Any AI must be able to learn. A 5 year old wouldn't know about a 747 or flightless bird but a 12 year old probably would. Presumably, the AI is trying to model an intelligent, reasonably-educated adult.
Steve used to preach that you could tell simply by looking at someones posture whether they were consuming or creating. The hacker bent over his keyboard is a boon to society while the couch potato leaning waayy back is a drain.
Something I've learned: you can't take quotes like this and apply it everywhere all the time. The Hacker is going to create some consume some etc.
This device is not meant to be a laptop. This is meant for those looking for something a bit more than a phone but not a crappy laptop; which admittedly is not everyone.
Your employer will protect your work (assuming it was useful) with patents or copyrights. These devices ensure a monopoly for some period of time. That you only got your hourly rate is a trade-off you made when you took the job.
Not trying to hate on you, but your comparison is wrong.
You should care because an informed consumer is a better consumer. If I sold you a car that got 100 mpg on unicorn blood, and you drove off the lot with a quarter tank; what will you do when you run out?
That's why you should care and ask questions before you buy.
your post is well stated and deserves high mod score, but...
you are ill-served to believed that word meanings or spellings are stable. Read for example Nicholson Baker's essay on the word "lumber" in "size of Thoughts". You will be amazed at the journey of this single English word.
I'm a chemist by profession and a lifelong scientist. I agree with your post, to me a big problem with getting young people into the lab is the whole "geek" perception.
For example, in every TV show, magazine etc., lab geeks are portrayed as such; ill fitting lab coat, geeky safety glasses etc.
Now I know that labwork can be dangerous and we must take precautions, but why not sport some cool Oakleys? e.g., Look at some of the shows where cool guys are doing metal work on motorcycles; work is just as dangerous, but they sport cool shades, t-shirts, and have hot chicks in and around the bike shop.
I'm 49,- refused to use it then (the 60's) and refuse to do it now. I print very well thank you.
When I bought my first house, the notary who did our doc's said that I had to sign my name in "legible cursive" or the doc would be invalid. I was young, so I just signed my name like she told me. Same thing happened not too long ago; now that I'm much older (and cranky) just told the notary to shove it and walked out. My signature is unique, deal with it.
Cursive is a total waste of time. Was invented to prevent nibs from blotting ink from an inkwell. Anachronism anyone?
Palm tried to take a nibble from apple, and apple politely shoo'ed them away. Next time, apple will not be so kind. There will be some seriously pissed Pre owners with f'ed up handsets looking for answers.
And if Palm would grow a few braincells then they would write their own damn software
Do you have any examples of a large and successful company wasting resources on development, by developing an exact clone of another company's product, rather than spending practically nothing to write a simple work-around?
I'd actually be curious to hear of some, because I would like to ridicule them for being so stupid.
the company is called Microsoft, and the rip-off product is called windows.
Also, the titanium dioxide comment is weak (yes, I RFTA); sand is 90%+ SiO2, i.e, much more likely to see Si vs. Ti if the issue was contamination by using sand to dry the ink. In other words, he could have easily provided chemical evidence about the origin of Ti in the data vs. just toss out "maybe it came from sand"
I'm not trying to say that I know much about this analysis because I didn't see the data, but his explanation is not rigorous.
The punishment doesn't strike me as particularly useful either. Seems too severe, especially when considering that he likely didn't mean to hurt the US. Do they want to scare off everyone?...
Huh? that's the whole point of putting him in prison. Society cannot trust him, so we pay to lock him up. hopefully he will learn his lesson in there, but at least he can't do any damage to our country from inside prison. And yes, we do want to scare off everyone else who is thinking about doing what he did.
Everyone seems to think they understand exactly what happened... I simply argue for ignorance here, not knowledge.
the article clearly stated that he was warned not to disclose, and did it anyway. So yeah, I think that I understand exactly what happened here. You may want to "argue for ignorance" but c'mon already.
Other factors are ego, an intense desire to feel needed/wanted etc. These emotions along with the points that you made can lead one off the straight and narrow path.
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Any AI must be able to learn. A 5 year old wouldn't know about a 747 or flightless bird but a 12 year old probably would. Presumably, the AI is trying to model an intelligent, reasonably-educated adult.
Steve used to preach that you could tell simply by looking at someones posture whether they were consuming or creating. The hacker bent over his keyboard is a boon to society while the couch potato leaning waayy back is a drain.
Something I've learned: you can't take quotes like this and apply it everywhere all the time. The Hacker is going to create some consume some etc.
This device is not meant to be a laptop. This is meant for those looking for something a bit more than a phone but not a crappy laptop; which admittedly is not everyone.
I am the only one that hates how the e-ink flashes black when you flip a page? I find that really distracting, and makes the device unreadable for me.
