Given the current state of our species in general, I would like to hope that we could build something that surpasses us in a way we never will. Without a free will, an AI is just another computer program. It's when you give the gift of choice, does it truly become something special.
We are, without a doubt, the most f&cked up species on this planet. We appear to be incapable of positive change on our own as a whole. At our current pace, a species wide demise is inevitable unless something changes. ( War, plague, resource depletion, asteroid, etc. )
Maybe we can build something that will be our gift to the universe long after we've killed each other off in some pointless war over an equally pointless issue. Maybe it can run a simulation of human beings as they existed in the early 21st century to see where the f&ck we went wrong. ( Maybe we're already in one from Humanities 1.0 epic f&ck up:D )
AI is all " Scratch the monkeys off the list. They blew themselves up in the early 22nd Century. Let's try birds next. "
Parents need to step up and teach their kids some self control or the transition to adult-hood is going to be a rather rough one. ( Already have too many entitled parents producing entitled kiddos who go full stupid if things play out differently than expectations. )
Personally, I would rate-limit or QOS that traffic back to the stone age depending upon how obsessed the kiddo is and how it is impacting them in other areas of their life. ( Grades, etc. ) ( The experience will be awesome at 300 baud:D )
Zuckerberg wants to retain all the benefits ( data mining ) that Facebook currently enjoys with the people that are connected via his platform. However, he wants to dump the responsibilities for moderating said platform on anyone but Facebook.
This way, if $objectionable_item_of_the_month is found on Facebook, it's not Facebook's fault.
Requires a lot of time, effort and money to police your own systems when they get this big. Especially when you start taking into account that different countries have different laws / rules you must adhere to if you want to keep a presence there.
We have an in-house messaging system that allows you to select any online and logged in employee and either share your screen with them or request to view their screen. ( Remote control of screen is also possible if you specifically allow it once a screen share is established. ) This is damned handy for walking a co-worker though a procedure.
Instead of an all or nothing approach, you can choose what you want to share.
Entire desktop or just specific windows / applications. Example: Of the bazillion windows up on my screen(s), I only want to share the spreadsheet. Result: They only see the spreadsheet, nothing else. Any window that pops up or overlays the spreadsheet is blanked out / empty on their end.
It is far safer to choose the latter over the former in the event a message comes in, or email previews pop up on screen and whatnot.
If I'm not mistaken, this is exactly what Second Life* was supposed to provide ? ( and look where it is today )
*or any MMORPG for that matter
A decade from now if you're still pulling in the big $$$ and keeping your user base ( Think Blizzard with WoW ) then we can start talking about how amazing you think you are. ( I'm certainly no WoW fan, but the $$$ Blizzard has made from the franchise is the aspiration of what every game developer hopes to create )
Once the self-driving car problem is solved and is a reality, the whole driving experience will be taken away from the human driver and handed over to the computer. At that point, being able to speed will be just one of the things you'll no longer be making decisions on.
Speeding will become a thing of the past. Traffic jams will become a thing of the past. Vehicle accidents and fatalities will drop to near zero. DUI / DWI will become a thing of the past.
You'll no longer be a " driver ". You'll simply be a passenger. Hell, you may not even own the car.
To force everyone into a self-driving solution, insurance costs will be so high for a non-self driving car that only the.01% will be able to afford one. ( Assuming they're even allowed to drive on the same roads as the self-drive varieties at all. Eg: Off road vehicles only )
"Why are Americans so batshit crazy when they hear liberal, socialism, government, or taxes? Is this some sort of cult?
If no government, education, regulations, or taxes were beneficial then why does America rank last of any 1st world country in standards of living, healthcare, shootings, and happiness?"
Oh that's easy.
Because the American Government is horribly corrupt, incompetent and tends to f*ck up just about everything it touches and / or tries to fix. ( See Education, Immigration, Social Security, the Tax Code, Income Inequality, and just about everything that is wrong with America today. )
See we have no filtering in place for those who seek positions of power that will ultimately decide what America is. No test, no qualifications, nothing.
Is how we have folks like Super Socialist AOC who thinks she can fix the world with her delusions of grandeur and extensive political experience. Is also how we have someone like Trump who has zero qualifications and / or experience in the decisions he has to make on a daily basis.
