You will know when I'm trying to (sic) "quote from someone smarter than yourself", because that's when I will use "italics and/or bold font in quotation marks"
We are not discussing "physical force" See how I used the quotes there, tool? Its not in bold or italic because I'm not actually quoting your stupid ass, but instead I've just called attention to a phrase that is being discussed. I've still not quoted somebody "smarter than me"
Since we are learning the difference between a statement and a quotation, I have one for you, from somebody likely way smarter than me, and its even got your name in it!
"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit." - Thomas Jefferson
Do I think it makes me feels smart? Nope. You know what does make me feel smart? You.
No reason to stop them. If they want to cut corners, let them. Buyer beware. It's dangerous going to space, and if your going, you are expected to have accepted that. Ensure your cargo.
You are welcome to spend more money on your own safer "death-trap" ticket. Some of us are willing to accept a little risk to do great things.
Them city folks just said its ok fer ussin to be shootin up all them low flyin aeroplanes. Turns out them city-slickers been peepin out them windows into yonder bathroom window while grampa's a-poopin.
In response to the rising threat of technology, we we will be raising the bar of entry into this field by requiring licensing on a per unit basis. If that's not enough to keep you normies from building aircraft yourselves, we will just have to make big scary noises and look really worried until your neighbors start shooting the things from the sky!
Silly civilians, don't you know that airspace and spying are for government and fortune 500 companies only? How dare you plebs build your own technology platform and attempt to use your obviously dangerous and scary creation in our skies. It's.....It's.... It's.... um... Ah HA! Its invasion of privacy! See!? Even your peers are not having this! We all know we are so interesting that you just cannot help yourself to taking a peek over our high walls. Why, just the other day another one of your scary death-copters was heroically shot from the skies behind my tennis court. The falling hardware could have damaged my new Tesla...er.. I mean kid, could have damaged my CHILD!... could have damaged YOUR CHILDREN! THREE CHEERS FOR THE DRONE SLAYER!
Drones are toys for the scaryiorist and pedophiles, now get back in line. Traffic is heavy today and you still have another 8 hours of productivity quota to meet.
Sometimes the old ways are best. At worse, catapult a few wind up radios over and give them a couple of OTR style uprising stories at night. change freqs every few days.... give the project a budget and build in some comsec so they cant step all over your signal. Hell, do it Vault-tek style and call each group of radios a social experiment and maybe learn a little something about the way oppressed humans think.
Call me paranoid, but I find the way western governments keep asking us citizens to show them how the garage hacker and junkyard engineer would do these things (break a comms blackout, build cheap weapons, hack the enemy) a little troubling. You can bet they are all taking notes.
News organisations are always wanting to protect their sources, so now they want the FBI to give out theirs? So the next time they are asked to give their sources on something are they going to? Not likely. Also, what reason do they need to know who or how it was cracked? As for costs, being tax payers money, that should be disclosed but that's about it.
Just a quick glance at this should highlight some answers to your question for you, but in case the chips are still not falling into place, I'll highlight the reasons that most resonate with me personally.
The FBI is expected to respect my right to privacy, not hide the master-keys away in case we need it later.
The FBI is expected to Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes, not claim monopoly on them.
The FBIs actions in this regard are at odds with their stated mission on multiple points, and IANAL, but it looks to me like pretty shaky legal ground as well.
News media's use of confidential sources has been tested and upheld MANY times. We like it that way, protected sources are important. Look to Snowden to see an example of what can happen when sources go on record regarding high profile corruption. It seems to be sometimes forgotten, but the press enjoys certain protections on expectation that it will act as a watchdog, reigning in our government when it over-reaches/misbehaves.
What do you suggest we do with the people who are unemployable?
