Time to go all in. Just region lock... everything.
People from RegionX, can only see content from RegionX.
Forever cementing the most powerful companies and organisations, in each RegionX.
No share space. No common Internet. Small, walled, guard-towered, soulless gardens. For Safety. And think of the Children.
This is the future... balkanization of... Everything.
Does anyone believe that this is the end of Regulation? All traffic tracked. All users identified. READING Content and downloading "bad words" criminalised. All copyright of "authorised" (sanctioned) media protected harshly. No free speech. No allowance to create or use your own comment solution (Dissenter).
Companies which...... treat their employees as disposable "resources" bound by highly restrictive overreaching contracts,... regard their customers with barely disguised contempt,... treat regulations and laws as optional,... laugh at taxation as being "for the little people",... and generally act as douchebags...
have problems with security due to the lack of loyalty!
How can this be happening? Why are the (unpaid) natives lazy, the slaves sullen, the oppressed and exploited unwilling to bend their backs with a smile?
Anyone who accesses a computer system without permission is a criminal. The poster did not have permission, so should now be arrested and prosecuted.
As for the business, one cannot expect hard working business owners to be aware of every single little incident or problem.
If there was ever a problem, which cannot be proven with incriminating evidence of intrusion, then it was merely a rogue employee failing to uphold the highest levels of data privacy, protection and regulation, which the company expects from all employees and agents.
So nothing to see here, move on, keep quiet, keep smiling,... Enjoy the fish."
Sad to say, but Tech people are in general, unloved, unelectable, ugly realists.
The few insanely rich ones, wish to push regulation and politics to protect their existing business position, not to further technical goals or dreams.
Perhaps if some country, such as Iceland, Serbia, or somewhere peripheral decided, they could promote STEM companies and people with Tax advantages or funding.
Ireland previously did something similar for Creative Art people: no income tax.
But short of building an artificial island, ruled by Techs, for Techs,... there is little chance of Tech sitting at the Big Table.
Hey! Build it in the Atlantic off the coast, in International waters, then call it: Atlantis!
1. Conflation and false equivalency:
"In the Past there was an injustice. Unless you agree with me,
you defend the Past Injustice, and are thus an EVIL person."
2. SJW Dystopia?
You mean that for example, technical conferences will be cancelled,
due to the OUTRAGE of someone writing BOOBIES on a public whiteboard?
THIS *is* what is happening. People being fired. Payment providers
blocking. Suicides due to false accusations.
Demands for people to "apologise" for their skin color?
Penalty points to mark down applicants to University or Employment
based again on intrinsic attributes, beyond people's control.
A world where people like you, believe that it is NOT the content
of one's character, nor the actions or intentions, but ONLY group
membership. Where the Group is not decided by choice.
Self-righteous, sexist, racist bigots, demanding control of everything,
without any mercy, sympathy, nuance or often basic understanding
of history.
3. Position?
I spent my life standing up for what is right, often with serious personal cost.
I insist on my, (and your), right to speak, to listen and to choose.
For the right NOT to walk, as the Dead Poet's Society said.
In the past that meant facing down the Right, the powerful and injustice.
Now it means facing people like you down. So be it.
NO.
You do not decide what the Position "should" be. Principles, morals and ethics will do that.
I *demand* a world where everyone is judged on their actions, in the context of the information available at the time. Where laws are decided by democratically elected officials, with respect to the rights of minorities.
Justice. Democracy. Rule of Law. Pursuit of Knowledge. Equal Treatment. The Enlightenment Values.
Tempered by mercy, compassion and a deep respect for the preciousness of every single life. An appreciation for the sheer challenge of living.
If you and your kind see that as a problem, then I see you as something to confront, and to oppose. With discourse, example and courage.
And with Resolve.
Perhaps surprisingly, even with respect due to your misguidedness.
Are you really saying that anyone who fails to pander to the slightest complaint, about anything, is equivalent to a sexual harasser or a racist?
You equate the organisers of a tech congress, with sexist racists, unless they police public whiteboards? Really? Really, Really?
Remember, they *did* wipe the board when it was pointed out! Which the complainer could easily have just done herself.
Or do you believe that women are somehow disadvantaged when it comes to wiping whiteboards?
What you are calling for, is the impossibility for anyone to write ANYTHING, since SOMEONE could write SOMETHING that any motivated individual could find "problematic".
