IMHO, the two have had similar aims for decades. Lip service to FOSS, a huge competitor, hasn't done either well. MacOS has more "free" DNA than Windows (although Microsoft borrowed heavily from BSD licenses throughout their life), but yeah.
That great ongoing support for all things open source... seems to have failed here. Firefox is the default browser in many Linux distributions.
So nice for Microsoft to think of themselves first, to the exclusion of anyone else.
And so you twits that have succumbed to the great haze of Microsoft's support of open source, know that it's only capitulation to FOSS, and not actually ascribing to the culture of the communities of FOSS.
Embrace, extend, extinguish is still their DNA. If they really wanted to make headway, they'd make Skype an API and spawn lots of products made from its bones, so as to curtail advances from Google, FB, and other international social media competition.
There are MBAs in Redmond that truly don't understand how to make dough in FOSS, understand how to bring markets to their fore through transformative yet open infrastructure. Same old song and dance.
1. UK and other English-speaking audiences 2. Rest of the world 3. UK and English-speaking audiences having little interest in BBC and ITV content
The Beeb flatters itself. They repeat excessively. No one wants a box set of Benny Hill. Lots of the content is drivel. Some of it is clearly outstanding, but see the interest levels of 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Look at the content of Amazon and Netflix in terms of breadth and depth. Some actually comes before the advent of television. For the sake of argument, let's also use the premise that save for binge-watching of episodes, movies have more appeal for random entertainment.
There is a market for a few box sets, until the #1 & #2 are saturated, and then the sales will cliff. The BBC US channel was especially bereft of meaningful content. Blah.
The Pixar and Star War franchises are in the blood-from-a-rock phase. Their current "all new content" catalog gets more and more grim with each spiked creative moment.
A BBC catalogue would make some money, but there's an insufficient volume of titles to compete with Netflix. Amazon competes well with Netflix, although cord cutters sometimes watch the strangest stuff imaginable--- and don't pay for it. Long live Kodi.
More simple still: put a flag of the country of origin of the IP address and the user. Both of these are known values, easily placed. Add TOR exit nodes with an exclamation point. Easy.
Public discourse shouldn't be limited to people with fiber delivery speeds. The Internet has become by default and design, an open communications vehicle. The real problem are monopolistic telcos and PTTs that have no desire to steal from shareholder profits, the funds needed to reach remote and rural locations, even urban ones where infrastructure is weak. Not everyone can eat cake like first-world countries. They deserve the access, and you might be surprised at the denominator of quality discourse available from these regions.
Some may be more immature, but none will be less valid than yours or mine.
The data loss prevention (DLP) people have been in this area for more than a decade, and yeah, there are risks. But there aren't two camps, and I doubt you can count them on both hands and toes.
Add in mergers, acquisitions, partnerships with different systems (Marrriott breach) or dozens of leaky pipes. DLP and asset loss prevention is a finely practiced art where assets mean much. In some places, they don't.
There are also systems that use cloud access security brokerage (CASB) and some of these had built-in DLP mechanisms. A camera and an OCR can always be used instead of using something to crack open a DB. Yes, nutballs still store passwords in plain text files in the $public directory.
This report is more marketing than reality driven, IMHO. Yes, you should secure your assets and have a real reality check about how data is lost. Your firm has liabilities, too, if assets are breached or stolen outright. The ounce of prevention is in vetting employees, treating them fairly, and locking the damn doors, and hiring strict administrators with common sense.
Defense and financial organizations are not so much different than the rest of the world in actual implementation in my experience, they're just vastly more diligent, must meet more rigorous standards, and get screwed over anyway.
Don't worry. Like all Google products, the microphone was going to be discontinued in the Nest. If you'd like, take a soldering iron to the leads to disconnect it now, or wait for the Google + message that will signal the discontinuance.
In the meantime, I suggest running a small fan directly on the Nest to smooth its data, and mask your conversations.
