A 10,000 square mile solar array? Difficult to attack/sabotage/cripple, just due to sheer size.
A 1 square mile electric energy storage farm? Easier to attack. That's what I'd be afraid of.
Did you notice that Pence lawyered up a while back? He, apparently, is not completely stupid: he sees how much of a liability being involved with the current administration is to his political career and saw fit to get ahead of the whole thing as soon as possible; he's a career politician, through-and-through. Five bucks says when the axe falls, he's going to be standing aside of the conflagration, yelling like Ashe in the Bruce Campbell version of Army of Darkness "..hey, I don't even KNOW these assholes!". He'll step aside, co-operate fully with any further Senate an FBI investigations, and try to walk away as cleanly as possible -- or at least I hope that's what happens. I don't think Mike Pence should be POTUS, especially by default.
When my employer (a *ahem* large chipmaker and major partner of Microsoft) literally FORCED Windows 10 on me and many others (literally -- they disabled our Win7 computers) I spent at least 2 weeks trying to 'sanitize' Windows 10, literally and intentionally breaking things in the OS (like Cortana) to protect myself and to make it behave the way I wanted it to behave. I had to resort to some 3rd-party add-ons to get rid of horribly broken things like the way they changed the Start menu. There are problems I couldn't quite iron out and just work around them as best I can. It's a horrible mess, I'd never own a computer that runs this mess of an OS. If it were a choice between this and nothing, I'd take nothing. This is the Enterprise version and probably doesn't spy anywhere near as much as the 'Professional' and lower versions so no way.
I guess I'm kinder than you are about it. Some of them 'think he can do no wrong'; some of them, as usual, thought he was the 'least worst' of two choices, and many of those are now regretting it, but keeping their heads down and their mouths shut, because they don't want to deal with it. Then there's some who thought he could be controlled, and they're finding out how wrong they were, too. HIs approval rating is currently 39% and dropping. As the reality sinks in it'll just get worse, and when all his promises and schemes are shown to be nonsense, the bottom will drop out. My greatest fear at this point is when they inevitably find the allegations of collusion are true and have to start removing the administration. I don't know what provisions we have in our system of government to handle something on that scale. Guess we'd have the Speaker of the House as POTUS?
You likely read what the Australian PM had to say. Proof positive that they're painfully DUMB. I've facepalmed so hard it left a mark on my forehead.:-(
Friend, I am so glad that the first high-scoring comment I read in this discussion is a voice of reason. Thank you, my blood pressure just dropped back to normal.
Oh, HELL NO.. between this UBI bullshit, and politicians who think the laws of mathematics have to take a back seat to the 'law of the land', the human race is DOOMED.
Finally, the incontrovertible proof that politicians are not only completely IGNORANT of technical issues, but that they ARE NOT LISTENING TO THEIR OWN GODS-BE-DAMNED EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVISORS! This shit has got to STOP. Idiots like this need to be removed from office before they doom us all!
There is no other way to put this: This is an ASSHOLE move by an ASSHOLE 'administration' being led by an ASSHOLE 'President' who continually demonstrates through actions that they don't give a flying FUCK about the average citizen, they only care about their agendas and their corporate and 1%-er cronies. Finding that they've been in bed with Russia the whole time and throwing the entire administration out on their ear can't come soon enough. 2020 elections can't come soon enough. How are you Trump-supporting idiots liking him and his minions now? You all like your privacy AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I DO, and they just took a BIG STEAMING DUMP all over the entire CONCEPT of your privacy, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
Why is it that so many supposedly smart guys can be so freakin' dumb about some things?
What we have so far, and for quite some time to come, is not what I and others in the know would call true 'AI'; your 'algorithms' aren't conscious, self-aware, or capable of true cognition; they aren't anywhere near capable of being able to think, not in the way that's necessary for 'robots walking down the street killing people', or 'Skynet taking over', or anything out of a friggin' Isaac Asimov novel. Please, please, PLEASE, people, get over it already, stop believing the media hype. You have more to worry about from your dog or cat trying to take over the world than you do any chunk of computer code.
