Or just use a well-trained spam filter. I'm using claws-mail with Bogofilter and it filters well enough to remove all messages by Facebook, Ebay, Amazon, LinkedIn, etc. If I buy something or subscribe to some new service I have to check the spam filter, of course, but that's no problem.
Okay, I'm expressing the sentiment of pretty much the whole rest of the world outside of the US here, at the risk of hurting the feelings of some poor US Trump fans.
It's pretty obvious that he's neither a traitor nor a conservative. He's really just a narcissist asshat clown who was born into a rich family, there is otherwise nothing remarkable about this mostly harmless conspiracy theory nutter real estate guy. The most annoying thing about him is that the whole world is bombarded with news about him every day and has to endure his idiocy. It can only be described as a constant intellectual assault, like when you had to meet someone every day who makes outrageous and obviously false claims and ignores anyone who points out that he's wrong. It's mildly infuriating. Otherwise nobody gives a fuck about him. Nor should they.
If Musk's plan includes autonomous PODs without drivers then the OP seems to have a good point, not "crap" at all. Small pods can overtake each other, stop anywhere, leave out stops, go on parallel lanes, take different crossroad tunnels, etc. The possibilities are mainly limited by the money to build the tunnels. Trains were built so one human driver could transport the maximum number of people and good at the cost of flexibility. With autonomous steering, this concept is obsolete.
In my experience, the advice on Microsoft forums always boils down to the following anyway: Save all of your data an reinstall Windows from scratch.
The advice is pretty useless in many circumstances, but since most people don't have the time&money to sue Microsoft for their own loss of time & money, the advise always works for Microsoft. If I could bill Microsoft for every hour I've spend fixing what their operating system messed up, I could be a rich man...
Slashdot is way too liberal with shitposters. Why can't we just cancel obvious troll accounts - terminate them and permban the IP? Clutch Nixon 5434978 is an obvious troll and spamming whole threads with off-topic "poems", these shitposts are of no use to anyone. If you want political topics (I don't), then at least kick out the obvious trolls and shitposters.
Or even better, permanently IP ban or shadow ban all off-topic commentators. You can start with my own account because of this comment, I don't care, as long as you do it with every off-topic troll poster out there so Slashdot becomes readable again.
I have lived for a substantial amount of time in 3 countries so far and cannot confirm this. But in any case, screw any of this anecdotal evidence. Use your brain instead. Stereotypes usually provide less distinctions than zodiac signs, it's mind-bogglingly idiotic to make general remarks about the character, habits, or personality traits of millions of people - or even billions, like in the case of China. This is especially true if you select those people on the basis of entirely coincidental features like "nationality".
I have learned two other things about other countries: Every country has roughly the same amount of assholes and people you don't want to have anything to do with, but that the majority of people are nice wherever you go.
An additional attack surface is one that exists if you install and run the software but doesn't exist when you don't install or run the software. Microsoft Defender adds an additional attack surface like any other antivirus software.
Kim and his advisers came to the conclusion that Trump and his advisers were looking for an occasion for a limited war - some bombing campaign - somewhere in the world. Ideally, the campaign would take place before the mid term elections. The US military was tasked to look into either bombing some nuclear facilities in NK or bombing some nuclear facilities in Iran. Kim and his advisers came to this conclusion and quickly contacted SK to prevent this from happening, because they know very well that the NK could not possibly defend their territory at all and judge that Trump is crazy enough to not care about possible consequences for South Korea.
Moon came to the same conclusion and quickly arranged this initiative together with Kim to prevent the worst from happening. Bear in mind that NK could shell Seoul, population 10 million, plus another 10 million in the area, and even if the artillery is quickly taken care of by air superiority, the death toll would be massive. At the same time Moon is under serious pressure from the US, so he had to include the US despite the fact that Trump is considered a negative factor by both parties. (Trump is considered an annoyance and hard to deal with by essentially every politician in the world, including Moon and Kim, of course.)
Here is what's going to happen: NK and SK will continue with peace talks and friendship initiatives no matter what the US does, for at least as long as Trump is in charge. Neither of them wants war, and even the smallest military action would make an escalation almost unavoidable in the current situation.
Don't forget that John Bolton is there now, too. The White House is full of dangerous, hypocritical lunatics. It's worse than under George W. Bush, and he had mighty bad advisers.
