That, and I hope they make a Witcher 4. The story line, characters, and world are just too damn deep to leave alone (with or without Geralt)
The absolute vicious irony here is that there's a ton of IP out there that's been done to fucking death. Rehashed sequels that are nothing more than iterative churned out crap used make a bit of easy profit. (How many battlefield, COD, rainbow six games do we really need?)
Contrasted to something like the Witcher whose universe is almost Tolkien-esque in terms of depth, and they make 3 games out of it, then move on.
I'd take the witcher 3 over just about any game I've ever played (and there's been a lot, going back to the early 90's) -- and definitely would take it over a pizza, stale or not.
Good games that are fun and have artistic merit are out there; just sadly not as common as they once were
Thank god he runs a corporation who makes it their job to collect, store, and act on highly sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people. I'm glad he's got his plausible deniability down pat.
i *STILL* wouldn't trust facebook with that. they might say they're doing a local hash, but whoops, we sent the entire image. (Or they say: "We uploaded the image to verify the hashing algo on the client -- we immediately delete it. Honest!"
It's pretty fucking simple. A company with the singular purpose of hoovering personal information about you (a company so invasive, so creepy; that in absence of direct data from you, will INFER information about you and yours), and then sell that information to advertisers -- is by definition a deceitful, cancerous entity who you have to be mentally god damn defective to trust.
Or you know, infatuated with the idea of personal responsibility. I know I know, it's anathema to a well ordered, safe society... But people being held accountable for their decisions (even if it's negligence on their part, or results in being misled) is still alive and well in this country.
Maybe in another 20 years we'll finally solve this age old problem.
If i give a copy of my house key to the dog walker, and something turns up missing -- well I have a pretty good idea who did it.
But outside of that, to pick a physical, mechanical lock one needs to be at the actual lock, in sight. To compromise an electronic, wifi enabled lock, one just needs to be within wifi range. They can then work on that lock 24/7 from a distance.
Someone, somewhere will figure out a way to defeat these systems.
If amazon truly wanted a safe method to deliver packages, they'd just have a safe-like box that could be chained up outside, or barring that attached by a flat sheet of steel that goes under the door (and is anchored inside).. Even thin, lightweight steel has enough tensile strength to make it impractical to tear into discretely.
"If you liked your grey-market TV package at $10, let me tell you about a GREAT deal! For the low, low price of $50 you can get exactly the same thing, with the added benefit of 13 religious channels, a Filipino-language cooking channel, and 75 home shopping channels! Trust me, you'd totally love it at $50. Because we; your poor, downtrodden cable company need your money. The legal expense needed to maintain a nationwide jihad against municipal ISP's and google fiber add up! Please, think of your cable company Subscribe today"
or maybe stop building residential palaces while they're at it. every university I've ever seen is *ALWAYS* building some building or another. meanwhile tuition hikes are constant, administrator (not necessarily faculty) salaries are bonkers high.
Punctuation was needed far more than a citation. (especially considering it's a prediction of things that may, or may not come to pass)
There is a wealth gap in china, which can lead to civil strife. There is a gender gap, which can also lead to social unrest.
How is the combination of millions (tens of millions!) of young men in a 'have not' situation, who also cannot settle down and have a family, a good thing for the long term societal stability? What do you do when the work force starts to age, and there aren't enough young people coming to replacement age?
But to your question, i'd say it has more to do with china favoring an export driven economy with an artificially weakened currency and manufacturing; vs India's service based economy -- than any kind of demographic shift.
On an aside, I think the Chinese learned a very different lesson from British exploitation. The Chinese experience was that if one side is producing steel and bombs, you won't overcome hegemony by producing rice and and/or tea.
Plot twist: massive disparity in wealth distribution and gender imbalance brought on by the one child policy lead to massive social unrest by 2030. Entire house of cards comes tumbling down.
That's the wrong attitude entirely. You're telling people with access to secret courts, gag orders, and virtually unlimited funding to 'deal with it'. They also happen to either write the laws, or have untoward influence over those who do.
They'll deal with it, but I don't think you'll like the eventual outcome.
Posting angry sounding rubbish on Slashdot doesn't change the fact that in the end, it's not a fight consumers can win. It's a lot like the gun control debate -- the exact same rationale gets trotted out: "yes, most people can responsibly own guns, but we need a way to protect innocents from those who can't" (if i were a betting man, i'd wager this will be used to push self driving cars in the very near future)
Eventually the side pushing for a decrease in personal responsibility will win. It's a long slow decline in freedom and autonomy, based upon an appeal for 'safety'.
really? I just see two sides of the same shit-eating coin.
The only silver lining to their shenanigans is that their behavior does more to hinder their cause than anything their opposition could ever do. It's almost like they're both false flags setup to discredit fringe/extremist viewpoints.
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tis also a means to an end; not the end itself.
That, and I hope they make a Witcher 4. The story line, characters, and world are just too damn deep to leave alone (with or without Geralt)
The absolute vicious irony here is that there's a ton of IP out there that's been done to fucking death. Rehashed sequels that are nothing more than iterative churned out crap used make a bit of easy profit. (How many battlefield, COD, rainbow six games do we really need?)
Contrasted to something like the Witcher whose universe is almost Tolkien-esque in terms of depth, and they make 3 games out of it, then move on.
Boo.
