Actually, the world is increasingly in danger from the severe (and intended) side-effects of "fighting" terrorism. (No, mass surveillance does not help against terrorism, as the last few cases have very well demonstrated.) Hence "helping out" would actually mean helping to stop the raising fascism in the west. But no, they cheer it onwards. This has happened before and last time the result was a global catastrophe.
And that is just it: Sucking up to the authorities in a police-state like the US is _not_ for the greater good. Apple has it right this time, what is demanded of them goes way too far.
And not only can they be defeated with a screwdriver and some electronics skills, this would also make a nice story to embarrass them on the Internet! I guess they desperately want that to happen...
Indeed. IBM-Laptops had that physical (well, electronic, but OS independent and not software accessible) microphone switch. Cameras are easily dealt with by black tape. I would pay extra for a design with a physical slider for the camera and a physical switch for the microphone. As it is, I am just de-soldering the microphones in the devices I own.
Actually you measure the time-difference between the pattern and the button-press. That is something else entirely. But I guess if they had one decent engineer there that knows about doing measurements, they would not have produced tons of invalid research in the first place: https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Consciousness is a cloudy thing that extends a few seconds into the past and the future. People cannot determine when exactly they become aware of something and they must always lag behind that moment.
Neuro-"science" has become fully corrupted by the power of bogus explanations to provide them with grant-money. Admittedly, they are so far removed from understanding anything that funding would be drying right up if they admitted where they really are in the scientific process ("fumbling in the dark" would be an accurate assessment) and they would have to be back to surviving on whatever fundamental research gets these days. Instead, they hint to every little closet-fascist on the planet that this may provide unbeatable lie-detection and reading of peoples minds and the money flows.
What they are doing is hugely unethical and should have them stripped of their academic titles.
Slashdot is using Artificial Stupidity (or maybe real human-driven stupidity) for these new "post lines". Ignore them, they are meaningless click-bait.
Indeed. I am completely agnostic and not into any spiritual bullshit either. But there is no space in Physics for consciousness, free will and likely even for intelligence on human level. (The only credible mathematical model for intelligence, automated theorem proving, does not scale up to human level in this universe.) Physical systems just cannot do these things as there is no mechanism for it.
These people are nothing else than fundamentalist physicalists, using their materialist belief system as religion-surrogate. And they claim things as Science that Science does definitely not say anything about, just the same as other fundamentalists and with about just as much rational justification.
Indeed. As usual, the Neuro-"scientists" here make grand claims with basically no basis for that. They also claim things like decision being made before we become aware of it (modeling error, plain and simple, as they cannot measure when somebody becomes aware of a decision only when some activity patterns happen) and other bullshit.
They have some activity-pattern. That is all. Only by using flawed and unproven theories (that are about on the sophistication-level of medieval medical theory) can they conclude they know what they claim to know. In a few years or decades, these idiots will finally admit that they basically understand nothing.
"Echo" is just one of the more obvious ways to do so. Smartphones, laptop-microphones, etc. are all fair game these days, because most citizens are asleep at the wheel.
Not stopping terrorism because a) That is actually hard to do and mass-surveillance does not help one bit. b) Terrorism is pushing a _lot_ of money and power towards law enforcement. Like any bureaucracy they want this to continue and increase even more. The whole thing about mass-surveillance stopping terrorism is a "Big Lie" and people are falling for it just as always.
Incidentally, with all the data they collect, they can also get rid of people they do not like or stop political careers before they really take off. If you have dirt on everybody, you run the country.
It is not. It is a change in the industrial landscape that cannot be rolled back: Most jobs are simply vanishing and there are no replacements. At the moment we are still in an early phase, but we already can see where things are going.
And that is just the thing: If people have no money to spend, the economy goes down the drains as well. All the productivity gains from automation become meaningless if nobody can buy the products anymore. What we are currently seeing is just the start of this change.
If and when robots take the jobs of half the people in a country, you have to be ready for it or face social unrest.
That will more likely be 80-90%. Most people have and can only learn skills that can be automatized. These people need to get a share of the wealth of the society they live in as well and it must not come to them by way of a gigantic bureaucracy that wastes most of it.
And that is just the point: Modern society is at a crossroads. Either make sure most people can live decently even when most people do not have the skills to achieve that by using "work" as the metric on which to base wealth-distribution on, or society will disintegrate. Instead, those in opposition make this about their own greed and accuse others of "laziness" and "being unwilling to work". Apparently, these people have never heard about automation and rationalization killing jobs and this time they are _not_ created somewhere else. That ship has sailed a while ago. There will not much work left of a type most people can do in the very near future and it has already started and it will only get worse.
There really is no alternative to the UBI as means to keep free society going. It is also the only thing that is able to keep the economy going, because people that have no income cannot buy goods.
And there is the flaw in the system. Make any such donations a capital crime for both donor and recipient and make hiring former politicians in cushy jobs the same.
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Micro-filtered milk already has that shelf-lifetime.
Actually, the world is increasingly in danger from the severe (and intended) side-effects of "fighting" terrorism. (No, mass surveillance does not help against terrorism, as the last few cases have very well demonstrated.) Hence "helping out" would actually mean helping to stop the raising fascism in the west. But no, they cheer it onwards. This has happened before and last time the result was a global catastrophe.
