One of the biggest surprises of my life has been how giving a platform to all has yielded more negative outcomes than we (in the tech community) could have imagined. Over 20 yrs ago, I read/heard the prevailing wisdom that giving a platform and a voice to everyone would lead to a massive democratization of ideas, a boon of quality information, and massive enlightenment. I admit to buying that. Today, that notion seems hopelessly naive.
Instead of a growth in human enlightenment through a well-informed citizenry, we have echo chambers, manipulations, and centralized corporate platforms that are largely sewers collecting the worst humanity has to offer- but now distributed globally for free.
8.7 million child exploitation posts. If the false positive rate is low this is most depressing.
Let me see if I can recap- DJI, the wolds largest manufacturer or consumer UASes, and the company that made one of the products in the demo, objects to the video. Color me surprised; nay, shocked! The crux of their argument seems to be that conditions simulated are unrealistic. However, when the site posting the letter starts with this
"DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today demanded the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) withdraw a misleading video and blog post which claim to depict a collision between a DJI Phantom 2 drone and the wing of a small airplane."
I suspect they are dishonest. The video absolutely depicts the collision between a DJI Phantom 2 drone and a wing of a small airplane. Perhaps they were made to collide too quickly, but the statement above is false.
None of which excludes the possibility that the university researchers were seeking attention by simulating a worst-case.
I might add that not just Windows but a lot of software seemed to need new hardware to run well a couple of decades ago. Today it does seem that older hardware, even from 5 yrs ago, is good enough. This used to be pretty unimaginable. I don't know if the slowing rate of improvements on the hardware side is diving this or is just a coincidence.
Meanwhile, the price of PCs is increasing. This makes sense also, someone else commented that computers are becoming more like durable goods such as a car. If you will have the same unit for a long time, then it makes more sense to get a "premium" one, compared with if you were going to have to replace every couple of years.
In many ways this is a positive- at least from the environmental perspective and in terms of our having quality hardware being designed and available. More OT, I think Microsoft did a lot to push the PC HW business to higher quality, though the down side seems to be that they also follow Apple's habit of producing hard-to-repair, glued together, machines.
Strictly speaking, I agree with you. The headline is inaccurate.
However, I have been following Atlas' development over the last couple of years and the improvement is pretty amazing. In that sense, I am not disappointed by the new video.
The question is: with this rate of improvement, how many years until the headline would be accurate? I would guess no more than 3-5...
This is a frustrating aspect of win10: lack of control over what programs are installed on your machine. I don't primarily use win10, but for machines I have set up I think I solved the problem by disabling automatic updates in the Windows Store. Of course, this means updates are..disabled. Perhaps others have a better way to handle this?
I'd agree with this advice except for one thing: no OS updates for iPhone 4 in some years. I don't know how likely a security issue is in the real world, but certainly interoperability will be compromised with old OS/apps..
I'm curious as to why you think mandatory military service is a terrible idea. I can think of some reasons why it is a very good idea: 1) if you are going to have a standing military, it is better for it to be representative of society rather than a self-selected segment- the former probably more accountable to the whole 2) a representative military, drawn from all corners of society (as much as possible, anyway) is less likely to stand for unjustified/interminable wars (or at least there should be a higher threshold when its everyone's kids going) 3) an obligation of citizenship to to fight for and defend the nation if needed.
Again, I'd be interested to know why you think mandatory service is terrible. I think more than a few of our current problems and wars stem from its absence.
Thanks for all the neat new features, Google! but you missed one: How do I keep my email confidential from you? The only solution I see is to not use your service.
you might find this approach interesting: abrasive weeding. Lower tech than bots pulling weeds, but promising. Of course, there are questions: weed root removal, crop damage, etc..
Excellent points, and I completely agree. There is a line here, somewhere. Philosophically and practically, does it make sense to consider the request+complete load of a page to be the unit of concern here? In other words, query the system for DNS each request+complete load but not more frequently? Or store entries per session (I quit my browser frequently, but I know folks who don't- so perhaps not the best). Seems there is a trade-off here, certainly one that browser-writers have probably resolved..thanks for the additional nuance.
Is this a step toward Mozilla being a "man in the middle" to all my network requests? They pipe all data before it reaches my machine for my own good? Sure feels like it, and feels..bad. How the machine resolves DNS requests I think should be outside the scope of the browser. Its the job of the OS network stack.
