We do not have autonomous robots. There is always a human pilot flying that predator done. Even with semi-autonomous drones that fly to a target and fire; there is someone selecting that target and programming the drone.
As with all current A.I., we tell it what the game is and the success conditions. A.I. that decide the rules of the game and discover winning conditions; those are a good 60 ~ 100 years away.
I remember someone talking about wanting to migrate to the US and they had a dual Irish and UK citizenship and I was like, "Wow...you gain no real advantage with those two what-so-ever."
Well....now that person does!:-P
There are a ton-o-british people living in the EU that will soon need to apply for immigration where they did
One thing I have to wonder about: If the mechanism involves using a virus, couldn't there be massive unintended consequences if the virus transfers to another host? Even if a virus isn't very communicable, and can't survive outside of a host, what if the patient transmits it sexually after treatment?
> No, the solution here is to make penalties so severe that people won't choose to profit-seek by skirting the law.
I think that's horrible. Why not use technology? I bet most of these ticket buying web sites have their own roll-your-own garbage Captcha. They don't care because they get the same amount of money of their tickets are bought by bots or real people. In fact, it can be their advantage to have bots buy out all the tickets. They get an instant "sold out" show and they no longer have a risk for unsold seats. The scalpers now incur that risk (and mitigate it by jacking up the price enough that it more than covers unsold tickets).
People who use the ticketing agents (and care about their fans) should demand those ticketing agents implement better bot detection.
I buy a lot of CDs are bars when I see bands. I rip them to FLACs and sync them to my phone/work.
I also use Bandcamp because they only take 10~15%.
If a band I like has no other options and they're not playing in my city any time soon, I might use Amazon MP3 or CDBaby, but I don't like it.
I haven't bought off Apple/google ever. They use to take ~30%, but I think some of that may have change. It's till too much. They have the volume that they could easily take 5%, still turn a massive profit and give more to the artists.
I don't use Spotify and never want to. I prefer to own my music, not rent it.
Main stream artists I torrent if I want them. If you already have a million in sales, there are artists out there who tour out of vans with better music than your shit. Just because you got lucky with a label since your music is generic enough to reach a wide audience without offending anyone doesn't entitle you to as big a peace of the pie as you have. Things haven't really changed since Metallica and Napster. Also, all my Metalica CDs are pirated.
SD cards have a 32-bit micro-controller on them. They're used to mark bad sectors and keep writes from being on adjacent memory locations (disturbing memory locations a lot on SD cards can corrupt data). There's a talk out there somewhere, where a researcher reprograms the SD cards on-board processor, while keeping it functioning as an SD card. In theory, you could take a 25GB card, have it report it's 15GB and write a small program to make a copy of all writes to a hidden part of the card for retrial later.
AMD still dominates the console market. PS4/XBOX anyone?
They also invented the entire AMD64/EMT64 extension to x86 (ironic since their early venture into the market were Intel clones).
Intel uses a lot of anti-competitive practices to keep AMD from dominating, but I think they intentionally stopped short of killing them off. AMD having the console market makes and easy, "Look, we're not anti-competitive. AMD is still in the market, and they're in every gaming console!"
I agree with you on systemd. Linux did need full process management. I do like how systemd standardized the init system and it'd be nice if there could be a simple drop-in replacement for it. Uselessd development has stopped and no one has the time to contribute anymore. The big projects are all funded by the big for-profit companies.
I use Gentoo and still love it. I don't use systemd, but it is an optional choice (like it should be). I haven't touched FreeBSD in years, but I can understand people moving that route. I might load it up at some point. I just don't have the time to invest these days and Gentoo still works great for me at work and at home.
I had a Treo and Centro. Single threaded. No memory protection. You could write to a random memory location and crash the entire OS. Everything was written in C (there was a Java micro edition... I think it was IBMs, and I could run Opera with it; which was surprisingly decent.. until the Treo crashed).
I even got a Pre. I knew several other people who had them too. Then HP bought them and that was pretty much over.
Nah, the best attack vector are active virus scanners that run as the system user. If you find a bug, you can just send the person a broken PDF and they don't even have to open it. You just need the AV to scan it and you're in.
Not as a developer. I've been at places with filtering where to many sites with information I need end up in the blacklist. Rather than put in a support ticket, I often find it easier to proxy over SSH. I've only been caught doing this once at a company and that was cause some dickhead used my proxy to pump a huge file though. I stopped giving people access to my jumpbox after that. (I wasn't fired either; just given a warning. It didn't matter though -- turned in my notice for a new job a month later:-P)
The past four jobs I've worked at didn't/don't have any filtering what so ever and I haven't found my overall productivity levels have changed at all.
