What monopoly? They're balloons. Just train eagles or hawks or falcons or some other bird of prey to hunt the balloons and take them down. Bonus points for training birds on the endangered species list, so Google/Loon won't be able to take countermeasures.
I agree with you, good idea, but let me do you one better than that, borrowing from a System of a Down song:: Let's send the president and the politicians into the field to witness what the consequences of their decisions are.
Friend, I have some Bad News for you, an epiphany I had some time ago: The America we all grew up thinking we were living in? IT NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. Maybe it did for the first few months or years in the 18th century, but after that it started getting subverted by the greedy and the cruel, as you put it. Long before the time we were born, it was already gone.
Let me tell you what is at least as big a threat, if not more so, than the foreign agents who are meddling in our electoral process: malicious natural U.S. citizens who are only really interested in 'pissing off liberals', and they don't care if they destroy the United States in the process, so long as they get their pound of flesh.CBS News conducted a poll that shows that even in the wake of Trump virtually selling out the U.S. Government to Vladimir Putin -- a shameful debacle that both sides of the Congressional aisle universally condemned -- Republicans are still supporting Trump. Even Congressional Republicans won't criticize him for long, because they're more interested in retaining their majority in Congress than they're interested in what's good for the entire country, so they let this train wreck of an Administration continue, even as Trump makes nice with one of the biggest villians on the planet today, an unmistakable enemy of the United States. That's why everything is so bad, that's why it all so completely fucked up, and until the GOP no longer has a majority in at least the House or the Senate it'll all just get worse and worse as time goes by. By 2020 there may not be much of a country left.
You're not wrong. Perhaps in first-world countries we'll say 'no' to this, but countries like China or Russia? They won't refrain from it, they'll mass-produce them, and considering the shitty excuse for 'AI' everyone keeps trotting out, they'll all screw up and run rampant as likely as not. Guess we'll have to develop strong EMP weapons against them.
I've been saying this all along. We can't even seem to manage to secure our basic data systems, personal computers, and smartphones, do they really think they'll be able to keep anyone from hacking SDCs and taking remote control of them? Especially considering that, in the SDC Future Utopia they're trying to sell us, remote control capability will be baked right into the cars' software, so that law enforcement can take control any time they want, and the occupants won't have any say in it, they'll be locked into the vehicle and taken wherever it is the cops want them to go. From there it'll be TRIVIAL for criminals, terrorists, or whoever has the smarts to pull it off, to hack into whatever vehicle they want to, kidnap people, send them to their deaths, or use the vehicle as an assault weapon or a bomb delivery device. Oh and by the way a reminder: this is all in addition to the massive risk of the car itself fucking up and getting you killed, or killing someone else, while you watch in horror, unable to make it STOP. I'd rather WALK everywhere the rest of my life than set foot in one of these death traps. I'll be glad when the whole fad dies and goes away.
I'm not even kidding or trying to be funny. We, as a species, should go back to warfare using only hand-to-hand weapons like swords, daggers, pikes, and bows and arrows. No more guns, explosives, bombs (conventional or nuclear), planes, weaponized ships of war, and so on. You can have ships that carry troops. It'll be more civilized.
But Rick, hand-to-hand combat was brutal and bloody and and and.. so uncivilized! Gaping bloody wounds, severed limbs and heads, OMFG THE HORROR!!!
EXACTLY. Let's make war so horrifying, so extreme, so UGLY, that no one will be able to stand it. Since there won't be modern things like cannons or other explosive projectiles, having embedded photojournalists in the field would be relatively safe -- and in fact, I would make them MANDATORY, with daily updates of the carnage and death and utter horror that is war. Give it six months, a year at most, and every nation on the planet who is involved in wars will be pressing for peace negotiations.
..if only I had the power to make this happen and enforce it.
love to break it to you but he does speak on behalf of all Americans. He is the leader of the nation and the top diplomat. He is your president.:)
Nope. POTUS is supposed to serve the PEOPLE, not the other way around -- and I did not vote for the son of a bitch, nor do I want him in office now. He's a cancer on our nation and needs to be REMOVED, along with his entire Administration, and IDGAF what you think, because you're (ostensibly) one of his supporters, therefore your motives are suspect. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, myopian.
