Fair enough, but isn't that exactly what we seem to be heading towards? We seem to be trying to reach a level of machine knowledge where natural resource extraction, raw material refinement, manufacturing, and service of the machines is all automated. Once we get there, what reason is there to have most of us sweaty, non-machine-owning meatbags around?
Then what they will be buying themselves, eventually, is civil war.
The owner-class won't worry about that. They'll be directing their hunter/killer robots from within their walled off enclaves.
Seriously. Once the dirty business of producing food, clothing, shelter, and high-tech toys is fully automated, why would the.1% want the unwashed masses around, other than for entertainment?
The early 1990's when Linus created Linux was the perfect time. And at that time all of the Unixes were walled off proprietary prison camps and ran on workstations that at that time cost a couple tens of thousands of dollars. Linux ran on a common PC.
I was running 386BSD on x86 PCs in 1992-93. While all UNIX wasn't proprietary at that point, this was a time of great changes in that realm. ATT UNIX was in the process of getting re-written as BSD. There was also much legal wrangling going on around the re-write, slowing down the process. According to Linus, "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened."
b) with a credit card - that must be shown to pick up the tickets upto an hour before the show.
If I buy one of these tickets, which often go on sale months before an event, and for some reason I'm not able to go, can I get a refund? Or did I just piss away whatever I spent on the tickets and leave some empty seats to discourage the artist, other fans and venue? Well, I guess the artist and venue wouldn't be toooo mad, they got paid.
The only people getting rich are scummy middlemen with no skin in the game
You must be talking about companies like Ticketmaster, right? Because all the ticket scalpers have skin in the game, they didn't get the tickets they are selling for free. If they buy tickets that they don't sell, they take a loss.
eliminating domains from a search by preceeding the domain name with a - still works. Was there some way in the past to make that global and/or persistent?
Well, you would need an internet full of datacenters running CPU miners to make 1 BTC/month. A datacenter full of GPU miners might have generated some BTC, but still not in the 1/month range. To turn 1 BTC/m, you'd need to generate around 14 TERAhash/second An AMD 5870 GPU can do about 4 GIGAhash/sec and a Core i7 3930k can do about 66 MEGAhash/sec. Playing with the profit calculator from the first link shows a single gpu with no cost for hardware or electricity is going to generate about $0.07/month. The CPU miner will generate about $0.001196, which rounds up to a little over 1/10 of 1 cent.
The article states "the server", implying there was only 1. I'd be surprised if the guy actually mined anything, and I don't see any way he made enough to cover the fine. That doesn't even take into account lawyers fees and diminished career opportunities.
Your IP address (with timestamp) is about as anonymous as your physical address
The IP address is recorded as the source of transaction. Mine will show up as originating from one of a large variety of VPN servers all over the world. Perfect? No. Better than using the IP address assigned by my ISP? Very much.
There is a $140MM money trail from Uranium One to the Clinton Foundation prior to the (Hillary led) State Department approval of the purchase of Uranium One by Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy agency. This led to approximately 20% of the United States uranium supply now being owned by Russia.
Mr. Bill Clinton also gave a speech promoting the deal, in exchange for a $500k speaking fee. He was also thanked personally by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for giving the speach.
Why do they prompt me for this crap every time I do anything with a device that is already configured and working?
Apple marketing switched to the "Windows 10" marketing strategy. If they keep bugging you about it, eventually you'll either hit the wrong button and end up with an iCloud account, or you'll sign up on purpose to make the nag screens go away.
What would be really interesting to see going forward is a forum with cryptographic signing built into the to the base functionality of a forum. This would give both the poster, and the readers, a way to verify the integrity of the message. The downside (but not really) is that editing would be more difficult, but I could live without an edit function. Maybe that would force a little more thought before hitting the submit button, like it does here on/. A bigger issue might be the loss of anonymity that would come along with that, but you are already not anonymous to a state level actor and probably a few multinational corporate entities.
Spez did something that goes way beyond simple trolling. He showed that site admins can and will modify user content. Through its history, admin have claimed that they could/would not do this. Sure, any junior db or system admin knows that modifying a database entry is a basic function of that type of system, but the claim that they would not and have not done that has now been admitted to be false.
Now, the validity of every post on the site, past, present, and future, is questionable. Maybe it was a reddit admin that made the doxxing post on r/pizzagate. Maybe it was a reddit admin that created the u/stonetear posts allegedly related to the HRC email server. The list goes on and on.
