the finite number of minigames they set up with their finite number of items in them, rendering the whole thing pretty useless.
There might not be a benefit to that outcome, but a "good" CAPTCHA system does have a good outcome when it's broken.
I was talking to the guy who started reCAPTCHA many years ago, and his idea was that the OCR work they were farming out was too tough for algorithms to beat. As long as bots could not do better than humans, reCAPTCHA would be offering a valuable service. As soon as the bots were as good as the humans, accurate OCR had been solved, and reCAPTCHA had made that happen, so it was also a win, and he'd have to come up with another CAPTCHA.
I tend to shy away from helping Google StreetSpy on people, and use the audio CAPCHA when available now, but more people are doing the street number thing, which could still be used for good (if we trust Google). And if the bots solve that, maybe their algorithms could be applied to ambulance services, or whatever.
I'm not sure that the TFA's proposals "solve two problems" the way that great engineering solutions universally do. But there are certainly worthy ones out there.
Does "promoting" mean passing out some posters or getting rid of the requirement to purchase a fishing license from the State to keep the northern snakehead? There are plenty of folks out of work who could help here in a win-win situation. We already have systems in place to police the fish that people keep and removing all restrictions on invasive species taking would go a long way towards reducing their populations.
Sometimes I think what America needs is mother nature hitting the proverbial reset button on us.
It'll be amazing if "America" is still around in 2080, much less 2880.
The entire population of the 13 Colonies was less than the current population of Iowa and they stood up a country just fine. China doesn't keep itself together by playing nice, and we really need to avoid going the Mao Zedong route.
The problem is their algorithm has to be close to perfect or it makes things worse. Once people begin to trust the label, they'll fall harder for the stories that the algorithm misses.
If someone develops a digital currency that addresses those issues and makes them more practical for every day use I support it.
Exactly. The Bitcoin high priests have already chased off the Zerocoin folks, so their future is far from guaranteed. secp256k1 also looks like it wasn't the best choice.
The blockchain idea is a good one, and will probably outlast bitcoin itself. But middlemen are also needed for any of these systems to handle transactions and arbitrage efficiently.
The OP isn't wrong, though - the trendy altcoins are all doomed too.
Leadership is exactly the opposite of what we need. Remember, the Integral Fast Reactor was successfully run for more than a year and was ready for commercialization by about '92. Within the first few weeks of Clinton's Presidency, he defunded the post-research effort and Gore, Kerry and O'Leary lead the Senate fight to kill the project completely.
Without that "leadership" we'd all be sipping power by now generated by cleaning up the waste from the light water reactors that is such a disastrous 300,000-year problem. Branson even has been trying to get an appointment with Obama for years to talk about _him_ footing the bill to get such a system rolling in the US (Virgin Electric?) but "leadership" continues to suppress clean[up] power.
"Leadership" wants to make an enemy out of carbon-based energy sources - not replace them. An external threat is always the way to more power (but not the kind we need).
We could stand to have quite a bit less leadership and instead let coordinating partners actually fix the problem.
Oh they are "merely imagined" by a lot more than just the US Government. And that's why they have actual value.
And that "imagining" of new FRN's is also why commodity producers around the world demand twice as many FRN's for their goods as they did a decade ago.
With the caveat that not all startups are created equal, if you want to be treated like family then you need to find a startup to work for.
Once a group of humans gets above about 150 people, it starts to fracture. The whole point of the modern corporation is to keep warring factions together and get something done despite the constant efforts of its participants to tear itself apart. It's not surprising that the group will tend to fracture along lines of similar people - engineers perhaps being the beta clan in many corporations (that tend to hire beta engineers).
If you think you can get respect as an engineer in a big corporation (that's not explicitly run by engineers) then you need to go talk to an anthropologist. Not that anthropologists know anything that engineers don't already know better...
I'd really like to see a crowdfunding site which takes venture capital out of the realm of multi-millionaires, and puts it within reach of the common person.
It's a great idea but don't try it in the USA - the SEC specifically forbids this.
People complain that the rich just keep getting richer.
Right, that's the desired outcome of the SEC.
At least it'll be a helluva lot more productive than getting low- and middle-income people to play the lottery.
