Our computers? Even though I "bought" my computer . . . I'm not sure that I actually "own" it. There is probably a legalese expression in the fine print pf the documentation somewhere, that the manufacturer has a right to install any sort of spyware that they want on "my" computer.
If Hillary gets elected, it will be business as usual in Washington. The Democrats give a little here, the Republicans there, and they come up with a comprise, that really doesn't satisfy anyone.
The Donald, is a guy like, you do as I say, or, You're fired!". If he gets elected, he will stick a weed up Washington's ass. It will be pandemonium . . . but maybe this chaos is exactly what the American political system needs. A good shake-up.
I hope data is accumulated and presented summarised to the crew. Otherwise, some people may find it a privacy violation.
"Hello, this is your Captain speaking from the cockpit! As soon as we reach cruising altitude, we'll be serving drinks and dinner. Except for the passengers in rows 7, 16 and 25. You guys are a bunch of fat fucks, and will just get water!"
a combination of movement and sound like grunts and pointing
That exactly describes how the TSA agent communicated with me, as he instructed me to walk into the ball fryer scanner in the Philadelphia airport a while back.
Maybe this change has just a simple purpose in enabling Google to avoid paying taxes . . . ? I mean, in which country will the "Google Letters, A-Z" be incorporated? Ireland? The Cayman Islands . . . ? Will one Google Alphabet subsidiary own other subsidiaries . . . ?
Google could an opaque corporate structure, that would be undecipherable to tax authorities in different countries.
Because Uber drivers are working through established transportation companies, Abukhater says that the company's presence in the country hasn't raised any new concerns about women traveling alone with male drivers, which has been an issue in other regions (including the U.S.), where new ride sharing services, including Uber, rely on car owners who aren't licensed as transport providers.
So I guess they found a way to fudge around the chaperone law. Families already hire personal drivers as part of their household servant staff. So maybe an Über driver is considered as part of the staff . . . ?
The penalty for not following local laws in most countries would be a petty fine. In Saudi Arabia . . . it would be a couple hundred lashes with the whip.
If the offense was considered to be an insult to Islam . . . say bye-bye to your head.
Oh, and being left-handed is considered to be an insult to Islam. You don't need to try very hard to insult Islam.
That is why Über folks decided to abide by Saudi Arabian laws.
But. Africa. Regional political unrest can undermine labor costs
China has plenty of weapons and military advisers to send to Africa to prop up the regime of their choice. Even troops, if necessary. Any rebels won't have a chance against a government backed up by the Chinese.
I'm not a big fan of hunting (especially trophy hunting like bears)
Read my post again. This was not about trophy hunting. The German authorities tried to catch the bear . . . but it was too smart. And it was aggressive. And near children. Hiring a Finnish hunting team was the last resort. There was nothing about trophy in this.
I am also personally against trophy hunting, but am for using hunters to control pests. If folks want to hunt something that would be useful for all, they should take their aim at feral pigs. They are really something that causes damage. But I guess that folks looking for trophies don't want a pig's head hanging over their fireplace.
Well, my point is . . . while killing "things" as pest control in one country, may not be kosher in another country. The folks in silicon valley seem to think that whatever they decide should be valid in every nation on the planet.
Once again, I am American, but live in Europe. It is terribly arrogant for companies like Über to flaunt local laws, and pontificate that they "just don't get the new digital economy".
The Finns should have the right to do whatever they want, regardless of what Silicon Valley thinks.
Oh, and, you don't get it:
You are equating giving someone a ride without a license to murdering your neighbor's dog?
It depends if you neighbor's dog kills a child, or some of your livestock.
I will have to voluntarily return my Geek Card for this post, but I agree with Finland on this. Whether it makes sense to a bunch of folks in Silicon Valley or not, it is Finland's country, and their laws. And it is their choice how decide to regulate taxis, whether it makes any economic sensor or not.
To counter, Finns are the best hunters in the world. They don't shoot cuddly little lions, like Cecil, but when a bear was threatening children in Germany, they turned to professional hunters from Finland to deal with it. So, if I am living in the US, and my neighbor has a pit bull running around terrorizing the neighborhood, the police will say that they cannot do anything until the pit bull devours a child.
So I call up my app, "Bag a Bull", and a Finnish hunter takes care of the problem, and flies back to Finland, before anyone notices.
Does this break any laws? Or is it just innovative technology, in action . . . ?
Watson uses IBM's DeepQA software and the Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) framework. The system was written in various languages, including Java, C++, and Prolog, and runs on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system using Apache Hadoop framework to provide distributed computing.
