You call a company and say you would like to use their service because 9 out 10 of your friends use it and it is free.
The company says all you all to do is listen to the terms that are in a different language and then click a check box. After that you will be equal to your peers and benefits galore await you. Just click the box. It must be ok because 9 out of 10 of your friends are doing it and even though you didn't understand the language, all you have to do is click the box. Even though you may have a little uneasiness about not understanding the terms, it must be okay because 9 out 10 of your friends are doing it and enjoy hours of interacting with others and finding great purchasing deals all with no ill effect. So, just click the box.
Maybe the question to ask is:
Are we any different than the leaders of the tech companies whose products we use? (we want something for nothing)
How about we pass legislation outlawing dumping. We don't tolerate dumping all of our trash in out of the way places in the real world, why put up with it in the cyber-world? There should not be a reason to employ someone to go through separating different types of feces. A job like this should not exist in the first place.
So the predictable actions of a small percentage of consumers should be extrapolated to the general population? Ask the lawmakers if we should ban:
gasoline because everybody will put it in baggies and huff it
bananas because everybody will dry the peeling and smoke it
automobiles because everybody will use them as weapons of mass destruction
electricity because everybody will use it on salt water to make chlorine gas
yada yada
It's so blatantly obvious that the lobbyists are not lobbying for the health and well being of normal citizens that even a politician could see it.
Wait....
Is there a database or website that is being maintained on all the various car models and how to disable this? Even just the antenna disconnection information would go a long way. I would absolutely disable it if I knew how and it could be done without removing the engine or something else as onerous.
We can only have dystopia as long as we click and type and while Sears, K-Mart, Toy-R-Us, and a whole list of others are shutting their doors. As we go online to take care of our business, the number of people in the pyramid above get fewer. When we go to a local business, there are employees in the building, there are services keeping the business running, there are supervisors, owners, supply companies where all the same activities are taking place, and on and on. Take it online the the number of people shrink dramatically due to automation and efficiencies.
So go ahead, drive past the mall and the empty shops, and head on over to Amazon.com, I think Anker has some good bargins today, And tell that self driving car you want to stop a look at a pretty flower on the side of the road.
We are shooting ourselves in the foot and too stupid to see it.
More and more the theory that intelligent civilizations always destroy themselves when the become advanced makes sense to me.
https://futurism.com/we-wont-b...
I think a large percentage of us agree that we are watching a slow motion train wreck. Whether the train actually crashes in the end or not, it is going to get a lot more scarier. There is nothing we can do but hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Think about not having children. Do whatever sets your soul on fire. Live your best life.
I'm looking at these to power a projector in a K-12 environment. The teacher would have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse on their podium and run the whiteboard software. Pretty much a single purpose device and with an Ethernet connection streaming video should be good.
Extrapolate that thought process. Put so much safety control mechanisms onto firearms that they would only function at "approved" firing ranges or within certain "geofences". Can't let stupid people make stupid mistakes.
Sunday talk shows yesterday were offering a glimpse of hope. Senator Feinstein seemed to be hinting that technology was not getting the job done and we should be working harder with human intelligence.
Zakaria showed some stats on how many people had been killed in the US by terrorists. 3.2/yr in the last 13 years (Forty two in 13 years). Over 30,000 are killed EVERY year in highway deaths. I wish he had provided the NSA budget figures.
It was also mentioned that we should stop sensationalizing terrorist attacks since this is their bread and butter. I personally think attacks should be local news only. But I'm sure it would take more self discipline than we currently can muster.
This may be out there in left field but what if:
It is, I think, a fact of life that everybody is going to have an internet connected device of some sort and bandwidth will continue to be mostly sufficient. What if a protocol could be developed so that the contents of packets were encrypted by default and the location of the encryption key or some other permission approver was part of the packet. If the sender had to be verified (tracked) the location of the key or approver would be checked. Let's say we had white lists on our mobile device and the mobile device IP address was in the packet somewhere. I login to my healthcare website, the website contacts my mobile device and since they are whitelisted, they can decrypt the packet contents.
Basically, your data would be your data and you would only release to those you wanted to have it. If you did not have someone in your white list and it was important to you, maybe they could, gasp, call you? I'm not sure the analogy would hold up but it would be similar to a door entry system but you have total control over the database of people who can enter.
Please take his advice. I park my truck on the street with the doors unlocked. It takes me three minutes to drive my truck to work. I can make it on a bicyle in about 10. We are not now and probably never will be on any terrorist target list. We know and talk to our neighbors, all up and down the street. Stay where you are, you'd hate it here.
I think the technology in the fifth grade classroom should be that that makes the teacher more efficient. Blackboards are not very efficient. Interactive white boards with good software enables a teacher to reuse material and capture what has worked. It also allows the lesson to be multimedia in presentation which has been shown many times over to be more effective. Embed a flash video into a presentation that a teacher who is very good at what they do has designed and shared. This enables good teaching talent to be available to a much wider audience.
Classroom response systems will cut the time spent grading tests in half. It also lets you test "on the fly" to see if the subject matter is sinking in.
So the answer IMHO, is to make the teacher more efficient, reclaim teaching time, and use proven material available from outside the district.
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Does this mean VLC is compromised? That is a huge deal if so.
Right to repair? Take it apart if you can! Mwah-h-h-a-a-a-h!!
It may be more like:
You call a company and say you would like to use their service because 9 out 10 of your friends use it and it is free.
