I predict that the next outrage will be when everyone realises that the FB and messenger apps also slurp WhatsApp messages from that app... (Possibly under the pretext of permission to read SMS Messages....). Remember that WhatsApp messages are only encrypted 'end-to-end' - if you are at one 'end' then you can read them in plaintext.
It is *not* broken - you need to give the FB app permission to read contact and SMS data - which most people do because they're stupid. Do we need to add stupidity protection in there too now? Maybe yes...
It's not a flaw; you are asked, on installing the app, for permission for it to read contact and message data. Most peoplke just click yes because most people are quite thick about these things really... I cannot believe that people are only just realising this stuff..
"Blockchain is a great technology for securing and decentralizing information." Actually, it's not since it doesn't scale and has huge energy waste built into its design. Things like Tangle/DAG look much more promising.
Aaah, WinFS, the DB Filesystem, actually IMHO it was a great idea and there were numerous demos that showed how massively useful it would have been. It was a shame they abandoned it completely.
To be fair, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds are actually doing quite well. Also this report is bollocks. Investment banking and its concomitant paralegal services are just as likely to succumb to automation as maufacturing. People have set ideas about automation, imagining robots making cars. There are a lot of easily replaceable 'mouse clicking' jobs in the South East of the UK.
To be fair, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds are actually doing quite well. Also this report is bollocks. Investment banking and its concomitant paralegal services are just as likely to succumb to automation as maufacturing.
I used to go to illegal raves in the eary-mid 90s. We certainly weren't dancing to Baribie Girl - yuk! Most of the music at the time was coming out of Manchester - think 808 State and A Guy called Gerald.
The biggest cause of congestion in recent times is the number of people looking down at their cellphone (pretending not to since in the UK it is illegal) in stop-start traffic. I watch these morons look up occasionally, notice the lights have changed, like 5 mins ago, and move off... The car behind then does the same thing, after eventually noticing and, oh, now the lights are red again. In the end, two, maybe three cars have made it through the junction when twice that many could have moved if people had been paying attention.
The danger from 'AI' is not really the field itself (which is largely lots of smoke and mirrors) but from the rush to monetise the current wave of hype which will see premature use of half-baked experimental technology in situations that have real consequences. Examples of this would be recruitment aptitude classification, insurance premium calculations, criminal tariff decisions etc and, yes, self driving cars (which are not really ready yet).
Please can we stop listening to the pronouncements of celebrities from *outside* the field on stuff they clearly know nothing about. Also, the media...
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I predict that the next outrage will be when everyone realises that the FB and messenger apps also slurp WhatsApp messages from that app... (Possibly under the pretext of permission to read SMS Messages....). Remember that WhatsApp messages are only encrypted 'end-to-end' - if you are at one 'end' then you can read them in plaintext.
It is *not* broken - you need to give the FB app permission to read contact and SMS data - which most people do because they're stupid. Do we need to add stupidity protection in there too now? Maybe yes...
It's not a flaw; you are asked, on installing the app, for permission for it to read contact and message data. Most peoplke just click yes because most people are quite thick about these things really... I cannot believe that people are only just realising this stuff..
Well I never thought I'd see that phrase in a technical report :-)
Comment of the year! :-)
"Blockchain is a great technology for securing and decentralizing information." Actually, it's not since it doesn't scale and has huge energy waste built into its design. Things like Tangle/DAG look much more promising.
No, Metalhead in Black Mirror
If it's bad now, just wait until Facebook add their 'Dislike button'.
"Were the home of art and cultrue, and settled convict free." - Culture?? Not in the literacy department clearly.
Aaah, WinFS, the DB Filesystem, actually IMHO it was a great idea and there were numerous demos that showed how massively useful it would have been. It was a shame they abandoned it completely.
Don't worry, the blockchain will be the answer ;-)
To be fair, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds are actually doing quite well. Also this report is bollocks. Investment banking and its concomitant paralegal services are just as likely to succumb to automation as maufacturing. People have set ideas about automation, imagining robots making cars. There are a lot of easily replaceable 'mouse clicking' jobs in the South East of the UK.
To be fair, Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds are actually doing quite well. Also this report is bollocks. Investment banking and its concomitant paralegal services are just as likely to succumb to automation as maufacturing.
I used to go to illegal raves in the eary-mid 90s. We certainly weren't dancing to Baribie Girl - yuk! Most of the music at the time was coming out of Manchester - think 808 State and A Guy called Gerald.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Axis of Awesome - 4 chord songs...
Dad, can I borrow $20? $14 ? Why do you need $24?
The biggest cause of congestion in recent times is the number of people looking down at their cellphone (pretending not to since in the UK it is illegal) in stop-start traffic. I watch these morons look up occasionally, notice the lights have changed, like 5 mins ago, and move off... The car behind then does the same thing, after eventually noticing and, oh, now the lights are red again. In the end, two, maybe three cars have made it through the junction when twice that many could have moved if people had been paying attention.
...helps you fit 4 digits into your date instead of 2.
Well done MIT, you've invented the piston.
That's a great article! Thanks for the tipoff :-)
"prized methodology" - no, you mean 'prized METHOD'. can you please stop using words that you don't know the meaning of?
I don't think pascal was ever popular - apart from schools. It wasn't something you'd use in the real world
...apart from Delphi (Object Pascal). Skype, KazaA and just about every antivirus suite are written in Delphi.
The danger from 'AI' is not really the field itself (which is largely lots of smoke and mirrors) but from the rush to monetise the current wave of hype which will see premature use of half-baked experimental technology in situations that have real consequences. Examples of this would be recruitment aptitude classification, insurance premium calculations, criminal tariff decisions etc and, yes, self driving cars (which are not really ready yet). Please can we stop listening to the pronouncements of celebrities from *outside* the field on stuff they clearly know nothing about. Also, the media...
Another non expert in AI - he is a physicist.
WTF is Google Brian? Certainly not the messiah ;-)