I like the general agreement here about reducing carbs. That's the obvious first step in lifestyle adjustment. Keto is ideal if you're also overweight. (Note that many diabetics are skinny.) Fat isn't mentioned much here but it's essential. Eat lotsa fat! Easy on the protein tho.
But there's a problem running through this thread. Yes sugar is evil. Yes you have to test blood sugar. But sugar isn't what's ravaging your body! It's insulin for type 2 diabetics. More and more insulin floods your body every time you eat bread, rice, potato, and sweets. After a while your body doesn't respond to insulin well and you need more and more, which increases your resistance to the point that you just can't make enough. And that insulin is destructive to you in many ways.
So unfortunately, this study and probably all similar studies are wrong. Yes, you can reduce your blood sugar, but you haven't cured the insulin problem. Your insulin receptors are still not responding correctly. You still need to be very careful. Until the insulin problem is solved, you are still diabetic. Sorry.
Intelligence, real, imagined or artificial, is not the enemy. Intelligence has always brought new and better things into our lives. The enemy is emotion.
If an 'artificial' intelligence is without emotion there is no reason to expect harm from it. OTOH, there is no reason to expect 'good' from it. Good is defined by our emotional wants for the most part. Any true intelligence should be expected to work toward its own survival and nothing more.
Thus, a robotic society may not have ambition to explore space, to breed better tasting shrimp or to contribute much to the fashion world. But then too it would not commit crimes or indulge in sinful activities or plot against humanity either. Unless humanity became a threat...
Within a week or two it won't be 'crypto' any more... it will be cleverly reduced to 'crip'; far more hip. But that will annoy the LA street gang called 'the Crips' and may lead to mayhem. Thus a slight turn of term to 'crap', which will stick, as crap tends to do; causing future historians to struggle to understand the odd term.
I seem to recall that these devices have screen technology that doesn't drain the battery. They can be on all the time- no problem. Not so with most phones & tablets.
Your phone will try to connect to wifi & cell towers. It will try HARD. It will drain the battery rapidly. At least that's what my phone did when I traveled to a very remote area. It got very hot and drained a full battery in less than two hours. It was an older model, YMMV.
like bookkeepers who work on spreadsheets all day or news reporters who use Word all day. What about real people juggling a variety of tasks including programming, photo manipulation, ecommerce and playing music? They'll have dozens of programs running where only a handful would do.
This is a solution in search of a problem... which doesn't exist.
Why not link to the source of the story instead of some commercial middleman? Is it all about kickbacks? Here's the list: https://reports.exodus-privacy...
"iphones primary user base is people that barely know how to install an app..."
When you presume that iDevice users are too stupid to hack their phones, you are reflecting more upon yourself than them. Many iDevice users have other things to do. Our elected officials, corporate executives, doctors, scientists, engineers and schoolteachers. They don't live in Mom's basement hacking their phones. They want an easy, reliable, secure phone that won't interfere with what needs to get done.
Every hour you spend hacking your Android phone or Windows computer is a lost hour. You could have been doing something useful, something unselfish.
There was a time when it made (commercial) sense to capitalize every word in a headline. Yes, it made money for the hawkers of early newspapers. Big noisy obnoxious headlines made the news sound exciting and motivated people to spend a penny or a nickel.
How does this mess of a headline make money for Slashdot. How does it make the headline readable? Exactly what are the benefits of this abuse of the language in the age of the internet?
Wake up Slashdot. Look around- many publishers aren't living in the Dark Ages any more.
Read your damn comment before posting it. You make yourself look stupid and you insult the people here who do edit their comments before posting. If you think your words are so urgent that they must be posted without delay or editing, then you are even more pathetic than I had imagined. What works on Twitter doesn't necessarily work on/.
Blank Reg was the pirate television broadcaster seen in the Max Headroom TV series of the 1980s. He traveled in his well equipped broadcast van, avoiding authorities and offering 'alternative' video that competed with the big broadcasters.
And the reason is that about once a week a problem arises that Excel can solve quickly, but no other readily available software can solve. Each of my problems is different from the others. A very few are maintained with fresh information from time to time.
