To the parents I say this: your child carries with them more knowledge, power, and responsibility in their pocket than you've likely known in the past fifty years.
It's just a pocket internet connected computer. Yes, there's plenty of useful stuff to connect to, and plenty of useless and harmful crap too.
And no, my children don't carry them in their pockets, because they don't need them and I don't let them. They are children, and they don't yet have the wisdom to navigate every dark alley in the world.
Not seeing it.
Straws are not exactly washable on the inside.
What's next - multi-use TP ?
You can buy reusable hard plastic straws - we have some. We just soak em in hot soapy water, then rinse. Not sure what procedures or machines you'd need for commercial application.
because trading oil on a market other than the US Dollar is an excellent way to experience sudden and unexpected violently American Freedom(c) and Democracy(c) in your country.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
Um, what?
That's what you got out of "a communist dictatorship does funky things with fake currency"?
Something bad about completely different countries that are neither communist nor dictatorships?
BTW, if you really think these 8o Russians and their tiny Facebook ad buy decided the election, then I highly recommend that you hire them. They are the most amazing marketers ever.
You really think these 80 russians were posting propaganda to Facebook in the same manner that Indians run scam call centers? Nay. They wrote software to spread the propaganda for them in a very highly efficient manner... botnet style...
Then the Dems should hire them to do botnets. However they did it, it's the most amazing and cost effective campaign the world has ever seen, apparently.
From all outward appearances they are pretty much exactly the same as any of their competitors. Worse in some ways. They appear to make their products in other countries and import the products into the USA. They appear to evade paying taxes whenever possible. They try to force customers who have paid for an imported hardware product to only buy software from their store.
Which part am I mistaken about?
At least in 1984 it's only the Two Minutes Hate. Don't you people ever get tired of this stuff?
I've seen some sore losers in my life, but you are the sorest. Give... it... a... rest.
You lost because you sucked. Nobody cared about this "fake news", because there was more than enough real news that was highly unfavorable to you, despite the fervent loyalty (to you) of the news readers.
BTW, if you really think these 8o Russians and their tiny Facebook ad buy decided the election, then I highly recommend that you hire them. They are the most amazing marketers ever.
Can we please just keep making cars that have NO built-in screens? If and when I need a navigator, I'll mount my phone, but I generally don't need a bright glowing rectangle blowing out my night vision.
Just got a new one last year... no screen.
If there's a market, they should stay available. Keep buying them that way. Keep telling the dealers and anyone who will listen why you have that preference.
AI has so far shown no mechanisms to replace the fundamentally human part which is to figure out what the human comissioning the code actually wants and turning it into something formal.
Yep.
Sure, AI will code for us, sure. But... we'll need some kind of symbolic language to issue precise instructions to the AI, to encode the logic we actually want to happen.
I haven’t had this problem with either UPS or FedEx.
Amazon delivery, on the other hand... a couple weeks ago, I had to return a package that had been thrown into the grass inside a fenced yard (not for the first time). It was out there a couple days because the Amazon delivery driver had recorded “handed directly to a neighbor” - some of my neighbors have odd hours, so it takes a while to make contact with all of them. I finally happened to notice a small yellow corner of an envelope poking up amid a bunch of tall grass..
I’ve had Amazon drivers stuff boxes into trees (“left in a secure location”, the delivery note said - thank God the imbecile actually took a delivery photo that time!); in the grass; sitting in the rain, right underneath a laminated 8”x11” sign stating “please deliver packages to the back door”; all sorts of ridiculous locations. I’ve complained every time, and been told each time that I can’t exclude Amazon delivery from my options.
I’ve had Prime for years... but, after the latest debacle, I cancelled all my subscribe and save deliveries and am spending the next ten months (till renewal time) exploring alternatives to Amazon. There are certainly a number of companies trying to get into that space...
Yeah, sadly if I had to have them delivered to my home I don't think I'd rely on Amazon nearly as much as I do. Too many debacles.
I'm lucky that I can have the stuff delivered to my office. Many people don't have that luck, however. It would be nice if Amazon could get their act together.
I hope you find a good alternative. Jet seemed promising, but I must say I've had more delivery debacles with them than with Amazon, even with my office as destination!
If that were true, it would be entirely unnecessary to have a huge government apparatus trying to enforce it
That argument holds true only if the same people who profit unequally from and consequently control the current system are prepared to relinquish their relative status.
I'm not sure that even you know what you are saying here, but in any case I don't think that Silicon Valley tech companies are so racist (it feels nonsensical even typing that) that they are going to leave "huge profits" out there (that's the claim, remember), when they could simply scoop those huge profits up with "diversity".
If that were true, it would be entirely unnecessary to have a huge government apparatus trying to enforce it, and a huge "non profit" sector doing shakedowns and intimidation about it.
