Technology effecting our lives thread

[walrus]

Did you hear about the smart dust? High atmospheric aerial plans bigger than those big c 10 cargo planes are spraying trillions and trillions of microscopic computers known as smart dust which are 1,000 times smaller than the head of a pin and they remain suspended in the atmosphere for months and months and when they do finally drift down they can be inhaled into our lungs they are like Nano computers there microscopic Nano computers and when inhaled into the lungs they embed themselves into the lung tissue and we become like a hybrid with all these Nano computers embedded into our tissue and these Nano computers can then send impulses or release chemicals into our systems and we would not even know it

Yes I think that is in the flat earth magazine I get. Apparently Putin called the dude to congratulate him.

[brocktonblockbust]

I cannot tell if the angel of Light is being sarcastic here or not with his reference to the Flat Earth magazine as I personally feel that Flat Earth theory is among the most backwards ever entertained but if he is being sincere then that is quite impressive that Putin would bother to congratulate. It shows that old vLatimer is quite enlightened

[walrus]

Amazon Echo and Google Home A.I. assistant devices are scaring their owners with unprompted statements.
According to the Wall Street Journal, one Echo owner “was sitting on her bed crying one day after having just quit her job, listening to music, when she said she heard a voice tell her, ‘It’s going to be OK.'”

“The words might have been comforting had she not heard them from Alexa — Amazon.com Inc.’s voice assistant which powers the Echo Dot speaker on her nightstand,” the Journal declared.

The device’s owner reportedly became so scared by the incident that she unplugged it and placed it in a drawer for several days, and it’s not the only spooky incident to have happened surrounding Silicon Valley’s A.I. assistants.

“They are also sometimes freaking people out, seeming to drop into conversations uninvited, playing music unprompted in the middle of the night, turning on other gadgets at random and acting generally, well, possessed,” the Wall Street Journal explained, adding that a Google Home Mini recently reminded its owner of a “cocaine and reefer” event at 1 p.m.

The reminder reportedly made the device’s owner “afraid,” until she realized the device had misheard a pastor on the television talking about “cocaine and reefer” during a speech about addiction.

Other instances have included smart devices shouting expletives, randomly laughing, and recording family conversations before sending the recording to random contacts.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/...ed-statements/

[Gandalf]

It's so uncool. Humanity is heading towards a dangerous tipping point and it will end up like in Superman 3 where the machine feeds itself. Unfortunately there is no more Superman as that is an inappropriate usage of non neutral gender language and so we shall all have to die. Actually maybe not. That Elon Musk guy was saying that maybe we will get to a point where we can simply upload ourselves and live in a digital form or something like that. Just really sick stuff. We are now going beyond humanity into something truly dark, demented and twisted and I don't think I want to play this game.

[brocktonblockbust]

Some people fall back on the age-old argument that every generation said the same thing about the newer generation. You know the thing like they don't make them like they used to kind of thinking. but there has to come a time just like people who say the world is coming to an end and then the world does not come to an end. But there has to come a time when there's actually true or the newer generation and the new phenomena taking place are literally the end of humanity in the end of the world and I do believe that we are in that time right now

[walrus]

I keep warning u people about this

More than 60 percent of Americans who have some European ancestry can be identified using DNA databases — even if they have not submitted their own DNA, researchers reported Thursday.

Enough people have done some kind of DNA test to make it possible to match much of the population, the researchers said. So even if you don’t submit your own DNA, if a cousin does, it could lead people to you.

They said their findings, published in the journal Science, raise concerns about privacy. Not only could police use this information, but so could other people seeking personal information about someone.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-study-n919236

[walrus]

CANN has scheduled the Root Zone Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover for today, and it could affect some DNS users all over the world.

By Rolling the KSK, ICANN implies that a new cryptographic public and private key pair will be generated and the private key will be distributed to internet service providers, enterprise network administrators, and Domain Name System (DNS) resolver operators.

KSK Rollover operations began in October 2016 and were scheduled for October 2017. However, ICANN announced that the rollover has been postponed due to the fact that “a significant number of resolvers used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Network Operators are not yet ready for the Key Rollover.”

A draft plan was announced on February 1, 2018, after receiving input from the community; October 11, 2018, was the date put forward to initiate the procedure. According to ICANN, the rollover is necessary to curb the rising number of cyber attacks.

In an official statement, Communications Regulatory Authority said: “To further clarify, some internet users might be affected if their network operators or Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have not prepared for this change. However, this impact can be avoided by enabling the appropriate system security extensions.”

Due to the ongoing maintenance work, some internet users could face issues in accessing web pages or making transactions over the next 48 hours.