The last time there was an actual terrorist act in Australia was in 1995. Since then it's been a couple of shootings or a knife attack.
Your response:
NU UH! Look here, SON...
Endeavour STABBINGS
2015 Parramatta SHOOTING
Minto STABBING
Queanbeyan STABBING
Mill Park STABBING
2018 Melbourne STABBING
The other two, let's have a closer look:
Sydney hostage crisis - Ahh, let's investigate this "terrorist" attack:
Man Haron Monis, a lone gunman, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney siege lead to a 16-hour standoff, during which 3 gunshots were heard from inside over a period of time. The first two shots were fired in the general direction of fleeing hostages and were left unopposed by on scene police command, however police officers from the Tactical Operations Unit stormed the café after reports the third shot was the execution of hostage Tori Johnson. Hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by a ricocheted bullet fragment in the subsequent raid. Monis was also killed. Three other hostages and a police officer were injured by police gunfire during the raid.
Wow, 3 shots fired. Total terrorist attack.
Brighton siege - Let's have a closer look:
Yacqub Khayre shot dead a Chinese-Australian receptionist in a serviced apartment complex and took a prostitute hostage in Brighton, Victoria. Police officers were involved in gunfight with Khayre who was shot dead and three officers wounded. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the incident as terrorism, however Victoria Police warned that there was no evidence to suggest he was acting on orders given from overseas. Khayre had previously been charged in relation to the Holsworthy Barracks terror plot but was acquitted in trial. He had recently been released on parole.
I guess when I say "terrorist attack", I think of Oklahoma City bombing, Pan Am Flight 183 or 9/11. The activity that you're talking about are simply things that happen sometimes, but were later labled as "terrorist".
Terrorists in Australia? I recon in the future, the term "terrorist" will have to be replaced by something that actually strikes fear. The last time there was an actual terrorist act in Australia was in 1995. Since then it's been a couple of shootings or a knife attack.
It's getting harder and harder to be scared of the boogie man, ya know?
I'm from Alabama, please come visit during a hurricane. I'll set up a laptop with spectre loaded, and you can sit on my front porch while the storm hits. See which bothers you more - the storm or the laptop.
You are writing apps that people like me would approve of (not sending data back to a server), whereby you're not mining people's data - thank you. Hearing your argument of this situation actually gives me hope.
But that's not the case for every developer, and certainly not the case for most corporate entities: iPhone Android Huawei
If our privacy laws here in the US were comparable to those of the EU, I'd be more relaxed about AI everywhere. In the meantime, we'll have to depend on developers and corporate entities to have the same morals as you appear to have. It's just that they don't have a good track record of having any morals whatsoever.
I appreciate your response. But you're incorrect about my argument being that I'd rather these things be done in the cloud, rather than on my device. I'd rather AI not be anywhere.
At work, I'm forced to use gmail (Google is tied into our corporate system, all over the place). When I receive an email from someone, gmail has 3 suggestions at the bottom. These suggestions show a very high level of accuracy in interpreting the email to me. I'm ok with that, because it's work related (although I can't understand how my corporate overlords feel like their company secrets are secret). But knowing that the same thing reads my personal email that I send to others that use gmail, in my personal life... I mean, what's the difference between AI interpreting our emails, vs some government entity interpreting our emails?
No I don't need those things that you mentioned. See, these things SEEM helpful and that, and I'd LOVE to believe that there are developers out there that are willing to spend their time on projects that purely make my life easier. But that's simply not the case. These AI apps aren't there for you, they're there for the people that wrote the software that employ AI. Its literally as simple as that.
blah blah blah... Who would have thought you would do such a 180!
I didn't do a 180. Do you really believe that your phone doesn't send data back to it's servers? You don't know what other things that AI is doing, and you certainly don't know if that AI is sending data about your personal ways, back to a server in another part of the world.
So many data breaches lately, makes me wonder if eventually everyone's data will be worthless. And then what??? Most of the propellant of today's society has to do with gathering personal data. If personal data turns out to be worthless, we're talking a shit-storm of problems for a society that's built around it.
I, and probably others, don't want things like voice recognition, text translation or image content ID. Besides, I was that guy 10 years ago, telling people to cover the camera on their phones, so maybe I'm just pessimistic toward the powers that be, but all the data gathered so far, has been used in ways that worry me. Seems like today, the powers that be want to use technology as a corral-trap.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of an AI chip being a part of my life.
