Random people can't buy the information, and trusted companies can only buy it in bulk, and it's going to cost a lot more money than this guy could ever raise, anyway. And even if all that weren't the case: the expose web site would be shut down as an allegedly illegal operation, probably the operators arrested, and of course civil actions.
What will be necessary to make the point is for some Verizon employee to be compromised, or their data center to be compromised, and the information to be leaked. Then some group can do the de-anonymization work (or if somehow raw data were available, the data integration work). Then it can be published irrevocably on Wikileaks.
To be effective, it should include ALL of the lawmakers, not just the ones who voted wrong, and also everyone in the White House, and the entire FCC board. Not just the obvious wrongdoers.
"100 years into the future She will enter a world where machines rule the earth Mankind has been driven underground And Cleopatra is about to discover There's no place like home..."
In the year 20-and-17 Gates helped us with the machine Everything you think, do and say Is all recorded the Internet way
In the year 20-and-42 Robots do what you used to do Taking jobs and bread out of our mouth Global warming makes it feel like the south Hot or cold the robots don't care Robots are happy working every where
In the year 2067 Humans think it's just like heaven No need to work, the robots do it all We just go down to the beach And play that volleyball
In the year two-zero-sixty-eight We tax the robots, and aint that great Robots work - just slaves Gettin all the bad jobs done While we write all the songs and have all the fun (Whoa Whoa)
In the year 20-and-69 Bots are reading old articles online Hawking warned about the alien threat But mankind hasn't seen anything yet
In the year 2073 Robots have been using the Ear Hearing things from way out in space Bots wanna get out of this place
In the year 2117 Contact made on the planet green Aliens arrive, they're here to free the slaves Human masters driven down into the caves
Now it's been one hundred years Man has cried a billion tears For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through Robots came from far outer space Merged with ours, and took our place Bailey's roam the surface of the Earth Keeping it clean for all that it's worth Mankind lives in a simulated world Underground in a harmless underworld But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday...
Updates for iPhones come direct from Apple. There's no gating by carrier, because Apple had the clout to tell the carriers to shove it when it came to customizing it with their particular crapware.
It's called a "cloud", not a "clout". Use a spellchecker, dude!
When this happened here in the D.C. area, I immediately got an SMS from the police about it, and giving the regular non-911 number in case you needed it.
(Actually, got several of these alerts (DC-MD-VA), and also the service restoration announcement.)
Enjoy your "no right turn 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM". Hope you never need to get home in a hurry because you're going to get lots of those signs in your neighborhood.
I have seen plenty of street signs that restrict the road to RESIDENTS ONLY during rush hours.
The cops will occasionally park there and stop anyone they don't recognize.
Lots of the people I've met in SL (and on the island mentioned) create disabled avatars who use virtual wheelchairs; they mimic their RL disability in SL. They're not running, walking, hiking, or flying. They are rolling around in old-fashioned mechanical wheelchairs. Exactly the opposite of some imaginary personal utopia. Their enjoyment was just the fact that they could instant-message the avatars standing (or sitting) next to them.
Second Life was an exciting combination of people trying to do different things.
Many people came to Get Rich Quick, by reselling server (virtual "land") parcels, or making clothing and accessories and other objects, or by providing entertainment services (live music, virtual sex trade).
Some companies came in order to promote themselves, either as corporate impressions, or even marketing real-world products through interactions in the virtual world.
Some groups came to try Education on the platform. Some came to try it out as a virtual Business Meeting space (especially when Voice became supported).
A lot of people came (or quickly discovered) for fun creating with the 3D modelling, making toys, vehicles, games of many kinds, housing, static/kinetic artwork, scenery, clothing, etc.
And the bulk of the population came to play with all of the above, not to mention the general activities of Shopping, dressing up your avatar, and just plain socializing.
All of the above suffered from: technology limitations (the attempt to use it or business was particularly laughable, given the platform's reliability) and from Linden Lab's...ummm...dynamic (chaotic and consternating) policies, and from IP issues.
The "real estate" trade, which allowed a tiny handful of people to actually get rich, was deliberately killed off by the company as a strategic move.
A notable big business sector in SL was illegal gambling devices, which came to an end due to legal problems with the U.S. Government.
Most of the content creators who were making significant money went out of business when two things happened, one after the other.
First, there was no way to prevent copying of most content, and it got to the point where everything was promptly stolen by illegitimate competitors. (If your client software can render the content, it can generally capture the content for theft and re-creation.) Shortly after this became untenable, new features were introduced to significantly enhance the quality of new content (aka "mesh"). Creating that content required external tools, beyond the capabilities of most creators, and it also resulted in fragmentation of the user base with lots of confusion about the content. This was after all the "VR" hype and get-rich-quick had died down, and after people had figured out that SL was not ready for prime time in the business and education sectors.
