What I mean is in the more immediate sense than that, foreign operatives, terroists, and criminal organizations now apparently have everything they need to break into anything they want and nothing is stopping them.
And they wonder why some of us prefer to shop online.
I'd like to point out: you're tracked even more so when you shop online. At least shopping in person, you can pay cash and have no tracking of your purchase.
but seems to also support a broad First Amendment right to "editorial control," allowing ISPs to selectively block, filter, or modify transmitted data.
ISPs should NEVER have the right to censor traffic. This guy is a non-starter right from the get-go.
It's all marketing hype. The vast majority of what they're trotting out as 'AI' isn't really much different than what they had 20-30 years ago, it's just bigger and faster because there is bigger and faster hardware to run it on. They didn't have Beowulf Cluster supercomputers 20 to 30 years ago, they didn't have ubiquitos 4, 8, 16 core processors, or the fast memory, or the gigantic hard disks, gazillion-core GPUs, and so on, and so on. Same crap, better hardware, slightly better results, and just about as (un)trustworthy.
I'm so glad I don't pay for TV in any way, and I'm also glad that I'm considering dumping them for phone service too, what a bunch of worthless bastards.
But it's opt-in (or it fully should be). I don't have to use Zuckerbook and I don't and won't. I also don't use my real name anywhere online except for official business, and if they're being loose with the security of that, then there's definitely going to be penalties for them over that.
I'm perfectly okay with that -- so long as there are stiff penalties for violating my privacy when I say 'no' to them collecting my data for any reason. In fact I'd prefer that they charge for things like Zuckerbook and Twitter. It would keep many people off them that have nothing useful to say anyway (or so I hope).
Maybe if we bring back our old friend The Guillotine they'll get the message: Stop being assholes and exploiting us for profit, or your head will end up in a basket. I'm only half kidding by the way. I'm so fucking sick and tired of people sticking their noses in my business that I'd punch them in the face repeatedly until it looked like bloody hamburger, if I could get my hands on them.
Word has it actually that Pence is worse than Trump in significant ways since he's notably a Dominionist and would ruthlessly enforce Fundamentalist Christian agendas and not give a fuck about anyone else. Trump seems to want to drag us back socially to the 1940's; Pence would drag us all the way back to the pre-Renaissance era socially.
Somewhat amazingly, Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to be a real thing. Seeing these types of posts basically proves it.
You're completely and totally correct, and I agree with you 100%: Donald Trump is in fact deranged. There really needs to be psychological vetting of candidates for public office so we don't get crazies in positions of power.
You don't want Trump to die. You want Trump to live a long, healthy life, completely and totally discredited and disgraced, and never forgotten as the liar, cheat, and villian that he is. You want him to be a constant reminder to everyone of all the evil selfish destructive things he's done, and be punished for it until his last breath is drawn, and then only when he's died of purely natural causes and is put in the ground (face down, preferably), forever immortalized in the history books as the worst president the United States has ever had, an example to all future candidates of what not to be when you're sitting in the Oval Office, and a warning to future generations of the GOP.
If your kid is stealing cookies from the cookie jar even though (s)he knows they're not supposed to be doing that, and you ignore it and never enforce the rule, then eventually they'll get more and more brazen about it, figuring the rule has no teeth because it's not enforced, and over time they'll even start convincing themselves that the rule never applied to them, somehow, in the first place. So it is with these companies and corporations: At some point in the past they knew what they were doing was wrong, and I'm sure they felt some guilt over it.. but the money they got from selling people's purloined data went a long way towards assuaging their guilt, and over time they felt it less and less and now they feel entitled to everyones' data and even make you sign off on agreements that say the data is THEIRS and not YOURS anymore, simply because they allow you to use some shitty website for free. The fact that people don't give a fuck just puts them in the role of enablers to these nosy companies and corporations, encouraging them to more and more believe that what they're doing is right and proper and that they have the right to do it, and that you don't have the right to complain about it. They need to be pulled up short and told in no uncertain terms that it is NOT OKAY.
