those same corporations are buying those same politicians specifically to favor them with laws written by the corporation lobbyists.
And yet it'll fall apart if we, on voting day, withdraw our support for those politicians. We never do, though.
We The People know how Democrats and Republicans get the text of the laws they enact, and every two years we re-affirm that yes, we want those people to keep on doing that.
There's nothing wrong with being angry, but you're getting angry with a machine that we've signed off on, which acts in a predictable fashion and hasn't malfunctioned. We knew what we would get, and we got it. Be angry at our hypocrisy instead, where we say we want fair government, but then vote against it, sometimes with mumbled excuses for why we reluctantly did it yet again.
I know what you're thinking: being angry at our hypocrisy will just lead to an acknowledgement of our responsibility, and nothing good ever comes of that. What we need is for a new veil of self-deception, since the old one is so tattered. Nobody believes our old excuses, or believes that we're stupid enough to believe them. It's time for a fresh start. Therefore, for the 2014 elections, I propose we each dedicate ourselves to one of two projects:
One team should come up with some new and credible reasons for why we should send Republicans and Democrats back to Congress again in 2014. Please, no right/left arguments; the claim that these parties politically ideological, is very old and tired and long-past exposed. Try a new approach to justifying these people, please.
The other team should come up with some credible pretenses for how we can all act SHOCKED, when the Democrats and Republicans "surprise" us by doing what they always do. What we want here, is for there to be a tragic narrative about how we all believed the stuff the first team comes up with, how it was an honest mistake anyone could have made, in spite of, in hindsight, being moronic beyond the imagination of the very best comedians.
We can do this if we try. There is no reason we, our our children, should ever have to face the realization that political power always rests in the hands of the governed.
The better your idea and the more compelling it is, the less likely that pixels will die in 5 years. Because the better your idea, the more likely you've patented your vector codec thingie, so nobody will be allowed to implement it for 20 years. "promote the progress of the useful arts and sciences," indeed.
tl;dnr. I assume that explicit images are the same as the implicit ones, but where the images have alt attributes so your scrapebot doesn't have to infer from the pixels, what the image is about. AI vision is hard!
How does this get around wire-tapping laws in the two party states (where both parties need to know there's recording going on)?
That's the buyer's problem. His computer, not Verizon's computer, is recording people without their consent or knowledge.
Your computer is your agent. If you don't know whose interests your agent serves, maybe you should fire that agent. If you think your agent might get you in trouble with the government, then all the more reason to JUST SAY NO.
Typically these types of laws prohibit $ACTIVITY "without authorization by the copyright holder." Since you'll be the copyright holder in these situations, you'll be allowed to do whatever you want with your own photos.
If the government mandated that you were required to strip data from your own photos, you ought to be able to safely ignore that law, on First Amendment grounds.
There are two ways to look at the buyer's market which exists whenever there is extreme competition. Yes, your way is one of them.;-)
And if you happen to be a professional game programmer or publisher, your way of looking at it is probably the best.. for you.
From the PoV of a game player, as well as from the PoV of an amateur or smalltime-pro game developer, it is undesirable for there to be barriers to entry. Reducing competition and the diversity&availability of software are seen a negative attributes of the platform.
Indeed, Nintendo was actually the original "evil empire" to home users, bringing what had once been a 1960s IBM mainframe problem to the consumer world: "what do you mean I'm not allowed to do whatever I want with my own computer?" The NES is the spiritual grandfather of the XBox and iPhone. It was a long time ago, so most of us have stopped hating Nintendo; there are more threatening, more in-your-face enemies out there today. But it's not like they ever stopped sucking.
And yet, even with that and my usual intolerance for these shenanigans, there's a Wii in my home. We use it almost exclusively to play "ass bowling" (Wii Sports, with heavy drinking and the rule that you're not allowed to take your ass off the couch). Somehow that makes it ok: that we're not playing the way they intended us to. I hope this is some kind of license violation but realistically, I fear it's not. Please, no one tell me.
Those who frequently smash gorilla glass will end up destroying a floppy phone just as quick.