LOL why is it that so many jackasses on the Internets inject wild assumptions with no basis in fact or reality into conversations? LOL sure I'll search things on Google -- but I don't have any Google accounts, you couldn't PAY me to have any Google accounts. But I use an add-on to my browser that cleans the Google links, so while they certainly can log searches themselves, they can't log any search results I click on. When I'm at home any links I click on go through Tor, so not only can't Google log them, but my ISP can't log them, either. I don't use my real name online anywhere. I don't use ANY 'social media'. There are other security and privacy measures I take that I won't get into. My digital footprint is as non-existant as I can make it. That make you angry or something, that someone else is willing to make the effort, when maybe you can't be bothered yet feel violated constantly? Is that why you're being so condescending?
I'd rather be me and take what steps I can take to preserve and protect what I can of my personal privacy and security, than be someone like you, who I'm assuming from the piss-and-vinegar butthurt tone of your comment has completely given up, given in, and gone the way of the yellow-bellied, lilly-livered coward, and just goes along with all the monitoring, tracking, surveilling, and rampant, unabated data collection on you, and likely your family, too. Sad, because you're probably a decent person otherwise.
*shrug* you learn something new every day, I guess.
But on the other hand, science seems to have "Wow, we never thought 'X' was possible!" moments all the time. Just sayin'..
..and that the phone I do have (cheap-ass $50 plastic LG dumbphone, LOL) is turned off most of the time. Turn it on a couple times a day just to see if there are any messages for me. Physically shorted the GPS antenna on the main board to ground, so no GPS tracking when it's on anyway, just what tower it's connected to.
I'd never bothered to learn how worldwide PSTN actually worked until I read this article and looked up SS7. Scary, that all that has been done for decades in the clear.
This level of ignorant bullshit that our so-called 'leaders' and so-called 'legislators' perpetrate on the rest of us makes me want to vomit. Seriously.
Well then someone needs to slap some sense into them until they understand. I'll gladly volunteer, but I think there'll be a long, long line of people waiting for their chance to 'serve their country' in that capacity.
Really, honestly, in all seriousness: Are you saying that what happens here, is that these politicians have credible, credentialled, PhD-level, trusted expert technical advisors, telling them "What you want is inviting disaster, for X, Y, and Z reasons", and the politicians are saying "LOL, no, we can change people's minds about that and make it happen"? Really?
I won't play along with this privacy-invading, populace-controlling bullshit, and I don't recommend anyone else go along with it, either. Cash money == true freedom. What, where, and when you buy things is nobodys business but your own.
Why does everyone assume 'carrying cash' means 'carrying THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CASH'? I carry $100 or less, and get more when I need it, because I'm not DUMB. Cops want to say the $83 in my wallet is for drugs? LOL, I have no criminal record and no trace of controlled substances in my blood, ENJOY YOUR LAWSUIT, PIGS. xD
I may look into getting a pre-paid, rechargable debit card of some kind, so long as it's not linked to my name, to pay for some things, especially online things and utility bills. I have a credit card but I'd prefer to not use it unless it's an emergency. I'm tired of having my privacy invaded constantly.
I'm one of those people who looks at "What can go wrong" with just about anything (it's the engineer in me) and people roll their eyes at me for it sometimes.. but SO MANY commentors in this discussion are making ME roll MY eyes at THEM, LOL!
I don't carry HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS in my wallet all the time. Typically it's $100 or LESS. Because I'm not a dummy.
No one gives me trouble because I don't act like a victim. Many many people act like victims and that makes them targets. Thieves are like coyotes; they're only marginally predators, and mostly opportunistic. Thieves will not go after someone who they think is going to be trouble for them. I've never been robbed and don't think I'll ever get robbed for that reason: I don't walk around looking all insecure and worried, which is 'victim'. There are reasons I'm like this I won't get into, but there are REASONS.
I'll keep using cash, TYVM. To protect myself from cybercrime, and to protect my PRIVACY. Think on that.
Hear, hear. Also, don't forget that paying with cash for things doesn't leave a trail of 'purchasing habits' for someone to profile you with. Some of us (you, too, I think) understand the value of privacy.
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A 10,000 square mile solar array? Difficult to attack/sabotage/cripple, just due to sheer size.
A 1 square mile electric energy storage farm? Easier to attack. That's what I'd be afraid of.
