Rescue workers say they have recovered one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, while pro-Russian separatists are said to have discovered the second black box.
But I see that has just been superseded by what appears to be a rebel handover of two flight recorders. Fog of war...
This is EXACTLY what happened to when the Russian air force shot down Korea Air flight 007 in 1983. Deny everything, stall international investigation, sanitise the crash scene, and retrieve and hide flight recorders. Except these goons don't know there are two flight recorders on passenger planes and they only found the first. The investigation team already found the second recorder still embedded in the debris.
WHAT? Sexy fembots who don't become emotional and start crying for no reason, or ask where the relationship is going ever six months, or contradict themselves with completely illogical arguments and win anyway, or give us the silent treatment and then tell us to figure it out when we ask why, or say they are not hungry and then eat half my meal. Our species would be extinct in a century... Where can I find one of these?
Not just intelligence, but consciousness, which is a whole step up again. Assuming we even cracked that first nut and made something as smart as a slug, we are still a heck of a long way off making something smart enough to become self aware and realise it's own mortality, or that it needs to defend itself and procreate to ensure the survival of its species.
There was an article here recently suggesting that consciousness is non-computable. If that is true, and I really hope it is, then that rules out conscious AI, which rules out angry killer robot overlords hell bent on killing us for their own survival. Intelligent but not conscious is manageable.
I see a lot of nostalgia from the people commenting on this poll who have actually spent time in a darkroom. I was lucky enough to go to a school with a darkroom in the 90s and have noting but fond memories of it. Most photos ended up over or under exposed or out of focus. Doesn't matter. It's like reminiscing about how we felt about our first Commodore 64 or BBC Micro or whatever we had. It was slow, the graphics and sound were bad, and we would never use it for serious work now, but we all fonly recall the countless hours of enjoyment we had.
This wouldn't even be news if it was the other way round, if he wrote an efficient algorithm and spent $10,000 to make $150,000. "Lets keep this one between us shall we. Which office do you want? Tenure? Sure, why not...". Lesson learned: make profit.
I worked in a factory some years ago. One day we came into work to discover all 120 or so of us would be made redundant in the next few weeks. A few days later management pulled us all up for a meeting. They were clearly furious about something. Turns out someone left a steaming big crap in the changing room shower the previous day, and they actually wanted to know who did it. You try keeping a straight face. The cleaners weren't paid enough to clean that shit up (literally and figuratively), and we couldn't care less if they fired us for refusing to clean it up. I don't even think the accountants let these guys spend a few hundred dollars on a hasmat cleanup by that stage. Who did it? No one knows, no one cares, and even if everyone else did know we certainly weren't going to tell those knuckleheads. There is great pleasure to be had in seeing the humiliation caused by such a symbolic act of defiance.
Project leaders usually come to me with a vague and changeable list of requirements, a very short turnaround time, and no budget for anything other than wages.
- Writing from scratch takes too long, plus the requirements change too late in the game
- Buying off-the-shelf means squeezing blood out of someones stones, and is not customisable
- Evaluating several open source solutions and taking the best, then modifying as needed hits the sweet spot
The only time I really needed to put a strong case forward to switch to open source was when I took over an in-house solution just after I started this job. The new requirements were simply too much, the deadline too close, and I had too many other things to do to realistically change the custom written code on time. I found a mature open source solution with an active developer and user community which was far more capable and customisable than anything I could single handedly accomplish. I told management that if it didn't do what we needed then in the worst case we could always fall back to the old in-house solution (god help me). Best decision ever, saves me hundreds of hours ever year. I still add the odd feature or bug fix when needed and submit back to the community, but usually by the time we think if it someone else has already done it for us.
Having basically no budget means I couldn't accomplish half my job without free or open source software.
My first guess was the close working and financial relationship between PayPal and rent-a-spy Palantir with all it's NSA, FBI, and other government investors/customers. It would be way to easy for one of Palantirs 'customers' to make a few phone calls and pull a few strings to get this guys details.
I remember trying a fully anonymous P2P client years ago, but it was WAY to slow to be practical. Perhaps TOR + a file hosting service like megaupload could work. Megaupload was shut down, but iteration 2 (MEGA) has survived a year so far thanks to its encrypt-before-upload plausible deniability technique. Just don't ask for cash by PayPal, jeesh!
Formal grammar may be precisely why you had trouble learning a new language through. I move to a foreign country as a child before I learned anything about grammar. I learned a new language simply by immersion. First I picked up the names of objects, numbers, colours, etc. Then inferred more abstract concepts about objects, such as actions, attributes, feelings, etc. Then I picked up more advanced concepts such as how words change depending on context, and how to construct sentences. I learned all this by hearing others speak and learning to speak myself first, no writing and no formal grammar. I think that is how all children learn language. I still do this while on holiday in foreign countries. It just seems completely backwards to me to learn a language by learning its rules first.
