This, will be how AI is actually used wherever it's implemented. To correct your aberrant behavior, human. Human bad. Human misbehave. Human go to time-out. Human stay there.
They just started this crap with Ubisoft and Ranbow 6 Siege... The net affect: what appears to me to be a 90% dropoff in-game chat overall. No one chats anymore for fear of ban. No gg's, nothing. Good job SJW, silence & intimidation is your ultimate goal anyways.
Who the F is surprised that in video games that simulate combat and you win by killing each other that there would be toxic pvp communication? I guess we're supposed to virtual kill each other and then go "jolly good show my good boy. tee hee heem you got me."
So now, MS will be able to cut you off from your cloud data, documents, contacts, and communications because of their AI's interpretation of offensive.
Exactly. We've been hearing about "Linux on the Desktop" from before Linux was even invented. Give up nerds, we lost. Linux is for us, not for them. They get Windows cake.
Who didn't see this kind of stuff as the ultimate problem of putting everything on the cloud, out of users' physical reach. Way beyond availability, data loss, or security, having all that data "out there" is the irresistible prize of gov't surveillance and investigation. Don't need to send the FBI into your house with a keystroke logger, just tap into the cloud provider directly.
I've been sure for a very long time they have already been doing this. The Snowdon docs notwithstanding, I believe even one of the post-911 laws (Patriot act?) codified the gov't & tech companies ability and mutual collaboration to provide information. IIRC it even allowed companies to lie in their business contracts, public declarations, and any court proceedings about stuff they shared with the gov't and secrets they keep. I'm sure CarbonCopy stores user passwords and decryption keys even though they say they don't. I'm sure Apple, Google, Facebook are already willingly and readily providing direct taps into their data feeds. That whole Apple push back on data decryption capabilities during the FBI demands seemed really contrived to me.
Real life is just simply boring. Spice it up a bit with some trendy lies and see what sticks.
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You'd think in 20+ years, you'd make an account or at least own your words by using the one you have. Maybe it's time to grow up. Tell me the last time you gave/. money or clicked on their ads and bought something. I bet your self-righteous ass has an ad blocker running and no exception for this site.
Been there almost from the start. Bummed I didn't make an account right away and got a really, really lower number than I have. I was reading back then, I think before there were public user comments and just people like Rob and Taco posting. But heck, I also remember MTV when the commercials had no sound...so
Don't ever get Reddit, FB, Twatter -like. Don't ever get huge. Don't ever change. We need these obscure, yet extremely relevant tech posts.
We invented the Slashdot Effect because we were running corp networks with 100Mbs Internet connections while most home users were on dial up.
Yep. I really want to see what happens to the cop that blasted the wrong SWAT'd non-gamer. They were set soo far back and behind cover. I dunno what the risk really was to them beyond what we should expects cops to endure. Not sorry, it's a dangerous field you chose, so you're not gonna be able to be completely safe all the time...
But then again, we have the time just recently with the AR-15 cop that killed that suspect who four-legged crawling at him while being ordered to do so and then the cop murdered him, but not according to the jury.
And killing our dogs seems to be sport to them. The one time I know was public news where the cop was pursuing a suspect through yards and went through one with a dog in it...not the suspect's dog or anywhere near his yard. The cop blasted it of course and nothing happened to them. Killing your pet is sport to cops.
Being a tech'y I cannot even imagine what it's like to be a cop and be a constant target in public. While I'm sure there's something to the current atmosphere focusing on police abuse and overuse of force, it's got to be terrifying, even if they won't admit it, to go to someone's house knowing that deadly force in either direction might be in play.
These SWAT'ing things are truly horrifying. One wrong step on either side and someone is dead, from either site. Each and every one of you think what you would happen if you're playing video games with your headphones on an someone no-knock blasts into your home. What furtive gesture might you totally unintentionally make that would cause a cop to blast you?
