There should be a registry for internet 'bots, and they should be required to be hard-coded to answer the question "Are you a robot?" with a clear and truthful "Yes, I am a robot."
Clearly you're not a responsible parent if you allow your kids to use social media, and you should lead by example by not using it yourself either. In fact take away their smartphones and give them cheap dumbphones that are only good for voice and text messages while you're at it, their grades will likely go up.
They're unsafe and they know it so they're all supervised by a human. This is all just media hype from marketing departments because if they don't start turning a profit on this after all the millions invested in it stockholders will revolt and heads will roll. Meanwhile the 'technology' is still nowhere near ready for general use and so far as I'm concerned never will be.
Agreed to by all countries, and enforced by all countries. Can't be any other way. Any country violates the agreement, they get jumped on by everyone else.
So Zuckerbook puts on clown makeup to entertain the kids, good old Uncle Zuckerbook. When you break it off with Zuckerbook because you just won't stand being in an abusive relationship anymore, the kids will just have to get used to Uncle Zuckerbook not being around anymore. They'll get over it.
If the above statement isn't currently true in the legal sense, then it should be made true. No one individual, legal entity, group of people, company, corporation, conglomerate, or government should ever 'own' Earth's Moon. The reasons for this should not require explanation.
The above, having been said, and for the sake of argument accepted as fact: I'm perfectly okay with structures on the Moon, and the ground underneath them, being owned by whoever is responsible for them. Similar to how the Embassy of any given country, within the borders of another country, is considered to be part of the Embassys' home country. There's one exception I'd like to make to this, however: No military bases, of any country, on the Moon, again for obvious reasons.
Don't you love me anymore? I love you, still, more than ever! Please, please, PLEASE don't leave me! I know I've been bad, I know I've hurt you, I know I've screwed up time and time again, but really, honestly, I've changed this time, I'm a totally different social-media site than I was before, things will be different this time, just please don't walk out on me!
Sound familiar?
Face it, Zuckerbook: IT'S OVER. No one wants to continue in this destructive relationship anymore. Some are having the veil lifted from their eyes slower than others, but it's inevitable, you can't stop it, and worse, you know it's true and are flailing about in desperation, fighting a delaying action, deeply in denial that It's Over Now, and only the long, cold night is what lies before you now.
Denial
Anger Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
That's where you''re at right now, Zuckerbook: Trying, desperately, to bargain your way out of your imminent demise. So sad! It won't work.
That's okay, you're more than halfway through the process. It won't take long now.
Oh, that. I dare to speak my mind on any number of subjects, and I tend to not pull my punches at all (and why should I, when it's how I really think, and besides which who else pulls their punches on the Internet, anyway?) so I've got at least my fair share of enemies around here, some of which have mod points, or who shitpost like the above, or both. Trollololol. Pay them no mind.
Also, where I work (major chip manufacturer, LOL) the proxy/firewall blocks those domains you provided as examples, so $SOMEONE thought of that already; bet's off. xD
The fact of the matter is that we have been progressively "insulating people from the horrors of war" for centuries now
Are you somehow saying this is a GOOD thing? Because if you are then you're a horribly broken excuse for a human being. We should hit everyone full-on in the face with what war really is. No more desensitization!
Coupled with say a country that is staring down it's own defeat.
In more than one science fiction story I've read or watched (and I suspect, you as well) the 'doomsday weapon' gets used out of spite. Think Saberhagens' planet-killing, life-destroying berzerkers. Or, everyones' more recent favorite, Skynet/Terminators. Or The Matrix.
There are reasons I have well beyond the fascinating idea of having a conversation with a truly sentient, self-aware, fully cognitive and reasoning machine with a real personality: The current poor excuse for 'AI' they keep trotting out can't be 'reasoned' with because it has none of those traits. True 'machine intelligence'? Sure. But I want to be able to talk with it and have it explain it's reasoning to me as to why it does what it does or why it gives a certain answer to a question. The current technology, even the programmers that designed it will tell you they have no idea what's going on 'under the hood', it just does what it does. That's positively scary to me when you're going to put such a machine in charge of something that could potentially get people killed.
In the immortal words of Adam Savage, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!", but they're not kidding.
It's kind of like Vegans; they think that a 'moral choice' plus 'force of will' can somehow override hundreds of thousands/millions of years of evolution shaping our DNA, and have no health consequences.
