Between Trump himself and the NHTSA report, nothing is going to get done about this, and when corporations only care about next quarters' profits, and governments stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it, and the average person says "Why should I care? That's some other generations' problem, not mine", we're probably well on our way to a slow extiction-level event for the human species -- and maybe everything else. Depressing.
Smart glasses that filter out all social media and give you a shock when you think about going on Twitter or Facebook, but kicks your pleasure center when you actually interact with (shocking!!!) real people in real social settings.
Great. Next steps will be: refining this so that thoughts can be interpreted and documented, then being able to do it wirelessly, then wirelessly over distances of, say, a few hundred meters. Then nosy corporations and governments can spy on what you're thinking in your own home, closing off the 'last mile' of individual privacy. We'll have to get Faraday cages installed where we live to even keep our thoughts private. Then Amazon will come out with a 'digital assistant' that gets thoughts via just thinking at it, and all the morons of the world who want the NEW SHINY will buy them -- and no one anywhere will ever have privacy again.
No, I'm not being funny. You know damned well that government intelligence services mouths are watering at the thought of being able to sift people's thoughts.
They keep trying to make this shit fly again and again and again. It's no different than trying to put a tax on email usage.
If they can't negotiate better royalty deals for music then fuck 'em, they suck and they get what they deserve. No doing an end-run around the negotiation process and fucking us with an 'internet tax'.
The device in question would have to either be fed a refclock or derive it's own clock, a PLL to either multiply the refclock or to derive it from the differential signal, have a small processor core, RAM, ROM, and some way to communicate with it, as well as being fed by one of the power rails, probably a 1.00V or 1.05V rail. In a 10nm or 14nm bare die you might be able to make it small enough and thin enough to hide between layers of the many-layer PCBs that are current technology -- or for that matter you might just make it a standard BGA surface-mount device, masquerading as a differential buffer or other differential device, like a mux, and hide it in plain sight, acting like the buffer it pretends to be, only revealing it's true purpose once it's triggered properly.
If I were any company potentially affected by this (which in this case is basically all companies) I'd be very quiet and vague about it, too. The implications are massive.
You idiot, I told you to write the update so that it copies users' personal private files and sends them to our marketing department for analysis and sale, not delete them! You've ruined everything, do you realize how much money in lost data sales we've just lost?
Maybe if bad drivers actually paid attention in driver ed and driver training, and cared enough to not drive like assholes, then maybe we wouldn't need shitty 'self driving cars' shoved down our throats. Meanwhile safe competent drivers like me will, if I live long enough, have to fight to keep my actual freedom and actual drivers license when the goddamned fanbois in the government try to literally force everyone into these fucking deathtraps on wheels.
What accidents? It'll make them come to a careful, controlled, complete stop, giving drivers behind them plenty of notice. They'll be pissed off like you wouldn't believe though and the passengers in the SDC will have their jaws drop to the floor in disbelief as what a piece of shit SDCs are that they'd do that. I'm just trying to demonstrate that the technology is SHIT and doesn't belong on public roads; I'm a public benefactor, I am.:-)
Personally, since I ride a bike a lot, I plan on getting a custom jersey made, that has a full-size standard octagonal "STOP" sign on the front and back, with the words "AND LOOK FOR CYCLISTS" in small print underneath. I'll have no end of amusement as I confuse the crap out of shitty self-driving cars that can't tell the difference between a human with a stop-sign shirt on, and an actual stop-sign.
I'd rather take my chances with humans than take them with a soulless, dead-inside machine that has zero ability to understand what 'human lives' actually means, to which I'm just another 'object', like a lamppost or a fire hydrant, and which is made by some corporation that doesn't give a shit whether I live or die, so long as they make a profit.
Corporate America (hell, Corporate world, it's everywhere) has spent metric assloads of money indoctrinating the average citizens of the world that they should trust them to never do anything harmful to them, just drink/eat/breathe all you want, it's fine, why would we lie to you? Their 'risk assessment' from their legal departments assure them that the 'risk is acceptable' and it's cheaper to settle out of court with people than it is to actually make things safe and clean. After all, it's just people, profits are WAY more important.. THANKS, TRUMP! Dx
Also, in that case AC, here, eat this piece of produce we just genetically modified to increase crop yields by 1000%! We promise it's not harmful to you!
Oh, and that chemical plant down the road from you? Don't worry about the runoff from it, it's fine, they promise it's okay!
Well in that case, here you go AC, drink this! Don't worry about the chemical in it that has a 10 syllable name you can't even pronounce, it's new and shiny and we promise it's not harmful!
To explain the above subject line: If it were up to me, my philosophy with regards to public health would be to consider something to be potentially harmful until proven, through fact- and scientific method-based reasoning, that it's not harmful. Highly irresponsible otherwise.
Did you forget the </sarcasm> tag at the end of your comment? If you're not being sarcastic, then be glad you're on the internet and not in front of me, because I'd punch you square the mouth as hard as I possibly could for saying shit like that.
Okay, stet; but it's still a physical feature, therefore it can be proved to exist. Also if this is true then an x-ray of the PCBs compared to photographs of the top and bottom of the PCBs would show the 'phantom' component(s).
It's Zuckerbook, fooling you into believing your account is 'deleted' when it's not is a FEATURE not a BUG, that way Zuckerbook can keep your data and continue to make more money off it.
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Between Trump himself and the NHTSA report, nothing is going to get done about this, and when corporations only care about next quarters' profits, and governments stick their fingers in their ears and ignore it, and the average person says "Why should I care? That's some other generations' problem, not mine", we're probably well on our way to a slow extiction-level event for the human species -- and maybe everything else. Depressing.
