White House officials on Monday planned to meet with tech giants including Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM, to discuss ways to make it easier for employees to take leaves of absence to help with government projects, according to The Washington Post.
"Rest assured that we will totally not replace those persons with government-controlled doppelgängers."
Let's say the Chinese government logs everything. Then it's only a matter of time before the U.S. government gets their hands on that data. Either via espionage, cooperation between the two governments, security weaknesses, leaks, etc.
If the data is logged, it will be found one day or another.
Seriously, what browsers are left that aren't full of some stupid crap, some political vendetta against third parties, or some such nonsense. My web browser is supposed to have exactly one function, render webpages...
Google is also offering separate agreements to cover some or all of the licensing costs for companies that choose to install Chrome and Google search on their devices.
That's quite a "fuck-you-and-your-EU-antitrust-order" plus "thank you for strengthening our browser and search engine monopoly you bunch of fucking EU morons" combo.
There is another aspect out there though, and that is at what point do we decide that it is time for the technology to stop?
When do we become technological Amish?
I think we're already headed that way. Most people change their computers a lot less than in the early days of home computing. Even tablets sales have been slowing down and people don't feel the need to buy a new one. The closer we get to "peak computing capacity per watt", the more the need to upgrade goes down.
My main computer is a Mac mini released in 2010. I "repaired" it three times by upgrading the RAM, swapping the HDD by a low-end SSD and replacing the fan.
Two decades ago, the top new games required a PC no more than one or two years old to run properly.
Today, people are playing the latest games on PCs they built five years ago or more. If you lower the quality settings, you can run games with PCs built a decade ago.
Most PCs can be upgraded which is a similar to being able to repair it. Need more RAM? Add RAM. No room for more RAM? Remove old RAM and add new higher capacity RAM. New game requires a better GPU? Remove the old one and install a new one. That's a kind of repair, removing old "non-working" parts to install a brand new ones.
But those Tandy 2000's aren't glued shut. The owners can try to find other Tandy 2000's to scavenge working parts from them to repair their own Tandy 2000.
The right to repair should be separate from the right to be able to buy parts for the repair. That would at least mean smartphones with easy to replace batteries, displays, PCBs, casings, buttons, etc.
Don't just release scooters without any means to park and store them properly.
Work with the cities and towns to install locking parkings. In order to return the scooter, you need to dock it. If you don't, the bill is still running on your account.
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I think your A.I. is not quite ready to post on Slashdot.
This is boring.
Give me 500 million U.S. dollars and you'll see new crazy rich people things!
Then the title should be "IBM researchers teach Pac-Man to be mostly harmless".
I'm pretty sure the FBI has other ways to stop chipped people from revealing crucial inform{#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
I'm guessing illiteracy?
And governments and companies spying on regular people and logging everything we do was pretty far-fetched hollywood fantasy only two decades ago.
Well, it's potential competition for PayPal...
"Rest assured that we will totally not replace those persons with government-controlled doppelgängers."
I'm just trying not to be a moran. Please forgive me.
I also thought there would be more debate about this topic.
Let's say the Chinese government logs everything. Then it's only a matter of time before the U.S. government gets their hands on that data. Either via espionage, cooperation between the two governments, security weaknesses, leaks, etc.
If the data is logged, it will be found one day or another.
Isn't this a little bit similar to the case about Microsoft bundling Internet Explorer with Windows?
You trust a Chinese-owned browser to provide you with a free "VPN"? Are you serious?
There's Safari, but it requires macOS.
Be happy you don't live in Canada, where 12GB over your regular quota would mean losing your house.
I think you should call child protection services.
I gotta admit, I laughed at those parts.
Yeah, but unfortunately video killed the radio star.
And I'm scared to the bones about what Apple is going to unveil on the 30th.
That's quite a "fuck-you-and-your-EU-antitrust-order" plus "thank you for strengthening our browser and search engine monopoly you bunch of fucking EU morons" combo.
I think we're already headed that way. Most people change their computers a lot less than in the early days of home computing. Even tablets sales have been slowing down and people don't feel the need to buy a new one. The closer we get to "peak computing capacity per watt", the more the need to upgrade goes down.
My main computer is a Mac mini released in 2010. I "repaired" it three times by upgrading the RAM, swapping the HDD by a low-end SSD and replacing the fan.
Two decades ago, the top new games required a PC no more than one or two years old to run properly.
Today, people are playing the latest games on PCs they built five years ago or more. If you lower the quality settings, you can run games with PCs built a decade ago.
Most PCs can be upgraded which is a similar to being able to repair it. Need more RAM? Add RAM. No room for more RAM? Remove old RAM and add new higher capacity RAM. New game requires a better GPU? Remove the old one and install a new one. That's a kind of repair, removing old "non-working" parts to install a brand new ones.
But those Tandy 2000's aren't glued shut. The owners can try to find other Tandy 2000's to scavenge working parts from them to repair their own Tandy 2000.
The right to repair should be separate from the right to be able to buy parts for the repair. That would at least mean smartphones with easy to replace batteries, displays, PCBs, casings, buttons, etc.
Yeah but one is more important than the other.
"Enjoy your food is this vacuum chamber, moron!
I'm outside with plenty of air so I'm going to starve to death in a few weeks instead of seconds!"
Me: Canada, woo-hoo!
You: Don't you want to know what numbers they're talking abo -
Me: Nope! Canada is number one! Woo-hoo!
I'm a step behind, I still need to buy a trashcan.
Don't just release scooters without any means to park and store them properly.
Work with the cities and towns to install locking parkings. In order to return the scooter, you need to dock it. If you don't, the bill is still running on your account.