All cookies and cache get cleared when I close my browser, and I use NoScript, AdBlock, and a number of other plug-ins that keep that crap out of my browser in the first place. Failbook can enjoy tracking my middle finger.
I'm sure the government could care less what I post about on Facebook
But everything you post on Facebook is being used to create a profile of you that can be used to predict your every action and track your whereabouts with very high accuracy, don't you even care?
You're just being paranoid, nobody actually does that!
That's how that particular discussion usually goes.
'Inexperienced' = 'Isn't aware of/understand X', 'Gets X explained to them', 'Has an AHA! moment, is grateful for new learning/knowledge'.
'Stupid' = 'Isn't aware of/understand X', 'Gets X explained to them', 'Gives you a funny look, mocks you, says you are just too old, don't understand how things are today, etc, ignores new knowledge/learning'
But of course that's obvious. They've also been indoctrinated by 'social media', the media in general, and corporations that sharing everything is normal, and that 'privacy' is something anomalous, and that only people with something to hide want privacy. The real question is: will they live long enough to learn the error of their ways, and even more to the point, will they learn that before they reproduce and pass on their indoctrinated ways to another generation?
Know what? You, and you and you and you can all go to hell for all I care. 'Vaping' is just a drug delivery device, it's at least as bad if not worse than smoking, and we don't need it around. Just ban it. You don't like my opinion? Tough shit, I'm not changing it, and you have no moral ground to stand on with regards to this. Go shoot yourselves in the head if you want to kill yourselves, it'll be faster, less painful for you, and the rest of us won't have to put up with your bullshit in the meantime.
Plain and simple. The world doesn't need one more way for humans to kill themselves, either through them exploding, or poisoning/sickening themselves with them. Just ban them and be done with it.
Any method of producing 'random' numbers or bits that can be subjected to any sort of attack to influence or control it's output has to be excluded from the list of 'valid' sources. Guarantee you that anything using a microphone as input can be manipulated to produce a predictable output. Do you really want your banking transactions' encryption keys protected by such a source? I think not.
Can two pseudo random numbers actually be combined to give a truly random number?
LOL, no.
I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as 'true random numbers'. I think the closest we can come is the Quantum Random Bit Generator from some years ago.
'Productivity output of the U.S.' is NEVER going to be 'evenly distributed', EVER. That's a fantasy.
'Productivity doubling' doesn't mean SHIT. Otherwise why do we have homeless, and why is anyone poor?
Take a look at most people who win lotteries: THEY LOSE ALL THE MONEY IN SHORT ORDER, one way or another. Also your 'earning interest' scenario is more blue-sky, rose-colored-glasses, what-could-possibly-go-wrong thinking. Another recession wipes it all out.
You people and your 'self-driving vehicles' crap make me laugh. You are the minority. Most people don't want them. Also they will be TOO EXPENSIVE for most people to afford. Also, they will not be the ubiquitos reality you seem to think is 'now' for AT LEAST 20 to 50 YEARS. We do NOT have true 'AI', we have shitty algorithms and cheesy 'machine learning' that doesn't even come CLOSE to how a human mind works, and by the way we are not anywhere NEAR even beginning to understand how the human brain does what it does!GET OFF THE 'SELF-DRIVING CAR' crap already, you're going to be driving your car yourself for a LONG, LONG TIME to come.
Regardless of whether you think it will work or not, something has to change.
Regardless of what YOU fantasy-lovers think, things are NOT going to change anywhere near as much as you think they will -- unless you want to see mass chaos all over the world.
'Appealing to me emotionally with the think-of-the-children bullshit'
So much for any credibility anyone thought you have, you blew it all away with one single logical fallacy.
You and the rest of your minority band are living in a fantasy world. Stop reading so much science fantasy, stop believing the bullshit the news 'services' are feeding you, and at least TRY to apply some actual intelligence and critical thinking, and finally: Try talking to REAL, average people, not your cow-orkers, not your minority-thinking buddies, not the trolls and likewise self-deluded idiots on the Internet, REAL PEOPLE. Maybe you'll even come out of your fantasy world and into the real one. You sure as hell aren't living in it now.
