I thought part of the point of Google tracking you was that they could tailor search results (and ads of course) to your interests. So Google finds you're interested in Ron Paul, and gives you more stuff about Ron Paul.
So, you're wearing this watch that is constantly broadcasting "I have a 'smart' gun". A criminal can then scan for the signal to locate you, and use a jammer to disable your weapon (because if it can't hear the watch it defaults to locked). They can then collect your $2000 gun and watch, probably for de-smarting and sale as an unregistered weapon.
Isn't it still possible to have a trustworthy firewall as separate hardware, that can inform you if there are any inappropriate data transfers? It would seem like an important tool to have if only for virus/malware analysis.
What makes you think the firewall doesn't have a backdoor too?
A hardware firewall is simpler hardware than a computer plus OS and programs, and would be harder to hide a backdoor in. No guarantee of course.
And you know this how? You know for a fact that the NSA can't 1) Dig up information on a candidate, that will cause them to (legitimately) lose the election. 2) Donate, or encourage others to donate, to campaigns such that they legitimately lose the election. 3) Frame the candidate for something, that will cause him to lose your vote. 4) Actively eliminate a candidate, eg an "accident", causing you not to vote for them. 5) Change your vote, such that "your" vote becomes a vote for a different candidate?
Full paranoia mode: and occasionally they release a few people like Snowden, to air a select portion of their dirty laundry and make us believe that we know what the NSA is doing. Remember when they were nicknamed the No Such Agency, think they gave up on that level of secrecy rather than just have the current NSA as their public interactions branch?
Now excuse me while I go add a few more layers to my tin foil hat.
Ultimately the only way we'll ever end NSA malfeseanse (or CIA malfeseanse for that matter) is if we can somehow expose what they do. Without that, we'll change politcians but they'll stay the same.
That's why we have people like Snowden. Well, had people like Snowden.
Isn't it still possible to have a trustworthy firewall as separate hardware, that can inform you if there are any inappropriate data transfers? It would seem like an important tool to have if only for virus/malware analysis.
Some of our allies don't mind that we spy on them, especially if they are not allowed to spy on themselves. Then we can spy on them and share the intel with them. They still get mad if we spy on their high level politicians and business secrets, and of course they have to denounce our spying if their people find out about it.
I'm outraged that anyone is even considering building soldiers that have no intrinsic sense of self-preservation, adrenaline, aggression, revenge. Imagine a soldier that would allow itself to be destroyed rather than fire when ordered not to, eg if there would be civilian casualties or if the target is not definitively identified. Obviously that sort of thing can't be allowed, because if we don't kill innocent bystanders how can we spawn new enemies to fight? Sadly, I suspect that robot soldiers won't actually be built with the goal of avoiding human faults.
As more jobs are automated, it seems to me that there are three options: 1) we share the wealth, either with a guaranteed income or by raising wages while simultaneously cutting the number of hours people work;
I suspect eliminating the rewards for automation from the people doing the automation, might have side effects you might not expect.
2) we make a lot of fake jobs so that we can pretend that people are earning the money they need to live, and avoid the horrors of socialism (horror! horror!);
It's just as much socialism, to invent fake jobs for people. It's trivially easy to find additional work that would produce some value, eg picking up litter. Automation means we can find the time to do lots of stuff that previously wasn't worth the bother.
or 3) a LOT of people drop into poverty.
That seems to be the favorite choice, unfortunately.
And what is the exact measure for rolling stop vs. blasting through? I bet you that unless they use traffic cameras or cops at every intersection, the rolling stops are going to be much more rolling than stopping.
And I bet you've never crashed anything while riding a bike, nor did much bike riding. If you crash anything on a bike, you will bleed and bend up your bike. Bikers care mainly about safety and energy efficiency, and the largest portion of safety is not obstructing traffic. This is why they ignore most of the traffic laws, because people absolutely hate when bikes follow the same laws as cars. Remember your claimed desires next time you have a cyclist ride in the center of the lane, and come to a complete stop and slowly accelerate at stop signs, like cars are supposed to.
If you can get connected to these cameras either via USB (completely unprotected) or Wi-Fi, it is not just possible to manipulate, retrieve, replace, wipe, etc all images present, you can fully control the camera's settings and even send malformed commands to completely disable the camera, only to be (potentially - it depends on the model) revived by a Canon/Nikon repair center. This while most users think the worst that can happen is someone copying their pictures...
And if you think that's bad, they could also connect their hammer to your phone, and send commands that will permanently disable your phone.
