decoyworker

Freedom of speech is not without exceptions. You can't yell, "fire" in a crowded theater when there is no fire for example.

Everyone here wants that perfect idealistic and pure world, unfortunately that's now the world we are given. Problem is many here want to just treat the world we have as the idealistic model world as if there is no difference.

It's not unchecked- they are free to move to a different service. Why should Cloudflare be forced to keep all customers no matter what? That infringes on their rights as a private business to run their business as they see fit. There is no "freedom of platform" where your right to a platform is being infringed. You have no right to a platform.

'At its core, artificial intelligence is a military technology.'

False premise. How is it a military technology at its core as opposed to any other technology? Or every technology is a military technology at its core, in which case, so what?

Profiting in this way seems to be a bastardization of the purpose of the market and provides no value.

I'm not sure if IBM acquires good products and makes them shitty or just makes shitty products from the ground up. I can't say how realistic it is they'll screw up Red Hat, but every IBM product that I've used in the last few years has been absolutely atrocious. At this point I just assume everything they touch turns to shit unless shown otherwise.

I hope that I am proven wrong since I actually quite like the RHEL / CentOS / Fedora ecosystem.

Defense?

The only smart feature that I love is the ability to play 4k HDR videos from a USB drive. With that said, I will never connect the thing to my network.

PRISM requires a FISA warrant on domestic targets.

What violations of the Constitution did Snowden reveal?

This right here.

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human. Unintended civilian casualties or collateral damage in war are a tragedy but they are not murder and are almost never a war crime.

What war crimes did Assange expose?

The easiest way to defeat the aircraft is to cancel the program. I'd wager a lot of negative press the aircraft gets is pushed by adversaries who are scared to fight it.

The A-10 is a relic and the areas that it can be effective in are shrinking.

Devil's advocate- just because the violence is not visible doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It's just pushed out of sight. The increased ease of acquiring drugs is probably pretty strongly correlated to stronger cartels elsewhere.

I think the real solution is legalization of most drugs but until then I see no issue with these tactics.

What would you legislate?

Your location is not private information and never has been. Not sure how you could even legislate to make your DNA protected private information- under HIPPA for instance, considering you leave it everywhere you go. Your fingerprint is not private, your face is not private, and your DNA is not private. I'm not sure how they could be.

You're not off the hook if you pay either. Paying for something doesn't necessarily mean you aren't the product.

RFC April Fools' jokes are good for a few laughs.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt

They can choose to not be a platform for anything that they want. You don't have a right to that platform. Forcing YouTube to leave everything up infringes on their rights to run their site as they want.

It's non-ionizing radiation. I don't worry about health issues from 5G.

Expensive but they are pretty solid.

Is there a way to use an Android device as a PC by plugging in kb, mouse, and display?

War sucks what do you want me to tell you? I've been there and served in Afghanistan. I wish this enemy would stand away from civilians and identify themselves clearly.

The US military does have qualms against it hence the article and constant strive for more precision. I ask you- what is the alternative? And don't give me the whole, "shouldn't be bombing in the first place" red herring.

In which way? In the way that Aaron Swartz accidentally broke into a closed area and extracted copyrighted material and then apologized for being so clumsy?

I think it's that as well as the fact that they are a private company and don't do as much "contracting" in a sense. They aren't handed a gigantic set of legaleze requirements from the customer (the government).

Unless they do- I don't work there but it seems like they build their product, make sure it can lift X mass to orbit well, and if anyone needs shit lifted into orbit they just goto SpaceX. Far less bloat.

Don't forget to charge all that labor to the program (taxpayers).

You hit the nail on the head with regards to the culture in this industry. This is my experience as well.

For an engineering oriented industry you have an alarming number of engineers with an aversion to learning anything new. As much as incoming / lower level software engineers complain about tools, management / senior engineers just go ahead and choose the shittiest IBM or Oracle product for the job because some vocal graybeard minority in a meeting will complain it's not Clearcase.

Good riddance- Oracle cannot die fast enough.

Where do I defend torture?

What if a child torturer is helping you save other lives and end the war sooner thus saving innumerable lives? Do you see how torture is bad but there are other variables?

I never claimed that I agreed with the Iraq war and I never claimed that I think that it was justified.