The company says all you all to do is listen to the terms that are in a different language and then click a check box. After that you will be equal to your peers and benefits galore await you. Just click the box. It must be ok because 9 out of 10 of your friends are doing it and even though you didn't understand the language, all you have to do is click the box. Even though you may have a little uneasiness about not understanding the terms, it must be okay because 9 out 10 of your friends are doing it and enjoy hours of interacting with others and finding great purchasing deals all with no ill effect. So, just click the box.
Maybe the question to ask is:
Are we any different than the leaders of the tech companies whose products we use? (we want something for nothing)
How about we pass legislation outlawing dumping. We don't tolerate dumping all of our trash in out of the way places in the real world, why put up with it in the cyber-world? There should not be a reason to employ someone to go through separating different types of feces. A job like this should not exist in the first place.
Outlaw Facebook. Society would be better for it.
So the predictable actions of a small percentage of consumers should be extrapolated to the general population? Ask the lawmakers if we should ban:
....
gasoline because everybody will put it in baggies and huff it
bananas because everybody will dry the peeling and smoke it
automobiles because everybody will use them as weapons of mass destruction
electricity because everybody will use it on salt water to make chlorine gas
yada yada
It's so blatantly obvious that the lobbyists are not lobbying for the health and well being of normal citizens that even a politician could see it.
Wait
Is there a database or website that is being maintained on all the various car models and how to disable this? Even just the antenna disconnection information would go a long way. I would absolutely disable it if I knew how and it could be done without removing the engine or something else as onerous.
We can only have dystopia as long as we click and type and while Sears, K-Mart, Toy-R-Us, and a whole list of others are shutting their doors. As we go online to take care of our business, the number of people in the pyramid above get fewer. When we go to a local business, there are employees in the building, there are services keeping the business running, there are supervisors, owners, supply companies where all the same activities are taking place, and on and on. Take it online the the number of people shrink dramatically due to automation and efficiencies. So go ahead, drive past the mall and the empty shops, and head on over to Amazon.com, I think Anker has some good bargins today, And tell that self driving car you want to stop a look at a pretty flower on the side of the road. We are shooting ourselves in the foot and too stupid to see it.
I think the parallelism is the big deal? "efficiently process millions of streams of parallel computations"
More and more the theory that intelligent civilizations always destroy themselves when the become advanced makes sense to me. https://futurism.com/we-wont-b... I think a large percentage of us agree that we are watching a slow motion train wreck. Whether the train actually crashes in the end or not, it is going to get a lot more scarier. There is nothing we can do but hope for the best and prepare for the worst. Think about not having children. Do whatever sets your soul on fire. Live your best life.
There is still hope via DOH. Maybe technology can fix this? https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
I'm looking at these to power a projector in a K-12 environment. The teacher would have a bluetooth keyboard and mouse on their podium and run the whiteboard software. Pretty much a single purpose device and with an Ethernet connection streaming video should be good.
Extrapolate that thought process. Put so much safety control mechanisms onto firearms that they would only function at "approved" firing ranges or within certain "geofences". Can't let stupid people make stupid mistakes.
Sunday talk shows yesterday were offering a glimpse of hope. Senator Feinstein seemed to be hinting that technology was not getting the job done and we should be working harder with human intelligence. Zakaria showed some stats on how many people had been killed in the US by terrorists. 3.2/yr in the last 13 years (Forty two in 13 years). Over 30,000 are killed EVERY year in highway deaths. I wish he had provided the NSA budget figures. It was also mentioned that we should stop sensationalizing terrorist attacks since this is their bread and butter. I personally think attacks should be local news only. But I'm sure it would take more self discipline than we currently can muster.
Nation states don't want a measly item such as taking money to risk their operations.
They don't "always". http://slashdot.org/submission...
This may be out there in left field but what if: It is, I think, a fact of life that everybody is going to have an internet connected device of some sort and bandwidth will continue to be mostly sufficient. What if a protocol could be developed so that the contents of packets were encrypted by default and the location of the encryption key or some other permission approver was part of the packet. If the sender had to be verified (tracked) the location of the key or approver would be checked. Let's say we had white lists on our mobile device and the mobile device IP address was in the packet somewhere. I login to my healthcare website, the website contacts my mobile device and since they are whitelisted, they can decrypt the packet contents. Basically, your data would be your data and you would only release to those you wanted to have it. If you did not have someone in your white list and it was important to you, maybe they could, gasp, call you? I'm not sure the analogy would hold up but it would be similar to a door entry system but you have total control over the database of people who can enter.
Wonder if they had any Siemens equipment installed? :)
Please take his advice. I park my truck on the street with the doors unlocked. It takes me three minutes to drive my truck to work. I can make it on a bicyle in about 10. We are not now and probably never will be on any terrorist target list. We know and talk to our neighbors, all up and down the street. Stay where you are, you'd hate it here.
I think the technology in the fifth grade classroom should be that that makes the teacher more efficient. Blackboards are not very efficient. Interactive white boards with good software enables a teacher to reuse material and capture what has worked. It also allows the lesson to be multimedia in presentation which has been shown many times over to be more effective. Embed a flash video into a presentation that a teacher who is very good at what they do has designed and shared. This enables good teaching talent to be available to a much wider audience. Classroom response systems will cut the time spent grading tests in half. It also lets you test "on the fly" to see if the subject matter is sinking in. So the answer IMHO, is to make the teacher more efficient, reclaim teaching time, and use proven material available from outside the district.
Send them a message in the search terms, e.g. "Eat Shit and die BP", "oil spill" It won't do any good but it might make you feel better.
This is one of the dangers of the current plan. If local over-the-air broadcasters go away, "national" opinion shaping can't be far away.