I'm pretty sure this is a state that allows fracking. The bar for approving underground stuff is low.
If he just takes it down to a depth that is extremely unlikely to hit anything ever put in from the surface or disturb any surface waters (necessary to avoid pumping like crazy anyway), there is little environmental impact that anyone cares about other than disposing of the removed material which should be very non-hazardous and possibly in demand for fill.
Field trips haven't just declined, they've been decimated. VR would be an improvement over nothing. VR that allows group participation (similar to conference type VR) with the teacher in the VR would be very useful.
But, it would be better to look at this as something new that opens up doors that field trips never could. VR can take you anywhere from inside a molecule or cell to visiting anyplace on Earth at any time in history to walking on the moon. It's a potential boon to the learners that have to see things, walk around them, etc.
Can you make the "game" be the game of learning? I can imagine the dataset would be the rules of many different games and the solutions would be networks that learn those games with solution quality based on some balance of leanness and efficacy of the networks. You'd then let it loose teaching itself how to best teach networks. Hmmm.
I predict that millions are now turning off their WiFi on their mobile devices and may keep it off for some time. Mobile data usage will surge over the next few weeks. The providers couldn't have asked for a better Christmas present.
Most malware is of no consequence. I run ad blockers, https everywhere, noscript, and other tools that seem to control it with no problem without the need for an antivirus. I do run malware scans occasionally but have never found anything.
I have on occasion turned off the extensions (while running in a VM) and cannot understand how people use the current web without them. Virtually every site is pretty much broken under the weight of the ads. On many pages, it is very hard to find the main content. Even when you do, it is just a strip of text that is very annoying for someone whose subconscious normally scans surrounding text for context in understanding the area actually being read.
Still, if I have a need to visit a site that I know contains extensive malware or, on occasion, to intentionally download software that I am near certain is malware infested, I usually use a VM that runs from a CD-image and has no virtual hard drive or (if I need to run it on Windows) has a virtual hard drive with change history so that I can revert the hard drive afterwards.
So, the main vulnerability I have would be a zero-day on a mainstream site. That is a vulnerability that will get through most AV products anyway.
As for email that others have mentioned, I do use it extensively. However, I have not seen a spam message in my box in years, don't use a local client, and don't click on attachments. That seems to be pretty safe.
Are antivirus programs really worth the impact on your machine? They use a surprising amount of resources and many experts have voiced opinions that the threats are outrunning their capabilities.
If you want to visit a site that might contain malware, just start a VM or boot a CD-based OS that doesn't use your drives.
When was the last time your antivirus actually prevented an infection? If it did, it definitely told you because they do everything possible to keep your fear level up.
I'm thinking we need something higher level than that. Sort of an editor that is similar to a beginning programmer that can program in any language as I verbally paint what I'd like with broad strokes and watch to make sure it got the details right.
The same is true of document writing. A really good secretary of old didn't just transcribe dictated memos verbatim. They could be given the gist of a desired memo and write it. It was faster than typing because you didn't have to tell them everything. A good future document writing program will do the same.
These methods have been used throughout time. The only new thing here is the modern tech boost.
Germany was certainly very actively using these tactics during WWII to root out those destined for concentration camps. Informing on neighbors was highly encouraged and not doing so was very dangerous.
This is a tactic most utilized in social policing and tends to reemerge with populist movements. It may start out with "crime", but the crimes tend to evolve because citizens routinely think people with different belief systems need to be punished and feel empowered to do it themselves.
Apple's advantage in quality and update reliability comes entirely at the cost of using Apple-approved parts only. This dramatically limits necessary testing and simplifies the writing of system software. If unapproved hardware functions differently in any way from the approved hardware, count on problems because the system software is not designed with compatibility in mind. That is their advantage.
If you want hardware flexibility, never choose Apple and don't complain about how the system doesn't seem as perfectly integrated. Other systems are solving a dramatically different problem. Comparing the problems that Apple solves with its vertically limited silo to those solved by Microsoft and Google with their much richer hardware domains is... well Apple is apples and MS and Google are oranges.
