I hung on to my old 2011 17" Macbook Pro till it would no longer reliably boot up, purely for that screen form factor. I would buy this just for that screen, regardless of other specs.
This reminds me in some ways of the chart parsers I was playing around with in university for a paper on natural language processing. I think these days they are mostly used in the context of code compilation, but I must admit I don't know much about modern natural language processing tools, so I don't know if they're still a thing there.
It may be an interesting philosophical question, but it has little to do with reality. A scenario like that is almost never going to happen, and even if it did, a human driver would be faced with the same split second dilemma and be no more likely to make the "correct" decision (whatever that is).
It's not just a philosophical question. A team of engineers has to sit down and write code, or at the very least models for machine learning, that will allow a self-driving car to make a reasonable decision in any conceivable scenario. The choice you give is just a marker for a whole class of decisions that some cars will have to make at some time. This is a real problem that these engineers have to face before these cars are on the road.
The fact that human drivers in the same situation could make a poor choice is actually irrelevant.
I _READ_ the memo, and nowhere did it claim to explain why more women are not engineers.
It did suggest that a number of possible reasons, including inherent gender differences, had not been ruled out by any scholarly study. Not quite the same thing.
... and ignored requests to take down infringing material...
Bullshit there. Megaupload removed every link to infringing material where notice was given that it was infringing copyright in accordance with the DMCA. They were in fact very careful to comply with the DMCA. What they didn't do was remove links to the same material that weren't in the notice.
Megaupload hashed every file and if more than one person uploaded the same file, they only stored it once and linked both accounts to the same file. So their approach makes sense - if Peter and Paul both upload the same file and Peter is violating copyright it doesn't mean Paul is also (he may even be the creator.)
In real life of course there are often many violators posting the same file, and Megaupload were well aware that piracy was a huge driver of their success. Nevertheless, your statement is factually incorrect.
Has anyone ever told these people that someone somewhere up the line has to pay for them to f*** about?
I'd like to build you a house. I don't know yet how big it's going to be, because I haven't designed it yet. I don't know how long it's going to take to build it. I want you to pay me an indeterminate sum of money for it... And I want you to pay for it before you get it. In fact I want you to start paying me now, and keep paying every month until it's done. I'll tell you when it's done.
Who wants to buy my house?
You're going to get a fairly poisson-shaped distribution of heavy to light people forward to back, left to right, etc.
With the number of flights we have in the world today, there are going to be times when the weight distribution in a plane is accidentally very unbalanced. The airlines need to be able to weigh individual people if they want to be deterministic about that.
The most expensive part of a car is the driver.
As soon as self-driving cars become practical, taxis will become cheaper than owning your own car.
If you think Uber is shaking up the industry now, it's nothing on what's coming when taxi companies don't need taxi drivers.
If, hypothetically, you had emigrated to San Francisco USA rather than NZ and Megaupload had been a US-based company do you think it would have been more or less vulnerable to the kind of action it was shut down by?
Bonus points for an insightful discussion of the value of political contributions, etc.
A lot of software developers are doing what RMS says a lot of time. It's just that almost noone does it all the time.
It's clearly evident from the amount of GNU and GPL software out there that wasn't written by RMS that people are following his ideas. And that those ideas have succeeded, simply by the success of that same software in the marketplace.
It's not a failure of the ideal when developers of open source also write proprietary software to pay the bills.
I bought a Lenovo X131e Chromebook second hand for exactly that purpose. Went online for the instructions to boot it into developer mode so I could change the OS... Nothing worked. I emailed Lenovo directly with the serial number for advice, got no reply. As far as I can tell it is a device that does not allow any change to the BIOS.
I now have a device that runs ChromeOS and nothing else. So it's going to get sold on to the next victim. Make sure if you do buy one for this purpose that you really are able to change the OS.
I would also recommend getting some familiarity with the PCI DSS standard. It is aimed at companies involved in online payments (and a bitch if you have to prove compliance.) However when used as a descriptive framework rather than a prescriptive one, it's great foundation for planning a company's IT security aspect.
I'm sure there's a bunch of other security standards for other industries that could be used in much the same way. A good security consultant should at least be able to name check them.
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I hung on to my old 2011 17" Macbook Pro till it would no longer reliably boot up, purely for that screen form factor. I would buy this just for that screen, regardless of other specs.
This reminds me in some ways of the chart parsers I was playing around with in university for a paper on natural language processing. I think these days they are mostly used in the context of code compilation, but I must admit I don't know much about modern natural language processing tools, so I don't know if they're still a thing there.
It may be an interesting philosophical question, but it has little to do with reality. A scenario like that is almost never going to happen, and even if it did, a human driver would be faced with the same split second dilemma and be no more likely to make the "correct" decision (whatever that is).
It's not just a philosophical question. A team of engineers has to sit down and write code, or at the very least models for machine learning, that will allow a self-driving car to make a reasonable decision in any conceivable scenario. The choice you give is just a marker for a whole class of decisions that some cars will have to make at some time. This is a real problem that these engineers have to face before these cars are on the road.
