There's no need for government involvement at all beyond issuing personal identification certificates after verifying identity. There's no need for the Federal government to do it either; all 50 state governments are currently charged with issuing identity documents, so there's no reason they couldn't also offer a trusted cert to people when they get a driver's license.
Once that happens, whether or not someone chooses to reveal their identity by electing to include their "Government Verified Person" badge is up to them. If they want to be taken seriously in an adult conversation, they will. If they want to troll on 4chan, they can use the same pseudo-anonymity that we currently use today. How much they reveal about their identity is entirely up to them, but readers will know that whatever they reveal will have been verified by the government.
It seems like a good balance between the need for anonymity and the need to verify you aren't being trolled by a foreign government's PsyOps program.
What a fabulous argument! Cogent points! Well articulated! Excellent citations, and that BRILLIANT insult at the end! My goodness your mommy must be proud of her little basement dweller! You should ask for extra cookies.
I'm not sure why it matters who is the biggest carbon pig; we ALL need to take action. The only thing the rankings change is how much we need to take.
Nobody will care who is responsible when we're all dead.
That is one type of DDoS attack. There are many different types. A simple ping flood that runs on multiple hosts us also a DDoS. As was posting a link to slashdot back in the day.
And this flood of legitimate users attempting to make know their opinions on the matter at hand was none of those types of DDoS. This is no way, shape or form was a DDoS; it was inadequate server provisioning & scaling, plain and simple. The resources at hand were not adequate to the demand.
Obama left us $20 trillion in debt, $12t of which he was directly responsible for.
Exsqueeze me? You mean Bush, don't you? The one who drove the economy into the ditch? Remember?
Next, Congress is the one that passes budgets; the President signs them. As such, the President bears relatively little responsibility for the contents of the budget. The President drives Executive policy, for example, failing to regulate the orgy of sub-prime lending (Bush) or stimulating the economy, bailing out the auto sector and saving 3 million jobs, and pulling us out of blood and treasure sucking foreign adventures (Obama).
The ability of./ ACs to troll never ceases to amaze me. But then, you're probably a Vladimir AC, so it really doesn't matter that you're full of shit; someone will believe you, and others will waste their time and energy rebutting your bullshit (like me).
That makes two of us. This is pretty new tech though so it's unlikely there is much hard data yet. Until then, about all you have is people speculating.
Just because our government is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of BigCorp does not make OP's assertion untrue; it simply means our government has been corrupted because it was infiltrated and co-opted.
Even IF a certain percentage of drivers become more inattentive because of their usage of autopilot and do a shitty job of taking control in a timely manner, it's still going to be safer on a per-mile basis than human drivers, who are plenty good and being inattentive even without an autopilot*.
*I typed this comment on a smart phone while driving at 80mph**.
If I don't do business with Europe right now, I don't want to spend even a microsecond caring what their regulations say
Happily for you, since the GDPR applies only to EU citizens, and you don't do any business with EU citizens, you don't need to spend a microsecond caring about GDPR. And yet, here you are... worrying and kvetching over something that doesn't apply to you.
All these people who are so well trained to cry "won't someone think of the poor corporations!" every time some new privacy regulation comes along are the exact same people who bitch "why didn't someone regulate these fuckers!" whenever a Target or Equifax breach comes along.
Here's something that will blow your mind even more: It DOES, in fact, take a village. Or did you raise yourself all alone out in the wilderness? Did you build the computer you're using to shit all over the internet with?
And now you're saying all those kids ever needed was PARENTS?!
No, that isn't what was said, but don't let that get in the way of your idiotic rhetoric. After all, you trolls get paid by the word.
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but but but THATS SOSHULIZM YOU DIRTY COMMIE!!!
I'm afraid we are well past the point where the government-is-evil reactionaries will allow us to have nice things.
Q: What did the pro-Trump AC say to the anti-Trump AC?
A: Who gives a fuck?
Says the person who obviously has no idea how tariffs work.
This looks to be a wonderful example of "won the battle, lost the war".
Is committing murder on the Intertubes a State or a Federal felony?
