I'm sick of all the privacy warriors ruining all the cool shit that people come up with because of some fucked up fantasy that someone gives a shit about what people have stored on their computer. Newsflash: nobody does.
How long will it take to do away with the trade system as we know it? I envision a future where production is fully automated and 100% robotic. ALL the jobs are gone. There is a fleet of robots whose sole purpose is to maintain the robots. The robots make more better robots. Goods no longer cost any human time to produce.
Soon the burger factory will have burgers piled to the sky, the car factory will run out of horizontal space and start stacking them and the breweries all over the world will finally have more beer than we can all drink. The owner will stand between these burger mountains/car stacks, and the starving people, rightly demanding payment for his investment.
The big question is: How many will die for the mountains of food and beer and shit before everybody realizes that the only things scarce enough to merit payment anymore are time and human companionship? Will the whole system crumble, or will we finally usher in the golden age of humanity.... or something completely different?
I just removed 9/10 of this post, I really started rambling like an even more crazy person towards the end there...... Boy! Its an exciting time to be alive!
Yes! Its Friday! Yes! We said the same thing. Yes! I've been drinking. Yes! Just YES! I have a chemist friend who says there is some magical chemical I can use to pull the plating off of all this hardware, but I'll have to give up all this wonderful 20 year old tech to do it...... I still haven't decided.... I'll use it someday.
Same here, I have been fighting KB3035583 on a bunch of domain joined systems. The volume licences ones even pop the get windows 10 icon, they are just not as pushy- the user needs to click he cute little window icon before it kicks off. Removing and blacklisting the KB only works for >12 hours before the scheduled task re-runs the little nag window....... the more you know.
You're correct, though the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction treaty was signed in 1997, and has since then accumulated 133 signatory parties all doing their part, keeping those EOD boys and girls excited.
AP Mines are recognized as pure evil, and we no longer make and sell them to dictators and such. (or at least that's what we SAY) Our evils are much smarter now, and the smarter evils will keep getting smarter. This is the discussion we need to be having. As the IT crowd, we all know there is a host of very bad things that can go wrong with the use of even semi-autonomous anythings..... for countless reasons, not the least being security. I wouldn't want to be the guy fusing and/or priming the boomboom box that operates on some remote signal, doubly so in a populated place like a munitions depot or air force garrison full of bored soldiers and airmen on their smartphones.
NO. The content on the disc is paid for licensed. Commercials bring no value. Give me the movie for free and I'll consider it OK to have to push the mute button on the commercials. Besides that, I'll get Cheetos dust on my fancy NSA sponsored smart-remote....
So, if a corporation can just make up its rights and decide how far over the line its allowed to go, and then bury these made up things and over-reaches in legalees, AND THEN tell me, "By opening this package and installing this software you agree to the terms of this agreement", AND asking me to click accept over and over again until I'm numb to the word AND remove my right to sell my purchased license to another party.... whats to stop ME from doing the same thing?
Mine says in the first sentence that it supersedes any and all agreements pertaining to my personal information, locations and activities relating to any piece of technology hardware I operate, binding or otherwise, with any person or corporation that does not have the same physical fingerprints as I do, and is subject to change, without notice, at any time.
At this point... I could maybe secure my system in the name of the COPY PROTECTION of my personal data.... just a little bit...just enough to make em accidentally try for it instead of just giving it to em. Then I just wait for %FACELESS_CORPORATION to find a way to circumvent my weak half-assed *copy protection* in some automated manner, THEN BAM! I cry foul... its off to the arbiter of my choosing for the damages of my choosing yadda yadda yadda.... Its all in the agreement you accepted when you sold me software! and now %FACELESS_CORPORATION has circumvented my fancy copy protections! DMCA time! More DAMAGES!
No more software for telemetry data trades? FINE. I remember the 90s, I got along just fine... I still don't carry a cell phone, I already run my own email server, and I have no problem reading my own freaking maps.
Can I replace the battery without breaking out a heat gun and/or buying proprietary screwdrivers? Does it hold a charge for at least an 8 hour work day+ reasonable commute time? Can I *REALLY* turn its telemetry data reporting off when it suits me? Does it fit into my reasonably sized pocket? Does it cost less than a used car?
If the answer to any of these questions is not a triumphant YES!, then I don't see how more control of manufacturing is going to make you more competitive. Just keep pushing that "pure" experience... less is more.
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I'm sick of all the privacy warriors ruining all the cool shit that people come up with because of some fucked up fantasy that someone gives a shit about what people have stored on their computer. Newsflash: nobody does.
I beg to differ
everybody realizes that the only things scarce enough to merit payment anymore are time and human companionship?
