the human body(while pretty creepy) wouldn't be an ethically salient detail. Chimps seem to be rather smarter than dogs, and not quite so gung-ho about their human overlords, so a fair percentage of the likely use of such an organism could get troubling.
Granted, it is a specially crafted scenario, but I wanted to make it clear that it's a beautiful human body without a human brain, but with a human desire to reproduce with humans (twisted so that us slashdotters are the attractive ones). Is it wrong? ie is it sex-slavery because of the human body, or statutory rape because the human body might be willing but can't consent? Or is it bestiality because it's brain is a dual animal hybrid? I would like to make it clear that I do not own or plan to own a Lucy Lu clone. I'd rather have a Lucy Lu bot they can carry on a conversation.
But one would say, "So what! They make a mistake and I'll sue for false arrest!!" Yeah, good luck with that. With all this monitoring, even if you're Mother Teressa, they'll find something on you. And we are talking about Massachusetts here. The prosecutor will find some law from 1793 that you violated just to burn your ass citizen!
Consorting with wizards. As proof: crack open his CRT monitor. Wizard's magic smoke!
In many other states, cars only have rear license plates too, but they park "normally" like your Illinois example. Maybe it's just easier for the elderly to back into a space than it is to back out of one?
Taking someone's browser history is theft. It's theft of privacy. If I go into a store should I expect to have to tell them every place I stopped on my way there so they can sell that info. I would think not. Are stores allowed to put tracking devices on my car to see the other places I visit or other stores I go to? No.
Checkout workers are almost uniformly asking for zipcodes now. I decline, but might not be able to in the future.
It's people like you who are killing productivity in the workplace. I will be very happy once "IT" has been thoroughly discarded as a business unit and workers are allowed to use whatever tools they wish to accomplish the jobs they need to do.
Yeah, you'll be happy for a month or two until you realize all of the things IT does for you. We wipe your bottom every time you use the restroom. We cut the crust off your peanutbutter sandwich. IT is a full partner with sales in making the company go. No IT means technological chaos.
any techniques that would hypothetically involve the production of excessively human central nervous systems in laboratory animals might get ethically dodgy; but are "skin" and "facial features" really 'uniquely human' attributes that squick us out so much we just can't stand it? The idea that having a cartilage-and-soft-tissue structure that looks kind of human, rather than having a differently shaped one, is somehow an 'ethical' problem, rather than pure squeamishness, is just emotive rot.
What about a Lucy Lu clone body, but with a dog/chimp hybrid brain tweaked to find basement dwellers attractive? Is it a pet or a slave?
I seriously doubt that unless you work in a brain trauma ward. Even the smartest dogs are dumber than some of the dumbest children by nearly any human metric.
See, you're not really in IT, that's why you're posting as AC. Real IT shops have deployment systems and configuration management systems. If a company wants to push out Firefox without the awesomebar, that's a near-trivial undertaking.
Sure, you can script a copy of userpref.js into every user's profile, but what if you want to restrict certain config options? You could restrict them all by making the file read only and owned by administrator, but that might not be the desired behavior. It might be better to have an overrideuserprefs.js that can be set to be read only and admin owned, but that takes a recompile. This enterprise forum might allow for suggestions like this which the devs ordinarily wouldn't consider.
The problem you describe is caused by exactly the thing they're trying to solve here. Corporate users are stupid and think that deployment strategies which worked 10 years ago still make sense. Anything that touches the internet needs to be able to be updated rapidly, so the corporate "this version is the version we use for the next five years" idea needs to go away.
You're misunderstanding corporate IT. They _want_ to update software that touches the Internet ASAP, mostly for security reasons. They don't want to allow end users to update software willy nilly however, and although you can update FF with some psexec fu, just a simple "update silently now" executable would do wonders for scheduled tasks, psexecs, or active directory updates ( without having to download a mar and map drives to copy directories).
How long have people been begging for an MSI based installer, and some Group Policy support that is "official".. sure there are scripts that can hack GPO support in, and 3rd party builds of the MSI installer.. but people have been asking since Firefox 2...
