Nah they'll probably insert ads into all your games unless you buy the Premium Gamer Package, some robot NPC will follow you around and keep trying to sell you shit based on all the data they collect from scraping your emails and tracking your browsing habits.
You know.. it just dawned on me when I read the name 'Wikipedia' in this headline: All this 'copyright' business isn't just about 'protecting IP' and monetizing everything in sight, it's mainly about controlling access to information, putting it behind access barriers that require money to bypass. This is essentially no different than what the Catholic Church would do in pre-renaissance times: if you were rich, you could learn to read, therefore you had access to education and information, and as we all well know, 'knowledge is power'. Now in the 21st century, which has the Internet, and where most everyone is literate, there is unprecedented access to information and self-education -- and knowledge is still power. While The Rich, Dominionists, and other so-called 'special interest groups' work in the non-digital world to limit access to higher education, all this 'copyright' action going on works to limit access to information and self-education in the digital/Internet world. Nicely played, Rich People, nicely played. That's the real reason why this needs to be fought against.
Clearly this is Comcast/Xfinitys' new business strategy in the post-post-net neutrality era: You have to pay by the IP address for access. They just haven't got around to sending out the email with the new Terms of Service for you to not read and click 'Agree' on.
Careful; you put your pseudo-intellectual nose too far in the air, you might suffer oxygen deprivation. xD
Human brains capable of self-awareness and cognition developed over millions of years, and you really think that in just a few years we're going to develop machines comparable to that? LOL, not sure if you're as much of an arrogant ass as you sound, or if you're just a fool and are indulging in 'magical thinking'.
I don't 'believe' any so-called 'news source' as far as I can throw them, especially when it comes to this subject, they all keep drinking the AI marketing kool-aid and therefore don't know what the fuck they're talking about. We're not anywhere NEAR 'true AI' and won't be for the forseeable future. First we have to define what 'intelligence' actually is, then we have to discover how our brains actually do this trick. Then we can think about building machines that can also do that. Until then we're stuck with these cheesy shitty 'deep learning' toys that aren't capable of thinking and aren't self-aware, therefore they're worse than useless, but marketing people keep hyping it and pushing it and attributing qualities to it that it does not posess, and since people are dumb and don't know any better they believe this nonsense.
I really don't give a fuck, that's no different than it's already been, and some simple reforms will fix that problem: bring back driver ed/driver training in highschools, revamp DMV knowledge/skills testing of license applicants, re-test drivers more often, revoke the licenses of chronically bad drivers. No need for dystopian futures where souless machines that can't even think and don't know the fundamental difference between a living being and an inanimate object dispassionately kill us, and then there's no one to hold accountable for loss of life.
Until we solve the mystery of how biological brains produce the phenomenon of self-awareness and true cognition, none of these so-called 'deep learning algorithms' will ever be able to function on the level of a human brain because they are fundamentally incapable of 'thinking' at all; your dog or cat is smarter than these so-called 'self driving cars'. Therefore all such vehicles will ultimately fail at being practical and/or will pose constant safety hazards to human life.
So, it's fully self-aware, fully cognitive, has a human-like personality, can pass the Turing Test, and so on? What's that you say? No? None of the above? Stop trying to pass this shit off as actual 'AI', damnit.
I'm really beginning to seriously think that this whole culture of 'everything delivered to your door' just isn't sustainable -- and perhaps not healthy, either. People are lazy and fat enough as-is without there being more conveniences to give them more excuses to not get off the couch and move around, and also more excuses to not interact with their fellow human beings. I think many of the social problems we're having these days are exacerbated by people being more and more socially-avoidant, and their fellow human beings becoming more and more an abstraction instead of fully 'three-dimensional' beings.
