...T-Mobile NL complains about having a music streming service (such sa Spotify, Deezer, Soundlcoud, Apple Music, whatever) that does not count towards the data cap...this is a good example on why this might seem as "going too far" in their scope: it is affecting their marketing.
Exactly. The practice that T-Mobile wants to implement would be anti-competitive vendor lock-in. If my service provider says its own music service doesn't count against my data cap, but other services do, then that's blatantly against Net Neutrality. Either there is neutrality, or there isn't - just as there is either discrimination, or no discrimination. There is no middle ground on this issue. If T-Mobile wants to launch a music service, let it compete on equal terms with ALL music services on ALL providers' networks. The Dutch have it right, and the rest of the EU should be following their lead, not vice versa.
Seriously? I'm not sure what has me more gobsmacked - the fact that somebody would make a WiFi kettle, or the fact that anybody would actually BUY the fucking thing and burn 11 hours of his life trying to make it work. "Yes, I willingly wasted 11 hours of time, plus however much time I had to work to pay for it, on a kettle, just so I could connect it to the Interwebs! Isn't that cool?"
Soon we'll be hearing stories about people being DDOS'd and spammed by their own appliances, and I will laugh heartily.
...Samsung has shown flawless customer service and for that I will forever be a customer of theirs.
Yup! All those people who bought Samsung smart TV's, only to have adverts served up to them after new firmware was pushed out, sure got 'serviced' - just as a heifer is serviced by a bull.
Yes, Samsung handled this disaster as well as could be expected; maybe they had savvy advice, and maybe they got lucky. In either case, they sure didn't do it because it was right or honourable - they did it to save face and to minimize the number of lawsuits. If they could have done a GM-style cover-up I'm sure they would have, but the problem was too public and too obvious. As far as I'm concerned Samsung is a total shit company, (just like Sony), and I will never again buy any of their products.
Yet, the plan has nothing about contingencies for when the AI Apocalypse becomes more than a sci-fi novel.
Too true. The people who believe Turing-defined AI is either far in the future or an outright fantasy, are obviously not concerned. Those who think the advent of true AI is imminent tend to also think it will be benevolent, or at least morally neutral, and/or will never escape the bonds of human control. Or they give the apocalyptic possibilities no thought at all.
Continuing to elect these kinds of politicians will perpetuate similar responses.
Continuing to allow political campaigns to be funded by special interests will perpetuate similar responses. Elections are a placebo; political offices and legislation are bought and paid for by elites, and voting is simply the sleight-of-hand 'installation mechanism' that lets Joe and Jane Average believe they have a voice in their own governance. You know, like those crosswalk and elevator door buttons that do absolutely nothing other than placate the people who push them.
Politicians and wonks aren't referring specifically to the Turing definition of Artificial Intelligence. To them, and to much of the public, AI encompasses everything from HAL-like sentience that may take decades to appear, (or might be just around the corner, depending on which pundit you listen to), down to Siri, factory automation, and self-driving cars. And when these more mundane things are included in "AI", then preparing for the economic, social, psychological, and ethical fallout coming in the near future might be a pretty good idea.
If they are successful in doing that, there would be no need for the CIA as their technology could predict and prevent any societal upheavals...
The authors are utterly naive if they think that the CIA's primary role is intelligence gathering, or that they even care overly much about quelling "societal upheavals". The spooks are at least as much about manipulating situations and people, and about spreading disinformation, (not to mention ensuring the Agency's continued existence), as they are about preventing any grief except their own. "Anticipatory Intelligence" is just a tool that allows them to carry on a faster, more efficient, more effective, more lucrative version of 'business as usual'.
I'd be very interested to hear Edward Snowden weigh in on this.
Call Chuck Norris - he'll kick that transistor's ASS!
On a more serious note, wouldn't devices with such small geometries need some really heavy shielding to prevent destruction by cosmic particles? Heck, I have to wonder if at that size even background radiation would be a risk factor.
This award is only fair if Google won it before Facebook did. As evil as the Zuck is when it comes to tracking people, I'd say Google is far worse. Also, some security extensions in a browser can put a serious dent in Facebook's tracking with almost no detrimental effects to the everyday browsing experience. But if you consistently apply those same safeguards to Google, the Web becomes a whole lot less usable.
