The dream of businesses since the dawn of programming... yes, as long as you can fully specify all the branches of logic, the machine can write the code for you!
Of course, it would help if we could devise some sort of symbolic written language to represent the logic, since human languages tend to be imprecise...
Then the computer could tell you if you got the syntax wrong with the symbolic language or something.
It should only take Marketing a few years to get up to speed with using this. (In the meantime they will stop actually marketing, is that a problem?)
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win.
I thought they were the "our guns protect your freedom" patriots who love 'murica so much?
Small minded Republicans, ask yourselves, why would Putin want Trump to win? Is it because he loves you and loves 'Murica?
Maybe, just maybe there is a different reason. Maybe he knows something you don't.
Of course, should the democrats win in the next election, I am pretty sure the world will hear you screaming your disingenuous little hearts out about how the Russians hacked the elections and how the results are not valid and blah blah blah. Why? Because you are pieces of shit who don't care about the US, or the world at large. You only care that your teams wins, regardless of what it costs every other person on the planet.
Well then... I'm glad that with you, we won't have all that awful "discord", lol Just sweet harmony.
(BTW, Democrats lovedy-loved-loved Russia right up until it stopped being the most murderous communist dictatorship ever. As someone not born five minutes ago, I find this new Red scare super entertaining.)
... "troll" means someone trolling for responses by posting something they don't really believe - or, they don't care whether they believe it, they just care that it is inflammatory and will get reactions.
What exactly does that have to do with fake movie reviews? Yes, you could troll with those, I suppose, but the concern is the negative scores, not the trolling per se.
"Troll" has evolved to mean "someone acting bad in my opinion on the internet".
and the planet is saved by a Chinese hero (rather than American ones as typically seen in Hollywood sci-fi movies.)
(or Indian ones as typically seen in Bollywood movies)
(or Japanese ones as typically seen in Japanese movies)
(or French ones as typically seen in French movies)
(or Nigerian ones as typically seen in Nigerian movies)
(etc)
Well, yeah... sure... but those are OK. Because Americans suck!!!
(Well, I mean Americans other than me and my friends. But all the rest of them suck!!!!)
...like 60s sci fi robots caught in a contradiction.
I mean, free speech was all well and good when it was the man trying to keep us down, trying to stifle our potty mouths.
But now that we're the ma... er... the gender-less sentient vertebrate in charge, we'd really like that power to shut people up when we don't like them. But it's OK, because we're doing it.
Rather than going in guns blazing and injuring people with excessive force, why not just pull the car over and talk to the people?
If they are going to be violent or belligerent it would be quite obvious.
Guns weren't blazing, first of all.(Thank God.)
Anyway, the problem with that is that it might only become obvious when you walk up to the car calmly and then the occupant of the car shoots you.
I'm not saying they handled this right, but let's not be overly glib about what's involved. It sounds like the license plate reader worked correctly, but the database hasn't been updated. There was reason to suspect that the car was stolen, and that the occupants might be hostile.
Again, not saying this was handled right, but let's be honest about what was involved.
Bullshit.
Personal connections with people that should have known better and not believing a CEO for a so highly valued company could be lying were the main problems. If someone lost their money for backing a company with a female CEO I'd simply laugh at them - but that wasn't the case for the majority of backers. They backed an incredible technological advancement that could change medical diagnosis all over the world being faster, cheaper, safer. But it was all a gigantic lie.
Oh come now.
It was a huge factor - "she's young! She's a woman CEO in tech!" It was all over the place.
... are finer grained permissions available? Or for many extensions, even logically possible?
If the extension is going to filter for ads, or change the colors, or inject user CSS, or tell you if products on the page are cheaper at Amazon, or whatever - it kind of needs to access the webpage data. Right?
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov
Here's an alternate version.
There's a strong tradition of skepticism of authority and experts, self proclaimed and otherwise, in the United States, and there always has been. This tradition has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the fact that a lot of the time it's actually a pretty smart stance to have.
No, it's not always a good thing, but it pays off a lot. There's a reason for it, and it's not just a "cult of ignorance".
Calling people cultists or labeling them as the equivalent of holocaust deniers is not going to convince them of anything.