Azure is the best approach that Microsoft's had yet, regarding the Microsoft business model that's based on monopoly. It appears to me that they're focusing on Azure as the actual OS, and they're focusing on the PC market as a dummy-terminal market, where the only way for the browser-based PCs to "connect" to the "OS" where they can use Word, Excel, etc... Of course for a monthly fee. Fees on each "component". Fees for data. Fees for fees...
Maybe 2019 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop. Maybe 2019 will be the year of no desktop.
OP specifically gave Bitcoin as a potential example of blockchain's success ("wouldn't that [BTC] count as a success?")
Thank you, yes. Regardless of how successful bitcoin is/was, blockchain is the subject here. I guess I was trying to ask, "What other applications, other than bitcoin, would be able to utilize blockchain?"
I mean the summary, not FaceBook itself. It starts out
Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave
and in 4 sentences, lands on
The stories from former employees are only anecdotal at this point, and there's no firm data showing a significant uptick in departures or employee dissatisfaction.
I don't follow. Blockchain has only every promised to be a way to keep records public, with no central point of management. It's done that. But I've taken what you said to mean something along the lines of "well yeah, humans have been successful using it, but the technology itself has achieved nothing." Hopefully I'm just misinterpreting your point, but using that same logic, electricity has done nothing, cans (for canning food) have done nothing, automobiles, etc...
access to create/delete contacts
access to make and receive phone calls
access to create/delete texts
access to create/delete files
access to send/receive emails
access to camera
access to create/delete videos/pictures
access to GPS
So many satellites up there. Odd to think that AT&T (or anyone else) would just brick them, while they're all still usable for folks that are willing to pay.
Sounds like a very standard case of clueless management. Microsoft has a built-in AI bot in all Skype conversations now. There's literally no way to be less secure.
I think you have a good point. I also wonder about things like nutrition. If we start editing genes, will we fork our species into a group who's nutritional needs are far different than the current norms?
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The last time there was an actual terrorist act in Australia was in 1995. Since then it's been a couple of shootings or a knife attack.
Your response:
NU UH! Look here, SON...
Endeavour STABBINGS
2015 Parramatta SHOOTING
Minto STABBING
Queanbeyan STABBING
Mill Park STABBING
2018 Melbourne STABBING
The other two, let's have a closer look:
Sydney hostage crisis - Ahh, let's investigate this "terrorist" attack:
Man Haron Monis, a lone gunman, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney siege lead to a 16-hour standoff, during which 3 gunshots were heard from inside over a period of time. The first two shots were fired in the general direction of fleeing hostages and were left unopposed by on scene police command, however police officers from the Tactical Operations Unit stormed the café after reports the third shot was the execution of hostage Tori Johnson. Hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by a ricocheted bullet fragment in the subsequent raid. Monis was also killed. Three other hostages and a police officer were injured by police gunfire during the raid.
Wow, 3 shots fired. Total terrorist attack.
Brighton siege - Let's have a closer look:
Yacqub Khayre shot dead a Chinese-Australian receptionist in a serviced apartment complex and took a prostitute hostage in Brighton, Victoria. Police officers were involved in gunfight with Khayre who was shot dead and three officers wounded. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the incident as terrorism, however Victoria Police warned that there was no evidence to suggest he was acting on orders given from overseas. Khayre had previously been charged in relation to the Holsworthy Barracks terror plot but was acquitted in trial. He had recently been released on parole.
I guess when I say "terrorist attack", I think of Oklahoma City bombing, Pan Am Flight 183 or 9/11. The activity that you're talking about are simply things that happen sometimes, but were later labled as "terrorist".
Terrorists in Australia? I recon in the future, the term "terrorist" will have to be replaced by something that actually strikes fear. The last time there was an actual terrorist act in Australia was in 1995. Since then it's been a couple of shootings or a knife attack. It's getting harder and harder to be scared of the boogie man, ya know?
I'm from Alabama, please come visit during a hurricane. I'll set up a laptop with spectre loaded, and you can sit on my front porch while the storm hits. See which bothers you more - the storm or the laptop.
You are writing apps that people like me would approve of (not sending data back to a server), whereby you're not mining people's data - thank you. Hearing your argument of this situation actually gives me hope.
But that's not the case for every developer, and certainly not the case for most corporate entities:
iPhone
Android
Huawei
If our privacy laws here in the US were comparable to those of the EU, I'd be more relaxed about AI everywhere. In the meantime, we'll have to depend on developers and corporate entities to have the same morals as you appear to have. It's just that they don't have a good track record of having any morals whatsoever.
