The fact that IBM is selling Watson as Watson just goes to show that Watson didn't in fact lead to anything interesting, in terms of general purpose AI. I always considered Watson to be Eliza on steroids, even in the midst of the marketing hype, and so far my prediction seems to be true. There was a lot of noise initially about how Watson was being sent to medical school, was going to be plugged into medical databases, etc etc. So far, from what I can tell, Watson is an expert system, just like Deep Blue -- good at the narrow problem it tries to solve, but not a good model for human cognition or language processing per se.
Open protocols don't help when everyone stops making webpages and moves to Facebook, which isn't publicly crawlable. Remember when everyone wanted their OWN website, and websites linked meaningfully to other websites, and there was a whole ecosystem of small, independent webpages with information on a crazy number of niche topics, and everyone's webpage had links to other webpages that they thought were cool? That doesn't really exist anymore. THAT web is dead. If Wikipedia and Craigslist, and a dozen other silo-type sites are all that's left to crawl (if they decide to let Google do it), how important is Google, really? The web has changed, and Google had to change or die with it. Google+ is just Google's attempt at taking what's left of the public, open web and internalize it (and make it all 'social' content mostly not publicly crawlable, ironically). So yeah, the (open) web really is dead, or will be soon.
So the countermeasure/defense against this device is one that records what you're saying and then sends it out after a 5 second (or longer) delay, essentially pre-recording what you want to say by a short time. They already use this device at airport gates when they want to make an announcement.
Funny. When I took Law 30 in high school I came away with a similarly ridiculous notion of my "rights" under the law. I though I understood what I could be arrested for, when I had to answer questions, what kinds of searches I could decline blah blah BLAH.
Well, take it from someone with a little experience and some hard-earned wisdom. The subtle and nuances of how you reply make no difference. The cop has the gun and may not be too concerned about breaking your fingers. He doesn't know or care about the finer points law as much as you think he does, and he's definitely not afraid mess with you and make your life hell if he doesn't *like* you. It doesn't really matter what you SAY because unless it's recorded (which it won't be 99% of the time), you SAID whatever he SAYS you said. In off-slashdot reality, the best advice is to be a submissive dog and pray the officer is in a good mood. Yeah, not a popular opinion, but there you have it.
Wiping out small independent publishers who "collate" mountains of information that they don't own the copyright for may well be what google intends to do. Let's be clear here. Are you an author? Do you create content? Or do you amalgamate other people's work, with or without their permission and/or using "fair use" provisions of copyright law? You don't really say, but I'm guessing from the tone of your post that you don't in fact create content. So, if your site is useful, provide the link, so we can have a better informed discussion about the merits of your site wrt the recent change in google's algorithm.
So what can you run on 1.36 kW/m2? Translated into one year's worth of energy, could that enough provide enough heat to keep me from freezing to death in the winter (I live in Canada)?
Hell, why not legalize herion? And sell it in schools! I mean, if we don't, we'll just be letting the black marketers and backroom pushers make all the money! hahahaha, you crack me up. Everyone "else" (the voting majority) is just blind to the lessons of history, everyone older than you must be a 'fuckwit' moron. uh huh.
just like "ninja training camp"
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you spend a week learning all the "Secret Ninja Moves" and when you're done, you're a real life ninja.... right? r-right?
To retrieve all the items I stole from your house last night, please place a sticky note on your front door saying "star bright, star light, steal from someone else tonight!".
Honestly, if you're not even willing to do that, stop complaining when I steal from you!
freenet exemplifies what a peer-to-peer internet would be like: a disaster. It's slow, it's cumbersome, and more to the point, it fails to solve a problem a doesn't really exist in the first place. Nobody cares about anonymity at the EXPENSE of speed and convenience, except child pornographers, law breakers, and the paranoid. That's why networks like freenet and ZeroKnowledge ultimately fail.
That's not to say freenet not an interesting experiment. That's not to say anonymity isn't desireable. but please, anyone that's tried it knows it's not a panacea. If you're really paranoid, use a proxy like anonycat, or any of the zillion others. They are more than adequate.
prohibit Internet gambling regardless of whether the servers are located in the US or outside of it
Obviously this only applies to corporations and businesses incorporated in the US. Solution? Online gambling companies will simply incorporate on whatever island their servers are hosted, and shut down their US branches.
You don't have to be a US company to take US money.
yeah, I'm sure the segway doesn't measure up to all the things you've invented. Kamen only invented portable dialysis machines and innovative wheelchair designs, hardly as impressive as mastering the slashdot GUI, wot?
For a site with "no redeeming qualities" it sure is popular.
What you probably mean is, it has no redeeming qualities FOR YOU. But then again, neither do teen idols, glam magazines, and scratch-and-sniff stickers.
