I would be fine with the trackers if they stored only the most recent location a particular car was detected, and retrieving that location required either the registered owner to report it stolen, or a warrant.
As long as locations can be stored forever, and retrieved at a whim, abuse will be significant.
I have 7 sets of them. Well... technically about 6.7 sets. It's hard not to lose one here or there when you play with them nearly daily. I'm just glad that I got them now, before the ban... they are my third favorite toy, behind my computer and my phone. I make bracelets out of multiple colors as transient art (lost as soon as they stretch out and get rearranged), play with them on my desk, and use them as temporary tie tacks if I leave my mine at home.
This outlook is common, and unfortunately it is fundamentally bigoted.
"I am deserving of this job, but that brown skinned person is not! He's willing to work for less than me, and live in worse conditions than me, therefor I'm a better person. Having to compete with people who demand less sucks."
It does suck, but globalization fundamentally equalizes things. You forget that you live on 30-50K a year, while billions of people live on under $5000 a year. If some of those people currently living in such horrible conditions are able to learn enough despite the hardships of their lives in order to compete on an equal footing with you, who grew up with better access to education, sanitation, and protection than they could ever hope for, that's something to praise, not belittle.
Yes, it sucks for you, and for me, that we have to compete with people who have far lower standards than us. But get off your fucking high horse. The absolute best and most effective foreign aid that is possible for people in impoverished countries is the ability to work, and better themselves, and send some of that money home to their family. There is almost no corruption on foreign aid that comes in the form of a check from your son working stateside. It reaches the people who need it most, directly, with no graft.
Personally, I think we should end all foreign aid immediately, and also open our borders up the way they used to be. We are the land of plenty indeed, despite that it doesn't seem that way sometimes... but that's only because we have so much, we can't even imagine those who have so little.
Driving faster is not an improvement. Mileage will rise significantly if we slow down a bit. Not only that, but if it takes 45 minutes to get home doing the speed limit and reading a book, versus 38 minutes driving normally and having to watch the road, I will happily take a few extra minutes and let the car go the speed limit.
Stop downloading free apps. If you want something to work in your interests, then pay them.
I know that if someone came to my house and started doing my garden and cleaning my kitchen, and I wasn't paying them, I'd be mighty suspicious of their motives and what they were getting out of the deal. But if I'm paying them, then it's a pretty straightforward deal.
So stop installing tons of free apps, and get the paid ones instead, and worry less.
You think that large trees never got lost to Tsunamis? With no humanity around to alter the ecology, forests often went right up to the beach. I bet dozens or even thousands of full trees were lost to tidal waves long ago. They would be ideal methods for species transfer.
I think you misunderstand... people did not see marijuana or smoking as bad at all in the first half of the 20th century. It was normal. It was far more acceptable than drinking for a while (there is a reason the prohibition amendment passed). It's certainly different than copyright now... but give them 50 years, and you can be damn certain that those 'dirty hippie copythieves' will be just as demonized.
"This is your brain on ThePirateBay. Any questions?"
"Where did you get this stuff? Who taught you to torrent?" "You! I learned it by watching you!"
(
(
(
(72 hours) / (1 minute) # Content uploaded per minute
) * (
(1 year) / (1 minute) # Minutes per year
)
) # Content uploaded per year
/ (
50 * 51 * 60 # Minutes per Indian work-year... ie, how much content one person can screen.
) ) * (
10 000 (U.S. dollars / year) # Very guesstimated salary for an Indian employee. ) = 148 503 181 U.S. dollars / year
So about $150 million per year to have every piece of content scanned by a human... at current rates. YouTube's rate of content added continues to rise constantly.
This is rather late, so only you will see it. But please beware using sentences. For example, "Stupid bitch" might as well be one word, since bitch often follows Stupid. Same with "never again". So you transform a password from the equivalent of 5 words to 3 by making it meaningful. That is the exact issue that xkcd was specifically seeking to avoid by using random words, not meaningful ones.
The reason to avoid understandable sentences is they have extremely low entropy per character. Or, put another way, they are easier to hack than their length would indicate. An xkcd password has about 1.5 bits per character of entropy; a normal English sentence has as low as 0.6 to 1.3 bits per letter, according to one study. Given the simple and trite short sentences people would use for passwords, it's likely closer to 0.6, or about 20 bits of entropy for your example 'chicken' password, compared to 44 bits for a shorter xkcd password.
