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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is conducting a public hearing on the safety of internet-connected consumer products, and is requesting comments.
The Commission hearing will begin at 10 a.m., on May 16, 2018, and will conclude the same day. The Commission hearing will also be available through a webcast, but viewers will not be able to interact with the panels and presenters through the webcast.
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The growth of IoT-related products is a challenge for all CPSC stakeholders to address. Regulators, standards organizations, and business and consumer advocates must work collaboratively to develop a framework for best practices. To that end, the Commission will hold a public hearing for all interested parties on consumer product safety issues related to IoT.
Although this explicitly does not cover data security and privacy it covers many of the other issues seen with IoT devices.
Comments can be submitted to the commission through the web portal:
You may submit written comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2018-0007
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Electronic Submissions: Submit electronic comments to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at: www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Seen through the Internet Of Shit twitter feed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday March 29 2018, @09:03PM (6 children)
What you don't seem to get is that centralization of power *anywhere* will lead to this. Your fatal flaw is your inability--or dogmatic unwillingness--to understand that the problem is not government, or the people, but human nature itself. Besides which, in your libertarian utopia, whatever private individual or group accrued the most resources and power would become de facto "government," even if no such thing so named actually existed.
You either don't or won't get this, and it makes everything you say somewhere between fact-free and actually spam, though I know better than to mod you that way even though you deserve it.
Also, you never were able to answer this the last half dozen times or so I asked you: who, in your libertarian paradise, is responsible for enforcing contracts? And what happens when some private individual group accumulates enough capital to be able to say "fuck you, dipshits, we're going to do what we want and you can shove your contracts up your ass now?" If you don't see that your ideas will inevitably lead to a situation in which one and only one group or individual becomes "owner" of virtually everything, you're ignorant; if you do see it and think this should happen, you're evil.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @12:45AM (3 children)
You've been answered every time; you fail to read it.
Your alternative, "government", does not solve the problem; in fact, your "government" idea is, as you've noted, the failure mode of Capitalism (meaning it's necessary to fight to re-establish Capitalism).
Clearly, you'd agree that the key to averting Tyranny is a Separation of Powers.
Well, the purest form of the Separation of Powers is competition according to Capitalism, where the rules of Capitalism are enforced by that very competition itself—it's an iterative process.
You'll note that there is not and never has been (and never will be) One World Government; at the level of the nation state, there already is (and always has been) total anarchy. Even though all of these powers are explicitly anti-Capitalist, their competition has kept them under a global system of checks and balances (which has moved them ever more towards Capitalism, because that's the most profitable state of existence).
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 30 2018, @02:07AM (2 children)
We have very clearly seen that the rules of capitalism are indeed self-reinforcing and iterative...and that they tend to single or near-single ownership of *everything.* That *is* government. That you cannot or will not see this does not make it less true. You aren't thinking; you're just here to proselytize. At least get yourself an account, lest you make me start browsing at 1 or 2 rather than -1 so as not to see this idiocy any longer.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @10:15AM (1 child)
If you end up with a government, then you are ending up with an organization that is not following Capitalism.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday March 30 2018, @04:42PM
So no one can enforce contracts then. You seem to think in your world no one would ever welch. How do people like you survive in the real world?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 30 2018, @05:14PM (1 child)
smart contracts can enforce themselves.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday March 31 2018, @12:32AM
Ahahahahahaha! ...oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh harder: WAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You naive bastard, I am *so* glad you will never, ever, ever be in any position of power or policymaking. Do you also not look around you while crossing the street because "I've got the light, no one would dare run a red?"
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...