I have a paid hbo subscription, but I still pirate game of thrones. The pirate stream is just much higher quality than what you get from hbo streaming: Full 1080p as opposed to 720p, instant seek/rewind, higher nitrate for clearer picture, no pausing/stuttering.
Being completely honest here, pirates have figured out how to do proper online video distribution way better than anybody else: Their standards for release quality are typically higher, even though at the end of the day they're working with rips as opposed to the source material (what.CD often rejected Amazon mp3 uploads due to Amazon's poor encoding practices) and they've also figured out how to meet the bandwidth requirements for pennies on the dollar. (Passive distribution instead of requiring a fully live playback is HUGE here, and for some reason, content companies refuse to let it happen anyways, even in cases like HBO where they have compete vertical control over licensing.)
Also, pirating is almost completely automatic in my case. I use sickrage and rtorrent, but there are plenty of alternatives.
Actually, I just did. And you know what? It is scary how much his language mirror the Communist justifications. Losing touch with the real world, divisiveness, contrary to the national values, the works...
I agree 100%, hook, line, and sinker. But, social media also manages to make it incredibly easier to create the same kind of environment that not only delivered us the bane of this planet called communism, but also its three identical genital warts: nazism, fascism, and ISIS.
This is because social media not only permits, but also encourages, the rise of very dense echo chambers. This isn't to say that social media should be banned, quite the opposite as freedom of speech is the one thing I value the most, even to the point that I believe unpopular things like hate speech, pornography, and violent video games should always remain perfectly legal, but if something doesn't change, then this planet is doomed to have so many genital warts to the point that procreation, and thus our continued existence, is no longer possible.
Believe me, I hate Ajit Pai, and every time I see his big fat mouth, whether its open and revealing his big white airstrip or not, I feel like using it as a speed bag. But when somebody is right, they're right, no matter how much else they're wrong.
That's nice and all, but most people don't want to edit configuration files. If Linux ever comes to the desktop, then its incarnation would have to bring a good application ecosystem and a solid user interface with it, otherwise there won't be any way for it to compete. Windows phone failed because Microsoft neglected to do either one of these things.
The best hope for Linux on the desktop right now is probably chrome OS.
In many areas of the country, a median income ($52,000) won't buy a home any more ($400,000 for a 3 bedroom 1 bath in my neighborhood).
Your use of the term "many" seems quite loose. Anyways, this is what is called a speculative bubble. We had one in 2006, and now we're in an echo bubble. Next time we have a recession, they'll inevitably drop.
Conversely, anybody who fails to realise that the form capitalism is in now is utterly unsustainable, achieves the exact opposite of what a free market is claimed to be, and serves only to protect encumbant players has also drank the koolaid and isn't open to reason.
That's not a trait of capitalism, it's a trait of the shitty governing we have that started with policies that have been implemented since the late 70's, beginning with Carter.
Capitalism absolutely depends on the rule of law to work. Without laws, there is no stability, and without stability, there is no investment, and with no investment, there's no way to build capital. Regulation is needed, any economist will tell you as much, though the debate is where the balance between not being heavy handed to the point of discouraging creating capital (see Venezuela) and strong enough to give enough stability to encourage creating capital.
Capitalism and the "free market" as envisioned by Republicans pretty much boils down to entrenched monopolies
That's nice, except that by definition it isn't a free market.
This broken version of capitalism? This is NOTHING like Adam Smith described, and is in fact a shining example of pretty much everything he said you needed to guard against or the system would become toxic and dangerous.
Adam Smith didn't define any version of capitalism, or even capitalism at all (the word didn't even exist in his time.) What he did was describe (not define) how free markets tend to regulate themselves by means of supply and demand. Basically akin to Newton describing physics. What he observed came about on its own over time and existed since at least BC times, and it became more pronounced as feudalism began to die off. In other words, he isn't the father of capitalism, rather he is the father of economics, just as Newton is the father of physics.
What Americans fail to realise if their government is pretty much in the hands of corporations, and America is essentially an oligarchy under Trump. It's rich assholes changing laws to ensure they themselves will achieve maximum profit at someone else's expense.
No, it's not. If you want to see governments in the hands of corporations, look at the Dutch East India company. It was the first publicly traded company, at its peak had a market cap larger than any company that has existed since, and had the biggest monopoly the world has ever seen (and it's extremely unlikely that such a monopoly could ever exist again.) The dutch east india company had, among other things, the power to wage wars, imprison or execute people who didn't pay their bills, and the authority to regulate trade (in its favor, of course) across virtually half of the planet.
