Oh, damn, wish I saw that sooner before actually providing you with facts you don't care about.
Yes, I use technology, that makes me a shill by your definition.
Continue on with your fantasies, I'll stop ruining them.
Funny, I've spent the past decade in crypto work. Guess you're the expert on shady shit and why people do it though, being someone willing to put so much effort into Correcting The Record .
This is false. You don't need access inside a network or on the physical machine, it has been proven to "call home" and receive orders much as botnets do, over unblocked HTTP requests. You can't stop it if it is plugged into a network and all of the benefits you listed already existed in other forms which didn't require a massive multi-million-dollar engineering effort to stick inside the chip undetected for years. If it were legitimate it would have been public knowledge from the start, not a secret projects the alphabet agencies recruited hardware developers for, required top secret clearance to undertake within the Intel team working on it, etc. This is spyware, nothing else. The justifications for the existence of it are like the shills saying the NEST thermostats legitimately need always-on-4G-connections and cameras so they can pick up your stupid arm flailing gestures to turn the temperature up/down - there are easier ways to do it, cheaper ways to do it, and the actual application is fucking dumb - the only plausible explanation is that it is spyware.
Well, that's fucking scary. What is the alleged upside to Intel ME? Asking for a friend...
There is none. It was created in a secret program within Intel, hidden for years, only the US and Israeli governments have access to it, and it consumes resources on the machine it operates on while spying and intercepting everything going through it to transmit off for analysis (when it doesn't do the analysis locally.)
After they were discovered they suggested it was a means to allow for remote management of machines by system admins, but no system admins actually have access to it anywhere to do more than remotely start/stop machines (and the thing is a complete Linux operating system on a chip which has access to all the hardware, it's far more than a remote start/stop engine, which already existed in much simpler/less-costly forms.)
It's nothing but spyware and a backdoor into your machine.
Intel and Dell aren't even remotely the same. Intel is a largely foreign-owned corporation which integrates sleazy components like the management engine under secret projects on behalf of alphabet agencies. Dell on the other hand has the best hardware support I've encountered in my decade and a half in IT while the fucking owner is extremely approachable. I sent him a message years back, had a genuine conversation, and he seemed legitimately like a cool person who was really passionate about his projects - while I was/am ostensibly a nobody from the perspective of anyone worth billions of dollars. I've never heard a bad story about Dell from anyone in person beyond "shit broke and I was too lazy to take advantage of the support service," and have had dozens of times where things were well beyond (by years) any support agreement or warranty on the individual piece of hardware and they still replaced the parts after simply calling and paying for postage.
It's not Dell's fault and it did genuinely take some effort on their part to figure out a way to do this without bricking machines in a fairly reliable manner. They also tend to have the best support in the industry, meaning if Intel figures out a way to reactivate it Dell will be on the hook for disabling it again, $20-$40 is nothing for that kind of long term support on a system they have no actual control over.
Bribing teachers in an attempt to reduce wages by saturating a relatively expensive labor market which doesn't lend itself to college-level-indoctrination programs, thereby cutting costs in the long term while reducing the spending power of anyone who isn't a hopelessly brainwashed plebeian.
I don't expect Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon to not be evil, but it would be nice if they could at least be fined until they go bankrupt for trying this bullshit.
What's really amazing is how you can write so many words which claim to be in favor of substance, yet lack it entirely. Did you write all that with your eyes closed doing that weird euphoric face typical of people living in San Francisco?
That's all of the "social sciences" - a bunch of shysters wanted in on the irreproachable nature of scientific fact, too dim to understand why it was such but believing their opinions were more important and should rightly be treated as absolute edicts just as scientific law was. In turn they created "social sciences," gave high ranking positions and papers to eachother, then proceeded to drag the entire world into shit for the last several decades by enacting their self-obsessed greedy policies. People with "social science" degrees should be treated no differently than felons: strip them of voting rights, keep them disarmed, and generally keep them on a short leash such that they go away if they do anything else out of line - the damage they've done to Humanity as a whole is much greater than their properly prosecuted counterparts.
