The issue is that things like nuclear weapons and glocks require human intervention to launch a deadly attack, where as AI may be making that decision on its own. Even if AI doesn't make the final decision, it may influence the humans making decisions somehow. As we have seen it's bad enough with remote drones.
It's also vastly easier to teach an AI to shoot at anything human shaped in a given area than it is to teach it to recognize civilians or differentiate a gun from a farming tool.
The protocol isn't the problem. There is stuff like Diaspora. The problem is that no-one uses it and there is no marketing budget. If you reject all the things that make Facebook evil then there is no revenue stream either, so no incentive to offer the infrastructure and software development needed to make it successful.
The best thing would be to force Facebook to be interoperable. Shareholders would hire ninjas to assassinate you for even suggesting it but it would be in the public interest. Give people some ownership of their data and profiles.
4chan users have been doing this for a while. They have a network set up where they can direct members to mass report tweets and YouTube videos. I've seen some discussion of Facebook but it's not very popular with progressive/left leaning groups so there has been little activity so far.
Maybe it's a demographic thing. Generally speaking the young tend to be more progressive and get more conservative as they age, and Facebook is mostly for old people at this point.
Yahoo 1,000,000+ Bing 5,000,000+ Google 1,000,000,000+
Even given how vague the Play stats are that's a difference of 200:1 between Google and the nearest competitor, and Microsoft is a big company that has been pushing Bing hard.
Having Bing as default on, say, HTC phones would certainly help.
The fine isn't just for damage done, which is hard to calculate. It's to deter people from doing this, and from Google deciding to simply eat the fine.
I agree about defaults, but there is a threshold. For example, Internet Explorer and MSN were the default but were so amazingly shit most people charged them.
Apple has form on this too. There was a model back in the Core 2 days that had way too much thermal paste installed so overheated. And then they undersized the charger to make it smaller, relying on the battery to provide extra power under load (and thus shortening its life, and it was glued in of course.
Many of their products seem to be a mixture of marginal design for aesthetic purposes, user hostile policies and poor testing.
The Tories have a deliberate policy of not making key people available for interview, or only doing one easy interview that they know will let them get their prepared statements out.
Then they let the crazies give a more extreme view to shift the political discourse to the right and make themselves look more moderate and reasonable. Trying to occupy that centre, moderate ground by shifting people's perception of where it is.
As the UK is discovering the idea of being "free" at all costs is pretty dumb. If you want to be prosperous, if you want to trade, you are going to have to agree common rules. Some you might not like.
No county is an economic island, even the ones that are physical islands. And the UK isn't even that.
The issue is not having the best, most popular product. It's forced bundling and cross-promotion.
With Android you need to agree to make Google the default and only search engine on the phone if you want the Play Store. Since consumers want the play store manufacturers can't supply any other search engines. Amazon tried its own app store but outside its own devices it mostly failed, as did most Amazon devices except their cheap tablets.
Chinese manufacturers can't ship Play or Google search anyway because they are blocked in China. Their international models have them though.
They were told it was a problem but decided to continue doing it anyway. Plus the law is quite clear, and doesn't only start applying once someone points out you are violating it.
The EU will use the money for a variety of things that help affected companies indirectly.
I'm Europe you have a legal right to know why your premium went up and get it reviewed by a human being, with your input. Transparency is really important and you should push for laws enforcing it.
We don't need censorship, we need trust. The foundation of post-truth politics is that no news is trustworthy, therefore Infowars and random blogs are as reliable as organisations with a long history of truthful reporting.
The other day someone told me they wouldn't believe it until they had seen a Pastebin. That's where they are at now, trusting an anonymous Pastebin post above all else.
We can fix this by first making the phrase "fake news" synonymous with gullibility and trying to hide something. We are half way there.
The BBC tired really hard to do what you suggest for a while. The problem is that it ended up giving credibility to people who had none, elevating fringe views and conspiracy theories to the same level as mainstream science, for example.
Left/right politics is one thing, but journalists need to decide if they want to balance every story about vaccines with some anti-vaxxers. That of course means they will always be criticised, accused of bias and called fake news by someone.
You obviously have never been near a Leaf. They aren't tiny, they are actually quite large. Same cargo space as a model 3, bigger than a typical crossover.
They are solid cars, decent performance compared to similar sized fossil cars.
Tesla have been met in the middle here. We have cars like the Kona, Niro and soon to be released Leaf 60 in the same price bracket as the M3 SR with similar features (100kW charging, auto steering, 150kW+ motor, 250+ mile range). You could argue that it might not have happened without Tesla, but equally Nissan build a good affordable car and charging network and LG got the battery pack cost down too.
Why can't you put a screen protector on it? They are flexible enough to curve around the display.
The palming issue affects most phones now that ultra thin bezels are the norm, and was solved years ago with software. Same as palm rejection for large touchpads on laptops.
Actually recent Samsung phones have had very minimal bloat, and they let you disable stuff you don't want. It's not perfect but it's not like the old days either.
They might do a pure Android edition too.
I guess it depends if you can live with the limitations of the Pixel - no SD cards, no wireless charging, not waterproof, limited selection of cases etc.
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The issue is that things like nuclear weapons and glocks require human intervention to launch a deadly attack, where as AI may be making that decision on its own. Even if AI doesn't make the final decision, it may influence the humans making decisions somehow. As we have seen it's bad enough with remote drones.
It's also vastly easier to teach an AI to shoot at anything human shaped in a given area than it is to teach it to recognize civilians or differentiate a gun from a farming tool.
According to leaked Facebook docs they only consider Pepe to be a problem when linked to hateful messages or iconography.
