The Lifeline program doesn't pay out money for hardware, only for service. The recipient has to obtain their own phone. Many Lifeline service providers do give away cheap phones (ones that are ancient and won't sell, and/or recycled) however.
That could technically 'work'... except that'd open them to a massive class action copyright lawsuit. Also they'd have to remove some DRM and that'd mean violating the DMCA. They'd never do business in the USA again, basically; worse than the 7 year ban they're currently subject to.
In the EU, sure, the Google Play store is gonna be expected. However, I imagine there are scores of 3rd-world countries where most buyers never touch the Google Play store, and only run pirated apps via sideloading or sketchy 3rd-party stores (ya know, the ones filled to bursting with malware.) Remember back in the days of feature phones, when every carrier had their own software shop? ZTE could roll their own; it could have a few big names so they can say "we have X!", but otherwise be a ghost town.
Anyone remember this image from just a few months ago? AMD was throwing stones at Intel's 'mere' 8% average annual IPC improvements, implying they would do much better than that. And then they drop a chip with 3% better IPC than last year's. Hard not to feel disappointed. When the best thing a review can say is "it's faster than last year's chip in every benchmark" that's damning with faint praise.
I still think I'm gonna wait to build a new rig until PCIe 4.0 mobos are out. AMD and Intel are dragging their heels hard on that one, PCIe 5.0 might be out first.
LinkedIn: We have fixed the autofill issue once and for all. Cable: But hackers can still use XSS and iframes to get data via whitelisted sites. LinkedIn: I said, ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
If companies are making it but noone is buying it, shouldn't that lead to it being cheap to purchase? Certainly someone can figure out a use for it if it's cheap enough. Even if it's not put in a retail box with "NEW! Now with Graphene nanotech!" engineers can incorporate it into construction, perhaps e.g. as a drop-in replacement for carbon fiber.
What really matters is what percentage of Netflix subscribers decide to (re)subscribe due to the original content. Presumably, this will reach a point where it's profitable rather than dropping original content creation entirely. Alternately, luring away directors/actors/producers gives them leverage over the rest of Hollywood. If everyone with talent starts working for Netflix then who's going to make the next theater blockbusters? Not sure they can really pull that off, though, either.
I imagine a scenario where distributed software exists, kind of a cross between seti@home and cryptocurrency mining, that performs processing for a deep-learning algorithm. The amount of total memory and processing power devoted to this could be as large as the larger cryptocurrencies, let's say. Now let's say that this algorithm is dedicated to creating new inventions. It's been said that a machine that's smarter than humans is the last thing we'd ever need invent, and this would be like that. Now, the algorithm and its results wouldn't be owned by any one entity, but it'd patent its ideas through a corporation it effectively controls (people would be needed legally, but the corporate charter could say that they have to do what the algorithm says). The fees for licensing its patents would then be distributed proportionately to those performing its processing.
If people dogpiled A.I. to the degree they're jumping on cryptocurrency, we'd have the singularity already:)
"In other words, to compete, it's going to have to create as few jobs as possible."
After the city jobs are automated, people will move back to the country on subsistence farms since it'll be the only thing left for them to do -- completely withdrawing from the greater economy and building their own from nothing. Knowledge and technology will still help with this, like mentioned in TFA. However, it won't be able to compete with larger megacorp factory-farms that employ the same tech.
You mean doing an airstrike on Syria? Sure, Moscow backs Assad, but it's not even a proxy war over there, just a clusterfuck. It's nowhere near as intense as the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan.
Seems quite a few classic sci-fi novels are being picked up for streaming/TV series adaptations recently. Foundation, Consider Phlebas, Ringworld, The Three-Body Problem, Altered Carbon, The Expanse. And then there's Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville. Television sci-fi was dead just a few years ago, I wonder what happened all of the sudden? One could say 'Game of Thrones' led to a general resurgence of geek lit, but there's a suspicious dearth of recent fantasy novel adaptations; Shannara and Wheel of Time are the only ones I'm aware of. Maybe Black Mirror or rising interest in SpaceX are responsible.
Samsung is notably absent from their list of members, and given they're the #1 Android phone seller, that could matter. They also make their own Exynos SoCs for their own phones (used in their European models), which would have to support AV1.
There's at least one VR experience that records heatmaps of what parts of the environment you look at and for how long, and sends those to the developer (although they're upfront about this, for the app I know of). Soon, VR headsets will have eye-tracking tech built in that tracks not just what is visible in your entire field of view, or even the center of this field of view, but what your eyes are pointing at. There are various benefits to this tech, but also latent worry that it can be abused for marketing reasons. Marketers have already used eye-tracking with normal 2d screens to tell what parts of their advertisements that viewers look at, or to find out how many notice product placement. It gets worse when you consider that marketers (or anyone else who you might not want passing judgement on you) find out what your gaze tends to linger on, and assume that means you like/want that thing. Who wants to get marked as gay in a database because their female friend played a VR game with your headset/PC, and was staring at the guys in it? Or worse, if you ARE gay but still in the closet. Word seems to be that VR eye tracking will remain confidential information for reasons like this, but it'll be difficult to control in VR social apps where gaze is sent over the internet to be seen by others (since the possibility of eye contact is arguably a benefit of the tech).
