More and more so-called 'AIs' are being used in place of algorithms (due mainly to magical thinking) but even the designers of these AIs can't tell you what they're really doing under the hood. That's where we're going to get in trouble with regards to 'accountability'.
The New York Times cited "a few" CDC officials who suggested the move was not meant as an outright ban, but rather, a technique to help secure Republican approval of the 2019 budget by eliminating certain words and phrases.
Is the GOP, in general, so ass-backwards that you can't mention anything about 'science' without them making warding signs against evil, invoking the Spirit, or whatever it is they do? I'm hearing banjo music..
The whole point of NN is that nobody controls the Internet.. therefore if the DNC wants NN, then they want to 'control the fact that nobody controls the Internet'. That's how I see it, anyway.
Yes, but: if Congress as a whole says "we want NN to continue to exist" and Trump vetoes it, that's just one more nail in the coffin, one more clear indicator to America that Trump doesn't give a rats ass about the average citizen.
The political needle is slammed all the way over to the right at the moment, if it can't manage to start swinging back towards the left, then there's something more serious going on than what we've been seeing since inauguration day.
Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
Absolutely nothing, friend, absolutely nothing at all.
Trump isn't about truth or justice, he's a narcissistic 5-year old who thinks being POTUS is equivalent to being crowned King, he thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants, facts don't matter, truth sure as hell doesn't matter, logic and reason don't matter, only what Donny wants, and nobody better contradict him or he'll throw a hissy-fit like the 5-year old egotist he is inside, and he'll have your head chopped off. He has to be stopped, one way or another, before he finishes dragging the U.S. back a hundred years (or more). Mueller needs to step it up, be sure he gets it right, and gets this orange-headed embarassment out of office, and into a jail cell.
If the Intel ME bothers you, turn off the power switch on the back of your power supply after shutting down your computer for the day, or if it doesn't have one, disconnect the power cord. Can't be accessed remotely if there's no power connected to the box.:-) If you've got a laptop, take the battery out. If you've got a tablet with an Intel processor in it, I guess you're screwed. Get or make small Faraday cage to store it in when you're not using it, or turn off your WAP.
Says the guy who likewise doesn't use his REAL, LEGAL NAME on Slashdot. Slashdot is not 'social media', no matter how many goddamned times you repeat it. It's a NEWS SITE with COMMENTING. You don't see people blogging about their goddamned vacation, or posting pics of their kids or pets or how swole they're getting at the gym, or whatever the hell it is people do on 'social media' these days. They post NEWS STORIES and we COMMENT on them. Not 'social media' by a longshot.
Arguments that so-called 'social media' keeps people in touch with each other who are geographically too far apart to interact in person fall flat so far as I'm concerned; there's written letters, there's email, there's phone calls, there's skype, there's all sorts of ways for people who are motivated to keep in touch with each other. Otherwise 'social media' just seems to bring out the worst in people, because you're not saying anything to someones face, you're just typing on a keyboard. I've been around since the dialup BBS days and it wasn't fundamentally different with that than it is with 'social media' over the internet, but the overall effect it has on people is literally orders of magnitude worse because of the number of people involved simultaneously. Too many people on various incarnations of 'social media' over the last 20 years who are there for attention-whoring (Look at me, look at me! Pay attention to me!) or just plain running their mouths, with little or no consequences because they aren't having to face the people they're talking to or about. Worse, 'social media' on a massive scale (like Facebook and Twitter) seem to be creating an entire generation of people who will grow to adulthood with poor (or non-existent) social skills, becoming socially avoidant, because so-called 'social media' gives them an excuse to stay away from actual people instead of interacting with them in person in a healthy way. Bottom line: I think 'social media' is a cancer on our collective societies and I wish it would just go away. I can't see any way you could change it to make it healthy.
