Step one was to create a unique Mycroft account. It also seems to use cloud-based speech recognition. Either one of those betrays the very goal of an open-source alternative - so that you can own your own data and experience.
Yeah, the main issue is there's no reason your intra-house hub needs to talk to Amazon's servers. It's just them using the thin edge. I get that it's convenient... obviously it has to have some uses or you wouldn't adopt it. It's just hard for me to see it as worth it.
How is that much different than anything else? If I want a large car which can haul around 7-8 family members, a high performance convertible, and an electric commuter car, I need three vehicles.
Because that's based off the idea that physical things have real, impossible-to-coexist trade offs. This is because a bunch of asshole companies refuse to play nicely with each other.
There's no reason that digital products cannot be intermixed. In fact, using non-proprietary connectors (hardware and software) is what led to computers going as far as they did.
ALL of them have gone through bankruptcy and all of them that I know of dumped their Union demanded pensions onto the federal government UNDER funded.
Yes, their pension funds were distributed to shareholders, and then the companies went through bankruptcies to get rid of the debt. It's not rocket science or prima facia impossible. It's all about the ability to not fully offset long term liabilities.
As for "the greatest benefit to mankind" that Nobel wanted to recognize, the list of Turing Award winners includes those who brought us personal computing, the internet, and the world wide web.
That's nothing. The "just invented" prize winners include the people who invented internal combustion, semiconductors and sliced bread. Oh, and a standing award for the faster-than-light people. See, it doesn't really matter how impressive the people who get your award are. Because they can get multiple awards.
The Nobel does honor the people who made the modern world viable, like the people who invented the semiconductor transistor and using fiber for communication and CCDs to take photos. It's literally the building blocks of society now. The Turing Award winners only deal with virtual inventions. They are important, sure. But I'll contend that the "greatest benefit" was a small enough transistform factor of a computer that fits in my pocket, even more than the internet. Imagine your cell phone without a data plan. Now imagine an internet, but you have to use a computer the size of a room with a million dollar price tag to use. To say nothing of the speed transistors enable due to Moore's law like shrinking.
Neither can the person claim a copyright on the creations of an algorithm. I doubt Google really cares about the copyright of your pictures. But they really don't want someone else to own them. Otherwise, they might not be able to use them however they like.
I don't see how the owner of the device will have the copyright.Google will have a vested interest in saying that as the author of the algorithm, they own all the pictures.
Boom. That copyright was removed because the picture was not taken by a human. These pictures are taken by a computer. That's kinda the point I was making.
Yes, I overstated the precedent. But it actually does prove my point.
Wow, nice assertion. Where's the case law or example. If PETA can get an ape to own the copyright on the picture it took, instead of the photographer, why don't you think this would be in the same boat?
how does Apple justify allowing them to continue to have an app in their app store?
They're afraid of driving people to Android. At this point, Uber is so entrenched, that may happen. Now, that would be an excellent reason, if i were Apple, to push people to Lyft.
There is of course one big difference between modern devices and 1984. "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment." Now, there is a way. It's watched by machines 100% of the time, and saved 100% of the time in case a human ever needs to review it.
As long as the data is kept out of reach of the American three letter agencies [with] an incentive to justify their existence.
That data is only used by people who have a financial incentive to manipulate you into spending money on things via targeted ads.
Unlike a TLA which presumably has real problems to keep them busy. Also, unlike a TLA, Google cannot just resort to having men in dark suits whisk you off to GitMo if they cannot get your data any other way.
Also, frankly, I've never heard of anyone being frightened about a TLA monitoring them because it allowed them to justify their existence. Most people are worried about secret programs. I worry about anyone who thinks a TLA spying on them will be rewarded.
Ummm... Ireland is getting sued precisely because they are claiming Ireland's uncollected taxes are a corporate tax rebate program. Corporate tax rebates are a form of government assistance which are against EU rules.