How does this resolve the case of my political uncle posting extreme ideas every week or two.
Anyone outside the family would rightfully think he's a bot. He isn't, he's just that uncle.
The first amendment protections required for a system like this would make it far too cumbersome for practical use. Yea, Twitter is proving the opposite case with their manual interventions, but there must be a middle ground
This is all about squelching unapproved opinions. Can't have people (or bots) "disparaging" Hillary Clinton, for example. We indict people for that now.
I'm not American, I live in Canada, and I certainly admit posting a lot of comments on social networks during the last US election. Worse, a lot of prominent Canadian figures made comment after comment on social networks about both Trump and Clinton. I'm sure Canadians posted more than 200,000 tweets. So why not accuse Canada of interfering with the US elections?
Because I doubt most of them supported the unapproved (by the left) outcome... that's why Canadian tweets were OK.
The next time you are on a busy highway, Note how few drivers actually leave that much space. And when you do leave such a gap some jockey cuts right in.
The nice thing about that is that the jockey is now in front of you, and getting farther away from you. While a bank of more reasonable people is forming behind you.
Does using software to monitor your children's activity warrant a vigilante destroying a private company's data? The article reads a bit click-baity to me.
For that matter, maybe the parents told their kids they put the software on their devices.
Precisely. "Monitoring your own kids' behavior" is neither evil nor criminal.
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Hmm. Dramatic sounding.
To the parents I say this: your child carries with them more knowledge, power, and responsibility in their pocket than you've likely known in the past fifty years.
It's just a pocket internet connected computer. Yes, there's plenty of useful stuff to connect to, and plenty of useless and harmful crap too.
And no, my children don't carry them in their pockets, because they don't need them and I don't let them. They are children, and they don't yet have the wisdom to navigate every dark alley in the world.
... I wonder what the Slashdot take on this will be? lol
Not seeing it. Straws are not exactly washable on the inside. What's next - multi-use TP ?
You can buy reusable hard plastic straws - we have some. We just soak em in hot soapy water, then rinse. Not sure what procedures or machines you'd need for commercial application.
because trading oil on a market other than the US Dollar is an excellent way to experience sudden and unexpected violently American Freedom(c) and Democracy(c) in your country. https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
Um, what?
That's what you got out of "a communist dictatorship does funky things with fake currency"?
Something bad about completely different countries that are neither communist nor dictatorships?
So yeah, theres definately something fishy going on with these bots and troll accounts.
If a bunch of Twitter accounts can actually influence an election, then banning bots isn't going to help much.
I'm sure for the cost of busing their constituencies around to multiple polling places, the Dems could pay for quite a few human tweets.
If not they should hire some Russians, amazing marketers and so cost effective!
A robot dog doesn't need to fight back. All it needs to do is say, at a high volume, "get out of the way or I'll rip you in half."
That should work on about 99% of the population.
It would work on me, that's for sure!
Good doggy ...
Social justice is pretty much baked into the entire sci-fi genre,
Yeah, I remember how all the classic scifi novels are full of affirmative action and stuff. Good times!
I think the main issue here is that Google doesn't want people arguing this stuff on company time instead of working.
Well if so, they have a funny way of showing it. As a company they spend a lot of time and energy talking about all this argle fargle.
BTW, if you really think these 8o Russians and their tiny Facebook ad buy decided the election, then I highly recommend that you hire them. They are the most amazing marketers ever.
You really think these 80 russians were posting propaganda to Facebook in the same manner that Indians run scam call centers? Nay. They wrote software to spread the propaganda for them in a very highly efficient manner... botnet style...
Then the Dems should hire them to do botnets. However they did it, it's the most amazing and cost effective campaign the world has ever seen, apparently.
From all outward appearances they are pretty much exactly the same as any of their competitors. Worse in some ways. They appear to make their products in other countries and import the products into the USA. They appear to evade paying taxes whenever possible. They try to force customers who have paid for an imported hardware product to only buy software from their store. Which part am I mistaken about?
You missed the infused humanity!!
just keep making cars that have NO built-in screens
Keep making cars? I don't think you know what that phrase means. It typically implies that we are currently making cars without built in screens.
We are; I bought one new last year without a screen.
At least in 1984 it's only the Two Minutes Hate. Don't you people ever get tired of this stuff?
I've seen some sore losers in my life, but you are the sorest. Give ... it ... a ... rest.
You lost because you sucked. Nobody cared about this "fake news", because there was more than enough real news that was highly unfavorable to you, despite the fervent loyalty (to you) of the news readers.
BTW, if you really think these 8o Russians and their tiny Facebook ad buy decided the election, then I highly recommend that you hire them. They are the most amazing marketers ever.
