I have a simple question about cryptolockers, if any specialist could give some insights, that would be great.
Suppose you generate a big file of pure white noise (several GB), give it a video extension, and store it preciously on both your hard drive and a usb key put in your safe. When you get the cryptolocker, you then have both the original file and its encrypted version. Wouldn't that be sufficient to recover the encryption key? How big would the file need to be in order to allow breaking the key? How much time would it take?
If you want "no rule" based community, you can go right now to Libya and if you want to see what it looks like after a few years, you can go to Syria and see that "no rule" get rapidly transformed into dictatorship of the guys that had the least ethic.
If you want to see the "total collective control" society, take a look at the former GDR (where I was born). People had a house, a job, free welfare and yet they collectively decided it wasn't the good thing. Most thought they could keep their possessions while gaining additional things (rights, more possessions).
To me, both are exactly the same gradient only applied at different spots on the scale between control and freedom. Maybe I'm too cynical, but there's a good chance greed is the ultimate engine of humanity, which makes you refuse any rule imposed onto you up until the point where you want to impose yours onto the others.
There is no such thing as a functioning voluntarily welfare. This is either naive or deliberately deceptive. Game theory proves that in a system without constraints, everybody gets screwed by the worst guys in the end.
I'm sure you will provide arguments like gracious donation to public infrastructure. That's bullshit. At best, it's investment to get the non-system in place, at worst taxes optimization. The truth is that in such "voluntarily" system, nobody volunteers for the others very quickly. In other words, the rich agree to pay for the rich, and the poor can die like scumbags.
A bunch of skinflints, nothing to do with liberty.
SL was so much outdated that we ditched it out of our cluster 2 years ago and replaced it with ubuntu server. Having to manually install a compiler that handles C++11 in 2014 is pretty bad. Hell, we even ditched it out of the whole CS department. I grant you it's robust (even if we had some dirty problems), but it's too outdated to be usefull.
Please stop the bullshit of heroes with superpower in science, as science never was about glorifying people and personality cults. Leave that to the entertainment industry.
The whole science star system is doing much more harm than good to the actual scientific outcomes.
People tend to optimize the metric that is used. If that metric is popularity, they'll do as much as they can to become popular, with no correlation whatsoever to the importance of their original field. Publishing crappy results on a new dataset so that everyone can beat you gets you more citations than providing insights to why some methods work and some don't. Publishing a shitty software that allows a million master student to make up wrong results for the master's thesis get you more download than writing a correct implementation of uncommon algorithms.
I went into science because I didn't give a shit about the smoke and mirrors that are so important in other fields. Most of my best technical students now are just disgusted by the "appearance prevails" mentality that is at the core of other disciplines. Please leave science as it ought to be: efficient but careless about the image.
People are always skeptical of human labor replacement with automation, because they think of it as a full job replacement. Can a robot replace an entire lawyer? Of course not. But you don't need to do that to achieve massive unemployment.
Can a robot improve the productivity of a lawyer but 20%? Yeah, sure and probably not in a very long time. That's sufficient to put 1/5th of all lawyers out of office.
That's the key to what's happening right now. Productivity has never been so high in the entire human history and it's rising at a tremendous speed. That's why automation will make a good portion of the entire population jobless, because the other part is so productive that they can do all the work.
Look on the bright side? OK, I'm a middle aged white dude so I didn't get shot. And I could come up with $27,500 the first time, and $1500 the second time, to defend myself against bullshit.
272 horsepower is about 200kW. A 6 minutes fly is thus around 20kWh of stored energy. That's about 60kg and 25L of the best currently available lithium batteries (conservative estimation), which doesn't really look that much on the prototype of the video. So either the board is huge and impracticable (mind you, 6h of charge and carrying a 60kg thing for 6 minutes of flight), or it's complete bullshit.
My bet is on on the second option. There's only something like 5kWh of batteries, which makes a reasonable board size, but only maximum 1'30 of flight.
Basically they're demanding a cut of the revenue for doing _nothing_.
Dude, that's capitalism! You get a cut of the revenue for doing nothing because you own the damn thing. It's the ground principle of the whole idea: I own things, you work with them, I earn the money and pay you the minimum amount required for you to willingly continue working.
And what are you doing? Not playing the game? Then, somebody else will do, and you will get no job at all.
