Oh for fuck's sake.. you won't find what you want predictively using those parameters, you'll only find historical data later.
Try this instead: Look at the trend of Ajit Pai's overall policy decisions, and who constitutes the current FCC board and their political leanings, and add in the obvious intent of this upcoming vote to roll back Net Neutrality rules. Now take into consideration what, historically speaking, ISPs have wanted, what they've demonstrated they're willing to do to their customers in the pursuit of more profit. What do you think is going to happen, based on all the above (and other relevant) trends? ..or, I could have just said what I said in the first place: What makes you think this isn't just the beginning?
There are plenty of people right here in the U.S. (and a more than a few spotted right here on/.) that would be perfectly OK with the government regulating the internet in this way.
Sure, and I'll bet you cash money it's the same people that see nothing wrong with being monitored 24/7 from cradle to grave, having 'backdoors' into encryption methods, and that profiling people based on race or ethnicity is perfectly acceptable, and that many of those people should not only not be allowed to enter the country for any reason, but be forcibly removed from the country if they're already here, and sent back to wherever they came from -- even if that means going back there means they'll be killed (because it's 'not our problem'). In short, there are a lot of short-sighted, unintelligent people in this country, who can't see past the end of their own noses and don't realize the consequences of their poor decisions.
I'm sure that from their perspective, it doesn't matter if you believe it or not, because they'll just make you, your family, and everyone you care about disappear into some labor camp, where they'll be tortured, worked to death, and die, if you make too much trouble for them. Think of crap like this that they say as just an extreme form of sarcasm, if you like, it's functionally not much different.
I remember when I got "@home" broadband; it was such a startling change from 56k dialup. Then there was 1.5Mbit asymmetric DSL, and then more cable-based broadband. I remember Napster, and downloading music 24/7 for *weeks*, and all the filesharing sites that were under the radar for a while. I remember being able to look up all sorts of stuff I never knew existed, and most of all, playing all the versions of DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2, and a plethora of other games, online, against total strangers, until the wee hours of the morning. Fun, fun, fun.
No matter. The Internet has been going to shit for a while now, and some piece of crap like Ajit Pai is dead set to pound the last nail into it's coffin. Sure, after Trump and his administration are all tossed out of office and/or convicted of some crime or other, we'll get someone else in the Whitehouse that will start to clean up the mess, but it'll take years, if not decades, to repair all the damage done to everything, all over the Country, and once the ISPs and other asshole corporations get their hooks into the Internet the way they've always wanted to, we may never be able to get things back on track again.
Well, guess when the end comes, I'll have more time to read..
Friend, we're talking about Republicans, here; it's not that 'science and scientists don't know nothing', it's that 'science and scientists are evil minions of Satan, trying to deceiving the Faithful to sway them from the True Path of Righteousness with their LIES'. Then there's the Dominionists, whose general agenda includes accelerating the onset of the Apocalypse, because they think that'll bring Zombie Jesus back from the dead sooner; to them, the Earth is only 'temporary', and therefore expendable, so why bother taking care of it? Zombie Jesus will come to take the Faithful home again! Or so they think.
*nodding* The whole point of tools is to be useful and helpful to humans doing work. All of these things of which you speak are tools, and for the most part all of the things they're talking about under the general heading of "it's coming to take our jobs!" are also just tools. Unfortunately, 'feel-good fluff pieces' don't get ratings for news programs, or hits to news websites (I'd say 'doesn't sell newspapers' but we apparently don't have enough of those anymore to matter), so it's always the extreme, the shocking, and the awful; as a general mnemonic, let's just all all the above (and whatever else fits in the category) $CLICKBAIT, shall we? That's right, we've all been baited, and too many people are falling for it.
You know, over about the last 20 years, our species has done so many things that have pissed me off, made me depressed, and overall make me lose faith in our species surviving our own collective stupidity. Then there are times, like right now, when I'm reminded that it's not everyone who is being stupid, it's just some people who are making themselves noticeably stupid. You, and at least one other person in this discussion thread, are not part of the Group Stupidness, and for that I am grateful.
I dunno about any of that, but congratulations on having comment number 55555555. Please visit the cashiers' office to pick up your 1,000,000 Internets.
I'm rolling my eyes so hard reading this cringeworthly nonsense that I think I've severely strained my eye-muscles and need to see a doctor about it.
