Would you be happy for the police, military, govt. security agencies, and 3rd party contractors to hold the keys to your home, car, work, etc. and to be able to sneak in and snoop around any time they feel like it? That'd include some very creepy geeks going through your wife/girlfriend's and children's personal belongings without any oversight or accountability.
...What news worthy story is Washington trying to distract us from this time?
Maybe Washington doesn't like being left out of the negotiations for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Syria. Seems that things work better when Washington's left out, don't they?
...responsibility. It's not just FB but all the major news media outlets that have dropped the ball on this one. It's simply a lack of fact checking, asking questions, and speaking truth to power, you know, the bit that requires the attention of skilled, experienced humans. We've seen what happens when we leave it up to algorithms. It's time to stop this race to the journalistic bottom and for media corporations to stop publishing and republishing click bait articles with little or no editorial control.
Hey aristitheron,
I think you're mistaking us for people who are ignorant, weak-willed, and easily led... or readers of Breitbart as they are more commonly known.
Can't they come up with an AI answer it that automatically answers spam calls and keeps the spammers on the line as long as possible. That could possibly make spamming unprofitable.
I'm afraid that at least some Americans have internalized the NRA's message, "Guns are the answer. Now, what's the question?"
Guns should never be used to protect property. Only to protect lives when it's the last resort, after you've tried everything else humanly possible.
I agree that the responsibility lies with the delivery contractors and they should be liable for any loss or damage of parcels up until the moment the recipients physically have them in their hands.
Half of all programmers are below average. It's a statistical tautology and meaningless. How does it follow that being less than average at being a professional programmer would make them incapable of being less than average at another programming language?
Let's see how you feel about it when your job starts being done by exploited workers who are only doing it on the side to make some extra money to make ends meet.
Exploitative labor practices eventually affect us all.
ExxonMobil already did some comprehensive, high quality research on climate change in the 1970s. They discovered AGW but decided to bury their research and go about a campaign to discredit anyone who made similar findings.
Or perhaps you haven't been following the news lately?
Citizens have little effective defense against govt or private security hacking and penetration, installing malware and spyware in their mobile devices. The only real defense is not to keep a phone with you.
I'm sure that it's happening and it's be great for EFF to get some solid evidence of it and then take the appropriate legal actions.
I've had a few bartending jobs, like a lot of people. It takes a while to learn how to pour each beer from each tap so that it's the right balance between looking flat a too much head. When you change a barrel, it takes a while for the new beer to settle down. I'd like to see how these beer dispensers deal with less than ideal conditions. Or do they only work well with specific beers?
I think the problem with the IoT is that the manufacturers take little or no steps to make their devices secure, e.g. same default password on every device, no password for Bluetooth pairing, etc. Imagine if cars had no safety requirements or regulations. Imagine if your dentist didn't need to have any independently accredited qualifications.
My cat is conscious. Can you define what you mean by consciousness? You know, so that we're not comparing human consciousness to something woefully inadequate and exclaiming, "We did it!"
Since LinkedIn also bought Lynda.com, you can get painfully slow video tutorials about other new programming languages too. I'm sure LinkedIn qualifications would make your resume look great
So we've reached the point where the Apple-Samsung duopoly have given up on things like effective quality assurance and testing. If they can't offer premium reliability then we may as well buy cheaper generic phones and tablets.
...it would be better to start paying for research by paying their fair share of taxes. Oh, and stop giving much bigger donations to lobby groups like ALEC that undermine funding for scientific research and promote climate change denial.
... censoring clear and obvious hate speech, which is what the EU directives cover, should be easy. Oh no, wait. They only ever report their successes giving us a distorted impression of how good their technology is. Then they want to sell it to the tax payer at inflated prices as some kind of magically prescient pre-crime.
Oh, and "war on fake news"? We all know how the wars on drugs, poverty, and terrorism have worked out. Sounds like the guys in Washington are a bunch of masochists.
When foreign state-funded news agencies started making their content available in English and broadcasting it on the internet, the USA was bound to cry foul for losing control of the public narrative. Now they're trying desperate measures to get it back. What I wonder is how they're going to frame it so that news from regimes that they don't like is labeled FAKE, while news from others is allowed.
RT doesn't have to make stuff up to make the US govt. look bad. All they're doing is hiring critical US journalists and satirical comedians to report facts however they want to (as long as they're not critical of Putin or the Kremlin). It's not that hard to do.
...why don't they mandate that nobody is allowed locks on their back doors? We want the police to be able to sneak in and check up on us in case we're criminals, peodophiles, or terrorists, don't we?
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Isn't that what DARPA are exclusively working on? I mean, what use is a military robot if it can't go on unstoppable killing rampages?
