Yah? Fucking assholes like YOU are happy and willing to take away MY right to drive because YOU are scared little rabbits who can't accept the reality of the world, or perhaps you yourself are such a shit driver that you're willing to have some goddamned machine drive you around and never mind if it gets hacked, malfunctions, or otherwise gets you killed, while you stare out the windshield at the concrete abutment or cliff you're rushing towards. Get fucked, asshole. I am FAR from being alone in this, and we will FIGHT to keep ultimate control of our vehicles, despite what fucking cowards and idiots like YOU and your kind try to take it away from us. FYI you're just going to have to take the bus from now until your death, NOBODY is going to allow passenger vehicles on the road with no suite of manual controls OR sole occupants who are not trained, tested, and licensed to operate a motor vehicle, BET ON IT. Worthless fucking cowards like you are also likely the ones that keep voting away our privacy and freedom so you can feel 'safe', in which case: FUCK YOU. I am TIRED of people like you fucking up the future for everyone because you're too lazy and too cowardly.
You're talking about immigrants that come to STAY and become citizens, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the subject matter here, which is foreign workers coming for limited stays just to work, displacing American citizens, and to add insult to injury, many of them are going to send much of the money they make here back to their home countries, which hurts the U.S. economy as a whole. Maybe you should get your head out of your Tea Party ass and understand what we're talking about before you post your stupid little stories that have nothing to do with anything.
This. This times ONE MILLION. Why are we not investing in the education of Americans so they can be the 'replacement workers'? Why are we not promoting our own population rather than bringing in foreigners who will likely send all that money overseas? What the actual fuck? Are they TRYING to destroy the country!?
What the ISPs want is the equivalent of buying a Cisco brand ethernet switch, wondering why the speed is only 10Mb/s for some of devices plugged into it compared to others, only to find out that if you're not using 'devices made by Cisco or Cisco's partner companies' that the flow of data through the switch will be limited to 10Mb/s instead of the full 1Gb/s the switch is rated for. You'd return it to where you bought it and demand a full refund, wouldn't you? There is no sane Universe where anything other than Net Neutrality makes sense, unless these ISPs want to provide the connection and equipment for FREE to everyone, which is like 'free lunch' if you get my drift. We are PAYING for the connection, we demand to GET the connection, unfettered, not filtered, not slowed or accelerated for anyone, anywhere, for any reason. Them, them, fuck them, and fuck these 'Reason' idiots, too, they need to STFU and GTFO, stop shilling for Crapcast and whoever else.
You have no idea what you're talking about and need to go educate yourself on the subject before you comment on it again, OK? Also you lack a healthy level of paranoia; you seem to think the world is a safe place, when it's clearly not. You're also watching too much TV news, because you think all drivers are shit, and they're not, or maybe you're a shitty driver and you're projecting that onto everyone else. Yes, I'm being terribly rude to you, aren't I? I'm sick and tired of ignorant people with their ignorant, uninformed opinions. Get correct or get out.
Why people might think this ISN'T a walking, talking privacy breach of the first order is beyond me.
Because most people are stupid, that's why. They can't see past their own noses. They allow retail stores to track all their purchases in very personalized detail in return for a few pennies off what they buy. They're willing to have some corporation know where they are and what they're doing 24/7/365, just for a few dollars discount. They let some company have their biometric data because they like their shiny new wristband that tells them how many steps they took today, thinking that's going to make them be not fat anymore. They barter away their privacy, a Pearl of Great Price, something they may NEVER get back, for a few measly pennies, and they don't even understand what it is they almost literally gave away to strangers. Or worse, they do that, then look down their noses at people who WON'T do the same, claiming 'You must have something to hide because you won't share with everyone else everything about your life, including when you're masturbating or taking a dump'. And even worse, there is an entire generation that doesn't have anything like real privacy, and looks at you like YOU'RE the one who's mentally ill, if you believe in privacy and try to explain to them what it is they're missing out on.
Glad I'm not the first one to say this for a change.
I wonder, however: How come I get shot down every single time I make a similar comment/observation about autonomous, driverless, manual-control-less cars? It's really not that different.
