Oh, right. Do you really think AI builders are really going to publish their algorithms for examination under the transparency banner?

You greatly over-estimate the altruism of businesses and governments.

They're pretty much screwed anyway, with hopeless debt, a dead-end job if they can find one, and a society that is unraveling before their very eyes.

Really, what have they got to lose?

Unless they're going into law, medicine, or high finance, how much bleaker can their future be?

Body dead too long? Too bad. Get a warrant.

Druggie too stoned to give consent? Get a warrant.

Want to access my phone FOR ANY REASON? Get a fucking WARRANT.

Comcast has more lobbyists and lawyers than you. You'll never win. Ever.

Unless you just want to prove the point for argument's sake.

Then I bid you godspeed, sir.

1. Birth a startup up in SoMa to build a secure all-in-house hardware and software phone/tablet for the gov. Valley angels and unicorns rejoice. Pelosi gets pork.

2. Put the chip fab in Rochester, NY so Schumer gets pork.

3. Put assembly plant in Louisville so McConnell gets pork.

4. Market it as "made is USA". Trump gets ego gratification.

5. Profit!!!

Any want is moot. Clearly, everybody already is bad.

Who's being naive, you self-righteous little twat?

The professional excellence and utter dishonesty of both the Russian state intelligence apparatus and the American deep state make any informed, verifiable determination impossible. The spooks and their masters are pretty damned good at their obfuscation and disinformation games.

Rather than hitch oneself to a favorite political or ideological bandwagon, I prefer to adhere to a finely-crafted and well-tuned cynicism that demands treating this and every other spy versus spy story as low comedy.

It makes for passable diversion as I read such stories while comfortably relaxing in Diogenes' pithos.

I never made it past Kierkegaard in college. Existential nihilism can set you free.

This is why I have always used America Online. I don't trust this Netscape Navigator thing or Chrome. I remember reading on alt.computers.users that AOL is the only safe, secure way to use a computer.

Plus, I really love those wave files in the chatrooms, like {S alphabetsucks and {S zuckerbergishitler.

Or just wait for the next windows update.

Could it be that we're quibbling over semantics? Let's examine a word.

What is "the universe"? What if it simply means "everything, everywhere, all the time". What magicians call "all that is, seen and unseen"?

"Everything" is an all-inclusive infinitive. Logically nothing can not be included in everything.

That leaves us with the scientific quest to explore everything, and thereby exclude nothing.

Just a rambling muse before coffee...

Golly gee whiz, imagine having to register recreational activities with the government of Chairman Mao's workers' paradise! /sarcasm

Um, no it derives from the Anglo-Saxon dialect otherwise known as Old English. While a Germanic tongue, it was not Hochdeutsch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The shill quoted in TFA incorrectly assumes that TLA's have always, and always will, act within the letter and spirit of the law, and within the scope of their organizational charter.

History has amply demonstrated this not to be the case. Any assertion to the contrary is either uninformed or astroturf.

This is /.You expected anything else?