I'd guess all of the front ends use the API too. But, you're right in a way. The front ends probably have a secure means of accessing the API.
But all restricting access would do is push the bots or mechanical turks to operate the old-fashioned way through the front end. It would have the effect of increasing both their and Twitter's traffic costs, increasing their CPU costs, slowing them, and thus reducing their numbers to those who could afford the increase, but that's about it. It wouldn't solve the problem.
I think all social media companies and virtually anyone running a comment system of any type, including Slashdot, is going to have to pursue the hard way out of this - some very sophisticated language and pattern analysis to detect when someone is utilizing technology to amplify their voice, often to sew dissent only for the sake of the value they find in exploiting the dissent, through a highly distributed and more sophisticated than its crude appearance implies misinformation attack.
In the past, people could do this for themselves though not perfectly. Snake oil salesmen always found a market. But, the sophistication of modern marketing / political science seems to be outrunning our ability to learn at the societal level. It's a virtual war equivalent of the advent of the German Blitzkrieg in WWII.
What to do when these attacks (whether created using bots or mechanical turks) are detected is a real question. Most people who buy the dissent arguments can't be swayed by shining light on it in any way. The attack usually goes after undermining the trust first, and exploiting crowd dynamics to create a virtual mob and shut thought down. It's an age-old tactic of manipulators being powered to extreme with modern tech and market manipulation techniques.
In general, it seems we've gotten ourselves in a fine pickle.
Don't start hoping yet. This is a classic flip-the-script move to make big profits that is being orchestrated by the administration.
POTUS is pro exploitation of natural resources. Yellowstone has a massive geothermal energy reserve but exploiting it would almost certainly disrupt the aboveground geysers, etc. So, a few weeks ago, someone from NASA raised awareness and stated that we could cool the lava. Now, someone has pushed the fear button a bit harder. And FoxNews is waiting in the wings to say, "hey we can solve this and even make a profit". Geothermal exploitation at this scale is actually acceptable to the right because this requires big business to accomplish it - even big business with drilling expertise. Perfect.
We should be seeing a major tweet about it any time now - perhaps an executive order to put geothermal drilling rights in Yellowstone up for auction.
The NVidia or other GPU approach to AI is too flexible for this application. It needs a more purpose-built chip. Perhaps something like IBM's TrueNorth or even a mixed analog/digital NN approach.
NNs in general have potential to be much more power efficient than traditional computing with vectors makes it appear, but not when we use traditional computing techniques to simulate the NN.
We will see this evolve quickly as the market appears. It's still quick and dirty time right now.
One way this can happen is through photos you've taken. If you don't strip the metadata out of all photos before sending them to Facebook, then Facebook can recognize that photos posted on both accounts came from the same device. If those photos are not widely posted, it pretty clearly identifies the accounts as at least belonging to closely associated people.
I think you've missed the real pattern on this one. Let me outline this.
First, our current POTUS is all for the exploitation of our natural resources by the megacorps.
Second, there is a massive amount of energy that could be exploited beneath Yellowstone, but doing so would almost undoubtedly destroy much of the uniqueness aboveground and has been heavily resisted for that reason. So to counter the public backlash, you must utilize the number one tool for manipulating the American people, their carefully cultivated fears.
Now, we have an article pushing the fear so that people can say, "but NASA says we can fix that", not that I saw any clear indication that the August 17th statement was an official NASA one versus an employee acting on his own.
I guess it is about time now for someone to publicly link the two. Whether it will be a company offering to utilize a geothermal energy plant to extract the energy or a politician or scientist for hire suggesting it is yet to be seen.
The disturbing thing is that I don't see evidence that we know whether cooling the magma would harmlessly stop movement or force earlier earthquakes and explosions as the pressure builds behind the premature dam. But, whatever. Don't worry, be happy.
