The old saying that "nobody surrenders like the French" should be modified to "nobody is as fucking stupid as the English". After all, new millenium, new saying.
Indeed. "British" is to become a trendy term for "stupid". Well, they have to live in that little island with foul weather and not much better food, after all.
But man..."smart" guns IMHO are NOT a good thing to have.
Only smart gun I want is one that responds to Grenade, Full Auto Rapid Fire, Armor Piercing and Double Whammy with a nifty little red sequential light.
To show the ridiculousness of the post's title "Nobody should have that much money" --- Because that's all the same idea.. Sorry, you made too much of X based on other people w/o regard to anything other than the count of money.. So, we're going to take it from you and give it to others that don't have as much.
We have anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. Why not laws that break up the estate of people that accumulate more than say 1000x the median net worth?
Interesting idea.. So, lets apply that everywhere.. Maybe sports franchises? So, if your team is consistently winning because they're hitting a winning formula and they surpass the median wins per venue, then they should have X amount of their titles, winnings, trophies, awards, etc. divvied up to lesser teams.
How about individual athletes that train hard and are just good at their game? Same deal, sorry guys/gals, you were simply too good in your area, so we're stripping you of some of it and giving it to other people.
I kind of get what you're getting at, but, it's a very slippery slope indeed and if it was you we were talking about here, I don't feel that you'd be OK with us telling you that you need to give up some of the stuff you've earned simply because you were better at earning it than us.
"The future is massive efficiently managed warehouses tied to a delivery infrastructure with a catalogue dump online"
I see someone has already failed to observe and learn from history. We had this back in the day - it's called the Sears & Roebuck catalog.
Wanna know why it died? Brick and Mortar stores.
Nothing beats the convenience of being able to have the item in your hands THEN AND THERE, NO WAITING.
This is why I rarely shop online.
You didn't just seriously compare a periodical paper catalog, with 4-6w shipping/return time with a service that provides same day delivery of well more than what was ever in an S&R mail order catalog, did you?
What's allowed isn't necessarily controllable. In this case I would guess that it is abstract compression. Humans do this by bundling large concepts into new words all the time. It's only natural for "natural speech algorithms" to also follow this pattern as they are designed to mimic human learning. Every human language has done so many times.
The reason you can't see inside an AI's brain is because there is nothing to see. It's a bunch of matrices with numbers in them. You even get to see how all of them are tied together but none of that will tell you what the numbers mean. Machine learning is literally taking a list of numbers and multiplying by some inputs over and over and over. Humans aren't good at that kind of long-term number crunching.
And inside the human brain is just a bunch of various chemicals floating across gaps. We can even tinker around with these chemicals and change the system to some extent. Yet, it still doesn't explain the full picture about what actually gives rise to our consciousness (even though there are plenty of theories about it).
If you substituted our neurotransmitters out with numbers, it would look similar. Just a bunch of numbers in matrices being added, subtracts, combined in certain amounts, etc.
Are you claiming you wouldn't be happy if a transportation company claimed instantaneous travel, cloned you, moved the clone then killed the original?
Pretty sure there's a book or story about that.. Some teleportation system malfunctions and the original isn't destroyed at the source, but no one knew that's how it actually worked.. That all these people teleporting about were just perfect copies of the one that stepped in and the one that stepped was in effect killed each time.
They write the malware and then try to collect a bounty from vendors for "discovering" it during their "research". About time they crack down on those pricks.
"We'll create the cure; we made the disease"
"Well I know just what you need I might just have the thing I know what you'd pay to feel"
Backing up User VMs is trivial. So is a snapshot system. Most all the major hypervisor makers have this built in and there are also plenty of free ware things to do this as well..
You can run Hyper-V, with free Veeam and with some scheduled task stuff from Task Scheduler or a Jenkins systems, you can kick of Powershell code that will automagically find all your VMs, even in a non-clustered pool (so long as you registered the hosts in Veeam free), and then back them all up as full sets, with compression and/or encryption to a NAS device of some sort.
