It is not to anybody with even a bit of understanding of IT history and the technology involved. VR does not work at this time and it will be a long time until it does. Think Star Trek holodeck as the actual requirement. As this is the 3rd (I think) time that VR has failed and the 5th or so time 3D movies have failed (taking into account the failures in cinema), this is obviously something easily hyped but very hard to do.
I think before Trump, most of the rest of the world did not actually realize how utterly stupid the average US citizen is. If nothing else, Trump is to be congratulated for fixing that.
Exactly. And the manufacturers that lie will find themselves facing a rather large fine and pretty bad publicity. Will take a while, but I think this will actually fix the issue.
The mechanism that implements that is called "FUD". In actual reality, mobile phone security is pretty bad already and hardware replacements or modifications will not have any significant negative effect.
I hope so. I currently have them (BB Z10) and I will insist on them for the replacement when that phone breaks down. As I have no apps on it and a spare and 5 spare batteries (very cheap on ebay;-) that may take a while though.
Companies ripping off customers because the customers cannot tell something is going to break down after 2.5 years (2 years mandatory warranty in the EU) is just completely unacceptable. Sure, I personally have a policy to never buy again from anybody that does this to me, and that has worked pretty well so far, although I have had to amend it to "for a few years". (Currently on my shit-list: Netgear, Asus, Seagate permanently, Enermax for bad PSU fans.) But ordinary people are basically getting screwed over because they do not really understand what is going on and usually they have far less disposable income than I do so they are hit harder. That is just not acceptable at all. Modern society critically depends on _not_ screwing over ordinary people and it is the only morally acceptable thing to prevent that.
Indeed. Fortunately, there is no way that she can do what she claims. This is most likely an attempt to get funding by empty promises that are not quite obviously empty. There are enough proto-fascists in government employ that would love to have these capabilities.
I recently moved to block all pictures from my favorite news site, as they started serving obnoxious ads (animated, blinking, flashing) from the same server so that ad-blocking became massively more difficult. Two weeks later, I find that I do not really miss the pictures. Bit of a surprise, really, but the site now loads very fast and has entirely stopped annoying me. This is the same: Use DRM, lose me as a viewer.
Quite true. You can also use Linux distributions that are made to be extra secure (and have some downsides because of that, like worse functionality and missing software), because the "vendor" does not prevent anybody from creating and sharing such distributions. For Windows, you have to install first and then harden individually, making this an expensive process.
So, first indicator for incompetence already present: Author does not even know basic terminology. Second thing is that Linux is not inherently more secure than, say, Windows, but the mind-set of application developers is better and it is far easier to secure. It is also easy to make completely insecure, but a competent person will find it far easier to have a secure Linux installation than with the competition, because Linux gives you access and allows you to do things, while with, say Windows or OSX you are pretty much at the mercy of the OS vendor.
Oh, Ford was in it for his own advantage, period. But Ford was also smart and understood how things work. Turns out that fully exploitative capitalism is massively sub-optimal and a domain of authoritarians, sadists and religious fuckups, while smart businessmen that want to maximize profits give their slaves both some happiness and some freedom. This is one thing modern US capitalism has never understood. They irrationally think that to maximize profits you must maximize exploitation and minimize worker happiness.
Pedofilia does not require those that have it to act on it to have it. Not at all. You are thinking about "sexual sadists", that do not target children because they find them attractive, but because they cannot defend themselves. That is a different thing.
While this is funny, chances are that most violently anti-pedos are indeed closet-pedos. It works this way for every other sexual orientation. Sure, a pedo must never do it with an actual child, but what is the harm in doing it with a piece of silicon? Preventing that is just punishing people because of something they have no control over.
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It is still the same 0.1 "Caveman" model that far too many humans follow. No enlightenment to be had there.
It is not to anybody with even a bit of understanding of IT history and the technology involved. VR does not work at this time and it will be a long time until it does. Think Star Trek holodeck as the actual requirement. As this is the 3rd (I think) time that VR has failed and the 5th or so time 3D movies have failed (taking into account the failures in cinema), this is obviously something easily hyped but very hard to do.
I think before Trump, most of the rest of the world did not actually realize how utterly stupid the average US citizen is. If nothing else, Trump is to be congratulated for fixing that.
