No, but this is refering to cloud email services. So the better question is "How would you use gmail for phishing". The answer to which is "very easily".
Because thats what we are talking about here. People abusing zohos email service, and then millions of people getting punished for it.
Zoho are a major cloud provider for office stuff including email.
Sure there might be some people using it for phishing, but I'd wager they are using gmail, yahoo mail, microsoft 365 mail etc etc.
Should they ALSO be taken offline everytime someone abuses the service? We're talking potentially billions of people constantly (Possibly hundreds of times a day) losing access.
I mean how much guilt by association are we talking here?
What authority does the gov't have in stopping "common platforms" from censoring people as they see fit? The 1st Amendment does not cover private companies.
They don't , and these sorts of bills won't last 10 seconds in front of a judge, as they are straight up bills of attainder and expressly forbidden under the constitution.
When will Apple switch OSX desktops and laptops to its ARM chips? I think they could give Intel a serious competition.
Forget the laptops. I wanna see OSX on the phone with some sort of dock so I can drop a phone into it and use it as my main PC. Its honestly not that far off, these days, its just iOS would not be an ideal desktop os. But OSX with an iOS mode that could drop in and out of depending on docked, that'd be pretty awesome. I know ubuntu did some experiments to this effect, I'm just not sure anyone actually used the damn thing because who the heck owns a "ubuntu" phone anyway.
Qualcomm 845 hammers iPhone X in GPU which means Qualcomm is faster for games. Probably beats the XS too, and the Qualcomm is almost a year older. Apple spent a bunch of transistors in the wrong place.
Well next time I plug my iphone into the tv set and drop a game disk into the slot I'll keep that in mind.
Meanwhile I'll keep using my phone for things that aren't games...
Wasn't this ESR's bizaro paranoid claim that eeeeeebil SJWs would form some sort of weird left wing conspiracy to blackmail Linus Torvalds for, uh no reason.
The previous administration struggled to push legislation, because the GOP openly had a policy of "We wont allow any bill that comes from the democrats" regardless of its merits. Even if it was completely apolitical (in the left/right sense) or whatever, it was blocked because a democrat raised it, or Obama proposed it (ESPECIALLY if Obama proposed it).
Using a GAN to generate fakes won't produce novel data that wasn't in the originals, but what it can do is pull out features common to the particular original dataset to throw into new falsified pseudo scans which can be used for further training or study. It kind of seems tit-about-ass, but this is a job GANs have proven adept at in other fields.
Think of it this way;-
Algorithm 1 says "Hey, I'm having trouble understanding these diagrams. I dont have enough examples to study."
Algorithm 2 says: "No worry little buddy, I'll draw you up some more diagrams!!!!"
Human says: "Well why not just get algorithm 2 to understand the diagram?"
Algorithm 2 says: "Sorry pal.All I know how to do is draw diagrams for Algorithm 1!!!!!!"
In a way we're back to the problem thats plagued philosophers since time immemorial. Can we trust what we percieve? Do we go back to Hume and trust nothing, or back off a little and say Well we aren't entirely sure, but we do have this fantastic cognitive ability to sort through it and hopefully come to the right conclusions, while accepting we kinda see what we wanna see.
No good answers here, other than this really isn't as new as we think. We've always had to contend with untruths.
The difference is, for most of out history most of what we knew was kind of nonsense anyway. We didn't understand health, science, most people had little idea how things worked in the Capital or the Kings court, and for the most part knew how to get food, drive a horse, and die at 50 of some ridiculous plague we think was caused by miasmas.
Paracetomol is the absolute worst thing in the world for overdoses. A nurse friend told me the worst tragedy she's seen, and seen it more than once, is teenage girls brought in after a massive overdose of paracetomol. No, they don't die in the emergency ward, in fact they rarely seem sick at all (Generally they've oassed out from the codeine in the paracetomol, not the paracetomol itself which is non drowsy).
But if they don;'t get to it in time, that paracetomol WILL kill them, just not over night. Rather it'll happen over a few weeks, in the form of a slow shutdown of the organs, quite irreversably, as the teenage girl suddenly realises that this shit is real and they are going to die and now don't want to die. And its a horrible, screaming misery and pain filled death.
I sometimes think if "the aliens" ever did come down (which they won't , I have pretty strong doubts about the UFO guff) , their impression will be something like;-
"Well, these guys are centuries away from FTL, they've got some garbage ideas about how to run a planet, their still pumping CO2 into the air, and dear god what the hell is with this war business.