What was your first banking password? What was your first government-issued identification number? What was your first online handle that you used before you learned that the things you do and post on the internet can be traced back to you? What was your first humiliating, deviant, or illegal thought? What was your first felony that you got away with? What was your first object you dry humped?
The data COULD also be stored in North Korea. Or on a laptop in someone's basement. Or in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
Personally I'd rather be ruled over by an immortal AI dictator a la The Culture, than a hypocritical moralizing human (or group of such humans). If anything, it would be resistant to bribery and appeals to its ego.
Just because it's alarmist doesn't mean the film is wrong. I'm most worried about the fact that the creators of neural networks often don't understand how they are operating; as in, why it has the inferences it does. I wonder if it's possible to train a neural net, then iteratively reduce its complexity without affecting its performance, down to the point where we can understand its operation.
755k new apps released in one year? How many apps does one person need?! I have a feeling I will be able to count on one hand how many of those apps I EVER hear about/see anywhere. I wouldn't mind a breakdown for what proportion duplicate the functionality of something 10+ other apps already do, or are shovelware (but I repeat myself).
Nah, we complained about the Megaupload seizure, and about the TPP being shoved down other countries' throats. The situation with Assange looks pretty sketchy as well.
If you want to eliminate the possibility of there being harmful bacteria on your hands, you should amputate them. Problem solved. Or install a HEPA filter in your airways; just yank out a section of your throat to replace it, and don't forget to do this before going to sleep.
AI projects can be physically small, have a computing cluster no more conspicuous than a typical cryptocoin mining or HPC operation, and can be carried out inside a mountain that's off-grid and air-gapped. Multiple legal authorities haven't managed to keep the Pirate Bay down for more than a year or so, what chance is there for a completely offline project?
Once the software is written it can be copied to thousands of different secure locations. Sure, eventually they'd need to test it on actual robots, but it's possible to pass them off as 'remotely operated' if any auditors stop by, just send it the signal to go into 'remote operation mode'. This mode can also be disabled for final deployment, for security purposes, if desired/necessary.
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The Lifeline program doesn't pay out money for hardware, only for service. The recipient has to obtain their own phone. Many Lifeline service providers do give away cheap phones (ones that are ancient and won't sell, and/or recycled) however.
That could technically 'work'... except that'd open them to a massive class action copyright lawsuit. Also they'd have to remove some DRM and that'd mean violating the DMCA. They'd never do business in the USA again, basically; worse than the 7 year ban they're currently subject to.
In the EU, sure, the Google Play store is gonna be expected. However, I imagine there are scores of 3rd-world countries where most buyers never touch the Google Play store, and only run pirated apps via sideloading or sketchy 3rd-party stores (ya know, the ones filled to bursting with malware.) Remember back in the days of feature phones, when every carrier had their own software shop? ZTE could roll their own; it could have a few big names so they can say "we have X!", but otherwise be a ghost town.
Anyone remember this image from just a few months ago? AMD was throwing stones at Intel's 'mere' 8% average annual IPC improvements, implying they would do much better than that. And then they drop a chip with 3% better IPC than last year's. Hard not to feel disappointed. When the best thing a review can say is "it's faster than last year's chip in every benchmark" that's damning with faint praise.
I still think I'm gonna wait to build a new rig until PCIe 4.0 mobos are out. AMD and Intel are dragging their heels hard on that one, PCIe 5.0 might be out first.
LinkedIn: We have fixed the autofill issue once and for all.
Cable: But hackers can still use XSS and iframes to get data via whitelisted sites.
LinkedIn: I said, ONCE AND FOR ALL!!
If companies are making it but noone is buying it, shouldn't that lead to it being cheap to purchase? Certainly someone can figure out a use for it if it's cheap enough. Even if it's not put in a retail box with "NEW! Now with Graphene nanotech!" engineers can incorporate it into construction, perhaps e.g. as a drop-in replacement for carbon fiber.
Israel, UK, Saudi Arabia, how many countries are fucking over the USA?
In Soviet Russia, Realpolitik fucks YOU!
Indeed, that's my point.
What really matters is what percentage of Netflix subscribers decide to (re)subscribe due to the original content. Presumably, this will reach a point where it's profitable rather than dropping original content creation entirely. Alternately, luring away directors/actors/producers gives them leverage over the rest of Hollywood. If everyone with talent starts working for Netflix then who's going to make the next theater blockbusters? Not sure they can really pull that off, though, either.
I imagine a scenario where distributed software exists, kind of a cross between seti@home and cryptocurrency mining, that performs processing for a deep-learning algorithm. The amount of total memory and processing power devoted to this could be as large as the larger cryptocurrencies, let's say. Now let's say that this algorithm is dedicated to creating new inventions. It's been said that a machine that's smarter than humans is the last thing we'd ever need invent, and this would be like that. Now, the algorithm and its results wouldn't be owned by any one entity, but it'd patent its ideas through a corporation it effectively controls (people would be needed legally, but the corporate charter could say that they have to do what the algorithm says). The fees for licensing its patents would then be distributed proportionately to those performing its processing.
