Spammers send email by taking control of innocent victim's email accounts and using them to launch spam. I should know, my email has been hijacked (hotmail)...but there's nothing I can do about it. I can't imagine if they tried charging ME for spam email sent from my account because they allowed someone to hack into my account.
1) Code does not write itself.
2) Code is deterministic.
This means that even if we had the technology to produce AI, it would not be capable of thinking about issues that we did not specifically program it to think about.
If an AI is created, it will not spontaneously develop things such as a sense of self, emotions, or desires. All of these things would also need to be specifically programmed. Any flexibility for it to be able to change its goals and desires would need to be specifically programmed.
The danger is not that the machine may develop dangerous desires on it's own, but that a programmer would endow it (either accidentally or intentionally) with goals that are harmful to others.
People have watched too many sci-fi movies -- the Matrix, Terminator, iRobot, they all depict armies of robots with super human abilities creating a war against mankind.
But robotics is just about as far behind that goal as the AI camp is. If we had true AI today, it would only be able to exist in software form...toys like Asimo can barely walk, trip all over the place, and wouldn't be able to hold it's own against a toddler.
So if you're afraid of progress that might someday be a vector for a machine attack, it should be desktop computers that you're most afraid of -- because an artificial intelligence virus could wreak havoc on the world.
Does that mean we should stop using computers, and stop trying to design them better? No, that would be silly -- because there is no evidence to suggest that a true AI is on the way..no evidence to suggest that progress is even being made in that direction!
The fact is, if an AI is created, it will inevitably be used for good as well as for evil, and the most dangerous battleground will be cyber-space... something that we cannot even think about protecting ourselves from without cutting off the world's dependence on computers, which just ain't happening.
Any computer scientist who is worried about AI taking over no longer deserves to be referred to as a computer scientist. The state of "artifiical intelligence" can be best described as "a pipe dream."
I went through a period of backing up things on CD's, I liked the tangible backup...I stored them in those CD booklets that hold several on a page, zipped them up and put into storage. Now when I take them out, frequently they are unreadable. No physical damage, scratching, or even light exposure. Weird huh
I have about 1 TB of data, that may be a little above average but not much. Now look at Mozy -- $3.95 + $0.5/GB per month. That means there's going to be a minimum charge of about $500 just to make the initial backup, on top of the regular monthly charge. After the original backup is made, probably looking at 100-200 GB/mo, in deltas, due to things like movies being downloaded, then deleted, etc, which would be another additional $75/mo.
None of that really matters when you consider that the upload speed is about 768Kbps, which may be subject to further throttling. I'll let you calculate how many years it will take just to make the initial backup. Oh and don't even think about doing anything like browsing the internet while you wait all those years, because your download speed will also be crippled due to the acks and whatnot you cannot quickly respond to.
In other words, I stand by my original claim of mozy backup being a joke.
All of the online backup strategies are a joke. Due to bandwidth restrictions, it would take years just to make a backup of a typical user's hard drive, and they don't offer enough space (seriously).
The cheapest form of medium currently is hard drives, so my current backup system is to have 2 equally sized 500 GB drives and I use Acronis on a schedule to do a differential backup of one drive to the other once a week during early morning hours. If the differentials start to get too large, I'll do a new full backup and start doing differentials from there again. I haven't found any backup solution that is "totally" automatic in this regard, but since it only requires manual intervention once every several months it's not a huge deal.
Having sex with a condom is like trying to eat a sandwich without taking it out of the baggie. There is less sensation through a thick condom than the imagination of sensation, and the only sensation through a thin condom is that of crinkly plastic. It's not safe to use as a contraceptive because half the time when you pull out you notice the tip ripped off during action anyway. After putting it on, there is an implicit expectation to perform and this increased pressure makes it more difficult to be relaxed. You can't go back and forth to mouth while wearing a condom which means you're putting them on and off constantly during sex. It's not far from obvious why people don't like condoms.. there are a MILLION reasons not to like condoms, the only thing that is questionable is what the top 100 reasons not to use them are for any particular man.
