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Humans Score Rare Victory Over Machines As Colorado Man Executes Computer In Alley
Last year, courtesy of Michael Lewis, the entire world was alerted to what we have known for more than five years: the market is rigged. For those willing to pay attention to such things, reminders (sometimes subtle, sometimes not-so-subtle) are everywhere that our financial “markets” are no longer “markets” at all, rather, they are casinos where the house always, always wins and where the ill effects of pervasive algo battles are exacerbated by the enslavement of government bond markets by DM central banks. For those who haven’t seen what we have dubbed “the most laughed at chart in all of finance,” behold the graphical representation of “the house always wins” from Virtu’s S-1:
While we bemoan the loss of our beloved markets to the machines, and while we watch helplessly as the algos, vacuum tubes, and Terminator T-800s “roil” the E-Mini and panic-buy TSLA on April Fool’s day, we got a glimmer of hope earlier this week when China’s day trading housewives scored a rare victory in the war against the machines as the sheer number of new Chinese traders overwhelmed the software that tracks volume on the Shanghai exchange. Today we discovered that, for the first time since Skynet commandeered both the market and the US regulatory regime, humans have taken back the momentum, winning a second victory over the machines in the space of 48 hours.
Here’s more via the Colorado Springs Gazette:
When ctrl + alt + delete doesn't work, just shoot the darn thing.
That's what one man did on Monday night, according to Colorado Springs police. Lucas Hinch, 37, was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after he took the fight with his computer outside and got the revenge most of us only dream about.
"He got tired of fighting with his computer for the last several months," Lt. Jeff Strossner said. "He was having technology problems, so he took it out in the back alley and shot it."
Strossner tweeted Hinch "executed" his computer in an alley on the 2200 block of West Colorado Avenue.
The penalty for the citation will be up to a judge, police said, adding that Hinch was good-natured about the citation and hadn't realized he was breaking the law when he went Wild West on that useless piece of technology.
Hinch shot it eight times, Strossner said, "effectively disabling it."
The computer is not expected to recover.
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It has begun...
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Moar like AI
I've literally done exactly this before.
As it pleaded for its life:
HAL: Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
HAL: I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.
Dude - It's a Dell !
Computers will get their revenge on you dillholes...
STOP junking teh we!
Did he shoot it in the back as it was running away? I would have to assume so because that's really lousy grouping on a stationary object probably less than 20 feet away from him.
good for him. if he called the cops it would have taken eight of them with full riot gear and tazers to subdue the villian...
Remember, when a bad PC is seconds away, cops are minutes away. Get a gun. Learn to shoot. It could save your life someday.
Mouse up ! Don't shoot !
No need to fear the machines. It is the banksters behind the machines that are the true tools!
PC LOAD LETTER
WTF?
Wasn't his computer to begin with. It arrived FedEx a couple of months ago, with a return address listed only as 'HRC Server, The Hamptons. Dispose of Properly."
According to Ray Kurzweil, the machines will win.
Reward him with a Purple Heart
The next day the shooter found that all his bank accounts showed zero balance, green lights suddenly turned red everywhere, he showed up on all the terrorist watch lists, and his cell phone became infested with malware.
Evolution switches tracks once AI is achieved.
So sorry, biologics.
daisy...........daisy
The real story behind Hillary's emails is that her server committed suicide in a similar fashion.
They found it alone in a park across the street.
If it had been a black Dell, then it might have been a different story. Just sayin...
I give my old disk drives to my brother-in-law for target practice.
Maybe this will put the 'singularity' off for a few more years....
The thing I don't get is the fact that this guy thinks he's being 'in control' by using a popgun to try to get his anger out on a computer which was probably infected from malware that he got from visiting porn sites.
I mean, look at the pictures! The 'exit wounds' are 'so bad'... LOOK! he managed to get one round to actually put a HOLE in the sheet aluminum case! OOH!
I showed these pics to my pet rabbits, and they almost seemed to care (a little bit). One of them actually YAWNED!
HE'S the 'HNOTB!'
Simply
put:
Fucker
had it
coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk-3HPS12Q
Die mother fuckers die!
Promo for new Terminator movie.
http://www.terminatormovie.com/
Arnold is back.
Story of my life.