I'd take the witcher 3 over just about any game I've ever played (and there's been a lot, going back to the early 90's) -- and definitely would take it over a pizza, stale or not.
Good games that are fun and have artistic merit are out there; just sadly not as common as they once were
Thank god he runs a corporation who makes it their job to collect, store, and act on highly sensitive personal information about hundreds of millions of people. I'm glad he's got his plausible deniability down pat.
it's such a fundamental fucking question considering who he is, and why he was being summoned.
nothing like some stale pasta to get through a thursday morning in november.
"The US is the only country to not pay lip service to the Paris Claim Deal"
i *STILL* wouldn't trust facebook with that. they might say they're doing a local hash, but whoops, we sent the entire image. (Or they say: "We uploaded the image to verify the hashing algo on the client -- we immediately delete it. Honest!"
It's pretty fucking simple. A company with the singular purpose of hoovering personal information about you (a company so invasive, so creepy; that in absence of direct data from you, will INFER information about you and yours), and then sell that information to advertisers -- is by definition a deceitful, cancerous entity who you have to be mentally god damn defective to trust.
Or you know, infatuated with the idea of personal responsibility. I know I know, it's anathema to a well ordered, safe society... But people being held accountable for their decisions (even if it's negligence on their part, or results in being misled) is still alive and well in this country.
Maybe in another 20 years we'll finally solve this age old problem.
Intel and the TLA's saying it's benign, we should probably just trust them implicitly, it's fine.
Also unintended consequences never, ever happen
Any 'takeover' of humanity by AI is by definition malevolent.
If i give a copy of my house key to the dog walker, and something turns up missing -- well I have a pretty good idea who did it.
But outside of that, to pick a physical, mechanical lock one needs to be at the actual lock, in sight. To compromise an electronic, wifi enabled lock, one just needs to be within wifi range. They can then work on that lock 24/7 from a distance.
Someone, somewhere will figure out a way to defeat these systems.
If amazon truly wanted a safe method to deliver packages, they'd just have a safe-like box that could be chained up outside, or barring that attached by a flat sheet of steel that goes under the door (and is anchored inside).. Even thin, lightweight steel has enough tensile strength to make it impractical to tear into discretely.
I know right?
"If you liked your grey-market TV package at $10, let me tell you about a GREAT deal! For the low, low price of $50 you can get exactly the same thing, with the added benefit of 13 religious channels, a Filipino-language cooking channel, and 75 home shopping channels! Trust me, you'd totally love it at $50. Because we; your poor, downtrodden cable company need your money. The legal expense needed to maintain a nationwide jihad against municipal ISP's and google fiber add up! Please, think of your cable company Subscribe today"
that only applies to the west, you should know better than that.
or maybe stop building residential palaces while they're at it. every university I've ever seen is *ALWAYS* building some building or another. meanwhile tuition hikes are constant, administrator (not necessarily faculty) salaries are bonkers high.
sort of like lip syncing a live performance huh? that never, ever ends badly for the performer.
Punctuation was needed far more than a citation. (especially considering it's a prediction of things that may, or may not come to pass)
There is a wealth gap in china, which can lead to civil strife. There is a gender gap, which can also lead to social unrest.
How is the combination of millions (tens of millions!) of young men in a 'have not' situation, who also cannot settle down and have a family, a good thing for the long term societal stability? What do you do when the work force starts to age, and there aren't enough young people coming to replacement age?
But to your question, i'd say it has more to do with china favoring an export driven economy with an artificially weakened currency and manufacturing; vs India's service based economy -- than any kind of demographic shift.
On an aside, I think the Chinese learned a very different lesson from British exploitation. The Chinese experience was that if one side is producing steel and bombs, you won't overcome hegemony by producing rice and and/or tea.
does working with node and react make your soul burn; even just a little?
Plot twist: massive disparity in wealth distribution and gender imbalance brought on by the one child policy lead to massive social unrest by 2030. Entire house of cards comes tumbling down.
well they'll be in school and not working if the factory is shutdown dummy.
Luckily it won't be cold anywhere outside of the poles for too much longer. can we go back to using PIN based auth methods for our phones then?
(This post was not meant to be taken seriously, yet I predict that somehow the AGW / anti-AGW crowd will not be cool about it.)
ps: That was indeed a shitty pun.
Clearly with such an exemplary track record in terms of protecting personal data.. they can handle this, honest.
That's the wrong attitude entirely. You're telling people with access to secret courts, gag orders, and virtually unlimited funding to 'deal with it'. They also happen to either write the laws, or have untoward influence over those who do.
They'll deal with it, but I don't think you'll like the eventual outcome.
Posting angry sounding rubbish on Slashdot doesn't change the fact that in the end, it's not a fight consumers can win. It's a lot like the gun control debate -- the exact same rationale gets trotted out:
"yes, most people can responsibly own guns, but we need a way to protect innocents from those who can't" (if i were a betting man, i'd wager this will be used to push self driving cars in the very near future)
Eventually the side pushing for a decrease in personal responsibility will win. It's a long slow decline in freedom and autonomy, based upon an appeal for 'safety'.
really? I just see two sides of the same shit-eating coin.
The only silver lining to their shenanigans is that their behavior does more to hinder their cause than anything their opposition could ever do. It's almost like they're both false flags setup to discredit fringe/extremist viewpoints.
Wrong article bub, this is about Tesla, not Uber.