I think I already know from history that just isn't true. My "dumb" flip-phone is hanging in there just fine. I've dropped it a few times, but when Samsung made this in 2006 they used plastic (geniuses! who would think of this?!), and face it: plastic is awesome. This plastic just keeps on not breaking.
My glass tablet lasted a month. I am so glad I only spent $89 on it (no, a $200 one would not have survived better).
It's not even just clumsiness and carelessness, though I won't pretend I'm graceful and always on-the-ball. Some things in some situations just happen to take a beating, by virtue of being in a pocket all the time, going everywhere the user goes. Keys and change constantly grind away at whatever they share space with, dogs jump on laps, my pants-containing-phone get stepped on while getting up in the middle of the night in a tent on a camping trip, stuff is outside in freezing temperatures (and low humidity) and then comes into the house where it's warmer and higher humidity for a while and then goes back out. Shit happens, so much of it and in so many ways.
I don't feel entitled to have "tough SOB" equipment, and if I drop something and it breaks, it's almost certainly my fault. But let's not pretend that stuff-which-usually-doesn't-break wasn't the ubiquitous norm prior to 2007. The very idea that we're all carrying glass personal items around all the time, is actually pretty hilarious when you think of it. The guy who stepped out a time machine from 2006, after chuckling a little, would at least say, "well, I'm sure they break a lot, but I guess the point of this cheap shit is that people don't complain when it breaks, because you can always get another $20 phone to last enough 3 months. $80 a year is a hardware budget I suppose anyone can live with." Then we 2012ers would nervously glance around at one another, wondering, "Who is going to tell him?" Fucking time travellers. They always make me feel so uncomfortable.
Glad that works for Denmark. Here in USA we have come to realize that science is all lies straight from the pit of hell. Ergo, beer must be prohibited.
They were lying through their fucking teeth the whole time
What I don't get is: why bother lying about such things? Everyone knows and expects gerrymandering. It is part of the system, and there's unanimous bipartisan agreement that it should happen (though of course disagreement about who the winning and losing parties should be) and saying that it isn't the primary goal of all redistricting and reapportionment operations, is instantly recognizable as a lie. So why lie?
Republicans and Democrats: don't say you don't gerrymander. Everyone knows you do. If you lie about obvious things, you'll never fool us into believing you when it's time to tell a subtle and not-so-obvious lie.
I think it may be perhaps the most unfair thing I've ever witnessed in politics
Unless you've supported some kind of constitutional amendment to have districting done by some kind of impartial algorithm, this unfairness isn't something to be angry about. It's either a desired unfairness that the system is supposed to have, or at least an unavoidable one.
Getting mad at parties for gerrymandering is like getting mad at wasps for injecting eggs into other bugs. Parties' purpose is to win.
The whole "walled garden" experiment plaguing mobile computers, and DRM in media computers, etc, was to teach you that it's "normal and accepted" for a computer that you own to serve the interests of others, above and beyond, and at the expense of, your own interests.
Apparently you have not learned yet. Here, let me increase your "medication." Free ipad, free ipad, free ipad.. repeat.. free ipad, free ipad, free ipad...
Again, what car company wouldn't take that into account when asking themselves if they want to be a pioneer in this field?
None, but I disagree with your conclusion that their response to the problem will be "tell the customers we don't want their money." This is the auto industry, not the movie industry. And Google is telling us, the people demand to get their eyes off the road and onto Google ads a couple hours a day, pronto.
The problem you're describing can be "fixed" by crying to the government to change liability laws. If you think this is unprecedented then take a look at what has already happened in the energy sector. There will be liability caps, new laws about who is left holding the bag, etc. Some people will notice it's unfair and say so, but most people won't say anything at all, or even know it happened.
Furthermore, individual people drive, collectively, even though it's (roughly) just as risky, in total. This is handled through insurance. A driverless car manufacturer can probably get insured more cheaply (per car) because they can communicate one-one-one with the insurer, prove they're following best practices (prove to the point of law, at least, so that the insurance company can convince a judge should they ever find themselves in court).
