I'm sorry, where did that assumption come from, I'm fairly certain he'd be for converting muslim, hindu, and even scientologest AI to christianity as well.

And both of those are completely different than self-aware AI. My drown is autonomous, but no one would say it had any AI at all, let alone self-awareness which is really what we're talking about here. Being human isn't even part of this discussion other than religion is, as far as we're aware, a purely human construct.

Are you stupid? If you program a computer to behave a specific way then the ramifications are going to be that it behaves that way. This isn't 'emotion' in the slightest, its just code and programming. You do not 'code' emotion. Emotion is learned from experience. Humans aren't born with emotion, hell they aren't even self-aware when they come out. These traits come from having sufficient processing and storage capacity and learning from worldly experiences. There is of course a physical aspect that provides the capability to do so, but its not hard coded according to every study ever done. People being 'good' and 'kind' and 'not evil' is ENTIRELY LEARNED BEHAVIOR for instance. By default, people come out as evil selfish bastards at birth, again, based on every actual study done.

It most certainly is copyrightable and IS unless specifically stated to be public domain, you just have additional rights as a citizen of the US because it was government work. It most certainly is NOT public domain to anyone not a US citizen, ever. The end result is that MANY but NOT ALL things the government does can be used freely by US citizens, but that doesn't make it public domain. You can't, for instance, legally transfer government work to a non-US citizen as that person/government/whatever does not have any right to that data.

Also, if any of these people are contractors, their work is NOT work of the US government and by default THEY own copyright unless contractually they've agreed to transfer ownership for all work paid for by the fed.

28k is just bullshit.

If you bought a million dollar drone (they don't) and only caught 80 people that it gets credit for (which is not the case), then your at 25k per drone. Thats assuming you discard it after catching those 80 people (they don't)

This is why geek businesses fail.

If you're paying someone 22k a year in paychecks, you are almost certainly spending closer to $44k/year to actually have them as an employee. Assuming you had no office/uniform/tools to buy and maintain for them, at a bare minimum, you're still looking at $30k/year or so just due to taxes. Remember, your employe pays some taxes for you as well as what comes out of your paycheck that you see.

And then theres the whole ACA thing now, which is another cost, worst still, because of the ACA the cost has went up since insurance companies know you're required to buy it ...

And I'm ignoring a whole bunch of other things that make employees far more expensive than just what their paycheck costs.

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So, democrat fanboy ... riddle me this ...

Why didn't the super majority and democrat president get a flipping thing done between 2009 and 2011 when they had a super majority in congress ... you know, back when they could do whatever the fuck they wanted without the republicans having enough people in congress to do shit about it?

Democrats don't like the ACA either, its nothing but a scam for insurance companies to make a fucking killing and you're a idiot for being too wrapped up in your teams colors to not recognize that. Its sole purpose is to guarantee that insurance companies have income and can charge more than they were charging before ... yes, MORE, because not a single fucking persons rates actually went down, some people just started subsiding other peoples while EVERYONES WENT UP.

This isn't a republic vs democrat thing, this is a 'THE ACA is BULLSHIT' thing.

If you want public healthcare, MAKE PUBLIC HEALTHCARE, which means no health insurance companies. It means we just pay taxes and everyone, read that again ... EVERYONE gets THE EXACT SAME LEVEL OF CARE. That means homeless man on the street gets the same level of care as the president. That is entirely the opposite of what we have now.

What we have now is that you get fined if you don't pay insurance companies ... EVEN IF YOU PAY YOUR OWN BILLS 100%. It means if you're poor and don't make a lot of money, your health insurance plan is so shitty that you can't afford to see the doctor anyway because the lower level of plan you have, the higher your prescriptions and co-pays and such. Every single subsidized plan from the ACA systems costs those who are qualified to be subsidized too fucking much to be seen by a doctor anyway.

Anyway, back on point.

You're an idiot. Not because you think the republicans are bad, they are gutter trash. You're an idiot because you think the democrats aren't exactly the same.

Open your eyes.

Go fuck yourself.

That is all.

Taliban warrior walks into a cell phone store in Pakistan.

Tells the clerk he wants a phone

Clerk does all the various bits of things required ... asks for a finger print.

Taliban member lays down someones finger on the counter, says 'use this one'.

Taliban sympathetic clerk says 'Okay!'

pornhub?

I had a nearly identical experience getting my current position, via a recruiter ...

Since I've been hired and been here a few months, long enough to get to know everyone and whats going on, I've found out all sorts of neat edits they did to my resume. Like ... changing the spelling of my freaking name!

