We licensed a real-time executive embeddable and paid what seemed an appropriate fee, "just" an LA company. But being part of a US-wide company, itself part of a multinational, it turned out the license was valid everywhere for any product. The licensor felt cheated, but realized it was not our fault, nor was there something we could do. [No, no names]. There was money left on the table, lots of it.
Now Facebook being a huge multinational it seems to me that creators are likewise cheated getting only 70% -- of SOMETHING, while FB gets worldwide rights of all sorts, i.e. rights to use for MUCH MORE. Cagey Zuck.
True deletion would allow someone to send threatening or abusive DMs and then remove the evidence. Non-deletion means an ex-gf wants to delete hot NSFW DMs, especially her very NSFW nude pics, but can't; not even blocking me gets rid of them.
It's over IRL but it lives forever in Internet memory.
I've done this; an alert (or dastardly?) travel agent pointed out to me I could fly from L.A. to Houston for much less than the quoted prices by booking to a destination further on. It didn't cross my mind we were breaking any laws! Were we? Has any US carrier ever sued?
William Butler Yeats actually, "the best lack all conviction/ while the worst are full of passionate intensity". He gave no links in the poem though #shame_shame
"It is also known, that the hippocampus acts as a memory buffer. Once it is full, you need to sleep to empty its contents to the rest of your brain (through sleep spindles during REM sleep); this might be why babies sleep so much and so irregularly —once their learning buffer is full, they sleep to quickly clear their buffer in order to learn more after they wake. You can still learn when this memory buffer is full, but retention is much worse and new memories might wrangle with other memories in the buffer for space and displace them —so really get your needed amount of sleep. Sleeping less and irregularly is unproductive, especially for students who need to learn.
Because memories are integrated with other memories during your “write buffer to hard-drive” stage, sleep is also very important for creativity. The next time you recall a certain memory after you slept, it might be altered with some new information that your brain thought to be fitting to attach to that memory."
Indeed, Atiyah had no proof. I did not say so in public, for the same reason others didn't; he was after all one of last century's great mathematicians [c.f. Littlewood at Jourdain's death-bed, see his Miscellany]. In private, I was asked and pointed out what should have been obvious: his not-clearly-spelled-out argument would nevertheless have applied not just to the zeta function but to any other analytic function as well! It's a quick sanity check very familiar to anyone confronted with a supposed new argument/proof method, "if this were correct what else would it prove".
Rated at 2800+, the top human players are much weaker than top engines; Stockfish is approx 3500. And neural net engines, notably Lc0 ("Leela") are a recent spectacular arrival, set to challenge the dominance of alpha/beta search ones. Leela, inspired by the Alpha Zero approach, is already in the top 4. (Komodo and Houdini are the other two, both AB). No human stands a chance against any of them. Skynet?
[comment in companion post on this topic, repeated here]: The Bloomberg link is worth reading, grain of rice -sized HW backdoor and all. Things have progressed quite a bit since 2005, when I opened up an Averatec laptop and noticed a stealth CastleNet mini comm board -- no, it wasn't on any bus or otherwise part of the architecture, it was "in the air", GLUED to the underside of the top cover, with just a cable running to the Ethernet port! Most likely injection somewhere in the supply chain. How crude, huh. What a difference 10 years can make.
The Bloomberg link is worth reading, grain of rice -sized HW backdoor and all. Things have progressed quite a bit since 2005, when I opened up an Averatec laptop and noticed a stealth CastleNet mini comm board -- no, it wasn't on any bus or otherwise part of the architecture, it was "in the air", GLUED to the underside of the top cover, with just a cable running to the Ethernet port! Most likely injection somewhere in the supply chain. How crude, huh. What a difference 10 years can make.
Upvote this (even though an AC!). Indeed, Motl refutes convincingly Fr. - Renner; he is caustic sometimes but correct. The excessive formalization in the Fr. - R paper(s) made me suspicious from the start; indeed it simply covers up or overcompensates for their misunderstanding of how measurement works in Quantum Mechanics. Remarkable that they have been insisting on it for years... and "Nature" proved too lazy to check things out too!
I encountered persistent malware in "Settings" on another Android phone (Leagoo M5) -- not clear whether the manufacturer was the culprit or some third-party evil actor (or both?!). Sophos and Avast would find it, clean up, and it would come right back almost immediately. (Malwarebytes BTW never saw anything). Issue was resolved upon updating to a later OS version. In case it helps someone, this is what the AVs reported: Andr/Xgen-OB, com.comona.bac, and/storage/emulated/01.jm/Cool4100_1000_1003_2_1513241684921.xde.apk
There are people who threaten mods, there are mods who abuse their power, and luckily there are also quite a few people with a sense of humor, e.g. see comments in https://www.reddit.com/r/video...
A more general matter: there might be some wisdom in Robert Smith not ever posting any personal photos or videos, eschewing Friendships with IRL friends and relatives, you get the idea -- good luck establishing he is THE Robert Smith of a case in question. Especially if, dastardly Facebook-law breaker that he is, he lists his name as Lazarus Long, Dick Diver or Robert Axelrod. Yes, Facebook fights this sort of thing but with only partial success. HOW UNHOLY huh, subverting the core essence of Facebook's Business Model?!
