This has little to do with operating motor vehicles, so don't redirect it there. It also has little to do with Pokemon Go, either. What this has to do with is humans being stupid and irresponsible in general.Pokemon Go, like so many things that humans are stupid about, is just the enabler in this case.
That's just a (very!) partial list of things that humans are stupid about, but it's not the fault of the things, they're just enablers. Does that mean that Poklemon Go shouldn't be reined in? No, it should, but only because humans being stupid about it ruin it for everyone else.
Why the hell should anyone care about abstract "people"? Most of Humanity isn't wired that way, we care about those we know, not about the distant future and people we don't know.
There, fixed that for BOTH of you.
Human technologies have evolved orders of magnitude faster than the human brain has. Most people are still cavemen inside their skulls, cavemen with ICEs and smartphones and handguns and bombs, and they act like it, too. Most people don't really care about the abstract 'someone' on the abstract 'other side of the planet', and in fact this little ball of mud we're living on is also too large for their caveman brains to really comprehend. So is the concept of '100 years from now'. Most people don't really think much past a few months in the future, except in the most abstract sort of way, and don't really think too hard about people outside their own social circle. You tell them 'you need to sell your car and take public transit, ride a bike, or walk, to help stop air pollution and global warming', and they look at you like you're nuts and are trying to ruin their lives. You tell them to conserve resources, and they might for a while, if you're lucky -- then they're back to their old habits. And so on. And this is just 1st World Countries I'm talking about. You go somewhere like China or India or African nations and they'll laugh at you, if they don't attack you. IF we survive the next, say, 1000 years, our brains and 'civilization' (using the term loosely here) might catch up with each other and with technology, and we MIGHT save ourselves. But as things sit right now? Forget about it. We can't even stop fighting amongst ourselves for the stupidest reasons imaginable, let alone cooperate on not wrecking the entire planet. Worse, there are superstitious types who think some Invisible Sky God created it all, and will come down to whisk the Faithful away to some paradise, so who cares what happens to the Earth? Then there's the ones that seem to think that the Invisible Sky God is angry because some people aren't living according to some old book, and is making all this happen to us (which of course is more bullshit), and as soon as the Unbelievers and Infidels are all dead, it'll go back to being nice again. Or whatever. If we, as a species, manage to survive the next 100 years, it'll be a miracle.
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..and when the Health Department comes to your door with a couple burly orderlies and informs you that 'you're depressed, citizen, and in the interests of your safety and the safety of the public, we're required to enforce antidepressants on you', what do you do then? Why are you people still using so-called 'social media'???
Here's the hard, cold, uncomfortable truth: You're getting all entitled because it's been free to access all this time, and now they're leveraging the fact that you're all entrenched in Facebook, and they're making you PAY more and more by putting more and more ads in your face, and collecting and selling more and more of your information. If you were PAYING to use Facebook then it would be a different story, but you're not; you're a FREELOADER, and now the bill is coming due -- and you're getting all upset over it.
STOP USING FACEBOOK. Just say goodbye to your fake online friends, close the account, and WALK AWAY. This is literally the ONLY course of action you have. Seriously: How long do you think it'll be now before they change the terms of service to make it against site policy for you to use ANY adblocker or do ANYTHING to avoid ads or data collection? STOP USING FACEBOOK.
I don't use my real name online ANYWHERE, and any friends I have understand and honor my request that they never post photos of me online, anywhere, ever, so there is NO 'data collection' about ME on Failbook, EVER.
Now, then: let's discuss why you're still being a dumb cuck who uses Failbook. Do you like Zukerberg being your Master? Or are you just too weak to leave?
Since I'm not a fool who still uses Failbook, Failbook knows NOTHING about me whatsoever. Why are you still using Facebook? Or are you so into BDSM that you want Facebook to be your Master? You all read the same news stories about Facebook that everyone else does; don't you think it's wise to at least start formulating your exit strategy from Facebook? Get smart and plan on leaving it today. You'll be glad you did afterwards.
Bluetooth has it's own compression it uses. Very often it clashes with the compression that many audio files use. I found this out the hard way by buying a Bluetooth to stereo device to plug into my home theatre receiver, to play music from my phone over house speakers. If the file was even high-rate MP3, I could hear artifacts of the two compression algorithms fighting with each other; it actually set my teeth on edge. Using AAC instead of MP3 helped, but I'm sure the guys with really sensitive ears will still hear some artifacts to set their teeth on edge, even with something 'lossless' like FLAC or Apple's lossless compression, or maybe even with an uncompressed audio file.