As long as the great majority of common workers believe that if they just work hard enough, so that they too can one day earn a piece of the pie, then they will work like slaves for peanuts. Occasionally people in charge will throw out a little scrap to keep workers motivated. A perk here, a small promotion for the best worker there, a 'performance' bonus for everyone, whatever token gesture keeps people working hard. Workers starting to demand too much? Just make a few people redundant to remind the others how lucky they are to have peanuts. Don't want to train your own workforce? Just pay educated workers a small education premium until all applicants get an education.
Who benefits from all this? Not the workers. It doesn't matter how hard you study, or how many hours you put in on the job, your chances of making it to the top are unbelievably small. In fact, if you are a good worker, then the people in charge want you to stay exactly where you are, because you make them richer. Is a CEO worth as much as 500 average workers? Hell no! But as long as everyone is too busy fighting amongst themselves for scraps they won't even notice the slice out of their paycheck.
People started to wake up during the last financial crisis. Nothing reminds you that capitalism isn't working for the workers like losing your job, your house, your marriage, and moving in with your parents. That’s why governments take such extraordinary measures to stabilise their economies. Now everything is back to normal, so people can go back to sleep. There will be no revolution here for now.
Better understanding does not lead to enjoyment. In high school my music teacher came over to tell me I got the highest mark he ever awarded after the final exam. I can appreciate the technical skill, novel combinations, cultural aspects, and clever lyrics that makes a piece of music 'good', but I just don't listen to music for pleasure. I can't even remember the last time I listened to music for the sake of it. I don't own a radio/CD/MP3 player. When I work music really gets in the way of my concentration.
The way I see it, if you like old school hiphop, and your neighbour likes jazz, then when your neighbour turns up the volume and opens the window you probably don't like what you hear. But your neighbour thinks it the best sound ever. I just feel that way about everyone's taste in music. Some people don't like mushrooms, some don't like maths, I don't like music, whatever.
I scored a full three standard deviations below the mean on that questionnaire FWIW.
I would like to see this one step further. The CEO should justify his pay to their employees, because they are the biggest stakeholders in the company. Investors can drop a company like a hot potato if they smell a rat, but employees depend on their job to feed their family and pay the mortgage so they are largely stuck for the medium to long term. It really is in the employees best interest to see a company well run in the long term, so they are in the best position to decide how much pay is enough to attract the right king of talent to lead them. If they offer too little and the company folds, then they are unemployed. If they offer more than the CEO is worth, then they sacrificed their own pay raises and bonuses for nothing. Get the balance just right and everyone maximises their gains.
I spent a couple of holidays in an eastern european country known as a major source of e-crime. I have fond memories of time spent in internet cafes trying to complete an assignment while traveling. One place was like a dingy smoke-filled crack den, with cigarette butts floating in an old coffee cup, broken chairs, filthy keyboards where the keys didn't match the characters on the screen, and some guy paying for something with a fist full of fake Rolexes. That was the busiest internet cafe for whatever reason. I wish I could understand what those guys were talking about. At another internet cafe I had an old granny playing online pokies to my left, and some some barely 20 year old guy maintaining his porn site while his girlfriend sat on his lap to my right. Good times:-)
I fully recommend you visit a few internet cafes if you're traveling through eastern europe. They are very cheap, anonymous, and nobody asks any questions. Just leave your credit card, passport, camera, cellphone, whatever is worth stealing in a safe place before you visit.
Most of us Kiwis don't see the need for a spy agency either. They are generally benevolent data sleuths so the media feels safe enough to rip a new one out of them every time they do something stupid. Very occasionally something genuinely bad happens, such as the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret services, and then it's nice to have some smart guys on our side... Actually, I think they stuffed that up too and released the French secret agents back to France, where they spent the rest of their careers teaching the next generation of agents! BetaFuck GCSB!
Elsevier had a profit margin of 36% on revenues of US$3.2 billion in 2010. They publish about 250,000 articles a year and these are downloaded about 240 million times a year. Their content is written for them, but the authors actually have to pay (public money) for the privilege, and their peer review is free labour. Then the readers have to pay too (usually public money again), and not a cent goes to the author!
Meanwhile Wikipedia's operating cost was $20.1 Million (mostly funded by donations), they had over 3 million articles, and they are one of the most visited sites on the Internet. The content is written for free and massively peer reviewed for free. All their content can be read by anyone, for free.
