What you're talking about is the sort of central planning a totalitarian state implements, one that attempts to control all aspects of the economy and society. What I'm talking about is exactly the sort of mission-type planning the AC mentioned: central planning designates a goal, such as x% of GDP in the service sector, and the market works out the way to get there on its own, just like how squad leaders work out the way to the mission target on their own. The end result is still centrally planned, the road there isn't.
What is happening in China is because of central planning, you say?
No, not exactly. Let me clarify what I mean.
Yes, what is happening now is mainly due to "the west taking advantage of cheap labor rates", as you put it. However, in order to get here, to be an attractive place for investment, China needed to beef up its infrastructure and production capability. Otherwise, western companies would have looked elsewhere to invest, where they didn't need to pay for laying down the infrastructure needed to support their fabbers (let's talk mainly electronics for now), such as massive power grids and road networks. These were built because the Chinese government said so, and their word is law. If they hadn't, there would have been a vicious circle: investors pass over the area because there's no infrastructure and building it up would be too costly, while no infrastructure is built because there's no need in the first place, since no investors want to invest. Heavy industry was built up for a similar reason, although that started back in the Soviet era, in order to supply the rest of the Soviet bloc with the building material they needed. Now it was 're-purposed' to lower the initial investment cost by supplying nearly-free building materials to build factories, foreign or domestic. Let me draw a parallel: IPv6. No/few routers support it, because there's no demand for it, and there's no demand for it, because ISP-s don't offer it. Why don't they offer it? Because there are no routers with built-in support, since there's no demand for it. Vicious circle of no demand-no support.
So yes, in a way, you are right, what is happening now is due to the west. But the root of the situation does lie in the effects of central planning, going way, way back.
What you're saying is that overplanning will never work. Central planning can and will work, provided that central planning only designates targets, and leaves the method to the market to work out. That's more or less what happens in China right now, albeit with a stricter national control over the market itself too, and look at how they're doing: greatest economic growth of the globe for the nth year running, and they're in despair over the fact that the growth dropped to 8% last year, while every other economy struggles to achieve growth in the first place.
I'm not saying that communism is good, far from that, but a measure of central planning of the economy, or rather, industries and production, is necessary. Otherwise the entire system will fall apart in flames.
It was a magic wand in the old series too, after a time. That's exactly why it got written out after a while, resulting in the Fifth Doctor going "hands free", as Tenant put it.
Just because the signals originate in the inner ear, they aren't necessarily audio signals. The semicircular canals in my inner ear don't enable me to 'hear' the local gravity either.
For one, there's an eight-minute lag between here and Mars, and AFAIK, machine vision algorithms are not yet advanced enough to identify a generalized bacterium-shape among all the crystals and debris in a Martian soil sample. You'd need real-time human oversight for that. Also, I'm not sure whether the optics would survive such a landing, but that's beside the point.
My Nexus S is usually pretty sensitive, reliably detecting acceleration as low as 0,1-0,01 m/s^2 (which seems to be still to little for this 'taplogging' to work). For some reason, it's only the screen rotation that seems to suffer from lag.
True enough, I guess. Although when I said 'tap', I really meant tapping the phone against the desk, usually cushioned by my finger, so the screen rotates, not slam it down.
I still have doubts about the sensitivity of the motion sensor. Based on a few quick scans from the Tricorder app, I couldn't pick out any spikes in the thermal noise from the sensor, apart from my hand shaking (which was apparently chaotic, so taps could not be inferred from the infrequent peaks).
Not likely, the article makes a reference to the iPhone making accelerometer data available to unprivileged apps as well. The title probably stems from the fact that Android allowed this to be tested, while iPhone's lack of sideloading probably ruled out a proof-of-concept attack...
I find it hard to believe that the motion sensor can be sensitive enough to detect such minuscule changes, when I sometimes need to tap the phone against the desk to have it acknowledge rotation. Also, if the phone is placed on the table to enter the passwords, most of the supposed motion is eliminated, significantly frustrating the attack.
Close, but no cigar, sir... The center of the Pacific Ocean is nobody sovereign territory, but international waters. Passage is permitted, but fishing, mining, etc are not, since it's outside any nation's Exclusive Economic Zone (200 nautical miles from the coast baseline or the continental shelf, whichever comes first).
The Moon Agreement ha not been ratified by any country that engages in self-launched space programs, which is why it has not legal binding effect on these nations. They were well aware of the future implications of the treaty, which is why they did not ratify it.
