Their stated aim is the computer on Star Trek TNG, i.e. you can have a natural language conversation with it. They are actually getting there too - it understands context and follow-up questions in many cases.
The computer on Star Trek is actually kinda great. You can ask it for a cup of tea and it will ask what kind, what temperature etc. But you can also use shortcuts, like "tea, Earl Gray, hot". It teaches you how to use it just by talking to it, because next time you remember the follow up questions it had and state the info up front.
You can do that with Google Assistant already for some stuff, e.g. setting reminders.
Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that. People like Carl Benjamin have popular weekly shows that are nothing but outrage. One single tweet expressing mild concern at a trailer spawned nearly 100 outrage videos, and that's pretty normal.
It's a bit more complex than that, because Google wants me to use its browser. My opinion an desires therefore carry a bit of weight. Maybe a milligram or two.
You are not Google's customer. You are Google's PRODUCT and you are being sold as such.
Well, no, you are both. Google needs to serve you in order for you to see the advertising space it sells to other companies. It's similar to TV - you are their product for advertisers, but you are also their customer and they need to serve your interests. When they don't you leave, as we have seen with cord cutting and people cancelling their cable subscriptions.
For the crime of being a twat by not waiting a week or two for the trial to end before reporting it. All he had to do was wait so as not to fuck up the trial.
He martyred himself. It wasn't even the first time, he had to do it twice before they actually jailed him for it.
Telling a Google server that you want to load a common Javascript framework used on millions of web sites every now and then (after the first load it is cached locally) isn't exactly a massive information leak. It doesn't send the URL you are trying to access or anything like that. It only knows to even ask for that resource because it has a local SQL database of patterns to match.
And remember that the data saver function is also off by default and entirely opt-in anyway.
They have a database of commonly accessed content that they have pre-compressed on their own servers, such as Javascript frameworks. When the browser notices it needs to load one, it instead loads from the Google server or uses a locally cached copy. This happens even if the site said "load my copy", which usually means that the browser should re-download it no matter what.
Occasionally this breaks things because some sites modify their local copies, hence the need for the override.
This does not require any data about your browsing habits to be sent to Google, except in cases where you opt-in to sending it when you click on the override. It is explicitly opt-in, turned off by default.
Obviously I meant the common ones that all children get in most developed nations. Trying to force people to define every word they use and always assuming the worst, most ridiculous interpretation is just a stifling tactic.
I'm happy to have a discussion about vaccines, but only if you behave like a grown up and make some minimal good faith effort to understand what I'm saying.
Democracy needs an informed population to work. People trying to subvert democracy often attack it by misinforming the population, or in the last few years by convincing people that everything is fake and a lie and that simply choosing their own preferred truth is a valid choice.
Cries of "but who gets to decide what is true?" are the most common example of this, attacking the very nature of factual information and the value of knowledge and expertise.
Don't have Zenni here. I like JINS because they are so comfortable. Only slight downside is that their styles tend to be more oriented towards Japanese fashions.
Democracy isn't a vote, it's a process. The original vote didn't even define what brexit is, it just said "leave the EU". Years later and the democratic process has been unable to translate that into a plan that can be agreed on.
Do you not consider people not vaccinating their children to breakage?
In a perfect world everyone would have the time and ability to carefully research an issue like vaccination and come to understand that there are vast amounts of evidence supporting the conclusion that they are safe and effective, with a few small caveats that any competent doctor administering them would be well aware of.
In practice that's a completely unrealistic scenario and failure to address the issue results in human rights violations.
Worse still, the "power brokers" you mention use fear and doubt to exert control, and any democracy should rightly try to prevent that from happening. Democracy based on fear and lies is not democracy, it's what happened in Europe in the 1930s.
There has to be a balance, otherwise it's just exchanging one type of tyranny for another.
The way it works is that the terminal sends the chip a one-time code, the chip does some kind of transformation on it and sends back the result. The transformation involves a secret number that the banks knows and the card knows but which is never transmitted. So it can't easily be spoofed, because reading that number from the card is damn near impossible (physical defences that wipe the memory when tampered with, and which would require destroying the card anyway) and the numbers that are transmitted can't be used to figure it out by any reasonable means.
