"It is terrifying not just because of the major national security implications, what Beijing could get ahold of."
Beijing could get ahold of [the technology]? I'm sure they've already had government-level technology like this for years or decades. Of course they know every move the president and all of the secret services members make.
But, hey, let's do something about it now that a newspaper is running a story about it.
What do you mean? This is the US! If we say we're at the finish line and we won the race, then we won! We won, I tell you!
Now let's win the race to 6G!! Keep aiming higher!
Just ignore the fact that the "losers", meaning the countries who were slower to develop the technology. were the ones to deploy it better and cheaper. And they're the ones who watched the "winners" stumble and learned from their mistakes.
Honestly, this is just a symptom of society's larger issue: way too many people think everything is disposable.
Your Blue-ray player breaks? Just get a new one at Best Buy for $25! But a $25 Blue-ray player isn't designed to last? So, what- just get another one.
Your 60" TV broke? Just get a new 70" TV for less than you paid for the 60".
So we can call this lawmaker a fool, but I think he's simply saying what most people are already doing.
I for one, will be glad to see political ads gone for good.
The breaking point for me was the past two election cycles where Republican state senators vowed to end Obamacare. They're state senators and they have no power to end Obamacare, which is a federal law! But enough enough senators thought the ads were effective so they kept running them.
Of course, they completely forgot that they couldn't uphold this promise if they got elected, but hey, everyone knows campaign promises aren't kept.
Plus the fact that most political ads are extremely negative and only serve to tell people to vote against the opponent, not for the candidate.
I've said this many times in many stories like this, but I think it's time to disbar or sanction the lawyers who bring cases like this.
If the executives of the company knew it was satire, then the lawyers should have know they wouldn't get very far in a lawsuit. And they should have known that threatening to sue a satirical site would lead to more negative coverage.
So why in the world did a lawyer send a cease and desist order? To get more billable hours? Then that means he's putting his own income above the best interests of his client and above the ethical practice of the law.
So... what's the name of the law firm? Is it time to name and shame them?
On a side note, does this law effect other search engines such as Bing or Duck Duck Go or is it specifically targeted at Google because they're so big? Does Bing have to follow this law? How are they reacting to it?
I was just about to say that.
I think we should be thanking the White House staffer who's probably fed up with all the Trump nonsense and who "accidentally" sent these to the Democrats.
Instead of arguing whether people copy Allbirds shoes, why aren't we talking about how "tech journalists" simply jump on the "Amazon is a mean big bully" narrative without doing any research. I thought doing research and gathering facts was part of being a journalist.
And if these "journalists" skip on the facts for this story, are they skipping on facts for their other stories? And should we trust the editors of the websites that let un-researched stories get through?
Or should we talk about how good journalism is dying and too many sites just want clicks, no matter what the actual facts may say.
In the words of Ben Kenobi, "Who's the bigger fool- the fool or the fool who follows him?"
So, what's worse: that the Ukrainians are creating memes like this or that people blindly agree with and share the stories. How about doing a tiny bit of research first?
And for people who ask, what's the harm? Let's see:
People start to more easily believe even more fake news.
People stop believing the "main stream media" because these memes tell them that only Fox News reports the "truth".
And then people basically become brainwashed into believing whatever you want them to believe.
Heck, even now, all you have to tell some Republicans that "Obama did this..." and they'll believe anything.
Those sound a lot like Twitter's rules.
Send a tweet to your 15 followers saying you're going to hit someone? You're banned.
Send a tweet to your 5 million followers saying North Korea should be careful or else you'll drop nuclear bombs on them and kill 20 million people? That's not threatening at all, and in fact, creates more controversy which creates more attention for the person and Twitter itself.
I'm a little surprised Twitter didn't offer the usual non-apology: "We hired an outside marketing firm that went 'rogue' and over-stepped their bounds. We will look into what happened [but we'll never admit who was responsible for the idea]."
Customers: We want everything a la carte!
Customers again: Why are you removing my favorite channel and claiming no one watches it?
This has been the issue since the beginning of this argument: what happens when the cable company thinks there's not a large enough market for your favorite channel? Do we really need 3 EPSN and 2 Golf channels? No.
But supposed not enough people in your area watch the History Channel, but you love all those shows about bigfoot and aliens going to pawn shops. Well, sorry, that channel isn't making enough money so the cable company drops it. And since there's no competition, you can't watch it.
Oh, sure, you could try the History Channel app, but it probably asks for your cable company before you can log in.
If people can't seem to be fired for viewing porn and they can't get into trouble for lying, is there any chance of at least not paying these people when they quit?
They were hired to a job but if they're spending 50% or 98% of their day viewing porn, then they weren't doing their job so they shouldn't be paid.
"Send a letter/fax to the FTC AND your federal representatives explaining how this personally impacts you and how it impacts your confidence in the office of the FTC AND your federal representatives who have not held the FTC nor Equifax responsible for this."