So the very first profession will also be the very last one too?
NOPE. That job was automated a while ago.
How long will it take to do away with the trade system as we know it? I envision a future where production is fully automated and 100% robotic. ALL the jobs are gone. There is a fleet of robots whose sole purpose is to maintain the robots. The robots make more better robots. Goods no longer cost any human time to produce.
Soon the burger factory will have burgers piled to the sky, the car factory will run out of horizontal space and start stacking them and the breweries all over the world will finally have more beer than we can all drink. The owner will stand between these burger mountains/car stacks, and the starving people, rightly demanding payment for his investment.
The big question is: How many will die for the mountains of food and beer and shit before everybody realizes that the only things scarce enough to merit payment anymore are time and human companionship? Will the whole system crumble, or will we finally usher in the golden age of humanity.... or something completely different?
I just removed 9/10 of this post, I really started rambling like an even more crazy person towards the end there...... Boy! Its an exciting time to be alive!
Yes! Its Friday! Yes! We said the same thing. Yes! I've been drinking. Yes! Just YES! I have a chemist friend who says there is some magical chemical I can use to pull the plating off of all this hardware, but I'll have to give up all this wonderful 20 year old tech to do it...... I still haven't decided.... I'll use it someday.
Accually, right now it $39.+change/g. aint metal cool? and holds its value!
Can us little people see please? I'm be pretty interested in the stacks of transcribed phone-calls between my grandfather and his mistress.
Same here, I have been fighting KB3035583 on a bunch of domain joined systems. The volume licences ones even pop the get windows 10 icon, they are just not as pushy- the user needs to click he cute little window icon before it kicks off. Removing and blacklisting the KB only works for >12 hours before the scheduled task re-runs the little nag window....... the more you know.
The devil you know.
I think you just coined my new sig. Thank you for that!
You're correct, though the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction treaty was signed in 1997, and has since then accumulated 133 signatory parties all doing their part, keeping those EOD boys and girls excited.
http://www.un.org/disarmament/...
AP Mines are recognized as pure evil, and we no longer make and sell them to dictators and such. (or at least that's what we SAY) Our evils are much smarter now, and the smarter evils will keep getting smarter. This is the discussion we need to be having. As the IT crowd, we all know there is a host of very bad things that can go wrong with the use of even semi-autonomous anythings..... for countless reasons, not the least being security. I wouldn't want to be the guy fusing and/or priming the boomboom box that operates on some remote signal, doubly so in a populated place like a munitions depot or air force garrison full of bored soldiers and airmen on their smartphones.
NO. The content on the disc is paid for licensed. Commercials bring no value. Give me the movie for free and I'll consider it OK to have to push the mute button on the commercials. Besides that, I'll get Cheetos dust on my fancy NSA sponsored smart-remote....
So, if a corporation can just make up its rights and decide how far over the line its allowed to go, and then bury these made up things and over-reaches in legalees, AND THEN tell me, "By opening this package and installing this software you agree to the terms of this agreement", AND asking me to click accept over and over again until I'm numb to the word AND remove my right to sell my purchased license to another party.... whats to stop ME from doing the same thing?
Mine says in the first sentence that it supersedes any and all agreements pertaining to my personal information, locations and activities relating to any piece of technology hardware I operate, binding or otherwise, with any person or corporation that does not have the same physical fingerprints as I do, and is subject to change, without notice, at any time.
At this point... I could maybe secure my system in the name of the COPY PROTECTION of my personal data.... just a little bit...just enough to make em accidentally try for it instead of just giving it to em. Then I just wait for %FACELESS_CORPORATION to find a way to circumvent my weak half-assed *copy protection* in some automated manner, THEN BAM! I cry foul... its off to the arbiter of my choosing for the damages of my choosing yadda yadda yadda.... Its all in the agreement you accepted when you sold me software! and now %FACELESS_CORPORATION has circumvented my fancy copy protections! DMCA time! More DAMAGES!
No more software for telemetry data trades? FINE. I remember the 90s, I got along just fine... I still don't carry a cell phone, I already run my own email server, and I have no problem reading my own freaking maps.
Uh oh.. I'm rambling now..
Can I replace the battery without breaking out a heat gun and/or buying proprietary screwdrivers?
Does it hold a charge for at least an 8 hour work day+ reasonable commute time?
Can I *REALLY* turn its telemetry data reporting off when it suits me?
Does it fit into my reasonably sized pocket?
Does it cost less than a used car?
If the answer to any of these questions is not a triumphant YES!, then I don't see how more control of manufacturing is going to make you more competitive.
Just keep pushing that "pure" experience... less is more.