Look at the drek released by sify. Or even History Channel.
Unless you happen to LIKE endless reruns of ancient aliens, bugnuts wrong conspiracy documentaries (sometimes about ancient Egypt), and really bad monster movies with really bad CGI, of course.
A thing that is not netflix's fault. The big media giants want Netflix dead, so you have to use their streaming media offers that are bundled with traditional cable TV.
netflix has been fighting hard to keep good outside content, but is basically the victim of unfair market practices by big holding companies.
more, the likes of Disney, Warner, HBO, and pals want it dead, and refuse to grant them content licenses. It isnt that they dont want to stream it to you, the media holders wont let them. Get it right.
Netflix has been on the recieving end of a concerted effort to kill it by the big media players, because they dont like the disruptive marketing model that netflix represents. that is why these media giants have categorically denied access to recent media offers, and keep hogtieing netflix in licensing disputes and changes.
Netflix knows exactly what people want, because even though they cannot stream the titles people want (because of the previously mentioned chicannery) they still record the search terms and frequency. knowing exactly what people want lets them make desirable original media, and turn the tables on the big media giants.
why else do you think ATT feels it needs to buy Time Warner on the auspices of "remaining competative", than to become the single largest media giant AND ISP, if not to cripple Netflix by strangling it for access to customers?
yes, lets use big data analitics to create tons of false positives in an endless feedback loop (because the metrics we use to determine disloyalty and impurity will absoutely include search term related to our arrests, and purely poitical punishments, legal or otherwise, of anyone we find disfavorable), and impose ideological purity requirements that come straight out of a George Orwell novel, because that is what is all the rage for major superpowers to do this decade!
Just look at how effective the collaboration betweem the US and the UK has been at circumventing due process, and employing extraordinary rendition in the politically and financially unfavorable!
Then you have the amazing military and police actions performed under Putin in Russia. Just a few years ago, his ambitious power tripping started with a simple van ride for Gary Kasperov, evolved a few years later into a landgrab of the whole Eastern side of Ukraine, and now has even reached openly meddling in the political processes of its arch rival, the USA, while at the same time double talking about cooperation in Syria.
China simply cannot allow these two forces to surpass it on these essential initiatives in being the most officious regime on the planet! By combining the sigint methods of the US without having to waste precious resources on keeping blatantly illegal actions under wrap, (because we in China are forward thinking enough to have them be legal in the first place!) with the coy military and bold policing done by Russia, we will surely surpass both on our ascendency to becoming the most powerful nation on the planet!
Already, our blatant currency manipulation, predatory trade practices, and complete lack of environmental oversight have completely crippled manufacturing in pretty much every other global power, making them hopelessly dependent upon us for pretty much everything. All we need do at this point is begin our plans to silently and stealthfully sieze control, and domination of ideas and information is essential for this!
Chairman Mao could only have dreamed of the tools available in this new age of Mandarin sepremacy! We have siezed the means of production, and now we must finish the job!
Glory to China!
(cough, gag, sputter-- i hate it when my government mandated feed of nationalism gets switched with the wrong feed! USA! USA!)
I won't spoil it for you, but early in the industrial revolution a man with the lad name "Ludd" started a movement to try and halt the spread of mechanization via acts of sabotage. The basic feature was fear of new methods and technologies.
People who subscribed to his ideology were called "Luddites". In more modern parlance, the term refers to anyone who is resistant to adopting new tech.
this would be useful for killing some of the more nasty forms of drm, for instance. a runtime patcher could learn exactly where to patch, and booya.
the more idiots trying to count chickens before they hatch thart get their eggs smashed, the happier i am. maybe they will one day learn that they cant have *all* of the pie, no matter how much they want it.
And there is no broad picture to take away from this?
Such as, if prepubescent school kids (not the mist shining example of intellectual prowess) are not a good target for this tool, how would it be effective against domestic terror agents, or even foreign terror agents?
They imply it only collects the public data available-- not the private data. It is therefore only useful as a tool to make associations with, and make inferences, using otherwise beniegn data points.
Unless the school has an interest in being the thought police, or trying to make Joe McCarthy's ghost blush, it is no wonder they did not find it useful.
Given thus finding, what does this say about the CIA's goals?
Or, need a way to transport large sums of energy from where bulk generation is possible to where demand for that energy is high, and do so with minimal losses.
This looks like the latter.
It solves the problem of " how do you intend to get all that power from that coastal windfarm to the city where it is needed?"
