That's an idea that should be considered seriously. It probably will be, eventually, and it sounds a lot more practical that pulling them. Pulling weeds takes considerable force, insulating a container of hot water a lot less. It also takes less delicate manipulators. Etc.
But using weed killer first is reasonable. It could get easier market penetration. The weed steamer (boiler?) could be sold later to the organic farms at a premium price.
Yes. I should probably have put an ellipsis in between 'If you "sort of " care about..." and "If you really don't care about...", because you're right, there are a very large number of intermediate positions. There are also a few intermediate positions between the first two positions. I guess I thought it was sufficiently obvious.
For example, one intermediate position it to use a self-hosted web platform using only the http subset that existed before javascript. Or to host your system on a box that has a read-only drive. (Since we're talking intermediate positions we could distinguish between a read only drive and a normal drive that's mounted read only.) Etc.
And there are degrees of security lower than a standard cloud platform, too.
If you really care about the security of your system, don't connect it to the net. Even indirectly.
If you "sort of " care about the security of your system, only connect it indirectly. No direct web access. Use message passing of text messages to transfer info. It's not as fast, and it takes a bit more setup, but you can don anything that way that you can the other way.
If you really don't care about security, put your data out on the cloud.
*This* article is about rice, but it's really merely replicating other studied that have been done with other plants. The details vary, but the general result is that the fruits and seeds become higher in carbohydrates and lower in minerals, vitamins, and proteins.
This should hardly be a surprising result, as increasing carbon dioxide makes carbohydrates cheaper to produce energetically. The details vary, whether it's that the plants reduce water evaporation so the acquire less minerals by transpirations or whatever, but the results are rather consistent, and seem, under consideration, to be exactly what one should expect, with the average result being that nutrients that become energetically cheaper to produce increase in proportion at the expense of the other nutrients. An undesired, and hopefully temporary, side effect is that the seeds become less likely to germinate. There will be strong evolutionary pressure to overcome that, however.
Your argument would be more believable if the slogan didn't include the word "Just". Consider the difference in meaning between: "Just don't use it, Bro". and "Don't use it, Bro!".
Even "Friends don't let friends use Facebook" is too weak a statement. I'll admit that "Burn it down and salt the earth!" is a bit too strong, however.
Algol wasn't that bad. I rather liked it. Of course, I also liked Forth... but Lisp was too expensive for me to more than try until I'd already started on C++... and I never really did get into it, though I've installed SBCL a couple of times.
I expect crickets, earthworms, etc. are here to stay as items of diet, but I don't expect them to ever become as popular as soy beans, much less hamburgers or bacon.
I wonder how a lab would go about growing bacon...
They didn't have that reputation in the US either, when I was a child. I suspect that a bunch of people embarrassed by Vietnam feel the need to feel superior, and they can say "at least we weren't conquered, so we're better". That's just a wild guess, though, as I didn't notice when the reputation began changing.
Another possibility is that it could be based on some movie that I never saw. There are probably other possibilities. It's worth noticing that the word partisan was common terminology before the word guerrilla. I first heard it used to describe members of the French underground. I don't know quite when it went out of general usage.
Were this a different administration, I'd be supportive of the move. In this case I'm quite skeptical about their motives and what they are really trying to accomplish. But breaking up an abusive monopoly is not over-reach. I just really doubt that that's what they'd be after.
Nonsense. Before they got a management transplant from Hollywood Sony had superb hardware. It was expensive, but it was superb. After they bought (and got taken over by) the media company, however, they quickly changed into a company that I will have nothing to do with even if they were to offer their stuff for free. (And the mood change to hypothetical subjunctive was intentional.)
I have know direct knowledge of anything Sony since they abused the Playstation customers by disabling Linux...and several news reports have made me glad of that.
While I acknowledge the truth of what you say, if they were to demonstrate that Octopuses used something other than mitochondria, or that their Ribosomes used a different mapping of nucleotide code to amino acid, I'd be willing to consider that they came from outside.
Check out the specifics of their Ribosomes and the genetic structure of their mitochondria. If those are near standard, then the answer has to be no. If they're wildly at variance with everyone else, I'll consider the possibility.
Even then, it would take considerable proof, because the encoding of amino acids by RNA looks as if it should be arbitrary. (This is actually a sub-comment under "specifics of their Ribosomes", but it's significant enough that I thought it rated a separate mention.)
