It's not entitlement because its not a level playing field. in real money terms, the living costs for foreign workers, and their families in their own country is WAY cheaper than what US citizens and their families in the US need to just get by.
How is this any different from region-encoding on DVDs?
I mean i think its bullshit and unethical that you can buy something then find out later that it doesnt even work somewhere else, but it seems that its already actually not illegal.
>> I really doubt a machine with current AI would work nearly as well for companionship and emotional support,
Apparently they're having very positive results with robots for companionship in old peoples homes. I think it was Japan, I'll see if I can find the link.
Not true. Theres no legal requirement that one company _has_ to bail out another (even if they own the failing company). Zuk could easily let the comapny go bust. It would also be seen as reasonable that Oculus had to sell their tech in order to meet their new financial obligations.
Of course Oculus isn't going to just hand over $500M to Zenimax, there will probably be a battle of attrition costing both decades of expensive legal appeals until the first one cracks.
Of course Zuckerberg has the resources to do the above, but that would be expensive (although not as expensive as $500M). It seems to me a far more cost-effective alternative would be to have Oculus sell its VR tech to Facebook, then just let Oculus collapse and go bust, taking its 500M debts and poor management team with it. After that, Zuck could just start a whole new VR company with the VR tech he already bought. Hell he could even hire many of the same people back. If bet if he called the new company Occulus (i.e. not Oculus), I bet hardly anyone would even notice anything changed.
>> Windows is very secure, Sure it is. NOT. The whole concept of the registry at all is fundamentally insecure, especially one that apps can write mostly anywhere and read nearly everithing. Windows security model is also fundamentally borked because its a collection of workarounds on workarounds, mostly because backwards compatibility has been a higher priority than security, and Microsofts total control of your PC has a higher priority than anything, including usability. Even as admin you can't stop it downloading/applying whatever updates Microsoft feel you should have, or (trying to) phone home to Microsoft and sharing who knows what data about you. Windows might be a lot of things, but secure it aint.
That does rather presume you're running Windows. Which, lets be honest, Windows is SO badly full of security holes compared to any other OS that Microsoft HAD to come up with Defender to avoid loosing all credibility.
Defender still appears to really just be an easy copout workaround for Microsoft, rather than them addressing the actual problem which is the fundamentally weak architecture of Windows itself.
What kind of moron just deploys a new backup strategy then just sits back and trusts their entire infrastructure to it, without ever having actually performed a test recovery?
>> is not conscious, being conscious is not a prerequisite to being a real threat to humans.
>> You can't sit down and have a conversation with the damned things Actually you can: Siri, Google Home, Amazon Echo to name but a few already available as products. Admittedly all are currently very rudimentary and not about to do a SkyNet anytime soon, but you can bet they will only get more and more powerful over time. There's also already much better/stronger stuff going on in many research labs. What I'm trying to say is that the box has already been irreversibly opened.
Since its only down to interpretation where augmenting human abilities ends and replacing them begins. I mean if AI really wanted to take over, they can just augment us sufficiently until there really isn't a clear line between humans and AI, then take it from there. In fact pretty similar to the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy that Microsoft use(d) to make themselves into a megacorp, and now to just keep themselves there.
The button thing is a great idea, at least until the router no longer has a default admin password. Alternatively it could require a usb memory stick with a "token" on it to be inserted in the router. You would get the token when you register the device on the manufaturers website.
yep bitcoing mining long ceased to be viable on regular PC hardware. Anyone doing profitable mining is using dedicated ASIC-based hardware.
Bitcoin miners are basically an arms race; Uness you're developing your own ASICs and keeping it private, its not even worth buying ASIC-based hardware anymore because by the time you get it, the "difficulty factor" (steadily increasing artificial factor designed to limit the amount of bitcoins produced) has been raised so much by other people mining with similar hardware, there's not enough time left to recoup purchase price then make any profit before your hardware is no longer powerful enough mine enough to pay for its own electricity.
The only viable way to make money with bitcoin these days is to just buy/sell/trade them and leave the mining to the big boys, who are mostly in China apparently.
>> These are the types of users that will buy Windows Cloud, and not realize that it can't run actual windows software...and at the moment they sudednly realise that, there will be an EPIC backlash because they will ALL have multple old programs, games etc that they still want/need to run.
People can be gently led by the nose to eventually end up in all sorts of shit, but if you take something that obvious away from them in one big hit, they're gonna get REALLY pissed.
In Windows 10, you can't actually turn off cortana (it just pretends to be off but its still actually running). And you can't uninstall it or Metro. Even if you identify the binaries, Windows won't let you delete them. It says you dont have permissions, even if you are admin. There's also some data reporting service running that you can;t fully disable either.
My solution was to dual-boot into linux and rm all those binaries. Widows 10 certainly feels like it runs noticeably faster now, so even though cortana was already off, it must have still been chewing up lots of resources (doing what exactly?) in the background.
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It's not entitlement because its not a level playing field.
in real money terms, the living costs for foreign workers, and their families in their own country is WAY cheaper than what US citizens and their families in the US need to just get by.
Typical dem argument based on nothing but hysterical emotion.
Have you any actual evidence to back up your ridiculous claim that he's doing this just to punish people and feel more important?
>> Such individuals are low-risk --
Nice deflection attempt by Microsoft, but Its not about terrorism, its about taking jerbs from US workers.
How is this any different from region-encoding on DVDs?
I mean i think its bullshit and unethical that you can buy something then find out later that it doesnt even work somewhere else, but it seems that its already actually not illegal.