Well, as the US is celebrating the dismantlemet of the foundations of its economy, the rest of the world gets to laugh even harder.
And so these people will just go someplace else. Does not matter much in the next 4 years, becomes a problem in 10 and a catastrophe in 20.
Obvious troll is obvious.
The UK is soooo fucked, it is incredible. And they did it to themselves.
Exactly. And the manufacturers that lie will find themselves facing a rather large fine and pretty bad publicity. Will take a while, but I think this will actually fix the issue.
The mechanism that implements that is called "FUD". In actual reality, mobile phone security is pretty bad already and hardware replacements or modifications will not have any significant negative effect.
I hope so. I currently have them (BB Z10) and I will insist on them for the replacement when that phone breaks down. As I have no apps on it and a spare and 5 spare batteries (very cheap on ebay ;-) that may take a while though.
Companies ripping off customers because the customers cannot tell something is going to break down after 2.5 years (2 years mandatory warranty in the EU) is just completely unacceptable. Sure, I personally have a policy to never buy again from anybody that does this to me, and that has worked pretty well so far, although I have had to amend it to "for a few years". (Currently on my shit-list: Netgear, Asus, Seagate permanently, Enermax for bad PSU fans.) But ordinary people are basically getting screwed over because they do not really understand what is going on and usually they have far less disposable income than I do so they are hit harder. That is just not acceptable at all. Modern society critically depends on _not_ screwing over ordinary people and it is the only morally acceptable thing to prevent that.
Indeed. "Former" MIT is a pretty good indicator she conned her way in and then could not deliver.
Indeed. Fortunately, there is no way that she can do what she claims. This is most likely an attempt to get funding by empty promises that are not quite obviously empty. There are enough proto-fascists in government employ that would love to have these capabilities.
I recently moved to block all pictures from my favorite news site, as they started serving obnoxious ads (animated, blinking, flashing) from the same server so that ad-blocking became massively more difficult. Two weeks later, I find that I do not really miss the pictures. Bit of a surprise, really, but the site now loads very fast and has entirely stopped annoying me. This is the same: Use DRM, lose me as a viewer.
Quite true. You can also use Linux distributions that are made to be extra secure (and have some downsides because of that, like worse functionality and missing software), because the "vendor" does not prevent anybody from creating and sharing such distributions. For Windows, you have to install first and then harden individually, making this an expensive process.
That was the "robot brain" part, but apparently nobody gets it. For the body, it would indeed be silicone or some rubber.
So, first indicator for incompetence already present: Author does not even know basic terminology. Second thing is that Linux is not inherently more secure than, say, Windows, but the mind-set of application developers is better and it is far easier to secure. It is also easy to make completely insecure, but a competent person will find it far easier to have a secure Linux installation than with the competition, because Linux gives you access and allows you to do things, while with, say Windows or OSX you are pretty much at the mercy of the OS vendor.
Oh, Ford was in it for his own advantage, period. But Ford was also smart and understood how things work. Turns out that fully exploitative capitalism is massively sub-optimal and a domain of authoritarians, sadists and religious fuckups, while smart businessmen that want to maximize profits give their slaves both some happiness and some freedom. This is one thing modern US capitalism has never understood. They irrationally think that to maximize profits you must maximize exploitation and minimize worker happiness.
Indeed. If I get a choice next incarnation, then it will be "most certainly not with this bunch of fuckups again".
Pedofilia does not require those that have it to act on it to have it. Not at all. You are thinking about "sexual sadists", that do not target children because they find them attractive, but because they cannot defend themselves. That is a different thing.
Unfortunately, this exactly the caveman-level thinking I suspect these people are doing...
Yes, looks like it. But they do want to push laws that likely make the problem worse. Does not get much more immoral than this.
Well, given that anybody this violently against them is most likely secretly one of them, I propose we start with you and see how that goes.
How long did you need to torture the facts to come up with _that_?
While this is funny, chances are that most violently anti-pedos are indeed closet-pedos. It works this way for every other sexual orientation. Sure, a pedo must never do it with an actual child, but what is the harm in doing it with a piece of silicon? Preventing that is just punishing people because of something they have no control over.