The average person has a threshold that they have to be pushed beyond before they'll actually take anything like this seriously. What makes matters worse is that the average person has been so thoroughly indoctrinated by Corporate America and so-called 'social media' sites that sharing everything is what's normal and natural, and that people who want 'privacy' either have something wrong with their brains, or they're criminals with something to hide. With any luck this will all eventually catch up with everyone and there'll be a revolt. Until then all you can do is stay on-message, be consistent, and do what you can to protect yourself (i.e. don't use 'social media', so you're not part of the problem).
1) You patent an idea like this so that nobody else can use it.
2) You're fucking evil and don't give a fuck about silly frivolous things like people's privacy rights, you want all the data so you can sell it to the highest bidder.
Time to dismantle Zuckerbook once and for all, and pass legislation preventing any company from pulling the sort of shit Zuckerbook has been perpetrating for years now.
People are upset about how much their privacy is being violated by us and companies like ours. Let's discuss what we can do to calm them down and distract them so they'll forget all about their silly little 'privacy rights' again, so we can continue to collect and monetize their data. After all our business model depends on being able to sell those data products!
Who the hell comes up with this shit? So-called self-driving cars are a disaster, you still can't program a robot to fold laundry correctly, and some moron wants to have a robot officiate over sporting events? People are dumb and getting dumber all the time. Enough of this 'robot' and 'AI' meme bullshit already.
Fools bought into all this stuff in the first place with blinders on not even wanting to see that they were just creating more avenues for attacks on their privacy and now you all scream bloody murder over it. I'm laughing so hard I may dislocate a rib.
Can you tell me that this so-called 'robot' (just an automated machine, like in my several examples) actually understands what it's doing, that a living being is going to put that thing it's constructing into it's mouth and swallow it, and that it's taking care in what it's doing because it's not just part of a car it's putting together, or a washing machine, or something else that factory robots do? Does it know if it makes a mistake? Can it take Special Orders and make me a custom hamburger? Does it know the difference between Rare, Medium, and Well Done? Does it have enough smarts to give a fuck? No? Then I don't want it.
Because the Average Person does obsessively carry their smartphone around with them, it's on their nightstand, it's at the dinner table, and so on. Note I said the 'Average Person'.
Uh, LOL, no, it still runs code, it still qualifies as a Turing machine, it's just very, very limited in it's resources.;-) I've used something just like that to provide integration of pulses from a flow monitor, to smooth out the readings on an otherwise standalone digital rate display. You couldn't do that with just logic gates, at least not in a SOT23-6 package.;-)
Haters gonna hate. xD
I don't go along with the group-think, and I apologize to no one for that.
Well-behaved people rarely make the history books anyway. xD
Yes..an abacus is a computer. Just not a digital computer. Of course, in 2018 we call an abacus a "Deep Learning Neural Net AI Trained for On-Board Computation".
As with so many people, you forgot the "</sarcasm>" tag. xD
For sake of completeness, I seem to recall that the word 'computer' used to also refer to certain people.:-)
I also remember (although not directly; I'm not THAT old) that 'analog computers' used to be a Thing; you can still build them, using components like precision op-amps, transistor junctions, diodes, and of course passives. More advanced versions of an analog computer, updated for the 21st century, would include entire analog computational units on a single die, like an analog multiplier (aka 'balanced modulator'). It's more or less a lost art, though, designing such things, and the irony is that while you have to literally design a circuit like that to perform a single computation, it's lightning-fast, only really limited in speed by things like the slewing rate of the op-amps and other active components. Of course if power is no concern then you can get around that too.
The article doesn't say anything about people who do not have and do not want a smartphone; is there an alternative? A physical key?
Also, can this be totally disabled, so no one can wirelessly unlock your car?
There has been plenty of web pages I've encountered that won't display even text unless you have javascript enabled for it (I use NoScript). Many other sites bundle the actual content along with the ads on the same server as the ads, so if you exclude the ads, it breaks the page and you don't see the content. Of course all of these problems are not the fault of this Gnome browser, it's a pernicious disease that's been infesting the Web for a long time now.
We don't need to be treating schoolchildren like convicts in prison. School is tough enough an experience for some of them as-is, socially speaking, we do NOT need to be adding shit like this.