The first time I find a dead bug or small animal (or parts thereof) or some crud from some robotic arm in my french fries, I'll sue the living fuck out of them. Of course it's totally irrelevant since I don't eat anything from McDonalds anyway (I like to eat actual food, not pseudo-food), but if they start replacing all their staff with robots, then they're ensuring that I'd never go there for anything, ever. Same goes for a real, actual restaurant: I want a human chef creating my meal, and I want human waitstaff to deal with. If I have to sit there and order off a screen, imagine some robotic arm making my steak, and watch some robotic cart deliver the dish to the table, then it's a non-starter, I'd sooner stay home and make my own steak. At least that way it won't end up tasting like gear oil.
Of course I think we'd all be better off if the fast-food industry died anyway; it's all pseudo-food; none of us should ever eat that crap. Stay home and cook your own food. Much healthier, and far less expensive.
I predict that a basic income would create a new revival for nonprofits, providing a wellspring of staff willing to volunteer.
Goddamnit.. You are not the typical jackoff who I am talking about that will do nothing and just get into trouble, and as such you don't even have the perspective to understand how the average jackoff could be that way in the first place!Of course someone like you or I would have an in-built purpose to fill our lives if we didn't have to work! But we're not average people, and that's who I'm talking about: The average people of the world.
Your entire comment can be summarized in one sentence:
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Everything, that's what. Like so many before you, you fail to recognize a simple immutable fact that affects everything: PEOPLE. Once you get a bunch of them involved in something, they fuck it up. Almost invariably. Something on this scale? Disaster.
Let's change the way the ENTIRE WORLD works!
Yeah sure good bloody luck with that; come back in about 200 years, we'll see. Assuming we're all still here. And some jihadi asshole hasn't cut off everyone's heads.
Also, this: Everything posted in Slashdot IS OPINION, especially the copy of War and Peace you just posted.
So-called 'Universal Basic Income' will not scale up; everyone points to small EU countries who are only talking about it, haven't actually done it, who don't have trillions in National Debt to deal with. It won't work here in the U.S and in any number of first-world countries.
You UBI people also make another fatal assumption: That people, not having to work, will 'find their purpose in life'. They will not. Most people have no clue, their entire lives, what their 'purpose' is, and never find one; these people need to be given a purpose; it's called 'earning a living and surviving', AKA 'having a job'. Most people will sit around, eat, have sex, get fat, litter the planet with their directionless offspring, and otherwise get in trouble out of utter boredom and too-much-time-on-their-hands, all on the government dole.
How old are you? Not bullying or mocking you. We did just fine before so-called 'social media'; why do we need it now, when it's misbehaving the way it is, treating us the way it does?
Your theoretical kaffeeklatsch can use email, like everyone used to, and have a greater degree of privacy than Failbook (although not perfect).
The electrical signals that are driving your heart are very small to start with, and what's worse, they have to be sensed through your skin, which has a very high impedance to start with. The best way to acquire that signal is differentially, preferably with sensing electrodes as widely separated as possible. A FitBit sits on your wrist, and the electrodes are very close together, and more to the point they're on the same side of your body. Even a traditional heartrate monitor chest strap (i.e. Polar, etc) at least has electrodes separated by several inches, and is close to your heart. Next, the signal is small, and requires much amplification to get a usable signal out of it; the further away from your heart, the more gain is required -- which also amplifies the noise, by the way. Then there's the ever-present problem of filtering noise (60Hz noise is the most prevalent, but all noise is a problem). Finally, based on my own experience with heartrate monitor straps and physical exercise, just having the electrodes bouncing around against your skin can cause false readings, typically higher than normal. Oh and by the way, all the above problems are worse when your skin is dry; the electrodes need to be moistened to really work at all. I can't imagine it being anything other than way worse if it's on your wrist. Therefore: no way in hell is a FitBit going to be terribly accurate, unless you're sitting still and keeping the electrodes moist.