If people dogpiled A.I. to the degree they're jumping on cryptocurrency, we'd have the singularity already :)
"In other words, to compete, it's going to have to create as few jobs as possible."
After the city jobs are automated, people will move back to the country on subsistence farms since it'll be the only thing left for them to do -- completely withdrawing from the greater economy and building their own from nothing. Knowledge and technology will still help with this, like mentioned in TFA. However, it won't be able to compete with larger megacorp factory-farms that employ the same tech.
You mean doing an airstrike on Syria? Sure, Moscow backs Assad, but it's not even a proxy war over there, just a clusterfuck. It's nowhere near as intense as the USSR's invasion of Afghanistan.
YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots
So is Hollywood. Zing!
Seems quite a few classic sci-fi novels are being picked up for streaming/TV series adaptations recently. Foundation, Consider Phlebas, Ringworld, The Three-Body Problem, Altered Carbon, The Expanse. And then there's Star Trek: Discovery and The Orville. Television sci-fi was dead just a few years ago, I wonder what happened all of the sudden? One could say 'Game of Thrones' led to a general resurgence of geek lit, but there's a suspicious dearth of recent fantasy novel adaptations; Shannara and Wheel of Time are the only ones I'm aware of. Maybe Black Mirror or rising interest in SpaceX are responsible.
Samsung is notably absent from their list of members, and given they're the #1 Android phone seller, that could matter. They also make their own Exynos SoCs for their own phones (used in their European models), which would have to support AV1.
There's at least one VR experience that records heatmaps of what parts of the environment you look at and for how long, and sends those to the developer (although they're upfront about this, for the app I know of). Soon, VR headsets will have eye-tracking tech built in that tracks not just what is visible in your entire field of view, or even the center of this field of view, but what your eyes are pointing at. There are various benefits to this tech, but also latent worry that it can be abused for marketing reasons. Marketers have already used eye-tracking with normal 2d screens to tell what parts of their advertisements that viewers look at, or to find out how many notice product placement. It gets worse when you consider that marketers (or anyone else who you might not want passing judgement on you) find out what your gaze tends to linger on, and assume that means you like/want that thing. Who wants to get marked as gay in a database because their female friend played a VR game with your headset/PC, and was staring at the guys in it? Or worse, if you ARE gay but still in the closet. Word seems to be that VR eye tracking will remain confidential information for reasons like this, but it'll be difficult to control in VR social apps where gaze is sent over the internet to be seen by others (since the possibility of eye contact is arguably a benefit of the tech).
What was your first banking password?
What was your first government-issued identification number?
What was your first online handle that you used before you learned that the things you do and post on the internet can be traced back to you?
What was your first humiliating, deviant, or illegal thought?
What was your first felony that you got away with?
What was your first object you dry humped?
The data COULD also be stored in North Korea. Or on a laptop in someone's basement. Or in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard".
Personally I'd rather be ruled over by an immortal AI dictator a la The Culture, than a hypocritical moralizing human (or group of such humans). If anything, it would be resistant to bribery and appeals to its ego.
Just because it's alarmist doesn't mean the film is wrong. I'm most worried about the fact that the creators of neural networks often don't understand how they are operating; as in, why it has the inferences it does. I wonder if it's possible to train a neural net, then iteratively reduce its complexity without affecting its performance, down to the point where we can understand its operation.
755k new apps released in one year? How many apps does one person need?! I have a feeling I will be able to count on one hand how many of those apps I EVER hear about/see anywhere. I wouldn't mind a breakdown for what proportion duplicate the functionality of something 10+ other apps already do, or are shovelware (but I repeat myself).
Nah, we complained about the Megaupload seizure, and about the TPP being shoved down other countries' throats. The situation with Assange looks pretty sketchy as well.
If you want to eliminate the possibility of there being harmful bacteria on your hands, you should amputate them. Problem solved. Or install a HEPA filter in your airways; just yank out a section of your throat to replace it, and don't forget to do this before going to sleep.
AI projects can be physically small, have a computing cluster no more conspicuous than a typical cryptocoin mining or HPC operation, and can be carried out inside a mountain that's off-grid and air-gapped. Multiple legal authorities haven't managed to keep the Pirate Bay down for more than a year or so, what chance is there for a completely offline project?
Once the software is written it can be copied to thousands of different secure locations. Sure, eventually they'd need to test it on actual robots, but it's possible to pass them off as 'remotely operated' if any auditors stop by, just send it the signal to go into 'remote operation mode'. This mode can also be disabled for final deployment, for security purposes, if desired/necessary.
Honestly I'm waiting for Tencent killbots. Bonus points if they're actually remotely piloted by Chinese gamers a la 'Toys'.