So what they're saying is that aside from physically hacking so-called 'IoT' devices to prevent them from connecting in this way, you'll have precisely zero positive ability to actually control the transceivers? Great. That means 'IoT' devices will be even less secure than ever before. Botnet owners will be thrilled.
You speak truth and wisdom. Remember in the 80's when the original Model 5150 IBM PC came out? Shortly thereafter there were clones of it all over the place. Did IBM throw a hissy-fit over it? Not really, and because of that the PC took off like a rocket. If CBS wasn't such total wankers about this their Star Trek-flavored shows might be doing better.
I will NEVER watch any of their shitty Star Trek artificially-flavored shows, not even downloaded for FREE illegally, because they're being such assholes about things like this. Also makes me consider not watching any CBS shows even OTA for free, except it wouldn't hurt them one bit due to them not even knowing if I'm watching or not. Shutting down the Star Trek fanbase is not going to make them any friends.
They're saying what I've been saying for years now, and I have no doubt they'll actually do it, and it'll be awesome. Talk about helping evolve our species! Moving out onto Earth's Moon is the first step towards moving out into our solar system, and from there, who knows?
You can stop the Windows Update service and set it to 'Disabled', and that will prevent updates from happening whenever it feels like it, but you'll have to re-enable it to get updates, and you won't have a choice in what updates you get.
But are they tools for the users, or are they tools for Microsoft? I say they DGAF about the users so long as they're making money off them, and that's wrong.
Am I supposed to take the word of some random anonymous person on the Internet, or should I apply some critical thinking of my own, with a likewise judicious application of Occam's Razor, and a generous dollop of common sense, and use what strategies I think are most reasonable to protect what's left of my privacy? Or do you, like others, expect me to throw up my hands, say "Oh, well, nothing I can do about it!" and allow Facebook and others free reign over anything and everything I do, like a yellow-bellied coward? On the latter, I think not. I am no hermit, I buy little online, I pay cash for things bought in person, and I do not participate in so-called 'social media' because it is a cancer on our civilization, as you well know, and I strongly refute any claims that the only way I can prevent any and all data collection of my person is to abstain entirely from use of the Internet and/or withdraw from society in general. Do you, for instance, actually believe my real name is 'Rick Schumann'? It's a character from a book. I never use my real name online anywhere like this. What few occasional purchases I make online are only with reputable companies that respect the privacy of their customers (Yes, Virginia, there are some of those in the world still). I'll put down good cash money that says what some shit company like Facebook has on me is minimal, at best, and more than likely completely stale and outdated, therefore useless. Stop being a victim and start taking back your life, friend, it's possible and it's worthwhile.
How many do you subtract that were forced on unsuspecting users, users who didn't know any better, and users who weren't otherwise given a choice? Can we also subtract out businesses, who either didn't have a choice, either, and their employees, who weren't given a choice by their employers?
Well, set your adblocker and NoScript to block Facebook domains as well as bailing out of Facebook, and over time any data they have on you will go stale and be essentially worthless. I think that's the best damage control you can do, aside from burning every Facebook server to the ground (which would be about as easy as deleting something off of USENET, when USENET was still relevant). I'd think that stale data on a person isn't worth anything to marketing types.
I was thinking the same thing but in slightly different terms: Microsoft wants to create the era of "Mainframe 2p0", and go back to the 70's and 80's, where all you had was a dumb terminal and connected remotely to the actual computer.
For what it's worth, I don't see how powerful desktop computing is going to go away. Hardware is too cheap, and you do not have to run Windows, you can run Linux. As much as I think Microsoft would like to prevent anything but Windows from being directly bootable on your own computer, there will always be a movement to do an end-run around those sorts of efforts, to the extent of BIOS hacking, and perhaps even open-source motherboards. "OS as a service" is as much bullshit as "Software as a service" is, and there will always be a crowd of people who will say "Hell, no!" to it.
All the shit they keep calling 'AI' has no ability whatsoever to 'think' which is why it can't handle even simple things we take for granted.
I've said it before a thousand times: The entire approach being used is wrong; until we can understand how our own brains produce the phenomenon of conscious thought, we will not be able to build machines that can do the same thing. All the 'deep learning alogorithms' won't do it. Throwing more and more hardware at it won't do it. We don't even have the instrumentation to really understand how a living brain, as a complete system, does what it does, and once you kill it and cut it up, what you can learn is so severely limited as to be useless. You want REAL AI? Focus on building better instrumentation that can scan a living, working brain, and really, truly map out how it operates. Before anyone says it: fMRI won't cut it, if it could we'd already have the answers.
The '/b/ team' as you put it, would delete all the non-violent, non-disturbing, normal content, and promote the sickest shit imagineable 'for the lulz' -- and then add their own, meme'd from everyone elses'.
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..no, I was thinking something you could manufacture that pulls CO2 out of the air, otherwise what's the point?
Fair enough.
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Don't be such a pendantic twit.
So what they're saying is that aside from physically hacking so-called 'IoT' devices to prevent them from connecting in this way, you'll have precisely zero positive ability to actually control the transceivers? Great. That means 'IoT' devices will be even less secure than ever before. Botnet owners will be thrilled.
If not a publicity stunt by Facebook: Enjoy your V&, dude.