You don't have to go full-on Ted Kaczynski and become a mountain-man. Just get rid of all the devices you own that are known to be capable of being leveraged into surveillance-and-data-collection devices. Wean yourself off your smartphone and get a plain dumbphone, one that can be turned completely 'Off', or at least that the battery can be removed (or, I suppose, get a smartphone with a removable battery, and take the battery out when you want actual privacy). While you're at it, stop using plastic to pay for everything you purchase in-person and start paying cash instead, so that the majority of your daily purchasing habits can't be tracked either -- which will have the positive side-effect of reducing the amount of time you spend balancing your checking account every month (fewer receipts to enter). Until things change in this country and people's rights to privacy are enhanced instead of degraded, there's only so much you can do to keep your private life private, but there are some things you can do, and if it matters to you then you should do them, and ignore the cowards who have given up and accepted having corporations and government agencies pry into every aspect of their lives.
I do not have any of these devices and do not want them either, so I am ignorant as to their operational details; can a 'Fire Tablet' be turned completely off? Or can it only be put in 'sleep mode' and wake itself up if ordered to remotely? If the latter is true then the only way you can ensure your privacy around such devices is to either put it in an enclosure of some sort that is soundproof and lightproof, or as far away from you as possible so it's out of earshot.
But Nwaack, if you don't let Amazon, Google, Facebook, and whoever else wants to join the data-collection-gang-bang stick their virtual penis up your private-data-anus, you won't get any more Shiny Pretty Baubles from them! Then where will you be? You'll be Left Out! You won't be like Everyone Else anymore! Don't you want to belong, Nwaack? Surely you don't want to opt-out of the Group-Think? You have to go with the rest of the Herd!
Yeah, sure, Amazon. What you really want is more collection of very-much-private data in people's homes, so you can sell that to whoever. Fuck you sideways with a rusty chainsaw, Amazon.
The ONLY way anything is going to change is if people stop using Social Media entirely. Even if the majority won't, you should do what you can to protect yourself and get off Social Media entirely.
Cowards who will say "There's no point don't bother" need not comment; I don't want to hear your pussy-ass whining, either be part of the solution or be judged as part of the problem!
I'll bet you that with some registry hacking and/or creative assignment of Deny access rights to SYSTEM for certain executable-code files, you can kill that monthly nag permanently.
Pussy little cowards like you are the reason that evil flourishes. You can't be bothered to stand up for your own rights, so you get assraped by whoever decides to do it to you, then just to prove what a useless waste of oxygen you are, you have the audacity to complain about how 'nobody is doing anything about it'. Meanwhile you're all "Thank you sir, may I have another?" to Facebook, Google, and whoever else decides to shove their virtual penis into your private-data-anus. Fix your shit, get correct, or kill yourself, either way you're not part of the problem anymore.
A few years ago, when privacy issues started being issues, I used to tell the "I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear" people that I'd like to install cameras and microphones, all internet-facing, in every room of their house, broadcasting 24/7. Naturally they objected to the idea; "Why would I let anyone do that?" to which I'd say "Gee, I thought you had nothing to hide and nothing to fear; were you lying when you said that?". Hilarity ensues as they get all indignated over it. Sadly, the average person doesn't usually see past the end of their own nose, rarely thinks far into the future, and almost never thinks about how something will affect everyone else, only how it affects them. Case in point: When the ACA (aka ObamaCare) was announced, my initial reaction was "..hey, great!", but not 5 seconds later I said "..wait a minute, who's going to pay for all this?". The average person doesn't have the second reaction, all they see is oh goodie, free stuff! Same more or less goes for the Universal Basic Income fanboys, all they see is Cool, I get to live for free the rest of my life! but the rest of us think Oh shit that'll never work money doesn't grow on trees!
Remember the sage words of Agent K: A person can be smart; people are stupid panicky animals.
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Nah they'll probably insert ads into all your games unless you buy the Premium Gamer Package, some robot NPC will follow you around and keep trying to sell you shit based on all the data they collect from scraping your emails and tracking your browsing habits.