Let me guess, do you also believe that a content platform *must* police all forum comments? Or be boycotted?
The results of this attitude is exactly what the DerbyCon organisers have pointed out:
It is no longer possible to function, in such a climate. To the detriment of us all.
Is it clear to you, what you are asking for? What the consequences are?
And you do all this smug accusing, as an Anonymous Coward? Obviously.
It is time for people to start calling people like you out.
I think of Lenny Bruce, and what his definition of Freedom was.
If I understand your position, you mean:
It is not the people who protest *everything* who are the problem,
but instead it is the people who discuss it.
This smells of the same manipulative bullsh*t as the protestors...
"Dissent is simply not tolerated, and there can be no discussion".
Isn't that exactly the original problem?
If someone wants a "locked down" conference, then well, should they not just go organise one themself?
Insufficient, since the mob are quite willing to punish you as a facilitator or enabler, if you do not join in the condemnation. "Silence signals support".
Keeping your head down, is no longer a valid strategy.
And keeping your professional life away from your private, is EXACTLY what the agitators are refusing to do!
They are witch-hunting, and in the absence of sufficient "perps", they are quite willing to burn anyone for their own amusement.
If we run away from these bullies, they not only win this one, they keep winning until everything is disrupted. Which is their goal.
They have the power we give them.
If I was an employer and someone called me asking to fire an employee for something they said or did, which was not illegal, then I would tell them to "Fet Gucked". If I was an organiser, I would laugh in their faces. If a customer, and they tried this versus a supplier, again, "Guck Off" is the most valid response. A colleague? I chose the non-bullying, non-manipulative, non-trashy colleague.
Etc, etc.
These are nasty people, and placating them with any form of indulgence, just feeds them.
But this is the point. If you leave a whiteboard somewhere, it is likely that someone will write something on it. Maybe interesting, probably not, potentially offensive.
But think what the protestor means:
Rather than rub out what someone else wrote, rather than write something themselves,
what do they do?
Appeal to authority. Demand enforcement. Insist that *everything* has to be controlled
lest someone do *anything* which *anyone* could find "offensive". Or disrepectful.
Or somehow in breach of someone's perception of the currently fashionable convention.
For example: Draw a bird? Offensive to 1950s Maoists. A Blue flower? Nazi. A yellow ribbon? Militarist.
In fact drawing *anything* could be taken as offensive against the Differently Abled, for example the Blind.
There are no more boundaries. No compromise. People want to exercise power over you and they *will* find a reason, an excuse or a crack somewhere.
If someone doesn't like something written on the white board, then bloody well rub it out.
Why do people, especially value-neutral technically-focused people... not just start saying: No!
No. We want to focus on our stuff and have no obligation to engage with your issues. No. We will not ban people because you want us to. No. You cannot have special treatment. You get the same as everyone else. Nothing more, nothing less. No. We will not enforce your Purity Code of Conduct. Want an ethics code? Use the ACM's. Or the IEEE. No. Your chosen group membership does not compensate for your lack of ability. Meritocracy or GTFO. No. You have not been elected, and do not represent the community you claim to defend. No. We will not apologise for our intrinsic attributes, whether skin color or lifestyle choices. No. Your ideological goals will not cause your behaviour to be overlooked or forgiven. You are what you do.
And in return: You get the same freedom from our interference.
The VILENESS of some activists, both left and right, but increasingly primarily on the left, is despicable. Bipolar, partisan, nastiness. 100% agreement or you will be purged and punished. Instead of merely a "2 minute hate" session, they are in a continual state of ideological fervour. And like children, they are constantly calling for Authority to bring force down on their enemies. More rules. More control. More force. Comply or be purged.
If this is not how you want to live, it is time to start telling them: NO!
Imagine an alternative world, in which Elon Musk was capable of actually building a team who could execute his Vision, competently.
Because he clearly cannot.
Ego driven Drama has led to the ultimate humiliation... being schooled by a hidebound, legacy company, Mercedes! The home of Bland... who are still able to deploy and deliver better and faster than the "Start-up".
Management build the Team. The Team builds the Machine. The Machine delivers the Product.
The problem is, a device does not need to be directly exposed on the Internet.
