I'd expect a sharp drop in tourism if something like this goes through:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...and-over-social-media-passwords-kelly-n718216

 

I'd expect a sharp drop in tourism if something like this goes through:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...and-over-social-media-passwords-kelly-n718216

Possibly.

I just wish some would remember that no non-citizen has a right to enter the United States. We are a sovereign nation and can/should (are obligated to!) choose who is allowed to come here using as much information available as possible.

 

We are a sovereign nation and can/should (are obligated to!) choose who is allowed to come here using as much information available as possible.

That has never been questioned... but I'd expect a strong backlash from other nations, even allies, if that ever becomes implemented.

 

There is no privacy when you are in public.. Snap my pic/scan my face all you want..

As to Echo,etc.. I don't have one but don't give a flying F if it is listening to me.. I'm not breaking the laws (well.. not too many of them anyways ).. There is no human sitting on the other end listening (or call center of a billion people in India listening).. There is a computer hopefully scanning for specific "buzz words" but a group..consumer protection hackers or whatever would have already proven thats happening and I haven't seen it so far.... Fine.. No big deal.. Somehow my life goes on..

 

If they can't see your face or know the facts then the computer can hallucinate it for them using Convolutional neural networks (CNN).
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.00783.pdf

6. Conclusion As in many image transformation tasks, the central problem of super resolution is in hallucinating sharp details by choosing a mode of the output distribution.

 

As to Echo,etc.. I don't have one but don't give a flying F if it is listening to me.. I'm not breaking the laws (well.. not too many of them anyways ).. There is no human sitting on the other end listening (or call center of a billion people in India listening).. There is a computer hopefully scanning for specific "buzz words" but a group..consumer protection hackers or whatever would have already proven thats happening and I haven't seen it so far.... Fine.. No big deal.. Somehow my life goes on.

There's a murder case in Arkansas that the cops are trying the data from Amazon. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltech...s-amazon-echo-factors-in-murder-investigation

 

There's a murder case in Arkansas that the cops are trying the data from Amazon. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltech...s-amazon-echo-factors-in-murder-investigation

Cool...
So it is "streaming" data to the Amazon servers when the blue light is on.. No word though if that data is actually being stored somewhere for future use (probably is.. but again.. so what)..

 

I just ran across some information that might be interesting to people like nsaspook and joejester:

"In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labelled military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance."
http://www.rutherford.org/publicati...r_you_the_u.s._militarys_plan_to_take_over_am

the government continues to add to its growing list of characteristics that can be used to identify an individual as a potential domestic terrorist. For instance, you might be a domestic terrorist in the eyes of the FBI (and its network of snitches) if you:

• express libertarian philosophies (statements, bumper stickers)
• exhibit Second Amendment-oriented views (NRA or gun club membership) (believe The Constitution still applies to American citizens)
  
• show signs of self-sufficiency (stockpiling food, ammo, hand tools, medical supplies)
• expound about constitutional rights

http://www.rutherford.org/publicati...the_fbi_the_silent_terror_of_the_fourth_reich

Those two dissertations contain a lot of links to government policies pertaining to mass surveillance (privacy lost).

 

I just ran across some information that might be interesting to people like nsaspook and joejester:

"In 2009, reports by the Department of Homeland Security surfaced that labelled military veterans as extremists (a.k.a. terrorists) and called on the government to subject such targeted individuals to full-fledged pre-crime surveillance."
http://www.rutherford.org/publicati...r_you_the_u.s._militarys_plan_to_take_over_am

the government continues to add to its growing list of characteristics that can be used to identify an individual as a potential domestic terrorist. For instance, you might be a domestic terrorist in the eyes of the FBI (and its network of snitches) if you:

• express libertarian philosophies (statements, bumper stickers)
• exhibit Second Amendment-oriented views (NRA or gun club membership) (believe The Constitution still applies to American citizens)
  
• show signs of self-sufficiency (stockpiling food, ammo, hand tools, medical supplies)
• expound about constitutional rights

http://www.rutherford.org/publicati...the_fbi_the_silent_terror_of_the_fourth_reich

Those two dissertations contain a lot of links to government policies pertaining to mass surveillance (privacy lost).

Yes. We are a danger to our government.

Exactly the way it was supposed to be.

 

Yep, that's me ... Military Retiree ... labeled a terrorist by my own department, the Department of Homeland Security. Tells you what they think ...

I do find it interesting that people still don't know why the 2nd Amendment exists.

 

the government continues to add to its growing list of characteristics that can be used to identify an individual as a potential domestic terrorist.

Too bad they didn't have that in place to catch Timothy McVeigh. Veterans never go bad.

 

How many of the millions of veterans "went bad"?

Juxtapose that against the civilian population.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same rate .... Although the civilian side would be numerically superior.

 

How many of the millions of veterans "went bad"?

Juxtapose that against the civilian population.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same rate .... Although the civilian side would be numerically superior.

Hundreds of murders in Chicago alone each year. And not by former military.

I'd classify gangs as terrorist organizations and prosecute accordingly.

But that's just me.

 

@WBahn -- maybe you would like one of these?

Edit: the reference is with respect to your Github thread.

 

Hundreds of murders in Chicago alone each year. And not by former military.

I'd classify gangs as terrorist organizations and prosecute accordingly.

But that's just me.

So "It's the government...." Clause only applies when you see fit.

Biased Logic Still Looks Like Logic. Only biased.

 

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14647280/talking-doll-hack-cayla-german-government-ban

A spokesperson for the German Federal Network Agency or Bundesnetzagentur told theSueddeutsche Zeitung that the law forbids the sale or possession of any product that can be used for hidden surveillance, no matter their outward appearance: “It doesn't matter what that object is — it could be an ashtray or fire alarm.”

 

 

How many of the millions of veterans "went bad"?

Juxtapose that against the civilian population.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same rate .... Although the civilian side would be numerically superior.

Same logic, "how many immigrants 'went bad'?"

 

I'd expect a sharp drop in tourism if something like this goes through:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...and-over-social-media-passwords-kelly-n718216

What a great idea! Then we could hire 50 - 100,000 people to take a look at 11 million I phones.

 

This is a very good article, very relevant to this thread:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/

We are experiencing the largest transformation since the end of the Second World War; after the automation of production and the creation of self-driving cars the automation of society is next. With this, society is at a crossroads, which promises great opportunities, but also considerable risks. If we take the wrong decisions it could threaten our greatest historical achievements.