And human drivers have these things? Frankly, I am sure as an engineer that redundancy or at the least safe fallbacks are part of the design. I've never worked a critical system where that wasn't the case. But, the argument is flawed.
Nobody has ever crashed a vehicle when they had a heart attack or stroke? There has always been a redundant designated driver when the main one was inebriated? Always a redundant check on the decisions of everyone whose abilities have declined? Everyone who has ever run out of a house mad wanting to jump into the car and squeal away recklessly has been stopped? Every human who malfunctioned and decided to drive a vehicle through a crowd has been overridden?
If autonomous vehicles can merely match our ineptitude, they will be starting at an acceptable point, and we can eliminate the flaws as they happen (something we can't seem to do with human drivers).
This is what technology has been doing for centuries - automating away the low-level positions. We could bring that back I suppose. Would you like to restore the wonderful jobs of cotton picking and wheat thrashing? Or maybe we should go back to horse-drawn plows so that plowing a field involves enough people to slowly plow one furrow at a time and as a bonus you can clean stalls? Perhaps we should regulate bakeries and require the dough for every loaf of bread to be kneaded by hand? It would certainly require a lot of low wage workers to prepare building sites if we eliminated bulldozers, wouldn't it?
But, you have a great point, and, good news, this is actually a very exciting age! The most exciting part is that we aren't just looking at the low-wage jobs anymore! Yes, drivers are likely to disappear in the next couple of decades as well as cashiers, stockers, and numerous other low-wage positions. But, if you look deeper you'll find that we are also seeing the beginnings of the development to automate away the work of surgeons, diagnosticians, orthodontists, accountants, financial advisors, investment managers, assistants (actually, the PC decimated their careers 30-35 years ago and almost nobody stood up to stop it), physics researchers, drug researchers, mathematicians, etc. - and, yes, even CEOs.
As an engineer, almost everything I've ever worked on had the goal to reduce the workload on people. The coming age is what technology has been working towards for millennia. I know there are naysayers out there that believe we'll always find new work for people because we always have. It's nearly useless to try to discuss the flaws in that kind of reasoning. If you can't see them, well, hmmm, I've been taught to try not to say anything if there is nothing good to say.
It is my job to make things easier. It's the job of sociologists and politicians to figure out how to distribute resources when we don't have to work anymore.
Instead of asking me to slow down or shift efforts, demand that they speed up!
And for all of you naysayers - if it's your desire to work forever, tell your representatives and maybe they can make sure that everyone is offered a pile of dirt and enough room to spend their days moving it around. That would be about as useful to us as having people drive 20 years from now or perform surgery 20-30 years from now. Of course, you'll get paid the same as everyone else because the difference in value to others of your work versus the person spending their newfound freedom exploring art, sports, nature, or whatever it is that they enjoy the most will be zero.
That is the theory I've always seen. The latest example I can think of is the character Alara Kitan on The Orville who is presented as a relatively petite female that owes her strength to the gravitational pull of the planet Xelayan.
What we really need to blow this scheme out of the water is for some really wealthy bad guys to fund a project focused on using CRISPR or similar technology to change the DNA markers that have become standard in the DNA databases. Since they don't have to follow normal research rules, the research could be greatly sped up. As a side benefit, the results would leak into real medical science and speed that up - very much like the way porn has led technical development of the internet many times in the past.
Instead of fighting this losing game, we should be looking scientifically at whether there aren't far better, out of the box we've created, ways to fight crime or eliminate the need to know identities. We've been taking paths to solve problems and doubling down when they don't instead of trying other paths. It is very much like the definition of insanity.
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I'm pretty sure this is a state that allows fracking. The bar for approving underground stuff is low.
If he just takes it down to a depth that is extremely unlikely to hit anything ever put in from the surface or disturb any surface waters (necessary to avoid pumping like crazy anyway), there is little environmental impact that anyone cares about other than disposing of the removed material which should be very non-hazardous and possibly in demand for fill.
