This is one of the main reasons why people hate going to work,
If people hate going to work, then they really shouldn't...
I understand it's easy to say, but there are actually few situations when one is better going to a work he hates than trying to make his life worthy of living.
Yes it could in principle be used in a dystopian fashion but in reality it isn't.
WHAT? In what teletubby/mylittlepony world are you living where it isn't?
Obviously it's not used in a perfectly smooth dystopian fashion where the Powers That Be are perfectly evil and entirely omnipotent, but even a partly functional and limited-power evil (basically, what humanity faced since the Black Monolith gave it weapons) is enough to worry about...
Note that one perk of putting a lot of people on unemployment benefits (once you get rid of the sadistic obligation to still look for a job that doesn't exist) is that they can go where life is cheap and nice, not stay clogged in bad cities...
Which means that the overall cost isn't that expensive.
And other economists consider that the most efficient is collective propriety of the means of production (which is even more logical with robots: who should own a Free Software? An Open Hardware? A robot made by robots?)...
The problem is that you are NOT giving money to the artists or content-creator, you're (mostly) giving money to the MAFIAA...
If you want to help finance creation, use Patreon or Kickstarter or the like, and pirate MAFIAA-protected content at your heart's desire!
Make anonymous calls identifiable as anonymous calls would be a good idea (and then everyone could allow or deny anonymous calls to him, and intelligent police officers - yes I know it looks like an oxymoron - could then decide that an anonymous call is not enough to warrant a SWAT team killing the pet of a unknown stranger), indeed. But banning anonymous calls? What for if not a police state?
Yes, backup is good, but Ransomware should not be able to operate on a good Linux OS : so, how to foolproof one's Linux distro?
NoScript is good for preventing webexploits, but if one wants to surf the Net, at least some javascript must be allowed: what happens if one of these supposedly benign script is in fact malicious?
They shouldn't be able to touch the root files IIUC, nor to install a ransomware, but what prevents them to encrypt the/home partition?
I've heard of an escalation exploit in X, but don't know much more about it: is it something that one should fret about? Is there a way to protect one's system against it?
KillDisk apparently targets Linux now, but I couldn't find an explanation on HOW he manages to do that; the best I could find was an allusion to the fact that it cannot infect a Linux by itself but runs on already infected linuxes... Is that true?
Depending on the BI level, wages may or may not drop (actually that's why BI is supported both by right-wingers and by left-wingers):
- With a low BI people will still need to work in order to go from survival to an acceptable life (being able to get married, have children, etc.) and so the pressure will be on job-seekers. Which means that wages dropping is a reasonable prediction, yes.
- With a livable BI (meaning one CAN live on BI, albeit frugally) the pressure with be more on employers, especially for shitty jobs, so wages may drop partially on some jobs but certainly not sharply. What will probably raise is rent, but again with a livable BI it will be possible, if rent is too high in cities, to go live in rural areas or small towns - renouncing workpay but enjoying higher quality of living, or maybe working from home, doing part-time jobs or volunteering for the community...
Politicians have no power, or far less than most people think they do, and they themselves certainly feel powerless most of the time. They feel consistently stymied by... well, everyone; local government, the bureaucracy, their higher ups. They can give an order "this must be done!" but it is passed through so many layers - often through people that disagree with their decisions - that even though the command is obeyed, it is done haphazardly, or slow, or done in a way that nuanced and neutralized the action to the point where it is like nothing was done (the military, apparently, is great at this).
Not that I don't find the rest of your post interesting, but that particular part is more than interesting, it nails why Trump (or Pence? or Bannon? There's no way to tell who is actually ruling the US right now) is acting the way he is, with such brisk actions that traditional pundits consider crazy...
Sure, the fact that the mainstream media do not buy Trump's alternate facts doesn't mean that they are on Clinton's payroll, but what does the fact that they act as if he's the only one lying means then?
The more I watch medias, the more it shows that what they're against Trump for is that he's breaking all etiquette of the way someone should lie on TV, in the same way that most of the Democrats are against Trump because he breaks all etiquette of how to be a sleazy politician...
The problem is not militant islam: what is wrong with being militant for democracy and popular sovereignty?
The problem is woth totalitarian islam, and that's a very different thing.
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This is one of the main reasons why people hate going to work,
If people hate going to work, then they really shouldn't...
I understand it's easy to say, but there are actually few situations when one is better going to a work he hates than trying to make his life worthy of living.
The most important question stays unanswered: when will we get modern processors without low-level backdoors like IME (intel) or PSP (AMD)?
Or have state-of-the art open source cars...
Yes it could in principle be used in a dystopian fashion but in reality it isn't.
WHAT? In what teletubby/mylittlepony world are you living where it isn't?