Mirai and other botnets (including the so-called whitehat ones) are scanning the subnet and attacking all detected hosts. So if *any* device is compromised, for example a browsing tablet device, then all devices are quickly attacked.
From the corporate side, this is handled using the structured approach (partitioning, firewalling, port control, vlan-ing,...) All of which are lacking or absent in the consumer world.
"I hereby label Nick Fink as a security risk, a potential terrorist, a possible molester and an unperson.
Worse, he is not a team player.
Based on this irrefutable accusation, and the serious risk of Pre-Crime... I demand that he be neutralised. Either interned for life or simply eliminated.
I cannot allow the evidence for this to be scrutinised, since our security, nay our very freedom, depends on secrecy.
Slashdot Mirror
Time to go all in. Just region lock ... everything.
People from RegionX, can only see content from RegionX.
Forever cementing the most powerful companies and organisations, in each RegionX.
No share space. No common Internet. Small, walled, guard-towered, soulless gardens.
For Safety. And think of the Children.
This is the future ... balkanization of ... Everything.
Does anyone believe that this is the end of Regulation?
All traffic tracked.
All users identified.
READING Content and downloading "bad words" criminalised.
All copyright of "authorised" (sanctioned) media protected harshly.
No free speech.
No allowance to create or use your own comment solution (Dissenter).
Wonderful? Well, they are not finished.
"Internet Tax". "Internet Privilege Suspension". "Lifelong Block".
Oh! What a brave new world!
Who could have guessed it?
Companies which ... ... treat their employees as disposable "resources" bound by highly restrictive overreaching contracts, ... regard their customers with barely disguised contempt, ... treat regulations and laws as optional, ... laugh at taxation as being "for the little people", ... and generally act as douchebags ...
have problems with security due to the lack of loyalty!
How can this be happening?
Why are the (unpaid) natives lazy, the slaves sullen,
the oppressed and exploited unwilling to bend their backs with a smile?
Why the sabotage?
What is wrong with people?
Cue Corporate PR Release:
"All of these problems have already been solved!
Anyone who accesses a computer system without permission is a criminal.
The poster did not have permission, so should now be arrested and prosecuted.
As for the business, one cannot expect hard working business owners to be
aware of every single little incident or problem.
If there was ever a problem, which cannot be proven with incriminating evidence of intrusion,
then it was merely a rogue employee failing to uphold the highest levels of data privacy,
protection and regulation, which the company expects from all employees and agents.
So nothing to see here, move on, keep quiet, keep smiling, ...
Enjoy the fish."
Sad to say, but Tech people are in general, unloved, unelectable, ugly realists.
The few insanely rich ones, wish to push regulation and politics to protect their existing business position, not to further technical goals or dreams.
Perhaps if some country, such as Iceland, Serbia, or somewhere peripheral decided, they could promote STEM companies and people with Tax advantages or funding.
Ireland previously did something similar for Creative Art people: no income tax.
But short of building an artificial island, ruled by Techs, for Techs, ... there is little chance of Tech sitting at the Big Table.
Hey! Build it in the Atlantic off the coast, in International waters, then call it: Atlantis!
Sometimes conspiracy theories turn out to be true.
Now, whether rantings of madman or insight of genii, all will be banned.
All Hail Mediocrity!
Over a 1000 people and their families will suffer,
due to a single Tweet, sent as what, a jest?
by the owner.
Shameful.
How many of these people, would have defended the company, and Elon, until now?
How many thought themselves: Core Team. Winners.
This is like watching a car crash in slow motion.
Tragic.
Yup. You are one of them.
1. Conflation and false equivalency:
"In the Past there was an injustice. Unless you agree with me,
you defend the Past Injustice, and are thus an EVIL person."
2. SJW Dystopia?
You mean that for example, technical conferences will be cancelled,
due to the OUTRAGE of someone writing BOOBIES on a public whiteboard?
THIS *is* what is happening. People being fired. Payment providers
blocking. Suicides due to false accusations.
Demands for people to "apologise" for their skin color?
Penalty points to mark down applicants to University or Employment
based again on intrinsic attributes, beyond people's control.
A world where people like you, believe that it is NOT the content
of one's character, nor the actions or intentions, but ONLY group
membership. Where the Group is not decided by choice.
Self-righteous, sexist, racist bigots, demanding control of everything,
without any mercy, sympathy, nuance or often basic understanding
of history.
