During the summit, an autonomous car bursts into the room and kills everyone. Thus, starts the war between the Autobots and humanity. What's that you say, the Autobots were the good guys? Michael Bay must've been paid off to repeat that propaganda.
It sounds like the summary is trying to make a philosophical argument that diversity directly leads to creativity. Any individual, even 'the best', might have tunnel-vision on their purported 'best solution', whereas another person playing devil's advocate may point out other possibilities. A group of people can do a brainstorming session. However, it'd be unfair to harp on tunnel-vision of an individual without also mentioning the potential problem of groupthink, which I'd imagine would be actually more likely if one member of a group is particularly more respected/powerful than the other members. However, even if every member is 'the best' in their field, one narcissistic individual can overpower other members equally as qualified, due to impostor syndrome, leading to the same result.
so companies either keep shipping two-year-old Qualcomm chips or stop building smartwatches
When my smartwatch had its 2nd birthday, its hands flipped to "time to" and "get a new smartwatch". I promptly heaved it at the backboard adorning my dustbin, scoring 3 points, and gleefully preordered a new shiny smartwatch. After camping out in the cold and snow for 12 hours, I was first in line to be told that it would be released in the summer, as clearly indicated on the website. I still await this new smartwatch, but timepieces wait for no man./s
I wonder if the data is simply correlating to hand size. Since adolescents were excluded there's a pretty stark difference between the hand size of children and adults. However, an Asian woman's hands might be substantially smaller than a European man's... so I wonder how it'll account for that. Maybe there'll be a calibration where the owner does the test so the app knows the owner's hand size; will be fun when a European man has an Asian wife who wants to use his phone.
I remember the days when CPU transistor count (and performance) doubled every 18 months (or less), AND the chips reduced in price as well. Now we're lucky to get a 10% improvement from Intel over 18 months, with stagnant or slowly increasing prices.
Interesting, but a mother is still required up to the point where its blood vessels can be connected to the bag's umbilical. Those lamb bags make me think of sous vide... the comic almost writes itself.
Combine with this research and we'll soon have children made from artificial gametes. Now all we need are artificial wombs. Hey, what's a high-tech country whose women are too busy with their careers to go on maternity leave? Japan's a good bet for this. I would wonder if artificially-conceived children would violate China's one-child rule, but that was repealed already.
He was just told to 'go make some copies' without further instructions, and proceeded to copy some random files onto a public-facing website. Not his fault he didn't understand.
The subject is "world-destroying fear". HAL was a threat to Dave, because he was more or less trapped in a space station controlled by HAL. Like GLaDOS, its role in the plot could've been performed by a crazy mission-control operator. Not that the similar "crazy steward of nuclear weapons" isn't a world-destroying fear; Hunt for Red October and Dr. Strangelove come to mind. However, HAL was in no capacity to end humanity. Skynet is a far better example, particularly since it DOES nearly end humanity.
Someone already has charted it. Turns out Vampire movies come out of Hollywood more often when a Democractic president is in office, and Zombie movies are more prevalent when a Republican president is in office... after accounting for the 2-3 year delay of movie production. Source Given that '2012: It's a Disaster' came out about a year after Obama took office, and was a big hit, I'm guessing Zombie and disaster films go together (as zombie apocalypses are comparable to disasters). Remember it entered production while GWB was in office, and the major antagonist is un-subtly named 'Anheuser', an obvious reference to Anheuser-Busch and thus a roundabout reference to Bush.
In the original Battlestar Galactica series, the Cylons were an alien race at war with the Humans. Their robotic warriors ended up destroying their creators, but continued pursuing the humans. In the reboot, there was no alien race. The robotic warriors were created by humans, and the "robots turning against their masters" angle became a large part of the story. A.I. has been a bigger fear of humanity compared to space aliens for quite a while.
Perhaps there are half the number of publicly traded corporations in the US because the bigger half have bought out the smaller half; they have so much money they can think of nothing better to spend it on than M&A. Eventually there will just be a few conglomerates, almost certainly corresponding to broad tech companies that invest in AI and robotics. As much as I hate the "Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon will take over the world!" clickbait articles, they're the most likely culprits.