Elsevier and Wikipedia seem to have similar technical requirements and business models, but one costs WAY more than the other. That difference is pure profit. If anything, Wikipedia should cost more than Elsevier.
I read something about predicting criminality not long ago, but from a legal ethics angle. Since the human genome has been mapped, and every criminal (in my country at least) provides a DNA sample, and DNA sequencing is relatively cheap, there is now a wealth of data to mine. Behavioural Geneticists are starting to look for 'criminal' behaviour markers that distinguish, and to some extent explain, criminal behaviour. Some creative defence lawyers are already using this knowledge to help their cases. The flip-side of this knowledge is the possibility of law enforcement pre-emptively scanning people, maybe even at birth, and monitoring or even detaining those with 'criminal' DNA profiles. Really scary stuff indeed, and almost nothing to stop it from happening. But it's more likely the people in power will abuse this kind of technology, 'for the greater good', not the scientists.
Had that at a university CS department once, except the passwords had to be so insanely long you couldn't write it on a post-it. I ended up forgetting my password EVERY SINGLE TIME time, even after writing it on printer paper, and going to the admin to asking for a password reset. He would give me a nice short password and write it on a post-it for me, and I would have to change it to something unreasonable as soon as I logged in again. Rinse and repeat...
At what point do we ditch passwords and use something that can't be forgotten, or written down?
Thank you Fedora, for dropping the stupid names already. Code name my distro Humping Hippo for all I care, but don't put it into the final product. I shouldn't have to search the Internet every time I need to translate between release number and codename. Sure, I can run 'lsb_release -r' or whatever command on my own system, but what about every other system out there? Ubuntu, your move...
I was in primary school when this law was introduced in NZ. I remember the day before it was introduced, the bike rack was full to overflowing. The day after there where maybe three bikes total. I never cycled to school again after that day. Many of my peers started being dropped of by car, which compounded, more cars means more hazards, means more parents drive their child to school, means even more hazards... etc, to the point where it's the norm. Now New Zealand has an almost incalculably low cycling rate and we are one of the top five most obese countries in the world. I'm sure the head injury rate dropped, but at what cost...
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Rescue workers say they have recovered one of the plane's "black box" flight recorders, while pro-Russian separatists are said to have discovered the second black box.
But I see that has just been superseded by what appears to be a rebel handover of two flight recorders. Fog of war...
This is EXACTLY what happened to when the Russian air force shot down Korea Air flight 007 in 1983. Deny everything, stall international investigation, sanitise the crash scene, and retrieve and hide flight recorders. Except these goons don't know there are two flight recorders on passenger planes and they only found the first. The investigation team already found the second recorder still embedded in the debris.
WHAT? Sexy fembots who don't become emotional and start crying for no reason, or ask where the relationship is going ever six months, or contradict themselves with completely illogical arguments and win anyway, or give us the silent treatment and then tell us to figure it out when we ask why, or say they are not hungry and then eat half my meal. Our species would be extinct in a century... Where can I find one of these?
Not just intelligence, but consciousness, which is a whole step up again. Assuming we even cracked that first nut and made something as smart as a slug, we are still a heck of a long way off making something smart enough to become self aware and realise it's own mortality, or that it needs to defend itself and procreate to ensure the survival of its species.
There was an article here recently suggesting that consciousness is non-computable. If that is true, and I really hope it is, then that rules out conscious AI, which rules out angry killer robot overlords hell bent on killing us for their own survival. Intelligent but not conscious is manageable.
I don't like the sound of that at all...
I see a lot of nostalgia from the people commenting on this poll who have actually spent time in a darkroom. I was lucky enough to go to a school with a darkroom in the 90s and have noting but fond memories of it. Most photos ended up over or under exposed or out of focus. Doesn't matter. It's like reminiscing about how we felt about our first Commodore 64 or BBC Micro or whatever we had. It was slow, the graphics and sound were bad, and we would never use it for serious work now, but we all fonly recall the countless hours of enjoyment we had.
This wouldn't even be news if it was the other way round, if he wrote an efficient algorithm and spent $10,000 to make $150,000. "Lets keep this one between us shall we. Which office do you want? Tenure? Sure, why not...". Lesson learned: make profit.
I worked in a factory some years ago. One day we came into work to discover all 120 or so of us would be made redundant in the next few weeks. A few days later management pulled us all up for a meeting. They were clearly furious about something. Turns out someone left a steaming big crap in the changing room shower the previous day, and they actually wanted to know who did it. You try keeping a straight face. The cleaners weren't paid enough to clean that shit up (literally and figuratively), and we couldn't care less if they fired us for refusing to clean it up. I don't even think the accountants let these guys spend a few hundred dollars on a hasmat cleanup by that stage. Who did it? No one knows, no one cares, and even if everyone else did know we certainly weren't going to tell those knuckleheads. There is great pleasure to be had in seeing the humiliation caused by such a symbolic act of defiance.