You know.. it just dawned on me when I read the name 'Wikipedia' in this headline: All this 'copyright' business isn't just about 'protecting IP' and monetizing everything in sight, it's mainly about controlling access to information, putting it behind access barriers that require money to bypass. This is essentially no different than what the Catholic Church would do in pre-renaissance times: if you were rich, you could learn to read, therefore you had access to education and information, and as we all well know, 'knowledge is power'. Now in the 21st century, which has the Internet, and where most everyone is literate, there is unprecedented access to information and self-education -- and knowledge is still power. While The Rich, Dominionists, and other so-called 'special interest groups' work in the non-digital world to limit access to higher education, all this 'copyright' action going on works to limit access to information and self-education in the digital/Internet world. Nicely played, Rich People, nicely played. That's the real reason why this needs to be fought against.
Clearly this is Comcast/Xfinitys' new business strategy in the post-post-net neutrality era: You have to pay by the IP address for access. They just haven't got around to sending out the email with the new Terms of Service for you to not read and click 'Agree' on.
Careful; you put your pseudo-intellectual nose too far in the air, you might suffer oxygen deprivation. xD
Human brains capable of self-awareness and cognition developed over millions of years, and you really think that in just a few years we're going to develop machines comparable to that? LOL, not sure if you're as much of an arrogant ass as you sound, or if you're just a fool and are indulging in 'magical thinking'.
I don't 'believe' any so-called 'news source' as far as I can throw them, especially when it comes to this subject, they all keep drinking the AI marketing kool-aid and therefore don't know what the fuck they're talking about. We're not anywhere NEAR 'true AI' and won't be for the forseeable future. First we have to define what 'intelligence' actually is, then we have to discover how our brains actually do this trick. Then we can think about building machines that can also do that. Until then we're stuck with these cheesy shitty 'deep learning' toys that aren't capable of thinking and aren't self-aware, therefore they're worse than useless, but marketing people keep hyping it and pushing it and attributing qualities to it that it does not posess, and since people are dumb and don't know any better they believe this nonsense.
That's utter and complete bullshit.
Please go be pedantic and nit-picky somewhere else, I have no interest in enabling your obsessive-compulsiveness.
Not my fault your kid isn't even as smart as a chimp. xD xD xD
It's grossly inefficient. Just improve battery technology and build safer design nuclear plants.
I really don't give a fuck, that's no different than it's already been, and some simple reforms will fix that problem: bring back driver ed/driver training in highschools, revamp DMV knowledge/skills testing of license applicants, re-test drivers more often, revoke the licenses of chronically bad drivers. No need for dystopian futures where souless machines that can't even think and don't know the fundamental difference between a living being and an inanimate object dispassionately kill us, and then there's no one to hold accountable for loss of life.
We need to stop 'burning' anything and everything. Electric and nuclear/solar/wind are the way forward.
Until we solve the mystery of how biological brains produce the phenomenon of self-awareness and true cognition, none of these so-called 'deep learning algorithms' will ever be able to function on the level of a human brain because they are fundamentally incapable of 'thinking' at all; your dog or cat is smarter than these so-called 'self driving cars'. Therefore all such vehicles will ultimately fail at being practical and/or will pose constant safety hazards to human life.
So, it's fully self-aware, fully cognitive, has a human-like personality, can pass the Turing Test, and so on? What's that you say? No? None of the above? Stop trying to pass this shit off as actual 'AI', damnit.
I don't understand why it is that anyone trusts these companies at all when it comes to anything.
Maybe if the 'general public' dealt with the 'general public' more often, we might have fewer social problems overall.
I'm really beginning to seriously think that this whole culture of 'everything delivered to your door' just isn't sustainable -- and perhaps not healthy, either. People are lazy and fat enough as-is without there being more conveniences to give them more excuses to not get off the couch and move around, and also more excuses to not interact with their fellow human beings. I think many of the social problems we're having these days are exacerbated by people being more and more socially-avoidant, and their fellow human beings becoming more and more an abstraction instead of fully 'three-dimensional' beings.
