Because governments are on it too, big time. It's not just about surveillance politics, or big businesses in some surveillance economy, or credit card purchase data leaked everywhere, or Echelon, or platforms spilling their (our) guts. It's about surveillance everything.
Because it's not an option if you're McKinsey, a data broker, a private security firm, or anyone contracting them. Data collection is an obligation, a requirement. They need to know about what's everyones up to, even if it's only through real time metadata.
Face recognition cameras everywhere, automatic photo radars, license plate readers at busy corners, everything going through apps in potentially always operating and recording pocket pcs we call smartphones, with potential trojans everywhere, in potentially everything. TV's are just one evocation of the disease, mainly directed at old folks, because nobody else cares about TVs and cable subscriptions anymore.
Anyone with just an once of understanding about how computer networking actually operates will actively put up all sorts of firewalls and air gaps around anything they own, because why not.
Anyone else, who shrugs at geek talk, is nothing but fair game, and will remain until someone suddenly pulls the rug from under them. Think massive actionable intelligence used against large parts of a population in a war, or a conscription, or a coup, or a full scale invasion, or whatever. Anything less will only be laughed at and dismissed.
You're offering a comprehensive law against that? That's not enough, far from it. Pass anything, I guaranty you the hydra will still be well and thriving anyway.
It's an understandable reaction against a loud and aggressive (political) minority we've been seeing for the past four years. Thanks for the link, this finally pushed me to support the developer.
Cis person who drives a big truck in Washington state, don’t leave us out! To be fair it’s a cybertruck so I’m not sure how gender affirming it is. The manly gas guzzling truck drivers don’t seem to approve.
About the _expansionists vs extinctionists_ duality Musk is promoting, I'd say it all fall into a Yin and Yang kind of proposition, that answers come from equilibrium between opposite forces, rather than chosing one or the other.
About the fear of being awake (as in woke), it sure reveals just how some are mostly afraid of being afraid. I'll gladly take a trans woke AI I can reason with over anything else, because I can't stand the opposite, aggression, at intimate level (as I believe AI is a potentially very intimate tech): BWTB (better woke than bigot).
I wish you'd be right. Because Canada's population recently passed 40M, and both 2022 and 2023 have seen more than 1M new immigrants coming in each year. That's 2.5% of actual total population augmentation _per year_.
Try that say, in the US. One time 2.5% on 350M population bring 9M new immigrants. Real US number for 2022: 1M immigrants [0] - so same as Canada.
99% actual problems in Canada (housing prices and healthcare) are direct consequence to immigration policies and flow. As for tech job low pay, blame distance from valley bubble.
But how many are still staying in Canada? US figures are low because after Europe it is one of hardest country to move to. I am from India, and what I see is that most indians who wish to emigrate choose Canada because it is currently the easiest country to migrate to (the requirements are lower because inhospitable weather and economy makes it unattractive for migrants and Canada needs labour). However, many indians, especially the better qualified ones, eventually hope to move to the US from Canada, and it is not their preferred destination.
Also, I do not agree that unaffordable housing prices and the fall in quality of healthcare can be attributed majorly to immigration. Flawed economic policies on real estate (allowing foreign investments, not considering rent control etc.) and cutting funds for socialised healthcare to push privatisation are bigger factors at play, in my opinion.
You say I attributed problems to immigration? No, immigration policies (which includes foreign investment control), and immigration flow. Please, read again. All I'm saying is 2.5% annual adult population increase is unsustainable in the short term.
As for flawed economics policies, well, every country has its share. Some more than others. Immigration flow wouldn't be the same without them.
Because it's not an option if you're McKinsey, a data broker, a private security firm, or anyone contracting them. Data collection is an obligation, a requirement. They need to know about what's everyones up to, even if it's only through real time metadata.
Face recognition cameras everywhere, automatic photo radars, license plate readers at busy corners, everything going through apps in potentially always operating and recording pocket pcs we call smartphones, with potential trojans everywhere, in potentially everything. TV's are just one evocation of the disease, mainly directed at old folks, because nobody else cares about TVs and cable subscriptions anymore.
Anyone with just an once of understanding about how computer networking actually operates will actively put up all sorts of firewalls and air gaps around anything they own, because why not.
Anyone else, who shrugs at geek talk, is nothing but fair game, and will remain until someone suddenly pulls the rug from under them. Think massive actionable intelligence used against large parts of a population in a war, or a conscription, or a coup, or a full scale invasion, or whatever. Anything less will only be laughed at and dismissed.
You're offering a comprehensive law against that? That's not enough, far from it. Pass anything, I guaranty you the hydra will still be well and thriving anyway.