"sing the photo for AI research would be a breach of copyright "
No. Republishing the photos would be breach of copyright -- that's what the "copy" in the word means. Analysing the photos is no more infringing than watching a movie and publishing a review is.
Firefox is not now XP compatible It's been a pig on that platform for the last year though, load one simple webpage and it starts taking up 50% or more of CPU, and a GB of RAM. FFS. Used to be lean and mean. Now bloated clumsy and annoying.
Whenever I had a Windows problem and Googled for help, I might find threads on an MS forum: almost always, simply dozens of people asking the same question; no answers except maybe "update your system". Then I go to msfn.org and ask and usually get a real answer.
Anyway, I've been thinking about upgrading from WinXP to Win7. All my commercial software is OK (no need for MS Office beyond 2003, which does all I need and can read current files), annoyingly it''s the free stuff that is dropping support; when they go to Qt5, as most do, they say break on XP. .
"they are now talking about banning kitchen knives with pointed ends."
I assume you are one of those American gun nuts who says things like "pillows can suffocate people, so if you ban guns, you should also ban pillows".
If you RTFA, you find it's just one judge who said that in his retirement speech. It has no chance in hell of anyone taking it seriously, yet you use it to snidely imply that any gun control inevitably leads to absurdities like that. All because of one remark by one judge-- not on the bench, in his private capacity.
"Most aircraft accidents are human error, so relative risk is likely lower."
That assumes that autopilot is at least as good as a human pilot in every situation.
What the concern many have is what happens when the autopilot fails? It's just absurd to think that such a complex program will never meet a real world situation it wasn't designed for. Or suffer damage to itself. Or have erroneous sensors. Or be hacked.
"The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
It's such a fucking pain in the arse when in a third world country, you HAVE to bargain for every single purchase; or get charged the "white man" price -- ten times or more than the local price. Uber is bringing this shit back -- but when I bargain for a bejak in Indonesia; I know how the system works. I also expect I won't get the same price as a local. Uber is exploiting the trust people that an automated system will be fair; so very likely white people will be paying more on average than coloured in many cites under this system. That's sure to go down well once it gets known. And even if it isn't how it actually works, an opaque and situational pricing system will be (rightly) assumed to be fucking the customer by default -- cf telecom company charges..
Some hardware is just designed for Windows. Linux hackers have to use wrappers on blobs of Windows code to make them work. For most laptops I've seen you can replace the wifi card. About as complex as installing a hard disk.
The difference is, only the postal service had access to physical mail and could steam it open. But anyone anywhere in the world could intercept messages on the Internet, and a backdoor is equally accessible to anyone anywhere.
Masood supposedly sent a message just before the attack. It's hard to imagine how it could be anything other than some emotional venting. "Goodbye" "Alahu Akbar" "Now you'll take me seriously"....
The politicians imagine that he could be sending a final message to his "controller" or some other jihadist. But that seems pretty unlikely. He was almost certainly self-radicalised and acting on impulse.
And if he had, even having a copy of it would be undoubtedly a dead end -- the jihadis can read the newspapers, they know GCHQ and NSA are bugging everything everywhere. Osama gave up using the phone or email and had couriers carrying messages by hand. ISIS obviously has a bunch of tech guys for the web presence. Modern cryptography is not hard to understand and easy to implement.
The thing to take away from this attack is that in the UK, it's very hard to buy a gun and this loser used his car and a knife, killed four. If he'd liven in Birmingham Alabama instead of Birmingham, Midlands, he'd have been able to gear up at his friendly neighbourhood gun store and scored like the Orlando nutter who killed 49 people.
"1-off communications with vendors, institutions, legal documents."
Such are hardly ever "one- off", but part of a long relationship. They would have worked out a common format long ago.
Anyway, don't see why it should be the recipients' responsibility to work out whatever crap some random person wanted to send.
PDF is pretty universal. Hell, plain text would do for 99% of documents.
Anyway, the side with the power is who determines the format. If I submit a file to a publisher, they have a page of specs I have to follow exactly if I want them to read it.
In any relationship with government, it has the power, and you comply with their format or.... there is no "or". You just have to do it their way.
Have you ever submitted a document to the government? If it doesn't fit their spec, they just reject it. Costs them no time, less work for them.
What is the alternative anyway? Accept every document from any source and spend hours trying to decode it?
I actually do shit like that because I'm dealing with files sent to me by clients, because they pay me.
Funnily enough I use WordPerfect 5 as my usual intermediate format to go from whatever the client uses to what my old DTP apps need.
Wordprocessors reached a stage of virtual perfection 20 years ago, and since then all they've done is add bloat, having so many features, ribbons, and WTF on their screen that 99% of users have no clue how to use them.