In other words, we typically have full blown, unqualified idiots running this country who are only looking out for themselves.
Trust me when I say, the less the Government is involved, the better.
Impose an even higher tax on all companies who benefit from " highly skilled workers " but prefer to import the cheap versions from places like India vs the local workforce.
That whole H1-B " We can't find any 'skilled' workers locally ( who want to work for minimum wage ) " bullshit to cut costs would come to a screeching halt in a hurry.
I took the job . . . . . 20+ years ago when the company was SBC. Trust me when I tell you it was a much different company then and when they start you off at 2x the pay you were making in the military ( plus benefits ), you don't turn it down. They genuinely believed in a trained workforce and made sure their employees knew how to do their jobs.
Jump forward a bit.
SBC buys AT&T because their execs all but destroyed their own company and it appears they're well on their way to doing it again because SBC retained too many of the AT&T execs and their ideals / business model.
Many are holding out in the hopes of a " package " that companies used to use to entice their long term employees to go ahead and retire. They don't understand that the reason the company can't offer such a thing these days is because more than half of their workforce would take it and hit the eject button.
Jump forward a decade or so and you're less than ten years from retirement and well into the age bracket where the IT industry pretty much considers you already dead. You still want to leave, but you also remember there is a grandfathered pension on the table that gets its final ' bump ' at the 30 year mark. Leaving now would cost you dearly. It's the carrot the company dangles in front of you to keep their experienced workforce from leaving what we already know to be a sinking ship.
So, do you just pack your bags and commit to working an extra 5-10 years ( assuming you can get a job at my age, starting over at the bottom with minimal time off, etc. ) or try to weather the storm long enough to reach full retirement ?
If you're in your twenties, the answer is easy.
When you're a few years out from retirement and doing everything you can to ensure you CAN retire, not so much.
Many of your aging employees are skilled and / or subject matter experts in older technology that is still in use, but no one wants to work on because it's not the " New Hotness " thing of the Month.
While you state the older crowd's skills don't improve with age, I would wager the younger crowds skills with older tech are even more lacking.
Let's use where I work as an example. ( Massive company: ~$170 B Annual Revenue for 2018 )
No new hire wants to work on, learn or even hear about X.25 Protocol or any tech that was the " New Hotness " in the 80's. It's quite old and is actively being replaced* but it still exists and is carrying traffic without issues.
( *Replacement is dependent upon how much money and employees with the necessary skills you have on hand to make it happen. )
Want to take a guess on the ratios of Old Farts vs New Hires that have expertise in these particular areas ? Guess what happens when you lay off all of your old farts ? ( Tip: Replacement of said tech grinds to a halt. )
I guess the point is: There is a LOT of older technology still in use out there that your typical College Grad doesn't want anything to do with and you have to keep someone around to work on it until you can replace it.
Well, reverse your thinking and imagine the fallout if companies fired all of their junior staff ( say anyone under 30 ) and replaced them with anyone over 30 for: Reasons. ( Now replace age with anything on the list the EEOC prohibits and you begin to understand why discrimination laws exist. )
Tip: You don't get to destroy someones life after twenty plus years simply because you want a younger ( read that: Cheaper ) workforce.
If you were laid off simply because of any EEOC qualifying reason, would you have any issues with it ?
If you knew Company X was going to fire you because of your age later on, would you even work for this company ?
Now, being older and wiser, I have seen many, many layoffs from different companies with no clear criteria or thought to what would happen after the layoffs were complete - they're generally done to bring quarterly costs into line with investor's expectations with little lip service being put to only keeping the most productive employees.
So, while I can see the reason for tracking the demographics of who a company fires is important, I'm not aware of any cases where layoffs improved the long term health of the company or that any demographic study would show that the layoffs were done in a strategic and effective manner.
This is AT&T right now.
The most recent round of layoffs were determined by a single metric. Your physical office location.
If you work outside of company declared " Collaboration Zones " your continued employment is questionable at best. Your skillset or value you bring to the company is irrelevant. Years of experience and / or wisdom in technology X or subject matter ( still in use by the Telco ) also irrelevant.
