Because people don't die when Ethernet Packet 1 collides with Ethernet Packet 2, that's why. Traffic laws, road signs, etc, are for safety. You don't stop at a Stop Sign because The Man wants to slow you down, you stop so you don't go barreling through the intersection the same moment someone else is, and crash into them.
That's fine and dandy if you're only thinking 1 or 2 moves ahead, but what happens when Game Company 'A' pays Comcast/Xfinity a bunch of money to prioritize traffic from the game servers for their newly released MMORPG, but you're playing Game Company 'B's MMORPG and are finding it nearly unplayable due to latency and dropped packets? Excuse the blatant play on words, but that's not a level playing field at all now is it? Clearly gaming the system. That's why we need NN, and that's why these companies are teaming up to support it.
Haven't I read at least a few articles that say keeping your mind active as you age can perhaps prevent age-related mental problems like dementia and Alzheimers?
All makes perfect sense to me. You don't use your muscles, they atrophy, because there's no reason for your body to dedicate resources to something that's not being used; why should it be any different with your brain? Keep learning your whole life, keep yourself interested in something, and your brain will last as long as possible. Having a purpose in life, whether bestowed on you or of your own devising would probably help.
In the early 80's I was buildin a COSMAC ELF out of a Popular Electronics article, learning how digital logic worked, and designing expansions and upgrades to the ELF so I could interface it to a Teletype and run an integer BASIC interpreter on it. Then there was the S100/IEEE696 systems and CP/M. Yes, that's when computers were fun and interesting, and now they're too commercialized, too locked-down, you can't actually build anything for them as easily as you once did, and really there's no point when you can buy just about anything you want instead. Boring, boring, boring, now it's just a tool. I'd rather ride my bike.
The 'actual planet' they live on is a dystopian nightmare and has been since they were born; they're trying to escape into their phones to get away from it. The other alternative is getting addicted to opiods, apparently.
Living in the current worldwide sociopolitical climate, which by the way they're all born and raised in, what did you think was going to happen? We've got a loud-mouthed con-man 'running' the country, who is appointing a bunch of criminals, incompetents, and agenda-driven types, all of which are mucking up the works and causing untold amounts of damage, we've got an uprising of similar loud-mouthed destructive con-men in other countries, North Korea threatening to start tossing nukes around, China trying to build an empire, Russia creating chaos everywhere they can, Putin clearly wanting to create USSR v2.0, terrorist organizations running around blowing things up, cutting off people's heads on video on the Internet, and convincing their friends that they should forsake their Western lives and join them, for fuck's sake, and meanwhile we're slowly but surely destroying the ecosphere of the only planet we have to live on. So of course you've got 'bored' teenagers, they think it's all just a matter of time before it all falls apart into some real-life version of a post-apocalyptic movie or other, and by the way why else do you think so many people are addicted to opiods and painkillers? They're trying to escape any way they can because their reality sucks ass and they feel trapped and powerless. Everything everyone does is watched, listened to, logged, analyzed, and monetized, like we're all animals on a farm or convicts in a prison -- or, perhaps more to the point, like inmates in an insane asylum. We don't need movies or TV shows about dystopian futures, because we're clearly living in a dystopia. Want Gen-Z to be 'less bored'? How about we start injecting some sanity into the world!
That's a nice piece of tech you've got there, shame if something.. happened to it, say, from a patent troll. But your good old Uncle Microsoft is here to help you out, isn't that great? Since you're such a good guy, we don't even want anything from you -- we just want to help! -- but it would be nice if you'd let us use your technology, you know, just to make our own stuff work a little better.
Seriously, do you really think that with anything short of a court order or an order from Congress (or maybe a gun pointed at their heads) they're really going to show you how much actual data they have collected on you? When you signed up for their 'services' using your real name, you handed them the Keys to the Kingdom, regardless of any agreement (that you likely never read in the first place). The only way to win this game was to have not played in the first place.