Anyway.. If they want the ability to remote pilot commercial aircraft, that might not be a bad thing at all in emergency situations, so long as every effort is made to ensure the security of the system against hacking -- but there must still be a human pilot. Otherwise who the hell is going to trust it?
This. If it's a Black Box, sealed, and I can't get into it at all to do anything? It's a liability. I've spent literally my entire life repairing things I own, especially vehicles, and if you're going to somehow lock me out of it? I'll end up stranded somewhere because it broke down, and I'm screwed. If the world goes that way then I guess I'm going to start buying and fixing up antique vehicles to drive, or just go back to my 20's and own only a motorcycle.
'Cost effective' is one thing, and don't get me wrong, a good thing. As sad as it makes me to have to say it, we need to get away from internal-combustion engines. However, for my own purposes, it won't be 'life effective' unless I can get a small pickup truck that is 100% electric, and a highway-legal motorcycle that is 100% electric, too. Otherwise I'm on gasoline engines for the duration.
Did they, really? You have shit like Xbox 360, which you are FORCED to pay a perpetual subscription fee in order to use at all, and isn't the PS4 just as bad? Now, tell me again how you're saving money? Computer gaming has got just as bad, too, you either pay a premium for game software, which no longer has any substantial single-player mode (if any at all), and you have to PAY to play multi-player online. Smartphone games are monitized to within an inch of their lives. Games like WoW require subscription to play. Again: How are you saving money?
Has it occurred to you, that this 'outdated business model' of which you speak, may have been CAUSED by Nintendo and their contemporaries, driving independent operators and arcades out of business by abandoning them, leaving them with games nobody wanted to play anymore and no new ones in sight? Conversion kits are what kept things going, but those have always been expensive compared to VS System games, which were a few 2764 EPROMs and a co-processor, a new marquee and side decals for the cabinet.
The design on the VS system motherboard never changed throughout it's entire lifespan. Nintendo are bastards because the evidence on the schematic of the PCB clearly shows that they intended to develop a home system all along, and once that was launched and well-established, they abandoned the coin-op industry entirely, leaving everyone with aging games and no new ones being developed. Back in the day it caused quite a bit of controversy. Some operators had hundreds of Nintendo VS System games, which no one wanted to play when they could play the SAME games at home for FREE. Nintendo fucked everyone.
You misunderstand my post; everything I'm talking about is on the PCB in the coin-operated game. Literally two shift registers with copper traces connecting them. If you are sufficiently enabled electronically-speaking, then google 'nintendo vs system schematic, find the VS system operator's manual, which contains the PCB schematic; look for the player inputs, they go to 74LS165's, which are shift registers, which then lead to other shift registers converting the serial data back to parallel, which is then gated onto the data bus. Literally no reason to design it this way. Coin switch inputs (that detect a coin inserted) and DIP-switch inputs aren't gated onto the bus this way, only player inputs.
Firefighters and military need to be at their peak levels of physical fitness, not allow their ankles to get weak because they're using a form of crutch. Devices like this should be limited in use to people who are injured or disabled in some way, not healthy people who can and should regularly exercise in order to maintain (or improve) their overall health.
In a previous lifetime I repaired coin-op arcade games, and the Nintendo VS system was certainly one of them. At some point after Nintendo utterly abandoned the coin-op industry (leaving countless operators flapping in the wind with no new games for their VS system cabinets) I discovered, in the schematics of the VS system motherboard, proof that Nintendo was using the coin-op industry as a test-bed for a home system: the control panel inputs, which in an arcade game are all discrete inputs per switch (4 for a joystick, for instance) didn't go to a parallel buffer or parallel-input register IC, they went to a parallel-input shift register, the serial output of which was routed to a serial-to-parallel shift register, which was then connected to the data bus! If you have or can get a schematic for this PCB, look for it for all the player inputs. There is no reason to have this over-complicated arrangement in an arcade game -- but it just so happens that this is the exact arrangement that the NES used to connect player controls, via a skinny cable with as few connections as possible. So don't go getting so misty-eyed about Nintendo, they're utter bastards who care only about profits, and not who they screw over in the process.
You, sir, I think I like. Do you happen to live in Northern California? You sound like someone I'd like to have as an in-real-life friend, someone perhaps worth knowing.
