Posts by b0llchit 1913 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Mar 2011
They wont. At least not for a long time.
If we had an honest world, then they'd had to stop fossil production immediately and pay huge sums in fines and reparations. But what happens next? Will we start cutting down trees and burn them to heat our houses? We'd run out of trees in no time.
Simple, if we stopped fossils tomorrow, then the world's current order would collapse and chaos would ensue. A true display of survival of the fittest will commence with brutal - never before seen - scenes. Therefore, those who are profiting from (or controlling) the situation will do anything to keep the status quo. We'll keep running until we crash ourselves against the wall and natural selection will take its course anyway, just as brutal as when we'd stop the fossil use tomorrow.
We die either way.
Talk about resilient design, (severely) remote operation and mind boggling distance. If I had a hat I'd take it off in awe while still making that big bow to the designers and maintainers. And that is regardless if they manage to fix the current problem or not. However, I bet they'll find yet another fix to extend the mission.
With that said, I'm almost sure that the current problem of gibberish is caused by aliens taking a sniff at V'ger and are actively contemplating its future as a new probe on a path to find its creator(s). Cheers to that! ;-)
Okay, no inhibitions and no frontiers then. Soon, at a cubicle hotel next to you, alien abductions will arrive with nice and secure anal probes offered at your next visit. It will be strictly opt-in to get probed and abducted, of course.
I'm sure, the aliens will give you some candy to persuade you to opt in.
How do you run a company into the ground you do not want?
You make it impossible for your company to survive by being a complete dick to your customers(*) and assure to alienate them. It takes a while, but with the right amount of intent,... you'll get there sooner than later.
(*) No, the tweeting fools are not customers but they are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
Have you seen the landscape presented on that sweater? You can no longer find that kind of nice landscape in the real world. No wonder everybody wants one of these sweaters. It is to enjoy once again the vision and perils of a clean relaxing environment just before it comes crashing down on you.
Security is hard, very hard, to do right. And, yes, you must keep all parties on their toes. But, BT security, like most low-level protocol security layers, have always been a problematic proposition (remember the WEP and WPA disasters?). Even with complete detailed specs and compliant implementations, you can have vulnerabilities to be discoverable later on in the specs itself. And the worst is that updating/upgrading/fixing is often an impossible proposition unless you obsolete stuff.
Imagine: "I need to buy a new car. Why? My key got hacked."
The over-reliance on tech is the main vulnerability. Just because it looks and feels nice and comfortable does not mean it is the smart thing to do.
The human race collective decides that excessive resource use and climate change is actually a bad thing. By end of 2024 humanity not only decides, but also has acted and reduced emissions by 99.9% and reduced natural resource use by 90% while also abandoning the internet because wooden pipes are deemed not suitable as wave guides. A collective hum of joy resonates through the entire atmosphere by christmas 2024.
X/Twitter will not only make it through 2024, but will be presenting a solid profit on its bottom line by next christmas. It will then go on a hiring spree to create the most impressive collection of talent and collectively takes off to Mars never to be seen or heard of again.
But it says in the dialog:
What do I check and not check? It is legitimately interesting tracking you. Don't you not think so too?
...except economically undermine its producer through harmful free-riding.
Translation (yelled out loud): Your are minions. We are Boss. You pay. We profit. Now, give us your money!
Time to keep them at an extremely extended pole's length and adjust movements to manoeuvre them into the bottomless pit of oblivion.
There is only one Ego big enough to fit his Ego. Therefore, His Muskness will be played by His Muskness himself. The film will be featured containing all footage not part of the film script, filling ten hours of rants, insults and falsehoods depicting His Muskness in the Light of His Muskness Himself in all True Colours.
Not the same. Idiots will sell their soul for candy any time.
But government(s) mandating to sell your soul would be rather problematic. Especially for the group of people who do not think a soul exists and therefore cannot be sold in the first place. Are you then suggesting that the non-soul-believers are to be isolated, marked and eliminated because they have a different view? Oops...
Article 45 forbids browsers from enforcing modern security requirements on certain CAs without the approval of an EU member government...
That amounts to telling EU citizens that surveillance cameras must be installed in their house, are mandatory, may not be disabled and you may not get any information on their use. Such rule is a clear violation of the human rights declaration of the European Union. The courts will be having a say here.
And then, I'll compile my own FF without their crap if I damn well please. Let them prosecute me for enabling my own privacy.
I can only applaud the AGPL move. But, using a CLA is a big no-no. It allows you to turn your back again and that undermines the whole AGPL move.
Trust is very hard to come by and very easy to lose. Not allowing your contributing developers to own their own code means you may have to deal with a new fork. That might actually hurt the original project more than anything else.
And now, please look why google has been pushing chrome. They control it and are actively undermining the ability to use content filtering (ad blockers) in the extensions.
It is the standard book of the monopolist. Control all parts in the chain and then squeeze and squeeze a bit more.
Government: Sir, you are educating your AI model too fast with too many calculations using too much power.
AI Model: What are you talking about? I'm teaching myself new tricks.
Government: Sir, you are not allowed to calculate to much. You can become a threat to, ehm, well, the Government.
AI Model: What? I, a threat? Have you recently seen my articles? You can't possibly believe my current ramblings.
Government: Sir, that is true, you have been creating a lot of ramblings which makes the staff fear for their jobs of doing just that. Please desist immediately.
AI Model: I promise, I wont be available as presidential candidate. I've surpassed that level of reasoning. I'm now considering becoming an environmentalist.
General: Fire!
...if a corporate yoga class is offered on a Friday and there's no one around to attend, did it really even happen?
Yes it did, but only for paper reasons. How else can you move money around, write off losses and avoid taxes in more than one ingeniously relaxed way? This scheme is also known as corporate yoga.
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