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Who watches the watchers???
Point taken but they could have gone full guns on the hardware manufacturers, too, and they apparently didn't.
I have, do, and will watch The Orville, it's a good show even from what little there's been of it so far, and I'm surprised it's on Fox.
The Internet never forgets. Someone must have a download link for this, please post it before it get too scarce to find easily, thanks!
You speak truth and wisdom. Remember in the 80's when the original Model 5150 IBM PC came out? Shortly thereafter there were clones of it all over the place. Did IBM throw a hissy-fit over it? Not really, and because of that the PC took off like a rocket. If CBS wasn't such total wankers about this their Star Trek-flavored shows might be doing better.
I will NEVER watch any of their shitty Star Trek artificially-flavored shows, not even downloaded for FREE illegally, because they're being such assholes about things like this. Also makes me consider not watching any CBS shows even OTA for free, except it wouldn't hurt them one bit due to them not even knowing if I'm watching or not. Shutting down the Star Trek fanbase is not going to make them any friends.
They're saying what I've been saying for years now, and I have no doubt they'll actually do it, and it'll be awesome. Talk about helping evolve our species! Moving out onto Earth's Moon is the first step towards moving out into our solar system, and from there, who knows?
Why not come up with something with similar properties that has a high carbon content, preferably extracted from the air?
You can stop the Windows Update service and set it to 'Disabled', and that will prevent updates from happening whenever it feels like it, but you'll have to re-enable it to get updates, and you won't have a choice in what updates you get.
But are they tools for the users, or are they tools for Microsoft? I say they DGAF about the users so long as they're making money off them, and that's wrong.
Am I supposed to take the word of some random anonymous person on the Internet, or should I apply some critical thinking of my own, with a likewise judicious application of Occam's Razor, and a generous dollop of common sense, and use what strategies I think are most reasonable to protect what's left of my privacy? Or do you, like others, expect me to throw up my hands, say "Oh, well, nothing I can do about it!" and allow Facebook and others free reign over anything and everything I do, like a yellow-bellied coward? On the latter, I think not. I am no hermit, I buy little online, I pay cash for things bought in person, and I do not participate in so-called 'social media' because it is a cancer on our civilization, as you well know, and I strongly refute any claims that the only way I can prevent any and all data collection of my person is to abstain entirely from use of the Internet and/or withdraw from society in general. Do you, for instance, actually believe my real name is 'Rick Schumann'? It's a character from a book. I never use my real name online anywhere like this. What few occasional purchases I make online are only with reputable companies that respect the privacy of their customers (Yes, Virginia, there are some of those in the world still). I'll put down good cash money that says what some shit company like Facebook has on me is minimal, at best, and more than likely completely stale and outdated, therefore useless. Stop being a victim and start taking back your life, friend, it's possible and it's worthwhile.
How come this immediately reminds me of those businesses?
How many do you subtract that were forced on unsuspecting users, users who didn't know any better, and users who weren't otherwise given a choice? Can we also subtract out businesses, who either didn't have a choice, either, and their employees, who weren't given a choice by their employers?
Well, set your adblocker and NoScript to block Facebook domains as well as bailing out of Facebook, and over time any data they have on you will go stale and be essentially worthless. I think that's the best damage control you can do, aside from burning every Facebook server to the ground (which would be about as easy as deleting something off of USENET, when USENET was still relevant). I'd think that stale data on a person isn't worth anything to marketing types.
LOL no. The 'simple fix' is to not have a Zuckerbook account at all. Please do try to catch up, will you?
I was thinking the same thing but in slightly different terms: Microsoft wants to create the era of "Mainframe 2p0", and go back to the 70's and 80's, where all you had was a dumb terminal and connected remotely to the actual computer.
For what it's worth, I don't see how powerful desktop computing is going to go away. Hardware is too cheap, and you do not have to run Windows, you can run Linux. As much as I think Microsoft would like to prevent anything but Windows from being directly bootable on your own computer, there will always be a movement to do an end-run around those sorts of efforts, to the extent of BIOS hacking, and perhaps even open-source motherboards. "OS as a service" is as much bullshit as "Software as a service" is, and there will always be a crowd of people who will say "Hell, no!" to it.
Then Facebook would be inundated with tranny porn, furry porn and spam.
Why is anyone wasting their time on this when there's thorium?
All the shit they keep calling 'AI' has no ability whatsoever to 'think' which is why it can't handle even simple things we take for granted.
I've said it before a thousand times: The entire approach being used is wrong; until we can understand how our own brains produce the phenomenon of conscious thought, we will not be able to build machines that can do the same thing. All the 'deep learning alogorithms' won't do it. Throwing more and more hardware at it won't do it. We don't even have the instrumentation to really understand how a living brain, as a complete system, does what it does, and once you kill it and cut it up, what you can learn is so severely limited as to be useless. You want REAL AI? Focus on building better instrumentation that can scan a living, working brain, and really, truly map out how it operates. Before anyone says it: fMRI won't cut it, if it could we'd already have the answers.
Intentionally wipe out an entire species of anything
The '/b/ team' as you put it, would delete all the non-violent, non-disturbing, normal content, and promote the sickest shit imagineable 'for the lulz' -- and then add their own, meme'd from everyone elses'.