Homeowners naturally would like to keep tabs on who does what in their home-for-let. Apparently, it's fine so long as they follow some rules. The homeowner did not, maybe didn't know the rules or misunderstood the requirement. So the handling was probably okay. A rules violation.
Further, I don't see that camera being "sneaky". That's a real CC camera, they are all over the place in buildings and public places. Doesn't look like anything except exactly what it is.
However we hear reports out of Korea where they have hidden cameras in lavatories looking like soap dispensers, and there is apparently a cottage industry of providers of hidden camera streams and up-skirt videos. That is obviously shady, no two ways about it. The current case, not so much.
Soon people will be tinkering with personal-sized AI like they started to do with Arduino a few years back, and 3D printing more recently. The trend here is obvious, but we cannot predict what tinkers will come up with once they get their hands on these things in a big way.
AI researchers fret about the "containment problem", meaning how do you prevent an autonomous intelligence from breaking out of your lab and doing whatever it wants to, including enhancing itself exponentially. So there is talk about creating process and protocols to contain AI similar to what you might have regarding biological containment for a microbiology lab working with dangerous pathogens. But those rules aren't going to work when anyone wants to can build a reasonably powerful AI machine using off-the-shelf components, and/or using cloud-based resources.
I don't expect this is going to work out the way we think it is.
Burglar just released from prison says not ready to break into houses for a least a few years. "If anyone sees a break in," he offers, "It wasn't me. No sir."
I've been coding for 30 years, and for the last 5 years I could see this coming. Recently I've been telling people that there is maybe 2 more years left in this field before the door starts to close. Some types of work will continue, but the overall era of throwing rooms full of coders at software will have ended. Surprised it took this long; much of my work for the last 10 years has been a process of cut/paste from my earlier work, or just Goolge a question, follow a link to Stackoverflow, read a few posts for 10 minutes, and only then copy/paste. This process has almost never failed, certainly it works well enough to hand 95% of what I "do" to a machine that can then "do" the same thing except at 1000x.
LOL! Everything that putrid wanker did stank of eugenics from the start. I guarantee you the ChiComms were all over it. They already harvest organs from "prisoners" to keep their own oligarch class alive and don't give it a second thought. Gene editing for the Peoples' Great Revolutionary Victory would be a logical step.
Oh and before anyone here starts getting all "hey sign me up for the transhuman upgrade path" remember they can just as easily insert a gene for a fatal protein deficiency that they can then use to blackmail recipients into being Proper Citizens Supporting the Rise of the Proletarian Struggle or else you don't get any of the protein supplements you need to keep your intestines from exploding.
And -- all these edited genomes walking around are 100% inheritable! They only need to get a few percentage of the current population -- and then give these Patriotic Elements of the Peoples Resistance enhanced reproduction support -- to eventually have a large percentage of the population under control.
This is not even speculation. This is guaranteed 100% to be the actual plan.
Humanity is screwed. Don't forget to get your kids immunized if you want to get the best post-partum gene upgrades.
Nobody in the US halls of influence cared about this issue, not for a generation or longer. If they needed workers, they went to India. Places I have worked (30 years running) are increasingly Indian and Chinese, verging on 95%. I don't see that changing ever.
So why this interest in pushing CS into public education?
I'll take a guess. As India and China become technological powerhouses in their own right (having expatriated their engineers to US companies for 40 years of paid top-shelf training) they are seen now as less a pool of low-wage workers to exploit, and more as economic competitors. Wow imagine that. 40 years spent relentlessly hollowing out the US middle-class labor pool, outsourcing for the quarterly bottom line, and now they are worried.
Cry me a river. I hope the Indians and Chinese take them to the cleaners, and I'm confident that is exactly what will happen.
The Earth's atmosphere extends all the way to Mars, fact. The "Solar Wind" blows away parts of the upper atmosphere all the time. The magnetosphere reduces that a lot; without it we probably wouldn't have an atmosphere at all. Once they get their measurements fine enough and get a probe around Mars, they will find Earth's atmosphere there too.
Facebook had a secret policy of collecting data. Now that it has been revealed, they claim not to have a secret policy for collecting data anymore.
