They could probably make a few bucks selling their office chairs.
"Ha! Jokes on you, suckers. Get one of these Mayer-matic 8000 ergonomic rollers within 12 feet of any computing device and it sets Yahoo as the default search, homepage, mail, maps, calendar, banking app, and 911 call center.
You, uh, don't want to know what happens when you actually sit down on it... let's just say it puts some of that robust 'Yahoo! branding' on your 'toolbar'..."
Truth. But that tends to play out over highly individualized, subtle, even subconscious, attitudes towards politics, race, class, etc.
It generally does not lead to "average" teenage commentary looking like "Hitler was really pretty great, Daddy!" or "I need some hot sex because Billary has been corrupt since long before Whitewater."
If you're trying to get your AI to approximate a teenaged user, maybe have it train on data from..... (dramatic reveal) Teenaged Users?
It would be a Nobel Prize worthy result if your research showed that the aggregate population of teenagers gave a fraction of a fuck about Donald Trump and Hitler, while showing no particular interest in Justin Bieber and Kylie Jenner.
In otherwords, should doctors be saying "go surf some ***n" to prevent dementia.
I'm trying to figure out what four letter word elderly people would be surfing for that fits your pattern. Bran? Pain? Lawn (preceeded by "How to get kids off my ")? CSPAN nope that's 5 letters.
Wifi is laden with corner cases. Works great when it works and a b**ch to debug when you have issues. Not to mention randomly spotty. Great in your cubical, suddenly goes to crap when you get into the meeting room.
I am posting this from the 4G on my phone rather than the wifi, because my (fairly bleeding edge, though consumer grade) wireless router Just Can't See This Part of the House. That's 35ft away.
I don't know about wired ethernet going gentle into that good night. At least in new home construction (and certainly in offices), it seems like a no brainier to me: run the cabling up front to support ample power and wired connections. Amount of regret you'll experience later --> 0.
The rule of thumb is you can beat your wife as long as the stick you use is no bigger than your thumb.
While plenty of commentators have denounced such a rule (including at least two 19th century American judges), it does not appear the rule itself has ever actually existed.
This "regulated spousal abuse" is found nowhere in English (and thus also American) common law. Using any kind of switch, thumb-width or otherwise, to "correct" one's wife has been illegal in the US since at least the Colonial era.
Not to say abuse didn't occur, but there was no rule on the books about it being OK as long as it was carried out with a thin enough implement.
OTOH, the "approximation" sense of the phrase has been in use for many centuries.
No, jackass, she tried to get an exemption to the rules... an exemption that requires a full-time military communications staff and a 747 to support the president.
All politics aside, where are you getting the information that having an NSA-secured Blackberry requires a round-the-clock contingent of soldiers and a big ass plane?
I would've bought "$30,000 to build and test" or maybe even "special independent network of cellular towers."
But right now I'm envisioning two jumbo jets vying for airspace over the Whitehouse as POTUS and SECSTATE hold their phones in the air, each trying desperately to reach the transmitter on their personal communications 747.
And two squads of delta-force-trained IT pros eye each other warily, the chargemaster they call "Volt" slowly turning an AC adapter over in his hands.
An 'app store' can allow everyone from Amazon to Squeenix to Mom & Pop Donuts to Ambitious Undergrad to (relatively easily) create and distribute an infinite variety of programs. Fitness trackers. 8-bit fishing games. Stage lighting controllers. Ride hailing platforms. Apps for navigation and accounting and making farty noises.
What rich new veins of human experience are we tapping into with a 'bot store'? And how many would-be 'bot developers' even have the wherewithal to program something people would want to interact with?
I can't even get the fucking telephone robot lady to recognize that I said "yes," and now I'm supposed to want to text United over Facebook for my plane tickets. Because 'bots are the new apps'. Mhm. I guess something always has to be the new something.
If the first thing that comes to mind when you ask "What can I do with this new technology?" is "Annoy the shit out of people with automated 'One Weird Old Tip' messages"... I mean it's not conclusive or anything. But its probably early to start ordering revised Bibles that reference the new tech messiah.