Hardware
The system is workload optimized, integrating massively parallel POWER7 processors and being built on IBM's DeepQA technology,[ which it uses to generate hypotheses, gather massive evidence, and analyze data. Watson is composed of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers, each of which uses a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight core processor, with four threads per core. In total, the system has 2,880 POWER7 processor threads and has 16 terabytes of RAM.
According to John Rennie, Watson can process 500 gigabytes, the equivalent of a million books, per second. IBM's master inventor and senior consultant Tony Pearson estimated Watson's hardware cost at about $3 million. Its performance stands at 80 TeraFLOPs which is not enough to place it at Top 500 Supercomputers list. According to Rennie, the content was stored in Watson's RAM for the game because data stored on hard drives are too slow to access.
Data
The sources of information for Watson include encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles, and literary works. Watson also used databases, taxonomies, and ontologies. Specifically, DBPedia, WordNet, and Yago were used.
The IBM team provided Watson with millions of documents, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference material that it could use to build its knowledge. Although Watson was not connected to the Internet during the game, it contained 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of disk storage, including the full text of Wikipedia.
The problem these days is, that Islamic and Greek folks say such wacky things these days . . . and are serious about it . . . that it is hard to recognize it as a joke.
But build on your joke . . . Vikings were not wankers. They raped and pillaged so much, that they had no time for a wank, or a five-fingered shandy, or to polish the bishop's hat, or to relax in a gentlemanly manner, etc. . .
140 Db causes permanent hearing damage and that only makes it effective to 40 meters.
That is very good. You don't want to take out the drone anyway. Rather the dork who is flying the drone. If you take out the drone, the dork will just buy another one on Amazon, and come back the next day. Drones are cheap now, so that anyone can afford one.
What you want to do, is to triangulate the control signal, and make a polite visit to the pilot.
I have been flying RC helicopters for about 20 years now, and I am appalled at the way some folks fly them dangerously in public.
No, to take out drones with optical gyros, folks will be using light wave guns, instead of sound wave guns.
If you give MacGyver two fistfuls of pen pointer lasers, duct tape, chewing gum, and a Wonderbra, he will MacGyver you an array laser cannon that will be able to take out an optical gyroscope drone. And a lot of other things that don't have optical gyroscope drones.
Yes, I know that he died in 2013, but he was such a prolific director, that he would never let the fact that he is dead get in the way of directing yet another film. For those not familiar with his oeuvre, it consisted of a wholesome and eclectic mix of horror, sleaze, monsters and dubious science fiction. A selected choice of his titles:
"The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus", "The Diabolical Dr. Z", "In the Castle of Bloody Lust", "Eugenie, The Story of Her Journey into Perversion", "Vampyros Lesbos", "Three Naked Women on Robinson Island", "A Virgin Among the Living Dead", "Intimate Diary of a Nymphomaniac", "The Perverse Countess", "Barbed Wire Dolls", "Downtown: The Naked Dolls of the Underworld", "Around the World in 80 Beds", "Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun", "Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties", "The Sadist of Notre Dame", "Lake of the Virgins", "Oasis of the Zombies", "A Buttcrack for Two", "Lulu's Talking Ass", "Tribulations of a Cross-Eyed Buddha", "Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula", , etc., etc., etc . . .
I think that the addition of this type of content would expand the potential audience of the new D&D film. Probably exactly what existing customers of Hasbro and Warner Brothers are looking for.
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we can't trust our computers anymore
Our computers? Even though I "bought" my computer . . . I'm not sure that I actually "own" it. There is probably a legalese expression in the fine print pf the documentation somewhere, that the manufacturer has a right to install any sort of spyware that they want on "my" computer.
. . . and silly me was thinking that this article would be about the Koch Brothers . . .
Trump would make a hilarious president
If Hillary gets elected, it will be business as usual in Washington. The Democrats give a little here, the Republicans there, and they come up with a comprise, that really doesn't satisfy anyone.
The Donald, is a guy like, you do as I say, or, You're fired!". If he gets elected, he will stick a weed up Washington's ass. It will be pandemonium . . . but maybe this chaos is exactly what the American political system needs. A good shake-up.
I hope data is accumulated and presented summarised to the crew. Otherwise, some people may find it a privacy violation.