This is only true if they have a system to make systemic alterations like this easy. If it takes a man on the control of every traffic light, it won't work... and from TFA, this was a completely manual and centralized to one person task, so it demonstrates no ability to scale up to managing the lights for the whole city.
If we have large networks of self-driving cars communicating with each other, you can damn well bet we'll have large networks of self-driving cars notifying the police when a driver behaves recklessly. When the driverless car is ubiquitous, then speeding cameras will be as well.
> When will journalists learn? Not so. The journalist didn't say 'people outside the US are better', they said 'US immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs', and this is completely true specifically because of the filter (which is covered in the article). Immigrants are ambitious risk takers; ambitious risk takers are more likely to start their own business.
Not so at all. More accurately, as the believers become marginalized, a vocal minority are getting scared and violent. A higher percentage of the populace is atheist or agnostic every year (when you look at worldwide trends), and because of that the religious incumbents lash out and do their best to legislate religion to retain their power base as long as possible.
But don't mistake this very public attempt as an actual resurgence of belief; it is a smokescreen, a ploy.
The article is a lie. Audi didn't do this for safety... they did it because engine noises produce an emotional response. We are conditioned to tie the power of the vehicle to the sound it makes. Audi has a reputation for fast cars, and a silent car does not provide the same emotional feedback, thus reducing the perceived value of the vehicle to the consumer. This is particularly true of the all-important test drive... even if you can disable the sound later, by default they want you to feel the horsepower in your gut when you hit that pedal for the first time.
I agree. An example of a good video interview? Richard Feynman has some of the best ever. And that's partly because his enthusiasm and animated movements help interest and explain the concepts in addition to the words.
This entire fiasco is stupid. It's already completely illegal to request someone's Facebook login information as a condition of hire, since it divulges restricted information (marital status, age, orientation) that it is already illegal for them to ask of you. You can already tell them "I'm sorry, but that would divulge my marital status, age, and other information that is illegal for you to request."
If you can't ask them to follow one law, what makes you think that you'll be able to ask them to follow a new law? This entire law is redundant, and it is quite right that it was eliminated.
We can already do this, by surrounding something with a superconducting cage. This has been known (and done) for decades. The newsworthy portion of this item is that their bubble is also undetectable.
Not exactly... there's a huge difference between getting a solution to a problem, and getting the best solution to a problem.
The traveling salesman problem is a classic NP Hard one. But that doesn't mean you can't get an OK answer just by looking at the possible routes and making a pretty good choice. Human brains (and computer algorithms) can get 'pretty good' answers on many NP Hard issues. That's not the same as finding the best solution. I wager no human has ever gotten the 'optimal' play through of any of the listed games.
> A Hammer is a hammer is a hammer. In the real world tools do not change how they are operated.
Bullshit. A ball-peen hammer != claw hammer != mallet, and it takes some domain knowledge and experience to identify them and the different purposes they are useful for. Everything in our entire goddamn life requires domain knowledge, but some things you forget; they become so ingrained that you don't even realize how specialized and adaptive your mind is.
I'm quite certain your 50 year old friend can tell two hammers apart, and even understand that two different looking objects are both hammers because of their similar traits and affordances (comfortable handle, heavy end, durable striking surface). The same is true of his browser. The search box went away, but there is still a place to type at the top... with only one place to type, it has actually reduced the likelihood of confusion (believe me, the number of people who 'search' in the address box in older versions of browsers is staggering).
Often formulaic, and quite episodic (even the novels are almost a collection of short stories), White has a beautifully optimisitic view of the future, and his alien first-contact stores (I think in excess of 20!) are often brilliant, with wonderful reasoning and fascinating ideas. I heartily recommend buying every sector general novel he has written.
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I would be fine with the trackers if they stored only the most recent location a particular car was detected, and retrieving that location required either the registered owner to report it stolen, or a warrant.
As long as locations can be stored forever, and retrieved at a whim, abuse will be significant.
