Disclaimer: None of us know Donald Trump personally, so anything you or I are saying is just opinion and conjecture. That now having been said..
I think someone like Trump is only as good as the employees he surrounds himself with, and especially so once he enters the Whitehouse, i.e. he'll only be as good as his cabinet choices. Now, of course, that also assumes that he's going to listen to the people he's chosen to surround himself with -- assuming, that is, that he's actually going to listen to what they tell him. Some people say that his off-the-hook attitude, temper-tantrums, and the like are all an act to throw people off balance. I'm far from convinced of this. Unfortunately we'll all just have to wait and see if he sells us down the river to Russia or not, or if he just ends up incompetent enough himself to be taken in by Putin. Remember that Putin used to be KGB; he didn't get to where he is by chance or have it handed to him, I'm sure he's done at least his share of dirty-work to rise to power. I'd call Putin far, far more dangerous that Trump.
Trump thinks Putin is his buddy. Either that or his entire family are a bunch of Russian sleeper agents. In any event Trump thinks he's smart, but he's not -- Putin would love nothing more than to either have the U.S. in his back pocket, or destroy it -- either way he gets his wish, the resurrection of the Soviet Union and everything that implies. Putin, at best, is going to use Trump and his gullibility/greed/lust for power/whatever it is that goes through the head under that bad wig of his, and America is going to pay the price.
I am *ahem* slightly younger than you are, and are more or less in the same boat, philosophically-speaking. I think the younger generations have been indoctrinated, and that's why they get a confused look on their faces when you try to explain how their privacy is being grossly violated and that they should be outraged by this; they don't think privacy is important or that wanting it is even normal. Many of the ones that do understand don't think there's any way to maintain their privacy, that the game is so thoroughly rigged that there's no hope, and just give up and allow themselves to be surveilled and tracked anyway, like good little farm animals.
If you find you can't get a basic dumbphone that doesn't suit you (or can't get one at all anymore) then you should be able to intentionally misconfigure a smartphone so no Internet access is possible, and use it only as a phone (and as a personal music player, if you're so inclined). Then at least the smartphone would be about as secure as it can be from incursions.
How much longer before this sort of technology becomes required by law, "For the safety and protection of citizens", of course? Seriously, this sounds like a bonanza of surveillance data for government and law enforcement, who in many cases won't even need to provide a proper warrant, just categorize it as 'in the interests of National security' and the secret court signs off on it, Microsoft (or whoever) gets a National Security Letter, and voila, your entire life is splayed open to whatever three-letter government agency or law enforcement agency wanted to see it. Is this really the Utopia you all wanted? Are you 'I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear' types happy at being one step away from this? For the time being you're not required to have such technology in your homes, and if you do you're not required to have it on 24/7/365. I hope you all choose wisely, and pass on it completely, or at least unplug it when you're not using it.
I've been listening to broadcast radio my entire life and enjoyed it, and I used to listen to Shoutcast/Icecast internet radio (before the music industry more or less destroyed it), so at one point I thought I'd give these streaming music services a try. Lasted about half an hour for me before I got sick of it. Would let me skip things I didn't want to hear more of, but after so many it stopped letting me do that, and while it claimed to 'learn' what I liked, it kept throwing stuff at me from bands I've never heard of, and didn't really like all that much. In the end it wasn't any better than broadcast radio, even if there are commercials on radio, because I'd have to mute it or turn the volume down until I got past something I didn't care to hear. More trouble to change streams than it is to change stations on a radio. Haven't gone back. I'll either listen to my own locally-stored music or listen to FM radio (if I'm driving). You'd have a difficult-to-impossible time convincing me to pay for streaming music. As another datapoint to add to the above, several years ago I stopped paying for cable TV and put up an antenna because I decided I was paying too much for something I was using maybe 10% of at best. I've never paid for digital-only downloaded music (and never would, especially if it was DRM-laden), I'll go find a CD and buy that. I really feel that so many people have been fed the 'digital streaming kool-aid' and the reason they do it is because that's what they know, and that it's not all it's cracked up to be. Then there's the issue of the artists not getting paid a fair amount for their content.