You think UBI in the US is going to be a tough sell? Wait until all the money funnels to Korea and the US (and maybe Japan if Toyota, Honda, or Mitsubishi get their act together) and those countries have to finance UBI for the rest of the planet.
It's far too easy for people to break in since all you need is the phone number and some personal information.
Good thing the security is rock-solid for the gatekeepers of people's personal information: TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax. Oh, wait...
Also, answers to security questions tend to boil down to 'personal information'. What's REALLY needed is some kind of interactive test that gets at the core of how someone thinks, in a way that's stable over time, and the exact test can be slightly randomized each time yet the results will always be verifiable as a particular person. Like imagine the Google 'choose all the pictures of Roads' only more subjective, like 'choose all the randomly-generated images you find to be very pleasing'.
Using access to a phone number as an authentication method is the REAL problem here. Choose cryptocurrency/banking websites that don't allow access to your account simply by having access to your registered phone number. Using an encrypted channel rather than SMS helps, but there are still problems with e.g. IMEI spoofing and, as demonstrated, social engineering. This seems like a targeted attack, as the attacker knew his phone number and which websites he had cryptocurrency on, so 'security questions' likely wouldn't have helped, either.
Known as a "chaebol," or a (usually family-owned) business conglomerate
Sounds like the Japanese zaibatsu. The 'solution' was to replace them with keiretsu, which are essentially the same but with shareholders and a board of directors at top rather than dynastic ownership. The zaibatsu system was very popular back in the day, apparently.
Probably not going to work out that way. Autonomous trucks are going to be loaded with cameras low to the ground, which will see the face of any bandits, and the license plate of their getaway vehicle, and be able to send those and the GPS location to authorities/the trucking company. The standard lock on the trailer will be internal and electronic, remotely disengaged by the owner once it arrives at the destination and is ready to be unloaded; breaking through that would require a blowtorch and safe-cracking skills, your average thug isn't going to mess with that to get at a shipment of who-knows-what's-inside. Hiring a security guard for all trucks would cost thousands of times more than an insurance policy for the once-a-decade robbery, and the courtroom payout for when that security guard gets injured/killed by a robber would cost far more than the value of what's inside. Any way you slice it, there won't be human guards for your average Walmart semi.
The rats who got cancer when exposed to RFR happened to have an epigenetic feature (not tested for or bred out by lab rat breeders) whose specific shape taps into the morphic field, causing volcano ghosts to corrupt your data. This is why you need AGTCCleaner to optimize your genetic registry of all its unnecessary bits left over, slowing down and ruining your biological system. Or cover yourself in tin foil, that also works.
Ya know, I'm wondering what the benefit of NK hackers using ransomware, or stealing cryptocurrency is. Ok they manage to transfer it to a bank in Switzerland or South Korea or whatever... now what? They can't transfer it to a NK bank because of the sanctions (not like numbers in a NK database help them). They can't buy a truckload of food and drive it over to NK because of sanctions/blockades. They can't rent a DC10 and airdrop food into NK because of DMZ/no-fly-zone/sanctions. I was wondering why the hackers, who are presumably reasonably intelligent, are doing their hacking from outside of NK, have access to the wider internet, and realize the NK propaganda is mostly BS, don't just run away, giving the middle finger to NK. Sure, maybe their family back home is being threatened by the NK government... but chances are good that their family is gonna be fucked by war and/or famine, so why wouldn't a young man just say "fuck it all" and never look back?
Last I heard, chances are good that China of all nations is going to be at war with NK, as early as next month. I'm sure they'll have zero compunction about glassing the entire country, papering over the literal fallout with propaganda if necessary. Easy way to take care of that 'refugee problem', eh? I imagine other countries would have a difficult time poo-pooing out one side of their mouth while breathing a sigh of relief from the other; ya know, aside from the actual fallout-caused problems (which would still be preferable to an errant NK nuke, assuming China doesn't use salted warheads).
This is presumably that 'free credit freeze' functionality that Equifax announced a while ago that they were going to make available in January. We'll have to see if it actually works as advertised, though, or is at all secure.
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During the summit, an autonomous car bursts into the room and kills everyone. Thus, starts the war between the Autobots and humanity.
What's that you say, the Autobots were the good guys? Michael Bay must've been paid off to repeat that propaganda.