To collect the ethanol, the water being treated needs to be isolated from the rest of the reactant supply (aka, the ocean). The availability of local power from ocean wave generators, or tidal generators means the expense of using reverse osmosis is possible to account for. We don't need a membrane that makes clean water, just one that holds ethanol in, and that keeps plankton and microbes out.
Ethanol is a fairly large molecule (compared to salt, or co2), and microbes are downright huge in comparison.
Automated jets of ocean water against the membrane to knock plankton off every so often, coupled with a maintenance schedule, and such platforms could be extracting ethanol in huge amounts cheaply, expelling very clean ocean brine.
Assuming the catalyst can endure salt being present anyway.
The summary gives the latter at just over 60%. The former? Who knows?
I am more interested in how sensitive to poisoning the catalyst is. Would exposure to salt water damage it, for instance.
If not, then huge installations of these in the open ocean coupled with tidal force generators or wave mechanic generators for the electrical power needed could make drilling for oil obsolete, while simultaneously directly removing the cause of ocean acidification. Win win.
People like "spacenutter" guy, and the general "science is bad because it says my fixation on driving a hummer without justifiable cause" type idiocy has made it unpleasant to push discussion that direction. Endless postings about " your mom's superfluid" and the like.
In short, idiots outnumber the wise, and the wise, wisely remain silent.
her responses are not that dynamic, imo. She sounds like an ordinary chatbot. Given the budget clearly spent on her construction, I strongly suspect that most of the software dev time was spent on her motor control system, and less so on her human dialog systems.
This would make sense to me.
I think if they hooked her up to a female voiced watson instance, she would be quite a bit more capable.
I have never understood the fixation that people have for elaborate physical platforms though. Nearly all of the literature suggests that the uncanny valley only gets deeper as humanoid appearance becomes more lielike, as long as interaction is machine like and limited.
about the only benefit i see here is to divest ignorant investors of their money.
Human level intelligence is not currently possible with our current computing capabilities, and probably wont be for quite some time. Dont get me wrong here, I think research should continue, but now is not the time to be investing research dollars on fancy humanoid bodies. That money is much better spent on actual machine learning, machne language, and machine vision research (all are parts of the big umbrella of AI, but those are actually useful and essential if the goal is synthetic sentience)
fancy robot bodies? much less so, imo.
those should come AFTER we have more capable AIs that can more meaningfully interact with humans.
No joke. In any other industry, where producers "work together" to set pricing models, set up and maintain artificial scarcity, lock out competition, and do this to "ensure success", we call it conspiracy, collusion, and racketeering.
But it is somehow different for the entertainment industry.
For mysterious reasons, that are perfectly rational, and not at all tied to campaign kickbacks and political donations. No sir, not at all.
Netflix' deal with this theatre chain certainly won't expose decades of " false" lobbyist claims about immediate availability harming tickets sales, or anything like that-- media consumers will just stay home on release day, and it will be a disaster for both of them, that's what they mean here, I am sure! It is sure to demonstrate clearly and without distortion why industry needs to work lockstep to assure its future in the face of pirates, and inexpensive streaming, and certainly won't expose any of the industry's claims to the contrary false, no sir, not possible./s
It's been in the English vocabulary for hundreds of years. You can find it used that way in the King James bible for instance, where it discusses marriage.
Genesis 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
It does not mean that he will turn her into fine sliced deli meat. It means he will cling to her tightly and never let go.
To be honest, I am surprised it is actually lard. I always thought it was partially hydrogenated soy or cottonseed oil.
As for what I would personally use? Assuming I did not need a shelf life long enough to be able to send the cookies on a 5000 year supply mission to proxima centaur I (like with twinkies) I would use a protein based filling (aka gelatin) whipped with corn syrup and glycerol, with just a touch of unadulterated veggie oil. I would use just enough water in the whipping process to floccuate the ingredents, then dessicaate prior to shipping. the glycerol and corn syrup would keep it soft even when completely dessicated, and the dry conditions would combat spoilage.
it would eventually spoil from contact with oxygen though.
the filling would be less "sweet white paste" and more "marshmallow creme" in consistency though. probably flavor as well.
Hacking to cheat exposes the hacker far more to memory structures like the program stack, and to pointers.
The desire to run a DDoS for hire service has more in common with vigilante hacking.
I can see how there might be a little overlap, but I would expect copyright protection technology circumvention over ddosing as the natural product of that evolutionary path. knowing just where to poke to break the protection and play a game for free seems more plausible, given game hacking being the source.
Except that absurd thinness is not an arbitrarily tacked on mission requirement, so unlike Samsung's batteries, is not squashed flat as a credit card, and has a proper barrier between the anode and cathode, and has better charge circuitry.