The problem for this finance chief is that he is doing the same process repeatedly. Passing data from this system to that and massaging it repeatedly. A basic motto of procedures is that you never do them twice. You can write software or scripts or macros to perform all future iterations of the process.
Most corporate data management is repetitive and should not be touched by humans who will surely mess it up.
But without the phone evidence how will they know who the murderer is? What, they already know who the murderer is? Ah, so they need the phone evidence to get a conviction! Oh, the murderer is dead? Well then, what do they need the phone evidence for? What, indeed! Perhaps they want to psychoanalyze the killer based on his social media profile. Maybe they want to discover if he was part of a mass-murder club. Have these law enforcement people nothing better to do? How many paychecks are going into this project?
The CPSC site is nearly useless. First you will see a list with pictures of six models of 'hoverboard' and some other products. Then you are invited to click 'next' to start you toward an unknown number of pages and products. I checked: there are 905 pages. Your tax dollars at work.
So I searched for 'segway' and it claimed to find 1600 hits. There was a recall for a charging unit and for a software update and possibly one for a unit repair. The rest had nothing to do with Segway AFAIK. They must be using the Google search engine- 5 legitimate hits out of 1600 seems normal for Google.
Look up any 'English' word in the Oxford English Dictionary and note the word origin. England? Not likely. Latin, Greek, Aramaic, Slobbovian are all more likely. Almost no language has origins where it is today. The French have waged a futile war to keep their language 'pure' -- only the most ignorant (such as government officials) would believe that possible.
Intelligence is our primary survival tool. Other living things have claws, teeth, camouflage, speed, etc. Our secondary survival tools include our senses, including vision, and hands and various motor skills including the ability to run like hell.
To the extent that we survive and excel in our environment and achieve our goals, we can be said to be intelligent. I don't understand the TFS' association of visual memory with intelligence. Visual memory as described is probably a good thing, but even total blindness has nothing to do with intelligence.
Where I live we have inflatable 'friends' for various purposes, not the least of which is to sit in the passenger seat while driving in the fast 'ride share' lane.
It's NaNoWriMo month, November, and my writing friends are frantically trying to finish a novel in a single month. There are no prizes, no accolades, only bragging rights if they succeed (or lie about it). I suppose that is what Slashdot is reduced to- clickbait for bragging rights. We can all claim we are taller, smarter, ours is bigger, and we read more books.
The Ghostery add-on has been doing this for a long time.
In fact redirects happen most often for me in Google search results. Click on an ad and Google re-routs the resulting links so that they get credit for their ad. I'd guess that Chrome will NOT block that kind of bait and switch. But Ghostery pops up a little window that says:
"Ghostery prevented a redirect from www.google.com to www.googleadservices.com, which is part of Google Adsense. "...
So, in the past some farmers made mistakes and their crops failed. But others followed a different drummer and their crops did well. Through human history it has always been this way.
Now however, when Cortana makes a mistake, the entire region suffers crop failure resulting in disaster.
Dealing with so-called AI can be improved by a simple additional step. Instead of having it make statements or take actions based upon its internal logic, it should first outline in human readable form the data and steps it used to arrive at those choices. A well chosen human may be able to prevent terrible mistakes before they happen.
Call it what you will. Pass laws if you like. The reality is that the sun does not care and no daylight will be saved. Farmers and fisherpeople will continue to live by the sun and the seasons.
However millions of people who have to go to school or jobs will be horribly inconvenienced by those who manipulate our clocks.
Decades ago an entrepreneur came up with a plan to add vitamin C to beer as a means to make it healthier. Apparently the product tasted good but I don't recall if any tests were done regarding health benefit. In any case, it seems that there is a formula for beer that is acceptable to the Food and Drug Administration. Adding any ingredient not on that list makes it not be beer. Thus it would have to go through an expensive approval process.
Millions of brain cells have been destroyed due to this negligent attitude at the FDA. And that's just in my brain alone!
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I like the general agreement here about reducing carbs. That's the obvious first step in lifestyle adjustment. Keto is ideal if you're also overweight. (Note that many diabetics are skinny.) Fat isn't mentioned much here but it's essential. Eat lotsa fat! Easy on the protein tho.