Alas, the people who complain the most about other cultures tend to have the least of it on their own. Many of them don't even read novels. It's a sad truth that you can see that everywhere.
In contrast to that, the people who actually produce and advance culture, who write books and poems, who compose music, create fine arts, and make movies have almost without exception always been international cosmopolitans. Many of them have lived in different countries during their life, and the vast majority are very tolerant. Goethe's travel diaries are a good example of that attitude, for instance, and since we're talking about France it is also worth mentioning that Alexandre Dumas was the son of a French nobleman and a black slave from Haiti.
The moral of the story is that before even starting to think about complaining about other people's cultures, you should make damn sure that you have some of your own first.
That's the biggest problem. He's the president of the United States, he can get information about any topic from the best and brightest at any time he wants, yet he consistently choses to listen to conspiracy theorists and watches cable news up to 8 hours a day. This guy is such a complete and utter moron, it's surreal. Even friends of him suspect that he hasn't read a single book during the past 30 years. Before Trump came into the public spotlight, I didn't even know people like him existed. (I don't watch reality TV shows.)
In related news, last fall ESET analyzed and detected variants of FinFisher, the German spy software used for the Bundestrojaner that is also sold to oppressive regimes like Egypt and Turkey.
Those anti-virus vendors are getting pesky, I guess there will be more government actions against those who don't comply in the near future.
Not necessarily, it depends on how they implement semantic processing and discourse modelling. If the "um" is interjected in a natural way based on some abstract representation of the conversation and the goals of the assistant, then that could be pretty interesting technology.
My guess is that the system will fail in very weird ways in more complex conversations, because its mostly based on machine learning of certain dialogue types. But perhaps I'm wrong and it does some real processing.
This is impressive speech synthesis, though from the short demo it's hard to judge whether it's new and better than existing ones I've heard. The harder part is the domain-specific knowledge for understanding, it will be interesting to see how they deal with that.
Personally, I don't find it scary. The voice sounds dumb, but who cares. I'll probably make fun of these kinds of assistants once they become mainstream. I'm worried that similar technology will be used for robocalls by someone else in the future. That's going to be annoying unless you're living in a country with reasonable robocall laws. Get your call blockers ready!
Not really, computer cannot really do this automatically except very complicated language-specific programs with lots of exceptions, because the "." is also used within sentences for abbreviations.
Sentence boundary disambiguation has always been a rather annoying problem.
Your question seems to be rhetorical and you already believe you know what fascism is, but for those who really wonder, I've personally found Umberto Eco's article on Ur-Fascism revealing.
I also want to address your last question, because I believe the way you ask it is very counter-productive. Left-wing authoritarianism and totalitarianism share many traits with fascism and some with nazism, of course, but in other respects these traditions are very distinct from each other. It's not a good idea to mix those historical enemies of each other together, especially since radical left-wing thinking is based on much more sophisticated justifications and a long-standing intellectual tradition, whereas radical right wing has always been populist and anti-intellectual. By brushing totalitarian left-wing positions off as fascist you'd make it too easy for people who have actually read the relevant authors to make you look like a fool and win their argument.
Instead of mixing them up it's better to address any of these positions by arguing for representative democracy and against any forms of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. If you need arguments against communism, read Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies.
[...] been used by the Russian Gov't to identify classified material on U.S. systems and steal files.
That would justify not allowing Kaspersky as antivirus on government machines that handle classified material. If they have allowed this before that would have been surprisingly stupid. Or does it work like that? "Hey, this machine handles classified data, so make sure to put an arbitrary, foreign anitivirus program on it." That would be stupid.
No, there is more to the story than meets the eye. Kaspersky's cloud service has uploaded NSA malware and they have analyzed it. That's why US authorities are so furious about the company. Even though it seems from their published reaction that Kaspersky Labs have removed the NSA-related signatures under pressure, the company did not go far enough in 'pleasing US authorities'.
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Sha1 is not even considered secure any longer...
That's the anchoring effect that is modelled by Tversky & Kahneman's award-winning prospect theory.
Or just use a well-trained spam filter. I'm using claws-mail with Bogofilter and it filters well enough to remove all messages by Facebook, Ebay, Amazon, LinkedIn, etc. If I buy something or subscribe to some new service I have to check the spam filter, of course, but that's no problem.
