that would be a smart microphone not a smart speaker. And it's a limited sort of smart, just looking for correlation between microphones. It is not really smart in t he same way as the homepod is which is actually smart in the speaker part of this. (the homepod listens to the reflected sounds then usies this to adjust for room dynamics not just directionality.)
these are listening devices with a voice interface from a search engine. the speakers themselves are speakers, not smart speakers.
If you want to see an actual speaker that is smart look at the apple homepod. that one actually does use sophisticated intelligence to improve the sound.
Look it's going to detect some real false and it's going to have a false positive rate and a missed-true rate. no matter what. so what ecaxly are we discussing here. Joanna Stern at the WSJ dod the exact same thematic test with a stunt person and came to the exact oppostie conclusion.
Bottom line is a senior citizen who lives alone is better off with this than without it. Anyone disagree?
1. The source of this is some spooky agency but they don't want people to know it was them that figured it out. SO the attribution went to Amazon discovering it. A plausible cover story at first as long as no one scratched too deep. the story was socialized within the government enough that every one believed it to be true so that's all bloomberg heard was this succefully engineered echo chamber of a story everyone believed was true. The chip part being true and the cover story of it's origin obfuscated.
The reason this would happen in this hasty way is that for obvious reasons the Trump administration needed to get out a story that shows china is a bad trading partner. SO timing was rushed. The three letter agency would not want it's discovery revealed because it like to shield sources and methods. So the compromise was blame it on amazon.
2. For whatever reason apple and amazon dumped some server farms or strategies. Later they realized they had dodged a bullet when the chip issue or mal frimware showed up in supermicro. They have to be really careful here because they could be sued for bad faith in the sales contracts and failure to disclose if it could be made to look like they knew for sure the Supermicro was poison. So they are trying very hard to say they had no knowledge of this (at the time) so this doesn't become a contractual issue.
I call it cranking a steamer. The steam is strong on this one. I think there are more chaotic fluctuations in the poo steam than 5 cubits could model. And my life is profoundly influences by the beauty of that steam. I really don't think they can model life.
Anything might be a bio weapon. this is a bit bonkers. Just as any high energy physics, rocketry, encryption algorithm, or computer could be a weapon and probably is.
did no one read about the chinese compromise of the supremicro motherboards? and now people are upset that a vendor requires certified parts? Please... I'd pay extra for that gladly.
SO is amazon using intel chips? If so there's the intel management engine which is basically a backdoor that can do absolutely anything including run when the computer is turned off (but powered).
pay raises are more desirable than bonuses since they are cumulative. But of course, total compensation is total compensation and bonuses allow more merit recognition at the cost of lowering the retention aspects of higher salaries.
Since amazon is going to more and more automation it may turn out that those higher paying jobs will be gone in a few years making this non-cumulative and just the same as a bonus from amaazons point of view. The higher they can raise the wages of their non-automated competition the better. e.g. raise the wages of UPS and Fed-ex who, susrprisingly, are not as automated as amazon, then move into their bussiness with cheaper logistics, drone delivery.
This is a tricky point of physics which is seldom explained well, and I don't understand it much more than the basic idea. But in nearly everything emissivity at a given wavelength is the compliment (1-x) of the reflectance.
It's a frustrating idea because it says that while white can keep the sun off you (reflecting) it also doesn't radiate either keeping you hot.
Now the escape clause here is that if you are not as hot as the sun, then your black body emission is in the mid IR while the sun is peaked in the visible. Thus if you can make something white looking in the visible but black in the Mid IR it can beat the system and help cool by both reflection of the sun and thermal emission.
Now this device seems to be arguing for something different it sounds like they are saying they use a dark (emissive) material but then make it so granular and scattering that it looks white (which indeed is why clear crystals look white when you powderize them (e.g. sugar).
But my understanding of this, possibly wrong which is why I'm asking, is that it doesn't matter why something looks white to the emissivity/reflectance relation. If a nominally black material "looks" white to the eye then it's going to act identically to an object that is actually pigmented white. It doesn't matter if its refraction, reflection of pigment that causes it to be white. White is white.
THus the explanation seems like B.S. However it still might be working just fine for the old boting reason of being a mid IR black object. that just would not be news.
The reason I'm wobbly on this is when you think about absorbption down at the atomic transition scale then the whole emissivity, reflectance thing gets confusing. It becomes unclear how discrete spectral lines actually add up to that. It's much easier to treat the relation at the macroscopic black body level.
SO is it really possible for this nano scale voodoo to do something other than white paint does?
the pope? Why not go back to how the Fascists defined corporativism.
