Humanity tried constructing limited governments that nobody, even by vote, could seize control over everybody in most aspects. Even that seems to be on a slow, grinding down failboat.
It's important you 225,000 let the elected officials know your displeasure at this at the next election. Especially the ones who throw up their hands and say, "I had nothing to do with this!"
BTW, Governor Brown knows this, and understands the difference between rhetoric fed to you for your vote, and the poitical calamity of losing billions in taxes as industries flee the state.
I'm fine with sensationalistic reporting on this issue.
We have CNN reporting more on political calculations of both sides in the shutdown, as if that's news.
We have "reporting" on "concerns" one side or the other has of the other side harming themselves politically on myriad issues, not just this, all treated as on the level rather than facetiousness incarnate.
We have polls and BS like Sinead worrying about Miley, another excuse to show her naked body on a wrecking ball.
None of this will be of concern, or even remembered, in a few years.
Loss of freedom because an uncontrolled spy system was abused by politicians to spy on political opponents will be.
I have to agree with this. I switched from Altavista long after most had switched to Google, and did so primarily because of better results. I don't recall Altavista being choking with ads or misleading links, though Google's clean design is definitely refreshing.
They seem to have done something the AI community suspected, that a big chunk of intelligence wasn't deep understanding (whatever that is) but memorizing billions of special cases. Misspellings, all this stuff, can be done via learned correctional, statistical associations rather than hand-crafted algorithms. You wrap the learned associations around the algorithms like Soundex.
My children were taught -- taught, mind you -- that Reagan was an awful, awful president for the common man
I assume you have no problem with the current status quo who has completely locked up public education? But let a private company recommend a book, hells noes!
If these were the Nixon years, would a G. Gordon Liddy type of agent walk in and listen to conversations? With little or no technological barriers or even uncorruptible logging with review, then what?
It's not about the honest agent. IT's about power grabs. Powerful people only need one, and if he can get lost in the woodwork...
There's more than that. Just building the infrastructure that can be abused later is not a light step to take.
Oh they will only use it for terrorism...until they take down Silk Road. And after that...?
With hundreds of agents having access and the ability to listen in on phone calls without warrants or detection (the warrant is apparently on the honor system) it will be abused to spy on political opponents to counteract and discredit, and there goes freedom.
You can lead by encouraging economic freedom, while still being, properly, wary of the nasty dictatorship that still has a long way to go in opening up.
Every penny is about politics. When you realize that, it all turns into memes fighting for dominance using "reality hooks" to motivate actions that help them spread.
They are the mental DNA, and your body and mind are the equivalent of proteins and chemicals in the cell flowing their instructions.
Why rope off grass? If it were about money, why pay back furloughed workers? Oh, meme invocation mechanism 37b: make actuator cog "feel bad" so as to disadvantage opposing meme.
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Humanity tried constructing limited governments that nobody, even by vote, could seize control over everybody in most aspects. Even that seems to be on a slow, grinding down failboat.
I know I heard this claim once before, about 20 years ago. At least the granularity of "fusion is right around the corner" is being improved.
Pretty cool, where's my brain interface? I want to move less than with a mouse. Waving my hands or arms about is going the wrong way.
> That's about 225,000 users
It's important you 225,000 let the elected officials know your displeasure at this at the next election. Especially the ones who throw up their hands and say, "I had nothing to do with this!"
BTW, Governor Brown knows this, and understands the difference between rhetoric fed to you for your vote, and the poitical calamity of losing billions in taxes as industries flee the state.
Heh heh heh I said brown knows.
Alternatively, keep drilling into their testicles with your new power drill, and see if they keep staying.
People vote with their feet, too, and there are 49, well, about 42 other states and Puerto Rico to go to.
I'm fine with sensationalistic reporting on this issue.
We have CNN reporting more on political calculations of both sides in the shutdown, as if that's news.
We have "reporting" on "concerns" one side or the other has of the other side harming themselves politically on myriad issues, not just this, all treated as on the level rather than facetiousness incarnate.
We have polls and BS like Sinead worrying about Miley, another excuse to show her naked body on a wrecking ball.
None of this will be of concern, or even remembered, in a few years.
Loss of freedom because an uncontrolled spy system was abused by politicians to spy on political opponents will be.
Did you know it took 631 spear chucks from a single Orc spear chucker to destroy the human castle at the end of a level?
I have to agree with this. I switched from Altavista long after most had switched to Google, and did so primarily because of better results. I don't recall Altavista being choking with ads or misleading links, though Google's clean design is definitely refreshing.
They seem to have done something the AI community suspected, that a big chunk of intelligence wasn't deep understanding (whatever that is) but memorizing billions of special cases. Misspellings, all this stuff, can be done via learned correctional, statistical associations rather than hand-crafted algorithms. You wrap the learned associations around the algorithms like Soundex.
2020, wow! That's only 7 years away, can they get ready that fast?
Well, I suppose if Chinese gymnasts not yet born can get ready by then, they can, too.
Supply and demand. You lower the costs is, economically the equivalent of increasing supply, and people will find a use for it.
Jevon's Paradox seems rooted in a static rather than dynamic analysis.
There are other concerns, like pollution, but as shortages go people in a free society solve problems faster than they become serious.
This is why I laughed at the whole Peak Oil bullshit, a tired retread of 1970s shortage scares. Note Simon's minimum 10 year granularity though.
Hmmm. Maybe $10 billion euros does equal $1.3 billion.
This must be the same calculator England used to estimate it would take £530 to cover the country wirelessly.
We in the US have nothing to fear.
Apparently it fancies itself a junior high school version of Volokh Conspiracy and other constitutional law blogs.
That only buys about 50 muffins for a government meeting in the US.
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My children were taught -- taught, mind you -- that Reagan was an awful, awful president for the common man
I assume you have no problem with the current status quo who has completely locked up public education? But let a private company recommend a book, hells noes!
become a threat...to the landed gentry.
Finish your jokes off properly, please.
In a similar fashion, most nerds on Slashdot have never been turned down by a beautiful woman.
Congress was going to give them back pay anyway, so they basically had their free paid vacations yanked.
If these were the Nixon years, would a G. Gordon Liddy type of agent walk in and listen to conversations? With little or no technological barriers or even uncorruptible logging with review, then what?
It's not about the honest agent. IT's about power grabs. Powerful people only need one, and if he can get lost in the woodwork...
There's more than that. Just building the infrastructure that can be abused later is not a light step to take.
Oh they will only use it for terrorism...until they take down Silk Road. And after that...?
With hundreds of agents having access and the ability to listen in on phone calls without warrants or detection (the warrant is apparently on the honor system) it will be abused to spy on political opponents to counteract and discredit, and there goes freedom.
is this what passes for news on /. now ?
"News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters.", it doesn't get any bigger than this.
1. Hack and get the files.
2. Someone writes a 3D printer conversion utility.
3. Print fake fingers.
4. Illegally profit!
I left out the ??? step because it wasn't needed.
You can lead by encouraging economic freedom, while still being, properly, wary of the nasty dictatorship that still has a long way to go in opening up.
Every penny is about politics. When you realize that, it all turns into memes fighting for dominance using "reality hooks" to motivate actions that help them spread.
They are the mental DNA, and your body and mind are the equivalent of proteins and chemicals in the cell flowing their instructions.
Why rope off grass? If it were about money, why pay back furloughed workers? Oh, meme invocation mechanism 37b: make actuator cog "feel bad" so as to disadvantage opposing meme.