And didn't they really really suck to type on? The only winners from something like this are the manufacturers, who save a bunch of money on actual decent keyboards. Thanks, but no thanks.
Why hasn't Google blurred or removed this persons' farm from their maps? Oh and by the way the more this story is circulated the more idiots will go and harass this person in Kansas. If anything and anyone has a 'right to be forgotten' on the Internet, it's this poor 85 year old woman in Kansas.
That's very troubling on very many levels. We (the U.S.) is supposed to be some sort of shining beacon of Freedom of Speech and Freedom in general to the rest of the world, but our police are at least as much assholes as police in any other country of the world, and 'Freedom of Speech' apparently is just being paid lip service more and more.
This 'discrimination' is just a symptom of the larger problem: If humans didn't treat each other like shit, and act like animals instead of the sentient beings they pretend to be, then we indeed wouldn't need a ride-sharing service by women for women, now would we?
The way to get the so-called 'islamic state' off the Internet, is to use a new technology called BOMB (Bitwise Overwrite Methodology Blocking). BOMB devices can effectively and permanently disable any access points that ISIS operatives are using to connect to the Internet. Strategic deployment of BOMBs, guided by intelligence data, will, over time, effectively remove ISIS presense from the Internet. BOMBs, being cutting-edge technology, are small and lightweight enough to be delivered by any number of methods, and especially effective when delivered via drones. Unfortunately, however, BOMBs are one-use items, expending themselves entirely on their primary target, but BOMBs can be mass-produced rapidly, so no worries there.
When newspapers were just that -- news printed on paper -- all the ads were just static text and images, in black-and-white, sometimes in color, like everything else, generally restricted to (as I recall anyway) an insert, easily ignored, if you didn't care for ads. Not so much with the Internet.
This 'vast majority' of people, like most non-technical people, don't understand how things actually work. You can't ban the so-called 'dark web' because you really can't identify where it is. Even making Tor illegal (yeah, and good luck with that, too) would only get rid of part of the Dark Web.
Please, continue being butthurt because you're not even remotely funny, your nerd-rage tastes delicious, especially when served with some lovely fava beans and a nice Chianti. Now bugger off or you'll get The Hose again. Gods know you need it though, stinking up the basement like you do. Or so your mom tells me.
The right way is to have an office of the judicature maintain a set of third party keys that law enforcement can request *with a warrant*.
No, that's complete and total bullshit, and you're demonstrating that you, just like apparently politicians, either don't understand the technology involved, or just don't give a damn whether it actually works or not. You cannot have a 'backdoor' into an encryption algorithm, not in any way, shape, or form, without rendering that algorithm completely and totally compromised. There is NO EXCEPTION to this. ANY so-called 'backdoor' can and will be exploited, sooner than anyone would think. Even if it wasn't somehow exploited by criminals and/or terrorists, it would inevitably be misused by the powers-that-be to violate the privacy of citizens who have neither broken any laws nor intend to break any laws. Why do you hate America so much that you would want this, then?
Not just that. People realize that so-called 'social media' is anything but, when it comes right down to it. Also, it's trendy as hell. Once it was AOL. Then it was Livejournal and Myspace. Right now it's Facebook. What we're seeing, however, is the Beginning of the End for Facebook (or at least I hope it is). A year from now, the next trendy 'social media' thing will emerge, and all the social-media sheep and attention whores will start migrating towards that, dragging their 'friends' (with a small 'f') with them. Hope for Zuckerbergs' sake he's invested all his millions into something conservative and sound, he's going to need that to live on when Facebook really does become Failbook and is worth nothing, gets sold off to some eastern europeans for a song.
First and foremost: We don't want your shitty ads. Secondly: We really don't want your shitty content that much, either. Third: You're like dinosaurs stuck in a tarpit; all these wailings, whingings, and whinings about your 'ad revenue' and how us ad-blocker users are 'stealing your content' is just your death-song.
Do you want to survive? Stop saturating us with shitty ads. Get a sense of scale and apropriateness. We're not going to pay attention to your ads anyway, but at least we won't block them if they're not playing video, flashing, doing shitty animations, popping up in our faces, or otherwise being annoying to the point where we want to punch the screen. Also, while I've got your attention: Stop tracking us. We hate that shit. It's at least half the reason we block your shitty ads in the first place.
You misunderstand the mindset of some people here. They think that all manual labor is somehow going to magically become the responsibility of so-called 'AIs' and robots, and that just as magically, humans will be given some sort of free money to live on, and never have to work again. Then there's people like you and I, who know the difference between fantasy and reality.
When I see this, however, I do wonder what they are thinking about the truck drivers that they are eagerly working at putting out of work.