Obviously it's not used in a perfectly smooth dystopian fashion where the Powers That Be are perfectly evil and entirely omnipotent, but even a partly functional and limited-power evil (basically, what humanity faced since the Black Monolith gave it weapons) is enough to worry about...
I think that many people who can put a band-aid are clearly qualified to tell Carson how to do his HUD job...
We use ROT-13 so our data is 10 order of magnitude safer than yours!
We even use it twice to double the safety!
Basically, to call anonymously when needed to...
Note that one perk of putting a lot of people on unemployment benefits (once you get rid of the sadistic obligation to still look for a job that doesn't exist) is that they can go where life is cheap and nice, not stay clogged in bad cities...
Which means that the overall cost isn't that expensive.
And other economists consider that the most efficient is collective propriety of the means of production (which is even more logical with robots: who should own a Free Software? An Open Hardware? A robot made by robots?)...
The problem is that you are NOT giving money to the artists or content-creator, you're (mostly) giving money to the MAFIAA...
If you want to help finance creation, use Patreon or Kickstarter or the like, and pirate MAFIAA-protected content at your heart's desire!
It's also something to consider when buying used IoT devices -- or a smart home equipped with internet-enabled devices.
It's something to consider when buying proprietary IoT devices...
FTFY
More seriously, is there a reference to the actual incident?
All I can find by googling it is copies of TFA...
Make anonymous calls identifiable as anonymous calls would be a good idea (and then everyone could allow or deny anonymous calls to him, and intelligent police officers - yes I know it looks like an oxymoron - could then decide that an anonymous call is not enough to warrant a SWAT team killing the pet of a unknown stranger), indeed.
But banning anonymous calls? What for if not a police state?
I'm certainly not in favor of prohibition, but Imperial China tried "no legislation" on opium for a while, and it didn't fare well...
You might learn that most of us are actually nice people - and that would mess with your preconceptions.
Well, that's not exactly what I learned from slashdotters like the GP...
CNN is definitely right-wing, haven't you ever watched it?
Yes, backup is good, but Ransomware should not be able to operate on a good Linux OS : so, how to foolproof one's Linux distro? /home partition?
NoScript is good for preventing webexploits, but if one wants to surf the Net, at least some javascript must be allowed: what happens if one of these supposedly benign script is in fact malicious?
They shouldn't be able to touch the root files IIUC, nor to install a ransomware, but what prevents them to encrypt the
I've heard of an escalation exploit in X, but don't know much more about it: is it something that one should fret about? Is there a way to protect one's system against it?
KillDisk apparently targets Linux now, but I couldn't find an explanation on HOW he manages to do that; the best I could find was an allusion to the fact that it cannot infect a Linux by itself but runs on already infected linuxes... Is that true?
Depending on the BI level, wages may or may not drop (actually that's why BI is supported both by right-wingers and by left-wingers):
- With a low BI people will still need to work in order to go from survival to an acceptable life (being able to get married, have children, etc.) and so the pressure will be on job-seekers. Which means that wages dropping is a reasonable prediction, yes.
- With a livable BI (meaning one CAN live on BI, albeit frugally) the pressure with be more on employers, especially for shitty jobs, so wages may drop partially on some jobs but certainly not sharply. What will probably raise is rent, but again with a livable BI it will be possible, if rent is too high in cities, to go live in rural areas or small towns - renouncing workpay but enjoying higher quality of living, or maybe working from home, doing part-time jobs or volunteering for the community...
So, what happens if one disagrees with the established union and wants to start a workers' union?
I'm not convinced that billionaires put Bannon on the National Security Council, with the right to choose who can be executed witout due process...
Politicians have no power, or far less than most people think they do, and they themselves certainly feel powerless most of the time. They feel consistently stymied by... well, everyone; local government, the bureaucracy, their higher ups. They can give an order "this must be done!" but it is passed through so many layers - often through people that disagree with their decisions - that even though the command is obeyed, it is done haphazardly, or slow, or done in a way that nuanced and neutralized the action to the point where it is like nothing was done (the military, apparently, is great at this).
Not that I don't find the rest of your post interesting, but that particular part is more than interesting, it nails why Trump (or Pence? or Bannon? There's no way to tell who is actually ruling the US right now) is acting the way he is, with such brisk actions that traditional pundits consider crazy...
Does this attack work on Cyanogen too?
Sure, the fact that the mainstream media do not buy Trump's alternate facts doesn't mean that they are on Clinton's payroll, but what does the fact that they act as if he's the only one lying means then?
The more I watch medias, the more it shows that what they're against Trump for is that he's breaking all etiquette of the way someone should lie on TV, in the same way that most of the Democrats are against Trump because he breaks all etiquette of how to be a sleazy politician...
There are courses on fucking statistics?
I'm impressed... do they count as biology or social science?
The problem is not militant islam: what is wrong with being militant for democracy and popular sovereignty?
The problem is woth totalitarian islam, and that's a very different thing.