You're not wrong. Sadly, as is the case all too often with humans, it'll take a disasterous, crisis-level event for them to wake up and take notice, demand something be done, and by then it'll be too late, the proverbial horse will have already left the proverbial barn, and the only thing left to be done at that point is damage control and mopping up the mess left behind. Then there'll be Grand Gestures and Profound Statements by legislators and CEOs.. and when the News Cycle turns and everyone has forgotten about it, they'll all go back to Business As Usual, nothing will change until the next crisis occurs. Vis-a-vis: Equifax. Have they actually, documentably, done ANYTHING different in the wake of pretty much everyone's very-much-personal-and-sensitive financial and identity data being stolen? Of course not, that would eat into their profits! The Rich and the Equifax brass have their data safe, so why should they care what happens to the unwashed masses of average citizens? They don't and never will until their date with the guillotine, then they'll be sorry for all of it. Too bad we don't have guillotines anymore.
We're headed for a massive breakdown and I don't think anything can stop it from happening. There are breaches of information systems every week, practically every day. Data stolen, systems hacked into and compromised, money taken. How much longer will it be before critical infrastucture is compromised to the point where our civilization grinds to a halt? Sadly I think it's inevitable because it just 'costs too much money!' to do anything pro-active to stop it.
It all seemed perfectly clear to me what was happening and nothing I just read in TFA was any sort of revelation to me. Do people really have a hard time understanding what was going on there?
Clearly it was over your head, you haven't the capacity to comprehend it. Content yourself with your Michael Bay films, I think that's more your level.
Google, Zuckerbook, and others have abused and broken the trust of their users over and over and over again and you bastards are actually surprised and upset that no one trusts you anymore!? Seriously!?
MEMO TO TECH COMPANIES, ALL OVER THE WORLD: You motherfuckers want people to trust you? Then you have to EARN THEIR TRUST by displaying a consistent pattern of TRUSTWORTHYNESS over a long, long period of time -- and I don't mean the typical "Fool the idiots into BELIEVING they can trust us by making some Grand Gesture then going behind everyones' backs and continuing with business as usual", either. Stop violating everyones' privacy. Stop stealing their private data. Stop profiling people. STOP MAKING PEOPLE AND THEIR PRIVATE DATA YOUR 'PRODUCT'. Just fucking STOP.
They -- and you -- don't get it at all do you? People get blocked by the "Great Firewall of the UK", they'll get a VPN or use TOR and get what they want anyway. Do you really think they're going to ban TOR and VPNs? Good luck with that. If it's a website hosted within the UK then they'll get what they want at a website outside the UK. If a website is going to have it's business destroyed because of the overreach of the UK government, they'll move their hosting outside the UK. If the UK government goes completely China on them and tries to shut them down completely they'll just move it to some other country and give the UK government the finger. What do you think they're going to do then, arrest everyone? Better learn to speak Mandarin, then, because you're in communist China at that point. Don't you get it? You cannot legislate morality and you can't censor the ENTIRE internet, only what's in your country. They can pass whatever overreaching nanny-state laws they want but they're completely and totally toothless unless they want to invoke marshal law and lock the country down like it's some totalitarian state. You really think the people of the UK are going to sit still for that? You're nuts.
You're usually full of crap you know that? Nothing you say changes anything I said. People like what they like and they'll get it one way or another if they're motivated enough and governments can't stop that without being so authoritarian and dictatorial that any semblance of 'freedom' dissolves away. That's not the UK, not anytime soon, so I really don't see what you're going on about.
The Rich and Powerful don't care whether it's human-caused or not, they only care about what happens during their lifetimes and holding on to their wealth and power, and the hell with the rest of humanity. 99% of us could die off because of climate change and they'd be perfectly okay with that, happy about it, because it would mean the consolidation of their power would be complete: so few people left on Earth means it's easier to manage them. We'd probably go back to some form of Feudalism with them being the 'noblemen' and whoever is left being the 'serfs'. Wouldn't at all be surprised of some of these rich fucks are actively contributing to climate change so they can hurry along the apocalypse.
If that means they finally treat climate change and environmental destruction as the serious problems they really are, then I'm all for it.
You don't get it. They won't. They only really care about what happens during their lives, and they'll use their accumulated wealth and power to keep themselves alive even if the planet is rapidly turning into a searing hell that nothing can survive on anymore, they'll just turn up the AC in their sealed environments and ignore the people dying outside the gates of their fortified compounds.
Yeah because that really stopped everyone didn't it? It also so really stopped Rock 'n Roll music from getting off the ground, too, and banning pornography and banning alcohol in the United States totally worked too didn't it? Oh wait none of those things are true! You're completely wrong and have no idea what you're talking about! Legislating morality never works because people will go find whatever it is they want to find.
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What I mean is in the more immediate sense than that, foreign operatives, terroists, and criminal organizations now apparently have everything they need to break into anything they want and nothing is stopping them.