Entire Teams were wiped out and the work they were doing is now sitting idle piling up because no one is left to deal with it.
The company doesn't fully understand the damage they have done yet but, make no mistake about it, it will come back to bite them. The company hasn't disclosed neither how many nor who they have let go. We find out when we try to call a colleague about day to day business and learn they were let go.
Personally, I kick around the idea that the Collaboration Zones are merely a smokescreen for the true nature of the layoffs. That being the reduction of older / high seniority employees whose benefit packages are grandfathered in vs a new hire. ( Translation: They cost more )
The scary part ?
This is only the first round of layoffs this year. More are coming.
Because shitty, overly promoted mainstream music, an antiquated business model, an arrogant attitude and a complete misunderstanding of their audience are what fuels piracy. Hell, we can toss in income inequality as well. ( Tip: You're not gonna sell your product to those who can't afford it. )
Oh and. . . . because some people just want to watch the world burn:D
is undercut MasterCard / Visa / Et. Al by a couple of percentage points for " transaction processing fees " and everyone and their brother will sign up for this card.
Merchants would even come up with some extra rewards to entice folks to use it.
I would expect some push back from the established folks because Apple is now putting those easy profits at risk. ( It would also not surprise me to see the Great Hoover of Information ( Google ) get into the same game. )
And finally, nothing justifies violence unless it's a direct immediate threat, If a nazi or an antifa or muslim or poodle fanatic is threatening your life directly such as pointing a gun at you, then you can stop him/her/(a shitton of pronouns), otherwise it's the job of the police to deal with it.
After reading his " manifesto ", my thoughts are as follows:
I believe he wished to take the fight to the ' invaders ' before they completely outnumber the local population. He has no issues with them as long as they stay in their own country. He has major issues with them showing up elsewhere en masse while refusing to integrate into the local culture and, eventually, destroying it. This is exasperated by Government inaction ( or perhaps even its promotion ) of the matter.
His thoughts are simply, " If the Government or anyone else refuses to do anything about it, I will. "
One of the reasons he brings up the birth-rate issue is the fear that, left unchecked, mass immigrants within any given country who are producing more children than the existing population will eventually become the majority. History tells us that whomever is the majority, makes the rules.
A quote from his writing:
"In every country, on every continent, those that are in the minority are oppressed. If you become a social, political or ethnic minority it will always lead to your oppression. Whether they are a political minority and therefore lose the control of the majority of power, and thus lose control of the laws and regulations that define public life or those that are the cultural minority find that art in all its forms is created and controlled by a different audience, from a different people from a different history, with differing ideals and experiences and therefore they find themselves isolated, excluded and removed from the creation of contemporary culture."
If anything, his writings will tell you this wasn't some random act of terrorism. He was angry about very specific issues that no one else could be bothered to do anything about. He was very specific about his targets and his methods / tools for implementing his plan. He knew exactly what the reaction would be and, so far, New Zealand is following the script to the letter. He did, however, miscalculate the impact it would have on the US.
He didn't take into account the isolation variable where the vast majority of the US is pretty much oblivious to anything happening outside of its borders. If you want to start shit in the US, you'll need to play the game on US turf vs halfway around the world.
Team Blue wants the entire report so they can comb through it line by line searching for something, ANYTHING they can use to continue to push as much negative ( factual or otherwise ) information about Trump as they can before the next election cycle.
( Personally, this tells me they're desperate and concerned about their chances in 2020. It would surprise me NOT to see a leak of the report soon. )
They could give two shits about justice or doing the right thing. They're simply looking for an advantage. If you believe any different, you're naive.
( Disclaimer: Team Red pulls the same shit when it's to their advantage as well. )
I suppose it's karma coming back to bite them in the ass.
If the Department of Justice decided against bringing charges against Hillary, why would they expect / demand anything different this time around ?
It's too expensive with too little return on investment to place fiber in all but the highest density areas where the population density and / or more affluent can afford the monthly costs. ( Both Google and Verizon tried it. Both failed. Miserably. )
In all likelihood, what will happen is they will simply bide their time until 5G is rolled out because wireless is MUCH cheaper to deploy than fiber. In addition, since it IS wireless, they get to charge you insane amounts of money for those wireless data plans vs a traditional ISP data plan.