I know about PCB prototyping services, and have even used them. But if you're using a BGA packaged device you can more or less forget about assembling it yourself, you need to send it out to an assembly house that has the equipment to do it, and there's no guarantee that 100% of the balls will attach properly; if not, then your board and device are more or less toast. Never paid for it myself so I have no idea what an assembly service for that would even cost. That's what I mean about it being 'less accessible'; there's so many steps in the process that you can't do at home yourself. Also in many cases you can forget about troubleshooting something with BGA packaged devices, especially if it's on a PCB with more than two layers and signals you need aren't externally accessible, and if you discover you need to replace a BGA package, again you'd have to send it out to have it done and cross your fingers and hope that it goes well.
When I started in computing, you needed a soldering iron, a particular skill-set, and if you were good, some programming skills, to supplement very minimalistic disk operating systems. It was also kind of fun to witness the reactions of people seeing and hearing a 14-inch hard drive powering up, or in some cases the look of recognition on their faces when they realize that the IMSAI 8080 they saw in the movie War Games was a real thing, not just some Hollywood prop. I even built a speech synthesizer, and got to see my friends' eyes go wide when I made it say "Shall we play a game?" I even designed and built some of my own IEEE696 cards to plug into the backplane that did things you couldn't get kits or pre-made boards for. Before the IMSAI, and the Morrow Designs stuff, I had an 8-bit CDP1802-based computer built on perfboard, complete with an integer BASIC interpreter. Fun, fun, fun. Also great experience for later in life; all the skills and experience I gained from all that has kept me employed all this time.
These days? You might, if you wanted to take the time, effot, and expense to do it, design and build PCIe cards for special functions, but largely there's no point; almost anything you'd want the hardware to do, you can just go out and buy. 'Building a computer' now takes a screwdriver, not a soldering iron, and just about any teenage kid with half a brain can get the parts and cobble a box together. Sure, there's microcontroller stuff of all kinds out there, but there's little to do between those and full-blown desktop systems anymore. Likewise, writing software yourself is almost pointless, you can download just about anything you want, too. Even general electronics as a hobby isn't very accessible or fun anymore, because so much is surface-mount only, not too much is through-hole, so the really interesting devices mean you're more or less required to spin a PCB for whatever it is, which makes it so much more expensive and so much less accessible.
I guess if you're into computer gaming (I lost interest years ago) or just using a computer as an appliance (which they more or less are anymore) then I guess it's 'fun' for you, but from the background I'm coming from, it really isn't so much anymore.
Are they selling well because they're great, or are they selling well because people don't have much of a choice, with no headphone jack? I'm not an Apple guy nor am I an Apple hater, but this seems almost as disingenuous as Microsoft bragging about Windows 10 'adoption rate' when they fooled, lied, tricked, or literally forced their way onto people's computers. False news much?
The problem is that this already exists, you have a perfectly legal mechanism for stripping the voting rights of citizens, it's called being convicted of a felony.
Not at all the same thing, and I can't even see how you'd compare the two things.
When I use the word 'undesirables' above, I mean the following demographics: minorities (blacks, hispanics, etc), LGBTQ's, non-Christians (jews, muslims, etc), and so on. Given the potential for abuse that a 'voter competency test' would create in our political system, there are States that would leverage that potential for abuse to exclude those demographics from voting. You can't say that efforts to exclude citizens from voting doesn't already happen in some States, you hear about it on the news all the time.
I can't say it enough: You may not like the way some people vote, but creating a way to exclude entire demographics of people from voting will destroy the country faster than anything else, create a government about as corrupt and invalid as in some African countries. You think things are bad here now? Just try to imagine how bad it could get if we start monkeying around with things like a 'voter competency test'. I sympathize with you but I can't agree with you because it's just the Wrong Way to go about it. You want to change things in this country? You have to change hearts and minds, not whether people are allowed to vote or not.