Field trips haven't just declined, they've been decimated. VR would be an improvement over nothing. VR that allows group participation (similar to conference type VR) with the teacher in the VR would be very useful.
But, it would be better to look at this as something new that opens up doors that field trips never could. VR can take you anywhere from inside a molecule or cell to visiting anyplace on Earth at any time in history to walking on the moon. It's a potential boon to the learners that have to see things, walk around them, etc.
Can you make the "game" be the game of learning? I can imagine the dataset would be the rules of many different games and the solutions would be networks that learn those games with solution quality based on some balance of leanness and efficacy of the networks. You'd then let it loose teaching itself how to best teach networks. Hmmm.
No, this is part of the effort to find the question.
It's ironic to see this the day after the Infineon flaw was widely announced.
Not that it is relevant to Chrome, but Google Photos has some of the best "filtering" capability around. Simply search for "videos". Voila.
I predict that millions are now turning off their WiFi on their mobile devices and may keep it off for some time. Mobile data usage will surge over the next few weeks. The providers couldn't have asked for a better Christmas present.
Most malware is of no consequence. I run ad blockers, https everywhere, noscript, and other tools that seem to control it with no problem without the need for an antivirus. I do run malware scans occasionally but have never found anything.
I have on occasion turned off the extensions (while running in a VM) and cannot understand how people use the current web without them. Virtually every site is pretty much broken under the weight of the ads. On many pages, it is very hard to find the main content. Even when you do, it is just a strip of text that is very annoying for someone whose subconscious normally scans surrounding text for context in understanding the area actually being read.
Still, if I have a need to visit a site that I know contains extensive malware or, on occasion, to intentionally download software that I am near certain is malware infested, I usually use a VM that runs from a CD-image and has no virtual hard drive or (if I need to run it on Windows) has a virtual hard drive with change history so that I can revert the hard drive afterwards.
So, the main vulnerability I have would be a zero-day on a mainstream site. That is a vulnerability that will get through most AV products anyway.
As for email that others have mentioned, I do use it extensively. However, I have not seen a spam message in my box in years, don't use a local client, and don't click on attachments. That seems to be pretty safe.
Are antivirus programs really worth the impact on your machine? They use a surprising amount of resources and many experts have voiced opinions that the threats are outrunning their capabilities.
If you want to visit a site that might contain malware, just start a VM or boot a CD-based OS that doesn't use your drives.
When was the last time your antivirus actually prevented an infection? If it did, it definitely told you because they do everything possible to keep your fear level up.
I'm thinking we need something higher level than that. Sort of an editor that is similar to a beginning programmer that can program in any language as I verbally paint what I'd like with broad strokes and watch to make sure it got the details right.
The same is true of document writing. A really good secretary of old didn't just transcribe dictated memos verbatim. They could be given the gist of a desired memo and write it. It was faster than typing because you didn't have to tell them everything. A good future document writing program will do the same.
These methods have been used throughout time. The only new thing here is the modern tech boost.
Germany was certainly very actively using these tactics during WWII to root out those destined for concentration camps. Informing on neighbors was highly encouraged and not doing so was very dangerous.
This is a tactic most utilized in social policing and tends to reemerge with populist movements. It may start out with "crime", but the crimes tend to evolve because citizens routinely think people with different belief systems need to be punished and feel empowered to do it themselves.
Apple's advantage in quality and update reliability comes entirely at the cost of using Apple-approved parts only. This dramatically limits necessary testing and simplifies the writing of system software. If unapproved hardware functions differently in any way from the approved hardware, count on problems because the system software is not designed with compatibility in mind. That is their advantage.
If you want hardware flexibility, never choose Apple and don't complain about how the system doesn't seem as perfectly integrated. Other systems are solving a dramatically different problem. Comparing the problems that Apple solves with its vertically limited silo to those solved by Microsoft and Google with their much richer hardware domains is... well Apple is apples and MS and Google are oranges.
I'd guess all of the front ends use the API too. But, you're right in a way. The front ends probably have a secure means of accessing the API.