Last book length doc I got in Word had all its chapter heads pushed to the top of page by a series of blank lines, for instance. 30 years ago you could set a heading to start a new page. I could teach people how to do that in WordStar and the other basics in 10 minutes. Now, it's considered esoteric.
We don't have to be "the warmest the planet has ever been" to avert an ice age. Current temp or higher is good enough for that, and there is no prospect of it being lower short of humanity wiping itself out.
Our inputs are swamping the natural cycles unintentionally. If in a far future, post carbon era, temps started to go down, we could easily pump greenhouse gases into the air to prevent it going lower. But no matter what energy we use, we're going to be producing more raw heat every year anyway. Short of a nuclear winter, there will never be another ice age.
No, it's been cancelled, at least as long as human civilisation is around.
If we actually needed more global warming, therw are plenty of ways -- pumping out methane, for instance. Look at the ways proposed to terraform Mars. They'd all be much easier to do here.
Of course, if we nuke ourselves back to the stone age, yes, the natural climate cycles will eventually reassert themselves.
Welcome to 1800. As soon as people made machines out of metal, humidity was fucking them up.
I live in Hong Kong where for half the year we have humidity over 90% every day.
Everything either rusts, corrodes or goes mouldy. Bicycles turn to piles of rust in a few months. Fungus grows in your crotch. The many and various colours of corroded metals on electronics are marvellous to behold.
They were loonie fundamentalists who had watched jihad videos aand decide to go out in the same style. What vital information does the FBI think the phone holds, months later?
Yes, my wording was clumsy. Technically, ther is "talk about banning guns" in the sense of making noise. Not in the sense of seriously proposing, as this FBI guy is doing with this issue.
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"sing the photo for AI research would be a breach of copyright "
No. Republishing the photos would be breach of copyright -- that's what the "copy" in the word means. Analysing the photos is no more infringing than watching a movie and publishing a review is.
Firefox is not now XP compatible
It's been a pig on that platform for the last year though, load one simple webpage and it starts taking up 50% or more of CPU, and a GB of RAM.
FFS.
Used to be lean and mean. Now bloated clumsy and annoying.
Whenever I had a Windows problem and Googled for help, I might find threads on an MS forum: almost always, simply dozens of people asking the same question; no answers except maybe "update your system".
Then I go to msfn.org and ask and usually get a real answer.
Anyway, I've been thinking about upgrading from WinXP to Win7.
All my commercial software is OK (no need for MS Office beyond 2003, which does all I need and can read current files), annoyingly it''s the free stuff that is dropping support; when they go to Qt5, as most do, they say break on XP.
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"Her ability to call me was a godsend!"
Because it's impossible to make a phone call without using your personal mobile phone,
"they are now talking about banning kitchen knives with pointed ends."
I assume you are one of those American gun nuts who says things like "pillows can suffocate people, so if you ban guns, you should also ban pillows".
If you RTFA, you find it's just one judge who said that in his retirement speech. It has no chance in hell of anyone taking it seriously, yet you use it to snidely imply that any gun control inevitably leads to absurdities like that. All because of one remark by one judge-- not on the bench, in his private capacity.
Of course, this BS is already an NRA talking point:
https://www.nraila.org/article...
"Most aircraft accidents are human error, so relative risk is likely lower."
That assumes that autopilot is at least as good as a human pilot in every situation.
What the concern many have is what happens when the autopilot fails? It's just absurd to think that such a complex program will never meet a real world situation it wasn't designed for. Or suffer damage to itself. Or have erroneous sensors. Or be hacked.
"The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
"The service, which would also be able to install security patches to an idle car"
Right. And that will never be exploited.
It's such a fucking pain in the arse when in a third world country, you HAVE to bargain for every single purchase; or get charged the "white man" price -- ten times or more than the local price. Uber is bringing this shit back -- but when I bargain for a bejak in Indonesia; I know how the system works. I also expect I won't get the same price as a local. Uber is exploiting the trust people that an automated system will be fair; so very likely white people will be paying more on average than coloured in many cites under this system. That's sure to go down well once it gets known. And even if it isn't how it actually works, an opaque and situational pricing system will be (rightly) assumed to be fucking the customer by default -- cf telecom company charges..
Some hardware is just designed for Windows.
Linux hackers have to use wrappers on blobs of Windows code to make them work.
For most laptops I've seen you can replace the wifi card. About as complex as installing a hard disk.
The difference is, only the postal service had access to physical mail and could steam it open. But anyone anywhere in the world could intercept messages on the Internet, and a backdoor is equally accessible to anyone anywhere.
Masood supposedly sent a message just before the attack. It's hard to imagine how it could be anything other than some emotional venting. "Goodbye" "Alahu Akbar" "Now you'll take me seriously"....
The politicians imagine that he could be sending a final message to his "controller" or some other jihadist. But that seems pretty unlikely. He was almost certainly self-radicalised and acting on impulse.
