Have it write a day worth of Slashdot style stories, and associated responses - then let us compare a day of Slashdot to this supposedly dangerous bot.
Or maybe just let the bot write all front page articles for Slashdot on April 1st and so how it does. Can't be any worse than what we already get.
Although there was no correlation found between playing video games and agressive behaviour in tennagers, researchers noted that games can provoke angry feelings or reactions.
This is EXACTLY why this stupid myth keeps coming up. People see kids yelling when playing video games and they think "Oh my they are getting violent".
Nope. Maybe they aren't even mad at others, just themselves. The yelling blows away any aggression in short order, and it's pretty much gone when you stop playing. THAT is why there is demonstrably no link between an increase in violence and video games.
If you want to see a much of extra real violence and stupidity, take a bunch of bored teens and put them out of the house all day.
The right wing is hardly religious at all any more. If you want to look for modern day puritanism you have to look to the left, who are busy shutting down sex workers and decreeing women dress modestly, and do not allow people to voice open options on anything not approved of by the priests of the left...
Maybe much of the West is a theocracy, but the U.S. government was explicitly designed with the concept of separation of church and state - we may be unique in that regard.
I didn't do the tape playback myself, but only because someone else had already done it seemingly hours after the thing was released - it wasn't a modem noise, but the sound from saving ZX Spectrum program data to tape (though in fairness, pretty similar to a modem since it's transforming digital into analog audible signals, but I think they had more range for tape storage than unreliable phone lines).
I did enjoy the ZX Spectrum game in an emulator though, I thought it was pretty awesome they actually hired a guy to write some real (If simple) game for the show actually on a ZX Spectrum.
My God, am I the only actual nerd left here??? The only one who has gone through pretty much every iteration and node of Bandersnatch????
Netflix DOES need to record and store your choices, because they affect nodes in the story sometimes EVERY AFTER YOU RESTART.
That to me was the most fun and brilliant aspect, the effect choices could have even going back to earlier choices (and a meta reference if you know the story).
Seriously, Bandersnatch is awesome, and this guy is an ass. Screw him and everyone else that hates fun.
But if we are talking the Economist, now we are talking Netflix for Magazines...
That is a little more tempting, but I have a feeling Apple's service will be $10/month, like Apple Music. There is no amount of news content that to me is worth $10 a month, even if I got all WSJ and Economist content for free. Maybe at $2/month... even that I would have trouble justifying on a recurring basis. I'd almost rather have the ability to pay $1 at a time for some long-form content I was really interested in.
As I said at the start, I agree the 50% figure is way too high.
Wrong Mr FOOL. Building a tunnel (hyper loop) would have been better and might have worked because they might have had a shot in hell of getting right of way for reasonable routes, eminent domain for something 100 ft under people would not be such a hot potato.
As it was it never stood a chance, and was just a big plan to sponge up government money to give to contractors for essentially nothing. Lots of "planning" sessions.
As it is air travel between LA and SF is not too bad, an actual cost effective way to improve transit would be a few more small regional airports with smaller planes and looser screen restrictions so you could show up just a half hour before a flight. Especially some kind of commuter plane sized drone that can hold a dozen people or so might serve that need really well and cost vastly a lot less than any train (or tunnel).
This service is the liberal side of Apple desperately trying to get people to buy into (in all sense of the term) traditional news sources again.
Kind of like a defibrillator for a stroke victim. Only the victim has also drowned and the person doing the administering will get quite the shock as well trying to revive them.
To make a start on high speed rail, you need a non-stop (or perhaps one stop at SFO) service on dedicated tracks San Jose to San Francisco
But how much faster would it really be, that's my issue.
Looking at transit directions I see the existing train part takes longer than I thought - almost an hour. But that's not terrible (for California). And I can't imagine a worse area to actually try and get a newer high speed rail through than all the land between San Jose and SF...
Apple's plan to create a subscription service for news is running into resistance from major publishers over the tech giant's proposed financial terms (Warning: source may be paywalled)
For some reason that just made me laugh.
I think 50% is absurdly high, as a percentage for Apple.
But on the other hand, m as a consumer I cannot imagine a price above $0 I would be willing to pay for a "Netflix of News". I already place so little value on a wide range of news I can get for free, what value could this service possibly have? The only thing I can maybe see people getting this would before a slight reduction in the price of a WSJ and NYT together, maybe enough people want to do that Apple's service will be viable.
