Written in bits - too much and a stupid lameness filter stops it.
Now that Microsoft has got a large number of machines being upgraded when it wants
it can start to roll out code that breaks other systems; be they those who are
still running old versions of Microsoft Windows (ie not 10) or those who run non Microsoft
operating systems or applications. Eg Linux and LibreOffice. They roll out
applications that handle a new file or wire protocol in March and then make it
default in September, removing use of old protocols next March.
My point is that the woman did not understand what the app's capabilities/limits were. To her: the ability to diagnose HIV seemed reasonable and given what she might have seen on TV/.. entirely possible.
well, this sort of machine is seen in films and on TV (think: Star Trek,...), obviously all of Star Trek is not true, but which bits are and which are not? Then there is an X Prize competition to make a Medical tricorder, so think before you laugh at her.
when they give a 'phone number for the mark to call ??? With all the resources that the NSA, GCHQ, FBI,... have finding where that number goes to is going to be well within their abilities. That they are not finding and nailing these crooks demonstrates that they are not interested in protecting the public. It is not as if the cost to the public is small, the BBC claims £10.9bn a year (just in the UK). So: one has to ask what are those clowns doing with all they money that they soak up ? Who's interests are they protecting? It does not seem to be you or me!
The difference is that an AI will have been trained to look for certain important things (like street signs) and ignore everything else - it just does not have the processing capacity to take in the whole scene. A human also looks for the important things and will make similar mistakes, however s/he will then ponder what this strange triangular, red & white object is... and quickly realise that it is a street sign to which an advert for a disco has been attached... then act on the street sign. However if the scenery is complicated (think: dark, windy, rainy) and it is much harder (== more brain power needed) to find the basics then humans will miss things as well; impaired humans also make mistakes (think: alcohol, tiredness).
How many of those FISA requests were satisfied via Microsoft's telemetry capabilities ? Ie extract stuff directly from the Win 10 PC and send to the USA government ? I doubt that we shall ever know.
Maybe you should be grateful. He has exposed a security hole that will now be fixed - hopefully. Far better than it being found after, for instance, an arsonist disables the alarms before burning down a neighbourhood.
I worked on ICL system 4 mainframes, we had a couple of these printers. A friend looked up the order of characters on the chain and printed a file with that on many lines. So all the hammers went forwards at once, then nothing,... next line, all the hammers at once,... He actually got the printer to rock forwards and back a little!
I can go to my local hardware store and buy an Light Switch for £2.25 ($2.80) and it will sit, maintenance free, in my living room wall for several decades and uses zero electricity for the switch itself. Unless you are outside my house and can see the light that it controls you have no idea if it is switched on or off and thus if I am probably at home.
I can order one and buy one that connects via my wifi for $49.99 (£40.20) that I control via my mobile 'phone, so always using a not-disclosed amount of electricity. How long will Belkin support the switch through their servers ? If they did support it for 10 years I would be surprised, so in a few years I will need to replace it with something new. Some of these also demand some sort of subscription. Whoever operates the servers know the state of the switch and how it has changed recently and so if it is likely that I am not at home.... if not send round their mate Burglar Bill.
The problem for many gamers is that they will have a vast library of games that are not optimized for Ryzen, and never will be.
Vast libraries take time to accumulate. A game will be designed to perform well on whatever hardware is available at the time that it is released. New hardware is faster than old, so that the game was not optimised for a processor that did not exist when it was released does not matter as long as Ryzen is faster than processors of yesteryear.
Police should start pulling over and ticketing drivers who are on their phones while driving.
That has been the case for a few years in the UK. However many ignored this and so recently the
penalty when caught was doubled to 6 points; if you have 12 you are disqualified for some time. There has also been a recent media campaign "put your 'phone out of reach while driving". No one can claim that they don't know; I expect that many will still 'phone & drive.
Many of the laws were enacted over 95 years ago; 95 years used to be the length of copyright in the USA. So: what can stop anyone from publishing the old laws ? Part of this story centers on "annotations", these are: recent case law; legal opinion;... that are needed to help understand the laws. Some annotations will be out of copyright, others will still be in copyright. In order to know what ''the law'' is in Georgia you need to be able to read recent laws and recent annotations. It would, however, to be interesting to publish the out of copyright stuff and see what the state says about that.
In other words, if you understand the risks, it should be a fairly safe.
No: if you understand the risks then you won't run anything mission critical on it, but it won't make it less prone to break. Breakage is unlikely to come because you stress it, more by exposure to some unusual edge case.
I suppose: if you do really understand it you might be in a better position to repair it and dig yourself out of a hole.
it could not, a company is not animate. People do things on behalf of the company. Thus it is people who misled investors, etc.
The difference is important because all too often they will let the company/corporation pick up the blame for what they did and pay any fines. Until executives start losing their homes and pensions their behaviour will not change, we will continue to see scandals such as this. I am not talking about making executives paying for mistakes, even bad ones, but for deliberate lies/... such as this.
Others are making much hot air about gimp not being as good as photoshop. My point is that gimp is good enough for a lot of people, give them photoshop (at whatever cost) and they won't use the extra features.
Photoshop might be more polished, but do I need those extra features ? The gimp serves me fine for selecting part of a photo to make another one; this is just about all that I need/want to do. No: I am not a professional photographer, but then most of us are not.
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Written in bits - too much and a stupid lameness filter stops it.
Now that Microsoft has got a large number of machines being upgraded when it wants it can start to roll out code that breaks other systems; be they those who are still running old versions of Microsoft Windows (ie not 10) or those who run non Microsoft operating systems or applications. Eg Linux and LibreOffice. They roll out applications that handle a new file or wire protocol in March and then make it default in September, removing use of old protocols next March.
