It's the same lie as with fixed broadband. The (mobile/fixed) operators have limited bandwidth, which is very costly to upgrade, and yet they want to drive increasing revenue through new applications. To put it simply, they don't want you actually using all the services you purchased to the full...for example: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=833011 I love the part where the AT&T drone says "we have to educate our [power] users"; translated as "shit, they're actually using the bandwidth they paid for!"
train the final AI to sit on the sidelines until only one other opponent is left. The final problem, of course, is what happens if everyone does this.
That's actually not a bad strategy to attempt, if you've tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_derby (If you have not, get out of the basement NOW and try before you die...It's MUCH less expensive than many other forms of motor racing, and great fun.) You need to minimise damage in order to win, following the old adage of "to finish first, first you have to finish". However, and this is the real thing about AI and 'mimicking a human' , as soon as you start to look to be in a good, (undamaged, fast) condition, other competitors, (especially the already seriously-damaged ones), will start to target you... Equally, in championship finals, (where the careful, fast guys are the only ones left), it all starts out OK, but soon degenerates, because there's real competitive advantage in, for example, leaning on another competitor's car to go around him on the inside, ramming him on the rear corner to save your brakes whilst spinning him out...
Computer games can provide the perfect measuring environment: you control exactly what data they have, etc.
Simulations are all good, but look at the massive difference between them and reality. Sure you can control what data they get, but it's rarely as complex and variable as real-world. Throw in AI that can get anywhere close to working with that 'real-world' data, plus trying to race around a circuit against agressive oppositoin, and that would be impressive.
Correct on NIH. Well, if they were smart, Facebook would already be marketing this data, and/or services based on it, to their users and others. One could imagine all kinds of apps; "hey, 20% of your friends are in town 'x', why not go there for a weekend" The links to business could be huge, too... "Hey, here's a hotel you could stay in..." If they proposed those kinds of things, instead of asinine games, then maybe I'd be prepared to take them more seriously, (and not have a problem with their using my 'public' data...)
I'll let others debate the 'privacy' issues; (personally I think there's nothing wrong with scraping profile information that people have explicitly made 'public') Anyways, just check what he did with it; very interesting: (FTA) http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.html There must be many, many legit uses this data could be put too...shame it's being killed by NIH syndrome
A lot of freelance journalists use google and yahoo, as do many people who have professional mail accounts, but prefer to conduct private and/or personal business using a 'free' provider. Do you really want a confidential source in China to risk sending info to *@nytimes.etc?
Thought that domain name hype was over
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Sex.com is Going Down
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Surely we've moved on from this? Is not getting a high ranking in search engine responses more important these days? For example, I just typed 'sex' into my browser address line, (Firefox and with Google default search), and it took me straight to 'pornhub.com' (NSFW!)
The last we'll hear? Not according to the link...
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Novell Wins vs. SCO
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' The former federal judge overseeing The SCO Group's bankruptcy said a jury decision today that Novell Inc., and not SCO, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating system does not end the company's litigation against others.
Former U.S. District Judge Edward Cahn, the trustee for SCO's bankruptcy filed in Delaware, said the company is "deeply disappointed" in the jury's verdict in the dispute over which company owned the copyrights to Unix, which is widely used in business computing.
But Cahn said SCO intends to continue its lawsuit against IBM, in which the computer giant is accused of using Unix code to make the Linux operating system a viable competitor, causing a decline in SCO's revenues.
"The copyright claims are gone, but we have other claims based on contracts," Cahn said. '
So, a victory, but not quite the end. Still, my money's on IBM...
The alternative to Heinlein might be that English guy - Kipling.
Indeed. Kipling became much less jingoistic when his own son was killed in battle... He sums up Afghanistan quite well with this:
"A canter down some dark defile Two thousand pounds of education Drops to a ten-rupee jezail. The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride, Shot like a rabbit in a ride!"
Hence UAVs...
If you're interested, Churchill too wrote with wit and insight on both Afghanistan and Iraq... "Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some very grave occurrence."
I think you mean 'unpiloted', since a passenger plane with no people in it would be, urm...not useful. Getting back to the point, since the major cause of civil aircraft crashes is pilot error, then replacing the pilot with some kind of automated device would seem to be a reasonable idea. However even unmanned 'drones' are remotely piloted by humans, so maybe the tech is not ready yet. Personally, I'm not sure I'd appreciate my 'pilot' sitting warm and safe in some room on the ground, whilst I was being thrown around in a plane landing in a thunderstorm. Come to think of it tho', if that physical abstraction enabled him to focus more... But you'll still need to reassure me about the quality of the network connection!!!