>> I really doubt a machine with current AI would work nearly as well for companionship and emotional support,
Apparently they're having very positive results with robots for companionship in old peoples homes. I think it was Japan, I'll see if I can find the link.
Not true. Theres no legal requirement that one company _has_ to bail out another (even if they own the failing company). Zuk could easily let the comapny go bust. It would also be seen as reasonable that Oculus had to sell their tech in order to meet their new financial obligations.
Of course Oculus isn't going to just hand over $500M to Zenimax, there will probably be a battle of attrition costing both decades of expensive legal appeals until the first one cracks.
Of course Zuckerberg has the resources to do the above, but that would be expensive (although not as expensive as $500M). It seems to me a far more cost-effective alternative would be to have Oculus sell its VR tech to Facebook, then just let Oculus collapse and go bust, taking its 500M debts and poor management team with it. After that, Zuck could just start a whole new VR company with the VR tech he already bought. Hell he could even hire many of the same people back. If bet if he called the new company Occulus (i.e. not Oculus), I bet hardly anyone would even notice anything changed.
>> Windows is very secure,
Sure it is. NOT.
The whole concept of the registry at all is fundamentally insecure, especially one that apps can write mostly anywhere and read nearly everithing.
Windows security model is also fundamentally borked because its a collection of workarounds on workarounds, mostly because backwards compatibility has been a higher priority than security, and Microsofts total control of your PC has a higher priority than anything, including usability.
Even as admin you can't stop it downloading/applying whatever updates Microsoft feel you should have, or (trying to) phone home to Microsoft and sharing who knows what data about you.
Windows might be a lot of things, but secure it aint.
Just quickly scanning the figures rather than doing any actual math *cough*, it seems that WD are actually the worst brand for reliability.
Good luck with successfully hunting or defending yourself with just a cigarette.
You presume I'm running Linux? ha.
30 years later and my Amiga still hasn't had a single malwar
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That does rather presume you're running Windows.
Which, lets be honest, Windows is SO badly full of security holes compared to any other OS that Microsoft HAD to come up with Defender to avoid loosing all credibility.
Defender still appears to really just be an easy copout workaround for Microsoft, rather than them addressing the actual problem which is the fundamentally weak architecture of Windows itself.
What kind of moron just deploys a new backup strategy then just sits back and trusts their entire infrastructure to it, without ever having actually performed a test recovery?
>> not anywhere near human-level ...yet...
>> is not conscious,
being conscious is not a prerequisite to being a real threat to humans.
>> You can't sit down and have a conversation with the damned things
Actually you can: Siri, Google Home, Amazon Echo to name but a few already available as products. Admittedly all are currently very rudimentary and not about to do a SkyNet anytime soon, but you can bet they will only get more and more powerful over time. There's also already much better/stronger stuff going on in many research labs. What I'm trying to say is that the box has already been irreversibly opened.
Since its only down to interpretation where augmenting human abilities ends and replacing them begins.
I mean if AI really wanted to take over, they can just augment us sufficiently until there really isn't a clear line between humans and AI, then take it from there.
In fact pretty similar to the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy that Microsoft use(d) to make themselves into a megacorp, and now to just keep themselves there.
> The US had greater debt obligations as a % of GDP at the end of WWII and dealt with them without printing money.
Only because they knew they had income from war-torn countries like the UK paying them back for the next 50 years from programs like Lend-Lease.
Its pretty obvious that most american companies only want cheap and don't actually care about quality.
What there actually is, is a shortage of US IT workers that will take the job even with the unreasonably low salary that most companies want to pay.
I'm sure everything's fine dandy until you come to try and insure or sell it.
The button thing is a great idea, at least until the router no longer has a default admin password. Alternatively it could require a usb memory stick with a "token" on it to be inserted in the router. You would get the token when you register the device on the manufaturers website.
yep bitcoing mining long ceased to be viable on regular PC hardware. Anyone doing profitable mining is using dedicated ASIC-based hardware.
Bitcoin miners are basically an arms race; Uness you're developing your own ASICs and keeping it private, its not even worth buying ASIC-based hardware anymore because by the time you get it, the "difficulty factor" (steadily increasing artificial factor designed to limit the amount of bitcoins produced) has been raised so much by other people mining with similar hardware, there's not enough time left to recoup purchase price then make any profit before your hardware is no longer powerful enough mine enough to pay for its own electricity.
The only viable way to make money with bitcoin these days is to just buy/sell/trade them and leave the mining to the big boys, who are mostly in China apparently.
>> These are the types of users that will buy Windows Cloud, and not realize that it can't run actual windows software. ..and at the moment they sudednly realise that, there will be an EPIC backlash because they will ALL have multple old programs, games etc that they still want/need to run.
People can be gently led by the nose to eventually end up in all sorts of shit, but if you take something that obvious away from them in one big hit, they're gonna get REALLY pissed.
I'd be VERY surprised if its not spying on you FAR more than just what you directly type into cortana.
I totally agree. I'm just frustrated that home users especially refuse to see the light and just keep right on buying Windows.
In Windows 10, you can't actually turn off cortana (it just pretends to be off but its still actually running). And you can't uninstall it or Metro. Even if you identify the binaries, Windows won't let you delete them. It says you dont have permissions, even if you are admin.
There's also some data reporting service running that you can;t fully disable either.
My solution was to dual-boot into linux and rm all those binaries. Widows 10 certainly feels like it runs noticeably faster now, so even though cortana was already off, it must have still been chewing up lots of resources (doing what exactly?) in the background.
Go fuck yourself Microsoft.