Eventually you will not be allowed to connect to the Internet unless you are using a closed "approved" hardware device using "approved" software that has been registered with your real name. It is coming.
Sounds like we'll have an internet for sheep who will sacrifice everything for convenience and a darknet for everyone else.
Communicable diseases, especially incurable, lifelong and fatal ones (HIV) should be public knowledge!
If we don't have the temerity as a species/civilization to quarantine such individuals, at least let the public stay away from them on their own accord!
Sadly, there are far too many individuals who are terrified of such people. Lacking the capability to cope with their fear they then turn to violence and begin killing people. You can claim it's unrealistic but it's been proven time and time again that cowards inevitably do this.
Besides, if we're going to do this for communicable diseases like HIV, why not also have a list for all communicable diseases down to the specific mutation (not all variants are equal after all). We can all have a nice laugh as most of the nation's population have the history of their sexual partnerships exposed (via mapping mutations) and watch as it devolves into a list of shame, anger and disgust.
You want a minimalist phone? You can't handle minimalist phone! The truth is if you are going for a smartphone then it's not minimalist at all. Something like this is what you should be looking for: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g...
There are only handful of possible reasons I can think of for Google doing this:
* This is a trial run to verify rating information before mass deployment (seems like an unlikely venue for such a thing). * They are gathering data to improve a real-time English-French translation project. (real possibility) * They are gathering data of common questions people call and ask to put on their site. (real possibility) * They are gathering data to improve their voice tech (that everyone thought was creepy and nobody wanted) that is intended to interact with shops. (seems unlikely now) * They got wind of Canada's plan for world domination and they want in.;)
People who want to avoid a devastating future where million die due to an eternal famine while millions more flood into nations further from the equator. I think everyone is going to be tired of that very quickly. Vote for people who will do something to avoid this future and you won't have to read about it anymore.
Free college is a bad idea as many people just want to avoid joining the working world - college is fun.
I don't know where you get the idea that lots of people want to avoid joining the workforce. People don't get PhDs because college is fun. If you think college is fun then you weren't focused on education. Clearly the sports and frats need to go in order to get people like you to focus.
They are describing an option to toggle onscreen display that shows information about the graphics card while it's running a game. Mesa is a graphics library and it's homogenized computing (Vulkan) driver is known as Gallium3D. This is an example of the HUD option that Intel is working on replicating.
Better to just give the 25% some income while they are all looking for work.
Yeah, we have that, it's called collecting an unemployment check.
A few might find a new job.
And the rest can die in a ditch, right? -_-
Then move them to some new early retirement benefit.
"early retirement" is a euphemism for murdering people.
Paying for 25% of working people for a short time is a lot more tax friendly than 100% of every generation of working population getting an instant UBI all the time.
Pff! "tax friendly". You care more for your money than your fellow citizens.
The problem with UBI, depending on implementation, is that if 25% of jobs become redundant, that other 75% will be upset if they have to pay for those 25%.
Oh please, we already have most of the blue states carrying most of the red states. This will just be more pronounced.
How this should be solved is questionable.
it's why I said, "something like UBI". Universal Basic Assets is similar idea but it doesn't have the recognition UBI does.
Much like the dota bot from last year AlphaStar is effectively cheating as it is aware of the entire map at once, not restricted to the viewport as humans are.
That's not true. AlphaStar is using the same interface as other players. It's not simply multitask faster than the human players.
There are other options. We could limit legal immigration, stop illegal immigration, and retrain the workers.
Sorry but that wouldn't even help help because of the very short time period on which automation will wipe out a sector. As for retraining workers, what do you think training millions of people to do various trades is going to do to the wages of each trade?
Also, if we're supplying people with state-funded training then why aren't we supplying state-funded college education?
Any way it goes, they are the "welfare queen"s that they despise... they just don't know it.
When the time comes and an entire sector is laid off in a period of a year or so, are we going to stick to our "free market" guns and leave these people to fend for themselves (hello crime wave) or will we do the right thing and implement something like UBI?
Correct, he could, at any time, just choose to set up his own national high bandwidth high security reliable wireless network, and create a hundred a million user friendly wireless devices that allows users to make and receive calls and exchange other data via this network without letting the operator know where they are, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooo, he'd rather just complain about it.
Actually, what he does have is an audience of very talented individuals. One does not need to create a highspeed wireless network to achieve the goal of enjoying privacy. A peer-to-peer encrypted wireless voice/text network for a single town or city would be enough because it would get the idea off the ground.
My point is not about succeeding, it's about trying.
I've never come across a person who makes Slashdotters lose their collective marbles as much as Stallman.
He has excellent points on issues when he talks about technology but his perspectives on how to resolve issues (by insisting on absolutes) are viewed to be more repellent than the issues themselves.
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Eventually you will not be allowed to connect to the Internet unless you are using a closed "approved" hardware device using "approved" software that has been registered with your real name. It is coming.
Sounds like we'll have an internet for sheep who will sacrifice everything for convenience and a darknet for everyone else.
Communicable diseases, especially incurable, lifelong and fatal ones (HIV) should be public knowledge!
If we don't have the temerity as a species/civilization to quarantine such individuals, at least let the public stay away from them on their own accord!
Sadly, there are far too many individuals who are terrified of such people. Lacking the capability to cope with their fear they then turn to violence and begin killing people. You can claim it's unrealistic but it's been proven time and time again that cowards inevitably do this.
Besides, if we're going to do this for communicable diseases like HIV, why not also have a list for all communicable diseases down to the specific mutation (not all variants are equal after all). We can all have a nice laugh as most of the nation's population have the history of their sexual partnerships exposed (via mapping mutations) and watch as it devolves into a list of shame, anger and disgust.
But I thought AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile stated that they'll no longer sell location data...
