You are right, for thousands of years. I work for a surveillance agency and we have specialized in brain wave surveillance since ever. This is all we need really. We watch the watchers using primitive technology and who think they are watching, really...
Where is the first post from a uid above 2600Hz uh, I mean 2600000 praising windows 8 ?
Did we get rid of them ? Slashdot will live for ever, forget about the 6 digits or lower uid posts that say/. has come so low they will never come back. They are lying./. is too addictive and funny also.
as Thomas Jefferson figured out almost 200 years ago, ideas are fundamentally incompatible with the concept of ownership and private property. You have no right to control how your ideas are used, spread, or altered after they leave your own mind. The only way you can protect an idea from being spread is to keep it to yourself. Once it's out, you can't put it back, you can't take it away from people whom it has spread to. An "idea" can be an invention, a song, a novel, just about anything that is the product of human imagination or ingenuity (not in physical form).
I have have been saying it for a while to many people. Not only face recognition which is more recent while voice recognition has been around for decades.
AI systems generates reports for humans to handle. Depending on the humans handling the reports, handling techniques may vary. With well trained handlers, it works well with very few false positives. Unfortunately, well trained handlers are rare and more and more of that functionality is being made available to untrained people.
Run your own fail safe data repository. Companies have been doing this for ages and it isn't that hard nor expensive to implement it at a smaller scale for your own needs. No cloud needed;-)
Just use rsync, and something similar to mysqldump and mysql replication along with 2-4 linux nodes ideally hosted on different network/providers. You can host the nodes in VMs connected to regular consumer grade DSL or cable modem connections. You could make peering agreements with friends and relatives, I host your node you host my node.
Optionally, throw in some DynDNS or alike, or better, run your own dyndns and you are pretty much done. if you do not want to run your own dns, you can also have the nodes publish their IPs on some free website hosting site. Machines can also find each other IP by exchanging emails through a third party provider like gmail.
I have seen more OOP done wrong than right. In every team I lead, I have to put the breaks on inheritance. For many young dude starting in OOP, inheritance == OOP, and the more inheritance you have, the better.
The GP post first example would be better implemented with a class Person and roles.
One of the first thing I do when assigned to existing code is put the sources into something like Enterprise Architect to get a picture of the code. When it is crowded with inheritance, I know I am in for a hard time.
Inheritance should be used sparsely and where it makes sense. The more the better is a very common mistake done in OOP. The too common "root class" (often called "RootObject") from which all other classes inherit is not the way to do it. Use other classes instead of inheriting all the time!;-) Person Objects would be linked to a list of Role Objects.
Samsung sgh-a847 - also called rugby - can be dropped in water and used right away. It happened to me a few times. It is certified to military standard 810G. Buy something military grade like this if you break your phone often.
I am 51. You know the old dog that sits right across where you sit. Now get back to work, you will be lucky if you still have a job on Monday. You better have that task done when I come in on Monday morning. Work all week-end if needed. I won't wait until next Thursday as per your inflated estimates.
The picture in your first link has a text saying "computers to make me want to leave my wife." Well, not for me. The PCs look like 1995. There might be only one flat screen visible under the table but I am not even sure this is it.
It reminds me a lab we had in 2003 where the company would only supply us with old PC desktops from 1995.
Throw in a few cray computers, a few Sun servers and actual PC servers with double power supply etc., more flat screens and I might want to leave my wife.
Still, I remember similar times and it was cool;-)
Would you shed a tear for an automobile driver who said "gee, I didn't know what the red-line was or that revving it past the red-line could damage the engine!" No, you'd say anybody fit to drive a car should know this, if they don't then they get to go to a mechanic and pay the stupidity tax. Same deal with passwords and internet access.
Your car analogy is out of date and it could be used against the point your are trying to make in modern days. Nowadays, cars have "rev limiters" that will prevent going above the red line too much. I guess with a manual, sticking it first gear at highway speed would still do the trick although.
So "rev limiters" == better protection for drivers who do not know.
Dummy driver goes to the dealer and says: "My car is broken, every time I go 500 rpm above the red line, my engine cuts off."
50 billions at 1 percent a year is 500 millions in interest a year. "Inflationary environments" cause the capital to loose value and the charity would loose purchasing power as years go by but this isn't directly related to the argument in the GP post.
Millisecond trading bots buy and sell in a period of time sometimes as short as 50 ms or even less. A 0.5 to 2 seconds random delay is more than plenty to screw them up and still keep every conventional trader happy. More delay would raise opposition amongst conventional traders that order from their office, not in a data center next door from the stock exchange.
Simple solution has already be proposed. Queue trade requests in such a way that a random delay is inserted. The delay will be negligible and go unnoticed for humans but it would definitely screw up milliseconds traders.
In Canada they are now allowed to switch at anytime without penalties due to government regulation. No need to wait for the plan to end. They can switch just because they want to without giving any reasons. Providers abused too much hence the regulation came.
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Yeah they've been surveilling us for years.
You are right, for thousands of years. I work for a surveillance agency and we have specialized in brain wave surveillance since ever. This is all we need really. We watch the watchers using primitive technology and who think they are watching, really...
Where is the first post from a uid above 2600Hz uh, I mean 2600000 praising windows 8 ?
