Maybe a more nuanced ad filtering would do. We could implement community filtering by having users mark ads as bad/good. Another thing would be to implement filtering based on topics - let all programming related ads in, reject ads for dating sites. A third method would be to rate the sites displaying the ads by users and prompting users to unblock the site, or the idea mentioned above to propose unblocking if the user returns for more than a few times in a week. At least a few ads on a few sites could still go through, but still retain the ad-block advantages (less mental spam, less computing time and power used, less data transferred).
I can already unblock a site with two clicks. No need to add a whole new level there. I like the idea of being reminded to unblock some sites, especially if they are also unblocked by a high percentage of other readers - a kind of community spam filtering.
Also, even more annoying are websites that request to deliver Chrome notifications to you. Many news sites force me to reject the popup just for the simple fact that I landed on one of their pages by an external link. I don't want a relationship with all the news sites I touch.
Funny, but I for one am curious to chat with a bot that is at human level. I hope they will crack this soon, considering the current resources and algorithms.
They already seem to be able to converse on a domain specific task, answer trivia questions and make random conversation. Some chat bots are even able to do reasoning and solve simple problems. It's only a matter of time until they become genuinely interesting.
> knowing very well that the other end is just arranging the words using some algorithm
It's a recurrent neural network with an understanding of the world, that has its own will based on reinforcement learning. I am very curious to hear what they have to say. After ingesting millions of web pages and books it might be quite insightful.
I thought about this. How can we send a fragment of a file from node A to B without implicating node B. Both as an uploader or downloader, a rouge MPAA node could implicate the other party. Installing intermediary nodes would only implicate the intermediaries.
How can we anonymize the data itself? If we use a third node, C, to organize A and B, it could store data in encrypted fragments on various nodes and put the keys on different nodes, then instruct a downloader from where to get all the pieces. That way no node is choosing what to seed, they would just download a number of encrypted packets they know nothing about and serve them on demand.
But the downloader could still tell where it got its data from. So we need to make it such that unrelated fragments are also included in the decoding process to create confusion. That way, it would be hard to know which fragments are really from the desired file and which are just extra fragments that are there just for show. It could be made in such a way that all the data the node has stored (including those anonymous encrypted fragments) are included in the decoding process in a way. So now the downloader can only assume that all the network is to blame or no-one is more blameworthy than anyone else. Of course the network should carry enough legal content to make it legit, otherwise it could be blamed as a whole.
Well, I am sure people smarter than me have already thought of how to do anonymously do P2P.
It is often too difficult to read PDFs and scans on mobile devices. We could use a software to identify individual words in the scanned page and reflow the text to match the narrow screen size of phones and tablets. The reflowed document would use the original images of the words, only the rows and pages would be changed. Then we could read without panning and zooming.
I have scanned 100 books from my personal library and realized I can't find nice open source software to OCR the images and search over the text of the entire library for keywords. At some point I created my own clone of Google Books, with OCRopus for translating the images and my own front end for searching and hi-lighting keyword matches. It would be very useful if we had a way to manage searching in hundreds of books, taking notes and remembering the page/citation. It would work like a research library.
Not about Motorola, but same problem:
I am ditching my Samsung Note 3 that was not updated to Lollipop (weird reason, bought from ebay and was imported from a different country, so, fuck Samsung for not allowing me to upgrade my os!) and buying a Nexus 6P as soon as it appears in my country. I want an updated phone, not an old clunk a couple of years from now.
Samsung has hundreds of devices, each with multiple versions, spread over hundreds of mobile network operators and even though Note 3 was supposed to update, mine slipped through the cracks. At least that's my theory. I hate that I have to suffer so that Samsung can make its sweet deals and install various un-installable crapware for each vendor. My phone should not be a card Samsung plays in order to get more money from other companies.
Note 3 rant: I also hate the brain dead lock screen that doesn't have a decent swipe. It always wakes up in my pocket. I set it to pattern lock, but there is a stupid "emergency dial" button that can't be disabled and is always reacting to unintended touches. I think Apple might have a patent to the swipe "technology" and blocks Samsung from offering it. Instead, the whole screen is a swipe zone and any place you touch could unlock the damn thing. Stupid Samsung. You lost a customer. The phone was great hardware-wise.
The problem is not that US or EU don't want to respect human rights, but that now the technology for total surveillance exists, and it can't be made to disappear any more. Even if US and EU stopped surveilling, other actors would still do it.