Welllll... I might have to touch ONE thing at least or else there will be a mess on my shoes.
We have a solution for that too! Boeing Potty 3.0 lets you go completely hands-free by interfacing your personal device directly with the exterior of the fuselage!
The gentle vacuum seal and brisk sensation let you know you're ready to Defile the Friendly Skies(TM).
It's all well and good for us to take the piss out of a bunch of statist Luddites.
But some small part of me worries in 15 years I'm going to be standing up at a school board meeting, holding my temples and grimacing with exasperation, "Our children are not, and never have been, in danger from NDSVs! There's no such thing as nuclearized darkweb spearphishing viruses! It was a joke posted on the Internet years ago, and this prosecutor in California kept repeating it because it sounded scary!"
Grumbles and shaking heads, and an angry dad stands up, "Hey, terr'ists I-O-T-ing into my truck with illegal 3D printers ain't no joke!"
If the phone contains an exe file, we are better off leaving it encrypted. I just know the FBI is going to start there examination by double-clicking it on there win-XP desktop.
Director Comey, by heedlessly double-clicking that.exe, you have become the very thing you sought to destroy.
Oh god I hadn't even thought of that! Yes of course, it all makes sense.
I hope it's not too late to amend the brief. The judge needs to know that the threat of a hacked botnet of drones equipped with self-firing 3D printed guns is both real and credible.
The seized iPhone may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino County's infrastructure and poses a continuing threat to the citizens of San Bernardino County.
Look, we know they had guns. That's just the part we know about.
What we *don't* know is whether these nefarious masterminds also had a cyber malworm with nuclearized darkweb spearphishing viruses that could use long-blockchain cloud replication vectors to infect all the computers in San Bernadino AND THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THEM!!
Only by decrypting the phone can we be 100% sure it doesn't contain such a doomsday "cyber pathogen."
Ditto. 2015MBP has been rock solid concurrently running 3-5 "heavy hitter" design apps (incl. video, audio, and photo editing), plus a few dozen tabs across multiple browsers, plus a few of the (decidedly 2nd class) MS Office apps. At times with dev + server stuff as well.
I don't really need much more out of it. Never had it crash or hitch due to thermals or for any other reason (though the boys do occasionally get a bit toasty). Maybe GP got a bad apple? *ducks*
I guess if I cared about high-end PC gaming or... running SolidWorks in VR while decoding genomes(?), I would've gone a different direction.
How could any 1337 hacker pass this up?
- We'll tell you what to attack and when.
- You'll be attacking fake targets.
- We pick who gets to take part.
- Please submit all your personal details and fingerprints so the FBI can sniff you a bit.
- If they didn't already have an entry for you, the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DIA will be updating your profile with:
If we can have Robots that make everything for nothing, including themselves, then we will be in a Utopia as no one will have want for anything. If there is a dictatorship (economic or not) that keeps people from having things that are no longer a scare resource, that is a problem that has nothing to do with robotics.
Unless armed, (semi-)autonomous robots are a primary tool of the dictator's oppression.
In a major metro, with the best residential internet service you can buy, there's still an awful lot of glitchy BS and downtime. Requiring an internet connection to retrieve a decryption key in order to view a 4K Bluray is going to *make* a lot of ordinary people acutely aware of DRM and its failings.
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Can't pretty much anything be literally figuratively anything?
Mind <-- blown.
Hey +1 Insightful Sig...
They could probably make a few bucks selling their office chairs.
"Ha! Jokes on you, suckers. Get one of these Mayer-matic 8000 ergonomic rollers within 12 feet of any computing device and it sets Yahoo as the default search, homepage, mail, maps, calendar, banking app, and 911 call center.
You, uh, don't want to know what happens when you actually sit down on it... let's just say it puts some of that robust 'Yahoo! branding' on your 'toolbar'..."
Boom. I will take my prize money in large bills, thanks.