So you can't create a fake chip. If you could it would have been done long ago with a chip that accepts any PIN.
If you lose the card, a thief may be able to lift your fingerprint off the card itself. If someone dies and a person runs across the body, they have access to both the finger and the card.
These are both pretty outlandish scenarios with high probabilities of getting caught, assuming that the fingerprint reader isn't good enough to reject the fake.
Also, consider the alternative. Many people use really bad PIN numbers, the same on every card, and easily observed when typing them in. Some people can't even use PIN numbers due to things like numerical dyslexia, so are still using a signature.
My new computer has 4 of 10^27 byte chips = 4-D27B of memory.
Computer memory is always powers of 2 though. Everything is built around that, such as the way the MMU works, and changing to powers of 10 would create huge complexity in the circuits for no benefit.
Rather than having timezones that are basically vertical strips covering longitudes, it seems like we want them to be diagonal. People in the north on a different time to people directly south of them.
With limits. If you cause people to be injured, say by shouting "fire" when there isn't one, you can be held liable. There are limits on speaking state secrets.
the freedom to publish
There are words you cannot broadcast on certain mediums at certain times of the day.
Who gets to set out a "plan for a democracy"?
No one individual, it has to be a collective decision, i.e. democratic.
How else are you going to decide what your democracy is? Don't just keep saying "who", describe how you would have a country define its democracy.
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Their stated aim is the computer on Star Trek TNG, i.e. you can have a natural language conversation with it. They are actually getting there too - it understands context and follow-up questions in many cases.
The computer on Star Trek is actually kinda great. You can ask it for a cup of tea and it will ask what kind, what temperature etc. But you can also use shortcuts, like "tea, Earl Gray, hot". It teaches you how to use it just by talking to it, because next time you remember the follow up questions it had and state the info up front.
You can do that with Google Assistant already for some stuff, e.g. setting reminders.
There is a way around it: make it illegal.
Are they not allowed to just charge iOS users more, or require subscriptions to be bought via their web site?
I seem to dimly recall Apple banning that, or wanting to...
Outrage is big business on YouTube, they will never ban that. People like Carl Benjamin have popular weekly shows that are nothing but outrage. One single tweet expressing mild concern at a trailer spawned nearly 100 outrage videos, and that's pretty normal.
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It's a bit more complex than that, because Google wants me to use its browser. My opinion an desires therefore carry a bit of weight. Maybe a milligram or two.
You are not Google's customer. You are Google's PRODUCT and you are being sold as such.
Well, no, you are both. Google needs to serve you in order for you to see the advertising space it sells to other companies. It's similar to TV - you are their product for advertisers, but you are also their customer and they need to serve your interests. When they don't you leave, as we have seen with cord cutting and people cancelling their cable subscriptions.
I was wondering how the conspiracy would evolve in light of this news.
For the crime of being a twat by not waiting a week or two for the trial to end before reporting it. All he had to do was wait so as not to fuck up the trial.
He martyred himself. It wasn't even the first time, he had to do it twice before they actually jailed him for it.
Telling a Google server that you want to load a common Javascript framework used on millions of web sites every now and then (after the first load it is cached locally) isn't exactly a massive information leak. It doesn't send the URL you are trying to access or anything like that. It only knows to even ask for that resource because it has a local SQL database of patterns to match.
And remember that the data saver function is also off by default and entirely opt-in anyway.
You have paranoid fantasies about Google secretly and illegally watching your every move online, yet trust the Chrome uninstaller?
Better dig a hole, throw your computer in it, bury it, then burn any clothes you have have worn at any time you were alive. Just in case.
there are legitimate reasons for wanting to leave the EU
No one has been able to suggest one so far.
Feel free to try though.
No.
They have a database of commonly accessed content that they have pre-compressed on their own servers, such as Javascript frameworks. When the browser notices it needs to load one, it instead loads from the Google server or uses a locally cached copy. This happens even if the site said "load my copy", which usually means that the browser should re-download it no matter what.
