Everybody knew computers could never beat humans at chess. Now they do. In much the same way, computers will beat us at every single intellectual task, at some point in time. Technology revolutions go faster every time one occurs. From 10k years for the agricultural revolution to two years for the internet and mobile phones. I see no reason why computers can't outsmart us in 2025.
F*ck, I get so angry about the stupidity of politicians. They don't care about the kids that have their lives destroyed. They just care about percentages and seats. F*ck them. I have seen the pics, I have seen the videos, and I still dream about them, even though it's been many years since I was actively involved in Meldpunt. As a police officer from Canada said on an Interpol conference about online child pornography in Lyon many years ago, "a person who gets murdered dies once. A child who is sexually abused dies every day for the rest of their life".
A perfect child-porn filter that only filters child porn would be wonderful
No, it would not. It would mean that "ordinary people", the average internet user, would not be aware of pictures of child abuse. The pedophiles have access to them anyway, and with public opinion being totally unaware, they can happily continue to abuse kids and publish the pics on their secret proxied servers. The best thing to do is to show every horrible picture to the public, to journalists, causing public outrage leading to funds being made available to put the abusers in jail.
I'm one of the founders of melpunt, the Dutch equivalent of the Cybertipline and Internet Watch Foundation (that were created after our example). I say, don't filter, don't censor, just put the pedophiles away for life. The kids who will never ever get their life back, deserve that.
but the fact that you don't really know what's going on inside can back-fire if you are starting as a programmer.
I guess this depends on the IDE and programming language you use. I use Eclipse and Java, Android, and the IDE doesn't hide anything from me. It points out errors and it makes suggestions, but in the end it's me who types all the code. That's different from a visual IDE where you don't see the code. There's some areas where I have the choice of using a visual editor, but I never do, mainly because I want to be in control of the code.
In this case, reading, writing, listening, and speaking a foreign language should all be different tasks.
Not true. Reading a foreign language and speaking it has a lot in common. Otoh, reading code and creating code is very different. But I'm not a neuroscientist, I'm just a person who's capable of writing code, reading code, writing/speaking three foreign languages, and reading five foreign languages.
If you don't *TRUST* the proxy, don't accept it's use.
That's true. But then, if you're a user who's not very security savvy (like 95% of the people on the internet) and you think "https is secure, my isp can't see my data", and you think "secure proxy, sounds good!", then you're stuffed. Either the rfp should require isps to notify their customers that "secure" in this case means "secure, but we can see it", or the rfp should describe a solution where the isp really can't see the users data.
I don't like FFM and I don't like global menus. I want a menu to be close to the window it belongs to. Currently, when there's a little shell window on the lower right of my big screen, the associated menu is in the upper left, and I need to make hugs mouse swipes to get to the menu and back to the window. Why did they change the way Ubuntu works when everybody was more than happy with the way it worked?
The simple fact that a discussion like this comes up proves that the terrorists have already won, big time. The hundreds of billions of dollars that the world spends on "preventing" terrorist attacks is much more than the terrorists could have hoped for. They damage the economy, not by destroying buildings or killing people, but by making us spend an obscene amount of money in useless "anti-terrorist" measures.
We should stop all this. We should just hop on a plane and fly. Fuck the terrorists.
Why not just limit the pronouns to "they" and "their"? The more specific pronouns they provide, the more people will feel excluded because their pronoun is not an option. And, for those people there's always the genderswap plugin for Chrome.
This is an interesting discussion. On the one hand, more people can follow or even contribute to scientific debates when they're online, on blogs. Otoh, the amount of noise can become incredible, obscuring the debate for those who can't judge who's credible and who's not. What do we think of a world where it's not the best scientist who "wins", but the one who's most persuasive in online debates.
The right question here would be "Why does everyone take her side?".
And you're missing the point. If I didn't think the question (or rather, the replies) wouldn't be useful to everyone here, I wouldn't have posted it. Whether I'm a good programmer or not, there's numerous developers who find themselves in this situation.
There is good code and bad code...but there's also "different" code
Good point. I like to see "different code", because one way or the other, you learn from it. In a different way, you learn from bad code, because it reminds you of how useful it is to spend time on making really good code.
It certainly does seem to be related. I think that the OP implied that the Slashdot Beta is the titular "broken project".
Nope. Totally unrelated. I posted the question here because it's not the first time I see it happen and I'm sure a lot of programmers recognize the situation.
Slashdot Mirror
Everybody knew computers could never beat humans at chess. Now they do. In much the same way, computers will beat us at every single intellectual task, at some point in time. Technology revolutions go faster every time one occurs. From 10k years for the agricultural revolution to two years for the internet and mobile phones. I see no reason why computers can't outsmart us in 2025.
F*ck, I get so angry about the stupidity of politicians. They don't care about the kids that have their lives destroyed. They just care about percentages and seats. F*ck them. I have seen the pics, I have seen the videos, and I still dream about them, even though it's been many years since I was actively involved in Meldpunt. As a police officer from Canada said on an Interpol conference about online child pornography in Lyon many years ago, "a person who gets murdered dies once. A child who is sexually abused dies every day for the rest of their life".