The big problem is that there is, despite the variance in circumstances, someone dead or injured. There is property damaged.
I don't think this is lost opportunity; I think this is Alphabet/Google/Waymo looking at their corporate assets when something goes fiendishly wrong for whatever reasons. The litigators in this country would look for blood, and much of the public would be behind them.
It will take years for data, and for acceptance, and for technology to make driverless-whatever happen. All of the hype was just that. The race to eliminate drivers, or let passengers not drive a vehicle or truck is still fantasy, despite all you read. It's not ready now, and not until the end of the next decade will reasonably sized trials begin. The PR wankers blurted out immediate driverless, but no, that's not happening. It's not ready. And the world isn't ready.
The problem is gawkers. They know this stuff won't fly past a federal court.
But every gawker that reads the headline will start thumping their chests, blurting out all sorts of stuff, which is exactly the response that this bunch of nitwits want.
100% of us know this won't get past first base. But we'll yell all sorts of missives about it, decry the dullards that foisted it, and behind all of your backs, they're snickering, knowing they raised a ruckus.
Best remedy: ignore the simpletons, and move on. They think they're cute. The more hell they raise, the more smug they'll become. It's not them or the voters, it's the limelight. Give them some, and they'll do other stupid tricks, too. It's the attention-whore-seeking algorithm, and you've just played into it with both feet.
For the past two decades, everyone has watched distribution models change dramatically. Dry/canned goods and no meat/produce/dairy means that this portion of sales can be done differently. The dry goods makers want market expansion just like other businesses, so not having any loyalty to grocers, they help fund the dollar stores with credit and not-as-fresh stock that the grocers demand (long shelf life).
The grocers, wanting to become like Walmart (believing their shoppers want convenience, one-stop-shops, etc) become like Walmart, and put their strength in groceries behind, becoming behemoths like Sams, Costco, etc.
At the bottom of the food chain, mom&pops get crushed by low-volume buys, inconvenient distribution, lack of credit/purchasing strength (remember A&P?) and go bust. The dollar stores need cheap overhead, and move in.
Cities used to have C-stores, bodegas, delis, and lots of small operations, who suffer in the same ways as the mom&pops. Add in farmer's and "local-source" markets, rural co-op markets, and the common grocery model is all but dead. The BigStore and Amazon models have disrupted distribution infrastructure. Add in foreign foods, but then tariffs, NAFTA-reorganizations, and the dust hasn't settled yet. Urban delivery models don't work in the burbs or in rural locales.
It's a massive re-org, and this is just one symptom that things are changing, and you haven't seen the finish of it; it may continue to evolve for decades and decades.
Most of the stuff you see in magazines is just as unreal, the work of Photoshop, Gimp, whatever, makeup artists, hair stylists, and lots of doctoring..... not to mention the plastic surgery.
Ok, if there's an ear in the wrong place, it's horrifying. Otherwise, it's just new CGI for the next LOTR episodes.
I can say that we spend vast sums of money on military endeavors that yield very little.
Dissing a reduction in military spending does not imbue "lollipops", but it does twig insecurities in people that would choose violence first, rather than diplomacy.
Saying "... that is an internal Chinese issue" is a key point of discussion. That number is about 1/5th of the entire world's population. To ignore 1/5th of humanity and how they're evolving is an enormous mistake.
The "eastern" point of view is becoming much like the "western" point of view, with onerous twists, like mass speech control, and enormous population shifts. Add to this, hundreds of thousands of encamped Western Chinese Muslims. Huge military growth. Ancient unsolved problems, like Taiwan and the madness of Tibetan sovereignty.
The value of life is much different than the "western" legacies. Those western cultures decimated Africa, held huge pogroms for the past millennia, and have polluted and fouled the planet. The Chinese are just catching up to western mistakes, and learning how to amplify control for party success.
