This is exactly the kind of story that I hope to avoid by reading slashdot, news about nerdy stuff, computers, internet, video games. Unless they're planning to take away our video games because of this, or they're planning to make a video game about it, it doesn't belong here. There's other websites to talk about normal news.
First of all, all you folks who said they need to test it in a controlled environment, that's been done out in the open, on North America.
Second, obviously they should only do it if the individuals making the decisions get bribed well enough. This is some really dangerous shit. A mere $10k bale of US Benjamin's is not enough to turn a blind eye or say nothing to the press. You need a million. Maybe ten.
Can I stop to mention that such freedoms to speak uncouthly regarding ones own government in such freedom loving country as Canada? There are several laws against free speech.
I believe the world of massive social media will soon implode, and give way to decentralized private interoperable networks, and the platforms that have adequate moderation will attract the masses away from the ones that don't. It's not exactly a new concept.
That's just a construct of the society we live in. Culture is our Operating System, and ours is poisonous. Delete it, like Format C, and install another one. And until you do, don't suggest clinging to the old one, or excusing any behavior brought on by that bullshit.
You seem to have lost sight of what they're really building when they get cards like this. And you seem to have some strange sense of price ridicule at only putting one card in. Enthusiasts are putting in 4. Just to say they can.
The package being "found" is a lot more likely to happen now that some Postal worker realizes his theft has been made very very public, and that investigations are going to come his way and shine the light on what really happened if the games aren't returned. Or her.... Probably him.
I think having devices in the hands of citizens that are actually useful during an emergency and aren't sold with that functionality switched off is exactly the kind of reason to have regulation of the sale of such devices. If we leave it up to free market, then when it comes time to check the radio for emergency evacuation information, those who picked up the "Cheap" hardware are going to experience Free Market Darwinism.
Just to recap:
Mandating cellular devices allow "lawful" intercept and Orwellian style surveillance of citizens: BAD
Mandating cellular devices be shipped with their FM tuners switched on, thus allowing citizens to become informed of lifesaving details during an emergency, thus saving hundreds of thousands of lives, or even millions: GOOD
You seem to have missed that the story says the feds demanded people's fingerprints. They didn't ask people to unlock their phones, they got the fingerprints and used technology to unlock the phones after they were confiscated.
So, does that make it anything like the Samsung "smart" TVs that Samsung itself announces should not be present while having private conversations, because reasons?
They are all Orwell's telescreens, and we love them, when we should fear them.
No really. I killed my headphone jack like 3 years ago. Static discharge while hooked up to a stereo. Jack now sounds like total garbage, can't use it at all.
I get by tho. I Had to run out and purchase some bluetooth headphones, and I still use the internal speakers, or hook it up via HDMI.
So basically what I'm saying is it will have the exact effect Apple Corporate wants. Using their near monopoly on the market for spiffy mac portables which have suddenly become trendy, not like the previous 25 years of my fanboi-dom, to force purchases and extract more profits from already stretched thin consumers at the cost of functionality is an unforgivable sin. They've been doing it in their software, and now they do it in their hardware. I'm done with you Apple. I'm putting linux on this mac, I already use linux on my desktop, and I'm never buying another of your products. I hope all readers do the same.
Of course this is what would happen when schools have their technology sectors closed, funding cut, and students driven away. Exactly what stories and commenters from this site said would happen years ago.
Science can quickly and easily prove that "economics" such as they are today, are a failure by design, and the idea of monetizing everything in the world is flawed from the beginning. Such a system would be the first casualty of a scientific governance. Immediately and assuredly, destroyed. And we should not look back with anything but disdain.
If you would instead want to rule with an iron fist or blind ignorance or artificial scarcity or racist psychopathic militarized police or subversive secret agents or broken social constructs, depressing environments, and copious supplies of impure mind altering substances prohibited and delivered by black ops and black markets, then yes, allowing the population to be well informed, implement plans that have merit, and using scientific proofs to rule themselves without your "guidance" and "protection" is a horrible, terrible idea.
So, According to a court ruling, I'm not allowed to share my password with federal agents or the court because the law says I cannot share my password with anyone?
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Ban gangs in cities; only gang farmers should be allowed.