..okay, then I distinctly remember a news story about this hoax of an April Fool's joke. xD xD xD All in all it's a sad commentary on how I view my fellow 'humans' that I'd believe a state legislature would actually do this for real.:-(
No, I distinctly remember some other state much more recent than the 19th century trying to do this, and it was exactly 3 they wanted to make 'official'.
When encryption has backdoors, then NO ONE will have encryption at all
You CANNOT have 'backdoors' in an encyption algorithm and still have effective encryption, goddamnit!
Clearly the FBI and Congress doesn't give a rat's ass whether or not anyone has secure systems or not, so long as they can stick their little brown noses into everyones business. Who cares if every computer in the country is easily hacked by even script kiddies, everyones identity is stolen, and everyones bank accounts drained and credit cards charged up? The Feds will have 'unbreakable' encryption, as will all elected officials and of course The Rich, they'll all be exempt from it, while the rest of us are wide open to whoever wants to victimize us.
Your information is out of date. Much more recently (less than 10 years ago?) some state legislature tried to make Pi equal to 3. That's the sort of fucktardedness we're dealing with anymore.
Worse, it'll completely insulate people from the horror that is war -- all except the victims, of course. When you don't even have a drone pilot pushing the button to drop a bomb, who is there to have any sort of conscience? My main complaint about the poor excuse for 'AI' everyone keeps trotting out to do this-or-that, is that it's incapable of actual thought, and everything is just an object to it, it doesn't know the difference between a living being (like a human) or a rock or fencepost -- therefore 'collateral damage' has no meaning. Sadly so far as I understand it the current approach isn't ever going to be capable of actual thought or consciousness because we haven't a clue how our own biological brains manage to produce those phenomena, and the chances of being able to build machines that can do that without solving that riddle are slim and none.
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There should be a registry for internet 'bots, and they should be required to be hard-coded to answer the question "Are you a robot?" with a clear and truthful "Yes, I am a robot."
Clearly you're not a responsible parent if you allow your kids to use social media, and you should lead by example by not using it yourself either. In fact take away their smartphones and give them cheap dumbphones that are only good for voice and text messages while you're at it, their grades will likely go up.
They're unsafe and they know it so they're all supervised by a human. This is all just media hype from marketing departments because if they don't start turning a profit on this after all the millions invested in it stockholders will revolt and heads will roll. Meanwhile the 'technology' is still nowhere near ready for general use and so far as I'm concerned never will be.
Do you have any idea how little I care?
Neither does toodling around at 25mph or less.
Agreed to by all countries, and enforced by all countries. Can't be any other way. Any country violates the agreement, they get jumped on by everyone else.
But it's treated as such. Close enough.
*sigh* Zuckerbook doesn't know shit about me. How many times do I have to say this? Maybe the rest of you, but not me.
So Zuckerbook puts on clown makeup to entertain the kids, good old Uncle Zuckerbook. When you break it off with Zuckerbook because you just won't stand being in an abusive relationship anymore, the kids will just have to get used to Uncle Zuckerbook not being around anymore. They'll get over it.
If the above statement isn't currently true in the legal sense, then it should be made true. No one individual, legal entity, group of people, company, corporation, conglomerate, or government should ever 'own' Earth's Moon. The reasons for this should not require explanation.
The above, having been said, and for the sake of argument accepted as fact: I'm perfectly okay with structures on the Moon, and the ground underneath them, being owned by whoever is responsible for them. Similar to how the Embassy of any given country, within the borders of another country, is considered to be part of the Embassys' home country. There's one exception I'd like to make to this, however: No military bases, of any country, on the Moon, again for obvious reasons.
Make sense?
Don't you love me anymore? I love you, still, more than ever! Please, please, PLEASE don't leave me! I know I've been bad, I know I've hurt you, I know I've screwed up time and time again, but really, honestly, I've changed this time, I'm a totally different social-media site than I was before, things will be different this time, just please don't walk out on me!
Sound familiar?
Face it, Zuckerbook: IT'S OVER. No one wants to continue in this destructive relationship anymore. Some are having the veil lifted from their eyes slower than others, but it's inevitable, you can't stop it, and worse, you know it's true and are flailing about in desperation, fighting a delaying action, deeply in denial that It's Over Now, and only the long, cold night is what lies before you now.