But I doubt it... since Apple News today is already free and I hardly use it.
Not sure about San Diego - LA, but they already have OK commuter rail between San Jose and SF - well at least it seemed OK the few times I've taken it, maybe it had issues for more regular users. a high speed rail line to somewhere north of Oakland would probably be a great idea, that has a subway but frankly it sucks, is slow, and is SUPER packed at rush hour so it could really use another channel of service that was as fast to get from the north end of Oakland down to SF. It would probably have helped Oakland out quite a lot as well.
Unless you're trying to get from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco during rush hour!
I've got some good news for you, since it takes about six hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco (yes I have done this) you're only going to be in one rush hour.
The only thing I would realistically worry about with Google is, what happens with a really big natural disaster that destroys one (or more) entire data centers? I know they replicate a lot, but would the realistically have everything fully replicated spatially...
At least as someone else mentioned about POP email, I do have a local copy of all my email - I would possibly just lose some attachments, but probably nothing I cared much about anyway.
This incident is a good time to consider that issue though, especially as I was thinking about moving to Protonmail...
Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost.
So, that's the online backup servers, but what about the offline backups... there were offline backups, right? RIGHT???
I am starting to wonder if I don't need to ask every single electronic service I interact with to put in writing what tighter backup policies are. I imagine my stuff on gmail servers is safe... but that is truly only my imagination, who can say for sure even they have offline backups (that can be restored from)??
Slashdot Mirror
Have it write a day worth of Slashdot style stories, and associated responses - then let us compare a day of Slashdot to this supposedly dangerous bot.
Or maybe just let the bot write all front page articles for Slashdot on April 1st and so how it does. Can't be any worse than what we already get.
From TFA:
Although there was no correlation found between playing video games and agressive behaviour in tennagers, researchers noted that games can provoke angry feelings or reactions.
This is EXACTLY why this stupid myth keeps coming up. People see kids yelling when playing video games and they think "Oh my they are getting violent".
Nope. Maybe they aren't even mad at others, just themselves. The yelling blows away any aggression in short order, and it's pretty much gone when you stop playing. THAT is why there is demonstrably no link between an increase in violence and video games.
If you want to see a much of extra real violence and stupidity, take a bunch of bored teens and put them out of the house all day.
See, exactly! While liberals are puckered up so tight nothing will fit. Partial proof is in declining birth rates in strongly liberal areas.
It was probably running the GAN on a single GeForce GTX 1080 and we burnt it out. Hope it didn't burn anything else with it!
Bet you've not heard that term in a while!
The site for me is loading the image slower than an 80's fax-modem set to highest resolution.
The right wing is hardly religious at all any more. If you want to look for modern day puritanism you have to look to the left, who are busy shutting down sex workers and decreeing women dress modestly, and do not allow people to voice open options on anything not approved of by the priests of the left...
Maybe much of the West is a theocracy, but the U.S. government was explicitly designed with the concept of separation of church and state - we may be unique in that regard.
I didn't do the tape playback myself, but only because someone else had already done it seemingly hours after the thing was released - it wasn't a modem noise, but the sound from saving ZX Spectrum program data to tape (though in fairness, pretty similar to a modem since it's transforming digital into analog audible signals, but I think they had more range for tape storage than unreliable phone lines).
I did enjoy the ZX Spectrum game in an emulator though, I thought it was pretty awesome they actually hired a guy to write some real (If simple) game for the show actually on a ZX Spectrum.
My God, am I the only actual nerd left here??? The only one who has gone through pretty much every iteration and node of Bandersnatch????
Netflix DOES need to record and store your choices, because they affect nodes in the story sometimes EVERY AFTER YOU RESTART.
That to me was the most fun and brilliant aspect, the effect choices could have even going back to earlier choices (and a meta reference if you know the story).
Seriously, Bandersnatch is awesome, and this guy is an ass. Screw him and everyone else that hates fun.
at least with all those perservatives my body will outlast organophiles.
Now THAT is some quality trans-humanism!
There is no practical reason to send humans beyond earth orbit
There's no practical reason to go to the grocery store ether, a robot could take all day to pull out products you wanted.