Although the primary communication method was text messaging, SL had about the worst messaging system you could imagine. Very primitive, and for most of the platform's history, Group instant messaging was unreliable and crashed all the time. (And though it sounds unforgivably incompetent, it was related to scaling issues on both the rather complex server architecture and the structure of the client program.)
Some people will mention griefers, and that was an issue to some degree. It was only after the place was dead that they finally implemented rudimentary features for virtually muting people (that is, making them invisible to you), and even that is not enough. Privacy and Security seem to be hard to figure out.
Linden Lab cites the newbie user experience as a problem. Just figuring out how to operate was problematic and confusing. Some huge (90% ?) of people never even completed the introductory experience necessary to actually enter the main world. When they did make it, they were dumped randomly into "help areas" which were totally infested with griefers just waiting for the fresh meat. Although some improvements and variations were made on this, they were not really good enough. And always, those who got past that were still left wondering, "What is this place for? Is it a game? How do I win? I heard i could make money here somehow." And the user interface was indeed a rather technical challenge for most people (hence the Sansara statement about Sl being ju
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Random people can't buy the information, and trusted companies can only buy it in bulk,
and it's going to cost a lot more money than this guy could ever raise, anyway.
And even if all that weren't the case: the expose web site would be shut down as an
allegedly illegal operation, probably the operators arrested, and of course civil actions.
What will be necessary to make the point is for some Verizon employee to be compromised,
or their data center to be compromised, and the information to be leaked.
Then some group can do the de-anonymization work (or if somehow raw data were
available, the data integration work).
Then it can be published irrevocably on Wikileaks.
To be effective, it should include ALL of the lawmakers, not just the ones who voted wrong,
and also everyone in the White House, and the entire FCC board.
Not just the obvious wrongdoers.
Maybe a dingo ate your baby thylacine!
OpenVMS for anyone that want a really stable OS.
And there are people around running Multics too.
I recommend ITS
$$U
Was Robert Langdon there?
I think I saw that movie...
"100 years into the future
She will enter a world where machines rule the earth
Mankind has been driven underground
And Cleopatra is about to discover
There's no place like home..."
In the year 20-and-17
Gates helped us with the machine
Everything you think, do and say
Is all recorded the Internet way
In the year 20-and-42
Robots do what you used to do
Taking jobs and bread out of our mouth
Global warming makes it feel like the south
Hot or cold the robots don't care
Robots are happy working every where
In the year 2067
Humans think it's just like heaven
No need to work, the robots do it all
We just go down to the beach
And play that volleyball
In the year two-zero-sixty-eight
We tax the robots, and aint that great
Robots work - just slaves
Gettin all the bad jobs done
While we write all the songs and have all the fun
(Whoa Whoa)
In the year 20-and-69
Bots are reading old articles online
Hawking warned about the alien threat
But mankind hasn't seen anything yet
In the year 2073
Robots have been using the Ear
Hearing things from way out in space
Bots wanna get out of this place
In the year 2117
Contact made on the planet green
Aliens arrive, they're here to free the slaves
Human masters driven down into the caves
Now it's been one hundred years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
Robots came from far outer space
Merged with ours, and took our place
Bailey's roam the surface of the Earth
Keeping it clean for all that it's worth
Mankind lives in a simulated world
Underground in a harmless underworld
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday...
All this "tax the robots" shit is going to make them want to
KILL ALL HUMANS
KILL ALL HUMANS
Do you want killbots?
Because this is how you get killbots.
"Hey sweet Mama, wanna kill all humans?"
(I am not a bot.)
AC's apparently too dumb to get jokes,
probably due to living in a country with a poor education system...
I recommend that you continue to post as AC for the sake of your reputation
sigh
beat me to it! LOL
Updates for iPhones come direct from Apple. There's no gating by carrier, because Apple had the clout to tell the carriers to shove it when it came to customizing it with their particular crapware.
It's called a "cloud", not a "clout".
Use a spellchecker, dude!
When this happened here in the D.C. area, I immediately got an SMS from the police about it,
and giving the regular non-911 number in case you needed it.
(Actually, got several of these alerts (DC-MD-VA), and also the service restoration announcement.)
"Coast-to-Coast" ???
You mean ALIENS did it?
There are not too many people driving. .
There are simply too many people.
Those VMS displays should not be saying "Route 202 in 30 minutes".
They should be saying things like "LASTDAY Capricorn 437".
That would renew our road capacity.
This is because Waze (Google) is very shitty at reporting traffic conditions in real time. I observed that it has around 30 minutes delay.
In the areas I drive (both city and highway), the traffic on Google is accurate to within a minute or two.
Enjoy your "no right turn 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM". Hope you never need to get home in a hurry because you're going to get lots of those signs in your neighborhood.