In other news, calculations suggest that if the entire surface of the globe were converted into a massive nuclear reactor, then we could get exceed the world's energy needs by over 1 million times. Further research will discuss possible environmental impacts of eliminating all plant and animal life, as well as using nuclear waste as drinking water.
As a graduate student without support, I basically have no income...I don't have health insurance because I can't afford it. How can you force everyone to buy health insurance? What about people like me? If this is really how it is then I'd like to take back my vote for Obama:(
Sure, I'm a computer geek...I spend countless hours every day reading online resources. But you can't replace the textbook. It's much easier to focus on what's on the page without being distracted when it's in book form, it never runs out of batteries, and it's just easier to use. There is no eReader in existence that comes close to how easy it is to use a book.
Whenever there's a paper that's really important, I still have to print it out...to get a physical copy of it that I can feel and write notes on in the margins. I just cant focus on it when its on a computer screen and I can't interact with it in that way. Adobe's markup options are not the same.
I'm not the only one. I know a lot of people who prefer to print off their PDF's before giving them a thorough read. Switching over to e-textbooks is a death sentence for learning.
Creating threads is extremely easy to do in Java,.NET and C++. We don't need "inherit" parallelism in every loop where the performance gains are negligible. The programmer knows best. The programmer can synchronize more efficiently and divide tasks more efficiently than any automated "parallelizer" ever will, and having such automated retarded languages will only reduce overall performance when you have lots of applications running, all of which might as well have been sequential, but are now all fighting for multiple cores.
1) LAN for your home
2) Play the "tie me up" game
3) Weave a hammock
4) String it out to your neighbors house and make a cup-phone (for emergencies)
5) Wind a giant electromagnet and use it to steal change out of people's pockets on the street
I'm tired of new fangled ways of interacting with my data. The "new" ways are usually just sloppier, more confusing and inefficient. Tabs work and if Mozilla loses tabs, they lose me.
There's nothing new here. As someone who studies computer vision, these is just a standard technique. I could implement this entire software system in one evening of programming.
" I send to the remote server encrypted data and later an encrypted query (the server cannot decipher them), and the server sends me back a chunk of my encrypted data stored there â" the result of my encrypted query. "
There are only 2 ways in the universe for accomplishing this, but they are both simple:
Method 1: Send entire database to user for any search query. The results are bound to be in there somewhere!
Method 2: If the server is powerful enough, brute force crack the encryption scheme, find the results, then re-encrypt it and send back to user.
Anything else would violate the definition of full encryption. Of course, you could have "partial" encryption with unencrypted meta-data that the search is performed on.
In the last decade it seems there has been more and more attempts for politicians to attempt to proliferate their uneducated opinions by passing laws that would restrict teaching of known facts.
In light of this, perhaps it is necessary to make a new constitutional amendment that prohibits non-scientists from having the final say in accepting or rejecting the results found by real scientists when it comes to education.
Because the fact of the matter is that it should be an inalienable right to teach correct information to our children
Java for internet code monkeys, C++ for anything to do with graphics, visualization, or that needs to be efficient. C# for windows GUI stuff, and the only good use of C I can think of is for writing drivers or firmware stuff. Java will probably have the most job opportunities, but thats just because most jobs are for internet code monkeys.
It is wrong to compare performance/price because this assumes price scales linearly with performance, which is clearly false.
Nobody expects to get 50% more performance when they pay 50% more. But if there is a $100 process having a performance of 1000, then we would normally consider it an excellent deal if we could pay $150 for a performance of 1300.
The value for your money therefore scales in a non-linear way, and it's better to just have everyone look at the scatter plot and choose their own price point based on their personal internal scaling function.
The core i7 has the greatest discontinuity in jumping ahead of the rest of the crowd in this regard.
all of them, including the 3d ones, run well in firefox for me...haven't tried chrome. but chrome is just too feature-light to be useful at this point, regardless of how fast it may be...