Some, like FB, would do it for practical and economical reasons, just because there are server logs and they need to optimize advertising and user engagement. Other, like various totalitarian regimes, would still do it because they see it as a counterbalance for the increased social activism powered by the increase in connectivity that has permeated all societies. People got new powers in the last two decades, and the state got new powers too. They are afraid of these more connected and organized masses.
Even if countries didn't do it, corporations and various shady groups would still do it. All it takes is to put a monitor on the pipe or a video camera on the highway to record everything that passes through there. And when one party does it, all parties need to do it to keep up and not come at a disadvantage in security.
What we need to do is it to regulate how this information is being used to restrain our rights. We need to learn to be more tolerant - we all have our secrets and they shouldn't be weaponized against us, at least not in the public moral court. So we need to adjust our social standards to allow for more diversity, because now we all live in a panopticon and there's no turning back to the privacy and anonymity times of our parents.
Maybe something good will also come out of this. With more data and analysis power, we could guide our policies and avoid some excesses that usually went unnoticed in the dark ages of information. And now we need to accept the reality of our panopticon society and build a better way of living in it.
It's supposed that if you can do it for 10 days, your visual cortex will start processing other input and add its extra processing power to your meditations. Here's a link to a presentation: http://hridaya-yoga.com/how-to...
If you embed a document into the blockchain, once it's in there there is no way to delete it. This could be a great tool against censure, to certify a public document or to publish a proof of your work. Another use is to build a decentralized name system.
Blockchain can be turned into a tool for doing business without banks and state, and it could also empower voting and democracy. It takes the power of certifying what is real and what is not from the state and its monopolies and places it back in the public hands.
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Maybe a more nuanced ad filtering would do. We could implement community filtering by having users mark ads as bad/good. Another thing would be to implement filtering based on topics - let all programming related ads in, reject ads for dating sites. A third method would be to rate the sites displaying the ads by users and prompting users to unblock the site, or the idea mentioned above to propose unblocking if the user returns for more than a few times in a week. At least a few ads on a few sites could still go through, but still retain the ad-block advantages (less mental spam, less computing time and power used, less data transferred).
I can already unblock a site with two clicks. No need to add a whole new level there. I like the idea of being reminded to unblock some sites, especially if they are also unblocked by a high percentage of other readers - a kind of community spam filtering.
Also, even more annoying are websites that request to deliver Chrome notifications to you. Many news sites force me to reject the popup just for the simple fact that I landed on one of their pages by an external link. I don't want a relationship with all the news sites I touch.
Add to your list the notification spam on mobile apps.
But even in Go there is capture and situation reversals are possible, so a sacrifice might still be confused with a bad move.
Funny, but I for one am curious to chat with a bot that is at human level. I hope they will crack this soon, considering the current resources and algorithms.
They already seem to be able to converse on a domain specific task, answer trivia questions and make random conversation. Some chat bots are even able to do reasoning and solve simple problems. It's only a matter of time until they become genuinely interesting.
> knowing very well that the other end is just arranging the words using some algorithm
It's a recurrent neural network with an understanding of the world, that has its own will based on reinforcement learning. I am very curious to hear what they have to say. After ingesting millions of web pages and books it might be quite insightful.
I thought about this. How can we send a fragment of a file from node A to B without implicating node B. Both as an uploader or downloader, a rouge MPAA node could implicate the other party. Installing intermediary nodes would only implicate the intermediaries.
How can we anonymize the data itself? If we use a third node, C, to organize A and B, it could store data in encrypted fragments on various nodes and put the keys on different nodes, then instruct a downloader from where to get all the pieces. That way no node is choosing what to seed, they would just download a number of encrypted packets they know nothing about and serve them on demand.
But the downloader could still tell where it got its data from. So we need to make it such that unrelated fragments are also included in the decoding process to create confusion. That way, it would be hard to know which fragments are really from the desired file and which are just extra fragments that are there just for show. It could be made in such a way that all the data the node has stored (including those anonymous encrypted fragments) are included in the decoding process in a way. So now the downloader can only assume that all the network is to blame or no-one is more blameworthy than anyone else. Of course the network should carry enough legal content to make it legit, otherwise it could be blamed as a whole.
Well, I am sure people smarter than me have already thought of how to do anonymously do P2P.
I see more job listings for Java than C# and Swift in my country. In fact, Swift is almost missing.
Being so cheap, we could use redundancy (between two SSDs) or error reduction codes (inside).