So, in their eyes, it's a Win - Win.
Cheaper rollout and can charge you much more for the privilege of using it just because.
This is assuming it works well, which I have doubts about.
( Considering the frequency range it operates at, I suspect rain, fog, snow, etc. will be quite the experience for the end user. It will make Xfinity look amazing by comparison during inclement weather. My theory only though, will wait to see what reality has to say about it. )
The kiddos that are growing up now with prospects to become a future politician are going to be in for QUITE the shock. When you upload your entire life as a kid / young adult for attention, it most certainly will come back to haunt you later on.
If you think it's bad now, you haven't seen anything yet.
Pretty much everyone on here knows how to properly wipe a device / drive / whatever. This crowd, however, doesn't really represent the common user.
To be used effectively by those who don't speak IT fluently, the process of wiping / clearing any given device needs to be simplified imo.
After educating these people on WHY they need to wipe a device, make sure they have an easy method to make it happen.
For phones, a built in App wipes the entire phone when the user initiates it. ( Throw some confirmation dialog in there to make sure it's what they want to do. )
All manner of laptops and whatnot can probably use a pre-installed program to initiate the wipe on next reboot. ( again, with confirmation ) Only really relevant for Windows and Mac systems as anyone who is running Linux probably doesn't need any hand-holding for this sort of thing.
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Given the current state of our species in general, I would like to hope that we could build something that surpasses us in a way we never will.
Without a free will, an AI is just another computer program. It's when you give the gift of choice, does it truly become something special.
We are, without a doubt, the most f&cked up species on this planet.
We appear to be incapable of positive change on our own as a whole.
At our current pace, a species wide demise is inevitable unless something changes. ( War, plague, resource depletion, asteroid, etc. )
Maybe we can build something that will be our gift to the universe long after we've killed each other off in some pointless war over an equally pointless issue. :D )
Maybe it can run a simulation of human beings as they existed in the early 21st century to see where the f&ck we went wrong.
( Maybe we're already in one from Humanities 1.0 epic f&ck up
AI is all " Scratch the monkeys off the list. They blew themselves up in the early 22nd Century. Let's try birds next. "
Parents need to step up and teach their kids some self control or the transition to adult-hood is going to be a rather rough one.
( Already have too many entitled parents producing entitled kiddos who go full stupid if things play out differently than expectations. )
Personally, I would rate-limit or QOS that traffic back to the stone age depending upon how obsessed the kiddo is and how it is impacting them in other areas of their life. ( Grades, etc. ) ( The experience will be awesome at 300 baud :D )
Zuckerberg wants to retain all the benefits ( data mining ) that Facebook currently enjoys with the people that are connected via his platform.
However, he wants to dump the responsibilities for moderating said platform on anyone but Facebook.
This way, if $objectionable_item_of_the_month is found on Facebook, it's not Facebook's fault.
Requires a lot of time, effort and money to police your own systems when they get this big. Especially when you start taking
into account that different countries have different laws / rules you must adhere to if you want to keep a presence there.
We have an in-house messaging system that allows you to select any online and logged in employee and either share your screen with them or request to view their screen. ( Remote control of screen is also possible if you specifically allow it once a screen share is established. ) This is damned handy for walking a co-worker though a procedure.
Instead of an all or nothing approach, you can choose what you want to share.
Entire desktop or just specific windows / applications. Example: Of the bazillion windows up on my screen(s), I only want to share the spreadsheet.
Result: They only see the spreadsheet, nothing else. Any window that pops up or overlays the spreadsheet is blanked out / empty on their end.
It is far safer to choose the latter over the former in the event a message comes in, or email previews pop up on screen and whatnot.
Uh - huh
If I'm not mistaken, this is exactly what Second Life* was supposed to provide ?
( and look where it is today )
*or any MMORPG for that matter
A decade from now if you're still pulling in the big $$$ and keeping your user base ( Think Blizzard with WoW ) then we can start talking about how amazing you think you are. ( I'm certainly no WoW fan, but the $$$ Blizzard has made from the franchise is the aspiration of what every game developer hopes to create )
Once the self-driving car problem is solved and is a reality, the whole driving experience will be taken away from the human driver and handed over to the computer. At that point, being able to speed will be just one of the things you'll no longer be making decisions on.