Can we please just keep making cars that have NO built-in screens? If and when I need a navigator, I'll mount my phone, but I generally don't need a bright glowing rectangle blowing out my night vision.
Just got a new one last year ... no screen.
If there's a market, they should stay available. Keep buying them that way. Keep telling the dealers and anyone who will listen why you have that preference.
AI has so far shown no mechanisms to replace the fundamentally human part which is to figure out what the human comissioning the code actually wants and turning it into something formal.
Yep.
Sure, AI will code for us, sure. But ... we'll need some kind of symbolic language to issue precise instructions to the AI, to encode the logic we actually want to happen.
Oh, wait ...
Seriously, does the relevant law (if there even is one ... law, we don't need no steenking law!) actually say "meddling"?
"And it would have worked, too, if it weren't for you meddling Russian kids!" - Scooby Hillary
I haven’t had this problem with either UPS or FedEx.
Amazon delivery, on the other hand... a couple weeks ago, I had to return a package that had been thrown into the grass inside a fenced yard (not for the first time). It was out there a couple days because the Amazon delivery driver had recorded “handed directly to a neighbor” - some of my neighbors have odd hours, so it takes a while to make contact with all of them. I finally happened to notice a small yellow corner of an envelope poking up amid a bunch of tall grass..
I’ve had Amazon drivers stuff boxes into trees (“left in a secure location”, the delivery note said - thank God the imbecile actually took a delivery photo that time!); in the grass; sitting in the rain, right underneath a laminated 8”x11” sign stating “please deliver packages to the back door”; all sorts of ridiculous locations. I’ve complained every time, and been told each time that I can’t exclude Amazon delivery from my options.
I’ve had Prime for years... but, after the latest debacle, I cancelled all my subscribe and save deliveries and am spending the next ten months (till renewal time) exploring alternatives to Amazon. There are certainly a number of companies trying to get into that space...
Yeah, sadly if I had to have them delivered to my home I don't think I'd rely on Amazon nearly as much as I do. Too many debacles.
I'm lucky that I can have the stuff delivered to my office. Many people don't have that luck, however. It would be nice if Amazon could get their act together.
I hope you find a good alternative. Jet seemed promising, but I must say I've had more delivery debacles with them than with Amazon, even with my office as destination!
Vietnam is a communist dictatorship. I hope Internet censorship doesn't come as some sort of surprise ...
There are huge profits to be made from diversity.
If that were true, it would be entirely unnecessary to have a huge government apparatus trying to enforce it
That argument holds true only if the same people who profit unequally from and consequently control the current system are prepared to relinquish their relative status.
I'm not sure that even you know what you are saying here, but in any case I don't think that Silicon Valley tech companies are so racist (it feels nonsensical even typing that) that they are going to leave "huge profits" out there (that's the claim, remember), when they could simply scoop those huge profits up with "diversity".
There are huge profits to be made from diversity.
If that were true, it would be entirely unnecessary to have a huge government apparatus trying to enforce it, and a huge "non profit" sector doing shakedowns and intimidation about it.
How does this resolve the case of my political uncle posting extreme ideas every week or two.
Anyone outside the family would rightfully think he's a bot. He isn't, he's just that uncle.
The first amendment protections required for a system like this would make it far too cumbersome for practical use. Yea, Twitter is proving the opposite case with their manual interventions, but there must be a middle ground
This is all about squelching unapproved opinions. Can't have people (or bots) "disparaging" Hillary Clinton, for example. We indict people for that now.
I'm not American, I live in Canada, and I certainly admit posting a lot of comments on social networks during the last US election. Worse, a lot of prominent Canadian figures made comment after comment on social networks about both Trump and Clinton. I'm sure Canadians posted more than 200,000 tweets. So why not accuse Canada of interfering with the US elections?
Because I doubt most of them supported the unapproved (by the left) outcome ... that's why Canadian tweets were OK.
The next time you are on a busy highway, Note how few drivers actually leave that much space. And when you do leave such a gap some jockey cuts right in.
The nice thing about that is that the jockey is now in front of you, and getting farther away from you. While a bank of more reasonable people is forming behind you.
I see the Russians are succeeding with you. Let's remember that we're all Americans and figure out what to do.
And there it is; the hermetic seal.
Anyone who disagrees with you is a dupe of the Russians, not a fellow American who disagrees with you.
He was invited to give input and he did so.
Google pretended to want a conversation, then fired him when it got one.
Bunch of cowardly bullies.
Does using software to monitor your children's activity warrant a vigilante destroying a private company's data? The article reads a bit click-baity to me.
For that matter, maybe the parents told their kids they put the software on their devices.
Precisely. "Monitoring your own kids' behavior" is neither evil nor criminal.