The user interface should always be on and prioritized so we can cancel anything or go back. I am looking at Safari mobile too.
> means lots of panning and zooming particularly on small devices
Read my post above about how to reflow the scanned image of a page to fit the mobile devices.
It is often too difficult to read PDFs and scans on mobile devices. We could use a software to identify individual words in the scanned page and reflow the text to match the narrow screen size of phones and tablets. The reflowed document would use the original images of the words, only the rows and pages would be changed. Then we could read without panning and zooming.
I have scanned 100 books from my personal library and realized I can't find nice open source software to OCR the images and search over the text of the entire library for keywords. At some point I created my own clone of Google Books, with OCRopus for translating the images and my own front end for searching and hi-lighting keyword matches. It would be very useful if we had a way to manage searching in hundreds of books, taking notes and remembering the page/citation. It would work like a research library.
Now that we have good enough screen resolution, maybe we can make a phone that lasts for a full day. That would be sweet.
Not about Motorola, but same problem: I am ditching my Samsung Note 3 that was not updated to Lollipop (weird reason, bought from ebay and was imported from a different country, so, fuck Samsung for not allowing me to upgrade my os!) and buying a Nexus 6P as soon as it appears in my country. I want an updated phone, not an old clunk a couple of years from now.
Samsung has hundreds of devices, each with multiple versions, spread over hundreds of mobile network operators and even though Note 3 was supposed to update, mine slipped through the cracks. At least that's my theory. I hate that I have to suffer so that Samsung can make its sweet deals and install various un-installable crapware for each vendor. My phone should not be a card Samsung plays in order to get more money from other companies.
Note 3 rant: I also hate the brain dead lock screen that doesn't have a decent swipe. It always wakes up in my pocket. I set it to pattern lock, but there is a stupid "emergency dial" button that can't be disabled and is always reacting to unintended touches. I think Apple might have a patent to the swipe "technology" and blocks Samsung from offering it. Instead, the whole screen is a swipe zone and any place you touch could unlock the damn thing. Stupid Samsung. You lost a customer. The phone was great hardware-wise.
The problem is not that US or EU don't want to respect human rights, but that now the technology for total surveillance exists, and it can't be made to disappear any more. Even if US and EU stopped surveilling, other actors would still do it.
Some, like FB, would do it for practical and economical reasons, just because there are server logs and they need to optimize advertising and user engagement. Other, like various totalitarian regimes, would still do it because they see it as a counterbalance for the increased social activism powered by the increase in connectivity that has permeated all societies. People got new powers in the last two decades, and the state got new powers too. They are afraid of these more connected and organized masses.
Even if countries didn't do it, corporations and various shady groups would still do it. All it takes is to put a monitor on the pipe or a video camera on the highway to record everything that passes through there. And when one party does it, all parties need to do it to keep up and not come at a disadvantage in security.
What we need to do is it to regulate how this information is being used to restrain our rights. We need to learn to be more tolerant - we all have our secrets and they shouldn't be weaponized against us, at least not in the public moral court. So we need to adjust our social standards to allow for more diversity, because now we all live in a panopticon and there's no turning back to the privacy and anonymity times of our parents.
Maybe something good will also come out of this. With more data and analysis power, we could guide our policies and avoid some excesses that usually went unnoticed in the dark ages of information. And now we need to accept the reality of our panopticon society and build a better way of living in it.
And who's going to watch for movie theatre staff that pirates movies? It only takes one to get a copy out to the scene.
It's supposed that if you can do it for 10 days, your visual cortex will start processing other input and add its extra processing power to your meditations. Here's a link to a presentation: http://hridaya-yoga.com/how-to...
If you embed a document into the blockchain, once it's in there there is no way to delete it. This could be a great tool against censure, to certify a public document or to publish a proof of your work. Another use is to build a decentralized name system. Blockchain can be turned into a tool for doing business without banks and state, and it could also empower voting and democracy. It takes the power of certifying what is real and what is not from the state and its monopolies and places it back in the public hands.
Should I replace Disconnect.me with it?
You don't need millions of programmers, just a few good ones. There will always be some with courage (ex: Snowden).
The younger generation doesn't send SMS, they use WhatsApp or whatever new service.
> Every now and then, I'll click on Annoying ads just to thank Google for their apps. That's not the kind of clicks they want to get.
> I'm sure when it's in place that the UK will become a beacon of morality for all the world to admire.
Just like arab nations who have been blocking porn since forever. Falling in their footsteps.