When your Windows chrome Omnibar insists on doing a search on a FULL URL YOU JUST TYPED WITH THE INTENT TO GO DIRECTLY TO THAT SITE, you know Google doesn't even have the bare basics done right for a fucking web browser, let alone a full-blown OS.
possibly this "feature" is quite purposeful. They want to make sure every URL you type is sent home to the mothership in the form of a search query. Perhaps?
Excellently put. At the end of the day, this whole situation reveals.. problems... with the Google/Android business model: your first point. To your second, perhaps they would pay for it with money, but now that the precedent of "free" has been set it will be hard to get to that I think. See: online news publications.
..I come to slashdot. I find people here who also buy plastic discs and rip to digital format, for many of the same reasons I do. And others who reject this for also good reason. My tribe, I guess..
Though I like Win10, I have noticed it installing things I never asked it to. Bubble crush saga or some such thing. I guess (another) bad thing about this bad behavior is that the appearance of random new "apps" is may not be a surprise to anyone, thus inuring them to their potential infection!
BTW, this does seem like an ad more than a legit story.
Thank you & parent for pointing out that the root cause of terminating Mr. Diallo's contract was not a machine, rather a human who did not renew the agreement in the system. This is important. However, the fact that it took 3 weeks to figure this out is interesting, and does suggest to me that humans are not as fully in charge as we might think.
Also, how long until an algorithm decides who stays and who gos during a downsizing? My guess is that we are already there. Given this, plus the three weeks to figure out this case, it seems the ability of a human within an organization to understand the causes of someone being laid off might be limited- just what the title suggests..
I was just going to say that this feature (SMS/imessage from notebook computer) is a strong draw keeping me in the MacOS/iOS ecosystem. Pushing me out is the new Apple computer hardware plus other hardware not updated for very long.
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I have no mod points, but wanted to say that I very much noticed the same. Not ta slashvertisement, slashaganda.
One of the biggest surprises of my life has been how giving a platform to all has yielded more negative outcomes than we (in the tech community) could have imagined. Over 20 yrs ago, I read/heard the prevailing wisdom that giving a platform and a voice to everyone would lead to a massive democratization of ideas, a boon of quality information, and massive enlightenment. I admit to buying that. Today, that notion seems hopelessly naive.
Instead of a growth in human enlightenment through a well-informed citizenry, we have echo chambers, manipulations, and centralized corporate platforms that are largely sewers collecting the worst humanity has to offer- but now distributed globally for free.
8.7 million child exploitation posts. If the false positive rate is low this is most depressing.
Let me see if I can recap- DJI, the wolds largest manufacturer or consumer UASes, and the company that made one of the products in the demo, objects to the video. Color me surprised; nay, shocked! The crux of their argument seems to be that conditions simulated are unrealistic. However, when the site posting the letter starts with this
"DJI, the world’s leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, today demanded the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) withdraw a misleading video and blog post which claim to depict a collision between a DJI Phantom 2 drone and the wing of a small airplane."
I suspect they are dishonest. The video absolutely depicts the collision between a DJI Phantom 2 drone and a wing of a small airplane. Perhaps they were made to collide too quickly, but the statement above is false.
None of which excludes the possibility that the university researchers were seeking attention by simulating a worst-case.
I'm beginning to think Facebook is not a very ethical company!
I might add that not just Windows but a lot of software seemed to need new hardware to run well a couple of decades ago. Today it does seem that older hardware, even from 5 yrs ago, is good enough. This used to be pretty unimaginable. I don't know if the slowing rate of improvements on the hardware side is diving this or is just a coincidence.
Meanwhile, the price of PCs is increasing. This makes sense also, someone else commented that computers are becoming more like durable goods such as a car. If you will have the same unit for a long time, then it makes more sense to get a "premium" one, compared with if you were going to have to replace every couple of years.
In many ways this is a positive- at least from the environmental perspective and in terms of our having quality hardware being designed and available. More OT, I think Microsoft did a lot to push the PC HW business to higher quality, though the down side seems to be that they also follow Apple's habit of producing hard-to-repair, glued together, machines.
Strictly speaking, I agree with you. The headline is inaccurate.
However, I have been following Atlas' development over the last couple of years and the improvement is pretty amazing. In that sense, I am not disappointed by the new video.
The question is: with this rate of improvement, how many years until the headline would be accurate? I would guess no more than 3-5...