Yeah sure great idea! Then we can all pay, pay, PAY for everything, all the time, or receive NOTHING! Screw that. Radio is FREE, that's the whole point of it. Knock it off with this 'streaming' crap already, don't you see it's a trap?
o So far as I can see, our species is not going to self-limit it's population; everyone will keep on cranking out babies until there's 10 billion of us, and we're fighting wars over basic resources like fresh water and arable land for food crops.
o Also so far as I can see, our species isn't going to do enough to limit climate change/global warming that we've caused, eventually making the planet uninhabitable (in the long term; in the shorter term, less and less usable land for us to live/farm on).
o This is all assuming we don't extinct ourselves outright with nuclear and/or biological weapons.
o Therefore: we need to start thinking about getting the hell off this planet. We've got all our eggs in one basket, the basket is getting full, and it's falling apart anyway. Get a new basket!
o Therefore: Let's start with the Moon. Build a permanent, self-sustaining colony there. Industry. And so on.
o Robots, you say? Taking our jobs? LOL, you actually are falling for that meme? Robots are not going to put our species out of work, so stop running around like Chicken Little screaming about the sky falling, okay? Will we use more and more robots to do things? Yes. Will they replace all humans? No, they'll allow us to avoid hazardous jobs and situations, and to focus on higher-level tasks. Why dig holes in the ground when you can get a machine to do that, while you plan where the best places to dig are? Get it?
***Some faith in our system of government restored*** We're not totally left swinging in the breeze on this one, there's some people with some fight in them that aren't willing to just sit back and let the Internet burn.
If you don't know or don't understand what it is you're 'giving away' because it's not made completely clear to you, is it not theft, or are you just being swindled? Rhetorical question, people are being tricked and swindled out of their data and their privacy because the ways and means of how it's being taken are hidden.
You're confusing my evaluation of what most people think about the subject with what my personal opinion of space exploration, is -- and I haven't expressed my personal opinion in the least, therefore I haven't bothered reading your comment past the first line (all the "Yous" in it).
I think, and have said in the past, that we should develop a permanent colony on the Moon, build industry there, especially space industry, and use it as a 'jumping off' point for the rest of our solar system -- and perhaps the rest of our galaxy, if we manage to solve certain riddles like FTL travel. Furthermore the Moon would be a much better place to perform certain experiments that otherwise would be hazardous here on Earth.
Where's your 'lack of imagination' now? No need to post an apology.
Yes, it's about the most expensive thing that our species has ever done. Even putting satellites into orbit is supremely expensive, not even counting the payload itself. If it's not cost-effective, if there's no profit to be made from putting humans on, say, Mars, then you're not going to get funding to do it, or private industry interested in doing it. The only way that happens is if there's actual profit to be made (literally, above and beyond the costs associated). So far, no dice. That, plus it'll take generations to even build a viable colony and industry on even our own Moon; I defy you to try to get the general public to stay interested in something like that for that long.
The fat bastard (Ajit Pai) may have 'sung', but the proverbial Fat Lady hasn't sung yet, folks. Despite my sometimes doom-saying (hey, cut me a little slack -- the world is a depressing place lately!), this is, really, just the opening volley in the War for the Internet. As another headline I read on this subject stated: "Net Neutrality Fight Moves to Courts, (and) Congress". There's now too much at stake with this, and there are some big players with lots of skin in the game to lose. So keep your hopes alive -- for now.
Oh yeah? I see too many people being 'assholes' about the entire homelessness problem, and it's not helping anything or anyone to be that way, so I guess I need to fight fire with fire. Stop demonizing homelessness, stop criminalizing it, and for fuck's sake stop shipping them off to somewhere else and claiming you 'solved the homelessness problem' because you didn't do any such thing, you're just treating human beings like garbage when you do that.
* If they're legitimately committing crimes, then get them off the street. But don't just stuff them in jail then release them back to homelessness afterwards, you idiots, FIX THE PROBLEM!
* Oh and by the way: Making 'being homeless' a crime is FOUL PLAY and I call you out for it.
* If they're drug addicted, stop playing the 'blame game' and saying 'they CHOSE to be addicts', FIX THE PROBLEM so they're not addicts anymore!
* If they refuse to stop using drugs, 'Call it evolution in action' and let them destroy themselves. Can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. Sad but true!
* If everything just fell apart in their lives, they WANT to be productive and live a normal life again, for fucks sake help them out of the hole they're in instead of making them into criminals!
* Oh and by the way there is no 'requirement' in this country that you live in a structure somewhere. If someone wants to live outside, aren't drug addicts, aren't comitting crimes, and aren't a burden on society, then leave them the hell alone to live how they want! (DISCLAIMER: These type of 'homeless' are few and far between but they have the RIGHT to live how they want to live. Stop demonizing them, stop lumping them in with everyone else.)
