So if they have a suspect, they get a warrant to put a bug on their device. Send the phone a software update that reduces the security and adds a trojan. Police can then monitor any further activity on that device. This can be done right now with existing tech and doesn't reduce the security for innocent people.
What can't be done is be able to snoop on EVERY device in retrospect without opening everybody to malicious characters.
The biggest international airports _already_ have active facial recognition. What they are proposing here is just extending it so that it can be useful to the ordinary passenger rather than just the police, immigration and intelligence services.
I thought that was due to ethical issues. If they'd been allowed to try 2000 different variants and see which works best over the long term, with evolutionary adaptations as problems were found and fixed, then we might well have bionics commonplace now. But apparently only people who are going to die anyway are allowed to try experimental products and even then it's a fight.
Spending 30 minutes searching to see if my problem has already been solved to more or less an extent is time well spent. Sure, there'll be a lot of unhelpful junk to wade through, but it's still a lot more efficient than spending all day or maybe even a week tracing through code trying to find out exactly what is happening.
Of course, he'd be using a government phone where the keys would be kept a lot more securely than consumers phones, so he wouldn't have to worry about it.
I asked for $100 in manuals so that I could learn new framework in an orderly fashion. "Can't you just look it up on the internet?" "Yes, but the online tutorials are usually low quality and I'd like to learn it properly before getting hints and help from the net. It'll probably take me 5 weeks to learn instead of 2 with the manual." "I'll get you the manuals once we've firmly decided that we're going with that framework." "When will that be?" "When you've got a working demo that I can show the CEO". "...so AFTER I've already learned the framework."
Brain uploads aren't possible _yet_. So why not do animal trials first and put them in a robot body and see if the uploaded brain does the same things.
And then in maybe 500 years, we might be ready to test on human volunteers.
It won't cause you stress if you've been brought up with it. If you've been taken through a transporter multiple times as a child, then you won't even think about it much. If you do think about it, then it'll be 'interesting philosophical point, but I still _feel_ like me after every time I go through, so that's good enough for me'.
It's only legal to think about it because they can't prove what a person is thinking about (yet). No point in making a law when you can't prove it with evidence.
(UK) Technically doesn't matter how well the CG is done. The depiction doesn't have to be realistic, so manga counts. Even stick figures count if they want it to. They like to make the laws overbroad to avoid bad guys getting away on a technicality. Just hope they never decide that you're a 'bad guy'.
The Navy uses (used?) the traffic light system - so if she says 'Yellow light' it means that you are edging on the unacceptable and should tone it down, change topic or whatever as you're making her uncomfortable. 'Red light' means you are being completely unacceptable and you should stop and walk away. And of course, 'Green light' means that your advances are welcome and please proceed. Navy Traffic Light System
Perhaps this would help simplify things as unsocial geeks may not see or understand non-verbal communication that indicates that the other person is uncomfortable with the interaction.
If you reduce the offered salary then sure, you'll reduce the applicants to the truly desperate as the better ones will hold out for a better offer. Shares are essentially worthless - they just fire you a few months before vesting and there's no guarantee that the company will even be around if they don't.
I suggest a pre-interview coding test. Sure, some will cheat, but then they won't be able to explain their coding decisions at interview.
I've stopped putting 'X years of experience in Y' and now have a table of 'Expert', 'Good' and 'Adequate'. It mostly works, though like everything, it still suffers from the Dunning-Kruger.
People will rent out part of their brain to mine cryptocurrencies as it will be one of the last jobs remaining for unskilled workers. The really poor will rent out so much that they don't understand any longer how badly they are done by.
Oh, there almost certain are aliens somewhere in the universe. However, the chances to them being anywhere even vaguely close to Earth is practically nil, and even if they were, if they are smart enough to overcome the incredible vastness of interstellar space...they are smart enough to not come here. So yes, SETI in it's current form is mostly a waste.
There's lots of people who commute every day that don't actually need to be in the office every day. But the company decides it's more convenient and they aren't paying for the commute so they make everyone come in. I could do 95% of my job from home, but no, I have to come in, because it's easier to yell across the office than it is to pick up the phone.
It's been used to populate dating sites since they were created. There's always more horny guys than there are good looking women. Horny guys pay for dating sites, so the sites make sure there's lots of (fake) female profiles, even getting employees to interact with them to make sure the guys think they still have a chance at love and keep paying.
Of the few that were left online in the brief period between publicity and takedown, about half were rather blurry, and the rest were short repeating loops (although it can be hard to tell as sex often looks like a repeating loop!).
It's by intention. Back in the 80s you'd get corporate raiders who'd find a company that had net assets more than it's share value, buy a controlling share and asset strip it, leaving a non-functioning wreck behind.
From research done in the 70s showing that roving managers walking up and down the aisles makes typists work harder and less prone to slacking off. Coders are just glorified typists right?
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So if they have a suspect, they get a warrant to put a bug on their device.
Send the phone a software update that reduces the security and adds a trojan.
Police can then monitor any further activity on that device.
This can be done right now with existing tech and doesn't reduce the security for innocent people.