This is exactly the kind of story that I hope to avoid by reading slashdot, news about nerdy stuff, computers, internet, video games. Unless they're planning to take away our video games because of this, or they're planning to make a video game about it, it doesn't belong here. There's other websites to talk about normal news.
First of all, all you folks who said they need to test it in a controlled environment, that's been done out in the open, on North America. Second, obviously they should only do it if the individuals making the decisions get bribed well enough. This is some really dangerous shit. A mere $10k bale of US Benjamin's is not enough to turn a blind eye or say nothing to the press. You need a million. Maybe ten.
Come back when it's 3 or 6 cellphones per inmate and we'll show you what a problem is.
Can I stop to mention that such freedoms to speak uncouthly regarding ones own government in such freedom loving country as Canada? There are several laws against free speech.
The police investigated themselves for using excessive force and found no wrongdoing.
I believe the world of massive social media will soon implode, and give way to decentralized private interoperable networks, and the platforms that have adequate moderation will attract the masses away from the ones that don't. It's not exactly a new concept.
Guess its time to go wake up the GIMP then....
That's just a construct of the society we live in. Culture is our Operating System, and ours is poisonous. Delete it, like Format C, and install another one. And until you do, don't suggest clinging to the old one, or excusing any behavior brought on by that bullshit.
My 17 year old dual CPU single core sub GHz desktop Mac can crank teraflops. Glad you made it to the party Intel
All of them do. They completely smash and destroy it, and then fool you into thinking it's safe.
You seem to have lost sight of what they're really building when they get cards like this. And you seem to have some strange sense of price ridicule at only putting one card in. Enthusiasts are putting in 4. Just to say they can.
www.craphound.com/makers/download/
The package being "found" is a lot more likely to happen now that some Postal worker realizes his theft has been made very very public, and that investigations are going to come his way and shine the light on what really happened if the games aren't returned. Or her.... Probably him.
If we leave it up to free market, then when it comes time to check the radio for emergency evacuation information, those who picked up the "Cheap" hardware are going to experience Free Market Darwinism.
Just to recap:
Dear Playboy: I hate to say I told ya so, but, I told ya so.
Signed Sincerely, The Internet.
Toxic users.... on Reddit?
That's unpossible!
You seem to have missed that the story says the feds demanded people's fingerprints. They didn't ask people to unlock their phones, they got the fingerprints and used technology to unlock the phones after they were confiscated.
So, does that make it anything like the Samsung "smart" TVs that Samsung itself announces should not be present while having private conversations, because reasons?
They are all Orwell's telescreens, and we love them, when we should fear them.
No really. I killed my headphone jack like 3 years ago. Static discharge while hooked up to a stereo. Jack now sounds like total garbage, can't use it at all.
I get by tho. I Had to run out and purchase some bluetooth headphones, and I still use the internal speakers, or hook it up via HDMI.
So basically what I'm saying is it will have the exact effect Apple Corporate wants. Using their near monopoly on the market for spiffy mac portables which have suddenly become trendy, not like the previous 25 years of my fanboi-dom, to force purchases and extract more profits from already stretched thin consumers at the cost of functionality is an unforgivable sin. They've been doing it in their software, and now they do it in their hardware. I'm done with you Apple. I'm putting linux on this mac, I already use linux on my desktop, and I'm never buying another of your products. I hope all readers do the same.
Of course this is what would happen when schools have their technology sectors closed, funding cut, and students driven away. Exactly what stories and commenters from this site said would happen years ago.
A trend against science and research and education has been seen in the US. Why not also in the EU and UK?
Science can quickly and easily prove that "economics" such as they are today, are a failure by design, and the idea of monetizing everything in the world is flawed from the beginning. Such a system would be the first casualty of a scientific governance. Immediately and assuredly, destroyed. And we should not look back with anything but disdain.
If you would instead want to rule with an iron fist or blind ignorance or artificial scarcity or racist psychopathic militarized police or subversive secret agents or broken social constructs, depressing environments, and copious supplies of impure mind altering substances prohibited and delivered by black ops and black markets, then yes, allowing the population to be well informed, implement plans that have merit, and using scientific proofs to rule themselves without your "guidance" and "protection" is a horrible, terrible idea.
So, According to a court ruling, I'm not allowed to share my password with federal agents or the court because the law says I cannot share my password with anyone?