Oh and by the way there is no 'requirement' that I agree with you or anyone else about anything whatsoever and if you don't like that then tough shit.
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"Think twice about buying ANY Internet-connected devices, from ANYWHERE"
More and more so-called 'AIs' are being used in place of algorithms (due mainly to magical thinking) but even the designers of these AIs can't tell you what they're really doing under the hood. That's where we're going to get in trouble with regards to 'accountability'.
We didn't need a new term created to describe this.
Also, how about you all 'downvote' Facebook and social media in general? It's nothing but cancer.
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The New York Times cited "a few" CDC officials who suggested the move was not meant as an outright ban, but rather, a technique to help secure Republican approval of the 2019 budget by eliminating certain words and phrases.
Is the GOP, in general, so ass-backwards that you can't mention anything about 'science' without them making warding signs against evil, invoking the Spirit, or whatever it is they do? I'm hearing banjo music..
The whole point of NN is that nobody controls the Internet.. therefore if the DNC wants NN, then they want to 'control the fact that nobody controls the Internet'. That's how I see it, anyway.
Yes, but: if Congress as a whole says "we want NN to continue to exist" and Trump vetoes it, that's just one more nail in the coffin, one more clear indicator to America that Trump doesn't give a rats ass about the average citizen.
Maybe call it "getting everyone off the fence and committing"
The political needle is slammed all the way over to the right at the moment, if it can't manage to start swinging back towards the left, then there's something more serious going on than what we've been seeing since inauguration day.
Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
Absolutely nothing, friend, absolutely nothing at all.
Trump isn't about truth or justice, he's a narcissistic 5-year old who thinks being POTUS is equivalent to being crowned King, he thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants, facts don't matter, truth sure as hell doesn't matter, logic and reason don't matter, only what Donny wants, and nobody better contradict him or he'll throw a hissy-fit like the 5-year old egotist he is inside, and he'll have your head chopped off. He has to be stopped, one way or another, before he finishes dragging the U.S. back a hundred years (or more). Mueller needs to step it up, be sure he gets it right, and gets this orange-headed embarassment out of office, and into a jail cell.
If the Intel ME bothers you, turn off the power switch on the back of your power supply after shutting down your computer for the day, or if it doesn't have one, disconnect the power cord. Can't be accessed remotely if there's no power connected to the box. :-) If you've got a laptop, take the battery out. If you've got a tablet with an Intel processor in it, I guess you're screwed. Get or make small Faraday cage to store it in when you're not using it, or turn off your WAP.
Says the guy who likewise doesn't use his REAL, LEGAL NAME on Slashdot.
Slashdot is not 'social media', no matter how many goddamned times you repeat it. It's a NEWS SITE with COMMENTING. You don't see people blogging about their goddamned vacation, or posting pics of their kids or pets or how swole they're getting at the gym, or whatever the hell it is people do on 'social media' these days. They post NEWS STORIES and we COMMENT on them. Not 'social media' by a longshot.
Do you have any clue how many politicians they've bought at every level of the government?
You mean there isn't an APP for that? How Luddite-ish!
Arguments that so-called 'social media' keeps people in touch with each other who are geographically too far apart to interact in person fall flat so far as I'm concerned; there's written letters, there's email, there's phone calls, there's skype, there's all sorts of ways for people who are motivated to keep in touch with each other. Otherwise 'social media' just seems to bring out the worst in people, because you're not saying anything to someones face, you're just typing on a keyboard. I've been around since the dialup BBS days and it wasn't fundamentally different with that than it is with 'social media' over the internet, but the overall effect it has on people is literally orders of magnitude worse because of the number of people involved simultaneously. Too many people on various incarnations of 'social media' over the last 20 years who are there for attention-whoring (Look at me, look at me! Pay attention to me!) or just plain running their mouths, with little or no consequences because they aren't having to face the people they're talking to or about. Worse, 'social media' on a massive scale (like Facebook and Twitter) seem to be creating an entire generation of people who will grow to adulthood with poor (or non-existent) social skills, becoming socially avoidant, because so-called 'social media' gives them an excuse to stay away from actual people instead of interacting with them in person in a healthy way. Bottom line: I think 'social media' is a cancer on our collective societies and I wish it would just go away. I can't see any way you could change it to make it healthy.
