Not vibes, it is exactly like "1984" where people get arrested for what they let slip in front of a Telescreen.
I am fortunate to have been raised in the 70s and 80s, when mass surveillance like this was only a nightmare brought on by works like "1984". There was no surveillance from the parents even; "Do you know where your children are?" was a question my parents rarely answered in the affirmative. Home for supper, home before dark, or a phone call if you're staying at a friend for dinner or a sleepover.

I was struck by the remark of one student, commenting on the now national ban on mobile phones in the classroom (some schools have the students deposit them in a bin at the classroom entrance, others require them to keep them in a locker for the duration of the school day). She said it was annoying, but also oddly liberating, knowing that not every little gaffe is going to end up on Tiktok to be made fun of. As if "a weight had been lifted". Modern kids might be used to the surveillance state, but it seems they find it as oppressive as we do.

I dunno....just plain sounds like this is a Chinese Communist govt. asset in charge of the US's one chip manufacturer....

If I were IBM that fucker would be out quick...if for not for the security risk, but the coming stock drop.

LOL,,,

I dream a LOT....but most all of them are pleasant, or maybe just quirky and weird.

I heard something strange the other day...that most men supposedly dream in black and white?

Anyone else heard this?

Mine are all color.....

Strange stuff....I was surprised the other day to hear some people when they remember things don't actually seem pictures of it in my mind....blew me away.

You are aware that the homicide rate in the US is about 5 times that of almost every country in Europe

In the US, unless you are in the hood buying drugs...or say,...Chicago....you're not really in any real daily danger in the US.

I was told only criminals would be rounded up.

Err...if you are in the US illegally, as in your crossed the border illegally, which is a crime...you are by definition a criminal.

And it does appear ICE is targeting higher level criminals, BUT if they are doing that and come across other illegals, are you suggesting they just let them go for some reason?

Seriously ?

We voted to get them ALL out.

Who gives a fuck about china...or anywhere else in the world that isn't the US?

So they are arresting anyone and anything they can get their hands on to meet those quotas.

Blatant lies....

Unless you are hanging out in a Home Depot parking lot for day labor, or other places that the majority of our illegal immigrants hand out and try to work, you're in the clear, no one is bothering you.

I"m a bit hesitant to travel to Europe....all the immigrant stabbings I hear about over there...

Frankly, the US is SO large and so much of it I've not explored yet.

I"m thinking of my next few breaks....hopping on my motorcycle with some friends and traveling parts of the US on bike.....

Move money spent on actual visits and less on the travel expenses....and seeing the beautiful parts of the US that are out there...mountains, plains, worlds largest ball of twine and other side quests......

Tourism is collapsing. The Evo fighting game tournament saw a 20% drop in entrants and that's pretty much because people don't feel safe coming to America.

Why would that be?

I just saw the latest stats...violent crime in the US is down....in pretty much all categories...

I mean, unless you're trying to come here illegally I can't think of a reason to sweat it.

Right now with all the illegal immigrant problems in parts of EU....seems to be mostly Muslim...with stabbing, rape squad problems, etc....I'd be worried about visiting over there.

Those aren't really problems you see wide spread over here in the US.

I feel quite safe when I go out and about here in the US.

I've had no problems with my LG TVs....nor the remotes.

That being said, I run all mine off either Apple TV or Fire TV boxes....

For OLED, I don't think LG can be beat at this time....

It is called "football" because when you play, you mostly kick a ball with your feet (as opposed to using your hands, a stick, or whatever) and it is the most widely practiced sport in the world.

I'm aware there are some parts in the world where the same word is used by some to refer to a boring rugby derivative, but it isn't really a wide or important use.

Yeah, but that means squat in the US, and slashdot IS a US centric site....so....

It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

Anyone know of dietary methods of boosting lithium?

Oh...it's about soccer.....took me a minute to figure it out....something about something called FIFA and then I looked it up.

No. I do not like having all manner of restrictions and inconveniences imposed on my legal enjoyment of the product, in an attempt to stop piracy (it doesn't). As I paying customer I expect, as I should, the same unencumbered experience that users of pirated copies enjoy. And I certainly do not want to be forced to lock down my own hardware or compromise it with some rootkit (like the infamous one from Sony) in order to enjoy content.

Like so many others, you mistake the motive of people who pirate content. For some, saving money is part of it. But in a lot of cases it is a matter of convenience. Look at what AllOfMP3 did to music: people were happy to pay just to get their music in the format they wanted, at the bitrate they wanted, with easy downloads. And now that music is easily available on legit sites and through streaming, few people still bother with piracy. In the EU, music piracy dropped by 75% in just 7 years. Simply because the experience with legit sources is now better than pirated content.

As Valve's Jason Holtman said: "Pirates are just underserved customers". It was not greed that drove Game of Thrones to become the most pirated TV show in history, it was simply the fact that HBO was not widely available outside the USA when season 1 aired. People were begging HBO to somehow make the show available to them. And here in the Netherlands, this used to be the rule: if something was not available legally and under reasonable terms, pirating it was condoned. That is a rule that serves the public's interest, as copyright was intended to. Publication (making the works available) was and should be a condition for receiving that temporary monopoly.

As for the movie industry: they were expected to release their works into the public domain, after enjoying a monopoly of reasonable duration. They haven't done that. Instead they have lobbied to increase the duration of copyright time and time again, and lobbied to have these terms foisted upon the rest of the world by treaty (that's why that Dutch rule on piracy got nixed). So they broke the deal, and I do not feel bad about not holding up my end of it. Fuck em.