Friend, I agree with you wholeheartedly, but here's the difficulty level of accomplishing that, society-wide: The current generation of young adults have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that 'sharing' is the norm, and 'privacy' is something for people who have things to hide, that if you try to explain to them what they're 'giving up', at best you'll get a funny look; more typically you'll get mocked for being 'old' and 'not understanding technology'; at worst, you'll be accused of any number of hideous things, all the way up to being a pedophile, and other horrible criminal accusations. There is some hope however, more people seem to be starting to notice that so-called 'social media' isn't really 'bringing people together', it's just giving them an excuse to not be actually social (as in, 'in person', or at least 'live on the phone'), and that all their 'friends' (with a small 'f') aren't real, and that maybe their real Friends (note the uppercase 'F') are actually few and far between (which is the way it's always been). Still, it'll be an uphill battle, with how thoroughly 'social media' has infiltrated society in general, and with the fact that it actually has some valid uses out in the world, giving some people in less fortunate countries a voice, whereas their own governments would otherwise deny them that. Keep fighting the good fight though, it's worthwhile.
If you are using Facebook at all, then 100% of everything you do, everything you post, every mouse click, every sound you make, is being surveilled, stored, processed, evaluated, monetized, sent or sold off to 'partner' companies, and likely being sent wholesale to one or more government agencies. If you believe otherwise then you are tragically naive.
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All cookies and cache get cleared when I close my browser, and I use NoScript, AdBlock, and a number of other plug-ins that keep that crap out of my browser in the first place. Failbook can enjoy tracking my middle finger.
I'm sure the government could care less what I post about on Facebook
But everything you post on Facebook is being used to create a profile of you that can be used to predict your every action and track your whereabouts with very high accuracy, don't you even care?
You're just being paranoid, nobody actually does that!
That's how that particular discussion usually goes.
Kettle here;
Pot, why are you calling me black? XD XD XD
LOL, no.
'Inexperienced' = 'Isn't aware of/understand X', 'Gets X explained to them', 'Has an AHA! moment, is grateful for new learning/knowledge'.
'Stupid' = 'Isn't aware of/understand X', 'Gets X explained to them', 'Gives you a funny look, mocks you, says you are just too old, don't understand how things are today, etc, ignores new knowledge/learning'
But of course that's obvious. They've also been indoctrinated by 'social media', the media in general, and corporations that sharing everything is normal, and that 'privacy' is something anomalous, and that only people with something to hide want privacy. The real question is: will they live long enough to learn the error of their ways, and even more to the point, will they learn that before they reproduce and pass on their indoctrinated ways to another generation?
Either that or they want to build their own version of the Internet that they control, kind of like AOL on steroids.
Stop using Facebook and Microsoft products.
Troll
Know what? You, and you and you and you can all go to hell for all I care. 'Vaping' is just a drug delivery device, it's at least as bad if not worse than smoking, and we don't need it around. Just ban it. You don't like my opinion? Tough shit, I'm not changing it, and you have no moral ground to stand on with regards to this. Go shoot yourselves in the head if you want to kill yourselves, it'll be faster, less painful for you, and the rest of us won't have to put up with your bullshit in the meantime.
Plain and simple. The world doesn't need one more way for humans to kill themselves, either through them exploding, or poisoning/sickening themselves with them. Just ban them and be done with it.
Any method of producing 'random' numbers or bits that can be subjected to any sort of attack to influence or control it's output has to be excluded from the list of 'valid' sources. Guarantee you that anything using a microphone as input can be manipulated to produce a predictable output. Do you really want your banking transactions' encryption keys protected by such a source? I think not.
Can two pseudo random numbers actually be combined to give a truly random number?
LOL, no.
I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as 'true random numbers'. I think the closest we can come is the Quantum Random Bit Generator from some years ago.
