It's like trying to tell society we have a problem with caffeine addiction. When damn near everyone is an addict, no one sees a problem.
Indeed, being one amongst the minority of people who are not caffeine addicted is sometimes weird: You constantly hear people talk of how they need their next caffeine shot to get up in the morning or to overcome the terrible headache they feel.
But if you tell them: "Well, these are withdrawal symptoms, you might want to try ending your abuse of caffeine, and you'll find those symptoms will go away after a while and not return" they will look at you as if you just arrived from another planet.
In comparison to caffeine, ethanol, nicotine, video games are certainly one of the least of our problems.
"The IT Crowd" is a great depiction of typical "desktop support" staff (and their supervisors and colleages) in typical non-IT companies.
But it is not at all about technology startups, neither the "true" ones founded upon excitement over a new technology, nor the "false" ones that are just money-drains for gullible investors.
Actually, a TV show on such "false" startups is actually missing (not counting the one SouthPark episode "Go Fund Yourself").
Who will enforce the dictator's will if the police aren't even willing to and everything stops?
If necessary, automated drones and (soon to become mandatory) implants will easily discipline (or eliminate) any member of the public service that dares to deviate from his supervisors will.
And attempts to conspire (between the usually many distinct services a totalitarian regime sets up in order to make sure any one of them has to fear the others) will be detected before anyone could even convince a hand full of people to join his cause.
But the fear of not being able to sustain a life if one's "social credit score" falls too low might even make the above unnecessary.
Let's face it: The times when totalitarian regimes could be toppled by "the people" are over. The technology allowing
even small groups in power to suppress all kinds of opposition is already available, it is getting "better" and more
broadly deployed by the month, and it is there to stay.
"Freedom" had its brief stint in human history, but in a few decades from now nobody will remember what it was. And
given how parents today raise children used to permanent observation, the grownups by then will probably never have
experienced freedom first and, and won't know what they are missing.
... that are present in the scripts of average new Hollywood movies. Don't you know that producers put great effort into not confusing average Joe Viewer with new ideas? If you wanted yours to be turned into a movie, you'd have to leave for France and befriend some Art House director to produce your movie (in black and white, of course), financed by "ministry of culture" grants.
The fact that this "pro-russian propaganda" is so blatantly primitive, and so easy to recognize as propaganda, makes me wonder whether the Russians are actually the ones who pay for this kind of activity.
Of course the Chinese are spying, as do many other nations.
But at least, if you buy Chinese hardware from Chinese traders, you usually end up with only one backdoor in your hardware - the one mandated by the Chinese gouvernment.
If you buy US hardware, there instead will a multitude of backdoors come with it, readily installed: One installed by the US brand owner, for all sorts of commercial reasons. One installed by the Chinese manufacturer, during manufacturing, on behalf of the Chinese agencies. And at least one installed by the NSA during shipment.
... to one of our colleages, as a paper-wallet. Was worth ~ 60 Euros back then. Our colleage didn't make use of it, but when we asked him about this last month, he did look where he stashed it, and luckily, found the paper wallet after some hours of searching. Turns out to have been a valuable gift, after all:-)
Bragging about attempting (what will for sure be a very dangerous expedition) first is easy, but will Boeing's CEO be on this first flight to Mars? Or does he rather like to risk other people's lifes for profit and glory?
So, nVidia sells you GPUs with part of the memory silently being "low-bandwidth" connected, and AMD silently removes compute units from GPUs of equal naming.
Now that Intel has basically abandoned all GPU manufacturing, the market seems fully in the hand of fraudsters.
Hey Electronic Arts, you should enter this market: Just sell some GPU model (let's call it the "LootGPU"), and make it to have random hardware specifications.
If you really believe that the US without NN will see more competition amongst carriers, you are bound for a bad surprise. Quite the opposite is to be expected: For a sizeable part of all customers, who today already have basically not more options than to contract with one locally available carrier to get (at least) the "whole Internet" experience, the number of options will decrease from 1 to zero - because especially where there are not multiple carriers already, there is no reason why the existing carrier should not cripple Internet connectivity to whatever suits him best in order to sell his own "premium" services.
And the number of "new carriers" who get into this business "because there is no more obligation to be network-neutral" will amount to exactly zero.
You buy a gaming console for some child, and they require you to create an email account for it - which is a bad thing on its own. Then, 24h after that account was created, they say it's "temporarily suspended" and demand a private mobile phone number to send you a "verification code". This is just the same crap: Corporations trying to bully you into giving them sensitive private information. (And so the console was returned to the person who brought it as a gift, and ultimately returned for a full refund.)
One might argue that git's support for referencing sub-modules is not ideal at this time, but it sure exists and can be used to avoid overly large single repositories.
GitHub still uses ordinary git repositories, and the people using github still have their whole, complete repositories on their own local machines. Quite different from the MicroSoft GVFS.
