I'm actually in favour of China's way of viewing these numbers: Pollution caused by production should be added to the consuming country's score, not where they've outsourced their production to.
That would put the US right back on top, and by a healthy margin.
Said guy on his personal island could create something capable of torturing and killing kids just by fucking his wife. At least if it looked like an ape-man the kids might not be so keen to go see some puppies with it.
... but I will happily contribute £20 towards any project that results in a Facebook app that will sync my friend's contact details to my Nokia phone. Or alternatively to Outlook - I can sync to my phone from that already.
Aren't people sick of having to actually TELL their friends when they get a new phone number? Numbers should be superfluous, and with it's fairly rich security settings Facebook is well placed to become the DNS of the telephone system.
t is not a bunch of hippies doing the complaining, it is the residents.
The residents of Glastonbury - i.e. the people who couldn't accept the festival doesn't run all year. There is no higher concentration of hippies outside of the US West coast.
Bandwidth is and always has been priced according to average usage. No ISP in the world has ever had enough transit to cover the full bandwidth of even 25% of it's customer's total combined link bandwidth, and that doesn't mean they're ripping off the customer; it's simply indicative of the fact that customers do not need to be filling their link all the time in order to find it valuable.
That said, the sky is not falling. If bandwidth demand goes up, ISPs will (and do) deal with by providing two options:
1. Maximum total monthly downloads with per-Mb charging or a hard cut-off thereafter. 2. Higher prices for unrestricted connections.
Bandwidth gets cheaper every year and does so more quickly in the face of high demand, so whichever you choose it shouldn't be too painful.
I want my turing test to be done over an actual instant messenger program. Let's see how your Markov chain reacts, when I send a photo and ask a dead simple question such as "describe what you see in the photo".
While I appreciate the elegance of the turing test, I can't help but wonder if the mechanisms being created will actually prove useful... for me, the sort of AI that would be helpful is one that can take instruction from a human speaking normally and translate that, after asking for clarification if necessary, into the sort of functions you would otherwise have to use the UI (perhaps for hours) to perform, such as working with a spreadsheet or providing first-line tech support.
Tag some decent speech recognition and text-to-speech on that, and you've got the sort of computer that up to now has only been seen in science fiction - and who cares if you can trip it up by asking if it likes N'Sync and whether boys have periods.
I suppose it all depends on exactly how these programs are attempting to solve the problem... if done in a broad enough manner, it may be eventually possible to bolt the resulting technology onto nearly anything.
Would it really be unfeasible or inadvisable, in cases as clear-cut as this, to turn up to court yourself, sans lawyer, and say "This clearly falls under fair use. Can I go home now?"
These are nice ideas in theory, but in practice as the benefit is gained by someone other than the company implementing the Captchas, they're not going to be satisfactory to the decision-makers.
Personally I think that short of requiring some form of ID verification (credit card, social security number, whatever) to create an account, the best way to deal with this is to streamline the process of identifying and removing bad accounts.
The fact is that there is no reason to own a firearm in an inner city area except to use on other people
While I agree with most of the parent post, a small correction is due here. I live in central London and (legally) own a shotgun, which I use when I go clay pigeon shooting (which I have to drive some way to do, but there you go).
... but I don't play so much anymore and have a lot less patience for fighting past a difficulty roadblock. Assassin's Creed I tried the final pair of fights a bunch of times then just gave up - earlier combat was so easy I'd never even bothered learning to use dodge, so got creamed.
GTA4, I only played for maybe an hour total because I couldn't drive around fucking corners. I can corner just fine in GTA3, the Burnout games and a REAL FUCKING CAR, so Rockstar can shove their realistic driving physics up their ass - I sold the game on Amazon largely in the hope of denying them a sale for pissing me off.
Drugs affect people differently, and people attribute all sorts of effects to them, accurately or otherwise. Where there is a marked improvement on cannabis, however, I suspect it's mostly because the gamer is simply accustomed to playing that way.