Challenging established orthodoxy, yes. But the process matters. What is done right now by the various bullshit artists is basically to say "A is established knowledge, but I say A is wrong because of (insert very bad argument here), so I dreamed up B, which I found a few pointers that let me imagine it's true, so I believe that now. And the thousands of contradictions you find are just big conspiracies from the industry, the Illuminati, NASA, you name it so I brush them aside and ignore them".
That's NOT how you improve our knowledge. That's how you destroy it.
What you are saying is just a variant of "there's no problem; we'll just censor the bad ideas, so what could go wrong?"
Oh bullshit. A private company squashing factually wrong information that results in people becoming sick and dying is hardly a slippery slope to the elimination of free speech. Anti-vaxxers are the slow equivalent of people shouting fire in a movie theater. They are causing needless panic and should be liable for the harm the lies they spread cause.
All censorship starts with good intentions (or at least what its authors think are good intentions).
I just had a hilarious thought, maybe google assumed that customers would realize there is a microphone in their product when you can talk to it? Unless they suddenly good at lip reading.
You... couldn't talk to it when they sold it to you.
That's the whole point. It wasn't sold as having that capability.
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The dream of businesses since the dawn of programming ... yes, as long as you can fully specify all the branches of logic, the machine can write the code for you!
Of course, it would help if we could devise some sort of symbolic written language to represent the logic, since human languages tend to be imprecise ...
Then the computer could tell you if you got the syntax wrong with the symbolic language or something.
It should only take Marketing a few years to get up to speed with using this. (In the meantime they will stop actually marketing, is that a problem?)
Hurrah, no more pricey programmers!
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win. I thought they were the "our guns protect your freedom" patriots who love 'murica so much? Small minded Republicans, ask yourselves, why would Putin want Trump to win? Is it because he loves you and loves 'Murica? Maybe, just maybe there is a different reason. Maybe he knows something you don't. Of course, should the democrats win in the next election, I am pretty sure the world will hear you screaming your disingenuous little hearts out about how the Russians hacked the elections and how the results are not valid and blah blah blah. Why? Because you are pieces of shit who don't care about the US, or the world at large. You only care that your teams wins, regardless of what it costs every other person on the planet.
Well then ... I'm glad that with you, we won't have all that awful "discord", lol Just sweet harmony.
(BTW, Democrats lovedy-loved-loved Russia right up until it stopped being the most murderous communist dictatorship ever. As someone not born five minutes ago, I find this new Red scare super entertaining.)
The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms
Discord?!? We can't have discord during ... democratic elections!
Thank God our crack troops protected the motherla ... I mean, baseball and apple pie, from ... {shudder} ... discord!
Only thing about me is the way I walk ...
... "troll" means someone trolling for responses by posting something they don't really believe - or, they don't care whether they believe it, they just care that it is inflammatory and will get reactions.
What exactly does that have to do with fake movie reviews? Yes, you could troll with those, I suppose, but the concern is the negative scores, not the trolling per se.
"Troll" has evolved to mean "someone acting bad in my opinion on the internet".
which they coped with by having sex at the office and smoking weed.
Are they hiring?
That was my (satirical) thought, lol.
Not that I actually want to work there, but that plenty of people manage to cope with stress without resorting to these behaviors.
Something tells me they'd be doing the same stuff down at the local car wash, if not at Facebook.
I would need to have an 'online relationship' with my utility companies for this to become a problem. I practice security-through-postage-stamps.
I suppose if the postal carriers in Chicago only throw your mail in the dumpster, that might work.
Of course, someone else might get it out of the dumpster ...
... I thought it was impossible to ban things, and that you are just increasing the profits and carnage with your War on Fossils?
I can't see any way to force people to pay for stuff they don't want, that isn't ridiculously evil.
Me either, that's why I oppose forced union dues.
"It is my RIGHT as an AMERICAN CITIZEN to harass and threaten people online!!" is a really weird hill to die on but ok
The problem, of course, being the definition of "harass".
When we get to ban "harass", suddenly the stuff people we don't like does magically becomes "harass".
and the planet is saved by a Chinese hero (rather than American ones as typically seen in Hollywood sci-fi movies.)