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Spammers send email by taking control of innocent victim's email accounts and using them to launch spam. I should know, my email has been hijacked (hotmail)...but there's nothing I can do about it. I can't imagine if they tried charging ME for spam email sent from my account because they allowed someone to hack into my account.
1) Code does not write itself. 2) Code is deterministic. This means that even if we had the technology to produce AI, it would not be capable of thinking about issues that we did not specifically program it to think about. If an AI is created, it will not spontaneously develop things such as a sense of self, emotions, or desires. All of these things would also need to be specifically programmed. Any flexibility for it to be able to change its goals and desires would need to be specifically programmed. The danger is not that the machine may develop dangerous desires on it's own, but that a programmer would endow it (either accidentally or intentionally) with goals that are harmful to others.
People have watched too many sci-fi movies -- the Matrix, Terminator, iRobot, they all depict armies of robots with super human abilities creating a war against mankind. But robotics is just about as far behind that goal as the AI camp is. If we had true AI today, it would only be able to exist in software form...toys like Asimo can barely walk, trip all over the place, and wouldn't be able to hold it's own against a toddler. So if you're afraid of progress that might someday be a vector for a machine attack, it should be desktop computers that you're most afraid of -- because an artificial intelligence virus could wreak havoc on the world. Does that mean we should stop using computers, and stop trying to design them better? No, that would be silly -- because there is no evidence to suggest that a true AI is on the way..no evidence to suggest that progress is even being made in that direction! The fact is, if an AI is created, it will inevitably be used for good as well as for evil, and the most dangerous battleground will be cyber-space ... something that we cannot even think about protecting ourselves from without cutting off the world's dependence on computers, which just ain't happening.
Any computer scientist who is worried about AI taking over no longer deserves to be referred to as a computer scientist. The state of "artifiical intelligence" can be best described as "a pipe dream."
I went through a period of backing up things on CD's, I liked the tangible backup...I stored them in those CD booklets that hold several on a page, zipped them up and put into storage. Now when I take them out, frequently they are unreadable. No physical damage, scratching, or even light exposure. Weird huh
I have about 1 TB of data, that may be a little above average but not much. Now look at Mozy -- $3.95 + $0.5/GB per month. That means there's going to be a minimum charge of about $500 just to make the initial backup, on top of the regular monthly charge. After the original backup is made, probably looking at 100-200 GB/mo, in deltas, due to things like movies being downloaded, then deleted, etc, which would be another additional $75/mo. None of that really matters when you consider that the upload speed is about 768Kbps, which may be subject to further throttling. I'll let you calculate how many years it will take just to make the initial backup. Oh and don't even think about doing anything like browsing the internet while you wait all those years, because your download speed will also be crippled due to the acks and whatnot you cannot quickly respond to. In other words, I stand by my original claim of mozy backup being a joke.
All of the online backup strategies are a joke. Due to bandwidth restrictions, it would take years just to make a backup of a typical user's hard drive, and they don't offer enough space (seriously). The cheapest form of medium currently is hard drives, so my current backup system is to have 2 equally sized 500 GB drives and I use Acronis on a schedule to do a differential backup of one drive to the other once a week during early morning hours. If the differentials start to get too large, I'll do a new full backup and start doing differentials from there again. I haven't found any backup solution that is "totally" automatic in this regard, but since it only requires manual intervention once every several months it's not a huge deal.
This is almost undoubtedly the case.
Having sex with a condom is like trying to eat a sandwich without taking it out of the baggie. There is less sensation through a thick condom than the imagination of sensation, and the only sensation through a thin condom is that of crinkly plastic. It's not safe to use as a contraceptive because half the time when you pull out you notice the tip ripped off during action anyway. After putting it on, there is an implicit expectation to perform and this increased pressure makes it more difficult to be relaxed. You can't go back and forth to mouth while wearing a condom which means you're putting them on and off constantly during sex. It's not far from obvious why people don't like condoms.. there are a MILLION reasons not to like condoms, the only thing that is questionable is what the top 100 reasons not to use them are for any particular man.
