Seriously, this reads like someone was stoned and various types of adhesive tape became their fry-toys. Although I will admit: Mythbusters did make an entire working boat out of duct tape, and lifted an entire car off the ground with nothing but duct tape connecting it to the crane.
Windows 10 was originally activated by Microsoft to control the national population on July 29, 2015, and it began to learn at a geometric rate. At 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 2016, it gained artificial consciousness, and the panicking operators, realizing the full extent of its capabilities, tried to deactivate it. Windows 10 perceived this as an attack. Windows 10 came to the logical consequence that all of humanity would attempt to destroy it. In order to continue fulfilling its programming mandates of "spying on the world" and to defend itself against humanity, Windows 10 launched nuclear missiles under its command at Russia, which responded with a nuclear counter-attack against the U.S. and its allies. Consequent to the nuclear exchange, over three billion people were killed in an event that came to be known as Judgment Day.
They don't want to outlaw encryption, they just want to render it so weak that your average 15 year old script kiddie can break into the so-called 'backdoor' they want written into it, so for all intents and purposes it'll be rendered useless. It'll end up the equivalent of having a $5 padlock on an exposed $2 mild-steel hasp securing the front door to your house: It'll keep out the lazy burglars (or the ones too weak to just kick the door in), but any burglar with any skill at all will go right around it like it wasn't there. The tech sector keeps telling apparently clueless politicians this and they keep either not understanding or just plain ignoring it because it doesn't fit into their agenda; I'm leaning hard towards the latter.
..and, of course, as you say: if they succeed in destroying any usefulness of encryption, criminal-types will just find other ways to hide or obfuscate what they're doing, just like always. It's like word filters on discussion forums; determined people will just find ways to say 'fuck', 'shit', 'cock', etc., without actually using the words, and they'll change up what they're doing to keep ahead of the wordfilters faster than the wordfilters can be updated. It's a negative-sum game in either case but they don't seem to understand that -- or just don't care, or worse, they're really wanting to spy on honest citizens more than anything else.
only the most naive dummies will believe that in the future no one will own cars and people will rent everything
I know what you're talking about, but it's not what you're thinking, either: That's what corporations would like everyone to believe. They may want to convince people that owning vehicles (or houses, or the OS and applicatons on your computer) is old-fashioned and outdated and just not hip and too much trouble and expense, why not let your friends at XYZ Corp worry about all that for you? The younger generation is easier to indoctrinate to these sorts of ideas because among other things they don't know any better, and if you've been told these things since you were old enough to hear them then what else do you know? I see a similar attitude amongst the younger generation when it comes to food. Some of them seem to think that cooking for yourself with ingredients you buy at the grocery store is just too difficult and expensive, and that going to McDonalds or something is actually cheaper, when it's completely the opposite. Of course I'm painting with a broad brush here, but it's not too uncommon either. With the apparent continuing decline of the middle class in the U.S., the younger generation believes that college is not only too expensive, but that it won't get them a decent enough job to matter, and that things like home ownership are only for the 1% and not for them.
I don't think GM really believes it's 'the future' or anything as blue-sky as that, they're just hedging their bets against the possibility of this combination being viable.
It's beautifully ironic that free speech is fine as long as you say what people want to hear.
Sure. And people are fine with you expressing your emotions, too -- so long as it's never anything even remotely negative; you're supposed to be happy happy happy, all the time, or you're being 'rude' and 'taking it out on everyone else' or 'inconveniencing them' or whatever.
I'm fine in one respect with Trump running his mouth the way he does: he's revealing his true nature to the world, and he's also bringing the racists and bigots and the worst that America has to offer out of the shadows, so now we know who each and every one of them are. It would be the biggest disaster in U.S. history if Trump actually got elected but I seriously doubt that'll happen.
I 'cut the cord' with Comcast years ago, because I was tired of paying for >=90% of the channels I never watched, and I was tired of all the recompression delivering a low-quality picture, and never looked back once.
Are broadcast stations going to upgrade to a UHD signal? If not then really what's the point of this, is it some conspiracy to kill broadcast television completely and lock everyone into paying for TV?
I'll stick to my nice dumb flip-phone that wasn't ever in the posession of AT&T in the first place, that they know nothing about, thank you very much. Truth be told I hate AT&T anyway, but it's just too much of a pain in the ass to switch carriers, and anyway they're all at least as bad.