I have 7 sets of them. Well... technically about 6.7 sets. It's hard not to lose one here or there when you play with them nearly daily. I'm just glad that I got them now, before the ban... they are my third favorite toy, behind my computer and my phone. I make bracelets out of multiple colors as transient art (lost as soon as they stretch out and get rearranged), play with them on my desk, and use them as temporary tie tacks if I leave my mine at home.
Yes, tie tack. Don't knock it, it works!
This outlook is common, and unfortunately it is fundamentally bigoted.
"I am deserving of this job, but that brown skinned person is not! He's willing to work for less than me, and live in worse conditions than me, therefor I'm a better person. Having to compete with people who demand less sucks."
It does suck, but globalization fundamentally equalizes things. You forget that you live on 30-50K a year, while billions of people live on under $5000 a year. If some of those people currently living in such horrible conditions are able to learn enough despite the hardships of their lives in order to compete on an equal footing with you, who grew up with better access to education, sanitation, and protection than they could ever hope for, that's something to praise, not belittle.
Yes, it sucks for you, and for me, that we have to compete with people who have far lower standards than us. But get off your fucking high horse. The absolute best and most effective foreign aid that is possible for people in impoverished countries is the ability to work, and better themselves, and send some of that money home to their family. There is almost no corruption on foreign aid that comes in the form of a check from your son working stateside. It reaches the people who need it most, directly, with no graft.
Personally, I think we should end all foreign aid immediately, and also open our borders up the way they used to be. We are the land of plenty indeed, despite that it doesn't seem that way sometimes... but that's only because we have so much, we can't even imagine those who have so little.
Driving faster is not an improvement. Mileage will rise significantly if we slow down a bit. Not only that, but if it takes 45 minutes to get home doing the speed limit and reading a book, versus 38 minutes driving normally and having to watch the road, I will happily take a few extra minutes and let the car go the speed limit.
Stop downloading free apps. If you want something to work in your interests, then pay them.
I know that if someone came to my house and started doing my garden and cleaning my kitchen, and I wasn't paying them, I'd be mighty suspicious of their motives and what they were getting out of the deal. But if I'm paying them, then it's a pretty straightforward deal.
So stop installing tons of free apps, and get the paid ones instead, and worry less.
You think that large trees never got lost to Tsunamis? With no humanity around to alter the ecology, forests often went right up to the beach. I bet dozens or even thousands of full trees were lost to tidal waves long ago. They would be ideal methods for species transfer.
I think you misunderstand... people did not see marijuana or smoking as bad at all in the first half of the 20th century. It was normal. It was far more acceptable than drinking for a while (there is a reason the prohibition amendment passed). It's certainly different than copyright now... but give them 50 years, and you can be damn certain that those 'dirty hippie copythieves' will be just as demonized.
"This is your brain on ThePirateBay. Any questions?"
"Where did you get this stuff? Who taught you to torrent?" "You! I learned it by watching you!"
Cost to have it done in India:
(
(
(
(72 hours) / (1 minute) # Content uploaded per minute
) * (
(1 year) / (1 minute) # Minutes per year
)
) # Content uploaded per year
/ (
50 * 51 * 60 # Minutes per Indian work-year... ie, how much content one person can screen.
)
) * (
10 000 (U.S. dollars / year) # Very guesstimated salary for an Indian employee.
) = 148 503 181 U.S. dollars / year
So about $150 million per year to have every piece of content scanned by a human... at current rates. YouTube's rate of content added continues to rise constantly.
Because that worked so well for marijuana. Oh wait, we just rolled over and took it when they demonized and outlawed it in the middle of last century.
This is rather late, so only you will see it. But please beware using sentences. For example, "Stupid bitch" might as well be one word, since bitch often follows Stupid. Same with "never again". So you transform a password from the equivalent of 5 words to 3 by making it meaningful. That is the exact issue that xkcd was specifically seeking to avoid by using random words, not meaningful ones.
The reason to avoid understandable sentences is they have extremely low entropy per character. Or, put another way, they are easier to hack than their length would indicate. An xkcd password has about 1.5 bits per character of entropy; a normal English sentence has as low as 0.6 to 1.3 bits per letter, according to one study. Given the simple and trite short sentences people would use for passwords, it's likely closer to 0.6, or about 20 bits of entropy for your example 'chicken' password, compared to 44 bits for a shorter xkcd password.