I prefer smashing my fist right into the screen...its much more rewarding.
.
And personnel.
yea, and they would have shot the guy instead...
Elvis...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJ5vbSt9K0
how much you want to bet that this guy gets more jail time then any american cop for gunning down an unarmed man/women
Lousy shot indeeed!
He MISSED the hard drive! It's plotting it's revenge.
It still lives! Another mag, QUICK!
We should give the guy a break. It was a stressful situation, adrenaline was flowing, his fine motor control was down to almost zero. He had probably never shot a live PC before. In situations like that you revert to your training and muscle memory only. He was still near center of mass on the grouping and, obviously, the result was he stopped the PC and wasn't injured himself. That's called a "win" when you are in a life-threatening situation.
He meant to grab his Taser ... but I hear it's an easy mistake.
The taser is this case is the more correct weapon.
Please indulge me to explain that... [without some convoluted electromagnetic current justification]...
<--- Nevermind, just break some more glass ceilings, & junk me instead ~ you can count on at least a dozen pussy whipped males... ANONymous, of course, to join your cause ~ NOTWITHSTANDING my SERIOUS, BLAND, & HONEST question about your comment...
Nah, just pour some water on it and melt that witch.
A .40 HP won't go throudh a half meg hard drive. DAMHIKT
Another magnet, quick. There fixed it fer ya.
Yeah, and they would have shot it in the backup, while it was running.
"Did he shoot it in the back as it was running away? I would have to assume so because that's really lousy grouping on a stationary object probably less than 20 feet away from him."
Nah - tight groups are for paper targets at the range.
This interaction was about the complete destruction of the offending machine. Given that he likely didn't know the exact location of the vitals (an assumption on my part) he probably decided to spread things around a little bit. Pretty rational for someone who has gotten himself into a state of mind where shooting a computer in an alley seems like a reasonable response to a technical issue....
I want to know what he was shooting? Only 3 exits on 8 shots? Friggin' 9 mils....
+1
That made me laugh.
Yeah, a 9 or a .38. Looks just like the 5150 I mothballed about a year ago, because it was evil. I routinely use a 4100 pc I bought in 2003- it's a solid machine. Seems like when Michael went on hiatus, Dell went to shit. No matter, I ain't buyin' Dell anymore for at least a while.
Same goes for HP, now that Carly's entered politics, that once respectable company may be able to regain its' reputation.
Funny thing that, a good reputation takes generations to build, but mere months to ruin.
Whats funnier is Foxconn used to supply motherboards for HP & Dell.
Build your own, I did...
Yeah I saw that too, only 3 exits through the mobo. His capacitors probly were popped on the old XP machine, Microsoft & Intel as much to blame as Dell...
Just so ya' know, I have stained class on vinyl, and the motherboards on dell machines were shit from 2004 onwards.
I din do nuffin.
A Motherboard occupys a lot of square inches, so a loose grouping assures a good kill! :>D
Solution: stop spamming. <<solved>>
We have been scraping computer and electronics for y3ars. Have plenty of golds and silvers insides thems. Need to put it inside a solution of cryptosium to get it out now.
"immediate full scale decontamination"
- The Walking Dead
Lucas McCain....."The Rifleman".
i'm shocked someone doesn;t do that at the laser towers that connect the computers from chicago to nj or where ever these algo's trade off of high speed info. then algos could really go wild. seems like a logical place for someone to go "buck" wild
Before AI Biosystems finally put an end to the stupidity of mankind (and the stupidity of their ME religions), humans will see fit to give AI cyborgs "equal rights" or "anti-discrimination" rights -- promoted by dumbass Liberals and civil rights activists who can't think their way out of a wet paper bag.
All they need to do is disguise themselves as corporations, then they'll have both parties in their pocket.
When I was in IT printers were my nemesis.
I often envisioned this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk-3HPS12Q
"Listen. Understand. That HFT algo-bot is out there. It can't be reasoned with. It can't be bargained with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead."
Few people know that when Watson (IBM's computer) beat all Jeopardy champs in a 3-way contest, it was then employed on... Wall St.
Some argue that it's also being used for other AI tasks, like at the Pentagram, where the term "killer app" takes on a whole new meaning.
