I think we should all get behind this initiative from Bell and block all the bad websites.
Can they propose a method that does not involve becoming an isolated, non-democratic and dictatorial regime?
You see so far, even countries like North Korea cannot block access to anything it likes...so how will an interconnected, development and democratic country like Canada mange that?
Having considered the above and weighed the possibilities I suggest we just ignore Bell and carry on with our lives. This seems to be the easiest and cheapest to implement. In fact if the Canadian government paid not heed to it either that would be best for tax payers as there are more serious matters to attend to.
How can I immediately hand over any more data to Equifax?
This is why we need multi-factor-multi-signature operations. If I have PART of the key required to read/write my own personal data then there's a good chance any stolen data is useless.
AI will not replace all human jobs/humans in general? but eventually??
It's a "while false" sort of loop; (just imagine the if and if else somewhere in there)
0. AI does not have a kill switch/hard coded cessation. (Currently an off switch and safeties are built into everything)
1. AI reaches human level competitive intelligence in certain use cases. (We're already here in things like chess.)
2. AI is capable of limited choice. Ergo it can evaluate data to a degree that it can select the best application for itself within a field/s. (We're getting there. So AI is still far from taking lessons from tax returns and applying to stock analysis but machine learning can apply to permutations of protein folding for instance.)
3. The AI can modify its own code to a narrow extent. (Experimental development. Emerging; neural nets)
We know AI/robots are already replacing humans. This is not a concern because humans adapt faster and mostly can be employed. The phenomena or replacing humans will only increase as we currently find efficiency in cost savings and time management with robots/automation/AI etc which will accelerate this situation.
Humans will not be replaced at a higher rate that they can retrain/re purpose until X generations of AI self fabrication. Then (depending on how unrestricted this fabrication is) it may be time to concern ourselves.
If AI is allowed to research and fabricate ever better solutions to increase its own computational capacity to be "more intelligent" in an unrestrained fashion; humans will undoubtedly cease being the most intelligent/most capable/apex predator.
One day AI may look us like we look at chimps today, assuming there is any value in their further study.
Your typical birth registry DB is SIGNIFICANTLY easier to tamper with. With blockchain you can have MILLIONS of copies as an authoritative source".
It is true that compromising the cryptographic proof of blockchain tech may cause identity theft to be far less believed and thus so much more destructive but it is also significantly harder AND the tech is constantly improving.
Key revocation can be automated via all nodes/clients in the chain and with multi-factor multi-key signing it becomes significantly harder to tamper with the system,
Short story, you have your private key, government has their key - decentralized and autonomous solution requires (outside of logins) BOTH keys to produce a unique signature. This is FAR more secure than the current system.
Blockchain can do more for securing your identity than current methods. Faking national insurance or the like is so much easier.
You may be a smart person but this time you gave an uninformed comment.
While it is true that there's a lot of buzz and hype about blockchain it does not make it any less a game changer. Literally will change the world we live in.
YET despite not alleviating the difficulties of every possible disability it is still helping and much better than some.
I can imagine there is a numerically large enough part of the worldwide population that can benefit from this.
It's very much like curing one specific rare type of cancer. It still solved a serious issue and it is progress.
Not that I wish it on anyone but imagine if you have a disability that prevents you from using your fingers/hands but your forearms are fine. -will you say it's a "non-problem"??
Apple isnt interested in user privacy as much as it is interested in leveraging ad companies data and funds.
They'll "work with selected partners" to "ensure a superior user experience" while forking over the data for a fee.
Removing the 3.5 headphones jack is not the end of discreet listening, it's the beginning of better revenue. so will he end of cookies be the beginning of revenue.
So far the excuses come from you. You seem annoyed that I don't like GNOME and KDE in their current forms.
I think GNOME has to decide what its for. This unfocused messing with the UI shit is just that. Shit.
When you have to market your greatest release with updated emoji you know you got nothing. You say it's popular and not everything has to be serious...look here, linux desktop market share has NOTHING to do with popular. So the popular bit, while harmless is not a selling point.
I actually do use Mate. It works. I had to use it because GNOME 3's "Gnome 3 Failed to Load" fucking messages drove me and many users mad.
After the involved headache to get Gnome 3 to actually load you know what? it wasn't any fucking better! What was the point!?
I know I know, "You don't like it no one is forcing you to use it" blah blah blah. If you don't like what I say, no one is forcing you to read it.