The effect may be destroying the west, but that isn't the goal. The goal is building up China. The ways they are doing it are little different than those used by the US during the late 1700's and early 1800's.
The thing that's destroying the west isn't China building up, but the US decaying, letting it's infrastructure collapse, and dismantling its industrial capabilities.
Now if you were to claim that China is trying to become more powerful than the West, I'd agree. That's a real truth.
Note that this is in clear distinction to certain religious fanatics who actually *are* trying to destroy the US. (And they aren't all of any one particular faith.)
It's considerably worse than that. At the time Asimov wrote the stories NOBODY had any more idea of what an AI program might be like than "Eliza", which was intended to show what one wasn't. So his stories are just that. Stories. Even in their own terms they don't hold together as reality. (This is not a flaw! Stories are supposed to be gripping and entertaining, not accurate.)
Now the first problem is that Asimov assumed that you could emplant a complete program into the robot. You might be able to do that with the second one (by copying the first) but for the first you've got to be able to define what a "human being" is to something with a mind less complete than an embryo. (Here I'm being generous. Currently the best seem to be less complete than a newt embryo.) Asimov got one thing right, though. He continually repeated that the laws were only paraphrases of the actual mathematics (read programming language) which was too complex to understand...except for a few specialists. And by few he meant something like 5 people in the world.
Even so, he necessarily oversimplified the problem. Note that the programming language won't have any way to say "human". It's not like "serial I/O port" where you can give a hardware address. (Even that most current languages can't address directly. I think you can do it in C for a particular machine, but you might need to drop into assembler. When I was doing it, I needed to drop into assembler, because the subset of C that was available couldn't handle it. That was decades ago, and things have changed, but in what way?)
Recognizing that something is a command from a human essentially requires a full General AI. In fact there are lots of contexts where humans can't be sure. Sometimes it takes me several seconds to realize that the voice on the other end of the phone is a recording. Then comes the question of "Is the particular human authorized to give that kind of command? Ask for that kind of information? Etc. You don't want an unexpected visitor to your house to order two tons of creamed corn in your name...to pick one example.
Well, is snap packages actually do run in a good sandbox, it makes some sense. That would make it a lot safer to install packages from sources you don't really trust. And it would limit the damages that mistakes could cause. They should also be easy to remove, with all their requirements, configurations, etc. And it could allow packages with conflicting requirements in configuration to co-exist.
That said, snap packages are clearly inferior to a deb when it comes to required install space. And a sandbox is no panacea...as the recent snap that installed a e-coin miner demonstrated.
Well, I consider the Nook e-book reader a worse purchase than the phone, and there was some notebook device I bought a few years earlier that was still worse. I actually have uses for my phone, but it sure isn't as good as my previous non-smart phone.
OTOH, I've never been tempted to download any apps. Perhaps if I did I'd consider the smart-phone a worse purchase. (My fingers are too large to consider the phone an acceptable keyboard, even for a a short note...or perhaps it's that I learned touch typing.)
What grounds do you have for believing that they don't make their customers a product as well as demanding that they get paid.
As I said, I feel the internet should be a local utility. I'm just skeptical that the local jurisdictions will have the skills and commitment to actually run it. In that case there would be an internet bill just like there is a water bill or a garbage collection bill.
A sandbox won't stop cryptocurrency mining, and it won't stop being a DDOS node (unless the sandbox quits periodically), but it should stop having your data encrypted by someone else, or published to the net, etc.
Cryptocurrency mining isn't the worst thing that happens, and a good sandbox will stop a lot of the problems, though not all.
I think you're talking about a mesh network. They don't scale well, and with increased size the number of necessary hops climbs. Mesh networks work well on a small scale, but with increasing users they work less well even if you don't distribute them geographically. When you start adding in geographic distribution, I would expect the lag to be worse than O(n^2) where n is the number of concurrent users.
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Well...are you recommending spreading custom tailored diseases or what? I'm not sure we really want to push technology ahead in that direction.
That's an idea that should be considered seriously. It probably will be, eventually, and it sounds a lot more practical that pulling them. Pulling weeds takes considerable force, insulating a container of hot water a lot less. It also takes less delicate manipulators. Etc.
