This is unfortunately the ugly reality: the internet as we knew it is dead. What many dreamed would be an empowering tool for the masses became the ultimate instrument of power and control for the Ruling Elite.
To be fair, it's actually a little bit of both.
Having access to all the compiled knowledge of mankind is empowering for any and every person with internet access, as is being essentially free to contact nearly every other Worldly citizen via the web. The ability to monitor an individual's access to that information is maddeningly power grubbing for the government's surveillance state.
Being realistic, if it was not advantageous to the ruling elite, would they let us keep it?
Data skimmers (combined with cameras to pickup passcodes) would appear to be the more widespread problem, but here they're talking about unprotected online data such as underground tank fuel levels and humidity.
Apparently, it's no longer necessary to check the level of one's fuel tanks with the long wooden stick.
Precisely how much critical infrastructure could be disrupted by corrupting this data is open to discussion, but the real worry is how little password protection is used by many thousands of industries.
Not only Sharp, but nearly every major ductless split air conditioner runs the inside air handler with DC voltage from an inverter in the outdoor condenser.
This is a clever, but predictable evolution in design production.
Fiat money is just a handy, fungible way to store wealth earned by one's labor. I can take the value of my repair of Mrs. Jones system and trade it for groceries or cable with HBO.
A society as diverse and populated as ours would crumble without a universal way to settle accounts. How would Walmart pay its Chinese suppliers? It is no accident all major empires in written and remembered history evolved past the barter system.
The cold, hard reality of many a tragedy is that outcomes not foreseen by developers wind up relevant, and thus, engineered out of the realm of probability.
I can guaranfuckingtee you the engineers considered this event. Their take at the time? "Nobody is going to pull the feather actuator prematurely!"
Nike and Apple have agreed to settle in a class action lawsuit alleging that the two sold the Nike FuelBand fitness tracker in spite of knowing that the device’s biometrics measurements were inaccurate.
Based on the wording in the summary, I expected it to be about the "tracking" part. I was guessing that the band doesn't actually log any thing locally, so it can't be said to track anything on its own. I have no idea if that's the case or not.
So in other words, like many, many things sold under the guise of being healthful,
these products are about as scientifically helpful as the mood ring.
losing money to another company is not an issue unless you are using unfair competitive practises.
This is, of course, the backbone argument against Uber in many municipalities. Commercial Taxicabs are subject to many rules and regulations that Uber is not.
I don't think Uber is ignoring the regulations as much as they're challenging whether or not they have a right to exist.
It is less than surprising that a mortal physique evolved and modified in earthly gravity would encounter some strife in an environment void of g.
Bone & muscle density loss, circulation problems, and some yet undiscovered detrimental effects are all strong arguments for three things:
expand space exploration programs by artificial intelligence, continued extended human weightlessness studies, and experimentation with artificial gravity via a centrifuge system.
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There will be opportunistic learning windows at every stage of development as we learn what not to do. In everything that we get better at.
There has to be an acceptable level of imperfection in the human hands that exploit nuclear power generation.
The "three possibilities list" made me wonder if pedophilia and illegal could be mutually exclusive.
At that age, would you not consider your daughter too young for a relationship with a 21-yr-old man?
But. Africa. Regional political unrest can undermine labor costs, raw material availability, and friendly tax packages.
For the next industrial emigration, manufacturers are going to want cheap and easy.
In Elon's defense, do you suppose it's all gravy being a focking nerd hero?
Electric cars have been around since the mid-1800s
From what I've read lately, that's new enough for slashdot.
Interestingly enough, the first successful oil well was completed in 1859 by Edwin Drake in Titusville, Pa.
This led to cheap petroleum fuels for the internal combustion engine, signaling the death knell for the development of electric cars at the time.
Discuss.
Despite that, it still works sometimes: are Jeff Bezos' ear's ringing?
This is unfortunately the ugly reality: the internet as we knew it is dead. What many dreamed would be an empowering tool for the masses became the ultimate instrument of power and control for the Ruling Elite.
To be fair, it's actually a little bit of both.
Having access to all the compiled knowledge of mankind is empowering for any and every person with internet access, as is being essentially free to contact nearly every other Worldly citizen via the web. The ability to monitor an individual's access to that information is maddeningly power grubbing for the government's surveillance state.
Being realistic, if it was not advantageous to the ruling elite, would they let us keep it?
Apparently, it's no longer necessary to check the level of one's fuel tanks with the long wooden stick.
Precisely how much critical infrastructure could be disrupted by corrupting this data is open to discussion, but the real worry is how little password protection is used by many thousands of industries.
The poste kwon do is strong with this one.
rides the ubiquitous human belief that more is better!
More things are made offensive. More things become a human right. Hell, before you know it, exceptional will be normal and offensive, simultaneously.
This is a clever, but predictable evolution in design production.
Let's say we agree the "official" name has probably been replaced by something way more crafty in light 0f the incident.
The Feather actuation procedure (FAP), or fapping, per conversacronyming.
I'll buy that argument.
Thanks for nothing Roy Scheider
A society as diverse and populated as ours would crumble without a universal way to settle accounts. How would Walmart pay its Chinese suppliers? It is no accident all major empires in written and remembered history evolved past the barter system.
All that and money is how we keep score.
Instead of dragging my browsing speed down to tortoise level and asking me to like it while watching your adds,
try making me benefit, even subtly, from viewing your auditions to separate me from the paper in my wallet.
I can guaranfuckingtee you the engineers considered this event. Their take at the time? " Nobody is going to pull the feather actuator prematurely!"
Sometimes, the /. armchair expert knows more than a team of trained professionals.
It is one of those times.
So how long?
Nike and Apple have agreed to settle in a class action lawsuit alleging that the two sold the Nike FuelBand fitness tracker in spite of knowing that the device’s biometrics measurements were inaccurate.
Based on the wording in the summary, I expected it to be about the "tracking" part. I was guessing that the band doesn't actually log any thing locally, so it can't be said to track anything on its own. I have no idea if that's the case or not.
So in other words, like many, many things sold under the guise of being healthful,
these products are about as scientifically helpful as the mood ring.
The guy who believes in the juice cleanse is getting mocked by the other guy who believes in an invisible overlord in the sky.
The quandary is, as always, whether or not you continue the faith in your governors to make that d3cision for you.
and they were created by legislation spawned by powerful corporations successfully suppressing competition,
would you be wrong taking the sweets?
losing money to another company is not an issue unless you are using unfair competitive practises.
This is, of course, the backbone argument against Uber in many municipalities. Commercial Taxicabs are subject to many rules and regulations that Uber is not.
I don't think Uber is ignoring the regulations as much as they're challenging whether or not they have a right to exist.
Bone & muscle density loss, circulation problems, and some yet undiscovered detrimental effects are all strong arguments for three things:
expand space exploration programs by artificial intelligence, continued extended human weightlessness studies, and experimentation with artificial gravity via a centrifuge system.