple iWatch would be a great asshole-detector.
That is, if the detectee were not already advertising themselves by wearing Google Glass ;-)
Since when does Volvo cars starts fucking?
Swedish. You know. Like the Norskies, but looser in the morals department.
"What type of laundry detergent is best used as a replacement for jet fuel in a 1972 Colecovision gaming console?"
FEATURES I WANT:
Cloaking device
Stealth
Wifi and GSM disruption
Lasers
Who needs Terabyte Flash
When you spin rust in gas?
Chip'n'pin at scale - and not dependent on card-posession.
I appreciate your concerns about NFC. But NFC is really a transport, not a privacy control. If simple privacy controls were implemented, relying on limited NFC range for reducing attack opportunity? That's a problem itself.
I am lead to believe that intercepted transactions with the Apple payment model are nearly useless. They may ultimately reveal predictable sequences, to establish later unauthorized transactions - but this is speculation. The transaction is privacy-protected with its own cryptographic tokenization and handshaking in the application design, which include having the device for 2-factor, not the SIM or IMEI, etc. Handshakes and transactions are one-time, limiting usefulness for spoof, replay, reuse, etc.
I'd be more worried about the twisted-pair or local wifi for in-store magstripe readers, than I would Apple payments.
It's a chip'n'pin style arrangement - with your phone as the "chip" for all cards. Lose your phone? Disable it.
Home Depot and Target breaches wouldn't have been possible with this tech.
Apple doesn't middle-man the banking/merchant transaction in their model.
Unlike Google/Samsung/Amazon, they are not collecting or monetizing transaction or location info of buyers. They limit their liability and focus on where they make real money.