"We're on the verge of a disruptive change that, I think, will dwarf that of the World Wide Web " [Presumably referring to mobile devices] Well, maybe. But what is the role of Flash and other Adobe stuff in this presumed new mobile revolution? I'm confused. Unless, of course, he's talking complete crap...
Good to see that Jim's work lives on...meanwhile, this is about all you get in the article:
"EcoSort set records in the Joule category, which measured the amount of energy required to sort either 10GB, 100GB or 1TB of records.
It reached a maximum efficiency of 36,400 records sorted per joule for 100GB of data, using an Intel Atom 330 processor, 4GB of RAM, and four 256GB SSDs by flash vendor Super Talent Technology.
In 2009, a team from the University of Melbourne had the 100GB record of 11,600 records sorted per joule using the OzSort system, which comprised a 2.6GHz AMD processor, 4GB of RAM, seven 160GB 7200 RPM SATA hard disks and a Linux operating System."
Sure, this is the way things are going, but until prices come down we won't be seeing SSDs replacing HDDs; work fine for the desktop, tho'
Agree. BTW, I thought that X.509, (OK in later versions), could support WOT topologies? Was just not implemented that way; presumably because central authorities liked the 'simple' hierarchical structure... Of course, regarding 'too secure' systems, look what happens to people who promote them... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimmermann#Criminal_investigation_by_US_Customs
Regarding the 'reboot' arguement, I guess that if you're smart enough to be using your PC to do online banking, then you should be smart enough to figure out how to reboot from a live CD.
My main point tho; Many people using online banking, via their PCs, also use their banking data; ranges from simply reconciling stuff in Excel to complete software packages... Would the liveCD provide access to USB or other storage, (thus risking compromising security), for this? Would I be able to logon to my account to retrieve data, using my 'normal' system, but then only make transfers using the liveCD? Sounds complex...
Well, that's almost Flamebait..like saying 'Canada is part of the USA' IMHO
Without rehashing all the history, the modern reality is that the (current) Taiwanese population would not consider themselves part of the Chinese Socio-Political system any more than the Tibetans would.
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It's the same lie as with fixed broadband. The (mobile/fixed) operators have limited bandwidth, which is very costly to upgrade, and yet they want to drive increasing revenue through new applications. To put it simply, they don't want you actually using all the services you purchased to the full...for example:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=833011
I love the part where the AT&T drone says "we have to educate our [power] users"; translated as "shit, they're actually using the bandwidth they paid for!"
...conservatives...I can't get them to understand that a legal document written 200 years ago might, just might, not be 100% relevant any more.
Let alone non-legal documents written much, much longer ago than that...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud
etc.
Your cell bill is going to keep going up, whilst QoS declines...
train the final AI to sit on the sidelines until only one other opponent is left. The final problem, of course, is what happens if everyone does this.
That's actually not a bad strategy to attempt, if you've tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_derby
(If you have not, get out of the basement NOW and try before you die...It's MUCH less expensive than many other forms of motor racing, and great fun.)
You need to minimise damage in order to win, following the old adage of "to finish first, first you have to finish".
However, and this is the real thing about AI and 'mimicking a human' , as soon as you start to look to be in a good, (undamaged, fast) condition, other competitors, (especially the already seriously-damaged ones), will start to target you...
Equally, in championship finals, (where the careful, fast guys are the only ones left), it all starts out OK, but soon degenerates, because there's real competitive advantage in, for example, leaning on another competitor's car to go around him on the inside, ramming him on the rear corner to save your brakes whilst spinning him out...
Do you want explosions
Nope. Competitors in DARPA autonomous driving tests are not encouraged to explode. See here:
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp
Computer games can provide the perfect measuring environment: you control exactly what data they have, etc.
Simulations are all good, but look at the massive difference between them and reality. Sure you can control what data they get, but it's rarely as complex and variable as real-world.
Throw in AI that can get anywhere close to working with that 'real-world' data, plus trying to race around a circuit against agressive oppositoin, and that would be impressive.
With real vehicles!
Correct on NIH.
Well, if they were smart, Facebook would already be marketing this data, and/or services based on it, to their users and others.
One could imagine all kinds of apps; "hey, 20% of your friends are in town 'x', why not go there for a weekend"
The links to business could be huge, too...
"Hey, here's a hotel you could stay in..."
If they proposed those kinds of things, instead of asinine games, then maybe I'd be prepared to take them more seriously, (and not have a problem with their using my 'public' data...)
ahem, put 'to', of course...
I'll let others debate the 'privacy' issues; (personally I think there's nothing wrong with scraping profile information that people have explicitly made 'public')
Anyways, just check what he did with it; very interesting: (FTA)
http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.html
There must be many, many legit uses this data could be put too...shame it's being killed by NIH syndrome
A lot of freelance journalists use google and yahoo, as do many people who have professional mail accounts, but prefer to conduct private and/or personal business using a 'free' provider. Do you really want a confidential source in China to risk sending info to *@nytimes.etc?