Interesting. This might turn into a crack in the garden wall. It might even be a harbinger of more cracks. Given its history in such matters, I suspect the French government won't side with Apple.
Apple might end up having to comply, if only under the "you're voiding your warranty and cutting yourself off from manufacturer support" caveat that comes with rooting an Android device. Then again, they might just say "Sorry France, no more Apples for you"...
If I were Yahoo I'd be asking for a billion more in compensation for its name being dragged through the mud of an association with Verizon. Yes, Yahoo has a bad rep, but is Verizon's better? Yahoo strikes me as a guilty schoolboy covering up a crime just to save its ass, whereas Verizon is the kid who tears the wings off flies and loves torturing animals.
I'm running Xubuntu. No need for a 'buntu or Debian package - just download the installation script from https://linux.palemoon.org/dow.... There are no automatic upgrade prompts, but running the install script again at any time after installation will allow you to get the latest update. I've been using Pale Moon on Xubuntu for well over a year, with zero conflicts or dependency problems.
Modern ape apers know that ONLY apes can ape apes, so if you use an apey ape psychologist instead of a LUDDITE behaviorist, everything will be super apey!
If you're using Firefox, switch to Pale Moon - it's basically Firefox before the suckage grew to ginormous proportions. If you're using Chrome... well, I don't know what to tell you. I never could stand it.
Is anyone surprised? Nope, not a bit. Except maybe by the fact that it took so many hours to get a PR firm to put together a few weasel-words and slimy phrases. I'd have thought they already had lots of in-house expertise in that area, by way of spinning the bad news they've repeatedly delivered to their shareholders.
This isn't analogous to physical injury, it's a matter of behavior. If the cameras get the police to act more responsibly in public, and the public gets used to greater police responsibility, or at worst provide evidence against murder by cop that leads to prosecution, tensions will be down on both sides.
Sometimes the way to attack a behavioral problem is to fake it until you make it.
Good point. I'd mod you up as Insightful if I could...
I wonder if the phones will be rootable. And if they can be rooted, I wonder, (given that they're made by HTC), if users will be able to truly root them.
I rooted the last HTC phone I had, then proceeded to delete Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the shovelware I had no use for. On the next hard reset, all the crap was back. Repeatedly. I never could find the file(s) from which they restored it - I suspect it was in an unaccessible boot location. Also, custom ROM's weren't available, because on this particular HTC phone, (among others), it wasn't possible to gain a state called "S-Off". So yes, I could do things like run a firewall that I could control, and look at system files; but I couldn't do the rest of the things normally associated with root.
That state of affairs strikes me as something Google would love. Then they could say, "Yes, you can root our phones" while extending their middle fingers behind their backs.
While we're basking in the glow of the decrease in complaints against police, let's not lose sight of the fact that the paternalistic hand of body-cam surveillance is simply treating a symptom, not the disease that causes it. If our society's overall psychological health were such that citizens weren't routinely afraid of and/or abusive of police, and police didn't routinely brutalize minor criminals and even innocent citizens, then body cameras wouldn't be necessary. When good behaviour, respect, and mutual tolerance can only be guaranteed when "someone's watching", then we live in an immature and ailing culture. We need to address that problem; police body cameras are a dirty band-aid on a wound that ultimately requires disinfectant, stitches, antibiotics, and time to heal.
... if you don't like Apple, it is a almost-sure foregone conclusion that you do like Android. That makes you a "Fandroid".
Say what? I know LOTS of people, (myself among them), who like neither platform. And if you took a Slashdot poll, I'm pretty sure you'd find lots more. The AC above who commented "nice strawman" probably should have said "nice troll" instead.
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I'd never heard of that - thanks for the chuckle!
...T-Mobile NL complains about having a music streming service (such sa Spotify, Deezer, Soundlcoud, Apple Music, whatever) that does not count towards the data cap ...this is a good example on why this might seem as "going too far" in their scope: it is affecting their marketing.