The impressive paradox of the sharing economy is closely related to game theory. It takes only one guy to accept the concept to make it inevitable to everybody else. If you're the only one guy to participate, it's not at all a race to the bottom, it's a jackpot. However, if we're all doing that, then it's clearly a race to the bottom (not only for those who do, but for the others too because of the competition).
So if you're participating, you are contributing to the race to the bottom. And if you're not, you will get screwed by those who do. In either case, you loose.
BTW, welcome to what climate change negotiators must feel right now in Paris.
You're old. Back then only few people did programming, and those where excellent at their work because it was highly selective and you needed to be passionate. Now, programming is a mainstream job, which means that millions of people will do that as a day job without the ability nor the motivation.
It's one of the side effect of massive growth. The few interesting guys of a specific domain get surrounded by many mediocre guys that just don't give a shit. You can see that pattern in every single domain.
Putting a huge amount of functionalities in 4K takes a lot of talent and dedication, for sure (never did that myself). I'm pretty sure you would find more people today capable of doing it that 30 years ago. However, it's not what you see. What you see is the massive army of average Joe who don't give a fuck about the field or doing their job the best they can, and as such are completely uneducated. So yeah, basically all these new methods are there to mask the mediocrity and the lack of motivation of the majority of people working in the field.
This is the real reason I loved riding public transportation so much when I was living in France.
Jeez! Your post was pretty believable until that one sentence, since French public transportation is probably one of the things that concentrate most of the world hatred.
At least it's good to know that the French government is spending money on lobbyists at Slashdot. Either that, or you are a pervert mind on revenge that want to make other people suffer the way you suffered, by having them believe they can take French trains without getting stuck until the end of time due to labor strikes, overaged failing technology and bogus information panels.
Speaking of strike actions, it should probably start in 2 weeks, right before Christmas, as usual. So get ready to wait.
Define "true intelligence". The more computers advance in doing complex things, the more you will see there is no such thing as true intelligence. You are a very big Turing machine, get over it.
I for one welcome our robotic overlords who always have a very high social capital, are willing to work day and night for almost nothing and don't cost a penny when you shut down the power supply.
You know what, I was having exactly the same thought regarding the Fermi paradox. Why don't we see alien civilization? Because we expect them to be massively large scale, and they probably aren't.
If we look at ourselves and our future. The human race might probably survive for a long time, but probably not in its current population levels. If we want some growth in our standard of living, that means more energy consumed individually, which we can't achieve at a global level. That's the gap you are talking about. So probably the great great grandson of the richest of today will be spacefaring, while the great great grandson of today's poor (well, today's 90% of the population) will probably just don't exist or at a civilization level that's invisible from far away.
Because things were worse 50 years ago than they are today, it means that they will be just incredibly good in 50 years? Yeah, like we had rain yesterday and today is just a bit cloudy so tomorrow will surely be sunny.
Everybody agrees present days are probably the best humanity ever had. How how close to the apex is it? How will it be in 50 years from now? What's you argument to say it will be better?
Also, it has been done for many years. You can date the stigmergy based robotics back to the mid-nineties (cf the work of Alexis Drogoul for example) and the mathematical modelling dates back to the eighties (Deneubourg et al.).
What is presented here is nice engineering stuff, but has nothing to do with research breakthrough.
This photos shows how absurd the world is getting. Religion has to bend over the law, not the other way around. It the law says "no hat", it should be no hat, and fuck religious zealots that want to have their hat of the photo.
If sate laws and your religion laws are incompatible, then forget about your religion laws, they just don't apply.There are many religions - all of them incompatible, and pretty irrational to say the least -, whereas there is only one state law at a given place, and in many decent countries it gets decided by collective discussion. So the state law always applies while the religious laws are just a pile of bullshit.
Sadly, people that are not OK with that are bombing Paris, and our response is to make more space for religious bullshit. At some point, it has to be enough. Religions have to get the fuck off politics. You are free to believe whatever bullshit you want, to do whatever fucking dumb rituals you like, but it has to have no impact whatsoever on society. Simple, reasonable, and safe for everybody.
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I have a simple question about cryptolockers, if any specialist could give some insights, that would be great.
Suppose you generate a big file of pure white noise (several GB), give it a video extension, and store it preciously on both your hard drive and a usb key put in your safe. When you get the cryptolocker, you then have both the original file and its encrypted version. Wouldn't that be sufficient to recover the encryption key? How big would the file need to be in order to allow breaking the key? How much time would it take?