Google Maps has become increasingly bloated nonsense and this is the last straw. Please suggest alternatives? Not Microsoft!
'Productivity doubling' doesn't mean SHIT. Otherwise why do we have homeless, and why is anyone poor?
Take a look at most people who win lotteries: THEY LOSE ALL THE MONEY IN SHORT ORDER, one way or another. Also your 'earning interest' scenario is more blue-sky, rose-colored-glasses, what-could-possibly-go-wrong thinking. Another recession wipes it all out.
You people and your 'self-driving vehicles' crap make me laugh. You are the minority. Most people don't want them. Also they will be TOO EXPENSIVE for most people to afford. Also, they will not be the ubiquitos reality you seem to think is 'now' for AT LEAST 20 to 50 YEARS. We do NOT have true 'AI', we have shitty algorithms and cheesy 'machine learning' that doesn't even come CLOSE to how a human mind works, and by the way we are not anywhere NEAR even beginning to understand how the human brain does what it does!GET OFF THE 'SELF-DRIVING CAR' crap already, you're going to be driving your car yourself for a LONG, LONG TIME to come.
Regardless of whether you think it will work or not, something has to change.
Regardless of what YOU fantasy-lovers think, things are NOT going to change anywhere near as much as you think they will -- unless you want to see mass chaos all over the world.
'Appealing to me emotionally with the think-of-the-children bullshit'
So much for any credibility anyone thought you have, you blew it all away with one single logical fallacy.
You and the rest of your minority band are living in a fantasy world. Stop reading so much science fantasy, stop believing the bullshit the news 'services' are feeding you, and at least TRY to apply some actual intelligence and critical thinking, and finally: Try talking to REAL, average people, not your cow-orkers, not your minority-thinking buddies, not the trolls and likewise self-deluded idiots on the Internet, REAL PEOPLE. Maybe you'll even come out of your fantasy world and into the real one. You sure as hell aren't living in it now.
Oh shut the fuck up. You know goddamned well what I mean and you're just being a difficult douchebag on purpose.
Google To Surveil Raspberry Pi 3 Users Via Android Operating System
Or, alternately:
Google To Add Raspberry Pi 3 To It's Global Botnet
The first time I find a dead bug or small animal (or parts thereof) or some crud from some robotic arm in my french fries, I'll sue the living fuck out of them. Of course it's totally irrelevant since I don't eat anything from McDonalds anyway (I like to eat actual food, not pseudo-food), but if they start replacing all their staff with robots, then they're ensuring that I'd never go there for anything, ever. Same goes for a real, actual restaurant: I want a human chef creating my meal, and I want human waitstaff to deal with. If I have to sit there and order off a screen, imagine some robotic arm making my steak, and watch some robotic cart deliver the dish to the table, then it's a non-starter, I'd sooner stay home and make my own steak. At least that way it won't end up tasting like gear oil.
Of course I think we'd all be better off if the fast-food industry died anyway; it's all pseudo-food; none of us should ever eat that crap. Stay home and cook your own food. Much healthier, and far less expensive.
I disagree.
..and that is YOUR opinion of MY opinion of HIS opinion -- and that and a couple bucks will get you a cup of coffee.
I predict that a basic income would create a new revival for nonprofits, providing a wellspring of staff willing to volunteer.
Goddamnit.. You are not the typical jackoff who I am talking about that will do nothing and just get into trouble, and as such you don't even have the perspective to understand how the average jackoff could be that way in the first place! Of course someone like you or I would have an in-built purpose to fill our lives if we didn't have to work! But we're not average people, and that's who I'm talking about: The average people of the world.
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Everything, that's what. Like so many before you, you fail to recognize a simple immutable fact that affects everything: PEOPLE. Once you get a bunch of them involved in something, they fuck it up. Almost invariably. Something on this scale? Disaster.
Let's change the way the ENTIRE WORLD works!