And I'm sad to say there are probably corporate tricks that can be played as well, where limited liability entities are used to compartmentalize. e.g. "FF201802, Inc" ends up taking the risks for all the Ford Focuses made in the second quarter of 2018 or something like that, and has few assets to lose.
While this would be somewhat bad news (and I won't immediately flame people for being unhappy about it), I cannot imagine how its consequences are anything close to "time to switch to ARM."
First of all, while it's true that I'm far too wimpy to solder today's thousand-pin CPUs, someone will sell motherboards with CPUs already mounted for you. Asus, Gigabyte, etc already own solder-bots and have proved that they are able to use them. This is just one more chip for them to include on the board. I tend to buy boards and CPUs at the same time anyway.
And now that I think of it, the last "ARM-like" (but not really ARM) motherboard I bought was made by Zotac, and it came with an Atom 330 soldered to the motherboard! *gasp* Intel was already doing what you fear, back in 2009! Oh noooo!
BTW, it took me a while to figure it out, but I think I've got it: TFA author's definition of an "enthusiast" is someone who overclocks. If you don't overclock, then you're not an enthusiast. If you disagree with this definition, then everything he says is going to sound very weird and flamebait to you. He's not so much wrong as just amazingly narrow-minded and specialized.
Dork. I mean that in the nicest way possible. I suppose being narrow-minded about what you're enthusiastic about, demonstrates your enthusiasm for that topic. e.g. "Overclocking is my whole world!! It's not just a thing you do to your machine, it's a way of life!";-)
It seems reasonable at first to predict that people won't tolerate their own glasses looking unusual. But I think the same way you predict that, can also be used to predict that nobody will ever walk about with bluetooth crap sticking out of their ears. Yet, there the gargoyles are.
This guy was the future but this guy wasn't? Are you sure you have the fashion expertise to really distinguish between the two? (I'll be the first to admit that I don't have that expertise either...)
Most people don't like that either. What's being discussed is something in between, where, say, performance measurements and some kind of chemical measurements, get correlated. That will likely solve the problem to most peoples' satisfaction, if it can be done. If it can't be done, then we have something new to think about.
Up to now, the federal government's interference with Marijuana has impaired states' ability to do the research and deal with the safety problem. But if Colorado and Washington can successfully fight them off, progress can be made.
And remember it's never too early to work on the 2014 elections.;-) America has a congress which is still hostile to states working on this problem, but the next one doesn't have to be.
It was a nice machine I kept the keyboard clean It was the best damn computer that I ever seen
Five Twelve Kay Blew my mind away A lot of memory I must say
Parallel interface Transfer data with grace And dual disk drives with plenty disk space
We were playin' Donkey Kong But before long Somethin' went wrong, my computer's long gone
'Cause you Poured Coke on my keyboard Yeah you Poured Coke on my keyboard
The screen went berserk Thought it was just a quirk But then the printhead started to jerk
The repairman spoke Laughed like it was a joke They were full of Coke, my chips were soaked
Any other verses have been lost. Sorry about the awful chorus meter.
The "parallel interface" stuff is a reference to my unhappiness with the 1541's serial bus. Nowdays, serial buses are preferred. Funny how things work out. The liquids on keyboards thing is sort of a reference to one of the alleged features of the upcoming(?) Apple IIc (not that I ever actually saw one of those), which was supposedly highly resistant to such disasters.
Oh yeah, and AC/DC has been in the "digital marketplace" for at least two decades (whenever they started allowing the CDs to be published). And I'd like to stick Brian Johnson's "you're going to kill [commercial] music" comment right back in his face, since the very best way to kill commercial music is to tell paying customers "fuck off, we don't want your money."
That said, even if you encrypt the postcard, there's nothing to say that the guy the other end isn't forced to give a decrypted version to his local law enforcement or face jail-time anyway. Which is, again, strangely true to the analogous email storage too.
Good luck forcing someone to do something, without them ever knowing about it. I might sometimes be a little.. unobservant.. but if someone ever hits me with a $5 wrench and threatens to do it again unless I spill my secrets, I will notice it happening. Even I am not quite that oblivious.