"Hello, this is your Captain speaking from the cockpit! As soon as we reach cruising altitude, we'll be serving drinks and dinner. Except for the passengers in rows 7, 16 and 25. You guys are a bunch of fat fucks, and will just get water!"
a combination of movement and sound like grunts and pointing
That exactly describes how the TSA agent communicated with me, as he instructed me to walk into the ball fryer scanner in the Philadelphia airport a while back.
Maybe this change has just a simple purpose in enabling Google to avoid paying taxes . . . ? I mean, in which country will the "Google Letters, A-Z" be incorporated? Ireland? The Cayman Islands . . . ? Will one Google Alphabet subsidiary own other subsidiaries . . . ?
Google could an opaque corporate structure, that would be undecipherable to tax authorities in different countries.
After you get married eating is the only way you derive pleasure.
At night, a single man goes to the refrigerator, looks what's inside, and then goes to bed.
At night, a married man goes to the bedroom, looks what's in the bed, and then goes to the refrigerator.
FTFA:
Because Uber drivers are working through established transportation companies, Abukhater says that the company's presence in the country hasn't raised any new concerns about women traveling alone with male drivers, which has been an issue in other regions (including the U.S.), where new ride sharing services, including Uber, rely on car owners who aren't licensed as transport providers.
So I guess they found a way to fudge around the chaperone law. Families already hire personal drivers as part of their household servant staff. So maybe an Über driver is considered as part of the staff . . . ?
The penalty for not following local laws in most countries would be a petty fine. In Saudi Arabia . . . it would be a couple hundred lashes with the whip.
If the offense was considered to be an insult to Islam . . . say bye-bye to your head.
Oh, and being left-handed is considered to be an insult to Islam. You don't need to try very hard to insult Islam.
That is why Über folks decided to abide by Saudi Arabian laws.
if you can come up with a legitimate way for me to lose weight without diet and exercise, I will love you forever
Eating doesn't make you fat. Marriage makes you fat.
Just compare the waistlines of your single and married friends, and you will see what I mean.
But. Africa. Regional political unrest can undermine labor costs
China has plenty of weapons and military advisers to send to Africa to prop up the regime of their choice. Even troops, if necessary. Any rebels won't have a chance against a government backed up by the Chinese.
I'm not a big fan of hunting (especially trophy hunting like bears)
Read my post again. This was not about trophy hunting. The German authorities tried to catch the bear . . . but it was too smart. And it was aggressive. And near children. Hiring a Finnish hunting team was the last resort. There was nothing about trophy in this.
I am also personally against trophy hunting, but am for using hunters to control pests. If folks want to hunt something that would be useful for all, they should take their aim at feral pigs. They are really something that causes damage. But I guess that folks looking for trophies don't want a pig's head hanging over their fireplace.
Well, my point is . . . while killing "things" as pest control in one country, may not be kosher in another country. The folks in silicon valley seem to think that whatever they decide should be valid in every nation on the planet.
Once again, I am American, but live in Europe. It is terribly arrogant for companies like Über to flaunt local laws, and pontificate that they "just don't get the new digital economy".
The Finns should have the right to do whatever they want, regardless of what Silicon Valley thinks.
Oh, and, you don't get it:
You are equating giving someone a ride without a license to murdering your neighbor's dog?
It depends if you neighbor's dog kills a child, or some of your livestock.
I will have to voluntarily return my Geek Card for this post, but I agree with Finland on this. Whether it makes sense to a bunch of folks in Silicon Valley or not, it is Finland's country, and their laws. And it is their choice how decide to regulate taxis, whether it makes any economic sensor or not.
To counter, Finns are the best hunters in the world. They don't shoot cuddly little lions, like Cecil, but when a bear was threatening children in Germany, they turned to professional hunters from Finland to deal with it. So, if I am living in the US, and my neighbor has a pit bull running around terrorizing the neighborhood, the police will say that they cannot do anything until the pit bull devours a child.
So I call up my app, "Bag a Bull", and a Finnish hunter takes care of the problem, and flies back to Finland, before anyone notices.
Does this break any laws? Or is it just innovative technology, in action . . . ?
And no, I am American and not a Finn.
. . . especially if you were talking Finnish to them . . .
Nah, the CEO drops one billion, and then you ask the CEO to stoop down and pick it up? The CEO will just fire 100,000 employees instead.
Well, for a start look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Software
Watson uses IBM's DeepQA software and the Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) framework. The system was written in various languages, including Java, C++, and Prolog, and runs on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system using Apache Hadoop framework to provide distributed computing.