I appreciate your response. But you're incorrect about my argument being that I'd rather these things be done in the cloud, rather than on my device. I'd rather AI not be anywhere.
At work, I'm forced to use gmail (Google is tied into our corporate system, all over the place). When I receive an email from someone, gmail has 3 suggestions at the bottom. These suggestions show a very high level of accuracy in interpreting the email to me. I'm ok with that, because it's work related (although I can't understand how my corporate overlords feel like their company secrets are secret). But knowing that the same thing reads my personal email that I send to others that use gmail, in my personal life... I mean, what's the difference between AI interpreting our emails, vs some government entity interpreting our emails?
blah blah blah... Who would have thought you would do such a 180!
I didn't do a 180. Do you really believe that your phone doesn't send data back to it's servers? You don't know what other things that AI is doing, and you certainly don't know if that AI is sending data about your personal ways, back to a server in another part of the world.
So many data breaches lately, makes me wonder if eventually everyone's data will be worthless. And then what??? Most of the propellant of today's society has to do with gathering personal data. If personal data turns out to be worthless, we're talking a shit-storm of problems for a society that's built around it.
I, and probably others, don't want things like voice recognition, text translation or image content ID. Besides, I was that guy 10 years ago, telling people to cover the camera on their phones, so maybe I'm just pessimistic toward the powers that be, but all the data gathered so far, has been used in ways that worry me. Seems like today, the powers that be want to use technology as a corral-trap.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of an AI chip being a part of my life.
Qualcomm announced its new flagship 855 mobile platform today.
I'm thinking, "Cool!"
The 855 also features a new multi-core AI engine...
I'm thinking, "Not cool"
Azure is the best approach that Microsoft's had yet, regarding the Microsoft business model that's based on monopoly. It appears to me that they're focusing on Azure as the actual OS, and they're focusing on the PC market as a dummy-terminal market, where the only way for the browser-based PCs to "connect" to the "OS" where they can use Word, Excel, etc... Of course for a monthly fee. Fees on each "component". Fees for data. Fees for fees...
Maybe 2019 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop. Maybe 2019 will be the year of no desktop.
First they replace Edge with Chromium. Then they replace the OS with a browser-based system.
I wonder if Microsoft is just going to survive off of it's cloud-based azure? They're doing LOTS of new work in that project.
Earthshine. Touche.
:)
Being that, from time to time, the Earth blocks light from the sun to the moon (a lunar eclipse), the other side gets more light.
Actually, the dark side of the moon gets more sunlight than the side that faces Earth.
OP specifically gave Bitcoin as a potential example of blockchain's success ("wouldn't that [BTC] count as a success?")
Thank you, yes. Regardless of how successful bitcoin is/was, blockchain is the subject here. I guess I was trying to ask, "What other applications, other than bitcoin, would be able to utilize blockchain?"
Facebook Employees Are Calling Former Colleagues To Look For Jobs Outside the Company and Asking About the Best Way To Leave
and in 4 sentences, lands on
The stories from former employees are only anecdotal at this point, and there's no firm data showing a significant uptick in departures or employee dissatisfaction.
These are TFAs that no one will read.
I don't follow. Blockchain has only every promised to be a way to keep records public, with no central point of management. It's done that. But I've taken what you said to mean something along the lines of "well yeah, humans have been successful using it, but the technology itself has achieved nothing." Hopefully I'm just misinterpreting your point, but using that same logic, electricity has done nothing, cans (for canning food) have done nothing, automobiles, etc...
Could you please elaborate?
I guess it depends on your definition of "success", but isn't bitcoin built on blockchain technology? Wouldn't that count as a success?
I wonder why they don't just have an adult section - break the site up into 2 aspects. Otherwise, I'm sure tumblr will simply be a thing of the past.
It will have that, but it'll require:
access to create/delete contacts
access to make and receive phone calls
access to create/delete texts
access to create/delete files
access to send/receive emails
access to camera
access to create/delete videos/pictures
access to GPS
So many satellites up there. Odd to think that AT&T (or anyone else) would just brick them, while they're all still usable for folks that are willing to pay.
Sounds like a very standard case of clueless management. Microsoft has a built-in AI bot in all Skype conversations now. There's literally no way to be less secure.
I think you have a good point. I also wonder about things like nutrition. If we start editing genes, will we fork our species into a group who's nutritional needs are far different than the current norms?
Big Brother is truly here now. Better to ditch Skype, if you haven't already done that 3 years ago.
How's this?