Adobe's Lightroom also has "face recognition" and its nearly useless. BUT... I thought the Apple face id scanned your face and created a 3D map so I had hopes.
That makes sense... sorta but I assumed (perhaps naively) that Apple can not decrypt the stuff in its cloud. If I was Apple, that's how I would work it. Then there is no debate or questions.
I can see getting evidence in pursuit of criminal charges but the guy is dead. Do they honestly think there will be evidence to prosecute others for helping the guy out?
I came here to read the comments. I am pretty sure that six months ago the general perspective would have been much more pro Paris agreement and anti-Trump. My glancing through these comments shows that at this point, people really see how utterly worthless the Paris agreement is in addressing any climate issue at all, how unfair the agreement is to the US, and how corrupt Obama was in the things he did pertaining to the deal.
Curiously... folks still seem to be anti-Trump although that might be shifting slightly... maybe.
Their argument (not mine) is that because the tax rate is so high, it is cheaper for corporations to do bolthole shenanigans than it is to pay the taxes. The argument is that with lower tax rates, the bolthole shenanigans no longer are cost effective and so the corporations end up paying more taxes than they do today (and end up with a smaller total expense since they no longer have the expense of the bolthole shenanigans). As the boltholers like to chime "A win win!!!".
I use LastPass too. Do you like the new UI? I'm using Firefox on a Mac. It is horrible compared to what it was before. I'm tempted to find another alternative.
Interesting that he moved to twitch.tv I wonder if that is viable for others; what the advantages and disadvantages are. WIth matching Patreon accounts (or equivalent), seems like that might work... until twitch becomes corrupt and evil.
Well... I'm not sure. The chicken shit politicians are not going to stand up for Americans or what is good for the country. They are going to (individually) figure out what is best for their own personal gains and act in that fashion. Putting your faith in congress or the president (no matter who is in office) is ludicrous.
Lets assume I'm an Apple Fan Boy because that is probably more true than false.
Tim is a huge fuck up. He could have at least $20,000 more of my money than he does.
If he would have offered a good MPB three years ago, I would have bought it and would have probably purchased another MPB this year.
If there was an updated Mac Mini, I would have bought one within the past twelve months.
If there was an updated Mac Pro -- especially if it could be upgraded -- I would have bought one of those within the past two years.
If I had not been teased with the iMac Pro, I would have bought an iMac a few months back.
Sure... I probably would not have purchased ALL of those but I bet I would have purchased more than just a couple. I can't predict. But the point is that Apple treats the Mac like a red headed step child and that is driving revenue down. Instead of being able to have a need and immediately fill it with a solid viable Mac, I search and surf, get frustrated, and decide that my need isn't that great after all and go back to just watching porn.
The plus side is that I still have the $20,000 in my pocket and, of course, technology is getting better and cheaper. My needs keep changing. So my room full of junk to sell on eBay is only half full instead of flooding over.
Why not Linux? Because I'm possessed by the Adobe hordes. Yea, there are open source wanna be's but I'm addicted to the Creative Suite with its 15 or so applications and the way they are all integrated.
Why not a Hackintosh? Mostly because I have yet to have a true need that is real. The machines I have are able to do the work I need. My first Hackintosh I assume will be a non-trivial journey. Ten years ago, I would have enjoyed it. Now I just want to go buy something that works. I can afford it and I've lost the key curiosity that would make such an adventure fun. Its basically "been there, done that" and I'm not anxious to do it again.
The only good thing I can say about Tim is, for whatever reason, the stock keeps going up. The $20K I keep mentioning I used to buy Apple stock with and its now worth $30K. Attaboy Tim!
Perhaps "Survivor Bias" is not the right term but traffic to sites to ask questions may not be a good indicator of a language's popularity. It is an indication of questions people had about the language.
For example, when is the last time you asked a question about C? Probably never. Why? Because its very easy to understand and the libraries are also easy to find.
I'm not saying anything about Python. I'm just saying that looking at the number of questions may not give valid results.
I've always wondered about a few ideas. These are half baked but I'm curious what the pitfalls might be.
First, a browser should randomly "click" on the ads and then just spew the resulting web page to/dev/null. This would start creating false clicks. False clicks would cause the advertisers to start paying more only to discover that the effectiveness of Google advertising is becoming less and less useful.