It's ultimately up to you who you vote for. Contrary to popular belief, campaign money doesn't win elections. Look at Trump for example, Hillary outspent the crap out of him and still lost. John Morse in Colorado lost despite outspending his opposition 11 to 1. And if you've ever heard of Larry Lessig's mayday pac, or "the superpac to end all superpacs" as it's known, practically all of the candidates he backed lost their elections, except for the ones who were already likely to win anyways.
The current version of capitalism is completely unhinged, is policy without evidence or merit, and is completely unsustainable.
And again, this isn't a feature of capitalism, or any "version" of it.
Ah yes, the ol' Marxist "late stage capitalism" argument. How long have we been late stage now...Oh, that's right, 73 years. But you know what's interesting? The term "capitalism" first appeared from an 1880 English translation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, which means that, at least in the Marxist context, capitalism is 137 years old.
So in other words, we've been "late stage capitalism" for just over half of the time since the word first existed. And yes, I'm using the Marxist context rather than any other because it is specifically Marxists who use that phrase, and guess what else? They first began using that in 1945, which marked the beginning of a long period of prosperity, except for those who lived in communist states (and said communist states were making a concerted effort to conquer Europe, which the largest capitalist state acted as a bulwark against.) And when that was failing, they had to put up walls with armed guards to prevent people from fleeing to capitalist states.
And just to kick your crappy ideology while it's down: Of all of the communist and/or socialist governments that have been around since 1945, how many of them are actually prospering today? (I'll give you a hint: Less than one.)
Like any fiat currency, it's only worth what you think it's worth, and the US dollar is no exception. Though in this case, there is a LOT of speculation going on. I'm sure Bitcoin will work in the long run, but it's inevitably going to see yet another crash, and another rise, and another crash, ad infinitum, until people start using it to buy everyday goods, and the transaction costs go WAY down. I'm talking less than today's penny.
Oh no they'll be able to afford it...medical devices already cost some big bucks. Instead what will happen is the patient will run into Verizon's data caps and his pacemaker will just turn off until he upgrades his data plan.
If you think this is a sharp division, then you don't know history very well. For one, during the early years after the Constitution was ratified, there was a GREAT deal if infighting; violent at that. The electoral college exists because we had to make a great compromise. The first amendment was created to protect Christians from other Christians who did a lot of infighting, in fact there really was no freedom of religion until the end of the civil war. Each state had their own official religion, some even had criminal punishment for not attending church on Sunday.
And speak of the civil war... Are you sure we're sharply divided today? Maybe compared to the post WW2 era and the 70s through the naughties. Civil rights era...much division there, especially with the Democrats violently opposing desegregation. Vietnam era? You bet.
Though admittedly, antifa and the black bloc are starting to resemble the behavior of the anarcho-communists of that time... Then again, they also march around with rifles as a show of intimidation while wearing brown shirts, so maybe they're on their way to something worse. But, for now at least, they're not quite as violent, and there aren't many in comparison.
At any rate, are we divided? Yeah, but when viewed from the lens of history...not really.
Although, I wonder why nobody is making hybrid hydrogen/electric car for those long trips? Go with long electrical only mileage like Tesla, but hydrogen is a backup for those times when you can't wait 30 minutes at a charging station, so you just fill up on hydrogen instead, which recharges your battery while you drive.
At least, I think that should be the standard until battery technology advances to the point of making it no longer necessary, then you can remove the extra weight of that hydrogen engine.
Linux is great for servers, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for consumer devices.
The kernel is just too bloated to be practical for low power, low memory devices like mobile, and the API changes so much that drivers are always broken in new versions, requiring an update. Updates to drivers are expensive due to all of the certification required, which is a big reason most OEM's don't upgrade older Android phones, Google included. It also contributes to IoT's security problems.
For desktop, Linux is too highly fragmented. Practically nobody can agree on a standard set of applications in Linux, which make all the difference in the world to end users. Take gnome vs kde, or mir vs wayland vs x11. And what might work on one distribution may not work on another. Then there's the non user visible components like init.d vs systems. With Windows and OSX, all you have to know is the name of the OS, and you can reasonably be sure that your program will not only run, but work the way that you're familiar with.
Many websites will break if you do this; USAA is broken with this, for example. My preferred method, without addons, is to set third party cookies to session only, something that no browser can do except for firefox.