Believing a promise from a corporation that isn't legally compelled to comply was your first mistake.
You want a minimalist phone? You can't handle minimalist phone! The truth is if you are going for a smartphone then it's not minimalist at all. Something like this is what you should be looking for: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g...
Reading instead of blindly commenting? Where's the fun in that? ;)
There are only handful of possible reasons I can think of for Google doing this:
* This is a trial run to verify rating information before mass deployment (seems like an unlikely venue for such a thing). ;)
* They are gathering data to improve a real-time English-French translation project. (real possibility)
* They are gathering data of common questions people call and ask to put on their site. (real possibility)
* They are gathering data to improve their voice tech (that everyone thought was creepy and nobody wanted) that is intended to interact with shops. (seems unlikely now)
* They got wind of Canada's plan for world domination and they want in.
Any other ideas why they would do this?
Uh, not about replacing ATC's.
Are you implying that the title is a lie?
Can AI-Controlled Cameras Replace An Air Traffic Control Tower?
Absolutely. Sure flying might become Russian roulette but hey, you did replace the ATCs didn't you? ;)
Someone at Slashdot seems to be pushing the "Russia supplied Wikileaks with the DNC hack info" theory as fact when it hasn't been proven.
It hasn't been proven to you. Do not presume to know what intelligence agencies know.
But the Russia theory is pushed above all because that's the one that fuels Democratic activist outrage and the "Russian collusion" fantasy
People aren't being indicted and convicted because it's a fantasy.
Cue up the cries of "Russian bot" in 5...4...3...
I don't think you're a Russian bot but I do think you are useful idiot.
Also noticed that you are just copypastaing your own site and call everything that doesn't agree with you a "hard-left outlet".
Most people past post-elementary age would understand that only questions end with a question mark.
FTFY. ;)
Hahahaha! Yeah, sure buddy. Talk about clueless. The tropics are projected to heat up to levels where it would be near uninhabitable.
I want SIP ATA in the PBX with my XMPP cuz my XMPP is no longer working with my SIP LAN IP because I totally know acronyms too. ;)
it is a fact that there are Conspiracy Theories that have turned out to be true.
This is correct. However, if you are turning to YouTube to expose a conspiracy then you are doing it wrong.
Why are you asking me what you think?
How is this tech news again?
I understand its an important issue, but tech related it is not.
Slashdot is "news for nerds and things that matter". Climate change matters.
Who writes this shit? I'm tired of it.
People who want to avoid a devastating future where million die due to an eternal famine while millions more flood into nations further from the equator. I think everyone is going to be tired of that very quickly. Vote for people who will do something to avoid this future and you won't have to read about it anymore.
Free college is a bad idea as many people just want to avoid joining the working world - college is fun.
I don't know where you get the idea that lots of people want to avoid joining the workforce. People don't get PhDs because college is fun. If you think college is fun then you weren't focused on education. Clearly the sports and frats need to go in order to get people like you to focus.
They are describing an option to toggle onscreen display that shows information about the graphics card while it's running a game. Mesa is a graphics library and it's homogenized computing (Vulkan) driver is known as Gallium3D. This is an example of the HUD option that Intel is working on replicating.
Better to just give the 25% some income while they are all looking for work.
Yeah, we have that, it's called collecting an unemployment check.
A few might find a new job.
And the rest can die in a ditch, right? -_-
Then move them to some new early retirement benefit.
"early retirement" is a euphemism for murdering people.
Paying for 25% of working people for a short time is a lot more tax friendly than 100% of every generation of working population getting an instant UBI all the time.
Pff! "tax friendly". You care more for your money than your fellow citizens.
The problem with UBI, depending on implementation, is that if 25% of jobs become redundant, that other 75% will be upset if they have to pay for those 25%.
Oh please, we already have most of the blue states carrying most of the red states. This will just be more pronounced.
How this should be solved is questionable.
it's why I said, "something like UBI". Universal Basic Assets is similar idea but it doesn't have the recognition UBI does.
Much like the dota bot from last year AlphaStar is effectively cheating as it is aware of the entire map at once, not restricted to the viewport as humans are.
That's not true. AlphaStar is using the same interface as other players. It's not simply multitask faster than the human players.
There are other options. We could limit legal immigration, stop illegal immigration, and retrain the workers.
Sorry but that wouldn't even help help because of the very short time period on which automation will wipe out a sector. As for retraining workers, what do you think training millions of people to do various trades is going to do to the wages of each trade?
Also, if we're supplying people with state-funded training then why aren't we supplying state-funded college education?
Any way it goes, they are the "welfare queen"s that they despise... they just don't know it.
When the time comes and an entire sector is laid off in a period of a year or so, are we going to stick to our "free market" guns and leave these people to fend for themselves (hello crime wave) or will we do the right thing and implement something like UBI?
I know who he is and what he's done.
People seem to forget that Linux was the LAST piece of the puzzle
Please, Linux is 90% of the puzzle. Besides, GNU userland is a clusterfuck of standards non-compliance.
Correct, he could, at any time, just choose to set up his own national high bandwidth high security reliable wireless network, and create a hundred a million user friendly wireless devices that allows users to make and receive calls and exchange other data via this network without letting the operator know where they are, but nooooooooooooooooooooooooo, he'd rather just complain about it.
Actually, what he does have is an audience of very talented individuals. One does not need to create a highspeed wireless network to achieve the goal of enjoying privacy. A peer-to-peer encrypted wireless voice/text network for a single town or city would be enough because it would get the idea off the ground.
My point is not about succeeding, it's about trying.
I've never come across a person who makes Slashdotters lose their collective marbles as much as Stallman.
He has excellent points on issues when he talks about technology but his perspectives on how to resolve issues (by insisting on absolutes) are viewed to be more repellent than the issues themselves.