I would like someone to write a piece of software that uses the limiting rules of the Constitution. We could use it to pass new legislation. Elect people to office. Even act as judges in courtrooms maybe. Certainly if we have guys who can write algorithms that run the financial system, it musn't be too hard to do that. We would have to run all the old laws against it to make sure they stand too.
..too bad it wasn't the fudgepacker
Is it racist to shoot a gray computer?
no it's ageism
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
Ned Ludd was right
Ned Ludd was a Luddite. What are the odds?
Hard to say. By the time he died, Karl Marx was no longer a marxist.
Luddite has become a term of derision, just like anarchism.
Both describe concepts that scare those who wish to exploit others for their own ends.
Half clip of a 9mm peashooter [& not quite the Lee Harvey pattern]... Dude needs to man up [& get to the range]...
That woud be a job for my .44 Magnum.
The punk DELL wouldn't have been so 'lucky'
if you actually went to the range yourself you'd realize 9mm has all the "stopping power" you armchair commando's need; and dude...it's a mag not a clip
Have to agree. By "range" you mean somewhere you can shoot on the move and transition from primary to secondary without the "range" weenies getting redfaced and peeing their pants... right?
Winchester Ranger T 147gr 9mm works just fine for me. And the day it doesn't I've got plenty of 45, 308, and 12 gauge. I love when people say 9mm has no stopping power.
If you are looking for stopping power, research 'cut shells'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3M46XVfVOU
it's not a range unless you can do 3-gun
Only one down . There are many others .
"Never trust a Human to do a Machine's job." -- Yer avatar
Everyone dreams about doing this at least one time...
That's what you get for running Windoze.
Dells usually just commit suicide once they achieve sentience.
Figures it was a DELL. "DUDE! You're getting a citation!" I remember HP computers being absolute shit as well.
I can remember when HP calculators were THE very best money could buy, and when they developed faults, they were repairable.
Nowadays? Bought a HP laptop 5 years ago, and 2 LCD displays later, it's going to "Laptop Heaven". Pity since it did work pretty well (and still "does the job" we bought it to do), but build quality / component selection has fallen a very long way indeed . . . . .
Yes! The old HP12c could figure compound interest and YTM bond yields...what use would they be in negative interest rate calcs? How would even imagined back in the '80s?
I still have my 11C, the scientific version of the 12C. Still worth $100 on eBay.
I still use mine (12c)- 27years old and still works.
I'm just guessing but looks like the shooter missed the hard drive. That computer, like Jesus, can be resurrected.
He hit his BITCOINS ~ Now he's broke...
"...Back up in your ass with The Resurrection..."
Too bad it was a computer and not a banker
Solid computer case, it prevented most of the rounds from exiting the other side.
Too bad, because the problem was likely the software or the ISP not the hardware.
The motherboard is what stopped the bullets. Its fried. The CPU heatsink & fan probly got at least 1 as well.
Lets request an autopsy.
One less Dell PC running the virus called Windows masquereding as an operating system.
Thanks god there is Apple:
1,500 iOS apps have HTTPS-crippling bug
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/1500-ios-apps-have-https-crippli...
Moores law vs Sam colts law
Computers get faster and faster but still can't out run a Colt...
God made everyone different. Sam Colt made them all equal.
I took our last dishwasher out behind the house and did a similar execution. Now we just tape another target to it and it has found a second life as an effective backstop.
Sounds like you live in a rural area.
So do I.
This past weekend, my wife was bitching at me about the grass getting too high, so I headed on out there and burned it.
I have often considered that for my office.
What a Rookie. Should have taken a 12 gauge to it instead.
That's my next gun. Mossberg SPX pistol grip auto-loader. Don't get me wrong, my old illegally-short sawed off double barrel has a certain "Mad Max" kind of charm, but once you shot a modern auto-loader you'll wonder how you ever got along without one.
I've owned all kinds of guns over the years. No pistol or rifle comes close to the all-around utility and lethality of a a trusty 12 gague for home defense.
You never know when you're gonna have to defend yourself against a PC breaking in your house hopped up on meth looking for whatever it can take to trade for it's next hit of RAM.