Okay, I'm expressing the sentiment of pretty much the whole rest of the world outside of the US here, at the risk of hurting the feelings of some poor US Trump fans.
It's pretty obvious that he's neither a traitor nor a conservative. He's really just a narcissist asshat clown who was born into a rich family, there is otherwise nothing remarkable about this mostly harmless conspiracy theory nutter real estate guy. The most annoying thing about him is that the whole world is bombarded with news about him every day and has to endure his idiocy. It can only be described as a constant intellectual assault, like when you had to meet someone every day who makes outrageous and obviously false claims and ignores anyone who points out that he's wrong. It's mildly infuriating. Otherwise nobody gives a fuck about him. Nor should they.
If Musk's plan includes autonomous PODs without drivers then the OP seems to have a good point, not "crap" at all. Small pods can overtake each other, stop anywhere, leave out stops, go on parallel lanes, take different crossroad tunnels, etc. The possibilities are mainly limited by the money to build the tunnels. Trains were built so one human driver could transport the maximum number of people and good at the cost of flexibility. With autonomous steering, this concept is obsolete.
In my experience, the advice on Microsoft forums always boils down to the following anyway: Save all of your data an reinstall Windows from scratch.
The advice is pretty useless in many circumstances, but since most people don't have the time&money to sue Microsoft for their own loss of time & money, the advise always works for Microsoft. If I could bill Microsoft for every hour I've spend fixing what their operating system messed up, I could be a rich man...
A guy just literally burned himself to death because of it.
Absolutely. Stress due to financial problems and lack of sleep can be major contributing factors.
Slashdot is way too liberal with shitposters. Why can't we just cancel obvious troll accounts - terminate them and permban the IP? Clutch Nixon 5434978 is an obvious troll and spamming whole threads with off-topic "poems", these shitposts are of no use to anyone. If you want political topics (I don't), then at least kick out the obvious trolls and shitposters.
Or even better, permanently IP ban or shadow ban all off-topic commentators. You can start with my own account because of this comment, I don't care, as long as you do it with every off-topic troll poster out there so Slashdot becomes readable again.
The EU has no authority over Africa, so the whole idea of the comment was misplaced.
I have lived for a substantial amount of time in 3 countries so far and cannot confirm this. But in any case, screw any of this anecdotal evidence. Use your brain instead. Stereotypes usually provide less distinctions than zodiac signs, it's mind-bogglingly idiotic to make general remarks about the character, habits, or personality traits of millions of people - or even billions, like in the case of China. This is especially true if you select those people on the basis of entirely coincidental features like "nationality".
I have learned two other things about other countries: Every country has roughly the same amount of assholes and people you don't want to have anything to do with, but that the majority of people are nice wherever you go.
An additional attack surface is one that exists if you install and run the software but doesn't exist when you don't install or run the software. Microsoft Defender adds an additional attack surface like any other antivirus software.
That's not what's going on.
Kim and his advisers came to the conclusion that Trump and his advisers were looking for an occasion for a limited war - some bombing campaign - somewhere in the world. Ideally, the campaign would take place before the mid term elections. The US military was tasked to look into either bombing some nuclear facilities in NK or bombing some nuclear facilities in Iran. Kim and his advisers came to this conclusion and quickly contacted SK to prevent this from happening, because they know very well that the NK could not possibly defend their territory at all and judge that Trump is crazy enough to not care about possible consequences for South Korea.
Moon came to the same conclusion and quickly arranged this initiative together with Kim to prevent the worst from happening. Bear in mind that NK could shell Seoul, population 10 million, plus another 10 million in the area, and even if the artillery is quickly taken care of by air superiority, the death toll would be massive. At the same time Moon is under serious pressure from the US, so he had to include the US despite the fact that Trump is considered a negative factor by both parties. (Trump is considered an annoyance and hard to deal with by essentially every politician in the world, including Moon and Kim, of course.)
Here is what's going to happen: NK and SK will continue with peace talks and friendship initiatives no matter what the US does, for at least as long as Trump is in charge. Neither of them wants war, and even the smallest military action would make an escalation almost unavoidable in the current situation.
Don't forget that John Bolton is there now, too. The White House is full of dangerous, hypocritical lunatics. It's worse than under George W. Bush, and he had mighty bad advisers.