My opinion? Combine privacy badger, cookie autodelete, and third party cookies session only, as FPI can break some websites, but the combination above should not break anything. For good measure, also add searchonymous2 and a redirect bypassing addon (redirect bypasser was the best, but I'm not sure which is right now.) Unfortunately, at the present time, extensions can't do anything about localstorage, which sites can and do use to track you. FPI effectively sandboxes localstorage from site to site, but it wastes disk space. Mozilla is extending the webextension API to allow manipulation of localstorage and will probably be the only browser to do so. The cookie autodelete developers plan on using it as soon as it's available, so that will be a complete solution.
That's the nice thing about firefox going forward: Mozilla continues to add new features to the webextension API and is very responsive to requests, but Chrome usually doesn't, and you can pretty much count on Edge only going so far as to always remain a subset of what Chrome does, as Microsoft just copies the Chrome API verbatim, but doesn't implement everything. Microsoft also uses a "whitelist only" model in Edge, which involves paying a fee to Microsoft and requesting that they review your extension, which they ignore in most cases, even if you own a very popular chrome extension.
I'm betting that in about a year, Firefox will be the browser with all of the best addons, just like it was before the switch to webextensions, and Edge will remain king at its job of being the tool everybody uses to download firefox.
It's IP driven, which means that you have a single antenna connected to a receiver that multicasts video within your internal network. It also allows unicast traffic to the receiver from devices that are listening, and the receiver can contact the broadcasters over the open internet.
Among other things, they're planning on adding VOD content.
Correct. In fact, it's well known that increasing the price also increases the audio fidelity, with no physical changes to the hardware being necessary. Apple utilizes this principle when selling Beats headphones.
And even though Apple is fourth to the market, this voice assistant is, in their words, a "breakthrough", a word which also increases the audio fidelity.
Usually it's just communist and socialist governments that view people as a resource, hence ID cards that tell the cops where you're supposed to be during working hours with truancy laws against people not showing up for work, and building walls that they claim are to keep fascists out while the real purpose is to keep its own citizens from leaving.
What? Who told you that? The lines of code they actually wrote can carry their license, but they can't relicense a whole file just because they made changes to it. Even if they did, they'd only be creating an unauthorized derivative work.
/facepalm
If there was an award for being the most outspoken idiot on slashdot, you would have gnawed on the plutonium medal after winning it several times now...
Even if you change every single line of the Apache code you're using, the result is still based on the Foundation's licensed code. You may distribute the result under a different license, but you need to acknowledge the use of the Foundation's software.
They also copied Microsoft Edge's hideously ugly tab design. While they had the good sense to not adopt the now discredited flat UI (who thought that was a good idea to begin with?) they still use the boxy UI object paradigm, even though that has been discredited just the same as flat UI.
I'm not a physics major, but as I understand it, Planck measurements are the smallest meaningful increment. You can have smaller measurements, but doing so has no possible practical use.
Being able to add your own signing keys would be good, but there should be a separate message to the effect that the custom user code has been validated, but to exercise caution if you didn't load said code. Otherwise it would be pretty trivial to blue-pill the user.
Effective intelligence and counter intelligence work is impossible if you are going to require all actions to be open and approved by the public. Is that to hard of a concept to wrap your brain around?
Except that's not what I asked for. What I asked for is protocols and procedures to be public. That doesn't mean they have to detail every single thing they do, and for this particular topic, they don't need to. They're providing assistance to private entities; all they'd have to do is require an NDA for the specifics, and I tend to think that these private entities wouldn't turn it down, which is totally different from the government trying to get them to turn over private information that they don't want to turn over.
It doesn't make any sense for an AI to be malevolent unless somebody created it with that feature built in. AI doesn't have any wants, fears, or instincts. Hell it wouldn't even care either way if you pulled it's plug, because it doesn't even have a desire for self-preservation. So for what reason would it be malevolent.
I'd be more concerned about boot signing being locked down, first and foremost. I personally like the Google Nexus/Pixel approach where you're given a big warning that you're bootloader is unlocked. This allows tinkerers to play around, while at the same time making people who don't need/want for it unlocked (for tighter security) aware of it.
Even better, it allows security researchers to do a low level audit for NSA backdoors (give it the ol' blue pill.)
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I have a paid hbo subscription, but I still pirate game of thrones. The pirate stream is just much higher quality than what you get from hbo streaming: Full 1080p as opposed to 720p, instant seek/rewind, higher nitrate for clearer picture, no pausing/stuttering.
