Predated by a couple of decades in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". Herbert Lom has a spy camera in his fake eye to elude a full-body security search.
Seriously, when has a technical prediction made by Bill Gates or any Microsoft "spokesman" ever come true? For real, please point to one - I'll be glad to be enlightened.
Financial predictions - that's another story. They can rig those.:)
Many (more than half?) states in the US have laws that require companies/institutions to report the loss of this kind of data. The first obligation is to report the loss to the subjects of the data so they can take steps to protect themselves.
Sign me up. I've heard people claiming they put their data "in the cloud" because that makes it safer. Why do they think this? Because "the cloud" is a concept rather than an object, and therefore cannot be destroyed?
I prefer to replace "the cloud" with "a bunch of servers I don't control and can't locate". Clears a lot of things up for me.
I admire your optimism. But if you watch threads like this one and others that go back three years, I think you'll be disappointed. Sun's original story was "no one should ever need to shrink a pool". In the face of a *huge* number of responses to the effect that "yes, but in the real world you do", their response for a couple of years was "well then you just don't understand ZFS". Then when that didn't work they switched to "we've been working on it for years, we just want to get it right so be patient for another few years and in the mean time just keep buying more disks".
The folks at Sun are quite smart, but they're not infallible. My guess is that some early design decisions about ZFS made shrinking extremely hard, and they're having a hard time living that down given how much they crowed about ZFS being "the last word in filesystems". Eighteen months ago I was super-excited about ZFS since it just had one more feature to go before it fit my needs. Now I don't expect to ever see that feature, at least not before some better alternative comes along with equivalent features and a more Linux-friendly license (btrfs+lvm?).
I'm going to have to call "bullshit" on this one. For a very long time now, mathematicians have been banging away at plenty of problems using the assumption that the Riemann hypothesis is true. Suddenly justifying this assumption doesn't really affect anything practical.
Be careful with "just buy a drive and plug it in". Unless something has changed recently, ZFS can't remove a device from a pool. So once you plug that drive in, you can never unplug it without a complete dump/restore - which means buying a whole other set of drives to do the backup to.
If they kept threatening to sue but never followed through it would be extortion, which is itself a crime. So they have to go to court occasionally to keep "clean".
I'm a developer myself, and a somewhat average one at my company. (I use vi and I do ok.) The real superstars have gone through half a dozen different editors and they all have their preferences, but not one of them would complain for more than five minutes if they were required to standardize on one to streamline the team. Management does listen to them, because they have great development ideas and don't get all pissy about the small stuff.
It's a myth that coders are precious flowers that have to be pampered to be productive.
Also, not enough people think they're not smart or don't think that they aren't smart or are not smarter than they don't think.. wait, what was the question again?
Not his choice, really. According to Screen Actors' Guild rules, he can't use the exact same name as another actor, and Richard Anderson (who played Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man) got there first.
Yeah, tell Mom and Dad "I refuse to go to a college where I can't get away all the music-swapping I want." I'm sure they'll be glad to pay for your education at the playground of your choice.
Many people also don't realize that no software company has spent more on lunches in the past decade than Microsoft. I don't think that makes them an authority on food, though.
Maybe that's what Kurzweil is getting at: by the year 2029, AI will have achieved human-level abilities to make grossly inaccurate predictions of the future of AI.
Galileo was arguing with the Pope about the Earth being flat!
2200 years ago, Eratosthenes not only knew the earth was round, he measured its circumference. Accurate to either 1% or 17% depending on who you ask. Still, "off by 17 percent" is a lot better than "off by infinity percent because everyone knows the earth is flat, numbskull".
To say I am disappointed at the school's passive position is an understatement. California has very strong laws requiring schools to protect the privacy of students - and if there should be legal action would be compelled to act in protecting student privacy.
That's not a passive position. That's a law-abiding position. You'll find that California's privacy laws do not extend that protection so far as to allow the school to ignore a lawfully issued subpoena.
You may also find that if the subpoena is issued and is at all shady, the school will fight to have things done strictly by the book. But their a priori position has to be "we obey the law", or they're letting themselves in for a world of hurt.
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Predated by a couple of decades in "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun". Herbert Lom has a spy camera in his fake eye to elude a full-body security search.
Robots also don't experience fear, doubt, or vanity. Plus they need no fuel, no maintenance, and are impervious to physical damage.
You can't think of a single reason? Really?