I take it you're not a citizen of the United States? I am, born and lived here my entire life, and I'll tell you right now, if you didn't guess already: Donald Trump does not speak for all Americans, he only speaks for some of them, and of that subset, most of us have little to no respect for them -- or Donald Trump, either. He's a loudmouth, uncouth, misogynistic, probably racist asshole, definitely un-Presidential, and quite frankly he was elected by frustrated people with low IQs and severe myopia (if you catch my drift) who were only really interested in 'pissing off liberals' and not in what's best for the United States. So whatever else you think or do, don't lump all 300,000,000+ of us together in the same group, we're just as appalled as the rest of the world is.
..and now, as typical for Trump supporters, I'll be down-modded into the basement, marked as a 'Troll', and generally have the most vile insults imagineable thrown at me for daring to speak against the Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief, Orange Julius Caesar Trump. Do your worst, you bastards.
It's real easy for someone with as much ill-gotten gains as Zuckerberg to say something like that, and it doesn't mean a gods-be-damned thing when he says it. It is time for Facebook to go the way of the dinosaurs and Zuckerberg with it. The nature of so-called 'social media' has to change, and the data-ripping has to stop completely. Of course I'd be even happier if 'social media' as a concept went the way of the dinosaur, I think it's a cancer on our civilization.
Do you really think the Chinese government would stand for being locked out of anything within it's borders? They've either made a hush-hush deal with Apple to 'allow' them to operate in China under those conditions, or they've cracked it already. Or maybe they just do beat the shit out of anyone whose iPhone they want unlocked, beat them daily, threaten their families, and so on, until they get what they want, not like it's a stretch of the imagination in their case.
So in other words if you have an iPhone in China, whether anyone can beat the unlock password out of you or not is a moot point because the State already has all your data in it's posession?
Put your glasses on, Myopian, you can't see past the end of your own nose. Microsoft wants to be the ONLY OS on the planet, and they've clearly and objectively demonstrated over and over again that they'll go to any lengths, fair, legal, or not, to attain that goal, and Linux is a threat to that hegemony and dominance. Since it's not a company they can do a hostile takeover of, they have to infiltrate the Linux community (done), influence it's development (done), then start 'incorporating' it into their own products (done). Since they have the power and the influence with motherboard and computer manufacturers to dictate what can and cannot boot on any given platform (i.e. 'secure boot' and the certificates required for that to happen) they can effectively lock out any non-Microsoft OS. For the moment Secure Boot can be bypassed, but does anyone really think it'd be that difficult for them to use their money and influence to convince everyone that matters that being able to bypass Secure Boot opens the door to criminal hacking, and should no longer be allowed? You shouldn't, it would be relatively trivial for them to accomplish that, they're one step away from that right now, especially in the wake of all the cybercrime and cyberterrorism happening. After that anyone bypassing Secure Boot would be considered a criminal, arrested and prosecuted for it, and their 'bootleg illegal OS' would be destroyed. Meanwhile Microsoft, in response to complaints from the former Linux community, would simply say "You can run your Linux OS under Windows, you don't need to boot directly to it, and this is for your PROTECTION, you should thank us for keeping you safe!". After that point there's no competition, and they'd have law enforcement, Congress, and PC manufacturers convinced that it's the best way to move forward. Any concerns about 'anti-competitiveness' or 'monopoly' would be responded to with FUD about cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and National Security. There, I've laid out the complete blueprint for you, you really going to try to refute it now? Even a child could see it's not far-fetched at all, considering Microsofts' track record, especially lately.
Too many of you say "oh, well, privacy is dead and nobody cares, so why bother even trying?". Well, now it may cost people more money, or get them booted out of their medical coverage entirely, or who knows, get them fired from their job because they'll (potentially) raise the group rates too much? People will suddenly start caring about their privacy and who has access to all the data about their lives. Hit people in the pocketbook and they'll suddenly pay attention to all sorts of things that they said they didn't care about.