But using weed killer first is reasonable. It could get easier market penetration. The weed steamer (boiler?) could be sold later to the organic farms at a premium price.
How could you have problems with Boolean logic after a programming class and a data structures class? They must have picked a really lousy text.
Yes. I should probably have put an ellipsis in between 'If you "sort of " care about..." and "If you really don't care about ...", because you're right, there are a very large number of intermediate positions. There are also a few intermediate positions between the first two positions. I guess I thought it was sufficiently obvious.
For example, one intermediate position it to use a self-hosted web platform using only the http subset that existed before javascript. Or to host your system on a box that has a read-only drive. (Since we're talking intermediate positions we could distinguish between a read only drive and a normal drive that's mounted read only.) Etc.
And there are degrees of security lower than a standard cloud platform, too.
I'm not sure about "heroic", and I'd have added the adjective "selfish".
If you really care about the security of your system, don't connect it to the net. Even indirectly.
If you "sort of " care about the security of your system, only connect it indirectly. No direct web access. Use message passing of text messages to transfer info. It's not as fast, and it takes a bit more setup, but you can don anything that way that you can the other way.
If you really don't care about security, put your data out on the cloud.
*This* article is about rice, but it's really merely replicating other studied that have been done with other plants. The details vary, but the general result is that the fruits and seeds become higher in carbohydrates and lower in minerals, vitamins, and proteins.
This should hardly be a surprising result, as increasing carbon dioxide makes carbohydrates cheaper to produce energetically. The details vary, whether it's that the plants reduce water evaporation so the acquire less minerals by transpirations or whatever, but the results are rather consistent, and seem, under consideration, to be exactly what one should expect, with the average result being that nutrients that become energetically cheaper to produce increase in proportion at the expense of the other nutrients. An undesired, and hopefully temporary, side effect is that the seeds become less likely to germinate. There will be strong evolutionary pressure to overcome that, however.
The thing is, those gadgets only listen in the spaces controlled by the people who installed them. I can avoid them.
Facebook, though, ... perhaps I should reconsider. Perhaps "Burn them down and salt the earth!" isn't too strong.
Your argument would be more believable if the slogan didn't include the word "Just". Consider the difference in meaning between:
"Just don't use it, Bro".
and
"Don't use it, Bro!".
Even "Friends don't let friends use Facebook" is too weak a statement. I'll admit that "Burn it down and salt the earth!" is a bit too strong, however.
Algol wasn't that bad. I rather liked it. Of course, I also liked Forth... but Lisp was too expensive for me to more than try until I'd already started on C++... and I never really did get into it, though I've installed SBCL a couple of times.
I expect crickets, earthworms, etc. are here to stay as items of diet, but I don't expect them to ever become as popular as soy beans, much less hamburgers or bacon.
I wonder how a lab would go about growing bacon...
They didn't have that reputation in the US either, when I was a child. I suspect that a bunch of people embarrassed by Vietnam feel the need to feel superior, and they can say "at least we weren't conquered, so we're better". That's just a wild guess, though, as I didn't notice when the reputation began changing.
Another possibility is that it could be based on some movie that I never saw. There are probably other possibilities. It's worth noticing that the word partisan was common terminology before the word guerrilla. I first heard it used to describe members of the French underground. I don't know quite when it went out of general usage.
Were this a different administration, I'd be supportive of the move. In this case I'm quite skeptical about their motives and what they are really trying to accomplish. But breaking up an abusive monopoly is not over-reach. I just really doubt that that's what they'd be after.
Nonsense. Before they got a management transplant from Hollywood Sony had superb hardware. It was expensive, but it was superb. After they bought (and got taken over by) the media company, however, they quickly changed into a company that I will have nothing to do with even if they were to offer their stuff for free. (And the mood change to hypothetical subjunctive was intentional.)
I have know direct knowledge of anything Sony since they abused the Playstation customers by disabling Linux...and several news reports have made me glad of that.
While I acknowledge the truth of what you say, if they were to demonstrate that Octopuses used something other than mitochondria, or that their Ribosomes used a different mapping of nucleotide code to amino acid, I'd be willing to consider that they came from outside.
Check out the specifics of their Ribosomes and the genetic structure of their mitochondria. If those are near standard, then the answer has to be no. If they're wildly at variance with everyone else, I'll consider the possibility.