Infinity isn't a number; you can't add, multiply, nor divide with it. The only legitimate use I find for it, other than communicating with non-mathematical folks, is as a shorthand for unbounded, eg limit of f(x) as x tends to infinity. I suppose you could say that infinity could be used as an answer to "what is the cardinality of the set of natural numbers", but aleph_0 works too and is unambiguous as to which of the many infinities you mean.
Some people say that [sum from i=1 to i=infinity of 3*10^i] = infinity. To them I say, [sum from i=1 to i=infinity of 9*10^i]/[sum from i=1 to i=infinity of 3*10^i] = 3, but what is infinity/infinity? So long as you leave your unboundedly large numbers as their formulaic description, you can do maths with it.
I actually wanted to make a system like the Liquid Feedback system that would allow people to directly vote for things, or to choose someone to vote on their behalf. In this day and age, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to pick anyone you want as your representative and be guaranteed that they can vote on your behalf no matter how many others do or don't pick that person to represent them. Non-participants would have to get a vote as well, which would have to default to whatever they'd actually vote for, so that the system is consistent with reality. Even without changing any laws, such a system could be used to coordinate a choice of candidate (the system could act as a political party consisting of the entire nation), and could be used to craft proposals better and more efficiently than our House/Senate system (then we'd just need to convince an appropriate politician to introduce the proposal).
However, I anticipated lethal quantities of apathy for this system (starting with myself I suppose).
It would be an interesting exercise to imagine what would happen if the Russians, Iranians or North Koreans started to perform 'extra-judicial' killings within the borders of the US. Would the American President, Congress or Public accept this?
That's why we don't let terrorists targeting foreign countries run around our country with impunity. (except for Republicans)
You're not acquainted with what "near-infinite" actually means are you? Talk to me again when you have a laser that uses 100-1000 megawatts continuously.
Slashdot Mirror
from other people, interfering with theirs?
Bah, we've been building "mountains" for quite a while already.
A rich asshole who has everything life has to offer feels guilty and proposes liberal ideas. No! Say it ain't so! That's SO unique!
Wrong! Headline reads, "CEO of an established oil company, seeks to eliminate subsidy on new competitors, while pretending to be self-sacrificing."
I thought part of the point of Google tracking you was that they could tailor search results (and ads of course) to your interests. So Google finds you're interested in Ron Paul, and gives you more stuff about Ron Paul.
You should stop at 29 swattings and fake bomb threats.
Seriously, how did he not get caught earlier?
So, you're wearing this watch that is constantly broadcasting "I have a 'smart' gun". A criminal can then scan for the signal to locate you, and use a jammer to disable your weapon (because if it can't hear the watch it defaults to locked). They can then collect your $2000 gun and watch, probably for de-smarting and sale as an unregistered weapon.
Isn't it still possible to have a trustworthy firewall as separate hardware, that can inform you if there are any inappropriate data transfers? It would seem like an important tool to have if only for virus/malware analysis.
What makes you think the firewall doesn't have a backdoor too?
A hardware firewall is simpler hardware than a computer plus OS and programs, and would be harder to hide a backdoor in. No guarantee of course.
Dude, for the amount of money paid, I would sure want the whole 62 miles, as well as being serviced orally by an angel.
Plus a guarantee that I was the first to "do it" on that particular Virgin Galactic ship.
The NSA can't control who you vote for.
And you know this how? You know for a fact that the NSA can't 1) Dig up information on a candidate, that will cause them to (legitimately) lose the election. 2) Donate, or encourage others to donate, to campaigns such that they legitimately lose the election. 3) Frame the candidate for something, that will cause him to lose your vote. 4) Actively eliminate a candidate, eg an "accident", causing you not to vote for them. 5) Change your vote, such that "your" vote becomes a vote for a different candidate?
Full paranoia mode: and occasionally they release a few people like Snowden, to air a select portion of their dirty laundry and make us believe that we know what the NSA is doing. Remember when they were nicknamed the No Such Agency, think they gave up on that level of secrecy rather than just have the current NSA as their public interactions branch?
Now excuse me while I go add a few more layers to my tin foil hat.
Ultimately the only way we'll ever end NSA malfeseanse (or CIA malfeseanse for that matter) is if we can somehow expose what they do. Without that, we'll change politcians but they'll stay the same.
That's why we have people like Snowden. Well, had people like Snowden.
Isn't it still possible to have a trustworthy firewall as separate hardware, that can inform you if there are any inappropriate data transfers? It would seem like an important tool to have if only for virus/malware analysis.