Fuck so-called 'social media'. For something that claims to 'connect people', I have never seen anything so effective at giving people an excuse to not connect, never see each other in person, and otherwise just stare at a screen. Don't get me wrong -- I have always lived a technological lifestyle, I've been building my own computers since before the IBM model 5150 (The PC) was even dreamt of (soldered together circuit boards with wirewrap wire for my very first computer), and have worked in IT and hard electronics my entire life, and currently work for 'a major microprocessor manufacturer', so you can't call me a Luddite by any stretch of the imagination -- but shit like Failbook is just plain insulting, intrusive, false, misleading, and sometimes downright illegal. Who the fuck needs 10000 'friends' (with an lower-case 'F', mind you) who you have NEVER met, NEVER will meet, and NEVER want to meet? What the actual fuck is that shit anyway? In this life, if you have half a dozen decent, in-real-life, see-them-in-person Friends (with an upper-case 'F') that you can actually trust, have common interests in, and hang out with on a regular basis? Then you're doing pretty damned good. You don't NEED 'social media'; it's just yet another way for corporations, governments, and nosy people who have no business being in your business, to mine data about you, make (usually comically incorrect) assumptions and draw (almost always tragically wrong) conclusions about who you are and what you're about, and otherwise turn you into a product, like you may as well have a gods-be-damed UPC barcode tattooed on the back of your necK. Me? The day that I decided that posts on Failbook of mine past a certain age needed to go away for good, and I discovered much to my horror that it would not allow me to delete anything permanently, and would put them all back the next day? That's when I concluded that It Was Up To No Good, deleted my account, and vowed to never go back to it or anything like it ever again. I recommend you all do the same and start actually connecting with people in real life, work on those social interaction skills, and stop giving away all the details of your lives to these asshole corporations and nosy ne'er-do-well 'friends' who don't give a rat's ass about your well being, only what they can SELL you to someone else for.
Please, bring the hateful comments, now; every one of you who posts your insults, bald-faced hate, and other negative, spiteful, derisive shit, just convinces me more and more that I'm right an you're just either the Sheep or the Wolves (not sure which is worse).
The 'Notel Motel' franchise values secrecy -- so much so, that even publicly using the name is strictly forbidden in the charter. Typically the way you can identify an establishment as a member of the Notel network, is by their rate structure: If they can charge by the half-hour, then it's almost certainly a Notel Motel.
..meanwhile, back in North Korea: You can't stop the signal, now can you? I bet that despite his outward appearance of being virulently xenophobic and rabidly against all things Western, Kim Jong-un likely has an Xbox 360 and/or PS4, likes his Levis, Hershey bars, and Coca-Cola, and most of all his free Internet porn. Probably has seen all of MTV's Jackass, including the movies, and thinks Johnny Knoxville is a fucking genius. Nope, I think the North Korean tree is rotting from within -- or in this case, starting to grow from within, finally. I think the day will come when North and South are indeed reconciled and reunited -- and it'll all happen without a single shot being fired, and the whole thing will be shared with the world via YouTube.
Are you talking to me or someone else? Because I'm not part of any political party and likely never will be, because none of them represent the totality of my interests. If you are talking to me: Fuck you.
What are you suggesting we do, have a nice sit-down with them over tea and crumpets and talk about their feelings that are making them act out? We're not talking about teenagers committing petty vanadalism and graffitti, we're talking about assholes that are running around the Middle East cutting off people's heads, slaughtering entire populations, enslaving women and turning them into sex slaves, and taking the children they capture and brainwashing them into being suicide bombers! How can there BE any other response to this other than 'Kill every last one of the bastards'? What the actual FUCK is your solution!? Are you one of them or something? Are you part of the 'islamic state' press corps or something? Do you not understand? These assholes would gladly and gleefully kill YOU, your FAMILY, and EVERYONE YOU KNOW, just to make a POINT! They make Al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran, and any other group of assholes currently out there in the world look like fucking pansies in comparison.
