Nobody said artificial intelligence has to be human-like. Computers are a lot better than humans at some mental tasks (like adding numbers), and worse at other mental tasks (like translating text). But the only way to objectively compare a human and a machine is by strict rules.
It's not a vote though. At most you can say that they have an obligation to read all the comments. Which is very easy to promise when you get a bunch of identical letters, just read the first one and you've read all million.
In self checkout, I end up doing all the work that the cashier used to. Checking out quickly and professionally is a service I'm willing to pay extra for, I don't care about self checkout even if makes the prices a whopping 1% lower.
And how do they plan to convince the rest of the world to give them control over the internet? Oh right, they aren't planning to control the internet, they are planning to cut England off of it. But that doesn't sound as catchy I guess.
Sure it would. RC aircraft have existed for more than 50 years yet most people used them responsibly. The reason for that is that RC planes used to be hard to fly, and that has kept the idiots away. Now that drones have removed the difficulty barrier, registration can create another. Most drone purchases are impulse buy Christmas presents for 5 year old Bobby, if buying a drone included a registration process only people serious about them would get one.
If I knew it meant taking LSD I wouldn't have needed to ask it. There were no results on urbandictionary so I thought it was a rare phrase, possibly only used inside the company in question. I don't really speak the junkie jargon, I'm not in the "subculture".
This new feature is called "Edge Sense," and it can be configured to do a variety of tasks with either short or long squeezes. You can set a short squeeze to open the camera and then take a picture when the camera app is open.
My phone can already do that using its cutting edge button technology.
The weird thing is that while you couldn't save webpages on Chrome, it did allow you to print them. I guess with OTG you could connect a printer to your phone, but why on Earth would you want to do that?
Yes, password rules are BS. My bank requires me to have a password that contains uppercase, lowercase, numbers and at least two symbols. All of which is rendered pointless by limiting the password length to 8 chars. Luckily I have 2 factor auth, but still.
Weak/strong password strength indicators, on the other hand, can be useful if done properly (and harmful when done by people with no grasp of combinatorics). Many people have no idea what counts as a strong enough password nowadays, so even a simple indicator that takes length and character variety into account can go a long way.
Which is exactly what EU regulations have already achieved. There's a choice of at least 3 ISPs in most places, and that has already solved the problem of throttling a decade ago. Net neutrality would be just an unnecessary regulation when the market is already regulating itself just fine.
Once you're hacked the bad guys can do a lot of nasty things to you and your data, shaking you for a few bitcoins if you don't have backups is pretty much the cheapest way you can find out about having a security hole. Data theft, APTs or even remote sabotage by a state agent can cause a lot more harm than ransomware, often without you even noticing. The spread of ransomware is actually very good for security, because it brings hidden vulnerabilities to light and associates an exact cost to them rather than for example the nebulous cost of losing sensitive data of costumers. Thus, ransomware alerts companies to vulnerabilities and bad backup practices, provides a financial incentive to fix those problems, all the while causing much less harm than the lack of those fixes would. Ransomware is doing more for security than a thousand conferences could.
The thing is, this study only proves a correlation between delays and piracy. But what movie companies do is they increase the delay in countries known to have a high rate of piracy to keep the movies from hitting the torrent sites. They believe that the sales lost in those countries are smaller than the sales not lost due to piracy in the countries the movie is released. Whether that assumption is true is an interesting question, and unfortunately this study doesn't even try to answer it. The correlation itself isn't surprising, and the paper fails to take into account that this isn't a simple black and white question.
Problem is, universities don't teach programming either, or at least not very well. They teach the abstract concepts, but any good coder is pretty much self taught. Not to mention computing is a constantly changing field, you can't rely only on stuff you learned 40 years ago to prepare the kids for tomorrow. We need to find a way to keep the teachers in touch.
When your processor is compromised, everything is compromised. If you believe your cpu is malicious, the rng is the least of your worries. Guess what, your "secure" prng also runs on the cpu.
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Nobody said artificial intelligence has to be human-like. Computers are a lot better than humans at some mental tasks (like adding numbers), and worse at other mental tasks (like translating text). But the only way to objectively compare a human and a machine is by strict rules.
It's not a vote though. At most you can say that they have an obligation to read all the comments. Which is very easy to promise when you get a bunch of identical letters, just read the first one and you've read all million.