Not to sound cynical... okay, to sound cynical... but what good will this do? You're one person and collectively, maybe we're 1,000 or 10,000 people.
Our voices don't come close to matching the millions of lobbying dollars that companies like Equifax throw at the government.
Now, if someone in the FTC or Congress had their identity stolen by one of these data breaches and were personally affected, then it would become an issue.
Do you blame the business analysts for not creating better documentation for the developers to follow?
Do you blame the developers who coded the site?
Do you blame the testers/ QA team for thinking this is acceptable quality?
Do you blame the managers for not pushing the testers and developers for not doing a better job?
Do you blame HR for not hiring better developers who will do a better job?
In all fairness, the bottles from Galaxy's Edge are plastic with the distinctive designs: red "Coke", gray "Diet Coke", and clear/ green "Sprite" . And as we all know, metal detectors and multi-million dollar scanners can't see through plastic.
And even worse, the object has a logo in some foreign language, which probably means "blow up real good" in Arabic or Farsi or some other "evil" language, when it actually says "Coca-Cola" in Aurebesh, the made-up language from "Star Wars".
"Do pray tell, why should Trump get a pass for breaking the law just because Obama said something similar?"
And that's an excellent point...
Obama got away with it, so why can't Trump?
Bush got away with it, so why can't Obama?
Clinton got away with it, so why can't Bush?
...
And Adams got away with it because Washington started it.
So where does it stop? Do we let politicians get away with things forever because their predecessor did something similar? When do we stand up and say we're not going to take this kind of behavior any more?
Trump's response... if he bothers to say anything:
"Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have plenty of evidence and it's huge. The biggest evidence you've ever seen. Big evidence. In fact, it's right over here.
Have you see what China is doing in the trade war? We need to build a wall to keep the brown people out of Texas or they'll make goods cheaper so I want American companies to stop using Chinese labor so Mexico will build the wall and help me buy Greenland because it's the best country for stopping immigration.
Thank you"
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Beijing has had this technology for years
"It is terrifying not just because of the major national security implications, what Beijing could get ahold of."
Beijing could get ahold of [the technology]? I'm sure they've already had government-level technology like this for years or decades. Of course they know every move the president and all of the secret services members make.
But, hey, let's do something about it now that a newspaper is running a story about it.
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Re: The standard isn't complete
What do you mean? This is the US! If we say we're at the finish line and we won the race, then we won! We won, I tell you!
Now let's win the race to 6G!! Keep aiming higher!
Just ignore the fact that the "losers", meaning the countries who were slower to develop the technology. were the ones to deploy it better and cheaper. And they're the ones who watched the "winners" stumble and learned from their mistakes.
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This is only a symptom of the disposable socity
Honestly, this is just a symptom of society's larger issue: way too many people think everything is disposable.
Your Blue-ray player breaks? Just get a new one at Best Buy for $25! But a $25 Blue-ray player isn't designed to last? So, what- just get another one.
Your 60" TV broke? Just get a new 70" TV for less than you paid for the 60".
So we can call this lawmaker a fool, but I think he's simply saying what most people are already doing.
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Good riddance
I for one, will be glad to see political ads gone for good.
The breaking point for me was the past two election cycles where Republican state senators vowed to end Obamacare. They're state senators and they have no power to end Obamacare, which is a federal law! But enough enough senators thought the ads were effective so they kept running them.
Of course, they completely forgot that they couldn't uphold this promise if they got elected, but hey, everyone knows campaign promises aren't kept.
Plus the fact that most political ads are extremely negative and only serve to tell people to vote against the opponent, not for the candidate.
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Disbar the lawyers
I've said this many times in many stories like this, but I think it's time to disbar or sanction the lawyers who bring cases like this.
If the executives of the company knew it was satire, then the lawyers should have know they wouldn't get very far in a lawsuit. And they should have known that threatening to sue a satirical site would lead to more negative coverage.
So why in the world did a lawyer send a cease and desist order? To get more billable hours? Then that means he's putting his own income above the best interests of his client and above the ethical practice of the law.
So... what's the name of the law firm? Is it time to name and shame them?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Shouldn't a finger gun be covered by the 2nd Ame
So where was the good guy with a finger gun? Why couldn't he have stopped this tragedy before it escalated?
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What about Bing?
On a side note, does this law effect other search engines such as Bing or Duck Duck Go or is it specifically targeted at Google because they're so big? Does Bing have to follow this law? How are they reacting to it?
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Re: Accident?
I was just about to say that.
I think we should be thanking the White House staffer who's probably fed up with all the Trump nonsense and who "accidentally" sent these to the Democrats.
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Fact-free reporting?
Instead of arguing whether people copy Allbirds shoes, why aren't we talking about how "tech journalists" simply jump on the "Amazon is a mean big bully" narrative without doing any research. I thought doing research and gathering facts was part of being a journalist.