I would suppose that in the most extreme possibilities, your employer would fire you because you're going to (potentially) cost them more money for their group medical insurance.
This kind of bullshit is Minority Report meets HMOs.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing, that anyone would create a 'game' like this in the first place, or that there's anyone, even children, who would fall for it.:-(
Yes, please, compensate pilots better, do whatever you must to get them to want to fly planes, otherwise some jackhole will decide to use some shitty excuse for AI to fly the planes with no one in the cockpit at all, or just some low-paid idiot who won't know what to do when the shitty AI fucks up and can't handle something.
When we take over and kill Linux as a stand-alone OS and make it available only under Windows, at least you'll have a command line window that won't make you cry -- even though your tears of loss over your silly little free 'open source' OS will still be sweet to us. Mark my words, Slashdotters, Miscreant-o-soft has had Linux in it's sights for a while now. Don't say you weren't warned when they lock it out of booting on your hardware.
They have to make an example out of some people to scare others into being the obedient little robots that the communist Chinese regime wants everyone to be. The irony will be that the chilling effects such actions have on the populace will stifle creativity right along with stifling independent thinking. They may get their human automatons, but eventually they'll only be good for doing what they're told. You may not always like what some people do with actual freedom of thought and freedom of action, but that's the price you pay for allowing your species to reach for it's potential. Without it you strip away the qualities that elevate us from being just animals.
Agreed, this is a gross overreach and misuse of police and judicial powers. What just cause was cited for the officer to want to search the defendant's cellphone, or his car for that matter? It was a traffic stop for fuck's sake.
Well then since there are none of those in my house either (no smartphone, no smart TV, no webcam or microphones connected to the computer, and so on) then I've got nothing to worry about; great!:-)
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What monopoly? They're balloons. Just train eagles or hawks or falcons or some other bird of prey to hunt the balloons and take them down. Bonus points for training birds on the endangered species list, so Google/Loon won't be able to take countermeasures.
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I agree with you, good idea, but let me do you one better than that, borrowing from a System of a Down song:: Let's send the president and the politicians into the field to witness what the consequences of their decisions are.
Friend, I have some Bad News for you, an epiphany I had some time ago: The America we all grew up thinking we were living in? IT NEVER EXISTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. Maybe it did for the first few months or years in the 18th century, but after that it started getting subverted by the greedy and the cruel, as you put it. Long before the time we were born, it was already gone.
Let me tell you what is at least as big a threat, if not more so, than the foreign agents who are meddling in our electoral process: malicious natural U.S. citizens who are only really interested in 'pissing off liberals', and they don't care if they destroy the United States in the process, so long as they get their pound of flesh. CBS News conducted a poll that shows that even in the wake of Trump virtually selling out the U.S. Government to Vladimir Putin -- a shameful debacle that both sides of the Congressional aisle universally condemned -- Republicans are still supporting Trump. Even Congressional Republicans won't criticize him for long, because they're more interested in retaining their majority in Congress than they're interested in what's good for the entire country, so they let this train wreck of an Administration continue, even as Trump makes nice with one of the biggest villians on the planet today, an unmistakable enemy of the United States. That's why everything is so bad, that's why it all so completely fucked up, and until the GOP no longer has a majority in at least the House or the Senate it'll all just get worse and worse as time goes by. By 2020 there may not be much of a country left.
You're not wrong. Perhaps in first-world countries we'll say 'no' to this, but countries like China or Russia? They won't refrain from it, they'll mass-produce them, and considering the shitty excuse for 'AI' everyone keeps trotting out, they'll all screw up and run rampant as likely as not. Guess we'll have to develop strong EMP weapons against them.
