Not a Trumptard, but how about the more obvious reason the gov is pissed? Kaspersky detected US malware when no other AV did. And probably refused to "fix" that -
We can't have an AV with the integrity to call out the NSA/CIA spyware, now, can we?
Libtards forget the reporting so easily when it fits their cognitive bias. It's the only way to keep their heads from exploding.
Follow the $ is often correct. A reason they lock is entitled assholes flash wrong stuff and expect free support. This is a major reason we can't have more nice things. The entitled spoil it for those who are responsible.
Out here in rural farmland, my efficient killers take out disease-spreading rodents and crop-destroying insects, primarily, and in the warm months don't take much food from me - they eat out. The don't seem to bother birds or rabbits, and the squirrels stay a good distance out...
Maybe living in the city is the basic disease and problem. Out here deer *must* be hunted because all their natural predators were wiped out by settlers early on, and they kill people via auto collisions frequently (as well as other damage).
I'm glad I moved away from the swamp in the '70s myself...being with self-important power mad losers in high density was a terrible human turd to diamond ratio experience compared to the boonies where we help each other instead.
Normal living things effectively gained fear of death because the ones that didn't weren't as successful at reproduction, and the process has been going on a very long time - we see a huge survivor bias in regular living things. Assuming a human-built thing...this would not be the case at all. Seems obvious. If you were programming motivations, well, you may or may not put that one on the list, depending on your use case.
My money is with OpenSourced. I'm sad that it's rational, but after a heck of a lot of observation of humans...it's pretty hard not to be very cynical, especially in a world that is increasingly following the bad golden rule (we with the gold, makes the rules). They used to at least pretend in the "first world" that it was an orginization of laws, not men, but....now it seems they don't even try. .
IMO, any actual AI is still so far off I don't expect to live to see it, though.
No point upvoting a +5, but as an engineer - electrical and recording, and a musician (several instruments) who helped create the DAW age - Dzimas has this precisely correct. Just about anything else said about this is either bullshit or off topic.
It worked out great to inclusively let morons rewrite the text editor every time. Gedit was great until the last rewrite, but by then we had leafpad, pluma, xed, and a host of other inferior ones - if you can remember the name of the one on "this" distro....and don't get me started on calculators. I guess no one needs 1/x, a consistent square root, and so on, and has nothing better to do than relearn this crap every time...
There are a lot more than this, but I'll leave these here - not that they are "pure" - some are just teaching existing knowledge and encouraging new people. My "thing" is non-thermal fusion so...the second one of these is my site.
http://www.fusor.net/board/ind... - fusor.org, helping beginners, some new science.
http://www.coultersmithing.com... My site for a little more advanced user (no, I'm not pimping for members unless you're a super content contributor).
Neither accept money or show ads....
Doing without MS doesn't mean only paper and pencil as options....rilly? [sic]. I ditched windows around 2001 when I stopped running a company that fixed windows issues and wrote drivers for oddball hardware. There are around 20 machines here, mostly linux, a couple apple, all work great. Kinda diminishes any authority in the rest of your comment...
So, those humans successfully posing as statues that freak people out when they move I see all over youtube don't exist? You can really always tell right off without explicit testing? Sounds like vanity to me. Few if any people pay that level of continuous attention to anything.
And while the earth might be roughly 4 billion years old...tying it all to humans is kinda out there.
They don't quite. Couldn't get a MySSA acct with the gov because equifax and experian don't have a record of me - I don't use credit and the SSA, though they send me checks, can't set up an online account because - and THEY TOLD ME ON THE PHONE - without a credit rating they can't verify I exist, much less am me.
Other than that, it's fun being a "ghost".
Wifi need not be on all the time - or used at all. It exposes one to all kinds of well known attacks and makes others possible. Something like LORA (a shorter range version) talking to a hub that only then connects to the internet makes a hell of a lot more sense, costs less, has better security due to a smaller attack surface, and what little extra you get from obscurity (not much, I know - but not the zero of well known wifi frequencies and protocols either).