"Under fascist corporatism, sectors of the economy were divided into corporate groups, whose activities and interactions were managed and coordinated by the government. The idea was to split the difference between socialism and laissez faire capitalism, letting the state control and direct the economy from the top-down without itself owning the means of production. Mussolini's official title was "commander and chief of the economy" among others!
The National Council of Corporations was the government body in charge of managing Italy’s economy, and At its inauguration, Mussolini stated, “The [NCC] is to the Italian economy what the Chief of Staff is to the Army: the thinking brain that prepares and coordinates.”
The idea was that this body would negotiate contracts and centrally plan production throughout the economy, regulating the sectors of art, industry, agriculture, trade, comm-unication, transportation, and finance — thus settling disputes, producing social harmony, and generating economic efficiency. In reality, it did none of this, and the system was used for rent-seeking, and to reward friends and crush enemies of the government."
Trump wants charismatic industry leaders to kowtow.
Read Mussolini's own writing. Trump did (really, he kept it in his bedside stand).
At one point in time il Duce was revered by the world for the fascist economic miracle.
Mussolini called it "corporatism". The governing paradigm is the state selects an elite set of corporate power brokers who receive favor, such as continuing to breath air, in return for supporting a benevolent patriacial dictatorship that masquerades as a democracy with a permenantly re-elected supreme leader.
it actually worked well up until Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia and hitler copped his game plan. Then it went to shit for him.
Musk is the demo to all the other corporate charismatic leaders that you will pay if you don't kow tow to il Cheeto
The model 650 is the supersized version of the precint optical scan ballot counter (model 100).
First.. THIS IS PAPER BALLOT! so they can be recounted and recounted by hand. THew same ballots can even be counted on multiple machines. SO yeah paper ballots! The operative word here is "can". Lots of roadblocks to actually recounting. If all the machines are in use you can't just use one machine to recount another's ballots. Well you could and it wold work just fine but there lots of procedure violations in that so it won't happen. Likewise triggering a hand count is problematic in most states. But that said. the paper is there.
Second the archaic nature of these machines is in some ways good. Look at the dot matrix printers it uses. Those are not like modern laser printers which are full up computing machines with lots of flashabvle attack vectors like font files and toner chips and stuff. These very likely have hardwired rom fonts and no perating systems at all. Many of the crazy things you can get modrn OS's so do are foreclosed bu obsolete technology that is just smart enough to do what it does. And scanning an optical ballot doesn't require too much. It's not even doing OCR or imaging processing.
So this machine might have some attack vectors but they are if anything easier to enumerate and thus prevent than something running the very latest Windows 10 or Linux zooey zooey or whatever.
the vendors of course love to hear that the old machines are dangerous and need to be replaced. So no matter where this story originated expaect it to get amplified
For once The findings have vastly worse implications than the headline. Namely, Round-up isn't poisoning the Bee's themselves it's impairing their symbiotic microbiome. You too have a microbiome, as does the every plant, the soil, and wasps too.
What's interesting here is that previous studies had found that ROund up did kill cells at high doses it wasn't the glycophase that was doing modt of it. It was the packaging "inert" ingredients many of which were detergent-like. It's not a surprise that detergents might harm isolates cells in high concentration.
this one finds the Glycophase itself harms some unknown bacteria that in turn makes the microbiome tank, and the bee's die.
That is a big deal. Much bigger deal than the previous findings.
It's a common tax question of when is someone an employee and when are they a contractor. This is well settled. THere are puiblished guideline. You could look them up since you don't know them.
But a rule of thumb is a contractor provides the tools of their trade, and gets paid by the task not the hour or the mile.
For example a house cleaner is Usually not a maid. A maid uses the vaccuum provided by the household, the house cleaner brings one.
Other signs are things like paying your own Social security and Benefits. However, these only work in one direction. If the House is paying these then its a sign you are an employee. If the person is paying them, then this doesn't prove they are not an employee.
THe case for uber is interesting since they often do provide their own cars.
Well, at last! this is a case where lining a first post to Goatse would actually have been informative and insightful. Accidentally opening something like tub girl is an eye scalding experience that rewires your brain as you try desperately to unsee it.
But how in the heck would you "protect" a moderator from this sort of thing.
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that would be a smart microphone not a smart speaker. And it's a limited sort of smart, just looking for correlation between microphones. It is not really smart in t he same way as the homepod is which is actually smart in the speaker part of this. (the homepod listens to the reflected sounds then usies this to adjust for room dynamics not just directionality.)
these are listening devices with a voice interface from a search engine. the speakers themselves are speakers, not smart speakers.
If you want to see an actual speaker that is smart look at the apple homepod. that one actually does use sophisticated intelligence to improve the sound.