The real question whether the risk of an internet predator outweighs the enjoyment factor. IMO it's a real, but overblown threat... a smaller risk than, say, letting your kid walk to school.
I dont use keys, I just create self-extracting archives, change their extension from.sda.exe to something else, and then upload them. When you execute the archive it queries you for a password. I find the archives to be quite small too.
One issue is code re-use. Code re-use is why you write API's and create your own libraries, so that you don't have to keep re-inventing the wheel.
The other issues are version control, code management, etc. Some ppl here are recommending cvs and other such overkill. If your a novice PHP coder, none of that matters; you probably have a handfull of scripts that weren't written with re-usability in mind, and therefore are minimally reusable (written in a language that doesn't encourage re-usability to boot) so theres no "tool" that will magically let you squeeze the juice of re-usability from stone.
At this point, you biggest concern should be storage for sake of making frequent backups. Personally, I encrypt whatever folder I'm working in (using PGP) and email it to my gmail account every day. That way it's accessible no matter where I am, and pretty secure too.
The Web is no longer a place where simple applications are tolerated
Not so. Simple = GOOD, just look at the success of google; no fancy front end required. AJAX, like good special effects in a movie, can enhance the end-user experience when applied selectively and intelligently. They are NOT an end in themselves.
The truth is, the web is a place were only USEFUL applications are tolerated, whether or not they use AJAX.
Where the argument against gaming falls apart is the contention that playing these games somehow makes people (THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!) more likely to go out and kill other innocent human beings.
Straw man. Nobody is claiming that violent games MAKE ppl kill others... but rather that violent games are DESINSITIZING ppl towards violence. Which I think is plausible, and that's probably partly what the military is taking advantage of in said article.
I read somewhere that in the civil war, the "hit" rate for soldiers was abysmal, the majority of soldiers would rather shoot over the enemies head than kill him. After a few years of Quake, maybe that aversion gets trained right out of you!
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The fact that IBM is selling Watson as Watson just goes to show that Watson didn't in fact lead to anything interesting, in terms of general purpose AI. I always considered Watson to be Eliza on steroids, even in the midst of the marketing hype, and so far my prediction seems to be true. There was a lot of noise initially about how Watson was being sent to medical school, was going to be plugged into medical databases, etc etc. So far, from what I can tell, Watson is an expert system, just like Deep Blue -- good at the narrow problem it tries to solve, but not a good model for human cognition or language processing per se.
"Works that are designed for use doing practical jobs must be free; " ... uhmm... and that would be because...??
Open protocols don't help when everyone stops making webpages and moves to Facebook, which isn't publicly crawlable. Remember when everyone wanted their OWN website, and websites linked meaningfully to other websites, and there was a whole ecosystem of small, independent webpages with information on a crazy number of niche topics, and everyone's webpage had links to other webpages that they thought were cool? That doesn't really exist anymore. THAT web is dead. If Wikipedia and Craigslist, and a dozen other silo-type sites are all that's left to crawl (if they decide to let Google do it), how important is Google, really? The web has changed, and Google had to change or die with it. Google+ is just Google's attempt at taking what's left of the public, open web and internalize it (and make it all 'social' content mostly not publicly crawlable, ironically). So yeah, the (open) web really is dead, or will be soon.
I love how the pitch boils down to "Google goggles: they'll help you get laid". (Ukulele not included)
So the countermeasure/defense against this device is one that records what you're saying and then sends it out after a 5 second (or longer) delay, essentially pre-recording what you want to say by a short time. They already use this device at airport gates when they want to make an announcement.
I use InDesign CS5 on my Acer Aspire 1 (Win XP) netbook with 1 gig of RAM. Just sayin'.
Over 168 children have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan. You're right about one thing - the US is not at the level of Iran, nowhere close.
Funny. When I took Law 30 in high school I came away with a similarly ridiculous notion of my "rights" under the law. I though I understood what I could be arrested for, when I had to answer questions, what kinds of searches I could decline blah blah BLAH.
Well, take it from someone with a little experience and some hard-earned wisdom. The subtle and nuances of how you reply make no difference. The cop has the gun and may not be too concerned about breaking your fingers. He doesn't know or care about the finer points law as much as you think he does, and he's definitely not afraid mess with you and make your life hell if he doesn't *like* you. It doesn't really matter what you SAY because unless it's recorded (which it won't be 99% of the time), you SAID whatever he SAYS you said. In off-slashdot reality, the best advice is to be a submissive dog and pray the officer is in a good mood. Yeah, not a popular opinion, but there you have it.
Wiping out small independent publishers who "collate" mountains of information that they don't own the copyright for may well be what google intends to do. Let's be clear here. Are you an author? Do you create content? Or do you amalgamate other people's work, with or without their permission and/or using "fair use" provisions of copyright law? You don't really say, but I'm guessing from the tone of your post that you don't in fact create content. So, if your site is useful, provide the link, so we can have a better informed discussion about the merits of your site wrt the recent change in google's algorithm.
