They seem to be a non-issue, just look to the recent past for examples. They just have to make sure not to waterboard you on US soil and maybe remove your citizenship before.
You misunderstand the purpose of the law and the constitution: It is only to be used against citizens, it does of course not constrain the holy^H^H^H^H legal authorities, because they cannot do any wrong by definition.
"Lite" now, and when China has had "great success in restoring morality" with their fascistic (yes, it actually matches here , look up the definition of fascism) "social score" system, then the US administration will implement that too. As the US population is deeply in coma and notices nothing, this is pretty much assured to happen.
These are politicians and career civil servants. They do not have any understanding of the concept of a "fact". There is also the little problem that as soon as a backdoor is implemented, nobody sane will store anything of value on phones anymore. But that is even worse than a "fact", it is a "deduction". The morons making laws do not even know that can be done.
What about real (non-USB) Ethernet in the first place? The RasPi is pretty much the worst offering in this space, and most of that is because they are tied to the pretty bad Broadcom SoCs and because their development lead is a mediocre hack.
A sad state of affairs. I do not think the people from back then (and today's equivalent) have gotten less competent, bit I do think there has been a vast influx into the field of semi-competent and outright incompetent people.
Simple: "Developers" have gotten so incompetent that with security by default, they cannot get anything to work anymore. Users are worse. And system administrators are becoming extinct.
Very much so. And one reason is that a good system administrator is expensive (but well worth the money). Hence the bean-counters, with their complete lack of understanding how things actually work, have eliminated these positions. And then they moved on to coders: I now have had to explain several times to "senior" web developers (>5 years experience) in a large organization (Fortune 500 around the middle) what an HTTP request and HTTP response looks like, because that happens to be important for what is sent to the client (browser). Also, these people are incapable of even changing tiny details in their servers. I have one application that is incapable of adding an additional port to a virtual web server configuration after 9 months and countless tries. This whole thing is a train-wreck in the making with more and more application teams being comprised of 100% people without a clue. And this is not a specific problem with this customer. All other large ones are in a similar state.
I predict that we will see some large organization fail this or the next decade because they have completely lost control of their IT and problems simply cannot be fixed anymore.
That is what happens if you have "cheaper than possible" developers and nobody actually being punished when things goes wrong. What we urgently need is management responsibility with criminal sanctions. Have your data stolen, cannot conclusively prove due diligence, _including_ independent verification? Go to jail!
Instead nothing happens and the demented public forgets about it in a few week. With that situation, all those breaches are not a surprise. They are merely an expected side-effect of cost-optimization.
You do not get it. At all. One primary task of the kernel is process isolation. Without controlling the graphics hardware (or any other hardware that can be shared among processes), that is not really possible. People these days really know nothing...
They have that covered, I think. Wrongthink will eventually just wipe out your social obedience score and if that happens you are barred from public speech. As a result you cannot defend yourself against that either. May even throw in a bonus and makes sure people with a low score cannot buy food or rent living space or work in any capacity and the same happens to anybody that helps them.
The real question is how many people will try to resit in time. That makes the difference between some nice places high up a tree for the scum in power or a slow decline to the collapse of society. In an extreme fascist state, and that is exactly what they are building, the economy goes down the drains and even feeding the population becomes difficult after a while. I think China may be going the second route.
Indeed. "pretty much everyone" except those that actually understand how Science works and do not mistake a physicalist (i.e. religious) stance for a scientific fact. The claim is pretty much on the same level as claiming that "the earth is flat", because that is "obvious". The actual scientific state-of-the-art is that we have absolutely no clue what consciousness is (or intelligence, or life for that matter). Stop spreading your anti-science, anti-rationality propaganda.
Pretty much everyone, except all those that see that this statement is completely baseless and does not actually make much sense at this time. The actual state of the art here is that nobody has any idea what consciousness is. Those that claim it being a physical state in the brain is a scientific fact are hacks. Physicalism is a religious stance, not a scientific one and it has no place in Science.
In actual reality, the closer we look, the more mysterious consciousness and intelligence become. They seen to actually not be physically possible. That is a rather major hint that Physics is grossly incomplete here or that things work quite a bit differently (i.e. consciousness is not something the brain creates).
And dumb automation is all that exists at this time. At best, the statistical classifier used did supervised learning, i.e. somebody with actual intelligence defined a fitness function and then the classifier trained on that function. As basically all intelligence is in that fitness function, the classifier has none and it did not "learn" anything either (because that would require some sort of understanding). It simply conditioned its "reflexes" (if that is not already overstating the amount of "intelligence" involved) on that fitness function in a scenario again created by somebody with actual intelligence.
Indeed. One could even observe that this reasoning makes no sense whatsoever.
But that is probably just an instance of "male logic" were things are expected to make sense. In "female logic" (with apologies to all the women that do not subscribe to this bullshit), there are only two rules "female -> good" and "male -> bad", and it is quite clear that Babbage was a bumbling idiot and only Ada recognized the incredible value of what he accidentally stumbled over but did not comprehend in the least.
She most certainly was not the "first programmer". Nobody knows who that was but it was a lot earlier. The distinction given to her is a complete fabrication. In actual fact, she was not even a programmer, because there was nothing to program besides an idea that could not be built back then. That means any potential "programming" activity by her goes back to the original meaning, namely "to create a plan" for something and that is basically as old as human intelligence.
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They seem to be a non-issue, just look to the recent past for examples. They just have to make sure not to waterboard you on US soil and maybe remove your citizenship before.
The enemies of freedom have a really high level of persistence, so yes.
You misunderstand the purpose of the law and the constitution: It is only to be used against citizens, it does of course not constrain the holy^H^H^H^H legal authorities, because they cannot do any wrong by definition.
