I see nothing wrong with charging money for curating freely available facts. Anyone who values their time less are free to curate their own news feeds.
If I understand it correctly (*) by reading the beginning of the report, browser-run Javascript code could be crafted to read not only anywhere within the browser's address space, but the *entire* CPU address space. Serious enough?
Firefox is said to be getting a workaround that decreases the precision of its Javascript-available timers in order to prevent exploiting this.
(*) It happens sometimes but not as often as I would like.:)
As I see it, if there are any dangerous repercussions, it'll simply act as chlorination of the gene pool.
I agree at one level, if seen from the outside.
Unfortunately, the genes of most of us are wired to prefer preservation of oneself, ones offspring, ones tribe and ones species. Roughly in that order. So each individual is bound to find it very uncomfortable to be chlorinated.
I don't know about the accident rate; that may or may not be correct.
However, I would argue that hearing the road condition (tarmac, ice, different gravel conditions,...), signalling horns, sirens, engine sounds etc is definitely input that can be used to increase the safety.
Deaf people learn to compensate using their other senses, and other practices. That does not mean that they wouldn't benefit from *also* having hearing.
I see that it is not obvious that my first three statements reflect my personal state only. I am a boring, not very controversial, rather transparent person who live in a pretty free country. Other people live under different conditions and they may (or should) fear those issues to a higher degree.
Witness the destruction of Youtube as a free speech platform, the manipulation of search results for the purpose of 'inclusiveness', and Facebook's prior 'experiments' in manipulating users with selective news articles.
I definitely share your concerns there. However, one should not mistake any social media platform for a free speech platform. As I see it, they are all driven by an agenda, and that agenda can change over time. Even the one that starts out with the ambition of free speech tend to digress when the free speech is not free in the right direction.
The only thing to be afraid of or alarmed over is the possibility of getting caught doing something illegal, unethical, or otherwise with negative consequences if people find out you're doing it.
What's legal, ethical and acceptable today may not be after the next election or revolution.
I am not worried about anyone trying to sell me stuff I don't want.
I am not worried about my employer, insurance company or spouse finding out my browsing history, opinions or habits.
I am mildly worried that my government will use my online behaviour against me.
I am very worried that companies will use my behaviour to tint or change my world view by more precisely manipulating and tailoring my news feeds, search hits, education resources etc in order to achieve political or economic interests.
I am terrified by the thought that this manipulation will inevitably be performed by ever smarter algorithms which have extremely egoistic target functions.
A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language
By Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
If you have a matching dock, it is about the same experience as wireless chaging. However, I believe that the majority of shells, covers and whatnot are incompatible with a dock. Wireless charging is the docking experience but working with all kinds of covers.
Imagine if you, instead of just putting the phone in the dock every night, had to plug in a charging wire. You wouldn't want to go back to that, would you?
Aren't you overheating yourself just a little here?
You wrote code in the language Python 2. It will still run with Python 2. Without rewrite. Forever (as long as a distro supports it or you can compile it yourself).
However, it will not evolve, and probably cease getting updates in itself and 3rd party libraries.
If, however, you want to use an evolving language for your next project, you may want to consider the language Python 3. Or any other language, which will probably have a steeper learning curve if Python 2 is your main proficiency.
I guess you never played formatting ping-pong in a shared source control system, where several developers have their own formatting style in their IDE:s and insist on reformatting every file they touch (and sometimes even files they don't otherwise touch). Makes tracing the history (and merging, oh my $DEITY) so much more bothersome for everyone including those who don't play.
That's what they do here in my country. Ok, perhaps not Pasta and Scientology, but other major current and some ancient ones. It is a compulsory part of primary school.
Of course, it is not taught as "this is how the world works". It is more of "this is what those people think".
... and my guess is that the slashdotters that love it are merely rhapsodizing about it as a feature count because they hate everything Apple, or perhaps don't understand that as a technical solution, its right up there with green ketchup.
And my guess is that you run off on a rant without actually having used a wireless charger with your phone regularly.
Wireless charging is a silly feature on paper. And I find it nice and convenient in practice.
> Stallman replies, "No movie or show or song is worth giving up my freedom for. [...]"