If you are only waiting for them to "push the issue", you're going to waiting a long time. It's possible to make your sexual or romantic desires known to women you want to have that type of relationship with, and not come off as a creep/rapist.
yes, b/c I can buy used, and sell if I get tired of it. I can also play most games (eff you GTA5) when comcast is having one of their frequent outages. Try that with your newfangled downloads.
IT is a cost center which yields 0 return on investment compared to planes
The proper response to someone who says that is, "How efficiently to you think you can schedule flights, book passengers for them, process them onto a plane, and keep track of all of the above if the IT infrastructure were to all disappear?"
So if I'm even close on the math, Michigan (and probably anywhere else in the US) pays 50% of the cost of a comparable german road, and gets 20-40% of the usefulness. Not even surprised.
Thanks for the follow up. Sounds like that might be one of those SKUs that are released for a specific retailer and/or event like Black Friday, and I agree that isn't an excuse for a shoddy product.
The paradigm you describe will come to pass, and then pass away.
Sadly, you're probably right. That doesn't mean it won't be painful for those that live through it. Being a peasant in Medieval Europe, a slave in early american south, or a serf in Stalinist Russia was not a "good time".
The scary questions for me are, how long is this phase going to last, and what's going to be left when it comes to an end?
people will seek the consultation of AI that can process market data at a level far beyond what any human group can
I would expect there to be multiple AIs to be involved here, and they would ultimately be fighting for control of the markets, as people do now. If there is only 1 AI, I don't see how it could reconcile conflicting requests from multiple people/groups. Well, actually I can see how that would happen, the golden rule would be applied: Those who have the gold make the rules.
leading to the eventual complete governance of humans by AI.
So, eventually some version of The Matrix. Either the monied class controls the AI, which then controls the masses (assuming the proles still exist) and fools them into thinking it's in their best interests; or, the AI takes full control, and decides that the whiny meat bags are more trouble then they are worth, and finds a final solution.
I can see how an AI might somehow be developed to lead the mass of humanity, but I don't have any faith that it would happen that way. Even if such a thing was claimed, would we be able to verify the correctness of such a claim?
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Fair enough, but isn't that exactly what we seem to be heading towards? We seem to be trying to reach a level of machine knowledge where natural resource extraction, raw material refinement, manufacturing, and service of the machines is all automated. Once we get there, what reason is there to have most of us sweaty, non-machine-owning meatbags around?
Then what they will be buying themselves, eventually, is civil war.
The owner-class won't worry about that. They'll be directing their hunter/killer robots from within their walled off enclaves.
Seriously. Once the dirty business of producing food, clothing, shelter, and high-tech toys is fully automated, why would the .1% want the unwashed masses around, other than for entertainment?
The early 1990's when Linus created Linux was the perfect time. And at that time all of the Unixes were walled off proprietary prison camps and ran on workstations that at that time cost a couple tens of thousands of dollars. Linux ran on a common PC.
I was running 386BSD on x86 PCs in 1992-93. While all UNIX wasn't proprietary at that point, this was a time of great changes in that realm. ATT UNIX was in the process of getting re-written as BSD. There was also much legal wrangling going on around the re-write, slowing down the process. According to Linus, "If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened."
b) with a credit card - that must be shown to pick up the tickets upto an hour before the show.
If I buy one of these tickets, which often go on sale months before an event, and for some reason I'm not able to go, can I get a refund? Or did I just piss away whatever I spent on the tickets and leave some empty seats to discourage the artist, other fans and venue? Well, I guess the artist and venue wouldn't be toooo mad, they got paid.
The only people getting rich are scummy middlemen with no skin in the game
You must be talking about companies like Ticketmaster, right? Because all the ticket scalpers have skin in the game, they didn't get the tickets they are selling for free. If they buy tickets that they don't sell, they take a loss.
any page that contains a Twitter or Facebook button notifies these companies that you've visited the page
Until you install noscript, and tell it not to load scripts from other domains.
I don't think you fully understand how transferring Bitcoins works, especially in a world with VPNs, proxies, and datacenters full of virtual hosts.
eliminating domains from a search by preceeding the domain name with a - still works. Was there some way in the past to make that global and/or persistent?