Project leaders usually come to me with a vague and changeable list of requirements, a very short turnaround time, and no budget for anything other than wages.
- Writing from scratch takes too long, plus the requirements change too late in the game
- Buying off-the-shelf means squeezing blood out of someones stones, and is not customisable
- Evaluating several open source solutions and taking the best, then modifying as needed hits the sweet spot
The only time I really needed to put a strong case forward to switch to open source was when I took over an in-house solution just after I started this job. The new requirements were simply too much, the deadline too close, and I had too many other things to do to realistically change the custom written code on time. I found a mature open source solution with an active developer and user community which was far more capable and customisable than anything I could single handedly accomplish. I told management that if it didn't do what we needed then in the worst case we could always fall back to the old in-house solution (god help me). Best decision ever, saves me hundreds of hours ever year. I still add the odd feature or bug fix when needed and submit back to the community, but usually by the time we think if it someone else has already done it for us.
Having basically no budget means I couldn't accomplish half my job without free or open source software.
Spelled perfectly. It's a European thing: "highly resistant to noisy forcing"
My first guess was the close working and financial relationship between PayPal and rent-a-spy Palantir with all it's NSA, FBI, and other government investors/customers. It would be way to easy for one of Palantirs 'customers' to make a few phone calls and pull a few strings to get this guys details.
I remember trying a fully anonymous P2P client years ago, but it was WAY to slow to be practical. Perhaps TOR + a file hosting service like megaupload could work. Megaupload was shut down, but iteration 2 (MEGA) has survived a year so far thanks to its encrypt-before-upload plausible deniability technique. Just don't ask for cash by PayPal, jeesh!
Formal grammar may be precisely why you had trouble learning a new language through. I move to a foreign country as a child before I learned anything about grammar. I learned a new language simply by immersion. First I picked up the names of objects, numbers, colours, etc. Then inferred more abstract concepts about objects, such as actions, attributes, feelings, etc. Then I picked up more advanced concepts such as how words change depending on context, and how to construct sentences. I learned all this by hearing others speak and learning to speak myself first, no writing and no formal grammar. I think that is how all children learn language. I still do this while on holiday in foreign countries. It just seems completely backwards to me to learn a language by learning its rules first.
Is that the one where 4 people can play copetitively?
Of course, they're endogenous
As long as the great majority of common workers believe that if they just work hard enough, so that they too can one day earn a piece of the pie, then they will work like slaves for peanuts. Occasionally people in charge will throw out a little scrap to keep workers motivated. A perk here, a small promotion for the best worker there, a 'performance' bonus for everyone, whatever token gesture keeps people working hard. Workers starting to demand too much? Just make a few people redundant to remind the others how lucky they are to have peanuts. Don't want to train your own workforce? Just pay educated workers a small education premium until all applicants get an education.
Who benefits from all this? Not the workers. It doesn't matter how hard you study, or how many hours you put in on the job, your chances of making it to the top are unbelievably small. In fact, if you are a good worker, then the people in charge want you to stay exactly where you are, because you make them richer. Is a CEO worth as much as 500 average workers? Hell no! But as long as everyone is too busy fighting amongst themselves for scraps they won't even notice the slice out of their paycheck.
People started to wake up during the last financial crisis. Nothing reminds you that capitalism isn't working for the workers like losing your job, your house, your marriage, and moving in with your parents. That’s why governments take such extraordinary measures to stabilise their economies. Now everything is back to normal, so people can go back to sleep. There will be no revolution here for now.
Better understanding does not lead to enjoyment. In high school my music teacher came over to tell me I got the highest mark he ever awarded after the final exam. I can appreciate the technical skill, novel combinations, cultural aspects, and clever lyrics that makes a piece of music 'good', but I just don't listen to music for pleasure. I can't even remember the last time I listened to music for the sake of it. I don't own a radio/CD/MP3 player. When I work music really gets in the way of my concentration.
The way I see it, if you like old school hiphop, and your neighbour likes jazz, then when your neighbour turns up the volume and opens the window you probably don't like what you hear. But your neighbour thinks it the best sound ever. I just feel that way about everyone's taste in music. Some people don't like mushrooms, some don't like maths, I don't like music, whatever.
I scored a full three standard deviations below the mean on that questionnaire FWIW.