If you had managed the page properly and deleted those posts and banned those users you should not have run into any problems.
The protocol isn't the problem. There is stuff like Diaspora. The problem is that no-one uses it and there is no marketing budget. If you reject all the things that make Facebook evil then there is no revenue stream either, so no incentive to offer the infrastructure and software development needed to make it successful.
The best thing would be to force Facebook to be interoperable. Shareholders would hire ninjas to assassinate you for even suggesting it but it would be in the public interest. Give people some ownership of their data and profiles.
4chan users have been doing this for a while. They have a network set up where they can direct members to mass report tweets and YouTube videos. I've seen some discussion of Facebook but it's not very popular with progressive/left leaning groups so there has been little activity so far.
Maybe it's a demographic thing. Generally speaking the young tend to be more progressive and get more conservative as they age, and Facebook is mostly for old people at this point.
Maybe... To get a blue screen of death the fault would have to be in the kernel, and you would hope Microsoft had at least tested that much.
Stats from Play Store, world-wide:
Yahoo 1,000,000+
Bing 5,000,000+
Google 1,000,000,000+
Even given how vague the Play stats are that's a difference of 200:1 between Google and the nearest competitor, and Microsoft is a big company that has been pushing Bing hard.
Having Bing as default on, say, HTC phones would certainly help.
Come on, give us a name.
The fine isn't just for damage done, which is hard to calculate. It's to deter people from doing this, and from Google deciding to simply eat the fine.
I agree about defaults, but there is a threshold. For example, Internet Explorer and MSN were the default but were so amazingly shit most people charged them.
Won't affect Netflix. You can install it but it will only play 480p because of DRM. You need a signed bootloader/OS for 720p+.
Okay, which crazies are you talking about here? It's hard to discuss without knowing specifically who you object to.
Are we talking Farage? Redwood? Boris?
Apple has form on this too. There was a model back in the Core 2 days that had way too much thermal paste installed so overheated. And then they undersized the charger to make it smaller, relying on the battery to provide extra power under load (and thus shortening its life, and it was glued in of course.
Many of their products seem to be a mixture of marginal design for aesthetic purposes, user hostile policies and poor testing.
Which conservative crazies are you referring to?
The Tories have a deliberate policy of not making key people available for interview, or only doing one easy interview that they know will let them get their prepared statements out.
Then they let the crazies give a more extreme view to shift the political discourse to the right and make themselves look more moderate and reasonable. Trying to occupy that centre, moderate ground by shifting people's perception of where it is.
This isn't the united states, the EU doesn't do money grabs.
As the UK is discovering the idea of being "free" at all costs is pretty dumb. If you want to be prosperous, if you want to trade, you are going to have to agree common rules. Some you might not like.
No county is an economic island, even the ones that are physical islands. And the UK isn't even that.
Google has subsidies in most (all?) EU countries so legal measures can be taken against them, up to and including sending the bailiffs in.
Google makes enough money in the EU to make paying the fine preferable to withdrawing from the market.
The issue is not having the best, most popular product. It's forced bundling and cross-promotion.
With Android you need to agree to make Google the default and only search engine on the phone if you want the Play Store. Since consumers want the play store manufacturers can't supply any other search engines. Amazon tried its own app store but outside its own devices it mostly failed, as did most Amazon devices except their cheap tablets.
Chinese manufacturers can't ship Play or Google search anyway because they are blocked in China. Their international models have them though.
They were told it was a problem but decided to continue doing it anyway. Plus the law is quite clear, and doesn't only start applying once someone points out you are violating it.
The EU will use the money for a variety of things that help affected companies indirectly.
I'm Europe you have a legal right to know why your premium went up and get it reviewed by a human being, with your input. Transparency is really important and you should push for laws enforcing it.
We don't need censorship, we need trust. The foundation of post-truth politics is that no news is trustworthy, therefore Infowars and random blogs are as reliable as organisations with a long history of truthful reporting.
The other day someone told me they wouldn't believe it until they had seen a Pastebin. That's where they are at now, trusting an anonymous Pastebin post above all else.
We can fix this by first making the phrase "fake news" synonymous with gullibility and trying to hide something. We are half way there.
The BBC tired really hard to do what you suggest for a while. The problem is that it ended up giving credibility to people who had none, elevating fringe views and conspiracy theories to the same level as mainstream science, for example.
Left/right politics is one thing, but journalists need to decide if they want to balance every story about vaccines with some anti-vaxxers. That of course means they will always be criticised, accused of bias and called fake news by someone.
You jest but that's what a lot of people did with the Model X. Demanded a buy-back on the early one, and bought another.
You obviously have never been near a Leaf. They aren't tiny, they are actually quite large. Same cargo space as a model 3, bigger than a typical crossover.
They are solid cars, decent performance compared to similar sized fossil cars.
Tesla have been met in the middle here. We have cars like the Kona, Niro and soon to be released Leaf 60 in the same price bracket as the M3 SR with similar features (100kW charging, auto steering, 150kW+ motor, 250+ mile range). You could argue that it might not have happened without Tesla, but equally Nissan build a good affordable car and charging network and LG got the battery pack cost down too.
Why can't you put a screen protector on it? They are flexible enough to curve around the display.
The palming issue affects most phones now that ultra thin bezels are the norm, and was solved years ago with software. Same as palm rejection for large touchpads on laptops.
Actually recent Samsung phones have had very minimal bloat, and they let you disable stuff you don't want. It's not perfect but it's not like the old days either.
They might do a pure Android edition too.
I guess it depends if you can live with the limitations of the Pixel - no SD cards, no wireless charging, not waterproof, limited selection of cases etc.