Who is making mindless rants about Flock? People who have never felt threatened by crime and maybe some fucked up weirdos who are either casual criminals or secretly aspire to be ones.
Thank you for showing us that your lens is cracked.
Pervasive surveillance is antithetical to a Free Society. Period.
Weird. Communications just aren't all that important to you. *shrug*
Let's hope you never have a need for communications. Actually, since you do not want anyone else to have it either, I hope for ALL of us that a dire emergency where communication would save lives never happens.
I can agree that in non-emergencies, AM radio is an utter waste. I can agree that emergencies where major infrastructure is not terribly impacted, AM radio is a waste. If even one bomb gets dropped, you would be VERY glad for AM radio. The amount of infrastructure it needs is so minimal that a singular individual could stand up a station with minimal infrastructure. A shame all of the Radio Shacks are gone now. Makes it slightly more difficult to set up an AM transmitter.
I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?
This account has been active since 2004 or so. That counts as a long time. 20+ years definitely qualifies as a "long time".
They are doing the first step now. The second one may not be needed.
LOL, do you really think the leopard will change its spots? The second step is ALWAYS needed. Who is the leopard in this scenario? The one who has the power... currently a UK company.
12PM is fucking noon is when the fucking sun is at its highest position in the sky.
It has been like this for at least a millennia. DST is bullshit.
Live with nature and quit fucking denying it like a conservative.
*hug*
America had a republic until Lincolns' War of Northern Aggression.
Oh look, it's the hipster maggot come along to tell us all how great slavery was.
Look bro, have you ever heard this saying:
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
-- H.L. Mencken"
It was indeed, the War of Northern Aggression. The reasoning by the North was valid, the path taken was not. That should be fixed first. Centralized power is the ill that is killing the USA right now.
Since some people are unable to think clearly, what I am saying is that Slavery absolutely *IS* bad; however, the ends do not justify the means.
Nobody can march down the street and burn them down.
Aha! Someone else who understands.
There is not a single aspect of this were the idea is actually good. All it does is tickle the imagination of the clueless. And that is exactly why it gets pushed.
In space, the enraged proletariat will not be able to smash the satellite with pitchforks and rocks. That is why compute in space is so desirable: YOU can't stop it.
AI will be your personal government enforced monitor. Say, "hi" to Big Brother, in space.
If we ever again have even remotely sane management
Sadly, not in our lifetime. We are too old. The fascists have won. We will be a failed State like Russia or the various governments in Africa, or India... holy fuck. The entire world is corrupt and failed.
Billions claim to follow a religion of Love, Peace, and Truth and still allow this shit. Hypocrites... or just REALLY dumb people who can be led to believe that up is down etc.
So they discovered their error prior to bombing the girls school in Iran? Oh wait, you are purposefully missing the point explicitly because nothing bad happened this particular time. You deserve all of the misery that is coming.
FWIW half of my workplace runs on Chromebooks that have 8GB of RAM. There are a few things that are a bit average - mostly websites with ludicrously overcomplicated frontends (including the one we build!!) but pretty much everything works more or less perfectly.
We have a few models that are 16GB (i7s - the 8GBs are i5s) and they are WAY better. But I've been really impressed with how far we've been able to get with the 8GB Chromebooks (most of which we bought for AUD$700).
The person at the top ultimately has to take responsibility for process faults and staff incompetence of the agencies he oversees.
LOL, bro. Since Reagan sacrificed Oliver North, I have not seen an example of the top taking responsibility for ANYTHING. Oliver North was the blindfold being lifted from my eyes about being on top and responsibility.
Be happy they are doing anything at all. They just don't care. There will be no penalties, no admonishments, no head rolling. If there is any action to be taken, it will happen when it happens. The people who are affected just do not matter at all, so nobody cares about this breach despite being the third major breach in my lifetime concerning my service.
There's no regaining the trust of America's former allies.
Ummm, there is a much more fundamental problem than the trust of allies: There's no regaining the trust of America's citizens. The government has left its own citizens behind!
Is it a problem of critical mass ? Or what ?
Mind share. It takes hundreds of millions of dollars to gather mind share... unless you are "lucky" and find/create a group that is interesting by default.
"Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion." -- Harlan Ellison
