Flying cars aren't going to become more practical...
Yeah, but flying-car projects are attracting investors, which flies even if their cars don't. That said, there is a niche for fuel efficient flying vehicles that can take off and land vertically. Lithium Aviation's all electric prototype suggests they might fill that niche profitably. And there may be others who can do the same, or even carve out their own niche. Capitalism doesn't have to make sense, just money.
The real reason Elon Musk wouldn't want flying cars is because his [SECRET!] boyfriend Jeff Bezos would actually have to fly the car due to FAA regulations.
If cancer research is affected by incidents like this (fraud), what's to say that climate science isn't similarly affected?
Actually, you're right in both senses of the word. For example, the eminent scientist Frederick Seitz, a true genius, fought scientific evidence and spread disinformation and doubt about smoking. He was paid to keep doubt alive about the causal link between cancer and smoking in order to keep the tobacco industry safe from litigation and regulation. He went on to use these same techniques in the employ of other industries, spreading doubt about acid rain, CFCs, pesticides, and, yes, global warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Seitz#Criticism
There's more going on here than questioning the reliability of a doctor's opinion, or AI's statical improvement. One example of what I mean: Isn't it strange that some diagnoses seems to concur with the contours of state and county lines? Medical diagnoses has political overtones beyond those of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka, Obamacare. What the doctor tells you, whether she/he knows it or not, reflects these overtones.
Money and Medical Care are intertwined to a point where the patient's health doesn't matter. Someone from Hem-onc told me this: when an insurance company stopped paying for a patient's cancer treatment, he asked his doctor, "What am I going to do?" The doctor said, "Go home and die."
Let me predict the future of health care:
Little attached RFID monitors that tell you and your medical subscriber service what you're doing and what you need to do to stay/get healthy. You get a quarterly rating that determines the cost of your insurance. Rather than going to a doctor when you're sick, first you'll submit an x-Prize Tricorder's readings, along with any symptoms, a little blood, urine, stool samples, photos, etc. to a health care broker, who comes back with several diagnoses (AI and/or human), their prescriptions and estimated costs, weighted by success rates, and other things. Maybe the insurance company will share all this with you. Maybe not. But to be sure, they'll tell where to go.
I'm not saying this is a better "second opinion" solution - far from it. I'm just that cynical.
Do what CryptoLocker did - bots can do the site-wide encryption. Have triggers on servers and local devices, as needed. You can pick the type of files to encrypt, which cryptography to use, and where to store the key(s) - hopefully in a safe place off site.
Users will be the most vulnerable part of the process. They have to be clear about the techniques to access and save the files. Which brings to mind another can of worms...
This budget is too dumb even for the Heritage Foundation.
Oh, how I wish you were right:
...The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has helped staff the Trump transition...
What folks don't seem to realize is that a lot of DoD funding is science...
You are right, of course. The military was an incubator in the mid 20th century for cybernetics and computer science too. What bothers me is there is striking evidence of an imposed military mentality on them. Even though Vint Cerf claims that the vulnerabilities of the internet were unintentional, I can't help but think otherwise. No matter how useful these resources are, they are designed never to undermine the hierarchy of control. And they can be controlled in amazing and decietful ways. They also have back channels to monitor and statically measure user interaction. It seems virtually any branch of the military, law enforcement, security or intelligence has access to part or all of telecommunications, both metadata and content.
The military developed some awfully powerful tools. I don't think they could let them out the door without really tight military constraints.
Trump's Budget is straight from the playbook of the Heritage Foundation. Following the money to the military, I'd say prepare for war; probably the Middle East again, seeing how things are. We'd lose a conventional war with China, and going nuclear is too much, even for Donald Trump.
Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", well before ARPANET took up TCP/IP back in 1983. So, no, the internet did not invent the meme - unless Dawkins is even more awesome than I thought.
Who needs criminals hacking into the box when you got Microsoft? Seriously, with ads I get, it's obvious Windows has 'Googled' where I go - even my personal data too. Microsoft has turned control over to their sales department. And now, I'm beginning to I suspect I'm an unwitting beta tester for their updates. I'm not their customer, I'm their victim.