Some of our allies don't mind that we spy on them, especially if they are not allowed to spy on themselves. Then we can spy on them and share the intel with them. They still get mad if we spy on their high level politicians and business secrets, and of course they have to denounce our spying if their people find out about it.
Study finds that uninterested teachers are more likely to both give only lectures and more likely to have students fail.
I'm outraged that anyone is even considering building soldiers that have no intrinsic sense of self-preservation, adrenaline, aggression, revenge. Imagine a soldier that would allow itself to be destroyed rather than fire when ordered not to, eg if there would be civilian casualties or if the target is not definitively identified. Obviously that sort of thing can't be allowed, because if we don't kill innocent bystanders how can we spawn new enemies to fight? Sadly, I suspect that robot soldiers won't actually be built with the goal of avoiding human faults.
That never turns out badly.
As more jobs are automated, it seems to me that there are three options: 1) we share the wealth, either with a guaranteed income or by raising wages while simultaneously cutting the number of hours people work;
I suspect eliminating the rewards for automation from the people doing the automation, might have side effects you might not expect.
2) we make a lot of fake jobs so that we can pretend that people are earning the money they need to live, and avoid the horrors of socialism (horror! horror!);
It's just as much socialism, to invent fake jobs for people. It's trivially easy to find additional work that would produce some value, eg picking up litter. Automation means we can find the time to do lots of stuff that previously wasn't worth the bother.
or 3) a LOT of people drop into poverty.
That seems to be the favorite choice, unfortunately.
And what is the exact measure for rolling stop vs. blasting through? I bet you that unless they use traffic cameras or cops at every intersection, the rolling stops are going to be much more rolling than stopping.
And I bet you've never crashed anything while riding a bike, nor did much bike riding. If you crash anything on a bike, you will bleed and bend up your bike. Bikers care mainly about safety and energy efficiency, and the largest portion of safety is not obstructing traffic. This is why they ignore most of the traffic laws, because people absolutely hate when bikes follow the same laws as cars. Remember your claimed desires next time you have a cyclist ride in the center of the lane, and come to a complete stop and slowly accelerate at stop signs, like cars are supposed to.
If you can get connected to these cameras either via USB (completely unprotected) or Wi-Fi, it is not just possible to manipulate, retrieve, replace, wipe, etc all images present, you can fully control the camera's settings and even send malformed commands to completely disable the camera, only to be (potentially - it depends on the model) revived by a Canon/Nikon repair center. This while most users think the worst that can happen is someone copying their pictures ...
And if you think that's bad, they could also connect their hammer to your phone, and send commands that will permanently disable your phone.
Infinity isn't a number; you can't add, multiply, nor divide with it. The only legitimate use I find for it, other than communicating with non-mathematical folks, is as a shorthand for unbounded, eg limit of f(x) as x tends to infinity. I suppose you could say that infinity could be used as an answer to "what is the cardinality of the set of natural numbers", but aleph_0 works too and is unambiguous as to which of the many infinities you mean.
Some people say that [sum from i=1 to i=infinity of 3*10^i] = infinity. To them I say, [sum from i=1 to i=infinity of 9*10^i]/[sum from i=1 to i=infinity of 3*10^i] = 3, but what is infinity/infinity? So long as you leave your unboundedly large numbers as their formulaic description, you can do maths with it.
I actually wanted to make a system like the Liquid Feedback system that would allow people to directly vote for things, or to choose someone to vote on their behalf. In this day and age, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to pick anyone you want as your representative and be guaranteed that they can vote on your behalf no matter how many others do or don't pick that person to represent them. Non-participants would have to get a vote as well, which would have to default to whatever they'd actually vote for, so that the system is consistent with reality. Even without changing any laws, such a system could be used to coordinate a choice of candidate (the system could act as a political party consisting of the entire nation), and could be used to craft proposals better and more efficiently than our House/Senate system (then we'd just need to convince an appropriate politician to introduce the proposal).
However, I anticipated lethal quantities of apathy for this system (starting with myself I suppose).
killall -9 "myenemies"
Sadly, due to a bug in the drone's hardware, that command spawns 9 new enemies.
It would be an interesting exercise to imagine what would happen if the Russians, Iranians or North Koreans started to perform 'extra-judicial' killings within the borders of the US. Would the American President, Congress or Public accept this?
That's why we don't let terrorists targeting foreign countries run around our country with impunity. (except for Republicans)
You're not acquainted with what "near-infinite" actually means are you? Talk to me again when you have a laser that uses 100-1000 megawatts continuously.
The NSA already knows everything you do with your computer, including Bitcoin trades.
If he doesn't return it, odds are he'll get other drone parts for free!