Those are designed to make the poor poorer whist enriching the governments. They also work as intended.
the customers of the products it produces. So they should on average pick good product ideas, making it positive sum, whereas lotteries are zero or negative sum
Exactly - we can't have that now - it makes for very poor herd management costs.
Witness the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an aircraft nobody needs
Don't play the game, man. Here's who needs it:
* Politicians, for pork * Defense contractors, for "Sweet Jesus we're rolling in dough" money * Lobbyists, for a slice of the dough. * The Federal Reserve, the monopoly private bank that makes interest on the debt * Wall Street bankers, who take a commission on the new debt created.
If you look at this as corruption instead of a mysterious boondoggle, it makes perfect sense.
There's absolutely zero chance of defeating an invisible enemy.
No government worker will be fired, but don't worry, three hundred million people will be collectively punished for it as that billion dollars gets added to the debt and all their cost-of-goods prices go up.
Sadly, that feedback loop never seems to get closed. Results don't matter - as long as there are promises and intentions, that's good enough for most.
they're not making this some sort of Ender's game scenario with 8 year old kids flying drones
No, but they can use what they learn about 8-year-old kids to best adapt methods for 18-year-old kids.
Just ask any insurance actuary when humans mature mentally - for men it's about 25 (women earlier but one cannot have "sexist" policies in the US, damn the data).
Raise the age of majority and enlistment to 25 and they'd have to reinstitute a draft to fight wars like Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. Kids sign up eagerly - mature men not so much unless there's an actual threat to the country.
Politicians could never allow such a thing to happen in a warfare/welfare state, but let's at least be honest about what the status quo actually looks like. If Somali warlords are criminals for conscripting 15 year olds and handing them an AK and putting them out to get shot in wars they don't understand, the morality does not change just because a piece of paper says "18" is a magic number and tricking them into enlisting with future promises of riches ("we'll see what we can do about getting you assigned to a helicopter unit with technician training so you get a good-paying job when you get out") and then handing them an M16 and putting them out to get shot in wars they do not understand. Replace magic with science and the balance changes quite dramatically.
Having a well-thought-out, consistent, orthogonal, and to-the-extent-possible obvioius UI... DON'T rely on your own intuition about what's common or difficult for users, ask them or collect the data.
You have it exactly right, but notice the AskSlashdot talked about UX, not UI.
UI is a science, there are methods, data, studies and books. UI people are rare and valuable.
UX people tend to add more whitespace, transparency and animations, making the product look more fashionable (" n++.0" ) for whichever n your developers are currently building.
If there's no UI person in sight, documentation is probably his best choice.
Most days I'm working in bases: 2,8,10,12,16 and 60 for one reason or another. For construction I've tried decimal but have returned to dozenal for the ease of working with prime factors and mental math - I was always on the calculator in my decimal phase.
Y'know, my eleven year old daughter understands base and place value and can do math in arbitrary bases (it took me maybe four hours to teach her) - why do some Europeans feel so smug about being ignorant of non-decimal systems?
so funny... if you were competent enough to review all the patches and keep your server secure enough to be a good Internet citizen, unchecking 'automatic ' would not be a hurdle.
You can turn off all alerts except for these so called Presidential alerts.
This is what I've done. Not because I don't like the idea, in theory. But I was getting "emergency" alerts for an approaching thunderstorm. Guess what? It's summer. Thunderstorms are normal, not an emergency.
The trouble with the system, as deployed, is there's a monopoly on discrimination. And the retards placed in charge of that monopoly have ruined its potential and left me without a competitive choice in intellect. The only two options are "on" and "off", and "on" was removed from consideration.
Let this be a learning opportunity for the next kid who wants to design a safety system.
only the trendy crap sold at best buy. I bought an otterbox commuter for $19 online. you can get china cases for as little as $4.00 with free shipping.
Got my daughter one of those China cases for her Moto G because it had to be neon green and had to have a kickstand, and the options were limited. But it's actually quite good.
I've got an Incipio Dual Pro on my S4 and it's definitely better. But only somewhat better, not dramatically. The Incipio is "really good" while the China Special is "quite good".