So you're OK with having no control or say whatsoever in how the country you live in (and that your CHILDREN live in) is run? What laws do and do not exist? How they're applied? How FAIRLY they're applied? And, worse, you don't even think you're qualified in any way shape or form to have any say in your own PERSONAL destiny, you're perfectly OK for someone else to have total and complete power over you and your life, to have NO rights whatsoever? Because the way you sound, that's the world you'd be living in, and I guarantee you, you'd be incredibly unhappy with it. I can only conclude that you're not looking too far ahead on what you're saying, not seeing the long-term effects of it, and furthermore you give way too much credit to the human race for how 'fair' they'd be. There are people in this country right now that would use you up and throw you away just to increase their wealth and power, and they wouldn't feel bad about it for a single second, and the whole time they'd be telling you that you should thank them for what they're doing to you. That's the sort of people you'd have in control of the country, your life, and your childrens' lives, if things were run the way you seem to think they should be run. Seriously, you need to re-think what you've said.
Voters should take a qualifying test before being allowed to vote.
If you really believe that, then I think you're a bad American. I don't have to be happy with the way some people vote but I'm not going to rip up the Constitution for that reason.
It's far from obvious but I sometimes post comments-on-comments not to educate or 'sway' the person whose comment I'm addressing, but to educate or inform other people reading the comment thread, or just to offfer a differing point of view.
Voting should be based upon rational evaluation of verifiable facts. Anyone who gets their information from sources biased in only one direction should be disqualified.
You couldn't even dump a 55-gallon drum of Astroglide on that and make it any more of a Slippery Slope than it already is. Our political system with regard to citizens voting is supposed to be egalitarian, not elitist, and I'm sure there are a number of Southern states that would just love what you said here, as a way to keep 'undesirables' from voting: institute 'tests' to disqualify citizens from voting; that's more or less what you're advocating for here, and frankly you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking it. That's about as un-American as you can get.
Now, here's the big fat gotcha to what you had to say that will really bake your noodle: People like you, who think things like you presented here, always believe that they are going to be one of the 'chosen ones' allowed the privilege -- and you'd be completely and totally wrong in that regard. The people with the money and the power would not only work to exclude blacks and other minorities from voting, they'd exclude you, me, and anyone else that doesn't Do As They Are Told To Do, essentially anyone who can think for themselves. That, really, is why what you're saying is a Bad Idea and the Slipperiest of Slopes.
If I judged solely on what I see on the Internet, I'd say that 90% of everyone never actually reaches 'adulthood'. Good thing I go by more than just the Internet. That being said, there are people who, regardless of chronological age, never really are 'adults', even as subjective as that word is. Also keep in mind: human personalities are not monolithic; there are many, many facets to them, and many combinations of those facets, which then have their own characteristics. One can be an 'adult' when it comes to a variety of subjects or situations, and still be childlike when it comes to other subjects and situations. Then, of course, is my firm belief that everyone is broken in some way or another and to some extent or another.
On the subject of legal voting age: 16? Hell no. I want it raised to at least 25!
Apparently Congress switched to bottled water at some point in the past, and started chelation therapy for all that lead poisoning they were suffering from, because this news shows that their brains are starting to work correctly again, they're listening to their tech advisers, and coming to the correct conclusions about encryption. Now if we can just get the FBI to switch to bottled water and chelation therapy, we can get their brains working correctly again, and they'll see that what they've wanted all this time is just flat-out insane.
If they're terrorists or involved with/sympathetic to terrorist organizations, they'll lie, or have 'clean' social media accounts to present. If they're complete innocents and refuse to give social media information, they'll be assumed guilty until proven innocent (which won't happen -- they'll always be suspect). If they're innocent and give social media information, they'll be suspected of giving information only on 'clean' social media accounts, and still remain suspect. The only 'terrorists' this will catch are really, really dumb ones that either didn't think things through, or that weren't coached properly by their terrorist leaders.
