The entire point of the iPod and iPhones encrypted file system is designed to prevent you from using anything but iTunes. It's a joke to claim it's for "Security" Security? On my iPod? Really? lol!
Yea, but at this point I think we should just give up on this. It's just not possible to protect yourself from a group with the size, clout and finances of the NSA. I think you and I both know, the easiest way for them to solve most of their problems is just have high level people in just about all of these companies on their payroll. If I were a DBA at a company like Google I'd be sitting in the lunchroom wondering which of my colleagues were the NSA guys and which were not.
The only fix for all of this is to shut down the agency completely. Such a thing cannot exist in a free world. Yes, we'll be less safe from it. But I'll take a 1 in 250,000,000 chance of dieing in a terrorist attack over a 1 in 1 chance of having my mail read any day.
Actually, if you combine all different versions it beats even the 64bit integer. Techsmartly made a fancy pivot chart of it a while back: http://techsmartly.net/freePS3...
Individuals aren't taxes based on their profit but income. Corporations should minimally be held to the same standard. After all there is a huge benefit to incorporating which is limiting liability of the owners. Tax the income at a much lower rate of 5% or so. Think of all of the productivity lost moving money around to optimize tax payments. If your profit margin isn't high enough to cover this tax then you shouldn't incorporate.
No no no and no. Taxes make people not do the thing you are taxing. Tax income, and they have reason to make less. Why go get the new job that pays a tad more when 25% of your raise goes to the feds? Tax the thing you want people to do less of. Sales tax. The last few financial bubbles have been because people spent beyond their means and didn't save. But the fact of the matter is due to capital gains, putting your money into a mutual fund means it'll get taxed! You pay less in taxes spending it at the movies or buying a house. Instead, tax sales... people will save and invest more. Tax stock sales, as regular old sales. You pay your taxes when you buy them, but sit on them for 30yrs? No taxes. The person that buys them from you pays sales tax. People are more likely to hold onto money, slow down their spending and day trading dies in fire like it should.
Oh and, before everyone poo poos this because of deductions... no deductions, at all... for anything. No tax breaks for anything.
It looks too bulky to provide a lot of gears in an automotive application, but if it could provide just two that you couldn't strip out no matter how much torque you put through them, it could be a really nice match for EVs. They would benefit from a transmission, but it's difficult for any transmission of a reasonable size to handle the output torque.
Electric cars don't need gears in the first place. The only reason we have gears in IC engines is because, 1. it would be expensive and hard to keep the engines in sync if you had a separate one for each wheel, 2. IC engines operate in most efficiently at very specific RPMs. Notice how the tachometer tends to hover around 2000 rpm as you shift gears? That's what the gears are for, to keep the engine at a constant RPM. Electric motors work just as efficiently at just about any RPM.
I'm sure they would like to, but they can't. Have you heard of something called financial regulations?
What's your point?
Do you think that the credit card industry had nothing to do with how regulated financial transactions are? Do you seriously believe the biggest competitor they could possibly have... Walmart... just so happens to be hamstrung by those very same regulations and unable to compete?
No no... I'm sure it's all a coincidence and they aren't actually angry at Bitcoin because it found an endrun around the completely unlevel playing field the credit card companies themselves designed. Visa and Mastercard are all about fair play and not just glorified loan sharks.
. "Any regulation adopted in Australia should address the anonymity that digital currency provides to each party in a transaction," the company's told the inquiry into digital currencies. MasterCard believes that "all participants in the payments system that provide similar services to consumers should be regulated in the same way to achieve a level playing field for all."
For the first time in my life I totally agree with the credit card industry! Mastercard, please immediately start providing anonymous transaction services so we can level this playing field ASAP!
Yes, but there's clearly a huge amount of life, even on this planet, that we don't understand at all. And even some of the life we know about on this planet has been proven to be able to live in environments very similar to what we see on planets we're assuming are uninhabitable. Doesn't that seem a tad foolish?
It seems like these stories we keep hearing about aren't about finding a planet that has life... they're more about finding a planet we could live on. While that's definitely a noble goal, I think they're kind of putting the cart before the horse.