This would impact bandwidth and would clearly be something that users would want to customize and tailor as far as how much bandwidth to allow this activity to consume and during what time. Is there a reason not to let your browser randomly surf the ads late at night when everyone is asleep?
Ad blocking is fine but that doesn't create false data. To fight back against the web trackers and folks like Google, false data must be introduced into the system. And it can't be 1% or 10%. It would need to be a significant percentage; utopia is if there is more false data than valid data.
Second, create several servers that are giant cookie jars. Web browsers, instead of rejecting third party cookies, would soak them up only to dump them into the big cookie jars. Then they would suck out a random sample of cookies from the cookie jar and use them as if they were real.
I believe this would frustrate many of the tracking methods that are used today.
This idea clearly has some risks. Competent web designers never put critical data into a cookie but the day of anyone being competent at anything is long gone. So, the user would need to explicitly mark cookies as potential security risks and not send them to the giant cookie jars. Third party cookies (I would assume) would never be a security risk.
The point here is go on the offensive and find viable methods of producing false data. If the SNR becomes negative, I believe Google, FB, Yahoo, etc would start to have serious issues.
The other point is if there is more noise to signal in these types of things, it would seriously hamper any reason for Big Brother from just assuming the data and the implications that lead from the data is valid.
I'd love to see the next generations of ad blockers start producing false data rather than just passively blocking the ads.
This article (and others) give ways to make money from Instagram. I find Instagram a place for soft porn photos but there are a lot of users who are very concerned about the number of their followers. I can't say I 100% get it. But I don't get 99% of the economic choices people make these days.
So... if you have followers and a blue checky thingy I presume would get more hits via searches and those hits would lead to more clicks to either the stuff you are pushing or your own products.
More hits would also mean more followers would likely build up... blah blah blah... extrapolate (oh wait... you are only five... so) zoom zoom zoom and you can now by Manhattan (oh... sorry...) your very own ice cream truck.
I'd like to see many of the image and video format patents released to the public domain. I think that would stimulate a lot of new innovation. It sounds from various articles and events as if research in this area is strangled because of fears that a patent troll will bring an expensive lawsuit.
This appears to disagree. California is last. Texas is near the buttom.
I'm sure you have counter references (honestly... I do). This was just the first Google hit. But, here is another. California is midway (top is bad, bottom is good) with Texas in the lower third or so.
So, you are saying that while the drone is flying, it is connected to the internet? How is this being done? What radio frequencies are being used? What receiving equipment is being used?
There is so much acceptance that it is true, I'd like someone to point me to something that would educate me on how all this is working.
A quick peek at the DJI forums has folks saying that they flow out in the wilderness with no internet all the time. So... what is going on here?
10 - 3 = 7. It sounds like Foxconn is dumping $7B into the state. How long will it take the state to break even from the $7B opportunity cost?
50 years ago, IBM came to Austin and set up shop. Texas Instruments followed. At this point, it is a thriving tech mecca sucking many people away from Silicon Valley. Why?
Its not just because of IBM but it is also because of the "pro" business attitude of Austin and Texas in general. At the same time, California has become fairly hostile to business resulting in a carrot and a stick: Texas offering the carrots and California whipping with their sticks.
Yes... there are pros and cons to each side but you either want growth or you don't. If you don't want growth, that's fine but politicians would run on "no growth" platforms if that were the case. But they don't because generally growth is considered progressive, positive, futuristic, blah blah blah. Voters vote pro-growth. The confusion comes when they find out that pro-growth equates to pro-business. Then they have ambivalence and second thoughts.
Wisconsin could build upon this seed and over the next 50 years build up to a viable competitive center for high tech manufacturing; or... they could botch it.
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Adobe's Lightroom also has "face recognition" and its nearly useless. BUT... I thought the Apple face id scanned your face and created a 3D map so I had hopes.
That makes sense... sorta but I assumed (perhaps naively) that Apple can not decrypt the stuff in its cloud. If I was Apple, that's how I would work it. Then there is no debate or questions.
I can see getting evidence in pursuit of criminal charges but the guy is dead. Do they honestly think there will be evidence to prosecute others for helping the guy out?