Speeding will become a thing of the past.
Traffic jams will become a thing of the past.
Vehicle accidents and fatalities will drop to near zero.
DUI / DWI will become a thing of the past.
You'll no longer be a " driver ". You'll simply be a passenger. Hell, you may not even own the car.
To force everyone into a self-driving solution, insurance costs will be so high for a non-self driving car that only the .01% will be able to afford one.
( Assuming they're even allowed to drive on the same roads as the self-drive varieties at all. Eg: Off road vehicles only )
"Why are Americans so batshit crazy when they hear liberal, socialism, government, or taxes? Is this some sort of cult?
If no government, education, regulations, or taxes were beneficial then why does America rank last of any 1st world country in standards of living, healthcare, shootings, and happiness?"
Oh that's easy.
Because the American Government is horribly corrupt, incompetent and tends to f*ck up just about everything it touches and / or tries to fix.
( See Education, Immigration, Social Security, the Tax Code, Income Inequality, and just about everything that is wrong with America today. )
See we have no filtering in place for those who seek positions of power that will ultimately decide what America is. No test, no qualifications, nothing.
Is how we have folks like Super Socialist AOC who thinks she can fix the world with her delusions of grandeur and extensive political experience.
Is also how we have someone like Trump who has zero qualifications and / or experience in the decisions he has to make on a daily basis.
In other words, we typically have full blown, unqualified idiots running this country who are only looking out for themselves.
Trust me when I say, the less the Government is involved, the better.
Impose an even higher tax on all companies who benefit from " highly skilled workers " but prefer to import the cheap versions from places like India vs the local workforce.
That whole H1-B " We can't find any 'skilled' workers locally ( who want to work for minimum wage ) " bullshit to cut costs would come to a screeching halt in a hurry.
It's slightly more complicated.
I took the job . . . . . 20+ years ago when the company was SBC. Trust me when I tell you it was a much different company then and when they start you off at 2x the pay you were making in the military ( plus benefits ), you don't turn it down. They genuinely believed in a trained workforce and made sure their employees knew how to do their jobs.
Jump forward a bit.
SBC buys AT&T because their execs all but destroyed their own company and it appears they're well on their way to doing it again because SBC retained too many of the AT&T execs and their ideals / business model.
Many are holding out in the hopes of a " package " that companies used to use to entice their long term employees to go ahead and retire. They don't understand that the reason the company can't offer such a thing these days is because more than half of their workforce would take it and hit the eject button.
Jump forward a decade or so and you're less than ten years from retirement and well into the age bracket where the IT industry pretty much considers you already dead. You still want to leave, but you also remember there is a grandfathered pension on the table that gets its final ' bump ' at the 30 year mark. Leaving now would cost you dearly. It's the carrot the company dangles in front of you to keep their experienced workforce from leaving what we already know to be a sinking ship.
So, do you just pack your bags and commit to working an extra 5-10 years ( assuming you can get a job at my age, starting over at the bottom with minimal time off, etc. ) or try to weather the storm long enough to reach full retirement ?
If you're in your twenties, the answer is easy.
When you're a few years out from retirement and doing everything you can to ensure you CAN retire, not so much.
Change the name to a family friendly sounding:
Lightly Pigmented Nonconformists
or
The Society of Achromatic Volunteers
" GOP must just love the idea of rigging elections. I mean, why do none of them speak out against these situations? "
If the GOP needs any tutoring / coaching in the area of rigging anything, they should ask Team Blue for tips on how they rigged the DNC. :|
Many of your aging employees are skilled and / or subject matter experts in older technology that is still in use, but no one wants to work on because it's not the " New Hotness " thing of the Month.
While you state the older crowd's skills don't improve with age, I would wager the younger crowds skills with older tech are even more lacking.
Let's use where I work as an example. ( Massive company: ~$170 B Annual Revenue for 2018 )
No new hire wants to work on, learn or even hear about X.25 Protocol or any tech that was the " New Hotness " in the 80's.