Stalker loves you just wants to help you.
yes I know conway, Did you have a point here? it's eluding me.
Look it's going to detect some real false and it's going to have a false positive rate and a missed-true rate. no matter what. so what ecaxly are we discussing here. Joanna Stern at the WSJ dod the exact same thematic test with a stunt person and came to the exact oppostie conclusion.
Bottom line is a senior citizen who lives alone is better off with this than without it. Anyone disagree?
Here's a couple possible scenarios.
1. The source of this is some spooky agency but they don't want people to know it was them that figured it out. SO the attribution went to Amazon discovering it. A plausible cover story at first as long as no one scratched too deep. the story was socialized within the government enough that every one believed it to be true so that's all bloomberg heard was this succefully engineered echo chamber of a story everyone believed was true. The chip part being true and the cover story of it's origin obfuscated.
The reason this would happen in this hasty way is that for obvious reasons the Trump administration needed to get out a story that shows china is a bad trading partner. SO timing was rushed. The three letter agency would not want it's discovery revealed because it like to shield sources and methods. So the compromise was blame it on amazon.
2. For whatever reason apple and amazon dumped some server farms or strategies. Later they realized they had dodged a bullet when the chip issue or mal frimware showed up in supermicro. They have to be really careful here because they could be sued for bad faith in the sales contracts and failure to disclose if it could be made to look like they knew for sure the Supermicro was poison. So they are trying very hard to say they had no knowledge of this (at the time) so this doesn't become a contractual issue.
Both of these stories might be true
I call it cranking a steamer. The steam is strong on this one. I think there are more chaotic fluctuations in the poo steam than 5 cubits could model. And my life is profoundly influences by the beauty of that steam. I really don't think they can model life.
Hanta virus still killing people as does anthrax.
Small pox, malaria killed more people in the Americas than lived in all the rest of the world
it's not a pointed stick. Disease has killed more people than atom bombs.
But that's not a good reason to say no medical research
that's 56 days earth time. I think he can do it.
Anything might be a bio weapon. this is a bit bonkers. Just as any high energy physics, rocketry, encryption algorithm, or computer could be a weapon and probably is.
did no one read about the chinese compromise of the supremicro motherboards? and now people are upset that a vendor requires certified parts?
Please... I'd pay extra for that gladly.
If this were a new drug, there would be clinical trials. These taxis are a drug being dosed on the general population.
SO is amazon using intel chips? If so there's the intel management engine which is basically a backdoor that can do absolutely anything including run when the computer is turned off (but powered).
pay raises are more desirable than bonuses since they are cumulative. But of course, total compensation is total compensation and bonuses allow more merit recognition at the cost of lowering the retention aspects of higher salaries.
Since amazon is going to more and more automation it may turn out that those higher paying jobs will be gone in a few years making this non-cumulative and just the same as a bonus from amaazons point of view. The higher they can raise the wages of their non-automated competition the better. e.g. raise the wages of UPS and Fed-ex who, susrprisingly, are not as automated as amazon, then move into their bussiness with cheaper logistics, drone delivery.
it's like there needs to be some company like comcast that could sell you al the channels for one price.
Just send me all your personal data, social security number and dog's name and I will up moderate your next slashdot comment for free!
How does it get below ambient? Can I power a steaming engine with that?
This is a tricky point of physics which is seldom explained well, and I don't understand it much more than the basic idea. But in nearly everything emissivity at a given wavelength is the compliment (1-x) of the reflectance.
It's a frustrating idea because it says that while white can keep the sun off you (reflecting) it also doesn't radiate either keeping you hot.
Now the escape clause here is that if you are not as hot as the sun, then your black body emission is in the mid IR while the sun is peaked in the visible. Thus if you can make something white looking in the visible but black in the Mid IR it can beat the system and help cool by both reflection of the sun and thermal emission.
Now this device seems to be arguing for something different it sounds like they are saying they use a dark (emissive) material but then make it so granular and scattering that it looks white (which indeed is why clear crystals look white when you powderize them (e.g. sugar).
But my understanding of this, possibly wrong which is why I'm asking, is that it doesn't matter why something looks white to the emissivity/reflectance relation. If a nominally black material "looks" white to the eye then it's going to act identically to an object that is actually pigmented white. It doesn't matter if its refraction, reflection of pigment that causes it to be white. White is white.
THus the explanation seems like B.S. However it still might be working just fine for the old boting reason of being a mid IR black object. that just would not be news.
The reason I'm wobbly on this is when you think about absorbption down at the atomic transition scale then the whole emissivity, reflectance thing gets confusing. It becomes unclear how discrete spectral lines actually add up to that. It's much easier to treat the relation at the macroscopic black body level.