There is no "we are at odds with". The planet is very small. You can fly anywhere in about a day. Radio, satellites, the Internet, all link us together. But there is also a common morality that should link us together, and we don't really think about that. Instead, it's the job of most politicians to factionalize us and make us feel our tribal urges, fattening military budgets, and scraping the cream for the kleptocrats. The Chinese face the same wealth disparities as westerners face. Their freedom is questionable and freedom/liberty are measured in ways that thinkers agree upon.
It's very possible to tap into the magnetosphere. The varying layers all have interesting phototropic controls as the earth spins on its axis. It's somewhat static, but changes as we go through the day (add in slight lunar-effect changes, too).
Screw it up, just a bit--- and neutralize it in some way, and watch the atmosphere become damaged beyond your wildest imagination. If you thought Climate Change was fun, strap on.
Gravity keeps the atmosphere and weather somewhat intact against the 1000miles/hr rotation of the earth, but we're also very happy with the shielding the magnetosphere provides, layer densities (so yeah, we can breathe), and the insulations it provides from solar winds.
There is a huge iron core inside the earth that moves around, which is why the north magnetic pole is moving. It plays a huge part in how the Van Allen Belt and the magnetosphere keep this planet's life intact. Muck with this at our peril.
You forgot the datastream flow from the user choices + Alexa AI scrubs + user geo-positioning + hand motions (is that user doing what I think he/she/they are doing??) + proximity to other users (they're a gang!) + whatever can be vacuumed by tethering to other devices.
This is a business plan for Google, not a smartwatch for human consumers. If you have any questions, may I list the long line of Google products which, once they served their useful economic life, were abandoned with little ceremony and much user-acrimony?
There is the common good. Sometimes income covers the cost, as is our hope. You don't have to hate money to understand that shared resources have a cost. This is where perceptions and reality part company.
The outsourcing of government services means inevitably that a private party makes profit from that outsources, and usually required service. Somehow, government must be incapable, or have those stupid civil service-- service for life rules. This is a fallacy.
Public utility is another area that has now been overly monetized, see the public perception of service from telcos and electric utilities. These were coops that were eventually sold and "monetized".
Let's look at justice, which has an all too familiar axiom associated with it that money buys good lawyers, and you can spend your way out of nearly any crime or litigation-- often by making the cost of prosecution too difficult. The sense that justice is bought and paid for speaks volumes.
There is a cost to our union, and to a combined sense of responsibilities. We try to make good uses of resources, and punish the misuse of resources. On a good day, this is called politics.
Very good. I'm not sure what to use when I'm mobile with my phone. Currently, it's Cloudfront 1.1.1.1 but I'm wondering if there's a better way on an android phone.
You're putting words in my mouth. I'm not saying you shouldn't deny anyone enriching themselves from your communications.
But there are several flaws in your thinking. Your carrier knows pretty much where you are in an urban locale, and in sparce cells, can figure out where you are pretty simply. No rocket science.
Your DNS rats your IP address, and reverse. The persistence of that DNS from the cloud through your carrier pigeon holes you. Case 1, you've had the DNS for a long time and don't shut off your phone and this is actually better if you roam around because it diffuses the origin possibility, obfuscating it. Case 2, if you're stationary and have several persistent GET/POSTs to a site, you become easier to fix.
Yes, there are plentiful logs. Your voice is very likely sieved through various three letter agencies on all calls. If you use an encrypted app, that's a flag. Skype helps, but Microsoft will give it up for a warrant. Real true anonymity is haltingly difficult. Burner phones age quickly.... as any government official.
And I'm with you on the resist part. Noise is your best helper.
Your carrier tracks you. Sorry. They do it in different ways, but your location-based services are all ready and waiting for you.
Your DNS tracks you. Maybe you use CloudFront 1.1.1. but ask CloudFront what THEY do with the data. If you use Google's DNS, you're insane if you don't think they're tracking you.
Your IP address is going to come from somewhere, bubba. Hmmm. Wonder what CIDR bock that address comes from. Oh.