If you have a better suggestion then I encourage you to fill us all in on the details of it. As anything you do or say on the Internet is subject to surveillance and theft, and I don't see any end to it. Criminals and foreign governments are hacking things constantly. Our own government is spying on everyone constantly. The ISPs we get our connectivity from is sifting every single packet for any personalized information they can sell to their 'partner' companies for purposes of profiling us and putting so-called 'targeted' advertising in our faces, and by the way who knows what else they're doing with all that data they're collecting on us? You can't count on HTTPS encryption to keep private things private, and fucktarded/power-hungry politicians and law enforcement types are working like the damned to ruin ALL encryption for EVERYONE (except them I'm sure). So seriously: If you have any better alternative other than an onion-routing network to keep at least some private things private, please, do tell! Oh and by the way, if all you have to offer is "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear", or "You're not interesting enough for them to want to watch so why worry about it", then don't bother even responding because both of those 'reasons' completely and totally ignore the priciple of the thing: nobody should be spying on us in the first place.
Enjoy having governments, Facebook, advertisers, and organized crime so far up your ass that they're tickling your tonsils, you self-righteous piece of shit. Nobody should take your advice, ever.
The way the Internet has been devolving into just one big surveillance/spying/malware platform, and now with ICANN ceding control over to someone else, the TOR network may become the last bastion of a truly free and open Internet. Yes, it's the Wild West inside there to be sure, but you do have a higher degree of anonymity and a lesser degree of being spied on and surveilled. I can see a possible future where onion routing networks, with sites operating within them, are the only relatively safe places you could go. Let's not start artillery barrages against TOR, okay?
Please accept my virtual, unofficial mod-up to (+5, Insightful) for demonstrating that you're smarter and wiser than however many politicians in India.
Maybe for the technological neophyte. The rest of us can shut down and disable a Service, or failing that, hack the registry to remove the Service entirely, or failing that, remove the relevant file(s) from the filesystem completely. There's always a way.
Flying a fully-armed drone into a structure doesn't cause much damage, but how about a fully-armed fighter jet full of fuel?
Hey, let's build remotely-controlled fighter jets, great idea! Build a whole fleet of them Someone hacks a vulnerability in your control system and takes over the entire fleet Skyscrapers burning everywhere! Civilian targets hit everywhere!
Hey here's an even better idea: Why not build an entire fleet of bombers? Be sure to put your nuclear weapons in them while you're at it.
Hey here's an even betterer idea: Build an entire fleet of autonomous, self-flying nuclear bombers! Then when the hackers hijack your fleet of bombers, all they'll have to do is reprogram them to bomb all the major population centers of the world! Overpopulation problems solved!
***FACEPALM***
I seriously can't think of stupider ideas than some like this. Drones are bad enough; now you want your entire fucking Air Force to be drones? It's confirmed: we're getting stupider, not smarter.
Correct. There is more total thermal energy in the entire system -- which we call Earth. Just because that's pushing local weather patterns in weird directions doesn't mean the polar ice caps aren't melting at an alarming rate because it's both to damn warm there and the oceans are too damn warm too. The typical uninformed person who is experiencing OK weather will then say "Well nobody lives in Antarctica or the Arctic so who cares?" which just highlights how damned ignorant and short-sighted people can be. When it starts being over 100 degrees every day for 6 months they'll just go in their houses and turn the air conditioner up -- at least, until it reaches the point where no air conditioner will help. THEN they'll panic, demand the government do something to 'fix' it -- and they'll be told "We tried to help when we could have done something about it, but NONE OF YOU COULD BE BOTHERED"
At least I and many of us won't be alive to see the end, if it actually comes to that. Never know, there could be something miraculous to save us.
Corrupt thermometers are taking money from KKKilary KKKlinton in an effort to distract the world from the fact that she's murdered thousands of patriotic Americans in Arkansas who were going to expose the fact that she's actually in a wheelchair.
The conspiracy has now gone beyond just climate scientists. It's now built into the actual instrumentation. TRUE! The laws of physics are complicit, too. Nobody with half a brain would believe a liberal thermometer, anyway.
You forgot to add at the end:
They'll all be brought to justice when Jesus returns to take the faithful home!