Luke does not instaneously become a Jedi master. His development is clear and methodical over the course of years and three full length films. We also are given justification in ANH when Ben discussed Luke's heritage for why Luke might have potent sensitivity to the force. Despite that, he even fails at blocking laser bolts with his blast shield down to show us that he isn't picking it up immediately. He also fails at lifting the X-wing in ESB if you need additional evidence.
We as audience members are not given the same justifications with Rey. Aside from the title being TFA and it doing just that with Rey, we are given little else to help us understand her ability level. The concerns that Rey is a Mary Sue are valid, and covered in more depth by YouTube creators such as banditincorporated.
First time commenter here. I normally just watch from the sidelines but I couldn't let that comment stand on its own.
Dude, you hide your bias well enough but it;s clear that you are being sexist! Just because she's a girl does not mean she cannot go from starship dumpster diver to supremo jedi -The force was "calling out" to her. The bug-eyed lady said so! (And Kylo told supreme leader that she's powerful, more than she knows - although he didn't talk to her about how much she thinks she's powerful so it was a bit ???)
Anyways, you think it didn't have justification? That there's not enough development but in reality all the movie is doing is catching up to all the content released in games for so many years. -did you not play KOTOR?? After 40 minutes of game play my character was shooting force lightning twice a battle. That's fucking cool! -now if you wanna see a proper evolution and progression Annakin going from accidental boy pod fixer genius to evil pregnant wife choking sith that's the story arc to match.(!)
You are too concerned with boring parallels that no one cares about. You;re probably just being nostalgic of those old awful films. You want me to see that Empire Strike's Back boringest movie again where the Jedi gets lost, loses his space ship, fails to train well and then loses to that Vader dude? - My emotional life is difficult enough I don't need that "No Luke I am your brother" baggage stuff.
Seriously why do I have to wait three movies for some wannabe jedi to master the force? Cant we just get to the cool part of the story where the force is actually mastered and proceed to kick all the baddies' asses and have like 13 Siths die every minute? Let's get them back for what they did to the younglings in the Jedi temple. Obi Wan brought me to tears when he said Darth Annakin was killing younglings!!!
Look all that stuff is boring. The cool bit was whenre the green dude was fighting that force lightning fellah. We need more of that! Just imagine it now; against an all powerful Jedi master the Siths will become like cannon fodder, basically. At the end, after almost losing to a super trained Kylo Ren, Rey can do the force Hadouken on him against a large rock like that game cinematic thing. The scenes are gonna be so stylistically dense AND we'll get lens flare. Maybe the force will call out to Finn too (trends well with ethnic groups) and then he and Rey can be like a mixed race Jedi power couple that kicks ass. This is gonna be amazing!!!
(I've noticed a lot of people miss it so I must add a May the 4th/sarcasm be with you flag. There.)
While the government would have us believe that if they can read everyones emails and facebook accounts at will we are all safer, the truth is that with all the backdoors in the world they cannot stop terrorism.
If it wasn't ebay or paypal it would be another service or method. Sophisticated terror orgs have a multitude of creative ways to do what they do.
Education and freely available resources will do more to curb terrorism than a ban on encryption or a money transfer service...
Then again if there is no big bad wolf how will politicians scare us to convince us they are needed while they serve the interests of elites to stuff their pockets with wealth and gain more power?
So when employees cash out they will have to pay tax. In the UK once they convert assets to fiat they will have to pay 20%
The interesting this about this is that you can earn A LOT more than than the usual 20% tax bracket and still pay 20%
The company is essentially pushing tax deductions on the employee with the employee seeing this a great deal to pay less tax as well...maybe even make profit as stock appreciates. It all falls apart however when share price goes sharply down and people may end up earning less than they thought they will AND pay tax on it when they cash out.
Side stepping that "Obama aids" misspelling is beneath any post...
Isnt this sort of criticism from the same people that suggest that NSA and the like have access to every American's emails, bank accounts, computers, GPS data and so on? -you know because the terrorists win if not and what do they have to hide?
Of course it is not a great idea for non-security related officials to be able to make hundreds of baseless requests but at the same time some of the involved agencies needs to be more transparent with the people they are protecting. ergo, the people. -the logic being the elected officials represent (some of) the people.
So is it Obama's fault that someone this one individual made so many requests without justification? Or MAYBE it's the person handing it over not requesting/confirming/checking and or validating there is justification. After all you could be well within your rights to request something but that still needs to be authorised to avoid these situations.
It's not like this is a blatantly biased article or cheap political click bait on a tech site./sarcasm
Dude with ETC (forked off blockchain) says things for much more successful ETH are bad and a "time bomb".
Name one fucking crypto that is not a potential "time bomb". As if ETC didn't crash badly ever for practically no reason.
