Exactly, the studies on secondary and insignificant subjects will persist because nobody will invest money to debunk them, it doesn't worth the trouble. Studies and results that really matters will be carefully examined. That's why the high profile example in the summary is a bad example, because that's what exactly happened. This is not an example of bad science, on contrary it is an example of good science. You can get a bad result from a scientific experiment, it doesn't mean you are necessarily a bad scientist. Since that result was a corner stone of the modern science, all the steps of the experiment were carefully reexamined and the bug was found. The problem is the wrong results and conclusion were released in the public because there is a rush to be the first to claim and proclaim a fact, even if the conclusion is still not accepted by everyone, including members of the scientific team that ran the expriment. This is a side effect of what we observe everyone in our society and it is surely not unique to science.
Where did you pick economists subscribe to infinite growth? The economy MUST grow if you want the people to become wealthier, there is a lot of people out there who cannot afford more than a meal per day. So, this is where the idea comes the economy should continue to grow. The other point is, if the economy grows no more, you have a static society with a static repartition of the wealth and no more innovation. So, you probably believe someone should "control" the growth of the economy. Then, who? How? When? This is simply unfeasible otherwise than with the current system where sometimes there is bubble bursts which are something like a control mechanism.
And that is never going to happen because peace after WWII was settled on a basis to avoid the mistakes of the settlement of WWI which imposed a heavy financial load on Germany as reparation and led to WWII or social conditions in Germany for WWII. So, they did it differently for WWII. Nobody can tell what the situation would be today if the financial charges on Germany after WWII would have been comparable to those of WWI. This is then a theoretical and rhetoretical discussion to make the hypothesis Germany should pay war reparations for WWII to Greece.
"The Sony hacking incident last year was ample demonstration that our information systems are becoming more and more vulnerable, which is a feature, not a bug, of the increasing transfer of our infrastructure into digital space."
Sorry guys, I can't stop laughing. This writer is a clown. The Sony incident demonstrates Sony is incompetent. It was never a threat against the humanity, only against the gang of fat butts at Sony Pictures.
And for what reason would an AI kill us? What benefit would it gain? It is unclear to me why an AI living like a parasite on the information fed to it by humans and the fact humans are living will decide suddenly it can benefit from killing all of us.
He is known for his work in game theory, however he is not a game theory mathematician since before fading into his mental illness he was working on quantum theory. His paper on game theory is his Ph. D. thesis. Just the tip of the iceberg this mathematician was and could have been if the illness didn't stopped him. Anyhow, it is very sad he and his wife died in an automobile accident.
For few bucks you get a chip that offload the TCPIP layer and the whole TLS/SSL protocols and encryption from the processor. That is how the IoT should be done. IoT is about cheap, skinny thin platform. Not about bloated OS using 32 MB of memory just to run, 32 MB of RAM is a lot of RAM just for housekeeping and provide unneeded services. Another Google project that will be withdrawn in about a year.
I find it a bit strange Guiness Records only examined the footage before granting the record. The guy is specialized in 3-D visual effects. I mean, anyone has seen the real thing flying? I am living in Montreal and we never heard about this before today. Don't you think if something like that happened at lake Ouareau in August 2014 it wouldn't have made the front page of our local newspapers?
Beside hacking a device to steal votes, there is a number of other concerns about the online voting which cannot be eliminated by any device you can imagine.
For example, how can you be assured the voter has not sell his vote and the buyer can just sit beside him to make sure he is getting what he paid for? How can you prevent someone to impose a candidate to someone else by threatening him/her/them? At a vote poll, you can make sure nobody is intimidated and anyway there is no way someone else can check the vote he tried to steal.
Almost all programming languages are easy to read. This is not the reason of Java's success at all. A complicate algorithm in first place will not make a program easy to read whatever the language you pick to program it. If you find Java easy to read, it is only because you cope with trivial algorithms.
BTW, in case you haven't noticed, Python syntax is similar to Fortran syntax which is among the oldest, if not the oldest programming language still alive.
Yeah, instead train operators are installing devices to keep the train engineer awaked and have him push a button at regular interval as a proof since driving a train is a very boring job the day the coal tender was removed. It is kind of automating the engineer to make sure he actually drive the train.
What future? Solar sailing is of very limited use. Do you imply our future is to sail to the Moon or Mars? So far, there is nothing there we can benefit much. And beyond Mars, solar sailing become much less efficient. Interstellar travel is out of question.
It seems there is a lot of confusion about IoT. It is not about house automation at all, it may be about it, but it is not the main target for IoT. However, the vendors are jumping in the marketing bandwagon and decide to rename everything they were already providing or extend the capabilities of their gizmo with useless internet extensions just to call it an IoT device. Unfortunately, many conclude the IoT is about useless gizmo that are spying at you or whatever.
IoT is rather than about devices to monitor parking space and let car drivers know where there is spots available in order to save time and reduce gas consumption in the dense areas of the city, it is about monitoring the garbage collection for a city to make it more efficient or ensure proper billing and so on. It is not about your f...g fridge or your f...g lights or your f...g thermostat or whatever else stupid you can think about.
I'm very sorry, but I have to agree with the poster you reply to. This isn't as simple as you think. Yes you can create customers out of the blue. Ask Facebook, Google and many others. However, yes, without customers no business is viable, except the government.
So, the business process is rather than, find out something you believe there is a market for and customers for and create it. That is where it starts, not the reverse.