"Lite" now, and when China has had "great success in restoring morality" with their fascistic (yes, it actually matches here , look up the definition of fascism) "social score" system, then the US administration will implement that too. As the US population is deeply in coma and notices nothing, this is pretty much assured to happen.
These are politicians and career civil servants. They do not have any understanding of the concept of a "fact". There is also the little problem that as soon as a backdoor is implemented, nobody sane will store anything of value on phones anymore. But that is even worse than a "fact", it is a "deduction". The morons making laws do not even know that can be done.
Of course Google looks at everything. It is right in their TOU. That they do more than look is pretty evil on top of being despicable (for looking).
Or one reason for it: Somebody else's (usually screwed-up) morality suddenly determines what files you can have or what computations you can run.
What about real (non-USB) Ethernet in the first place? The RasPi is pretty much the worst offering in this space, and most of that is because they are tied to the pretty bad Broadcom SoCs and because their development lead is a mediocre hack.
Excellent points. In a sense, the bean-counters expect a McD kitchen to turn out full-custom meals. That cannot work.
A sad state of affairs. I do not think the people from back then (and today's equivalent) have gotten less competent, bit I do think there has been a vast influx into the field of semi-competent and outright incompetent people.
Simple: "Developers" have gotten so incompetent that with security by default, they cannot get anything to work anymore. Users are worse. And system administrators are becoming extinct.
Very much so. And one reason is that a good system administrator is expensive (but well worth the money). Hence the bean-counters, with their complete lack of understanding how things actually work, have eliminated these positions. And then they moved on to coders: I now have had to explain several times to "senior" web developers (>5 years experience) in a large organization (Fortune 500 around the middle) what an HTTP request and HTTP response looks like, because that happens to be important for what is sent to the client (browser). Also, these people are incapable of even changing tiny details in their servers. I have one application that is incapable of adding an additional port to a virtual web server configuration after 9 months and countless tries. This whole thing is a train-wreck in the making with more and more application teams being comprised of 100% people without a clue. And this is not a specific problem with this customer. All other large ones are in a similar state.
I predict that we will see some large organization fail this or the next decade because they have completely lost control of their IT and problems simply cannot be fixed anymore.
That is what happens if you have "cheaper than possible" developers and nobody actually being punished when things goes wrong. What we urgently need is management responsibility with criminal sanctions. Have your data stolen, cannot conclusively prove due diligence, _including_ independent verification? Go to jail!
Instead nothing happens and the demented public forgets about it in a few week. With that situation, all those breaches are not a surprise. They are merely an expected side-effect of cost-optimization.
Actually you people are the ones making unsubstantiated claims. I just respond in kind.
You do not get it. At all. One primary task of the kernel is process isolation. Without controlling the graphics hardware (or any other hardware that can be shared among processes), that is not really possible. People these days really know nothing...
Indeed. And looking who people make jokes about behind closed doors also works well.
Sure. But you will have them removed afterwards to serve as evidence for your crime.
They have that covered, I think. Wrongthink will eventually just wipe out your social obedience score and if that happens you are barred from public speech. As a result you cannot defend yourself against that either. May even throw in a bonus and makes sure people with a low score cannot buy food or rent living space or work in any capacity and the same happens to anybody that helps them.
The real question is how many people will try to resit in time. That makes the difference between some nice places high up a tree for the scum in power or a slow decline to the collapse of society. In an extreme fascist state, and that is exactly what they are building, the economy goes down the drains and even feeding the population becomes difficult after a while. I think China may be going the second route.
Indeed. "pretty much everyone" except those that actually understand how Science works and do not mistake a physicalist (i.e. religious) stance for a scientific fact. The claim is pretty much on the same level as claiming that "the earth is flat", because that is "obvious". The actual scientific state-of-the-art is that we have absolutely no clue what consciousness is (or intelligence, or life for that matter). Stop spreading your anti-science, anti-rationality propaganda.
Pretty much everyone, except all those that see that this statement is completely baseless and does not actually make much sense at this time. The actual state of the art here is that nobody has any idea what consciousness is. Those that claim it being a physical state in the brain is a scientific fact are hacks. Physicalism is a religious stance, not a scientific one and it has no place in Science.
In actual reality, the closer we look, the more mysterious consciousness and intelligence become. They seen to actually not be physically possible. That is a rather major hint that Physics is grossly incomplete here or that things work quite a bit differently (i.e. consciousness is not something the brain creates).
And dumb automation is all that exists at this time. At best, the statistical classifier used did supervised learning, i.e. somebody with actual intelligence defined a fitness function and then the classifier trained on that function. As basically all intelligence is in that fitness function, the classifier has none and it did not "learn" anything either (because that would require some sort of understanding). It simply conditioned its "reflexes" (if that is not already overstating the amount of "intelligence" involved) on that fitness function in a scenario again created by somebody with actual intelligence.
Makes perfect sense to me.
Possibly. Then he is just utterly clueless in the first place.
Indeed. One could even observe that this reasoning makes no sense whatsoever.
But that is probably just an instance of "male logic" were things are expected to make sense. In "female logic" (with apologies to all the women that do not subscribe to this bullshit), there are only two rules "female -> good" and "male -> bad", and it is quite clear that Babbage was a bumbling idiot and only Ada recognized the incredible value of what he accidentally stumbled over but did not comprehend in the least.
She most certainly was not the "first programmer". Nobody knows who that was but it was a lot earlier. The distinction given to her is a complete fabrication. In actual fact, she was not even a programmer, because there was nothing to program besides an idea that could not be built back then. That means any potential "programming" activity by her goes back to the original meaning, namely "to create a plan" for something and that is basically as old as human intelligence.