I've been saying this all along. We can't even seem to manage to secure our basic data systems, personal computers, and smartphones, do they really think they'll be able to keep anyone from hacking SDCs and taking remote control of them? Especially considering that, in the SDC Future Utopia they're trying to sell us, remote control capability will be baked right into the cars' software, so that law enforcement can take control any time they want, and the occupants won't have any say in it, they'll be locked into the vehicle and taken wherever it is the cops want them to go. From there it'll be TRIVIAL for criminals, terrorists, or whoever has the smarts to pull it off, to hack into whatever vehicle they want to, kidnap people, send them to their deaths, or use the vehicle as an assault weapon or a bomb delivery device. Oh and by the way a reminder: this is all in addition to the massive risk of the car itself fucking up and getting you killed, or killing someone else, while you watch in horror, unable to make it STOP. I'd rather WALK everywhere the rest of my life than set foot in one of these death traps. I'll be glad when the whole fad dies and goes away.
But Rick, hand-to-hand combat was brutal and bloody and and and.. so uncivilized! Gaping bloody wounds, severed limbs and heads, OMFG THE HORROR!!!
EXACTLY. Let's make war so horrifying, so extreme, so UGLY, that no one will be able to stand it. Since there won't be modern things like cannons or other explosive projectiles, having embedded photojournalists in the field would be relatively safe -- and in fact, I would make them MANDATORY, with daily updates of the carnage and death and utter horror that is war. Give it six months, a year at most, and every nation on the planet who is involved in wars will be pressing for peace negotiations.
..if only I had the power to make this happen and enforce it.
Trollololol
That's my conclusion about you. Get fucked.
love to break it to you but he does speak on behalf of all Americans. He is the leader of the nation and the top diplomat. He is your president. :)
Nope. POTUS is supposed to serve the PEOPLE, not the other way around -- and I did not vote for the son of a bitch, nor do I want him in office now. He's a cancer on our nation and needs to be REMOVED, along with his entire Administration, and IDGAF what you think, because you're (ostensibly) one of his supporters, therefore your motives are suspect. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, myopian.
I take it you're not a citizen of the United States? I am, born and lived here my entire life, and I'll tell you right now, if you didn't guess already: Donald Trump does not speak for all Americans, he only speaks for some of them, and of that subset, most of us have little to no respect for them -- or Donald Trump, either. He's a loudmouth, uncouth, misogynistic, probably racist asshole, definitely un-Presidential, and quite frankly he was elected by frustrated people with low IQs and severe myopia (if you catch my drift) who were only really interested in 'pissing off liberals' and not in what's best for the United States. So whatever else you think or do, don't lump all 300,000,000+ of us together in the same group, we're just as appalled as the rest of the world is.
..and now, as typical for Trump supporters, I'll be down-modded into the basement, marked as a 'Troll', and generally have the most vile insults imagineable thrown at me for daring to speak against the Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief, Orange Julius Caesar Trump. Do your worst, you bastards.
It's real easy for someone with as much ill-gotten gains as Zuckerberg to say something like that, and it doesn't mean a gods-be-damned thing when he says it.
It is time for Facebook to go the way of the dinosaurs and Zuckerberg with it. The nature of so-called 'social media' has to change, and the data-ripping has to stop completely. Of course I'd be even happier if 'social media' as a concept went the way of the dinosaur, I think it's a cancer on our civilization.
Do you really think the Chinese government would stand for being locked out of anything within it's borders? They've either made a hush-hush deal with Apple to 'allow' them to operate in China under those conditions, or they've cracked it already. Or maybe they just do beat the shit out of anyone whose iPhone they want unlocked, beat them daily, threaten their families, and so on, until they get what they want, not like it's a stretch of the imagination in their case.
So in other words if you have an iPhone in China, whether anyone can beat the unlock password out of you or not is a moot point because the State already has all your data in it's posession?