Zuckerberg's new hobby: writing 'bots to take over all the Facebook accounts that people will be abandoning, so Facebook will look like it's still relevant.
If I were you I'd set up an 'auto-responder' that says: "I no longer use Facebook because it sucks ass and Zuckerberg is a tool, please contact me by any other means in the future".
Do they really have enough coherency in their countries to call it a 'society'? Kind of hard to have a 'society' when you're in a constant state of civil war.
An armed society tends to be a polite society -- because when everyone is armed, starting shit will likely get you killed, so you think before you act. People who don't are 'Evolution in action'.
If you think this is bad, just imagine what it's like for the average citizen in North Korea. ..but yes, it's bad, and with China now having a de-facto dictator, it'll just get worse.
Again I ask: how much more crap can the Chinese citizens take before there's a revolution?
Does it supply clean power (i.e. low noise) Does it supply enough current, have tight enough voltage regulation, and have a fast enough transient response time so that no supply rail droops occur, possibly causing errors/lockups Is it built to high enough quality standards that it isn't going to blow up in a year
That's all you really need to worry about with a computer power supply.
Oh and one more thing: You wouldn't necessarily get public support for an idea like this anyway, especially if it meant things are less convenient and/or more expensive for the average person, because they've either been so thoroughly indoctrinated by this point that 'privacy' is only desired by people with something to hide, and/or they'll say "my life isn't interesting enough for anyone to care about" therefore they don't care who 'collects data' on them. Then there's the wingnuts who actually think they're being done a favor by corporations who build profiles of them and target advertising to them, and the wingnuts who really believe that government poking it's nose into every aspect of their lives somehow actually means they're 'safer'.
Law enforcement and politicians would firmly and flatly give you a resounding "NO!" to this idea, citing public safety and national security concerns -- true or not
Furthermore: information is power; what was the last time anyone gave up power they've acquired? Never.
Finally, law or no law, do you really expect any corporation to go along with this? They'll all cheat one way or another, because it affects their profits. They'll find some loophole around it, or lobby the living fuck out of Congress when such a law was being drafted, to make sure it's got enough holes in it so they can effectively do an end-run around it.
I agree with Stallman 100% on this in theory and wish it could be done, but as a practical idea it's a non-starter for the above reasons.
Even then what's being asked here is like asking which power supply will make your computer faster; it makes no sense. You could have the hottest-shit-fast CPU available, and since you're booting it off a cheap USB 2 flash drive and a USB 2 video adapter, the performance will suck. Then you put it side-by-side with the cheapest shittiest CPU you can find, but with the best x16 PCIe graphics card and a top of the line SATA SSD, and it kicks the other systems' ass.
'Real world performance' according to who or what, precisely?
Clock speed doesn't tell you the whole story and to the vast majority of people (read as: non-technical people) it wouldn't mean anything to them anyway, other than maybe one number is bigger than another number.
Same goes for so-called 'benchmark' test suites, which I think can be argued as being biased in one way or another (or a processor gaming the system to make it appear it's faster on such-and-such benchmark test).
I think that for the people such information matters to, they're going to already know what's what without anyone spelling it out for them.
Too many corporations (*ahem* Monsanto) rush things to market without adequate testing over enough time to see what the long-term effects are, that's what, and the problem with that is with cross-pollination, the artificial lab-made changes in genetics get mixed in with everything else, regardless of any unforseen long-term effects.
..and before you or anyone else attempts to categorize me as some tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist: I'm not even worrying about this anymore, because the horse has already left the barn. GMO is already literally 'in the wind', there's no way to contain it now, and we'll all have to live (or not live, as the case may be) with the consequences of that. If nothing bad happens, then great, if they've somehow created an extinction-level event for life on this planet, then worrying about it isn't going to make a damned bit of difference.
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Because people don't die when Ethernet Packet 1 collides with Ethernet Packet 2, that's why. Traffic laws, road signs, etc, are for safety. You don't stop at a Stop Sign because The Man wants to slow you down, you stop so you don't go barreling through the intersection the same moment someone else is, and crash into them.