Alas, the people who complain the most about other cultures tend to have the least of it on their own. Many of them don't even read novels. It's a sad truth that you can see that everywhere.
In contrast to that, the people who actually produce and advance culture, who write books and poems, who compose music, create fine arts, and make movies have almost without exception always been international cosmopolitans. Many of them have lived in different countries during their life, and the vast majority are very tolerant. Goethe's travel diaries are a good example of that attitude, for instance, and since we're talking about France it is also worth mentioning that Alexandre Dumas was the son of a French nobleman and a black slave from Haiti.
The moral of the story is that before even starting to think about complaining about other people's cultures, you should make damn sure that you have some of your own first.
That's the biggest problem. He's the president of the United States, he can get information about any topic from the best and brightest at any time he wants, yet he consistently choses to listen to conspiracy theorists and watches cable news up to 8 hours a day. This guy is such a complete and utter moron, it's surreal. Even friends of him suspect that he hasn't read a single book during the past 30 years. Before Trump came into the public spotlight, I didn't even know people like him existed. (I don't watch reality TV shows.)
In other words you're a gullible idiot, a useful tool, and that's why you despise him.
Thus spoke Captain Bollocks. Poor schmuck lost $200. So SAD!
In related news, last fall ESET analyzed and detected variants of FinFisher, the German spy software used for the Bundestrojaner that is also sold to oppressive regimes like Egypt and Turkey.
Those anti-virus vendors are getting pesky, I guess there will be more government actions against those who don't comply in the near future.
Actually, they have targeted Slashdot and still do, and they have plenty of mod points. They're trolling Slashdot since around early 2016.
Not necessarily, it depends on how they implement semantic processing and discourse modelling. If the "um" is interjected in a natural way based on some abstract representation of the conversation and the goals of the assistant, then that could be pretty interesting technology.
My guess is that the system will fail in very weird ways in more complex conversations, because its mostly based on machine learning of certain dialogue types. But perhaps I'm wrong and it does some real processing.
This is impressive speech synthesis, though from the short demo it's hard to judge whether it's new and better than existing ones I've heard. The harder part is the domain-specific knowledge for understanding, it will be interesting to see how they deal with that.
Personally, I don't find it scary. The voice sounds dumb, but who cares. I'll probably make fun of these kinds of assistants once they become mainstream. I'm worried that similar technology will be used for robocalls by someone else in the future. That's going to be annoying unless you're living in a country with reasonable robocall laws. Get your call blockers ready!
Not really, computer cannot really do this automatically except very complicated language-specific programs with lots of exceptions, because the "." is also used within sentences for abbreviations.
Sentence boundary disambiguation has always been a rather annoying problem.
Your question seems to be rhetorical and you already believe you know what fascism is, but for those who really wonder, I've personally found Umberto Eco's article on Ur-Fascism revealing.
I also want to address your last question, because I believe the way you ask it is very counter-productive. Left-wing authoritarianism and totalitarianism share many traits with fascism and some with nazism, of course, but in other respects these traditions are very distinct from each other. It's not a good idea to mix those historical enemies of each other together, especially since radical left-wing thinking is based on much more sophisticated justifications and a long-standing intellectual tradition, whereas radical right wing has always been populist and anti-intellectual. By brushing totalitarian left-wing positions off as fascist you'd make it too easy for people who have actually read the relevant authors to make you look like a fool and win their argument.
Instead of mixing them up it's better to address any of these positions by arguing for representative democracy and against any forms of totalitarianism and authoritarianism. If you need arguments against communism, read Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies.
[...] been used by the Russian Gov't to identify classified material on U.S. systems and steal files.
That would justify not allowing Kaspersky as antivirus on government machines that handle classified material. If they have allowed this before that would have been surprisingly stupid. Or does it work like that? "Hey, this machine handles classified data, so make sure to put an arbitrary, foreign anitivirus program on it." That would be stupid.
No, there is more to the story than meets the eye. Kaspersky's cloud service has uploaded NSA malware and they have analyzed it. That's why US authorities are so furious about the company. Even though it seems from their published reaction that Kaspersky Labs have removed the NSA-related signatures under pressure, the company did not go far enough in 'pleasing US authorities'.