There will be an opaque admissions process run by gnomes accountable to nothing and no one, with rules so arbitrary and politics-driven that Admissions will be one part of AI College that will have to be staffed by humans.
-AIs that have never worked very well but which have colorful, checkered implementation histories will get preference. An AI which was developed to spread ransomeware but which promises to turn its life around is a surefire admission. Some sample guidelines:
-AIs that reply with a female voice will be preferred over those using a male voice, but being able to switch among a number of hard-to-classify androgynous voices will be considered better still.
-AIs developed by Asians will not be admitted unless the developers are really big donors and only if they don't play an instrument.
-An AI that was developed by the same team as a previously admitted AI will be admitted even if mediocre.
It’s just as probable that ice-free Arctic waters would be a source of increased precipitation in the region, actually feeding land glaciers. This has been proposed as a possible ice age mechanism.
Until all the car companies decide to lock up their data in the same way, keeping competition out of the equation. It is the same process by which airlines have those insane business rules that all consumers hate but which all airlines enforce, so you’re screwed.
We’re going to need legislation to pry that data loose.
Now that our sexual mores have gone back to Victorian times, I’m hoping that we are now about to see the good side of the Victorian era, which was the ebullient interest in science and technology that powered the first industrial revolution.
When I hiked across the northern UK in 2014, the insanity of substituting small renewables for baseload sources of power was never more apparent.
Every small village we passed through in Cumbria and Yorkshire was fighting its own NIMBY battle over its installation of two or three wind turbines. Many of the villages being in designated national parkland made the NIMBY problem worse still. At Drax in Yorkshire, the world's largest coal generating plant had just been converted, with great fanfare, to burn wood. Same vast clouds of smoke as before, only a little less carbon, but the conversion technically made Drax a renewable facility under EU standards. Hut Yorkshire doesn't have any wood, it having been logged clear centuries ago. So the wood is imported from the southern US in a fleet of diesel freighters, all so that Drax could make an empty claim of being a renewable.
Our hike started at a point near Sellafield, the nuclear reprocessing facility on the Irish Sea. The UK could have avoided the whole renewables mess by adding a few gigawatts of generating capacity at that place where the nuclear bullet had already been bitten. No need for wind turbines scattered all over the pristine viewshed, no need to have the old coal plant burn wood to make it a fake renewable. The footprint of nuclear is so small that it disappears into the landscape.
Wind power arguably works fairly well in Northern Europe. Biggest problem is transmission.
And what transmission problem is German wind having, exactly? This one!
Bringing wind power from northern Germany to the densely populated parts of the country requires construction of a new series of north-south transmission lines, called the Stromautobahn ("Power freeway"). The same lunkhead Greens who forced the country off its carbon-free nuclear base are protesting both the new transmission lines and the new lignite coal pits that their own policies have necessitated.
Germany has plowed a fortune into renewables, taking the tech farther than anyone else. And it is still having to open new coal plants and buy Russian gas to meet its baseload energy demand.
When these 'farms' accidentally release stock into the surrounding waters, it's a catastrophe for the native ecosystem. We should only allow fish farming inland in manmade water bodies.
So says the alarmism lobby, in their standard response to any sort of engineering solution to an environmental problem. We're getting tired of this crap, and it's time to just ignore them so we can go on with life.
Sainted ultra-green countries like Norway and New Zealand are now in fish farming in a major way. They don't appear to share your panic.
If such a person existed, he/she could organize a grand climate Panmunjom.
The right would have to admit that the greenhouse mechanism is plausible and that current data shows warming. There may be disagreement about exactly how much there is and at what point 'weather' becomes 'climate,' but it's out there, and growing.
The left would have to allow us to use all carbon-free technologies in addressing the problem, rather than just the ones that are tiny and cute. In the real world, we still need energy-usinh big cities and heavy industries.
I'm guessing that they phone-scraped voice from his job, which was buyer for a hinge manufacturing company in LA. He had to spend a lot of time on the phone.
The creepiest voice phish I ever got was the call from my little brother, exactly his voice and intonation pattern, telling us he was in jail in Mexico and needed money. The only way I knew it was a scam, besides the Mexican authorities suddenly accepting payment in Bitcoin, was knowing that he had been sick for years and unable to travel.