Being completely honest here, pirates have figured out how to do proper online video distribution way better than anybody else: Their standards for release quality are typically higher, even though at the end of the day they're working with rips as opposed to the source material (what.CD often rejected Amazon mp3 uploads due to Amazon's poor encoding practices) and they've also figured out how to meet the bandwidth requirements for pennies on the dollar. (Passive distribution instead of requiring a fully live playback is HUGE here, and for some reason, content companies refuse to let it happen anyways, even in cases like HBO where they have compete vertical control over licensing.)
Also, pirating is almost completely automatic in my case. I use sickrage and rtorrent, but there are plenty of alternatives.
Actually, I just did. And you know what? It is scary how much his language mirror the Communist justifications. Losing touch with the real world, divisiveness, contrary to the national values, the works...
I agree 100%, hook, line, and sinker. But, social media also manages to make it incredibly easier to create the same kind of environment that not only delivered us the bane of this planet called communism, but also its three identical genital warts: nazism, fascism, and ISIS.
This is because social media not only permits, but also encourages, the rise of very dense echo chambers. This isn't to say that social media should be banned, quite the opposite as freedom of speech is the one thing I value the most, even to the point that I believe unpopular things like hate speech, pornography, and violent video games should always remain perfectly legal, but if something doesn't change, then this planet is doomed to have so many genital warts to the point that procreation, and thus our continued existence, is no longer possible.
Believe me, I hate Ajit Pai, and every time I see his big fat mouth, whether its open and revealing his big white airstrip or not, I feel like using it as a speed bag. But when somebody is right, they're right, no matter how much else they're wrong.
That's nice and all, but most people don't want to edit configuration files. If Linux ever comes to the desktop, then its incarnation would have to bring a good application ecosystem and a solid user interface with it, otherwise there won't be any way for it to compete. Windows phone failed because Microsoft neglected to do either one of these things.
The best hope for Linux on the desktop right now is probably chrome OS.
In many areas of the country, a median income ($52,000) won't buy a home any more ($400,000 for a 3 bedroom 1 bath in my neighborhood).
Your use of the term "many" seems quite loose. Anyways, this is what is called a speculative bubble. We had one in 2006, and now we're in an echo bubble. Next time we have a recession, they'll inevitably drop.
Conversely, anybody who fails to realise that the form capitalism is in now is utterly unsustainable, achieves the exact opposite of what a free market is claimed to be, and serves only to protect encumbant players has also drank the koolaid and isn't open to reason.
That's not a trait of capitalism, it's a trait of the shitty governing we have that started with policies that have been implemented since the late 70's, beginning with Carter.
Capitalism absolutely depends on the rule of law to work. Without laws, there is no stability, and without stability, there is no investment, and with no investment, there's no way to build capital. Regulation is needed, any economist will tell you as much, though the debate is where the balance between not being heavy handed to the point of discouraging creating capital (see Venezuela) and strong enough to give enough stability to encourage creating capital.
Capitalism and the "free market" as envisioned by Republicans pretty much boils down to entrenched monopolies
That's nice, except that by definition it isn't a free market.
This broken version of capitalism? This is NOTHING like Adam Smith described, and is in fact a shining example of pretty much everything he said you needed to guard against or the system would become toxic and dangerous.
Adam Smith didn't define any version of capitalism, or even capitalism at all (the word didn't even exist in his time.) What he did was describe (not define) how free markets tend to regulate themselves by means of supply and demand. Basically akin to Newton describing physics. What he observed came about on its own over time and existed since at least BC times, and it became more pronounced as feudalism began to die off. In other words, he isn't the father of capitalism, rather he is the father of economics, just as Newton is the father of physics.
What Americans fail to realise if their government is pretty much in the hands of corporations, and America is essentially an oligarchy under Trump. It's rich assholes changing laws to ensure they themselves will achieve maximum profit at someone else's expense.
No, it's not. If you want to see governments in the hands of corporations, look at the Dutch East India company. It was the first publicly traded company, at its peak had a market cap larger than any company that has existed since, and had the biggest monopoly the world has ever seen (and it's extremely unlikely that such a monopoly could ever exist again.) The dutch east india company had, among other things, the power to wage wars, imprison or execute people who didn't pay their bills, and the authority to regulate trade (in its favor, of course) across virtually half of the planet.