It's really tough to not be "uniqued". True anonymity sadly has to consider all of the most paranoid possibilities. Why? Who has more computing power, you or them?
The dystopic stench of the premise certainly sounds like a post-apocalyptic Mad Max tome. Nonetheless, population overgrowth, poor management of resources, plastic in every bite of fish you eat, climate change causing lots of misery, yeah, the conjecture has some plausibility.
My concern is not quite geometric population growth in the face of sustainable abilities to service that growth. We fail that that, and fail consistently, as the greed model thwarts any appreciation for what happens to the next generation. We kick it forward. We answer the call of our biology and have lots of children, eschew birth control and even abortion in the name of population sustainability, which creates constant profit growths for the greed model.
This isn't science fiction, it's reality. I say: let the population drop in natural ways. It causes the greed model to think about how to be profitable in a declining population model. The monopolies then start to fail, and quality needs become more substantive.
So we listen for radio signals for alien communications. We have huge dish arrays, radio-silent areas, all in a quest to listen for alien music.
We should be watching for entangled photonic emissions instead? Should we be sending entangled photons at a signal that might be detected?
We should learn to listen to the flying optical cat states, silly as that sounds. At some point, their very presence says there's intelligence, as this isn't a natural state of the universe.
The list is likely of individuals that are in all likelihood undetectable. As you cite, the great danger is the person that doesn't get tested, or worse, showing no symptoms, doesn't care.
Drug users are rarer in Singapore, but it's a place that's highly transient in nature, and sex-work and LGBTQ+ activities are driven more underground than in other places.
All this said, shaming individuals with HIV is plainly wrong.
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IMHO, the two have had similar aims for decades. Lip service to FOSS, a huge competitor, hasn't done either well. MacOS has more "free" DNA than Windows (although Microsoft borrowed heavily from BSD licenses throughout their life), but yeah.
Beware the Reality Distortion Fields, folks!
That great ongoing support for all things open source... seems to have failed here. Firefox is the default browser in many Linux distributions.
So nice for Microsoft to think of themselves first, to the exclusion of anyone else.
And so you twits that have succumbed to the great haze of Microsoft's support of open source, know that it's only capitulation to FOSS, and not actually ascribing to the culture of the communities of FOSS.
Embrace, extend, extinguish is still their DNA. If they really wanted to make headway, they'd make Skype an API and spawn lots of products made from its bones, so as to curtail advances from Google, FB, and other international social media competition.
There are MBAs in Redmond that truly don't understand how to make dough in FOSS, understand how to bring markets to their fore through transformative yet open infrastructure. Same old song and dance.
Let's set the context:
1. UK and other English-speaking audiences
2. Rest of the world
3. UK and English-speaking audiences having little interest in BBC and ITV content
The Beeb flatters itself. They repeat excessively. No one wants a box set of Benny Hill. Lots of the content is drivel. Some of it is clearly outstanding, but see the interest levels of 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Look at the content of Amazon and Netflix in terms of breadth and depth. Some actually comes before the advent of television. For the sake of argument, let's also use the premise that save for binge-watching of episodes, movies have more appeal for random entertainment.
There is a market for a few box sets, until the #1 & #2 are saturated, and then the sales will cliff. The BBC US channel was especially bereft of meaningful content. Blah.
The Pixar and Star War franchises are in the blood-from-a-rock phase. Their current "all new content" catalog gets more and more grim with each spiked creative moment.
A BBC catalogue would make some money, but there's an insufficient volume of titles to compete with Netflix. Amazon competes well with Netflix, although cord cutters sometimes watch the strangest stuff imaginable--- and don't pay for it. Long live Kodi.
More simple still: put a flag of the country of origin of the IP address and the user. Both of these are known values, easily placed. Add TOR exit nodes with an exclamation point. Easy.