O RLY
They think people are stupid, of course, and they might be right. They assume that people won't assume the obvious, being that FB has lots of channels for this activity and they simply disavow any channels that get outed, all the while creating more and increasingly elaborate versions of the same policies and practices. It's Darwinian; the methods that are vulnerable to detection get detected and "killed off", while those harder to detect simply go forward and multiply until the entire Internet ecosystem is filled with nothing but invisible, stealthy practices that nobody can detect. Forever.
No doubt they appreciate all our hard efforts to help them evolve their practices toward the perfect optimal. The perfect alpha predator, devouring everything that looks like information.
All the electricity they put in to convert the plastic in a fuel, probably doesn't return 10% from the fuel so created. It would be more efficient to use the electricity directly to do the things we normally would do, such as charge the battery in an electric vehicle. Also, you can use plastic directly as plastic to do plastic things -- like making reusable shopping bags -- at probably 1/1000 the energy requirement of making fuel from the same material.
No. This has nothing to do with finding a use for plastic. It has everything to do with making a story about how we're going to keep current-technology ICE automobiles and trucks on the road for longer. In 5 years when people are losing their minds over how we use fossil fuels, the transportation sector and trot out their "oh but we run on plastic now" pony. It doesn't even need to be technically true, they can make the claim and most people would just shrug and go back to watching the Kardashians.
And know you know how the mega-wealthy intend to live forever. Let's see... an old rich dude dies today of liver failure, or an impoverished "prisoner" guilty of somehow offending TPTB dies today. Decisions, decisions...
Read between the lines and this is not about hobby drones, it is about autonomous hunter-killer and 24/7 surveillance drones. True black ops autonomy means never having to be serviced by a human. No humans involved, nobody to interfere or screw things up. These things could be launched once and then never return, and operate invisibly for a decade charging themselves autonomously any time they need to.
The/. post right above this one posits that the looming end of Moore's Law (the seeming endless improvements in computational throw) will spell the end of AI improvements so that we will never see "self-improving" AI.
I think both premises are premature. Once computation moves into the quantum realm -- including biological computing -- AI will find a fertile playground and will quickly outstrip human limits.
YouTube is predatory on children. There are is a lot worse than this going on. At least children will have a hard time coming up with big money to blow on these gambling schemes, however, some of the other cr*p they run across is absolutely diabolical.
Don't know if you noticed, but the "furious debate" was more like researchers not wanting to be the first to say that it was okay to edit the genome of humans in planning. This is a done deal. It's going to happen. It will first be about saving the children, then it will be about making the children better, then it will be about making patented children under license with annual renewals. This random corporate crap is entering the species at the genetic level, we will NEVER get rid of it. If anything can be found to have gone wrong then entire populations will need to be force-sterilized. It is completely insane. It is now inevitable. Blame whoever or whatever you want for that.
The thieves did not sell the stolen tech to a Chinese company, they gave it to the Chinese government. This is a good way to advance yourself in China. As such, there is zero possibility of getting the Chi-Comms to cooperate in an investigation. Samsung can write the entire thing off along with 1,000 other inventions the Chi-Comms lifted over the last few years.
Toward what end? Not like it _sequesters_ CO2 from the atmosphere. They are making fuel using H2 (via electrolysis I assume) so it's just a chemical battery. CO2 returns to the atmosphere within days or weeks.
You people don't even understand the problem. Birds in the flight path of jets get pulled into the engines and potentially blow up the engines, on landing or take-off, being the worst possible time for such a thing. So they built this drone to herd birds out of the way, awesome. But now that places a drone potentially in the flight path of jets, too. A drone made of plastics, metal and LiIon batteries would pretty much explode like a grenade inside the intake of a jet engine.
Now, if the inventors can tie the drone flight algos into the airport automated landing systems, then the drone should be able to calculate the vectors of jets with good accuracy, know when to herd birds around and which direction, and also know when to get itself the fuck out of the way. Potentially a big win, or potentially a really bad idea if it's not handled correctly.
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The mind is in the microtubules. And those, are stable molecules. If they can get the cells to work again then they will find the mind mostly intact.
Is my expectation.
I think they suspect this, also, which is why they are digging around in dead brains.
I leave it to the reader to guess where all this goes after they find the mind intact.
Homeowners naturally would like to keep tabs on who does what in their home-for-let. Apparently, it's fine so long as they follow some rules. The homeowner did not, maybe didn't know the rules or misunderstood the requirement. So the handling was probably okay. A rules violation.