Many people nourish their children, some protect their families, few help their neighbors. Don't be naive.
Both "extremes" have been tried unsuccessfully.
If you want "no rule" based community, you can go right now to Libya and if you want to see what it looks like after a few years, you can go to Syria and see that "no rule" get rapidly transformed into dictatorship of the guys that had the least ethic.
If you want to see the "total collective control" society, take a look at the former GDR (where I was born). People had a house, a job, free welfare and yet they collectively decided it wasn't the good thing. Most thought they could keep their possessions while gaining additional things (rights, more possessions).
To me, both are exactly the same gradient only applied at different spots on the scale between control and freedom.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but there's a good chance greed is the ultimate engine of humanity, which makes you refuse any rule imposed onto you up until the point where you want to impose yours onto the others.
There is no such thing as a functioning voluntarily welfare. This is either naive or deliberately deceptive. Game theory proves that in a system without constraints, everybody gets screwed by the worst guys in the end.
I'm sure you will provide arguments like gracious donation to public infrastructure. That's bullshit. At best, it's investment to get the non-system in place, at worst taxes optimization. The truth is that in such "voluntarily" system, nobody volunteers for the others very quickly. In other words, the rich agree to pay for the rich, and the poor can die like scumbags.
A bunch of skinflints, nothing to do with liberty.
"Liberty Minded" is US code word for "white male who own guns".
And does not want to pay taxes.
The idea sounded nice, but after a visit on the website, it's just a bunch of skinflints who want to evade taxes.
Always remembers me this scene from iron sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
SL was so much outdated that we ditched it out of our cluster 2 years ago and replaced it with ubuntu server. Having to manually install a compiler that handles C++11 in 2014 is pretty bad. Hell, we even ditched it out of the whole CS department. I grant you it's robust (even if we had some dirty problems), but it's too outdated to be usefull.
Please stop the bullshit of heroes with superpower in science, as science never was about glorifying people and personality cults. Leave that to the entertainment industry.
The whole science star system is doing much more harm than good to the actual scientific outcomes.
People tend to optimize the metric that is used. If that metric is popularity, they'll do as much as they can to become popular, with no correlation whatsoever to the importance of their original field. Publishing crappy results on a new dataset so that everyone can beat you gets you more citations than providing insights to why some methods work and some don't. Publishing a shitty software that allows a million master student to make up wrong results for the master's thesis get you more download than writing a correct implementation of uncommon algorithms.
I went into science because I didn't give a shit about the smoke and mirrors that are so important in other fields. Most of my best technical students now are just disgusted by the "appearance prevails" mentality that is at the core of other disciplines. Please leave science as it ought to be: efficient but careless about the image.
People are always skeptical of human labor replacement with automation, because they think of it as a full job replacement. Can a robot replace an entire lawyer? Of course not. But you don't need to do that to achieve massive unemployment.
Can a robot improve the productivity of a lawyer but 20%? Yeah, sure and probably not in a very long time. That's sufficient to put 1/5th of all lawyers out of office.
That's the key to what's happening right now. Productivity has never been so high in the entire human history and it's rising at a tremendous speed. That's why automation will make a good portion of the entire population jobless, because the other part is so productive that they can do all the work.
Look on the bright side? OK, I'm a middle aged white dude so I didn't get shot. And I could come up with $27,500 the first time, and $1500 the second time, to defend myself against bullshit.
That didn't work out for Ian Murdock...
... you don't become good at doing it.
Wow, news at 11, guys.
272 horsepower is about 200kW. A 6 minutes fly is thus around 20kWh of stored energy. That's about 60kg and 25L of the best currently available lithium batteries (conservative estimation), which doesn't really look that much on the prototype of the video. So either the board is huge and impracticable (mind you, 6h of charge and carrying a 60kg thing for 6 minutes of flight), or it's complete bullshit.
My bet is on on the second option. There's only something like 5kWh of batteries, which makes a reasonable board size, but only maximum 1'30 of flight.
Basically they're demanding a cut of the revenue for doing _nothing_.
Dude, that's capitalism! You get a cut of the revenue for doing nothing because you own the damn thing. It's the ground principle of the whole idea: I own things, you work with them, I earn the money and pay you the minimum amount required for you to willingly continue working.
And what are you doing? Not playing the game? Then, somebody else will do, and you will get no job at all.