It sounds like the summary is trying to make a philosophical argument that diversity directly leads to creativity. Any individual, even 'the best', might have tunnel-vision on their purported 'best solution', whereas another person playing devil's advocate may point out other possibilities. A group of people can do a brainstorming session. However, it'd be unfair to harp on tunnel-vision of an individual without also mentioning the potential problem of groupthink, which I'd imagine would be actually more likely if one member of a group is particularly more respected/powerful than the other members. However, even if every member is 'the best' in their field, one narcissistic individual can overpower other members equally as qualified, due to impostor syndrome, leading to the same result.
The points of classified ads in the past, or tweets today, is that they can be read anonymously, even from a public computer terminal
Publicly pulling out the spool of silk OTP encodings, and then burning it, is slightly suspicious, however.
so companies either keep shipping two-year-old Qualcomm chips or stop building smartwatches
When my smartwatch had its 2nd birthday, its hands flipped to "time to" and "get a new smartwatch". I promptly heaved it at the backboard adorning my dustbin, scoring 3 points, and gleefully preordered a new shiny smartwatch. After camping out in the cold and snow for 12 hours, I was first in line to be told that it would be released in the summer, as clearly indicated on the website. I still await this new smartwatch, but timepieces wait for no man. /s
I wonder if the data is simply correlating to hand size. Since adolescents were excluded there's a pretty stark difference between the hand size of children and adults. However, an Asian woman's hands might be substantially smaller than a European man's... so I wonder how it'll account for that. Maybe there'll be a calibration where the owner does the test so the app knows the owner's hand size; will be fun when a European man has an Asian wife who wants to use his phone.
I think the premise is that anyone 12-21 would be savvy enough to bypass it.
I remember the days when CPU transistor count (and performance) doubled every 18 months (or less), AND the chips reduced in price as well. Now we're lucky to get a 10% improvement from Intel over 18 months, with stagnant or slowly increasing prices.
Interesting, but a mother is still required up to the point where its blood vessels can be connected to the bag's umbilical.
Those lamb bags make me think of sous vide... the comic almost writes itself.
Don't forget the tall frosty glass of human milk.
Combine with this research and we'll soon have children made from artificial gametes. Now all we need are artificial wombs. Hey, what's a high-tech country whose women are too busy with their careers to go on maternity leave? Japan's a good bet for this. I would wonder if artificially-conceived children would violate China's one-child rule, but that was repealed already.
He already did, but they didn't listen. He's always hoping that his next leap will take him home...
He was just told to 'go make some copies' without further instructions, and proceeded to copy some random files onto a public-facing website. Not his fault he didn't understand.
One man's a la carte is another man's Balkanization.
The subject is "world-destroying fear". HAL was a threat to Dave, because he was more or less trapped in a space station controlled by HAL. Like GLaDOS, its role in the plot could've been performed by a crazy mission-control operator. Not that the similar "crazy steward of nuclear weapons" isn't a world-destroying fear; Hunt for Red October and Dr. Strangelove come to mind. However, HAL was in no capacity to end humanity. Skynet is a far better example, particularly since it DOES nearly end humanity.
Someone already has charted it. Turns out Vampire movies come out of Hollywood more often when a Democractic president is in office, and Zombie movies are more prevalent when a Republican president is in office... after accounting for the 2-3 year delay of movie production. Source
Given that '2012: It's a Disaster' came out about a year after Obama took office, and was a big hit, I'm guessing Zombie and disaster films go together (as zombie apocalypses are comparable to disasters). Remember it entered production while GWB was in office, and the major antagonist is un-subtly named 'Anheuser', an obvious reference to Anheuser-Busch and thus a roundabout reference to Bush.
In the original Battlestar Galactica series, the Cylons were an alien race at war with the Humans. Their robotic warriors ended up destroying their creators, but continued pursuing the humans.
In the reboot, there was no alien race. The robotic warriors were created by humans, and the "robots turning against their masters" angle became a large part of the story.
A.I. has been a bigger fear of humanity compared to space aliens for quite a while.
Monero may have an encrypted blockchain, but its transaction fees are nearly as ridiculous as Bitcoin's.
Perhaps there are half the number of publicly traded corporations in the US because the bigger half have bought out the smaller half; they have so much money they can think of nothing better to spend it on than M&A. Eventually there will just be a few conglomerates, almost certainly corresponding to broad tech companies that invest in AI and robotics. As much as I hate the "Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon will take over the world!" clickbait articles, they're the most likely culprits.