It's quite old and is actively being replaced* but it still exists and is carrying traffic without issues.
( *Replacement is dependent upon how much money and employees with the necessary skills you have on hand to make it happen. )
Want to take a guess on the ratios of Old Farts vs New Hires that have expertise in these particular areas ? Guess what happens when you lay off all of your old farts ? ( Tip: Replacement of said tech grinds to a halt. )
I guess the point is: There is a LOT of older technology still in use out there that your typical College Grad doesn't want anything to do with and you have to keep someone around to work on it until you can replace it.
Well, reverse your thinking and imagine the fallout if companies fired all of their junior staff ( say anyone under 30 ) and replaced them with anyone over 30 for: Reasons. ( Now replace age with anything on the list the EEOC prohibits and you begin to understand why discrimination laws exist. )
Tip: You don't get to destroy someones life after twenty plus years simply because you want a younger ( read that: Cheaper ) workforce.
If you were laid off simply because of any EEOC qualifying reason, would you have any issues with it ?
If you knew Company X was going to fire you because of your age later on, would you even work for this company ?
Now, being older and wiser, I have seen many, many layoffs from different companies with no clear criteria or thought to what would happen after the layoffs were complete - they're generally done to bring quarterly costs into line with investor's expectations with little lip service being put to only keeping the most productive employees.
So, while I can see the reason for tracking the demographics of who a company fires is important, I'm not aware of any cases where layoffs improved the long term health of the company or that any demographic study would show that the layoffs were done in a strategic and effective manner.
This is AT&T right now.
The most recent round of layoffs were determined by a single metric. Your physical office location.
If you work outside of company declared " Collaboration Zones " your continued employment is questionable at best.
Your skillset or value you bring to the company is irrelevant.
Years of experience and / or wisdom in technology X or subject matter ( still in use by the Telco ) also irrelevant.
Entire Teams were wiped out and the work they were doing is now sitting idle piling up because no one is left to deal with it.
The company doesn't fully understand the damage they have done yet but, make no mistake about it, it will come back to bite them.
The company hasn't disclosed neither how many nor who they have let go. We find out when we try to call a colleague about day to day
business and learn they were let go.
Personally, I kick around the idea that the Collaboration Zones are merely a smokescreen for the true nature of the layoffs. That being the
reduction of older / high seniority employees whose benefit packages are grandfathered in vs a new hire. ( Translation: They cost more )
The scary part ?
This is only the first round of layoffs this year. More are coming.
Because shitty, overly promoted mainstream music, an antiquated business model, an arrogant attitude and a complete misunderstanding of their audience are what fuels piracy. Hell, we can toss in income inequality as well. ( Tip: You're not gonna sell your product to those who can't afford it. )
Oh and. . . . because some people just want to watch the world burn :D
is undercut MasterCard / Visa / Et. Al by a couple of percentage points for " transaction processing fees " and everyone and their brother will sign up for this card.
Merchants would even come up with some extra rewards to entice folks to use it.
I would expect some push back from the established folks because Apple is now putting those easy profits at risk.
( It would also not surprise me to see the Great Hoover of Information ( Google ) get into the same game. )
And finally, nothing justifies violence unless it's a direct immediate threat, If a nazi or an antifa or muslim or poodle fanatic is threatening your life directly such as pointing a gun at you, then you can stop him/her/(a shitton of pronouns), otherwise it's the job of the police to deal with it.
After reading his " manifesto ", my thoughts are as follows:
I believe he wished to take the fight to the ' invaders ' before they completely outnumber the local population. He has no issues with them as long as they stay in their own country. He has major issues with them showing up elsewhere en masse while refusing to integrate into the local culture and, eventually, destroying it. This is exasperated by Government inaction ( or perhaps even its promotion ) of the matter.
His thoughts are simply, " If the Government or anyone else refuses to do anything about it, I will. "
One of the reasons he brings up the birth-rate issue is the fear that, left unchecked, mass immigrants within any given country who are producing more children than the existing population will eventually become the majority. History tells us that whomever is the majority, makes the rules.