There's no need for government involvement at all beyond issuing personal identification certificates after verifying identity. There's no need for the Federal government to do it either; all 50 state governments are currently charged with issuing identity documents, so there's no reason they couldn't also offer a trusted cert to people when they get a driver's license.
Once that happens, whether or not someone chooses to reveal their identity by electing to include their "Government Verified Person" badge is up to them. If they want to be taken seriously in an adult conversation, they will. If they want to troll on 4chan, they can use the same pseudo-anonymity that we currently use today. How much they reveal about their identity is entirely up to them, but readers will know that whatever they reveal will have been verified by the government.
It seems like a good balance between the need for anonymity and the need to verify you aren't being trolled by a foreign government's PsyOps program.
What a fabulous argument! Cogent points! Well articulated! Excellent citations, and that BRILLIANT insult at the end! My goodness your mommy must be proud of her little basement dweller! You should ask for extra cookies.
We also believe that ACs are full of shit. So there's that too.
This is the only time I can recall Betteridge's law being wrong.
Lolwut? You DO know who passed NAFTA right? You ARE aware of who was pushing to TPP right? It wasn't Conservatives.
And first prize for victim blaming goes to Ravenshrike! IT'S THEIR FAULT for having a shitty bizznizzz!!! REEEEE!!!!
I'm not sure why it matters who is the biggest carbon pig; we ALL need to take action. The only thing the rankings change is how much we need to take. Nobody will care who is responsible when we're all dead.
Way to avoid the OP's point, insult the OP AND blame the victim all at the same time! Well done there!
And this flood of legitimate users attempting to make know their opinions on the matter at hand was none of those types of DDoS. This is no way, shape or form was a DDoS; it was inadequate server provisioning & scaling, plain and simple. The resources at hand were not adequate to the demand.
Which they did, from scratch, in five weeks. I don't think this is the huge undertaking you seem to think it is.
Feh. If you were a *real* developer you'd fab the chips yourself from silicon taken from virgin Hawaiin beaches...
Bullshit. Anecdotal fallacy. Look at the statistics, not the headlines.
Please tell me this is sarcasm? Otherwise it's got to be about the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read on /.
Exsqueeze me? You mean Bush, don't you? The one who drove the economy into the ditch? Remember?
Next, Congress is the one that passes budgets; the President signs them. As such, the President bears relatively little responsibility for the contents of the budget. The President drives Executive policy, for example, failing to regulate the orgy of sub-prime lending (Bush) or stimulating the economy, bailing out the auto sector and saving 3 million jobs, and pulling us out of blood and treasure sucking foreign adventures (Obama).
The ability of ./ ACs to troll never ceases to amaze me. But then, you're probably a Vladimir AC, so it really doesn't matter that you're full of shit; someone will believe you, and others will waste their time and energy rebutting your bullshit (like me).
That makes two of us. This is pretty new tech though so it's unlikely there is much hard data yet. Until then, about all you have is people speculating.
Just because our government is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of BigCorp does not make OP's assertion untrue; it simply means our government has been corrupted because it was infiltrated and co-opted.
Even IF a certain percentage of drivers become more inattentive because of their usage of autopilot and do a shitty job of taking control in a timely manner, it's still going to be safer on a per-mile basis than human drivers, who are plenty good and being inattentive even without an autopilot*.
*I typed this comment on a smart phone while driving at 80mph**.
**OK, no I didn't -- but you get the point.
Happily for you, since the GDPR applies only to EU citizens, and you don't do any business with EU citizens, you don't need to spend a microsecond caring about GDPR. And yet, here you are... worrying and kvetching over something that doesn't apply to you.
All these people who are so well trained to cry "won't someone think of the poor corporations!" every time some new privacy regulation comes along are the exact same people who bitch "why didn't someone regulate these fuckers!" whenever a Target or Equifax breach comes along.
Some people* say!
*Russian Trolls say
Here's something that will blow your mind even more: It DOES, in fact, take a village. Or did you raise yourself all alone out in the wilderness? Did you build the computer you're using to shit all over the internet with?
No, that isn't what was said, but don't let that get in the way of your idiotic rhetoric. After all, you trolls get paid by the word.