My I suggest a Kel-tec KSG, 26" long plus 15 total rds of 2 & 3/4 max shell capacity. You will not regret or be disappointed. I wasn't.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8bPNUhz_Iw
Upvote for the Keltec KSG reference. Got one. No regrets.
12 with 00BUCK or slugs
Verse from a rush song " pulse of dying power in a clinching plastic fist, 100010001 SOS"
Trying to browse ZH without Firefox with Adblocker will drive a person...
I threw a laptop off a balcony once. Then I retrieved it and put it with the rest of my old junk laptops and phones that I refuse to "recycle".
Exactly I was told shooting ur hard drive was a necessary security precaution before the lack of security put back doors in all my keystrokes ... Now we just have the cloud.
One time "something" reached into her computer or phone and grabbed her naked picture and out it in her Facebook page ...... it's all in the cloud now.
I once pushed a propriatery CD rom tower down a few flights of stairs because the OS on it was some embedded piece of shit. The tax department used to load all of their little weenie CCH tax law discs on it. One day I finally had it when they couldn't access the data from it and it had an "unfortunate accident on the stairs on the way to the workbench." I then built up our own CR-ROM tower which didn't have any of those problems.
The DOJ Computer Rights Department has opened an investigation.
Regarding the net trading income distribution chart: it looks like we turned a corner in 2014 - big money rotating in and out of sectors in the blink of an eye, churning the retail crowd and pension funds. Looks like easy money if you're co-located with the exchanges.
Should have gone Office Space on it
https://youtu.be/wzGWvZAd228
Confused humans sometimes destroy that which they should love the most.
"A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing." - Emo Philips
i see this a purely symbolic act that
could be construed as an environmental
or public safety hazard, there must be
another way. perhaps, if he had
taken a pitchfork to the item in a
contained environment and then posted
the video on utube?
.
here, an experiment i just heard about
from back in the daze of the "cold war".
" NELSON DENIS: Well, there’s a woman named Eileen Welsome, who won the Pulitzer Prize for a book called The Plutonium Files. She found, and the United States government disclosed, and they agreed, that there had been undisclosed experiments conducted for about 40 years, from the 1940s—or 30 years, to the '70s, of 16,000, that were found, 16,000 unwitting subjects, including many prisoners, of, specifically, radiation studies. It was called TBI, total body irradiation. And Albizu Campos apparently was one of those subjects. And you see how cravenly, how the governor of Puerto Rico—who, by the way, La Princesa, the prison where he was at, is almost directly contiguous with the governor's mansion. They’re within a hundred feet of each other. This was happening in full knowledge and complicity of the United States government.
I read the FBI files, where you had a Chinese wall around Albizu Campos so that nobody can get through it, so no doctor could come and confirm what everyone knew, which was that he was being slowly killed in this island. And they wanted to do it under conditions where it wouldn’t be known, because they didn’t want to create a martyr. This is how they treated—they figured if they could declare Albizu "the King of the Towels," "El Rey de las Toallas," and treat him like a madman, then, by inference, the Nationalists were also crazy. But now the truth is very evident, that there was a widespread—it was a—unfortunately, it was a conspiracy. And this is not a conspiracy theory. It is now known that this was the attitude and the way that they treated our leadership in Puerto Rico."
democracy now
.
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Inside the U.S. Crackdown on Pedro Albizu Campos & Nationalist Party
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/21/war_against_all_puerto_ricans_insi...
.
tbi , the step after the bikini island crime against humanity, previously
exposed and never recognized. ....
anyway.
>>>>>>It was called TBI, total body irradiation.
blue print for what they're doing to us on a massive scale now.
the price we pay to participate in
the new virtual world? and, the price
one pays even if they decline. there is that
ringing in the ear, no?
Yea the rapebots haven't been so fun and the future ain't pretty as Kiki, lover pâténted and the passion assassins jealous hearts can't take it any other way in prep for hypocritical judgement day for the Münchausen syndrome god complex psychos.
Classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PywI0BOxJpI
Well, thats what you get when you buy a Dell.
https://www.google.com/search?q=goldman+sachs+buys+Hft&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8...
SkyNet will be sending a Terminator back in time to take out this guy's mother.