1. We shove them into prisons, and by prisons I mean forced re-education facilities. This employs humans, as (in my opinion) human empathy is a key ingredient to successfully educating a humans, and I don't expect even the smartest AI will master human empathy for a very long time. Its our one special skill. The real question being, "Who writes the curriculum?" 2. Colonist.... space colonist. Even with massive amounts of automated labor, there will be no shortage of things needing doing on whatever inhospitable planet we choose to send the poor souls to, and it will likely kill them... making more room for more humans and adding more biomass to the raw materials available on $PLANET or $MOON 3. War. I expect this is the most likely outcome... idle hands and all that... problem solves itself. 4. Like the best SNES games, if you play though the game just right, you get the good ending. This is where everybody finally realizes that we don't actually have to do anything we don't want anymore, and anybody can have pretty much anything they want, for no more effort than asking the neighborhood fabrication bot to produce it for them. We all spend our lives making culture and experiencing VR representations of the dark ages before massive automation, when everybody was forced to sell their time and energy to stay alive, else be considered useless loads on society that must be made into space colonists, re-educated, or conscripted into the armies of the world.
Yes, I'm one of those crazy futurist guys. I also build robots, and am trying my damn hardest to carefully automate all of us out of the workforce ASAP, so we can all get to the good ending already.
Now the fleets of self driving cars will be sipping "hot coffee" and beating the hookers to collect their money back for services rendered. They will also know how to rack up a respectable 5 start wanted level and just hide under a bridge till it all goes away. Oh, and my favorite new autonomous feature? Spawning attack choppers out of thin air to aid in robbing every convenience store in the city while performing the above two tasks.
You're being an overthinking idiot. If you have a bomb that looks like a brick, and hand it to a guard and say that it's a bomb, you're going to be charged with whatever destruction the bomb does, not get cool props for handing over something that looks like a brick.
But that's not what happens in my fiction. I've not handed anything over. Somebody has decided they have the authority to take it from me, and use it against my wishes, while ignoring my warnings. This piece of tech is not illegal to posses.. and its also not a bomb.
I'll try a new, more fun fiction, and roll in a car analogy cuz slashdot-
Hillary has modified her Mazda to go from 0-60 in 3 seconds, and to have non-functioning breaks. She did this for the purpose of auto crash research relating to older model seat-belts. She has her papers in order and has paid for all of the appropriate bribes, fees, and licenses. There is nothing wrong with this as long as she keeps off the public roadways and conducts her research in a controlled lab environment. Her license and fees paid says so. While transporting her crash-dummy-death-machine on an approved and licensed trailer, it is "civilly forfeited" She tells her assailant that it is not safe to drive, but he speeds away down the road.... right into a burning Tesla, a BLM protest, and Trumps motorcade
These events have been completely out of her control, and she's even tried to warn them off. Is she still liable?
Wait, full stop. Your saying when my shit is confiscated and used against my wishes in an un-intended application by an uninformed outside operator (read: not me) I am somehow liable when this not me person uses it wrong and asses up his own gear? What about my right to remain silent? What if its labeled PERSONAL?
What if I straight up TELL the border control agent - "This thumbdrive is dangerous and will kill his computer, do not attempt to view the contents?"
This is a real honest question. No snark.
I love the idea of a nasty little red herring hiding in my personal private papers and effects.
The Playstation Vita has just recently been inducted into my pile of exploited systems running game backups and homebrew. From what I understand of the scene, one of the exploits has already been ported to the ps4, POC is somewhere on youtube.
Now is the time for Sony to release new hardware that cannot physically run older exploited firmware to slam shut the piracy/homebrew door for at least a little while longer. Its the same game, over and over.
Slashdot Mirror
Wow. Tool.
You will know when I'm trying to (sic) "quote from someone smarter than yourself", because that's when I will use "italics and/or bold font in quotation marks"
We are not discussing "physical force" See how I used the quotes there, tool? Its not in bold or italic because I'm not actually quoting your stupid ass, but instead I've just called attention to a phrase that is being discussed. I've still not quoted somebody "smarter than me"
Since we are learning the difference between a statement and a quotation, I have one for you, from somebody likely way smarter than me, and its even got your name in it!
"A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit." - Thomas Jefferson
Do I think it makes me feels smart? Nope. You know what does make me feel smart? You.