You think UBI in the US is going to be a tough sell? Wait until all the money funnels to Korea and the US (and maybe Japan if Toyota, Honda, or Mitsubishi get their act together) and those countries have to finance UBI for the rest of the planet.
It's far too easy for people to break in since all you need is the phone number and some personal information.
Good thing the security is rock-solid for the gatekeepers of people's personal information: TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax.
Oh, wait...
Also, answers to security questions tend to boil down to 'personal information'. What's REALLY needed is some kind of interactive test that gets at the core of how someone thinks, in a way that's stable over time, and the exact test can be slightly randomized each time yet the results will always be verifiable as a particular person. Like imagine the Google 'choose all the pictures of Roads' only more subjective, like 'choose all the randomly-generated images you find to be very pleasing'.
Using access to a phone number as an authentication method is the REAL problem here. Choose cryptocurrency/banking websites that don't allow access to your account simply by having access to your registered phone number. Using an encrypted channel rather than SMS helps, but there are still problems with e.g. IMEI spoofing and, as demonstrated, social engineering. This seems like a targeted attack, as the attacker knew his phone number and which websites he had cryptocurrency on, so 'security questions' likely wouldn't have helped, either.
Known as a "chaebol," or a (usually family-owned) business conglomerate
Sounds like the Japanese zaibatsu. The 'solution' was to replace them with keiretsu, which are essentially the same but with shareholders and a board of directors at top rather than dynastic ownership. The zaibatsu system was very popular back in the day, apparently.
Probably not going to work out that way. Autonomous trucks are going to be loaded with cameras low to the ground, which will see the face of any bandits, and the license plate of their getaway vehicle, and be able to send those and the GPS location to authorities/the trucking company. The standard lock on the trailer will be internal and electronic, remotely disengaged by the owner once it arrives at the destination and is ready to be unloaded; breaking through that would require a blowtorch and safe-cracking skills, your average thug isn't going to mess with that to get at a shipment of who-knows-what's-inside. Hiring a security guard for all trucks would cost thousands of times more than an insurance policy for the once-a-decade robbery, and the courtroom payout for when that security guard gets injured/killed by a robber would cost far more than the value of what's inside. Any way you slice it, there won't be human guards for your average Walmart semi.
The rats who got cancer when exposed to RFR happened to have an epigenetic feature (not tested for or bred out by lab rat breeders) whose specific shape taps into the morphic field, causing volcano ghosts to corrupt your data. This is why you need AGTCCleaner to optimize your genetic registry of all its unnecessary bits left over, slowing down and ruining your biological system. Or cover yourself in tin foil, that also works.
Ya know, I'm wondering what the benefit of NK hackers using ransomware, or stealing cryptocurrency is. Ok they manage to transfer it to a bank in Switzerland or South Korea or whatever... now what? They can't transfer it to a NK bank because of the sanctions (not like numbers in a NK database help them). They can't buy a truckload of food and drive it over to NK because of sanctions/blockades. They can't rent a DC10 and airdrop food into NK because of DMZ/no-fly-zone/sanctions. I was wondering why the hackers, who are presumably reasonably intelligent, are doing their hacking from outside of NK, have access to the wider internet, and realize the NK propaganda is mostly BS, don't just run away, giving the middle finger to NK. Sure, maybe their family back home is being threatened by the NK government... but chances are good that their family is gonna be fucked by war and/or famine, so why wouldn't a young man just say "fuck it all" and never look back?
Last I heard, chances are good that China of all nations is going to be at war with NK, as early as next month. I'm sure they'll have zero compunction about glassing the entire country, papering over the literal fallout with propaganda if necessary. Easy way to take care of that 'refugee problem', eh? I imagine other countries would have a difficult time poo-pooing out one side of their mouth while breathing a sigh of relief from the other; ya know, aside from the actual fallout-caused problems (which would still be preferable to an errant NK nuke, assuming China doesn't use salted warheads).
This is presumably that 'free credit freeze' functionality that Equifax announced a while ago that they were going to make available in January. We'll have to see if it actually works as advertised, though, or is at all secure.