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Yah? Fucking assholes like YOU are happy and willing to take away MY right to drive because YOU are scared little rabbits who can't accept the reality of the world, or perhaps you yourself are such a shit driver that you're willing to have some goddamned machine drive you around and never mind if it gets hacked, malfunctions, or otherwise gets you killed, while you stare out the windshield at the concrete abutment or cliff you're rushing towards. Get fucked, asshole. I am FAR from being alone in this, and we will FIGHT to keep ultimate control of our vehicles, despite what fucking cowards and idiots like YOU and your kind try to take it away from us. FYI you're just going to have to take the bus from now until your death, NOBODY is going to allow passenger vehicles on the road with no suite of manual controls OR sole occupants who are not trained, tested, and licensed to operate a motor vehicle, BET ON IT. Worthless fucking cowards like you are also likely the ones that keep voting away our privacy and freedom so you can feel 'safe', in which case: FUCK YOU. I am TIRED of people like you fucking up the future for everyone because you're too lazy and too cowardly.
You're talking about immigrants that come to STAY and become citizens, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the subject matter here, which is foreign workers coming for limited stays just to work, displacing American citizens, and to add insult to injury, many of them are going to send much of the money they make here back to their home countries, which hurts the U.S. economy as a whole. Maybe you should get your head out of your Tea Party ass and understand what we're talking about before you post your stupid little stories that have nothing to do with anything.
This. This times ONE MILLION. Why are we not investing in the education of Americans so they can be the 'replacement workers'? Why are we not promoting our own population rather than bringing in foreigners who will likely send all that money overseas? What the actual fuck? Are they TRYING to destroy the country!?
What the ISPs want is the equivalent of buying a Cisco brand ethernet switch, wondering why the speed is only 10Mb/s for some of devices plugged into it compared to others, only to find out that if you're not using 'devices made by Cisco or Cisco's partner companies' that the flow of data through the switch will be limited to 10Mb/s instead of the full 1Gb/s the switch is rated for. You'd return it to where you bought it and demand a full refund, wouldn't you? There is no sane Universe where anything other than Net Neutrality makes sense, unless these ISPs want to provide the connection and equipment for FREE to everyone, which is like 'free lunch' if you get my drift. We are PAYING for the connection, we demand to GET the connection, unfettered, not filtered, not slowed or accelerated for anyone, anywhere, for any reason. Them, them, fuck them, and fuck these 'Reason' idiots, too, they need to STFU and GTFO, stop shilling for Crapcast and whoever else.
You have no idea what you're talking about and need to go educate yourself on the subject before you comment on it again, OK? Also you lack a healthy level of paranoia; you seem to think the world is a safe place, when it's clearly not. You're also watching too much TV news, because you think all drivers are shit, and they're not, or maybe you're a shitty driver and you're projecting that onto everyone else. Yes, I'm being terribly rude to you, aren't I? I'm sick and tired of ignorant people with their ignorant, uninformed opinions. Get correct or get out.
Why people might think this ISN'T a walking, talking privacy breach of the first order is beyond me.
Because most people are stupid, that's why. They can't see past their own noses. They allow retail stores to track all their purchases in very personalized detail in return for a few pennies off what they buy. They're willing to have some corporation know where they are and what they're doing 24/7/365, just for a few dollars discount. They let some company have their biometric data because they like their shiny new wristband that tells them how many steps they took today, thinking that's going to make them be not fat anymore. They barter away their privacy, a Pearl of Great Price, something they may NEVER get back, for a few measly pennies, and they don't even understand what it is they almost literally gave away to strangers. Or worse, they do that, then look down their noses at people who WON'T do the same, claiming 'You must have something to hide because you won't share with everyone else everything about your life, including when you're masturbating or taking a dump'. And even worse, there is an entire generation that doesn't have anything like real privacy, and looks at you like YOU'RE the one who's mentally ill, if you believe in privacy and try to explain to them what it is they're missing out on.
Glad I'm not the first one to say this for a change.
I wonder, however: How come I get shot down every single time I make a similar comment/observation about autonomous, driverless, manual-control-less cars? It's really not that different.
Anyway.. If they want the ability to remote pilot commercial aircraft, that might not be a bad thing at all in emergency situations, so long as every effort is made to ensure the security of the system against hacking -- but there must still be a human pilot. Otherwise who the hell is going to trust it?