Pros: worldwide flight range; can take you to the moon
Cons: cannot fit through volcano portals that take you to the underground world of the dwarves
Truth. But that tends to play out over highly individualized, subtle, even subconscious, attitudes towards politics, race, class, etc.
It generally does not lead to "average" teenage commentary looking like "Hitler was really pretty great, Daddy!" or "I need some hot sex because Billary has been corrupt since long before Whitewater."
If you're trying to get your AI to approximate a teenaged user, maybe have it train on data from..... (dramatic reveal) Teenaged Users?
It would be a Nobel Prize worthy result if your research showed that the aggregate population of teenagers gave a fraction of a fuck about Donald Trump and Hitler, while showing no particular interest in Justin Bieber and Kylie Jenner.
In otherwords, should doctors be saying "go surf some ***n" to prevent dementia.
I'm trying to figure out what four letter word elderly people would be surfing for that fits your pattern. Bran? Pain? Lawn (preceeded by "How to get kids off my ")? CSPAN nope that's 5 letters.
Haha that last line.
"Oh you thought we were saying 'Fuck yeah' because our H1Bs came in.
We were saying 'Fuck ya' as in we are literally fucking ya out the door.
It's gonna be a reaaaal slow one though, so it would be great if you could train up your replacement before we hump you past the security desk."
Um. Can I give you "-1: I Don't Want Anybody to See This" ?
Wifi is laden with corner cases. Works great when it works and a b**ch to debug when you have issues. Not to mention randomly spotty. Great in your cubical, suddenly goes to crap when you get into the meeting room.
I am posting this from the 4G on my phone rather than the wifi, because my (fairly bleeding edge, though consumer grade) wireless router Just Can't See This Part of the House. That's 35ft away.
I don't know about wired ethernet going gentle into that good night. At least in new home construction (and certainly in offices), it seems like a no brainier to me: run the cabling up front to support ample power and wired connections. Amount of regret you'll experience later --> 0.
The rule of thumb is you can beat your wife as long as the stick you use is no bigger than your thumb.
While plenty of commentators have denounced such a rule (including at least two 19th century American judges), it does not appear the rule itself has ever actually existed.
This "regulated spousal abuse" is found nowhere in English (and thus also American) common law. Using any kind of switch, thumb-width or otherwise, to "correct" one's wife has been illegal in the US since at least the Colonial era.
Not to say abuse didn't occur, but there was no rule on the books about it being OK as long as it was carried out with a thin enough implement.
OTOH, the "approximation" sense of the phrase has been in use for many centuries.
Another person that failed statistics. Stay in school, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.
I was gonna say "whoosh!" but then I reread GP and couldn't tell if it really was a joke, or an honest lack of statistics comprehension.
"They're always polite..."
And it won't spit in your food if it takes a disliking to how you looked at it.
"Bite my shiny metal ass, human!"
No, jackass, she tried to get an exemption to the rules ... an exemption that requires a full-time military communications staff and a 747 to support the president.
All politics aside, where are you getting the information that having an NSA-secured Blackberry requires a round-the-clock contingent of soldiers and a big ass plane?
I would've bought "$30,000 to build and test" or maybe even "special independent network of cellular towers."
But right now I'm envisioning two jumbo jets vying for airspace over the Whitehouse as POTUS and SECSTATE hold their phones in the air, each trying desperately to reach the transmitter on their personal communications 747.
And two squads of delta-force-trained IT pros eye each other warily, the chargemaster they call "Volt" slowly turning an AC adapter over in his hands.
Which nation-state is sponsoring the hacking crew that will inevitably be blamed for this issue?
Well dammit we'd know already if they hadn't gone dark with all the unbreakable encryptions on their iPhones!
I must be missing something here.
An 'app store' can allow everyone from Amazon to Squeenix to Mom & Pop Donuts to Ambitious Undergrad to (relatively easily) create and distribute an infinite variety of programs. Fitness trackers. 8-bit fishing games. Stage lighting controllers. Ride hailing platforms. Apps for navigation and accounting and making farty noises.