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Exactly, the studies on secondary and insignificant subjects will persist because nobody will invest money to debunk them, it doesn't worth the trouble. Studies and results that really matters will be carefully examined. That's why the high profile example in the summary is a bad example, because that's what exactly happened. This is not an example of bad science, on contrary it is an example of good science. You can get a bad result from a scientific experiment, it doesn't mean you are necessarily a bad scientist. Since that result was a corner stone of the modern science, all the steps of the experiment were carefully reexamined and the bug was found. The problem is the wrong results and conclusion were released in the public because there is a rush to be the first to claim and proclaim a fact, even if the conclusion is still not accepted by everyone, including members of the scientific team that ran the expriment. This is a side effect of what we observe everyone in our society and it is surely not unique to science.
Where did you pick economists subscribe to infinite growth? The economy MUST grow if you want the people to become wealthier, there is a lot of people out there who cannot afford more than a meal per day. So, this is where the idea comes the economy should continue to grow. The other point is, if the economy grows no more, you have a static society with a static repartition of the wealth and no more innovation. So, you probably believe someone should "control" the growth of the economy. Then, who? How? When? This is simply unfeasible otherwise than with the current system where sometimes there is bubble bursts which are something like a control mechanism.
And that is never going to happen because peace after WWII was settled on a basis to avoid the mistakes of the settlement of WWI which imposed a heavy financial load on Germany as reparation and led to WWII or social conditions in Germany for WWII. So, they did it differently for WWII. Nobody can tell what the situation would be today if the financial charges on Germany after WWII would have been comparable to those of WWI. This is then a theoretical and rhetoretical discussion to make the hypothesis Germany should pay war reparations for WWII to Greece.
"The Sony hacking incident last year was ample demonstration that our information systems are becoming more and more vulnerable, which is a feature, not a bug, of the increasing transfer of our infrastructure into digital space."
Sorry guys, I can't stop laughing. This writer is a clown. The Sony incident demonstrates Sony is incompetent. It was never a threat against the humanity, only against the gang of fat butts at Sony Pictures.
Why artificial? Because that is the subject of the original post, that's why.
And for what reason would an AI kill us? What benefit would it gain? It is unclear to me why an AI living like a parasite on the information fed to it by humans and the fact humans are living will decide suddenly it can benefit from killing all of us.
He is known for his work in game theory, however he is not a game theory mathematician since before fading into his mental illness he was working on quantum theory. His paper on game theory is his Ph. D. thesis. Just the tip of the iceberg this mathematician was and could have been if the illness didn't stopped him. Anyhow, it is very sad he and his wife died in an automobile accident.
For few bucks you get a chip that offload the TCPIP layer and the whole TLS/SSL protocols and encryption from the processor. That is how the IoT should be done. IoT is about cheap, skinny thin platform. Not about bloated OS using 32 MB of memory just to run, 32 MB of RAM is a lot of RAM just for housekeeping and provide unneeded services. Another Google project that will be withdrawn in about a year.
I find it a bit strange Guiness Records only examined the footage before granting the record. The guy is specialized in 3-D visual effects. I mean, anyone has seen the real thing flying? I am living in Montreal and we never heard about this before today. Don't you think if something like that happened at lake Ouareau in August 2014 it wouldn't have made the front page of our local newspapers?
Not only will it hurt more, but chances are the hoverboard will also break and if it is expensive you are not likely to want it to happen.
Beside hacking a device to steal votes, there is a number of other concerns about the online voting which cannot be eliminated by any device you can imagine.
For example, how can you be assured the voter has not sell his vote and the buyer can just sit beside him to make sure he is getting what he paid for? How can you prevent someone to impose a candidate to someone else by threatening him/her/them? At a vote poll, you can make sure nobody is intimidated and anyway there is no way someone else can check the vote he tried to steal.
Online voting is a big No-No.
Almost all programming languages are easy to read. This is not the reason of Java's success at all. A complicate algorithm in first place will not make a program easy to read whatever the language you pick to program it. If you find Java easy to read, it is only because you cope with trivial algorithms.
BTW, in case you haven't noticed, Python syntax is similar to Fortran syntax which is among the oldest, if not the oldest programming language still alive.
Looks like the perfect match to run systemd.
Yeah, instead train operators are installing devices to keep the train engineer awaked and have him push a button at regular interval as a proof since driving a train is a very boring job the day the coal tender was removed. It is kind of automating the engineer to make sure he actually drive the train.
What future? Solar sailing is of very limited use. Do you imply our future is to sail to the Moon or Mars? So far, there is nothing there we can benefit much. And beyond Mars, solar sailing become much less efficient. Interstellar travel is out of question.
Exactly what I was seeking for to answer telemarketers.
It seems there is a lot of confusion about IoT. It is not about house automation at all, it may be about it, but it is not the main target for IoT. However, the vendors are jumping in the marketing bandwagon and decide to rename everything they were already providing or extend the capabilities of their gizmo with useless internet extensions just to call it an IoT device. Unfortunately, many conclude the IoT is about useless gizmo that are spying at you or whatever.
IoT is rather than about devices to monitor parking space and let car drivers know where there is spots available in order to save time and reduce gas consumption in the dense areas of the city, it is about monitoring the garbage collection for a city to make it more efficient or ensure proper billing and so on. It is not about your f...g fridge or your f...g lights or your f...g thermostat or whatever else stupid you can think about.
Which trail? There is two trails.
It is much more easier to predict election results than an earthquake.
I'm very sorry, but I have to agree with the poster you reply to. This isn't as simple as you think. Yes you can create customers out of the blue. Ask Facebook, Google and many others. However, yes, without customers no business is viable, except the government.
So, the business process is rather than, find out something you believe there is a market for and customers for and create it. That is where it starts, not the reverse.
I guess you don't know what is a transformer.
Frankly, who cares?
Exactly.
Janitor is great on this basis.