You realize that those options were added after the fact and were met with resistance from the devs? They wanted no way for end users to disable the awesome bar. Hiding the option in about:config was their belated compromise (and even then it didn't restore the exact URL bar functionality, thus the oldbar extension).
Only in the USA could "someone seeing an x-ray of my dick" be considered more serious than having all your communications monitored by the government.
No one is really worried about pictures. They're worried about testicular cancer. Every dose of radiation is a physically damaging assault on the body. Of course, the TSA wants to frame the debate around "nudies".
I find it risible when games companies show off their crappy pre-rendered sequences with mannequin like uncanny-valley figures and gush about emotional depth and story like they're creating a film. News guys- your plastic attempts at film noir (or whatever) would get laughed off the screen if presented as a "real" film.
And yet Tron2.0 was a better film than Tron:Legacy
and 64GB of flash makes a much bigger difference to performance than 8GB of RAM.
except it doesn't. That's like saying 2TB of 5.25 Floppies make a bigger difference to performance than an 8MB HDD. Bigger storage space does not equal faster speed.
I used to muscle-memory my passwords, but 2 laptops, three desktop keyboards, and a smart phone ganged up on me and made me remember passwords by standard memory.
Which means it's really just numerical (with abc, def, etc mapping to numbers). Plus, they probably require https for web, but the phone is totally unencrypted.
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the human body(while pretty creepy) wouldn't be an ethically salient detail. Chimps seem to be rather smarter than dogs, and not quite so gung-ho about their human overlords, so a fair percentage of the likely use of such an organism could get troubling.
Granted, it is a specially crafted scenario, but I wanted to make it clear that it's a beautiful human body without a human brain, but with a human desire to reproduce with humans (twisted so that us slashdotters are the attractive ones). Is it wrong? ie is it sex-slavery because of the human body, or statutory rape because the human body might be willing but can't consent? Or is it bestiality because it's brain is a dual animal hybrid? I would like to make it clear that I do not own or plan to own a Lucy Lu clone. I'd rather have a Lucy Lu bot they can carry on a conversation.
But one would say, "So what! They make a mistake and I'll sue for false arrest!!" Yeah, good luck with that. With all this monitoring, even if you're Mother Teressa, they'll find something on you. And we are talking about Massachusetts here. The prosecutor will find some law from 1793 that you violated just to burn your ass citizen!
Consorting with wizards. As proof: crack open his CRT monitor. Wizard's magic smoke!
In many other states, cars only have rear license plates too, but they park "normally" like your Illinois example. Maybe it's just easier for the elderly to back into a space than it is to back out of one?
Taking someone's browser history is theft. It's theft of privacy. If I go into a store should I expect to have to tell them every place I stopped on my way there so they can sell that info. I would think not. Are stores allowed to put tracking devices on my car to see the other places I visit or other stores I go to? No.
Checkout workers are almost uniformly asking for zipcodes now. I decline, but might not be able to in the future.
When has an agent of Google said "privacy is not important"?
http://m.gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-people
Some people use quotation marks for paraphrased quotes.
It's people like you who are killing productivity in the workplace. I will be very happy once "IT" has been thoroughly discarded as a business unit and workers are allowed to use whatever tools they wish to accomplish the jobs they need to do.
Yeah, you'll be happy for a month or two until you realize all of the things IT does for you. We wipe your bottom every time you use the restroom. We cut the crust off your peanutbutter sandwich. IT is a full partner with sales in making the company go. No IT means technological chaos.
any techniques that would hypothetically involve the production of excessively human central nervous systems in laboratory animals might get ethically dodgy; but are "skin" and "facial features" really 'uniquely human' attributes that squick us out so much we just can't stand it? The idea that having a cartilage-and-soft-tissue structure that looks kind of human, rather than having a differently shaped one, is somehow an 'ethical' problem, rather than pure squeamishness, is just emotive rot.
What about a Lucy Lu clone body, but with a dog/chimp hybrid brain tweaked to find basement dwellers attractive? Is it a pet or a slave?