They're called 'smart speakers' in this context because it's smarter than the people who actually buy them.
Smart glasses that filter out all social media and give you a shock when you think about going on Twitter or Facebook, but kicks your pleasure center when you actually interact with (shocking!!!) real people in real social settings.
Great. Next steps will be: refining this so that thoughts can be interpreted and documented, then being able to do it wirelessly, then wirelessly over distances of, say, a few hundred meters. Then nosy corporations and governments can spy on what you're thinking in your own home, closing off the 'last mile' of individual privacy. We'll have to get Faraday cages installed where we live to even keep our thoughts private. Then Amazon will come out with a 'digital assistant' that gets thoughts via just thinking at it, and all the morons of the world who want the NEW SHINY will buy them -- and no one anywhere will ever have privacy again.
No, I'm not being funny. You know damned well that government intelligence services mouths are watering at the thought of being able to sift people's thoughts.
They keep trying to make this shit fly again and again and again. It's no different than trying to put a tax on email usage.
If they can't negotiate better royalty deals for music then fuck 'em, they suck and they get what they deserve. No doing an end-run around the negotiation process and fucking us with an 'internet tax'.
The device in question would have to either be fed a refclock or derive it's own clock, a PLL to either multiply the refclock or to derive it from the differential signal, have a small processor core, RAM, ROM, and some way to communicate with it, as well as being fed by one of the power rails, probably a 1.00V or 1.05V rail. In a 10nm or 14nm bare die you might be able to make it small enough and thin enough to hide between layers of the many-layer PCBs that are current technology -- or for that matter you might just make it a standard BGA surface-mount device, masquerading as a differential buffer or other differential device, like a mux, and hide it in plain sight, acting like the buffer it pretends to be, only revealing it's true purpose once it's triggered properly.
If I were any company potentially affected by this (which in this case is basically all companies) I'd be very quiet and vague about it, too. The implications are massive.
You idiot, I told you to write the update so that it copies users' personal private files and sends them to our marketing department for analysis and sale, not delete them! You've ruined everything, do you realize how much money in lost data sales we've just lost?
Maybe if bad drivers actually paid attention in driver ed and driver training, and cared enough to not drive like assholes, then maybe we wouldn't need shitty 'self driving cars' shoved down our throats. Meanwhile safe competent drivers like me will, if I live long enough, have to fight to keep my actual freedom and actual drivers license when the goddamned fanbois in the government try to literally force everyone into these fucking deathtraps on wheels.
Insects infecting plants with viruses
What could POSSIBLY go wrong???
I've seen Costco and Winco do this: a name-brand is popular, so they come up with a equivalent (more or less) house branded version.
Haters gonna hate. xD xD xD Y U SO MAD THO?
What accidents? It'll make them come to a careful, controlled, complete stop, giving drivers behind them plenty of notice. They'll be pissed off like you wouldn't believe though and the passengers in the SDC will have their jaws drop to the floor in disbelief as what a piece of shit SDCs are that they'd do that. I'm just trying to demonstrate that the technology is SHIT and doesn't belong on public roads; I'm a public benefactor, I am. :-)
Personally, since I ride a bike a lot, I plan on getting a custom jersey made, that has a full-size standard octagonal "STOP" sign on the front and back, with the words "AND LOOK FOR CYCLISTS" in small print underneath. I'll have no end of amusement as I confuse the crap out of shitty self-driving cars that can't tell the difference between a human with a stop-sign shirt on, and an actual stop-sign.
I'd rather take my chances with humans than take them with a soulless, dead-inside machine that has zero ability to understand what 'human lives' actually means, to which I'm just another 'object', like a lamppost or a fire hydrant, and which is made by some corporation that doesn't give a shit whether I live or die, so long as they make a profit.
Death by SDC.
Corporate America (hell, Corporate world, it's everywhere) has spent metric assloads of money indoctrinating the average citizens of the world that they should trust them to never do anything harmful to them, just drink/eat/breathe all you want, it's fine, why would we lie to you? Their 'risk assessment' from their legal departments assure them that the 'risk is acceptable' and it's cheaper to settle out of court with people than it is to actually make things safe and clean. After all, it's just people, profits are WAY more important.. THANKS, TRUMP! Dx
Also, in that case AC, here, eat this piece of produce we just genetically modified to increase crop yields by 1000%! We promise it's not harmful to you!
Oh, and that chemical plant down the road from you? Don't worry about the runoff from it, it's fine, they promise it's okay!
Well in that case, here you go AC, drink this! Don't worry about the chemical in it that has a 10 syllable name you can't even pronounce, it's new and shiny and we promise it's not harmful!
Found another one of the anti-vaxers.
Don't need one. I get a free pass for correcting willful ignorance.
..if the Trump administration twists this into a reason to ban wind power in favor of more goddamned coal burning.
To explain the above subject line: If it were up to me, my philosophy with regards to public health would be to consider something to be potentially harmful until proven, through fact- and scientific method-based reasoning, that it's not harmful. Highly irresponsible otherwise.
Did you forget the </sarcasm> tag at the end of your comment? If you're not being sarcastic, then be glad you're on the internet and not in front of me, because I'd punch you square the mouth as hard as I possibly could for saying shit like that.
Okay, stet; but it's still a physical feature, therefore it can be proved to exist. Also if this is true then an x-ray of the PCBs compared to photographs of the top and bottom of the PCBs would show the 'phantom' component(s).
It's Zuckerbook, fooling you into believing your account is 'deleted' when it's not is a FEATURE not a BUG, that way Zuckerbook can keep your data and continue to make more money off it.