I'm more interested in how long it'll take for the birds to learn that the drone can't actually hurt them, and that they can either ignore it, or attack it and get it out of the sky?
This is how paper shufflers, bean counters, and other non-producing types think. That's why all they're good for it shuffling papers around, obsessively counting things, and the only things they produce are more papers for other paper-shufflers to shuffle around, and more things for bean counters to count.
Got to pound the non-round pegs into the same round holes everyone else fits into, or you're not a 'productive worker'!
People do not like having anyone looking over their shoulder all the time, whether literally or 'virtually'.
You want people to be productive? Let them know what you need done, then get out of the way and let them do it. If they consistently don't get it done, then you can replace them with someone else, but micromanaging people is just plain stupid and that's what all this surveillance of 'freelance workers' is.
There's a market for a separate email service if it can promise (and keep that promise) to never, ever, peek into your email, collect data on you, or otherwise violate your privacy, and furthermore provide end-to-end encryption and an overall high level of security of your account and their server(s) from unauthorized access.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/st...
The original image can be manipulated, and the audio even more convincingly manipulated to say pretty much anything you want.
Likely no one will see this post since I'm so late to the party (over 600 comments at this moment), but I'll write it up anyway.
Let's face the reality about ourselves: Humans are, on average, huge procrastinators. The chances of our entire civilization going full-stop and deciding to make the major changes necessary to head this off? Highly unlikely. As a species, at this point in our evolution, don't seem to be able to make ourselves look down the road 100 years (or even 50 years for that matter) and do what's necessary to attain a goal for that far in the future. 1 year, 5 years? Sure. 10 years? Maybe. 20 years? Highly unlikely. So what's going to happen is things will get so bad that people can't live normal lives anymore, the 'inconvenience' will reach a critical stage where people are starting to panic over it, then people will demand that 'something be done about this'. Day late, dollar short, as they say. So what we've got to do now, is come up with the 'just in time' solution, if such a thing can even exist.
What I propose, for starters, is something out of a science fiction short story (written by Brenda Cooper? Not 100% sure). In this story an alien race covertly placed a massive number of small mirrors, self-positioning and remotely controlled, to reflect sunlight away from a planet they wanted to colonize, but that had a nascent sentient race already evolving on it. They caused an ice age on that planet, killing the dominant species. I propose that, given steady progress in space operations, we could do something similar with the Earth, reflecting a high enough percentage of sunlight away from us that over the course of decades, the planet would cool, and reverse the damage done. Or some variation on this theme to reduce the energy input from the sun. Might be enough. We'd have to develop the technology to do this, of course.
In the meantime we need to keep 'fighting the good fight' against the greedy, who don't care about anything other than amassing profit while they're alive ("Global warming is someone else's problem!") and the nutjob Dominionist types who want the Earth destroyed because they think they'll bring about the Second Coming of Christ that way (no, I'm not kidding, these idiots exist), and try to get people to reverse the damage we've already done.
No kidding. Smartphones are so full of security holes to start with, and where's that statistic about how many smartphones may be part of a botnet right now and the owners of the phones don't even know it? Here's an idea how ths can go wrong: the source of the app itself gets hacked, and the app replaced with a hacked version or a look-alike version, that changes your vote(s) to whatever the hackers want. That'd be my first choice. My next choice would be malware that intercepts the communication from the legitimate app and changes the data. Any number of ways this could be corrupted.
Not only does Zuckerbook not treat humans like human beings, it treats them intentionally as objects to be manipulated, and 'revenue streams' to be collected on, and anything that stands in the way of that is not allowed -- unless they're faced with a legal challenge that might cost them money, in which case they'll change how they treat their 'individual revenue stream generator objects' so they continue to make as much money as possible.
The article does hit one nail on the head though: Zuckerbook is EVIL. As much as I say it, I can't say it enough: Everyone needs to LEAVE FACEBOOK, permanently. Rest assured, nothing of value will be lost -- and you'll gain so much back that's been taken from you.
They don't 'contribute' to piracy. But they don't 'contribute' to being policemen for the Intellectual Property owners, either, and since the IP owners are finally discovering the hard way what a senseless game of whack-a-mole it is to try to stop it from happening, they're now trying to force ISPs to participate. Of course that won't work either, it'll just make everything more expensive for everyone and accomplish nothing.
Missing the point! ..because Google is just so much more trustworthy than Comcast, or AT&T, or anyone else. Same greedy bastards, different company. They just want their share of the five liters in your veins and they won't be any nicer about it than anyone else, and oh by the way if Ajit Pai is involved in this then the whole deal is automatically suspect based on his history. Also fuck you.
Car analogy
No, that's Old and Busted. Let's try a vampire analogy instead:
You're in a room full of vampires, and they're goddamned thirsty. They could fight each other over who gets to drain you. Or they could decide to tie you up, put a feeding tube down your throat, and install a valve on a handy vein, so the can drain you regularly. Which do you think they're going to do? Oh and don't forget that thye're not giving you a choice in any of this.