Did you notice that Pence lawyered up a while back? He, apparently, is not completely stupid: he sees how much of a liability being involved with the current administration is to his political career and saw fit to get ahead of the whole thing as soon as possible; he's a career politician, through-and-through. Five bucks says when the axe falls, he's going to be standing aside of the conflagration, yelling like Ashe in the Bruce Campbell version of Army of Darkness "..hey, I don't even KNOW these assholes!". He'll step aside, co-operate fully with any further Senate an FBI investigations, and try to walk away as cleanly as possible -- or at least I hope that's what happens. I don't think Mike Pence should be POTUS, especially by default.
When my employer (a *ahem* large chipmaker and major partner of Microsoft) literally FORCED Windows 10 on me and many others (literally -- they disabled our Win7 computers) I spent at least 2 weeks trying to 'sanitize' Windows 10, literally and intentionally breaking things in the OS (like Cortana) to protect myself and to make it behave the way I wanted it to behave. I had to resort to some 3rd-party add-ons to get rid of horribly broken things like the way they changed the Start menu. There are problems I couldn't quite iron out and just work around them as best I can. It's a horrible mess, I'd never own a computer that runs this mess of an OS. If it were a choice between this and nothing, I'd take nothing. This is the Enterprise version and probably doesn't spy anywhere near as much as the 'Professional' and lower versions so no way.
I guess I'm kinder than you are about it. Some of them 'think he can do no wrong'; some of them, as usual, thought he was the 'least worst' of two choices, and many of those are now regretting it, but keeping their heads down and their mouths shut, because they don't want to deal with it. Then there's some who thought he could be controlled, and they're finding out how wrong they were, too. HIs approval rating is currently 39% and dropping. As the reality sinks in it'll just get worse, and when all his promises and schemes are shown to be nonsense, the bottom will drop out. My greatest fear at this point is when they inevitably find the allegations of collusion are true and have to start removing the administration. I don't know what provisions we have in our system of government to handle something on that scale. Guess we'd have the Speaker of the House as POTUS?
Sorry to see that the trolls and morons have mod points, and used them on you. I, for one, know that you don't deserve that.
You likely read what the Australian PM had to say. Proof positive that they're painfully DUMB. I've facepalmed so hard it left a mark on my forehead. :-(
Friend, I am so glad that the first high-scoring comment I read in this discussion is a voice of reason. Thank you, my blood pressure just dropped back to normal.
Oh, HELL NO.. between this UBI bullshit, and politicians who think the laws of mathematics have to take a back seat to the 'law of the land', the human race is DOOMED.
Finally, the incontrovertible proof that politicians are not only completely IGNORANT of technical issues, but that they ARE NOT LISTENING TO THEIR OWN GODS-BE-DAMNED EXPERT TECHNICAL ADVISORS! This shit has got to STOP. Idiots like this need to be removed from office before they doom us all!
There is no other way to put this: This is an ASSHOLE move by an ASSHOLE 'administration' being led by an ASSHOLE 'President' who continually demonstrates through actions that they don't give a flying FUCK about the average citizen, they only care about their agendas and their corporate and 1%-er cronies. Finding that they've been in bed with Russia the whole time and throwing the entire administration out on their ear can't come soon enough. 2020 elections can't come soon enough. How are you Trump-supporting idiots liking him and his minions now? You all like your privacy AT LEAST AS MUCH AS I DO, and they just took a BIG STEAMING DUMP all over the entire CONCEPT of your privacy, HOW DOES THAT MAKE YOU FEEL?
Why is it that so many supposedly smart guys can be so freakin' dumb about some things?
What we have so far, and for quite some time to come, is not what I and others in the know would call true 'AI'; your 'algorithms' aren't conscious, self-aware, or capable of true cognition; they aren't anywhere near capable of being able to think, not in the way that's necessary for 'robots walking down the street killing people', or 'Skynet taking over', or anything out of a friggin' Isaac Asimov novel. Please, please, PLEASE, people, get over it already, stop believing the media hype. You have more to worry about from your dog or cat trying to take over the world than you do any chunk of computer code.