All in all, a primative, aggressive backwards ass planet. With one major exception. They've come absolutely miles with their computing abilities in a very short period of time. What they lack in basic SPACEMATH they've compensated by building astonishingly powerful computers so they can brute force the problems. With all that said, no hoverboards yet".
His views are held by many of the working researchers. this is a variant of the Stamp Collector problem in AI. If you tasked an all-powerful General AI to get "as many postage stamps as possible", whats to stop it deciding that eventually humans are a rich source in carbon that could be converted to stamps.Its a ssemingly trite mental experiment, but theres not a lot of safeguards possible particularly if your GAI decides "These rules I've been given, I'd be more successful if I self programmed them out of me"
Cultural intelligence is one possible solution, if the AI is given as an important goal "Don't offend the rules of human culture".
Of course it could still potentially decide THAT rule isnt as important as "get all the postage stamps" but ya gotta start somewhere.
I had something happen to me like this. I had some surgery last year that was notorious for being really goddamn painful. I agreed only on the condition that the doc implement a pain management plan. Essentially Oxycontin for 4 weeks followed by 2 weeks of tapering off. After the surgery, a hospital ADMINISTRATOR decided that they where going to block sending me home with the meds or a script for them due to controversies in the media. I ended up in stupid amounts of bleeding everywhere pain at my parents house, and fortunately my dad had some pills lying around to get me through the night and in the morning I went to the GP who was absolutely furious that they did THAT procedure on me without letting me have pain killer. In fact the GP told me his usual recomendation for that particular procedure is a week or two INPATIENT recovery on morphine and possibly Ketamine if the morphine isn't cutting it.
I was incredibly tempted to ask my lawyer to file suit against the hospital. My surgical consent was ONLY given on the condition of adequate pain relief, and some fuck-head business suit decided to override the anaesthesiologists judgement. Worst of all Insurance threatened not to cover it, because in their view that particular procedure is irregular without adequate pain relief. Fortunately the Hospital itself smoothed that nonsense out for me.
Heres the thing that drives me nuts. Literally every single use case for the block chain re "contracts", can be done faster, vastly more securely, and with no concievable 51% style attack that doesn't involve "Solve the prime number prediction problem that probably is unsolveable" thing.
Its called "Public Key Signing" and its been common since the 1970s. I got to a ballot box, create a vote. I use my Private key to sign it. The govt uses their private key to sign it. I have the govts public key and can verify that they, and only they, recieved it. The govt has my public key and can verify that me, and only me, created and signed that vote.
Theres still an anonymizing issue, but its not hard to just strip identifiers off the big ol' bucket of public keys, so that the govt just has a list of verified public keys, but has willingly stripped off identification from them. Perhaps this part would be supervised by the judicial branch to ensure no shitbag politicians are stealing ids to punish voters later on.
Perfect security. Perfect verification, and as long as the anonymization process happens correctly, perfect anonymity.
Deep state operatives tell you they're working for the American people,
Just dropping in for the daily reminder that "The Deep State" isn't actually a thing that exists other than as a weasel word for "people the president doesnt like".
[blockquote]Musk called a guy a pedo (child), not a pedophile (child lover). [/quote]
Literally nobody speaks this way. It certainly wouldn't fly in a courtroom (The test is usually "What inference would a reasonable person make?") and when you rules lawyer everyday speech in real life, you just sound like one of those confused people that thinks playing dumb on word meanings somehow makes them..... clever. Hint: It doesn't.
[quote]Blind gullability and livestock-like herd behavior. Which leads to the worst type of conspiracy theorist there is: The anticonspiracy theorist.[/quote]
Yeah but thats a bit of a strawman dude. Nobody really believes that *no* conspiracies exist. I mean maybe one or two folks genuinely believe that spy agencies dont.... uh.... spy or whatever.
But lets be honest. 99% of conspiracy theories are blatent bullshit.
There was never a pizza sex dungeon run by Hillary from her lizard spacecraft. Q is a 4 chan troll who has no idea what happens in washington , and every prediction he's made has come false.
Climate change actually is real and caused by humans, and theres no vast conspiracy of scientists to lie about physics dating back to the 1800s.
September 11 really was done by Bin Laden boys, just like bin laden said they did.
And we *know* these things to be true because the alternative just isn't how the world actually works.