Restoring is also easily done AND you can restore the whole machine as it was at the stun/snap, registered, powered on and everything, restore just the VM filesets to manually register and start or you can do varying levels of OS level file restore for just those files that got mucked up.
So, outside of the question of where are all your backups, dB logging, aux-copy, snapshots, etc... How did this happen?? (reads bottom part of article)..
as they say on Top Gear. But to be fair, we know that everybody does it. What's the name of the car where they just push fresh air into the exhaust to lower the numbers? Think it's an American one. I forget.
Chrysler had Pulse Air, but the overarching names are Secondary Air Injection, PUMP Air or Smog Pump.
Several USA Auto Mfg did this, including Chevy and Ford.
They are just being honest. There is nothing inherently wrong with a large company using its size to get a better deal.
My issue is with the underlying thought process at work. This time it's a better deal. What about next time? It's a slippery slope to encourage that type of behavior because at some point, they'll use it against you/us.
Computers and technology aren't the scary dark areas that they once were. "Tech" is everywhere and now that a couple generations have grown up on it, they don't know a world without it. Of course more and more non-IT people are going to be tech savvy.
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The old saying that "nobody surrenders like the French" should be modified to "nobody is as fucking stupid as the English". After all, new millenium, new saying.
Indeed. "British" is to become a trendy term for "stupid". Well, they have to live in that little island with foul weather and not much better food, after all.
and a great dental plan.
But man..."smart" guns IMHO are NOT a good thing to have.
Only smart gun I want is one that responds to Grenade, Full Auto Rapid Fire, Armor Piercing and Double Whammy with a nifty little red sequential light.
Interesting idea.. So, lets apply that everywhere
Why would you apply it everywhere?
To show the ridiculousness of the post's title "Nobody should have that much money" --- Because that's all the same idea.. Sorry, you made too much of X based on other people w/o regard to anything other than the count of money.. So, we're going to take it from you and give it to others that don't have as much.
We have anti-trust and anti-monopoly laws. Why not laws that break up the estate of people that accumulate more than say 1000x the median net worth?
Interesting idea.. So, lets apply that everywhere.. Maybe sports franchises? So, if your team is consistently winning because they're hitting a winning formula and they surpass the median wins per venue, then they should have X amount of their titles, winnings, trophies, awards, etc. divvied up to lesser teams.
How about individual athletes that train hard and are just good at their game? Same deal, sorry guys/gals, you were simply too good in your area, so we're stripping you of some of it and giving it to other people.
I kind of get what you're getting at, but, it's a very slippery slope indeed and if it was you we were talking about here, I don't feel that you'd be OK with us telling you that you need to give up some of the stuff you've earned simply because you were better at earning it than us.
"The future is massive efficiently managed warehouses tied to a delivery infrastructure with a catalogue dump online"
I see someone has already failed to observe and learn from history. We had this back in the day - it's called the Sears & Roebuck catalog.
Wanna know why it died? Brick and Mortar stores.
Nothing beats the convenience of being able to have the item in your hands THEN AND THERE, NO WAITING.
This is why I rarely shop online.
You didn't just seriously compare a periodical paper catalog, with 4-6w shipping/return time with a service that provides same day delivery of well more than what was ever in an S&R mail order catalog, did you?
You know nothing.
How do I hijack an icon file (*.ICO) to get $7.4M?
I don't know about that, but after that MySpace story today I'm now worried about my ICQ account!
UH-OH!
...and nothing of real value was lost.
As opposed to other invented forms of currency that only exist as long as the collective organizations that invented them exist?
What's allowed isn't necessarily controllable. In this case I would guess that it is abstract compression. Humans do this by bundling large concepts into new words all the time. It's only natural for "natural speech algorithms" to also follow this pattern as they are designed to mimic human learning. Every human language has done so many times.