+1 insightful
mods are sleeping in this morning.
Your employer will protect your work (assuming it was useful) with patents or copyrights. These devices ensure a monopoly for some period of time. That you only got your hourly rate is a trade-off you made when you took the job.
Not trying to hate on you, but your comparison is wrong.
this assumes that logic has anything to do with TSA decision making. Of course, it does not.
You should care because an informed consumer is a better consumer. If I sold you a car that got 100 mpg on unicorn blood, and you drove off the lot with a quarter tank; what will you do when you run out?
That's why you should care and ask questions before you buy.
your post is well stated and deserves high mod score, but...
you are ill-served to believed that word meanings or spellings are stable. Read for example Nicholson Baker's essay on the word "lumber" in "size of Thoughts". You will be amazed at the journey of this single English word.
exactly. Maybe his design school doesn't teach material analysis, but if they do his project is FAIL.
put the $154M toward research into BETTER F*ING ROAD MAINTENANCE METHODS.
How come only dumbshits get to be congressmen?
I'm a chemist by profession and a lifelong scientist. I agree with your post, to me a big problem with getting young people into the lab is the whole "geek" perception.
For example, in every TV show, magazine etc., lab geeks are portrayed as such; ill fitting lab coat, geeky safety glasses etc.
Now I know that labwork can be dangerous and we must take precautions, but why not sport some cool Oakleys? e.g., Look at some of the shows where cool guys are doing metal work on motorcycles; work is just as dangerous, but they sport cool shades, t-shirts, and have hot chicks in and around the bike shop.
a rebuttal... The various CSI shows; chemists are the good guys in these stories.
This give a new meaning to "cloud computing". Just look at the clouds to see the results coming in!
Not sure that I would look up if there are pigeons flying to/from the Cloud...
witty slashdot posts... I like it!
fair point, However, one would think that the comment is geared more toward unintentional system crashing by software that wasn't properly vetted.
I'm 49,- refused to use it then (the 60's) and refuse to do it now. I print very well thank you.
When I bought my first house, the notary who did our doc's said that I had to sign my name in "legible cursive" or the doc would be invalid. I was young, so I just signed my name like she told me. Same thing happened not too long ago; now that I'm much older (and cranky) just told the notary to shove it and walked out. My signature is unique, deal with it.
Cursive is a total waste of time. Was invented to prevent nibs from blotting ink from an inkwell. Anachronism anyone?
Palm tried to take a nibble from apple, and apple politely shoo'ed them away. Next time, apple will not be so kind. There will be some seriously pissed Pre owners with f'ed up handsets looking for answers.
Palm's low-class moves will cost them dearly.
And if Palm would grow a few braincells then they would write their own damn software
Do you have any examples of a large and successful company wasting resources on development, by developing an exact clone of another company's product, rather than spending practically nothing to write a simple work-around?
I'd actually be curious to hear of some, because I would like to ridicule them for being so stupid.
the company is called Microsoft, and the rip-off product is called windows.
check and mate.
Also, the titanium dioxide comment is weak (yes, I RFTA); sand is 90%+ SiO2, i.e, much more likely to see Si vs. Ti if the issue was contamination by using sand to dry the ink. In other words, he could have easily provided chemical evidence about the origin of Ti in the data vs. just toss out "maybe it came from sand"
I'm not trying to say that I know much about this analysis because I didn't see the data, but his explanation is not rigorous.
so, the good new is that you won't die right away. the bad new is that your new nickname is "tumor_boy."
Thank you for saying all that.
The punishment doesn't strike me as particularly useful either. Seems too severe, especially when considering that he likely didn't mean to hurt the US. Do they want to scare off everyone? ...
Huh? that's the whole point of putting him in prison. Society cannot trust him, so we pay to lock him up. hopefully he will learn his lesson in there, but at least he can't do any damage to our country from inside prison. And yes, we do want to scare off everyone else who is thinking about doing what he did.
Everyone seems to think they understand exactly what happened ... I simply argue for ignorance here, not knowledge.
the article clearly stated that he was warned not to disclose, and did it anyway. So yeah, I think that I understand exactly what happened here. You may want to "argue for ignorance" but c'mon already.
... I'm surprised they didn't try to tie the iphone and google into it.
the laptop was a macbook pro...
Other factors are ego, an intense desire to feel needed/wanted etc. These emotions along with the points that you made can lead one off the straight and narrow path.
No they shouldn't. Barred from working with children? Probably. But that's about the extent of it.
...but it does not, in any way, indicate a likelihood of the perpetrators seeking to abuse children for sexual pleasure...
you don't know why the admin was strip searching the student.
Giving the benefit of doubt to an extremely poor act of judgment makes me glad you have nothing to do with my kids.