Public discourse shouldn't be limited to people with fiber delivery speeds. The Internet has become by default and design, an open communications vehicle. The real problem are monopolistic telcos and PTTs that have no desire to steal from shareholder profits, the funds needed to reach remote and rural locations, even urban ones where infrastructure is weak. Not everyone can eat cake like first-world countries. They deserve the access, and you might be surprised at the denominator of quality discourse available from these regions.
Some may be more immature, but none will be less valid than yours or mine.
The data loss prevention (DLP) people have been in this area for more than a decade, and yeah, there are risks. But there aren't two camps, and I doubt you can count them on both hands and toes.
Add in mergers, acquisitions, partnerships with different systems (Marrriott breach) or dozens of leaky pipes. DLP and asset loss prevention is a finely practiced art where assets mean much. In some places, they don't.
There are also systems that use cloud access security brokerage (CASB) and some of these had built-in DLP mechanisms. A camera and an OCR can always be used instead of using something to crack open a DB. Yes, nutballs still store passwords in plain text files in the $public directory.
This report is more marketing than reality driven, IMHO. Yes, you should secure your assets and have a real reality check about how data is lost. Your firm has liabilities, too, if assets are breached or stolen outright. The ounce of prevention is in vetting employees, treating them fairly, and locking the damn doors, and hiring strict administrators with common sense.
Defense and financial organizations are not so much different than the rest of the world in actual implementation in my experience, they're just vastly more diligent, must meet more rigorous standards, and get screwed over anyway.
Don't worry. Like all Google products, the microphone was going to be discontinued in the Nest. If you'd like, take a soldering iron to the leads to disconnect it now, or wait for the Google + message that will signal the discontinuance.
In the meantime, I suggest running a small fan directly on the Nest to smooth its data, and mask your conversations.
The big problem is that there is, despite the variance in circumstances, someone dead or injured. There is property damaged.
I don't think this is lost opportunity; I think this is Alphabet/Google/Waymo looking at their corporate assets when something goes fiendishly wrong for whatever reasons. The litigators in this country would look for blood, and much of the public would be behind them.
It will take years for data, and for acceptance, and for technology to make driverless-whatever happen. All of the hype was just that. The race to eliminate drivers, or let passengers not drive a vehicle or truck is still fantasy, despite all you read. It's not ready now, and not until the end of the next decade will reasonably sized trials begin. The PR wankers blurted out immediate driverless, but no, that's not happening. It's not ready. And the world isn't ready.
Egads, I've never seen AI flatulence before. This is a first!
The problem is gawkers. They know this stuff won't fly past a federal court.
But every gawker that reads the headline will start thumping their chests, blurting out all sorts of stuff, which is exactly the response that this bunch of nitwits want.
100% of us know this won't get past first base. But we'll yell all sorts of missives about it, decry the dullards that foisted it, and behind all of your backs, they're snickering, knowing they raised a ruckus.
Best remedy: ignore the simpletons, and move on. They think they're cute. The more hell they raise, the more smug they'll become. It's not them or the voters, it's the limelight. Give them some, and they'll do other stupid tricks, too. It's the attention-whore-seeking algorithm, and you've just played into it with both feet.
Nope.
For the past two decades, everyone has watched distribution models change dramatically. Dry/canned goods and no meat/produce/dairy means that this portion of sales can be done differently. The dry goods makers want market expansion just like other businesses, so not having any loyalty to grocers, they help fund the dollar stores with credit and not-as-fresh stock that the grocers demand (long shelf life).
The grocers, wanting to become like Walmart (believing their shoppers want convenience, one-stop-shops, etc) become like Walmart, and put their strength in groceries behind, becoming behemoths like Sams, Costco, etc.
At the bottom of the food chain, mom&pops get crushed by low-volume buys, inconvenient distribution, lack of credit/purchasing strength (remember A&P?) and go bust. The dollar stores need cheap overhead, and move in.