(or Indian ones as typically seen in Bollywood movies) (or Japanese ones as typically seen in Japanese movies) (or French ones as typically seen in French movies) (or Nigerian ones as typically seen in Nigerian movies) (etc)
Well, yeah ... sure ... but those are OK. Because Americans suck!!!
(Well, I mean Americans other than me and my friends. But all the rest of them suck!!!!)
...like 60s sci fi robots caught in a contradiction.
I mean, free speech was all well and good when it was the man trying to keep us down, trying to stifle our potty mouths.
But now that we're the ma ... er ... the gender-less sentient vertebrate in charge, we'd really like that power to shut people up when we don't like them. But it's OK, because we're doing it.
Rather than going in guns blazing and injuring people with excessive force, why not just pull the car over and talk to the people?
If they are going to be violent or belligerent it would be quite obvious.
Guns weren't blazing, first of all.(Thank God.)
Anyway, the problem with that is that it might only become obvious when you walk up to the car calmly and then the occupant of the car shoots you.
I'm not saying they handled this right, but let's not be overly glib about what's involved. It sounds like the license plate reader worked correctly, but the database hasn't been updated. There was reason to suspect that the car was stolen, and that the occupants might be hostile.
Again, not saying this was handled right, but let's be honest about what was involved.
I got those parts off eBay primarily
"Aren't you a little young to be building a fusion reactor??"
"Yes ... yes I am."
Er, fine, but what's Netflix-y about this?
I watch (English subtitled) Russian versions of Sherlock Holmes stories on Amazon, and there's all sorts of other international stuff on there too.
Bullshit. Personal connections with people that should have known better and not believing a CEO for a so highly valued company could be lying were the main problems. If someone lost their money for backing a company with a female CEO I'd simply laugh at them - but that wasn't the case for the majority of backers. They backed an incredible technological advancement that could change medical diagnosis all over the world being faster, cheaper, safer. But it was all a gigantic lie.
Oh come now.
It was a huge factor - "she's young! She's a woman CEO in tech!" It was all over the place.
Python and Tkinter Programming Paperback – January, 2000
by John E Grayson
...
What? Didn't I shower?
... are finer grained permissions available? Or for many extensions, even logically possible?
If the extension is going to filter for ads, or change the colors, or inject user CSS, or tell you if products on the page are cheaper at Amazon, or whatever - it kind of needs to access the webpage data. Right?
I wonder if any of those drawings are by Israeli Arab kids...
Sure; those are the drawings with the severed heads and stuff.
Every day it seems less and less like YouTube, and more and more like UsTube.
We accidentally had a microphone in your thermostat ... we accidentally had a camera in your screen ...
Companies are so accident prone these days.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov
Here's an alternate version.
There's a strong tradition of skepticism of authority and experts, self proclaimed and otherwise, in the United States, and there always has been. This tradition has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the fact that a lot of the time it's actually a pretty smart stance to have.
No, it's not always a good thing, but it pays off a lot. There's a reason for it, and it's not just a "cult of ignorance".
Calling people cultists or labeling them as the equivalent of holocaust deniers is not going to convince them of anything.
Challenging established orthodoxy, yes. But the process matters. What is done right now by the various bullshit artists is basically to say "A is established knowledge, but I say A is wrong because of (insert very bad argument here), so I dreamed up B, which I found a few pointers that let me imagine it's true, so I believe that now. And the thousands of contradictions you find are just big conspiracies from the industry, the Illuminati, NASA, you name it so I brush them aside and ignore them".
That's NOT how you improve our knowledge. That's how you destroy it.
What you are saying is just a variant of "there's no problem; we'll just censor the bad ideas, so what could go wrong?"
Oh bullshit. A private company squashing factually wrong information that results in people becoming sick and dying is hardly a slippery slope to the elimination of free speech. Anti-vaxxers are the slow equivalent of people shouting fire in a movie theater. They are causing needless panic and should be liable for the harm the lies they spread cause.
All censorship starts with good intentions (or at least what its authors think are good intentions).
I just had a hilarious thought, maybe google assumed that customers would realize there is a microphone in their product when you can talk to it? Unless they suddenly good at lip reading.
You ... couldn't talk to it when they sold it to you.
That's the whole point. It wasn't sold as having that capability.