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
That's where you''re at right now, Zuckerbook: Trying, desperately, to bargain your way out of your imminent demise. So sad! It won't work.
That's okay, you're more than halfway through the process. It won't take long now.
Oh, that. I dare to speak my mind on any number of subjects, and I tend to not pull my punches at all (and why should I, when it's how I really think, and besides which who else pulls their punches on the Internet, anyway?) so I've got at least my fair share of enemies around here, some of which have mod points, or who shitpost like the above, or both. Trollololol. Pay them no mind.
Also, where I work (major chip manufacturer, LOL) the proxy/firewall blocks those domains you provided as examples, so $SOMEONE thought of that already; bet's off. xD
Five bucks says Miscreant-o-soft does exactly that in the near future.
Yeah yeah I know: Google dropped that motto a while back, but this sounds like something Microsoft would do.
Can you get them to transfer your data to /dev/null? I sincerely think that's the best option for everyone.
STFU and go drink your 40. :p
The fact of the matter is that we have been progressively "insulating people from the horrors of war" for centuries now
Are you somehow saying this is a GOOD thing? Because if you are then you're a horribly broken excuse for a human being. We should hit everyone full-on in the face with what war really is. No more desensitization!
Coupled with say a country that is staring down it's own defeat.
In more than one science fiction story I've read or watched (and I suspect, you as well) the 'doomsday weapon' gets used out of spite. Think Saberhagens' planet-killing, life-destroying berzerkers. Or, everyones' more recent favorite, Skynet/Terminators. Or The Matrix.
There are reasons I have well beyond the fascinating idea of having a conversation with a truly sentient, self-aware, fully cognitive and reasoning machine with a real personality: The current poor excuse for 'AI' they keep trotting out can't be 'reasoned' with because it has none of those traits. True 'machine intelligence'? Sure. But I want to be able to talk with it and have it explain it's reasoning to me as to why it does what it does or why it gives a certain answer to a question. The current technology, even the programmers that designed it will tell you they have no idea what's going on 'under the hood', it just does what it does. That's positively scary to me when you're going to put such a machine in charge of something that could potentially get people killed.
In the immortal words of Adam Savage, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!", but they're not kidding.
It's kind of like Vegans; they think that a 'moral choice' plus 'force of will' can somehow override hundreds of thousands/millions of years of evolution shaping our DNA, and have no health consequences.
..okay, then I distinctly remember a news story about this hoax of an April Fool's joke. xD xD xD All in all it's a sad commentary on how I view my fellow 'humans' that I'd believe a state legislature would actually do this for real. :-(
No, I distinctly remember some other state much more recent than the 19th century trying to do this, and it was exactly 3 they wanted to make 'official'.
When encryption has backdoors, then NO ONE will have encryption at all
You CANNOT have 'backdoors' in an encyption algorithm and still have effective encryption, goddamnit!
Clearly the FBI and Congress doesn't give a rat's ass whether or not anyone has secure systems or not, so long as they can stick their little brown noses into everyones business. Who cares if every computer in the country is easily hacked by even script kiddies, everyones identity is stolen, and everyones bank accounts drained and credit cards charged up? The Feds will have 'unbreakable' encryption, as will all elected officials and of course The Rich, they'll all be exempt from it, while the rest of us are wide open to whoever wants to victimize us.
Them, them, FUCK THEM.
Your information is out of date. Much more recently (less than 10 years ago?) some state legislature tried to make Pi equal to 3. That's the sort of fucktardedness we're dealing with anymore.
Worse, it'll completely insulate people from the horror that is war -- all except the victims, of course. When you don't even have a drone pilot pushing the button to drop a bomb, who is there to have any sort of conscience? My main complaint about the poor excuse for 'AI' everyone keeps trotting out to do this-or-that, is that it's incapable of actual thought, and everything is just an object to it, it doesn't know the difference between a living being (like a human) or a rock or fencepost -- therefore 'collateral damage' has no meaning. Sadly so far as I understand it the current approach isn't ever going to be capable of actual thought or consciousness because we haven't a clue how our own biological brains manage to produce those phenomena, and the chances of being able to build machines that can do that without solving that riddle are slim and none.