Yea... I want to graduate to 16 bombs in one month like Sweden has done. This pansy ass gun stuff is too slow!!!
There is no "I" in "Borg".
Not uhh..!!! not by the time Apple gets done with it: iBorg
So this message is marked as Troll... that's hysterical.
I came here to read the comments. I am pretty sure that six months ago the general perspective would have been much more pro Paris agreement and anti-Trump. My glancing through these comments shows that at this point, people really see how utterly worthless the Paris agreement is in addressing any climate issue at all, how unfair the agreement is to the US, and how corrupt Obama was in the things he did pertaining to the deal.
Curiously... folks still seem to be anti-Trump although that might be shifting slightly ... maybe.
Their argument (not mine) is that because the tax rate is so high, it is cheaper for corporations to do bolthole shenanigans than it is to pay the taxes. The argument is that with lower tax rates, the bolthole shenanigans no longer are cost effective and so the corporations end up paying more taxes than they do today (and end up with a smaller total expense since they no longer have the expense of the bolthole shenanigans). As the boltholers like to chime "A win win!!!".
K-Y jelly at the register
I've fallen and I can't get up
Is there a Life Alert for countries?
Is this what you are looking for? Jonathan Coulton - Space Doggity
I use LastPass too. Do you like the new UI? I'm using Firefox on a Mac. It is horrible compared to what it was before. I'm tempted to find another alternative.
Interesting that he moved to twitch.tv I wonder if that is viable for others; what the advantages and disadvantages are. WIth matching Patreon accounts (or equivalent), seems like that might work... until twitch becomes corrupt and evil.
Well... I'm not sure. The chicken shit politicians are not going to stand up for Americans or what is good for the country. They are going to (individually) figure out what is best for their own personal gains and act in that fashion. Putting your faith in congress or the president (no matter who is in office) is ludicrous.
Lets assume I'm an Apple Fan Boy because that is probably more true than false.
Tim is a huge fuck up. He could have at least $20,000 more of my money than he does.
If he would have offered a good MPB three years ago, I would have bought it and would have probably purchased another MPB this year.
If there was an updated Mac Mini, I would have bought one within the past twelve months.
If there was an updated Mac Pro -- especially if it could be upgraded -- I would have bought one of those within the past two years.
If I had not been teased with the iMac Pro, I would have bought an iMac a few months back.
Sure... I probably would not have purchased ALL of those but I bet I would have purchased more than just a couple. I can't predict. But the point is that Apple treats the Mac like a red headed step child and that is driving revenue down. Instead of being able to have a need and immediately fill it with a solid viable Mac, I search and surf, get frustrated, and decide that my need isn't that great after all and go back to just watching porn.
The plus side is that I still have the $20,000 in my pocket and, of course, technology is getting better and cheaper. My needs keep changing. So my room full of junk to sell on eBay is only half full instead of flooding over.
Why not Linux? Because I'm possessed by the Adobe hordes. Yea, there are open source wanna be's but I'm addicted to the Creative Suite with its 15 or so applications and the way they are all integrated.
Why not a Hackintosh? Mostly because I have yet to have a true need that is real. The machines I have are able to do the work I need. My first Hackintosh I assume will be a non-trivial journey. Ten years ago, I would have enjoyed it. Now I just want to go buy something that works. I can afford it and I've lost the key curiosity that would make such an adventure fun. Its basically "been there, done that" and I'm not anxious to do it again.
The only good thing I can say about Tim is, for whatever reason, the stock keeps going up. The $20K I keep mentioning I used to buy Apple stock with and its now worth $30K. Attaboy Tim!
Its not dead... its just sleeping
Perhaps "Survivor Bias" is not the right term but traffic to sites to ask questions may not be a good indicator of a language's popularity. It is an indication of questions people had about the language.
For example, when is the last time you asked a question about C? Probably never. Why? Because its very easy to understand and the libraries are also easy to find.
I'm not saying anything about Python. I'm just saying that looking at the number of questions may not give valid results.
I've always wondered about a few ideas. These are half baked but I'm curious what the pitfalls might be.
