Did you check out the link? See the game?
Yes, it's entirely possible that an AI wrote this game.
That said, it's kind of a crappy game. It's very short, and doesn't have much in the way of emotional involvement. I'm still excited to see what the future holds...
I kinda thought that was the point from the beginning. I'm kind of surprised that almost 20 years later people are finally starting to get the point of the film. I loved it when I saw it in the theater, and I bought it on VHS, and then later on DVD. It's a great film. Sure, it's cheesy as hell, but still, the message is good. You just gotta read between the lines.
I'm not sure why we should praise a New Zealand pop singer. I'm also not so sure that the "thou shalt not kill" thing applies to pixels. I'm pretty sure that God would have said something like "thou shalt not use algorithms to effect the deletion of pixels through the interaction of a user interface".
And also why we have such a thing as "negligence". They apparently were negligent; either in their maintenance protocols, equipment checks, or, well, making sure that contaminated waste is securely and safely managed. I would say that that warrants a criminal charge, but that's just my opinion.
The link above details how the NSA fed information to the DEA, and if and when there was a court trial resulting from that information, the DEA manufactured a source for the information so that they never had to admit that they got it from the NSA. The DEA called the process of disguising sources "parallel construction". To quote Reuters from the article:
Some defense lawyers and former prosecutors said that using “parallel construction” may be legal to establish probable cause for an arrest. But they said employing the practice as a means of disguising how an investigation began may violate pretrial discovery rules by burying evidence that could prove useful to criminal defendants.
This is an abuse of the legal system, pure and simple. When you're hiding information from the defense, and potentially the judge and prosecution, you've broken the trial system.
The cops can ask me any question they want. I know I didn't kill someone with a shotgun.
You probably have already committed at least one felony today, and you probably weren't even aware of it. Our laws are so complex, and many of them so outdated, that it is nearly impossible to go about your daily life, upstanding citizen or not, without breaking at least one law.
The reason why you shouldn't talk to the police isn't because "you haven't done anything wrong", it's because you don't know whether or not you've done anything wrong. If the police are not, and never have been, on your side; it is their job to find people who have broken the law, and any communication with law enforcement will be used to forward that goal.
So when the pizza guy comes into your apartment complex and snaps a shot of you trying to seduce him into a gay sex orgy for free food and posts it on his google+ equivalent of a facebook wall you'll be alright with that?
I'm not sure a pizza delivery guy would be able to afford Google Glass.
We need to scrap (or at least greatly reduce) the whole H1-B visa program. Corporations are using it to exploit foreign workers and keep local wages artificially low. When is Congress going to step up and do something for the American workforce?
Oh, yeah, that's right. It's the same corporations that fund their election and re-election campaigns that are committing the abuse.
I'm not sure luck and government support == not a hacker. Hacks can rely (and succeed) or luck. Hacks can rely on incompetence (social engineering relies on the incompetence of others). And I'm not so sure that being paid by a government means that someone is not a hacker.
Boston is by far the most segregated city i've been in (and I've lived in the South), so there is something to it.
I've got to agree. I just moved from Boston to North Carolina, the differences amazed me. Although, I lived in Detroit before that, and nobody does racial segregation quite like southeast Michigan.
My TV and radio both have an "off" knob. Who can force me not to use it? I use it on a regular basis when there are programs that I find offensive, for example. I was able to use it quite well when Air America still had a local station. Right next to it was the tuning knob which allowed me to avoid using the 'off' knob.
You're right, I can just turn off my T.V. and my radio, and stop reading miscellaneous websites, and not be informed. I'm not sure that ignorance is a good solution to this problem.
Why should some members or sections of our society have the ability to drown out the voices of others? That comes as part and parcel of your "people don't have the right to be heard" argument.
You're confusing the right of free speech with the right to be heard. The former is protected, the latter is not. E.g., you have the right to say something. You don't have the right to force me to hear you.
But someone a large enough organization (or someone with enough money; remember, the Supreme Court says that money is speech) can force you to listen to them, by drowning out all the other voices. Thus, under your interpretation, organizations (and the rich) have the right to have their voices heard, to the exclusion of others.
Another obvious thing would be that any insults by the arrestee recorded automatically results in a fine for each if brought to court. People need to respect the police if they expect the police to respect them, and step one is to talk politely and avoid profanity. A fine of $50 for each insult recorded would be reasonable and the fine must be paid in full within 14 days. No extension and no payment plan. This ensures that it will be felt and thus hopefully make people think before they insult.
I'm completely fine with that as long as there's an identical fine for each insult/profanity the police officer(s) do, payable to the person being insulted. If I need to respect the police, they need to respect me as well.
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....you expect Microsoft to do good? Of course errors will "fail silently". Garbage is as garbage does.
Frosty piss. Also, I think Derakhshan may be right.
Take the what? Is this my browser? I don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Sadly, he is not.
Did you check out the link? See the game? Yes, it's entirely possible that an AI wrote this game. That said, it's kind of a crappy game. It's very short, and doesn't have much in the way of emotional involvement. I'm still excited to see what the future holds...