Oh but Tversity sucks hard when you have a large media library. Damn thing crashed on me so often I went back to using my Xbox1/XBMC setup which I'd really like to reture to make space for a Wii.
If this vehicle inspires regular car drivers to get their VFR licenses, I suspect the training will also make them better drivers.
Tell that to my friend Pete, who nearly crashed his car into a roundabout after a flying lesson because his brain thought the accelerator was the right rudder...
Is it any surprise that the most anticipated as-yet-unreleased games are sequels? All this means is that their prequels were good advertisements. Un-prequeled games don't have that form of advertising available to them.
I was at some sort of huge fair along with my air cadet squadrons one summer many moons ago, and one of the other squadrons in attendence had brought along a 3/4 scale model spitfire, you could sit in it and everything.
There was a breakfast television crew wandering around filming and some hot blonde TV presenter was being shown said spitfire and helped to climb into it. Upon trying to sit down down in the cockpit she suddenly finds her way impeded and asks the cadet sergeant "Oops! What's this between my legs?"
Cadet Sergeant, with big grin: "That's the joy stick". Cue red-faced presenter and much laughter.
I don't think that bit ever made it on the telly...
How could this realistically be implemented, and what defences are available? Obviously packet-scanning for signatures is fraught with difficulties and easily defeatable by encrypting the data in transit (do current BitTorrent clients do this?)
The simplest way I can see this happening is automated infringement notices, generated by *AA-run bots which join torrents with names similar to the intellectual property being defended, and send said notices after downloading enough to confirm it matches a signature.
Can you defend against that? I don't see how you can download without giving out your IP to peers. Possibly with enough information you could blacklist subnets known to contain such bots, but they could easily move around.
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I'm actually in favour of China's way of viewing these numbers: Pollution caused by production should be added to the consuming country's score, not where they've outsourced their production to.
That would put the US right back on top, and by a healthy margin.
It takes time, but bad things happen to bad people. Always.
This. I call it social karma.
Said guy on his personal island could create something capable of torturing and killing kids just by fucking his wife. At least if it looked like an ape-man the kids might not be so keen to go see some puppies with it.
... but I will happily contribute £20 towards any project that results in a Facebook app that will sync my friend's contact details to my Nokia phone. Or alternatively to Outlook - I can sync to my phone from that already.
Aren't people sick of having to actually TELL their friends when they get a new phone number? Numbers should be superfluous, and with it's fairly rich security settings Facebook is well placed to become the DNS of the telephone system.
t is not a bunch of hippies doing the complaining, it is the residents.
The residents of Glastonbury - i.e. the people who couldn't accept the festival doesn't run all year. There is no higher concentration of hippies outside of the US West coast.
The weird thing about learning a WoW raid is that it's distrurbingly similar to learning a line-dance.
Bandwidth is and always has been priced according to average usage. No ISP in the world has ever had enough transit to cover the full bandwidth of even 25% of it's customer's total combined link bandwidth, and that doesn't mean they're ripping off the customer; it's simply indicative of the fact that customers do not need to be filling their link all the time in order to find it valuable.
That said, the sky is not falling. If bandwidth demand goes up, ISPs will (and do) deal with by providing two options:
1. Maximum total monthly downloads with per-Mb charging or a hard cut-off thereafter.
2. Higher prices for unrestricted connections.
Bandwidth gets cheaper every year and does so more quickly in the face of high demand, so whichever you choose it shouldn't be too painful.
You just failed the turing test.
I think he should be lauded for trying to kill it.
Aye, I much prefer a trilogy that was planned from the outset, like the Matrix films.
Wait, what?
I want my turing test to be done over an actual instant messenger program. Let's see how your Markov chain reacts, when I send a photo and ask a dead simple question such as "describe what you see in the photo".
"Sorry, I'm blind."
While I appreciate the elegance of the turing test, I can't help but wonder if the mechanisms being created will actually prove useful... for me, the sort of AI that would be helpful is one that can take instruction from a human speaking normally and translate that, after asking for clarification if necessary, into the sort of functions you would otherwise have to use the UI (perhaps for hours) to perform, such as working with a spreadsheet or providing first-line tech support.