Whetever his qualifications are, he's right about one thing. The human capacity for conspiracy theories is ancient,
Back in the early days of Anthropology, anthropologists and the general public where fairly convinced canibalism was *everywhere* in the "primative" world. But as it turned out, whenever they'd actually try and find canibals, well they where no where to be found. In fact with a couple of notable exceptions, canibalism is more or less a myth. What was ACTUALLY going on, was many tribes where convinced the neighboring enemy tribe was in fact canibalism, and that made THEM the bad guys. Everytime someone went missing on a hunt, well , canibals. Got mauled by an animal? Canibals. And if it wasn't canibals, it was evil sorcerers. But the key here is, every village they'd ask would say they where not canibals, the OTHER guys where the canibals.
I kinf of think conspiracy theories work the same way. Its a way of reasoning about mysterious or unexplainable shit, by positing that everything bad that happens, was some guys evil plot. Nothing bad happens by chance, theres always SOMEONE to blame. Its a convenient way to hold onto viewpoints unsupported by the evidence. Don't like climate change? Well just blame a vast spooky c,onspiracy of scientists lying about physics. Any evidence presented to the contrary is just the man lying to you. Confused about why there seems to be lots more people with autism? MUST BE VACCINES. Sure the docs will tell you "theres more diagnoses of autism because the definition changed" , but thats just what THEY want you to believe. Its a perfectly sealed mode of thinking, all evidence your wrong just proves how vast the conspiracy is.Theres no escape from it.
And yeaah, the internets making that shit a lot worse. In the olden days, oral folk-myths travelled about as far as the edge of town. Nowdays, its global. You can chose from *all sorts* of crazy now.
Having worked on systems fire crew in Australia use, it's not as simple as that. In a well run fire fighting system there's tonnes, gigabytes and potentially terrabytes of data flying about , GIS fuel (ie how deep leaf matter is in places etc etc etc) maps, data on how the wind is behaving as superheated smoke starts fucking with local pressure systems, fire behavioural models, as well as complicated logistics to get fire fighters in and civilians out of the fight.whilst monitoring safety and trying to anticipate medical and infrastructure requirements in real time. I agree this isn't something that should be entrusted to cheap and nasty consumer broadband , but it's absolutely not something that can be replaced with Walky-talky radios.
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Dad! I told you to stop posting jokes on my tech sites!
No, but this is refering to cloud email services. So the better question is "How would you use gmail for phishing". The answer to which is "very easily".
Because thats what we are talking about here. People abusing zohos email service, and then millions of people getting punished for it.
Zoho are a major cloud provider for office stuff including email.
Sure there might be some people using it for phishing, but I'd wager they are using gmail, yahoo mail, microsoft 365 mail etc etc.
Should they ALSO be taken offline everytime someone abuses the service? We're talking potentially billions of people constantly (Possibly hundreds of times a day) losing access.
I mean how much guilt by association are we talking here?
They don't , and these sorts of bills won't last 10 seconds in front of a judge, as they are straight up bills of attainder and expressly forbidden under the constitution.
Forget the laptops. I wanna see OSX on the phone with some sort of dock so I can drop a phone into it and use it as my main PC. Its honestly not that far off, these days, its just iOS would not be an ideal desktop os. But OSX with an iOS mode that could drop in and out of depending on docked, that'd be pretty awesome. I know ubuntu did some experiments to this effect, I'm just not sure anyone actually used the damn thing because who the heck owns a "ubuntu" phone anyway.
Well next time I plug my iphone into the tv set and drop a game disk into the slot I'll keep that in mind.
Meanwhile I'll keep using my phone for things that aren't games...
Wasn't this ESR's bizaro paranoid claim that eeeeeebil SJWs would form some sort of weird left wing conspiracy to blackmail Linus Torvalds for, uh no reason.
The previous administration struggled to push legislation, because the GOP openly had a policy of "We wont allow any bill that comes from the democrats" regardless of its merits. Even if it was completely apolitical (in the left/right sense) or whatever, it was blocked because a democrat raised it, or Obama proposed it (ESPECIALLY if Obama proposed it).
Using a GAN to generate fakes won't produce novel data that wasn't in the originals, but what it can do is pull out features common to the particular original dataset to throw into new falsified pseudo scans which can be used for further training or study. It kind of seems tit-about-ass, but this is a job GANs have proven adept at in other fields.
Think of it this way;-
Algorithm 1 says "Hey, I'm having trouble understanding these diagrams. I dont have enough examples to study."
Algorithm 2 says: "No worry little buddy, I'll draw you up some more diagrams!!!!"
