looks more like a skewed protruded hexagon.

paints such an interesting, far-from-the-truth picture of reality. Hackers being some personable people that point out flaws in current solutions to complex technological problems along with possible solutions instead of the OCD code warriors they likely tend to be for the sake of coding itself. People actively seek out flaws for the sake of flaws themselves, not some happenstance that they exist except in the most trivial issues.

> Believing that constituent voices will override telecom campaign donations and lobbyists is adorable isn't it? I must get my adorable feelings from my 3 year old.

oh right, can't mod when i've commented, bleh. I'd Mod AC up anyway if i could.

you got voted -1 (which im adjusting now) but this is a valid point people! government should be the last refuge of the people when shit goes wrong, and in so many areas, this shit is wrong.

this would be one of those times id actually go and vote if moving forward required consensus of the locals.

Many might think "hey i can avoid those pigs and break the law!" but if I could know how many and the concentration in an area, that might tell me there's something serious going down somewhere I'm heading that I should avoid.

.. b/c no one ever said "whoops, maybe I should've .. uuuh .. fuck" in human history.

I think you hit the core issue but missed the point. Motivation, ambition, those are things you can work with. You may perhaps pay off the ambitious man, but the AI in question may want nothing at all. A cold killer and nothing more.

I don't think musk is far off, but the problem sure is and he's aware of that at some level with his out-there analogy.

Indeed it is, smart-tanks roaming the UK streets looking for gamers would certainly headline most anywhere.

How can I make sure I don't miss their important response?!

until systemd folks figure out how to force all to binary config format requiring an additional program to edit.

it would be interesting if the market app actually worked like this and was decoupled from other google services.

your point? 3rd party checkbox in this scenario would be like a flag that determines whether your /etc/apt/sources.list file is read or discarded when determining software to install (given the standard ubuntu repos will always be an apt source).

that reads more like a statement rather than a question. Regardless of location source, whether google sanctioned or not, and if one has decided to install things from places other than google (arguably the 3rd party check box is the type of thing that makes android a google project versus pure OSS, or in the same respects is what differentiates chrome from chromium), etc, etc, when you install an application, you will be prompted. This prompt shares similarity with, for example, running a downloaded executable on windows and being prompted before actually running.

Having 3rd party sources disabled is not a safety net for avoiding issues, that's simply what makes android a google product.