Any way I look at this, it's pointless and stupid. All it'll really do is victimize innocent immigrants, who are being considered guilty until proven innocent (which won't happen; YOU try proving a negative!), and have law enforcement chasing ghosts while the real bad guys go about their business. Nice job, Washington.
My experience with Millennials is that they're depressed and anxiety-wracked (and angsty, and so totally emo) to start with. I think what's really going on here is that being on multiple 'social media' platforms just makes this fact very obvious (and painfully so to everyone else who has to be subjected to it). True, they should get off social media, stop being NEETs, get jobs, and do something useful with their time, other than whine and complain about 'tfw no gf' and 'I'm a manlet, should I kill myself?' and all the other things nobody cares about and they can't do anything about anyway.
Very much so. In this dystopian world it seems we've been living in for the last mumble-mumble years, it's good to see that not everyone on the planet is apparently suffering from lead poisoning.
How much of modern browsers are written in assembly, or C++, or a directly compiled language? How optimized is it? Or are they sloppy about writing it because everyone has 9000GB of RAM plus a swapfile and 256 main processor cores, so who cares about 'efficient' or 'optimized'? That, plus aren't things like Javascript incredible resource-hogs and slow to execute compared to native code? Then there's the fact that the vast majority of websites are pulling 'content' (read as: mostly useless crap) from literally dozens of domains all over the planet, not just from one server. Are these the issues that are making a web browser on multi-gigahertz, multi-core machines run like it's 1995?
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Disclaimer: None of us know Donald Trump personally, so anything you or I are saying is just opinion and conjecture. That now having been said..
I think someone like Trump is only as good as the employees he surrounds himself with, and especially so once he enters the Whitehouse, i.e. he'll only be as good as his cabinet choices. Now, of course, that also assumes that he's going to listen to the people he's chosen to surround himself with -- assuming, that is, that he's actually going to listen to what they tell him. Some people say that his off-the-hook attitude, temper-tantrums, and the like are all an act to throw people off balance. I'm far from convinced of this. Unfortunately we'll all just have to wait and see if he sells us down the river to Russia or not, or if he just ends up incompetent enough himself to be taken in by Putin. Remember that Putin used to be KGB; he didn't get to where he is by chance or have it handed to him, I'm sure he's done at least his share of dirty-work to rise to power. I'd call Putin far, far more dangerous that Trump.
Trump thinks Putin is his buddy. Either that or his entire family are a bunch of Russian sleeper agents. In any event Trump thinks he's smart, but he's not -- Putin would love nothing more than to either have the U.S. in his back pocket, or destroy it -- either way he gets his wish, the resurrection of the Soviet Union and everything that implies. Putin, at best, is going to use Trump and his gullibility/greed/lust for power/whatever it is that goes through the head under that bad wig of his, and America is going to pay the price.
It's just not worth it to me. Pay, pay, pay, that's the world we're more and more living in, and I don't care for it much.
I am *ahem* slightly younger than you are, and are more or less in the same boat, philosophically-speaking. I think the younger generations have been indoctrinated, and that's why they get a confused look on their faces when you try to explain how their privacy is being grossly violated and that they should be outraged by this; they don't think privacy is important or that wanting it is even normal. Many of the ones that do understand don't think there's any way to maintain their privacy, that the game is so thoroughly rigged that there's no hope, and just give up and allow themselves to be surveilled and tracked anyway, like good little farm animals.
If you find you can't get a basic dumbphone that doesn't suit you (or can't get one at all anymore) then you should be able to intentionally misconfigure a smartphone so no Internet access is possible, and use it only as a phone (and as a personal music player, if you're so inclined). Then at least the smartphone would be about as secure as it can be from incursions.