^This. That CPU bug has been known for years and years. Since the vulnerability is a basic design principle that became a core foundation of virtually every CPU manufacturer way beyond just Intel, HOW over these past 20 years, how many engineers and scientists reviewed and made use of this design? 10,000? 100,000? I venture that in 20 years about 1,000,000 engineers, scientists, and students came in contact with this low-level engineering information and I am absolutely certain a whole lot of them realized the weakness and were making use of it to do Bad Things. Probably the CPU companies were fully aware of this for many years and just assumed, for the sake of profits, that it was an unworkable vulnerability and were faced with the undeniable insolvability of it given the vast number of broken CPUs out there already in consumer hands.
If it's not leaked it's not fixed and there is no motivation to be more diligent in the future. We now have mountains of examples about how large MNC tech companies deny, deflect, delay-fixing their security breaches/vulnerabilities while they seek to make new insecure products to sell us.
Let all the security vulnerabilities out in the wild the moment they are noticed; that will simultaneously make all the creators more diligent and all the consumers more selective in what they buy and what parts of their life they are willing to risk handing over to big tech companies. Does anyone deny The Cloud has been a Bad Thing for our personal privacy and destiny control?
Figured that would be the response. Sorry it don't work like that at all. Even if everyone didn't buy an Intel product today, and I challenge you to figure out a way to identify every single product that has Intel-something inside of it, the Intel company would not lose power right away. For one thing, being a global multinational corporation, they are soo diversified that they can withstand the collapse of any number of markets. Any of the these large companies can do that; their only vulnerability is if they are over-leveraged when the music stops.
You cannot defeat the MNC's. You can vote, run for office, or work for someone running for office. That is, and always will be, the way to effect real change. All these trendy anti-gov't neo-hippies have no suggestion for an alternate structure that hasn't already been proven to be a totalitarian oppressive form of gov't by history, and totally dismiss the very real fact we have to have some way to set and enforce rules as a society. Republic democracy is the way that works to establish public participation while also insulating the greater civilization from mob rule.
If anything has gotten us to this level of distrust is because the average citizen has shrugged off their civic duty to be an informed and engaged voter; we did it to ourselves.
And now you worship big tech companies which are the very enemy of freedom. Apple is probably the biggest example of anti-freedom; their products and markets have been the most expensive and closed off in the industry forever. Day after day, it's being revealed how these companies are closing off and controlling information to limit discord and steer the public in their financially beneficial direction. They are so big they don't care at all about you average every day human; there's always more consumers somewhere else.
#1 leaked: would have been good. It would help embarrass these tech companies so they might stop releasing all this breach ridden trash on us.
#2 shared: isn't that a core principle of/. readers? And are we not also of the view that more eyes on a problem/code is better?
#3 abused it: good. I hope they would have abused it against our opfor
I get all the "who watches the watchers" stuff and I'm not a huge fan of the gov't pervasive invasive, but I trust the big tech companies even less. I made a great career based on their stuff not working and when it did appear to work, being so insecure as to require lots of customer $ to make it reasonably so.
Those tech companies need to be embarrassed into making better quality products. There's very little competitive incentive between the cabal of incompetent of Big Tech to motivate them to better secure their products. Microsoft taught everyone long ago that it's better to say you're good than really be good because the consumer is addicted to newness not greatness
Finally, there is no way anyone is going to convince me that in 20 years of this CPU problem existing that absolutely no one knew about it or was exploiting it until nowadays. Nope. Someone or several someones has been making use of this flaw in some way for a very long time for most likely very nefarious purposes.
The AppLab environment gives them enough IDE-like introduction and the sandbox'd Javascript and execution emulator is worthy. We also use GitHub for class assignments and I have them turn in everything as straight up ASCII files in their student and class private repositories. We use Atom editor bolted up to GitHub for everything outside of AppLab.
75% of the students appreciate the material. The other 25% do not. Meh
I hope the US intelligence agencies have deep hacks in place to harvest this kind of intel (pun?). These tech companies should be required to submit full, real-time, access to any possible security violations. Especially those operating as US companies or with a physical presence in the US.