LOL why is it that so many jackasses on the Internets inject wild assumptions with no basis in fact or reality into conversations? LOL sure I'll search things on Google -- but I don't have any Google accounts, you couldn't PAY me to have any Google accounts. But I use an add-on to my browser that cleans the Google links, so while they certainly can log searches themselves, they can't log any search results I click on. When I'm at home any links I click on go through Tor, so not only can't Google log them, but my ISP can't log them, either. I don't use my real name online anywhere. I don't use ANY 'social media'. There are other security and privacy measures I take that I won't get into. My digital footprint is as non-existant as I can make it. That make you angry or something, that someone else is willing to make the effort, when maybe you can't be bothered yet feel violated constantly? Is that why you're being so condescending?
I'd rather be me and take what steps I can take to preserve and protect what I can of my personal privacy and security, than be someone like you, who I'm assuming from the piss-and-vinegar butthurt tone of your comment has completely given up, given in, and gone the way of the yellow-bellied, lilly-livered coward, and just goes along with all the monitoring, tracking, surveilling, and rampant, unabated data collection on you, and likely your family, too. Sad, because you're probably a decent person otherwise.
*shrug* you learn something new every day, I guess.
But on the other hand, science seems to have "Wow, we never thought 'X' was possible!" moments all the time. Just sayin'..
..and that the phone I do have (cheap-ass $50 plastic LG dumbphone, LOL) is turned off most of the time. Turn it on a couple times a day just to see if there are any messages for me. Physically shorted the GPS antenna on the main board to ground, so no GPS tracking when it's on anyway, just what tower it's connected to.
I'd never bothered to learn how worldwide PSTN actually worked until I read this article and looked up SS7. Scary, that all that has been done for decades in the clear.
This level of ignorant bullshit that our so-called 'leaders' and so-called 'legislators' perpetrate on the rest of us makes me want to vomit. Seriously.
Well then someone needs to slap some sense into them until they understand. I'll gladly volunteer, but I think there'll be a long, long line of people waiting for their chance to 'serve their country' in that capacity.
Really, honestly, in all seriousness: Are you saying that what happens here, is that these politicians have credible, credentialled, PhD-level, trusted expert technical advisors, telling them "What you want is inviting disaster, for X, Y, and Z reasons", and the politicians are saying "LOL, no, we can change people's minds about that and make it happen"? Really?
I won't play along with this privacy-invading, populace-controlling bullshit, and I don't recommend anyone else go along with it, either. Cash money == true freedom. What, where, and when you buy things is nobodys business but your own.
Hear, hear.
Why does everyone assume 'carrying cash' means 'carrying THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN CASH'? I carry $100 or less, and get more when I need it, because I'm not DUMB. Cops want to say the $83 in my wallet is for drugs? LOL, I have no criminal record and no trace of controlled substances in my blood, ENJOY YOUR LAWSUIT, PIGS. xD
"Hear, hear", for your first paragraph, at least.
I may look into getting a pre-paid, rechargable debit card of some kind, so long as it's not linked to my name, to pay for some things, especially online things and utility bills. I have a credit card but I'd prefer to not use it unless it's an emergency. I'm tired of having my privacy invaded constantly.
I'm one of those people who looks at "What can go wrong" with just about anything (it's the engineer in me) and people roll their eyes at me for it sometimes.. but SO MANY commentors in this discussion are making ME roll MY eyes at THEM, LOL!
I don't carry HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS in my wallet all the time. Typically it's $100 or LESS. Because I'm not a dummy.
No one gives me trouble because I don't act like a victim. Many many people act like victims and that makes them targets. Thieves are like coyotes; they're only marginally predators, and mostly opportunistic. Thieves will not go after someone who they think is going to be trouble for them. I've never been robbed and don't think I'll ever get robbed for that reason: I don't walk around looking all insecure and worried, which is 'victim'. There are reasons I'm like this I won't get into, but there are REASONS.
I'll keep using cash, TYVM. To protect myself from cybercrime, and to protect my PRIVACY. Think on that.
Hear, hear. Also, don't forget that paying with cash for things doesn't leave a trail of 'purchasing habits' for someone to profile you with. Some of us (you, too, I think) understand the value of privacy.
Credit cards are stupid. Look how much trouble they get people into.
That's about how I feel about that, too. Never seen anywhere that didn't take cash, but I'd turn on my heel and walk out.