But all restricting access would do is push the bots or mechanical turks to operate the old-fashioned way through the front end. It would have the effect of increasing both their and Twitter's traffic costs, increasing their CPU costs, slowing them, and thus reducing their numbers to those who could afford the increase, but that's about it. It wouldn't solve the problem.
I think all social media companies and virtually anyone running a comment system of any type, including Slashdot, is going to have to pursue the hard way out of this - some very sophisticated language and pattern analysis to detect when someone is utilizing technology to amplify their voice, often to sew dissent only for the sake of the value they find in exploiting the dissent, through a highly distributed and more sophisticated than its crude appearance implies misinformation attack.
In the past, people could do this for themselves though not perfectly. Snake oil salesmen always found a market. But, the sophistication of modern marketing / political science seems to be outrunning our ability to learn at the societal level. It's a virtual war equivalent of the advent of the German Blitzkrieg in WWII.
What to do when these attacks (whether created using bots or mechanical turks) are detected is a real question. Most people who buy the dissent arguments can't be swayed by shining light on it in any way. The attack usually goes after undermining the trust first, and exploiting crowd dynamics to create a virtual mob and shut thought down. It's an age-old tactic of manipulators being powered to extreme with modern tech and market manipulation techniques.
In general, it seems we've gotten ourselves in a fine pickle.
Don't start hoping yet. This is a classic flip-the-script move to make big profits that is being orchestrated by the administration.
POTUS is pro exploitation of natural resources. Yellowstone has a massive geothermal energy reserve but exploiting it would almost certainly disrupt the aboveground geysers, etc. So, a few weeks ago, someone from NASA raised awareness and stated that we could cool the lava. Now, someone has pushed the fear button a bit harder. And FoxNews is waiting in the wings to say, "hey we can solve this and even make a profit". Geothermal exploitation at this scale is actually acceptable to the right because this requires big business to accomplish it - even big business with drilling expertise. Perfect.
We should be seeing a major tweet about it any time now - perhaps an executive order to put geothermal drilling rights in Yellowstone up for auction.
The NVidia or other GPU approach to AI is too flexible for this application. It needs a more purpose-built chip. Perhaps something like IBM's TrueNorth or even a mixed analog/digital NN approach.
NNs in general have potential to be much more power efficient than traditional computing with vectors makes it appear, but not when we use traditional computing techniques to simulate the NN.
We will see this evolve quickly as the market appears. It's still quick and dirty time right now.
A double-tap would definitely not help because the flaw was a hardware one. The hardware was falsely detecting thousands of taps a day.
This sounds like a healthy discount versus paying the attorney's fees and the $1.86 billion in damages that it was last reported that they are seeking. Certainly, it is a reasonable point to start negotiations.
One way this can happen is through photos you've taken. If you don't strip the metadata out of all photos before sending them to Facebook, then Facebook can recognize that photos posted on both accounts came from the same device. If those photos are not widely posted, it pretty clearly identifies the accounts as at least belonging to closely associated people.
If this service allowed one to "own" a movie after having paid to see it at the theater, I might actually start visiting theaters again.
I think you've missed the real pattern on this one. Let me outline this.
First, our current POTUS is all for the exploitation of our natural resources by the megacorps.
Second, there is a massive amount of energy that could be exploited beneath Yellowstone, but doing so would almost undoubtedly destroy much of the uniqueness aboveground and has been heavily resisted for that reason. So to counter the public backlash, you must utilize the number one tool for manipulating the American people, their carefully cultivated fears.
Third, on August 17th the BBC published a story indicating that NASA has a plan to prevent a Yellowstone eruption. As soon as I saw that, I knew someone was preparing to exploit Yellowstone's resources.
Now, we have an article pushing the fear so that people can say, "but NASA says we can fix that", not that I saw any clear indication that the August 17th statement was an official NASA one versus an employee acting on his own.