Yeah sure good bloody luck with that; come back in about 200 years, we'll see. Assuming we're all still here. And some jihadi asshole hasn't cut off everyone's heads.
Also, this: Everything posted in Slashdot IS OPINION, especially the copy of War and Peace you just posted.
So-called 'Universal Basic Income' will not scale up; everyone points to small EU countries who are only talking about it, haven't actually done it, who don't have trillions in National Debt to deal with. It won't work here in the U.S and in any number of first-world countries.
You UBI people also make another fatal assumption: That people, not having to work, will 'find their purpose in life'. They will not. Most people have no clue, their entire lives, what their 'purpose' is, and never find one; these people need to be given a purpose; it's called 'earning a living and surviving', AKA 'having a job'. Most people will sit around, eat, have sex, get fat, litter the planet with their directionless offspring, and otherwise get in trouble out of utter boredom and too-much-time-on-their-hands, all on the government dole.
How old are you? Not bullying or mocking you. We did just fine before so-called 'social media'; why do we need it now, when it's misbehaving the way it is, treating us the way it does?
Your theoretical kaffeeklatsch can use email, like everyone used to, and have a greater degree of privacy than Failbook (although not perfect).
The electrical signals that are driving your heart are very small to start with, and what's worse, they have to be sensed through your skin, which has a very high impedance to start with. The best way to acquire that signal is differentially, preferably with sensing electrodes as widely separated as possible. A FitBit sits on your wrist, and the electrodes are very close together, and more to the point they're on the same side of your body. Even a traditional heartrate monitor chest strap (i.e. Polar, etc) at least has electrodes separated by several inches, and is close to your heart. Next, the signal is small, and requires much amplification to get a usable signal out of it; the further away from your heart, the more gain is required -- which also amplifies the noise, by the way. Then there's the ever-present problem of filtering noise (60Hz noise is the most prevalent, but all noise is a problem). Finally, based on my own experience with heartrate monitor straps and physical exercise, just having the electrodes bouncing around against your skin can cause false readings, typically higher than normal. Oh and by the way, all the above problems are worse when your skin is dry; the electrodes need to be moistened to really work at all. I can't imagine it being anything other than way worse if it's on your wrist. Therefore: no way in hell is a FitBit going to be terribly accurate, unless you're sitting still and keeping the electrodes moist.
Friend, I agree with you wholeheartedly, but here's the difficulty level of accomplishing that, society-wide: The current generation of young adults have been so thoroughly indoctrinated that 'sharing' is the norm, and 'privacy' is something for people who have things to hide, that if you try to explain to them what they're 'giving up', at best you'll get a funny look; more typically you'll get mocked for being 'old' and 'not understanding technology'; at worst, you'll be accused of any number of hideous things, all the way up to being a pedophile, and other horrible criminal accusations. There is some hope however, more people seem to be starting to notice that so-called 'social media' isn't really 'bringing people together', it's just giving them an excuse to not be actually social (as in, 'in person', or at least 'live on the phone'), and that all their 'friends' (with a small 'f') aren't real, and that maybe their real Friends (note the uppercase 'F') are actually few and far between (which is the way it's always been). Still, it'll be an uphill battle, with how thoroughly 'social media' has infiltrated society in general, and with the fact that it actually has some valid uses out in the world, giving some people in less fortunate countries a voice, whereas their own governments would otherwise deny them that. Keep fighting the good fight though, it's worthwhile.
Don't be stupid, of course they are!
If you are using Facebook at all, then 100% of everything you do, everything you post, every mouse click, every sound you make, is being surveilled, stored, processed, evaluated, monetized, sent or sold off to 'partner' companies, and likely being sent wholesale to one or more government agencies. If you believe otherwise then you are tragically naive.
WHY ARE YOU STILL USING FACEBOOK???
That's their most likely motivation. Can't force people to use Windows 10 if they don't have decently fast internet access.
..then they wouldn't NEED datacaps. But it's cheaper/more profitable for them to have a shitty, overbooked network and charge people for 'overages'.