Further, I don't see that camera being "sneaky". That's a real CC camera, they are all over the place in buildings and public places. Doesn't look like anything except exactly what it is.
However we hear reports out of Korea where they have hidden cameras in lavatories looking like soap dispensers, and there is apparently a cottage industry of providers of hidden camera streams and up-skirt videos. That is obviously shady, no two ways about it. The current case, not so much.
Or maybe it was the chinese-outsourcing dept.
Or maybe the easier-to-say-sorry-than-ask-permission dept.
Soon people will be tinkering with personal-sized AI like they started to do with Arduino a few years back, and 3D printing more recently. The trend here is obvious, but we cannot predict what tinkers will come up with once they get their hands on these things in a big way.
AI researchers fret about the "containment problem", meaning how do you prevent an autonomous intelligence from breaking out of your lab and doing whatever it wants to, including enhancing itself exponentially. So there is talk about creating process and protocols to contain AI similar to what you might have regarding biological containment for a microbiology lab working with dangerous pathogens. But those rules aren't going to work when anyone wants to can build a reasonably powerful AI machine using off-the-shelf components, and/or using cloud-based resources.
I don't expect this is going to work out the way we think it is.
Burglar just released from prison says not ready to break into houses for a least a few years. "If anyone sees a break in," he offers, "It wasn't me. No sir."
I've been coding for 30 years, and for the last 5 years I could see this coming. Recently I've been telling people that there is maybe 2 more years left in this field before the door starts to close. Some types of work will continue, but the overall era of throwing rooms full of coders at software will have ended. Surprised it took this long; much of my work for the last 10 years has been a process of cut/paste from my earlier work, or just Goolge a question, follow a link to Stackoverflow, read a few posts for 10 minutes, and only then copy/paste. This process has almost never failed, certainly it works well enough to hand 95% of what I "do" to a machine that can then "do" the same thing except at 1000x.
LOL! Everything that putrid wanker did stank of eugenics from the start. I guarantee you the ChiComms were all over it. They already harvest organs from "prisoners" to keep their own oligarch class alive and don't give it a second thought. Gene editing for the Peoples' Great Revolutionary Victory would be a logical step.
Oh and before anyone here starts getting all "hey sign me up for the transhuman upgrade path" remember they can just as easily insert a gene for a fatal protein deficiency that they can then use to blackmail recipients into being Proper Citizens Supporting the Rise of the Proletarian Struggle or else you don't get any of the protein supplements you need to keep your intestines from exploding.
And -- all these edited genomes walking around are 100% inheritable! They only need to get a few percentage of the current population -- and then give these Patriotic Elements of the Peoples Resistance enhanced reproduction support -- to eventually have a large percentage of the population under control.
This is not even speculation. This is guaranteed 100% to be the actual plan.
Humanity is screwed. Don't forget to get your kids immunized if you want to get the best post-partum gene upgrades.
All of them. Dumb as stumps. There must be something in the water.
Nobody in the US halls of influence cared about this issue, not for a generation or longer. If they needed workers, they went to India. Places I have worked (30 years running) are increasingly Indian and Chinese, verging on 95%. I don't see that changing ever.
So why this interest in pushing CS into public education?
I'll take a guess. As India and China become technological powerhouses in their own right (having expatriated their engineers to US companies for 40 years of paid top-shelf training) they are seen now as less a pool of low-wage workers to exploit, and more as economic competitors. Wow imagine that. 40 years spent relentlessly hollowing out the US middle-class labor pool, outsourcing for the quarterly bottom line, and now they are worried.
Cry me a river. I hope the Indians and Chinese take them to the cleaners, and I'm confident that is exactly what will happen.
The Earth's atmosphere extends all the way to Mars, fact. The "Solar Wind" blows away parts of the upper atmosphere all the time. The magnetosphere reduces that a lot; without it we probably wouldn't have an atmosphere at all. Once they get their measurements fine enough and get a probe around Mars, they will find Earth's atmosphere there too.
Doesn't mean shit.
Facebook had a secret policy of collecting data. Now that it has been revealed, they claim not to have a secret policy for collecting data anymore.