So they are all low efficiency cores then? My that DOES sound attractive!
My Bad. ARM's big.LITTLE configuration used in the Snapdragon 835 has 4 energy hungry, highly efficient cores and 4 energy stingy, low efficient cores.
I am curious on how the lean ARM processors would cope up with the Windows bloat. Windows "server" boots the GUI first!
I've heard that the Snapdragon 835 is a big enough muscle. It's got four high-power, low efficiency cores and four low power, low efficiency cores (ARM's big.LITTLE configuration.)
Last week ISP Bahnhof absolutely slammed the decision to block The Pirate Bay, describing the effort as signaling the "death throes" of the copyright industry.
Kudos to the Swedes for not wanting to be copyright cops.
I would feel better about copyright if the laws went back to the US Constitutional constraint of being applicable for only 28 years max, and could only be applied to expression and not the underlying ideas. Then it really would be a tool to incentivise innovation. Nowadays groups like the MPAA, RIAA, and WIPO use copyright weaponry such as DRM and the TRIPS agreement to secure lucrative revenue streams for an unforeseeable future, and while doing so, create a hostile environment for the arts and science, stifling inquiry and free expression.
Human Gene editing is already happening. In 2016, Dr John Zhang used his spindle nuclear transfer technique to avoid a child being born with Leigh Syndrome. CRISPR may be the greatest health care tool yet.
CRISPR may be used for vain, nonessential and even suspect purposes. Its a brave new world, get over it.
Most smartphones come with a built in FM feature so how about activating it instead, and use it for weather band radio? It's old tech, but it broadcasts for miles, not 500 feet. Its proven, reliable, relatively cheap, and can take advantage of the existing infrastructure. And we get a radio with our phone.
Maybe Japan's economic woes were the deciding factor in Toshiba's purchase of the plague-ridden Westinghouse Nuclear Division. But with a "hit" of over 6 billion bucks, the deal was definitely not "clean, safe, too cheap to meter." And with plants throughout Europe, the US and South Korea, I won't be surprised if Toshiba is in for even more trouble.
I think Elon is regurgitating, and perhaps adding a little "bandwidth" to the singularity that Yuval Harari wrote about in "Homo Deus": a thought collective - global AI interface. Only Yuval thinks the rich may be genetically modifying themselves too, so they really will be different from you and me. Oh, and there may be competing "thought-AI-merge" collectives.
My take on all this: When Elon says that AI threatens to make humans useless, I see a metaphorical monster. When he says there's a need to merge with machines, I see another proverbial monster. Imagine such monsters from a collective super id, on their way to eliminate the competition, annihilating the remains of the sapien hoi polloi. Let us prey now, least we become prey. Its the dawn of another age.
...here we are, with our stupid Savannah ape brains, unable to discern a meaningful and present threat to our person from a threat that's unlikely to harm you or anyone you know...
My ape brain is telling me that, putting whatever reasons Obama gives aside, sharing mass surveillance is just another sado-security mechanism designed to protect the privileged from, and at the expense of everybody else.
And Obama does think health care and safety are high priorities, as long as the insurance companies can take a cut. You're right about most of the elected though, unfortunately; they don't want the government subsidizing health care. That's just not laissez-faire.
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Flying cars aren't going to become more practical...
Yeah, but flying-car projects are attracting investors, which flies even if their cars don't. That said, there is a niche for fuel efficient flying vehicles that can take off and land vertically. Lithium Aviation's all electric prototype suggests they might fill that niche profitably. And there may be others who can do the same, or even carve out their own niche. Capitalism doesn't have to make sense, just money.
The real reason Elon Musk wouldn't want flying cars is because his [SECRET!] boyfriend Jeff Bezos would actually have to fly the car due to FAA regulations.
The real reason is because Elon is boring.
Thanks for the link. Didn't know there were so many. Good to see Apis Cor made the list. Hey - they got a "Don't Miss" link about those Ruskies. Cool.