Hardware
The system is workload optimized, integrating massively parallel POWER7 processors and being built on IBM's DeepQA technology,[ which it uses to generate hypotheses, gather massive evidence, and analyze data. Watson is composed of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers, each of which uses a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight core processor, with four threads per core. In total, the system has 2,880 POWER7 processor threads and has 16 terabytes of RAM.
According to John Rennie, Watson can process 500 gigabytes, the equivalent of a million books, per second. IBM's master inventor and senior consultant Tony Pearson estimated Watson's hardware cost at about $3 million. Its performance stands at 80 TeraFLOPs which is not enough to place it at Top 500 Supercomputers list. According to Rennie, the content was stored in Watson's RAM for the game because data stored on hard drives are too slow to access.
Data
The sources of information for Watson include encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, newswire articles, and literary works. Watson also used databases, taxonomies, and ontologies. Specifically, DBPedia, WordNet, and Yago were used.
The IBM team provided Watson with millions of documents, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference material that it could use to build its knowledge. Although Watson was not connected to the Internet during the game, it contained 200 million pages of structured and unstructured content consuming four terabytes of disk storage, including the full text of Wikipedia.
And no, I haven't looked at it yet.
I prefer the Gary Heidnik / Jeffrey Dalmer method: Chop up the corpse, cook and eat.
The problem these days is, that Islamic and Greek folks say such wacky things these days . . . and are serious about it . . . that it is hard to recognize it as a joke.
But build on your joke . . . Vikings were not wankers. They raped and pillaged so much, that they had no time for a wank, or a five-fingered shandy, or to polish the bishop's hat, or to relax in a gentlemanly manner, etc. . .
But warfare week after week after week takes its toll, and an obscenely large fraction of the population died due to wars.
This could be good for a primitive society . . . less mouths to feed.
The Pentagon should just switch to using Hillary's mail server . . . it is the most secure mail server in the world . . . because Hillary said so!
They may work elsewhere but they will just get beaten up in Philadelphia.
I'm not sure that I understand who exactly "they" are in your statement. Do you mean:
1) The passengers will get beaten up by irate taxi drivers.
2) The autonomous taxis will get beaten up by irate taxi drivers.
3) The passengers will get beaten up by the irate autonomous taxis.
My guess is 3).
At any rate, it's not a real trip to Philly, unless someone gets beaten up.
. . . and then a cheese steak and a soft pretzel afterwards . . .
A perfect new use case for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN: racing around the ring on Hover boards!
140 Db causes permanent hearing damage and that only makes it effective to 40 meters.
That is very good. You don't want to take out the drone anyway. Rather the dork who is flying the drone. If you take out the drone, the dork will just buy another one on Amazon, and come back the next day. Drones are cheap now, so that anyone can afford one.
What you want to do, is to triangulate the control signal, and make a polite visit to the pilot.
I have been flying RC helicopters for about 20 years now, and I am appalled at the way some folks fly them dangerously in public.
I guess this would not work on optical gyros?
No, to take out drones with optical gyros, folks will be using light wave guns, instead of sound wave guns.
If you give MacGyver two fistfuls of pen pointer lasers, duct tape, chewing gum, and a Wonderbra, he will MacGyver you an array laser cannon that will be able to take out an optical gyroscope drone. And a lot of other things that don't have optical gyroscope drones.
"The Man" to do the D&D movie should be Jess Franco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, I know that he died in 2013, but he was such a prolific director, that he would never let the fact that he is dead get in the way of directing yet another film. For those not familiar with his oeuvre, it consisted of a wholesome and eclectic mix of horror, sleaze, monsters and dubious science fiction. A selected choice of his titles:
"The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus", "The Diabolical Dr. Z", "In the Castle of Bloody Lust", "Eugenie, The Story of Her Journey into Perversion", "Vampyros Lesbos", "Three Naked Women on Robinson Island", "A Virgin Among the Living Dead", "Intimate Diary of a Nymphomaniac", "The Perverse Countess", "Barbed Wire Dolls", "Downtown: The Naked Dolls of the Underworld", "Around the World in 80 Beds", "Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun", "Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties", "The Sadist of Notre Dame", "Lake of the Virgins", "Oasis of the Zombies", "A Buttcrack for Two", "Lulu's Talking Ass", "Tribulations of a Cross-Eyed Buddha", "Mari-Cookie and the Killer Tarantula", , etc., etc., etc . . .
I think that the addition of this type of content would expand the potential audience of the new D&D film. Probably exactly what existing customers of Hasbro and Warner Brothers are looking for.