Did we get rid of them ? Slashdot will live for ever, forget about the 6 digits or lower uid posts that say /. has come so low they will never come back. They are lying. /. is too addictive and funny also.
as Thomas Jefferson figured out almost 200 years ago, ideas are fundamentally incompatible with the concept of ownership and private property. You have no right to control how your ideas are used, spread, or altered after they leave your own mind. The only way you can protect an idea from being spread is to keep it to yourself. Once it's out, you can't put it back, you can't take it away from people whom it has spread to. An "idea" can be an invention, a song, a novel, just about anything that is the product of human imagination or ingenuity (not in physical form).
Einstein found out the hard way ;-)
I have have been saying it for a while to many people. Not only face recognition which is more recent while voice recognition has been around for decades.
AI systems generates reports for humans to handle. Depending on the humans handling the reports, handling techniques may vary. With well trained handlers, it works well with very few false positives. Unfortunately, well trained handlers are rare and more and more of that functionality is being made available to untrained people.
Run your own fail safe data repository. Companies have been doing this for ages and it isn't that hard nor expensive to implement it at a smaller scale for your own needs. No cloud needed;-)
Just use rsync, and something similar to mysqldump and mysql replication along with 2-4 linux nodes ideally hosted on different network/providers. You can host the nodes in VMs connected to regular consumer grade DSL or cable modem connections. You could make peering agreements with friends and relatives, I host your node you host my node.
Optionally, throw in some DynDNS or alike, or better, run your own dyndns and you are pretty much done. if you do not want to run your own dns, you can also have the nodes publish their IPs on some free website hosting site. Machines can also find each other IP by exchanging emails through a third party provider like gmail.
I have seen more OOP done wrong than right. In every team I lead, I have to put the breaks on inheritance. For many young dude starting in OOP, inheritance == OOP, and the more inheritance you have, the better.
The GP post first example would be better implemented with a class Person and roles.
One of the first thing I do when assigned to existing code is put the sources into something like Enterprise Architect to get a picture of the code. When it is crowded with inheritance, I know I am in for a hard time.
Inheritance should be used sparsely and where it makes sense. The more the better is a very common mistake done in OOP. The too common "root class" (often called "RootObject") from which all other classes inherit is not the way to do it. Use other classes instead of inheriting all the time! ;-) Person Objects would be linked to a list of Role Objects.
Not yet, only Aunt Jemima's CC :
http://www.auntjemima.com/aj_products/easyMixes/coffeeCake.cfm
Samsung sgh-a847 - also called rugby - can be dropped in water and used right away. It happened to me a few times. It is certified to military standard 810G. Buy something military grade like this if you break your phone often.
Palin C? I much prefer to code in Monty Python.
Sarah's C sounds betters...
I am 51. You know the old dog that sits right across where you sit. Now get back to work, you will be lucky if you still have a job on Monday. You better have that task done when I come in on Monday morning. Work all week-end if needed. I won't wait until next Thursday as per your inflated estimates.
Who talked about needing dual power supplies ? Not me...
Sometimes you may leave your your wife for things that you don't really need !
The picture in your first link has a text saying "computers to make me want to leave my wife." Well, not for me. The PCs look like 1995. There might be only one flat screen visible under the table but I am not even sure this is it.
It reminds me a lab we had in 2003 where the company would only supply us with old PC desktops from 1995.
Throw in a few cray computers, a few Sun servers and actual PC servers with double power supply etc., more flat screens and I might want to leave my wife.
Still, I remember similar times and it was cool ;-)
Me neither.
Were you born or did you just get here on planet Earth somehow yesterday ?
Would you shed a tear for an automobile driver who said "gee, I didn't know what the red-line was or that revving it past the red-line could damage the engine!" No, you'd say anybody fit to drive a car should know this, if they don't then they get to go to a mechanic and pay the stupidity tax. Same deal with passwords and internet access.
Your car analogy is out of date and it could be used against the point your are trying to make in modern days. Nowadays, cars have "rev limiters" that will prevent going above the red line too much. I guess with a manual, sticking it first gear at highway speed would still do the trick although.
So "rev limiters" == better protection for drivers who do not know.
Dummy driver goes to the dealer and says: "My car is broken, every time I go 500 rpm above the red line, my engine cuts off."
You use fiber instead of cables ;-)
50 billions at 1 percent a year is 500 millions in interest a year. "Inflationary environments" cause the capital to loose value and the charity would loose purchasing power as years go by but this isn't directly related to the argument in the GP post.
me too, me too please...
You're confusing the need for leap seconds with sidereal time. But note, the Earth actually rotates faster than one solar revolution per day.
More precisely, 1 earth rotation takes about 23h56m
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_rotation#Stellar_and_sidereal_day
10*3600*24*28.5/8/1024
3005
If I am right, you can download 3005 GB a month on a 10Mbs connection.
Try to stay around 50GB a month and do not open connections with 4000 hosts simultaneously on a home plan and you should be fine.
As a batter, I kind of like the idea. As a pitcher, I want 8 balls.
Millisecond trading bots buy and sell in a period of time sometimes as short as 50 ms or even less. A 0.5 to 2 seconds random delay is more than plenty to screw them up and still keep every conventional trader happy. More delay would raise opposition amongst conventional traders that order from their office, not in a data center next door from the stock exchange.
Good I ain't from Rhode Island anyway.
Simple solution has already be proposed. Queue trade requests in such a way that a random delay is inserted. The delay will be negligible and go unnoticed for humans but it would definitely screw up milliseconds traders.
In Canada they are now allowed to switch at anytime without penalties due to government regulation. No need to wait for the plan to end. They can switch just because they want to without giving any reasons. Providers abused too much hence the regulation came.