If MicroSoft really put 270 GB of source code into one git repository, this only demonstrates how little they learned since the days they had to introduce a weird kind of "precompiled headers" in order to deal with their excessive use of one ".h" file that includes everything.
Now MicroSoft tries to turn it into the opposite, asking developers to depend on some remote repository in order to be able to work.
The obvious agenda here is to make repository hosting first more centralized, then more "hosted at MicroSoft", then, once people depend on the hosted service, demand monthly fees for it.
Asus recently started a habit of providing zero-sized changes informations (instead of the information-depleted, terse "improved stability" texts they provided before).
As one user in a forum rightfully commented it: "Installing the latest Asus BIOS with empty changelog on your mainboard feels like sleeping with the filthiest crack-whore around, just hoping you'll stay healthy."
I see two very wrong assumptions in the article and in this forum:
* Coal still being used because of "voters in German coal country". Sorry, but those are way too few to concern the political parties in Berlin. The times when a considerable amount of jobs actually dependet on coal mining are long gone. Today the work ist done by heavy machinery, observed by very few humans in the process.
* So much coal being burnt to fulfill baseline needs. Nope: Germany currently exports lots of electric energy into neighbouring countries, and that is done only because burning coal is still so cheap and profitable these days. The European power grid would already allow Germany to retire much of its coal power plants, replacing them by partially imports and partially ad-hoc powered up gas power plants, when required by a temporary lack of sunshine and wind.
And yes, this is kind of embarrasing for Germany, but the question is not whether, just by when coal power plants will be history.
I would really like to know why my above short, informative, very much on-topic and certainly not controversial posting was down-voted from score 2 to 1. Can you elaborate?
When we look back at people from the medieval period pissing and shitting in the street right outside their house we laugh at how dumb they could have been, in the future (if anyone's left alive) they will look back at us and laugh at how dumb we are for polluting and destroying the environment we live in.
Either that, or, depending on what happenes between now and then, those humans living kind of of crowded in a small band around the equator may praise us as the ones who kept them from dying all out on a snowball earth.
Reasonable regulation of new technology for the better of mankind is not missing because there's only overly optimistic or pessimistic people.
It is missing because those who see a chance to personally profit from the new technolgy fear that their profits could be limited by regulation, and those who expect to not personally profit from a new technology would rather like to not see it being used at all.
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It's like trying to tell society we have a problem with caffeine addiction. When damn near everyone is an addict, no one sees a problem.
Indeed, being one amongst the minority of people who are not caffeine addicted is sometimes weird: You constantly hear people talk of how they need their next caffeine shot to get up in the morning or to overcome the terrible headache they feel.
But if you tell them: "Well, these are withdrawal symptoms, you might want to try ending your abuse of caffeine, and you'll find those symptoms will go away after a while and not return" they will look at you as if you just arrived from another planet.
In comparison to caffeine, ethanol, nicotine, video games are certainly one of the least of our problems.
... to celebrate the burst of the Blockchain bubble.
I must have missed we news were Netflix vowed to only show content that did not contain product placement or was sponsored by some company.
"The IT Crowd" is a great depiction of typical "desktop support" staff (and their supervisors and colleages) in typical non-IT companies.
But it is not at all about technology startups, neither the "true" ones founded upon excitement over a new technology, nor the "false" ones that are just money-drains for gullible investors.
Actually, a TV show on such "false" startups is actually missing (not counting the one SouthPark episode "Go Fund Yourself").
Who will enforce the dictator's will if the police aren't even willing to and everything stops?
If necessary, automated drones and (soon to become mandatory) implants will easily discipline (or eliminate) any member of the public service that dares to deviate from his supervisors will.
And attempts to conspire (between the usually many distinct services a totalitarian regime sets up in order to make sure any one of them has to fear the others) will be detected before anyone could even convince a hand full of people to join his cause.
But the fear of not being able to sustain a life if one's "social credit score" falls too low might even make the above unnecessary.
You should have mentioned that China is already set to implement just that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And of course, what else would you expect from a country where there is no legal opposition?
... as quickly and efficiently.
Let's face it: The times when totalitarian regimes could be toppled by "the people" are over. The technology allowing even small groups in power to suppress all kinds of opposition is already available, it is getting "better" and more broadly deployed by the month, and it is there to stay.
"Freedom" had its brief stint in human history, but in a few decades from now nobody will remember what it was. And given how parents today raise children used to permanent observation, the grownups by then will probably never have experienced freedom first and, and won't know what they are missing.
... that are present in the scripts of average new Hollywood movies. Don't you know that producers put great effort into not confusing average Joe Viewer with new ideas?
If you wanted yours to be turned into a movie, you'd have to leave for France and befriend some Art House director to produce your movie (in black and white, of course), financed by "ministry of culture" grants.
The fact that this "pro-russian propaganda" is so blatantly primitive, and so easy to recognize as propaganda, makes me wonder whether the Russians are actually the ones who pay for this kind of activity.