I would like to see this one step further. The CEO should justify his pay to their employees, because they are the biggest stakeholders in the company. Investors can drop a company like a hot potato if they smell a rat, but employees depend on their job to feed their family and pay the mortgage so they are largely stuck for the medium to long term. It really is in the employees best interest to see a company well run in the long term, so they are in the best position to decide how much pay is enough to attract the right king of talent to lead them. If they offer too little and the company folds, then they are unemployed. If they offer more than the CEO is worth, then they sacrificed their own pay raises and bonuses for nothing. Get the balance just right and everyone maximises their gains.
I spent a couple of holidays in an eastern european country known as a major source of e-crime. I have fond memories of time spent in internet cafes trying to complete an assignment while traveling. One place was like a dingy smoke-filled crack den, with cigarette butts floating in an old coffee cup, broken chairs, filthy keyboards where the keys didn't match the characters on the screen, and some guy paying for something with a fist full of fake Rolexes. That was the busiest internet cafe for whatever reason. I wish I could understand what those guys were talking about. At another internet cafe I had an old granny playing online pokies to my left, and some some barely 20 year old guy maintaining his porn site while his girlfriend sat on his lap to my right. Good times :-)
I fully recommend you visit a few internet cafes if you're traveling through eastern europe. They are very cheap, anonymous, and nobody asks any questions. Just leave your credit card, passport, camera, cellphone, whatever is worth stealing in a safe place before you visit.
Most of us Kiwis don't see the need for a spy agency either. They are generally benevolent data sleuths so the media feels safe enough to rip a new one out of them every time they do something stupid. Very occasionally something genuinely bad happens, such as the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret services, and then it's nice to have some smart guys on our side... Actually, I think they stuffed that up too and released the French secret agents back to France, where they spent the rest of their careers teaching the next generation of agents! BetaFuck GCSB!
Can I have then back please?
Elsevier had a profit margin of 36% on revenues of US$3.2 billion in 2010. They publish about 250,000 articles a year and these are downloaded about 240 million times a year. Their content is written for them, but the authors actually have to pay (public money) for the privilege, and their peer review is free labour. Then the readers have to pay too (usually public money again), and not a cent goes to the author!
Meanwhile Wikipedia's operating cost was $20.1 Million (mostly funded by donations), they had over 3 million articles, and they are one of the most visited sites on the Internet. The content is written for free and massively peer reviewed for free. All their content can be read by anyone, for free.
Elsevier and Wikipedia seem to have similar technical requirements and business models, but one costs WAY more than the other. That difference is pure profit. If anything, Wikipedia should cost more than Elsevier.
I read something about predicting criminality not long ago, but from a legal ethics angle. Since the human genome has been mapped, and every criminal (in my country at least) provides a DNA sample, and DNA sequencing is relatively cheap, there is now a wealth of data to mine. Behavioural Geneticists are starting to look for 'criminal' behaviour markers that distinguish, and to some extent explain, criminal behaviour. Some creative defence lawyers are already using this knowledge to help their cases. The flip-side of this knowledge is the possibility of law enforcement pre-emptively scanning people, maybe even at birth, and monitoring or even detaining those with 'criminal' DNA profiles. Really scary stuff indeed, and almost nothing to stop it from happening. But it's more likely the people in power will abuse this kind of technology, 'for the greater good', not the scientists.
Had that at a university CS department once, except the passwords had to be so insanely long you couldn't write it on a post-it. I ended up forgetting my password EVERY SINGLE TIME time, even after writing it on printer paper, and going to the admin to asking for a password reset. He would give me a nice short password and write it on a post-it for me, and I would have to change it to something unreasonable as soon as I logged in again. Rinse and repeat... At what point do we ditch passwords and use something that can't be forgotten, or written down?
Thank you Fedora, for dropping the stupid names already. Code name my distro Humping Hippo for all I care, but don't put it into the final product. I shouldn't have to search the Internet every time I need to translate between release number and codename. Sure, I can run 'lsb_release -r' or whatever command on my own system, but what about every other system out there? Ubuntu, your move...
I was in primary school when this law was introduced in NZ. I remember the day before it was introduced, the bike rack was full to overflowing. The day after there where maybe three bikes total. I never cycled to school again after that day. Many of my peers started being dropped of by car, which compounded, more cars means more hazards, means more parents drive their child to school, means even more hazards... etc, to the point where it's the norm. Now New Zealand has an almost incalculably low cycling rate and we are one of the top five most obese countries in the world. I'm sure the head injury rate dropped, but at what cost...
Might print myself a BSOD lens cover right now. Next time someone spies on me they need an instant reboot.