My phone is also way more expensive and the margin is worth it, but I would not steer people away from the no-name cases if they have good reviews.
No, it's CPU-intensive and fast. If you control the whole network (see Google, et. al.). CPU is not the bottleneck in 2014.
But the very last thing we want is central control of the Internet. We may wish to have SDN's outside each peering point, but that's the ISP's business, not the Internet's architecture's.
See, we can want one thing in one place and something else entirely in a different place. One-size-fits-all solutions don't attempt to address the requirements of each situation.
We changed all our systems over time to handle this great IPv6 change, and haven't used IPv6 yet
You might have, but many of those systems still set to default to 512K routes also don't have IPv6 in ASIC, only in software on the anemic CPU. This will improve, but today shows us that not everybody is running the latest gear.
(not that IPv6 fixes this problem, but to the larger question)
At that point, does the world finally point to China and say enough is enough, or will the far left still insist on giving them a MASSIVE out?
That 'out' is the best thing that we can do. If you look carefully, China is moving as fast as it can towards fast breeder reactors, hydro, etc. They're cheaper in the long-run than carbon-based energy sources and much better for their air (and ours) but the capital expense is really high. Look, nobody in Beijing is happy about breathing diesel soup for breakfast.
If you want to reduce China's available capital, you're just going to delay their cleaning up their act. Even the IPCC models count on economic development as a major source of reduction. All the "Scare Numbers" that politicians quote are based on IPCC's worst estimates based on a throttling of economic development.
Economies are dynamic, not static (sorry, Mr. Keynes, your fantasy failed). China has learned the foibles of central-planning - we should not do worse than they did.
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the finite number of minigames they set up with their finite number of items in them, rendering the whole thing pretty useless.
There might not be a benefit to that outcome, but a "good" CAPTCHA system does have a good outcome when it's broken.
I was talking to the guy who started reCAPTCHA many years ago, and his idea was that the OCR work they were farming out was too tough for algorithms to beat. As long as bots could not do better than humans, reCAPTCHA would be offering a valuable service. As soon as the bots were as good as the humans, accurate OCR had been solved, and reCAPTCHA had made that happen, so it was also a win, and he'd have to come up with another CAPTCHA.
I tend to shy away from helping Google StreetSpy on people, and use the audio CAPCHA when available now, but more people are doing the street number thing, which could still be used for good (if we trust Google). And if the bots solve that, maybe their algorithms could be applied to ambulance services, or whatever.
I'm not sure that the TFA's proposals "solve two problems" the way that great engineering solutions universally do. But there are certainly worthy ones out there.
Does "promoting" mean passing out some posters or getting rid of the requirement to purchase a fishing license from the State to keep the northern snakehead? There are plenty of folks out of work who could help here in a win-win situation. We already have systems in place to police the fish that people keep and removing all restrictions on invasive species taking would go a long way towards reducing their populations.
The state of engineering in PC recovery is awful, shame on software devs
What? You just power off your vm, roll back the storage to the appropriate snapshot, and turn it on again.
Wait - you let Windows touch your hardware? Oh, my.
Sometimes I think what America needs is mother nature hitting the proverbial reset button on us.
It'll be amazing if "America" is still around in 2080, much less 2880.
The entire population of the 13 Colonies was less than the current population of Iowa and they stood up a country just fine. China doesn't keep itself together by playing nice, and we really need to avoid going the Mao Zedong route.
The problem is their algorithm has to be close to perfect or it makes things worse. Once people begin to trust the label, they'll fall harder for the stories that the algorithm misses.
I don't think Literally Unbelievable has anything to worry about.
If someone develops a digital currency that addresses those issues and makes them more practical for every day use I support it.
Exactly. The Bitcoin high priests have already chased off the Zerocoin folks, so their future is far from guaranteed. secp256k1 also looks like it wasn't the best choice.
The blockchain idea is a good one, and will probably outlast bitcoin itself. But middlemen are also needed for any of these systems to handle transactions and arbitrage efficiently.
The OP isn't wrong, though - the trendy altcoins are all doomed too.
Literally, a guy named Lovins writes papers about applied hope.
It's just a made up fairy-tale name anyway.
