I think a good example would be the resistance against malaria shown by people with sickle cell anemia.
We have already managed to map out a lot of known bad combinations.
And even knowing that sickle cell anemia helps against malaria It is still probably better to use anti malarial drugs on the chance that they catch malaria at some point than it is to guarantee a lifetime of sickle cell anemia.
Everyone shouldn't be made to be identical but when we find out that gene 232wxyz causes a 99.7% incidence of having no arms you probably wouldn't want your child to be born with it.
Did you ever see the movie Chappie? (it was crap) but the scene that made me go oh bull !@#$ was when they were using a cluster of ps4's like sony would ever allow their consoles to do something useful again.
As if they ever do decide to allow people to use their ps4's for computation it will be long after its no longer cost effective to do so.
At this point I think the ps3 was just a mistake and it accidentally did something useful.
And as you pointed out other os did not let you play pirated games so they didn't even have that as an excuse for removing it yet since its been removed there appears to be several methods now that allows you to play copied games. So there's that.
That's one of those odd things at the point this all happened apple had been offered device locked mdm profiles for a while.
The articles I read indicated that the owner of the phone san bernardino county did not opt to get mdm profiles when they purchased the phones.
But its nice to see that apple hasn't given up on their deceptive business practices as they still do not show if a device has a irremovable mdm profile on the icloud lock check page.
Really fucks over second hand dealers and makes the icloud activation lock page totally worthless. Thanks again apple.
Its one of those cognitive dissonance problems the people think its not my money why should I care?
If someone actually cared they would have looked at that price tag and gone whoa wtf? And found some one to do it for a few hundred at most.
But as it is they don't feel they have any stake in what they are approving and most likely don't really understand what they are approving or how much it should actually cost.
Despite the fact that it's still going to come out of their taxes somehow. Gov't employees do still pay taxes right?
I always assumed it was just coincidence that things I bought would often mysteriously quit working the day after the warranty ran out but now i'm starting to wonder.
I think privacy is one of those things that you wouldn't really notice how much you needed it until you no longer had it.
*spoilers*
I'm discussing the second part even though both parts involve a large amount of loss.
In the framework of the story it is implied that they trust their government. Nice idea just as long as your certain that your management will never change.
While not explicitly stated in the story I feel that it is implied that with the increased openness a lot of the things considered taboo today would be accepted as there is a lot more variety to people than most are willing to admit.
At least id like to think so otherwise it would be some kind of nightmare something like the kino no tabi episode the land of visible pain. (kino no tabi (aka Kino's Journey) is a rather interesting philosophical anime a bit dark and tends to lean towards the extremes but well worth the watch) I suppose the beginning of the episode Three Men Along the Rails would be most similar with 100% automation.
After reading it I'm surprised it wasn't made into an episode of black mirror...well partly it was I suppose "The Entire History of You" seems rather appropriate as well as the movie final cut.
The system introduced in the second part has the capability to incapacitate its user by design automatically while this does nearly guarantee safety at least around other users of the same system it pretty much eliminates any possibility of revolution in the event that the government ends up being managed badly in the future.
In the first part it is pointed out that the unemployed citizens have a large (and in the circumstances very understandable) distrust of the gov't Its noted that they are constantly lied to for their own benefit such as the unusual method of confinement. It is even suggested that they are being given contraceptives in their water. Although no evidence of this is given in the story but given what else has been done on the basis of the corporate bottom line it does sound plausible that they would want to prevent having more unemployed to feed. Then again it wasn't addressed in the second part of the story either but from the foreshadowing it really does look to me like the explanation was taken out shortly before publication.
I still don't feel that it was necessary to completely discard the right to privacy. Or even so your own autonomy.
And while I know its not possible nor was it intended to take into account all variables It reads like a section in the second part was removed after it was written on how they handled the expanding population.
You mean like how suddenlink refuses to say what speeds they can sell you? http://i.pictr.com/2ii71jz9q6.... Or like how Paypal always defaults to using your bank account and there is no option to change the default?
a few years ago paypal fked up and credit cards were made default for about the whole month of December. There was a 10+ page thread on their support forms with people thanking them saying they wish they had done it sooner.
They got it fixed in time for new years tho give people what they want? hell no.
How would it limit liability? Don't they have a long history of let us remove whatever we wan't and then we will sue you into oblivion anyway after you have done everything we asked?
Last time I talked to someone at T-Mobile it was to get a prepaid phone activated in 2014. Took three calls each time I was connected via what sounded like a poor quality voip line to someone that could not understand english very well with an indian accent.
Maybe I Just had really bad luck that day. But It left me with a very bad first impression of the company.
From the looks of the replies though I must have had really bad luck or they have tremendously improved their consumer service dept since them.