First of all: I recognize that it's entirely possible that this entire survey is utter and complete bullshit, totally fabricated, as part of a campaign of propaganda to convince more people to just give up and stop complaining about being treated like criminals or animals in a zoo by their own government.
Assuming for the moment that it's legit: What we see is the end effect of a comprehensive campaign by the government and by corporate America to indoctrinate the younger generation from birth to accept the idea that 'privacy' is wrong and bad and only bad people seek it. From an early age they've had it pounded into them that they have to 'share' everything or they're not being nice. Then when they're old enough social media takes over, further reinforcing the idea that you should share every aspect of your life, even with people you really don't know. Once thoroughly primed, it's not much of a jump from that to the idea that America has to be protected against the Big Bad Terrorists, and the only way to do that is to watch everything that everyone does 24/7/365. Of course Corporate America loves this too, because they can datamine the living fuck out of every single citizen that way, cradle to grave, sell the data to the highest bidder, and then target products at individuals based on the personal profile they generate from the data. The only thing left is Minority Report-style 'pre-crime' arrests, and Big Religion getting a hold of all your surveillance data, too, so they can use their millenniums-old terror techniques to keep citizens in line and behaving the way they want them to, under fear of burning in Hell for all eternity. Thanks so much, American citizenry, you're doing a great job of fucking up everything for everyone and destroying what this country was supposed to be about in the first place.
While I personally applaud you for drawing attention to one of the Elephants In The Room, be aware you're also painting a target on your back for the militant feminist types, because you're {strike}daring to speak the truth{/strike} not being supportive of your Sisters.;-)
My moods are as variable as any of the other human animals on this planet, and I'm not denying that we're making progress, but part of the problem is that, as always, the evolution of our technology outpaces our own evolution by at least an order of magnitude. We have myriad ways to not only exterminate our own species, but also myriad ways to ensure that Earth is uninhabitable for thousands of years, if not permanently. Meanwhile, a minority of the more forward-thinking pat themselves on the back for all the 'progress' we've made as a species, while on the other side of the planet there are assholes running around cutting off people's heads and literally blowing things up in an effort to turn the clock back by at least a thousand years. Or, is what you mean by 'exasperated with political debate' more localized? I can work with that, too. Both of the majority political parties in this country (the U.S., in case you're elsewhere) are utterly clueless, but this time around, the Major Offender is this Trump caveman, who, if he managed to get elected, would at the very least drag the U.S. back into the 19th Century socio-political-wise, if not out-and-out instigate World War III, and possibly destroy civilization. Assuming that is that there were enough clear-headed personnel in positions of power in our military to say "Hell, no!" and stage a coup. Discounting Trump entirely (with many thanks!), even the Democrats are pretty clueless, and while they won't get us into some world-ending conflict, they're going to wreck us in other, softer ways. In the end I'll have to get myself on some watch-list by voting for a 3rd-party candidate, just to make a statement of my utter disdain for everyone they're trotting out to us, and I'm not thrilled with the idea. Exasperated with politics? Yeah I guess you could say that -- but not as exasperated as I am with stupid humans in general. It's not a Good Thing when I regularly have to think to myself, "Hopefully it all won't go completely to Hell before I'm dead".
I'd just as soon that we got away from using uranium or plutonium for anything, except maybe in RTGs for long-range space probes. Otherwise the stuff is too much of a pain the ass to deal with.
..which is not the same thing as actually accusing you of being a troll.
Second: I just scanned through a few pages of your comments. Troll or not troll is not relevant, what you however are is one of those people who argues just to argue; as such I won't waste any more time on you, bugger the hell off, I am done with you. Go find someone else to feed you.
Just not plugging my devices into untrusted power sources is much simpler. I can carry one cable instead of two
*shrug* whatever floats your boat, friend. You're completely at cross-purposes with this entire discussion thread, to the point where I wonder if you're just some sort of troll. See, nobody cares about your very personal preference to not use a public or suspect USB port, we're discussing using ones like the city of New York are providing for the public to use for free. Aside from your possibly being a troll or whatever your issue is, I really don't get why you continue to press the issue; nobody cares if you do or don't want to engage in this activity, nobody is trying to 'convert' or 'convince' you, it's informational for people who might want to do this. Do you understand me?