The choice between trusting my US gov't, who supposedly answers to the American people, or a global multinational corporate that answers to no one, is no choice to me at all. I choose the US gov't
When I was a corporate lowly weenie a long time ago, a group of IT peeps got together with purchasing dept on a kaizen project for switching to recycled toner.
After months of huge research, diagrams, tables, and presentations, they got approval. And we were a large company with almost 100k employees.
In the years that followed, the recycled toner started tearing up printers everywhere. Turns out the increase in maintenance costs (we tracked those prior and after for other reasons before the switch) outweighed by a large margin the savings from recycled toner...
Lol, I bowed out of that group early in the pre-approval research phase to work on VOIP. The VOIP was a success, of course.
So many customers have been on the quest for the "paperless office" only to find after they discard all the paper controls and security workflow, putting it all on some database, that they end up printing even more paper. Why, because everyone just prints "the current report" without regard to whether they need to keep it or not.
It used to be with paper controls (signatures, checklists, etc) that the paper document was valuable, guarded, and stored. With paperless offices, people print like crazy without regard to the actual value of the document past a moment of use; they just like the tactile feel, easy markup, and ready in-person sharing of a physical piece of paper.
What the paperless offices do though, and do well, is remove the security and workflow of the paper-based office into an electronic form. In that aspect, a paperless office corporate project can be successful, but not for the surface level idea of vastly reducing paper use.
People like their hands and fingers, and they like touching things more than a featureless unresponsive pane of glass... I find "touch screen" to be an oxymoron; those things actually remove a human's sense of touch.
We really, really shouldn't shed light on the world of text chat and voip in online gaming.
All you're gonna find is a toxic anti-world where we act in ways we're nothing like in RL and there's a periodic appearance of a squeaker using a surprisingly well-versed foul mouth completely inappropriate for their level of life-experience. I always ask them to put their hot single mom on the headset.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot, home to the mentally ill AC since the 90s. It'll be OK snowflake. You can go back to layered sarcasm and depression at DailyKos
This, will be how AI is actually used wherever it's implemented. To correct your aberrant behavior, human. Human bad. Human misbehave. Human go to time-out. Human stay there.
They just started this crap with Ubisoft and Ranbow 6 Siege... The net affect: what appears to me to be a 90% dropoff in-game chat overall. No one chats anymore for fear of ban. No gg's, nothing. Good job SJW, silence & intimidation is your ultimate goal anyways.
Who the F is surprised that in video games that simulate combat and you win by killing each other that there would be toxic pvp communication? I guess we're supposed to virtual kill each other and then go "jolly good show my good boy. tee hee heem you got me."
So now, MS will be able to cut you off from your cloud data, documents, contacts, and communications because of their AI's interpretation of offensive.
Exactly. We've been hearing about "Linux on the Desktop" from before Linux was even invented. Give up nerds, we lost. Linux is for us, not for them. They get Windows cake.
Who didn't see this kind of stuff as the ultimate problem of putting everything on the cloud, out of users' physical reach. Way beyond availability, data loss, or security, having all that data "out there" is the irresistible prize of gov't surveillance and investigation. Don't need to send the FBI into your house with a keystroke logger, just tap into the cloud provider directly.
I've been sure for a very long time they have already been doing this. The Snowdon docs notwithstanding, I believe even one of the post-911 laws (Patriot act?) codified the gov't & tech companies ability and mutual collaboration to provide information. IIRC it even allowed companies to lie in their business contracts, public declarations, and any court proceedings about stuff they shared with the gov't and secrets they keep. I'm sure CarbonCopy stores user passwords and decryption keys even though they say they don't. I'm sure Apple, Google, Facebook are already willingly and readily providing direct taps into their data feeds. That whole Apple push back on data decryption capabilities during the FBI demands seemed really contrived to me.
Real life is just simply boring. Spice it up a bit with some trendy lies and see what sticks.
You'd think in 20+ years, you'd make an account or at least own your words by using the one you have. Maybe it's time to grow up. Tell me the last time you gave /. money or clicked on their ads and bought something. I bet your self-righteous ass has an ad blocker running and no exception for this site.
