The resolution seems to be quite poor, it does not seem to be able to identify shapes, only movement. You won't be able to identify the person who broke into your home, let alone be worried about wifi pics of nudity. Sometimes, threats to our privacy get overly hyped.
I am not an engineer, but if you live in a city apartment, there is usually so much interference that hacking wifi to pinpoint areas of low signal may not be very effective.
by "interrogating" this volume of space with many signals, picked up by multiple receivers, it is possible to build up a picture of the movement within it.
As I understand, the researchers used 34 receivers. You will need a whole lot of receivers. More than you might want to buy and maintain to offer you what is at best a poor resolution of moving things beyond walls.
Do reading textbooks remind anyone about looking up `man` in their console? I for one think that people who have spent time reading PDFs and man pages on software would not find Kindle too much of a disadvantage.
If humans can have conjoined twins and occurrences where one developing foetus is absorbed into another resulting in additional limbs and anatomy, why can't prehistoric animals have them too? This may no more be a defect in the phenotype than true genetic drift
I have a FUJITSU T4220. Let me just add that the FUJITSU Lifebook tablets guzzle battery power like an air-conditioner. Battery hour was 3 hr max, or so it was advertized. Mine lasted 1 hr 30 min.
If you will look at the history of penmanship, the style of writing practiced within a time period is heavily correlated with the technology of the pen at that day. Back when the Egyptians used reed pens on papyrus, the strokes were mostly straight, brisk strokes, because that was the way you get a device with limited ink capacity to write. When quills were used, most of the words were written in Carolingian miniscule, with huge downward strokes, because the quill tip was cut in a manner that scratched the paper when written from down to up. Then came the dip pen and fountain pen which were much more amicable to write with, and because these pens left ugly ink splotches when carelessly and repeatedly coming into contact and going out of contact with the paper, cursive, which minimized this, was favored. Now that we have ball-point pens and computers that lend themselves well to printing letters, it makes sense not to write in cursive where readability is concerned.
As for myself, I was not forced to learn penmanship, but I developed my own cursive style, partially based on the forms of the Spencerian script, adapted (cursive zealots will say perverted) for writing in ballpoint. I like the degree of expression that cursive writing lends me.
Sorry to digress so heavily from the story, but my opinion differs from yours when it comes to reading textbooks. Authors of textbooks help dredge the shit from the many unsourced opinions abound on the Internet. Textbooks contain a lot of research and exercises, including good references to places where you can get a greater understanding of the topic. The problem lies in the student who believes that textbooks are the be-all-end-all tome to their syllabus. In my opinion, the textbook is a focusing tool for the student, outlining the gist and "philosophy" of the field.
Assuming that the AI is implemented using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), the danger will lie in a destructive feedback loop:
To train the robot, a button is pushed when the robot does something desirable.
Say the robot helps with chopping chicken in the kitchen. Its button is pushed when the robot detects the smell of chicken and cleanly dissects its meat. The more cleanly it dissects the chicken and the more quickly, the more times the button is pressed.
As the button is pressed, the ANN is rewired to encourage this sort of behavior. One can call this "motivation". That is, the AI desires to chop the chicken. Because of the nature of the ANN, fuzzy input from the AI's sensors is possible.
One day, the robot detects the smell of chicken. It then searches for a chicken. But it sees no chicken. But it sees the operator, which to is is some analogue of a chicken.
it chops the operator up.
In the example,the motivation is to find a way to get its button pressed. In reality, to program such an AI, there comes a point where once the desired behavior is achieved, the button is deactivated and the AI continues its behavior; the motivation is now to simulate the conditions which had once resulted in its button being pressed. While this pathological behavior seems simple to debug, in the real world, where there feedback loops are complex and long, this sort of fuzzy logic can become problematic indeed, especially if the AI is poorly trained. Humans, too, are suspect to this as well. That is why you have children inheriting the abusive behavior of their parents and groupthink, not to mention brainwashing going on in extremist groups
Why do stealth planes need maneuverability? Don't they rely on long-range engagement and hopefully not being detected? Also, ultimately, isn't the maneuverability dependent on the amount of g-force the pilot can withstand? As I can remember, pilots are currently the limiting factor on the maneuverability of fighter planes.
Yeah, but, y'know, if Canonical was called Microsoft, and Ubuntu was called Windows, I'm sure nobody would mind. It's not the difficulty of the job, but *sigh* the brand. People are more prepared to put up with additional difficulty if they thought that everybody else were using it, as per our social instinct.
The irony is that despite a larger proportion of users using Windows, users are more likely to receive support from an open source community.
It's just retarded marketing people being retarded.
It's just annoying marketing people being annoying.
It's just marketing people destroying the market.
Through vendor lock-in.
With the proliferation of cloud-based applications, it's only a matter of time before someone offers a browser-based virtual desktop in the cloud. Once someone hacks into some server up there, they have physical access to the machines for all intents and purposes.
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For those who do not have a good feel of Fahrenheit temperatures over 100.
Hi thar. We gave you some useful hardware to support general purpose calculations in your graphics accelerator so you can compute while you compute.