3. Position?
I spent my life standing up for what is right, often with serious personal cost.
I insist on my, (and your), right to speak, to listen and to choose.
For the right NOT to walk, as the Dead Poet's Society said.
In the past that meant facing down the Right, the powerful and injustice.
Now it means facing people like you down. So be it.
NO.
You do not decide what the Position "should" be.
Principles, morals and ethics will do that.
I *demand* a world where everyone is judged on their actions, in the context
of the information available at the time. Where laws are decided by
democratically elected officials, with respect to the rights of minorities.
Justice. Democracy. Rule of Law. Pursuit of Knowledge. Equal Treatment.
The Enlightenment Values.
Tempered by mercy, compassion and a deep respect for the preciousness of
every single life. An appreciation for the sheer challenge of living.
If you and your kind see that as a problem, then I see you as something
to confront, and to oppose. With discourse, example and courage.
And with Resolve.
Perhaps surprisingly, even with respect due to your misguidedness.
You seem to be an example of this.
Are you really saying that anyone who fails to pander to the slightest complaint,
about anything, is equivalent to a sexual harasser or a racist?
You equate the organisers of a tech congress, with sexist racists,
unless they police public whiteboards? Really? Really, Really?
Remember, they *did* wipe the board when it was pointed out!
Which the complainer could easily have just done herself.
Or do you believe that women are somehow disadvantaged when it comes to wiping whiteboards?
What you are calling for, is the impossibility for anyone to write ANYTHING,
since SOMEONE could write SOMETHING that any motivated individual could find "problematic".
Let me guess, do you also believe that a content platform *must* police all forum comments?
Or be boycotted?
The results of this attitude is exactly what the DerbyCon organisers have pointed out:
It is no longer possible to function, in such a climate. To the detriment of us all.
Is it clear to you, what you are asking for? What the consequences are?
And you do all this smug accusing, as an Anonymous Coward? Obviously.
It is time for people to start calling people like you out.
I think of Lenny Bruce, and what his definition of Freedom was.
If I understand your position, you mean:
It is not the people who protest *everything* who are the problem,
but instead it is the people who discuss it.
This smells of the same manipulative bullsh*t as the protestors ...
"Dissent is simply not tolerated, and there can be no discussion".
Isn't that exactly the original problem?
If someone wants a "locked down" conference, then well,
should they not just go organise one themself?
Thank you!
Instead of Time-to-first-crate, we now have a new metric:
TTP:TTPE
I am so tempted to put a camera and a whiteboard somewhere,
and start collecting the data!
Applied Statistics.
Insufficient, since the mob are quite willing to punish you as a facilitator or enabler,
if you do not join in the condemnation. "Silence signals support".
Keeping your head down, is no longer a valid strategy.
And keeping your professional life away from your private, is EXACTLY what
the agitators are refusing to do!
They are witch-hunting, and in the absence of sufficient "perps", they are
quite willing to burn anyone for their own amusement.
No Means "No Thanks", not playing.
To be or not to be.
If we run away from these bullies, they not only win this one, they keep winning until everything is disrupted.
Which is their goal.
They have the power we give them.
If I was an employer and someone called me asking to fire an employee for something they said or did,
which was not illegal, then I would tell them to "Fet Gucked".
If I was an organiser, I would laugh in their faces.
If a customer, and they tried this versus a supplier, again, "Guck Off" is the most valid response.
A colleague? I chose the non-bullying, non-manipulative, non-trashy colleague.
Etc, etc.
These are nasty people, and placating them with any form of indulgence, just feeds them.
Hard, cold, NO.
I agree with the degree of danger.
But this is the point. If you leave a whiteboard somewhere, it is likely that someone will write something on it.
Maybe interesting, probably not, potentially offensive.
But think what the protestor means:
Rather than rub out what someone else wrote, rather than write something themselves,
what do they do?
Appeal to authority. Demand enforcement. Insist that *everything* has to be controlled
lest someone do *anything* which *anyone* could find "offensive". Or disrepectful.
Or somehow in breach of someone's perception of the currently fashionable convention.
For example: Draw a bird? Offensive to 1950s Maoists. A Blue flower? Nazi.
A yellow ribbon? Militarist.
In fact drawing *anything* could be taken as offensive against the Differently Abled,
for example the Blind.