Yes ICOs can be dangerous. Like any investment you could lose everything. Crypto is even more volatile so higher risk reward/loss.
ETH is becoming more popular and common place. It's becoming a better platform every day. If there were a bunch of fraudulent business that scammed people out of money or just plainly failed would you blame the US dollar for it? Would the US Dollar then automatically become a "time bomb" because of $1.2bln in ICOs compared to a market cap of $20bln?
Shameless FUD promotion for ETC. What's BeauHD's stake in crypto? -Food for thought.
You don't need a facebook blocker...that only solved part of the facebook issue. You need Privacy Badger (blocks facebook, twitter and the rest of them) + uBlock Origin.
It does not hurt to always brows in private mode in Firefox. Sure Chrome might be a better browser but it also tells google everything you go and that displays custom ads and shopping results tailored to you...
If you value your privacy do not stop just at the application level. Get to the OS AND hardware level if possible. An OS that respects your privacy; may I recommend a non proprietary hardware platform as well? -> Librem laptops from https://puri.sm/
I'm not sold on the PureOS itself although I like the concept (you can install Qubes, better I think) but the hardware bit is as "transparent" as you can get.
Note: yes I am aware this is using CoreBoot that can work on many other platforms but unlike many other platforms
Slashdot Mirror
Very interesting. Thank you for the link.
Indeed the banks and credit card companies are leeches on society. While I am not in a position to make this change I am certainly intending on it.
My knife is figurative of course...it's in reference to "catching the knife" in trading.
A pleasure making your acquaintance.
I think we should all get behind this initiative from Bell and block all the bad websites.
Can they propose a method that does not involve becoming an isolated, non-democratic and dictatorial regime?
You see so far, even countries like North Korea cannot block access to anything it likes...so how will an interconnected, development and democratic country like Canada mange that?
Having considered the above and weighed the possibilities I suggest we just ignore Bell and carry on with our lives. This seems to be the easiest and cheapest to implement. In fact if the Canadian government paid not heed to it either that would be best for tax payers as there are more serious matters to attend to.
Oh wow, Free!
How can I immediately hand over any more data to Equifax?
This is why we need multi-factor-multi-signature operations. If I have PART of the key required to read/write my own personal data then there's a good chance any stolen data is useless.
Is that like saying "big boned" doesn't exist anymore, it's now under "obese"?
No wonder I'm getting less booty calls.
Well if you stopped choosing to be autistic for a moment you'd know!
/sarcasm
AI will not replace all human jobs/humans in general? but eventually??
It's a "while false" sort of loop; (just imagine the if and if else somewhere in there)
0. AI does not have a kill switch/hard coded cessation. (Currently an off switch and safeties are built into everything)
1. AI reaches human level competitive intelligence in certain use cases. (We're already here in things like chess.)
2. AI is capable of limited choice. Ergo it can evaluate data to a degree that it can select the best application for itself within a field/s. (We're getting there. So AI is still far from taking lessons from tax returns and applying to stock analysis but machine learning can apply to permutations of protein folding for instance.)
3. The AI can modify its own code to a narrow extent. (Experimental development. Emerging; neural nets)
We know AI/robots are already replacing humans. This is not a concern because humans adapt faster and mostly can be employed. The phenomena or replacing humans will only increase as we currently find efficiency in cost savings and time management with robots/automation/AI etc which will accelerate this situation.
Humans will not be replaced at a higher rate that they can retrain/re purpose until X generations of AI self fabrication. Then (depending on how unrestricted this fabrication is) it may be time to concern ourselves.
If AI is allowed to research and fabricate ever better solutions to increase its own computational capacity to be "more intelligent" in an unrestrained fashion; humans will undoubtedly cease being the most intelligent/most capable/apex predator.
One day AI may look us like we look at chimps today, assuming there is any value in their further study.
Your typical birth registry DB is SIGNIFICANTLY easier to tamper with. With blockchain you can have MILLIONS of copies as an authoritative source".
It is true that compromising the cryptographic proof of blockchain tech may cause identity theft to be far less believed and thus so much more destructive but it is also significantly harder AND the tech is constantly improving.
Key revocation can be automated via all nodes/clients in the chain and with multi-factor multi-key signing it becomes significantly harder to tamper with the system,
Short story, you have your private key, government has their key - decentralized and autonomous solution requires (outside of logins) BOTH keys to produce a unique signature. This is FAR more secure than the current system.
Blockchain can do more for securing your identity than current methods. Faking national insurance or the like is so much easier.