Government hates competition.
This is different because the movie theater is not offering you the use of a acceptable cellphone at a $200.00 price point.
No reason to stop them. If they want to cut corners, let them. Buyer beware. It's dangerous going to space, and if your going, you are expected to have accepted that. Ensure your cargo.
You are welcome to spend more money on your own safer "death-trap" ticket. Some of us are willing to accept a little risk to do great things.
Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Them city folks just said its ok fer ussin to be shootin up all them low flyin aeroplanes. Turns out them city-slickers been peepin out them windows into yonder bathroom window while grampa's a-poopin.
In response to the rising threat of technology, we we will be raising the bar of entry into this field by requiring licensing on a per unit basis. If that's not enough to keep you normies from building aircraft yourselves, we will just have to make big scary noises and look really worried until your neighbors start shooting the things from the sky!
Silly civilians, don't you know that airspace and spying are for government and fortune 500 companies only? How dare you plebs build your own technology platform and attempt to use your obviously dangerous and scary creation in our skies. It's.....It's.... It's.... um... Ah HA! Its invasion of privacy! See!? Even your peers are not having this! We all know we are so interesting that you just cannot help yourself to taking a peek over our high walls. Why, just the other day another one of your scary death-copters was heroically shot from the skies behind my tennis court. The falling hardware could have damaged my new Tesla...er.. I mean kid, could have damaged my CHILD!... could have damaged YOUR CHILDREN! THREE CHEERS FOR THE DRONE SLAYER!
Drones are toys for the scaryiorist and pedophiles, now get back in line. Traffic is heavy today and you still have another 8 hours of productivity quota to meet.
+1
Sometimes the old ways are best. At worse, catapult a few wind up radios over and give them a couple of OTR style uprising stories at night. change freqs every few days.... give the project a budget and build in some comsec so they cant step all over your signal. Hell, do it Vault-tek style and call each group of radios a social experiment and maybe learn a little something about the way oppressed humans think.
Call me paranoid, but I find the way western governments keep asking us citizens to show them how the garage hacker and junkyard engineer would do these things (break a comms blackout, build cheap weapons, hack the enemy) a little troubling. You can bet they are all taking notes.
War is piece, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, stop is begin.
And prices less insane, the pirates will play. Well, most of them. see: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime.
Bonus points for not attacking your customer base.
We can "cure" all diseases just as easily as "ending" all "homelessness", "hunger" and "Facebook".
cure=treat
ending=hiding
homeless=long term pedestrian
hunger=foodeater
people=distractees
facebook=distractors
Problems solved. Now wheres my cut of the money ol' Zuky?
Does this get the Robocop joke? Terminator? Jonny 5? Robot overlord?
Wait....Go-Go Gadget Extendo.......no. Forget it. I'm not funny.
I see what you did there.
News organisations are always wanting to protect their sources, so now they want the FBI to give out theirs? So the next time they are asked to give their sources on something are they going to? Not likely. Also, what reason do they need to know who or how it was cracked? As for costs, being tax payers money, that should be disclosed but that's about it.
FBI Mission & Prioritiest
Just a quick glance at this should highlight some answers to your question for you, but in case the chips are still not falling into place, I'll highlight the reasons that most resonate with me personally.
A constitutional responsibility to protect my privacy
The FBI is expected to respect my right to privacy, not hide the master-keys away in case we need it later.
The FBI is expected to Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes, not claim monopoly on them.
The FBIs actions in this regard are at odds with their stated mission on multiple points, and IANAL, but it looks to me like pretty shaky legal ground as well.
News media's use of confidential sources has been tested and upheld MANY times. We like it that way, protected sources are important. Look to Snowden to see an example of what can happen when sources go on record regarding high profile corruption. It seems to be sometimes forgotten, but the press enjoys certain protections on expectation that it will act as a watchdog, reigning in our government when it over-reaches/misbehaves.
Pretty awesome link. Thank you.
What do you suggest we do with the people who are unemployable?
1.
