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They are also competitively priced for computer stuff and you are sure they are not counterfeit which is not the case on amazon (especially but not only sdcards).

x% of the money distributed to shareholders for how long this was going on taken from current revenue, not benefits. That should also push shareholders to do the right choices in who they support.

No that does not work the ones who benefited just sell the shares before the fines are imposed and the ones who buy would be the ones you punish then.

the value of the shares would drop anyway for the first group.

They would sell before the shares started dropping

See who owns Thames Water now and compare with who held it 15-20 years ago


yeah they don't talk about cleaning them either... that's a massive problem in this kind of ion separation techniques, things splatter and stick everywhere.


they can absolutely see uranium. It ionizes and thus get separated like many other things https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7470433/

Calutrons are using the same principle of separating ions by their mass/charge ratio, just in a preparative scale (you want to collect what is separated) rather than analytical (you just want to know how much of what).


We know that intelligence tests and tests in general can be impacted by motivation and potential monetary gains (the article brushes on that). Maybe they can also be impacted by the happiness and other emotional states of the test taker.


The remote control of machines is just the cherry on top.


Not of AI, of the owners and steerers of the AI systems.


I once ordered a vegetarian burger in some kind of trivia bar of a big american city. It came with bacon... When I asked they said: "but nobody ever complained about having bacon in it". there are alternate realities out there. Even in the deepest small town I had never seen that.


A familly member had one of those (he had to pay a yearly subscription in addition to the stick). Network would be unusable as soon as it was on for anyone else, and it also tried to scan things on the local network. It was indeed connecting to all kind of services all over the world (and saturating some tables in the router doing so which blocked other clients). Definitely evil, definitely on purpose.


Reading this, I caught myself wondering how we distill what's in this excellent write up into something the average consumer understands, including the dangers from buying and using devices like this.

Is it a graphic that's shared? Something else? I am sure we all know or have heard of people with these devices that promise free streaming.


The bigger problem is convincing them to care. Botnets are abstract - where's the pain to them? Ad farms? That's "just hurting big corporations".

Remember, a significant portion of the population got angry (often violently so) when just asked to wear a mask to protect their neighbors. And the threat there was significantly easier to explain.


Just tell the anti mask types the TV sticks come with CCP hacking software preinstalled.


First you'd have to figure out what the dangers actually are. Most of what's cited in TFA and this comments section are only dangers to large evil companies, and why should anyone care about them?


You can't. This is a legitimate thing the government needs to step in and deal with on behalf of their people via legislation because their people cannot be reasonably taught to protect themselves.


Protect themselves from what?


In the world of auto-updates of software and firmware, even the hardware which is now completely legal and crap-free, could convert itself to a proxy or ad network later any time.

And don't forget about counterfeit products (which look like original but different in firmware) and supply chain attack vectors, which are really, really common.

If you want to buy something as simple as a feature phone, going to a store with 10 of them will give you at least 1/10 chance to buy a phone with a trojan/backdoor.


I warned them about the risk of those things and showed them what I found, they continued buying the next generation (that person and his two >40yo kids). They NEEDED to watch those soccer games more than they cared about security...


If it wasn't scanning your own network or using all of your bandwidth, would you still consider it evil?


yes


Windows is malware that pulls other malware.


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