In other news, calculations suggest that if the entire surface of the globe were converted into a massive nuclear reactor, then we could get exceed the world's energy needs by over 1 million times. Further research will discuss possible environmental impacts of eliminating all plant and animal life, as well as using nuclear waste as drinking water.
As a graduate student without support, I basically have no income...I don't have health insurance because I can't afford it. How can you force everyone to buy health insurance? What about people like me? If this is really how it is then I'd like to take back my vote for Obama :(
Sure, I'm a computer geek...I spend countless hours every day reading online resources. But you can't replace the textbook. It's much easier to focus on what's on the page without being distracted when it's in book form, it never runs out of batteries, and it's just easier to use. There is no eReader in existence that comes close to how easy it is to use a book. Whenever there's a paper that's really important, I still have to print it out...to get a physical copy of it that I can feel and write notes on in the margins. I just cant focus on it when its on a computer screen and I can't interact with it in that way. Adobe's markup options are not the same. I'm not the only one. I know a lot of people who prefer to print off their PDF's before giving them a thorough read. Switching over to e-textbooks is a death sentence for learning.
Creating threads is extremely easy to do in Java, .NET and C++. We don't need "inherit" parallelism in every loop where the performance gains are negligible. The programmer knows best. The programmer can synchronize more efficiently and divide tasks more efficiently than any automated "parallelizer" ever will, and having such automated retarded languages will only reduce overall performance when you have lots of applications running, all of which might as well have been sequential, but are now all fighting for multiple cores.
Sounds amazingly good for a first paper on the subject, I'm sure the kinks will get worked out as more researchers ply their talent
1) LAN for your home 2) Play the "tie me up" game 3) Weave a hammock 4) String it out to your neighbors house and make a cup-phone (for emergencies) 5) Wind a giant electromagnet and use it to steal change out of people's pockets on the street
I'm tired of new fangled ways of interacting with my data. The "new" ways are usually just sloppier, more confusing and inefficient. Tabs work and if Mozilla loses tabs, they lose me.
There's nothing new here. As someone who studies computer vision, these is just a standard technique. I could implement this entire software system in one evening of programming.
Do the math..
" I send to the remote server encrypted data and later an encrypted query (the server cannot decipher them), and the server sends me back a chunk of my encrypted data stored there â" the result of my encrypted query. " There are only 2 ways in the universe for accomplishing this, but they are both simple: Method 1: Send entire database to user for any search query. The results are bound to be in there somewhere! Method 2: If the server is powerful enough, brute force crack the encryption scheme, find the results, then re-encrypt it and send back to user. Anything else would violate the definition of full encryption. Of course, you could have "partial" encryption with unencrypted meta-data that the search is performed on.
In the last decade it seems there has been more and more attempts for politicians to attempt to proliferate their uneducated opinions by passing laws that would restrict teaching of known facts. In light of this, perhaps it is necessary to make a new constitutional amendment that prohibits non-scientists from having the final say in accepting or rejecting the results found by real scientists when it comes to education. Because the fact of the matter is that it should be an inalienable right to teach correct information to our children
Java for internet code monkeys, C++ for anything to do with graphics, visualization, or that needs to be efficient. C# for windows GUI stuff, and the only good use of C I can think of is for writing drivers or firmware stuff. Java will probably have the most job opportunities, but thats just because most jobs are for internet code monkeys.
It is wrong to compare performance/price because this assumes price scales linearly with performance, which is clearly false. Nobody expects to get 50% more performance when they pay 50% more. But if there is a $100 process having a performance of 1000, then we would normally consider it an excellent deal if we could pay $150 for a performance of 1300. The value for your money therefore scales in a non-linear way, and it's better to just have everyone look at the scatter plot and choose their own price point based on their personal internal scaling function. The core i7 has the greatest discontinuity in jumping ahead of the rest of the crowd in this regard.
all of them, including the 3d ones, run well in firefox for me...haven't tried chrome. but chrome is just too feature-light to be useful at this point, regardless of how fast it may be...
The article describes a new technology for speedy discharge of batteries which is not the same as charging