We need some leadership to push the concept.
Leadership is exactly the opposite of what we need. Remember, the Integral Fast Reactor was successfully run for more than a year and was ready for commercialization by about '92. Within the first few weeks of Clinton's Presidency, he defunded the post-research effort and Gore, Kerry and O'Leary lead the Senate fight to kill the project completely.
Without that "leadership" we'd all be sipping power by now generated by cleaning up the waste from the light water reactors that is such a disastrous 300,000-year problem. Branson even has been trying to get an appointment with Obama for years to talk about _him_ footing the bill to get such a system rolling in the US (Virgin Electric?) but "leadership" continues to suppress clean[up] power.
"Leadership" wants to make an enemy out of carbon-based energy sources - not replace them. An external threat is always the way to more power (but not the kind we need).
We could stand to have quite a bit less leadership and instead let coordinating partners actually fix the problem.
Oh they are "merely imagined" by a lot more than just the US Government. And that's why they have actual value.
And that "imagining" of new FRN's is also why commodity producers around the world demand twice as many FRN's for their goods as they did a decade ago.
With the caveat that not all startups are created equal, if you want to be treated like family then you need to find a startup to work for.
Once a group of humans gets above about 150 people, it starts to fracture. The whole point of the modern corporation is to keep warring factions together and get something done despite the constant efforts of its participants to tear itself apart. It's not surprising that the group will tend to fracture along lines of similar people - engineers perhaps being the beta clan in many corporations (that tend to hire beta engineers).
If you think you can get respect as an engineer in a big corporation (that's not explicitly run by engineers) then you need to go talk to an anthropologist. Not that anthropologists know anything that engineers don't already know better...
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I'd really like to see a crowdfunding site which takes venture capital out of the realm of multi-millionaires, and puts it within reach of the common person.
It's a great idea but don't try it in the USA - the SEC specifically forbids this.
People complain that the rich just keep getting richer.
Right, that's the desired outcome of the SEC.
At least it'll be a helluva lot more productive than getting low- and middle-income people to play the lottery.
Those are designed to make the poor poorer whist enriching the governments. They also work as intended.
the customers of the products it produces. So they should on average pick good product ideas, making it positive sum, whereas lotteries are zero or negative sum
Exactly - we can't have that now - it makes for very poor herd management costs.
Witness the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, an aircraft nobody needs
Don't play the game, man. Here's who needs it:
* Politicians, for pork
* Defense contractors, for "Sweet Jesus we're rolling in dough" money
* Lobbyists, for a slice of the dough.
* The Federal Reserve, the monopoly private bank that makes interest on the debt
* Wall Street bankers, who take a commission on the new debt created.
If you look at this as corruption instead of a mysterious boondoggle, it makes perfect sense.
There's absolutely zero chance of defeating an invisible enemy.
No punishments or consequences, all around!
No government worker will be fired, but don't worry, three hundred million people will be collectively punished for it as that billion dollars gets added to the debt and all their cost-of-goods prices go up.
Sadly, that feedback loop never seems to get closed. Results don't matter - as long as there are promises and intentions, that's good enough for most.
Uber et. al. have obviated the need for those a-priori licensing regimes and offer safer, better solutions to the same old coordination problems.
It means the end of the useful life of the cartels and their [often captured] regulators, so of course they fight it.
Here, have a listen:
http://www.cato.org/multimedia...
they're not making this some sort of Ender's game scenario with 8 year old kids flying drones
No, but they can use what they learn about 8-year-old kids to best adapt methods for 18-year-old kids.
Just ask any insurance actuary when humans mature mentally - for men it's about 25 (women earlier but one cannot have "sexist" policies in the US, damn the data).
Raise the age of majority and enlistment to 25 and they'd have to reinstitute a draft to fight wars like Iraq, Yemen, and Libya. Kids sign up eagerly - mature men not so much unless there's an actual threat to the country.