I have about 20 nodes on my _LAN_ of things - yep, no external internet required at all, really, as I don't have the lifestyle to need it, or a robot that can mind my woodstove on the homestead, even though there's plenty else automated. The way I see it, IoT is just a way to make it easier to spy, make botnets and insert the vendor in the middle to collect money from either your data or a straight subscription charge. Of course, at any time they can go out of business, simply refuse to support your stuff anymore, or raise the rent - TO MAKE YOUR OWN HOUSE WORK! .
I'm not that sort of moron, thanks.
You need to eat the peas of actual analysis of real world situations and the usually ignored implications thereof.
And FWIW as an actual conservative (rather than some alt-right wing nut) - I'm all for the kind of net neutrality Wheeler surprised us with. I'm old enough to remember all kinds of fearful comments about Wheeler here and on Ars (and Groklaw) because of his cable lobbyist background.
Seems some people need to remember that politics is the entertainment branch of the military industrial complex - on a good day.
Yeah, the way they run CalPers is one hell of an example....They had especially nice relationships with LTCM and Enron.
Go CA! More of that...we already can't afford your MIC parasites and the bailouts you're gonna need. Succeed already.
I get very good and inexpensive health care - which has been utterly wrongly associated with health insurance, which, along with tort, and pharma...makes it expensive.
When I go to a doctor not owned by a big conglomerate (Carilion in this area) - who knows I don't have insurance, they charge me cost + fixed fee - and it's 1/6th or 1/10th what the "official rates" are (more info in link below from a pro pointing out how to get this deal...).
I paid ~$300 -total- for office visits, a few single spaced pages of blood tests and now, $4 a month for the right meds for hypertension.
I paid $800 to have melanoma cut off me.
I paid ~$1000 (still ongoing) for surgery to repair an index finger caught in a machine and broken in 8 places + 24 stitches.
I note that if I had insurance, just the co-pay, not to mention the deductible, would have been more than this sum. As linked below, they jack up the prices to make what's left look like a good deal. And on top, I'd have paid premiums in order to have to pay more at the doctor! Why not read it next time to find out what's in it before pushing it down my throat? What kind of representative republic does what they did?
The liberals just want us to all pay more to subsidize the losers who eat too much (or eat tide pods or snort condoms or pass STDs around). big pharma...never find a cure, just find something they can sell you forever...tort lawyers...and of course, since that's stupid, get the authorities (guys with a pass to use force who even they like having guns) to force it on me like any totalitarian would.
Hedgeless (I know the guy) is expert on the issues of medical billing and how to get it right.... https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
Universal health care better? Obviously you need to get out more.
Sure climate change is real, and all the suggestions about what to do about it are pointless and not being adopted anyway. How about we work on how to deal with it - and live - and fix the problems instead of the blame, as liberals (note lack of quotes, which weren't for scare, you ad hominem jerk, but because as I said, the word's meanings have been lost) always do. It was more important to Congress that Barry Bonds lied about steroids than the causes of the financial crash...
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Sorry about that color/gender issue, but as far as that goes, no one has a choice of genetics, and we (almost all) have an innie or an outie. What you do with it is your own business, but don't fine me or get triggered if I call you what is obviously what you are.
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And it goes on and on. I'm sick of it and sick of the utterly false idea that if one politician is wrong, the other one must be right - never stated but always assumed by people trying to force partisan bullshit down my throat. Statism is a disease and one size doesn't fit all. I actually understand why people in cities need more strict laws about swinging their arms - as they are more likely to contact an innocent nose than say, myself out in the boonies, who subsidise the non-sustainable jerks in the cities - who spend a lot of time telling me their way is better, want the tyranny of the majority and will you please get back to work (for us) you rural slave.
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I'd even like to ask a girl out for a date and not be accused of some evil social ill as well.
Yeah, huge factory farms with next to no (legal) workers. The huge corps that own those work by the old golden rule...them with the gold, makes the rules.
Probably much less if you consider outsourcing - eg where value is actually created, all that money counted in GDP that's actually subsidies for the MIC...the fact the rest of us are going to be bailing out the pension system in CA which is an example of how not to do that only exceeded in Illinois...