However, even if the Moon Agreement wasn't ratified, the Outer Space Agreement was, and it explicitly states that celestial bodies are to be used for the good of all mankind, and that any "profit" from them, scientific or otherwise, must be shared freely among the UN members. It can be inferred that this covers the raw materials extracted from any celestial bodies: since space itself is "the province of all mankind", the extracted resources also carry this status, and could probably only be distributed by a UN committee. As for the inclusion of the private sector, that's precisely what the ratified treaties don't govern, there having been no private investment in space in the 1970s. And this is precisely the reason why a rework of the current legal framework for space is needed.
I wouldn't exactly put it that way. You can be a faithful Christian who honestly works for the betterment of society just as easily as you can be a faithful Christian who honestly believes state-enforced eugenics and mass exterminations are the way to a better society.
You need not be Christian at all. I might be a Shinto person, which is not just a religion, but a lifestyle, and one that doesn't interfere with political views or science in the slightest. Hell, if my laptop keeps throwing errors in one corner of the room, and none in the other, for no reason whatsoever, I might as well say "Ah screw it, the kami here doesn't want the EM interference or whatever, let's just move the desk over there." and be done with it.
Religion =/= Christianity, and faith =/= fanaticism.
Because eradicating humanity in favor of your synthetic life makes perfect sense from an economic ("humans are wasteful, they gobble up resources too fast", etc) and security ("humans are unpredictable, they may turn on us, so in order to ensure our survival, the chaotic variable must be removed") point of view. Unless you hardwire the thing to be friendly, it will eventually turn on humanity, and if your implant human-friendliness as a basic directive, it no longer possesses the free will required of a strong AI.
Miniaturize them far enough, so they can float in the air and still communicate and grip, and you have what's termed a utility fog. Such a fog would be tremendously useful, provided proper authentication and encryption could restrict control to authorized persons: tools could be formed freely and to unheard-of precision, in real-time, responding to the needs of the user; weapons could be supplied with unlimited ammunition that disperses on impact, only to be reformed in the weapon; cars could do away with airbags and seat belts in favor of hardening the atmosphere for a second to affix the passengers in place in the event of a crash; or even enforcing the laws of morality like physical laws (I read this last one in a novel long ago, where the air would harden around the striking fist to block the punch). The possibilities are literally endless, if the technology can be implemented properly.
I'm not familiar with common law, but in continental law, you may be taken in by the police if you fail to answer your summons for a trial, or even taken in the night before, and held at the precinct overnight, then led forward handcuffed by an officer. The court has to order this specifically, and I've only seen this used in case of private persons, so I'm not sure it could apply in case of a corporation (after all, the legal persona applies to the whole corporation, who is there to summon by force in this case?)...
Same here. The checkbox is there, but I don't tick it. I'm so used to ads on the internet by now that my brain edits them out, so I simply don't see them.
The proof-of-concept listed only four out of my ten enabled extensions. Among those left out were Google Calendar, UA Spoofer, and Pastebin, among others. I'd say this 'exploit', if we can call it that, has a long way to go...
A lot hinges on how you behave. Like others said before me, intonation is a must. Body language is also important: hands apart, open posture, eye contact, get out from behind the podium. You don't want to present a shield to the audience.
Slides: use graphics to make it interesting, maybe a network architecture demo from PacketTracer (I find it has nice, friendly icons representing the devices), and other visual aids. Handouts may be used if you plan to impart a lot of information.
Don't shy away from the occasional joke, if you think you can get away with it, just make sure they're not groaners! I find that the "Death by Powerpoint" image macro works well as an ice breaker when included in the beginning, right after you outline the presentation, with a comment like "[...] And this is what I hope my presentation won't turn out to be!"
My former university used a VPN-service, where every student had to set up a VPN on their computers, and connect to the VPN-server before being able to browse the web. One of the guys even admitted that they're raping the VPN standard in every way possible by using it to connect outwards, rather than inwards, but still they stuck with it. The downside was that until the VPN service connected, there was absolutely no traffic to the wider web, which includes Google DNS. So every time I wanted to connect, I had to reset my DNS settings to use theirs (I was too lazy to edit the address into my hosts file every time I remembered). That, and the fact they kept a detailed log about all your activities while on their network.
Copyright was designed when specialized industrial equipment was required to make large numbers of accurate copies of creative works. That is not the situation today; today, everyone has such equipment in their homes. We should be completely rethinking the law because it is absurd to tell people not to copy things using their own computers.
A classic case of Rebus Sic Stantibus. Even though the concept is from the area of international law, it should really be applied to domestic law now and then, to weed out superseded acts.
I'm not saying copyright should be abolished as-is, but reworked drastically to include online distribution based on this clause.
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What you're talking about is the sort of central planning a totalitarian state implements, one that attempts to control all aspects of the economy and society. What I'm talking about is exactly the sort of mission-type planning the AC mentioned: central planning designates a goal, such as x% of GDP in the service sector, and the market works out the way to get there on its own, just like how squad leaders work out the way to the mission target on their own.