Exactly. The practice that T-Mobile wants to implement would be anti-competitive vendor lock-in. If my service provider says its own music service doesn't count against my data cap, but other services do, then that's blatantly against Net Neutrality. Either there is neutrality, or there isn't - just as there is either discrimination, or no discrimination. There is no middle ground on this issue. If T-Mobile wants to launch a music service, let it compete on equal terms with ALL music services on ALL providers' networks. The Dutch have it right, and the rest of the EU should be following their lead, not vice versa.
...Every time someone trades freedom for comfort, they lose freedom.
Yes, and the sad thing is that they eventually lose the comfort too.
Seriously? I'm not sure what has me more gobsmacked - the fact that somebody would make a WiFi kettle, or the fact that anybody would actually BUY the fucking thing and burn 11 hours of his life trying to make it work. "Yes, I willingly wasted 11 hours of time, plus however much time I had to work to pay for it, on a kettle, just so I could connect it to the Interwebs! Isn't that cool?"
Soon we'll be hearing stories about people being DDOS'd and spammed by their own appliances, and I will laugh heartily.
...Samsung has shown flawless customer service and for that I will forever be a customer of theirs.
Yup! All those people who bought Samsung smart TV's, only to have adverts served up to them after new firmware was pushed out, sure got 'serviced' - just as a heifer is serviced by a bull.
Yes, Samsung handled this disaster as well as could be expected; maybe they had savvy advice, and maybe they got lucky. In either case, they sure didn't do it because it was right or honourable - they did it to save face and to minimize the number of lawsuits. If they could have done a GM-style cover-up I'm sure they would have, but the problem was too public and too obvious. As far as I'm concerned Samsung is a total shit company, (just like Sony), and I will never again buy any of their products.
FORD == Ford On Road Dead
Yet, the plan has nothing about contingencies for when the AI Apocalypse becomes more than a sci-fi novel.
Too true. The people who believe Turing-defined AI is either far in the future or an outright fantasy, are obviously not concerned. Those who think the advent of true AI is imminent tend to also think it will be benevolent, or at least morally neutral, and/or will never escape the bonds of human control. Or they give the apocalyptic possibilities no thought at all.
Continuing to elect these kinds of politicians will perpetuate similar responses.
Continuing to allow political campaigns to be funded by special interests will perpetuate similar responses. Elections are a placebo; political offices and legislation are bought and paid for by elites, and voting is simply the sleight-of-hand 'installation mechanism' that lets Joe and Jane Average believe they have a voice in their own governance. You know, like those crosswalk and elevator door buttons that do absolutely nothing other than placate the people who push them.
Politicians and wonks aren't referring specifically to the Turing definition of Artificial Intelligence. To them, and to much of the public, AI encompasses everything from HAL-like sentience that may take decades to appear, (or might be just around the corner, depending on which pundit you listen to), down to Siri, factory automation, and self-driving cars. And when these more mundane things are included in "AI", then preparing for the economic, social, psychological, and ethical fallout coming in the near future might be a pretty good idea.
...and/or launch a U.S. cyberattack targeting Russia's election process
Because subverting another country's electoral process is such a stellar idea, such an imaginative and mature and nuanced response.
What's up with those fucktard writers at the WSJ anyway? Are they angling for jobs at Fox?
If they are successful in doing that, there would be no need for the CIA as their technology could predict and prevent any societal upheavals...
The authors are utterly naive if they think that the CIA's primary role is intelligence gathering, or that they even care overly much about quelling "societal upheavals". The spooks are at least as much about manipulating situations and people, and about spreading disinformation, (not to mention ensuring the Agency's continued existence), as they are about preventing any grief except their own. "Anticipatory Intelligence" is just a tool that allows them to carry on a faster, more efficient, more effective, more lucrative version of 'business as usual'.
I'd be very interested to hear Edward Snowden weigh in on this.
Call Chuck Norris - he'll kick that transistor's ASS!
On a more serious note, wouldn't devices with such small geometries need some really heavy shielding to prevent destruction by cosmic particles? Heck, I have to wonder if at that size even background radiation would be a risk factor.