This was clearly what was going to happen, from the beginning. I think I got modded troll for suggesting it was a bad idea way back when. lol
The only place a school should have a computer that students have access to is in the computer lab (or other classes that would require them like typing or whatever) Sure, there should be classes that prepare students for the rudiments of computer use in case they don't have a computer at home. But when it comes to the rudiments of what should be taught in highschool: English, Math, Science... they are nothing more than expensive distractions.
Given that we have a sample size of one: The earth I think it's a tad ridiculous that we assume we have any idea what kind of environment can support life at all. There is no environment that we've explored that we can rule out the existence of life on. Yes, I understand that's because we haven't really explored any of them... but that's kind of the point.
You lost me at swiftkey... I paid for that to get all the great features.... A week later the app went "Free" and by free I meant, all the features I paid for were now free to everyone and all future improvements I had to pay for all over again. I'm not sure how being "free" turned into: "instead of charging one fee for the app, we're now going to nickel and dime you for every new feature and you people that already paid... tough luck. Oh, and we're likely selling everything you type to Amazon faster than you can type it so enjoy the spam!"
It will threaten the human race. It will not threaten humanity, just change it. There is no fundamental difference between creating a strong AI and having a child.
From an external point of view, the singularity is just the moment at which humanity switches from carbon based to silicon based brains. An important milestone, but nothing to be hysteric about.
Just like nukes could never be dangerous. If they got out of hand, the government would just dismantle them right?
The problem is that Humanity isn't some big collective that gets together to vote on rational decisions. Once AI's are up and working, there will be government agencies in every country on earth doing extremely risky things with them in an attempt to get the upper hand on each other. There will be less than ethical computer scientists, criminals, and even hobbyists in basements... all completely ignoring safety.
Remember Xrays? My father can remember going with other kids into town to the local shoe store and putting their feet in the "Pedoscope" that emitted a continuous stream of xrays and would show you the bones in your feet live on screen! All the kids went there and had fun wiggling their toes. They were in wide use until the mid-1970s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Brazil, my country, also also had several problems with dictators, overthrown governments and empires trying to make my country in their backyard. But despite that we are in a much better situation than Africa. Why? Notice, we also have corruption in generous quantities.
The question of the AC is valid, period. As always the devil lives in the details, and usually the texts on the subject forget that this question of intelligence (and perhaps racial differences) is only part of the problem alone does not answer the greater question.
A little over 10 years ago, Brazil wasn't doing much better than most of Africa. But Brazil has control over it's own oil reserves and put in place an extremely unique (and controversial) economic policy called Plano Real
In fact, if you proposed such a thing to me today, I'd still tell you it was a horrible idea. I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't seer luck that it worked. lol
Ever seen a blood drive? It's all marketing. I Get an email in my work in-box at least once a week declaring the RedCross is X days away from running out of blood and people dieing on the operating table!!!
I used to volunteer at the redcross, I never saw them get "low on blood" lol. Most went into Biohazard disposal. But the fact of the matter is, if they don't scream "PANIC" at every possible opportunity, then no-one shows up at all. The actual use of donated blood has been declining at an insane rate... down over 30% from just a few years ago.
They still need fresh blood, it expires rather quickly after all so please donate if you can. But it's not nearly as dire a situation as their ads proclaim. The same goes for wikipedia.
Have you been there or know the history of the continent?
The west, specifically the UK and Belgium have had the entire continent literally enslaved until less than 100 years ago. Then the United States showed up and installed dictators, overthrew stable governments, and generally made a mess of things right up to the 1970s. To this day we continue to fund local dictators and warlords in exchange for help in the "war on terror"
The problem in Africa is not an African problem. It's the west desire to steal their natural resources that has kept that continent in chains for centuries. To this very day our corporations are still funding mercenaries there so they can secure mines, ivory and oil for our industry. This is a western problem and the aid we send them is trivial compared to the exports we're virtually robbing them blind over.