I was hoping for succession and a bit of an L shaped wall, myself.
To the bozo who thinks it's bad for the rural people to have some power even though we grow all your food, make all your electricity, take all your garbage, and pay more road taxes than we need so we can send surplus to the cities - that smart mouth needs to get its brain to join the party.
Without us, y'all are dead meat.
I'd point out - and the XKCD below also shows indirectly, that "supporting life" is hugely different than "supporting billions of humans in comfort equivalent to today where a significant fraction are super poor and oppressed". To say things aren't fragile in that sense is indeed mental.
For what it's worth, I'm considered a conservative. Because a few neocons deny GW - and neocons now pollute both false-dichotomy political parties - doesn't mean we've all lost the ability to think and analyze.
What are now called liberals are anything but. These "progressives" are trying to force me to think just like them, as any good totalitarian would.
The so-called conservatives are nothing like the dictionary - they seem to want war, to supress a different set of rights than the "liberals" but are statist none the less, have forgotten conservative values like "look before you leap", "spend less than you make", "don't fix things that ain't broke" and "don't start wars" (well, both fake sides forgot that one - Obama, for example had more war-days * number of places we fought than anyone else in history. So much for a peace prize.
I'm sure Libya is better off now, or...).
I want my language back. These liars who do so to keep power over us ruin it so we can't discuss intelligently. That sucks.
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Yeah, like they fake news-ed about the Volt they crashed with a fully charged battery (they drain the gas tank on petrol cars first) then stored upside down in a junkyard shed till it caught fire - after any occupant would have starved to death....duh, and then headlined "electric car catches fire in crash testing".
I'm sure Elon isn't the least bit worried they'll screw him like that....I put flame decals on my Volt for humor, but...
Sadly, as a mostly-perl programmer, you're largely right. Perl just doesn't have the network effect it used to have, even though, as far as I can tell, Python and Ruby (and that fractal of bad design, PHP) were essentially incomplete copies of the perl ideas, but done "wrong" or to the current fad idea (that whitespace thing...) of the author - and all with different weak or duck typing which is really what makes it hard to move between them.
That said, I use C a lot, C++ when writing drivers for sensors and realtime stuff, and even use Inline::Python to save time figuring out the bugs caused by different duck typing when bits are involved. BTW, when possible (usually) Inline::Your_language_of_choice converts to C, compiles that, and makes it into a.so (in linux) for you and often at least in the case of Python, often reveals poor coding by people who sleep instead of ready-check since it runs so much faster than native python....Yes, Adafruit, I'm looking at you there. It's still easier to fix that than some unknown algo for type promotion when you're working close to metal.
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I'll say it without being AC. So many with short attention spans forgot that this was the one that detected spyware when no one else did.
Not a Trumptard, but how about the more obvious reason the gov is pissed? Kaspersky detected US malware when no other AV did. And probably refused to "fix" that -
We can't have an AV with the integrity to call out the NSA/CIA spyware, now, can we?
Libtards forget the reporting so easily when it fits their cognitive bias. It's the only way to keep their heads from exploding.
Follow the $ is often correct. A reason they lock is entitled assholes flash wrong stuff and expect free support. This is a major reason we can't have more nice things. The entitled spoil it for those who are responsible.
Out here in rural farmland, my efficient killers take out disease-spreading rodents and crop-destroying insects, primarily, and in the warm months don't take much food from me - they eat out. The don't seem to bother birds or rabbits, and the squirrels stay a good distance out... Maybe living in the city is the basic disease and problem. Out here deer *must* be hunted because all their natural predators were wiped out by settlers early on, and they kill people via auto collisions frequently (as well as other damage). I'm glad I moved away from the swamp in the '70s myself...being with self-important power mad losers in high density was a terrible human turd to diamond ratio experience compared to the boonies where we help each other instead.
Normal living things effectively gained fear of death because the ones that didn't weren't as successful at reproduction, and the process has been going on a very long time - we see a huge survivor bias in regular living things. Assuming a human-built thing...this would not be the case at all. Seems obvious. If you were programming motivations, well, you may or may not put that one on the list, depending on your use case.