Would you be happy for the police, military, govt. security agencies, and 3rd party contractors to hold the keys to your home, car, work, etc. and to be able to sneak in and snoop around any time they feel like it? That'd include some very creepy geeks going through your wife/girlfriend's and children's personal belongings without any oversight or accountability.
...What news worthy story is Washington trying to distract us from this time? Maybe Washington doesn't like being left out of the negotiations for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Syria. Seems that things work better when Washington's left out, don't they?
...responsibility. It's not just FB but all the major news media outlets that have dropped the ball on this one. It's simply a lack of fact checking, asking questions, and speaking truth to power, you know, the bit that requires the attention of skilled, experienced humans. We've seen what happens when we leave it up to algorithms. It's time to stop this race to the journalistic bottom and for media corporations to stop publishing and republishing click bait articles with little or no editorial control.
Hey aristitheron, I think you're mistaking us for people who are ignorant, weak-willed, and easily led... or readers of Breitbart as they are more commonly known.
Damn autocorrect: AI answerbot
Can't they come up with an AI answer it that automatically answers spam calls and keeps the spammers on the line as long as possible. That could possibly make spamming unprofitable.
The calls must be from Canada. Tim Hortons to be specific. If they offer you Timbits, just hang up, eh?
I'm afraid that at least some Americans have internalized the NRA's message, "Guns are the answer. Now, what's the question?" Guns should never be used to protect property. Only to protect lives when it's the last resort, after you've tried everything else humanly possible. I agree that the responsibility lies with the delivery contractors and they should be liable for any loss or damage of parcels up until the moment the recipients physically have them in their hands.
Half of all programmers are below average. It's a statistical tautology and meaningless. How does it follow that being less than average at being a professional programmer would make them incapable of being less than average at another programming language?
Let's see how you feel about it when your job starts being done by exploited workers who are only doing it on the side to make some extra money to make ends meet. Exploitative labor practices eventually affect us all.
ExxonMobil already did some comprehensive, high quality research on climate change in the 1970s. They discovered AGW but decided to bury their research and go about a campaign to discredit anyone who made similar findings. Or perhaps you haven't been following the news lately?
Citizens have little effective defense against govt or private security hacking and penetration, installing malware and spyware in their mobile devices. The only real defense is not to keep a phone with you. I'm sure that it's happening and it's be great for EFF to get some solid evidence of it and then take the appropriate legal actions.
I've had a few bartending jobs, like a lot of people. It takes a while to learn how to pour each beer from each tap so that it's the right balance between looking flat a too much head. When you change a barrel, it takes a while for the new beer to settle down. I'd like to see how these beer dispensers deal with less than ideal conditions. Or do they only work well with specific beers?
Remind me here, does aliquis' rant count as hate speech? I mean those comments clearly incite hatred against a religion and certain ethnic groups.
Those kids are gonna be paying your pension and looking after you in the years to come. Don't piss them off now ;)
I think the problem with the IoT is that the manufacturers take little or no steps to make their devices secure, e.g. same default password on every device, no password for Bluetooth pairing, etc. Imagine if cars had no safety requirements or regulations. Imagine if your dentist didn't need to have any independently accredited qualifications.
My cat is conscious. Can you define what you mean by consciousness? You know, so that we're not comparing human consciousness to something woefully inadequate and exclaiming, "We did it!"
Since LinkedIn also bought Lynda.com, you can get painfully slow video tutorials about other new programming languages too. I'm sure LinkedIn qualifications would make your resume look great
So we've reached the point where the Apple-Samsung duopoly have given up on things like effective quality assurance and testing. If they can't offer premium reliability then we may as well buy cheaper generic phones and tablets.
...it would be better to start paying for research by paying their fair share of taxes. Oh, and stop giving much bigger donations to lobby groups like ALEC that undermine funding for scientific research and promote climate change denial.
... censoring clear and obvious hate speech, which is what the EU directives cover, should be easy. Oh no, wait. They only ever report their successes giving us a distorted impression of how good their technology is. Then they want to sell it to the tax payer at inflated prices as some kind of magically prescient pre-crime.
Oh, and "war on fake news"? We all know how the wars on drugs, poverty, and terrorism have worked out. Sounds like the guys in Washington are a bunch of masochists.
When foreign state-funded news agencies started making their content available in English and broadcasting it on the internet, the USA was bound to cry foul for losing control of the public narrative. Now they're trying desperate measures to get it back. What I wonder is how they're going to frame it so that news from regimes that they don't like is labeled FAKE, while news from others is allowed. RT doesn't have to make stuff up to make the US govt. look bad. All they're doing is hiring critical US journalists and satirical comedians to report facts however they want to (as long as they're not critical of Putin or the Kremlin). It's not that hard to do.
...why don't they mandate that nobody is allowed locks on their back doors? We want the police to be able to sneak in and check up on us in case we're criminals, peodophiles, or terrorists, don't we?