Go to Africa, see for yourself. There are poor people everywhere, breaking their backs, trying to get ahead. Then you see acres of walled greenhouses owned by the Belgians, walled in office parks owned by the Chinese (their use, mysterious), oil rigs owned by US and UK companies covered with guards wielding AK47s. None of these places employ Africans that I've seen... They're only there to exploit the area.
After they finish the interrogation they intentionally delete it so you can't use it in your defense. They've proven that a jury will more likely believe a police officer stating that you confessed than a video of you actually confessing! So they destroy the audio/video!
What crazy jurisdiction do you live in??
I've never seen this ever. That would never make it past a set of appeal judges - what possible interaction with police nowadays, inside a police station, would not be videotaped? I've never seen a judge that would go "Oh, ok" if police described obtaining a confession in an interrogation room and it wasn't recorded. I don't know a lawyer on earth who couldn't argue there is reasonable doubt there. A verbal confession would be enough for reasonable and probable cause, maybe even a preponderance of evidence, but never beyond a reasonable doubt.
Like I said, watch the video in my sig you dolt. Half way through there's a career police officer explaining exactly what I just said. This is how it's done. He goes on to explain all the different ways he can get a confession out of someone by lying, cheating, etc... It's impossible that you haven't broken the law in some way shape or form, so once they are convinced they want to nail you they just sit you in that room for as long as it takes for you to start talking and incriminate yourself. The entire situation is designed to mentally pressure you into talking, and saying the wrong thing.
it just seems another step to pervasive surveillance.
Currently they videotape you whenever they want to. Every officer already has the means to tape you if they so choose. The current situation is that they only do record and keep the video when it suits their needs, and they delete it when it's bad for them. The only change here will be the requirement to always record and retain that data.
For example, were you aware they always record interrogations? (see the video in my sig) but only for their own review to be use against you in court. After they finish the interrogation they intentionally delete it so you can't use it in your defense. They've proven that a jury will more likely believe a police officer stating that you confessed than a video of you actually confessing! So they destroy the audio/video!
Any and all testimony you make against yourself should be required by law to be taped. There is absolutely no excuse for the current state of things where law enforcements word is trusted implicitly when current technology makes it completely unnecessary to do so. Every statement a person makes to law enforcement could be recorded, virtually for free, and there would then be no need for their testimony at all.
Up here in Washington State, several police agencies have embraced the idea of Body Cams. And while there has been no philosophical push-back about public access to Body Cam footage by the coppers, a recent Public Records Request illustrates a more fiscal problem...
A public records request was made for all Body Cam footage for the last year from several local departments that have been experimenting with the technology. Why should this be a probem, after all, just burn it all to a CD and send it to the guy?
The are three issues: Privacy - not every interaction a police officer has is in a public place or does not contain things than fall under privacy rules.
Second is commercial use - You know those Mug Shot Extortion sites? The ones that publish mug shots but for a small fee of several hundred dollars will take yours down? Same thing.
Third is the fiscal issue - The time to parse through a requst for "all your files for the year" for privacy issues and other things that simply should not end up on a commercial "shock" site or YouTube, this will cost a butt-load.
The request for the footage was made by the police officers union or people working as their proxy in an attempt to prevent the cameras from getting implemented elsewhere.
How would the police handle a request for all of their Dashcam footage? Radio traffic? etc? You could make similar silly requests for all sorts of things and I'm sure they've managed to deal with those types of requests without incident as well. Don't let yourself get played.
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This is silly...
The entire point of the iPod and iPhones encrypted file system is designed to prevent you from using anything but iTunes. It's a joke to claim it's for "Security" Security? On my iPod? Really? lol!
Yea, but at this point I think we should just give up on this. It's just not possible to protect yourself from a group with the size, clout and finances of the NSA. I think you and I both know, the easiest way for them to solve most of their problems is just have high level people in just about all of these companies on their payroll. If I were a DBA at a company like Google I'd be sitting in the lunchroom wondering which of my colleagues were the NSA guys and which were not.