This feels really bias. PayPal is a major international player and they're pretty much the size of several big evil banks.
America is the only country I've lived in within the past several years where individuals cannot send money to each other electronically for free, via the national banking system. In Australia, you need someone's name, bsb and account number and you can send money to anyone, with any bank, for free, from your phone or web browser. In NZ, the bank and account number are one big number, and you can transfer money to anyone, on any bank, for free using your phone or the bank's web site. In Germany and other EU countries, you get the added protection of a TAN number; a one time use code.
In America, we still have no person-to-person system and we never will because companies like PayPal are big and Square are growing and there is a lot of money to be made in keeping a system like that from every being implemented.
Maybe Turkey is just tired of PayPal being a big massive banking giant and maybe they want to promote their own technology and allow transfers to be free without the need of an external company?
Of course, considering that recent data leak and the quality of their software, any attempts will probably be horrible.
It's not a bloody small change in syntax. It's a fundamental design change on the way linux processes and logins work. This breaks a lot of stuff and should have a massive red warning on it. It should be a major release and not an incremental change (if it were even a good idea, which it's not).
I'm a native speaker. I spent a year in Australia and got use to all the Aussies, before leaving for NZ. I was like, "This won't be as bad. I'm sure I'll understand them fine."
The first day I was like, "OMG what the fuck is everyone saying I can'tunderstandanyofit!"
I was fine after two weeks.. mostly. There are still some people I can't understand...mostly from Hamilton:-P
I've never done a stage1 Gentoo. My current is from a stage3.
I did build an LFS. Took me over a week. I accidentally fucked up the file system, but the second try only took me a weekend.
I used that' LFS system for about a semester and a half before I switched back to Fedora and embraced package management. That was around 2002. I had a flatmate that got me into Gentoo and I was like, "It's like LFS with package management!"
I've gone back and fourth over the years between Linux and MacOS, but currently I use Gentoo both at home and at work; have been for over four years now. It feels great.
New Zealand, most of Australia and large segments of Europe all have legal sex work. Even in places like Belgium where it is technically illegal, it's tolerated with famous red light districts like the one in Antwerp.
The only thing sad about this situation, is that it's still illegal in America (except for parts of Nevada)
> They should be forced to take a mental fitness test, an IQ test,
You immediately assume that they're stupid or mentally ill. Good ad hominem. Many of these people aren't. They've done some research and know they're taking a very controversial stance.
Your attitude is what drives people further that direction.
You also cannot cluster all vaccines together. Several people in the anti-vaccine movement are not anti-MMR, but are against flu vaccines. There are reasons I won't go into (I personally get all my vaccines, but not yearly flu shots; they make me sick. Don't go giving me that "It's psychosomatic," shit either. I've tried, several times. I know it's not as bad as the flu by any means, but considering how infrequently (twice as an adult) I've gotten the flu, it just doesn't feel wroth it), but you can't group all vaccinations together.
I can also understand if people are hesitant about newer vaccinations. After all, pharma companies are about making money. They still push cholesterol medication even though every study from the past five years show cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease. These drugs are dangerous and worthless and yet they continue to be sold. There are good reasons not to trust pharma companies.
I don't agree with the anti-vaccination movement and especially the anti-MMR movement (you can get MMRs without thimerosal if you're really concerned about that), but I don't think they're stupid either. I think you should listen to their views and actively re-evaluate your position. If you immediately dismiss people as stupid because they're pro-vac, anti-vac, believe in climate change, climate change deniers, 9/11 truthers, social justice warriors, civil rights promoters, patriotic, anarchists, fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist atheists, etc... then you'll just live in an echo chamber, re-enforce your group think and never learn when you are wrong.
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We do not have autonomous robots. There is always a human pilot flying that predator done. Even with semi-autonomous drones that fly to a target and fire; there is someone selecting that target and programming the drone.
As with all current A.I., we tell it what the game is and the success conditions. A.I. that decide the rules of the game and discover winning conditions; those are a good 60 ~ 100 years away.
And that's why we have PRISM, MSUCLE and all those other programs everyone seems to have forgotten about.
Surveillance is not to find terrorists. It's to stop dissent.