True, but why even assume it has a fear of death and therefore danger? Assumptions...well, you know what they make of us.
IMO, any actual AI is still so far off I don't expect to live to see it, though.
No point upvoting a +5, but as an engineer - electrical and recording, and a musician (several instruments) who helped create the DAW age - Dzimas has this precisely correct. Just about anything else said about this is either bullshit or off topic.
It worked out great to inclusively let morons rewrite the text editor every time. Gedit was great until the last rewrite, but by then we had leafpad, pluma, xed, and a host of other inferior ones - if you can remember the name of the one on "this" distro....and don't get me started on calculators. I guess no one needs 1/x, a consistent square root, and so on, and has nothing better to do than relearn this crap every time...
There are a lot more than this, but I'll leave these here - not that they are "pure" - some are just teaching existing knowledge and encouraging new people. My "thing" is non-thermal fusion so...the second one of these is my site. http://www.fusor.net/board/ind... - fusor.org, helping beginners, some new science. http://www.coultersmithing.com... My site for a little more advanced user (no, I'm not pimping for members unless you're a super content contributor). Neither accept money or show ads....
Gotcha. It's part of why I'd gone private-consultant.
Doing without MS doesn't mean only paper and pencil as options....rilly? [sic]. I ditched windows around 2001 when I stopped running a company that fixed windows issues and wrote drivers for oddball hardware. There are around 20 machines here, mostly linux, a couple apple, all work great. Kinda diminishes any authority in the rest of your comment...
So, those humans successfully posing as statues that freak people out when they move I see all over youtube don't exist? You can really always tell right off without explicit testing? Sounds like vanity to me. Few if any people pay that level of continuous attention to anything. And while the earth might be roughly 4 billion years old...tying it all to humans is kinda out there.
Wrong agency. FDA does medical, not EPA. Way to toss in a specious bunch of crap.
They don't quite. Couldn't get a MySSA acct with the gov because equifax and experian don't have a record of me - I don't use credit and the SSA, though they send me checks, can't set up an online account because - and THEY TOLD ME ON THE PHONE - without a credit rating they can't verify I exist, much less am me. Other than that, it's fun being a "ghost".
I have about 20 nodes on my _LAN_ of things - yep, no external internet required at all, really, as I don't have the lifestyle to need it, or a robot that can mind my woodstove on the homestead, even though there's plenty else automated. The way I see it, IoT is just a way to make it easier to spy, make botnets and insert the vendor in the middle to collect money from either your data or a straight subscription charge. Of course, at any time they can go out of business, simply refuse to support your stuff anymore, or raise the rent - TO MAKE YOUR OWN HOUSE WORK!
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I'm not that sort of moron, thanks.
You need to eat the peas of actual analysis of real world situations and the usually ignored implications thereof.
And FWIW as an actual conservative (rather than some alt-right wing nut) - I'm all for the kind of net neutrality Wheeler surprised us with. I'm old enough to remember all kinds of fearful comments about Wheeler here and on Ars (and Groklaw) because of his cable lobbyist background.
Seems some people need to remember that politics is the entertainment branch of the military industrial complex - on a good day.
Yeah, the way they run CalPers is one hell of an example....They had especially nice relationships with LTCM and Enron. Go CA! More of that...we already can't afford your MIC parasites and the bailouts you're gonna need. Succeed already.
I get very good and inexpensive health care - which has been utterly wrongly associated with health insurance, which, along with tort, and pharma...makes it expensive.
When I go to a doctor not owned by a big conglomerate (Carilion in this area) - who knows I don't have insurance, they charge me cost + fixed fee - and it's 1/6th or 1/10th what the "official rates" are (more info in link below from a pro pointing out how to get this deal...).
I paid ~$300 -total- for office visits, a few single spaced pages of blood tests and now, $4 a month for the right meds for hypertension.
I paid $800 to have melanoma cut off me.
I paid ~$1000 (still ongoing) for surgery to repair an index finger caught in a machine and broken in 8 places + 24 stitches.