I seriously doubt that unless you work in a brain trauma ward. Even the smartest dogs are dumber than some of the dumbest children by nearly any human metric.
Time for an evolution.
pokemon style? "My government evolved into a charizard!"
See, you're not really in IT, that's why you're posting as AC. Real IT shops have deployment systems and configuration management systems. If a company wants to push out Firefox without the awesomebar, that's a near-trivial undertaking.
Sure, you can script a copy of userpref.js into every user's profile, but what if you want to restrict certain config options? You could restrict them all by making the file read only and owned by administrator, but that might not be the desired behavior. It might be better to have an overrideuserprefs.js that can be set to be read only and admin owned, but that takes a recompile. This enterprise forum might allow for suggestions like this which the devs ordinarily wouldn't consider.
The problem you describe is caused by exactly the thing they're trying to solve here. Corporate users are stupid and think that deployment strategies which worked 10 years ago still make sense. Anything that touches the internet needs to be able to be updated rapidly, so the corporate "this version is the version we use for the next five years" idea needs to go away.
You're misunderstanding corporate IT. They _want_ to update software that touches the Internet ASAP, mostly for security reasons. They don't want to allow end users to update software willy nilly however, and although you can update FF with some psexec fu, just a simple "update silently now" executable would do wonders for scheduled tasks, psexecs, or active directory updates ( without having to download a mar and map drives to copy directories).
How long have people been begging for an MSI based installer, and some Group Policy support that is "official".. sure there are scripts that can hack GPO support in, and 3rd party builds of the MSI installer.. but people have been asking since Firefox 2...
People have been asking officially since at least 2000.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52052
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231062
You realize that those options were added after the fact and were met with resistance from the devs? They wanted no way for end users to disable the awesome bar. Hiding the option in about:config was their belated compromise (and even then it didn't restore the exact URL bar functionality, thus the oldbar extension).
Once ebooks dominate, there may be a push to burn real books since they can't be altered remotely to fit a political climate (Tom Sawyer first).
Only in the USA could "someone seeing an x-ray of my dick" be considered more serious than having all your communications monitored by the government.
No one is really worried about pictures. They're worried about testicular cancer. Every dose of radiation is a physically damaging assault on the body. Of course, the TSA wants to frame the debate around "nudies".
The government will shut these places down as soon as Apple calls them up and says "So, do you like us producing all of our products at Hon Hai?"
"Okay, we still make all your products and sell them for less. You blink first."
I find it risible when games companies show off their crappy pre-rendered sequences with mannequin like uncanny-valley figures and gush about emotional depth and story like they're creating a film. News guys- your plastic attempts at film noir (or whatever) would get laughed off the screen if presented as a "real" film.
And yet Tron2.0 was a better film than Tron:Legacy
My nieces actually thought it was kind of fun. You drive a tractor and plant and harvest crops.
And I pay more at retail stores due to shoplifters, but I'd rather nit have a tax to cover the cost of a policeman in every store.
obviously not for 50-60 bucks. If you make a 2h AAA game you must be able to sell it for 10 bucks.
AAA games would probably sell for $5 in the bargain bins like the John Deere games. "Tow the cars to the shops before the state impounds them!"
and 64GB of flash makes a much bigger difference to performance than 8GB of RAM.
except it doesn't. That's like saying 2TB of 5.25 Floppies make a bigger difference to performance than an 8MB HDD. Bigger storage space does not equal faster speed.
They do not have the laptop anymore so there's no way the injunction could go ahead
it's a class action suit. Everyone else in the effected class still has the laptops (unless aarons has an injunction against renting laptops).
Somehowing getting into facebook such that you can guess the next password. That requires facebook somehow being compromised.
Okay, so instead of d0nT+A2eM3bR0!f@cebook say it's d0nT+A2eM3bR0!s0ny or some podunk site that hasn't updated since 2005.
I used to muscle-memory my passwords, but 2 laptops, three desktop keyboards, and a smart phone ganged up on me and made me remember passwords by standard memory.
Which means it's really just numerical (with abc, def, etc mapping to numbers). Plus, they probably require https for web, but the phone is totally unencrypted.