The only fix for all of this is to shut down the agency completely. Such a thing cannot exist in a free world. Yes, we'll be less safe from it. But I'll take a 1 in 250,000,000 chance of dieing in a terrorist attack over a 1 in 1 chance of having my mail read any day.
Yes, clearly we must urgently encrypt all slashdot communication so that no-one can read the posts!
Given that this sites primary purpose is social commentary of the news, encryption's probably more important here than just about anywhere else.
Are we ready to accept it?
Slashdot certainly isn't ready!
... for the successful rick-rolling goes to the "informative" mods...
Even though "beats the 64bit integer" was very obvious BS, I still clicked...
That was part of my evil scheme. ;-)
No Slashdotter can resist the sense of superiority that comes from correcting a trivial math error.
Bravo. I'll admit the "freePS3" URL gave me only slight pause.
Yea, sorry... I was in a hurry to find a "Not youtube or tinyurl" link so it wouldn't be obvious and get it out before the thread got too stale.
Actually, if you combine all different versions it beats even the 64bit integer.
Techsmartly made a fancy pivot chart of it a while back:
http://techsmartly.net/freePS3...
Salesman says "This thing I'm selling is the next big thing!!"
Slashdot editors fall for it.
l
Individuals aren't taxes based on their profit but income. Corporations should minimally be held to the same standard. After all there is a huge benefit to incorporating which is limiting liability of the owners. Tax the income at a much lower rate of 5% or so. Think of all of the productivity lost moving money around to optimize tax payments. If your profit margin isn't high enough to cover this tax then you shouldn't incorporate.
No no no and no.
Taxes make people not do the thing you are taxing. Tax income, and they have reason to make less. Why go get the new job that pays a tad more when 25% of your raise goes to the feds?
Tax the thing you want people to do less of. Sales tax. The last few financial bubbles have been because people spent beyond their means and didn't save. But the fact of the matter is due to capital gains, putting your money into a mutual fund means it'll get taxed! You pay less in taxes spending it at the movies or buying a house. Instead, tax sales... people will save and invest more. Tax stock sales, as regular old sales. You pay your taxes when you buy them, but sit on them for 30yrs? No taxes. The person that buys them from you pays sales tax. People are more likely to hold onto money, slow down their spending and day trading dies in fire like it should.
Oh and, before everyone poo poos this because of deductions... no deductions, at all... for anything. No tax breaks for anything.
It looks too bulky to provide a lot of gears in an automotive application, but if it could provide just two that you couldn't strip out no matter how much torque you put through them, it could be a really nice match for EVs. They would benefit from a transmission, but it's difficult for any transmission of a reasonable size to handle the output torque.
Electric cars don't need gears in the first place. The only reason we have gears in IC engines is because, 1. it would be expensive and hard to keep the engines in sync if you had a separate one for each wheel, 2. IC engines operate in most efficiently at very specific RPMs. Notice how the tachometer tends to hover around 2000 rpm as you shift gears? That's what the gears are for, to keep the engine at a constant RPM. Electric motors work just as efficiently at just about any RPM.
I'm sure they would like to, but they can't. Have you heard of something called financial regulations?
What's your point?
Do you think that the credit card industry had nothing to do with how regulated financial transactions are?
Do you seriously believe the biggest competitor they could possibly have... Walmart... just so happens to be hamstrung by those very same regulations and unable to compete?
No no... I'm sure it's all a coincidence and they aren't actually angry at Bitcoin because it found an endrun around the completely unlevel playing field the credit card companies themselves designed. Visa and Mastercard are all about fair play and not just glorified loan sharks.
. "Any regulation adopted in Australia should address the anonymity that digital currency provides to each party in a transaction," the company's told the inquiry into digital currencies. MasterCard believes that "all participants in the payments system that provide similar services to consumers should be regulated in the same way to achieve a level playing field for all."
For the first time in my life I totally agree with the credit card industry!
Mastercard, please immediately start providing anonymous transaction services so we can level this playing field ASAP!