Tag some decent speech recognition and text-to-speech on that, and you've got the sort of computer that up to now has only been seen in science fiction - and who cares if you can trip it up by asking if it likes N'Sync and whether boys have periods.
I suppose it all depends on exactly how these programs are attempting to solve the problem... if done in a broad enough manner, it may be eventually possible to bolt the resulting technology onto nearly anything.
Would it really be unfeasible or inadvisable, in cases as clear-cut as this, to turn up to court yourself, sans lawyer, and say "This clearly falls under fair use. Can I go home now?"
These are nice ideas in theory, but in practice as the benefit is gained by someone other than the company implementing the Captchas, they're not going to be satisfactory to the decision-makers.
Personally I think that short of requiring some form of ID verification (credit card, social security number, whatever) to create an account, the best way to deal with this is to streamline the process of identifying and removing bad accounts.
The fact is that there is no reason to own a firearm in an inner city area except to use on other people
While I agree with most of the parent post, a small correction is due here. I live in central London and (legally) own a shotgun, which I use when I go clay pigeon shooting (which I have to drive some way to do, but there you go).
They take my sperm and Angelina Jolie's egg, make a test tube baby, launch it into space.
Sign me up!
... but I don't play so much anymore and have a lot less patience for fighting past a difficulty roadblock. Assassin's Creed I tried the final pair of fights a bunch of times then just gave up - earlier combat was so easy I'd never even bothered learning to use dodge, so got creamed.
GTA4, I only played for maybe an hour total because I couldn't drive around fucking corners. I can corner just fine in GTA3, the Burnout games and a REAL FUCKING CAR, so Rockstar can shove their realistic driving physics up their ass - I sold the game on Amazon largely in the hope of denying them a sale for pissing me off.
Drugs affect people differently, and people attribute all sorts of effects to them, accurately or otherwise. Where there is a marked improvement on cannabis, however, I suspect it's mostly because the gamer is simply accustomed to playing that way.
Oh but Tversity sucks hard when you have a large media library. Damn thing crashed on me so often I went back to using my Xbox1/XBMC setup which I'd really like to reture to make space for a Wii.
If this vehicle inspires regular car drivers to get their VFR licenses, I suspect the training will also make them better drivers.
Tell that to my friend Pete, who nearly crashed his car into a roundabout after a flying lesson because his brain thought the accelerator was the right rudder...
I use Adblock anyway so don't care, and how can you ruin the impartiality of it when Sales & management have no control over the thousands of editors?
Is it any surprise that the most anticipated as-yet-unreleased games are sequels? All this means is that their prequels were good advertisements. Un-prequeled games don't have that form of advertising available to them.
Something like 3ed4rf5tg (try typing it) or sxdcfvgb should do the trick. Starting with the first letter of her name might help.
I was at some sort of huge fair along with my air cadet squadrons one summer many moons ago, and one of the other squadrons in attendence had brought along a 3/4 scale model spitfire, you could sit in it and everything.
There was a breakfast television crew wandering around filming and some hot blonde TV presenter was being shown said spitfire and helped to climb into it. Upon trying to sit down down in the cockpit she suddenly finds her way impeded and asks the cadet sergeant "Oops! What's this between my legs?"
Cadet Sergeant, with big grin: "That's the joy stick". Cue red-faced presenter and much laughter.
I don't think that bit ever made it on the telly...
How could this realistically be implemented, and what defences are available? Obviously packet-scanning for signatures is fraught with difficulties and easily defeatable by encrypting the data in transit (do current BitTorrent clients do this?)
The simplest way I can see this happening is automated infringement notices, generated by *AA-run bots which join torrents with names similar to the intellectual property being defended, and send said notices after downloading enough to confirm it matches a signature.
Can you defend against that? I don't see how you can download without giving out your IP to peers. Possibly with enough information you could blacklist subnets known to contain such bots, but they could easily move around.