No, Guardian's David Leigh did, by foolishly releasing the password to an archive that had been entrusted to him precisely to do "responsible" redactions.
WikiLeaks then decided that since all the spy agencies, big boys etc. anyone with a budget basically, now had access to it, the rest of us should as well.
No, they don't. I'm the parent of a school age kid, and I was surprised at how many fellow parents basically didn't know up or down on a computer. Plenty of people born in the 70s, 80s have hardly played a computer game ever.
This is actually easier to do than you think! Go out and get the leftovers of a roast or something of that nature. Parboil them for a little while. (That's what I did, if you were curious) Heat up your wok in the $medium hotish flame, drizzle in some oil, then toss the contents of the too-long messy roast for about 10 seconds or so. The wok will release steam and some surface starch which will help the stir fry singe. Spread the rice in your wok, the aromatics and proteins will absorb the undigested starch, so it will help the starch brown nicely. When all the rice-starch is brown and the rice is smooth and tender, fold in the dried white beans. It's that easy! You can even add in some fresh broccoli or other dark green veggies if you want a rich yet quick wrap soup. If you put a little more, like I did, the brown stuff willy-nilly over everything , which will color the right rainbow. Besides, it's are nicely flavored with the rice and dried lentils, not with expensive, too-frequent imported beans. I like to bring it all to a boil and let it sit more than an hour or so. So delicious! They keep for quite a while too!
The reason most of the Franco-Belgian comics never succeeded in the US, is that Americans interpret the art style as childish.
So the exceptions are the comics that actually are for children (the Smurfs!) and to some degree the realistically drawn stuff a la Moebius.
If "Percevan" for instance was drawn as an American superhero comic, I'm sure it would have been very popular. But for American comics readers it's jarring.
There are/were a few US comics artists who wrote for adults in a "childish" style, but then it was played as somewhat deliberately grotesque, and funny for that reason too. I'm thinking of Sergio Aragones and the others who wrote for MAD. But they were also very popular in Europe and had close contact with the Franco-Belgians (Aragones even appears as a villainous CIA agent in a "Natascha" story!)
What's extra sad is that if you had a handful of trusted nodes, instead of a ton of untrusted ones, would have resisted this attack excellently. It would also do away with the need for all that idiotic mining.
Trusted nodes would just say, "a double spend? Nah, that's bullshit. We won't timestamp that."
If one of the trusted nodes decided to try it, the other trusted nodes would say, "a double spend? Nah, that's bullshit. We won't timestamp that." and you'd be down one trusted node, but the world would keep on running.
What if a majority of trusted nodes decided to endorse a double spend? The remaining trusted nodes would say "What the hell is the world coming to??". But they would still not endorse the double spend. And pretty quickly, users could figure out who the honest nodes were (there would be a paper trail, or rather a signed hash trail documenting it after all), and the system could go on. The betrayers might have gotten away with some theft of real world goods if they were really quick in concluding the transaction, but they wouldn't be able to steal the unit of account.
Even if every single trusted node betrayed the users, they could still get together and pick some new trusted nodes, if they wanted to. They could just continue the ledger from before the cheating.
Distributed blockchains solve a problem almost no one has, except criminals: that your counterparties are completely untrustworthy and will betray you as soon as they can. Even that, it doesn't really solve, as anyone who got scammed buying stuff on the darknet knows.
The worst attacks are the ones you can't see. The vast majority of our news come via Reuters or AP. If you had an insider on the desk there, you could put a slight spin to a thousand stories - much more effective than the partisan ranting we associate with false news.
Generative art is a really interesting field. But this art collective know very little of it. They used the software of an 18 year old, who has done far more interesting things with it.
These guys got coverage because they played to a narrative media loves, that of the autonomous AI agent that creates art on it's own. People who actually know what they're doing and understand how these algorithms work, aren't willing to do that, so you never hear of them.
It's a very old type of scam. I remember reading about "Krupec Pyramiden" (Google it) when I wasn't even a teen yet.
Even that I only know about because it was local, there are probably thousands like it. Extracting water from the air is a favourite of "inventors" who know too little physics to know how little they know. And also of scammers who do know, but won't give up the prospect of getting rich just because their idea didn't work.
It's not about popularity, certainly not overall popularity. Search engines are optimized towards returning whatever the people searching are actually looking for. If you're the sort who type in a query starting with "the jews", quite likely it's antisemitic material that you're looking for and will find "most useful" (or at least click on, which is all they know). There's no need to assume right-wing manipulation here; I only wish the racist fringe wasted time skewing Bing results on queries made almost 100% by their own.
The algorithm can't be expected to learn on its own that such material is objectively junk, if the searchers think it's good. We probably wouldn't want it to try. But letting humans manually fiddle with specific search results carries its own problems.
Yep. Releasing what you have is something a lot more failed game kickstarters should have done long ago. I suspect the fear of being sued for fraud (once people see how little they've achieved) is what keeps it from happening - along with good old fashioned denial.
You should read up on what police originally was. Sir Robert Peel and all that. It's quite quixotic, but we've got that optimism to thank for so much today.
Then you might read up on the history of secret police, and decide if that's really something you want.
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No, Guardian's David Leigh did, by foolishly releasing the password to an archive that had been entrusted to him precisely to do "responsible" redactions.
WikiLeaks then decided that since all the spy agencies, big boys etc. anyone with a budget basically, now had access to it, the rest of us should as well.
No, they don't. I'm the parent of a school age kid, and I was surprised at how many fellow parents basically didn't know up or down on a computer. Plenty of people born in the 70s, 80s have hardly played a computer game ever.
{Unsolicited opinion on Israel?!?}
No shit Sherlock. But if you're against witch hunts, you're going to find yourself in the company of a lot of old women with warts.