This is only true if they have a system to make systemic alterations like this easy. If it takes a man on the control of every traffic light, it won't work... and from TFA, this was a completely manual and centralized to one person task, so it demonstrates no ability to scale up to managing the lights for the whole city.
If we have large networks of self-driving cars communicating with each other, you can damn well bet we'll have large networks of self-driving cars notifying the police when a driver behaves recklessly. When the driverless car is ubiquitous, then speeding cameras will be as well.
> When will journalists learn?
Not so. The journalist didn't say 'people outside the US are better', they said 'US immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs', and this is completely true specifically because of the filter (which is covered in the article). Immigrants are ambitious risk takers; ambitious risk takers are more likely to start their own business.
We need more ambitious risk takers in the US.
Microsoft computer peripherals is still active and strong after 20 years. So no.
I bought a Galaxy Nexus... so I see tons of ads for it.
Not so at all. More accurately, as the believers become marginalized, a vocal minority are getting scared and violent. A higher percentage of the populace is atheist or agnostic every year (when you look at worldwide trends), and because of that the religious incumbents lash out and do their best to legislate religion to retain their power base as long as possible.
But don't mistake this very public attempt as an actual resurgence of belief; it is a smokescreen, a ploy.
The article is a lie. Audi didn't do this for safety... they did it because engine noises produce an emotional response. We are conditioned to tie the power of the vehicle to the sound it makes. Audi has a reputation for fast cars, and a silent car does not provide the same emotional feedback, thus reducing the perceived value of the vehicle to the consumer. This is particularly true of the all-important test drive... even if you can disable the sound later, by default they want you to feel the horsepower in your gut when you hit that pedal for the first time.
I agree. An example of a good video interview? Richard Feynman has some of the best ever. And that's partly because his enthusiasm and animated movements help interest and explain the concepts in addition to the words.
The video in this article? Not so much.
This entire fiasco is stupid. It's already completely illegal to request someone's Facebook login information as a condition of hire, since it divulges restricted information (marital status, age, orientation) that it is already illegal for them to ask of you. You can already tell them "I'm sorry, but that would divulge my marital status, age, and other information that is illegal for you to request."
If you can't ask them to follow one law, what makes you think that you'll be able to ask them to follow a new law? This entire law is redundant, and it is quite right that it was eliminated.
We can already do this, by surrounding something with a superconducting cage. This has been known (and done) for decades. The newsworthy portion of this item is that their bubble is also undetectable.
No, Treble is an archaic form of the word 'triple' that the legal system has hung on to. It is perfectly normal (if old-fashioned) English.
Not exactly... there's a huge difference between getting a solution to a problem, and getting the best solution to a problem.
The traveling salesman problem is a classic NP Hard one. But that doesn't mean you can't get an OK answer just by looking at the possible routes and making a pretty good choice. Human brains (and computer algorithms) can get 'pretty good' answers on many NP Hard issues. That's not the same as finding the best solution. I wager no human has ever gotten the 'optimal' play through of any of the listed games.
> A Hammer is a hammer is a hammer. In the real world tools do not change how they are operated.
Bullshit. A ball-peen hammer != claw hammer != mallet, and it takes some domain knowledge and experience to identify them and the different purposes they are useful for. Everything in our entire goddamn life requires domain knowledge, but some things you forget; they become so ingrained that you don't even realize how specialized and adaptive your mind is.
I'm quite certain your 50 year old friend can tell two hammers apart, and even understand that two different looking objects are both hammers because of their similar traits and affordances (comfortable handle, heavy end, durable striking surface). The same is true of his browser. The search box went away, but there is still a place to type at the top... with only one place to type, it has actually reduced the likelihood of confusion (believe me, the number of people who 'search' in the address box in older versions of browsers is staggering).
Often formulaic, and quite episodic (even the novels are almost a collection of short stories), White has a beautifully optimisitic view of the future, and his alien first-contact stores (I think in excess of 20!) are often brilliant, with wonderful reasoning and fascinating ideas. I heartily recommend buying every sector general novel he has written.