He *IS* entitled to be allowed to participate. He just is not entitled to be listened to. If a white supremist shows up at a BLM rally, and opens his fat mouth with verbal diarrhea, he has ever right to be there. The BLM people there have every right to tell him to shut the fuck up.
DO NOT go down the route of Animal Farm, and assert that some people are more equal than others.
While logical, sensible, and straight forward in its reasoning and conclusion, this will require the rights holder to lower thier prices while increasing availability.
this is unpopular.
here is why.
1) more downloading at lower pricepoints increases distribution costs in terms of supplying the needed bandwidth.
2) more downloading at lower pricepoints reduces the per transaction profit margin.
that is both more money going out, and less money coming in.
the grim reality that thier product is overpriced in the market is only considered in terms of how to force buyers into buying the overpriced options they provide, via exclusivity and threat of the legal system.
They hate piracy, not because "we cant compete with free!", no. they hate piracy because it demonstrates that thier prices are not appropriate for the market. (as evidenced by this groups findings, and the findings of other groups like them.) they realize that the age of big radio, big music, etc is over. they are in serious danger of being dethroned as the gatekeepers and storytellers of culture. having to compete with the millions of other story tellers that a lower market price enables, as the cost of producton drops, scares the shit out of them.
piracy is just the scapegoat they blame. the garage band that self produces and succeeds on talent is what scares them. the lawyers and the lawsuits on infringement are really aimed at these bands who inadvertantly use 3 chords from a song the paranoid publisher owns, so the paranoid publisher can destroy them, and not look bad doing it.
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Your biases aside, he is right you know.
Look at the drek released by sify. Or even History Channel.
Unless you happen to LIKE endless reruns of ancient aliens, bugnuts wrong conspiracy documentaries (sometimes about ancient Egypt), and really bad monster movies with really bad CGI, of course.
In which case, Netflix still has your back.
A thing that is not netflix's fault. The big media giants want Netflix dead, so you have to use their streaming media offers that are bundled with traditional cable TV.
netflix has been fighting hard to keep good outside content, but is basically the victim of unfair market practices by big holding companies.
complaining that it is netflix's fault is idiocy.
no, not given up.
more, the likes of Disney, Warner, HBO, and pals want it dead, and refuse to grant them content licenses. It isnt that they dont want to stream it to you, the media holders wont let them. Get it right.
Netflix has been on the recieving end of a concerted effort to kill it by the big media players, because they dont like the disruptive marketing model that netflix represents. that is why these media giants have categorically denied access to recent media offers, and keep hogtieing netflix in licensing disputes and changes.
Netflix knows exactly what people want, because even though they cannot stream the titles people want (because of the previously mentioned chicannery) they still record the search terms and frequency. knowing exactly what people want lets them make desirable original media, and turn the tables on the big media giants.
why else do you think ATT feels it needs to buy Time Warner on the auspices of "remaining competative", than to become the single largest media giant AND ISP, if not to cripple Netflix by strangling it for access to customers?
i mean, seriously.
yes, lets use big data analitics to create tons of false positives in an endless feedback loop (because the metrics we use to determine disloyalty and impurity will absoutely include search term related to our arrests, and purely poitical punishments, legal or otherwise, of anyone we find disfavorable), and impose ideological purity requirements that come straight out of a George Orwell novel, because that is what is all the rage for major superpowers to do this decade!
Just look at how effective the collaboration betweem the US and the UK has been at circumventing due process, and employing extraordinary rendition in the politically and financially unfavorable!
Then you have the amazing military and police actions performed under Putin in Russia. Just a few years ago, his ambitious power tripping started with a simple van ride for Gary Kasperov, evolved a few years later into a landgrab of the whole Eastern side of Ukraine, and now has even reached openly meddling in the political processes of its arch rival, the USA, while at the same time double talking about cooperation in Syria.
China simply cannot allow these two forces to surpass it on these essential initiatives in being the most officious regime on the planet! By combining the sigint methods of the US without having to waste precious resources on keeping blatantly illegal actions under wrap, (because we in China are forward thinking enough to have them be legal in the first place!) with the coy military and bold policing done by Russia, we will surely surpass both on our ascendency to becoming the most powerful nation on the planet!
Already, our blatant currency manipulation, predatory trade practices, and complete lack of environmental oversight have completely crippled manufacturing in pretty much every other global power, making them hopelessly dependent upon us for pretty much everything. All we need do at this point is begin our plans to silently and stealthfully sieze control, and domination of ideas and information is essential for this!
Chairman Mao could only have dreamed of the tools available in this new age of Mandarin sepremacy! We have siezed the means of production, and now we must finish the job!
