IoT: The Internet of
Cringley nailed it in early 2014:
The idea is very simple: put intelligence in every device and connect them all together on the Internet. And the idea behind the idea is even simpler: the everything is what we’ll first have to throw away. Because that’s the only way the Internet of Everything can work.
Every network can be hacked, which is the other reason why it is still the Internet of Crap.
JG: One of the comments I liked most: "I don't care what my toaster has to say."
IoT leads to:
Won't Someone Think About the Children?
Mom, My Barbie Needs A Better Firewall
Earlier this year, we noted that Barbie had received a face lift for the internet of things age. Hello Barbie is able to take commands from your kids, but also connects to your home Wi-Fi network to shovel your children's conversations to the cloud -- purportedly to improve Barbie's voice recognition technology. At the time, groups like the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood complained that monetizing the ramblings of toddlers was a line that shouldn't be crossed, given that kids would no longer be talking to a doll, they'd be "talking directly to a toy conglomerate whose only interest in them is financial."
The Bobcats (click to enlarge)
JG: Personally, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't read it but...
here you go,
A Complete DoucheCopter:
Law Professor: ISIS Is, Like, Totally Scary, So Let's Do Away With The First Amendment
Law professor Eric Posner is no fan of the First Amendment. Never has been. Back in 2012, he argued that Americans basically need to get over the First Amendment because free speech upsets people. Earlier this year, he argued for restricting the speech of college students because students are children who don't deserve free speech. A few months ago, he also argued that the US should adopt a "right to be forgotten," because sometimes it's better to make speech disappear entirely.
So it comes as little surprise that he's now arguing that we should just dump the First Amendment,because ISIS is, like, super scary, yo.
Posner: Americans need to learn that the rest of the world—and not just Muslims—see no sense in the First Amendment. Even other Western nations take a more circumspect position on freedom of expression than we do, realizing that often free speech must yield to other values and the need for order.
And the people who would support him:
Trump’s uncomfortable American legacy
The problem with U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s extreme proposal to temporarily limit the entry of Muslims into the United States is not that it reflects an aberrant, occasional fringe position that threatens one minority group. It reveals a much more uncomfortable fact: Trump’s comments are part of a long tradition of the white Christian majority’s isolating, mistreating and making scapegoats of groups that are perceived as encroaching on and threatening its hegemonic privileges.
And Jon Stewart Trumps it all:
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