Prove it. Show me incontrovertible evidence of this.
It's not 'informing the electorate' if you're only hacking into one side and not the other equally.
How much longer before this sort of technology becomes required by law, "For the safety and protection of citizens", of course?
Seriously, this sounds like a bonanza of surveillance data for government and law enforcement, who in many cases won't even need to provide a proper warrant, just categorize it as 'in the interests of National security' and the secret court signs off on it, Microsoft (or whoever) gets a National Security Letter, and voila, your entire life is splayed open to whatever three-letter government agency or law enforcement agency wanted to see it.
Is this really the Utopia you all wanted?
Are you 'I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear' types happy at being one step away from this?
For the time being you're not required to have such technology in your homes, and if you do you're not required to have it on 24/7/365. I hope you all choose wisely, and pass on it completely, or at least unplug it when you're not using it.
I've been listening to broadcast radio my entire life and enjoyed it, and I used to listen to Shoutcast/Icecast internet radio (before the music industry more or less destroyed it), so at one point I thought I'd give these streaming music services a try. Lasted about half an hour for me before I got sick of it. Would let me skip things I didn't want to hear more of, but after so many it stopped letting me do that, and while it claimed to 'learn' what I liked, it kept throwing stuff at me from bands I've never heard of, and didn't really like all that much. In the end it wasn't any better than broadcast radio, even if there are commercials on radio, because I'd have to mute it or turn the volume down until I got past something I didn't care to hear. More trouble to change streams than it is to change stations on a radio. Haven't gone back. I'll either listen to my own locally-stored music or listen to FM radio (if I'm driving). You'd have a difficult-to-impossible time convincing me to pay for streaming music. As another datapoint to add to the above, several years ago I stopped paying for cable TV and put up an antenna because I decided I was paying too much for something I was using maybe 10% of at best. I've never paid for digital-only downloaded music (and never would, especially if it was DRM-laden), I'll go find a CD and buy that. I really feel that so many people have been fed the 'digital streaming kool-aid' and the reason they do it is because that's what they know, and that it's not all it's cracked up to be. Then there's the issue of the artists not getting paid a fair amount for their content.
I know about PCB prototyping services, and have even used them. But if you're using a BGA packaged device you can more or less forget about assembling it yourself, you need to send it out to an assembly house that has the equipment to do it, and there's no guarantee that 100% of the balls will attach properly; if not, then your board and device are more or less toast. Never paid for it myself so I have no idea what an assembly service for that would even cost. That's what I mean about it being 'less accessible'; there's so many steps in the process that you can't do at home yourself. Also in many cases you can forget about troubleshooting something with BGA packaged devices, especially if it's on a PCB with more than two layers and signals you need aren't externally accessible, and if you discover you need to replace a BGA package, again you'd have to send it out to have it done and cross your fingers and hope that it goes well.
Their two spy satellites are going to be toast, tough luck Chinese military intelligence.
When I started in computing, you needed a soldering iron, a particular skill-set, and if you were good, some programming skills, to supplement very minimalistic disk operating systems. It was also kind of fun to witness the reactions of people seeing and hearing a 14-inch hard drive powering up, or in some cases the look of recognition on their faces when they realize that the IMSAI 8080 they saw in the movie War Games was a real thing, not just some Hollywood prop. I even built a speech synthesizer, and got to see my friends' eyes go wide when I made it say "Shall we play a game?" I even designed and built some of my own IEEE696 cards to plug into the backplane that did things you couldn't get kits or pre-made boards for. Before the IMSAI, and the Morrow Designs stuff, I had an 8-bit CDP1802-based computer built on perfboard, complete with an integer BASIC interpreter. Fun, fun, fun. Also great experience for later in life; all the skills and experience I gained from all that has kept me employed all this time.