This actually wasn't a spanish problem. I highly doubt the people I talked to to get a prepaid tmobile phone activated back in 2014 could speak spanish with any greater proficiency than they could speak english. The accent was wrong for spanish but sounded right for hindi.
From the other replies it looks like I must have been very unlucky with who the phone tree connected me to. But those three calls left me with a very bad first impression.
Yeah iirc they tried to teach me spanish for one year in the 8th grade. The more I think about it the more inconsistent I realise the curriculum was.
No I did not know that but that sounds like a really good idea. I think it would be a really useful skill to have. But they don't teach that here in oklahoma that would be considered a practical skill and we can't have those.
Everyone doesn't learn the same way you can see it with any math teacher some people get it and to them it's trivial but for the rest of us it remains a chore even if we are eventually able to do it. In other words just because it was easy for you doesn't mean that it's easy for me sadly.
There are plenty of things I would love to learn how to do yet I haven't had the free time to so much as try in several years.
Wireshark had the capability to do it back then. If you want to prevent it the only option still considered secure against it is wpa2 enterprise which actually does give each device its own key.
Encrypt your home wifi don't connect to any unencrypted network or network with a publicly known key.
To setup a MITM wifi you would need to know a wifi name (And key if set) the device will auto connect to. Try "Linksys" most devices have connected to one of those at some point.
Even if your network name happens to be "Linksys" If your AP has a key set the MITM AP would have to have the same network key.
This is why if your network name is the same as an open network or another encrypted network you will be unable to connect without removing your profile.
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Is that a new amazon app for their line of fire products?
China has one why can't we have one too?
I'm being sarcastic.
I think a good example would be the resistance against malaria shown by people with sickle cell anemia.
We have already managed to map out a lot of known bad combinations.
And even knowing that sickle cell anemia helps against malaria It is still probably better to use anti malarial drugs on the chance that they catch malaria at some point than it is to guarantee a lifetime of sickle cell anemia.
Everyone shouldn't be made to be identical but when we find out that gene 232wxyz causes a 99.7% incidence of having no arms you probably wouldn't want your child to be born with it.
No not at all.
Sorry It's hard to be clear without it being overly long and even then.
I was not intending to support 1:1 cloning even though the problem you point out is very significant even without the use of modern cloning.
We have plenty of debilitating diseases that could be fixed beforehand that are very hard to treat after the fact.
This probably falls into the category of "designer babies" But I really think that what we should be striving for is a high quality of life.
Someday we may even be able to make these small needed alterations after the fact.
95% or our bananas are of the Cavendish variety. Its going to be rather noticeable when they are wiped out.
On that subject when was the last time anyone saw an American chestnut tree?
Well Its been over 10 years later and I'm still avoiding Sony branded products.
So maybe I don't qualify as most people.....
So your saying that the genetic diseases that we have from natural selection are better than the life we could have had without them?
Did you ever see the movie Chappie? (it was crap) but the scene that made me go oh bull !@#$ was when they were using a cluster of ps4's like sony would ever allow their consoles to do something useful again.
As if they ever do decide to allow people to use their ps4's for computation it will be long after its no longer cost effective to do so.
At this point I think the ps3 was just a mistake and it accidentally did something useful.
And as you pointed out other os did not let you play pirated games so they didn't even have that as an excuse for removing it yet since its been removed there appears to be several methods now that allows you to play copied games. So there's that.
That's one of those odd things at the point this all happened apple had been offered device locked mdm profiles for a while.
The articles I read indicated that the owner of the phone san bernardino county did not opt to get mdm profiles when they purchased the phones.
But its nice to see that apple hasn't given up on their deceptive business practices as they still do not show if a device has a irremovable mdm profile on the icloud lock check page.
Really fucks over second hand dealers and makes the icloud activation lock page totally worthless. Thanks again apple.
Its one of those cognitive dissonance problems the people think its not my money why should I care?
If someone actually cared they would have looked at that price tag and gone whoa wtf? And found some one to do it for a few hundred at most.
But as it is they don't feel they have any stake in what they are approving and most likely don't really understand what they are approving or how much it should actually cost.
Despite the fact that it's still going to come out of their taxes somehow. Gov't employees do still pay taxes right?
I always assumed it was just coincidence that things I bought would often mysteriously quit working the day after the warranty ran out but now i'm starting to wonder.
I think privacy is one of those things that you wouldn't really notice how much you needed it until you no longer had it.
*spoilers*
I'm discussing the second part even though both parts involve a large amount of loss.
In the framework of the story it is implied that they trust their government. Nice idea just as long as your certain that your management will never change.
While not explicitly stated in the story I feel that it is implied that with the increased openness a lot of the things considered taboo today would be accepted as there is a lot more variety to people than most are willing to admit.