Yeah, sure. You're an antelope and you're in a room full of lions, and tigers, and cheetahs, who are arguing over who gets to eat you. Do you really think they're going to unanimously agree to not eat you? At worst, they kill each other off until one is left, who then proceeds to eat you. At best, they agree to split the kill; then they all eat you, they just get a little less. In the latter scenario, they further agree to split all future antelope. Welcome to CAPITALISM.
Zebras don't change their stripes. Ajit Pai is an asshole, clearly and objectively, therefore Google must have bribed him in some way to get this 'ruling'. The question remains: how much?
I was thinking the opposite could be true, too: you pay with bitcoin, and before COB for the day it manages to tank and what was $5.00 worth of bitcoin is now $0.05 worth.
But the most common response was simply that the robot said it didn’t want to be switched off, so who were they to disagree?"
If these people truly and solidly believed that this 'robot' (looks more like a toy to me, really) wasn't anything like 'alive', wasn't anything more than a piece of technology saying precisely what it was programmed to say given a specific input (in this case: trying to power the device down), then they wouldn't have hesitated or given the reason they did. This goes to prove my point about what the media, movies, television, 'pop culture', and (most of all) marketing departments have done: convinced the average person that the 'deep learning algorithms', 'expert systems', and other half-assed, non-self-aware, non-thinking 'AI' software they keep trotting out for this-that-and-the-other, is somehow 'alive' and qualifies as a 'person', when anyone who actually understands the techology clearly knows that it's not.
The real danger that so-called 'AI' poses is the above: people anthropomorphizing it, assuming it's 'alive' because it might say or do some clever thing that mimicks being 'alive', and therefore assuming it's equivalent to a living being, or even equivalent to a human being. I'm firmly convinced people, when they hear about 'self driving cars', think they're going to have a conversation with it every morning. The end result will be tragic, avoidable things will happen, people will get hurt or killed, and when survivors are questioned about it, they'll say "We thought it knew what it was doing so we just let it".
In some cases, yes. But that's the price you pay for enjoying your freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Or would you rather have every single word you ever say on the Internet subject to scrutiny and judgement and be crucified and have your life ruined because you, for instance, made a joke someone took offense to? Can't have it both ways buddy.
Pull up Google Maps and zoom in on any neighborhood and you see all sorts of names of 'areas' that don't seem to have anything to do with anything. Where the heck are they even coming up with these?
Slashdot Mirror
sez you
I'm more interested in how long it'll take for the birds to learn that the drone can't actually hurt them, and that they can either ignore it, or attack it and get it out of the sky?
Got to pound the non-round pegs into the same round holes everyone else fits into, or you're not a 'productive worker'!
People do not like having anyone looking over their shoulder all the time, whether literally or 'virtually'.
You want people to be productive? Let them know what you need done, then get out of the way and let them do it. If they consistently don't get it done, then you can replace them with someone else, but micromanaging people is just plain stupid and that's what all this surveillance of 'freelance workers' is.
There's a market for a separate email service if it can promise (and keep that promise) to never, ever, peek into your email, collect data on you, or otherwise violate your privacy, and furthermore provide end-to-end encryption and an overall high level of security of your account and their server(s) from unauthorized access.
Trollolololol.
You've been spotted. Time to abandon your trolling account and open a fresh one.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/st...
The original image can be manipulated, and the audio even more convincingly manipulated to say pretty much anything you want.
*Adding this to the ever-growing list of reasons I don't want a smartphone*
Really, smartphones are more and more a cancer every year, people would do well to dump them.
Surely there must be an about:config page setting where you can turn this off?
Also, what happens if you configure your router/firewall to block this?
Likely no one will see this post since I'm so late to the party (over 600 comments at this moment), but I'll write it up anyway.
Let's face the reality about ourselves: Humans are, on average, huge procrastinators. The chances of our entire civilization going full-stop and deciding to make the major changes necessary to head this off? Highly unlikely. As a species, at this point in our evolution, don't seem to be able to make ourselves look down the road 100 years (or even 50 years for that matter) and do what's necessary to attain a goal for that far in the future. 1 year, 5 years? Sure. 10 years? Maybe. 20 years? Highly unlikely. So what's going to happen is things will get so bad that people can't live normal lives anymore, the 'inconvenience' will reach a critical stage where people are starting to panic over it, then people will demand that 'something be done about this'. Day late, dollar short, as they say. So what we've got to do now, is come up with the 'just in time' solution, if such a thing can even exist.
What I propose, for starters, is something out of a science fiction short story (written by Brenda Cooper? Not 100% sure). In this story an alien race covertly placed a massive number of small mirrors, self-positioning and remotely controlled, to reflect sunlight away from a planet they wanted to colonize, but that had a nascent sentient race already evolving on it. They caused an ice age on that planet, killing the dominant species. I propose that, given steady progress in space operations, we could do something similar with the Earth, reflecting a high enough percentage of sunlight away from us that over the course of decades, the planet would cool, and reverse the damage done. Or some variation on this theme to reduce the energy input from the sun. Might be enough. We'd have to develop the technology to do this, of course.