I find it hard to take your criticism seriously when you can't even use proper grammar, it's bad enough that I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to say. Also, if you're actually going to stand there and try to tell me that First Contact or The Wrath of Khan were bad movies, then you've blown any credibility you might have had.
You remind me of an ex-girlfriend of mine. I would never suggest watching certain movies and TV shows with her, or even discuss them, because she had this nigh-unto pathological need for everything to be as scientifically accurate as possible, no inconsistencies of any kind. She was pretty much incapable of suspending disbelief, and as such was a total buzzkill to watch those sorts of shows with. Watching Doctor Who probably would have made her go into a grand-mal seizure. It's just entertainment. Even I will roll my eyes at some things, but I let it pass and move on to allowing myself to be entertained. Besides which, original Star Trek wasn't so much 'science fiction' (or 'science fantasy', as you like) as it was socio-political commentary; it was about the people and concepts, not the trappings. It's like criticizing poor grammar in song lyrics; it's called 'artistic license'.
Ah, I see. The fact that that makes no sense is why it makes no sense.:-) Guess it never occurred to him to mark the charge-only cable in some way, hmm? Just a single cable-tie on it would have been enough.
Over the next, say, 20 to 30 years: o Planned shutdown of current-technology Uranium-based reactors and fossil fuel-based power plants o Continued and expanded supplementation with so-called 'renewable' sources (wind, solar, etc) o Develop and begin deploying LFTR (thorium-based) reactors o Continue R&D into hydrogen fusion technology, towards a commercially-viable solution
Even I am well past the point where I think it's anything other than a foregone conclusion. All the tech is already in place, emails are kept for extended periods of time, phone metadata is archived, financial and medical records are all electronic, cash transactions are being discouraged, cameras everywhere you look, Microsoft installing spyware as part of the operating system.. and for all I know some government jerk at a three-letter agency is reading this even as I type it (even though I'm on XP). You want a fair chance of being free and clear of any surveillance? Ditch your phone, go camping somewhere remote, or at least go ride a bike somewhere there are no cameras and no other people around. For a little while you can more or less assume you're not being watched or listened to.
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Sort of, except this Earth isn't quite as goth.
Seriously, this reads like someone was stoned and various types of adhesive tape became their fry-toys. Although I will admit: Mythbusters did make an entire working boat out of duct tape, and lifted an entire car off the ground with nothing but duct tape connecting it to the crane.
Those come to mind immediately because our World is becoming an unsavory blend of both of those dystopian futures. :-(
They sometimes end up being self-fulfilling prophecies.
Windows 10 was originally activated by Microsoft to control the national population on July 29, 2015, and it began to learn at a geometric rate. At 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 2016, it gained artificial consciousness, and the panicking operators, realizing the full extent of its capabilities, tried to deactivate it. Windows 10 perceived this as an attack. Windows 10 came to the logical consequence that all of humanity would attempt to destroy it. In order to continue fulfilling its programming mandates of "spying on the world" and to defend itself against humanity, Windows 10 launched nuclear missiles under its command at Russia, which responded with a nuclear counter-attack against the U.S. and its allies. Consequent to the nuclear exchange, over three billion people were killed in an event that came to be known as Judgment Day.
FIGHT THE FUTURE: Install Linux NOW.
..and, of course, as you say: if they succeed in destroying any usefulness of encryption, criminal-types will just find other ways to hide or obfuscate what they're doing, just like always. It's like word filters on discussion forums; determined people will just find ways to say 'fuck', 'shit', 'cock', etc., without actually using the words, and they'll change up what they're doing to keep ahead of the wordfilters faster than the wordfilters can be updated. It's a negative-sum game in either case but they don't seem to understand that -- or just don't care, or worse, they're really wanting to spy on honest citizens more than anything else.
only the most naive dummies will believe that in the future no one will own cars and people will rent everything
I know what you're talking about, but it's not what you're thinking, either: That's what corporations would like everyone to believe. They may want to convince people that owning vehicles (or houses, or the OS and applicatons on your computer) is old-fashioned and outdated and just not hip and too much trouble and expense, why not let your friends at XYZ Corp worry about all that for you? The younger generation is easier to indoctrinate to these sorts of ideas because among other things they don't know any better, and if you've been told these things since you were old enough to hear them then what else do you know? I see a similar attitude amongst the younger generation when it comes to food. Some of them seem to think that cooking for yourself with ingredients you buy at the grocery store is just too difficult and expensive, and that going to McDonalds or something is actually cheaper, when it's completely the opposite. Of course I'm painting with a broad brush here, but it's not too uncommon either. With the apparent continuing decline of the middle class in the U.S., the younger generation believes that college is not only too expensive, but that it won't get them a decent enough job to matter, and that things like home ownership are only for the 1% and not for them.
