Yes, he can decide to bypass the hierarchy he signed to respect in first place. But he cannot claim he shouldn't be served the treatment for such a decision. The administration, on the other side, has no choice other than enforce the respect of the hierachy otherwise the whole administration will become unmanageable. You cannot tell civil servants, contractual workers, etc, they can do whatever they want. Everyone is accountable. Snowden is accountable for what he did, as well as any of his boss who covered up wrong doing. It is up to the administration to put in place the safe guards to make sure nobody is bypassing the law and regulations.
Snowden could have done it otherwise. He was not in the obligation to release top secret information in the public domain to make his point to the current administration at a higher level.
The choice to went public with all this top secret information is his own and sole decision. You may not agree, but I am pretty sure his decision wasn't driven at all by a desire for justice. He was seeking for something else and that's why he went public with this information.
I was about to mod him down. Even if he is making a point. How this post is related to the subject? So, it is surely offtopic. Then it will be mod down eventually.
I don't know exactly, it was decided few years before I was hired. But I suppose it has something to do with type safety of the language, popularity among vendors in relation with us. PHP was also withdrawn from the list of authorized languages for web sites.
Given the set of products we have, from a single provider, I have to switch between: python, javascript, vendor specific language, java, bash, perl, xslt, power shell and sql on an almost daily basis. I rarely end a day dealing with a single language. Unfortunately, no C/C++ at my working place.
Fingerprints should never be shared with any other party unless mandate by the law, like after being convicted of felony and being jailed.
Actually, this whole race for biometrics security is flawn. What parties want, is a way to make sure you are who you claim you are. For that purpose, they do not need to store your actual fingerprints to compare and match. They just need a digital signature which you can conveniently produce from your fingerprints without sending the fingerprints or features of your fingerprints. The same way you can encrypt a password with a one-way function, you can encrypt your fingerprints + some credentials from the party requesting the digital signature. This way, the digital signature is not a sole function of your fingerprints. Each party will get a different signature depending on their own credentials. They will not receive the actual fingerprints neither and they will not be able to sell it to someone else.
Just making a law to forbide selling, sharing, keeping longer than required fingerprints is not sufficient.
Collecting fingerprints or any other biometric marker in first place should be forbidden.
So, if it is exactly like other financial institutions, credit cards, electronic fund transfers, etc. The market for the bitcoin will summarize to perform transactions at a lower cost than any other financial institution, etc. I still don't see the world moving in the direction of the bitcoin. The advantage is too tiny.
Decentralized? This article is just about the reverse. Splitting the Bitcoin bounty to share by half will help to create a monopoly eliminating small players from the game.
The point is: Which system is having the best features, lowest energy footprint per transaction? BitCoin is having a positive cost per transaction curve while banking systems are having a negative one. Forget about moving gold bars, no one is really doing this on large scale. The bank notes transport is limited to feeding ATM mostly where already existing electronic bank transactions can fill that gap.
In case you missed it. What Putin is asking is simply impossible, even theoritically to do. So, no need to condemn anything here, beside Putin's own stupidity.
We are talking about the Moon here. And even with the latency, the instructions don't need to be at the lower level steering the driving wheel or this kind of stuff. It can just be at the planning level. That's what is done by most probes. They even manage themselves the available energy and shutdown systems when they are not required and wake up them when they are needed without remote indication. Planning softwares are more sophisticated than you believe. By human contribution, I didn't mean remote control of the robots. I meant making decision the robot cannot make itself or rather than the planning software cannot make itself and wait if necessary for more input to decide what to do in the next two or three days or even the rest of the mission.
I still don't see which one is profitable in your list. I mean, being cheaper to go elsewhere in the solar system isn't a profitable business. It is still a burden expense for the whole human kind without any profit on the horizon. Mars is just bullshit to convince the taxpayers to spend dollars on something without future. Cleaning junk makes no profit, etc.
That's the point. That's nice to produce cheaper fuel, but for what purpose? Someone still have to buy this fuel and use it in a profitable way to consider the whole operation profitable. Or maybe it is just about sucking more taxpayers dollars for no purpose at all other than making a bunch of guys rich.
There isn't, but that's not the point. Penis enlargement pumps are still selling despite everything that has been said on them. So, I suppose this proposition will get them some extra market share which is the goal.
Your soft, meat brain can only react, but a computer can make decisions far quicker and more rationally than you can. It has plenty of time to decide what to do.
This assumption is totally false. You assume the scenery is already understood by the computer which only have to decide on basic questions like break/speedup, right/left and this kind of stuff. The truth is the computer has to assess the situation exactly like a human brain using sensors which have a finite accuracy and some uncertainity on the readings. Decode everything, including images from cameras, reconstruct a 3-D representation of the scene and have some mean to make decisions from the scene and the physics. That's a lot of processing a human brain can do much more faster than a computer today. At least a computer you can embed into a car. Beside that it shoud be able to predict the outcome of a dozen of collision scenario and evaluate the probability each indivudual involved in the accident has to survive it. Unless you stick on very simple types of accidents with a very limited complexity.