Of course the Chinese are spying, as do many other nations.
But at least, if you buy Chinese hardware from Chinese traders, you usually end up with only one backdoor in your hardware - the one mandated by the Chinese gouvernment.
If you buy US hardware, there instead will a multitude of backdoors come with it, readily installed: One installed by the US brand owner, for all sorts of commercial reasons. One installed by the Chinese manufacturer, during manufacturing, on behalf of the Chinese agencies. And at least one installed by the NSA during shipment.
... to one of our colleages, as a paper-wallet. Was worth ~ 60 Euros back then. Our colleage didn't make use of it, but when we asked him about this last month, he did look where he stashed it, and luckily, found the paper wallet after some hours of searching. Turns out to have been a valuable gift, after all :-)
Bragging about attempting (what will for sure be a very dangerous expedition) first is easy, but will Boeing's CEO be on this first flight to Mars?
Or does he rather like to risk other people's lifes for profit and glory?
So, nVidia sells you GPUs with part of the memory silently being "low-bandwidth" connected, and AMD silently removes compute units from GPUs of equal naming.
Now that Intel has basically abandoned all GPU manufacturing, the market seems fully in the hand of fraudsters.
Hey Electronic Arts, you should enter this market: Just sell some GPU model (let's call it the "LootGPU"), and make it to have random hardware specifications.
If you really believe that the US without NN will see more competition amongst carriers, you are bound for a bad surprise. Quite the opposite is to be expected: For a sizeable part of all customers, who today already have basically not more options than to contract with one locally available carrier to get (at least) the "whole Internet" experience, the number of options will decrease from 1 to zero - because especially where there are not multiple carriers already, there is no reason why the existing carrier should not cripple Internet connectivity to whatever suits him best in order to sell his own "premium" services.
And the number of "new carriers" who get into this business "because there is no more obligation to be network-neutral" will amount to exactly zero.
You buy a gaming console for some child, and they require you to create an email account for it - which is a bad thing on its own. Then, 24h after that account was created, they say it's "temporarily suspended" and demand a private mobile phone number to send you a "verification code". This is just the same crap: Corporations trying to bully you into giving them sensitive private information. (And so the console was returned to the person who brought it as a gift, and ultimately returned for a full refund.)
http://cache.lovethispic.com/u...
One might argue that git's support for referencing sub-modules is not ideal at this time, but it sure exists and can be used to avoid overly large single repositories.
GitHub still uses ordinary git repositories, and the people using github still have their whole, complete repositories on their own local machines. Quite different from the MicroSoft GVFS.
If MicroSoft really put 270 GB of source code into one git repository, this only demonstrates how little they learned since the days they had to introduce a weird kind of "precompiled headers" in order to deal with their excessive use of one ".h" file that includes everything.
Now MicroSoft tries to turn it into the opposite, asking developers to depend on some remote repository in order to be able to work.
The obvious agenda here is to make repository hosting first more centralized, then more "hosted at MicroSoft", then, once people depend on the hosted service, demand monthly fees for it.
Asus recently started a habit of providing zero-sized changes informations (instead of the information-depleted, terse "improved stability" texts they provided before).
As one user in a forum rightfully commented it: "Installing the latest Asus BIOS with empty changelog on your mainboard feels like sleeping with the filthiest crack-whore around, just hoping you'll stay healthy."
I see two very wrong assumptions in the article and in this forum:
* Coal still being used because of "voters in German coal country". Sorry, but those are way too few to concern the political parties in Berlin. The times when a considerable amount of jobs actually dependet on coal mining are long gone. Today the work ist done by heavy machinery, observed by very few humans in the process.
* So much coal being burnt to fulfill baseline needs. Nope: Germany currently exports lots of electric energy into neighbouring countries, and that is done only because burning coal is still so cheap and profitable these days. The European power grid would already allow Germany to retire much of its coal power plants, replacing them by partially imports and partially ad-hoc powered up gas power plants, when required by a temporary lack of sunshine and wind.
And yes, this is kind of embarrasing for Germany, but the question is not whether, just by when coal power plants will be history.
I would really like to know why my above short, informative, very much on-topic and certainly not controversial posting was down-voted from score 2 to 1. Can you elaborate?
Sounds like Perovskite solar cells where invented right on time.
When we look back at people from the medieval period pissing and shitting in the street right outside their house we laugh at how dumb they could have been, in the future (if anyone's left alive) they will look back at us and laugh at how dumb we are for polluting and destroying the environment we live in.
Either that, or, depending on what happenes between now and then, those humans living kind of of crowded in a small band around the equator may praise us as the ones who kept them from dying all out on a snowball earth.
Reasonable regulation of new technology for the better of mankind is not missing because there's only overly optimistic or pessimistic people.
It is missing because those who see a chance to personally profit from the new technolgy fear that their profits could be limited by regulation, and those who expect to not personally profit from a new technology would rather like to not see it being used at all.