And they wonder why some of us prefer to shop online.
I'd like to point out: you're tracked even more so when you shop online. At least shopping in person, you can pay cash and have no tracking of your purchase.
Do I really need to explain this at this point?
but seems to also support a broad First Amendment right to "editorial control," allowing ISPs to selectively block, filter, or modify transmitted data.
ISPs should NEVER have the right to censor traffic. This guy is a non-starter right from the get-go.
It's all marketing hype. The vast majority of what they're trotting out as 'AI' isn't really much different than what they had 20-30 years ago, it's just bigger and faster because there is bigger and faster hardware to run it on. They didn't have Beowulf Cluster supercomputers 20 to 30 years ago, they didn't have ubiquitos 4, 8, 16 core processors, or the fast memory, or the gigantic hard disks, gazillion-core GPUs, and so on, and so on. Same crap, better hardware, slightly better results, and just about as (un)trustworthy.
I'm so glad I don't pay for TV in any way, and I'm also glad that I'm considering dumping them for phone service too, what a bunch of worthless bastards.
Burn the whole thing to the ground. Go 'connect' with people the old fashioned way: in person.
But it's opt-in (or it fully should be). I don't have to use Zuckerbook and I don't and won't. I also don't use my real name anywhere online except for official business, and if they're being loose with the security of that, then there's definitely going to be penalties for them over that.
I'm perfectly okay with that -- so long as there are stiff penalties for violating my privacy when I say 'no' to them collecting my data for any reason. In fact I'd prefer that they charge for things like Zuckerbook and Twitter. It would keep many people off them that have nothing useful to say anyway (or so I hope).
Sad.
Maybe if we bring back our old friend The Guillotine they'll get the message: Stop being assholes and exploiting us for profit, or your head will end up in a basket. I'm only half kidding by the way. I'm so fucking sick and tired of people sticking their noses in my business that I'd punch them in the face repeatedly until it looked like bloody hamburger, if I could get my hands on them.
Word has it actually that Pence is worse than Trump in significant ways since he's notably a Dominionist and would ruthlessly enforce Fundamentalist Christian agendas and not give a fuck about anyone else. Trump seems to want to drag us back socially to the 1940's; Pence would drag us all the way back to the pre-Renaissance era socially.
Somewhat amazingly, Trump Derangement Syndrome seems to be a real thing. Seeing these types of posts basically proves it.
You're completely and totally correct, and I agree with you 100%: Donald Trump is in fact deranged. There really needs to be psychological vetting of candidates for public office so we don't get crazies in positions of power.
You don't want Trump to die. You want Trump to live a long, healthy life, completely and totally discredited and disgraced, and never forgotten as the liar, cheat, and villian that he is. You want him to be a constant reminder to everyone of all the evil selfish destructive things he's done, and be punished for it until his last breath is drawn, and then only when he's died of purely natural causes and is put in the ground (face down, preferably), forever immortalized in the history books as the worst president the United States has ever had, an example to all future candidates of what not to be when you're sitting in the Oval Office, and a warning to future generations of the GOP.
If your kid is stealing cookies from the cookie jar even though (s)he knows they're not supposed to be doing that, and you ignore it and never enforce the rule, then eventually they'll get more and more brazen about it, figuring the rule has no teeth because it's not enforced, and over time they'll even start convincing themselves that the rule never applied to them, somehow, in the first place. So it is with these companies and corporations: At some point in the past they knew what they were doing was wrong, and I'm sure they felt some guilt over it.. but the money they got from selling people's purloined data went a long way towards assuaging their guilt, and over time they felt it less and less and now they feel entitled to everyones' data and even make you sign off on agreements that say the data is THEIRS and not YOURS anymore, simply because they allow you to use some shitty website for free. The fact that people don't give a fuck just puts them in the role of enablers to these nosy companies and corporations, encouraging them to more and more believe that what they're doing is right and proper and that they have the right to do it, and that you don't have the right to complain about it. They need to be pulled up short and told in no uncertain terms that it is NOT OKAY.