Or maybe, just maybe, onsite human judgement and intuition has practical value.
But if we are talking the Economist, now we are talking Netflix for Magazines...
That is a little more tempting, but I have a feeling Apple's service will be $10/month, like Apple Music. There is no amount of news content that to me is worth $10 a month, even if I got all WSJ and Economist content for free. Maybe at $2/month... even that I would have trouble justifying on a recurring basis. I'd almost rather have the ability to pay $1 at a time for some long-form content I was really interested in.
As I said at the start, I agree the 50% figure is way too high.
Wrong Mr FOOL. Building a tunnel (hyper loop) would have been better and might have worked because they might have had a shot in hell of getting right of way for reasonable routes, eminent domain for something 100 ft under people would not be such a hot potato.
As it was it never stood a chance, and was just a big plan to sponge up government money to give to contractors for essentially nothing. Lots of "planning" sessions.
As it is air travel between LA and SF is not too bad, an actual cost effective way to improve transit would be a few more small regional airports with smaller planes and looser screen restrictions so you could show up just a half hour before a flight. Especially some kind of commuter plane sized drone that can hold a dozen people or so might serve that need really well and cost vastly a lot less than any train (or tunnel).
You even wonder how processed foods last so long?
They do it by consuming the life energy of the future consumers to keep themselves looking youthful!
This service is the liberal side of Apple desperately trying to get people to buy into (in all sense of the term) traditional news sources again.
Kind of like a defibrillator for a stroke victim. Only the victim has also drowned and the person doing the administering will get quite the shock as well trying to revive them.
Yeah but even accounting for any amount of hubris, 50% is too high. You need some new term like "Hubrosity" or "Exo-Hubris".
To make a start on high speed rail, you need a non-stop (or perhaps one stop at SFO) service on dedicated tracks San Jose to San Francisco
But how much faster would it really be, that's my issue.
Looking at transit directions I see the existing train part takes longer than I thought - almost an hour. But that's not terrible (for California). And I can't imagine a worse area to actually try and get a newer high speed rail through than all the land between San Jose and SF...
Apple's plan to create a subscription service for news is running into resistance from major publishers over the tech giant's proposed financial terms (Warning: source may be paywalled)
For some reason that just made me laugh.
I think 50% is absurdly high, as a percentage for Apple.
But on the other hand, m as a consumer I cannot imagine a price above $0 I would be willing to pay for a "Netflix of News". I already place so little value on a wide range of news I can get for free, what value could this service possibly have? The only thing I can maybe see people getting this would before a slight reduction in the price of a WSJ and NYT together, maybe enough people want to do that Apple's service will be viable.
But I doubt it... since Apple News today is already free and I hardly use it.
Not sure about San Diego - LA, but they already have OK commuter rail between San Jose and SF - well at least it seemed OK the few times I've taken it, maybe it had issues for more regular users. a high speed rail line to somewhere north of Oakland would probably be a great idea, that has a subway but frankly it sucks, is slow, and is SUPER packed at rush hour so it could really use another channel of service that was as fast to get from the north end of Oakland down to SF. It would probably have helped Oakland out quite a lot as well.
Unless you're trying to get from downtown Los Angeles to downtown San Francisco during rush hour!
I've got some good news for you, since it takes about six hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco (yes I have done this) you're only going to be in one rush hour.
The really sad part is it won't even make it to Shelbyville.
Something that can't go on forever, won't.
Or maybe it really should be - sooner or later, you run out of other people's money.
The only thing I would realistically worry about with Google is, what happens with a really big natural disaster that destroys one (or more) entire data centers? I know they replicate a lot, but would the realistically have everything fully replicated spatially...
At least as someone else mentioned about POP email, I do have a local copy of all my email - I would possibly just lose some attachments, but probably nothing I cared much about anyway.
This incident is a good time to consider that issue though, especially as I was thinking about moving to Protonmail...
Figures a Trump hater wouldn't know much about email systems...
Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost.
So, that's the online backup servers, but what about the offline backups... there were offline backups, right? RIGHT???
I am starting to wonder if I don't need to ask every single electronic service I interact with to put in writing what tighter backup policies are. I imagine my stuff on gmail servers is safe... but that is truly only my imagination, who can say for sure even they have offline backups (that can be restored from)??