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Bye_Feliciaon Why did people in the past look so much older?

A lot of the photos are New Yorkers. They look older because of all the pollution living there, aa well as a lifetime alcohol and drug abuse.

Bye_Feliciaon We don’t need a new Twitter

ugh.... do I really have to spell it out for you. LARGE corporations should not have the same rights as individuals.

Bye_Feliciaon Western Digital sued over claims of data-trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs

Finally! I've been waiting for this to finally happen.

"randomly disconnecting from their host" has been going on for years.

...and while it's comical watching various people running around in circles on various tech support sites, being told to "update their drivers" or "modify their power settings"

I'm happy that perhaps consumers will finally get some justice, and force these idiots to QC and properly support their products.

Bye_Feliciaon [dead]

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/08/16/hawaii-news/reques...

"Instead of approving the request, Manuel asked the company whether the Maui Fire Department had requested permission from a village elder"

Bye_Feliciaon Is Slack Down?

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Bye_Feliciaon Is it defamation to point out scientific research fraud?

The real crime is her inability or incompetency in expending even the most trivial of efforts, to cover up her fraud by deleting older versions stored in Excel...

Bye_Feliciaon Homeowner arrested after trying to evict squatters from his own property

Trying to leave slavery is against the law, and those who helped slaves escape were imprisoned.

Escaped slaves had bounties placed on their heads and were often captured and placed back with their owners.

Fugitive slave laws

https://infogalactic.com/info/Fugitive_slave_laws

Now do you see how preposterous your point is? It's important not to live in a far left shithole state, where property rights are not taken seriously, and which do not have stand your ground laws.

(also, your link has nothing to do with squatters, it has more to do with laws surrounding intruders. In Texas the homeowner would not have been charged.)

Bye_Feliciaon Over 100K hackers fall victim to infostealer malware

bad gateway?

Bye_Feliciaon [dead]

We now have a decade worth of large platforms removing wrong-think content and then claiming it was all a big mistake.

Why is the Washington Post never "mistakenly" deplatformed?

Perhaps some day scientists will resolve this mystery.

Bye_Feliciaon We don’t need a new Twitter

the only thing I concede is that there is a gray area, the in between, as you put it... but aside from that gray area in between, large corporations do not have rights. the end.

I understand that libertarian logic uses gray areas as a means to an end of furthering their ideology, but that is not an issue for me.

Bye_Feliciaon We don’t need a new Twitter

large corporations are not people, and do not have rights, no matter what you or the courts say

Bye_Feliciaon We don’t need a new Twitter

If you use a misleading headline, then that is not my problem. I skimmed the article as the New Yorker is an overly verbose rag read by sesquipedalian obsessed pseudo-intellectuals.

Actually, YOU have just made an excellent point unintentionally, not everyone has the time or desire to read a long article. IF you prefer more longform content, then you can go to any number of platforms which specialize in that.

Twitter is what it always was, a quick take or bite-size morsel of information.

Bye_Feliciaon Homeowner arrested after trying to evict squatters from his own property

I 100% support this. It's just like any other infestation of vermin, you need to use any means necessary.

Bye_Feliciaon NeXT logo by Paul Rand (2010)

I hate making these types of trashy low class reddit-esque quips, but did everyone see the guest appearance by Napoleon Dynamite towards the end of the clip?

Bye_Feliciaon Audit Cleared Facebook’s Privacy Practices Despite Cambridge Analytica Leak

If it was any other consulting firm other than the upstanding professionals of PricewaterhouseCoopers, then I might suspect haberdashery.

Bye_Feliciaon Smugmug Acquires Flickr

I take it you did not see yesterday's thread concerning the new open source social network: 'scuttlebutt' ?

Bye_Feliciaon Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines

There won't be any reward for you, or opportunity to say I told you so, after Mint reveals the shocking news they were hacked X number of years from now.

So, I'm giving it to you now. This is just smart and logical. You do not need technical proficiency to reason out the risks, or the daily "12yo exploits MOST-SECURIST-EVER IOT device in 20 minutes" articles.

With that said, without public support, and government laws, this is a losing battle.

Equifax had no authorization from you to collect and distribute your financial data, but they did it anyway, and your financial services sent them the information. And of course, not surprised, their criminal negligence, revealed EVERY SINGLE ACCOUNT to hackers. Let's be real, when the news for stupids spins the story in this manner:

Equifax data breach: The number of victims may be impossible to know

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/17/equifax-data...

It means that the number was so great as to be unspinnable, so they went with another narrative, "Nobody knows" like dark matter, it's impossible, our scientists are trying but it's impossible....lol

Bye_Feliciaon Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines

Same EXACT thing with Sprint, however at the oligopoly Sprint, you have little choice.

This appears to happen with any proto-monopolistic entity. The problem is, unlike government protected 'businesses' like cell phone and cable companies, there is no monopoly in the Banking sector.

So, WHY, why are people still drawn to the lowest common denominator big banks for their accounts? It makes not sense.

I'm leaving this month from my own big bank, after their "FREE" online banking as long as you don't bother us, e-checking account, went from free to $12 a month.

Bye_Feliciaon Google gives up on Google Allo

that's very unusual.

Usually, if google developed the project in house, they will shove it down everyone's throat, whether its successful or not.

The reserve the 'bye felicia' for competitors they buy up and then destroy.

Bye_Feliciaon Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines

This a good analysis. It sums everything up without the bullshit.

The only thing I would correct in your "Financial Corruption Process Map" is the step after #3:

  3.5  "big fish" start buying up politicians and lobbying firms to legalize more and more "bad behavior"


  4.    Megabank acts legally to do something "reprehensible" since they lobbied to legalize it.


  4.5   financial collapse. scandal...then the hand wringing begins by walking corpses in Washington.