It's ultimately up to you who you vote for. Contrary to popular belief, campaign money doesn't win elections. Look at Trump for example, Hillary outspent the crap out of him and still lost. John Morse in Colorado lost despite outspending his opposition 11 to 1. And if you've ever heard of Larry Lessig's mayday pac, or "the superpac to end all superpacs" as it's known, practically all of the candidates he backed lost their elections, except for the ones who were already likely to win anyways.
The current version of capitalism is completely unhinged, is policy without evidence or merit, and is completely unsustainable.
And again, this isn't a feature of capitalism, or any "version" of it.
Ah yes, the ol' Marxist "late stage capitalism" argument. How long have we been late stage now...Oh, that's right, 73 years. But you know what's interesting? The term "capitalism" first appeared from an 1880 English translation of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, which means that, at least in the Marxist context, capitalism is 137 years old.
So in other words, we've been "late stage capitalism" for just over half of the time since the word first existed. And yes, I'm using the Marxist context rather than any other because it is specifically Marxists who use that phrase, and guess what else? They first began using that in 1945, which marked the beginning of a long period of prosperity, except for those who lived in communist states (and said communist states were making a concerted effort to conquer Europe, which the largest capitalist state acted as a bulwark against.) And when that was failing, they had to put up walls with armed guards to prevent people from fleeing to capitalist states.
And just to kick your crappy ideology while it's down: Of all of the communist and/or socialist governments that have been around since 1945, how many of them are actually prospering today? (I'll give you a hint: Less than one.)
Like any fiat currency, it's only worth what you think it's worth, and the US dollar is no exception. Though in this case, there is a LOT of speculation going on. I'm sure Bitcoin will work in the long run, but it's inevitably going to see yet another crash, and another rise, and another crash, ad infinitum, until people start using it to buy everyday goods, and the transaction costs go WAY down. I'm talking less than today's penny.
Oh no they'll be able to afford it...medical devices already cost some big bucks. Instead what will happen is the patient will run into Verizon's data caps and his pacemaker will just turn off until he upgrades his data plan.
If you think this is a sharp division, then you don't know history very well. For one, during the early years after the Constitution was ratified, there was a GREAT deal if infighting; violent at that. The electoral college exists because we had to make a great compromise. The first amendment was created to protect Christians from other Christians who did a lot of infighting, in fact there really was no freedom of religion until the end of the civil war. Each state had their own official religion, some even had criminal punishment for not attending church on Sunday.
And speak of the civil war... Are you sure we're sharply divided today? Maybe compared to the post WW2 era and the 70s through the naughties. Civil rights era...much division there, especially with the Democrats violently opposing desegregation. Vietnam era? You bet.
Though admittedly, antifa and the black bloc are starting to resemble the behavior of the anarcho-communists of that time... Then again, they also march around with rifles as a show of intimidation while wearing brown shirts, so maybe they're on their way to something worse. But, for now at least, they're not quite as violent, and there aren't many in comparison.
At any rate, are we divided? Yeah, but when viewed from the lens of history...not really.
In other words, a hydrogen battery.
Although, I wonder why nobody is making hybrid hydrogen/electric car for those long trips? Go with long electrical only mileage like Tesla, but hydrogen is a backup for those times when you can't wait 30 minutes at a charging station, so you just fill up on hydrogen instead, which recharges your battery while you drive.
At least, I think that should be the standard until battery technology advances to the point of making it no longer necessary, then you can remove the extra weight of that hydrogen engine.
Linux is great for servers, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for consumer devices.
The kernel is just too bloated to be practical for low power, low memory devices like mobile, and the API changes so much that drivers are always broken in new versions, requiring an update. Updates to drivers are expensive due to all of the certification required, which is a big reason most OEM's don't upgrade older Android phones, Google included. It also contributes to IoT's security problems.
For desktop, Linux is too highly fragmented. Practically nobody can agree on a standard set of applications in Linux, which make all the difference in the world to end users. Take gnome vs kde, or mir vs wayland vs x11. And what might work on one distribution may not work on another. Then there's the non user visible components like init.d vs systems. With Windows and OSX, all you have to know is the name of the OS, and you can reasonably be sure that your program will not only run, but work the way that you're familiar with.
Many websites will break if you do this; USAA is broken with this, for example. My preferred method, without addons, is to set third party cookies to session only, something that no browser can do except for firefox.
