People have made a big deal about pay-for-play in the transmission of data on the internet and claimed Net Neutrality is needed to curb abuses, yet apparently it's okie-dokie for information gatekeepers like Google/Facebook/et al to make money by prioritizing things. If NN is needed in the one area, I'd think it would be needed everywhere.
If drone tech gets to this point, why have letter carriers hoofing a beat when drones could do those deliveries?
Another thing that comes to mind in an era of drones and self-driving cars: why does San Francisco's BART need human operators any more? BART and other subway systems are an even more controlled and predictable environment than open roads or skies, so we ought to be automating those already.
... it was "white flight" when middle-class people abandoned crime-infested, poor, dirty urban areas, and it was deemed bad. Now that people are moving back into these areas and the crime and dirt and poverty are leaving, it's "gentrification" and it's deemed bad.
Schneider did not explain how eliminating net neutrality rules preserved anyone's "free speech rights.
Nor has Nancy Pelosi explained her claim that rolling back the "Net Neutrality"* rules would result in "chilling competition, hurting consumers and punishing entrepreneurs and small businesses".
* Quoted because the rule change covered much much more than that.
I can see it already. The next place this will be popping up is in Terms Of Service. If you use our products, you agree to abide by our code of social conduct, including but not limited to: not offending any group we deem worthy of protection, questioning climate change theory, or voting Republican.
If you can be punished for doing something, then you are not free to do it.
You are perfectly free to do it, and then you will receive your expected consequence. In the US legal frame, that consequence will not be criminal prosecution. Didn't you learn that in grade school?
Incurring a penalty is the polar opposite of being free to do something.
"I have asked the law department to review this question and give (the department) guidance."
Translation: We've gotten enormous blowback and are scurrying for some face-saving way to roll this back before the torch-and-pitchfork crowd descends on us.
The news these days is continually awash in tales of nefarious goings-on, but almost always from anonymous sources, and no less the case here. When some leaker puts out an insider scoop (or some reporter invents one) without a name attached, remember that it's to serve someone's agenda and treat it like a rumor, because that's what it is.
It will be interesting to see what the cops claimed in their application for a search warrant, such as their reason to suspect the phone was stolen. Somebody screwed up royally here.
I saw recently that rats had eaten the outer sheathing of some mains wiring in my house, but not the insulation of the inner individual wires. I suspected at the time that there's something extra delicious about the outer covering.
This is the invitation for all these locales to submit their best and final offers. I'm guessing Bezos already has the spot picked out, but just wants to make sure he's gotten the sweetest deal they can be induced to cough up.
Just because there's no overall benefit to the population as a whole doesn't necessarily mean that a treatment is ineffective for everybody. I think you need to tease out a lot of factors and see if it might be effective for, to use a silly example, left-handed redheaded women under 45 who are taller than 5 feet. Examining every potential combo sounds tedious, I know, but maybe that's where AI could shine.
The Birkenstock crowd has a rep for being the laid-back hippie Earthmother types. This guy sounds like he's engaged in a scorched-earth battle with Amazon and is willing to burn down anyone else who gets in his way.
I'm surprised that a "no cash" policy hasn't attracted lawsuits from advocacy organizations for the homeless or illegal immigrants. If you're somebody living on the street or unable to establish an account due to being in the US illegally, then if you want to pay cash for some food you're out of luck.
How is it worse that the USA's mysterious "no-fly" lists or the TSA groping everybody who wants to travel somewhere in the USA?
In its scope, if nothing else. Checkpoints every couple hundred yards, mass examination of cell phones, forbidden apps, entry/exit of the region strictly controlled and recorded, etc. TSA has nothing approaching this, and it's limited mostly to airports (although it's showing up increasingly at other transportation hubs). And this is only the beginning. China is working its way toward a system of scoring all of its citizens regarding their social value, kind of like a FICO score except encompassing one's entire life and social interactions. The score will in part determine your qualification for good jobs, housing, credit, etc. It's positively diabolical in that one's associations with others enters into the score, so there'll be a penalty if you hang around with folks who have low-scores, meaning society itself will be enlisted in assuring conformance to whatever code authorities want enforced.
Police camera video should be viewable by the public or the cameras should be removed. The public should have exactly the same access as the police to this video.
No. I don't want everything I do in public subject to showing up on Facebook et al. I'd go along with requiring the cops to make it available for viewing at a station or other facility, but with no copying allowed, absent a court order.
I'd rather pay to ride public transit or drive my own car instead of living in that dystopian hell. If you think that's a realistic view of the future, I weep for your parents -- they clearly failed you -- and humanity in general.
Both your preferred options will still be available to you, so I don't get what the problem is. If you don't like it, don't use it. And I'm sure you'll also be able to engage an autonomous vehicle for a fee that will take you directly to your destination. In fact, I expect that if you're in a hurry you'll be able to "bribe" other autonomous cars to make way for yours so that you can speed along. For those with no money though, it'll be a blessing to be able to travel for no out-of-pocket expenditure, at the cost of their time.