You don't have to go full-on Ted Kaczynski and become a mountain-man. Just get rid of all the devices you own that are known to be capable of being leveraged into surveillance-and-data-collection devices. Wean yourself off your smartphone and get a plain dumbphone, one that can be turned completely 'Off', or at least that the battery can be removed (or, I suppose, get a smartphone with a removable battery, and take the battery out when you want actual privacy). While you're at it, stop using plastic to pay for everything you purchase in-person and start paying cash instead, so that the majority of your daily purchasing habits can't be tracked either -- which will have the positive side-effect of reducing the amount of time you spend balancing your checking account every month (fewer receipts to enter). Until things change in this country and people's rights to privacy are enhanced instead of degraded, there's only so much you can do to keep your private life private, but there are some things you can do, and if it matters to you then you should do them, and ignore the cowards who have given up and accepted having corporations and government agencies pry into every aspect of their lives.
I do not have any of these devices and do not want them either, so I am ignorant as to their operational details; can a 'Fire Tablet' be turned completely off? Or can it only be put in 'sleep mode' and wake itself up if ordered to remotely? If the latter is true then the only way you can ensure your privacy around such devices is to either put it in an enclosure of some sort that is soundproof and lightproof, or as far away from you as possible so it's out of earshot.
But Nwaack, if you don't let Amazon, Google, Facebook, and whoever else wants to join the data-collection-gang-bang stick their virtual penis up your private-data-anus, you won't get any more Shiny Pretty Baubles from them! Then where will you be? You'll be Left Out! You won't be like Everyone Else anymore! Don't you want to belong, Nwaack? Surely you don't want to opt-out of the Group-Think? You have to go with the rest of the Herd!
Yeah, sure, Amazon. What you really want is more collection of very-much-private data in people's homes, so you can sell that to whoever. Fuck you sideways with a rusty chainsaw, Amazon.
The ONLY way anything is going to change is if people stop using Social Media entirely. Even if the majority won't, you should do what you can to protect yourself and get off Social Media entirely.
Cowards who will say "There's no point don't bother" need not comment; I don't want to hear your pussy-ass whining, either be part of the solution or be judged as part of the problem!
I'll bet you that with some registry hacking and/or creative assignment of Deny access rights to SYSTEM for certain executable-code files, you can kill that monthly nag permanently.
Consider yourself bitch-slapped for arguing semantics with me.
Pussy little cowards like you are the reason that evil flourishes. You can't be bothered to stand up for your own rights, so you get assraped by whoever decides to do it to you, then just to prove what a useless waste of oxygen you are, you have the audacity to complain about how 'nobody is doing anything about it'. Meanwhile you're all "Thank you sir, may I have another?" to Facebook, Google, and whoever else decides to shove their virtual penis into your private-data-anus. Fix your shit, get correct, or kill yourself, either way you're not part of the problem anymore.
A few years ago, when privacy issues started being issues, I used to tell the "I have nothing to hide therefore I have nothing to fear" people that I'd like to install cameras and microphones, all internet-facing, in every room of their house, broadcasting 24/7. Naturally they objected to the idea; "Why would I let anyone do that?" to which I'd say "Gee, I thought you had nothing to hide and nothing to fear; were you lying when you said that?". Hilarity ensues as they get all indignated over it. Sadly, the average person doesn't usually see past the end of their own nose, rarely thinks far into the future, and almost never thinks about how something will affect everyone else, only how it affects them. Case in point: When the ACA (aka ObamaCare) was announced, my initial reaction was "..hey, great!", but not 5 seconds later I said "..wait a minute, who's going to pay for all this?". The average person doesn't have the second reaction, all they see is oh goodie, free stuff! Same more or less goes for the Universal Basic Income fanboys, all they see is Cool, I get to live for free the rest of my life! but the rest of us think Oh shit that'll never work money doesn't grow on trees!
Remember the sage words of Agent K: A person can be smart; people are stupid panicky animals.