This. If it's a Black Box, sealed, and I can't get into it at all to do anything? It's a liability. I've spent literally my entire life repairing things I own, especially vehicles, and if you're going to somehow lock me out of it? I'll end up stranded somewhere because it broke down, and I'm screwed. If the world goes that way then I guess I'm going to start buying and fixing up antique vehicles to drive, or just go back to my 20's and own only a motorcycle.
'Cost effective' is one thing, and don't get me wrong, a good thing. As sad as it makes me to have to say it, we need to get away from internal-combustion engines. However, for my own purposes, it won't be 'life effective' unless I can get a small pickup truck that is 100% electric, and a highway-legal motorcycle that is 100% electric, too. Otherwise I'm on gasoline engines for the duration.
Arcades lost, and consumers won
Did they, really? You have shit like Xbox 360, which you are FORCED to pay a perpetual subscription fee in order to use at all, and isn't the PS4 just as bad? Now, tell me again how you're saving money? Computer gaming has got just as bad, too, you either pay a premium for game software, which no longer has any substantial single-player mode (if any at all), and you have to PAY to play multi-player online. Smartphone games are monitized to within an inch of their lives. Games like WoW require subscription to play. Again: How are you saving money?
Has it occurred to you, that this 'outdated business model' of which you speak, may have been CAUSED by Nintendo and their contemporaries, driving independent operators and arcades out of business by abandoning them, leaving them with games nobody wanted to play anymore and no new ones in sight? Conversion kits are what kept things going, but those have always been expensive compared to VS System games, which were a few 2764 EPROMs and a co-processor, a new marquee and side decals for the cabinet.
The design on the VS system motherboard never changed throughout it's entire lifespan. Nintendo are bastards because the evidence on the schematic of the PCB clearly shows that they intended to develop a home system all along, and once that was launched and well-established, they abandoned the coin-op industry entirely, leaving everyone with aging games and no new ones being developed. Back in the day it caused quite a bit of controversy. Some operators had hundreds of Nintendo VS System games, which no one wanted to play when they could play the SAME games at home for FREE. Nintendo fucked everyone.
You misunderstand my post; everything I'm talking about is on the PCB in the coin-operated game. Literally two shift registers with copper traces connecting them. If you are sufficiently enabled electronically-speaking, then google 'nintendo vs system schematic, find the VS system operator's manual, which contains the PCB schematic; look for the player inputs, they go to 74LS165's, which are shift registers, which then lead to other shift registers converting the serial data back to parallel, which is then gated onto the data bus. Literally no reason to design it this way. Coin switch inputs (that detect a coin inserted) and DIP-switch inputs aren't gated onto the bus this way, only player inputs.
Firefighters and military need to be at their peak levels of physical fitness, not allow their ankles to get weak because they're using a form of crutch. Devices like this should be limited in use to people who are injured or disabled in some way, not healthy people who can and should regularly exercise in order to maintain (or improve) their overall health.
In a previous lifetime I repaired coin-op arcade games, and the Nintendo VS system was certainly one of them. At some point after Nintendo utterly abandoned the coin-op industry (leaving countless operators flapping in the wind with no new games for their VS system cabinets) I discovered, in the schematics of the VS system motherboard, proof that Nintendo was using the coin-op industry as a test-bed for a home system: the control panel inputs, which in an arcade game are all discrete inputs per switch (4 for a joystick, for instance) didn't go to a parallel buffer or parallel-input register IC, they went to a parallel-input shift register, the serial output of which was routed to a serial-to-parallel shift register, which was then connected to the data bus! If you have or can get a schematic for this PCB, look for it for all the player inputs. There is no reason to have this over-complicated arrangement in an arcade game -- but it just so happens that this is the exact arrangement that the NES used to connect player controls, via a skinny cable with as few connections as possible. So don't go getting so misty-eyed about Nintendo, they're utter bastards who care only about profits, and not who they screw over in the process.
You, sir, I think I like. Do you happen to live in Northern California? You sound like someone I'd like to have as an in-real-life friend, someone perhaps worth knowing.
