Looks like the generals want to solve the hacker threat in the traditional ways, trying to get some soldiers learn to hack. God forbid they trust civilian whitehats.
It's not the worst, but it was the one detected by Western countries so the Soviet Union couldn't keep it a secret like they dd with the Chelyabinsk accidents.
Which is not necessarily bad. As the "collateral murder" video has shown, people tend to be more aggressive when they fear for their own lives. A drone pilot is in perfect safety, so he has enough time to calmly make a decision. Relying on a soldier to make moral decisions is naive. Soldiers are trained to do exactly what they are told. The decision to attack have always come from the officers and the politicians who don't participate in the fight anyway.
No wonder pilots get bored during 24 hour long missions. But these aren't real planes, you are not limited to 2 pilots per drone. Assign a team of 10 to each and make them work in shifts. I'm pretty sure that will help more than giving achievments for watching rocks.
And a rogue autopilot could be even more dangerous. But they are not the type of AI that can evolve self-conscious. They were created to be rigid and unable to learn or change so they would have a reliable behaviour.
Those repeating patterns are signs of the same math in the background. Sadly, with most mathemathicians doing more abstract work the aren't many who study them. Theoreticists try to fill the void left by the mathematicians and they do a goo job but most of them can't really think outside of their own field.
You assume that the chance of convicting an innocent man is the same as the chance of letting a guilty man run. In reality, the latter is big exactly because the justice system wants to be completely sure before convicting someone, in order to minimize the former.
Hyping marketing campaigns (of which political campaigns are a subset) has become more and more common. It's like the actual product doesn't matter anymore.
While neural networks do amazingly well for a certain type of problems, they do have their limitations. Neural networks are good for designing reflex machines, that react to their current environment. They aren't efficient when they have to learn on the field or plan ahead.
Just because I point a gun at your head doesn't mean I want to pull the trigger. I don't want to take control away from America, but I don't want them to get all comfortable and abuse that control to further their economic interests. I want to keep America on their heels, in constant fear that if they play too unfair the world will get fed up and take their power away. Because the only thing politicians respond to is the fear of losing power.
To be honest, while I don't like the ITU either I think we shouldn't give our support to the US for free. We should try to exploit our leverage in this situation and tell the Americans that if they want us to support them keeping their 'net they have to govern it more responsibly. Particularly the area of gTLDs is one where there's lots of room for improvement, and Europe shouldn't give up its bargaining positions for free.
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Looks like the generals want to solve the hacker threat in the traditional ways, trying to get some soldiers learn to hack. God forbid they trust civilian whitehats.
Why what he did is in the grey area, and many people think it shouldn't be illegal, calling the guy an 'activist' is a big stretch.
It's not the worst, but it was the one detected by Western countries so the Soviet Union couldn't keep it a secret like they dd with the Chelyabinsk accidents.
Which is not necessarily bad. As the "collateral murder" video has shown, people tend to be more aggressive when they fear for their own lives. A drone pilot is in perfect safety, so he has enough time to calmly make a decision.
Relying on a soldier to make moral decisions is naive. Soldiers are trained to do exactly what they are told. The decision to attack have always come from the officers and the politicians who don't participate in the fight anyway.
No wonder pilots get bored during 24 hour long missions. But these aren't real planes, you are not limited to 2 pilots per drone. Assign a team of 10 to each and make them work in shifts. I'm pretty sure that will help more than giving achievments for watching rocks.
Safety risk.
Is that it makes us obsolete, and our corporate overlords won't need us for work anymore.
And a rogue autopilot could be even more dangerous. But they are not the type of AI that can evolve self-conscious. They were created to be rigid and unable to learn or change so they would have a reliable behaviour.
Ideally, the police would adopt this new tech called computer and stop using paper altogether.
Most European countries don't have a death penalty because the EU explicitly forbids it. Whithout that, the legislation may be more diverse.
Those repeating patterns are signs of the same math in the background. Sadly, with most mathemathicians doing more abstract work the aren't many who study them. Theoreticists try to fill the void left by the mathematicians and they do a goo job but most of them can't really think outside of their own field.
You are right in that it's no proof in itself. What makes it suspicious is the timing.
You assume that the chance of convicting an innocent man is the same as the chance of letting a guilty man run. In reality, the latter is big exactly because the justice system wants to be completely sure before convicting someone, in order to minimize the former.
Hyping marketing campaigns (of which political campaigns are a subset) has become more and more common. It's like the actual product doesn't matter anymore.
While neural networks do amazingly well for a certain type of problems, they do have their limitations. Neural networks are good for designing reflex machines, that react to their current environment. They aren't efficient when they have to learn on the field or plan ahead.
Possibly, but since Dotcom isn't going to face the charges he can't really defend himself either.
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Germany declares Tor illegal?
This is a piece of hardware, and a specific implementation of it. This is exactly what patents are for.
Just because I point a gun at your head doesn't mean I want to pull the trigger. I don't want to take control away from America, but I don't want them to get all comfortable and abuse that control to further their economic interests. I want to keep America on their heels, in constant fear that if they play too unfair the world will get fed up and take their power away. Because the only thing politicians respond to is the fear of losing power.
My point was that they don't need physical presence to earn profit from a country. The only thing they are there for is to lure local talent.
They don't need to be in every country in the world. If their taxes go up, they can just as well decide to pack up and leave.
To be honest, while I don't like the ITU either I think we shouldn't give our support to the US for free. We should try to exploit our leverage in this situation and tell the Americans that if they want us to support them keeping their 'net they have to govern it more responsibly. Particularly the area of gTLDs is one where there's lots of room for improvement, and Europe shouldn't give up its bargaining positions for free.
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