You may be a smart person but this time you gave an uninformed comment.
While it is true that there's a lot of buzz and hype about blockchain it does not make it any less a game changer. Literally will change the world we live in.
YET despite not alleviating the difficulties of every possible disability it is still helping and much better than some.
I can imagine there is a numerically large enough part of the worldwide population that can benefit from this.
It's very much like curing one specific rare type of cancer. It still solved a serious issue and it is progress.
Not that I wish it on anyone but imagine if you have a disability that prevents you from using your fingers/hands but your forearms are fine. -will you say it's a "non-problem"??
Apple isnt interested in user privacy as much as it is interested in leveraging ad companies data and funds.
They'll "work with selected partners" to "ensure a superior user experience" while forking over the data for a fee.
Removing the 3.5 headphones jack is not the end of discreet listening, it's the beginning of better revenue. so will he end of cookies be the beginning of revenue.
Ad revenue is dead, long live ad revenue.
So far the excuses come from you. You seem annoyed that I don't like GNOME and KDE in their current forms.
I think GNOME has to decide what its for. This unfocused messing with the UI shit is just that. Shit.
When you have to market your greatest release with updated emoji you know you got nothing. You say it's popular and not everything has to be serious...look here, linux desktop market share has NOTHING to do with popular. So the popular bit, while harmless is not a selling point.
I actually do use Mate. It works. I had to use it because GNOME 3's "Gnome 3 Failed to Load" fucking messages drove me and many users mad.
After the involved headache to get Gnome 3 to actually load you know what? it wasn't any fucking better! What was the point!?
I know I know, "You don't like it no one is forcing you to use it" blah blah blah. If you don't like what I say, no one is forcing you to read it.
I mean, for people that want to code, or browse or watch a film, maybe do some multitasking why choose GNOME over anything else?
Is it easy to use and customise? Is it fast? Is it stable? Does it need a fuckton of dependencies and forces unnecessary shit on users?
System search?! Emoji?? - what the fuck are these people doing?
Once upon a time GNOME was clean, fast and simply didnt get in the way of doing shit. KDE was a slower but was very shiny. These days they both suck.
If I wanted a horrifically bloated "flat" interface with seven layers of buried shit menus I'd just use Windows 10.
You may have misunderstood. It is a value hold, an appreciating asset.
I know the name says "bitcoin" but it's not an actual coin and so far has not really been used as currency.
More importantly, if you do as I suggested, you'd most likely make money.
That's funny. -> https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin...
Can only afford half of the house? Magic internet money has a plan for you!
1. Buy into the massive BTC dip NOW
2. Wait for BTC to hit 8-9k
3. Cash out.
You're welcome!
Luke does not instaneously become a Jedi master. His development is clear and methodical over the course of years and three full length films. We also are given justification in ANH when Ben discussed Luke's heritage for why Luke might have potent sensitivity to the force. Despite that, he even fails at blocking laser bolts with his blast shield down to show us that he isn't picking it up immediately. He also fails at lifting the X-wing in ESB if you need additional evidence. We as audience members are not given the same justifications with Rey. Aside from the title being TFA and it doing just that with Rey, we are given little else to help us understand her ability level. The concerns that Rey is a Mary Sue are valid, and covered in more depth by YouTube creators such as banditincorporated. First time commenter here. I normally just watch from the sidelines but I couldn't let that comment stand on its own.
Dude, you hide your bias well enough but it;s clear that you are being sexist! Just because she's a girl does not mean she cannot go from starship dumpster diver to supremo jedi -The force was "calling out" to her. The bug-eyed lady said so! (And Kylo told supreme leader that she's powerful, more than she knows - although he didn't talk to her about how much she thinks she's powerful so it was a bit ???)
/sarcasm be with you flag. There.)
Anyways, you think it didn't have justification? That there's not enough development but in reality all the movie is doing is catching up to all the content released in games for so many years. -did you not play KOTOR?? After 40 minutes of game play my character was shooting force lightning twice a battle. That's fucking cool! -now if you wanna see a proper evolution and progression Annakin going from accidental boy pod fixer genius to evil pregnant wife choking sith that's the story arc to match.(!)
You are too concerned with boring parallels that no one cares about. You;re probably just being nostalgic of those old awful films. You want me to see that Empire Strike's Back boringest movie again where the Jedi gets lost, loses his space ship, fails to train well and then loses to that Vader dude? - My emotional life is difficult enough I don't need that "No Luke I am your brother" baggage stuff.