I kinda thought that was the point from the beginning. I'm kind of surprised that almost 20 years later people are finally starting to get the point of the film. I loved it when I saw it in the theater, and I bought it on VHS, and then later on DVD. It's a great film. Sure, it's cheesy as hell, but still, the message is good. You just gotta read between the lines.
I'm not sure why we should praise a New Zealand pop singer. I'm also not so sure that the "thou shalt not kill" thing applies to pixels. I'm pretty sure that God would have said something like "thou shalt not use algorithms to effect the deletion of pixels through the interaction of a user interface".
And also why we have such a thing as "negligence". They apparently were negligent; either in their maintenance protocols, equipment checks, or, well, making sure that contaminated waste is securely and safely managed. I would say that that warrants a criminal charge, but that's just my opinion.
"What you're not seeing is people actually abusing these programs."
Nope, no abuse to be found.
The link above details how the NSA fed information to the DEA, and if and when there was a court trial resulting from that information, the DEA manufactured a source for the information so that they never had to admit that they got it from the NSA. The DEA called the process of disguising sources "parallel construction". To quote Reuters from the article:
Some defense lawyers and former prosecutors said that using “parallel construction” may be legal to establish probable cause for an arrest. But they said employing the practice as a means of disguising how an investigation began may violate pretrial discovery rules by burying evidence that could prove useful to criminal defendants.
This is an abuse of the legal system, pure and simple. When you're hiding information from the defense, and potentially the judge and prosecution, you've broken the trial system.
We are seeing abuse, Mr. President.
Or, alternatively, don't commit crimes.
The cops can ask me any question they want. I know I didn't kill someone with a shotgun.
You probably have already committed at least one felony today, and you probably weren't even aware of it. Our laws are so complex, and many of them so outdated, that it is nearly impossible to go about your daily life, upstanding citizen or not, without breaking at least one law.
The reason why you shouldn't talk to the police isn't because "you haven't done anything wrong", it's because you don't know whether or not you've done anything wrong. If the police are not, and never have been, on your side; it is their job to find people who have broken the law, and any communication with law enforcement will be used to forward that goal.
So when the pizza guy comes into your apartment complex and snaps a shot of you trying to seduce him into a gay sex orgy for free food and posts it on his google+ equivalent of a facebook wall you'll be alright with that?
I'm not sure a pizza delivery guy would be able to afford Google Glass.
We need to scrap (or at least greatly reduce) the whole H1-B visa program. Corporations are using it to exploit foreign workers and keep local wages artificially low. When is Congress going to step up and do something for the American workforce?
Oh, yeah, that's right. It's the same corporations that fund their election and re-election campaigns that are committing the abuse.
Social engineering is social engineering. Penetrating a security system is penetrating a security system.
Damnit. s/or/on/.
I'm not sure luck and government support == not a hacker. Hacks can rely (and succeed) or luck. Hacks can rely on incompetence (social engineering relies on the incompetence of others). And I'm not so sure that being paid by a government means that someone is not a hacker.
You're half right. Criminals can be hackers, and hackers can be criminals. They aren't mutually exclusive.
How is this racist?
You have to admit though, it's a horribly bad analogy. It's bad in multiple ways.
Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad.
You're right. And those people make up a very small percentage of the 350,000,000 people we have here in the US.
I don't want to call you racist, but you're making it very hard to not come to that conclusion.
No, it's about the same; the difference is 1%.
Yeah, because white people don't collect welfare. Only black people. (and, yeah, that's sarcasm)
Boston is by far the most segregated city i've been in (and I've lived in the South), so there is something to it.
I've got to agree. I just moved from Boston to North Carolina, the differences amazed me. Although, I lived in Detroit before that, and nobody does racial segregation quite like southeast Michigan.
My TV and radio both have an "off" knob. Who can force me not to use it? I use it on a regular basis when there are programs that I find offensive, for example. I was able to use it quite well when Air America still had a local station. Right next to it was the tuning knob which allowed me to avoid using the 'off' knob.
You're right, I can just turn off my T.V. and my radio, and stop reading miscellaneous websites, and not be informed. I'm not sure that ignorance is a good solution to this problem.
Why should some members or sections of our society have the ability to drown out the voices of others? That comes as part and parcel of your "people don't have the right to be heard" argument.
You're confusing the right of free speech with the right to be heard. The former is protected, the latter is not. E.g., you have the right to say something. You don't have the right to force me to hear you.
But someone a large enough organization (or someone with enough money; remember, the Supreme Court says that money is speech) can force you to listen to them, by drowning out all the other voices. Thus, under your interpretation, organizations (and the rich) have the right to have their voices heard, to the exclusion of others.
Another obvious thing would be that any insults by the arrestee recorded automatically results in a fine for each if brought to court. People need to respect the police if they expect the police to respect them, and step one is to talk politely and avoid profanity. A fine of $50 for each insult recorded would be reasonable and the fine must be paid in full within 14 days. No extension and no payment plan. This ensures that it will be felt and thus hopefully make people think before they insult.
I'm completely fine with that as long as there's an identical fine for each insult/profanity the police officer(s) do, payable to the person being insulted. If I need to respect the police, they need to respect me as well.