Yes, but there's clearly a huge amount of life, even on this planet, that we don't understand at all. And even some of the life we know about on this planet has been proven to be able to live in environments very similar to what we see on planets we're assuming are uninhabitable. Doesn't that seem a tad foolish?
It seems like these stories we keep hearing about aren't about finding a planet that has life... they're more about finding a planet we could live on. While that's definitely a noble goal, I think they're kind of putting the cart before the horse.
This was clearly what was going to happen, from the beginning. I think I got modded troll for suggesting it was a bad idea way back when. lol
The only place a school should have a computer that students have access to is in the computer lab (or other classes that would require them like typing or whatever) Sure, there should be classes that prepare students for the rudiments of computer use in case they don't have a computer at home. But when it comes to the rudiments of what should be taught in highschool: English, Math, Science... they are nothing more than expensive distractions.
Given that we have a sample size of one: The earth
I think it's a tad ridiculous that we assume we have any idea what kind of environment can support life at all. There is no environment that we've explored that we can rule out the existence of life on. Yes, I understand that's because we haven't really explored any of them... but that's kind of the point.
You lost me at swiftkey...
I paid for that to get all the great features....
A week later the app went "Free" and by free I meant, all the features I paid for were now free to everyone and all future improvements I had to pay for all over again.
I'm not sure how being "free" turned into: "instead of charging one fee for the app, we're now going to nickel and dime you for every new feature and you people that already paid... tough luck. Oh, and we're likely selling everything you type to Amazon faster than you can type it so enjoy the spam!"
It will threaten the human race. It will not threaten humanity, just change it. There is no fundamental difference between creating a strong AI and having a child.
From an external point of view, the singularity is just the moment at which humanity switches from carbon based to silicon based brains. An important milestone, but nothing to be hysteric about.
Just like nukes could never be dangerous. If they got out of hand, the government would just dismantle them right?
The problem is that Humanity isn't some big collective that gets together to vote on rational decisions. Once AI's are up and working, there will be government agencies in every country on earth doing extremely risky things with them in an attempt to get the upper hand on each other. There will be less than ethical computer scientists, criminals, and even hobbyists in basements... all completely ignoring safety.
Remember Xrays? My father can remember going with other kids into town to the local shoe store and putting their feet in the "Pedoscope" that emitted a continuous stream of xrays and would show you the bones in your feet live on screen! All the kids went there and had fun wiggling their toes. They were in wide use until the mid-1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Brazil, my country, also also had several problems with dictators, overthrown governments and empires trying to make my country in their backyard. But despite that we are in a much better situation than Africa. Why? Notice, we also have corruption in generous quantities.
The question of the AC is valid, period. As always the devil lives in the details, and usually the texts on the subject forget that this question of intelligence (and perhaps racial differences) is only part of the problem alone does not answer the greater question.
A little over 10 years ago, Brazil wasn't doing much better than most of Africa. But Brazil has control over it's own oil reserves and put in place an extremely unique (and controversial) economic policy called Plano Real
In fact, if you proposed such a thing to me today, I'd still tell you it was a horrible idea. I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't seer luck that it worked. lol
Ever seen a blood drive? It's all marketing. I Get an email in my work in-box at least once a week declaring the RedCross is X days away from running out of blood and people dieing on the operating table!!!
I used to volunteer at the redcross, I never saw them get "low on blood" lol. Most went into Biohazard disposal. But the fact of the matter is, if they don't scream "PANIC" at every possible opportunity, then no-one shows up at all. The actual use of donated blood has been declining at an insane rate... down over 30% from just a few years ago.
Doubt they have plenty of blood? They actually have had a surplus for years:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08...
They still need fresh blood, it expires rather quickly after all so please donate if you can. But it's not nearly as dire a situation as their ads proclaim. The same goes for wikipedia.
Have you been there or know the history of the continent?