So they're going to throw some underage kid in jail for 3 years? Or are they going to throw his parents in jail for 3 years, then fine them a bunch of money they likely don't have? So, in other words, the Indian government is now in the business of destroying someones' life before it even gets started, or destroying entire families, over some goddamn picture on some goddamn website they decided to block for some stupid reason? Why stop there? Why not just make the Ultimate example out of these 'criminals' and execute them? Would actually be less cruel to kill some kid who downloaded something than to destroy him by putting him in prison for 3 years. In fact just round up and kill the entire family of a downloader, that'll teach people not to pirate digital media, right? Be sure to publicly execute them so the message gets rammed home. I'm sure that'll make your media industry buddies real happy with you, protecting their pictures and movies by killing people.
'Self driving cars' are not 'here today', they're a JOKE, and they will not be 'mainstream in 3-5 years'. At best they'll be allowed to be sophisticated autopilots, so don't throw away your drivers license you'll need it.
Drones need to DIE. Flying cars aren't going to happen.
So-called 'artificial intelligence' is highly overrated and they're using the wrong term for what they have now. When you come to me with a so-called 'AI' that is indistinguishable from a human being in every way then I'll call it an 'AI', until then it's just another silly limited computer program.
'By 2020, 80% of all humans on Earth will carry around personal surveillance platforms that greedy corporations, governments, and criminal organizations use to collect personal data on them that they sell, use for advertising, use to build 'profiles' of people, and use to steal your identity". That's what that line should read. Smartphones are becoming a scourge, not a help.
'Crytocurrencies' need to die. All they're good for, really, is money-laundering by criminals and terrorists.
How about we get some 'high quality PUBLIC SCHOOL education' so kids don't end up dumb and useless?
How about we get doctors to not suck instead of 'computerized medicine'? I don't want an 'automated doctor', I want a HUMAN doctor that knows what the hell they're doing!
Our 'better food through science' may yet kill us all. I've stopped even bothering to talk about it because it's all already in the wind so there's nothing we can do to stop it now. Either our meddling is harmless, or it destroys us. Come back in 20 years and we'll see which it is.
'Clean energy' may or may not catch on. We'll see if India and China get on board for real or if their mad rush to be 1st World Countries means they just keep burning coal. Also, can we get some Thorium up in this mix, please? Seriously stop being paranoid about nuclear power, damnit.
Apparently someone doesn't comprehend sarcasm, or how richly Microsoft deserves all the sarcasm that gets directed at it. Do you have problems comprehending irony, too? Or people's facial expressions and moods? I think it likely.
See? Microsoft wants to take over and own all operating systems. Worming their way into Linux and Apple's OS with a 'utility' like this is just the beginning.
In 2016 it's essentially impossible to 'secure' a computer anyway, even if it's not connected to the Internet and never was in the first place. Malware, spyware, trojans, rootkits, virii, zero-day exploits are everywhere, including methods of electromagnetically or even accoustically observing a computer in operation from a distance and determining what's being done on it -- and of course if you connect to the Internet, having every single packet sniffed, sifted, and sorted to produce a personal profile of the user, for marketing and government spying purposes. The only 'computer' that's even relatively safe would be one that is completely and totally read-only, retaining nothing but what's in the ROMs when you shut it off. The 'Age of Information' has been twisted and subverted into a dystopian 'Age of Surveillance and Spying' that only seems to really benefit nosy governments, greedy marketers, and criminal organizations.
Go outside. Leave your phone and other so-called 'Internet of Things' gadgets at home. Get some exercise. Stay away from places with cameras and other surveillance. Talk to real, living people instead of using so-called 'social media'. Buy a real paper book, not e-books. Go home at night and actually sleep, instead of staying up to all hours watching TV or staring at a computer screen.
Sad to admit but I have to agree with you. I suspect this 'multistakeholder body' will be about as honest, forthright, and organized as the IOC, FIFA, or your average South American or North African junta government.
We don't like Google, so we'll just arbitrarily reassign their IP addresses to someone we like
We unanimously decided that the world is better off without pornography (as we define it, naturally, LOL) so we're cancelling the domains for all their websites -- for the children, of course!
Ah well, the Internet was becoming too much of a mess anyway. Better start funding public libraries again!
Oh gee you totally caught me out on my Grand Scheme to Fool Everyone! How intelligent you are!
OMFG STFU you idiot. It's got a shitty, but working, music player built in and stereo bluetooth compatibility, which is strange for a $50 phone. The handful of extra megs of memory used up by shitty wallpapers I don't want and shitty ringtones I don't want could be an extra song or two I might want to hear if I'm desperate, or a few extra photos stored from it's shitty camera.
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This has little to do with operating motor vehicles, so don't redirect it there.
It also has little to do with Pokemon Go, either.