Once you remove force, then we move onto trickery (e.g. keyboard loggers) and their associated risks of detection. Raising the bar is good.
The problem here is NOT message security. The problem here is law enforcement being able to do these things with no tracking
No, the problem is that anyone, which may sometimes include law enforcement, can do it with no tracking, precisely because there is no message security. Fix the security, so that one of the people who knows the key is required to be coerced or tricked, and you'll get tracking and oversight as a necessary consequence. When you've got cops (or someone else!) threatening people with wrenches, or breaking and entering into peoples homes to install keyloggers, you've got a physical world situation that even people in 1789 could understand, and our current laws are quite well-equipped to handle it.
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And yet it'll fall apart if we, on voting day, withdraw our support for those politicians. We never do, though.
We The People know how Democrats and Republicans get the text of the laws they enact, and every two years we re-affirm that yes, we want those people to keep on doing that.
There's nothing wrong with being angry, but you're getting angry with a machine that we've signed off on, which acts in a predictable fashion and hasn't malfunctioned. We knew what we would get, and we got it. Be angry at our hypocrisy instead, where we say we want fair government, but then vote against it, sometimes with mumbled excuses for why we reluctantly did it yet again.
I know what you're thinking: being angry at our hypocrisy will just lead to an acknowledgement of our responsibility, and nothing good ever comes of that. What we need is for a new veil of self-deception, since the old one is so tattered. Nobody believes our old excuses, or believes that we're stupid enough to believe them. It's time for a fresh start. Therefore, for the 2014 elections, I propose we each dedicate ourselves to one of two projects:
We can do this if we try. There is no reason we, our our children, should ever have to face the realization that political power always rests in the hands of the governed.
The better your idea and the more compelling it is, the less likely that pixels will die in 5 years. Because the better your idea, the more likely you've patented your vector codec thingie, so nobody will be allowed to implement it for 20 years. "promote the progress of the useful arts and sciences," indeed.
tl;dnr. I assume that explicit images are the same as the implicit ones, but where the images have alt attributes so your scrapebot doesn't have to infer from the pixels, what the image is about. AI vision is hard!
Yeah, the idea of a contract without any communication, or even evidence that communication might have happened, is pretty hilarious.
That's the buyer's problem. His computer, not Verizon's computer, is recording people without their consent or knowledge.
Your computer is your agent. If you don't know whose interests your agent serves, maybe you should fire that agent. If you think your agent might get you in trouble with the government, then all the more reason to JUST SAY NO.
Typically these types of laws prohibit $ACTIVITY "without authorization by the copyright holder." Since you'll be the copyright holder in these situations, you'll be allowed to do whatever you want with your own photos.
If the government mandated that you were required to strip data from your own photos, you ought to be able to safely ignore that law, on First Amendment grounds.
There are two ways to look at the buyer's market which exists whenever there is extreme competition. Yes, your way is one of them. ;-)
And if you happen to be a professional game programmer or publisher, your way of looking at it is probably the best .. for you.
From the PoV of a game player, as well as from the PoV of an amateur or smalltime-pro game developer, it is undesirable for there to be barriers to entry. Reducing competition and the diversity&availability of software are seen a negative attributes of the platform.
Indeed, Nintendo was actually the original "evil empire" to home users, bringing what had once been a 1960s IBM mainframe problem to the consumer world: "what do you mean I'm not allowed to do whatever I want with my own computer?" The NES is the spiritual grandfather of the XBox and iPhone. It was a long time ago, so most of us have stopped hating Nintendo; there are more threatening, more in-your-face enemies out there today. But it's not like they ever stopped sucking.
And yet, even with that and my usual intolerance for these shenanigans, there's a Wii in my home. We use it almost exclusively to play "ass bowling" (Wii Sports, with heavy drinking and the rule that you're not allowed to take your ass off the couch). Somehow that makes it ok: that we're not playing the way they intended us to. I hope this is some kind of license violation but realistically, I fear it's not. Please, no one tell me.
Was it? I don't remember Gary Johnson talking about that.