Seriously why do I have to wait three movies for some wannabe jedi to master the force? Cant we just get to the cool part of the story where the force is actually mastered and proceed to kick all the baddies' asses and have like 13 Siths die every minute? Let's get them back for what they did to the younglings in the Jedi temple. Obi Wan brought me to tears when he said Darth Annakin was killing younglings!!!
Look all that stuff is boring. The cool bit was whenre the green dude was fighting that force lightning fellah. We need more of that! Just imagine it now; against an all powerful Jedi master the Siths will become like cannon fodder, basically. At the end, after almost losing to a super trained Kylo Ren, Rey can do the force Hadouken on him against a large rock like that game cinematic thing. The scenes are gonna be so stylistically dense AND we'll get lens flare. Maybe the force will call out to Finn too (trends well with ethnic groups) and then he and Rey can be like a mixed race Jedi power couple that kicks ass. This is gonna be amazing!!!
(I've noticed a lot of people miss it so I must add a May the 4th
We are The Amazon. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
Absolute horse shit. Everyone loves meat, even vegetarians!
While the government would have us believe that if they can read everyones emails and facebook accounts at will we are all safer, the truth is that with all the backdoors in the world they cannot stop terrorism. If it wasn't ebay or paypal it would be another service or method. Sophisticated terror orgs have a multitude of creative ways to do what they do. Education and freely available resources will do more to curb terrorism than a ban on encryption or a money transfer service... Then again if there is no big bad wolf how will politicians scare us to convince us they are needed while they serve the interests of elites to stuff their pockets with wealth and gain more power?
So when employees cash out they will have to pay tax. In the UK once they convert assets to fiat they will have to pay 20%
The interesting this about this is that you can earn A LOT more than than the usual 20% tax bracket and still pay 20%
The company is essentially pushing tax deductions on the employee with the employee seeing this a great deal to pay less tax as well...maybe even make profit as stock appreciates. It all falls apart however when share price goes sharply down and people may end up earning less than they thought they will AND pay tax on it when they cash out.
Side stepping that "Obama aids" misspelling is beneath any post...
Isnt this sort of criticism from the same people that suggest that NSA and the like have access to every American's emails, bank accounts, computers, GPS data and so on? -you know because the terrorists win if not and what do they have to hide?
Of course it is not a great idea for non-security related officials to be able to make hundreds of baseless requests but at the same time some of the involved agencies needs to be more transparent with the people they are protecting. ergo, the people. -the logic being the elected officials represent (some of) the people.
So is it Obama's fault that someone this one individual made so many requests without justification? Or MAYBE it's the person handing it over not requesting/confirming/checking and or validating there is justification. After all you could be well within your rights to request something but that still needs to be authorised to avoid these situations.
It's not like this is a blatantly biased article or cheap political click bait on a tech site.
In other words, there are already policies in place to handle this sort of thing and the ban is unnecessary. Thanks, this was very helpful.
Who knew a disorganised organisation like the US military already had policies for this??
How is the POTUS and 'his generals' supposed to know these things?!
/sarcasm
...but let me tell you, if your product has stupid bugs or bad code say your prayers because Linus' textual red mist will descend upon you.
Dude with ETC (forked off blockchain) says things for much more successful ETH are bad and a "time bomb".
Name one fucking crypto that is not a potential "time bomb". As if ETC didn't crash badly ever for practically no reason.
Yes ICOs can be dangerous. Like any investment you could lose everything. Crypto is even more volatile so higher risk reward/loss.
ETH is becoming more popular and common place. It's becoming a better platform every day. If there were a bunch of fraudulent business that scammed people out of money or just plainly failed would you blame the US dollar for it? Would the US Dollar then automatically become a "time bomb" because of $1.2bln in ICOs compared to a market cap of $20bln?
Shameless FUD promotion for ETC. What's BeauHD's stake in crypto? -Food for thought.
You don't need a facebook blocker...that only solved part of the facebook issue. You need Privacy Badger (blocks facebook, twitter and the rest of them) + uBlock Origin.
It does not hurt to always brows in private mode in Firefox. Sure Chrome might be a better browser but it also tells google everything you go and that displays custom ads and shopping results tailored to you...
If you value your privacy do not stop just at the application level. Get to the OS AND hardware level if possible. An OS that respects your privacy; may I recommend a non proprietary hardware platform as well? -> Librem laptops from https://puri.sm/
I'm not sold on the PureOS itself although I like the concept (you can install Qubes, better I think) but the hardware bit is as "transparent" as you can get.
Note: yes I am aware this is using CoreBoot that can work on many other platforms but unlike many other platforms