This award is only fair if Google won it before Facebook did. As evil as the Zuck is when it comes to tracking people, I'd say Google is far worse. Also, some security extensions in a browser can put a serious dent in Facebook's tracking with almost no detrimental effects to the everyday browsing experience. But if you consistently apply those same safeguards to Google, the Web becomes a whole lot less usable.
Interesting. This might turn into a crack in the garden wall. It might even be a harbinger of more cracks. Given its history in such matters, I suspect the French government won't side with Apple.
Apple might end up having to comply, if only under the "you're voiding your warranty and cutting yourself off from manufacturer support" caveat that comes with rooting an Android device. Then again, they might just say "Sorry France, no more Apples for you"...
If I were Yahoo I'd be asking for a billion more in compensation for its name being dragged through the mud of an association with Verizon. Yes, Yahoo has a bad rep, but is Verizon's better? Yahoo strikes me as a guilty schoolboy covering up a crime just to save its ass, whereas Verizon is the kid who tears the wings off flies and loves torturing animals.
I'm running Xubuntu. No need for a 'buntu or Debian package - just download the installation script from https://linux.palemoon.org/dow.... There are no automatic upgrade prompts, but running the install script again at any time after installation will allow you to get the latest update. I've been using Pale Moon on Xubuntu for well over a year, with zero conflicts or dependency problems.
Oh come on .. how could you not lead with "YOU'RE ALL APES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Moo apes?
Modern ape apers know that ONLY apes can ape apes, so if you use an apey ape psychologist instead of a LUDDITE behaviorist, everything will be super apey!
Apes!
If you're using Firefox, switch to Pale Moon - it's basically Firefox before the suckage grew to ginormous proportions. If you're using Chrome... well, I don't know what to tell you. I never could stand it.
Now, you too can construct a Faberge Egg inside a shitbox with no brakes.
LOL. I came to say pretty much that - my first thought was "you're running a high-speed Maglev train at 300 MPH over a rotting wooden bridge".
Is anyone surprised? Nope, not a bit. Except maybe by the fact that it took so many hours to get a PR firm to put together a few weasel-words and slimy phrases. I'd have thought they already had lots of in-house expertise in that area, by way of spinning the bad news they've repeatedly delivered to their shareholders.
This isn't analogous to physical injury, it's a matter of behavior. If the cameras get the police to act more responsibly in public, and the public gets used to greater police responsibility, or at worst provide evidence against murder by cop that leads to prosecution, tensions will be down on both sides.
Sometimes the way to attack a behavioral problem is to fake it until you make it.
Good point. I'd mod you up as Insightful if I could...
I wonder if the phones will be rootable. And if they can be rooted, I wonder, (given that they're made by HTC), if users will be able to truly root them.
I rooted the last HTC phone I had, then proceeded to delete Facebook, Twitter, and the rest of the shovelware I had no use for. On the next hard reset, all the crap was back. Repeatedly. I never could find the file(s) from which they restored it - I suspect it was in an unaccessible boot location. Also, custom ROM's weren't available, because on this particular HTC phone, (among others), it wasn't possible to gain a state called "S-Off". So yes, I could do things like run a firewall that I could control, and look at system files; but I couldn't do the rest of the things normally associated with root.
That state of affairs strikes me as something Google would love. Then they could say, "Yes, you can root our phones" while extending their middle fingers behind their backs.
While we're basking in the glow of the decrease in complaints against police, let's not lose sight of the fact that the paternalistic hand of body-cam surveillance is simply treating a symptom, not the disease that causes it. If our society's overall psychological health were such that citizens weren't routinely afraid of and/or abusive of police, and police didn't routinely brutalize minor criminals and even innocent citizens, then body cameras wouldn't be necessary. When good behaviour, respect, and mutual tolerance can only be guaranteed when "someone's watching", then we live in an immature and ailing culture. We need to address that problem; police body cameras are a dirty band-aid on a wound that ultimately requires disinfectant, stitches, antibiotics, and time to heal.
... if you don't like Apple, it is a almost-sure foregone conclusion that you do like Android. That makes you a "Fandroid".
Say what? I know LOTS of people, (myself among them), who like neither platform. And if you took a Slashdot poll, I'm pretty sure you'd find lots more. The AC above who commented "nice strawman" probably should have said "nice troll" instead.