Even then, it would take considerable proof, because the encoding of amino acids by RNA looks as if it should be arbitrary. (This is actually a sub-comment under "specifics of their Ribosomes", but it's significant enough that I thought it rated a separate mention.)
The effect may be destroying the west, but that isn't the goal. The goal is building up China. The ways they are doing it are little different than those used by the US during the late 1700's and early 1800's.
The thing that's destroying the west isn't China building up, but the US decaying, letting it's infrastructure collapse, and dismantling its industrial capabilities.
Now if you were to claim that China is trying to become more powerful than the West, I'd agree. That's a real truth.
Note that this is in clear distinction to certain religious fanatics who actually *are* trying to destroy the US. (And they aren't all of any one particular faith.)
It's considerably worse than that. At the time Asimov wrote the stories NOBODY had any more idea of what an AI program might be like than "Eliza", which was intended to show what one wasn't. So his stories are just that. Stories. Even in their own terms they don't hold together as reality. (This is not a flaw! Stories are supposed to be gripping and entertaining, not accurate.)
Now the first problem is that Asimov assumed that you could emplant a complete program into the robot. You might be able to do that with the second one (by copying the first) but for the first you've got to be able to define what a "human being" is to something with a mind less complete than an embryo. (Here I'm being generous. Currently the best seem to be less complete than a newt embryo.) Asimov got one thing right, though. He continually repeated that the laws were only paraphrases of the actual mathematics (read programming language) which was too complex to understand...except for a few specialists. And by few he meant something like 5 people in the world.
Even so, he necessarily oversimplified the problem. Note that the programming language won't have any way to say "human". It's not like "serial I/O port" where you can give a hardware address. (Even that most current languages can't address directly. I think you can do it in C for a particular machine, but you might need to drop into assembler. When I was doing it, I needed to drop into assembler, because the subset of C that was available couldn't handle it. That was decades ago, and things have changed, but in what way?)
Recognizing that something is a command from a human essentially requires a full General AI. In fact there are lots of contexts where humans can't be sure. Sometimes it takes me several seconds to realize that the voice on the other end of the phone is a recording. Then comes the question of "Is the particular human authorized to give that kind of command? Ask for that kind of information? Etc. You don't want an unexpected visitor to your house to order two tons of creamed corn in your name...to pick one example.
Sorry, but on this issue the Democrats have been worse than the Republicans. Trump might veto it just to piss off Pelosi.
Who owns the copyrights? You seem to be assuming that the artists will own them, but I find this quite dubious.
Well, is snap packages actually do run in a good sandbox, it makes some sense. That would make it a lot safer to install packages from sources you don't really trust. And it would limit the damages that mistakes could cause. They should also be easy to remove, with all their requirements, configurations, etc. And it could allow packages with conflicting requirements in configuration to co-exist.
That said, snap packages are clearly inferior to a deb when it comes to required install space. And a sandbox is no panacea...as the recent snap that installed a e-coin miner demonstrated.
Well, I consider the Nook e-book reader a worse purchase than the phone, and there was some notebook device I bought a few years earlier that was still worse. I actually have uses for my phone, but it sure isn't as good as my previous non-smart phone.
OTOH, I've never been tempted to download any apps. Perhaps if I did I'd consider the smart-phone a worse purchase. (My fingers are too large to consider the phone an acceptable keyboard, even for a a short note...or perhaps it's that I learned touch typing.)
What grounds do you have for believing that they don't make their customers a product as well as demanding that they get paid.
As I said, I feel the internet should be a local utility. I'm just skeptical that the local jurisdictions will have the skills and commitment to actually run it. In that case there would be an internet bill just like there is a water bill or a garbage collection bill.
A sandbox won't stop cryptocurrency mining, and it won't stop being a DDOS node (unless the sandbox quits periodically), but it should stop having your data encrypted by someone else, or published to the net, etc.
Cryptocurrency mining isn't the worst thing that happens, and a good sandbox will stop a lot of the problems, though not all.
I think you're talking about a mesh network. They don't scale well, and with increased size the number of necessary hops climbs. Mesh networks work well on a small scale, but with increasing users they work less well even if you don't distribute them geographically. When you start adding in geographic distribution, I would expect the lag to be worse than O(n^2) where n is the number of concurrent users.