And if he had, even having a copy of it would be undoubtedly a dead end -- the jihadis can read the newspapers, they know GCHQ and NSA are bugging everything everywhere. Osama gave up using the phone or email and had couriers carrying messages by hand. ISIS obviously has a bunch of tech guys for the web presence. Modern cryptography is not hard to understand and easy to implement.
The thing to take away from this attack is that in the UK, it's very hard to buy a gun and this loser used his car and a knife, killed four. If he'd liven in Birmingham Alabama instead of Birmingham, Midlands, he'd have been able to gear up at his friendly neighbourhood gun store and scored like the Orlando nutter who killed 49 people.
Masood had been "harboured" in Birmingham.
"And actually traditionally more racist than US immigration, too."
Traditionally, the US only let blacks in in chains.
"1-off communications with vendors, institutions, legal documents."
Such are hardly ever "one- off", but part of a long relationship.
They would have worked out a common format long ago.
Anyway, don't see why it should be the recipients' responsibility to work out whatever crap some random person wanted to send.
PDF is pretty universal.
Hell, plain text would do for 99% of documents.
Anyway, the side with the power is who determines the format.
If I submit a file to a publisher, they have a page of specs I have to follow exactly if I want them to read it.
In any relationship with government, it has the power, and you comply with their format or .... there is no "or". You just have to do it their way.
Have you ever submitted a document to the government? If it doesn't fit their spec, they just reject it. Costs them no time, less work for them.
What is the alternative anyway? Accept every document from any source and spend hours trying to decode it?
I actually do shit like that because I'm dealing with files sent to me by clients, because they pay me.
Funnily enough I use WordPerfect 5 as my usual intermediate format to go from whatever the client uses to what my old DTP apps need.
Wordprocessors reached a stage of virtual perfection 20 years ago, and since then all they've done is add bloat, having so many features, ribbons, and WTF on their screen that 99% of users have no clue how to use them.
Last book length doc I got in Word had all its chapter heads pushed to the top of page by a series of blank lines, for instance.
30 years ago you could set a heading to start a new page. I could teach people how to do that in WordStar and the other basics in 10 minutes. Now, it's considered esoteric.
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"Fact-checking" is just weasel words for "control the narrative."
No, it's comparing politicians' statements with facts that van be verified by anyone.
It's terrifying that so many voters seem to agree with you that facts don't matter.
Even more so that people on a technology site like this would dismiss any fact based argument they dislike out of hand.
So, international diplomacy isn't perfect, let's just forget about it and solve every dispute by force.
Anyway, pointless discussing anything with someone whose ego drives him to paste "Senior System Engineer/Architect" on every comment he makes.
"My point is that there is no World Government so there is no way to enforce World rules"
Maybe someone could invent a "treaty", or an "agreement" between countries, and create some form of "united nations" to administer it?
No, that's just crazy and impossible. The only solution is total war until The Donald rules all.
The arrogance of the pricks who will happily let the world burn as long as they get theirs is what amazes me.
We don't have to be "the warmest the planet has ever been" to avert an ice age. Current temp or higher is good enough for that, and there is no prospect of it being lower short of humanity wiping itself out.
Our inputs are swamping the natural cycles unintentionally. If in a far future, post carbon era, temps started to go down, we could easily pump greenhouse gases into the air to prevent it going lower. But no matter what energy we use, we're going to be producing more raw heat every year anyway. Short of a nuclear winter, there will never be another ice age.
"the next ice age is an inevitability"
No, it's been cancelled, at least as long as human civilisation is around.
If we actually needed more global warming, therw are plenty of ways -- pumping out methane, for instance.
Look at the ways proposed to terraform Mars. They'd all be much easier to do here.
Of course, if we nuke ourselves back to the stone age, yes, the natural climate cycles will eventually reassert themselves.
1990s?
Welcome to 1800. As soon as people made machines out of metal, humidity was fucking them up.
I live in Hong Kong where for half the year we have humidity over 90% every day.
Everything either rusts, corrodes or goes mouldy. Bicycles turn to piles of rust in a few months. Fungus grows in your crotch. The many and various colours of corroded metals on electronics are marvellous to behold.
The victims are dead. The perps are dead.
They were loonie fundamentalists who had watched jihad videos aand decide to go out in the same style. What vital information does the FBI think the phone holds, months later?
Yes, my wording was clumsy. Technically, ther is "talk about banning guns" in the sense of making noise. Not in the sense of seriously proposing, as this FBI guy is doing with this issue.
"No one is talking about making cars illegal because terrorists use cars. Why is that?"
For the same reason that no one dares talk about making guns illegal whenever some nutjob massacres a class of schoolkids with an assault rifle.
People want to have guns and cars and don't care how many thousands are going to die year after year as a cost.