Human says: "Well why not just get algorithm 2 to understand the diagram?"
Algorithm 2 says: "Sorry pal.All I know how to do is draw diagrams for Algorithm 1!!!!!!"
In a way we're back to the problem thats plagued philosophers since time immemorial. Can we trust what we percieve? Do we go back to Hume and trust nothing, or back off a little and say Well we aren't entirely sure, but we do have this fantastic cognitive ability to sort through it and hopefully come to the right conclusions, while accepting we kinda see what we wanna see.
No good answers here, other than this really isn't as new as we think. We've always had to contend with untruths.
The difference is, for most of out history most of what we knew was kind of nonsense anyway. We didn't understand health, science, most people had little idea how things worked in the Capital or the Kings court, and for the most part knew how to get food, drive a horse, and die at 50 of some ridiculous plague we think was caused by miasmas.
Oh jesus, so large amounts of parecetomol?
Paracetomol is the absolute worst thing in the world for overdoses. A nurse friend told me the worst tragedy she's seen, and seen it more than once, is teenage girls brought in after a massive overdose of paracetomol. No, they don't die in the emergency ward, in fact they rarely seem sick at all (Generally they've oassed out from the codeine in the paracetomol, not the paracetomol itself which is non drowsy).
But if they don;'t get to it in time, that paracetomol WILL kill them, just not over night. Rather it'll happen over a few weeks, in the form of a slow shutdown of the organs, quite irreversably, as the teenage girl suddenly realises that this shit is real and they are going to die and now don't want to die. And its a horrible, screaming misery and pain filled death.
Horrific stuff.
I sometimes think if "the aliens" ever did come down (which they won't , I have pretty strong doubts about the UFO guff) , their impression will be something like;-
"Well, these guys are centuries away from FTL, they've got some garbage ideas about how to run a planet, their still pumping CO2 into the air, and dear god what the hell is with this war business.
All in all, a primative, aggressive backwards ass planet. With one major exception. They've come absolutely miles with their computing abilities in a very short period of time. What they lack in basic SPACEMATH they've compensated by building astonishingly powerful computers so they can brute force the problems. With all that said, no hoverboards yet".
His views are held by many of the working researchers. this is a variant of the Stamp Collector problem in AI. If you tasked an all-powerful General AI to get "as many postage stamps as possible", whats to stop it deciding that eventually humans are a rich source in carbon that could be converted to stamps.Its a ssemingly trite mental experiment, but theres not a lot of safeguards possible particularly if your GAI decides "These rules I've been given, I'd be more successful if I self programmed them out of me"
Cultural intelligence is one possible solution, if the AI is given as an important goal "Don't offend the rules of human culture".
Of course it could still potentially decide THAT rule isnt as important as "get all the postage stamps" but ya gotta start somewhere.
I had something happen to me like this. I had some surgery last year that was notorious for being really goddamn painful. I agreed only on the condition that the doc implement a pain management plan. Essentially Oxycontin for 4 weeks followed by 2 weeks of tapering off. After the surgery, a hospital ADMINISTRATOR decided that they where going to block sending me home with the meds or a script for them due to controversies in the media. I ended up in stupid amounts of bleeding everywhere pain at my parents house, and fortunately my dad had some pills lying around to get me through the night and in the morning I went to the GP who was absolutely furious that they did THAT procedure on me without letting me have pain killer. In fact the GP told me his usual recomendation for that particular procedure is a week or two INPATIENT recovery on morphine and possibly Ketamine if the morphine isn't cutting it.
I was incredibly tempted to ask my lawyer to file suit against the hospital. My surgical consent was ONLY given on the condition of adequate pain relief, and some fuck-head business suit decided to override the anaesthesiologists judgement. Worst of all Insurance threatened not to cover it, because in their view that particular procedure is irregular without adequate pain relief. Fortunately the Hospital itself smoothed that nonsense out for me.
Heres the thing that drives me nuts. Literally every single use case for the block chain re "contracts", can be done faster, vastly more securely, and with no concievable 51% style attack that doesn't involve "Solve the prime number prediction problem that probably is unsolveable" thing.
Its called "Public Key Signing" and its been common since the 1970s. I got to a ballot box, create a vote. I use my Private key to sign it. The govt uses their private key to sign it. I have the govts public key and can verify that they, and only they, recieved it. The govt has my public key and can verify that me, and only me, created and signed that vote.