A perfect child-porn filter that only filters child porn would be wonderful
No, it would not. It would mean that "ordinary people", the average internet user, would not be aware of pictures of child abuse. The pedophiles have access to them anyway, and with public opinion being totally unaware, they can happily continue to abuse kids and publish the pics on their secret proxied servers. The best thing to do is to show every horrible picture to the public, to journalists, causing public outrage leading to funds being made available to put the abusers in jail.
I'm one of the founders of melpunt, the Dutch equivalent of the Cybertipline and Internet Watch Foundation (that were created after our example). I say, don't filter, don't censor, just put the pedophiles away for life. The kids who will never ever get their life back, deserve that.
Downside : a normal coffee brew process generates 6-12 cups of Joe.
Does it? My espresso machine gives me one fresh cup of espresso for one serving of freshly ground beans.
but the fact that you don't really know what's going on inside can back-fire if you are starting as a programmer.
I guess this depends on the IDE and programming language you use. I use Eclipse and Java, Android, and the IDE doesn't hide anything from me. It points out errors and it makes suggestions, but in the end it's me who types all the code. That's different from a visual IDE where you don't see the code. There's some areas where I have the choice of using a visual editor, but I never do, mainly because I want to be in control of the code.
In this case, reading, writing, listening, and speaking a foreign language should all be different tasks.
Not true. Reading a foreign language and speaking it has a lot in common. Otoh, reading code and creating code is very different. But I'm not a neuroscientist, I'm just a person who's capable of writing code, reading code, writing/speaking three foreign languages, and reading five foreign languages.
If you don't *TRUST* the proxy, don't accept it's use.
That's true. But then, if you're a user who's not very security savvy (like 95% of the people on the internet) and you think "https is secure, my isp can't see my data", and you think "secure proxy, sounds good!", then you're stuffed. Either the rfp should require isps to notify their customers that "secure" in this case means "secure, but we can see it", or the rfp should describe a solution where the isp really can't see the users data.
I'm sure Iran's space progam is solely aimed at sending a missile to that school.
A heading with "shooting", "drones", and "terrorists". That should put /. on the NSA's radar.
I don't like FFM and I don't like global menus. I want a menu to be close to the window it belongs to. Currently, when there's a little shell window on the lower right of my big screen, the associated menu is in the upper left, and I need to make hugs mouse swipes to get to the menu and back to the window. Why did they change the way Ubuntu works when everybody was more than happy with the way it worked?
The simple fact that a discussion like this comes up proves that the terrorists have already won, big time. The hundreds of billions of dollars that the world spends on "preventing" terrorist attacks is much more than the terrorists could have hoped for. They damage the economy, not by destroying buildings or killing people, but by making us spend an obscene amount of money in useless "anti-terrorist" measures.
We should stop all this. We should just hop on a plane and fly. Fuck the terrorists.
Why not just limit the pronouns to "they" and "their"? The more specific pronouns they provide, the more people will feel excluded because their pronoun is not an option. And, for those people there's always the genderswap plugin for Chrome.
Couple more years we'll have AIs that do the moderating and shifting and managing for us.
This is an interesting discussion. On the one hand, more people can follow or even contribute to scientific debates when they're online, on blogs. Otoh, the amount of noise can become incredible, obscuring the debate for those who can't judge who's credible and who's not. What do we think of a world where it's not the best scientist who "wins", but the one who's most persuasive in online debates.
I want to be a role model, making tons of money from open source software. Where can I sign up?
I'd suggest he man up
A lot is possible, these days, for a woman to "man up". I think I'll pass, though.
I agree.
Hint: obscure wordplays, puns etc. rarely translate well.
By your user ID you're probably quite old. Do you still listen to K7s?
What's K7?
Christmas, Xmas, 10, teen, not so hard?
I am quite old, yes. But I don't use punchcards any more.
Why does everyone take his side?
The right question here would be "Why does everyone take her side?".
And you're missing the point. If I didn't think the question (or rather, the replies) wouldn't be useful to everyone here, I wouldn't have posted it. Whether I'm a good programmer or not, there's numerous developers who find themselves in this situation.
There is good code and bad code...but there's also "different" code
Good point. I like to see "different code", because one way or the other, you learn from it. In a different way, you learn from bad code, because it reminds you of how useful it is to spend time on making really good code.
Then, write tests. Write more tests. Write even more tests.
That, my friend, is what I've been doing the last few weeks :-)
It certainly does seem to be related. I think that the OP implied that the Slashdot Beta is the titular "broken project".
Nope. Totally unrelated. I posted the question here because it's not the first time I see it happen and I'm sure a lot of programmers recognize the situation.
He says in the summary that quitting does not "feel right".
I love the replies to my question, thank you all. What's amusing is the gender bias. X10 stands for "Christine", in a combined English/Dutch way.
Ah, thought he is talking about one of my apps
No, she isn't.
Commercials is what pays for the programs. The alternative is a TV station that charges per program or per month.