130+ million horses have already left the barn, and they doused it with gasoline and threw in a lit match on the way out (THANKS, EXPERIAN!). Frankly I'm surprised there hasn't been hundreds of thousands of cases of identity theft so far from this. As the subject line alludes to, I have little faith in any 'identity protection' service being able to do much of anything for anyone at this point in time, and how you log into their 'service' is probably the least of your worries. The mere fact that I haven't seen evidence of mass identity theft cases actually makes me more worried than if there had been, I've go no idea what these thieves are up to with all that very-much-personal data.
No. None of these things you're describing are an 'actual intelligence'. It's just software, it's very limited, and when you talk like that you're contributing to the confusion that average people have about it.
But when Joe and Jane Average read the news and see 'AI Chip' that's exactly what they think, which is why we need to keep correcting the media and marketing types that keep Joe and Jane thinking that the goddamned things are going to have a pleasant conversation with them about the weather, or the news, or whatever.
'Social media' is not really good for anyone, except in small doses. Spend more time being actually social with people, instead of avoiding them, and less time on the internet pretending to be 'social'.
Guess what? Everyone steals from everyone else, one way or another. Knowing something can be done is more than 50% of the way towards being able to duplicate it. Smart companies don't just duplicate someone else's work, they improve on it, and 'steal' their market share that way. So far as I can tell it's always been this way; it's called 'competition'.
The real concern is enemies of our way of life stealing our classified technology. Of course we do that to them, too. Something else that's always been this way.
I already tried that. What it got me was having to vote for Jill Stein, because I couldn't in good conscience vote for Hillary Clinton, and I'd rather have shoved a six-inch stiletto into my left eye socket than vote for Trump. No, we need people to get off the damn fence and TAKE A SIDE -- preferably NOT REPUBLICAN. Yes, kids, it's come to this.
It might be optimized for specific types of code, similar to how graphics processors are optimized, but there is no such thing as an 'artificial intelligence chip'. Miscategorization and misreporting of facts by marketing people and the media are just fuelling an ever-growing problem of people thinking this crap they keep trotting out and calling 'AI' is better than it actually is.
I hate to have to say it, but everyone that gives a damn needs to register as Democrat, or at least vote the extremist Right out of office in favor of more moderate Conservatives, and we need to convince fence-sitters (i.e. Independents, like I used to be until a few months ago) to get off the fence and pick a side. The entire socio-political balance of the country is skewed and needs to be brought back towards the center.
Or, more briefly and bluntly: FUCK citizens, they don't matter, only corporations and The Rich matter.
We can't get this jackass and his cronies out of office fast enough. Now he's going to try to literally destroy the country.
Don't sell it to China? Seems like a real simple solution.
I don't think you got my meaning: what if a corporation that is covertly owned and operated by, say, the Chinese government, buys it? There needs to be some sort of oversight to prevent bad actors from doing precisely this.
While I think that inevitably there needs to be more private-sector involvement in space development, I don't think my (and others') reasons for this are the same as Trumps' reasons. I also see some problems with privatization at this time:
1. There's great expense and little profit, currently, in anything space-related, that doesn't involve launching satellites. Private corporations aren't interested much in scientific research, they're interested in return-on-investment, and at the moment anything that isn't a productive satellite being launched into LEO isn't profitable. Perhaps in 50 to 100 years, given steady development of space vehicles, potentially lowering costs, there might be, but I just don't see it at current.
2. If it all becomes privatized, is there going to be goverment oversight (or perhaps U.N. oversight) to prevent covert militarization of the ISS, or it's future replacement? More specifically, how do we prevent some corporation, de-facto owned and operated by, say, China, from making it a covert military station in LEO?
LOL I find it utterly ironic how you're calling ME "short sighted" and "unable to think how something applies to wider groups", when that is precisely what I am doing!
I think you and anyone who willingly has always-on devices in their house that hears and/or sees everything that goes on 24/7, and that has been demonstrated as being capable of spying on you, both by the company that makes it, and capable of being hacked by 3rd parties (criminal or government) to collect data on you, are FOOLS. How do you feel about that? Rhetorical question, I don't give a damn what you think, nothing you can say will change my judgement of the matter. You are fools if you have these or any other devices in your home that can be leveraged to surveil you.
