Comment by jfsebastian
16 hours ago
Generally, I'm with you, but over the past decades I often saw companies being lazy about their software. So I think chances are good that we can make use of this situation. Not long ago, you had to accept certain decisions or servers going down with leaving devices useless. I'm hopeful that more stuff can have a 2nd/better life in our hands.
I like being able to have all this access, of course, but I'm not sure if "we" all truly have the character to be good stewards of this.
Or rather I am sure that we do not.
OTOH, maybe it needs events like these to build character. It just will suck for whoever turns out to be the collateral.
That's the downside of the medal, but let's face it. A tool is a tool. You can forge helpful stuff or weapons, but this is not the fault of the tool itself. So we're currently at the stage where we were on the internet 30 years ago. Let's see where this leads too.
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(in response to the other comment here, whose author forgot to turn off VPN and got automatically flagged despite his account being 10 years old, because @dang would rather hang a hundred innocent men than let a guilty get away.)
do you ponder "unpleasant moral stuff" every time you chop vegetables?
>As an anchor, knives or sharp objects were used in about 97,000 homicides globally in 2017, equivalent to roughly 266 deaths per day.
>There is no reliable single global count, so the best concise answer is about 10,000 people injured by stabbing each day worldwide, not counting deaths separately.
I can guarantee you that 95% of those are done with the humble kitchen knife.
Do the companies have better character though?