Theres still an anonymizing issue, but its not hard to just strip identifiers off the big ol' bucket of public keys, so that the govt just has a list of verified public keys, but has willingly stripped off identification from them. Perhaps this part would be supervised by the judicial branch to ensure no shitbag politicians are stealing ids to punish voters later on.
Perfect security. Perfect verification, and as long as the anonymization process happens correctly, perfect anonymity.
Yes, but everybody knew. It stopped being an engineering problem and became a political problem.
Just dropping in for the daily reminder that "The Deep State" isn't actually a thing that exists other than as a weasel word for "people the president doesnt like".
Neither of which are remotely related to any of this , except in the minds of the most magical thinkers.
[blockquote]Musk called a guy a pedo (child), not a pedophile (child lover). [/quote]
Literally nobody speaks this way. It certainly wouldn't fly in a courtroom (The test is usually "What inference would a reasonable person make?") and when you rules lawyer everyday speech in real life, you just sound like one of those confused people that thinks playing dumb on word meanings somehow makes them..... clever. Hint: It doesn't.
[quote]Blind gullability and livestock-like herd behavior. Which leads to the worst type of conspiracy theorist there is: The anticonspiracy theorist.[/quote]
Yeah but thats a bit of a strawman dude. Nobody really believes that *no* conspiracies exist. I mean maybe one or two folks genuinely believe that spy agencies dont.... uh.... spy or whatever.
But lets be honest. 99% of conspiracy theories are blatent bullshit.
There was never a pizza sex dungeon run by Hillary from her lizard spacecraft.
Q is a 4 chan troll who has no idea what happens in washington , and every prediction he's made has come false.
Climate change actually is real and caused by humans, and theres no vast conspiracy of scientists to lie about physics dating back to the 1800s.
September 11 really was done by Bin Laden boys, just like bin laden said they did.
And we *know* these things to be true because the alternative just isn't how the world actually works.
Whetever his qualifications are, he's right about one thing. The human capacity for conspiracy theories is ancient,
Back in the early days of Anthropology, anthropologists and the general public where fairly convinced canibalism was *everywhere* in the "primative" world. But as it turned out, whenever they'd actually try and find canibals, well they where no where to be found. In fact with a couple of notable exceptions, canibalism is more or less a myth. What was ACTUALLY going on, was many tribes where convinced the neighboring enemy tribe was in fact canibalism, and that made THEM the bad guys. Everytime someone went missing on a hunt, well , canibals. Got mauled by an animal? Canibals. And if it wasn't canibals, it was evil sorcerers. But the key here is, every village they'd ask would say they where not canibals, the OTHER guys where the canibals.
I kinf of think conspiracy theories work the same way. Its a way of reasoning about mysterious or unexplainable shit, by positing that everything bad that happens, was some guys evil plot. Nothing bad happens by chance, theres always SOMEONE to blame. Its a convenient way to hold onto viewpoints unsupported by the evidence. Don't like climate change? Well just blame a vast spooky c,onspiracy of scientists lying about physics. Any evidence presented to the contrary is just the man lying to you. Confused about why there seems to be lots more people with autism? MUST BE VACCINES. Sure the docs will tell you "theres more diagnoses of autism because the definition changed" , but thats just what THEY want you to believe. Its a perfectly sealed mode of thinking, all evidence your wrong just proves how vast the conspiracy is.Theres no escape from it.
And yeaah, the internets making that shit a lot worse. In the olden days, oral folk-myths travelled about as far as the edge of town. Nowdays, its global. You can chose from *all sorts* of crazy now.
Invasive introduced (likely by ship bilges) species that's doing a monster truck load of damage
Having worked on systems fire crew in Australia use, it's not as simple as that. In a well run fire fighting system there's tonnes, gigabytes and potentially terrabytes of data flying about , GIS fuel (ie how deep leaf matter is in places etc etc etc) maps, data on how the wind is behaving as superheated smoke starts fucking with local pressure systems, fire behavioural models, as well as complicated logistics to get fire fighters in and civilians out of the fight.whilst monitoring safety and trying to anticipate medical and infrastructure requirements in real time.
I agree this isn't something that should be entrusted to cheap and nasty consumer broadband , but it's absolutely not something that can be replaced with Walky-talky radios.
It did, and there was. Pay attention.
Q IS ABOUT TO ROUND UP ALL THE SJWS AND PUT THEM ON THE MOON WITH THE EVOLUTIONISTS AND CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
I think thats how it goes right? Its getting a bit hard to follow the increasingly loony threads of it.