Bitcoin isn't useful for circumvention, every single transaction ever made in it is publicly available. All it takes is seeing where someone spent it on something real to connect people together, it's much more traceable than cash. It's not even harder to enforce save for the fact the central banks aren't the ones controlling it, which for that alone they hate. Governments and banks take a percentage of every single transaction, be it purchasing food, paying rent, being paid income, even sitting idle in a checking account via inflation, etc - they have huge mechanations in place to orchestrate the whole scam yet while it is just as simple to do so for Bitcoin, they don't have those systems built at present and the huge number of cryptocurrencies available means if they try people will just switch to another one, while they are too fucking greedy to make an exchange without swindling everyone until they leave before they reach a critical mass. Economists are their own worst enemies.
You misunderstand me. I wasn't insulting you for having low-T, I was insulting you for being passive-aggressive and suggested low-T as a possible explanation. Though don't worry, this is a typical misunderstanding someone with low-T would make and it is an easily resolved issue with modern medicine.
Are you joking? Silicon Valley isn't a tech hub, they're a.com hub. They are a part of the problem, but they most certainly aren't innovating anything. They're marketing and PR hacks, lots of writers and social justice types, who focus on presenting themselves as innovative. Nobody actually working in tech buys that nonsense.
"The geeks are working on it right now, but we need the designers, we need the sociologists, and we need people who study ethics of technology to participate."
We literally need none of those people, they're just the buddies of the people who write stupid articles like this.
Even if they all worked on Firefox it would be understandable imo. If you've ever tried to write a browser from scratch (i.e. not just using the V8 engine and webkit) you'd know how utterly grueling it is to even hit 10% of what is in the web standards for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
That said, hopefully they can use a sub-percentage fraction of the massive increase in revenue they've seen (which is kind of bullshit as a nonprofit, but nevermind that) to finally build Widevine for FreeBSD. The only thing keeping my on Windows (even as a dual boot) is that I can't stream videos from Amazon, Google, or Netflix on FreeBSD because nobody has compiled Widevine for it and it's a closed source tool only the big browser vendors like Mozilla have access to. I seriously doubt it even has far out dependencies since it runs fine on Linux, it's probably just a matter of having a dev get a FreeBSD machine and type make then uploading the damned thing to the ports tree.
I don't know if this can be stopped but it should be.
Fuck that, I hope every nation does this. I might finally be able to play a game of DotA 2 without it being filled with a bunch of toxic Peruvians claiming everyone is a "rat."
There is a massive eavesdropping system at the ISP level. Endpoints are an issue, but that is not where the bulk of data is collected by any stretch of the imagination.
The #1 reason to use HTTPS everywhere is that it adds a lot of noise, which is non-trivial in relation to thwarting a potential eavesdropper. If you know anything encrypted is worth snooping on (as it was years ago and still is to some degree) then you know where to focus your efforts. On the other hand, if EVERYTHING is encrypted at all times then you have to have some foreknowledge of what you are looking for in order to start looking. A fully encrypted web is inherently a much more secure web, if nothing else it means the NSA has to save every single packet going over the wire until someone cracks the algorithms encrypting it, which itself is probably at least a few decades away.
Nah, they'll try to sooth things over. Japan isn't a sovereign nation so much as a petri dish in which to develop Humans with a high tolerance to radiation so we can sequence the genes and apply them across all of Humanity to make space colonization easier. Fukushima is wearing off so a rogue nation popping a wave of nukes off onto their coast would make a great third exposure.
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Oh, damn, wish I saw that sooner before actually providing you with facts you don't care about. Yes, I use technology, that makes me a shill by your definition. Continue on with your fantasies, I'll stop ruining them.
Funny, I've spent the past decade in crypto work. Guess you're the expert on shady shit and why people do it though, being someone willing to put so much effort into Correcting The Record .
