Not really an innovation; It doesn't take an intelligent camera to know what comes next.
Oh, I know that there is no safe way to answer it. But if said camera can warn me that the question is about to be asked, I can evade the situation entirely. That might offer me the opportunity to again develop/cultivate a worthwhile "significant other".
As it stands, I've found that my penchant for honesty is entirely too intrusive.
sharpened and stuffed in apples.
Foul! Me, I am quite happy to be naive enough to have assumed bits of computer hardware, while contemplating posting "Which house?".
Just like the nuclear powerplant disaster in Japan the PHBs and cost accountants only care about costs as in have it all wireless so we can have 1 guy do the work of 20 by having it on the internet instead instead of having someone there.
This should be regulated if SCADA is used for any public infrastructure and one of them is no networking. Even a fiber link can get spliced. It is more difficult and expensive to do but Iran has the dough to do it and would be a target.
Splicing is a mechanical action, and since humans do not move faster than light, that means that you can detect the signal alteration/disruption resulting from tampering with fiber.
I will concede that ability to safeguard the nation's SCADA networks does not rule out the possibility...the likelihood...that one or more CEOs will/have decided that short term profits - that is, increasing the value of their stock options, which is called "increasing shareholder value" for public consumption - outweighs the public's and the nation's safety and security and so the nation's industrial control systems are...Swiss cheese-y.
That - the only priority is "increasing shareholder value" - has been the rule in America since Jack Welch made it so...and he indeed was involved in the nuclear industry.
Let's face it: we now live in a surveillance society.
Only because the majority of the voters want it that way.
Do not mistake apathy for intent. We have insufficient data to suggest that people want it this way. They just don't care enough [...]
I would dispute that, too. My belief is the evolving totalitarian state isn't a matter of voter desire or voter apathy; it is simply misplaced trust; too many Americans project themselves and their own behavior onto their elected officials. I.e., they wouldn't sell their friends and neighbors out, so they cannot envision a scenario wherein their elected officials would, either. Even though it keeps happening.
On top of which you have to add a lack of awareness of the scope of the systems that are already in place and, further, a lack of the imagination required to conceptualize how those systems might be used to first curtail and then crush individual liberty...which again comes back to the American people's provincialism: They've never seen just how bad it can get...they're not aware of just how far so-called "conservatives"/totalitarians are not just willing but eager to go.
Ignorance isn't bliss...as anyone who has ever seen a cow contentedly chewing its cud as it walks up the ramp to the slaughterhouse may already have concluded.
I WOULD count the number of Americans that falsely believe that some their fellow Americans are crazed religious nutbags that want to slaughter people who theologically disagree with them as AT LEAST one, and probably more as I know that there is a strain of anti-religious (Really, Anti-Christian) fervor that has infected some people in America that has no grounding in reality and is instead held up by anti-religiously bigoted propaganda by people with political and financial hay to make.
Congratulations on buying into the lie, BTW.
Guess I should have included:
d) Ever heard of the Family Research Council?
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