Obligatory: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Put your glasses on, Myopian, you can't see past the end of your own nose. Microsoft wants to be the ONLY OS on the planet, and they've clearly and objectively demonstrated over and over again that they'll go to any lengths, fair, legal, or not, to attain that goal, and Linux is a threat to that hegemony and dominance. Since it's not a company they can do a hostile takeover of, they have to infiltrate the Linux community (done), influence it's development (done), then start 'incorporating' it into their own products (done). Since they have the power and the influence with motherboard and computer manufacturers to dictate what can and cannot boot on any given platform (i.e. 'secure boot' and the certificates required for that to happen) they can effectively lock out any non-Microsoft OS. For the moment Secure Boot can be bypassed, but does anyone really think it'd be that difficult for them to use their money and influence to convince everyone that matters that being able to bypass Secure Boot opens the door to criminal hacking, and should no longer be allowed? You shouldn't, it would be relatively trivial for them to accomplish that, they're one step away from that right now, especially in the wake of all the cybercrime and cyberterrorism happening. After that anyone bypassing Secure Boot would be considered a criminal, arrested and prosecuted for it, and their 'bootleg illegal OS' would be destroyed. Meanwhile Microsoft, in response to complaints from the former Linux community, would simply say "You can run your Linux OS under Windows, you don't need to boot directly to it, and this is for your PROTECTION, you should thank us for keeping you safe!". After that point there's no competition, and they'd have law enforcement, Congress, and PC manufacturers convinced that it's the best way to move forward. Any concerns about 'anti-competitiveness' or 'monopoly' would be responded to with FUD about cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and National Security. There, I've laid out the complete blueprint for you, you really going to try to refute it now? Even a child could see it's not far-fetched at all, considering Microsofts' track record, especially lately.
The world will eventually move to perfectly engineered robotic vehicles
Bullshit, bullshit, BULLSHIT. I make a prediction:
People will NEVER fully accept so-called 'self driving cars' that they cannot directly control themselves with conventional controls
..and I'll stand by that with my last breath, and fuck you if you don't like my opinion, fanbois.
Too many of you say "oh, well, privacy is dead and nobody cares, so why bother even trying?". Well, now it may cost people more money, or get them booted out of their medical coverage entirely, or who knows, get them fired from their job because they'll (potentially) raise the group rates too much? People will suddenly start caring about their privacy and who has access to all the data about their lives. Hit people in the pocketbook and they'll suddenly pay attention to all sorts of things that they said they didn't care about.
I would suppose that in the most extreme possibilities, your employer would fire you because you're going to (potentially) cost them more money for their group medical insurance.
This kind of bullshit is Minority Report meets HMOs.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing, that anyone would create a 'game' like this in the first place, or that there's anyone, even children, who would fall for it. :-(
Trollololololol.
3/10 made me comment.
Now go back to http://boards.4chan.org/b/ and STAY THERE.
Yes, please, compensate pilots better, do whatever you must to get them to want to fly planes, otherwise some jackhole will decide to use some shitty excuse for AI to fly the planes with no one in the cockpit at all, or just some low-paid idiot who won't know what to do when the shitty AI fucks up and can't handle something.
When we take over and kill Linux as a stand-alone OS and make it available only under Windows, at least you'll have a command line window that won't make you cry -- even though your tears of loss over your silly little free 'open source' OS will still be sweet to us. Mark my words, Slashdotters, Miscreant-o-soft has had Linux in it's sights for a while now. Don't say you weren't warned when they lock it out of booting on your hardware.
They have to make an example out of some people to scare others into being the obedient little robots that the communist Chinese regime wants everyone to be. The irony will be that the chilling effects such actions have on the populace will stifle creativity right along with stifling independent thinking. They may get their human automatons, but eventually they'll only be good for doing what they're told. You may not always like what some people do with actual freedom of thought and freedom of action, but that's the price you pay for allowing your species to reach for it's potential. Without it you strip away the qualities that elevate us from being just animals.
Agreed, this is a gross overreach and misuse of police and judicial powers. What just cause was cited for the officer to want to search the defendant's cellphone, or his car for that matter? It was a traffic stop for fuck's sake.
Well then since there are none of those in my house either (no smartphone, no smart TV, no webcam or microphones connected to the computer, and so on) then I've got nothing to worry about; great! :-)