Surely we've moved on from this?
Is not getting a high ranking in search engine responses more important these days?
For example, I just typed 'sex' into my browser address line, (Firefox and with Google default search), and it took me straight to 'pornhub.com' (NSFW!)
Ms link here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS10-018.mspx
No real sweat for IE8 on Win7...
' The former federal judge overseeing The SCO Group's bankruptcy said a jury decision today that Novell Inc., and not SCO, owns the copyrights to the Unix computer operating system does not end the company's litigation against others.
Former U.S. District Judge Edward Cahn, the trustee for SCO's bankruptcy filed in Delaware, said the company is "deeply disappointed" in the jury's verdict in the dispute over which company owned the copyrights to Unix, which is widely used in business computing.
But Cahn said SCO intends to continue its lawsuit against IBM, in which the computer giant is accused of using Unix code to make the Linux operating system a viable competitor, causing a decline in SCO's revenues.
"The copyright claims are gone, but we have other claims based on contracts," Cahn said. '
So, a victory, but not quite the end. Still, my money's on IBM...
Some Holocaust victims may be able to help you there...
The alternative to Heinlein might be that English guy - Kipling.
Indeed. Kipling became much less jingoistic when his own son was killed in battle...
He sums up Afghanistan quite well with this:
"A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail.
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!"
Hence UAVs...
If you're interested, Churchill too wrote with wit and insight on both Afghanistan and Iraq...
"Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic warfare marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cuttings off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some very grave occurrence."
Plus ça change...
You are advocating unmanned passenger planes?
I think you mean 'unpiloted', since a passenger plane with no people in it would be, urm...not useful.
Getting back to the point, since the major cause of civil aircraft crashes is pilot error, then replacing the pilot with some kind of automated device would seem to be a reasonable idea.
However even unmanned 'drones' are remotely piloted by humans, so maybe the tech is not ready yet.
Personally, I'm not sure I'd appreciate my 'pilot' sitting warm and safe in some room on the ground, whilst I was being thrown around in a plane landing in a thunderstorm. Come to think of it tho', if that physical abstraction enabled him to focus more...
But you'll still need to reassure me about the quality of the network connection!!!
"Have you ever wanted to buttonhole a physicist at a cocktail party?"
Only if she was hot...
"We're on the verge of a disruptive change that, I think, will dwarf that of the World Wide Web "
[Presumably referring to mobile devices]
Well, maybe. But what is the role of Flash and other Adobe stuff in this presumed new mobile revolution?
I'm confused.
Unless, of course, he's talking complete crap...
You've not met my wife, then?
Good to see that Jim's work lives on...meanwhile, this is about all you get in the article:
"EcoSort set records in the Joule category, which measured the amount of energy required to sort either 10GB, 100GB or 1TB of records.
It reached a maximum efficiency of 36,400 records sorted per joule for 100GB of data, using an Intel Atom 330 processor, 4GB of RAM, and four 256GB SSDs by flash vendor Super Talent Technology.
In 2009, a team from the University of Melbourne had the 100GB record of 11,600 records sorted per joule using the OzSort system, which comprised a 2.6GHz AMD processor, 4GB of RAM, seven 160GB 7200 RPM SATA hard disks and a Linux operating System."
Sure, this is the way things are going, but until prices come down we won't be seeing SSDs replacing HDDs; work fine for the desktop, tho'
this is a useless toy
Yes, and that's why we love it!
Agree.
BTW, I thought that X.509, (OK in later versions), could support WOT topologies?
Was just not implemented that way; presumably because central authorities liked the 'simple' hierarchical structure...
Of course, regarding 'too secure' systems, look what happens to people who promote them...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimmermann#Criminal_investigation_by_US_Customs
I think we've had this debate on /. before, no?
Who do you trust to issue certs? Certainly not Verisign...the UN, then?
Regarding the 'reboot' arguement, I guess that if you're smart enough to be using your PC to do online banking, then you should be smart enough to figure out how to reboot from a live CD.
My main point tho; Many people using online banking, via their PCs, also use their banking data; ranges from simply reconciling stuff in Excel to complete software packages...
Would the liveCD provide access to USB or other storage, (thus risking compromising security), for this?
Would I be able to logon to my account to retrieve data, using my 'normal' system, but then only make transfers using the liveCD?
Sounds complex...
Well, that's almost Flamebait..like saying 'Canada is part of the USA' IMHO
Without rehashing all the history, the modern reality is that the (current) Taiwanese population would not consider themselves part of the Chinese Socio-Political system any more than the Tibetans would.