Their website: http://apis-cor.com/en/
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If cancer research is affected by incidents like this (fraud), what's to say that climate science isn't similarly affected?
Actually, you're right in both senses of the word. For example, the eminent scientist Frederick Seitz, a true genius, fought scientific evidence and spread disinformation and doubt about smoking. He was paid to keep doubt alive about the causal link between cancer and smoking in order to keep the tobacco industry safe from litigation and regulation. He went on to use these same techniques in the employ of other industries, spreading doubt about acid rain, CFCs, pesticides, and, yes, global warming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Seitz#Criticism
First Men In The Moon
Forbidden Planet
Things To Come
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Sleeper
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Slaughterhouse-Five
Frankenstein (Boris Karloff)
Bride of Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Frankenstein Meets Godzilla
(...Hell I must like all the Frankensteins.)
The Re-Animator
The Invisible Man (original)
2010
Ghost in the Shell (anime)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
War of the Worlds (original)
Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
Brazil
Terminator
The Time Machine (original)
The Golden Compass
Boy and His Dog
Alien
The Thing (original)
Clockwork Orange
Soylent Green
Planet of the Apes (originals)
Solaris
Dr. Strangelove
Nosferatu (Big stretch here, but if it's SiFi, then both movies - they're just too good)
Attack of the 50' Woman
Godzilla
Mothra
Akira
White Zombie
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Brother From Another Planet
Repo Man
The President's Analyst
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Being John Malkovich
Meavy Metal (1981)
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Last Man on Earth
Man With the Golden Gun
Zardoz
Outland
Pi
Money and Medical Care are intertwined to a point where the patient's health doesn't matter. Someone from Hem-onc told me this: when an insurance company stopped paying for a patient's cancer treatment, he asked his doctor, "What am I going to do?" The doctor said, "Go home and die."
Let me predict the future of health care:
Little attached RFID monitors that tell you and your medical subscriber service what you're doing and what you need to do to stay/get healthy. You get a quarterly rating that determines the cost of your insurance. Rather than going to a doctor when you're sick, first you'll submit an x-Prize Tricorder's readings, along with any symptoms, a little blood, urine, stool samples, photos, etc. to a health care broker, who comes back with several diagnoses (AI and/or human), their prescriptions and estimated costs, weighted by success rates, and other things. Maybe the insurance company will share all this with you. Maybe not. But to be sure, they'll tell where to go.
I'm not saying this is a better "second opinion" solution - far from it. I'm just that cynical.
Do what CryptoLocker did - bots can do the site-wide encryption. Have triggers on servers and local devices, as needed. You can pick the type of files to encrypt, which cryptography to use, and where to store the key(s) - hopefully in a safe place off site. Users will be the most vulnerable part of the process. They have to be clear about the techniques to access and save the files. Which brings to mind another can of worms...
This budget is too dumb even for the Heritage Foundation.
Oh, how I wish you were right:
...The proposed cuts hew closely to a blueprint published last year by the conservative Heritage Foundation, a think tank that has helped staff the Trump transition...
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts/
What folks don't seem to realize is that a lot of DoD funding is science...
You are right, of course. The military was an incubator in the mid 20th century for cybernetics and computer science too. What bothers me is there is striking evidence of an imposed military mentality on them. Even though Vint Cerf claims that the vulnerabilities of the internet were unintentional, I can't help but think otherwise. No matter how useful these resources are, they are designed never to undermine the hierarchy of control. And they can be controlled in amazing and decietful ways. They also have back channels to monitor and statically measure user interaction. It seems virtually any branch of the military, law enforcement, security or intelligence has access to part or all of telecommunications, both metadata and content.
The military developed some awfully powerful tools. I don't think they could let them out the door without really tight military constraints.
Trump's Budget is straight from the playbook of the Heritage Foundation. Following the money to the military, I'd say prepare for war; probably the Middle East again, seeing how things are. We'd lose a conventional war with China, and going nuclear is too much, even for Donald Trump.
Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' in his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", well before ARPANET took up TCP/IP back in 1983. So, no, the internet did not invent the meme - unless Dawkins is even more awesome than I thought.
Who needs criminals hacking into the box when you got Microsoft? Seriously, with ads I get, it's obvious Windows has 'Googled' where I go - even my personal data too. Microsoft has turned control over to their sales department. And now, I'm beginning to I suspect I'm an unwitting beta tester for their updates. I'm not their customer, I'm their victim.
So they are all low efficiency cores then? My that DOES sound attractive!
My Bad. ARM's big.LITTLE configuration used in the Snapdragon 835 has 4 energy hungry, highly efficient cores and 4 energy stingy, low efficient cores.
(Thanks for catching my stupidity.)
I am curious on how the lean ARM processors would cope up with the Windows bloat. Windows "server" boots the GUI first!
I've heard that the Snapdragon 835 is a big enough muscle. It's got four high-power, low efficiency cores and four low power, low efficiency cores (ARM's big.LITTLE configuration.)
Its already begun. I know of at least 4-5 people digging through the dump as we speak.
You those those kids? Tell 'em to get off my lawn!
Get ready, security. It's about to rain. It shouldn't take very long for these leaks to spur waves of hacking anywhere... everywhere.
Last week ISP Bahnhof absolutely slammed the decision to block The Pirate Bay, describing the effort as signaling the "death throes" of the copyright industry.
Kudos to the Swedes for not wanting to be copyright cops. I would feel better about copyright if the laws went back to the US Constitutional constraint of being applicable for only 28 years max, and could only be applied to expression and not the underlying ideas. Then it really would be a tool to incentivise innovation. Nowadays groups like the MPAA, RIAA, and WIPO use copyright weaponry such as DRM and the TRIPS agreement to secure lucrative revenue streams for an unforeseeable future, and while doing so, create a hostile environment for the arts and science, stifling inquiry and free expression.
CRISPR may be used for vain, nonessential and even suspect purposes. Its a brave new world, get over it.
Most smartphones come with a built in FM feature so how about activating it instead, and use it for weather band radio? It's old tech, but it broadcasts for miles, not 500 feet. Its proven, reliable, relatively cheap, and can take advantage of the existing infrastructure. And we get a radio with our phone.
Maybe Japan's economic woes were the deciding factor in Toshiba's purchase of the plague-ridden Westinghouse Nuclear Division. But with a "hit" of over 6 billion bucks, the deal was definitely not "clean, safe, too cheap to meter." And with plants throughout Europe, the US and South Korea, I won't be surprised if Toshiba is in for even more trouble.
The man wants to create the borg collective.
I think Elon is regurgitating, and perhaps adding a little "bandwidth" to the singularity that Yuval Harari wrote about in "Homo Deus": a thought collective - global AI interface. Only Yuval thinks the rich may be genetically modifying themselves too, so they really will be different from you and me. Oh, and there may be competing "thought-AI-merge" collectives.
My take on all this: When Elon says that AI threatens to make humans useless, I see a metaphorical monster. When he says there's a need to merge with machines, I see another proverbial monster. Imagine such monsters from a collective super id, on their way to eliminate the competition, annihilating the remains of the sapien hoi polloi. Let us prey now, least we become prey. Its the dawn of another age.
https://archive.org/details/NI...
I would have thought there would be a rush on Walter Lippmann's "Public Opinion"
http://wwnorton.com/college/hi...
Thanks Archive .org and W.W. Norton.
...here we are, with our stupid Savannah ape brains, unable to discern a meaningful and present threat to our person from a threat that's unlikely to harm you or anyone you know...
My ape brain is telling me that, putting whatever reasons Obama gives aside, sharing mass surveillance is just another sado-security mechanism designed to protect the privileged from, and at the expense of everybody else.
And Obama does think health care and safety are high priorities, as long as the insurance companies can take a cut. You're right about most of the elected though, unfortunately; they don't want the government subsidizing health care. That's just not laissez-faire.