O RLY
They think people are stupid, of course, and they might be right. They assume that people won't assume the obvious, being that FB has lots of channels for this activity and they simply disavow any channels that get outed, all the while creating more and increasingly elaborate versions of the same policies and practices. It's Darwinian; the methods that are vulnerable to detection get detected and "killed off", while those harder to detect simply go forward and multiply until the entire Internet ecosystem is filled with nothing but invisible, stealthy practices that nobody can detect. Forever.
No doubt they appreciate all our hard efforts to help them evolve their practices toward the perfect optimal. The perfect alpha predator, devouring everything that looks like information.
That's what Ann Coulter says and I believe her. I rilly do.
All the electricity they put in to convert the plastic in a fuel, probably doesn't return 10% from the fuel so created. It would be more efficient to use the electricity directly to do the things we normally would do, such as charge the battery in an electric vehicle. Also, you can use plastic directly as plastic to do plastic things -- like making reusable shopping bags -- at probably 1/1000 the energy requirement of making fuel from the same material.
No. This has nothing to do with finding a use for plastic. It has everything to do with making a story about how we're going to keep current-technology ICE automobiles and trucks on the road for longer. In 5 years when people are losing their minds over how we use fossil fuels, the transportation sector and trot out their "oh but we run on plastic now" pony. It doesn't even need to be technically true, they can make the claim and most people would just shrug and go back to watching the Kardashians.
And know you know how the mega-wealthy intend to live forever. Let's see ... an old rich dude dies today of liver failure, or an impoverished "prisoner" guilty of somehow offending TPTB dies today. Decisions, decisions ...
Does this mean Americans are getting wise to the con of continuous and benevolent progress?
Pics or it never happened.
OP: Videos in that bucket were unencrypted due to the costs associated with implementation and "lost revenue opportunities due to restricted access."
Translation: They are selling the videos to 3rd-parties.
Goddamn.
Read between the lines and this is not about hobby drones, it is about autonomous hunter-killer and 24/7 surveillance drones. True black ops autonomy means never having to be serviced by a human. No humans involved, nobody to interfere or screw things up. These things could be launched once and then never return, and operate invisibly for a decade charging themselves autonomously any time they need to.
The /. post right above this one posits that the looming end of Moore's Law (the seeming endless improvements in computational throw) will spell the end of AI improvements so that we will never see "self-improving" AI.
I think both premises are premature. Once computation moves into the quantum realm -- including biological computing -- AI will find a fertile playground and will quickly outstrip human limits.
Good luck with all that, everyone.
YouTube is predatory on children. There are is a lot worse than this going on. At least children will have a hard time coming up with big money to blow on these gambling schemes, however, some of the other cr*p they run across is absolutely diabolical.
You knew it was fake when the first "thief" didn't stomp the glitter-bot into the ground in frustration and anger.
Don't know if you noticed, but the "furious debate" was more like researchers not wanting to be the first to say that it was okay to edit the genome of humans in planning. This is a done deal. It's going to happen. It will first be about saving the children, then it will be about making the children better, then it will be about making patented children under license with annual renewals. This random corporate crap is entering the species at the genetic level, we will NEVER get rid of it. If anything can be found to have gone wrong then entire populations will need to be force-sterilized. It is completely insane. It is now inevitable. Blame whoever or whatever you want for that.
The thieves did not sell the stolen tech to a Chinese company, they gave it to the Chinese government. This is a good way to advance yourself in China. As such, there is zero possibility of getting the Chi-Comms to cooperate in an investigation. Samsung can write the entire thing off along with 1,000 other inventions the Chi-Comms lifted over the last few years.
Toward what end? Not like it _sequesters_ CO2 from the atmosphere. They are making fuel using H2 (via electrolysis I assume) so it's just a chemical battery. CO2 returns to the atmosphere within days or weeks.
You people don't even understand the problem. Birds in the flight path of jets get pulled into the engines and potentially blow up the engines, on landing or take-off, being the worst possible time for such a thing. So they built this drone to herd birds out of the way, awesome. But now that places a drone potentially in the flight path of jets, too. A drone made of plastics, metal and LiIon batteries would pretty much explode like a grenade inside the intake of a jet engine.
Now, if the inventors can tie the drone flight algos into the airport automated landing systems, then the drone should be able to calculate the vectors of jets with good accuracy, know when to herd birds around and which direction, and also know when to get itself the fuck out of the way. Potentially a big win, or potentially a really bad idea if it's not handled correctly.
I mean, what could go wrong?