Billionaires have decided, either explicitly or implicitly, that they can survive a dying planet and therefore all the rest of us are expendable. They're building climate-proof riot-proof bunkers, they're funding life extension research, they're funding cloning research, they're doing everything they can to ensure their survival (in one form or another) while also doing everything they can to accelerate the end of everyone else.

It's sad that it's come to this, but: either they all go or we all go. I don't like it, I wish things weren't this way, but this is where we find ourselves and the only remaining question is how far we'll let things go -- and how many of us will die -- before we decide to act.

My guess is that it will take some kind of unfortunate, awful, cataclysmic event to finally get people to act. I say that because we've been watching gradual and inexorable events for decades and we're done nothing: it's just business as usual. So I suspect a mass tragedy will be necessary to galvanize the population into doing what needs to be done.

To everyone who believes that innocent people should not have privacy, may you get all you wish for. But just you. No one else.

Are you sure it's Stanislaw Lem? The story you're describing feels very similar to the story of the film Colossus: The Forbin Project, which is based on the book Colossus, by DF Jones.

Trump chose Retarded Drunk Kegsbreath... who is running the US Military... so...

Well yeah, TreasonBitch Trump and Apartheidist RetardedShit Musk's "DOGE" fired the competent employees all over. GOP are traitors and saboteurs, they all need to be removed from office and permanently barred from it forevermore so we can get started fixing all the problems that the America Hating Retardican Shitbags Party have caused.

dafuq's wrong with you, friendo?

[ Disclaimer: I'm a Tesla driver, since 2018, and have FSD on my car ]

Tesla's FSD and Waymo's approach are wildly different, enough so that you can't really compare them. The biggest two differences are: 1) Musk's cheap, so Teslas only use cameras to figure out what's going on around them; Waymos use cameras, ultrasonic sensors, radar, and lidar; 2) Waymos are only deployed on specific roads and streets that have been very heavily surveyed and Waymos have been trained on.

I trust Tesla's FSD about as far as I can throw it, and while it's been helpful and prevented an accident or two for me when I've been distracted, it's basically a glorified lane assist and cruise control. I'd not hesitate to fall asleep in the back of a driverless Waymo.

Except for the fact that Slashdot's moderation doesn't actually work, thanks to the reich-wing retards building up botfarms to farm for mod points.

Now Slashdot is letting the GOPedophile Retardicans use AI to farm accounts for modpoints and downmod anyone that isn't a Shit Eating Nazi Republican too.

Everyone is focusing on Flock, but there are lots of other companies where law enforcement gets this or similar data from. Focusing on Flock will not save us from this. The only thing that will is pestering our elected officials to change the laws. Law enforcement long ago figured out that they could get around constitutional rights when data comes from non-governmental companies. The only thing that is going to fix this is the laws being updated to the point that anything that government needs a warrant for if they do directly, would also need a warrant if they use non-governmental data. Otherwise we will just be chasing our tails from one company to the next.

Oh look, the Mises Retardicans are back again. Haven't you Inbred Klanbitches died off yet?

Yep. Another Pump And Dump from the Bitcoin Scammers.

""Fifty sites seized and 150 domains disabled in a single action is only possible when the hosting providers, the exchanges, the model providers and the data holders all move at the same time," security company SpyCloud told The Hacker News."

That's nice. But how was this facilitated in the first place? (1) Domain registrars who will sell scammers as many domains as they want. (2) Hosting providers who will host obvious phishers/scammers/typosquatters as long as they pay the bills (3) Cryptocurrency operations, aka fake money for criminals. (4) AI companies who have utterly failed to building even pretend guardrails because they don't care how much damage they cause (4) &etc.

What we have here are the people who set the house on fire taking credit for belatedly putting it out.

I've been designing, building, and running email systems for a very long time. And one of the things I've observed is that it is impossible to secure any email system running on Microsoft platforms. I've watched colleagues -- sincere, smart, dedicated, hardworking, diligent colleagues -- try over and over and over again...and all of them have failed. ALL OF THEM. Not even Microsoft, which has for all practical purposes infinite money and infinite personnel, has managed to pull it off. Given this 100% failure rate, I'm convinced that it can't be done.

Not that other operations don't have their issues: Gmail is overrun with spammers and phishers, for example. But those might be fixed given some attention by the right people. Microsoft will never be fixed.

False. Ayn Rand was a white-supremacist bitch who wanted a "no taxation" anarchist lunatic structure.