The impressive paradox of the sharing economy is closely related to game theory. It takes only one guy to accept the concept to make it inevitable to everybody else. If you're the only one guy to participate, it's not at all a race to the bottom, it's a jackpot. However, if we're all doing that, then it's clearly a race to the bottom (not only for those who do, but for the others too because of the competition).
So if you're participating, you are contributing to the race to the bottom. And if you're not, you will get screwed by those who do. In either case, you loose.
BTW, welcome to what climate change negotiators must feel right now in Paris.
You're old. Back then only few people did programming, and those where excellent at their work because it was highly selective and you needed to be passionate. Now, programming is a mainstream job, which means that millions of people will do that as a day job without the ability nor the motivation.
It's one of the side effect of massive growth. The few interesting guys of a specific domain get surrounded by many mediocre guys that just don't give a shit. You can see that pattern in every single domain.
Putting a huge amount of functionalities in 4K takes a lot of talent and dedication, for sure (never did that myself). I'm pretty sure you would find more people today capable of doing it that 30 years ago. However, it's not what you see. What you see is the massive army of average Joe who don't give a fuck about the field or doing their job the best they can, and as such are completely uneducated. So yeah, basically all these new methods are there to mask the mediocrity and the lack of motivation of the majority of people working in the field.
I see you haven't seen French people driving, have you?
Well, considering that I am French and that I drive everyday, I don't see any problem at all. :-)
This is the real reason I loved riding public transportation so much when I was living in France.
Jeez! Your post was pretty believable until that one sentence, since French public transportation is probably one of the things that concentrate most of the world hatred.
At least it's good to know that the French government is spending money on lobbyists at Slashdot. Either that, or you are a pervert mind on revenge that want to make other people suffer the way you suffered, by having them believe they can take French trains without getting stuck until the end of time due to labor strikes, overaged failing technology and bogus information panels.
Speaking of strike actions, it should probably start in 2 weeks, right before Christmas, as usual. So get ready to wait.
Define "true intelligence". The more computers advance in doing complex things, the more you will see there is no such thing as true intelligence. You are a very big Turing machine, get over it.
I for one welcome our robotic overlords who always have a very high social capital, are willing to work day and night for almost nothing and don't cost a penny when you shut down the power supply.
You know what, I was having exactly the same thought regarding the Fermi paradox. Why don't we see alien civilization? Because we expect them to be massively large scale, and they probably aren't.
If we look at ourselves and our future. The human race might probably survive for a long time, but probably not in its current population levels. If we want some growth in our standard of living, that means more energy consumed individually, which we can't achieve at a global level. That's the gap you are talking about. So probably the great great grandson of the richest of today will be spacefaring, while the great great grandson of today's poor (well, today's 90% of the population) will probably just don't exist or at a civilization level that's invisible from far away.
Because things were worse 50 years ago than they are today, it means that they will be just incredibly good in 50 years? Yeah, like we had rain yesterday and today is just a bit cloudy so tomorrow will surely be sunny.
Everybody agrees present days are probably the best humanity ever had. How how close to the apex is it? How will it be in 50 years from now? What's you argument to say it will be better?
Also, it has been done for many years. You can date the stigmergy based robotics back to the mid-nineties (cf the work of Alexis Drogoul for example) and the mathematical modelling dates back to the eighties (Deneubourg et al.).
What is presented here is nice engineering stuff, but has nothing to do with research breakthrough.
This photos shows how absurd the world is getting. Religion has to bend over the law, not the other way around. It the law says "no hat", it should be no hat, and fuck religious zealots that want to have their hat of the photo.
If sate laws and your religion laws are incompatible, then forget about your religion laws, they just don't apply.There are many religions - all of them incompatible, and pretty irrational to say the least -, whereas there is only one state law at a given place, and in many decent countries it gets decided by collective discussion. So the state law always applies while the religious laws are just a pile of bullshit.
Sadly, people that are not OK with that are bombing Paris, and our response is to make more space for religious bullshit. At some point, it has to be enough. Religions have to get the fuck off politics. You are free to believe whatever bullshit you want, to do whatever fucking dumb rituals you like, but it has to have no impact whatsoever on society. Simple, reasonable, and safe for everybody.
I always think of it more like:
AI in movies = boring unimaginative stuff
AI in real life = very exciting maths
Isn't that usually the case? I never thought paying the ransom would actually be followed by the recovery of the data...