The west, specifically the UK and Belgium have had the entire continent literally enslaved until less than 100 years ago. Then the United States showed up and installed dictators, overthrew stable governments, and generally made a mess of things right up to the 1970s. To this day we continue to fund local dictators and warlords in exchange for help in the "war on terror"
The problem in Africa is not an African problem. It's the west desire to steal their natural resources that has kept that continent in chains for centuries. To this very day our corporations are still funding mercenaries there so they can secure mines, ivory and oil for our industry. This is a western problem and the aid we send them is trivial compared to the exports we're virtually robbing them blind over.
Go to Africa, see for yourself. There are poor people everywhere, breaking their backs, trying to get ahead. Then you see acres of walled greenhouses owned by the Belgians, walled in office parks owned by the Chinese (their use, mysterious), oil rigs owned by US and UK companies covered with guards wielding AK47s. None of these places employ Africans that I've seen... They're only there to exploit the area.
After they finish the interrogation they intentionally delete it so you can't use it in your defense. They've proven that a jury will more likely believe a police officer stating that you confessed than a video of you actually confessing! So they destroy the audio/video!
What crazy jurisdiction do you live in??
I've never seen this ever. That would never make it past a set of appeal judges - what possible interaction with police nowadays, inside a police station, would not be videotaped? I've never seen a judge that would go "Oh, ok" if police described obtaining a confession in an interrogation room and it wasn't recorded. I don't know a lawyer on earth who couldn't argue there is reasonable doubt there. A verbal confession would be enough for reasonable and probable cause, maybe even a preponderance of evidence, but never beyond a reasonable doubt.
Like I said, watch the video in my sig you dolt. Half way through there's a career police officer explaining exactly what I just said. This is how it's done. He goes on to explain all the different ways he can get a confession out of someone by lying, cheating, etc... It's impossible that you haven't broken the law in some way shape or form, so once they are convinced they want to nail you they just sit you in that room for as long as it takes for you to start talking and incriminate yourself. The entire situation is designed to mentally pressure you into talking, and saying the wrong thing.
it just seems another step to pervasive surveillance.
Currently they videotape you whenever they want to. Every officer already has the means to tape you if they so choose. The current situation is that they only do record and keep the video when it suits their needs, and they delete it when it's bad for them. The only change here will be the requirement to always record and retain that data.
For example, were you aware they always record interrogations? (see the video in my sig) but only for their own review to be use against you in court. After they finish the interrogation they intentionally delete it so you can't use it in your defense. They've proven that a jury will more likely believe a police officer stating that you confessed than a video of you actually confessing! So they destroy the audio/video!
Any and all testimony you make against yourself should be required by law to be taped. There is absolutely no excuse for the current state of things where law enforcements word is trusted implicitly when current technology makes it completely unnecessary to do so. Every statement a person makes to law enforcement could be recorded, virtually for free, and there would then be no need for their testimony at all.
Up here in Washington State, several police agencies have embraced the idea of Body Cams. And while there has been no philosophical push-back about public access to Body Cam footage by the coppers, a recent Public Records Request illustrates a more fiscal problem...
A public records request was made for all Body Cam footage for the last year from several local departments that have been experimenting with the technology. Why should this be a probem, after all, just burn it all to a CD and send it to the guy?
The are three issues: Privacy - not every interaction a police officer has is in a public place or does not contain things than fall under privacy rules.
Second is commercial use - You know those Mug Shot Extortion sites? The ones that publish mug shots but for a small fee of several hundred dollars will take yours down? Same thing.
Third is the fiscal issue - The time to parse through a requst for "all your files for the year" for privacy issues and other things that simply should not end up on a commercial "shock" site or YouTube, this will cost a butt-load.
So it's become an issue. Here is a Seattle Times article on the subject: http://seattletimes.com/html/l...
The request for the footage was made by the police officers union or people working as their proxy in an attempt to prevent the cameras from getting implemented elsewhere.
How would the police handle a request for all of their Dashcam footage? Radio traffic? etc? You could make similar silly requests for all sorts of things and I'm sure they've managed to deal with those types of requests without incident as well. Don't let yourself get played.
But the fact remains that they will, in secret, violate the spirit (and sometimes even the letter) of any law passed. So how do you combat that?
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