They're not going to be 'put out of work'. Commercial trucks have an even greater potential to cause loss of human life, therefore it's even more important that they be as safely operated as possible. Since so-called 'self-driving' vehicles, including trucks, will never be able to 100% guaranteed to be able to handle 100% of all situations that might arise on the open roads, all so-called 'autonomous trucks', just like all so-called 'autonomous cars', will be required to have a human driver behind the full set of manual controls at all times, and that driver will always be required to be fully educated, trained, tested, and licensed. To do otherwise is sheer madness and inviting disaster.
While you're at it, how about 'Lifetime: Television for Women'? For that matter, in a world ostensibly full of equality, and race/gender/sexual orientation blindness, do we need special programming for {insert special interest group here}? Because we live in a world full of racism, bigotry, sexism, and inequality-in-general, that's why. If we actually lived in a world without those horrible qualities, we wouldn't have the vast majority of the problems of the world in general that we're seeing right now, either.
1. Data was a true, self-aware AI that you could have a decent, human-level conversation with, not some cheesy algorithm. 2. As much as I liked NextGen, it was just a TV show, not real life, there was no such actual personage as Mister Data, we're not in the 24th century, there's no Federation of Planets; it was all fiction. 3. I stand behind my original assertions.
Yes, but technique is only part of being an artist. There are plenty of artists out there who can create incredible knock-offs of famous paintings, but that can't create an original work of their own that anyone has any interest in; you can be technically talented, but have no talent for creation.
Computer Created A "Rembrandt-Themed" Graphic After Analyzing Paintings
Why? Because art is all about the artist attempting to elicit an emotional response from the person experiencing their work, and since no so-called 'AI' has actual emotions, it can't understand art, and therefore can't 'create' art.
Friend, if I had to include every single exception possible to every statement I ever made, I'd never be done typing them all out. How about we just make a general assumption that those exceptions exist, OK?;-)
Any truly important, official communication from a government agency, or from any company demaning payment of any sort, is going to send it in a printed letter, not an email.
You can get more power by raising the voltage and keeping the current the same, you know. Now, how safe a 480V or 960V charging system will be with the average consumer is another matter.
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And didn't they really really suck to type on? The only winners from something like this are the manufacturers, who save a bunch of money on actual decent keyboards. Thanks, but no thanks.
Why hasn't Google blurred or removed this persons' farm from their maps? Oh and by the way the more this story is circulated the more idiots will go and harass this person in Kansas. If anything and anyone has a 'right to be forgotten' on the Internet, it's this poor 85 year old woman in Kansas.
I don't even need people to treat each other 'nicely', just 'fairly' will do, and as you say that's the whole point.
That's very troubling on very many levels. We (the U.S.) is supposed to be some sort of shining beacon of Freedom of Speech and Freedom in general to the rest of the world, but our police are at least as much assholes as police in any other country of the world, and 'Freedom of Speech' apparently is just being paid lip service more and more.
This 'discrimination' is just a symptom of the larger problem: If humans didn't treat each other like shit, and act like animals instead of the sentient beings they pretend to be, then we indeed wouldn't need a ride-sharing service by women for women, now would we?
There are techniques by which fingerprints can be faked.
How, precisely, does this change in the Earth's dynamics affect things like weather, seasons, etc?
The way to get the so-called 'islamic state' off the Internet, is to use a new technology called BOMB (Bitwise Overwrite Methodology Blocking). BOMB devices can effectively and permanently disable any access points that ISIS operatives are using to connect to the Internet. Strategic deployment of BOMBs, guided by intelligence data, will, over time, effectively remove ISIS presense from the Internet. BOMBs, being cutting-edge technology, are small and lightweight enough to be delivered by any number of methods, and especially effective when delivered via drones. Unfortunately, however, BOMBs are one-use items, expending themselves entirely on their primary target, but BOMBs can be mass-produced rapidly, so no worries there.
When newspapers were just that -- news printed on paper -- all the ads were just static text and images, in black-and-white, sometimes in color, like everything else, generally restricted to (as I recall anyway) an insert, easily ignored, if you didn't care for ads. Not so much with the Internet.
This 'vast majority' of people, like most non-technical people, don't understand how things actually work. You can't ban the so-called 'dark web' because you really can't identify where it is. Even making Tor illegal (yeah, and good luck with that, too) would only get rid of part of the Dark Web.
Please, continue being butthurt because you're not even remotely funny, your nerd-rage tastes delicious, especially when served with some lovely fava beans and a nice Chianti. Now bugger off or you'll get The Hose again. Gods know you need it though, stinking up the basement like you do. Or so your mom tells me.
The right way is to have an office of the judicature maintain a set of third party keys that law enforcement can request *with a warrant*.