Yeah sure great idea! Then we can all pay, pay, PAY for everything, all the time, or receive NOTHING! Screw that. Radio is FREE, that's the whole point of it. Knock it off with this 'streaming' crap already, don't you see it's a trap?
***Some faith in our system of government restored*** We're not totally left swinging in the breeze on this one, there's some people with some fight in them that aren't willing to just sit back and let the Internet burn.
If you don't know or don't understand what it is you're 'giving away' because it's not made completely clear to you, is it not theft, or are you just being swindled? Rhetorical question, people are being tricked and swindled out of their data and their privacy because the ways and means of how it's being taken are hidden.
You're confusing my evaluation of what most people think about the subject with what my personal opinion of space exploration, is -- and I haven't expressed my personal opinion in the least, therefore I haven't bothered reading your comment past the first line (all the "Yous" in it).
I think, and have said in the past, that we should develop a permanent colony on the Moon, build industry there, especially space industry, and use it as a 'jumping off' point for the rest of our solar system -- and perhaps the rest of our galaxy, if we manage to solve certain riddles like FTL travel. Furthermore the Moon would be a much better place to perform certain experiments that otherwise would be hazardous here on Earth.
Where's your 'lack of imagination' now? No need to post an apology.
You're probably right. And he'd likely be out in 2020 anyway. Of course it'll take a decade at least to repair all the damage done thusfar regardless.
IDGAF. Facebook should be paying it's users cash money for using their data and compromising their privacy. Period. Otherwise it's just theft.
Yes, it's about the most expensive thing that our species has ever done. Even putting satellites into orbit is supremely expensive, not even counting the payload itself. If it's not cost-effective, if there's no profit to be made from putting humans on, say, Mars, then you're not going to get funding to do it, or private industry interested in doing it. The only way that happens is if there's actual profit to be made (literally, above and beyond the costs associated). So far, no dice. That, plus it'll take generations to even build a viable colony and industry on even our own Moon; I defy you to try to get the general public to stay interested in something like that for that long.
The fat bastard (Ajit Pai) may have 'sung', but the proverbial Fat Lady hasn't sung yet, folks. Despite my sometimes doom-saying (hey, cut me a little slack -- the world is a depressing place lately!), this is, really, just the opening volley in the War for the Internet. As another headline I read on this subject stated: "Net Neutrality Fight Moves to Courts, (and) Congress". There's now too much at stake with this, and there are some big players with lots of skin in the game to lose. So keep your hopes alive -- for now.
Oh yeah? I see too many people being 'assholes' about the entire homelessness problem, and it's not helping anything or anyone to be that way, so I guess I need to fight fire with fire. Stop demonizing homelessness, stop criminalizing it, and for fuck's sake stop shipping them off to somewhere else and claiming you 'solved the homelessness problem' because you didn't do any such thing, you're just treating human beings like garbage when you do that.
* If they're legitimately committing crimes, then get them off the street. But don't just stuff them in jail then release them back to homelessness afterwards, you idiots, FIX THE PROBLEM!
* Oh and by the way: Making 'being homeless' a crime is FOUL PLAY and I call you out for it.
* If they're drug addicted, stop playing the 'blame game' and saying 'they CHOSE to be addicts', FIX THE PROBLEM so they're not addicts anymore!
* If they refuse to stop using drugs, 'Call it evolution in action' and let them destroy themselves. Can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped. Sad but true!
* If everything just fell apart in their lives, they WANT to be productive and live a normal life again, for fucks sake help them out of the hole they're in instead of making them into criminals!
* Oh and by the way there is no 'requirement' in this country that you live in a structure somewhere. If someone wants to live outside, aren't drug addicts, aren't comitting crimes, and aren't a burden on society, then leave them the hell alone to live how they want! (DISCLAIMER: These type of 'homeless' are few and far between but they have the RIGHT to live how they want to live. Stop demonizing them, stop lumping them in with everyone else.)
Oh and by the way there is no 'requirement' that I agree with you or anyone else about anything whatsoever and if you don't like that then tough shit.