Non-IT News Thread

coliver

http://www.pcgamer.com/postal-goes-open-source-after-almost-20-years/

wirestyle22

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

I think it's kind of interesting

scottalanmiller

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

I think it's kind of interesting

Facial recognition used to pull data that "might" be about you to determine if you can go to work.... eek.

Dashrender

Additionally, he says, "The government isn't rating people. It's done by a third party. We share government data and they decide what it means."

That's like the US handing over money to the Fed... ug..

wirestyle22

I'm applying an "It's not me" mentality. I've never seen anything like it in the world so we'll see where it goes.

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

Or very cool. Ever read Daemon and Freedom? It all depends on the people using the tech.

wirestyle22

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

Or very cool. Ever read Daemon and Freedom? It all depends on the people using the tech.

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451231899 ??

Dashrender

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

Or very cool. Ever read Daemon and Freedom? It all depends on the people using the tech.

nope, you already failed.. you said people.

wirestyle22

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

Or very cool. Ever read Daemon and Freedom? It all depends on the people using the tech.

nope, you already failed.. you said people.

but users are people. oh.

travisdh1

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

Or very cool. Ever read Daemon and Freedom? It all depends on the people using the tech.

nope, you already failed.. you said people.

Don't worry to much, the creator is a programmer and kills lots of people, just not his own users.

travisdh1

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@wirestyle22 said in Non-IT News Thread:

Shanghai creates public credit score

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/01/03/507983933/whats-your-public-credit-score-the-shanghai-government-can-tell-you

Seriously scary.

Or very cool. Ever read Daemon and Freedom? It all depends on the people using the tech.

https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451231899 ??

Yes.

scottalanmiller

Man's front door bricked up as he sleeps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38502720

RojoLoco

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Man's front door bricked up as he sleeps
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38502720

Good prank.

Son of Jor-El

A little light reading. What jumps out at me is there are zero modern day QB's that are in the list. Rules now enforced make it so easy on the receivers. That's why when I see QB records fall, it's like watching HRs in the steroid era.

http://football-players.pointafter.com/stories/21428/most-unreliable-quarterbacks-nfl-history?utm_medium=cm&utm_source=outbrain&utm_campaign=rt.cm.ob.dt.11234#1-Jim-Hart

scottalanmiller

Brooklyn train derailment at a station. No info yet.

wirestyle22

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Brooklyn train derailment at a station. No info yet.

Reached out to my brother to make sure he is okay

scottalanmiller

Here it is:

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/nyregion/lirr-derailment-atlantic-terminal-brooklyn.html

A Long Island Rail Road train crashed at a major transportation hub in Brooklyn during the morning rush on Wednesday, injuring over 100 people and disrupting the commute for thousands of people, the authorities said.

Officials said the train rammed into a bumper as it pulled into the Atlantic Terminal station in Downtown Brooklyn around 8 a.m., knocking at least the front two cars off the tracks.

Donette Smith, 55, who was on the train, said people had begun to stand in the aisle as the train moved into the station. Then an “extremely hard” jolt sent everyone falling to the floor. “People just went flying,” she said. “Bodies were everywhere. It was very scary.”

The passengers emerged to find the station filled with smoke. “I couldn’t see,” Ms. Smith said.

People removed from the train on stretchers, and one person had a bloody mouth, she said.

Fire Department officials said the crash could have been far worse. One rail of Track 6, on which the train was traveling, sliced through the floor of a train car, they said. And the train crashed into what the officials characterized as a small waiting room or workroom beyond the track, causing substantial damage to the room.

scottalanmiller

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/04/long-island-rail-road-train-derails-at-atlantic-terminal-in-brooklyn-ny.html