We do not have real AI and will not have it for quite some time to come, if ever. All we have right now is shitty 'learning algorithms' and 'expert systems' that are just software; they are not alive, they are not conscious, you can't sit down with them and have a conversation with them over a cup of coffee, you can't do anything with them other than what they're programmed to do. No 'personality', no 'consciousness', no ability to truly 'think' -- and we won't have anything like that until we understand how a meat brain is capable of those things.
Please, everyone, just stop believing all the hype and nonsense about this subject, okay? Seriously, you're giving me a headache.
Gee, I find your attitude totally disingenuous considering that you're posting as ANONYMOUS COWARD and not logged in using your REAL NAME. What's the matter AC, do you have something to hide from everyone, hmmm?
The issue is customer data collection (aka privacy theft).
This. It's nobodys business what I'm watching, and I don't want anyone 'profiling' me for any reason. It's bad enough that I can't be walking around in public without leaving a trail of video surveillance, I'll be damned if I'm going to sit in my own home and be 'monitored' for any reason. It would make me feel like I'm some sort of criminal under house arrest. The only thing that would be worse is having to wear an ankle monitor (..and no, I don't have a smartphone or use social media either, for similar reasons).
Honestly, if it gets so stupid that they actually force something like this on everyone, then I'm not going to be inclined to do a lot of extra work just to pirate every goddamned thing I might want to see, I'd just chuck the whole thing and read more books (paper books, mind you) or do something else. Or get more much-needed sleep, I guess, or maybe (shocking idea!) actually be more sociable with real, live people, in real, face-to-face settings. I dumped cable about 10 years ago and have used an antenna since then, if they're going to fuck everything up by forcing more ads on me then I'm DONE with it.
The people and organizations who should care, because they have the money, power, and influence to do something about it: Rich people, global corporations. Why they don't care: Short-term profits, keeping shareholders happy, is more important than what'll happen a couple hundred years from now. That's 'someone else's problem to deal with', and these people will all be dead and gone by then; why, so far as they're concerned, should they even care? Who else is standing in the way of doing something about this: Dominionists, and fundamentalist religious organizations. So far as they're concerned, The Earth is a 'temporary' home for humanity, and is therefore expendable, as is all other life on it. Dominionists in particular are more interested in accelerating the destruction of the Earth, because they fervently believe that the sooner they can bring about the Apocalypse, the sooner Zombie Jesus will 'return' to the Earth to 'take them all home'. So anything they can do to make Earth uninhabitable faster is all to the good so far as they're concerned.
Then there's the Average Person; they're too busy just trying to deal with their day-to-day lives (and in some cases, too literally trying to stay alive) to even think about anything that's going to happen even 10 years from now, let alone several hundred years from now. Again, that gets waved off as 'someone elses problem', because they'll all be dead and gone before that even happens. Sure, they think about what their theoretical grandchildren may have to deal with -- so maybe they turn off the lights when they leave a room for more than a few minutes, or put off that errand they need to do until later. But it's all a drop in the bucket that really has no effect, not even if everyone does the same.
Overall there needs to be top-down actions taken, world-wide, in every country that creates a large enough fraction of the total problems. Seeing as we can't seem to get enough nations to agree on how to handle problems a fraction of the size and scope, good bloody luck with that. Add to that resistance the fact that The Rich, the aforementioned religious types, rich, influential religious types, and disinterested greedy corporations aren't going to be cooperative, and the likelihood that anything more than just 'feel-good', overall ineffective things being done becomes rather small. What we really need to have happen first, is a change of hearts and minds across the board; we need everyone to actually give a damn, right down to the core of their being. If someone's got a recipe to make that happen, I'm all ears.
So what you're really saying is that you enjoy having Microsoft probe your anus every time you use your computer? Oh, sorry, it's not even 'your computer' anymore, Microsoft de-facto owns it now, you're just allowed to use it sometimes. For a fee of course.
They are.:-) You're just trading one cable for another cable, and in most cases you're probably still paying your money for internet access to the same company you were paying for cable TV before you 'cut the cord'. The only way you really 'cut the cord' is to put an antenna on your roof and watch free OTA broadcast TV.
It's not that it's a great product, or even a good product. Microsoft is like kobolds, or Starbuck's; flood the market, drown everything else out. They're the Zerg Rush of the OS world.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh for fuck's sake.. you won't find what you want predictively using those parameters, you'll only find historical data later.
..or, I could have just said what I said in the first place: What makes you think this isn't just the beginning?
