Why are you bringing trump into this discussion? This has nothing to do with him...

You can tell they're running out of option and well on their way out. This is what happens to a an initiative that becomes so large that its only purpose is altered to only sustain itself.

What does your crying have to do with the content of the article? Or are we just screaming "fake news!" at the sight of anything that challenges our dissonant views?

That is a flat out lie.

Thank you sir. It's technologically inept individuals like yourself that keep me at work and put a roof over my head.

You're right. Forgive me. What was I thinking considering the ethical implications of implementing an algorithm based system that arbitrarily tags individuals as criminals.

From the article:

I am leery of technologies that rely heavily on probability in the legal system. The digital output of this program could make very erroneous assumptions on facial features simply based on historical data that is fed to it. What if the criminal being sought is a very dangerous individual and this system ends up marking an unsuspecting bystander as a target and gets shot and killed amid confusion?

You know that, right? We wanted this. Wanted the chaos. God help us all.

That's a horrible conclusion. Education is very important.I simply stated CS degrees were overrated.They don't prepare you for actual work conditions. The various principles of computer science be self-taught and practiced in the age of online content. Programming was not something I did by sitting in classes listening to lectures. I wrote what I knew with my limited knowledge. It was an organic process for me that lead me to discover things by realizing the inadequacies in my own code first hand. When I hit a wall, I agonized for days on end figuring out what I did wrong and why it didn't work. I didn't read about the pitfalls in programming in a class. I unknowingly *experienced* them through which I learned to avoid them. Organic. This not to say you can't do this through formal education, but if there's an option that avoids a lot of headache and financial debt, then what's the justification for it?

I say this simply because as a developer with no CS background. I've worked with graduates who could belt off different concepts from definitions they've memorized but don't know how to implement it or more importantly, don't know how to spot errors. My job interview consisted of maybe 1-2 minutes of discussions on my background before a 45 minute long whiteboard session where I had to hand write various algorithms and solutions to problems the interviewer would present.

Hacked modem or not, assuming you actually use a respectable router (e.g. VyOS/Edgerouter), you can at least avoid main-in-the-middle attacks due to the fact that that packets will be encrypted by the time they ingress your modem on their way to the CMTS. That being said, it still won't stop the modem from becoming a zombie device itself. ISPs have a burden to resolve this as A) they and they alone lock down your device and manage it remotely via SNMP and B) their network is sending you the malicious unsolicited data from their network to yours.

I'm talking the whole shebang: Google, Netflix, Yahoo, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Let's see how fast and to what degree of stability could the EU sustain its own content network without major US backing.

Why is the last link directing me to a Firefox download page?

Infrastructure !== Desktop FTFY.

I was referring to the article in hand, Linux on the desktop.