Imagine if you could, from early childhood on, hear everyone's thoughts, unfiltered, and you can't turn it off. Your life would be a living hell and you'd probably want to eventually kill yourself. That's what so-called 'social media' does to us: you get people's unfiltered thoughts, and it's very easy to be critical or outright cruel when you don't have to face someone when you're saying it.
So-called 'social media' should not be allowed for kids, at all, period. Make them interact in person, get properly socialized, get proper social skills. Learn what the 'social contract' is. Of course I'm an advocate for nobody using 'social media' at all, I think it's a cancer on our society in general.
Yeah? Tell you what: chances are good some congresscritter got their identity stolen, too. One of them gets fucked over? We'll see some heads on poles, real quick.
This country goes down because some assholes on Wall Street were fucktards? There will be blood.
Not just 'the horse', but all the horses have left the barn, changed their names, and moved to a different planet. That's how far 'done' this is. There's no point in even worrying about whether or not your identity is going to be stolen, it's already done and nothing can change that now. All that's left is whether or not whatever criminals have your data decide it's worth ruining your life with, for fun-and-profit. No amount of anger, raging, hand-wringing, or sleep-losing will do anything about that.
Equifax, on the other hand, still need to have ALL their senior management dragged out into the street, heads chopped off, and planted on poles on Wall Street, as a WARNING to the rest of these assholes: DO NOT BE NEGLIGENT WITH OUR VERY MUCH PERSONAL DATA EVER AGAIN.
How about before you paper-shufflers master the technology you already have, specifically in securing it properly so all our very-much-personal information isn't constantly being stolen, before we give you any new toys to play with? I think I speak for everyone else when I say we're all sick and bloody well tired of companies being irresponsible.
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130+ million horses have already left the barn, and they doused it with gasoline and threw in a lit match on the way out (THANKS, EXPERIAN!). Frankly I'm surprised there hasn't been hundreds of thousands of cases of identity theft so far from this. As the subject line alludes to, I have little faith in any 'identity protection' service being able to do much of anything for anyone at this point in time, and how you log into their 'service' is probably the least of your worries. The mere fact that I haven't seen evidence of mass identity theft cases actually makes me more worried than if there had been, I've go no idea what these thieves are up to with all that very-much-personal data.
No. None of these things you're describing are an 'actual intelligence'. It's just software, it's very limited, and when you talk like that you're contributing to the confusion that average people have about it.
Nobody is calling it an intelligent chip
But when Joe and Jane Average read the news and see 'AI Chip' that's exactly what they think, which is why we need to keep correcting the media and marketing types that keep Joe and Jane thinking that the goddamned things are going to have a pleasant conversation with them about the weather, or the news, or whatever.
'Social media' is not really good for anyone, except in small doses. Spend more time being actually social with people, instead of avoiding them, and less time on the internet pretending to be 'social'.
Guess what? Everyone steals from everyone else, one way or another. Knowing something can be done is more than 50% of the way towards being able to duplicate it. Smart companies don't just duplicate someone else's work, they improve on it, and 'steal' their market share that way. So far as I can tell it's always been this way; it's called 'competition'.
The real concern is enemies of our way of life stealing our classified technology. Of course we do that to them, too. Something else that's always been this way.
I already tried that. What it got me was having to vote for Jill Stein, because I couldn't in good conscience vote for Hillary Clinton, and I'd rather have shoved a six-inch stiletto into my left eye socket than vote for Trump. No, we need people to get off the damn fence and TAKE A SIDE -- preferably NOT REPUBLICAN. Yes, kids, it's come to this.
It might be optimized for specific types of code, similar to how graphics processors are optimized, but there is no such thing as an 'artificial intelligence chip'. Miscategorization and misreporting of facts by marketing people and the media are just fuelling an ever-growing problem of people thinking this crap they keep trotting out and calling 'AI' is better than it actually is.
I hate to have to say it, but everyone that gives a damn needs to register as Democrat, or at least vote the extremist Right out of office in favor of more moderate Conservatives, and we need to convince fence-sitters (i.e. Independents, like I used to be until a few months ago) to get off the fence and pick a side. The entire socio-political balance of the country is skewed and needs to be brought back towards the center.