Seriously, when has a technical prediction made by Bill Gates or any Microsoft "spokesman" ever come true? For real, please point to one - I'll be glad to be enlightened.
Financial predictions - that's another story. They can rig those. :)
Many (more than half?) states in the US have laws that require companies/institutions to report the loss of this kind of data. The first obligation is to report the loss to the subjects of the data so they can take steps to protect themselves.
Go back further, young whippersnapper. "Upper Class Twit of the Year Show."
Enlighten us... who said public key cryptography was pointless in the beginning?
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According to the article, it makes wine older and makes orange juice fresher. I'll bet it also shines copper and builds a patina on iron too!
Sign me up. I've heard people claiming they put their data "in the cloud" because that makes it safer. Why do they think this? Because "the cloud" is a concept rather than an object, and therefore cannot be destroyed?
I prefer to replace "the cloud" with "a bunch of servers I don't control and can't locate". Clears a lot of things up for me.
Not to be snippy, but this is exactly the Sun reaction that pisses me off. "You made a mistake? Oh, well you shouldn't have done that, should you?"
Adding a vdev is a needlessly irreversible operation under ZFS. If you're not supposed to have devices that aren't mirrored, why does ZFS allow it?
I admire your optimism. But if you watch threads like this one and others that go back three years, I think you'll be disappointed. Sun's original story was "no one should ever need to shrink a pool". In the face of a *huge* number of responses to the effect that "yes, but in the real world you do", their response for a couple of years was "well then you just don't understand ZFS". Then when that didn't work they switched to "we've been working on it for years, we just want to get it right so be patient for another few years and in the mean time just keep buying more disks".
The folks at Sun are quite smart, but they're not infallible. My guess is that some early design decisions about ZFS made shrinking extremely hard, and they're having a hard time living that down given how much they crowed about ZFS being "the last word in filesystems". Eighteen months ago I was super-excited about ZFS since it just had one more feature to go before it fit my needs. Now I don't expect to ever see that feature, at least not before some better alternative comes along with equivalent features and a more Linux-friendly license (btrfs+lvm?).
I'm going to have to call "bullshit" on this one. For a very long time now, mathematicians have been banging away at plenty of problems using the assumption that the Riemann hypothesis is true. Suddenly justifying this assumption doesn't really affect anything practical.
Be careful with "just buy a drive and plug it in". Unless something has changed recently, ZFS can't remove a device from a pool. So once you plug that drive in, you can never unplug it without a complete dump/restore - which means buying a whole other set of drives to do the backup to.
If they kept threatening to sue but never followed through it would be extortion, which is itself a crime. So they have to go to court occasionally to keep "clean".
I'm a developer myself, and a somewhat average one at my company. (I use vi and I do ok.) The real superstars have gone through half a dozen different editors and they all have their preferences, but not one of them would complain for more than five minutes if they were required to standardize on one to streamline the team. Management does listen to them, because they have great development ideas and don't get all pissy about the small stuff.
It's a myth that coders are precious flowers that have to be pampered to be productive.
Also, not enough people think they're not smart or don't think that they aren't smart or are not smarter than they don't think.. wait, what was the question again?
Not his choice, really. According to Screen Actors' Guild rules, he can't use the exact same name as another actor, and Richard Anderson (who played Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man) got there first.
Yeah, tell Mom and Dad "I refuse to go to a college where I can't get away all the music-swapping I want." I'm sure they'll be glad to pay for your education at the playground of your choice.
Microsoft wants to control Linux. What a shock.
Many people also don't realize that no software company has spent more on lunches in the past decade than Microsoft. I don't think that makes them an authority on food, though.
Maybe that's what Kurzweil is getting at: by the year 2029, AI will have achieved human-level abilities to make grossly inaccurate predictions of the future of AI.
2200 years ago, Eratosthenes not only knew the earth was round, he measured its circumference. Accurate to either 1% or 17% depending on who you ask. Still, "off by 17 percent" is a lot better than "off by infinity percent because everyone knows the earth is flat, numbskull".
I, too, have already calculated the prime roots of fifteen, with nearly identical results. Where's my DARPA funding?
That's not a passive position. That's a law-abiding position. You'll find that California's privacy laws do not extend that protection so far as to allow the school to ignore a lawfully issued subpoena.
You may also find that if the subpoena is issued and is at all shady, the school will fight to have things done strictly by the book. But their a priori position has to be "we obey the law", or they're letting themselves in for a world of hurt.