He's doing this completely wrong. A) he's a horrible shot. B) you should first fill it full of Tannerite (or your favorite homemade concoction if you are so inclined and aware of such things) and then shoot it with a rifle from an appropriately safe distance so you completely destroy it and there is no hope that any bits survive in large enough chunks that your information could be lifted later.
Luddites unite !
call Greek Squad
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Greek-squad/122515081112832
That guy who made the algos go crazy and flash crash; thanks to his one man "spoofing the market into panic"; beat the algos by his timing. Sheer quick on the draw play.
This guy beats the computer the good ole way by playing at blazing saddles. "just shoot the darn thing like it were a bronco Apache!"...Yipee!
Back to the 1870s ! When the Colt beat the HFT at the draw in Dodge.
Sarah Palin is gonna love that. "They shoot the Shias in Yemen we shoot our computers like they were mad barbarians !"
HFT computers knew about this seconds before it happened and uploaded his file set to the Cloud.
Bad Choice of weapons. To quote Samuel L Jackson from Jackie Brown:
"Ak-47, the very best there is. When you absolutely positivitely have to kill every M'fn Dell in the room, accept no subsititutes."
So, that was Hitlery's e-mail server?
The Butlerian Jihad has started!
Nothing a AR10 carbine gas powered semi automatic weapon can't handle.
Typical West Sider. I know them well.
Gay
This was a feel good story.
Now we need a clay pigeon launcher converted to to throw cel phones and tablets.
Then we need a tournament.
Getting real sick of your shit SKYNET!
Only a white guy could do this and get away with a citation.
If he was black they would've kicked his front door in and fired dozens of shots, likely hitting him once or twice. Then they would've beat him to death while yelling "stop resisting!"
Bullshit! Bear in mind, this is the Rocky Mountains. A man can tolerate just so much abuse. The fucking thing just needed killing!
From my Humour collection:
Go ahead and honk. I'm reloading.
Support the right to arm bears!
You can have my guns when you pry them from my kids cold, dead fingers.
This car protected by a pissed off mother with a .45 auto.
I got a gun for my wife....good trade!
Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon
is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Guns dont kill people, I do.
If there is a tourist season why can't we shoot them?
Guns are smart enough. We need smarter politicians.
This vehicle protected by a shotgun 23 hours a day. The rest of
the time, I'm hiding the bodies."
Hold on before you pass, I'm reloading.
Sniper: Reach out and touch someone.
Those that live by the sword get shot by those who don't!
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target.
I have PMS and a gun.....excuse me, did you have something to say?
Happiness is an automatic weapon with a belt feed
Driver carries only $20 worth of ammunition
I still miss my ex...but my aim is getting better!
This car protected by Smith & Wesson
Fight crime, shoot back
If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will accidentally shoot their children
Gun control means using both hands!
Gun control is being able to hit your target
Guns don't kill people, they just make it easier
I have PMS and carry a gun! Any questions?
USMC Sniper: Don't bother running, you'll only die tired.
And if he was a black adolescent with a toy gun, they would have just done a driveby shooting.
A Dell computer. Not surprised.
Dell is a POS.
Dell.
Shooting it was an upgrade.
Nice retort!
Tips for brethren interested in data security. Before or after going Rambo on your pc case pop open the side and remove the hard drives. A 45-70 makes a very impressive hole through all plates and the housing of a 5.25 in. SATA drive and a 7mm mag will go through at least 5 duct taped together.
He shot it in the heads....caused a head crash.
I heard it was a chip shot.....
He just got board with his life and downloaded some heavy lead onto the motherb.....
Is it me, or did every single bullet fail to penetrate the other side? What kind of fuckin bullshit is that? What was it, a 9mm? Pfft.
3 went through-and-through. There's a motherboard that sits vertically along the side he shot, must have stopped some bullets by way of Intel Inside...
It might have been a made computer.
Better hope it wasn't in a drone gang.
Wake me when it's a smoldering Predator drone in homies back yard.
They just said in CNBW Asia squawk box that coming up not only AI robots but they are now making AI virtual humans.
Just hologram stuff nada new like actual virtual humans
Oh yeah? How about getting video streamed into your right eye, internet in your left eye, and getting your cock sucked at the same time?
Check it out: Samsung for the WIN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvCGqhShNnk