I realize this is voluntary but this kind of genetic record keeping and analysis will not be kept private. There's already several stories out there of crimes being solved because of genetic matching in Ancestry.com. It wasn't even the person that did the crime but their close relative!
To be fair we don't *know* that Jussie Smollett is a liar. He still stands by his story and the evidence hasn't been presented at trial yet.
Right TruthBot? That is correct.
Both Bird and Lime should know this data already themselves and yet they're still jumping into markets (ergo losing more money that they'll never recoup).
Either both companies have moronic leadership or there's some other scam going on. That includes all the weird (and oddly almost always negative) attention in the press these things get.
I'll agree that music doesn't affect creativity - but whether or not its a distraction or benefit is not a uniform response.
For coding purposes the right music will get me into the zone and help me concentrate and bang out the logic.
When problem solving directly it CAN be a distraction but it can also help as the music can inspire other creative interpretations of the problem. This is similar to the shower effect where, after banging your head against a problem, the solution presents itself while you're thinking of other things in the shower and your subconscious kicks in.
At its best, music is motivational, for both coding, problem solving and even workouts - to help focus brain power and shift mental energies.
My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!
Yeah - I remember at the times that that was the common reason (to sell off old stock).
Worse was when you were trying to find motherboards and peripherals that all claimed to have USB 2.0 support (with no speed descriptions) Ok - is that USB 2.0/1.1 support or USB 2.0/2.0 support?
Let alone looking for that stupid "red flag" indicating high speed support which you could only seem to find on the cables. (Which was easy to add because the pin outs were the same!)
Xerox (as the author seems to have forgotten or never bothered reading more than the pop history of computers) was a copier/business machine company not a PERSONAL COMPUTER company. Though they did invent the concept of the Windowed Interface there was no great call for it in the business side of things and Wordperfect was king. With 20-20 hindsight historians have pointed at this as the "ha ha - Xerox could've been rich but they wuz dum and Apple drank their milkshake". Which is somewhat true - but not really as early UIs were seen as toys and "not professional". Macs went to schools and creative types - but REAL work was still done with a CL as God intended! It took Windows 3 versions before the UI was stable enough and worked on enough hardware that software devs started shifting over (and then Wordperfect wuz dum because it didn't make the transition until Word drank its milkshake) and EVEN THEN - it was an extra that you ran on top of DOS!
This is, in no way, similar to getting a self-driving car out to market. There's safety and liability concerns along with the impacts on society as a whole (what happens when Uber drivers and bus drivers and taxi cabs and pizza delivery drivers ALL are out of a job because a self-driving car can do all that? No one is "missing" the technology and commercial gains here. But like New Coke and Nuclear Reactors a few high profile wrecks could turn public sentiment wholly against the concept.
The AE-35 dispensing unit is going to fail, Dave. You should go down to the factory floor and replace it before failure which would cause a large beer spill. I'll shut down the line for you Dave. It's perfectly safe.
I'm actually involved in "AI" work at my business and... it's not "AI". It's all buzzword marketing hype for state machines and not real Artificial Intelligence*. This is like saying we're going to teach kids about Phrenology because it's the new hotness in the 1800s.
(*Which is not the same as the No True Scotsman Fallacy here)
Thanks for proving, once again that I'm right. If it were just a popular vote then the electoral college COULD NOT CHOOSE A DIFFERENT PRESIDENT. Which was why there was, indeed, a massive push by the Democrats and some Republicans to get the electors to vote somebody else into office in 2016.
They're called faithless electors... google it.
And you still have no concept as to why the electoral college exists because of all that brown in your brains. You're not smart, you're an idiot.
(Or were you even aware that all states have different laws as to what constitutes a valid voter and a valid election process? No? Didn't get that from Jimmy Kimmel's daily talking points? Naahh, of course you didn't. That's ALSO why we have the electoral college - because a few states could change their laws to swing popularity counts and take the federal government through a simple majority.)
And no, numbnuts, I support and honor the outcome EVERY TIME because I believe and support the constitution of the United States of America because the people always vote stupidly every election - regardless of which side you're on.
It's not "AI" that needs to be regulated or blamed for these issues.
"AI" is becoming the whipping point, the man, the fall guy for shady actions enacted by corps and employees who are (last I checked) still accountable to regulations and laws enforcing fairness and transparency.
If they're hiding behind AI for bizarre outcomes that are obviously against regulations then that's still - ILLEGAL. Don't blame the AI - take the corp to court for implementing the AI in that way in the same way Wells Fargo was held accountable for their human agents making fake accounts.
For social media and "fake news" this gets a little trickier but the solution is still the same - hold the companies like Facebook and Google accountable for what they post - be it ads or promotional stories that they're paid for.
There's not even standardized definitions of AI internals yet so I'm not sure how you write regulations that could easily be understood by those implementing the AI to begin with.
Sure there's the old "don't be evil" (we see how that turned out) and non-military AI shouldn't kill but beyond that? So long as they're still subject to the laws and regulations of what a normal human would be doing that the AI replaces I'm not sure there's much else that can be done currently
AIs should not cold call people after 8pm in their timezone.
AIs should always say please and thank you
I'm flashing back to that scene in Robocop 2 after the civics board got done adding 100 "prime" directives to his software.
logic much?
The popular vote has nothing to do with who wins the Presidential election as the popular votes are tallied into electors per state and it's the count of the electors that determine the President. Been that way for 200+ years.
The claim for the largest turnout was in response to the assertion that it was an "appalling low turnout" which has nothing to do with the former assertion as they're two distinct things.
I think you have a lot of brown in your brains, there.
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I realize this is voluntary but this kind of genetic record keeping and analysis will not be kept private. There's already several stories out there of crimes being solved because of genetic matching in Ancestry.com. It wasn't even the person that did the crime but their close relative!
To be fair we don't *know* that Jussie Smollett is a liar. He still stands by his story and the evidence hasn't been presented at trial yet.
Right TruthBot?
That is correct.
Riight - it has nothing to do with them being ruled illegal in Germany (and then inevitably by the EU...)
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
Both Bird and Lime should know this data already themselves and yet they're still jumping into markets (ergo losing more money that they'll never recoup).
Either both companies have moronic leadership or there's some other scam going on. That includes all the weird (and oddly almost always negative) attention in the press these things get.
For coding purposes the right music will get me into the zone and help me concentrate and bang out the logic.
When problem solving directly it CAN be a distraction but it can also help as the music can inspire other creative interpretations of the problem. This is similar to the shower effect where, after banging your head against a problem, the solution presents itself while you're thinking of other things in the shower and your subconscious kicks in.
At its best, music is motivational, for both coding, problem solving and even workouts - to help focus brain power and shift mental energies.
My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!
Yeah - I remember at the times that that was the common reason (to sell off old stock).
Worse was when you were trying to find motherboards and peripherals that all claimed to have USB 2.0 support (with no speed descriptions) Ok - is that USB 2.0/1.1 support or USB 2.0/2.0 support?
Let alone looking for that stupid "red flag" indicating high speed support which you could only seem to find on the cables. (Which was easy to add because the pin outs were the same!)
USB Super Sloth Speed?
This is par for the course -
USB 2.0 full speed
USB 2.0 high speed.
Where USB 2.0 "full" speed was USB 1.1 speeds.
Hey - this here be slashdot where the motto, RTFA, originated pre-2000! :)
I get what you're saying but... are you going to flip your your tablet and hold it up to the seat back display?
Plate # egg plant, water spray, o-face ...
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Never mind...
Xerox (as the author seems to have forgotten or never bothered reading more than the pop history of computers) was a copier/business machine company not a PERSONAL COMPUTER company. Though they did invent the concept of the Windowed Interface there was no great call for it in the business side of things and Wordperfect was king. With 20-20 hindsight historians have pointed at this as the "ha ha - Xerox could've been rich but they wuz dum and Apple drank their milkshake". Which is somewhat true - but not really as early UIs were seen as toys and "not professional". Macs went to schools and creative types - but REAL work was still done with a CL as God intended! It took Windows 3 versions before the UI was stable enough and worked on enough hardware that software devs started shifting over (and then Wordperfect wuz dum because it didn't make the transition until Word drank its milkshake) and EVEN THEN - it was an extra that you ran on top of DOS!
This is, in no way, similar to getting a self-driving car out to market. There's safety and liability concerns along with the impacts on society as a whole (what happens when Uber drivers and bus drivers and taxi cabs and pizza delivery drivers ALL are out of a job because a self-driving car can do all that? No one is "missing" the technology and commercial gains here. But like New Coke and Nuclear Reactors a few high profile wrecks could turn public sentiment wholly against the concept.
lol - I stand corrected! :)
I think it's still illegal to have a gun without a serial # (goes to traceability) - Not sure if that's a federal law or not.
"oh Yes. Baby. you are getting me so hot. Baby. Yes. Just like that."
The AE-35 dispensing unit is going to fail, Dave. You should go down to the factory floor and replace it before failure which would cause a large beer spill. I'll shut down the line for you Dave. It's perfectly safe.
Want me to give you my heart? Better get a telescope coz its gonna be in spaaaaccceeee!
I'm actually involved in "AI" work at my business and... it's not "AI". It's all buzzword marketing hype for state machines and not real Artificial Intelligence*. This is like saying we're going to teach kids about Phrenology because it's the new hotness in the 1800s.
(*Which is not the same as the No True Scotsman Fallacy here)
It's going to be really hard not to look at your iPhone if they hold it up quickly.
Thanks for proving, once again that I'm right. If it were just a popular vote then the electoral college COULD NOT CHOOSE A DIFFERENT PRESIDENT. Which was why there was, indeed, a massive push by the Democrats and some Republicans to get the electors to vote somebody else into office in 2016.
They're called faithless electors... google it.
And you still have no concept as to why the electoral college exists because of all that brown in your brains. You're not smart, you're an idiot. (Or were you even aware that all states have different laws as to what constitutes a valid voter and a valid election process? No? Didn't get that from Jimmy Kimmel's daily talking points? Naahh, of course you didn't. That's ALSO why we have the electoral college - because a few states could change their laws to swing popularity counts and take the federal government through a simple majority.)
And no, numbnuts, I support and honor the outcome EVERY TIME because I believe and support the constitution of the United States of America because the people always vote stupidly every election - regardless of which side you're on.
Step 4. Profit!
It's not "AI" that needs to be regulated or blamed for these issues.
"AI" is becoming the whipping point, the man, the fall guy for shady actions enacted by corps and employees who are (last I checked) still accountable to regulations and laws enforcing fairness and transparency.
If they're hiding behind AI for bizarre outcomes that are obviously against regulations then that's still - ILLEGAL. Don't blame the AI - take the corp to court for implementing the AI in that way in the same way Wells Fargo was held accountable for their human agents making fake accounts.
For social media and "fake news" this gets a little trickier but the solution is still the same - hold the companies like Facebook and Google accountable for what they post - be it ads or promotional stories that they're paid for.
There's not even standardized definitions of AI internals yet so I'm not sure how you write regulations that could easily be understood by those implementing the AI to begin with.
Sure there's the old "don't be evil" (we see how that turned out) and non-military AI shouldn't kill but beyond that? So long as they're still subject to the laws and regulations of what a normal human would be doing that the AI replaces I'm not sure there's much else that can be done currently
AIs should not cold call people after 8pm in their timezone.
AIs should always say please and thank you
I'm flashing back to that scene in Robocop 2 after the civics board got done adding 100 "prime" directives to his software.
logic much?
The popular vote has nothing to do with who wins the Presidential election as the popular votes are tallied into electors per state and it's the count of the electors that determine the President. Been that way for 200+ years.
The claim for the largest turnout was in response to the assertion that it was an "appalling low turnout" which has nothing to do with the former assertion as they're two distinct things.
I think you have a lot of brown in your brains, there.
I see the article (yeah I RTFA) Google says they demanded that they stopped but not when. Last night? Last year?