I think I already know from history that just isn't true. My "dumb" flip-phone is hanging in there just fine. I've dropped it a few times, but when Samsung made this in 2006 they used plastic (geniuses! who would think of this?!), and face it: plastic is awesome. This plastic just keeps on not breaking.
My glass tablet lasted a month. I am so glad I only spent $89 on it (no, a $200 one would not have survived better).
It's not even just clumsiness and carelessness, though I won't pretend I'm graceful and always on-the-ball. Some things in some situations just happen to take a beating, by virtue of being in a pocket all the time, going everywhere the user goes. Keys and change constantly grind away at whatever they share space with, dogs jump on laps, my pants-containing-phone get stepped on while getting up in the middle of the night in a tent on a camping trip, stuff is outside in freezing temperatures (and low humidity) and then comes into the house where it's warmer and higher humidity for a while and then goes back out. Shit happens, so much of it and in so many ways.
I don't feel entitled to have "tough SOB" equipment, and if I drop something and it breaks, it's almost certainly my fault. But let's not pretend that stuff-which-usually-doesn't-break wasn't the ubiquitous norm prior to 2007. The very idea that we're all carrying glass personal items around all the time, is actually pretty hilarious when you think of it. The guy who stepped out a time machine from 2006, after chuckling a little, would at least say, "well, I'm sure they break a lot, but I guess the point of this cheap shit is that people don't complain when it breaks, because you can always get another $20 phone to last enough 3 months. $80 a year is a hardware budget I suppose anyone can live with." Then we 2012ers would nervously glance around at one another, wondering, "Who is going to tell him?" Fucking time travellers. They always make me feel so uncomfortable.
It was like that back when you had a slow line, too.
Glad that works for Denmark. Here in USA we have come to realize that science is all lies straight from the pit of hell. Ergo, beer must be prohibited.
What I don't get is: why bother lying about such things? Everyone knows and expects gerrymandering. It is part of the system, and there's unanimous bipartisan agreement that it should happen (though of course disagreement about who the winning and losing parties should be) and saying that it isn't the primary goal of all redistricting and reapportionment operations, is instantly recognizable as a lie. So why lie?
Republicans and Democrats: don't say you don't gerrymander. Everyone knows you do. If you lie about obvious things, you'll never fool us into believing you when it's time to tell a subtle and not-so-obvious lie.
Unless you've supported some kind of constitutional amendment to have districting done by some kind of impartial algorithm, this unfairness isn't something to be angry about. It's either a desired unfairness that the system is supposed to have, or at least an unavoidable one.
Getting mad at parties for gerrymandering is like getting mad at wasps for injecting eggs into other bugs. Parties' purpose is to win.
This "not-that-incredibly-powerful device" is a fucking monster compared to the Unix workstation you used 20 years ago.
The whole "walled garden" experiment plaguing mobile computers, and DRM in media computers, etc, was to teach you that it's "normal and accepted" for a computer that you own to serve the interests of others, above and beyond, and at the expense of, your own interests.
Apparently you have not learned yet. Here, let me increase your "medication." Free ipad, free ipad, free ipad.. repeat .. free ipad, free ipad, free ipad ...
Asimov's laws were designed to create stories, not robots.
None, but I disagree with your conclusion that their response to the problem will be "tell the customers we don't want their money." This is the auto industry, not the movie industry. And Google is telling us, the people demand to get their eyes off the road and onto Google ads a couple hours a day, pronto.
The problem you're describing can be "fixed" by crying to the government to change liability laws. If you think this is unprecedented then take a look at what has already happened in the energy sector. There will be liability caps, new laws about who is left holding the bag, etc. Some people will notice it's unfair and say so, but most people won't say anything at all, or even know it happened.
Furthermore, individual people drive, collectively, even though it's (roughly) just as risky, in total. This is handled through insurance. A driverless car manufacturer can probably get insured more cheaply (per car) because they can communicate one-one-one with the insurer, prove they're following best practices (prove to the point of law, at least, so that the insurance company can convince a judge should they ever find themselves in court).
And I'm sad to say there are probably corporate tricks that can be played as well, where limited liability entities are used to compartmentalize. e.g. "FF201802, Inc" ends up taking the risks for all the Ford Focuses made in the second quarter of 2018 or something like that, and has few assets to lose.