Fuck so-called 'social media'. For something that claims to 'connect people', I have never seen anything so effective at giving people an excuse to not connect, never see each other in person, and otherwise just stare at a screen. Don't get me wrong -- I have always lived a technological lifestyle, I've been building my own computers since before the IBM model 5150 (The PC) was even dreamt of (soldered together circuit boards with wirewrap wire for my very first computer), and have worked in IT and hard electronics my entire life, and currently work for 'a major microprocessor manufacturer', so you can't call me a Luddite by any stretch of the imagination -- but shit like Failbook is just plain insulting, intrusive, false, misleading, and sometimes downright illegal. Who the fuck needs 10000 'friends' (with an lower-case 'F', mind you) who you have NEVER met, NEVER will meet, and NEVER want to meet? What the actual fuck is that shit anyway? In this life, if you have half a dozen decent, in-real-life, see-them-in-person Friends (with an upper-case 'F') that you can actually trust, have common interests in, and hang out with on a regular basis? Then you're doing pretty damned good. You don't NEED 'social media'; it's just yet another way for corporations, governments, and nosy people who have no business being in your business, to mine data about you, make (usually comically incorrect) assumptions and draw (almost always tragically wrong) conclusions about who you are and what you're about, and otherwise turn you into a product, like you may as well have a gods-be-damed UPC barcode tattooed on the back of your necK. Me? The day that I decided that posts on Failbook of mine past a certain age needed to go away for good, and I discovered much to my horror that it would not allow me to delete anything permanently, and would put them all back the next day? That's when I concluded that It Was Up To No Good, deleted my account, and vowed to never go back to it or anything like it ever again. I recommend you all do the same and start actually connecting with people in real life, work on those social interaction skills, and stop giving away all the details of your lives to these asshole corporations and nosy ne'er-do-well 'friends' who don't give a rat's ass about your well being, only what they can SELL you to someone else for.
Please, bring the hateful comments, now; every one of you who posts your insults, bald-faced hate, and other negative, spiteful, derisive shit, just convinces me more and more that I'm right an you're just either the Sheep or the Wolves (not sure which is worse).
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..also, The Game.
That is all.
More likely it's an excuse to have an orbital weapons platform or massive surveillance platform.
The 'Notel Motel' franchise values secrecy -- so much so, that even publicly using the name is strictly forbidden in the charter. Typically the way you can identify an establishment as a member of the Notel network, is by their rate structure: If they can charge by the half-hour, then it's almost certainly a Notel Motel.
..meanwhile, back in North Korea: You can't stop the signal, now can you? I bet that despite his outward appearance of being virulently xenophobic and rabidly against all things Western, Kim Jong-un likely has an Xbox 360 and/or PS4, likes his Levis, Hershey bars, and Coca-Cola, and most of all his free Internet porn. Probably has seen all of MTV's Jackass, including the movies, and thinks Johnny Knoxville is a fucking genius. Nope, I think the North Korean tree is rotting from within -- or in this case, starting to grow from within, finally. I think the day will come when North and South are indeed reconciled and reunited -- and it'll all happen without a single shot being fired, and the whole thing will be shared with the world via YouTube.
More like 'Enjoy high speed Internet access for free! Just sign in using your Facebook account!'.
That's what they should change their company name to, to be more in line with reality.
Are you talking to me or someone else? Because I'm not part of any political party and likely never will be, because none of them represent the totality of my interests. If you are talking to me: Fuck you.
What are you suggesting we do, have a nice sit-down with them over tea and crumpets and talk about their feelings that are making them act out? We're not talking about teenagers committing petty vanadalism and graffitti, we're talking about assholes that are running around the Middle East cutting off people's heads, slaughtering entire populations, enslaving women and turning them into sex slaves, and taking the children they capture and brainwashing them into being suicide bombers! How can there BE any other response to this other than 'Kill every last one of the bastards'? What the actual FUCK is your solution!? Are you one of them or something? Are you part of the 'islamic state' press corps or something? Do you not understand? These assholes would gladly and gleefully kill YOU, your FAMILY, and EVERYONE YOU KNOW, just to make a POINT! They make Al Qaeda, Hamas, Iran, and any other group of assholes currently out there in the world look like fucking pansies in comparison.
This story, and your comment, made me think of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...