Glory to China!
(cough, gag, sputter-- i hate it when my government mandated feed of nationalism gets switched with the wrong feed! USA! USA!)
My Chromebook celes is driving the latest stable build.
Uname -a says it is driving on 3.18.0
That is significantly older than 4.6.
Wikipedia is your friend.
I won't spoil it for you, but early in the industrial revolution a man with the lad name "Ludd" started a movement to try and halt the spread of mechanization via acts of sabotage. The basic feature was fear of new methods and technologies.
People who subscribed to his ideology were called "Luddites". In more modern parlance, the term refers to anyone who is resistant to adopting new tech.
no. locks keep honest people honest. when you decide the user cant be trusted, all pretense of keeping honesty in the mix evaporates.
the responsibility for a system lays at the foot of the user. nobody else.
define malware.
this would be useful for killing some of the more nasty forms of drm, for instance. a runtime patcher could learn exactly where to patch, and booya.
the more idiots trying to count chickens before they hatch thart get their eggs smashed, the happier i am. maybe they will one day learn that they cant have *all* of the pie, no matter how much they want it.
And there is no broad picture to take away from this?
Such as, if prepubescent school kids (not the mist shining example of intellectual prowess) are not a good target for this tool, how would it be effective against domestic terror agents, or even foreign terror agents?
They imply it only collects the public data available-- not the private data. It is therefore only useful as a tool to make associations with, and make inferences, using otherwise beniegn data points.
Unless the school has an interest in being the thought police, or trying to make Joe McCarthy's ghost blush, it is no wonder they did not find it useful.
Given thus finding, what does this say about the CIA's goals?
Or, need a way to transport large sums of energy from where bulk generation is possible to where demand for that energy is high, and do so with minimal losses.
This looks like the latter.
It solves the problem of " how do you intend to get all that power from that coastal windfarm to the city where it is needed?"
The answer? "In a big assed fuel tanker."
To collect the ethanol, the water being treated needs to be isolated from the rest of the reactant supply (aka, the ocean). The availability of local power from ocean wave generators, or tidal generators means the expense of using reverse osmosis is possible to account for. We don't need a membrane that makes clean water, just one that holds ethanol in, and that keeps plankton and microbes out.
Ethanol is a fairly large molecule (compared to salt, or co2), and microbes are downright huge in comparison.
Automated jets of ocean water against the membrane to knock plankton off every so often, coupled with a maintenance schedule, and such platforms could be extracting ethanol in huge amounts cheaply, expelling very clean ocean brine.
Assuming the catalyst can endure salt being present anyway.
Which efficiency?
Energy use wise, or product synthesis wise?
The summary gives the latter at just over 60%.
The former? Who knows?
I am more interested in how sensitive to poisoning the catalyst is. Would exposure to salt water damage it, for instance.
If not, then huge installations of these in the open ocean coupled with tidal force generators or wave mechanic generators for the electrical power needed could make drilling for oil obsolete, while simultaneously directly removing the cause of ocean acidification. Win win.
People like "spacenutter" guy, and the general "science is bad because it says my fixation on driving a hummer without justifiable cause" type idiocy has made it unpleasant to push discussion that direction. Endless postings about " your mom's superfluid" and the like.
In short, idiots outnumber the wise, and the wise, wisely remain silent.
her responses are not that dynamic, imo. She sounds like an ordinary chatbot. Given the budget clearly spent on her construction, I strongly suspect that most of the software dev time was spent on her motor control system, and less so on her human dialog systems.
This would make sense to me.
I think if they hooked her up to a female voiced watson instance, she would be quite a bit more capable.
I have never understood the fixation that people have for elaborate physical platforms though. Nearly all of the literature suggests that the uncanny valley only gets deeper as humanoid appearance becomes more lielike, as long as interaction is machine like and limited.
about the only benefit i see here is to divest ignorant investors of their money.
Human level intelligence is not currently possible with our current computing capabilities, and probably wont be for quite some time. Dont get me wrong here, I think research should continue, but now is not the time to be investing research dollars on fancy humanoid bodies. That money is much better spent on actual machine learning, machne language, and machine vision research (all are parts of the big umbrella of AI, but those are actually useful and essential if the goal is synthetic sentience)
fancy robot bodies? much less so, imo.
those should come AFTER we have more capable AIs that can more meaningfully interact with humans.
No joke. In any other industry, where producers "work together" to set pricing models, set up and maintain artificial scarcity, lock out competition, and do this to "ensure success", we call it conspiracy, collusion, and racketeering.