While this would be somewhat bad news (and I won't immediately flame people for being unhappy about it), I cannot imagine how its consequences are anything close to "time to switch to ARM."
First of all, while it's true that I'm far too wimpy to solder today's thousand-pin CPUs, someone will sell motherboards with CPUs already mounted for you. Asus, Gigabyte, etc already own solder-bots and have proved that they are able to use them. This is just one more chip for them to include on the board. I tend to buy boards and CPUs at the same time anyway.
And now that I think of it, the last "ARM-like" (but not really ARM) motherboard I bought was made by Zotac, and it came with an Atom 330 soldered to the motherboard! *gasp* Intel was already doing what you fear, back in 2009! Oh noooo!
BTW, it took me a while to figure it out, but I think I've got it: TFA author's definition of an "enthusiast" is someone who overclocks. If you don't overclock, then you're not an enthusiast. If you disagree with this definition, then everything he says is going to sound very weird and flamebait to you. He's not so much wrong as just amazingly narrow-minded and specialized.
Dork. I mean that in the nicest way possible. I suppose being narrow-minded about what you're enthusiastic about, demonstrates your enthusiasm for that topic. e.g. "Overclocking is my whole world!! It's not just a thing you do to your machine, it's a way of life!" ;-)
We expected it to happen in our own, but during the stresses of war. I guess that means we at war now. With ourselves! Oooh, aaaahh!
Remember we're talking about religious freedom. Ergo, your "laws of physics" are lies from the pit of hell.
It seems reasonable at first to predict that people won't tolerate their own glasses looking unusual. But I think the same way you predict that, can also be used to predict that nobody will ever walk about with bluetooth crap sticking out of their ears. Yet, there the gargoyles are.
This guy was the future but this guy wasn't? Are you sure you have the fashion expertise to really distinguish between the two? (I'll be the first to admit that I don't have that expertise either...)
Most people don't like that either. What's being discussed is something in between, where, say, performance measurements and some kind of chemical measurements, get correlated. That will likely solve the problem to most peoples' satisfaction, if it can be done. If it can't be done, then we have something new to think about.
Up to now, the federal government's interference with Marijuana has impaired states' ability to do the research and deal with the safety problem. But if Colorado and Washington can successfully fight them off, progress can be made.
And remember it's never too early to work on the 2014 elections. ;-) America has a congress which is still hostile to states working on this problem, but the next one doesn't have to be.
When the 10th Amendment was ratified. ;-) (half serious)
Any other verses have been lost. Sorry about the awful chorus meter.
The "parallel interface" stuff is a reference to my unhappiness with the 1541's serial bus. Nowdays, serial buses are preferred. Funny how things work out. The liquids on keyboards thing is sort of a reference to one of the alleged features of the upcoming(?) Apple IIc (not that I ever actually saw one of those), which was supposedly highly resistant to such disasters.
Oh yeah, and AC/DC has been in the "digital marketplace" for at least two decades (whenever they started allowing the CDs to be published). And I'd like to stick Brian Johnson's "you're going to kill [commercial] music" comment right back in his face, since the very best way to kill commercial music is to tell paying customers "fuck off, we don't want your money."
Good luck forcing someone to do something, without them ever knowing about it. I might sometimes be a little .. unobservant .. but if someone ever hits me with a $5 wrench and threatens to do it again unless I spill my secrets, I will notice it happening. Even I am not quite that oblivious.
Once you remove force, then we move onto trickery (e.g. keyboard loggers) and their associated risks of detection. Raising the bar is good.
No, the problem is that anyone, which may sometimes include law enforcement, can do it with no tracking, precisely because there is no message security. Fix the security, so that one of the people who knows the key is required to be coerced or tricked, and you'll get tracking and oversight as a necessary consequence. When you've got cops (or someone else!) threatening people with wrenches, or breaking and entering into peoples homes to install keyloggers, you've got a physical world situation that even people in 1789 could understand, and our current laws are quite well-equipped to handle it.