Microsoft has been getting burned a lot lately by GPL violations. Now, if they're actually getting caught these days, how often have they already gotten away with it?
The problem is that the server storing your account information is trusting the terminal.
If the terminal can get away with trusting the signal it's getting from the card, then it's actually possible for a counterfeit terminal to rob you without even having the card.
Computation and the like is a procedural, left brained sort of activity. Much of human society delegates that sorta stuff to a computer, but the right brained creative stuff is kept by humans because so far humans are best at it.
Any meaningful effort in humanlike AI will need to beef up computerized creativity.
The two party system itslef is flawed. Corporate dictators have corrupted them both, so it's no better than a one party system with two faces.
It's actually worse, because we the people are kept in the dark about who is REALLY running the show. Honestly though, it's no different from how china runs things, except that in china you KNOW the communists are in charge.
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The social security trust fund is a big fat joke.
All the surplus was invested in government bonds that were sold to pay off the interest on the national debt!
Especially when said farmers can just hire illegals, and then tip off the INS for a raid and make them all run away without collecting their wages.
"Too big to fail" doesn't mean that size is a defense against failure.
If the bigger they are, the harder they fall, then too big to fail just means the shockwaves will cause too much damage.
And you got a free education in politics, which you really do need to deal with in the real world, sad to say.
Herein lies the problem:
1. You are told not to collaborate
2. You do it anyway
Sounds like a run of the mill case of not doing what the fuck you're told.
Also known as INSUBORDINATION, which almost always gets you canned no matter what line of work you go into.
What if someone steals your work and turns it in first?
Then YOU get nailed for cheating...
Actually, there is. It's called a blacklist.
Patently illegal in many areas, but still used whenever someone in the upper crust decides to get ugly and start a grudge against you.
And since they're chummy with the guys making the rules, the politicians, you can't win.
You mean if.
Microsoft has been getting burned a lot lately by GPL violations. Now, if they're actually getting caught these days, how often have they already gotten away with it?
And you're stuck with 50 dollars no matter what, thanks to the banks lobbying.
I will never ever use a debit or credit card again, thanks to what I have found out today.
The pin should be used to encrypt everything else.
The problem is that the server storing your account information is trusting the terminal.
If the terminal can get away with trusting the signal it's getting from the card, then it's actually possible for a counterfeit terminal to rob you without even having the card.
No, the golden rule is this:
The one who has the gold makes the rules.
And the other one is...
The one who makes the rules keeps the gold.
Far better would be for the card to not give out the card number without a correct pin.
Unfortunately, selling marijuana is still a FEDERAL offense, and no silly state tax permit is going to stop the FBI from hauling your ass away.
This is why it took Doe v. Ashcroft to nix the gag order portion of the NSL.
I hope that those AIs are unhackable.
Computer hypnosis scares me.
AIs and humans have one thing in common, they need taught.
No human can do that right off the bat.
Of course it's a stretch to expect AIs to surpass ADULT humans that have already gone through at least 12 years of education.
And where did WE get it from then?
Won't work.
The brain relies on quantum mechanics to do its things, which is uncopyable state.
Not to mention that a LIVE brain is a BUSY brain, with nerve pulses going everywhere.
Humans have this thing called "education" that takes place over a good 12 years or so.
I assume that an AI with a blank slate would need a similiar method of programming.
The fat cats at the top would be thinner if they had to fight with each other via competition.
Already was in Doe v. Ashcroft.
But, notice the Doe. The one fighting it had to remain anonymous out of fear.
If you make it illegal to GO to court, then how are you supposed to fight it IN court?
Unfortunately the gov backed out before a precedent could be set...kinda like the RIAA dropping a lawsuit when things go sour.
Computation and the like is a procedural, left brained sort of activity. Much of human society delegates that sorta stuff to a computer, but the right brained creative stuff is kept by humans because so far humans are best at it.
Any meaningful effort in humanlike AI will need to beef up computerized creativity.
The two party system itslef is flawed. Corporate dictators have corrupted them both, so it's no better than a one party system with two faces.
It's actually worse, because we the people are kept in the dark about who is REALLY running the show. Honestly though, it's no different from how china runs things, except that in china you KNOW the communists are in charge.
Who watches the watchers?
Or more precisely, how can we be sure that "global government" won't become a tyrannical black hole of power imploding on itself?
Bureaucracies suck, but they beat totalitarian dictatorships.