But there's a problem running through this thread. Yes sugar is evil. Yes you have to test blood sugar. But sugar isn't what's ravaging your body! It's insulin for type 2 diabetics. More and more insulin floods your body every time you eat bread, rice, potato, and sweets. After a while your body doesn't respond to insulin well and you need more and more, which increases your resistance to the point that you just can't make enough. And that insulin is destructive to you in many ways.
So unfortunately, this study and probably all similar studies are wrong. Yes, you can reduce your blood sugar, but you haven't cured the insulin problem. Your insulin receptors are still not responding correctly. You still need to be very careful. Until the insulin problem is solved, you are still diabetic. Sorry.
Intelligence, real, imagined or artificial, is not the enemy. Intelligence has always brought new and better things into our lives. The enemy is emotion.
If an 'artificial' intelligence is without emotion there is no reason to expect harm from it. OTOH, there is no reason to expect 'good' from it. Good is defined by our emotional wants for the most part. Any true intelligence should be expected to work toward its own survival and nothing more.
Thus, a robotic society may not have ambition to explore space, to breed better tasting shrimp or to contribute much to the fashion world. But then too it would not commit crimes or indulge in sinful activities or plot against humanity either. Unless humanity became a threat...
Within a week or two it won't be 'crypto' any more ...
it will be cleverly reduced to 'crip'; far more hip.
But that will annoy the LA street gang called 'the Crips' and may lead to mayhem.
Thus a slight turn of term to 'crap', which will stick, as crap tends to do;
causing future historians to struggle to understand the odd term.
I seem to recall that these devices have screen technology that doesn't drain the battery. They can be on all the time- no problem. Not so with most phones & tablets.
Your phone will try to connect to wifi & cell towers. It will try HARD. It will drain the battery rapidly. At least that's what my phone did when I traveled to a very remote area. It got very hot and drained a full battery in less than two hours. It was an older model, YMMV.
like bookkeepers who work on spreadsheets all day or news reporters who use Word all day. What about real people juggling a variety of tasks including programming, photo manipulation, ecommerce and playing music? They'll have dozens of programs running where only a handful would do.
This is a solution in search of a problem ... which doesn't exist.
That's exactly what Nakamoto would say.
Why not link to the source of the story instead of some commercial middleman? Is it all about kickbacks? Here's the list: https://reports.exodus-privacy...
"iphones primary user base is people that barely know how to install an app..."
When you presume that iDevice users are too stupid to hack their phones, you are reflecting more upon yourself than them. Many iDevice users have other things to do. Our elected officials, corporate executives, doctors, scientists, engineers and schoolteachers. They don't live in Mom's basement hacking their phones. They want an easy, reliable, secure phone that won't interfere with what needs to get done.
Every hour you spend hacking your Android phone or Windows computer is a lost hour. You could have been doing something useful, something unselfish.
Will someone pull Slashdot out of the Dark Ages?
There was a time when it made (commercial) sense to capitalize every word in a headline. Yes, it made money for the hawkers of early newspapers. Big noisy obnoxious headlines made the news sound exciting and motivated people to spend a penny or a nickel.
How does this mess of a headline make money for Slashdot. How does it make the headline readable? Exactly what are the benefits of this abuse of the language in the age of the internet?
Wake up Slashdot. Look around- many publishers aren't living in the Dark Ages any more.
Read your damn comment before posting it. /.
You make yourself look stupid and you insult the people here who do edit their comments before posting. If you think your words are so urgent that they must be posted without delay or editing, then you are even more pathetic than I had imagined. What works on Twitter doesn't necessarily work on
Blank Reg was the pirate television broadcaster seen in the Max Headroom TV series of the 1980s. He traveled in his well equipped broadcast van, avoiding authorities and offering 'alternative' video that competed with the big broadcasters.
Someone at Gizmodo
https://io9.gizmodo.com/560967...
talks about the prescience of that TV show so long ago...
And the reason is that about once a week a problem arises that Excel can solve quickly, but no other readily available software can solve. Each of my problems is different from the others. A very few are maintained with fresh information from time to time.