This is a frustrating aspect of win10: lack of control over what programs are installed on your machine. I don't primarily use win10, but for machines I have set up I think I solved the problem by disabling automatic updates in the Windows Store. Of course, this means updates are..disabled. Perhaps others have a better way to handle this?
In any case, disrespectful behavior by Microsoft.
I'd agree with this advice except for one thing: no OS updates for iPhone 4 in some years. I don't know how likely a security issue is in the real world, but certainly interoperability will be compromised with old OS/apps..
What calendar software do you all use on Linux? Honest question, b/c Ive used lightning (w/ Thunderbird) and found it pretty clunky.
seems relevant somehow..
I'm curious as to why you think mandatory military service is a terrible idea. I can think of some reasons why it is a very good idea: 1) if you are going to have a standing military, it is better for it to be representative of society rather than a self-selected segment- the former probably more accountable to the whole 2) a representative military, drawn from all corners of society (as much as possible, anyway) is less likely to stand for unjustified/interminable wars (or at least there should be a higher threshold when its everyone's kids going) 3) an obligation of citizenship to to fight for and defend the nation if needed.
Again, I'd be interested to know why you think mandatory service is terrible. I think more than a few of our current problems and wars stem from its absence.
Thanks for all the neat new features, Google! but you missed one: How do I keep my email confidential from you? The only solution I see is to not use your service.
Thanks again!
you might find this approach interesting: abrasive weeding. Lower tech than bots pulling weeds, but promising. Of course, there are questions: weed root removal, crop damage, etc..
Excellent points, and I completely agree. There is a line here, somewhere. Philosophically and practically, does it make sense to consider the request+complete load of a page to be the unit of concern here? In other words, query the system for DNS each request+complete load but not more frequently? Or store entries per session (I quit my browser frequently, but I know folks who don't- so perhaps not the best). Seems there is a trade-off here, certainly one that browser-writers have probably resolved..thanks for the additional nuance.
Is this a step toward Mozilla being a "man in the middle" to all my network requests? They pipe all data before it reaches my machine for my own good? Sure feels like it, and feels..bad. How the machine resolves DNS requests I think should be outside the scope of the browser. Its the job of the OS network stack.
does NetCraft confirm it??
on the technical side, how different would Windows DaaS be from ChromeOS? In either case I think user has limited/no control over their own files.
When your Windows chrome Omnibar insists on doing a search on a FULL URL YOU JUST TYPED WITH THE INTENT TO GO DIRECTLY TO THAT SITE, you know Google doesn't even have the bare basics done right for a fucking web browser, let alone a full-blown OS.
possibly this "feature" is quite purposeful. They want to make sure every URL you type is sent home to the mothership in the form of a search query. Perhaps?
Excellently put. At the end of the day, this whole situation reveals .. problems... with the Google/Android business model: your first point. To your second, perhaps they would pay for it with money, but now that the precedent of "free" has been set it will be hard to get to that I think. See: online news publications.
Thank you. As you point out, this is how it is supposed to work. Good to see a rep at least trying to do his job.
Wonder if this is at all driven by the glacial pace of Apple's (pro) Mac hardware upgrade cycle? I think its been frustrating many pros.
..I come to slashdot. I find people here who also buy plastic discs and rip to digital format, for many of the same reasons I do. And others who reject this for also good reason. My tribe, I guess..
Though I like Win10, I have noticed it installing things I never asked it to. Bubble crush saga or some such thing. I guess (another) bad thing about this bad behavior is that the appearance of random new "apps" is may not be a surprise to anyone, thus inuring them to their potential infection!
BTW, this does seem like an ad more than a legit story.
Thank you & parent for pointing out that the root cause of terminating Mr. Diallo's contract was not a machine, rather a human who did not renew the agreement in the system. This is important. However, the fact that it took 3 weeks to figure this out is interesting, and does suggest to me that humans are not as fully in charge as we might think.
Also, how long until an algorithm decides who stays and who gos during a downsizing? My guess is that we are already there. Given this, plus the three weeks to figure out this case, it seems the ability of a human within an organization to understand the causes of someone being laid off might be limited- just what the title suggests..
I was just going to say that this feature (SMS/imessage from notebook computer) is a strong draw keeping me in the MacOS/iOS ecosystem. Pushing me out is the new Apple computer hardware plus other hardware not updated for very long.
I remember those too! Turns out they were needed for backward compatibility with software expecting slower processing. So, it would be more accurate to say your computer back then had more of an underclock feature.
Of course, marketing made a hash of that.