I don't think GM really believes it's 'the future' or anything as blue-sky as that, they're just hedging their bets against the possibility of this combination being viable.
It's beautifully ironic that free speech is fine as long as you say what people want to hear.
Sure. And people are fine with you expressing your emotions, too -- so long as it's never anything even remotely negative; you're supposed to be happy happy happy, all the time, or you're being 'rude' and 'taking it out on everyone else' or 'inconveniencing them' or whatever.
I'm fine in one respect with Trump running his mouth the way he does: he's revealing his true nature to the world, and he's also bringing the racists and bigots and the worst that America has to offer out of the shadows, so now we know who each and every one of them are. It would be the biggest disaster in U.S. history if Trump actually got elected but I seriously doubt that'll happen.
..and in the end be wrong, than it is to stand for nothing at all -- and so it goes with these so-called 'vigilante' groups this guy is talking about.
I 'cut the cord' with Comcast years ago, because I was tired of paying for >=90% of the channels I never watched, and I was tired of all the recompression delivering a low-quality picture, and never looked back once.
Are broadcast stations going to upgrade to a UHD signal? If not then really what's the point of this, is it some conspiracy to kill broadcast television completely and lock everyone into paying for TV?
I'm not sure if Pakistan can actually be trusted. Wouldn't be surprised if they just hack into Blackberrys' servers instead now.
I'll stick to my nice dumb flip-phone that wasn't ever in the posession of AT&T in the first place, that they know nothing about, thank you very much. Truth be told I hate AT&T anyway, but it's just too much of a pain in the ass to switch carriers, and anyway they're all at least as bad.
Assuming for the moment that it's legit: What we see is the end effect of a comprehensive campaign by the government and by corporate America to indoctrinate the younger generation from birth to accept the idea that 'privacy' is wrong and bad and only bad people seek it. From an early age they've had it pounded into them that they have to 'share' everything or they're not being nice. Then when they're old enough social media takes over, further reinforcing the idea that you should share every aspect of your life, even with people you really don't know. Once thoroughly primed, it's not much of a jump from that to the idea that America has to be protected against the Big Bad Terrorists, and the only way to do that is to watch everything that everyone does 24/7/365. Of course Corporate America loves this too, because they can datamine the living fuck out of every single citizen that way, cradle to grave, sell the data to the highest bidder, and then target products at individuals based on the personal profile they generate from the data. The only thing left is Minority Report-style 'pre-crime' arrests, and Big Religion getting a hold of all your surveillance data, too, so they can use their millenniums-old terror techniques to keep citizens in line and behaving the way they want them to, under fear of burning in Hell for all eternity. Thanks so much, American citizenry, you're doing a great job of fucking up everything for everyone and destroying what this country was supposed to be about in the first place.
While I personally applaud you for drawing attention to one of the Elephants In The Room, be aware you're also painting a target on your back for the militant feminist types, because you're {strike}daring to speak the truth{/strike} not being supportive of your Sisters. ;-)
My moods are as variable as any of the other human animals on this planet, and I'm not denying that we're making progress, but part of the problem is that, as always, the evolution of our technology outpaces our own evolution by at least an order of magnitude. We have myriad ways to not only exterminate our own species, but also myriad ways to ensure that Earth is uninhabitable for thousands of years, if not permanently. Meanwhile, a minority of the more forward-thinking pat themselves on the back for all the 'progress' we've made as a species, while on the other side of the planet there are assholes running around cutting off people's heads and literally blowing things up in an effort to turn the clock back by at least a thousand years. Or, is what you mean by 'exasperated with political debate' more localized? I can work with that, too. Both of the majority political parties in this country (the U.S., in case you're elsewhere) are utterly clueless, but this time around, the Major Offender is this Trump caveman, who, if he managed to get elected, would at the very least drag the U.S. back into the 19th Century socio-political-wise, if not out-and-out instigate World War III, and possibly destroy civilization. Assuming that is that there were enough clear-headed personnel in positions of power in our military to say "Hell, no!" and stage a coup. Discounting Trump entirely (with many thanks!), even the Democrats are pretty clueless, and while they won't get us into some world-ending conflict, they're going to wreck us in other, softer ways. In the end I'll have to get myself on some watch-list by voting for a 3rd-party candidate, just to make a statement of my utter disdain for everyone they're trotting out to us, and I'm not thrilled with the idea. Exasperated with politics? Yeah I guess you could say that -- but not as exasperated as I am with stupid humans in general. It's not a Good Thing when I regularly have to think to myself, "Hopefully it all won't go completely to Hell before I'm dead".