It seems to me like he is giving up a lot of one kind of freedom in order to attain his kind of it. Having limited options, even if self-prescribed, is a lack of freedom.
It doesn't show that. It just shows that it can act according to what it is taught.
This article is about language learning. Bias in language is tricky. One of the reasons is that the language has evolved through biased views of people and the world. In many languages, "man" is used to represent humans ("mankind") or male is the normal state ("football player" vs "female football player").
If the bias is in the language it is learning, e.g. male words for gender-neutral things, the AI gets imprinted with that this is the norm it is expected to behave by.
As with statistics, you should be very careful with AI and machine learning. You tend to get what you ask for, so be very careful to ask the right questions.
I didn't know about the no-throttling thing; that could be useful for some. My use cases mostly involve performance spikes though.
However, I see 16 GB non-upgradeable as a severe limit on performance and expandability, and non-upgradeable drive as a limit on storage and expandability.
Sure, you can compensate for everything except the RAM by hanging stuff in a harness of dongles around it (if you remembered to bring them), but it is often not *practical*, which - in many forms (connectors, wire lock, physical function keys, oversize cursor keys) - is an aspect that they apparently haven't discovered yet for their list of what pro users are interested in.
Meanwhile, I wonder how many pro users requested the touch bar and how many pro users requested the removal of USB (and possibly HDMI) connectors, and the ability to upgrade the memory and storage.
IMO, the new MPB is an impressive engineering job. I really mean it. But as a pro user I can't help being disappointed that the marketing department have limited what could have been a wonderful, no compromise work tool in favor of gimmicks.
Slashdot Mirror
Name one other laptop that does not have a USB-A port.
I see nothing wrong with charging money for curating freely available facts. Anyone who values their time less are free to curate their own news feeds.
If I understand it correctly (*) by reading the beginning of the report, browser-run Javascript code could be crafted to read not only anywhere within the browser's address space, but the *entire* CPU address space. Serious enough?
Firefox is said to be getting a workaround that decreases the precision of its Javascript-available timers in order to prevent exploiting this.
(*) It happens sometimes but not as often as I would like. :)
There are only two really difficult things in programming:
- Naming
- Cache invalidation
- Off-by-one errors
As I see it, if there are any dangerous repercussions, it'll simply act as chlorination of the gene pool.
I agree at one level, if seen from the outside.
Unfortunately, the genes of most of us are wired to prefer preservation of oneself, ones offspring, ones tribe and ones species. Roughly in that order. So each individual is bound to find it very uncomfortable to be chlorinated.
the remote endpoints collecting data on you. HTTPS makes that easier
I am honestly curious: How does HTTPS make that easier?
... and 9.9999% reliability for stopping when an obstacle is in front of the car?
I think I would prefer my car to not bump into 90% of everything that's in front of it, thank you very much.
I don't know about the accident rate; that may or may not be correct.
However, I would argue that hearing the road condition (tarmac, ice, different gravel conditions, ...), signalling horns, sirens, engine sounds etc is definitely input that can be used to increase the safety.
Deaf people learn to compensate using their other senses, and other practices. That does not mean that they wouldn't benefit from *also* having hearing.
Not really.
What the market has decided is that it prefers newer stuff without replaceable batteries to older stuff with replaceable ones.
But that is not the entire picture. The market is not one single actor. Not everyone has to cater to the top-money-making segment.
I see that it is not obvious that my first three statements reflect my personal state only. I am a boring, not very controversial, rather transparent person who live in a pretty free country. Other people live under different conditions and they may (or should) fear those issues to a higher degree.
Witness the destruction of Youtube as a free speech platform, the manipulation of search results for the purpose of 'inclusiveness', and Facebook's prior 'experiments' in manipulating users with selective news articles.
I definitely share your concerns there. However, one should not mistake any social media platform for a free speech platform. As I see it, they are all driven by an agenda, and that agenda can change over time. Even the one that starts out with the ambition of free speech tend to digress when the free speech is not free in the right direction.
The only thing to be afraid of or alarmed over is the possibility of getting caught doing something illegal, unethical, or otherwise with negative consequences if people find out you're doing it.
What's legal, ethical and acceptable today may not be after the next election or revolution.
I am not worried about anyone trying to sell me stuff I don't want.