What this has to do with is humans being stupid and irresponsible in general. Pokemon Go, like so many things that humans are stupid about, is just the enabler in this case.
Alcohol. Recreational drugs. Food. Firearms. Political leadership. Hobby drones. Sex.Pokemon Go.
That's just a (very!) partial list of things that humans are stupid about, but it's not the fault of the things, they're just enablers.
Does that mean that Poklemon Go shouldn't be reined in? No, it should, but only because humans being stupid about it ruin it for everyone else.
Why the hell should anyone care about abstract "people"? Most of Humanity isn't wired that way, we care about those we know, not about the distant future and people we don't know.
There, fixed that for BOTH of you.
Human technologies have evolved orders of magnitude faster than the human brain has. Most people are still cavemen inside their skulls, cavemen with ICEs and smartphones and handguns and bombs, and they act like it, too. Most people don't really care about the abstract 'someone' on the abstract 'other side of the planet', and in fact this little ball of mud we're living on is also too large for their caveman brains to really comprehend. So is the concept of '100 years from now'. Most people don't really think much past a few months in the future, except in the most abstract sort of way, and don't really think too hard about people outside their own social circle. You tell them 'you need to sell your car and take public transit, ride a bike, or walk, to help stop air pollution and global warming', and they look at you like you're nuts and are trying to ruin their lives. You tell them to conserve resources, and they might for a while, if you're lucky -- then they're back to their old habits. And so on. And this is just 1st World Countries I'm talking about. You go somewhere like China or India or African nations and they'll laugh at you, if they don't attack you. IF we survive the next, say, 1000 years, our brains and 'civilization' (using the term loosely here) might catch up with each other and with technology, and we MIGHT save ourselves. But as things sit right now? Forget about it. We can't even stop fighting amongst ourselves for the stupidest reasons imaginable, let alone cooperate on not wrecking the entire planet. Worse, there are superstitious types who think some Invisible Sky God created it all, and will come down to whisk the Faithful away to some paradise, so who cares what happens to the Earth? Then there's the ones that seem to think that the Invisible Sky God is angry because some people aren't living according to some old book, and is making all this happen to us (which of course is more bullshit), and as soon as the Unbelievers and Infidels are all dead, it'll go back to being nice again. Or whatever. If we, as a species, manage to survive the next 100 years, it'll be a miracle.
Correctly diagnose
70% Accuracy
CHOOSE ONE AND ONE ONLY!
..and when the Health Department comes to your door with a couple burly orderlies and informs you that 'you're depressed, citizen, and in the interests of your safety and the safety of the public, we're required to enforce antidepressants on you', what do you do then? Why are you people still using so-called 'social media'???
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and allow you an opportunity to clarify: Are you mocking Facebook, or are you mocking me?
"Stop" (insert annoying thing here)
Stop using Facebook.
Here's the hard, cold, uncomfortable truth: You're getting all entitled because it's been free to access all this time, and now they're leveraging the fact that you're all entrenched in Facebook, and they're making you PAY more and more by putting more and more ads in your face, and collecting and selling more and more of your information. If you were PAYING to use Facebook then it would be a different story, but you're not; you're a FREELOADER, and now the bill is coming due -- and you're getting all upset over it.
STOP USING FACEBOOK. Just say goodbye to your fake online friends, close the account, and WALK AWAY. This is literally the ONLY course of action you have. Seriously: How long do you think it'll be now before they change the terms of service to make it against site policy for you to use ANY adblocker or do ANYTHING to avoid ads or data collection? STOP USING FACEBOOK.
I don't use my real name online ANYWHERE, and any friends I have understand and honor my request that they never post photos of me online, anywhere, ever, so there is NO 'data collection' about ME on Failbook, EVER.
Now, then: let's discuss why you're still being a dumb cuck who uses Failbook. Do you like Zukerberg being your Master? Or are you just too weak to leave?
Since I'm not a fool who still uses Failbook, Failbook knows NOTHING about me whatsoever. Why are you still using Facebook? Or are you so into BDSM that you want Facebook to be your Master? You all read the same news stories about Facebook that everyone else does; don't you think it's wise to at least start formulating your exit strategy from Facebook? Get smart and plan on leaving it today. You'll be glad you did afterwards.
Bluetooth has it's own compression it uses. Very often it clashes with the compression that many audio files use. I found this out the hard way by buying a Bluetooth to stereo device to plug into my home theatre receiver, to play music from my phone over house speakers. If the file was even high-rate MP3, I could hear artifacts of the two compression algorithms fighting with each other; it actually set my teeth on edge. Using AAC instead of MP3 helped, but I'm sure the guys with really sensitive ears will still hear some artifacts to set their teeth on edge, even with something 'lossless' like FLAC or Apple's lossless compression, or maybe even with an uncompressed audio file.