The whole idea an autonomous car should made ethical decision is plain stupid.
Of course everyone will say they prefer a car that minimize the damages, nobody is against the virtue. The point is that's beyond and way beyond the capabilities of an autonomous car and even a driver and even the aftermath of an accident with plenty of time to analyze it cannot guarantee which behavior would have been the right one to minimize the fatalities and injuries. No driver is capable to do this kind of analysis right on the spot to minimize the outcome except in very rare simple cases. So, why asking this to an autonomous car?
Isn't it enough an autonomous car will prevent a lot of drunken drivers to kill someone else? Isn't it enough a self driving car having no emotions will not place itself in a position to provoke an accident for whatever reason? Isn't it enough a self-driving car will not cut or drive dangerously intentionally? There is already plenty of situations where self-driving car will save lives and many lives per year. It already justifies itself only with that.
It retrieves the time just fine because it has a realtime clock chip and still run with little battery to keep the time when it is off and between network time synchronization. A PC has also a RTC and a battery to keep the time. On another hand, the design point for the Raspberry Pi was to reduce the bill of material as much as possible, so, there is no RTC, you can add one if you wish. Hence, you just have to configure properly your OS on the Raspberry Pi to retrieve the network time at boot time. Of course, it can be done only after the network interface is up.
All this to say there is no magic with your Android phone, it works exactly as everything else. It retrieves time using the network, whatever network it is, and beside that, it uses a RTC chip and the little juice that left in you battery when the phone seems to have exhausted it to keep the time.
Are you shitting us? The advertisers would have never stick to gif and animated gif for their ads campaign. They want to know about you and everybody. The more they know, the higher they can charge for an advertisement campaign to their customers. They would have used any eye candy possible to get people's attention. So, that is completely false to say they would have stick to animated gif. They are basically blood suckers with a budget.
These f... morons should be threaten without pitty until they discipline themselves. The website owners don't like ad blockers and javascript blockers, however they are asking people to let these morons to penetrate our computers without any regrets. They can all go to hell if you ask me.
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Yes, he can decide to bypass the hierarchy he signed to respect in first place. But he cannot claim he shouldn't be served the treatment for such a decision. The administration, on the other side, has no choice other than enforce the respect of the hierachy otherwise the whole administration will become unmanageable. You cannot tell civil servants, contractual workers, etc, they can do whatever they want. Everyone is accountable. Snowden is accountable for what he did, as well as any of his boss who covered up wrong doing. It is up to the administration to put in place the safe guards to make sure nobody is bypassing the law and regulations.
Snowden could have done it otherwise. He was not in the obligation to release top secret information in the public domain to make his point to the current administration at a higher level.
The choice to went public with all this top secret information is his own and sole decision. You may not agree, but I am pretty sure his decision wasn't driven at all by a desire for justice. He was seeking for something else and that's why he went public with this information.
On contrary, sheeps, beefs, chickens, rabbits, ducks, etc, will all become parasits in the food chain. There will be no more reason to farm them.
Meat is proteins. If you want minerals and vitamins, take pills.
Unless you go nude at your job, there is no such thing like clothing "Made in USA". The entire textile industry is already offshore for a long time.
I was about to mod him down. Even if he is making a point. How this post is related to the subject? So, it is surely offtopic. Then it will be mod down eventually.
I don't know exactly, it was decided few years before I was hired. But I suppose it has something to do with type safety of the language, popularity among vendors in relation with us. PHP was also withdrawn from the list of authorized languages for web sites.
Given the set of products we have, from a single provider, I have to switch between: python, javascript, vendor specific language, java, bash, perl, xslt, power shell and sql on an almost daily basis. I rarely end a day dealing with a single language. Unfortunately, no C/C++ at my working place.
Fingerprints should never be shared with any other party unless mandate by the law, like after being convicted of felony and being jailed.
Actually, this whole race for biometrics security is flawn. What parties want, is a way to make sure you are who you claim you are. For that purpose, they do not need to store your actual fingerprints to compare and match. They just need a digital signature which you can conveniently produce from your fingerprints without sending the fingerprints or features of your fingerprints. The same way you can encrypt a password with a one-way function, you can encrypt your fingerprints + some credentials from the party requesting the digital signature. This way, the digital signature is not a sole function of your fingerprints. Each party will get a different signature depending on their own credentials. They will not receive the actual fingerprints neither and they will not be able to sell it to someone else.
Just making a law to forbide selling, sharing, keeping longer than required fingerprints is not sufficient.
Collecting fingerprints or any other biometric marker in first place should be forbidden.
Do you have a little bird on your virtual lectern while you are writing?
So, if it is exactly like other financial institutions, credit cards, electronic fund transfers, etc. The market for the bitcoin will summarize to perform transactions at a lower cost than any other financial institution, etc. I still don't see the world moving in the direction of the bitcoin. The advantage is too tiny.