I remember someone talking about wanting to migrate to the US and they had a dual Irish and UK citizenship and I was like, "Wow...you gain no real advantage with those two what-so-ever."
Well....now that person does! :-P
There are a ton-o-british people living in the EU that will soon need to apply for immigration where they did
One thing I have to wonder about: If the mechanism involves using a virus, couldn't there be massive unintended consequences if the virus transfers to another host? Even if a virus isn't very communicable, and can't survive outside of a host, what if the patient transmits it sexually after treatment?
> Update: it appears its actually 70 years not 100 years, which IMHO is still fucking ridiculous.
Unless it's Disney and Mickey Mouse. That fucking rodent should be in the public domain by now.
> No, the solution here is to make penalties so severe that people won't choose to profit-seek by skirting the law.
I think that's horrible. Why not use technology? I bet most of these ticket buying web sites have their own roll-your-own garbage Captcha. They don't care because they get the same amount of money of their tickets are bought by bots or real people. In fact, it can be their advantage to have bots buy out all the tickets. They get an instant "sold out" show and they no longer have a risk for unsold seats. The scalpers now incur that risk (and mitigate it by jacking up the price enough that it more than covers unsold tickets).
People who use the ticketing agents (and care about their fans) should demand those ticketing agents implement better bot detection.
I buy a lot of CDs are bars when I see bands. I rip them to FLACs and sync them to my phone/work.
I also use Bandcamp because they only take 10~15%.
If a band I like has no other options and they're not playing in my city any time soon, I might use Amazon MP3 or CDBaby, but I don't like it.
I haven't bought off Apple/google ever. They use to take ~30%, but I think some of that may have change. It's till too much. They have the volume that they could easily take 5%, still turn a massive profit and give more to the artists.
I don't use Spotify and never want to. I prefer to own my music, not rent it.
Main stream artists I torrent if I want them. If you already have a million in sales, there are artists out there who tour out of vans with better music than your shit. Just because you got lucky with a label since your music is generic enough to reach a wide audience without offending anyone doesn't entitle you to as big a peace of the pie as you have. Things haven't really changed since Metallica and Napster. Also, all my Metalica CDs are pirated.
SD cards have a 32-bit micro-controller on them. They're used to mark bad sectors and keep writes from being on adjacent memory locations (disturbing memory locations a lot on SD cards can corrupt data). There's a talk out there somewhere, where a researcher reprograms the SD cards on-board processor, while keeping it functioning as an SD card. In theory, you could take a 25GB card, have it report it's 15GB and write a small program to make a copy of all writes to a hidden part of the card for retrial later.
You realize that Intel bought DEC's entire Alpha architecture and killed it right?
(Parts of that architecture made it into the Pentium Pro and later generations)
AMD still dominates the console market. PS4/XBOX anyone?
They also invented the entire AMD64/EMT64 extension to x86 (ironic since their early venture into the market were Intel clones).
Intel uses a lot of anti-competitive practices to keep AMD from dominating, but I think they intentionally stopped short of killing them off. AMD having the console market makes and easy, "Look, we're not anti-competitive. AMD is still in the market, and they're in every gaming console!"
Don't know why you're getting the downvotes.
I agree with you on systemd. Linux did need full process management. I do like how systemd standardized the init system and it'd be nice if there could be a simple drop-in replacement for it. Uselessd development has stopped and no one has the time to contribute anymore. The big projects are all funded by the big for-profit companies.
I use Gentoo and still love it. I don't use systemd, but it is an optional choice (like it should be). I haven't touched FreeBSD in years, but I can understand people moving that route. I might load it up at some point. I just don't have the time to invest these days and Gentoo still works great for me at work and at home.
Culture is Americas second biggest export ... the first being war .. I mean *cough*cough* democracy.
I had a Treo and Centro. Single threaded. No memory protection. You could write to a random memory location and crash the entire OS. Everything was written in C (there was a Java micro edition ... I think it was IBMs, and I could run Opera with it; which was surprisingly decent .. until the Treo crashed).
I even got a Pre. I knew several other people who had them too. Then HP bought them and that was pretty much over.
I hate how we now only have two major players.
Nah, the best attack vector are active virus scanners that run as the system user. If you find a bug, you can just send the person a broken PDF and they don't even have to open it. You just need the AV to scan it and you're in.