This is false. You don't need access inside a network or on the physical machine, it has been proven to "call home" and receive orders much as botnets do, over unblocked HTTP requests. You can't stop it if it is plugged into a network and all of the benefits you listed already existed in other forms which didn't require a massive multi-million-dollar engineering effort to stick inside the chip undetected for years. If it were legitimate it would have been public knowledge from the start, not a secret projects the alphabet agencies recruited hardware developers for, required top secret clearance to undertake within the Intel team working on it, etc. This is spyware, nothing else. The justifications for the existence of it are like the shills saying the NEST thermostats legitimately need always-on-4G-connections and cameras so they can pick up your stupid arm flailing gestures to turn the temperature up/down - there are easier ways to do it, cheaper ways to do it, and the actual application is fucking dumb - the only plausible explanation is that it is spyware.
Well, that's fucking scary. What is the alleged upside to Intel ME? Asking for a friend...
There is none. It was created in a secret program within Intel, hidden for years, only the US and Israeli governments have access to it, and it consumes resources on the machine it operates on while spying and intercepting everything going through it to transmit off for analysis (when it doesn't do the analysis locally.)
After they were discovered they suggested it was a means to allow for remote management of machines by system admins, but no system admins actually have access to it anywhere to do more than remotely start/stop machines (and the thing is a complete Linux operating system on a chip which has access to all the hardware, it's far more than a remote start/stop engine, which already existed in much simpler/less-costly forms.)
It's nothing but spyware and a backdoor into your machine.
What is Intel Management Engine and why is it so bad that we want to disable it?
I get this feeling you don't belong on a site for nerds, not quite sure where it comes from...
Intel and Dell aren't even remotely the same. Intel is a largely foreign-owned corporation which integrates sleazy components like the management engine under secret projects on behalf of alphabet agencies. Dell on the other hand has the best hardware support I've encountered in my decade and a half in IT while the fucking owner is extremely approachable. I sent him a message years back, had a genuine conversation, and he seemed legitimately like a cool person who was really passionate about his projects - while I was/am ostensibly a nobody from the perspective of anyone worth billions of dollars. I've never heard a bad story about Dell from anyone in person beyond "shit broke and I was too lazy to take advantage of the support service," and have had dozens of times where things were well beyond (by years) any support agreement or warranty on the individual piece of hardware and they still replaced the parts after simply calling and paying for postage.
It's not Dell's fault and it did genuinely take some effort on their part to figure out a way to do this without bricking machines in a fairly reliable manner. They also tend to have the best support in the industry, meaning if Intel figures out a way to reactivate it Dell will be on the hook for disabling it again, $20-$40 is nothing for that kind of long term support on a system they have no actual control over.
Bribing teachers in an attempt to reduce wages by saturating a relatively expensive labor market which doesn't lend itself to college-level-indoctrination programs, thereby cutting costs in the long term while reducing the spending power of anyone who isn't a hopelessly brainwashed plebeian.
I don't expect Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon to not be evil, but it would be nice if they could at least be fined until they go bankrupt for trying this bullshit.
What's really amazing is how you can write so many words which claim to be in favor of substance, yet lack it entirely. Did you write all that with your eyes closed doing that weird euphoric face typical of people living in San Francisco?
That's all of the "social sciences" - a bunch of shysters wanted in on the irreproachable nature of scientific fact, too dim to understand why it was such but believing their opinions were more important and should rightly be treated as absolute edicts just as scientific law was. In turn they created "social sciences," gave high ranking positions and papers to eachother, then proceeded to drag the entire world into shit for the last several decades by enacting their self-obsessed greedy policies. People with "social science" degrees should be treated no differently than felons: strip them of voting rights, keep them disarmed, and generally keep them on a short leash such that they go away if they do anything else out of line - the damage they've done to Humanity as a whole is much greater than their properly prosecuted counterparts.