My opinion? Combine privacy badger, cookie autodelete, and third party cookies session only, as FPI can break some websites, but the combination above should not break anything. For good measure, also add searchonymous2 and a redirect bypassing addon (redirect bypasser was the best, but I'm not sure which is right now.) Unfortunately, at the present time, extensions can't do anything about localstorage, which sites can and do use to track you. FPI effectively sandboxes localstorage from site to site, but it wastes disk space. Mozilla is extending the webextension API to allow manipulation of localstorage and will probably be the only browser to do so. The cookie autodelete developers plan on using it as soon as it's available, so that will be a complete solution.
That's the nice thing about firefox going forward: Mozilla continues to add new features to the webextension API and is very responsive to requests, but Chrome usually doesn't, and you can pretty much count on Edge only going so far as to always remain a subset of what Chrome does, as Microsoft just copies the Chrome API verbatim, but doesn't implement everything. Microsoft also uses a "whitelist only" model in Edge, which involves paying a fee to Microsoft and requesting that they review your extension, which they ignore in most cases, even if you own a very popular chrome extension.
I'm betting that in about a year, Firefox will be the browser with all of the best addons, just like it was before the switch to webextensions, and Edge will remain king at its job of being the tool everybody uses to download firefox.
It's IP driven, which means that you have a single antenna connected to a receiver that multicasts video within your internal network. It also allows unicast traffic to the receiver from devices that are listening, and the receiver can contact the broadcasters over the open internet.
Among other things, they're planning on adding VOD content.
Correct. In fact, it's well known that increasing the price also increases the audio fidelity, with no physical changes to the hardware being necessary. Apple utilizes this principle when selling Beats headphones.
And even though Apple is fourth to the market, this voice assistant is, in their words, a "breakthrough", a word which also increases the audio fidelity.
Usually it's just communist and socialist governments that view people as a resource, hence ID cards that tell the cops where you're supposed to be during working hours with truancy laws against people not showing up for work, and building walls that they claim are to keep fascists out while the real purpose is to keep its own citizens from leaving.
You can opt out of it on chrome, just untick all of the privacy checkboxes in the advanced settings.
Since they're hispanic, my guess would be wetback.
What? Who told you that? The lines of code they actually wrote can carry their license, but they can't relicense a whole file just because they made changes to it. Even if they did, they'd only be creating an unauthorized derivative work.
/facepalm
If there was an award for being the most outspoken idiot on slashdot, you would have gnawed on the plutonium medal after winning it several times now...
http://www.apache.org/foundati...
Even if you change every single line of the Apache code you're using, the result is still based on the Foundation's licensed code. You may distribute the result under a different license, but you need to acknowledge the use of the Foundation's software.
They also copied Microsoft Edge's hideously ugly tab design. While they had the good sense to not adopt the now discredited flat UI (who thought that was a good idea to begin with?) they still use the boxy UI object paradigm, even though that has been discredited just the same as flat UI.
I'm not a physics major, but as I understand it, Planck measurements are the smallest meaningful increment. You can have smaller measurements, but doing so has no possible practical use.
Being able to add your own signing keys would be good, but there should be a separate message to the effect that the custom user code has been validated, but to exercise caution if you didn't load said code. Otherwise it would be pretty trivial to blue-pill the user.
Effective intelligence and counter intelligence work is impossible if you are going to require all actions to be open and approved by the public. Is that to hard of a concept to wrap your brain around?
Except that's not what I asked for. What I asked for is protocols and procedures to be public. That doesn't mean they have to detail every single thing they do, and for this particular topic, they don't need to. They're providing assistance to private entities; all they'd have to do is require an NDA for the specifics, and I tend to think that these private entities wouldn't turn it down, which is totally different from the government trying to get them to turn over private information that they don't want to turn over.
Nah, I live comfortably here. Housing is cheap and I don't have to get waken up an hour early.
It doesn't make any sense for an AI to be malevolent unless somebody created it with that feature built in. AI doesn't have any wants, fears, or instincts. Hell it wouldn't even care either way if you pulled it's plug, because it doesn't even have a desire for self-preservation. So for what reason would it be malevolent.
I'd be more concerned about boot signing being locked down, first and foremost. I personally like the Google Nexus/Pixel approach where you're given a big warning that you're bootloader is unlocked. This allows tinkerers to play around, while at the same time making people who don't need/want for it unlocked (for tighter security) aware of it.
Even better, it allows security researchers to do a low level audit for NSA backdoors (give it the ol' blue pill.)