There are no more boundaries. No compromise. People want to exercise power over you
and they *will* find a reason, an excuse or a crack somewhere.
If someone doesn't like something written on the white board, then bloody well rub it out.
Let's stop pandering to the Drama merchants.
Just say NO.
Fear. It takes courage to stand up to bullies, and not everyone has the support or the capability to do so.
Maybe I should have put this more positively: How can we help people to be able to, say no!
Why do people, especially value-neutral technically-focused people ... not just start saying: No!
No. We want to focus on our stuff and have no obligation to engage with your issues.
No. We will not ban people because you want us to.
No. You cannot have special treatment. You get the same as everyone else. Nothing more, nothing less.
No. We will not enforce your Purity Code of Conduct. Want an ethics code? Use the ACM's. Or the IEEE.
No. Your chosen group membership does not compensate for your lack of ability. Meritocracy or GTFO.
No. You have not been elected, and do not represent the community you claim to defend.
No. We will not apologise for our intrinsic attributes, whether skin color or lifestyle choices.
No. Your ideological goals will not cause your behaviour to be overlooked or forgiven. You are what you do.
And in return: You get the same freedom from our interference.
The VILENESS of some activists, both left and right, but increasingly primarily on the left,
is despicable. Bipolar, partisan, nastiness. 100% agreement or you will be purged and punished.
Instead of merely a "2 minute hate" session, they are in a continual state of ideological fervour.
And like children, they are constantly calling for Authority to bring force down on their enemies.
More rules. More control. More force. Comply or be purged.
If this is not how you want to live, it is time to start telling them: NO!
Or is this now Radical as well?
This thing is hanging with a "MORE" prompt, and does not respond to key input.
Is this part of a Meta-Game?
Or a bug`?
Oh just go and get absolutely Hugged!
I am sick to Hugging death of these MotherHugging Hugs,
sticking their Huggers into things that do not concern them.
The absolute Hugs!
When I was young, no-one gave a Hug about this Smile.
Now we are up to our ears in Smile, while every Hug
whines about how no-one give a Hug about them.
Everything is Huggy, and we have to call it all the Hug out.
Peace, my Neckers.
Imagine an alternative world,
in which Elon Musk was capable of actually building a team who could execute his Vision, competently.
Because he clearly cannot.
Ego driven Drama has led to the ultimate humiliation ... being schooled by a hidebound, legacy company, ... who are still
Mercedes! The home of Bland
able to deploy and deliver better and faster than
the "Start-up".
Management build the Team.
The Team builds the Machine.
The Machine delivers the Product.
Who is failing here?
Who else can it be?
Elon-chu ... I name you.
The problem is, a device does not need to be directly exposed on the Internet.
Mirai and other botnets (including the so-called whitehat ones) are scanning the subnet and attacking all detected hosts.
So if *any* device is compromised, for example a browsing tablet device, then all devices are quickly attacked.
From the corporate side, this is handled using the structured approach (partitioning, firewalling, port control, vlan-ing, ...)
All of which are lacking or absent in the consumer world.
Hence my question!
Elitist! VIC 20 should be good enough for everyone ...
In the ideal world, everyone would do so, but we do not live in that one.
And the list of IoT devices will expand to include, basically, ... everything.
Every electricity meter, every freezer, every microwave, every TV.
So for the people who cannot create their own solutions, what options are there?
Hmm.
Nobody likes vigilantes! (Not even Batman).
But a serious question: How can people be protected?
While the techies can home brew something, what real products or solutions are
there for the "casuals", the civilians and the "tech-vulnerable" ??
Are there are any fairly cheap, zero configuration overhead solutions out there right now?
Any options?
*Name changed to protect the guilty! Absolutely no relation to Nate Fick, whatsoever.
Obviously.
"I hereby label Nick Fink as a security risk, a potential terrorist, a possible molester and an unperson.
Worse, he is not a team player.
Based on this irrefutable accusation, and the serious risk of Pre-Crime ... I demand that he be neutralised.
Either interned for life or simply eliminated.
I cannot allow the evidence for this to be scrutinised, since our security, nay our very freedom, depends on secrecy.
Dissent or protest will prove the accusation."
Fascists. We know how this ends.
Thank you.
One by one, they leave our lives,
leaving us with loss that we never expected.