Would you call a PIC microcontroller, in a SOT23-6 package, a 'computer'? It's got flash memory for non-volatile program and data storage, it's got an internal calibrated RC clock, it's got I/O (some even have ADCs), it's got other peripherals (counter-timers, PWM controller(s), and so on). Is that a computer in your opinion? Or does it have to run a full multi-tasking disk operating system wiht a GUI (or at least command line interface)? Does it have to be fully self-contained requiring no external components except connectors for peripherals, or not? Lots of wiggle-room here.
To be fair (to even the smartass contrarians around here) there are people who live in canyons (either the natural sort or the man-made sort) that even if they put up and antenna the best they get is fringe signals. I've even seen some people in more rural areas, where you can get away with it, literally put up a telephone pole or a tower in their yard, just to get the high-gain antenna they have as far off the ground as possible. These people, I feel sympathy for. Who I don't have sympathy for, however, are people who either can't be bothered, or that try convince me that I should be paying for TV like they do, I guess so they don't feel cheated (or maybe just Crab Mentality?).
Mod me down to "-9.99999E99, Troll" for all I care. I actually enjoy quality food, made by a real human being, not some shitty automation. In fact I think I'll make myself a lovely bacon cheeseburger at home tonight for dinner, using only the finest ingredients and apple-smoked bacon, lovingly made by Yours Truly. Anything made by another human being, even if you're the only one eating it, is orders of magnitude better than anything any shitty machine assembles. FFS you may as well just have a vending machine spitting out some frozen thing that gets microwaved. Guess some of you have no taste.
Hey, all we have to do is say it's a 'robot' and mention 'AI' and the public will think it's an android like from I, Robot and they'll come in droves and throw money at us!
That's how this happens. You're smart enough to not fall for it, which is why you're confused. Also In-N-Out is better anyway, guaranteed. So is staying home and making your own.
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Kevin, is that you? xD
The average person has a threshold that they have to be pushed beyond before they'll actually take anything like this seriously. What makes matters worse is that the average person has been so thoroughly indoctrinated by Corporate America and so-called 'social media' sites that sharing everything is what's normal and natural, and that people who want 'privacy' either have something wrong with their brains, or they're criminals with something to hide. With any luck this will all eventually catch up with everyone and there'll be a revolt. Until then all you can do is stay on-message, be consistent, and do what you can to protect yourself (i.e. don't use 'social media', so you're not part of the problem).
1) You patent an idea like this so that nobody else can use it.
2) You're fucking evil and don't give a fuck about silly frivolous things like people's privacy rights, you want all the data so you can sell it to the highest bidder.
Time to dismantle Zuckerbook once and for all, and pass legislation preventing any company from pulling the sort of shit Zuckerbook has been perpetrating for years now.
People are upset about how much their privacy is being violated by us and companies like ours. Let's discuss what we can do to calm them down and distract them so they'll forget all about their silly little 'privacy rights' again, so we can continue to collect and monetize their data. After all our business model depends on being able to sell those data products!
Who the hell comes up with this shit? So-called self-driving cars are a disaster, you still can't program a robot to fold laundry correctly, and some moron wants to have a robot officiate over sporting events? People are dumb and getting dumber all the time. Enough of this 'robot' and 'AI' meme bullshit already.
Fools bought into all this stuff in the first place with blinders on not even wanting to see that they were just creating more avenues for attacks on their privacy and now you all scream bloody murder over it. I'm laughing so hard I may dislocate a rib.
No kidding. Facebook is creepy as hell if you're an adult, it's orders of magnitude creepier when it starts preying on children.
Go take your meds and stay off the Internets.
Can you tell me that this so-called 'robot' (just an automated machine, like in my several examples) actually understands what it's doing, that a living being is going to put that thing it's constructing into it's mouth and swallow it, and that it's taking care in what it's doing because it's not just part of a car it's putting together, or a washing machine, or something else that factory robots do? Does it know if it makes a mistake? Can it take Special Orders and make me a custom hamburger? Does it know the difference between Rare, Medium, and Well Done? Does it have enough smarts to give a fuck? No? Then I don't want it.
Because the Average Person does obsessively carry their smartphone around with them, it's on their nightstand, it's at the dinner table, and so on. Note I said the 'Average Person'.
That's a logic gate, I'd say.
Uh, LOL, no, it still runs code, it still qualifies as a Turing machine, it's just very, very limited in it's resources. ;-) I've used something just like that to provide integration of pulses from a flow monitor, to smooth out the readings on an otherwise standalone digital rate display. You couldn't do that with just logic gates, at least not in a SOT23-6 package. ;-)
Haters gonna hate. xD
I don't go along with the group-think, and I apologize to no one for that.