Well, Gab is at least fixing 1 of these, maybe 1.5 if you're generous.
This is actually easier to do than you think! Go out and get the leftovers of a roast or something of that nature. Parboil them for a little while. (That's what I did, if you were curious) Heat up your wok in the $medium hotish flame, drizzle in some oil, then toss the contents of the too-long messy roast for about 10 seconds or so. The wok will release steam and some surface starch which will help the stir fry singe. Spread the rice in your wok, the aromatics and proteins will absorb the undigested starch, so it will help the starch brown nicely. When all the rice-starch is brown and the rice is smooth and tender, fold in the dried white beans. It's that easy! You can even add in some fresh broccoli or other dark green veggies if you want a rich yet quick wrap soup. If you put a little more, like I did, the brown stuff willy-nilly over everything , which will color the right rainbow. Besides, it's are nicely flavored with the rice and dried lentils, not with expensive, too-frequent imported beans. I like to bring it all to a boil and let it sit more than an hour or so. So delicious! They keep for quite a while too!
The reason most of the Franco-Belgian comics never succeeded in the US, is that Americans interpret the art style as childish.
So the exceptions are the comics that actually are for children (the Smurfs!) and to some degree the realistically drawn stuff a la Moebius.
If "Percevan" for instance was drawn as an American superhero comic, I'm sure it would have been very popular. But for American comics readers it's jarring.
There are/were a few US comics artists who wrote for adults in a "childish" style, but then it was played as somewhat deliberately grotesque, and funny for that reason too. I'm thinking of Sergio Aragones and the others who wrote for MAD. But they were also very popular in Europe and had close contact with the Franco-Belgians (Aragones even appears as a villainous CIA agent in a "Natascha" story!)
But the important question is who would win?
It would be creepy as hell, but very cool, to get a recording of the voices schizophrenics hear.
Things are being explained fine, people just don't know how streaming pro rata licensing works.
Common poll, divided according to total listens. You aren't guaranteed a fixed amount of cents per playback.
What's extra sad is that if you had a handful of trusted nodes, instead of a ton of untrusted ones, would have resisted this attack excellently. It would also do away with the need for all that idiotic mining.
Trusted nodes would just say, "a double spend? Nah, that's bullshit. We won't timestamp that."
If one of the trusted nodes decided to try it, the other trusted nodes would say, "a double spend? Nah, that's bullshit. We won't timestamp that." and you'd be down one trusted node, but the world would keep on running.
What if a majority of trusted nodes decided to endorse a double spend? The remaining trusted nodes would say "What the hell is the world coming to??". But they would still not endorse the double spend. And pretty quickly, users could figure out who the honest nodes were (there would be a paper trail, or rather a signed hash trail documenting it after all), and the system could go on. The betrayers might have gotten away with some theft of real world goods if they were really quick in concluding the transaction, but they wouldn't be able to steal the unit of account.
Even if every single trusted node betrayed the users, they could still get together and pick some new trusted nodes, if they wanted to. They could just continue the ledger from before the cheating.
Distributed blockchains solve a problem almost no one has, except criminals: that your counterparties are completely untrustworthy and will betray you as soon as they can. Even that, it doesn't really solve, as anyone who got scammed buying stuff on the darknet knows.
Look up Libratus. Computers don't struggle with Poker any longer.
I believe "buzzwords" are the answer. It doesn't really matter what the question is.
The worst attacks are the ones you can't see. The vast majority of our news come via Reuters or AP. If you had an insider on the desk there, you could put a slight spin to a thousand stories - much more effective than the partisan ranting we associate with false news.
The soviet union gave up the ghost nearly 30 years ago, comrade.
Yep. Look at Verge's coverage of this thing.
Generative art is a really interesting field. But this art collective know very little of it. They used the software of an 18 year old, who has done far more interesting things with it.
These guys got coverage because they played to a narrative media loves, that of the autonomous AI agent that creates art on it's own. People who actually know what they're doing and understand how these algorithms work, aren't willing to do that, so you never hear of them.
I don't know, it's how I get most of mine.
It's a very old type of scam. I remember reading about "Krupec Pyramiden" (Google it) when I wasn't even a teen yet.
Even that I only know about because it was local, there are probably thousands like it. Extracting water from the air is a favourite of "inventors" who know too little physics to know how little they know. And also of scammers who do know, but won't give up the prospect of getting rich just because their idea didn't work.
It's not about popularity, certainly not overall popularity. Search engines are optimized towards returning whatever the people searching are actually looking for. If you're the sort who type in a query starting with "the jews", quite likely it's antisemitic material that you're looking for and will find "most useful" (or at least click on, which is all they know). There's no need to assume right-wing manipulation here; I only wish the racist fringe wasted time skewing Bing results on queries made almost 100% by their own.
The algorithm can't be expected to learn on its own that such material is objectively junk, if the searchers think it's good. We probably wouldn't want it to try. But letting humans manually fiddle with specific search results carries its own problems.
You should look at Kickstarter's own statistics before making up your own.
Yep. Releasing what you have is something a lot more failed game kickstarters should have done long ago. I suspect the fear of being sued for fraud (once people see how little they've achieved) is what keeps it from happening - along with good old fashioned denial.
So you're at slashdot too now?
You should read up on what police originally was. Sir Robert Peel and all that. It's quite quixotic, but we've got that optimism to thank for so much today.
Then you might read up on the history of secret police, and decide if that's really something you want.
Will people line up for a biohack that makes you seriously nauseous if you eat too much?
Never mind that it's probably what this sensory pathway is for in the first place.
Traditional cab companies where you live, at best. Sad to hear you have a broken municipal democracy.
Snowden and Ellsberg disagree. Funny how that doesn't count for anything.