Hmm.. okay, checksum isn't really correct. But of the last 4 digits, there are only 500 combinations. Specifically the last two digits have something where there are only 50 combinations. I forgot exactly how it works, but somehow the tens digit determines if the ones digit is odd or even
I'm not sure there is such a thing as a completely isolated environment anymore. There are too many air-gap bridging attacks. (See also Stuxnet).
Now, those attacks require far more work than the anti-virus vector. And it's not likely to be used. But it should be expected that something valuable enough (to a nation state) will be breached.
Code normally has copyrights. So they cannot just grab some code and throw it up on screen. Hence, they make up something they think looks good. It was brilliant to use malware code. What, is some government agency going to try to get paid by publicly admitting they wrote it?
The Nobel Prize has isn't supposed to honor achievement in bringing peace. Their explicit goal is to give publicity/support a person/project to make a worthy goal more likely to happen. It's specifically and uniquely aspirational.
Which, frankly, makes sense. An award for "most promising person/project to change the world for the better soon" is more useful than a retroactive award afterwards. Because, frankly the cash could be used to further those goals, and the publicity makes it more likely.
When one hits you? Good news, even though all the IP is owned by Alphabet in general, and even though the rider contracted Waymo to drive you around, that car was actually fully owned by a special LLC that only owned that one vehicle. Oh, and it was entirely underwater (debt-wise), so the LLC had no assets to sue. Enjoy your state minimum insurance payout.
For the rider, it's even more fun. Because they EULA they agreed to means that they have to agree to individual arbitration with the LLC, and have already waived the right to sue Waymo for any failure of the LLC's automatic car to perform as intended.
Well, except that with the checksums eliminate half the valid numbers off the bat. So, you're looking at 60% off the bat. Except there are 337M citizens, so 67.2% gone . Then, you get into dead people who had SSNs (with imperfect recycling). And there may be other restrictions, but even without those the odds that any well-formatted SSN was ever issued has to be at least 70%.
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Step one was to create a unique Mycroft account. It also seems to use cloud-based speech recognition. Either one of those betrays the very goal of an open-source alternative - so that you can own your own data and experience.
Yeah, the main issue is there's no reason your intra-house hub needs to talk to Amazon's servers. It's just them using the thin edge. I get that it's convenient... obviously it has to have some uses or you wouldn't adopt it. It's just hard for me to see it as worth it.
Because that's based off the idea that physical things have real, impossible-to-coexist trade offs. This is because a bunch of asshole companies refuse to play nicely with each other.
There's no reason that digital products cannot be intermixed. In fact, using non-proprietary connectors (hardware and software) is what led to computers going as far as they did.
Yes, their pension funds were distributed to shareholders, and then the companies went through bankruptcies to get rid of the debt. It's not rocket science or prima facia impossible. It's all about the ability to not fully offset long term liabilities.
Why would the NSA want to work with Facebook. The NSA has restrictions on what it can do. Far better for the NSA to hire Facebook as a contractor.
Obviously they cannot publish a whitelist. The only people who weren't affected are the people Equifax doesn't know about.
Or maybe they are well prepared, and want North Korea to know it. After all, there's not much deterrent value to being secretly able to win a war.
That's nothing. The "just invented" prize winners include the people who invented internal combustion, semiconductors and sliced bread. Oh, and a standing award for the faster-than-light people. See, it doesn't really matter how impressive the people who get your award are. Because they can get multiple awards.
The Nobel does honor the people who made the modern world viable, like the people who invented the semiconductor transistor and using fiber for communication and CCDs to take photos. It's literally the building blocks of society now. The Turing Award winners only deal with virtual inventions. They are important, sure. But I'll contend that the "greatest benefit" was a small enough transistform factor of a computer that fits in my pocket, even more than the internet. Imagine your cell phone without a data plan. Now imagine an internet, but you have to use a computer the size of a room with a million dollar price tag to use. To say nothing of the speed transistors enable due to Moore's law like shrinking.