That's fine and dandy if you're only thinking 1 or 2 moves ahead, but what happens when Game Company 'A' pays Comcast/Xfinity a bunch of money to prioritize traffic from the game servers for their newly released MMORPG, but you're playing Game Company 'B's MMORPG and are finding it nearly unplayable due to latency and dropped packets? Excuse the blatant play on words, but that's not a level playing field at all now is it? Clearly gaming the system. That's why we need NN, and that's why these companies are teaming up to support it.
Haven't I read at least a few articles that say keeping your mind active as you age can perhaps prevent age-related mental problems like dementia and Alzheimers?
All makes perfect sense to me. You don't use your muscles, they atrophy, because there's no reason for your body to dedicate resources to something that's not being used; why should it be any different with your brain? Keep learning your whole life, keep yourself interested in something, and your brain will last as long as possible. Having a purpose in life, whether bestowed on you or of your own devising would probably help.
In the early 80's I was buildin a COSMAC ELF out of a Popular Electronics article, learning how digital logic worked, and designing expansions and upgrades to the ELF so I could interface it to a Teletype and run an integer BASIC interpreter on it. Then there was the S100/IEEE696 systems and CP/M. Yes, that's when computers were fun and interesting, and now they're too commercialized, too locked-down, you can't actually build anything for them as easily as you once did, and really there's no point when you can buy just about anything you want instead. Boring, boring, boring, now it's just a tool. I'd rather ride my bike.
The 'actual planet' they live on is a dystopian nightmare and has been since they were born; they're trying to escape into their phones to get away from it. The other alternative is getting addicted to opiods, apparently.
Living in the current worldwide sociopolitical climate, which by the way they're all born and raised in, what did you think was going to happen? We've got a loud-mouthed con-man 'running' the country, who is appointing a bunch of criminals, incompetents, and agenda-driven types, all of which are mucking up the works and causing untold amounts of damage, we've got an uprising of similar loud-mouthed destructive con-men in other countries, North Korea threatening to start tossing nukes around, China trying to build an empire, Russia creating chaos everywhere they can, Putin clearly wanting to create USSR v2.0, terrorist organizations running around blowing things up, cutting off people's heads on video on the Internet, and convincing their friends that they should forsake their Western lives and join them, for fuck's sake, and meanwhile we're slowly but surely destroying the ecosphere of the only planet we have to live on. So of course you've got 'bored' teenagers, they think it's all just a matter of time before it all falls apart into some real-life version of a post-apocalyptic movie or other, and by the way why else do you think so many people are addicted to opiods and painkillers? They're trying to escape any way they can because their reality sucks ass and they feel trapped and powerless. Everything everyone does is watched, listened to, logged, analyzed, and monetized, like we're all animals on a farm or convicts in a prison -- or, perhaps more to the point, like inmates in an insane asylum. We don't need movies or TV shows about dystopian futures, because we're clearly living in a dystopia. Want Gen-Z to be 'less bored'? How about we start injecting some sanity into the world!
That's a nice piece of tech you've got there, shame if something.. happened to it, say, from a patent troll. But your good old Uncle Microsoft is here to help you out, isn't that great? Since you're such a good guy, we don't even want anything from you -- we just want to help! -- but it would be nice if you'd let us use your technology, you know, just to make our own stuff work a little better.
Targeted ads can be a benefit. Government surveillance can make us safer.
NO, and NO. You've clearly been brainwashed.
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So, you're a lawyer?
Seriously, do you really think that with anything short of a court order or an order from Congress (or maybe a gun pointed at their heads) they're really going to show you how much actual data they have collected on you? When you signed up for their 'services' using your real name, you handed them the Keys to the Kingdom, regardless of any agreement (that you likely never read in the first place). The only way to win this game was to have not played in the first place.