Here's one response I would expect: the choice of what data used as inputs is itself discriminatory. Everyone knows that fewer or more [insert race here] people do [insert behavior here], and by you choosing that behavior as an input, you're automatically discriminating against that race.
If a model of, say, the likelihood of recidivism or the probability of loan default results in disparate results for different races, yet can be shown to be accurate in terms of ability to predict, is that discriminatory? I can see that happening with A.I. systems where the datasets are fed in and the black box then spits out results that, while accurate, are completely opaque as to how the results are obtained. Is congruence with observed reality a defense against charges of racism?
How long (or maybe it's happening already) before law enforcement dragoons Facebook into watching for people of interest and letting them know that a picture of any of those folks has just shown up, who posted it, metadata, etc.? This sounds way easier for the cops than setting up their own surveillance and face recognition systems.
Anyone else get a little creeped out at the implications of Tesla "tracking usage and driver behavior" and controlling what you can do with the car accordingly? It has the feel of a software license or website's Terms Of Service. What other future behavior might they decide to prohibit? "Oh, look, you exceeded the speed limit twelve times. Reckless behavior voids your warranty."
Somebody attempted this with an organization for which I administrate a website. They got the Treasurer's email from the site and spoofed the President's email address, asking for the current account balances. Fortunately, the Treasurer wrote to the group's secretary and asked her to handle the request. When she called the President about it, he said he had no idea what she was talking about.
Scam never sleeps.
I used to boot my computer using a boot tape. Much easier than toggling in the bootstrap using the switches on the control panel.
We had to hand-key-in the loader that loaded the boot tape. If you paid the extra moolah, you could buy the ROM (or whatever it was in those days) that would do the job that the hand-keying did. We didn't buy that.
EPROMs you had to erase under ultraviolet light
Keying in the bootloader on your minicomputer using front panel switches
Taking your card deck to the "computer center", then waiting a few hours to go get your printout
Turning off the TV and seeing the picture collapse to a little bright dot that slowly fades away
Mylar punch tape for those programs you either couldn't afford to lose or that you loaded over and over and over again
Wall-mounted punch tape rewinders
Computers with a vast array of front-panel light/buttons representing registers, which you could alter by pressing them
Calculators that had stations wired to a base unit via half-inch-thick cables, and that cost more than your car
Guys who'd come to your house with dairy products and leave them on your doorstep
Drive-in movie theaters
Leading up to the announcement, I've heard at least four podcast interviews in which he makes the case for scuttling NN. And does so quite well, I might add.
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People have made a big deal about pay-for-play in the transmission of data on the internet and claimed Net Neutrality is needed to curb abuses, yet apparently it's okie-dokie for information gatekeepers like Google/Facebook/et al to make money by prioritizing things. If NN is needed in the one area, I'd think it would be needed everywhere.
If drone tech gets to this point, why have letter carriers hoofing a beat when drones could do those deliveries? Another thing that comes to mind in an era of drones and self-driving cars: why does San Francisco's BART need human operators any more? BART and other subway systems are an even more controlled and predictable environment than open roads or skies, so we ought to be automating those already.
... it was "white flight" when middle-class people abandoned crime-infested, poor, dirty urban areas, and it was deemed bad. Now that people are moving back into these areas and the crime and dirt and poverty are leaving, it's "gentrification" and it's deemed bad.
Nor has Nancy Pelosi explained her claim that rolling back the "Net Neutrality"* rules would result in "chilling competition, hurting consumers and punishing entrepreneurs and small businesses".
* Quoted because the rule change covered much much more than that.
I can see it already. The next place this will be popping up is in Terms Of Service. If you use our products, you agree to abide by our code of social conduct, including but not limited to: not offending any group we deem worthy of protection, questioning climate change theory, or voting Republican.
If you can be punished for doing something, then you are not free to do it.
You are perfectly free to do it, and then you will receive your expected consequence. In the US legal frame, that consequence will not be criminal prosecution. Didn't you learn that in grade school?
Incurring a penalty is the polar opposite of being free to do something.
"I have asked the law department to review this question and give (the department) guidance."
Translation: We've gotten enormous blowback and are scurrying for some face-saving way to roll this back before the torch-and-pitchfork crowd descends on us.
The news these days is continually awash in tales of nefarious goings-on, but almost always from anonymous sources, and no less the case here. When some leaker puts out an insider scoop (or some reporter invents one) without a name attached, remember that it's to serve someone's agenda and treat it like a rumor, because that's what it is.
It will be interesting to see what the cops claimed in their application for a search warrant, such as their reason to suspect the phone was stolen. Somebody screwed up royally here.
I saw recently that rats had eaten the outer sheathing of some mains wiring in my house, but not the insulation of the inner individual wires. I suspected at the time that there's something extra delicious about the outer covering.
This is the invitation for all these locales to submit their best and final offers. I'm guessing Bezos already has the spot picked out, but just wants to make sure he's gotten the sweetest deal they can be induced to cough up.