We of the dark side brought this up with Trump when he appointed Jeff Sessions, a civil forfeiture supporter, as AG. That was when we discovered that Trump did not understand what forfeiture was.
And no, though Obama did know what civil forfeiture was, he did nothing about it in his terms.
The right support civil asset forfeiture, the right is by far more strongly supportive of stripping 4th amendment rights,...
The only element of the right which supports these things is the police lobby, which is why such a yawning airgap has recently appeared between cops and real conservatives. Exhibit A in the right-wing critique of the police viewpoint is their assertion that without civil forfeiture they would no longer have enough money for all that paramilitary gear they hide behind while gunning down people at random and never being prosecuted for it.
No, they wouldn't have enough money if they lost civil forfeiture, and this is our whole point.
I say pointless because Morse is the very earliest, not-very-good form of binary communications. Today we have gone far beyond it in binary tech. Let’s concentrate on systems that can get TCP/IP through under the most marghinal of conditions, and on organizing for disaster preparedness: area map, stored supplies and parts, secure locations for ham gear, coordination with local emergency services.
I’m not a ham, but I live in a mountainous, heavily touristed area where search-and-rescue on our hundreds of miles of hiking trails and numerous climbing walls is a major activity. Because I’ve noticed that SMS messages will get through on wilderness cell signals too marginal to carry voice, I’ve been vainly lobbying to have SMS accepted as a 911 contact mode. Mobile ham gear could really help parallel and/or extend the range of such a messaging system. A broken hip on a lonely hiking trail shouldn’t have to be fatal.
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There will be an opaque admissions process run by gnomes accountable to nothing and no one, with rules so arbitrary and politics-driven that Admissions will be one part of AI College that will have to be staffed by humans.
-AIs that have never worked very well but which have colorful, checkered implementation histories will get preference. An AI which was developed to spread ransomeware but which promises to turn its life around is a surefire admission. Some sample guidelines:
-AIs that reply with a female voice will be preferred over those using a male voice, but being able to switch among a number of hard-to-classify androgynous voices will be considered better still.
-AIs developed by Asians will not be admitted unless the developers are really big donors and only if they don't play an instrument.
-An AI that was developed by the same team as a previously admitted AI will be admitted even if mediocre.
This is a very real problem, but in what universe is this within the Slashdot remit?
Next up - refrigerator shelving that cracks and yellows before its time!
It’s just as probable that ice-free Arctic waters would be a source of increased precipitation in the region, actually feeding land glaciers. This has been proposed as a possible ice age mechanism.
Until all the car companies decide to lock up their data in the same way, keeping competition out of the equation. It is the same process by which airlines have those insane business rules that all consumers hate but which all airlines enforce, so you’re screwed.
We’re going to need legislation to pry that data loose.
When the Democrats keep inventing new genders, it will now be possible to test them on mice first.
Now that our sexual mores have gone back to Victorian times, I’m hoping that we are now about to see the good side of the Victorian era, which was the ebullient interest in science and technology that powered the first industrial revolution.
Geothermal and wind are not even the best renewable option for Canada, which is the only developed country that still has lots of hydro potential.
Canada also has massive amounts of uranium.
When I hiked across the northern UK in 2014, the insanity of substituting small renewables for baseload sources of power was never more apparent.
Every small village we passed through in Cumbria and Yorkshire was fighting its own NIMBY battle over its installation of two or three wind turbines. Many of the villages being in designated national parkland made the NIMBY problem worse still. At Drax in Yorkshire, the world's largest coal generating plant had just been converted, with great fanfare, to burn wood. Same vast clouds of smoke as before, only a little less carbon, but the conversion technically made Drax a renewable facility under EU standards. Hut Yorkshire doesn't have any wood, it having been logged clear centuries ago. So the wood is imported from the southern US in a fleet of diesel freighters, all so that Drax could make an empty claim of being a renewable.
Our hike started at a point near Sellafield, the nuclear reprocessing facility on the Irish Sea. The UK could have avoided the whole renewables mess by adding a few gigawatts of generating capacity at that place where the nuclear bullet had already been bitten. No need for wind turbines scattered all over the pristine viewshed, no need to have the old coal plant burn wood to make it a fake renewable. The footprint of nuclear is so small that it disappears into the landscape.