I guess it is about time now for someone to publicly link the two. Whether it will be a company offering to utilize a geothermal energy plant to extract the energy or a politician or scientist for hire suggesting it is yet to be seen.
The disturbing thing is that I don't see evidence that we know whether cooling the magma would harmlessly stop movement or force earlier earthquakes and explosions as the pressure builds behind the premature dam. But, whatever. Don't worry, be happy.
And human drivers have these things? Frankly, I am sure as an engineer that redundancy or at the least safe fallbacks are part of the design. I've never worked a critical system where that wasn't the case. But, the argument is flawed.
Nobody has ever crashed a vehicle when they had a heart attack or stroke? There has always been a redundant designated driver when the main one was inebriated? Always a redundant check on the decisions of everyone whose abilities have declined? Everyone who has ever run out of a house mad wanting to jump into the car and squeal away recklessly has been stopped? Every human who malfunctioned and decided to drive a vehicle through a crowd has been overridden?
If autonomous vehicles can merely match our ineptitude, they will be starting at an acceptable point, and we can eliminate the flaws as they happen (something we can't seem to do with human drivers).
This is what technology has been doing for centuries - automating away the low-level positions. We could bring that back I suppose. Would you like to restore the wonderful jobs of cotton picking and wheat thrashing? Or maybe we should go back to horse-drawn plows so that plowing a field involves enough people to slowly plow one furrow at a time and as a bonus you can clean stalls? Perhaps we should regulate bakeries and require the dough for every loaf of bread to be kneaded by hand? It would certainly require a lot of low wage workers to prepare building sites if we eliminated bulldozers, wouldn't it?
But, you have a great point, and, good news, this is actually a very exciting age! The most exciting part is that we aren't just looking at the low-wage jobs anymore! Yes, drivers are likely to disappear in the next couple of decades as well as cashiers, stockers, and numerous other low-wage positions. But, if you look deeper you'll find that we are also seeing the beginnings of the development to automate away the work of surgeons, diagnosticians, orthodontists, accountants, financial advisors, investment managers, assistants (actually, the PC decimated their careers 30-35 years ago and almost nobody stood up to stop it), physics researchers, drug researchers, mathematicians, etc. - and, yes, even CEOs.
As an engineer, almost everything I've ever worked on had the goal to reduce the workload on people. The coming age is what technology has been working towards for millennia. I know there are naysayers out there that believe we'll always find new work for people because we always have. It's nearly useless to try to discuss the flaws in that kind of reasoning. If you can't see them, well, hmmm, I've been taught to try not to say anything if there is nothing good to say.
It is my job to make things easier. It's the job of sociologists and politicians to figure out how to distribute resources when we don't have to work anymore.
Instead of asking me to slow down or shift efforts, demand that they speed up!
And for all of you naysayers - if it's your desire to work forever, tell your representatives and maybe they can make sure that everyone is offered a pile of dirt and enough room to spend their days moving it around. That would be about as useful to us as having people drive 20 years from now or perform surgery 20-30 years from now. Of course, you'll get paid the same as everyone else because the difference in value to others of your work versus the person spending their newfound freedom exploring art, sports, nature, or whatever it is that they enjoy the most will be zero.
Trillion dollar wars to ensure their supplies.
That is the theory I've always seen. The latest example I can think of is the character Alara Kitan on The Orville who is presented as a relatively petite female that owes her strength to the gravitational pull of the planet Xelayan.
What we really need to blow this scheme out of the water is for some really wealthy bad guys to fund a project focused on using CRISPR or similar technology to change the DNA markers that have become standard in the DNA databases. Since they don't have to follow normal research rules, the research could be greatly sped up. As a side benefit, the results would leak into real medical science and speed that up - very much like the way porn has led technical development of the internet many times in the past.
Instead of fighting this losing game, we should be looking scientifically at whether there aren't far better, out of the box we've created, ways to fight crime or eliminate the need to know identities. We've been taking paths to solve problems and doubling down when they don't instead of trying other paths. It is very much like the definition of insanity.