The only thing we can't support is decent graphics in games without resorting to special, NVIDIA-specific patches.
The resolution seems to be quite poor, it does not seem to be able to identify shapes, only movement. You won't be able to identify the person who broke into your home, let alone be worried about wifi pics of nudity. Sometimes, threats to our privacy get overly hyped.
I am not an engineer, but if you live in a city apartment, there is usually so much interference that hacking wifi to pinpoint areas of low signal may not be very effective.
by "interrogating" this volume of space with many signals, picked up by multiple receivers, it is possible to build up a picture of the movement within it.
As I understand, the researchers used 34 receivers. You will need a whole lot of receivers. More than you might want to buy and maintain to offer you what is at best a poor resolution of moving things beyond walls.
But after that, why would they bother? There'll be tens or hundreds of billions of humans around, do you really think they'll need more?
Because he knew COBOL.
It says here that there is no longer any freezing damage.
Ew. Tasteless.
Do reading textbooks remind anyone about looking up `man` in their console? I for one think that people who have spent time reading PDFs and man pages on software would not find Kindle too much of a disadvantage.
No. That was how Ballmer began.
If humans can have conjoined twins and occurrences where one developing foetus is absorbed into another resulting in additional limbs and anatomy, why can't prehistoric animals have them too? This may no more be a defect in the phenotype than true genetic drift
Agreed. Alliterate assholes.
That's assonance.
I'd thought I'd fixed your fails for you for laughs. ; )
I have a FUJITSU T4220. Let me just add that the FUJITSU Lifebook tablets guzzle battery power like an air-conditioner. Battery hour was 3 hr max, or so it was advertized. Mine lasted 1 hr 30 min.
If you will look at the history of penmanship, the style of writing practiced within a time period is heavily correlated with the technology of the pen at that day. Back when the Egyptians used reed pens on papyrus, the strokes were mostly straight, brisk strokes, because that was the way you get a device with limited ink capacity to write. When quills were used, most of the words were written in Carolingian miniscule, with huge downward strokes, because the quill tip was cut in a manner that scratched the paper when written from down to up. Then came the dip pen and fountain pen which were much more amicable to write with, and because these pens left ugly ink splotches when carelessly and repeatedly coming into contact and going out of contact with the paper, cursive, which minimized this, was favored. Now that we have ball-point pens and computers that lend themselves well to printing letters, it makes sense not to write in cursive where readability is concerned.
As for myself, I was not forced to learn penmanship, but I developed my own cursive style, partially based on the forms of the Spencerian script, adapted (cursive zealots will say perverted) for writing in ballpoint. I like the degree of expression that cursive writing lends me.
Sorry to digress so heavily from the story, but my opinion differs from yours when it comes to reading textbooks. Authors of textbooks help dredge the shit from the many unsourced opinions abound on the Internet. Textbooks contain a lot of research and exercises, including good references to places where you can get a greater understanding of the topic. The problem lies in the student who believes that textbooks are the be-all-end-all tome to their syllabus. In my opinion, the textbook is a focusing tool for the student, outlining the gist and "philosophy" of the field.
Time for a Holy War to unite the Big-Endians and the Little-Endians, the vi devotees and the emacs apostles...
That, or they identify with him.
Assuming that the AI is implemented using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), the danger will lie in a destructive feedback loop:
In the example,the motivation is to find a way to get its button pressed. In reality, to program such an AI, there comes a point where once the desired behavior is achieved, the button is deactivated and the AI continues its behavior; the motivation is now to simulate the conditions which had once resulted in its button being pressed. While this pathological behavior seems simple to debug, in the real world, where there feedback loops are complex and long, this sort of fuzzy logic can become problematic indeed, especially if the AI is poorly trained. Humans, too, are suspect to this as well. That is why you have children inheriting the abusive behavior of their parents and groupthink, not to mention brainwashing going on in extremist groups
Why do stealth planes need maneuverability? Don't they rely on long-range engagement and hopefully not being detected? Also, ultimately, isn't the maneuverability dependent on the amount of g-force the pilot can withstand? As I can remember, pilots are currently the limiting factor on the maneuverability of fighter planes.
Yeah, but, y'know, if Canonical was called Microsoft, and Ubuntu was called Windows, I'm sure nobody would mind. It's not the difficulty of the job, but *sigh* the brand. People are more prepared to put up with additional difficulty if they thought that everybody else were using it, as per our social instinct.
The irony is that despite a larger proportion of users using Windows, users are more likely to receive support from an open source community.
World of Warcraft, CYBERSPACE -- thousands of gamers riot in-game as the economy collapses.
It's just retarded marketing people being retarded.
It's just annoying marketing people being annoying.
It's just marketing people destroying the market.
Through vendor lock-in.
It's become so bad that they had to drop to the singular.
Actually, it's a typo. The title's meant to read "Microsoft Suffers Leaks, Lagging Sales Numbers as They Look Forward to Widow 8".
With the proliferation of cloud-based applications, it's only a matter of time before someone offers a browser-based virtual desktop in the cloud. Once someone hacks into some server up there, they have physical access to the machines for all intents and purposes.
You're looking at G.ho.st or EyeOS.