What rich new veins of human experience are we tapping into with a 'bot store'? And how many would-be 'bot developers' even have the wherewithal to program something people would want to interact with?
I can't even get the fucking telephone robot lady to recognize that I said "yes," and now I'm supposed to want to text United over Facebook for my plane tickets. Because 'bots are the new apps'. Mhm. I guess something always has to be the new something.
If the first thing that comes to mind when you ask "What can I do with this new technology?" is "Annoy the shit out of people with automated 'One Weird Old Tip' messages"... I mean it's not conclusive or anything. But its probably early to start ordering revised Bibles that reference the new tech messiah.
Lets You Use Loo Without Touching Anything
Welllll... I might have to touch ONE thing at least or else there will be a mess on my shoes.
We have a solution for that too! Boeing Potty 3.0 lets you go completely hands-free by interfacing your personal device directly with the exterior of the fuselage!
The gentle vacuum seal and brisk sensation let you know you're ready to Defile the Friendly Skies(TM).
It's all well and good for us to take the piss out of a bunch of statist Luddites.
But some small part of me worries in 15 years I'm going to be standing up at a school board meeting, holding my temples and grimacing with exasperation, "Our children are not, and never have been, in danger from NDSVs! There's no such thing as nuclearized darkweb spearphishing viruses! It was a joke posted on the Internet years ago, and this prosecutor in California kept repeating it because it sounded scary!"
Grumbles and shaking heads, and an angry dad stands up, "Hey, terr'ists I-O-T-ing into my truck with illegal 3D printers ain't no joke!"
If the phone contains an exe file, we are better off leaving it encrypted. I just know the FBI is going to start there examination by double-clicking it on there win-XP desktop.
Director Comey, by heedlessly double-clicking that .exe, you have become the very thing you sought to destroy.
Oh god I hadn't even thought of that! Yes of course, it all makes sense.
I hope it's not too late to amend the brief. The judge needs to know that the threat of a hacked botnet of drones equipped with self-firing 3D printed guns is both real and credible.
The seized iPhone may contain evidence that can only be found on the seized phone that it was used as a weapon to introduce a lying dormant cyber pathogen that endangers San Bernardino County's infrastructure and poses a continuing threat to the citizens of San Bernardino County.
Look, we know they had guns. That's just the part we know about.
What we *don't* know is whether these nefarious masterminds also had a cyber malworm with nuclearized darkweb spearphishing viruses that could use long-blockchain cloud replication vectors to infect all the computers in San Bernadino AND THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THEM!!
Only by decrypting the phone can we be 100% sure it doesn't contain such a doomsday "cyber pathogen."
Ditto. 2015MBP has been rock solid concurrently running 3-5 "heavy hitter" design apps (incl. video, audio, and photo editing), plus a few dozen tabs across multiple browsers, plus a few of the (decidedly 2nd class) MS Office apps. At times with dev + server stuff as well.
I don't really need much more out of it. Never had it crash or hitch due to thermals or for any other reason (though the boys do occasionally get a bit toasty). Maybe GP got a bad apple? *ducks*
I guess if I cared about high-end PC gaming or... running SolidWorks in VR while decoding genomes(?), I would've gone a different direction.
- We'll tell you what to attack and when.
- You'll be attacking fake targets.
- We pick who gets to take part.
- Please submit all your personal details and fingerprints so the FBI can sniff you a bit.
- If they didn't already have an entry for you, the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DIA will be updating your profile with:
<subversive>
</subversive>
If we can have Robots that make everything for nothing, including themselves, then we will be in a Utopia as no one will have want for anything. If there is a dictatorship (economic or not) that keeps people from having things that are no longer a scare resource, that is a problem that has nothing to do with robotics.
Unless armed, (semi-)autonomous robots are a primary tool of the dictator's oppression.
In a major metro, with the best residential internet service you can buy, there's still an awful lot of glitchy BS and downtime. Requiring an internet connection to retrieve a decryption key in order to view a 4K Bluray is going to *make* a lot of ordinary people acutely aware of DRM and its failings.