Or, more briefly and bluntly: FUCK citizens, they don't matter, only corporations and The Rich matter.
We can't get this jackass and his cronies out of office fast enough. Now he's going to try to literally destroy the country.
Would you really want to take the chance of finding out the hard way?
You're missing the point. China is just an example.
Don't sell it to China? Seems like a real simple solution.
I don't think you got my meaning: what if a corporation that is covertly owned and operated by, say, the Chinese government, buys it? There needs to be some sort of oversight to prevent bad actors from doing precisely this.
I'd think early termination fees would be enough of a deterrent for that.
While I think that inevitably there needs to be more private-sector involvement in space development, I don't think my (and others') reasons for this are the same as Trumps' reasons. I also see some problems with privatization at this time:
1. There's great expense and little profit, currently, in anything space-related, that doesn't involve launching satellites. Private corporations aren't interested much in scientific research, they're interested in return-on-investment, and at the moment anything that isn't a productive satellite being launched into LEO isn't profitable. Perhaps in 50 to 100 years, given steady development of space vehicles, potentially lowering costs, there might be, but I just don't see it at current.
2. If it all becomes privatized, is there going to be goverment oversight (or perhaps U.N. oversight) to prevent covert militarization of the ISS, or it's future replacement? More specifically, how do we prevent some corporation, de-facto owned and operated by, say, China, from making it a covert military station in LEO?
I find this highly unlikely. They're locking in their customers under the guise of deterring theft.
LOL I find it utterly ironic how you're calling ME "short sighted" and "unable to think how something applies to wider groups", when that is precisely what I am doing!
Enjoy being under a microscope, exhibitionist.
I think you and anyone who willingly has always-on devices in their house that hears and/or sees everything that goes on 24/7, and that has been demonstrated as being capable of spying on you, both by the company that makes it, and capable of being hacked by 3rd parties (criminal or government) to collect data on you, are FOOLS. How do you feel about that? Rhetorical question, I don't give a damn what you think, nothing you can say will change my judgement of the matter. You are fools if you have these or any other devices in your home that can be leveraged to surveil you.
Imagine if you could, from early childhood on, hear everyone's thoughts, unfiltered, and you can't turn it off. Your life would be a living hell and you'd probably want to eventually kill yourself. That's what so-called 'social media' does to us: you get people's unfiltered thoughts, and it's very easy to be critical or outright cruel when you don't have to face someone when you're saying it.
So-called 'social media' should not be allowed for kids, at all, period. Make them interact in person, get properly socialized, get proper social skills. Learn what the 'social contract' is. Of course I'm an advocate for nobody using 'social media' at all, I think it's a cancer on our society in general.
Makes no sense. Just spies on you anyway. Why would you want that? Don't even say 'convenience'. Too many of you give up too much for 'convenience'.
You know that kool-aid they keep handing you? Stop drinking it.
Yeah? Tell you what: chances are good some congresscritter got their identity stolen, too. One of them gets fucked over? We'll see some heads on poles, real quick.
This country goes down because some assholes on Wall Street were fucktards? There will be blood.
Well, then, maybe some of these assholes need to be killed, for real. French revolution, all over again: get out the guillotine. Or an axe.
Not just 'the horse', but all the horses have left the barn, changed their names, and moved to a different planet. That's how far 'done' this is. There's no point in even worrying about whether or not your identity is going to be stolen, it's already done and nothing can change that now. All that's left is whether or not whatever criminals have your data decide it's worth ruining your life with, for fun-and-profit. No amount of anger, raging, hand-wringing, or sleep-losing will do anything about that.
Equifax, on the other hand, still need to have ALL their senior management dragged out into the street, heads chopped off, and planted on poles on Wall Street, as a WARNING to the rest of these assholes: DO NOT BE NEGLIGENT WITH OUR VERY MUCH PERSONAL DATA EVER AGAIN.
I already addressed that issue; we don't have sufficient instrumentality to do that yet.
How about before you paper-shufflers master the technology you already have, specifically in securing it properly so all our very-much-personal information isn't constantly being stolen, before we give you any new toys to play with? I think I speak for everyone else when I say we're all sick and bloody well tired of companies being irresponsible.