The end result is still centrally planned, the road there isn't.
What is happening in China is because of central planning, you say?
No, not exactly. Let me clarify what I mean.
Yes, what is happening now is mainly due to "the west taking advantage of cheap labor rates", as you put it. However, in order to get here, to be an attractive place for investment, China needed to beef up its infrastructure and production capability. Otherwise, western companies would have looked elsewhere to invest, where they didn't need to pay for laying down the infrastructure needed to support their fabbers (let's talk mainly electronics for now), such as massive power grids and road networks. These were built because the Chinese government said so, and their word is law. If they hadn't, there would have been a vicious circle: investors pass over the area because there's no infrastructure and building it up would be too costly, while no infrastructure is built because there's no need in the first place, since no investors want to invest.
Heavy industry was built up for a similar reason, although that started back in the Soviet era, in order to supply the rest of the Soviet bloc with the building material they needed. Now it was 're-purposed' to lower the initial investment cost by supplying nearly-free building materials to build factories, foreign or domestic.
Let me draw a parallel: IPv6. No/few routers support it, because there's no demand for it, and there's no demand for it, because ISP-s don't offer it. Why don't they offer it? Because there are no routers with built-in support, since there's no demand for it. Vicious circle of no demand-no support.
So yes, in a way, you are right, what is happening now is due to the west. But the root of the situation does lie in the effects of central planning, going way, way back.
What you're saying is that overplanning will never work. Central planning can and will work, provided that central planning only designates targets, and leaves the method to the market to work out. That's more or less what happens in China right now, albeit with a stricter national control over the market itself too, and look at how they're doing: greatest economic growth of the globe for the nth year running, and they're in despair over the fact that the growth dropped to 8% last year, while every other economy struggles to achieve growth in the first place.
I'm not saying that communism is good, far from that, but a measure of central planning of the economy, or rather, industries and production, is necessary. Otherwise the entire system will fall apart in flames.
"Hey hijackers! Word of advice: if you're attacking an event with a sonic screwdriver ... don't let it near the sonic cannons..."
It was a magic wand in the old series too, after a time. That's exactly why it got written out after a while, resulting in the Fifth Doctor going "hands free", as Tenant put it.
Just because the signals originate in the inner ear, they aren't necessarily audio signals. The semicircular canals in my inner ear don't enable me to 'hear' the local gravity either.
For one, there's an eight-minute lag between here and Mars, and AFAIK, machine vision algorithms are not yet advanced enough to identify a generalized bacterium-shape among all the crystals and debris in a Martian soil sample. You'd need real-time human oversight for that.
Also, I'm not sure whether the optics would survive such a landing, but that's beside the point.
My Nexus S is usually pretty sensitive, reliably detecting acceleration as low as 0,1-0,01 m/s^2 (which seems to be still to little for this 'taplogging' to work). For some reason, it's only the screen rotation that seems to suffer from lag.
True enough, I guess.
Although when I said 'tap', I really meant tapping the phone against the desk, usually cushioned by my finger, so the screen rotates, not slam it down.
I still have doubts about the sensitivity of the motion sensor. Based on a few quick scans from the Tricorder app, I couldn't pick out any spikes in the thermal noise from the sensor, apart from my hand shaking (which was apparently chaotic, so taps could not be inferred from the infrequent peaks).
Not likely, the article makes a reference to the iPhone making accelerometer data available to unprivileged apps as well. The title probably stems from the fact that Android allowed this to be tested, while iPhone's lack of sideloading probably ruled out a proof-of-concept attack...
I find it hard to believe that the motion sensor can be sensitive enough to detect such minuscule changes, when I sometimes need to tap the phone against the desk to have it acknowledge rotation. Also, if the phone is placed on the table to enter the passwords, most of the supposed motion is eliminated, significantly frustrating the attack.
Close, but no cigar, sir...
The center of the Pacific Ocean is nobody sovereign territory, but international waters. Passage is permitted, but fishing, mining, etc are not, since it's outside any nation's Exclusive Economic Zone (200 nautical miles from the coast baseline or the continental shelf, whichever comes first).
The Moon Agreement ha not been ratified by any country that engages in self-launched space programs, which is why it has not legal binding effect on these nations. They were well aware of the future implications of the treaty, which is why they did not ratify it.
However, even if the Moon Agreement wasn't ratified, the Outer Space Agreement was, and it explicitly states that celestial bodies are to be used for the good of all mankind, and that any "profit" from them, scientific or otherwise, must be shared freely among the UN members. It can be inferred that this covers the raw materials extracted from any celestial bodies: since space itself is "the province of all mankind", the extracted resources also carry this status, and could probably only be distributed by a UN committee.