These days? You might, if you wanted to take the time, effot, and expense to do it, design and build PCIe cards for special functions, but largely there's no point; almost anything you'd want the hardware to do, you can just go out and buy. 'Building a computer' now takes a screwdriver, not a soldering iron, and just about any teenage kid with half a brain can get the parts and cobble a box together. Sure, there's microcontroller stuff of all kinds out there, but there's little to do between those and full-blown desktop systems anymore. Likewise, writing software yourself is almost pointless, you can download just about anything you want, too. Even general electronics as a hobby isn't very accessible or fun anymore, because so much is surface-mount only, not too much is through-hole, so the really interesting devices mean you're more or less required to spin a PCB for whatever it is, which makes it so much more expensive and so much less accessible.
I guess if you're into computer gaming (I lost interest years ago) or just using a computer as an appliance (which they more or less are anymore) then I guess it's 'fun' for you, but from the background I'm coming from, it really isn't so much anymore.
Are they selling well because they're great, or are they selling well because people don't have much of a choice, with no headphone jack? I'm not an Apple guy nor am I an Apple hater, but this seems almost as disingenuous as Microsoft bragging about Windows 10 'adoption rate' when they fooled, lied, tricked, or literally forced their way onto people's computers. False news much?
Oh, you mean the RIAA and the MPAA?
This is a non-story. At best it's some author looking for publicity for his book, and Slashdot editors should be ashamed they actually posted it.
The problem is that this already exists, you have a perfectly legal mechanism for stripping the voting rights of citizens, it's called being convicted of a felony.
Not at all the same thing, and I can't even see how you'd compare the two things.
When I use the word 'undesirables' above, I mean the following demographics: minorities (blacks, hispanics, etc), LGBTQ's, non-Christians (jews, muslims, etc), and so on. Given the potential for abuse that a 'voter competency test' would create in our political system, there are States that would leverage that potential for abuse to exclude those demographics from voting. You can't say that efforts to exclude citizens from voting doesn't already happen in some States, you hear about it on the news all the time.
I can't say it enough: You may not like the way some people vote, but creating a way to exclude entire demographics of people from voting will destroy the country faster than anything else, create a government about as corrupt and invalid as in some African countries. You think things are bad here now? Just try to imagine how bad it could get if we start monkeying around with things like a 'voter competency test'. I sympathize with you but I can't agree with you because it's just the Wrong Way to go about it. You want to change things in this country? You have to change hearts and minds, not whether people are allowed to vote or not.
So you're OK with having no control or say whatsoever in how the country you live in (and that your CHILDREN live in) is run? What laws do and do not exist? How they're applied? How FAIRLY they're applied? And, worse, you don't even think you're qualified in any way shape or form to have any say in your own PERSONAL destiny, you're perfectly OK for someone else to have total and complete power over you and your life, to have NO rights whatsoever? Because the way you sound, that's the world you'd be living in, and I guarantee you, you'd be incredibly unhappy with it. I can only conclude that you're not looking too far ahead on what you're saying, not seeing the long-term effects of it, and furthermore you give way too much credit to the human race for how 'fair' they'd be. There are people in this country right now that would use you up and throw you away just to increase their wealth and power, and they wouldn't feel bad about it for a single second, and the whole time they'd be telling you that you should thank them for what they're doing to you. That's the sort of people you'd have in control of the country, your life, and your childrens' lives, if things were run the way you seem to think they should be run. Seriously, you need to re-think what you've said.
Voters should take a qualifying test before being allowed to vote.
If you really believe that, then I think you're a bad American. I don't have to be happy with the way some people vote but I'm not going to rip up the Constitution for that reason.
It's far from obvious but I sometimes post comments-on-comments not to educate or 'sway' the person whose comment I'm addressing, but to educate or inform other people reading the comment thread, or just to offfer a differing point of view.
Voting should be based upon rational evaluation of verifiable facts. Anyone who gets their information from sources biased in only one direction should be disqualified.