Try this instead: Look at the trend of Ajit Pai's overall policy decisions, and who constitutes the current FCC board and their political leanings, and add in the obvious intent of this upcoming vote to roll back Net Neutrality rules. Now take into consideration what, historically speaking, ISPs have wanted, what they've demonstrated they're willing to do to their customers in the pursuit of more profit. What do you think is going to happen, based on all the above (and other relevant) trends?
(Citation needed)
I'll answer your question with a question for you to ponder: What makes you think this isn't just the beginning?
There are plenty of people right here in the U.S. (and a more than a few spotted right here on /.) that would be perfectly OK with the government regulating the internet in this way.
Sure, and I'll bet you cash money it's the same people that see nothing wrong with being monitored 24/7 from cradle to grave, having 'backdoors' into encryption methods, and that profiling people based on race or ethnicity is perfectly acceptable, and that many of those people should not only not be allowed to enter the country for any reason, but be forcibly removed from the country if they're already here, and sent back to wherever they came from -- even if that means going back there means they'll be killed (because it's 'not our problem'). In short, there are a lot of short-sighted, unintelligent people in this country, who can't see past the end of their own noses and don't realize the consequences of their poor decisions.
I'm sure that from their perspective, it doesn't matter if you believe it or not, because they'll just make you, your family, and everyone you care about disappear into some labor camp, where they'll be tortured, worked to death, and die, if you make too much trouble for them. Think of crap like this that they say as just an extreme form of sarcasm, if you like, it's functionally not much different.
Heh.. okay, you got a smile out of me with that at least, and true enough, isn't it?
I remember when I got "@home" broadband; it was such a startling change from 56k dialup. Then there was 1.5Mbit asymmetric DSL, and then more cable-based broadband. I remember Napster, and downloading music 24/7 for *weeks*, and all the filesharing sites that were under the radar for a while. I remember being able to look up all sorts of stuff I never knew existed, and most of all, playing all the versions of DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D, Warcraft 2, and a plethora of other games, online, against total strangers, until the wee hours of the morning. Fun, fun, fun.
No matter. The Internet has been going to shit for a while now, and some piece of crap like Ajit Pai is dead set to pound the last nail into it's coffin. Sure, after Trump and his administration are all tossed out of office and/or convicted of some crime or other, we'll get someone else in the Whitehouse that will start to clean up the mess, but it'll take years, if not decades, to repair all the damage done to everything, all over the Country, and once the ISPs and other asshole corporations get their hooks into the Internet the way they've always wanted to, we may never be able to get things back on track again.
Well, guess when the end comes, I'll have more time to read..
What does it say about Slashdot, that that comment gets a score of "5 Informative"?
Friend, we're talking about Republicans, here; it's not that 'science and scientists don't know nothing', it's that 'science and scientists are evil minions of Satan, trying to deceiving the Faithful to sway them from the True Path of Righteousness with their LIES'. Then there's the Dominionists, whose general agenda includes accelerating the onset of the Apocalypse, because they think that'll bring Zombie Jesus back from the dead sooner; to them, the Earth is only 'temporary', and therefore expendable, so why bother taking care of it? Zombie Jesus will come to take the Faithful home again! Or so they think.
*nodding* The whole point of tools is to be useful and helpful to humans doing work. All of these things of which you speak are tools, and for the most part all of the things they're talking about under the general heading of "it's coming to take our jobs!" are also just tools. Unfortunately, 'feel-good fluff pieces' don't get ratings for news programs, or hits to news websites (I'd say 'doesn't sell newspapers' but we apparently don't have enough of those anymore to matter), so it's always the extreme, the shocking, and the awful; as a general mnemonic, let's just all all the above (and whatever else fits in the category) $CLICKBAIT, shall we? That's right, we've all been baited, and too many people are falling for it.
You know, over about the last 20 years, our species has done so many things that have pissed me off, made me depressed, and overall make me lose faith in our species surviving our own collective stupidity. Then there are times, like right now, when I'm reminded that it's not everyone who is being stupid, it's just some people who are making themselves noticeably stupid. You, and at least one other person in this discussion thread, are not part of the Group Stupidness, and for that I am grateful.
I dunno about any of that, but congratulations on having comment number 55555555. Please visit the cashiers' office to pick up your 1,000,000 Internets.
(hey, you) "Get off of my cloud"
I think Mick Jagger would have a thing or two to say about the use of the word 'of' in certain contexts, namely poetic license in writing song lyrics.
I'm rolling my eyes so hard reading this cringeworthly nonsense that I think I've severely strained my eye-muscles and need to see a doctor about it.