I haven't actually deleted FB, I login a couple of times a month. Same for a number of other sites, e.g. if you want the timeline-newsfeed model there are or were: tsu (now dark), globallshare (dubious buy-in, now metastasized into livetalkie), ello, skyrock... And along with the likes of reddit, tumblr or twitter there are lesser variants, voat, gab, livejournal... of varying POVs. The key point is: different names/nics and different birthdays (all fictitious), entered via a number of browsers with differing useragents, from a number of devices, geolocation off or spoofed, and linked to any of at least 6 or 7 email accounts. Each site for a specific use, one for music, another for NSFW, another for technical/STEM, another for chat, for art, for politics, for literature... You do NOT need to give anybody a full picture of yourself and your set of interests. As for those who try to monetize or scrape your info, I can only say: good luck.
The executives who had wanted Xerox to go the computer route having lost the boardroom war would have been fired had they been in just about any other company. But Xerox back then took pride in never firing anybody; so in my consulting work (Xerox El Segundo) I got to meet and work with some said executives who had been demoted to engineers, and heard about the winners' motto ("we are a xerographic company!"), as well as tales of what might have been.
I visit FB once every couple of months (over the last three years -- I dislike some FB policies so I've moved on to other sites.) And yes, I've been getting emails about Friends' actions etc, which is OK. What TFA says though is new, and definitely underhanded, "trouble logging in" does suggest attempted misuse by dastardly hackerz; Zuck is sinking to a new low. BTW, no chance I would ever use a Facebook app on a smartphone; go in with a browser (and may I suggest you too have 5 or 6 of them lying about, each tailored to different purposes with varying defenses).
"Is Autodesk on the right course?" "Is Autodesk acting like a leader of an industry, seeking to create new markets and broaden the use of its products?" Ah John Walker, you asked questions, but not about this. https://www.fourmilab.ch/autof...
I just picked a couple of movies and TV shows one would have to pay for and put them in Google and other search engines. Leaving torrents aside, out came reams and reams of websites (some have "...locker" in their URL, others don't). Each of them does not actually store the material in question, they just provide dozens of other sites, some.com, others.io,.me or other TLDs. Clicking on, and after the occasional Captcha or stray ad that escaped my blockers, I eventually get to streaming, again under totally different and obviously auto-generated URLs.
So I ask you, what can the poor righteous Plaintiffs do, play whack-a-mole or win in million-card monte trying to come up with the dastardly crooks who store and stream House of Cards or whatever? Being practical (?) people they go after the easy targets e.g. Dragon Box (which I had never heard of before... hey, do you suppose its sales will go down now, or up?) -- which rather clearly does not actually store any pirated material.
Disclaimer: I did not actually watch anything, far be it from me to sully my purity by feasting my eyes on INFRINGING MATERIAL, the horror the horror.
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And then again... obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/936/
Now Facebook being a huge multinational it seems to me that creators are likewise cheated getting only 70% -- of SOMETHING, while FB gets worldwide rights of all sorts, i.e. rights to use for MUCH MORE. Cagey Zuck.
It's over IRL but it lives forever in Internet memory.
Damn. So THAT'S how he got me.
I've done this; an alert (or dastardly?) travel agent pointed out to me I could fly from L.A. to Houston for much less than the quoted prices by booking to a destination further on. It didn't cross my mind we were breaking any laws! Were we? Has any US carrier ever sued?
William Butler Yeats actually, "the best lack all conviction/ while the worst are full of passionate intensity". He gave no links in the poem though #shame_shame
Because memories are integrated with other memories during your “write buffer to hard-drive” stage, sleep is also very important for creativity. The next time you recall a certain memory after you slept, it might be altered with some new information that your brain thought to be fitting to attach to that memory."
From this long, excellent article: http://timdettmers.com/2015/07...
Indeed, Atiyah had no proof. I did not say so in public, for the same reason others didn't; he was after all one of last century's great mathematicians [c.f. Littlewood at Jourdain's death-bed, see his Miscellany]. In private, I was asked and pointed out what should have been obvious: his not-clearly-spelled-out argument would nevertheless have applied not just to the zeta function but to any other analytic function as well! It's a quick sanity check very familiar to anyone confronted with a supposed new argument/proof method, "if this were correct what else would it prove".
Just Dark Web? Imagine subpoenas for backups of 4chan's /b/ *the horror
Rated at 2800+, the top human players are much weaker than top engines; Stockfish is approx 3500. And neural net engines, notably Lc0 ("Leela") are a recent spectacular arrival, set to challenge the dominance of alpha/beta search ones. Leela, inspired by the Alpha Zero approach, is already in the top 4. (Komodo and Houdini are the other two, both AB). No human stands a chance against any of them. Skynet?
Better than wolf, you say? I don't know, where is Margot Robbie.