Neither can the person claim a copyright on the creations of an algorithm. I doubt Google really cares about the copyright of your pictures. But they really don't want someone else to own them. Otherwise, they might not be able to use them however they like.
I don't see how the owner of the device will have the copyright.Google will have a vested interest in saying that as the author of the algorithm, they own all the pictures.
Boom. That copyright was removed because the picture was not taken by a human. These pictures are taken by a computer. That's kinda the point I was making.
Yes, I overstated the precedent. But it actually does prove my point.
Wow, nice assertion. Where's the case law or example. If PETA can get an ape to own the copyright on the picture it took, instead of the photographer, why don't you think this would be in the same boat?
They're afraid of driving people to Android. At this point, Uber is so entrenched, that may happen. Now, that would be an excellent reason, if i were Apple, to push people to Lyft.
What "your data". The AI took the picture, not you. So you don't even have a copyright claim to that data.
There is of course one big difference between modern devices and 1984. "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment." Now, there is a way. It's watched by machines 100% of the time, and saved 100% of the time in case a human ever needs to review it.
That data is only used by people who have a financial incentive to manipulate you into spending money on things via targeted ads.
Unlike a TLA which presumably has real problems to keep them busy. Also, unlike a TLA, Google cannot just resort to having men in dark suits whisk you off to GitMo if they cannot get your data any other way.
Also, frankly, I've never heard of anyone being frightened about a TLA monitoring them because it allowed them to justify their existence. Most people are worried about secret programs. I worry about anyone who thinks a TLA spying on them will be rewarded.
I'm not sure I'd ever trust the translation capability of a device that called themselves "Pixel Earbuds". Those words just don't go together.
Ummm... Ireland is getting sued precisely because they are claiming Ireland's uncollected taxes are a corporate tax rebate program. Corporate tax rebates are a form of government assistance which are against EU rules.
Hmm.. okay, checksum isn't really correct. But of the last 4 digits, there are only 500 combinations. Specifically the last two digits have something where there are only 50 combinations. I forgot exactly how it works, but somehow the tens digit determines if the ones digit is odd or even
I'm not sure there is such a thing as a completely isolated environment anymore. There are too many air-gap bridging attacks. (See also Stuxnet).
Now, those attacks require far more work than the anti-virus vector. And it's not likely to be used. But it should be expected that something valuable enough (to a nation state) will be breached.
We all know you're not working at Equifax. But do they pay well?
Code normally has copyrights. So they cannot just grab some code and throw it up on screen. Hence, they make up something they think looks good. It was brilliant to use malware code. What, is some government agency going to try to get paid by publicly admitting they wrote it?
The Nobel Prize has isn't supposed to honor achievement in bringing peace. Their explicit goal is to give publicity/support a person/project to make a worthy goal more likely to happen. It's specifically and uniquely aspirational.
Which, frankly, makes sense. An award for "most promising person/project to change the world for the better soon" is more useful than a retroactive award afterwards. Because, frankly the cash could be used to further those goals, and the publicity makes it more likely.
When one hits you? Good news, even though all the IP is owned by Alphabet in general, and even though the rider contracted Waymo to drive you around, that car was actually fully owned by a special LLC that only owned that one vehicle. Oh, and it was entirely underwater (debt-wise), so the LLC had no assets to sue. Enjoy your state minimum insurance payout.
For the rider, it's even more fun. Because they EULA they agreed to means that they have to agree to individual arbitration with the LLC, and have already waived the right to sue Waymo for any failure of the LLC's automatic car to perform as intended.
Well, except that with the checksums eliminate half the valid numbers off the bat. So, you're looking at 60% off the bat. Except there are 337M citizens, so 67.2% gone . Then, you get into dead people who had SSNs (with imperfect recycling). And there may be other restrictions, but even without those the odds that any well-formatted SSN was ever issued has to be at least 70%.