And that is just it: Sucking up to the authorities in a police-state like the US is _not_ for the greater good. Apple has it right this time, what is demanded of them goes way too far.
The speaker _cannot_ be used as microphone unless you put in some special, expensive custom chips for that.
And not only can they be defeated with a screwdriver and some electronics skills, this would also make a nice story to embarrass them on the Internet! I guess they desperately want that to happen...
For a camera, you put in a slider. Unless that is IR-Transparent plastic (expensive), it will work.
Indeed. IBM-Laptops had that physical (well, electronic, but OS independent and not software accessible) microphone switch. Cameras are easily dealt with by black tape. I would pay extra for a design with a physical slider for the camera and a physical switch for the microphone. As it is, I am just de-soldering the microphones in the devices I own.
Actually you measure the time-difference between the pattern and the button-press. That is something else entirely. But I guess if they had one decent engineer there that knows about doing measurements, they would not have produced tons of invalid research in the first place: https://science.slashdot.org/s...
Consciousness is a cloudy thing that extends a few seconds into the past and the future. People cannot determine when exactly they become aware of something and they must always lag behind that moment.
Theo-"logy" is about as much science as Neuro-"science" these days, likely even less. Start with a flawed axiom-system, generate lots of bullshit.
As far as I am concerned, God can be damned. Seems to be a misanthropic fascist anyways.
Neuro-"science" has become fully corrupted by the power of bogus explanations to provide them with grant-money. Admittedly, they are so far removed from understanding anything that funding would be drying right up if they admitted where they really are in the scientific process ("fumbling in the dark" would be an accurate assessment) and they would have to be back to surviving on whatever fundamental research gets these days. Instead, they hint to every little closet-fascist on the planet that this may provide unbeatable lie-detection and reading of peoples minds and the money flows.
What they are doing is hugely unethical and should have them stripped of their academic titles.
Slashdot is using Artificial Stupidity (or maybe real human-driven stupidity) for these new "post lines". Ignore them, they are meaningless click-bait.
Indeed. I am completely agnostic and not into any spiritual bullshit either. But there is no space in Physics for consciousness, free will and likely even for intelligence on human level. (The only credible mathematical model for intelligence, automated theorem proving, does not scale up to human level in this universe.) Physical systems just cannot do these things as there is no mechanism for it.
These people are nothing else than fundamentalist physicalists, using their materialist belief system as religion-surrogate. And they claim things as Science that Science does definitely not say anything about, just the same as other fundamentalists and with about just as much rational justification.
Indeed. As usual, the Neuro-"scientists" here make grand claims with basically no basis for that. They also claim things like decision being made before we become aware of it (modeling error, plain and simple, as they cannot measure when somebody becomes aware of a decision only when some activity patterns happen) and other bullshit.
They have some activity-pattern. That is all. Only by using flawed and unproven theories (that are about on the sophistication-level of medieval medical theory) can they conclude they know what they claim to know. In a few years or decades, these idiots will finally admit that they basically understand nothing.
"Echo" is just one of the more obvious ways to do so. Smartphones, laptop-microphones, etc. are all fair game these days, because most citizens are asleep at the wheel.
Well, there is certainly one incompetent, bald-face liar here, but it is not the researchers that have done these studies.
Not stopping terrorism because
a) That is actually hard to do and mass-surveillance does not help one bit.
b) Terrorism is pushing a _lot_ of money and power towards law enforcement. Like any bureaucracy they want this to continue and increase even more.
The whole thing about mass-surveillance stopping terrorism is a "Big Lie" and people are falling for it just as always.
Incidentally, with all the data they collect, they can also get rid of people they do not like or stop political careers before they really take off. If you have dirt on everybody, you run the country.
It is not. It is a change in the industrial landscape that cannot be rolled back: Most jobs are simply vanishing and there are no replacements. At the moment we are still in an early phase, but we already can see where things are going.
And that is just the thing: If people have no money to spend, the economy goes down the drains as well. All the productivity gains from automation become meaningless if nobody can buy the products anymore. What we are currently seeing is just the start of this change.
And all actual studies done on the topic say otherwise. I wonder why you do not know that?
If and when robots take the jobs of half the people in a country, you have to be ready for it or face social unrest.
That will more likely be 80-90%. Most people have and can only learn skills that can be automatized. These people need to get a share of the wealth of the society they live in as well and it must not come to them by way of a gigantic bureaucracy that wastes most of it.
And that is just the point: Modern society is at a crossroads. Either make sure most people can live decently even when most people do not have the skills to achieve that by using "work" as the metric on which to base wealth-distribution on, or society will disintegrate. Instead, those in opposition make this about their own greed and accuse others of "laziness" and "being unwilling to work". Apparently, these people have never heard about automation and rationalization killing jobs and this time they are _not_ created somewhere else. That ship has sailed a while ago. There will not much work left of a type most people can do in the very near future and it has already started and it will only get worse.
There really is no alternative to the UBI as means to keep free society going. It is also the only thing that is able to keep the economy going, because people that have no income cannot buy goods.
Looks good. The bogus numbers of the opponents are still going strong, but time will fix that.
And there is the flaw in the system. Make any such donations a capital crime for both donor and recipient and make hiring former politicians in cushy jobs the same.