But it is somehow different for the entertainment industry.
For mysterious reasons, that are perfectly rational, and not at all tied to campaign kickbacks and political donations. No sir, not at all.
Netflix' deal with this theatre chain certainly won't expose decades of " false" lobbyist claims about immediate availability harming tickets sales, or anything like that-- media consumers will just stay home on release day, and it will be a disaster for both of them, that's what they mean here, I am sure! It is sure to demonstrate clearly and without distortion why industry needs to work lockstep to assure its future in the face of pirates, and inexpensive streaming, and certainly won't expose any of the industry's claims to the contrary false, no sir, not possible. /s
No, you can find it without that modifier in quite a few sultry harlequin romance novels.
Things like:
"He cleaved to her breasts with an insatiable hunger" and the like.
The phrase "Cleaved to" is ambiguous.
See above, but also see:
"while working in the butcher shop, Jimmy often cleaved to the sounds of classical music."
Does that mean he stuck with classical music nearly exclusively, or given then context, did he chop meat to the playing of classical music?
It was this ambiguity that the GP was discussing AC.
It's been in the English vocabulary for hundreds of years. You can find it used that way in the King James bible for instance, where it discusses marriage.
Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
It does not mean that he will turn her into fine sliced deli meat. It means he will cling to her tightly and never let go.
Vindication! i was right!
they could use cocoanut oil instead though. it is healthier for you than hydrogenated soy and cottonseed oils. (but not as cheap.)
cocoa butter would be a better choice, but might affect flavor.
cocoanut oil is solid at room temp, white, and mostly flavorless. less healthy than cocoa butter though.
and yes, i did see that you were trying to be funny.
i just happen to feel that if you call it creme filling, it should be creamy. not a close competitor of fondant.
To be honest, I am surprised it is actually lard. I always thought it was partially hydrogenated soy or cottonseed oil.
As for what I would personally use? Assuming I did not need a shelf life long enough to be able to send the cookies on a 5000 year supply mission to proxima centaur I (like with twinkies) I would use a protein based filling (aka gelatin) whipped with corn syrup and glycerol, with just a touch of unadulterated veggie oil. I would use just enough water in the whipping process to floccuate the ingredents, then dessicaate prior to shipping. the glycerol and corn syrup would keep it soft even when completely dessicated, and the dry conditions would combat spoilage.
it would eventually spoil from contact with oxygen though.
the filling would be less "sweet white paste" and more "marshmallow creme" in consistency though. probably flavor as well.
Hacking to cheat exposes the hacker far more to memory structures like the program stack, and to pointers.
The desire to run a DDoS for hire service has more in common with vigilante hacking.
I can see how there might be a little overlap, but I would expect copyright protection technology circumvention over ddosing as the natural product of that evolutionary path. knowing just where to poke to break the protection and play a game for free seems more plausible, given game hacking being the source.
Except that absurd thinness is not an arbitrarily tacked on mission requirement, so unlike Samsung's batteries, is not squashed flat as a credit card, and has a proper barrier between the anode and cathode, and has better charge circuitry.
NO.
He *IS* entitled to be allowed to participate. He just is not entitled to be listened to. If a white supremist shows up at a BLM rally, and opens his fat mouth with verbal diarrhea, he has ever right to be there. The BLM people there have every right to tell him to shut the fuck up.
DO NOT go down the route of Animal Farm, and assert that some people are more equal than others.
While logical, sensible, and straight forward in its reasoning and conclusion, this will require the rights holder to lower thier prices while increasing availability.
this is unpopular.
here is why.
1) more downloading at lower pricepoints increases distribution costs in terms of supplying the needed bandwidth.
2) more downloading at lower pricepoints reduces the per transaction profit margin.
that is both more money going out, and less money coming in.
the grim reality that thier product is overpriced in the market is only considered in terms of how to force buyers into buying the overpriced options they provide, via exclusivity and threat of the legal system.
They hate piracy, not because "we cant compete with free!", no. they hate piracy because it demonstrates that thier prices are not appropriate for the market. (as evidenced by this groups findings, and the findings of other groups like them.) they realize that the age of big radio, big music, etc is over. they are in serious danger of being dethroned as the gatekeepers and storytellers of culture. having to compete with the millions of other story tellers that a lower market price enables, as the cost of producton drops, scares the shit out of them.
piracy is just the scapegoat they blame. the garage band that self produces and succeeds on talent is what scares them. the lawyers and the lawsuits on infringement are really aimed at these bands who inadvertantly use 3 chords from a song the paranoid publisher owns, so the paranoid publisher can destroy them, and not look bad doing it.