I am not worried about my employer, insurance company or spouse finding out my browsing history, opinions or habits.
I am mildly worried that my government will use my online behaviour against me.
I am very worried that companies will use my behaviour to tint or change my world view by more precisely manipulating and tailoring my news feeds, search hits, education resources etc in order to achieve political or economic interests.
I am terrified by the thought that this manipulation will inevitably be performed by ever smarter algorithms which have extremely egoistic target functions.
A plan for the improvement of spelling in the English language
By Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Generally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeiniing voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x"— bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez —tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivili.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
If you have a matching dock, it is about the same experience as wireless chaging. However, I believe that the majority of shells, covers and whatnot are incompatible with a dock. Wireless charging is the docking experience but working with all kinds of covers.
Imagine if you, instead of just putting the phone in the dock every night, had to plug in a charging wire. You wouldn't want to go back to that, would you?
If you don't like it, don't use it.
If you get paid to use it, be happy.
Aren't you overheating yourself just a little here?
You wrote code in the language Python 2. It will still run with Python 2. Without rewrite. Forever (as long as a distro supports it or you can compile it yourself).
However, it will not evolve, and probably cease getting updates in itself and 3rd party libraries.
If, however, you want to use an evolving language for your next project, you may want to consider the language Python 3. Or any other language, which will probably have a steeper learning curve if Python 2 is your main proficiency.
I guess you never played formatting ping-pong in a shared source control system, where several developers have their own formatting style in their IDE:s and insist on reformatting every file they touch (and sometimes even files they don't otherwise touch). Makes tracing the history (and merging, oh my $DEITY) so much more bothersome for everyone including those who don't play.
If their source code contains nothing except indentation.
That's what they do here in my country. Ok, perhaps not Pasta and Scientology, but other major current and some ancient ones. It is a compulsory part of primary school.
Of course, it is not taught as "this is how the world works". It is more of "this is what those people think".
... and my guess is that the slashdotters that love it are merely rhapsodizing about it as a feature count because they hate everything Apple, or perhaps don't understand that as a technical solution, its right up there with green ketchup.
And my guess is that you run off on a rant without actually having used a wireless charger with your phone regularly.
Wireless charging is a silly feature on paper. And I find it nice and convenient in practice.
You don't hack the ballot, you use propaganda to influence voters.
You mean just like politicians do?
> Stallman replies, "No movie or show or song is worth giving up my freedom for. [...]"
It seems to me like he is giving up a lot of one kind of freedom in order to attain his kind of it. Having limited options, even if self-prescribed, is a lack of freedom.
It doesn't show that. It just shows that it can act according to what it is taught.
This article is about language learning. Bias in language is tricky. One of the reasons is that the language has evolved through biased views of people and the world. In many languages, "man" is used to represent humans ("mankind") or male is the normal state ("football player" vs "female football player").
If the bias is in the language it is learning, e.g. male words for gender-neutral things, the AI gets imprinted with that this is the norm it is expected to behave by.
As with statistics, you should be very careful with AI and machine learning. You tend to get what you ask for, so be very careful to ask the right questions.
I didn't know about the no-throttling thing; that could be useful for some. My use cases mostly involve performance spikes though.
However, I see 16 GB non-upgradeable as a severe limit on performance and expandability, and non-upgradeable drive as a limit on storage and expandability.
Sure, you can compensate for everything except the RAM by hanging stuff in a harness of dongles around it (if you remembered to bring them), but it is often not *practical*, which - in many forms (connectors, wire lock, physical function keys, oversize cursor keys) - is an aspect that they apparently haven't discovered yet for their list of what pro users are interested in.
Meanwhile, I wonder how many pro users requested the touch bar and how many pro users requested the removal of USB (and possibly HDMI) connectors, and the ability to upgrade the memory and storage.
IMO, the new MPB is an impressive engineering job. I really mean it. But as a pro user I can't help being disappointed that the marketing department have limited what could have been a wonderful, no compromise work tool in favor of gimmicks.
"[...] the list of things pro users are interested in talking about. They're interested in things like performance and storage and expandability."
Uhmm... If they knew all along, I'd like to hear him explain the latest MacBook Pro model.