The problem for this finance chief is that he is doing the same process repeatedly. Passing data from this system to that and massaging it repeatedly. A basic motto of procedures is that you never do them twice. You can write software or scripts or macros to perform all future iterations of the process.
Most corporate data management is repetitive and should not be touched by humans who will surely mess it up.
But without the phone evidence how will they know who the murderer is?
What, they already know who the murderer is?
Ah, so they need the phone evidence to get a conviction!
Oh, the murderer is dead?
Well then, what do they need the phone evidence for?
What, indeed!
Perhaps they want to psychoanalyze the killer based on his social media profile.
Maybe they want to discover if he was part of a mass-murder club.
Have these law enforcement people nothing better to do?
How many paychecks are going into this project?
The CPSC site is nearly useless. First you will see a list with pictures of six models of 'hoverboard' and some other products. Then you are invited to click 'next' to start you toward an unknown number of pages and products. I checked: there are 905 pages. Your tax dollars at work.
So I searched for 'segway' and it claimed to find 1600 hits. There was a recall for a charging unit and for a software update and possibly one for a unit repair. The rest had nothing to do with Segway AFAIK. They must be using the Google search engine- 5 legitimate hits out of 1600 seems normal for Google.
Look up any 'English' word in the Oxford English Dictionary and note the word origin. England? Not likely. Latin, Greek, Aramaic, Slobbovian are all more likely. Almost no language has origins where it is today. The French have waged a futile war to keep their language 'pure' -- only the most ignorant (such as government officials) would believe that possible.
Intelligence is our primary survival tool. Other living things have claws, teeth, camouflage, speed, etc. Our secondary survival tools include our senses, including vision, and hands and various motor skills including the ability to run like hell.
To the extent that we survive and excel in our environment and achieve our goals, we can be said to be intelligent. I don't understand the TFS' association of visual memory with intelligence. Visual memory as described is probably a good thing, but even total blindness has nothing to do with intelligence.
Where I live we have inflatable 'friends' for various purposes, not the least of which is to sit in the passenger seat while driving in the fast 'ride share' lane.
It's NaNoWriMo month, November, and my writing friends are frantically trying to finish a novel in a single month. There are no prizes, no accolades, only bragging rights if they succeed (or lie about it). I suppose that is what Slashdot is reduced to- clickbait for bragging rights. We can all claim we are taller, smarter, ours is bigger, and we read more books.
The Ghostery add-on has been doing this for a long time.
In fact redirects happen most often for me in Google search results.
Click on an ad and Google re-routs the resulting links so that they get credit for their ad.
I'd guess that Chrome will NOT block that kind of bait and switch.
But Ghostery pops up a little window that says:
"Ghostery prevented a redirect from ...
www.google.com to www.googleadservices.com,
which is part of Google Adsense. "
So, in the past some farmers made mistakes and their crops failed. But others followed a different drummer and their crops did well. Through human history it has always been this way.
Now however, when Cortana makes a mistake, the entire region suffers crop failure resulting in disaster.
Dealing with so-called AI can be improved by a simple additional step. Instead of having it make statements or take actions based upon its internal logic, it should first outline in human readable form the data and steps it used to arrive at those choices. A well chosen human may be able to prevent terrible mistakes before they happen.
Yeah, that was me. I connected with the US Executive Branch several times with my Mac. Sorry!
"The pyramid is opening!" "Which one?" "The one with the ever-widening hole in it!" -- The Firesign Theatre
Call it what you will. Pass laws if you like. The reality is that the sun does not care and no daylight will be saved. Farmers and fisherpeople will continue to live by the sun and the seasons.
However millions of people who have to go to school or jobs will be horribly inconvenienced by those who manipulate our clocks.
Decades ago an entrepreneur came up with a plan to add vitamin C to beer as a means to make it healthier. Apparently the product tasted good but I don't recall if any tests were done regarding health benefit. In any case, it seems that there is a formula for beer that is acceptable to the Food and Drug Administration. Adding any ingredient not on that list makes it not be beer. Thus it would have to go through an expensive approval process.
Millions of brain cells have been destroyed due to this negligent attitude at the FDA. And that's just in my brain alone!