You couldn't even dump a 55-gallon drum of Astroglide on that and make it any more of a Slippery Slope than it already is. Our political system with regard to citizens voting is supposed to be egalitarian, not elitist, and I'm sure there are a number of Southern states that would just love what you said here, as a way to keep 'undesirables' from voting: institute 'tests' to disqualify citizens from voting; that's more or less what you're advocating for here, and frankly you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking it. That's about as un-American as you can get.
Now, here's the big fat gotcha to what you had to say that will really bake your noodle: People like you, who think things like you presented here, always believe that they are going to be one of the 'chosen ones' allowed the privilege -- and you'd be completely and totally wrong in that regard. The people with the money and the power would not only work to exclude blacks and other minorities from voting, they'd exclude you, me, and anyone else that doesn't Do As They Are Told To Do, essentially anyone who can think for themselves. That, really, is why what you're saying is a Bad Idea and the Slipperiest of Slopes.
If I judged solely on what I see on the Internet, I'd say that 90% of everyone never actually reaches 'adulthood'. Good thing I go by more than just the Internet. That being said, there are people who, regardless of chronological age, never really are 'adults', even as subjective as that word is. Also keep in mind: human personalities are not monolithic; there are many, many facets to them, and many combinations of those facets, which then have their own characteristics. One can be an 'adult' when it comes to a variety of subjects or situations, and still be childlike when it comes to other subjects and situations. Then, of course, is my firm belief that everyone is broken in some way or another and to some extent or another.
On the subject of legal voting age: 16? Hell no. I want it raised to at least 25!
Apparently Congress switched to bottled water at some point in the past, and started chelation therapy for all that lead poisoning they were suffering from, because this news shows that their brains are starting to work correctly again, they're listening to their tech advisers, and coming to the correct conclusions about encryption. Now if we can just get the FBI to switch to bottled water and chelation therapy, we can get their brains working correctly again, and they'll see that what they've wanted all this time is just flat-out insane.
If they're terrorists or involved with/sympathetic to terrorist organizations, they'll lie, or have 'clean' social media accounts to present.
If they're complete innocents and refuse to give social media information, they'll be assumed guilty until proven innocent (which won't happen -- they'll always be suspect).
If they're innocent and give social media information, they'll be suspected of giving information only on 'clean' social media accounts, and still remain suspect.
The only 'terrorists' this will catch are really, really dumb ones that either didn't think things through, or that weren't coached properly by their terrorist leaders.
Any way I look at this, it's pointless and stupid. All it'll really do is victimize innocent immigrants, who are being considered guilty until proven innocent (which won't happen; YOU try proving a negative!), and have law enforcement chasing ghosts while the real bad guys go about their business. Nice job, Washington.
My experience with Millennials is that they're depressed and anxiety-wracked (and angsty, and so totally emo) to start with. I think what's really going on here is that being on multiple 'social media' platforms just makes this fact very obvious (and painfully so to everyone else who has to be subjected to it). True, they should get off social media, stop being NEETs, get jobs, and do something useful with their time, other than whine and complain about 'tfw no gf' and 'I'm a manlet, should I kill myself?' and all the other things nobody cares about and they can't do anything about anyway.
Very much so. In this dystopian world it seems we've been living in for the last mumble-mumble years, it's good to see that not everyone on the planet is apparently suffering from lead poisoning.
How much of modern browsers are written in assembly, or C++, or a directly compiled language? How optimized is it? Or are they sloppy about writing it because everyone has 9000GB of RAM plus a swapfile and 256 main processor cores, so who cares about 'efficient' or 'optimized'? That, plus aren't things like Javascript incredible resource-hogs and slow to execute compared to native code? Then there's the fact that the vast majority of websites are pulling 'content' (read as: mostly useless crap) from literally dozens of domains all over the planet, not just from one server. Are these the issues that are making a web browser on multi-gigahertz, multi-core machines run like it's 1995?