Decentralized? This article is just about the reverse. Splitting the Bitcoin bounty to share by half will help to create a monopoly eliminating small players from the game.
The point is: Which system is having the best features, lowest energy footprint per transaction? BitCoin is having a positive cost per transaction curve while banking systems are having a negative one. Forget about moving gold bars, no one is really doing this on large scale. The bank notes transport is limited to feeding ATM mostly where already existing electronic bank transactions can fill that gap.
In case you missed it. What Putin is asking is simply impossible, even theoritically to do. So, no need to condemn anything here, beside Putin's own stupidity.
Perhaps because he is really stupid?
Why? He can simply fire him and that's all. There is no need for this mascarade.
We are talking about the Moon here. And even with the latency, the instructions don't need to be at the lower level steering the driving wheel or this kind of stuff. It can just be at the planning level. That's what is done by most probes. They even manage themselves the available energy and shutdown systems when they are not required and wake up them when they are needed without remote indication. Planning softwares are more sophisticated than you believe. By human contribution, I didn't mean remote control of the robots. I meant making decision the robot cannot make itself or rather than the planning software cannot make itself and wait if necessary for more input to decide what to do in the next two or three days or even the rest of the mission.
I still don't see which one is profitable in your list. I mean, being cheaper to go elsewhere in the solar system isn't a profitable business. It is still a burden expense for the whole human kind without any profit on the horizon. Mars is just bullshit to convince the taxpayers to spend dollars on something without future. Cleaning junk makes no profit, etc.
Humans contribution can be all done remotely. No need to send someone on site for this.
That's the point. That's nice to produce cheaper fuel, but for what purpose? Someone still have to buy this fuel and use it in a profitable way to consider the whole operation profitable. Or maybe it is just about sucking more taxpayers dollars for no purpose at all other than making a bunch of guys rich.
Microsoft Infrastructure as a Service.
There isn't, but that's not the point. Penis enlargement pumps are still selling despite everything that has been said on them. So, I suppose this proposition will get them some extra market share which is the goal.
Not that shit again!
Your soft, meat brain can only react, but a computer can make decisions far quicker and more rationally than you can. It has plenty of time to decide what to do.
This assumption is totally false. You assume the scenery is already understood by the computer which only have to decide on basic questions like break/speedup, right/left and this kind of stuff. The truth is the computer has to assess the situation exactly like a human brain using sensors which have a finite accuracy and some uncertainity on the readings. Decode everything, including images from cameras, reconstruct a 3-D representation of the scene and have some mean to make decisions from the scene and the physics. That's a lot of processing a human brain can do much more faster than a computer today. At least a computer you can embed into a car. Beside that it shoud be able to predict the outcome of a dozen of collision scenario and evaluate the probability each indivudual involved in the accident has to survive it. Unless you stick on very simple types of accidents with a very limited complexity.
The whole idea an autonomous car should made ethical decision is plain stupid.
Of course everyone will say they prefer a car that minimize the damages, nobody is against the virtue. The point is that's beyond and way beyond the capabilities of an autonomous car and even a driver and even the aftermath of an accident with plenty of time to analyze it cannot guarantee which behavior would have been the right one to minimize the fatalities and injuries. No driver is capable to do this kind of analysis right on the spot to minimize the outcome except in very rare simple cases. So, why asking this to an autonomous car?
Isn't it enough an autonomous car will prevent a lot of drunken drivers to kill someone else? Isn't it enough a self driving car having no emotions will not place itself in a position to provoke an accident for whatever reason? Isn't it enough a self-driving car will not cut or drive dangerously intentionally? There is already plenty of situations where self-driving car will save lives and many lives per year. It already justifies itself only with that.
It retrieves the time just fine because it has a realtime clock chip and still run with little battery to keep the time when it is off and between network time synchronization. A PC has also a RTC and a battery to keep the time. On another hand, the design point for the Raspberry Pi was to reduce the bill of material as much as possible, so, there is no RTC, you can add one if you wish. Hence, you just have to configure properly your OS on the Raspberry Pi to retrieve the network time at boot time. Of course, it can be done only after the network interface is up.
All this to say there is no magic with your Android phone, it works exactly as everything else. It retrieves time using the network, whatever network it is, and beside that, it uses a RTC chip and the little juice that left in you battery when the phone seems to have exhausted it to keep the time.
Are you shitting us? The advertisers would have never stick to gif and animated gif for their ads campaign. They want to know about you and everybody. The more they know, the higher they can charge for an advertisement campaign to their customers. They would have used any eye candy possible to get people's attention. So, that is completely false to say they would have stick to animated gif. They are basically blood suckers with a budget.
These f... morons should be threaten without pitty until they discipline themselves. The website owners don't like ad blockers and javascript blockers, however they are asking people to let these morons to penetrate our computers without any regrets. They can all go to hell if you ask me.