At least id like to think so otherwise it would be some kind of nightmare something like the kino no tabi episode the land of visible pain. (kino no tabi (aka Kino's Journey) is a rather interesting philosophical anime a bit dark and tends to lean towards the extremes but well worth the watch)
I suppose the beginning of the episode Three Men Along the Rails would be most similar with 100% automation.
After reading it I'm surprised it wasn't made into an episode of black mirror...well partly it was I suppose "The Entire History of You" seems rather appropriate as well as the movie final cut.
The system introduced in the second part has the capability to incapacitate its user by design automatically while this does nearly guarantee safety at least around other users of the same system it pretty much eliminates any possibility of revolution in the event that the government ends up being managed badly in the future.
In the first part it is pointed out that the unemployed citizens have a large (and in the circumstances very understandable) distrust of the gov't Its noted that they are constantly lied to for their own benefit such as the unusual method of confinement. It is even suggested that they are being given contraceptives in their water. Although no evidence of this is given in the story but given what else has been done on the basis of the corporate bottom line it does sound plausible that they would want to prevent having more unemployed to feed. Then again it wasn't addressed in the second part of the story either but from the foreshadowing it really does look to me like the explanation was taken out shortly before publication.
*spoilers*
I still don't feel that it was necessary to completely discard the right to privacy. Or even so your own autonomy.
And while I know its not possible nor was it intended to take into account all variables It reads like a section in the second part was removed after it was written on how they handled the expanding population.
Still a good read tho.
You mean like how suddenlink refuses to say what speeds they can sell you? http://i.pictr.com/2ii71jz9q6....
Or like how Paypal always defaults to using your bank account and there is no option to change the default?
a few years ago paypal fked up and credit cards were made default for about the whole month of December. There was a 10+ page thread on their support forms with people thanking them saying they wish they had done it sooner.
They got it fixed in time for new years tho give people what they want? hell no.
Looks like it would have been roughly $10,000 AUD otherwise. (about $7500 USD)
It would take me about 12 days to hit that amount on the cellular here maxed out 24hr/day.
Nice how they aren't rolling out landline broadband so they can get away with per bit billing isn't it?
How would it limit liability? Don't they have a long history of let us remove whatever we wan't and then we will sue you into oblivion anyway after you have done everything we asked?
Last time I talked to someone at T-Mobile it was to get a prepaid phone activated in 2014. Took three calls each time I was connected via what sounded like a poor quality voip line to someone that could not understand english very well with an indian accent.
Maybe I Just had really bad luck that day.
But It left me with a very bad first impression of the company.
From the looks of the replies though I must have had really bad luck or they have tremendously improved their consumer service dept since them.
This actually wasn't a spanish problem. I highly doubt the people I talked to to get a prepaid tmobile phone activated back in 2014 could speak spanish with any greater proficiency than they could speak english. The accent was wrong for spanish but sounded right for hindi.
From the other replies it looks like I must have been very unlucky with who the phone tree connected me to.
But those three calls left me with a very bad first impression.
Yeah iirc they tried to teach me spanish for one year in the 8th grade. The more I think about it the more inconsistent I realise the curriculum was.
No I did not know that but that sounds like a really good idea. I think it would be a really useful skill to have.
But they don't teach that here in oklahoma that would be considered a practical skill and we can't have those.
Everyone doesn't learn the same way you can see it with any math teacher some people get it and to them it's trivial but for the rest of us it remains a chore even if we are eventually able to do it. In other words just because it was easy for you doesn't mean that it's easy for me sadly.
There are plenty of things I would love to learn how to do yet I haven't had the free time to so much as try in several years.
Please tell me how you were able to get transfered to the English speaking Tmobile support! I need to know.
Yes your right 802.11x can actually do that.
Not sure if you can set it up without requiring login tho.
Now that just leaves me wondering why I've never seen one setup in the wild.
Might be a good project for this weekend.
Your right its not quite that easy but it is still pretty simple.
From 2014 http://www.howtogeek.com/20433...
Wireshark had the capability to do it back then. If you want to prevent it the only option still considered secure against it is wpa2 enterprise which actually does give each device its own key.
Huh Too bad you can't live there... because you'd be on fire...because its a star....
Alright! Now /. Is being more clear with their advertising.
Although I didn't expect to find out that every single post was paid.
SLASHVERTISEMENT: What /. users call paid (aka sponsored) posts that are not identified as such...Except today!
Encrypt your home wifi don't connect to any unencrypted network or network with a publicly known key.
To setup a MITM wifi you would need to know a wifi name (And key if set) the device will auto connect to. Try "Linksys" most devices have connected to one of those at some point.
Even if your network name happens to be "Linksys"
If your AP has a key set the MITM AP would have to have the same network key.
This is why if your network name is the same as an open network or another encrypted network you will be unable to connect without removing your profile.
Would be nice.
Device isolation and each device given its own encryption key for the router.
Should have been done years ago.