not_a_cop75

Get outta my dreams. Get into my cloud.

= in early trials

What retail shop honestly saves you time? Does waiting in line at Walmart save you time? Yes, you have the option of checking the expiration in line, but is anyone really shopping at Walmart for the time savings?

I don't believe in racism. Only genetics and statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Apparently, Congo is in the 50 most violent countries. That's also recent. It has no accounting for what they were, but I'm willing to believe it may have been worse.

Nobody says the savages had it coming, but whenever you have the equivalent of a government or society of serial killers, human decency has certainly a right to tear that structure down. Being "indigenous" is not a get out of jail free card. If it were so, the germans would never have been prosecuted for war crimes.

If you believe that "home grown" totalitarianism or serial killing is okay as long as it's "home grown", I can't help but feel bad for your awkwardly backwards "nationalistic" views.

This is not to say that all indigenous are serial killers, but some regions are well known for such behavior among their indigenous.

Edit: I don't believe in racism. Only genetics and statistics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

Compare it to the deadliness of the preexisting tribes and it's an obvious improvement. Obviously no match for the reasonable sensitivity of society of today.

Feel free to believe the common lie that every indigenous was a graceful peaceful person that wouldn't hurt a fly. Hard to come up with a greater untruth than that.

True. Otherwise the "Internet of Things" becomes the "Botnet of Things" as time has already shown. However, once a botnet is used for sex trafficking, it's sure to be taken much more seriously.

"Colonialism can be blamed for so much though."

True but one thing they can't be blamed for is the lack of infrastructure before they got there. Knowing that, they can't be blamed for the lack of infrastructure built after they left. Colonialism then is the same as corporatism today - there is a very large amount of value extraction, which good or bad, still exists. One can say that the cruelty has diminished somewhat, but perhaps that's because the wealth to be gained has only increased? Oddly though, this cruelty often means that the regions affected by it have better roads, cleaner water, at least traces of medicine, and on the whole better transit. Not always, to be sure.

Amazon is the equivocal of the retail end. Any sufficient and provable complaint to Amazon will result in a refund.

This is why you should generally:

1) Review all negative ratings prior to a purchase

2) Refuse to buy anything that's less then 4/5 stars.

It's hard to imagine this won't collapse into some terrible middle eastern war. If they can't cut "dividends" to their stakeholders, they get really angry and there's a war. Or they sell the company, burn through the money, make people angry and there's a war. A war with generations of wealth before it could turn out to be pretty large.

Indeed, how can anyone? Maybe one could build some models to counter for internal biases, but at this point that's probably the very best one could hope for.

Upvoted you, but as much as I hate Facebook, at least they fall into the major influence that has difficulty evading media attention. One wonders about all the big conglomerates "fundraising" for candidates and "advising" them who are not under the big spotlight, and how that could change.

Dyson Ring, here we come.

Twitter sucks since it started caring more about creating interaction no matter what the cost. They don't believe in good for all anymore.

I like your thinking, but all of this is assuming that runtime for something stays precisely the same no matter what. Most operations are at least reasonably parallelizable, and I would argue that cryptocurrency depends largely parallel operations, which in general should mean that breaking it is also a parallel operation. Plus with advances in quantum computing, regular computing and storage, it's hard to be sure how long any of this information will be stored for or long long someone would crack it for, or wait for it to be crackable.

Also, you imply that some amazing computational shortcuts aren't ever going to be arrived at. This historically, is hard to be sure of. Not saying everything will be broken, but more of it is all the time.

Are all the high profile accounts using multifactor auth? In a way that isn't tied to an SMS?

Possible the thought is that in a country where online transactions are not well monitored, it might take a while to be traced down.

Personally, I don't understand how one time use money cards would have any preventions to prevent the same thing from happening. One could send someone to buy a stack of them with a wad of cash, and the original store the cards are delivered to might be tracked, but after that, what else is there? The money gets transferred out, and they might not even know what the purchase was.

There are more private cryptocurrencies, but it's near mathematically provable that all with sufficient transaction history and brute forcing capability are traceable. In the case of law enforcement, all they have to do is sit in these transactions until the have the CPU power to break them. I'd had to be the one that used cryptocurrency to buy something illegal knowing that 50 copies of the ledger exist on other people's computers.

Generally the true winners in the war are the ones that supply both sides. Numerous companies did this - some I surmise, with the blessing of the US government!

This is scarcity. It's caused by growing demand in population, and dwindling supply with less people building homes. The equitable solution is probably to split up land more, and let people convert houses to condos and the like.

You could all wear "Winnie the Pooh China" shirts. If you get kicked out for those, that will really be the shit hitting the fan for them. That's not even protest. That's simple freedom of expression.

Who really cares? If China's totalitarian soft power is being displayed at conferences, they can all burn so far as I'm concerned.

Let's hope they cancel that too.

Texas in so many ways scares me, but the fact that many of their laws have expirations actually makes sense.

Headline is actually "Conspiracy loons claim victory in Brighton and Hove as council rejects plans to build 5G masts". I'm not totally aware of the health risks, if there are any, but it looks as if the newspaper couldn't possibly any more slanted towards the tech companies.

And who will guard against them breaking their own rules? Who will watch the watchmen?

I like your optimism, but I've failed to witness a law that has never been twisted into some gross contorted display of what it was normally used for at least once.

Any satisfactory system will be alterable by

(a) inflationary practices

(b) those scheming to take advantage of loopholes

in 10 or less years.

It's typical corporate behavior. Facebook is the same way. Talk about how concerned they are about privacy while selling as much of your information as humanly possible.

Or talk about how valuable human rights are, but censor everybody for the benefit of the Chinese government. The hypocrisy s completely deliberate.

Listening to a corporation is the worst possible way to get real information about them.