Been there almost from the start. Bummed I didn't make an account right away and got a really, really lower number than I have. I was reading back then, I think before there were public user comments and just people like Rob and Taco posting. But heck, I also remember MTV when the commercials had no sound...so
Don't ever get Reddit, FB, Twatter -like. Don't ever get huge. Don't ever change. We need these obscure, yet extremely relevant tech posts.
We invented the Slashdot Effect because we were running corp networks with 100Mbs Internet connections while most home users were on dial up.
Yep. I really want to see what happens to the cop that blasted the wrong SWAT'd non-gamer. They were set soo far back and behind cover. I dunno what the risk really was to them beyond what we should expects cops to endure. Not sorry, it's a dangerous field you chose, so you're not gonna be able to be completely safe all the time...
But then again, we have the time just recently with the AR-15 cop that killed that suspect who four-legged crawling at him while being ordered to do so and then the cop murdered him, but not according to the jury.
And killing our dogs seems to be sport to them. The one time I know was public news where the cop was pursuing a suspect through yards and went through one with a dog in it...not the suspect's dog or anywhere near his yard. The cop blasted it of course and nothing happened to them. Killing your pet is sport to cops.
Homie don't play that
Being a tech'y I cannot even imagine what it's like to be a cop and be a constant target in public. While I'm sure there's something to the current atmosphere focusing on police abuse and overuse of force, it's got to be terrifying, even if they won't admit it, to go to someone's house knowing that deadly force in either direction might be in play.
These SWAT'ing things are truly horrifying. One wrong step on either side and someone is dead, from either site. Each and every one of you think what you would happen if you're playing video games with your headphones on an someone no-knock blasts into your home. What furtive gesture might you totally unintentionally make that would cause a cop to blast you?
^This. That CPU bug has been known for years and years. Since the vulnerability is a basic design principle that became a core foundation of virtually every CPU manufacturer way beyond just Intel, HOW over these past 20 years, how many engineers and scientists reviewed and made use of this design? 10,000? 100,000? I venture that in 20 years about 1,000,000 engineers, scientists, and students came in contact with this low-level engineering information and I am absolutely certain a whole lot of them realized the weakness and were making use of it to do Bad Things. Probably the CPU companies were fully aware of this for many years and just assumed, for the sake of profits, that it was an unworkable vulnerability and were faced with the undeniable insolvability of it given the vast number of broken CPUs out there already in consumer hands.
If it's not leaked it's not fixed and there is no motivation to be more diligent in the future. We now have mountains of examples about how large MNC tech companies deny, deflect, delay-fixing their security breaches/vulnerabilities while they seek to make new insecure products to sell us.
Let all the security vulnerabilities out in the wild the moment they are noticed; that will simultaneously make all the creators more diligent and all the consumers more selective in what they buy and what parts of their life they are willing to risk handing over to big tech companies. Does anyone deny The Cloud has been a Bad Thing for our personal privacy and destiny control?
Stop posting as an AC and own your words.
Figured that would be the response. Sorry it don't work like that at all. Even if everyone didn't buy an Intel product today, and I challenge you to figure out a way to identify every single product that has Intel-something inside of it, the Intel company would not lose power right away. For one thing, being a global multinational corporation, they are soo diversified that they can withstand the collapse of any number of markets. Any of the these large companies can do that; their only vulnerability is if they are over-leveraged when the music stops.
You cannot defeat the MNC's. You can vote, run for office, or work for someone running for office. That is, and always will be, the way to effect real change. All these trendy anti-gov't neo-hippies have no suggestion for an alternate structure that hasn't already been proven to be a totalitarian oppressive form of gov't by history, and totally dismiss the very real fact we have to have some way to set and enforce rules as a society. Republic democracy is the way that works to establish public participation while also insulating the greater civilization from mob rule.
If anything has gotten us to this level of distrust is because the average citizen has shrugged off their civic duty to be an informed and engaged voter; we did it to ourselves.