[comment in companion post on this topic, repeated here]: The Bloomberg link is worth reading, grain of rice -sized HW backdoor and all. Things have progressed quite a bit since 2005, when I opened up an Averatec laptop and noticed a stealth CastleNet mini comm board -- no, it wasn't on any bus or otherwise part of the architecture, it was "in the air", GLUED to the underside of the top cover, with just a cable running to the Ethernet port! Most likely injection somewhere in the supply chain. How crude, huh. What a difference 10 years can make.
The Bloomberg link is worth reading, grain of rice -sized HW backdoor and all. Things have progressed quite a bit since 2005, when I opened up an Averatec laptop and noticed a stealth CastleNet mini comm board -- no, it wasn't on any bus or otherwise part of the architecture, it was "in the air", GLUED to the underside of the top cover, with just a cable running to the Ethernet port! Most likely injection somewhere in the supply chain. How crude, huh. What a difference 10 years can make.
Upvote this (even though an AC!). Indeed, Motl refutes convincingly Fr. - Renner; he is caustic sometimes but correct. The excessive formalization in the Fr. - R paper(s) made me suspicious from the start; indeed it simply covers up or overcompensates for their misunderstanding of how measurement works in Quantum Mechanics. Remarkable that they have been insisting on it for years... and "Nature" proved too lazy to check things out too!
I encountered persistent malware in "Settings" on another Android phone (Leagoo M5) -- not clear whether the manufacturer was the culprit or some third-party evil actor (or both?!). Sophos and Avast would find it, clean up, and it would come right back almost immediately. (Malwarebytes BTW never saw anything). Issue was resolved upon updating to a later OS version. In case it helps someone, this is what the AVs reported: Andr/Xgen-OB, com.comona.bac, and /storage/emulated/01.jm/Cool4100_1000_1003_2_1513241684921.xde.apk
There are people who threaten mods, there are mods who abuse their power, and luckily there are also quite a few people with a sense of humor, e.g. see comments in https://www.reddit.com/r/video...
A more general matter: there might be some wisdom in Robert Smith not ever posting any personal photos or videos, eschewing Friendships with IRL friends and relatives, you get the idea -- good luck establishing he is THE Robert Smith of a case in question. Especially if, dastardly Facebook-law breaker that he is, he lists his name as Lazarus Long, Dick Diver or Robert Axelrod. Yes, Facebook fights this sort of thing but with only partial success. HOW UNHOLY huh, subverting the core essence of Facebook's Business Model?!
That will work. Yeap.
I haven't actually deleted FB, I login a couple of times a month. Same for a number of other sites, e.g. if you want the timeline-newsfeed model there are or were: tsu (now dark), globallshare (dubious buy-in, now metastasized into livetalkie), ello, skyrock... And along with the likes of reddit, tumblr or twitter there are lesser variants, voat, gab, livejournal... of varying POVs. The key point is: different names/nics and different birthdays (all fictitious), entered via a number of browsers with differing useragents, from a number of devices, geolocation off or spoofed, and linked to any of at least 6 or 7 email accounts. Each site for a specific use, one for music, another for NSFW, another for technical/STEM, another for chat, for art, for politics, for literature... You do NOT need to give anybody a full picture of yourself and your set of interests. As for those who try to monetize or scrape your info, I can only say: good luck.
Dedicated apps for Facebook or other popular sites have more cons than pros [both puns intended]
The executives who had wanted Xerox to go the computer route having lost the boardroom war would have been fired had they been in just about any other company. But Xerox back then took pride in never firing anybody; so in my consulting work (Xerox El Segundo) I got to meet and work with some said executives who had been demoted to engineers, and heard about the winners' motto ("we are a xerographic company!"), as well as tales of what might have been.
I visit FB once every couple of months (over the last three years -- I dislike some FB policies so I've moved on to other sites.) And yes, I've been getting emails about Friends' actions etc, which is OK. What TFA says though is new, and definitely underhanded, "trouble logging in" does suggest attempted misuse by dastardly hackerz; Zuck is sinking to a new low. BTW, no chance I would ever use a Facebook app on a smartphone; go in with a browser (and may I suggest you too have 5 or 6 of them lying about, each tailored to different purposes with varying defenses).
"Is Autodesk on the right course?" "Is Autodesk acting like a leader of an industry, seeking to create new markets and broaden the use of its products?" Ah John Walker, you asked questions, but not about this. https://www.fourmilab.ch/autof...
So I ask you, what can the poor righteous Plaintiffs do, play whack-a-mole or win in million-card monte trying to come up with the dastardly crooks who store and stream House of Cards or whatever? Being practical (?) people they go after the easy targets e.g. Dragon Box (which I had never heard of before... hey, do you suppose its sales will go down now, or up?) -- which rather clearly does not actually store any pirated material.
Disclaimer: I did not actually watch anything, far be it from me to sully my purity by feasting my eyes on INFRINGING MATERIAL, the horror the horror.
and eventually Yarrr then Yarrrr --up the meta levels. "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" "the Net!"