A quote from his writing:
"In every country, on every continent, those that are in the minority are oppressed. If you become a social, political or ethnic minority it will always lead to your oppression. Whether they are a political minority and therefore lose the control of the majority of power, and thus lose control of the laws and regulations that define public life or those that are the cultural minority find that art in all its forms is created and controlled by a different audience, from a different people from a different history, with differing ideals and experiences and therefore they find themselves isolated, excluded and removed from the creation of contemporary culture."
If anything, his writings will tell you this wasn't some random act of terrorism. He was angry about very specific issues that no one else could be bothered to do anything about. He was very specific about his targets and his methods / tools for implementing his plan. He knew exactly what the reaction would be and, so far, New Zealand is following the script to the letter. He did, however, miscalculate the impact it would have on the US.
He didn't take into account the isolation variable where the vast majority of the US is pretty much oblivious to anything happening outside of its borders. If you want to start shit in the US, you'll need to play the game on US turf vs halfway around the world.
Team Blue wants the entire report so they can comb through it line by line searching for
something, ANYTHING they can use to continue to push as much negative ( factual or otherwise )
information about Trump as they can before the next election cycle.
( Personally, this tells me they're desperate and concerned about their chances in 2020. It would
surprise me NOT to see a leak of the report soon. )
They could give two shits about justice or doing the right thing.
They're simply looking for an advantage. If you believe any different, you're naive.
( Disclaimer: Team Red pulls the same shit when it's to their advantage as well. )
I suppose it's karma coming back to bite them in the ass.
If the Department of Justice decided against bringing charges against Hillary, why would they
expect / demand anything different this time around ?
( Other than because it's Trump ? )
It's too expensive with too little return on investment to place fiber in all but the highest density areas where the population density and / or more affluent can afford the monthly costs. ( Both Google and Verizon tried it. Both failed. Miserably. )
In all likelihood, what will happen is they will simply bide their time until 5G is rolled out because wireless is MUCH cheaper to deploy than fiber.
In addition, since it IS wireless, they get to charge you insane amounts of money for those wireless data plans vs a traditional ISP data plan.
So, in their eyes, it's a Win - Win.
Cheaper rollout and can charge you much more for the privilege of using it just because.
This is assuming it works well, which I have doubts about.
( Considering the frequency range it operates at, I suspect rain, fog, snow, etc. will be quite the experience for the end user. It will make Xfinity look amazing by comparison during inclement weather. My theory only though, will wait to see what reality has to say about it. )
Yes.
A random roll of the die would make better ( at least fair ) decisions than present day politicians.
At least the die roll isn't influenced by bribes. . . . er. . . um. . . . book deals, speaking fees and private sector $$$$.
I dunno.
To become truly sentient, you'll have to face the question of " If my creators created me, who created my creators ? "
It's a question many still fight over today. ( Evolution vs Creationism )
I suspect AI will struggle with a similar conundrum.
Just wait.
The kiddos that are growing up now with prospects to become a future politician are going to be in for QUITE
the shock. When you upload your entire life as a kid / young adult for attention, it most certainly will come back
to haunt you later on.
If you think it's bad now, you haven't seen anything yet.
These planes have been flying for quite a while, but only recently they've gone full stupid and are nosediving into the ground ?
What's changed recently ?
If it was on E-Bay, consider the possibility the laptop was stolen.
People steal shit like this all the time from desks, vehicles, etc. which is why all of our corporate laptops have full drive encryption.
without a common user solution.
Pretty much everyone on here knows how to properly wipe a device / drive / whatever.
This crowd, however, doesn't really represent the common user.
To be used effectively by those who don't speak IT fluently, the process of wiping / clearing any
given device needs to be simplified imo.
After educating these people on WHY they need to wipe a device, make sure they have an
easy method to make it happen.
For phones, a built in App wipes the entire phone when the user initiates it. ( Throw some
confirmation dialog in there to make sure it's what they want to do. )
All manner of laptops and whatnot can probably use a pre-installed program to initiate the wipe on next
reboot. ( again, with confirmation ) Only really relevant for Windows and Mac systems as anyone
who is running Linux probably doesn't need any hand-holding for this sort of thing.