SO is it really possible for this nano scale voodoo to do something other than white paint does?
the pope? Why not go back to how the Fascists defined corporativism.
"Under fascist corporatism, sectors of the economy were divided into corporate groups, whose activities and interactions were managed and coordinated by the government. The idea was to split the difference between socialism and laissez faire capitalism, letting the state control and direct the economy from the top-down without itself owning the means of production. Mussolini's official title was "commander and chief of the economy" among others!
The National Council of Corporations was the government body in charge of managing Italy’s economy, and At its inauguration, Mussolini stated, “The [NCC] is to the Italian economy what the Chief of Staff is to the Army: the thinking brain that prepares and coordinates.”
The idea was that this body would negotiate contracts and centrally plan production throughout the economy, regulating the sectors of art, industry, agriculture, trade, comm-unication, transportation, and finance — thus settling disputes, producing social harmony, and generating economic efficiency.
In reality, it did none of this, and the system was used for rent-seeking, and to reward friends and crush enemies of the government."
http://blog.skepticallibertari...
Trump wants charismatic industry leaders to kowtow.
Read Mussolini's own writing. Trump did (really, he kept it in his bedside stand).
At one point in time il Duce was revered by the world for the fascist economic miracle.
Mussolini called it "corporatism". The governing paradigm is the state selects an elite set of corporate power brokers who receive favor, such as continuing to breath air, in return for supporting a benevolent patriacial dictatorship that masquerades as a democracy with a permenantly re-elected supreme leader.
it actually worked well up until Mussolini decided to invade Ethiopia and hitler copped his game plan. Then it went to shit for him.
Musk is the demo to all the other corporate charismatic leaders that you will pay if you don't kow tow to il Cheeto
The model 650 is the supersized version of the precint optical scan ballot counter (model 100).
First.. THIS IS PAPER BALLOT! so they can be recounted and recounted by hand. THew same ballots can even be counted on multiple machines. SO yeah paper ballots! The operative word here is "can". Lots of roadblocks to actually recounting. If all the machines are in use you can't just use one machine to recount another's ballots. Well you could and it wold work just fine but there lots of procedure violations in that so it won't happen. Likewise triggering a hand count is problematic in most states. But that said. the paper is there.
Second the archaic nature of these machines is in some ways good. Look at the dot matrix printers it uses. Those are not like modern laser printers which are full up computing machines with lots of flashabvle attack vectors like font files and toner chips and stuff. These very likely have hardwired rom fonts and no perating systems at all. Many of the crazy things you can get modrn OS's so do are foreclosed bu obsolete technology that is just smart enough to do what it does. And scanning an optical ballot doesn't require too much. It's not even doing OCR or imaging processing.
So this machine might have some attack vectors but they are if anything easier to enumerate and thus prevent than something running the very latest Windows 10 or Linux zooey zooey or whatever.
the vendors of course love to hear that the old machines are dangerous and need to be replaced. So no matter where this story originated expaect it to get amplified
They might give you one of those disposable paper masks that work as well as those toilet seat protectors
For once The findings have vastly worse implications than the headline. Namely, Round-up isn't poisoning the Bee's themselves it's impairing their symbiotic microbiome. You too have a microbiome, as does the every plant, the soil, and wasps too.
What's interesting here is that previous studies had found that ROund up did kill cells at high doses it wasn't the glycophase that was doing modt of it. It was the packaging "inert" ingredients many of which were detergent-like. It's not a surprise that detergents might harm isolates cells in high concentration.
this one finds the Glycophase itself harms some unknown bacteria that in turn makes the microbiome tank, and the bee's die.
That is a big deal. Much bigger deal than the previous findings.
It's a common tax question of when is someone an employee and when are they a contractor. This is well settled. THere are puiblished guideline. You could look them up since you don't know them.
But a rule of thumb is a contractor provides the tools of their trade, and gets paid by the task not the hour or the mile.
For example a house cleaner is Usually not a maid. A maid uses the vaccuum provided by the household, the house cleaner brings one.
Other signs are things like paying your own Social security and Benefits. However, these only work in one direction. If the House is paying these then its a sign you are an employee. If the person is paying them, then this doesn't prove they are not an employee.
THe case for uber is interesting since they often do provide their own cars.
Really what they need is a union.
Well, at last! this is a case where lining a first post to Goatse would actually have been informative and insightful. Accidentally opening something like tub girl is an eye scalding experience that rewires your brain as you try desperately to unsee it.
But how in the heck would you "protect" a moderator from this sort of thing.