Cities used to have C-stores, bodegas, delis, and lots of small operations, who suffer in the same ways as the mom&pops. Add in farmer's and "local-source" markets, rural co-op markets, and the common grocery model is all but dead. The BigStore and Amazon models have disrupted distribution infrastructure. Add in foreign foods, but then tariffs, NAFTA-reorganizations, and the dust hasn't settled yet. Urban delivery models don't work in the burbs or in rural locales.
It's a massive re-org, and this is just one symptom that things are changing, and you haven't seen the finish of it; it may continue to evolve for decades and decades.
Most of the stuff you see in magazines is just as unreal, the work of Photoshop, Gimp, whatever, makeup artists, hair stylists, and lots of doctoring..... not to mention the plastic surgery.
Ok, if there's an ear in the wrong place, it's horrifying. Otherwise, it's just new CGI for the next LOTR episodes.
DIdn't say defense was optional.
I can say that we spend vast sums of money on military endeavors that yield very little.
Dissing a reduction in military spending does not imbue "lollipops", but it does twig insecurities in people that would choose violence first, rather than diplomacy.
Saying "... that is an internal Chinese issue" is a key point of discussion. That number is about 1/5th of the entire world's population. To ignore 1/5th of humanity and how they're evolving is an enormous mistake.
The "eastern" point of view is becoming much like the "western" point of view, with onerous twists, like mass speech control, and enormous population shifts. Add to this, hundreds of thousands of encamped Western Chinese Muslims. Huge military growth. Ancient unsolved problems, like Taiwan and the madness of Tibetan sovereignty.
The value of life is much different than the "western" legacies. Those western cultures decimated Africa, held huge pogroms for the past millennia, and have polluted and fouled the planet. The Chinese are just catching up to western mistakes, and learning how to amplify control for party success.
There is no "we are at odds with". The planet is very small. You can fly anywhere in about a day. Radio, satellites, the Internet, all link us together. But there is also a common morality that should link us together, and we don't really think about that. Instead, it's the job of most politicians to factionalize us and make us feel our tribal urges, fattening military budgets, and scraping the cream for the kleptocrats. The Chinese face the same wealth disparities as westerners face. Their freedom is questionable and freedom/liberty are measured in ways that thinkers agree upon.
It's very possible to tap into the magnetosphere. The varying layers all have interesting phototropic controls as the earth spins on its axis. It's somewhat static, but changes as we go through the day (add in slight lunar-effect changes, too).
Screw it up, just a bit--- and neutralize it in some way, and watch the atmosphere become damaged beyond your wildest imagination. If you thought Climate Change was fun, strap on.
Gravity keeps the atmosphere and weather somewhat intact against the 1000miles/hr rotation of the earth, but we're also very happy with the shielding the magnetosphere provides, layer densities (so yeah, we can breathe), and the insulations it provides from solar winds.
There is a huge iron core inside the earth that moves around, which is why the north magnetic pole is moving. It plays a huge part in how the Van Allen Belt and the magnetosphere keep this planet's life intact. Muck with this at our peril.
You forgot the datastream flow from the user choices + Alexa AI scrubs + user geo-positioning + hand motions (is that user doing what I think he/she/they are doing??) + proximity to other users (they're a gang!) + whatever can be vacuumed by tethering to other devices.
This is a business plan for Google, not a smartwatch for human consumers. If you have any questions, may I list the long line of Google products which, once they served their useful economic life, were abandoned with little ceremony and much user-acrimony?
No.
There is the common good. Sometimes income covers the cost, as is our hope. You don't have to hate money to understand that shared resources have a cost. This is where perceptions and reality part company.
The outsourcing of government services means inevitably that a private party makes profit from that outsources, and usually required service. Somehow, government must be incapable, or have those stupid civil service-- service for life rules. This is a fallacy.
Public utility is another area that has now been overly monetized, see the public perception of service from telcos and electric utilities. These were coops that were eventually sold and "monetized".