No, that's complete and total bullshit, and you're demonstrating that you, just like apparently politicians, either don't understand the technology involved, or just don't give a damn whether it actually works or not. You cannot have a 'backdoor' into an encryption algorithm, not in any way, shape, or form, without rendering that algorithm completely and totally compromised. There is NO EXCEPTION to this. ANY so-called 'backdoor' can and will be exploited, sooner than anyone would think. Even if it wasn't somehow exploited by criminals and/or terrorists, it would inevitably be misused by the powers-that-be to violate the privacy of citizens who have neither broken any laws nor intend to break any laws. Why do you hate America so much that you would want this, then?
Gee, that might have even been funny, if I'd've mentioned the Brave Browser even once.
Not just that. People realize that so-called 'social media' is anything but, when it comes right down to it. Also, it's trendy as hell. Once it was AOL. Then it was Livejournal and Myspace. Right now it's Facebook. What we're seeing, however, is the Beginning of the End for Facebook (or at least I hope it is). A year from now, the next trendy 'social media' thing will emerge, and all the social-media sheep and attention whores will start migrating towards that, dragging their 'friends' (with a small 'f') with them. Hope for Zuckerbergs' sake he's invested all his millions into something conservative and sound, he's going to need that to live on when Facebook really does become Failbook and is worth nothing, gets sold off to some eastern europeans for a song.
Secondly: We really don't want your shitty content that much, either.
Third: You're like dinosaurs stuck in a tarpit; all these wailings, whingings, and whinings about your 'ad revenue' and how us ad-blocker users are 'stealing your content' is just your death-song.
Do you want to survive? Stop saturating us with shitty ads. Get a sense of scale and apropriateness. We're not going to pay attention to your ads anyway, but at least we won't block them if they're not playing video, flashing, doing shitty animations, popping up in our faces, or otherwise being annoying to the point where we want to punch the screen.
Also, while I've got your attention: Stop tracking us. We hate that shit. It's at least half the reason we block your shitty ads in the first place.
Get correct, or get extinct. Choice is yours.
Sincerely,
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You misunderstand the mindset of some people here. They think that all manual labor is somehow going to magically become the responsibility of so-called 'AIs' and robots, and that just as magically, humans will be given some sort of free money to live on, and never have to work again. Then there's people like you and I, who know the difference between fantasy and reality.
When I see this, however, I do wonder what they are thinking about the truck drivers that they are eagerly working at putting out of work.
They're not going to be 'put out of work'. Commercial trucks have an even greater potential to cause loss of human life, therefore it's even more important that they be as safely operated as possible. Since so-called 'self-driving' vehicles, including trucks, will never be able to 100% guaranteed to be able to handle 100% of all situations that might arise on the open roads, all so-called 'autonomous trucks', just like all so-called 'autonomous cars', will be required to have a human driver behind the full set of manual controls at all times, and that driver will always be required to be fully educated, trained, tested, and licensed. To do otherwise is sheer madness and inviting disaster.
We have B.E.T. (Black Entertainment Television) on cable tv, but if someone made W.E.T. you can bet it'll be called racist.
We already do. It's called Spike. :p
While you're at it, how about 'Lifetime: Television for Women'? For that matter, in a world ostensibly full of equality, and race/gender/sexual orientation blindness, do we need special programming for {insert special interest group here}? Because we live in a world full of racism, bigotry, sexism, and inequality-in-general, that's why. If we actually lived in a world without those horrible qualities, we wouldn't have the vast majority of the problems of the world in general that we're seeing right now, either.
1. Data was a true, self-aware AI that you could have a decent, human-level conversation with, not some cheesy algorithm.
2. As much as I liked NextGen, it was just a TV show, not real life, there was no such actual personage as Mister Data, we're not in the 24th century, there's no Federation of Planets; it was all fiction.
3. I stand behind my original assertions.
Yes, but technique is only part of being an artist. There are plenty of artists out there who can create incredible knock-offs of famous paintings, but that can't create an original work of their own that anyone has any interest in; you can be technically talented, but have no talent for creation.
Computer Created A "Rembrandt-Themed" Graphic After Analyzing Paintings
Why? Because art is all about the artist attempting to elicit an emotional response from the person experiencing their work, and since no so-called 'AI' has actual emotions, it can't understand art, and therefore can't 'create' art.
Friend, if I had to include every single exception possible to every statement I ever made, I'd never be done typing them all out. How about we just make a general assumption that those exceptions exist, OK? ;-)
Any truly important, official communication from a government agency, or from any company demaning payment of any sort, is going to send it in a printed letter, not an email.
I'll bet that Pintsize has no problem with people touching robot butts, or any other butts for that matter
You can get more power by raising the voltage and keeping the current the same, you know. Now, how safe a 480V or 960V charging system will be with the average consumer is another matter.