Who gives a flying FUCK that the terms are offensive? WTF are you, a Muslim? Nobody gives a damn.
If you're NOT a Muslim, but instead, just another idiot bleeding heart liberal, maybe you should get a bit of education.
Or maybe there's not really all that much NEW stuff that can be done "with a computer" or "in the Cloud"?
It's just possible that the industry is entering maturity, and the only things left are doing the things it already does slightly more efficiently than the competition, rather than in a radically different way.
Note that the very early years of aviation included a lot of innovation, both in terms of capability and use-cases. But the airline industry has since pretty much settled down to "move people about long distances as cost-effectively as possible". Not much has really changed in a long time other than incremental improvements in aircraft efficiency....
Or did everyone really think that computers/cloud-computing/whatever were going to be new and rapidly changing forever?
The Secret Squirrels should not be monitoring all Americans. They should be tracking terrorists!
Great idea! Wonder why noone ever thought of that before.
So, any ideas about how to go about "tracking terrorists"? I'm assuming you're going to start by identifying some of them? And then you're going to do what, exactly?
No, there's not a whole lot of really good reason for warrantless (or even warranted) wiretapping of everyone. Nonetheless, security takes a bit more than "well, we should track terrorists!!!"
Note that the real question is more properly phrased as "how much liberty should we sacrifice in exchange for how much security?"
Everyone will have a different answer to that (mostly divided along "how much of YOUR liberty for MY security" lines. A small number of people will rephrase that as "how much of MY liberty for YOUR security", and an even smaller number will say "I'd rather have the liberty than the security, thank you".
Most of the latter group will, of course, change their minds the first time they lose a job for an extended period, but that's neither here nor there.
What is relevant is that the question won't go away. You can't have absolute liberty and absolute security at the same time. So finding a level acceptable to as many people as possible is essential.
And mostly done by guess and by golly....
Holy fuck - who'da thunk of all that shit? Now I'm wondering how in the hell any of us over age 50 managed to grow up at all!
Stupid motherfucker, huh? Think about it. I can accomplish anything that you can, without the telephone. Now who's stupid?
You're at the mall, and want to look up specs? Big fucking deal - you're a spur of the moment shopper. You see some shiny gadget, you feel like you must have one. DUHHHH!! Already you're an idiot. BUT - let's just suppose that the shiny thing really is somehow unique or something. What I do is, I go home and research the damned thing on my DESKTOP WORKSTATION. See? I have the same functionality that you do, it's just sitting on my desktop. I don't need the instant gratification of looking it all up in the store.
Oh - once I''m sitting at home, that "impulse buying" thing is long behind me. I can also shop for similar devices online, locate the best specs, the best price, and order it for delivery right to my door.
You know, AC, I might have had a tiny bit of respect for your post, had you shown any respect at all. But, I'm a stupid motherfucker. Yeah, uh-huh. Here's a Kleenex - wipe some of that drool off your face, alright? Then, you can go sit in front of the window, and watch the dust motes floating in the sunbeam.
No - in other words, the man knows how to live life without an electronic nanny in his pocket.
A little less blame on the owner, and a little more blame on the carrier? How much genuine crap comes pre-installed on a carrier subsidized phone? I'm talking about genuine worthless crap, that does and gives nothing of value to the end customer, the owner who pays for the phone.
The phone is regarded by the carrier as a tool, with which to keep track of the chattel, or the sheeple. Again and again, the carriers are exposed for their overzealous data collection. And, for the most part, people aren't able to turn these "features" off, unless they are willing to invest some time in research, then risk voiding their so-called warranties.
Yeah, end users are mostly dumb clods, but the carriers are responsible for a lot of the problem.
As an adult, I find this stuff still rather hilarious, but I'm an adult now and can easily discern it's just for fun. A child? Influential. They don't know better yet.
Watched all that stuff as a kid. Don't recall ever thinking "Hey, it would be pretty cool to drop a safe on someone - not like it really hurts them past the commercial break, after all!"
No, kids aren't so stupid that they see talking mice running at near sonic speed (or small dinosaurs doing same) and think "oh, how realistic! Wow, the world is pretty cool, isn't it?"
Hell, most of us (speaking of the kids of my day, and get off my lawn!) never even believed that animals could talk, much less order shit from Acme....
What if your name is Clinton?
This site is for people who are smart enough and educated enough to be able to use both equally well.
But if all you can handle is division by ten, we've got a special handicapped section Just For You!
The government has no business forcing people to get any medical treatment or discriminating against those who do not.
Why? Why should you be allowed to endanger the health of your fellow citizens and their families?
Reasonable precautions to prevent epidemics seems like "promoting the general welfare" which is the very foundation of government.
LOL - no, 1945. Hear me groaning? I usually catch typos before I hit the submit button - this time - no.
I don't know about 1845 - they may have had a little baby boom.
The Baby Boom began in 1845,
I really hope you don't think we had a Baby Boom after the Mexican-American War....
MIT Developing AI To Better Diagnose Cancer
FFS, it's not AI. It's a mindless program. Unthinking software. Data analysis software. Innovative to some degree perhaps, but AI? Hardly. No better than me stumbling in here and calling some DSP code I'd written "AI." Well, except I wouldn't do that.
When AI gets here, we'll have to call it something else what with all this crying wolf going on.
To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda.