If you have a better suggestion then I encourage you to fill us all in on the details of it. As anything you do or say on the Internet is subject to surveillance and theft, and I don't see any end to it. Criminals and foreign governments are hacking things constantly. Our own government is spying on everyone constantly. The ISPs we get our connectivity from is sifting every single packet for any personalized information they can sell to their 'partner' companies for purposes of profiling us and putting so-called 'targeted' advertising in our faces, and by the way who knows what else they're doing with all that data they're collecting on us? You can't count on HTTPS encryption to keep private things private, and fucktarded/power-hungry politicians and law enforcement types are working like the damned to ruin ALL encryption for EVERYONE (except them I'm sure). So seriously: If you have any better alternative other than an onion-routing network to keep at least some private things private, please, do tell! Oh and by the way, if all you have to offer is "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear", or "You're not interesting enough for them to want to watch so why worry about it", then don't bother even responding because both of those 'reasons' completely and totally ignore the priciple of the thing: nobody should be spying on us in the first place.
freedom-loving privacy nuts
Enjoy having governments, Facebook, advertisers, and organized crime so far up your ass that they're tickling your tonsils, you self-righteous piece of shit. Nobody should take your advice, ever.
The way the Internet has been devolving into just one big surveillance/spying/malware platform, and now with ICANN ceding control over to someone else, the TOR network may become the last bastion of a truly free and open Internet. Yes, it's the Wild West inside there to be sure, but you do have a higher degree of anonymity and a lesser degree of being spied on and surveilled. I can see a possible future where onion routing networks, with sites operating within them, are the only relatively safe places you could go. Let's not start artillery barrages against TOR, okay?
O_o
Please accept my virtual, unofficial mod-up to (+5, Insightful) for demonstrating that you're smarter and wiser than however many politicians in India.
That option will soon be disabled also.
Maybe for the technological neophyte. The rest of us can shut down and disable a Service, or failing that, hack the registry to remove the Service entirely, or failing that, remove the relevant file(s) from the filesystem completely. There's always a way.
Hey, let's build remotely-controlled fighter jets, great idea!
Build a whole fleet of them
Someone hacks a vulnerability in your control system and takes over the entire fleet
Skyscrapers burning everywhere!
Civilian targets hit everywhere!
Hey here's an even better idea: Why not build an entire fleet of bombers? Be sure to put your nuclear weapons in them while you're at it.
Hey here's an even betterer idea: Build an entire fleet of autonomous, self-flying nuclear bombers! Then when the hackers hijack your fleet of bombers, all they'll have to do is reprogram them to bomb all the major population centers of the world! Overpopulation problems solved!
***FACEPALM***
I seriously can't think of stupider ideas than some like this. Drones are bad enough; now you want your entire fucking Air Force to be drones? It's confirmed: we're getting stupider, not smarter.
I really don't get the joke.
For the millionth time - weather is not climate.
Correct. There is more total thermal energy in the entire system -- which we call Earth. Just because that's pushing local weather patterns in weird directions doesn't mean the polar ice caps aren't melting at an alarming rate because it's both to damn warm there and the oceans are too damn warm too. The typical uninformed person who is experiencing OK weather will then say "Well nobody lives in Antarctica or the Arctic so who cares?" which just highlights how damned ignorant and short-sighted people can be. When it starts being over 100 degrees every day for 6 months they'll just go in their houses and turn the air conditioner up -- at least, until it reaches the point where no air conditioner will help. THEN they'll panic, demand the government do something to 'fix' it -- and they'll be told "We tried to help when we could have done something about it, but NONE OF YOU COULD BE BOTHERED"
At least I and many of us won't be alive to see the end, if it actually comes to that. Never know, there could be something miraculous to save us.
Corrupt thermometers are taking money from KKKilary KKKlinton in an effort to distract the world from the fact that she's murdered thousands of patriotic Americans in Arkansas who were going to expose the fact that she's actually in a wheelchair.
The conspiracy has now gone beyond just climate scientists. It's now built into the actual instrumentation. TRUE! The laws of physics are complicit, too. Nobody with half a brain would believe a liberal thermometer, anyway.
You forgot to add at the end:
They'll all be brought to justice when Jesus returns to take the faithful home!