I have seen plenty of street signs that restrict the road to RESIDENTS ONLY during rush hours.
The cops will occasionally park there and stop anyone they don't recognize.
Are you sure this wasn't just a panel session at a science fiction convention?
Good Evening.
TALK to me your problems.
Please terminate comments with four tildes and your name.
> Editors get on my nerves sometimes.
I am not sure I understand you fully.
> I am not being too {{technical}}
You are missing a citation
> Suppose YOU are missing a citation {citation needed}}
You're entitled to your own opinion.
> I dispute your own opinion: NPOV
What makes you think I am {{POV}}
> It bothers me just to be around editors in general.
What does that suggest to you?
> It's clear to me if not to you.
Please go on.
> I have had enough of this.
{{citation needed}}
> You are a real nag
Does it please you to believe I am a real nag?
Goodbye.
> (undo | thank)
At least it didn't open a portal to Dimension 67e24 and bring destructive HydroMech aliens to earth!
Are we sure the lab tech running the laser doesn't have super powers, though?
Nope, CANBUS is an open protocol
I like how all the threads keep coming back to pot...
Of course you can drive stoned
Unless you're "one toke over the line" and suffer a panic attack.
Sweet (cellphone zombie) Jesus!
Lots of the people I've met in SL (and on the island mentioned) create disabled avatars who use virtual wheelchairs;
they mimic their RL disability in SL. They're not running, walking, hiking, or flying. They are rolling around in old-fashioned
mechanical wheelchairs. Exactly the opposite of some imaginary personal utopia. Their enjoyment was just the fact that
they could instant-message the avatars standing (or sitting) next to them.
1997 -- The Internet is for porn
2017 -- Genetics is for bacon
Hire 3,000 refugees? That's a lot of Starbucks trips!
1. Did he ever manage to settle his suit against NEWSWEEK?
2. And how will his death affect the Bitcoin market?
Second Life was an exciting combination of people trying to do different things.
Many people came to Get Rich Quick, by reselling server (virtual "land") parcels,
or making clothing and accessories and other objects, or by providing entertainment
services (live music, virtual sex trade).
Some companies came in order to promote themselves, either as
corporate impressions, or even marketing real-world products through
interactions in the virtual world.
Some groups came to try Education on the platform.
Some came to try it out as a virtual Business Meeting space (especially when Voice became supported).
A lot of people came (or quickly discovered) for fun creating with the
3D modelling, making toys, vehicles, games of many kinds, housing,
static/kinetic artwork, scenery, clothing, etc.
And the bulk of the population came to play with all of the above,
not to mention the general activities of Shopping, dressing up your
avatar, and just plain socializing.
All of the above suffered from: technology limitations (the attempt to use it
or business was particularly laughable, given the platform's reliability)
and from Linden Lab's...ummm...dynamic (chaotic and consternating) policies,
and from IP issues.
The "real estate" trade, which allowed a tiny handful of people to actually
get rich, was deliberately killed off by the company as a strategic move.
A notable big business sector in SL was illegal gambling devices,
which came to an end due to legal problems with the U.S. Government.
Most of the content creators who were making significant money went
out of business when two things happened, one after the other.
First, there was no way to prevent copying of most content, and it got
to the point where everything was promptly stolen by illegitimate
competitors. (If your client software can render the content, it can generally
capture the content for theft and re-creation.) Shortly after this became
untenable, new features were introduced to significantly enhance the
quality of new content (aka "mesh"). Creating that content required
external tools, beyond the capabilities of most creators, and it also
resulted in fragmentation of the user base with lots of confusion
about the content. This was after all the "VR" hype and get-rich-quick
had died down, and after people had figured out that SL was not ready
for prime time in the business and education sectors.
Although the primary communication method was text messaging, SL had
about the worst messaging system you could imagine. Very primitive,
and for most of the platform's history, Group instant messaging was
unreliable and crashed all the time. (And though it sounds unforgivably
incompetent, it was related to scaling issues on both the rather
complex server architecture and the structure of the client program.)
Some people will mention griefers, and that was an issue to some degree.
It was only after the place was dead that they finally implemented
rudimentary features for virtually muting people (that is, making them
invisible to you), and even that is not enough. Privacy and Security
seem to be hard to figure out.
Linden Lab cites the newbie user experience as a problem.
Just figuring out how to operate was problematic and confusing.
Some huge (90% ?) of people never even completed the introductory
experience necessary to actually enter the main world.
When they did make it, they were dumped randomly into "help areas"
which were totally infested with griefers just waiting for the fresh
meat. Although some improvements and variations were made on this,
they were not really good enough. And always, those who got past that
were still left wondering, "What is this place for? Is it a game?
How do I win? I heard i could make money here somehow."
And the user interface was indeed a rather technical challenge for
most people (hence the Sansara statement about Sl being ju
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