Politicians could never allow such a thing to happen in a warfare/welfare state, but let's at least be honest about what the status quo actually looks like. If Somali warlords are criminals for conscripting 15 year olds and handing them an AK and putting them out to get shot in wars they don't understand, the morality does not change just because a piece of paper says "18" is a magic number and tricking them into enlisting with future promises of riches ("we'll see what we can do about getting you assigned to a helicopter unit with technician training so you get a good-paying job when you get out") and then handing them an M16 and putting them out to get shot in wars they do not understand. Replace magic with science and the balance changes quite dramatically.
Having a well-thought-out, consistent, orthogonal, and to-the-extent-possible obvioius UI ...
DON'T rely on your own intuition about what's common or difficult for users, ask them or collect the data.
You have it exactly right, but notice the AskSlashdot talked about UX, not UI.
UI is a science, there are methods, data, studies and books. UI people are rare and valuable.
UX people tend to add more whitespace, transparency and animations, making the product look more fashionable (" n++.0" ) for whichever n your developers are currently building.
If there's no UI person in sight, documentation is probably his best choice.
Most days I'm working in bases: 2,8,10,12,16 and 60 for one reason or another. For construction I've tried decimal but have returned to dozenal for the ease of working with prime factors and mental math - I was always on the calculator in my decimal phase.
Y'know, my eleven year old daughter understands base and place value and can do math in arbitrary bases (it took me maybe four hours to teach her) - why do some Europeans feel so smug about being ignorant of non-decimal systems?
if you only have one computer you're not the kind of person who will be helpful in diagnosing a kernel driver bug (sorry if that stings).
so funny ... if you were competent enough to review all the patches and keep your server secure enough to be a good Internet citizen, unchecking 'automatic ' would not be a hurdle.
You can turn off all alerts except for these so called Presidential alerts.
This is what I've done. Not because I don't like the idea, in theory. But I was getting "emergency" alerts for an approaching thunderstorm. Guess what? It's summer. Thunderstorms are normal, not an emergency.
The trouble with the system, as deployed, is there's a monopoly on discrimination. And the retards placed in charge of that monopoly have ruined its potential and left me without a competitive choice in intellect. The only two options are "on" and "off", and "on" was removed from consideration.
Let this be a learning opportunity for the next kid who wants to design a safety system.
only the trendy crap sold at best buy. I bought an otterbox commuter for $19 online. you can get china cases for as little as $4.00 with free shipping.
Got my daughter one of those China cases for her Moto G because it had to be neon green and had to have a kickstand, and the options were limited. But it's actually quite good.
I've got an Incipio Dual Pro on my S4 and it's definitely better. But only somewhat better, not dramatically. The Incipio is "really good" while the China Special is "quite good".
My phone is also way more expensive and the margin is worth it, but I would not steer people away from the no-name cases if they have good reviews.
Sounds CPU intensive and slow.
No, it's CPU-intensive and fast. If you control the whole network (see Google, et. al.). CPU is not the bottleneck in 2014.
But the very last thing we want is central control of the Internet. We may wish to have SDN's outside each peering point, but that's the ISP's business, not the Internet's architecture's.
See, we can want one thing in one place and something else entirely in a different place. One-size-fits-all solutions don't attempt to address the requirements of each situation.
We changed all our systems over time to handle this great IPv6 change, and haven't used IPv6 yet
You might have, but many of those systems still set to default to 512K routes also don't have IPv6 in ASIC, only in software on the anemic CPU. This will improve, but today shows us that not everybody is running the latest gear.
(not that IPv6 fixes this problem, but to the larger question)
At that point, does the world finally point to China and say enough is enough, or will the far left still insist on giving them a MASSIVE out?
That 'out' is the best thing that we can do. If you look carefully, China is moving as fast as it can towards fast breeder reactors, hydro, etc. They're cheaper in the long-run than carbon-based energy sources and much better for their air (and ours) but the capital expense is really high. Look, nobody in Beijing is happy about breathing diesel soup for breakfast.
If you want to reduce China's available capital, you're just going to delay their cleaning up their act. Even the IPCC models count on economic development as a major source of reduction. All the "Scare Numbers" that politicians quote are based on IPCC's worst estimates based on a throttling of economic development.
Economies are dynamic, not static (sorry, Mr. Keynes, your fantasy failed). China has learned the foibles of central-planning - we should not do worse than they did.