Just because there's no overall benefit to the population as a whole doesn't necessarily mean that a treatment is ineffective for everybody. I think you need to tease out a lot of factors and see if it might be effective for, to use a silly example, left-handed redheaded women under 45 who are taller than 5 feet. Examining every potential combo sounds tedious, I know, but maybe that's where AI could shine.
The Birkenstock crowd has a rep for being the laid-back hippie Earthmother types. This guy sounds like he's engaged in a scorched-earth battle with Amazon and is willing to burn down anyone else who gets in his way.
I'm surprised that a "no cash" policy hasn't attracted lawsuits from advocacy organizations for the homeless or illegal immigrants. If you're somebody living on the street or unable to establish an account due to being in the US illegally, then if you want to pay cash for some food you're out of luck.
How is it worse that the USA's mysterious "no-fly" lists or the TSA groping everybody who wants to travel somewhere in the USA?
In its scope, if nothing else. Checkpoints every couple hundred yards, mass examination of cell phones, forbidden apps, entry/exit of the region strictly controlled and recorded, etc. TSA has nothing approaching this, and it's limited mostly to airports (although it's showing up increasingly at other transportation hubs). And this is only the beginning. China is working its way toward a system of scoring all of its citizens regarding their social value, kind of like a FICO score except encompassing one's entire life and social interactions. The score will in part determine your qualification for good jobs, housing, credit, etc. It's positively diabolical in that one's associations with others enters into the score, so there'll be a penalty if you hang around with folks who have low-scores, meaning society itself will be enlisted in assuring conformance to whatever code authorities want enforced.
Police camera video should be viewable by the public or the cameras should be removed. The public should have exactly the same access as the police to this video.
No. I don't want everything I do in public subject to showing up on Facebook et al. I'd go along with requiring the cops to make it available for viewing at a station or other facility, but with no copying allowed, absent a court order.
I'd rather pay to ride public transit or drive my own car instead of living in that dystopian hell. If you think that's a realistic view of the future, I weep for your parents -- they clearly failed you -- and humanity in general.
Both your preferred options will still be available to you, so I don't get what the problem is. If you don't like it, don't use it. And I'm sure you'll also be able to engage an autonomous vehicle for a fee that will take you directly to your destination. In fact, I expect that if you're in a hurry you'll be able to "bribe" other autonomous cars to make way for yours so that you can speed along. For those with no money though, it'll be a blessing to be able to travel for no out-of-pocket expenditure, at the cost of their time.
Here's one response I would expect: the choice of what data used as inputs is itself discriminatory. Everyone knows that fewer or more [insert race here] people do [insert behavior here], and by you choosing that behavior as an input, you're automatically discriminating against that race.
If a model of, say, the likelihood of recidivism or the probability of loan default results in disparate results for different races, yet can be shown to be accurate in terms of ability to predict, is that discriminatory? I can see that happening with A.I. systems where the datasets are fed in and the black box then spits out results that, while accurate, are completely opaque as to how the results are obtained. Is congruence with observed reality a defense against charges of racism?
How long (or maybe it's happening already) before law enforcement dragoons Facebook into watching for people of interest and letting them know that a picture of any of those folks has just shown up, who posted it, metadata, etc.? This sounds way easier for the cops than setting up their own surveillance and face recognition systems.
Anyone else get a little creeped out at the implications of Tesla "tracking usage and driver behavior" and controlling what you can do with the car accordingly? It has the feel of a software license or website's Terms Of Service. What other future behavior might they decide to prohibit? "Oh, look, you exceeded the speed limit twelve times. Reckless behavior voids your warranty."
Somebody attempted this with an organization for which I administrate a website. They got the Treasurer's email from the site and spoofed the President's email address, asking for the current account balances. Fortunately, the Treasurer wrote to the group's secretary and asked her to handle the request. When she called the President about it, he said he had no idea what she was talking about. Scam never sleeps.
I used to boot my computer using a boot tape. Much easier than toggling in the bootstrap using the switches on the control panel.
We had to hand-key-in the loader that loaded the boot tape. If you paid the extra moolah, you could buy the ROM (or whatever it was in those days) that would do the job that the hand-keying did. We didn't buy that.
EPROMs you had to erase under ultraviolet light
Keying in the bootloader on your minicomputer using front panel switches
Taking your card deck to the "computer center", then waiting a few hours to go get your printout
Turning off the TV and seeing the picture collapse to a little bright dot that slowly fades away
Mylar punch tape for those programs you either couldn't afford to lose or that you loaded over and over and over again
Wall-mounted punch tape rewinders
Computers with a vast array of front-panel light/buttons representing registers, which you could alter by pressing them
Calculators that had stations wired to a base unit via half-inch-thick cables, and that cost more than your car
Guys who'd come to your house with dairy products and leave them on your doorstep
Drive-in movie theaters
Leading up to the announcement, I've heard at least four podcast interviews in which he makes the case for scuttling NN. And does so quite well, I might add.