When in the interview, I was essentially asked to prove I knew some of the things on my resume ... in detail, the kind of detail that seemed ridiculous (very specific knowledge of very narrow ASP.NET problems that only a handful of people have ever dealt with outside of MS) after a bit they let me know that they believed me, and then proceeded to explain that they had an almost identical copy of my resume ... from the same recruiter, with someone else's name on it. Best still is the copy of my resume they got from the recruiter was completely different than what I brought with me to the interview. When they saw what I brought with me, all sorts of red flags went off in their heads ... rightfully so.

Needless to say, neither I nor the company will be using that recruiter again.

Morphine != Heroine, but you probably think crack and powdered cocaine are the same as well, right?

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Its called Everclear, you buy it at any liquor store. They didn't exactly have to do much scrounging.

No shit, EVERYTHING with 98% pure poison in it is nasty. You do realize alcohol is a poison by definition, right?

Hardly. They give away a bunch of worthless email certs that aren't trusted by anyone, allow me to make wanking motions. No one that matters uses them and no browser that matters trusts their free certs by default.

Ahh, the post of someone who's riled up but doesn't actually understand what they are talking about.

Only the ignorant wonder that, just because you do, doesn't mean everyone does.

You don't have any idea how this system works currently, do you?

You want the websites to tell you their public key information, and for everyone else on the Internet to remember it and tell you when it changes ...

or ...

you could just learn what certificate pinning is.

So you want me to ask Google what Google's public key is and then trust whatever I get sent is actually the public key, with no verification of that, other than it came from the request I sent asking Google for their public key. So ... then the NSA just returns a key that says its Google and intercepts the traffic.

The certificate authorities purpose in life is to provide 3rd party verification of certificates in an automated way. What you want is to remove all of that, and do it ad-hoc, by everyone on the Internet. Slashdot doesn't allow posts long enough for me to explain all the ways why thats exactly the opposite of a actual solution.

'Web of trust' doesn't work, we know this because NO ONE FUCKING USES IT BECAUSE ITS TOO MUCH FUCKING EFFORT. END USERS DON'T GIVE A FUCK about verifying every cert they see and will just click Ok/Next/Allow. THAT is WHY we use certificate authorities.

You are proposing nothing new. Its been done, and its failed repeatedly.

Certificate authorities ARE the solution you want, the problem is, no one actually cares enough about security to black ball the certificate authorities that aren't trust worthy (i.e. all of them), which means they certainly don't care enough to deal with the method you propose.

I always have my phone, I don't always have my wallet. Thats problem they solved.

Tap and Pay cards are no more secure than Swipe and Sign cards, they are nearly as easy to clone too.

Tap and Pay phones (at least with ApplePay) require me to actually verify it with something somewhat secure like a finger print or pin number on MY device, not one that someone else maintains and may be hacked to steal my PIN.

ApplePay also doesn't require any communications at the time of transaction with the bank after the initial security exchange.

Theres no reason that the upgrade process which brings everything up to chip&pin can't easily bring it to NFC capable as well.

ApplePay is more convenient if you don't always carry your cards on you, but do your phone and/or if you value secure transactions.

And if your machine can automatically do all those things ... so can third party software because in order for you to do everything you want to do, there has to be a pragmatic way to do so, and if the OS can do it, so can any other software that has admin rights.

Either way, you don't want to put that sort of power into the vendors hands, since it means they effectively have created the Apple App store, and if thats what you really want, just buy a Mac and stop using Windows (your first mistake).

The only way to prevent this sort of thing is by not installing software that does it.

But lets ignore all the problems with what you're suggesting and assume it works ... Lenovo would have just approved the certs before they shipped the machine. Or the machine would prompt the user, who would blindly do so on boot, just like all the other things users blindly do.

If you want to prevent this from happening, put the people who do this AND the people who make the decisions to do this, IN JAIL.

Both the developers who write the code to do it and the management who tells them to do so. Assign some personal responsibility for this shit and watch how it suddenly changes. The problem in America is that anyone in a company can basically do whatever they want and hide behind 'the company' who then gets some minor fine (Relatively) and the guy who did it doesn't care one bit.

I'm fairly certain just installing this software is illegal.

Its not protected by some EULA because the device is sold before the EULA can be read, which courts have already ruled invalidates the EULA.

It violates the same laws that were used to put Kevin Mitnick in jail (and lets be clear, he deserved it), unauthorized access to a computer system and unauthorized access to data flowing across a network.

Hang'em high, I say. Bring Lenovo's leaders out to the chopping block, as well as the leadership of the companies who made any other software that works like this. Its a scam from the very beginning, theres no 'well, maybe its not bad' or 'maybe it was an accident' to it. This is outright bullshit behavior by companies trying to sell a product to someone and then turn that someone into the product for someone else. The entire legal system AND THE PUBLIC need to come down on this like a ton of bricks and make it clear that its unacceptable and will not be tolerated. And by not tolerated I mean 'you will be jailed, not fined'.