The article states "the server", implying there was only 1. I'd be surprised if the guy actually mined anything, and I don't see any way he made enough to cover the fine. That doesn't even take into account lawyers fees and diminished career opportunities.
Your IP address (with timestamp) is about as anonymous as your physical address
The IP address is recorded as the source of transaction. Mine will show up as originating from one of a large variety of VPN servers all over the world. Perfect? No. Better than using the IP address assigned by my ISP? Very much.
With Hillary there was no money trail.
There is a $140MM money trail from Uranium One to the Clinton Foundation prior to the (Hillary led) State Department approval of the purchase of Uranium One by Rosatom, the Russian atomic energy agency. This led to approximately 20% of the United States uranium supply now being owned by Russia.
Mr. Bill Clinton also gave a speech promoting the deal, in exchange for a $500k speaking fee. He was also thanked personally by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for giving the speach.
Why do they prompt me for this crap every time I do anything with a device that is already configured and working?
Apple marketing switched to the "Windows 10" marketing strategy. If they keep bugging you about it, eventually you'll either hit the wrong button and end up with an iCloud account, or you'll sign up on purpose to make the nag screens go away.
What would be really interesting to see going forward is a forum with cryptographic signing built into the to the base functionality of a forum. This would give both the poster, and the readers, a way to verify the integrity of the message. The downside (but not really) is that editing would be more difficult, but I could live without an edit function. Maybe that would force a little more thought before hitting the submit button, like it does here on /. A bigger issue might be the loss of anonymity that would come along with that, but you are already not anonymous to a state level actor and probably a few multinational corporate entities.
He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.
I thought they just banned images of the previously admin approved AR-15 with the reddit logo on them?
Spez harmlessly trolls a few t_d users
Spez did something that goes way beyond simple trolling. He showed that site admins can and will modify user content. Through its history, admin have claimed that they could/would not do this. Sure, any junior db or system admin knows that modifying a database entry is a basic function of that type of system, but the claim that they would not and have not done that has now been admitted to be false.
Now, the validity of every post on the site, past, present, and future, is questionable. Maybe it was a reddit admin that made the doxxing post on r/pizzagate. Maybe it was a reddit admin that created the u/stonetear posts allegedly related to the HRC email server. The list goes on and on.
If you are only waiting for them to "push the issue", you're going to waiting a long time. It's possible to make your sexual or romantic desires known to women you want to have that type of relationship with, and not come off as a creep/rapist.
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Crawl back under your bridge, Troll.
People still do that in the 21st century?
yes, b/c I can buy used, and sell if I get tired of it. I can also play most games (eff you GTA5) when comcast is having one of their frequent outages. Try that with your newfangled downloads.
IT is a cost center which yields 0 return on investment compared to planes
The proper response to someone who says that is, "How efficiently to you think you can schedule flights, book passengers for them, process them onto a plane, and keep track of all of the above if the IT infrastructure were to all disappear?"
So if I'm even close on the math, Michigan (and probably anywhere else in the US) pays 50% of the cost of a comparable german road, and gets 20-40% of the usefulness. Not even surprised.
Thanks for the follow up. Sounds like that might be one of those SKUs that are released for a specific retailer and/or event like Black Friday, and I agree that isn't an excuse for a shoddy product.
The paradigm you describe will come to pass, and then pass away.
Sadly, you're probably right. That doesn't mean it won't be painful for those that live through it. Being a peasant in Medieval Europe, a slave in early american south, or a serf in Stalinist Russia was not a "good time".
The scary questions for me are, how long is this phase going to last, and what's going to be left when it comes to an end?
people will seek the consultation of AI that can process market data at a level far beyond what any human group can
I would expect there to be multiple AIs to be involved here, and they would ultimately be fighting for control of the markets, as people do now. If there is only 1 AI, I don't see how it could reconcile conflicting requests from multiple people/groups. Well, actually I can see how that would happen, the golden rule would be applied: Those who have the gold make the rules.
leading to the eventual complete governance of humans by AI.
So, eventually some version of The Matrix. Either the monied class controls the AI, which then controls the masses (assuming the proles still exist) and fools them into thinking it's in their best interests; or, the AI takes full control, and decides that the whiny meat bags are more trouble then they are worth, and finds a final solution.
I can see how an AI might somehow be developed to lead the mass of humanity, but I don't have any faith that it would happen that way. Even if such a thing was claimed, would we be able to verify the correctness of such a claim?