I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

11 Replies to “I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”

1. I recall someone posting a few years past here at SDA and complaining of how on the sidebars of his internet news sites it was all porn and Russian wives to date…

2. Meh. Didn’t vice guarantee Hillary would be president?

   ‘1984’ never a warning; it was always an instruction manual. It will be time to upgrade my telescreen soon.

3. It’s just advertisers listening in, hoping to sell you a new pair of jeans or offer you printable coupons for the supermarket. Not like the government will ever get their hands on it and use it to spy on the citizens looking for wrongthinkers or anything.

   Why in God’s name are you so worried about it? It’s just harmless technology.

4. My MANDATORY … PG&E “smart meters” for natural gas and electric can be SHUT OFF REMOTELY by PG&E at the direction of the State. Perhaps the Bay Area Air Quality District determines the air is too foul from energy use … SNAP! OFF goes the Power … OFF goes the gas. They already do it with fireplaces via “no burn days … it won’t be long till it’s ALL energy use?

   I do NOT need my self-driving automobile shutting down because someone in the central office has determined I’ve driven … “too many” miles this month. Nor do I need my computer screen filled with “targeted” advertisements from SPYING on my private conversations.

   1. I think you’re already aware of this fiasco in the making…

      https://usa.streetsblog.org/2017/06/26/oregons-pay-per-mile-driving-fees-ready-for-prime-time-but-waiting-for-approval/

   2. in a pinch kenji, I have a contingency plan:
      1 turn off the main breaker and all individual breakers and other common sense safety steps
      2 yank the meter.
      3. rig up some short (no pun intended) heavy gauge ie booster cables to join the incoming lines to the contacts going into your house.
      4. turn on main breaker and a couple individual ones and check an outlet, lite fixture etc. then proceed with your day
      5 log in to SDA and tell us how it went.

      1. Ha! You sound … uh … experienced in this maneuver. The highest voltage line I feel qualified to splice is my old cable tv line … climb the pole and tap in … voila … 600 channels of dreck

5. Either we create a technology/internet bill of rights that includes right to privacy or this will be the future, and I know what the elite globalists want…

6. And of course they’ve already hacked the DNA databases already too:
   https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/myheritage-data-breach.html
   The life insurance companies will just love this. Just like they love tracking your driving habits to give you lower rates.

   1. My Insurance company called about this last week and offered a tracker for my phone. I told them to eff off and if you force it on me I’ll find another company.

7. In my personal tests, only Facebook’s android app was guilty, but I try not to use more apps than I need. After that, I realised how the broad android permissions could be used and really thought twice about installing stuff.

   The moral equivalence to “advertisers looking at your browser history” is a disgusting one. Your history is physically resident on your property (computer/tablet/phone), so they’re stealing from you. And don’t get me started on cookies. The whole article smacks of “it’ll only hurt for a bit.”