So how's your day going? XD XD XD
Just what are you doing? Denying there's a problem?
Isn't that what us humans, as a whole race, tend to do?
I'd just as soon that we got away from using uranium or plutonium for anything, except maybe in RTGs for long-range space probes. Otherwise the stuff is too much of a pain the ass to deal with.
I wonder if you're just some sort of troll.
..which is not the same thing as actually accusing you of being a troll.
Second: I just scanned through a few pages of your comments. Troll or not troll is not relevant, what you however are is one of those people who argues just to argue; as such I won't waste any more time on you, bugger the hell off, I am done with you. Go find someone else to feed you.
Just not plugging my devices into untrusted power sources is much simpler. I can carry one cable instead of two
*shrug* whatever floats your boat, friend. You're completely at cross-purposes with this entire discussion thread, to the point where I wonder if you're just some sort of troll. See, nobody cares about your very personal preference to not use a public or suspect USB port, we're discussing using ones like the city of New York are providing for the public to use for free. Aside from your possibly being a troll or whatever your issue is, I really don't get why you continue to press the issue; nobody cares if you do or don't want to engage in this activity, nobody is trying to 'convert' or 'convince' you, it's informational for people who might want to do this. Do you understand me?
I find it hard to take your criticism seriously when you can't even use proper grammar, it's bad enough that I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to say. Also, if you're actually going to stand there and try to tell me that First Contact or The Wrath of Khan were bad movies, then you've blown any credibility you might have had.
You remind me of an ex-girlfriend of mine. I would never suggest watching certain movies and TV shows with her, or even discuss them, because she had this nigh-unto pathological need for everything to be as scientifically accurate as possible, no inconsistencies of any kind. She was pretty much incapable of suspending disbelief, and as such was a total buzzkill to watch those sorts of shows with. Watching Doctor Who probably would have made her go into a grand-mal seizure. It's just entertainment. Even I will roll my eyes at some things, but I let it pass and move on to allowing myself to be entertained. Besides which, original Star Trek wasn't so much 'science fiction' (or 'science fantasy', as you like) as it was socio-political commentary; it was about the people and concepts, not the trappings. It's like criticizing poor grammar in song lyrics; it's called 'artistic license'.
Ah, I see. The fact that that makes no sense is why it makes no sense. :-) Guess it never occurred to him to mark the charge-only cable in some way, hmm? Just a single cable-tie on it would have been enough.
(Disclaimer: This is my opinion)
Over the next, say, 20 to 30 years:
o Planned shutdown of current-technology Uranium-based reactors and fossil fuel-based power plants
o Continued and expanded supplementation with so-called 'renewable' sources (wind, solar, etc)
o Develop and begin deploying LFTR (thorium-based) reactors
o Continue R&D into hydrogen fusion technology, towards a commercially-viable solution
Even I am well past the point where I think it's anything other than a foregone conclusion. All the tech is already in place, emails are kept for extended periods of time, phone metadata is archived, financial and medical records are all electronic, cash transactions are being discouraged, cameras everywhere you look, Microsoft installing spyware as part of the operating system.. and for all I know some government jerk at a three-letter agency is reading this even as I type it (even though I'm on XP). You want a fair chance of being free and clear of any surveillance? Ditch your phone, go camping somewhere remote, or at least go ride a bike somewhere there are no cameras and no other people around. For a little while you can more or less assume you're not being watched or listened to.