Oops, here's the link: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de...
Wind power arguably works fairly well in Northern Europe. Biggest problem is transmission.
And what transmission problem is German wind having, exactly? This one!
Bringing wind power from northern Germany to the densely populated parts of the country requires construction of a new series of north-south transmission lines, called the Stromautobahn ("Power freeway"). The same lunkhead Greens who forced the country off its carbon-free nuclear base are protesting both the new transmission lines and the new lignite coal pits that their own policies have necessitated.
Germany has plowed a fortune into renewables, taking the tech farther than anyone else. And it is still having to open new coal plants and buy Russian gas to meet its baseload energy demand.
When these 'farms' accidentally release stock into the surrounding waters, it's a catastrophe for the native ecosystem. We should only allow fish farming inland in manmade water bodies.
So says the alarmism lobby, in their standard response to any sort of engineering solution to an environmental problem. We're getting tired of this crap, and it's time to just ignore them so we can go on with life.
Sainted ultra-green countries like Norway and New Zealand are now in fish farming in a major way. They don't appear to share your panic.
Fish farming is not only more sustainable than hunting at sea, but in the long run tech like this makes farmed fish safer fish.
If such a person existed, he/she could organize a grand climate Panmunjom.
The right would have to admit that the greenhouse mechanism is plausible and that current data shows warming. There may be disagreement about exactly how much there is and at what point 'weather' becomes 'climate,' but it's out there, and growing.
The left would have to allow us to use all carbon-free technologies in addressing the problem, rather than just the ones that are tiny and cute. In the real world, we still need energy-usinh big cities and heavy industries.
The whole rationale for the amateur service is to promote the pushing of technology. If anything will kill ham radio, it's 'medallion cabdrivers'.
I'm guessing that they phone-scraped voice from his job, which was buyer for a hinge manufacturing company in LA. He had to spend a lot of time on the phone.
Because nobody ever gained experience and wisdom as they age.
The creepiest voice phish I ever got was the call from my little brother, exactly his voice and intonation pattern, telling us he was in jail in Mexico and needed money. The only way I knew it was a scam, besides the Mexican authorities suddenly accepting payment in Bitcoin, was knowing that he had been sick for years and unable to travel.
We of the dark side brought this up with Trump when he appointed Jeff Sessions, a civil forfeiture supporter, as AG. That was when we discovered that Trump did not understand what forfeiture was.
And no, though Obama did know what civil forfeiture was, he did nothing about it in his terms.
One reason why I was a Johnson voter.
The right support civil asset forfeiture, the right is by far more strongly supportive of stripping 4th amendment rights,...
The only element of the right which supports these things is the police lobby, which is why such a yawning airgap has recently appeared between cops and real conservatives. Exhibit A in the right-wing critique of the police viewpoint is their assertion that without civil forfeiture they would no longer have enough money for all that paramilitary gear they hide behind while gunning down people at random and never being prosecuted for it.
No, they wouldn't have enough money if they lost civil forfeiture, and this is our whole point.
It's the tax on blank CDRs all over again.
This proposal is so stupid that Hollywood will ram it down out throats in 3..2..1..
The winner of a ham joust is the first one to knock his opponent's scooter-mounted IV bag off its pole.
I say pointless because Morse is the very earliest, not-very-good form of binary communications. Today we have gone far beyond it in binary tech. Let’s concentrate on systems that can get TCP/IP through under the most marghinal of conditions, and on organizing for disaster preparedness: area map, stored supplies and parts, secure locations for ham gear, coordination with local emergency services.
I’m not a ham, but I live in a mountainous, heavily touristed area where search-and-rescue on our hundreds of miles of hiking trails and numerous climbing walls is a major activity. Because I’ve noticed that SMS messages will get through on wilderness cell signals too marginal to carry voice, I’ve been vainly lobbying to have SMS accepted as a 911 contact mode. Mobile ham gear could really help parallel and/or extend the range of such a messaging system. A broken hip on a lonely hiking trail shouldn’t have to be fatal.
Never, ever capitalize ham. It is not an acronym.
By passing chowderhead regulations, Europeans run off with everybody else’s money.