So what can you run on 1.36 kW/m2? Translated into one year's worth of energy, could that enough provide enough heat to keep me from freezing to death in the winter (I live in Canada)?
Hell, why not legalize herion? And sell it in schools! I mean, if we don't, we'll just be letting the black marketers and backroom pushers make all the money! hahahaha, you crack me up. Everyone "else" (the voting majority) is just blind to the lessons of history, everyone older than you must be a 'fuckwit' moron. uh huh.
you spend a week learning all the "Secret Ninja Moves" and when you're done, you're a real life ninja. ... right? r-right?
To retrieve all the items I stole from your house last night, please place a sticky note on your front door saying "star bright, star light, steal from someone else tonight!".
Honestly, if you're not even willing to do that, stop complaining when I steal from you!
Mony Python is one of my favorites. I recently saw "the Meaning of Life", and was pleasantly surprised that it was as clever as I remembered it.
freenet exemplifies what a peer-to-peer internet would be like: a disaster. It's slow, it's cumbersome, and more to the point, it fails to solve a problem a doesn't really exist in the first place. Nobody cares about anonymity at the EXPENSE of speed and convenience, except child pornographers, law breakers, and the paranoid. That's why networks like freenet and ZeroKnowledge ultimately fail.
That's not to say freenet not an interesting experiment. That's not to say anonymity isn't desireable. but please, anyone that's tried it knows it's not a panacea. If you're really paranoid, use a proxy like anonycat, or any of the zillion others. They are more than adequate.
prohibit Internet gambling regardless of whether the servers are located in the US or outside of it
Obviously this only applies to corporations and businesses incorporated in the US. Solution? Online gambling companies will simply incorporate on whatever island their servers are hosted, and shut down their US branches.
You don't have to be a US company to take US money.
yeah, I'm sure the segway doesn't measure up to all the things you've invented. Kamen only invented portable dialysis machines and innovative wheelchair designs, hardly as impressive as mastering the slashdot GUI, wot?
Haverblad also claims a lack of viruses and spyware.
um, having a lack of USERS tends to do that.
For a site with "no redeeming qualities" it sure is popular.
What you probably mean is, it has no redeeming qualities FOR YOU. But then again, neither do teen idols, glam magazines, and scratch-and-sniff stickers.
The real question whether the risk of an internet predator outweighs the enjoyment factor. IMO it's a real, but overblown threat... a smaller risk than, say, letting your kid walk to school.
I dont use keys, I just create self-extracting archives, change their extension from .sda.exe to something else, and then upload them. When you execute the archive it queries you for a password. I find the archives to be quite small too.
One issue is code re-use.
Code re-use is why you write API's and create your own libraries, so that you don't have to keep re-inventing the wheel.
The other issues are version control, code management, etc. Some ppl here are recommending cvs and other such overkill. If your a novice PHP coder, none of that matters; you probably have a handfull of scripts that weren't written with re-usability in mind, and therefore are minimally reusable (written in a language that doesn't encourage re-usability to boot) so theres no "tool" that will magically let you squeeze the juice of re-usability from stone.
At this point, you biggest concern should be storage for sake of making frequent backups. Personally, I encrypt whatever folder I'm working in (using PGP) and email it to my gmail account every day. That way it's accessible no matter where I am, and pretty secure too.
In Soviet Russia,
Intel beats YOU.
sorry, couldn't help myself.
Dvorak should take a lesson in writing.
If I want to write about my BELIEF that
Dvorak is a moron (for example), I might say
"I suspect Dvorak is a moron"
or
"Dvorak may be a moron".
It's simply redundant to say
"I think Dvorak may be a moron".
It's like saying
"I think there's a chance that dvorak might possibly
be a potential moron".
when clearly, the point here is simply that Dvorak is a moron.
The Web is no longer a place where simple applications are tolerated
Not so. Simple = GOOD, just look at the success of google; no fancy front end required. AJAX, like good special effects in a movie, can enhance the end-user experience when applied selectively and intelligently. They are NOT an end in themselves.
The truth is, the web is a place were only USEFUL applications are tolerated, whether or not they use AJAX.
Where the argument against gaming falls apart is the contention that playing these games somehow makes people (THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!!) more likely to go out and kill other innocent human beings.
Straw man. Nobody is claiming that violent games MAKE ppl kill others... but rather that violent games are DESINSITIZING ppl towards violence. Which I think is plausible, and that's probably partly what the military is taking advantage of in said article.
I read somewhere that in the civil war, the "hit" rate for soldiers was abysmal, the majority of soldiers would rather shoot over the enemies head than kill him. After a few years of Quake, maybe that aversion gets trained right out of you!