Well-behaved people rarely make the history books anyway. xD
You'd have a hard time having any sort of CLI running on this PIC chip, though. That's why I mentioned PIC chips specifically.
Yes..an abacus is a computer. Just not a digital computer. Of course, in 2018 we call an abacus a "Deep Learning Neural Net AI Trained for On-Board Computation".
As with so many people, you forgot the "</sarcasm>" tag. xD
:-)
For sake of completeness, I seem to recall that the word 'computer' used to also refer to certain people.
I also remember (although not directly; I'm not THAT old) that 'analog computers' used to be a Thing; you can still build them, using components like precision op-amps, transistor junctions, diodes, and of course passives. More advanced versions of an analog computer, updated for the 21st century, would include entire analog computational units on a single die, like an analog multiplier (aka 'balanced modulator'). It's more or less a lost art, though, designing such things, and the irony is that while you have to literally design a circuit like that to perform a single computation, it's lightning-fast, only really limited in speed by things like the slewing rate of the op-amps and other active components. Of course if power is no concern then you can get around that too.
Okay, fair enough. But then is this a computer, too? It can perform computations.
The article doesn't say anything about people who do not have and do not want a smartphone; is there an alternative? A physical key?
Also, can this be totally disabled, so no one can wirelessly unlock your car?
There has been plenty of web pages I've encountered that won't display even text unless you have javascript enabled for it (I use NoScript). Many other sites bundle the actual content along with the ads on the same server as the ads, so if you exclude the ads, it breaks the page and you don't see the content. Of course all of these problems are not the fault of this Gnome browser, it's a pernicious disease that's been infesting the Web for a long time now.
We don't need to be treating schoolchildren like convicts in prison. School is tough enough an experience for some of them as-is, socially speaking, we do NOT need to be adding shit like this.
Would you call a PIC microcontroller, in a SOT23-6 package, a 'computer'? It's got flash memory for non-volatile program and data storage, it's got an internal calibrated RC clock, it's got I/O (some even have ADCs), it's got other peripherals (counter-timers, PWM controller(s), and so on). Is that a computer in your opinion? Or does it have to run a full multi-tasking disk operating system wiht a GUI (or at least command line interface)? Does it have to be fully self-contained requiring no external components except connectors for peripherals, or not? Lots of wiggle-room here.
To be fair (to even the smartass contrarians around here) there are people who live in canyons (either the natural sort or the man-made sort) that even if they put up and antenna the best they get is fringe signals. I've even seen some people in more rural areas, where you can get away with it, literally put up a telephone pole or a tower in their yard, just to get the high-gain antenna they have as far off the ground as possible. These people, I feel sympathy for. Who I don't have sympathy for, however, are people who either can't be bothered, or that try convince me that I should be paying for TV like they do, I guess so they don't feel cheated (or maybe just Crab Mentality?).
Well then it sucks to be you. Move somewhere else so you can join the OTA TV master-race.
Wow, there sure are a bunch of butthurt 'robot' fanbois who like shitty machine-made hamburgers, who have mod points. I guess you fanbois would like your cheeseburgers in a can, too, so you don't have to go outside and talk to other human beings, either. Just order a case of them at a time, and wait until the FedEx driver walks away before you open the door, so there's no risk of having to interact with him at all.
Mod me down to "-9.99999E99, Troll" for all I care. I actually enjoy quality food, made by a real human being, not some shitty automation. In fact I think I'll make myself a lovely bacon cheeseburger at home tonight for dinner, using only the finest ingredients and apple-smoked bacon, lovingly made by Yours Truly. Anything made by another human being, even if you're the only one eating it, is orders of magnitude better than anything any shitty machine assembles. FFS you may as well just have a vending machine spitting out some frozen thing that gets microwaved. Guess some of you have no taste.
You forgot to close your comment properly: needs "" at the end, otherwise everything posted after you will be read in a disingenuously smarmy tone.
Hey, all we have to do is say it's a 'robot' and mention 'AI' and the public will think it's an android like from I, Robot and they'll come in droves and throw money at us!
That's how this happens. You're smart enough to not fall for it, which is why you're confused. Also In-N-Out is better anyway, guaranteed. So is staying home and making your own.
..chaps.
At least we don't boil everything. Also mix in a toothbrush once in a while.