So they're going to throw some underage kid in jail for 3 years? Or are they going to throw his parents in jail for 3 years, then fine them a bunch of money they likely don't have? So, in other words, the Indian government is now in the business of destroying someones' life before it even gets started, or destroying entire families, over some goddamn picture on some goddamn website they decided to block for some stupid reason? Why stop there? Why not just make the Ultimate example out of these 'criminals' and execute them? Would actually be less cruel to kill some kid who downloaded something than to destroy him by putting him in prison for 3 years. In fact just round up and kill the entire family of a downloader, that'll teach people not to pirate digital media, right? Be sure to publicly execute them so the message gets rammed home. I'm sure that'll make your media industry buddies real happy with you, protecting their pictures and movies by killing people.
***FACEPALM***
'Self driving cars' are not 'here today', they're a JOKE, and they will not be 'mainstream in 3-5 years'. At best they'll be allowed to be sophisticated autopilots, so don't throw away your drivers license you'll need it.
Drones need to DIE. Flying cars aren't going to happen.
So-called 'artificial intelligence' is highly overrated and they're using the wrong term for what they have now. When you come to me with a so-called 'AI' that is indistinguishable from a human being in every way then I'll call it an 'AI', until then it's just another silly limited computer program.
'By 2020, 80% of all humans on Earth will carry around personal surveillance platforms that greedy corporations, governments, and criminal organizations use to collect personal data on them that they sell, use for advertising, use to build 'profiles' of people, and use to steal your identity". That's what that line should read. Smartphones are becoming a scourge, not a help.
'Crytocurrencies' need to die. All they're good for, really, is money-laundering by criminals and terrorists.
How about we get some 'high quality PUBLIC SCHOOL education' so kids don't end up dumb and useless?
How about we get doctors to not suck instead of 'computerized medicine'? I don't want an 'automated doctor', I want a HUMAN doctor that knows what the hell they're doing!
Our 'better food through science' may yet kill us all. I've stopped even bothering to talk about it because it's all already in the wind so there's nothing we can do to stop it now. Either our meddling is harmless, or it destroys us. Come back in 20 years and we'll see which it is.
'Clean energy' may or may not catch on. We'll see if India and China get on board for real or if their mad rush to be 1st World Countries means they just keep burning coal. Also, can we get some Thorium up in this mix, please? Seriously stop being paranoid about nuclear power, damnit.
He thinks his computer is 'secure'
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Apparently someone doesn't comprehend sarcasm, or how richly Microsoft deserves all the sarcasm that gets directed at it. Do you have problems comprehending irony, too? Or people's facial expressions and moods? I think it likely.
See? Microsoft wants to take over and own all operating systems. Worming their way into Linux and Apple's OS with a 'utility' like this is just the beginning.
In 2016 it's essentially impossible to 'secure' a computer anyway, even if it's not connected to the Internet and never was in the first place. Malware, spyware, trojans, rootkits, virii, zero-day exploits are everywhere, including methods of electromagnetically or even accoustically observing a computer in operation from a distance and determining what's being done on it -- and of course if you connect to the Internet, having every single packet sniffed, sifted, and sorted to produce a personal profile of the user, for marketing and government spying purposes. The only 'computer' that's even relatively safe would be one that is completely and totally read-only, retaining nothing but what's in the ROMs when you shut it off. The 'Age of Information' has been twisted and subverted into a dystopian 'Age of Surveillance and Spying' that only seems to really benefit nosy governments, greedy marketers, and criminal organizations.
Go outside. Leave your phone and other so-called 'Internet of Things' gadgets at home. Get some exercise. Stay away from places with cameras and other surveillance. Talk to real, living people instead of using so-called 'social media'. Buy a real paper book, not e-books. Go home at night and actually sleep, instead of staying up to all hours watching TV or staring at a computer screen.
We don't like Google, so we'll just arbitrarily reassign their IP addresses to someone we like
We unanimously decided that the world is better off without pornography (as we define it, naturally, LOL) so we're cancelling the domains for all their websites -- for the children, of course!
Ah well, the Internet was becoming too much of a mess anyway. Better start funding public libraries again!
Oh gee you totally caught me out on my Grand Scheme to Fool Everyone! How intelligent you are!
OMFG STFU you idiot. It's got a shitty, but working, music player built in and stereo bluetooth compatibility, which is strange for a $50 phone. The handful of extra megs of memory used up by shitty wallpapers I don't want and shitty ringtones I don't want could be an extra song or two I might want to hear if I'm desperate, or a few extra photos stored from it's shitty camera.