Let me spell it out. Ask yourself, why is Cuba regarded as a human rights wasteland when our record, comparably, is worse in many areas? How can we live with ourselves - no, how can we not even notice it?
We don't yet have an analysis of the fake news situation or even the kinds of fake news out there. There's erroneous news (offered in good faith but wrong), unresearched news (not bothered to check even the basics), but most ominously there's manufactured fake news, created to (among many possible reasons) raise the noise level around an issue but steer people in an erroneous direction. Like cryptography, it will be an escalating war to identify and put down various kinds of fake news even as people purposefully creating it get better at walking the line between fantasy and reality.
I think we've seen it's premature to predict how Trump might react to nearly anything. Until long after his reaction is complete, there's no telling what he did. And I wish I were being sarcastic.
Headline falsely implies that the accounts were deleted because they were alt-right or far-right, when they were deleted because they used hate speech. Not a bias in viewpoint, but a cap on hate speech.
How long until implanted sensors are reporting traces from people who walk through doors touching doorknobs and push-plates, elevator buttons, ATM or credit card keypads, dragging their shoes over sensing tiles, etc., with many of their traces being associated with the phones in their pockets identified via bluetooth/wifi/cellular emissions. Or is someone already doing this?
If we automate ourselves to the point of having all this stuff around us without most of the work we've needed to get it, our task will then be how to distribute it in new ways - without work's paycheck to allocate using it all.
I'd like to know who you work with, because if you think "diversity" issues are irrelevant and your opinions drive your company, I may not want to do business with you.
Why are only workers to blame here? Companies themselves are driven by sales and profit targets, nearly every one. And nearly every one is potentially pushing the envelope of acceptance in making their numbers. This is why for-profit education and healthcare, tobacco, fast food, sugar, oil, GMOs, and nearly everything else driven by profit is suspect: because people will do what it takes to sell potentially bad stuff to you in the name of making their numbers.
These security experts wouldn't recommend it, but they're relying on security through obscurity. Think about it, but don't actually think about *it* because that might endanger the security experts.
I'm also wondering if we'll eventually be eating modified cow-carcass torsos raised in an enclosed factory and connected to input and output tubes, making veal-raising look like organic farming.
I'm worried about evil-doers attaching nasty stuff to drones and sending them into crowds like a packed stadium. Prolly not a good idea to allow flying things near crowds until they can be regulated, monitored, controlled.
Add to this the great volume of doctors, interns, nurses, technicians, assistants, etc. that need access to these understaffed and overly busy places, and that come and go frequently. You arrive at a unit in the hospital and everything is password protected, all the passwords are different, and you need to get into many of them to do your job and help people in various stages of critical need. Nobody has taken the time to tell you what the common passwords are (for getting into locked rooms) or even given you your personal authorization to get at med dispensing machines, because they don't have the 15 minutes needed to do that (they'll get to this a little later when the breathing is stabilized or the pain is addressed). Don't be surprised that security is squarely in the way of getting things done, but make it easier for people to survive and be productive in this kind of environment.
I'd rather believe he's joking than serious. forget spaghetti - replace Russell's teapot with a gamer? "Prove me wrong - you can't do it" is not proof you're right.
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how can we monetize it?
Let me spell it out. Ask yourself, why is Cuba regarded as a human rights wasteland when our record, comparably, is worse in many areas? How can we live with ourselves - no, how can we not even notice it?
And the US still imprisons a greater % of our people than Castro did his. So check your human rights violations in the mirror.
We don't yet have an analysis of the fake news situation or even the kinds of fake news out there. There's erroneous news (offered in good faith but wrong), unresearched news (not bothered to check even the basics), but most ominously there's manufactured fake news, created to (among many possible reasons) raise the noise level around an issue but steer people in an erroneous direction. Like cryptography, it will be an escalating war to identify and put down various kinds of fake news even as people purposefully creating it get better at walking the line between fantasy and reality.
I think we've seen it's premature to predict how Trump might react to nearly anything. Until long after his reaction is complete, there's no telling what he did.
And I wish I were being sarcastic.
Headline falsely implies that the accounts were deleted because they were alt-right or far-right, when they were deleted because they used hate speech. Not a bias in viewpoint, but a cap on hate speech.
How long until implanted sensors are reporting traces from people who walk through doors touching doorknobs and push-plates, elevator buttons, ATM or credit card keypads, dragging their shoes over sensing tiles, etc., with many of their traces being associated with the phones in their pockets identified via bluetooth/wifi/cellular emissions.
Or is someone already doing this?
Are the rumors true that the iphone 9 will do away with speakers?
If we automate ourselves to the point of having all this stuff around us without most of the work we've needed to get it, our task will then be how to distribute it in new ways - without work's paycheck to allocate using it all.
Finally! All these safety regulations will be enforced because mining Co's won't want to damage their precious intelligent machines.
I'd like to know who you work with, because if you think "diversity" issues are irrelevant and your opinions drive your company, I may not want to do business with you.
Ok - I thought the story was the Clinton campaign and the possibility of VP choices with assets from which they could not divest, properly or at all.
Why are only workers to blame here?
Companies themselves are driven by sales and profit targets, nearly every one. And nearly every one is potentially pushing the envelope of acceptance in making their numbers. This is why for-profit education and healthcare, tobacco, fast food, sugar, oil, GMOs, and nearly everything else driven by profit is suspect: because people will do what it takes to sell potentially bad stuff to you in the name of making their numbers.
A "kill sledgehammer" works for the same reasons.
These security experts wouldn't recommend it, but they're relying on security through obscurity.
Think about it, but don't actually think about *it* because that might endanger the security experts.
I'm also wondering if we'll eventually be eating modified cow-carcass torsos raised in an enclosed factory and connected to input and output tubes, making veal-raising look like organic farming.
Especially if these new aircraft come free with a subscription to the wireless network that supports them.
He's the scammer formerly known as Prince.
i will keep this in mind the next time I drive to Australia. I'd hate to miss it entirely.
I'm worried about evil-doers attaching nasty stuff to drones and sending them into crowds like a packed stadium. Prolly not a good idea to allow flying things near crowds until they can be regulated, monitored, controlled.
Arrrh, matey! In honor of Walt Disney, it's copy like a pirate day!
Add to this the great volume of doctors, interns, nurses, technicians, assistants, etc. that need access to these understaffed and overly busy places, and that come and go frequently. You arrive at a unit in the hospital and everything is password protected, all the passwords are different, and you need to get into many of them to do your job and help people in various stages of critical need. Nobody has taken the time to tell you what the common passwords are (for getting into locked rooms) or even given you your personal authorization to get at med dispensing machines, because they don't have the 15 minutes needed to do that (they'll get to this a little later when the breathing is stabilized or the pain is addressed). Don't be surprised that security is squarely in the way of getting things done, but make it easier for people to survive and be productive in this kind of environment.
It's official - we live in a post-factual democracy.
Sympathies to all my fellow EU citizens, and especially to my ex-EU UK unfortunates.
You can still buy a toilet with a tank over it too.
We shouldn't be building any of these until we make an effort to max out renewables.
I'd rather believe he's joking than serious. forget spaghetti - replace Russell's teapot with a gamer?
"Prove me wrong - you can't do it" is not proof you're right.