Bad batteries something Apple is famous for, RAM fixed to the logic board, insecure and buggy OS, and a host of other complaints makes me wonder why anyone pays the premium for Apple any longer.
If you want privacy do not use the internet, do not use cell phones, etc.. You get the picture, if all their efforts are focused on digital surveillance how long until their human surveillance reliability atrophies.
Just keep in mind "going dark" in today's World sends up a big flare. Other than that why are we talking about "privacy" it no longer exist at least in the "dictionary definition" sense.
This brings up a curious point for me, in all my business dealings it has never occurred to me to ask someone to "trust" me, that's what contracts and lawyers are for. Trust seems to be one of those words thrown out to see who is actually ignorant enough to believe in it, a tool to force a will.
'Why would you pay someone else to hold your commercial or other secrets, if you suspect or know they are being shared against your wishes?'
This was always my argument against the cloud, it has and always will seem an absurd idea to allow others to manage your critical assets, the loss/responsibility factor alone makes it an absurd idea. They lose a customer you lose everything.
One of the things about this NSA surveillance, if you drop to a 70's style life suddenly no one knows where you are or what you're doing, the better they get at watching people digitally via metadata/data the lower your profile if you don't use these things. I guess for a young person this might be hard to conceptualize much less do, but it isn't as bad as it sounds =)
I have wondered what a World where everyone knows what everyone else is doing would be like.
"The researcher behind the study says his results provide the first clear evidence that people actively seek to exploit the many security problems of industrial systems."
The first eh? I guess he hasn't heard of the tools included in such common distros as Back Track, why do you suppose SCADA exploitation apps are in there?
You can expect things to get worse faster and faster, and you can expect the government to state one day "We can no longer afford to send FEMA out to you" and relief will be up to you.
There's a short story by an author whose name I forget that goes on to explain what happens to the World after everyone has a machine that makes *anything* for them. The results are unpleasant to say the least.
Why not tie this sort of crowd sourcing to Bitcoin or the equivalent, where in the work (blocks) being done for the Bitcoin are actual research blocks.
Not sure if it's technically possible, but it would be interesting.
I see it from a perspective of once I learn the tool so that I can do my job I do not want to learn the tool again. I see no reason (from my perspective) to ever change a GUI, sure update features and security but leave the part I have to interact with alone, which is why I despise Unity and WIn8.
It reminds me of picking up my guitar only to find the strings are in reverse order.
Perhaps he should be more like the people of Aneyoshi, in that village carved into a 4 foot stone obelisk is a warning "Don't build your homes below this line". That village survived thanks to the warnings from the past.
They are even closer to the perfect weapon, one where you enter a command and it does the task no questions asked. The ground crew just fuels it and sticks missiles on it, they never know what it's doing or where it's going.
Is that I came from a time where this obsession with entertainment was beginning in earnest, the collection of entertainment media was taking off, my parents from a time when people made their own music when they wanted it. The dramatic difference in today's vs yesteryear's "entertainment/media" consumption is mind boggling, and in some regards I wonder just how healthy it is.
Slashdot Mirror
Already did it.
Bad batteries something Apple is famous for, RAM fixed to the logic board, insecure and buggy OS, and a host of other complaints makes me wonder why anyone pays the premium for Apple any longer.
Could you string copper wire in such a way the rotation and magnetic field of Earth creates power?
If you want privacy do not use the internet, do not use cell phones, etc..
You get the picture, if all their efforts are focused on digital surveillance how long until their human surveillance reliability atrophies.
Just keep in mind "going dark" in today's World sends up a big flare.
Other than that why are we talking about "privacy" it no longer exist at least in the "dictionary definition" sense.
To me is that essentially a part of Henrietta is still alive after all these years, you can't get this kind of genetic immortality through children.
Should be closed.
This brings up a curious point for me, in all my business dealings it has never occurred to me to ask someone to "trust" me, that's what contracts and lawyers are for.
Trust seems to be one of those words thrown out to see who is actually ignorant enough to believe in it, a tool to force a will.
No, if anything the "5 eyes" are profiting by their co-operation.
'Why would you pay someone else to hold your commercial or other secrets, if you suspect or know they are being shared against your wishes?'
This was always my argument against the cloud, it has and always will seem an absurd idea to allow others to manage your critical assets, the loss/responsibility factor alone makes it an absurd idea. They lose a customer you lose everything.
One of the things about this NSA surveillance, if you drop to a 70's style life suddenly no one knows where you are or what you're doing, the better they get at watching people digitally via metadata/data the lower your profile if you don't use these things.
I guess for a young person this might be hard to conceptualize much less do, but it isn't as bad as it sounds =)
I have wondered what a World where everyone knows what everyone else is doing would be like.
"The researcher behind the study says his results provide the first clear evidence that people actively seek to exploit the many security problems of industrial systems."
The first eh? I guess he hasn't heard of the tools included in such common distros as Back Track, why do you suppose SCADA exploitation apps are in there?
You can expect things to get worse faster and faster, and you can expect the government to state one day "We can no longer afford to send FEMA out to you" and relief will be up to you.
Fewer people, the only answer.
There's a short story by an author whose name I forget that goes on to explain what happens to the World after everyone has a machine that makes *anything* for them.
The results are unpleasant to say the least.
Why not tie this sort of crowd sourcing to Bitcoin or the equivalent, where in the work (blocks) being done for the Bitcoin are actual research blocks.
Not sure if it's technically possible, but it would be interesting.
I see it from a perspective of once I learn the tool so that I can do my job I do not want to learn the tool again.
I see no reason (from my perspective) to ever change a GUI, sure update features and security but leave the part I have to interact with alone, which is why I despise Unity and WIn8.
It reminds me of picking up my guitar only to find the strings are in reverse order.
Why? To distract him? To cause grief in his life?
And it still has better effects than anything made today and a great story line. (which is open to interpretation)
Perhaps he should be more like the people of Aneyoshi, in that village carved into a 4 foot stone obelisk is a warning "Don't build your homes below this line".
That village survived thanks to the warnings from the past.
"and possibly shed light on how it all began" no pun intended.
The UAV portion launched from this can not land on it, so it's disposable?
Set up a crowd sourcing site dedicated to this patent war.
Because we don't like you.
How much energy is released on impact by a large mass travelling 4000 MPH?
Now comes the riots, the assaults on lone persons, the vandalism, the grief, now come all the stories that make you understand.
They are even closer to the perfect weapon, one where you enter a command and it does the task no questions asked.
The ground crew just fuels it and sticks missiles on it, they never know what it's doing or where it's going.
Is that I came from a time where this obsession with entertainment was beginning in earnest, the collection of entertainment media was taking off, my parents from a time when people made their own music when they wanted it.
The dramatic difference in today's vs yesteryear's "entertainment/media" consumption is mind boggling, and in some regards I wonder just how healthy it is.