The reason you can't see inside an AI's brain is because there is nothing to see. It's a bunch of matrices with numbers in them. You even get to see how all of them are tied together but none of that will tell you what the numbers mean. Machine learning is literally taking a list of numbers and multiplying by some inputs over and over and over. Humans aren't good at that kind of long-term number crunching.
And inside the human brain is just a bunch of various chemicals floating across gaps. We can even tinker around with these chemicals and change the system to some extent. Yet, it still doesn't explain the full picture about what actually gives rise to our consciousness (even though there are plenty of theories about it).
If you substituted our neurotransmitters out with numbers, it would look similar. Just a bunch of numbers in matrices being added, subtracts, combined in certain amounts, etc.
Pretty much all intelligent life on this planet has preference and bias that seems to stem from a very base level... Why would AI be any different?
Besides, we as their creator are flawed beings so inherently, our creations will be also flawed.
All photons of the Chinese government are bar-coded for inventory control reasons.
They're also limited to one photon per communication system.
Are you claiming you wouldn't be happy if a transportation company claimed instantaneous travel, cloned you, moved the clone then killed the original?
Pretty sure there's a book or story about that.. Some teleportation system malfunctions and the original isn't destroyed at the source, but no one knew that's how it actually worked.. That all these people teleporting about were just perfect copies of the one that stepped in and the one that stepped was in effect killed each time.
They write the malware and then try to collect a bounty from vendors for "discovering" it during their "research". About time they crack down on those pricks.
"We'll create the cure; we made the disease"
"Well I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to feel"
It, burns......
Backing up User VMs is trivial. So is a snapshot system. Most all the major hypervisor makers have this built in and there are also plenty of free ware things to do this as well..
You can run Hyper-V, with free Veeam and with some scheduled task stuff from Task Scheduler or a Jenkins systems, you can kick of Powershell code that will automagically find all your VMs, even in a non-clustered pool (so long as you registered the hosts in Veeam free), and then back them all up as full sets, with compression and/or encryption to a NAS device of some sort.
Restoring is also easily done AND you can restore the whole machine as it was at the stun/snap, registered, powered on and everything, restore just the VM filesets to manually register and start or you can do varying levels of OS level file restore for just those files that got mucked up.
This stuff is pretty easy to do and low cost.
So, outside of the question of where are all your backups, dB logging, aux-copy, snapshots, etc... How did this happen?? (reads bottom part of article)..
Nevermind....
"Sure. That will be 47.25"
Wow, that's a great price. Make it 4!.
For some unknown reason, after backing up my "personal data" drive to Google, I started to get a lot of equestrian advertising.
Well, it probably found the MedFet stash and misinterpreted the usage of the Stirrups.
thank GOD the 7.343564675 billion OTHER people on the planet dont live in silicon valley, its not like they matter MORE or anything. jesus.
The San Francisco Bay Area is only 4M+ people short of being declared a megacity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity
Megacity II on our way.. Just need a law giver a motorbike that rarely works and.. The Law...
as they say on Top Gear.
But to be fair, we know that everybody does it.
What's the name of the car where they just push fresh air into the exhaust to lower the numbers? Think it's an American one. I forget.
Chrysler had Pulse Air, but the overarching names are Secondary Air Injection, PUMP Air or Smog Pump.
Several USA Auto Mfg did this, including Chevy and Ford.
They are just being honest. There is nothing inherently wrong with a large company using its size to get a better deal.
My issue is with the underlying thought process at work. This time it's a better deal. What about next time? It's a slippery slope to encourage that type of behavior because at some point, they'll use it against you/us.
Yeah, that type of commentary is why people have serious issues with companies throwing their weight around whenever it suits them.
Computers and technology aren't the scary dark areas that they once were. "Tech" is everywhere and now that a couple generations have grown up on it, they don't know a world without it. Of course more and more non-IT people are going to be tech savvy.
Joe Rogan? Is that you?
No, but I can tell you this.
I'm not a gay fish.
If you can copyright jokes...
or will end up owing a ton of money to people that are actually funny.