We do not have real AI and will not have it for quite some time to come, if ever. All we have right now is shitty 'learning algorithms' and 'expert systems' that are just software; they are not alive, they are not conscious, you can't sit down with them and have a conversation with them over a cup of coffee, you can't do anything with them other than what they're programmed to do. No 'personality', no 'consciousness', no ability to truly 'think' -- and we won't have anything like that until we understand how a meat brain is capable of those things.
Please, everyone, just stop believing all the hype and nonsense about this subject, okay? Seriously, you're giving me a headache.
OH SHI-
Gee, I find your attitude totally disingenuous considering that you're posting as ANONYMOUS COWARD and not logged in using your REAL NAME. What's the matter AC, do you have something to hide from everyone, hmmm?
The issue is customer data collection (aka privacy theft).
This. It's nobodys business what I'm watching, and I don't want anyone 'profiling' me for any reason. It's bad enough that I can't be walking around in public without leaving a trail of video surveillance, I'll be damned if I'm going to sit in my own home and be 'monitored' for any reason. It would make me feel like I'm some sort of criminal under house arrest. The only thing that would be worse is having to wear an ankle monitor (..and no, I don't have a smartphone or use social media either, for similar reasons).
Honestly, if it gets so stupid that they actually force something like this on everyone, then I'm not going to be inclined to do a lot of extra work just to pirate every goddamned thing I might want to see, I'd just chuck the whole thing and read more books (paper books, mind you) or do something else. Or get more much-needed sleep, I guess, or maybe (shocking idea!) actually be more sociable with real, live people, in real, face-to-face settings. I dumped cable about 10 years ago and have used an antenna since then, if they're going to fuck everything up by forcing more ads on me then I'm DONE with it.
What would happen is there'd be at least one less TV viewer: me. I suspect I would be far from alone in that, too.
If every TV will need Internet..
..then I won't be watching TV anymore, at all.
The people and organizations who should care, because they have the money, power, and influence to do something about it: Rich people, global corporations.
Why they don't care: Short-term profits, keeping shareholders happy, is more important than what'll happen a couple hundred years from now. That's 'someone else's problem to deal with', and these people will all be dead and gone by then; why, so far as they're concerned, should they even care?
Who else is standing in the way of doing something about this: Dominionists, and fundamentalist religious organizations. So far as they're concerned, The Earth is a 'temporary' home for humanity, and is therefore expendable, as is all other life on it. Dominionists in particular are more interested in accelerating the destruction of the Earth, because they fervently believe that the sooner they can bring about the Apocalypse, the sooner Zombie Jesus will 'return' to the Earth to 'take them all home'. So anything they can do to make Earth uninhabitable faster is all to the good so far as they're concerned.
Then there's the Average Person; they're too busy just trying to deal with their day-to-day lives (and in some cases, too literally trying to stay alive) to even think about anything that's going to happen even 10 years from now, let alone several hundred years from now. Again, that gets waved off as 'someone elses problem', because they'll all be dead and gone before that even happens. Sure, they think about what their theoretical grandchildren may have to deal with -- so maybe they turn off the lights when they leave a room for more than a few minutes, or put off that errand they need to do until later. But it's all a drop in the bucket that really has no effect, not even if everyone does the same.
Overall there needs to be top-down actions taken, world-wide, in every country that creates a large enough fraction of the total problems. Seeing as we can't seem to get enough nations to agree on how to handle problems a fraction of the size and scope, good bloody luck with that. Add to that resistance the fact that The Rich, the aforementioned religious types, rich, influential religious types, and disinterested greedy corporations aren't going to be cooperative, and the likelihood that anything more than just 'feel-good', overall ineffective things being done becomes rather small. What we really need to have happen first, is a change of hearts and minds across the board; we need everyone to actually give a damn, right down to the core of their being. If someone's got a recipe to make that happen, I'm all ears.
So what you're really saying is that you enjoy having Microsoft probe your anus every time you use your computer? Oh, sorry, it's not even 'your computer' anymore, Microsoft de-facto owns it now, you're just allowed to use it sometimes. For a fee of course.
They are. :-) You're just trading one cable for another cable, and in most cases you're probably still paying your money for internet access to the same company you were paying for cable TV before you 'cut the cord'. The only way you really 'cut the cord' is to put an antenna on your roof and watch free OTA broadcast TV.
It's not that it's a great product, or even a good product. Microsoft is like kobolds, or Starbuck's; flood the market, drown everything else out. They're the Zerg Rush of the OS world.
Implying that they were the only culture to 'invent' paper
Do you even history?