Bitcoin isn't useful for circumvention, every single transaction ever made in it is publicly available. All it takes is seeing where someone spent it on something real to connect people together, it's much more traceable than cash. It's not even harder to enforce save for the fact the central banks aren't the ones controlling it, which for that alone they hate. Governments and banks take a percentage of every single transaction, be it purchasing food, paying rent, being paid income, even sitting idle in a checking account via inflation, etc - they have huge mechanations in place to orchestrate the whole scam yet while it is just as simple to do so for Bitcoin, they don't have those systems built at present and the huge number of cryptocurrencies available means if they try people will just switch to another one, while they are too fucking greedy to make an exchange without swindling everyone until they leave before they reach a critical mass. Economists are their own worst enemies.
Well said.
Since a bunch of Liberal globalists like McCain started calling themselves Republican to trick people, so for awhile.
You misunderstand me. I wasn't insulting you for having low-T, I was insulting you for being passive-aggressive and suggested low-T as a possible explanation. Though don't worry, this is a typical misunderstanding someone with low-T would make and it is an easily resolved issue with modern medicine.
Are you joking? Silicon Valley isn't a tech hub, they're a .com hub. They are a part of the problem, but they most certainly aren't innovating anything. They're marketing and PR hacks, lots of writers and social justice types, who focus on presenting themselves as innovative. Nobody actually working in tech buys that nonsense.
I would argue with you and normally also try to explain why globalism is good, but today I won't...
And yet you did, albeit in a really passive-aggressive low-testosterone way.
There's a reason the term RiNO exists. Establishment "Republicans" are just globalists in disguise.
"The geeks are working on it right now, but we need the designers, we need the sociologists, and we need people who study ethics of technology to participate."
We literally need none of those people, they're just the buddies of the people who write stupid articles like this.
Even if they all worked on Firefox it would be understandable imo. If you've ever tried to write a browser from scratch (i.e. not just using the V8 engine and webkit) you'd know how utterly grueling it is to even hit 10% of what is in the web standards for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
That said, hopefully they can use a sub-percentage fraction of the massive increase in revenue they've seen (which is kind of bullshit as a nonprofit, but nevermind that) to finally build Widevine for FreeBSD. The only thing keeping my on Windows (even as a dual boot) is that I can't stream videos from Amazon, Google, or Netflix on FreeBSD because nobody has compiled Widevine for it and it's a closed source tool only the big browser vendors like Mozilla have access to. I seriously doubt it even has far out dependencies since it runs fine on Linux, it's probably just a matter of having a dev get a FreeBSD machine and type make then uploading the damned thing to the ports tree.
We need pretext to split the net, sorry.
Red scare 2.0, baby!
Can't bring about 1984 when everyone is playing vidya with the Eurasians.
I don't know if this can be stopped but it should be.
Fuck that, I hope every nation does this. I might finally be able to play a game of DotA 2 without it being filled with a bunch of toxic Peruvians claiming everyone is a "rat."
We would benefit from just calling everything "cyber" and replacing hashtags with AOL keywords.
Only if we could figure out how to synergize the paradigms.
There is a massive eavesdropping system at the ISP level. Endpoints are an issue, but that is not where the bulk of data is collected by any stretch of the imagination.
For all they knew, the tattoo could have been an artifact of previous poor life choices, and nothing more than a joke.
Or a sign that he was the latest victim on Hillary's death list who knew too much to risk being revived.
The #1 reason to use HTTPS everywhere is that it adds a lot of noise, which is non-trivial in relation to thwarting a potential eavesdropper. If you know anything encrypted is worth snooping on (as it was years ago and still is to some degree) then you know where to focus your efforts. On the other hand, if EVERYTHING is encrypted at all times then you have to have some foreknowledge of what you are looking for in order to start looking. A fully encrypted web is inherently a much more secure web, if nothing else it means the NSA has to save every single packet going over the wire until someone cracks the algorithms encrypting it, which itself is probably at least a few decades away.
Nah, they'll try to sooth things over. Japan isn't a sovereign nation so much as a petri dish in which to develop Humans with a high tolerance to radiation so we can sequence the genes and apply them across all of Humanity to make space colonization easier. Fukushima is wearing off so a rogue nation popping a wave of nukes off onto their coast would make a great third exposure.