I wonder which worries the Chinese authorities the most ?
even more efficient. OK: it doesn't work all year round where I live, so in cool months I hang my clothes on a drying rack in a spare room.
My point is that the woman did not understand what the app's capabilities/limits were. To her: the ability to diagnose HIV seemed reasonable and given what she might have seen on TV/.. entirely possible.
well, this sort of machine is seen in films and on TV (think: Star Trek, ...), obviously all of Star Trek is not true, but which bits are and which are not? Then there is an X Prize competition to make a Medical tricorder, so think before you laugh at her.
when they give a 'phone number for the mark to call ??? With all the resources that the NSA, GCHQ, FBI, ... have finding where that number goes to is going to be well within their abilities. That they are not finding and nailing these crooks demonstrates that they are not interested in protecting the public. It is not as if the cost to the public is small, the BBC claims £10.9bn a year (just in the UK). So: one has to ask what are those clowns doing with all they money that they soak up ? Who's interests are they protecting? It does not seem to be you or me!
The difference is that an AI will have been trained to look for certain important things (like street signs) and ignore everything else - it just does not have the processing capacity to take in the whole scene. A human also looks for the important things and will make similar mistakes, however s/he will then ponder what this strange triangular, red & white object is ... and quickly realise that it is a street sign to which an advert for a disco has been attached ... then act on the street sign. However if the scenery is complicated (think: dark, windy, rainy) and it is much harder (== more brain power needed) to find the basics then humans will miss things as well; impaired humans also make mistakes (think: alcohol, tiredness).
maybe they should be used in Afghanistan. Cheaper than dropping that MOAB! :-)
How many of those FISA requests were satisfied via Microsoft's telemetry capabilities ? Ie extract stuff directly from the Win 10 PC and send to the USA government ? I doubt that we shall ever know.
or, more likely, ''campaign contributions'' or ''research grants''.
Piece of paper held onto the fridge with a magnet.
Works for me.
Maybe you should be grateful. He has exposed a security hole that will now be fixed - hopefully. Far better than it being found after, for instance, an arsonist disables the alarms before burning down a neighbourhood.
I worked on ICL system 4 mainframes, we had a couple of these printers. A friend looked up the order of characters on the chain and printed a file with that on many lines. So all the hammers went forwards at once, then nothing, ... next line, all the hammers at once, ... He actually got the printer to rock forwards and back a little!
putting the effort and money into road safety or public health. A far better Return On Investment.
I can go to my local hardware store and buy an Light Switch for £2.25 ($2.80) and it will sit, maintenance free, in my living room wall for several decades and uses zero electricity for the switch itself. Unless you are outside my house and can see the light that it controls you have no idea if it is switched on or off and thus if I am probably at home.
I can order one and buy one that connects via my wifi for $49.99 (£40.20) that I control via my mobile 'phone, so always using a not-disclosed amount of electricity. How long will Belkin support the switch through their servers ? If they did support it for 10 years I would be surprised, so in a few years I will need to replace it with something new. Some of these also demand some sort of subscription. Whoever operates the servers know the state of the switch and how it has changed recently and so if it is likely that I am not at home .... if not send round their mate Burglar Bill.
don't I get a say in this ?
The problem for many gamers is that they will have a vast library of games that are not optimized for Ryzen, and never will be.
Vast libraries take time to accumulate. A game will be designed to perform well on whatever hardware is available at the time that it is released. New hardware is faster than old, so that the game was not optimised for a processor that did not exist when it was released does not matter as long as Ryzen is faster than processors of yesteryear.
Police should start pulling over and ticketing drivers who are on their phones while driving.
That has been the case for a few years in the UK. However many ignored this and so recently the penalty when caught was doubled to 6 points; if you have 12 you are disqualified for some time. There has also been a recent media campaign "put your 'phone out of reach while driving". No one can claim that they don't know; I expect that many will still 'phone & drive.
Many of the laws were enacted over 95 years ago; 95 years used to be the length of copyright in the USA. So: what can stop anyone from publishing the old laws ? Part of this story centers on "annotations", these are: recent case law; legal opinion; ... that are needed to help understand the laws. Some annotations will be out of copyright, others will still be in copyright. In order to know what ''the law'' is in Georgia you need to be able to read recent laws and recent annotations. It would, however, to be interesting to publish the out of copyright stuff and see what the state says about that.
No: if you understand the risks then you won't run anything mission critical on it, but it won't make it less prone to break. Breakage is unlikely to come because you stress it, more by exposure to some unusual edge case.
I suppose: if you do really understand it you might be in a better position to repair it and dig yourself out of a hole.
Do the 'vital' updates include new adverts with which to pester the user ?
it could not, a company is not animate. People do things on behalf of the company. Thus it is people who misled investors, etc.
The difference is important because all too often they will let the company/corporation pick up the blame for what they did and pay any fines. Until executives start losing their homes and pensions their behaviour will not change, we will continue to see scandals such as this. I am not talking about making executives paying for mistakes, even bad ones, but for deliberate lies/... such as this.
What point are you trying to make?
Others are making much hot air about gimp not being as good as photoshop. My point is that gimp is good enough for a lot of people, give them photoshop (at whatever cost) and they won't use the extra features.
Photoshop might be more polished, but do I need those extra features ? The gimp serves me fine for selecting part of a photo to make another one; this is just about all that I need/want to do. No: I am not a professional photographer, but then most of us are not.
and how much ?