And if these "journalists" skip on the facts for this story, are they skipping on facts for their other stories? And should we trust the editors of the websites that let un-researched stories get through?
Or should we talk about how good journalism is dying and too many sites just want clicks, no matter what the actual facts may say.
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Who's the bigger fool
In the words of Ben Kenobi, "Who's the bigger fool- the fool or the fool who follows him?"
So, what's worse: that the Ukrainians are creating memes like this or that people blindly agree with and share the stories. How about doing a tiny bit of research first?
And for people who ask, what's the harm? Let's see:
People start to more easily believe even more fake news.
People stop believing the "main stream media" because these memes tell them that only Fox News reports the "truth".
And then people basically become brainwashed into believing whatever you want them to believe.
Heck, even now, all you have to tell some Republicans that "Obama did this..." and they'll believe anything.
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Re:
Those sound a lot like Twitter's rules.
Send a tweet to your 15 followers saying you're going to hit someone? You're banned.
Send a tweet to your 5 million followers saying North Korea should be careful or else you'll drop nuclear bombs on them and kill 20 million people? That's not threatening at all, and in fact, creates more controversy which creates more attention for the person and Twitter itself.
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It wasn't us- the marketing company did it
I'm a little surprised Twitter didn't offer the usual non-apology: "We hired an outside marketing firm that went 'rogue' and over-stepped their bounds. We will look into what happened [but we'll never admit who was responsible for the idea]."
On the post: Comcast Sues Maine For Demanding It Sell TV Channels À La Carte
What if your channel is cut?
Customers: We want everything a la carte!
Customers again: Why are you removing my favorite channel and claiming no one watches it?
This has been the issue since the beginning of this argument: what happens when the cable company thinks there's not a large enough market for your favorite channel? Do we really need 3 EPSN and 2 Golf channels? No.
But supposed not enough people in your area watch the History Channel, but you love all those shows about bigfoot and aliens going to pawn shops. Well, sorry, that channel isn't making enough money so the cable company drops it. And since there's no competition, you can't watch it.
Oh, sure, you could try the History Channel app, but it probably asks for your cable company before you can log in.
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Not doing their job / don't pay them
If people can't seem to be fired for viewing porn and they can't get into trouble for lying, is there any chance of at least not paying these people when they quit?
They were hired to a job but if they're spending 50% or 98% of their day viewing porn, then they weren't doing their job so they shouldn't be paid.
On the post: Equifax Victims Jump Through Hoops To Nab Settlement Money They Won't Get Anyway
Re: Re:
"Send a letter/fax to the FTC AND your federal representatives explaining how this personally impacts you and how it impacts your confidence in the office of the FTC AND your federal representatives who have not held the FTC nor Equifax responsible for this."
Not to sound cynical... okay, to sound cynical... but what good will this do? You're one person and collectively, maybe we're 1,000 or 10,000 people.
Our voices don't come close to matching the millions of lobbying dollars that companies like Equifax throw at the government.
Now, if someone in the FTC or Congress had their identity stolen by one of these data breaches and were personally affected, then it would become an issue.
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Who's to blame?
Do you blame the business analysts for not creating better documentation for the developers to follow?
Do you blame the developers who coded the site?
Do you blame the testers/ QA team for thinking this is acceptable quality?
Do you blame the managers for not pushing the testers and developers for not doing a better job?
Do you blame HR for not hiring better developers who will do a better job?
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Re:
In all fairness, the bottles from Galaxy's Edge are plastic with the distinctive designs: red "Coke", gray "Diet Coke", and clear/ green "Sprite" . And as we all know, metal detectors and multi-million dollar scanners can't see through plastic.
And even worse, the object has a logo in some foreign language, which probably means "blow up real good" in Arabic or Farsi or some other "evil" language, when it actually says "Coca-Cola" in Aurebesh, the made-up language from "Star Wars".
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Re: Re:
"Do pray tell, why should Trump get a pass for breaking the law just because Obama said something similar?"
And that's an excellent point...
Obama got away with it, so why can't Trump?
Bush got away with it, so why can't Obama?
Clinton got away with it, so why can't Bush?
...
And Adams got away with it because Washington started it.
So where does it stop? Do we let politicians get away with things forever because their predecessor did something similar? When do we stand up and say we're not going to take this kind of behavior any more?
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Trump's response
Trump's response... if he bothers to say anything:
"Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have plenty of evidence and it's huge. The biggest evidence you've ever seen. Big evidence. In fact, it's right over here.
Have you see what China is doing in the trade war? We need to build a wall to keep the brown people out of Texas or they'll make goods cheaper so I want American companies to stop using Chinese labor so Mexico will build the wall and help me buy Greenland because it's the best country for stopping immigration.
Thank you"
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