What can't be done is be able to snoop on EVERY device in retrospect without opening everybody to malicious characters.
The biggest international airports _already_ have active facial recognition.
What they are proposing here is just extending it so that it can be useful to the ordinary passenger rather than just the police, immigration and intelligence services.
I thought that was due to ethical issues.
If they'd been allowed to try 2000 different variants and see which works best over the long term, with evolutionary adaptations as problems were found and fixed, then we might well have bionics commonplace now. But apparently only people who are going to die anyway are allowed to try experimental products and even then it's a fight.
Spending 30 minutes searching to see if my problem has already been solved to more or less an extent is time well spent. Sure, there'll be a lot of unhelpful junk to wade through, but it's still a lot more efficient than spending all day or maybe even a week tracing through code trying to find out exactly what is happening.
Of course, he'd be using a government phone where the keys would be kept a lot more securely than consumers phones, so he wouldn't have to worry about it.
I asked for $100 in manuals so that I could learn new framework in an orderly fashion.
"Can't you just look it up on the internet?"
"Yes, but the online tutorials are usually low quality and I'd like to learn it properly before getting hints and help from the net. It'll probably take me 5 weeks to learn instead of 2 with the manual."
"I'll get you the manuals once we've firmly decided that we're going with that framework."
"When will that be?"
"When you've got a working demo that I can show the CEO".
"...so AFTER I've already learned the framework."
Brain uploads aren't possible _yet_.
So why not do animal trials first and put them in a robot body and see if the uploaded brain does the same things.
And then in maybe 500 years, we might be ready to test on human volunteers.
It won't cause you stress if you've been brought up with it.
If you've been taken through a transporter multiple times as a child, then you won't even think about it much.
If you do think about it, then it'll be 'interesting philosophical point, but I still _feel_ like me after every time I go through, so that's good enough for me'.
Just make sure you've not got a copy of Pi on your hardrive. Somewhere in that number is every pornographic image ever created - even in the future!
It's only legal to think about it because they can't prove what a person is thinking about (yet). No point in making a law when you can't prove it with evidence.
(UK) Technically doesn't matter how well the CG is done. The depiction doesn't have to be realistic, so manga counts. Even stick figures count if they want it to. They like to make the laws overbroad to avoid bad guys getting away on a technicality. Just hope they never decide that you're a 'bad guy'.
The Navy uses (used?) the traffic light system - so if she says 'Yellow light' it means that you are edging on the unacceptable and should tone it down, change topic or whatever as you're making her uncomfortable. 'Red light' means you are being completely unacceptable and you should stop and walk away. And of course, 'Green light' means that your advances are welcome and please proceed.
Navy Traffic Light System
Perhaps this would help simplify things as unsocial geeks may not see or understand non-verbal communication that indicates that the other person is uncomfortable with the interaction.
The granny said no, saying it would feel creepy to date a guy young enough to be her grandson.
Or full immersion VR girlfriends - less cleanup afterwards and no embarrassment when you have fleshy friends over.
If you reduce the offered salary then sure, you'll reduce the applicants to the truly desperate as the better ones will hold out for a better offer.
Shares are essentially worthless - they just fire you a few months before vesting and there's no guarantee that the company will even be around if they don't.
I suggest a pre-interview coding test. Sure, some will cheat, but then they won't be able to explain their coding decisions at interview.
I've stopped putting 'X years of experience in Y' and now have a table of 'Expert', 'Good' and 'Adequate'. It mostly works, though like everything, it still suffers from the Dunning-Kruger.
People will rent out part of their brain to mine cryptocurrencies as it will be one of the last jobs remaining for unskilled workers.
The really poor will rent out so much that they don't understand any longer how badly they are done by.
Oh, there almost certain are aliens somewhere in the universe. However, the chances to them being anywhere even vaguely close to Earth is practically nil, and even if they were, if they are smart enough to overcome the incredible vastness of interstellar space...they are smart enough to not come here.
So yes, SETI in it's current form is mostly a waste.
There's lots of people who commute every day that don't actually need to be in the office every day.
But the company decides it's more convenient and they aren't paying for the commute so they make everyone come in.
I could do 95% of my job from home, but no, I have to come in, because it's easier to yell across the office than it is to pick up the phone.
You're an asymptomatic carrier? You're the one spreading it everywhere without realising it?
It's been used to populate dating sites since they were created. There's always more horny guys than there are good looking women. Horny guys pay for dating sites, so the sites make sure there's lots of (fake) female profiles, even getting employees to interact with them to make sure the guys think they still have a chance at love and keep paying.
Of the few that were left online in the brief period between publicity and takedown, about half were rather blurry, and the rest were short repeating loops (although it can be hard to tell as sex often looks like a repeating loop!).
It's by intention. Back in the 80s you'd get corporate raiders who'd find a company that had net assets more than it's share value, buy a controlling share and asset strip it, leaving a non-functioning wreck behind.
From research done in the 70s showing that roving managers walking up and down the aisles makes typists work harder and less prone to slacking off.
Coders are just glorified typists right?
Fanfiction and free translated fiction is why I read a lot on my tablet and not on my e-reader.