We shove them into prisons, and by prisons I mean forced re-education facilities. This employs humans, as (in my opinion) human empathy is a key ingredient to successfully educating a humans, and I don't expect even the smartest AI will master human empathy for a very long time. Its our one special skill.
The real question being, "Who writes the curriculum?"
2.
Colonist.... space colonist. Even with massive amounts of automated labor, there will be no shortage of things needing doing on whatever inhospitable planet we choose to send the poor souls to, and it will likely kill them... making more room for more humans and adding more biomass to the raw materials available on $PLANET or $MOON
3.
War. I expect this is the most likely outcome... idle hands and all that... problem solves itself.
4.
Like the best SNES games, if you play though the game just right, you get the good ending. This is where everybody finally realizes that we don't actually have to do anything we don't want anymore, and anybody can have pretty much anything they want, for no more effort than asking the neighborhood fabrication bot to produce it for them. We all spend our lives making culture and experiencing VR representations of the dark ages before massive automation, when everybody was forced to sell their time and energy to stay alive, else be considered useless loads on society that must be made into space colonists, re-educated, or conscripted into the armies of the world.
Yes, I'm one of those crazy futurist guys. I also build robots, and am trying my damn hardest to carefully automate all of us out of the workforce ASAP, so we can all get to the good ending already.
Now the fleets of self driving cars will be sipping "hot coffee" and beating the hookers to collect their money back for services rendered.
They will also know how to rack up a respectable 5 start wanted level and just hide under a bridge till it all goes away.
Oh, and my favorite new autonomous feature? Spawning attack choppers out of thin air to aid in robbing every convenience store in the city while performing the above two tasks.
You're being an overthinking idiot. If you have a bomb that looks like a brick, and hand it to a guard and say that it's a bomb, you're going to be charged with whatever destruction the bomb does, not get cool props for handing over something that looks like a brick.
But that's not what happens in my fiction. I've not handed anything over. Somebody has decided they have the authority to take it from me, and use it against my wishes, while ignoring my warnings. This piece of tech is not illegal to posses.. and its also not a bomb.
I'll try a new, more fun fiction, and roll in a car analogy cuz slashdot-
Hillary has modified her Mazda to go from 0-60 in 3 seconds, and to have non-functioning breaks. She did this for the purpose of auto crash research relating to older model seat-belts. She has her papers in order and has paid for all of the appropriate bribes, fees, and licenses.
There is nothing wrong with this as long as she keeps off the public roadways and conducts her research in a controlled lab environment. Her license and fees paid says so.
While transporting her crash-dummy-death-machine on an approved and licensed trailer, it is "civilly forfeited"
She tells her assailant that it is not safe to drive, but he speeds away down the road.... right into a burning Tesla, a BLM protest, and Trumps motorcade
These events have been completely out of her control, and she's even tried to warn them off. Is she still liable?
Wait, full stop. Your saying when my shit is confiscated and used against my wishes in an un-intended application by an uninformed outside operator (read: not me) I am somehow liable when this not me person uses it wrong and asses up his own gear? What about my right to remain silent? What if its labeled PERSONAL?
What if I straight up TELL the border control agent -
"This thumbdrive is dangerous and will kill his computer, do not attempt to view the contents?"
This is a real honest question. No snark.
I love the idea of a nasty little red herring hiding in my personal private papers and effects.
So.... If I move to India and re-apply, can I get my old job back?
Facebook challenged in 3...2....1....
I'm here to slim down and remove headphone ports.... and I'm all outta headphone ports.
The Playstation Vita has just recently been inducted into my pile of exploited systems running game backups and homebrew. From what I understand of the scene, one of the exploits has already been ported to the ps4, POC is somewhere on youtube.
Now is the time for Sony to release new hardware that cannot physically run older exploited firmware to slam shut the piracy/homebrew door for at least a little while longer. Its the same game, over and over.
We should program all humans to be equal by design. Therefore, all babies since now on should be clones. We just need to find the perfect template.
The future is YOU.
As if "we the people" need any more help not trusting our government.