Bye_Feliciaon Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines

disgusting.

conclusion: Bankers are above the law.

They should be in jail, along with the CEO. This isn't just white collar crime. This was blatant, premeditated, financial fraud. Directed from the very top to every single Wells Fargo office.

How is the public so stupid and uneducated, as to not be outraged?

All this does, is help to motivate the next generation of sociopaths. Zero consequences.

Bye_Feliciaon Top Senate Democrat Endorses Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

You know, I think that's awesome, but gradualism has it's disadvantages, primarily, as you stated, all those millions of people, mostly black underprivileged people, who have had their ENTIRE LIVES DESTROYED.

So excuse me, if I don't hold the same love affair with the liars in chief, both current and former.

Bye_Feliciaon Top Senate Democrat Endorses Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

the beehive has been disturbed, true, all flying around like crazy looking for someone to bite...

Bye_Feliciaon Top Senate Democrat Endorses Decriminalizing Marijuana at the Federal Level

Wow talk about drinking the kool-aid.

Dispensaries legalized in their respective states continued to be raided and robbed throughout the Obama administration, one has only to witness such a scene, where local police and sometimes even elected officials look on, as the federal government marches in and destroys a legal business.

Marijuana law up in smoke as agents raid dispensaries

https://mg.co.za/article/2008-08-11-marijuana-law-up-in-smok...

there was no 'resistance' back then because Obama was the chosen one, who would lead us all into a golden age. Well, Obama's gone, and he didn't change shit in regards to drug laws, or at the very least neutering the DEA.

However, aside from my arguments from very limited first hand experience, there is also, oh right, all those pesky facts. Poor, powerless Obama, he's a victim!

Obama’s War on Pot | The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/obamas-war-pot/

(you can google search statistics yourself. i'm not going to list out links to someone who is clearly stuck on "talking points" from some publicist.)

However, he loved using the DEA as tool when it suited him:

The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-d...

Bye_Feliciaon Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

Hey! How did this happen!? Mods move entire threads for folks?

That's pretty cool, I'm used to things being like the archaic TechDirt commenting system...

Bye_Feliciaon The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

Thanks for the support. Being the voice of reality is a lonely road, like introducing antibiotics in a petri dish of wildly speculating bacteria, the revulsion is instantaneous.

"How dare you claim IBM's Watson isn't BREAKTHROUGH?!"

"How dare you not want the same buggy useless software which powers siri and cortana to now be used to drive cars?!"

What are you cynical reality based folks talking about! Saudia Arabia granted citizenship to it's first robot. Clearly you hate science! If AI wasn't real yet, why would they do that!?

Lifelike 'Sophia' Robot Granted Citizenship to Saudi Arabia https://www.livescience.com/60815-saudi-arabia-citizen-robot...

Bye_Feliciaon The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

This came as no surprise to me, and hence, I was spared the pangs of disillusionment, but there are countless people who have actually dealt with IBM's marketing gimmick, Watson, and have come away with a serious hangover:

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“Watson is a joke,” Chamath Palihapitiya, an influential tech investor who founded the VC firm Social Capital, said on CNBC in May.

A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions - MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607965/a-reality-check-fo...

Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It

https://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-is-hating-on-watson-includi...

Is IBM Watson A 'Joke'?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/07/02/is-ib...

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The final article, is the most telling, in its revelations. Of course, you must speak the language to understand IBM's gartner magic quadrant-esqe based reasoning: Their argument is because a bunch of businesses they convinced to sign up have 'Watson' stamped on their engagement contracts, it's PROOF that Watson is breakthrough technology, catapulting research into a new era of big data and machine learning....lol

I'm not saying some of the things that IBM claims it does, cannot be currently done, but I no doubt at all the IBM is not doing it, and Watson is most certainly behind closed doors a complete joke.

Bye_Feliciaon The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

...AND IT WON'T for a VERY LONG TIME. Those of us who know the origins of Ray Kurzweil, knew back then he was nothing special, and his ideas were derived from much smarter people around him.

As I recall, the article in WIRED from like 20 years ago, talked about how he missed his dad, and how in the future you would be able to take a room full of all his dad's old crap, and AI would be able to recompile his dad into dad 2.0 in the cloud!

(he didn't use these terms but that was the gist of the ridiculous and absurd WIRED article interview with him.)

Why do I bring up Ray? It's because circus acts like Ray and the Singularity University, sold a bunch of people certain goods, which were VASTLY overestimated in terms of delivery times, and in terms of the good themselves.

First of all, many folks don't want to admit this, but WE MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO CREATE A SYNTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS! I think we will eventually, but it's definitely not a certainty. It just may not be possible for a completely synthetic 'consciousness' to exist.

This type of hype has become almost religious in nature, just like the folks who really think Moore's Law is an actual scientific law and not just an observation and prediction based on very limited data.

In conclusion, you'll get your AI just like those folks in the 50's, or was it 60's? ...well anyway, back when they had those world's fairs and predicted flying cars.

We're just not there yet. We don't even have basic foundations to build this yet. There is always a possibility of a brilliant individual, who may leapfrog humanity, but for right now, it's just vaporware.

AND YES. Even IBM's Watson and Google's GO winning "AI" are just vaporware machine learning and big data sets, it's not AI even a little bit.

Sorry folks, I love futurizing, and inventing words ;) , just like everyone else, but... if AI is in the stadium, we aren't even in the parking lot.

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And now, after my rant, I shall read this article since it looks really interesting. I'm surprised it's on Medium.

Bye_Feliciaon Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

yes. lol. and now trying to clean up my mess. It won't let me delete...

...oh you must have replied right as I was deleting.

Bye_Feliciaon Interview with Simon Peyton-Jones

wrong thread.