Occasionally this breaks things because some sites modify their local copies, hence the need for the override.
This does not require any data about your browsing habits to be sent to Google, except in cases where you opt-in to sending it when you click on the override. It is explicitly opt-in, turned off by default.
Obviously I meant the common ones that all children get in most developed nations. Trying to force people to define every word they use and always assuming the worst, most ridiculous interpretation is just a stifling tactic.
I'm happy to have a discussion about vaccines, but only if you behave like a grown up and make some minimal good faith effort to understand what I'm saying.
They look quite nice, I'll take a look next time I need a pair. Kinda thinking about laser surgery though.
Democracy needs an informed population to work. People trying to subvert democracy often attack it by misinforming the population, or in the last few years by convincing people that everything is fake and a lie and that simply choosing their own preferred truth is a valid choice.
Cries of "but who gets to decide what is true?" are the most common example of this, attacking the very nature of factual information and the value of knowledge and expertise.
Don't have Zenni here. I like JINS because they are so comfortable. Only slight downside is that their styles tend to be more oriented towards Japanese fashions.
Democracy isn't a vote, it's a process. The original vote didn't even define what brexit is, it just said "leave the EU". Years later and the democratic process has been unable to translate that into a plan that can be agreed on.
Do you not consider people not vaccinating their children to breakage?
In a perfect world everyone would have the time and ability to carefully research an issue like vaccination and come to understand that there are vast amounts of evidence supporting the conclusion that they are safe and effective, with a few small caveats that any competent doctor administering them would be well aware of.
In practice that's a completely unrealistic scenario and failure to address the issue results in human rights violations.
Worse still, the "power brokers" you mention use fear and doubt to exert control, and any democracy should rightly try to prevent that from happening. Democracy based on fear and lies is not democracy, it's what happened in Europe in the 1930s.
There has to be a balance, otherwise it's just exchanging one type of tyranny for another.
The way it works is that the terminal sends the chip a one-time code, the chip does some kind of transformation on it and sends back the result. The transformation involves a secret number that the banks knows and the card knows but which is never transmitted. So it can't easily be spoofed, because reading that number from the card is damn near impossible (physical defences that wipe the memory when tampered with, and which would require destroying the card anyway) and the numbers that are transmitted can't be used to figure it out by any reasonable means.
So you can't create a fake chip. If you could it would have been done long ago with a chip that accepts any PIN.
If you lose the card, a thief may be able to lift your fingerprint off the card itself. If someone dies and a person runs across the body, they have access to both the finger and the card.
These are both pretty outlandish scenarios with high probabilities of getting caught, assuming that the fingerprint reader isn't good enough to reject the fake.
Also, consider the alternative. Many people use really bad PIN numbers, the same on every card, and easily observed when typing them in. Some people can't even use PIN numbers due to things like numerical dyslexia, so are still using a signature.
My new computer has 4 of 10^27 byte chips = 4-D27B of memory.
Computer memory is always powers of 2 though. Everything is built around that, such as the way the MMU works, and changing to powers of 10 would create huge complexity in the circuits for no benefit.
Wrong wrong wrong.
A yottabyte is 2^80 bytes. It's always every 10th power of 2. Anyone who tells you otherwise is wrong.
1000^8 is only 0.827 YB.
Rather than having timezones that are basically vertical strips covering longitudes, it seems like we want them to be diagonal. People in the north on a different time to people directly south of them.
Not when the clocks go forward and we lose an hour. That day it's never 01:30!
They all state quite clearly "Copyright © 2019 MediaNews Group, Inc." at the bottom of the page and have contact information. There is no attempt to hide the ownership. What was your point?
The USA has freedom of speech
With limits. If you cause people to be injured, say by shouting "fire" when there isn't one, you can be held liable. There are limits on speaking state secrets.
the freedom to publish
There are words you cannot broadcast on certain mediums at certain times of the day.
Who gets to set out a "plan for a democracy"?
No one individual, it has to be a collective decision, i.e. democratic.
How else are you going to decide what your democracy is? Don't just keep saying "who", describe how you would have a country define its democracy.