Let's look at justice, which has an all too familiar axiom associated with it that money buys good lawyers, and you can spend your way out of nearly any crime or litigation-- often by making the cost of prosecution too difficult. The sense that justice is bought and paid for speaks volumes.
There is a cost to our union, and to a combined sense of responsibilities. We try to make good uses of resources, and punish the misuse of resources. On a good day, this is called politics.
When the link is at max capacity, iPv4 and 6 know what to do.
That's when we start routing around the slow link, or capitalize and spend money upgrading the link.
OH WAIT, I SAID SPEND $$$$$. That means less shareholder return and more capital costs! OMG DID I SAY THAT?????
Hire more cashiers??? There's a Kroger MBA who's head is exploding with your metaphor.
Very good. I'm not sure what to use when I'm mobile with my phone. Currently, it's Cloudfront 1.1.1.1 but I'm wondering if there's a better way on an android phone.
You're putting words in my mouth. I'm not saying you shouldn't deny anyone enriching themselves from your communications.
But there are several flaws in your thinking. Your carrier knows pretty much where you are in an urban locale, and in sparce cells, can figure out where you are pretty simply. No rocket science.
Your DNS rats your IP address, and reverse. The persistence of that DNS from the cloud through your carrier pigeon holes you. Case 1, you've had the DNS for a long time and don't shut off your phone and this is actually better if you roam around because it diffuses the origin possibility, obfuscating it. Case 2, if you're stationary and have several persistent GET/POSTs to a site, you become easier to fix.
Yes, there are plentiful logs. Your voice is very likely sieved through various three letter agencies on all calls. If you use an encrypted app, that's a flag. Skype helps, but Microsoft will give it up for a warrant. Real true anonymity is haltingly difficult. Burner phones age quickly.... as any government official.
And I'm with you on the resist part. Noise is your best helper.
Google is not the only one that tracks you.
Your carrier tracks you. Sorry. They do it in different ways, but your location-based services are all ready and waiting for you.
Your DNS tracks you. Maybe you use CloudFront 1.1.1. but ask CloudFront what THEY do with the data. If you use Google's DNS, you're insane if you don't think they're tracking you.
Your IP address is going to come from somewhere, bubba. Hmmm. Wonder what CIDR bock that address comes from. Oh.
It's really tough to not be "uniqued". True anonymity sadly has to consider all of the most paranoid possibilities. Why? Who has more computing power, you or them?
The dystopic stench of the premise certainly sounds like a post-apocalyptic Mad Max tome. Nonetheless, population overgrowth, poor management of resources, plastic in every bite of fish you eat, climate change causing lots of misery, yeah, the conjecture has some plausibility.
My concern is not quite geometric population growth in the face of sustainable abilities to service that growth. We fail that that, and fail consistently, as the greed model thwarts any appreciation for what happens to the next generation. We kick it forward. We answer the call of our biology and have lots of children, eschew birth control and even abortion in the name of population sustainability, which creates constant profit growths for the greed model.
This isn't science fiction, it's reality. I say: let the population drop in natural ways. It causes the greed model to think about how to be profitable in a declining population model. The monopolies then start to fail, and quality needs become more substantive.
So we listen for radio signals for alien communications. We have huge dish arrays, radio-silent areas, all in a quest to listen for alien music.
We should be watching for entangled photonic emissions instead? Should we be sending entangled photons at a signal that might be detected?
We should learn to listen to the flying optical cat states, silly as that sounds. At some point, their very presence says there's intelligence, as this isn't a natural state of the universe.
The list is likely of individuals that are in all likelihood undetectable. As you cite, the great danger is the person that doesn't get tested, or worse, showing no symptoms, doesn't care.
Drug users are rarer in Singapore, but it's a place that's highly transient in nature, and sex-work and LGBTQ+ activities are driven more underground than in other places.
All this said, shaming individuals with HIV is plainly wrong.