And now you worship big tech companies which are the very enemy of freedom. Apple is probably the biggest example of anti-freedom; their products and markets have been the most expensive and closed off in the industry forever. Day after day, it's being revealed how these companies are closing off and controlling information to limit discord and steer the public in their financially beneficial direction. They are so big they don't care at all about you average every day human; there's always more consumers somewhere else.
Water is wet
#1 leaked: would have been good. It would help embarrass these tech companies so they might stop releasing all this breach ridden trash on us.
#2 shared: isn't that a core principle of /. readers? And are we not also of the view that more eyes on a problem/code is better?
#3 abused it: good. I hope they would have abused it against our opfor
I get all the "who watches the watchers" stuff and I'm not a huge fan of the gov't pervasive invasive, but I trust the big tech companies even less. I made a great career based on their stuff not working and when it did appear to work, being so insecure as to require lots of customer $ to make it reasonably so.
Those tech companies need to be embarrassed into making better quality products. There's very little competitive incentive between the cabal of incompetent of Big Tech to motivate them to better secure their products. Microsoft taught everyone long ago that it's better to say you're good than really be good because the consumer is addicted to newness not greatness
Finally, there is no way anyone is going to convince me that in 20 years of this CPU problem existing that absolutely no one knew about it or was exploiting it until nowadays. Nope. Someone or several someones has been making use of this flaw in some way for a very long time for most likely very nefarious purposes.
code.org material for AP CS is great.
The AppLab environment gives them enough IDE-like introduction and the sandbox'd Javascript and execution emulator is worthy. We also use GitHub for class assignments and I have them turn in everything as straight up ASCII files in their student and class private repositories. We use Atom editor bolted up to GitHub for everything outside of AppLab.
75% of the students appreciate the material. The other 25% do not. Meh
Let me know next time the entire US gets a chance to vote Intel out of office.
Stupid coward
I hope the US intelligence agencies have deep hacks in place to harvest this kind of intel (pun?). These tech companies should be required to submit full, real-time, access to any possible security violations. Especially those operating as US companies or with a physical presence in the US.
The choice between trusting my US gov't, who supposedly answers to the American people, or a global multinational corporate that answers to no one, is no choice to me at all. I choose the US gov't
I hope they get finger-cuff banged by simultaneous lawsuits and hacking.
WTF idiot company
HA HA!
When I was a corporate lowly weenie a long time ago, a group of IT peeps got together with purchasing dept on a kaizen project for switching to recycled toner.
After months of huge research, diagrams, tables, and presentations, they got approval. And we were a large company with almost 100k employees.
In the years that followed, the recycled toner started tearing up printers everywhere. Turns out the increase in maintenance costs (we tracked those prior and after for other reasons before the switch) outweighed by a large margin the savings from recycled toner...
Lol, I bowed out of that group early in the pre-approval research phase to work on VOIP. The VOIP was a success, of course.
So many customers have been on the quest for the "paperless office" only to find after they discard all the paper controls and security workflow, putting it all on some database, that they end up printing even more paper. Why, because everyone just prints "the current report" without regard to whether they need to keep it or not.
It used to be with paper controls (signatures, checklists, etc) that the paper document was valuable, guarded, and stored. With paperless offices, people print like crazy without regard to the actual value of the document past a moment of use; they just like the tactile feel, easy markup, and ready in-person sharing of a physical piece of paper.
What the paperless offices do though, and do well, is remove the security and workflow of the paper-based office into an electronic form. In that aspect, a paperless office corporate project can be successful, but not for the surface level idea of vastly reducing paper use.
People like their hands and fingers, and they like touching things more than a featureless unresponsive pane of glass... I find "touch screen" to be an oxymoron; those things actually remove a human's sense of touch.
Put your hot single mom on the Slashdot
We really, really shouldn't shed light on the world of text chat and voip in online gaming.
All you're gonna find is a toxic anti-world where we act in ways we're nothing like in RL and there's a periodic appearance of a squeaker using a surprisingly well-versed foul mouth completely inappropriate for their level of life-experience. I always ask them to put their hot single mom on the headset.
Squeakers, the Easter Eggs of online gaming.