The fact that human drivers in the same situation could make a poor choice is actually irrelevant.
Think Of The Children
A cockroach has the same mental capacity as a rodent
Citation please.
I _READ_ the memo, and nowhere did it claim to explain why more women are not engineers. It did suggest that a number of possible reasons, including inherent gender differences, had not been ruled out by any scholarly study. Not quite the same thing.
If I wanted to smuggle 16GB of data into the UK the easiest way I could imagine would be to copy it on to my phone and fly it there on the a plane.
Is it an instant messaging problem or a contact management problem?
... and ignored requests to take down infringing material ...
Bullshit there. Megaupload removed every link to infringing material where notice was given that it was infringing copyright in accordance with the DMCA. They were in fact very careful to comply with the DMCA. What they didn't do was remove links to the same material that weren't in the notice.
Megaupload hashed every file and if more than one person uploaded the same file, they only stored it once and linked both accounts to the same file. So their approach makes sense - if Peter and Paul both upload the same file and Peter is violating copyright it doesn't mean Paul is also (he may even be the creator.)
In real life of course there are often many violators posting the same file, and Megaupload were well aware that piracy was a huge driver of their success. Nevertheless, your statement is factually incorrect.
Slider phones just don't sell well ...
I've always suspected that line was bullsh*t. Moving parts on the phone may have just cost more in fixes under warranty.
Emacs would be a hell of an operating system if someone would just write a decent text editor for it.
My favourite used to be, "Eight Mb And Constantly Swapping." Now guess how old that joke is...
It isn't a block, it is a warning. Works just fine.
Today it's a warning.
Comodo have facebook pages, twitter, accounts, contact forms on their website and email addresses. Go and tell them what you think of this.
It is opinion.
I do not claim it is wrong.
I am not denigrating the author.
It is, however, just an opinion published on someone's blog. Hence the disclaimer (if you read all the way to the bottom.)
Slashdot is supposed to publish news for nerds, and this is not that.
I just find myself wondering what a philosopher looks like when he's in three separate parts..
Has anyone ever told these people that someone somewhere up the line has to pay for them to f*** about? I'd like to build you a house. I don't know yet how big it's going to be, because I haven't designed it yet. I don't know how long it's going to take to build it. I want you to pay me an indeterminate sum of money for it... And I want you to pay for it before you get it. In fact I want you to start paying me now, and keep paying every month until it's done. I'll tell you when it's done. Who wants to buy my house?
You're going to get a fairly poisson-shaped distribution of heavy to light people forward to back, left to right, etc. With the number of flights we have in the world today, there are going to be times when the weight distribution in a plane is accidentally very unbalanced. The airlines need to be able to weigh individual people if they want to be deterministic about that.
The most expensive part of a car is the driver.
As soon as self-driving cars become practical, taxis will become cheaper than owning your own car.
If you think Uber is shaking up the industry now, it's nothing on what's coming when taxi companies don't need taxi drivers.
They've changed the genome from a 2 bit computer to a 3 bit computer. In theory they should be faster than us. But only over generations.
If, hypothetically, you had emigrated to San Francisco USA rather than NZ and Megaupload had been a US-based company do you think it would have been more or less vulnerable to the kind of action it was shut down by? Bonus points for an insightful discussion of the value of political contributions, etc.
A lot of software developers are doing what RMS says a lot of time. It's just that almost noone does it all the time.
It's clearly evident from the amount of GNU and GPL software out there that wasn't written by RMS that people are following his ideas. And that those ideas have succeeded, simply by the success of that same software in the marketplace.
It's not a failure of the ideal when developers of open source also write proprietary software to pay the bills.
I bought a Lenovo X131e Chromebook second hand for exactly that purpose. Went online for the instructions to boot it into developer mode so I could change the OS ... Nothing worked. I emailed Lenovo directly with the serial number for advice, got no reply. As far as I can tell it is a device that does not allow any change to the BIOS.
I now have a device that runs ChromeOS and nothing else. So it's going to get sold on to the next victim. Make sure if you do buy one for this purpose that you really are able to change the OS.
The Open Web Application Security Project website is a great place to start browsing from, to investigate both pen testing and secure development.
I would also recommend getting some familiarity with the PCI DSS standard. It is aimed at companies involved in online payments (and a bitch if you have to prove compliance.) However when used as a descriptive framework rather than a prescriptive one, it's great foundation for planning a company's IT security aspect.
I'm sure there's a bunch of other security standards for other industries that could be used in much the same way. A good security consultant should at least be able to name check them.
Who else remembers, back in the day, when whistleblowers used to escape from Russia and seek political asylum in the USA?
I feel old.
Consider a horse that isn't stupid.
Trust me, the only reason anyone can ride an animal that weighs more than 1,000 pounds and can kill us with a single kick is because they are stupid.