First, a browser should randomly "click" on the ads and then just spew the resulting web page to /dev/null. This would start creating false clicks. False clicks would cause the advertisers to start paying more only to discover that the effectiveness of Google advertising is becoming less and less useful.
This would impact bandwidth and would clearly be something that users would want to customize and tailor as far as how much bandwidth to allow this activity to consume and during what time. Is there a reason not to let your browser randomly surf the ads late at night when everyone is asleep?
Ad blocking is fine but that doesn't create false data. To fight back against the web trackers and folks like Google, false data must be introduced into the system. And it can't be 1% or 10%. It would need to be a significant percentage; utopia is if there is more false data than valid data.
Second, create several servers that are giant cookie jars. Web browsers, instead of rejecting third party cookies, would soak them up only to dump them into the big cookie jars. Then they would suck out a random sample of cookies from the cookie jar and use them as if they were real.
I believe this would frustrate many of the tracking methods that are used today.
This idea clearly has some risks. Competent web designers never put critical data into a cookie but the day of anyone being competent at anything is long gone. So, the user would need to explicitly mark cookies as potential security risks and not send them to the giant cookie jars. Third party cookies (I would assume) would never be a security risk.
The point here is go on the offensive and find viable methods of producing false data. If the SNR becomes negative, I believe Google, FB, Yahoo, etc would start to have serious issues.
The other point is if there is more noise to signal in these types of things, it would seriously hamper any reason for Big Brother from just assuming the data and the implications that lead from the data is valid.
I'd love to see the next generations of ad blockers start producing false data rather than just passively blocking the ads.
Someone please explain like I'm 5
This article (and others) give ways to make money from Instagram. I find Instagram a place for soft porn photos but there are a lot of users who are very concerned about the number of their followers. I can't say I 100% get it. But I don't get 99% of the economic choices people make these days.
So... if you have followers and a blue checky thingy I presume would get more hits via searches and those hits would lead to more clicks to either the stuff you are pushing or your own products.
More hits would also mean more followers would likely build up... blah blah blah... extrapolate (oh wait... you are only five... so) zoom zoom zoom and you can now by Manhattan (oh... sorry...) your very own ice cream truck.
I'd like to see many of the image and video format patents released to the public domain. I think that would stimulate a lot of new innovation. It sounds from various articles and events as if research in this area is strangled because of fears that a patent troll will bring an expensive lawsuit.
References?
This appears to disagree. California is last. Texas is near the buttom.
I'm sure you have counter references (honestly... I do). This was just the first Google hit. But, here is another. California is midway (top is bad, bottom is good) with Texas in the lower third or so.
So, you are saying that while the drone is flying, it is connected to the internet? How is this being done? What radio frequencies are being used? What receiving equipment is being used?
There is so much acceptance that it is true, I'd like someone to point me to something that would educate me on how all this is working.
A quick peek at the DJI forums has folks saying that they flow out in the wilderness with no internet all the time. So... what is going on here?
Nahhh... many many people just hate.
10 - 3 = 7. It sounds like Foxconn is dumping $7B into the state. How long will it take the state to break even from the $7B opportunity cost?
50 years ago, IBM came to Austin and set up shop. Texas Instruments followed. At this point, it is a thriving tech mecca sucking many people away from Silicon Valley. Why?
Its not just because of IBM but it is also because of the "pro" business attitude of Austin and Texas in general. At the same time, California has become fairly hostile to business resulting in a carrot and a stick: Texas offering the carrots and California whipping with their sticks.
Yes... there are pros and cons to each side but you either want growth or you don't. If you don't want growth, that's fine but politicians would run on "no growth" platforms if that were the case. But they don't because generally growth is considered progressive, positive, futuristic, blah blah blah. Voters vote pro-growth. The confusion comes when they find out that pro-growth equates to pro-business. Then they have ambivalence and second thoughts.
Wisconsin could build upon this seed and over the next 50 years build up to a viable competitive center for high tech manufacturing; or... they could botch it.
$100 says they botch it.
Google is handling this about as well as the British handled Gallipoli.
Learned, educated references to history will not be tolerated in this forum! This is clear discrimination against all things idiotic!!!
would have CTE if / when we donate our brains. Who says it has anything to do with sports unless "child rearing" is considered a "sport".