In self checkout, I end up doing all the work that the cashier used to. Checking out quickly and professionally is a service I'm willing to pay extra for, I don't care about self checkout even if makes the prices a whopping 1% lower.
Wikileaks had a working "economic model" (it was financed by donations), until their accounts got frozen.
And how do they plan to convince the rest of the world to give them control over the internet? Oh right, they aren't planning to control the internet, they are planning to cut England off of it. But that doesn't sound as catchy I guess.
Sure it would. RC aircraft have existed for more than 50 years yet most people used them responsibly. The reason for that is that RC planes used to be hard to fly, and that has kept the idiots away. Now that drones have removed the difficulty barrier, registration can create another. Most drone purchases are impulse buy Christmas presents for 5 year old Bobby, if buying a drone included a registration process only people serious about them would get one.
If I knew it meant taking LSD I wouldn't have needed to ask it. There were no results on urbandictionary so I thought it was a rare phrase, possibly only used inside the company in question. I don't really speak the junkie jargon, I'm not in the "subculture".
My phone can already do that using its cutting edge button technology.
You would expect a company like that to know how to sign their emails.
Still don't know what 'microdosing' is.
Gizmag is a respectable tech blog, it wasn't owned by Gawker.
The weird thing is that while you couldn't save webpages on Chrome, it did allow you to print them. I guess with OTG you could connect a printer to your phone, but why on Earth would you want to do that?
See, if only ISPs could implement proper quality of service, the site wouldn't have gone down.
The first rule of inventing stuff is to define specifically what exactly do you wish to achieve.
And then demonstarte that they can't even keep their own data safe.
Yes, password rules are BS. My bank requires me to have a password that contains uppercase, lowercase, numbers and at least two symbols. All of which is rendered pointless by limiting the password length to 8 chars. Luckily I have 2 factor auth, but still.
Weak/strong password strength indicators, on the other hand, can be useful if done properly (and harmful when done by people with no grasp of combinatorics). Many people have no idea what counts as a strong enough password nowadays, so even a simple indicator that takes length and character variety into account can go a long way.
They want to use bots on sites. The CFAA is irrelevant in my opinion as they would still be in breach of the ToS.
Which is exactly what EU regulations have already achieved. There's a choice of at least 3 ISPs in most places, and that has already solved the problem of throttling a decade ago. Net neutrality would be just an unnecessary regulation when the market is already regulating itself just fine.
Once you're hacked the bad guys can do a lot of nasty things to you and your data, shaking you for a few bitcoins if you don't have backups is pretty much the cheapest way you can find out about having a security hole. Data theft, APTs or even remote sabotage by a state agent can cause a lot more harm than ransomware, often without you even noticing. The spread of ransomware is actually very good for security, because it brings hidden vulnerabilities to light and associates an exact cost to them rather than for example the nebulous cost of losing sensitive data of costumers. Thus, ransomware alerts companies to vulnerabilities and bad backup practices, provides a financial incentive to fix those problems, all the while causing much less harm than the lack of those fixes would. Ransomware is doing more for security than a thousand conferences could.
Now I'm not a fan of IoT either but this has nothing to do with it. It's just a badly set up WLAN (with no internet access).
I never had to update BIOS just so it can support my new CPU. Upgradeable firmware is just asking for trouble.
The thing is, this study only proves a correlation between delays and piracy. But what movie companies do is they increase the delay in countries known to have a high rate of piracy to keep the movies from hitting the torrent sites. They believe that the sales lost in those countries are smaller than the sales not lost due to piracy in the countries the movie is released. Whether that assumption is true is an interesting question, and unfortunately this study doesn't even try to answer it. The correlation itself isn't surprising, and the paper fails to take into account that this isn't a simple black and white question.
Problem is, universities don't teach programming either, or at least not very well. They teach the abstract concepts, but any good coder is pretty much self taught. Not to mention computing is a constantly changing field, you can't rely only on stuff you learned 40 years ago to prepare the kids for tomorrow. We need to find a way to keep the teachers in touch.
When your processor is compromised, everything is compromised. If you believe your cpu is malicious, the rng is the least of your worries. Guess what, your "secure" prng also runs on the cpu.
And who will teach the teachers?