LINEAGE OS! I keep doing that! Legacy OS has been in brain longer. Lineage is the successor of Cyanogenmod. It is a completely Open Source build of android, and by default does not come with GAPPS.
Probably the most viable phone OS is Legacy OS, which is just an open source version of Android. You can install it, and provided you don't instal gapps, it is pretty secure. It also gives you complete control over your phone. Legacy OS + Fdroid gives you a FOSS solution that protects your privacy about as well as any OS for a tracking device can.
There is also the openmoko stack from a few years ago. If you can get your hands on a Neo FreeRunner, they are an acceptable phone. You'll be on your own for software though, as that project is effectively dead.
No matter what you do, you can't really trust a phone completely. The nature of the cell network means that any cellphone is a defacto tracking device. Your whereabouts are logged, and because you have shared them with a third party you have no expectation of privacy. They don't even require a warrant for law enforcement. Also, private citizens can simply purchase the location data from most providers. So keep that in mind. I carry a phone, but I am ready to stick it in a microwave and run from it at a moment's notice.
I hate the mouse. Every time I touch it I die a little inside. So I use ratpoison as my primary desktop. Slap vimperator onto firefox and you don't have to touch that travesty of an input device ever again. Join me!
I, an active professor and research scientist, drive a 1982 Dodge Ram Pickup. No tracking, no disconnect, easy to work on engine. I will keep this baby going for the rest of my life, and no company will be tracking my whereabouts. (So long as I remember to turn off my cell phone, which I usually do.)
A greater intelligence may prefer internally inconsistent rules and use complex heuristics to choose between them. To us, the results of that process may seem so unfathomably complex that it looks random.
I enjoyed this story which is related: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/g/mcnrsts.html
I hope you are right. On the other hand, they may decide that we will live and die by the rules that we created in some sort of ethical calculus involving self-determination.
Bravo!
But the AI's will be able to move. They'll be able to move very quickly, indeed.
The robots might be cheaper today. Especially if it is just a webcam, microphone, motorized wheels, battery and the cheapest wireless networking computer being operated by a server in a more secure area of the store.
I imagine a single guard monitoring feeds from ten of these roaming around a wal-mart. The guard doesn't even have to be in the wal-mart. Throw a blanket over it and the guard knows something is wrong and calls physical security.
Throw in some advanced mapping that can compare expected camera images to actual images and use the human to examine positive signals and dismiss the false positives. You might be able to up that human monitor to monitor 100 to 1000 units depending on the false positive rate and the rate of actual incidents.
99% of the time, nothing is happening during security guard duty.
OMG. I didn't realize it wasn't K9 until you pointed it out.
I'm happy that a few versions from now it might be vaguely dog shaped.
And maybe it will have a helpful Death Ray in its nose.
And confusing the Doctor by naming it K-9.
Fool! Don't you know that Daleks can levitate?
This decision will also be used precedence by the machines to decide how humans should be treated post-singularity. Choose wisely.
Yep.
In this case, all lower paid employees will be outsourced to a contracting company that may or may not be a fully owned subsidiary of the original employer.
I think I may love you.
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I use a Casio FX-260 Solar for these sorts of things. It has all your basic scientific functions, plus a nice statistics package. It doesn't have complex numbers or base conversions though. Still, for $10.00, it's not half bad!
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