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Zuckerberg's new hobby: writing 'bots to take over all the Facebook accounts that people will be abandoning, so Facebook will look like it's still relevant.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if part of the strategy here is to scare people into dumping older systems and buying new ones so they're 'protected'.
Chairman Mao, or Stalin?
Trick question! It's both.
If I were you I'd set up an 'auto-responder' that says: "I no longer use Facebook because it sucks ass and Zuckerberg is a tool, please contact me by any other means in the future".
I didn't say a 'polite COUNTRY', I said a 'polite SOCIETY'.
Do they really have enough coherency in their countries to call it a 'society'? Kind of hard to have a 'society' when you're in a constant state of civil war.
An armed society tends to be a polite society -- because when everyone is armed, starting shit will likely get you killed, so you think before you act. People who don't are 'Evolution in action'.
If you think this is bad, just imagine what it's like for the average citizen in North Korea.
..but yes, it's bad, and with China now having a de-facto dictator, it'll just get worse.
Again I ask: how much more crap can the Chinese citizens take before there's a revolution?
Does it supply clean power (i.e. low noise)
Does it supply enough current, have tight enough voltage regulation, and have a fast enough transient response time so that no supply rail droops occur, possibly causing errors/lockups
Is it built to high enough quality standards that it isn't going to blow up in a year
That's all you really need to worry about with a computer power supply.
Oh and one more thing: You wouldn't necessarily get public support for an idea like this anyway, especially if it meant things are less convenient and/or more expensive for the average person, because they've either been so thoroughly indoctrinated by this point that 'privacy' is only desired by people with something to hide, and/or they'll say "my life isn't interesting enough for anyone to care about" therefore they don't care who 'collects data' on them. Then there's the wingnuts who actually think they're being done a favor by corporations who build profiles of them and target advertising to them, and the wingnuts who really believe that government poking it's nose into every aspect of their lives somehow actually means they're 'safer'.
Law enforcement and politicians would firmly and flatly give you a resounding "NO!" to this idea, citing public safety and national security concerns -- true or not
Furthermore: information is power; what was the last time anyone gave up power they've acquired? Never.
Finally, law or no law, do you really expect any corporation to go along with this? They'll all cheat one way or another, because it affects their profits. They'll find some loophole around it, or lobby the living fuck out of Congress when such a law was being drafted, to make sure it's got enough holes in it so they can effectively do an end-run around it.
I agree with Stallman 100% on this in theory and wish it could be done, but as a practical idea it's a non-starter for the above reasons.
Even then what's being asked here is like asking which power supply will make your computer faster; it makes no sense. You could have the hottest-shit-fast CPU available, and since you're booting it off a cheap USB 2 flash drive and a USB 2 video adapter, the performance will suck. Then you put it side-by-side with the cheapest shittiest CPU you can find, but with the best x16 PCIe graphics card and a top of the line SATA SSD, and it kicks the other systems' ass.
'Real world performance' according to who or what, precisely?
Clock speed doesn't tell you the whole story and to the vast majority of people (read as: non-technical people) it wouldn't mean anything to them anyway, other than maybe one number is bigger than another number.
Same goes for so-called 'benchmark' test suites, which I think can be argued as being biased in one way or another (or a processor gaming the system to make it appear it's faster on such-and-such benchmark test).
I think that for the people such information matters to, they're going to already know what's what without anyone spelling it out for them.
Too many corporations (*ahem* Monsanto) rush things to market without adequate testing over enough time to see what the long-term effects are, that's what, and the problem with that is with cross-pollination, the artificial lab-made changes in genetics get mixed in with everything else, regardless of any unforseen long-term effects.
..and before you or anyone else attempts to categorize me as some tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorist: I'm not even worrying about this anymore, because the horse has already left the barn. GMO is already literally 'in the wind', there's no way to contain it now, and we'll all have to live (or not live, as the case may be) with the consequences of that. If nothing bad happens, then great, if they've somehow created an extinction-level event for life on this planet, then worrying about it isn't going to make a damned bit of difference.