You're not wrong. Sadly, as is the case all too often with humans, it'll take a disasterous, crisis-level event for them to wake up and take notice, demand something be done, and by then it'll be too late, the proverbial horse will have already left the proverbial barn, and the only thing left to be done at that point is damage control and mopping up the mess left behind. Then there'll be Grand Gestures and Profound Statements by legislators and CEOs.. and when the News Cycle turns and everyone has forgotten about it, they'll all go back to Business As Usual, nothing will change until the next crisis occurs. Vis-a-vis: Equifax. Have they actually, documentably, done ANYTHING different in the wake of pretty much everyone's very-much-personal-and-sensitive financial and identity data being stolen? Of course not, that would eat into their profits! The Rich and the Equifax brass have their data safe, so why should they care what happens to the unwashed masses of average citizens? They don't and never will until their date with the guillotine, then they'll be sorry for all of it. Too bad we don't have guillotines anymore.
We're headed for a massive breakdown and I don't think anything can stop it from happening. There are breaches of information systems every week, practically every day. Data stolen, systems hacked into and compromised, money taken. How much longer will it be before critical infrastucture is compromised to the point where our civilization grinds to a halt? Sadly I think it's inevitable because it just 'costs too much money!' to do anything pro-active to stop it.
It all seemed perfectly clear to me what was happening and nothing I just read in TFA was any sort of revelation to me. Do people really have a hard time understanding what was going on there?
Clearly it was over your head, you haven't the capacity to comprehend it. Content yourself with your Michael Bay films, I think that's more your level.
Google, Zuckerbook, and others have abused and broken the trust of their users over and over and over again and you bastards are actually surprised and upset that no one trusts you anymore!? Seriously!?
MEMO TO TECH COMPANIES, ALL OVER THE WORLD: You motherfuckers want people to trust you? Then you have to EARN THEIR TRUST by displaying a consistent pattern of TRUSTWORTHYNESS over a long, long period of time -- and I don't mean the typical "Fool the idiots into BELIEVING they can trust us by making some Grand Gesture then going behind everyones' backs and continuing with business as usual", either. Stop violating everyones' privacy. Stop stealing their private data. Stop profiling people. STOP MAKING PEOPLE AND THEIR PRIVATE DATA YOUR 'PRODUCT'. Just fucking STOP.
They -- and you -- don't get it at all do you? People get blocked by the "Great Firewall of the UK", they'll get a VPN or use TOR and get what they want anyway. Do you really think they're going to ban TOR and VPNs? Good luck with that. If it's a website hosted within the UK then they'll get what they want at a website outside the UK. If a website is going to have it's business destroyed because of the overreach of the UK government, they'll move their hosting outside the UK. If the UK government goes completely China on them and tries to shut them down completely they'll just move it to some other country and give the UK government the finger. What do you think they're going to do then, arrest everyone? Better learn to speak Mandarin, then, because you're in communist China at that point. Don't you get it? You cannot legislate morality and you can't censor the ENTIRE internet, only what's in your country. They can pass whatever overreaching nanny-state laws they want but they're completely and totally toothless unless they want to invoke marshal law and lock the country down like it's some totalitarian state. You really think the people of the UK are going to sit still for that? You're nuts.
You're usually full of crap you know that? Nothing you say changes anything I said. People like what they like and they'll get it one way or another if they're motivated enough and governments can't stop that without being so authoritarian and dictatorial that any semblance of 'freedom' dissolves away. That's not the UK, not anytime soon, so I really don't see what you're going on about.
The Rich and Powerful don't care whether it's human-caused or not, they only care about what happens during their lifetimes and holding on to their wealth and power, and the hell with the rest of humanity. 99% of us could die off because of climate change and they'd be perfectly okay with that, happy about it, because it would mean the consolidation of their power would be complete: so few people left on Earth means it's easier to manage them. We'd probably go back to some form of Feudalism with them being the 'noblemen' and whoever is left being the 'serfs'. Wouldn't at all be surprised of some of these rich fucks are actively contributing to climate change so they can hurry along the apocalypse.
If that means they finally treat climate change and environmental destruction as the serious problems they really are, then I'm all for it.
You don't get it. They won't. They only really care about what happens during their lives, and they'll use their accumulated wealth and power to keep themselves alive even if the planet is rapidly turning into a searing hell that nothing can survive on anymore, they'll just turn up the AC in their sealed environments and ignore the people dying outside the gates of their fortified compounds.
YOUR MOM causes cancer, you're the living proof.
Yeah because that really stopped everyone didn't it? It also so really stopped Rock 'n Roll music from getting off the ground, too, and banning pornography and banning alcohol in the United States totally worked too didn't it? Oh wait none of those things are true! You're completely wrong and have no idea what you're talking about! Legislating morality never works because people will go find whatever it is they want to find.