In the meantime we need to keep 'fighting the good fight' against the greedy, who don't care about anything other than amassing profit while they're alive ("Global warming is someone else's problem!") and the nutjob Dominionist types who want the Earth destroyed because they think they'll bring about the Second Coming of Christ that way (no, I'm not kidding, these idiots exist), and try to get people to reverse the damage we've already done.
No kidding. Smartphones are so full of security holes to start with, and where's that statistic about how many smartphones may be part of a botnet right now and the owners of the phones don't even know it? Here's an idea how ths can go wrong: the source of the app itself gets hacked, and the app replaced with a hacked version or a look-alike version, that changes your vote(s) to whatever the hackers want. That'd be my first choice. My next choice would be malware that intercepts the communication from the legitimate app and changes the data. Any number of ways this could be corrupted.
Not only does Zuckerbook not treat humans like human beings, it treats them intentionally as objects to be manipulated, and 'revenue streams' to be collected on, and anything that stands in the way of that is not allowed -- unless they're faced with a legal challenge that might cost them money, in which case they'll change how they treat their 'individual revenue stream generator objects' so they continue to make as much money as possible.
The article does hit one nail on the head though: Zuckerbook is EVIL. As much as I say it, I can't say it enough: Everyone needs to LEAVE FACEBOOK, permanently. Rest assured, nothing of value will be lost -- and you'll gain so much back that's been taken from you.
They don't 'contribute' to piracy. But they don't 'contribute' to being policemen for the Intellectual Property owners, either, and since the IP owners are finally discovering the hard way what a senseless game of whack-a-mole it is to try to stop it from happening, they're now trying to force ISPs to participate. Of course that won't work either, it'll just make everything more expensive for everyone and accomplish nothing.
Missing the point!
..because Google is just so much more trustworthy than Comcast, or AT&T, or anyone else. Same greedy bastards, different company. They just want their share of the five liters in your veins and they won't be any nicer about it than anyone else, and oh by the way if Ajit Pai is involved in this then the whole deal is automatically suspect based on his history. Also fuck you.
Car analogy
No, that's Old and Busted. Let's try a vampire analogy instead:
You're in a room full of vampires, and they're goddamned thirsty. They could fight each other over who gets to drain you. Or they could decide to tie you up, put a feeding tube down your throat, and install a valve on a handy vein, so the can drain you regularly. Which do you think they're going to do? Oh and don't forget that thye're not giving you a choice in any of this.
*DING DING DING DING DING* Winner winner chicken dinner!
*Thoughful look*
Hmmm........
Yeah, sure. You're an antelope and you're in a room full of lions, and tigers, and cheetahs, who are arguing over who gets to eat you. Do you really think they're going to unanimously agree to not eat you? At worst, they kill each other off until one is left, who then proceeds to eat you. At best, they agree to split the kill; then they all eat you, they just get a little less. In the latter scenario, they further agree to split all future antelope. Welcome to CAPITALISM.
Zebras don't change their stripes. Ajit Pai is an asshole, clearly and objectively, therefore Google must have bribed him in some way to get this 'ruling'. The question remains: how much?
I was thinking the opposite could be true, too: you pay with bitcoin, and before COB for the day it manages to tank and what was $5.00 worth of bitcoin is now $0.05 worth.
STFU, your low-quality sarcasm isn't helping.
But the most common response was simply that the robot said it didn’t want to be switched off, so who were they to disagree?"
If these people truly and solidly believed that this 'robot' (looks more like a toy to me, really) wasn't anything like 'alive', wasn't anything more than a piece of technology saying precisely what it was programmed to say given a specific input (in this case: trying to power the device down), then they wouldn't have hesitated or given the reason they did. This goes to prove my point about what the media, movies, television, 'pop culture', and (most of all) marketing departments have done: convinced the average person that the 'deep learning algorithms', 'expert systems', and other half-assed, non-self-aware, non-thinking 'AI' software they keep trotting out for this-that-and-the-other, is somehow 'alive' and qualifies as a 'person', when anyone who actually understands the techology clearly knows that it's not.
The real danger that so-called 'AI' poses is the above: people anthropomorphizing it, assuming it's 'alive' because it might say or do some clever thing that mimicks being 'alive', and therefore assuming it's equivalent to a living being, or even equivalent to a human being. I'm firmly convinced people, when they hear about 'self driving cars', think they're going to have a conversation with it every morning. The end result will be tragic, avoidable things will happen, people will get hurt or killed, and when survivors are questioned about it, they'll say "We thought it knew what it was doing so we just let it".
Fuck you too, shitcock. xD xD xD
In some cases, yes. But that's the price you pay for enjoying your freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Or would you rather have every single word you ever say on the Internet subject to scrutiny and judgement and be crucified and have your life ruined because you, for instance, made a joke someone took offense to? Can't have it both ways buddy.
Pull up Google Maps and zoom in on any neighborhood and you see all sorts of names of 'areas' that don't seem to have anything to do with anything. Where the heck are they even coming up with these?
Gesundheit? O_o