Not as a developer. I've been at places with filtering where to many sites with information I need end up in the blacklist. Rather than put in a support ticket, I often find it easier to proxy over SSH. I've only been caught doing this once at a company and that was cause some dickhead used my proxy to pump a huge file though. I stopped giving people access to my jumpbox after that. (I wasn't fired either; just given a warning. It didn't matter though -- turned in my notice for a new job a month later :-P)
The past four jobs I've worked at didn't/don't have any filtering what so ever and I haven't found my overall productivity levels have changed at all.
This feels really bias. PayPal is a major international player and they're pretty much the size of several big evil banks.
America is the only country I've lived in within the past several years where individuals cannot send money to each other electronically for free, via the national banking system. In Australia, you need someone's name, bsb and account number and you can send money to anyone, with any bank, for free, from your phone or web browser. In NZ, the bank and account number are one big number, and you can transfer money to anyone, on any bank, for free using your phone or the bank's web site. In Germany and other EU countries, you get the added protection of a TAN number; a one time use code.
In America, we still have no person-to-person system and we never will because companies like PayPal are big and Square are growing and there is a lot of money to be made in keeping a system like that from every being implemented.
Maybe Turkey is just tired of PayPal being a big massive banking giant and maybe they want to promote their own technology and allow transfers to be free without the need of an external company?
Of course, considering that recent data leak and the quality of their software, any attempts will probably be horrible.
That's what I did years ago when I had a Samsung TV. I never connected it to my network and just played torrented content.
It's not a bloody small change in syntax. It's a fundamental design change on the way linux processes and logins work. This breaks a lot of stuff and should have a massive red warning on it. It should be a major release and not an incremental change (if it were even a good idea, which it's not).
Exactly. Plus I find it really funny her photo is totally airbrushed.
This seems horrible in every way possible.
I'm a native speaker. I spent a year in Australia and got use to all the Aussies, before leaving for NZ. I was like, "This won't be as bad. I'm sure I'll understand them fine."
The first day I was like, "OMG what the fuck is everyone saying I can'tunderstandanyofit!"
I was fine after two weeks .. mostly. There are still some people I can't understand...mostly from Hamilton :-P
I've never done a stage1 Gentoo. My current is from a stage3.
I did build an LFS. Took me over a week. I accidentally fucked up the file system, but the second try only took me a weekend.
I used that' LFS system for about a semester and a half before I switched back to Fedora and embraced package management. That was around 2002. I had a flatmate that got me into Gentoo and I was like, "It's like LFS with package management!"
I've gone back and fourth over the years between Linux and MacOS, but currently I use Gentoo both at home and at work; have been for over four years now. It feels great.
I left America in 2012, came back in 2016 to find that Amazon is pretty much the new Wal-Mart. I really hate buying anything off Amazon now.
New Zealand, most of Australia and large segments of Europe all have legal sex work. Even in places like Belgium where it is technically illegal, it's tolerated with famous red light districts like the one in Antwerp.
The only thing sad about this situation, is that it's still illegal in America (except for parts of Nevada)
> They should be forced to take a mental fitness test, an IQ test,
You immediately assume that they're stupid or mentally ill. Good ad hominem. Many of these people aren't. They've done some research and know they're taking a very controversial stance.
Your attitude is what drives people further that direction.
You also cannot cluster all vaccines together. Several people in the anti-vaccine movement are not anti-MMR, but are against flu vaccines. There are reasons I won't go into (I personally get all my vaccines, but not yearly flu shots; they make me sick. Don't go giving me that "It's psychosomatic," shit either. I've tried, several times. I know it's not as bad as the flu by any means, but considering how infrequently (twice as an adult) I've gotten the flu, it just doesn't feel wroth it), but you can't group all vaccinations together.
I can also understand if people are hesitant about newer vaccinations. After all, pharma companies are about making money. They still push cholesterol medication even though every study from the past five years show cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease. These drugs are dangerous and worthless and yet they continue to be sold. There are good reasons not to trust pharma companies.
I don't agree with the anti-vaccination movement and especially the anti-MMR movement (you can get MMRs without thimerosal if you're really concerned about that), but I don't think they're stupid either. I think you should listen to their views and actively re-evaluate your position. If you immediately dismiss people as stupid because they're pro-vac, anti-vac, believe in climate change, climate change deniers, 9/11 truthers, social justice warriors, civil rights promoters, patriotic, anarchists, fundamentalist Christians, fundamentalist atheists, etc... then you'll just live in an echo chamber, re-enforce your group think and never learn when you are wrong.