I note that if I had insurance, just the co-pay, not to mention the deductible, would have been more than this sum. As linked below, they jack up the prices to make what's left look like a good deal. And on top, I'd have paid premiums in order to have to pay more at the doctor! Why not read it next time to find out what's in it before pushing it down my throat? What kind of representative republic does what they did? The liberals just want us to all pay more to subsidize the losers who eat too much (or eat tide pods or snort condoms or pass STDs around). big pharma...never find a cure, just find something they can sell you forever...tort lawyers...and of course, since that's stupid, get the authorities (guys with a pass to use force who even they like having guns) to force it on me like any totalitarian would. Hedgeless (I know the guy) is expert on the issues of medical billing and how to get it right....
https://www.zerohedge.com/news...
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Sorry about that color/gender issue, but as far as that goes, no one has a choice of genetics, and we (almost all) have an innie or an outie. What you do with it is your own business, but don't fine me or get triggered if I call you what is obviously what you are.
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And it goes on and on. I'm sick of it and sick of the utterly false idea that if one politician is wrong, the other one must be right - never stated but always assumed by people trying to force partisan bullshit down my throat. Statism is a disease and one size doesn't fit all. I actually understand why people in cities need more strict laws about swinging their arms - as they are more likely to contact an innocent nose than say, myself out in the boonies, who subsidise the non-sustainable jerks in the cities - who spend a lot of time telling me their way is better, want the tyranny of the majority and will you please get back to work (for us) you rural slave.
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I'd even like to ask a girl out for a date and not be accused of some evil social ill as well.
Yeah, huge factory farms with next to no (legal) workers. The huge corps that own those work by the old golden rule...them with the gold, makes the rules.
Probably much less if you consider outsourcing - eg where value is actually created, all that money counted in GDP that's actually subsidies for the MIC...the fact the rest of us are going to be bailing out the pension system in CA which is an example of how not to do that only exceeded in Illinois... I was hoping for succession and a bit of an L shaped wall, myself. To the bozo who thinks it's bad for the rural people to have some power even though we grow all your food, make all your electricity, take all your garbage, and pay more road taxes than we need so we can send surplus to the cities - that smart mouth needs to get its brain to join the party. Without us, y'all are dead meat.
I'd point out - and the XKCD below also shows indirectly, that "supporting life" is hugely different than "supporting billions of humans in comfort equivalent to today where a significant fraction are super poor and oppressed". To say things aren't fragile in that sense is indeed mental. For what it's worth, I'm considered a conservative. Because a few neocons deny GW - and neocons now pollute both false-dichotomy political parties - doesn't mean we've all lost the ability to think and analyze. What are now called liberals are anything but. These "progressives" are trying to force me to think just like them, as any good totalitarian would. The so-called conservatives are nothing like the dictionary - they seem to want war, to supress a different set of rights than the "liberals" but are statist none the less, have forgotten conservative values like "look before you leap", "spend less than you make", "don't fix things that ain't broke" and "don't start wars" (well, both fake sides forgot that one - Obama, for example had more war-days * number of places we fought than anyone else in history. So much for a peace prize. I'm sure Libya is better off now, or...). I want my language back. These liars who do so to keep power over us ruin it so we can't discuss intelligently. That sucks. https://xkcd.com/1732/
Yeah, like they fake news-ed about the Volt they crashed with a fully charged battery (they drain the gas tank on petrol cars first) then stored upside down in a junkyard shed till it caught fire - after any occupant would have starved to death....duh, and then headlined "electric car catches fire in crash testing".
I'm sure Elon isn't the least bit worried they'll screw him like that....I put flame decals on my Volt for humor, but...
That said, I use C a lot, C++ when writing drivers for sensors and realtime stuff, and even use Inline::Python to save time figuring out the bugs caused by different duck typing when bits are involved. BTW, when possible (usually) Inline::Your_language_of_choice converts to C, compiles that, and makes it into a .so (in linux) for you and often at least in the case of Python, often reveals poor coding by people who sleep instead of ready-check since it runs so much faster than native python....Yes, Adafruit, I'm looking at you there. It's still easier to fix that than some unknown algo for type promotion when you're working close to metal.