As for the inclusion of the private sector, that's precisely what the ratified treaties don't govern, there having been no private investment in space in the 1970s. And this is precisely the reason why a rework of the current legal framework for space is needed.
I wouldn't exactly put it that way. You can be a faithful Christian who honestly works for the betterment of society just as easily as you can be a faithful Christian who honestly believes state-enforced eugenics and mass exterminations are the way to a better society.
You need not be Christian at all. I might be a Shinto person, which is not just a religion, but a lifestyle, and one that doesn't interfere with political views or science in the slightest. Hell, if my laptop keeps throwing errors in one corner of the room, and none in the other, for no reason whatsoever, I might as well say "Ah screw it, the kami here doesn't want the EM interference or whatever, let's just move the desk over there." and be done with it.
Religion =/= Christianity, and faith =/= fanaticism.
You know, you're free to take them off. They're nothing like the cyberman headsets of Doctor Who or the Connexus from Appleseed Ex Machina.
They would respond very poorly to warming up the microwaveable TV-dinners, one would think...
Because eradicating humanity in favor of your synthetic life makes perfect sense from an economic ("humans are wasteful, they gobble up resources too fast", etc) and security ("humans are unpredictable, they may turn on us, so in order to ensure our survival, the chaotic variable must be removed") point of view. Unless you hardwire the thing to be friendly, it will eventually turn on humanity, and if your implant human-friendliness as a basic directive, it no longer possesses the free will required of a strong AI.
Miniaturize them far enough, so they can float in the air and still communicate and grip, and you have what's termed a utility fog. Such a fog would be tremendously useful, provided proper authentication and encryption could restrict control to authorized persons: tools could be formed freely and to unheard-of precision, in real-time, responding to the needs of the user; weapons could be supplied with unlimited ammunition that disperses on impact, only to be reformed in the weapon; cars could do away with airbags and seat belts in favor of hardening the atmosphere for a second to affix the passengers in place in the event of a crash; or even enforcing the laws of morality like physical laws (I read this last one in a novel long ago, where the air would harden around the striking fist to block the punch). The possibilities are literally endless, if the technology can be implemented properly.
I'm not familiar with common law, but in continental law, you may be taken in by the police if you fail to answer your summons for a trial, or even taken in the night before, and held at the precinct overnight, then led forward handcuffed by an officer. The court has to order this specifically, and I've only seen this used in case of private persons, so I'm not sure it could apply in case of a corporation (after all, the legal persona applies to the whole corporation, who is there to summon by force in this case?)...
That would be the present, actually. Where spies can't get themselves, they bribe or coerce others who can, to do what they want done.
Same here. The checkbox is there, but I don't tick it. I'm so used to ads on the internet by now that my brain edits them out, so I simply don't see them.
The proof-of-concept listed only four out of my ten enabled extensions. Among those left out were Google Calendar, UA Spoofer, and Pastebin, among others. I'd say this 'exploit', if we can call it that, has a long way to go...
Maybe not, but it sure helps in maintaining interest in what he needs to get over...
A lot hinges on how you behave. Like others said before me, intonation is a must. Body language is also important: hands apart, open posture, eye contact, get out from behind the podium. You don't want to present a shield to the audience.
Slides: use graphics to make it interesting, maybe a network architecture demo from PacketTracer (I find it has nice, friendly icons representing the devices), and other visual aids. Handouts may be used if you plan to impart a lot of information.
Don't shy away from the occasional joke, if you think you can get away with it, just make sure they're not groaners! I find that the "Death by Powerpoint" image macro works well as an ice breaker when included in the beginning, right after you outline the presentation, with a comment like "[...] And this is what I hope my presentation won't turn out to be!"
My former university used a VPN-service, where every student had to set up a VPN on their computers, and connect to the VPN-server before being able to browse the web. One of the guys even admitted that they're raping the VPN standard in every way possible by using it to connect outwards, rather than inwards, but still they stuck with it.
The downside was that until the VPN service connected, there was absolutely no traffic to the wider web, which includes Google DNS. So every time I wanted to connect, I had to reset my DNS settings to use theirs (I was too lazy to edit the address into my hosts file every time I remembered). That, and the fact they kept a detailed log about all your activities while on their network.
Copyright was designed when specialized industrial equipment was required to make large numbers of accurate copies of creative works. That is not the situation today; today, everyone has such equipment in their homes. We should be completely rethinking the law because it is absurd to tell people not to copy things using their own computers.
A classic case of Rebus Sic Stantibus. Even though the concept is from the area of international law, it should really be applied to domestic law now and then, to weed out superseded acts.
I'm not saying copyright should be abolished as-is, but reworked drastically to include online distribution based on this clause.