As a French I think that if it was known that a politician "pulled strings" in order to push a US trial of Airbus in one direction, that particular politician would be strongly suspected of corruption, of being 'payed by' Airbus. That would be politicaly difficult for him afterwards (but not impossible, I confess, see our current President). Remember that it is not considered normal in every country that a company can give a few million to a congressman in order to defend its interests. Here it is called corruption.
Where have all the teachings of the Age of Enlightenment gone ? What has happened to the:
"You can't convince me of anything unless you present facts before my mind that makes me think like you do" ? (grossly paraphrased)
"I submit to no authority except Reason ?"
Facts are there, dig them. Trust no one, the truth is accessible to anyone with a brain, espiecially in the internet era. But nobody ever said it would come without efforts.
Yes, it will bring you to debates, to arguments, retort, counter-retort. But contrary to a popular belief, this is not an endless ping-pong game. This is not because there is debate that one must settle for a middle ground. When there are enough facts gathered, all assertions are either true or false. Famous people, fundings, politics don't matter, they don't enter into consideration. See the facts, see the claims. Evaluate their merits. Don't trust those who say you can't. You can.
You can hire some guy to "correct this nasty bug in XXX OSS software". You can't hire some guy to correct this problem in IE or in Windows. It is technically more difficult, and legally questionable.
That is what is meant when someone talks about independance in the OSS community.
Last time I saw a Second Life article on/. (a few months ago) I decided to try it, met a few persons, all in there recently for 2 or three weeks. I wonder how many people spend more than 3 months in Second Life (yes, I only logged in two times, I didn't like their creation methods)
That's it. They allow users in forum to post links, and URL. URL can have a lot of strange characters in it, & ? ! # etc... Apparently, the basis of XSS is to make a link that appears like a valid URL but that will, in some clients, execute as a javascript code, usually in order to steal cookies (therefore, an opened session) of the user watching the post. There seems to be a shield vs sword thing growing between attackers and web developers. You have numerous ways of "hiding" a code in an URL, hexadecimal notation, strange utf-8 characters and so on. Here again, an incomplete implementation of a standard is the cause of major headaches.
It has been written the year North Korea government was formed. There, War is Peace (they are still technically at war with S. Korea and US), Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength.
Prestigious ? The Loebner Prize ?
Agreed, this is the only publicized contest of Turing tests, but in the AI community, it is subject to hot debate (and flaming). Rules and scoring systems are known to change from year to year, and its result are really unimpressive. If you take the logs of the contest, you'll see that the winner bots are often those who constantly (and consistently) insult the user, disregarding his questions. They are not mistaken for a human but get a higher grade as they behave "more humanly" (that is at least what happened one year, I hope it changed)
Most contestants (and winners) are remakes of ALICE : it is a database of generic questions and sentence formula to recognize and to react. For instance if you say it "I think X" it will answer you "Why do you think X ?" or, to score more points , "Why should I care, mothaf...r ?!". By pure luck, a coherent thread of conversation can happen, but the bot doesn't try to make sense of the user's sentence in order to react to it, it just tries something that "could probably sound good".
Some chatbots can display interesting behaviors, learning some things in the conversation, but this prize simply doesn't encourage the emergence of these behaviors.
Weight : 9 kilograms
Thrust : 88 milinewtons
Quite better than the european ion engine but still awfully far away from being able to lift its own weight (in earth gravity field). And I don't even speak about the weight of a car or a plane. Still an interesting effect though, but the reporter obviously overhyped it. I'll reconsider when it can thrust its own weight, that would only be a x1000 factor...
Uh? The "face on mars" only looks like a face on the 1976 Viking's photographs. There has been numerous pictures of this region at higher resolution ever since :
What is the shuttle doing in front page so ?
And I am not talking about front page, I am talking about the "science page" which had numerous articles on Atlantis
I have seen dozens of news report about Atlantis' launch. Never saw a single report about the fact that China is doing research about breeding crops in orbit (doesn't this give some insights about the seriousness of their plan to build a permanent moon base or is it just me ?). The question is simpel : why do the medias don't report this ?
It is always about documentation of their "standards" and protocol. About the ability to custom the OS. I understand many don't like the modifications Adobe make on pdf specs, tell me, do you really trust MS on this one ?
... This would result only in one of the following :
- Defendants guilty. They disobeyed some environmental law, they pay compensation for this. It is normal.
- Defendants innocents. They obeyed the law case cleared. Maybe they counter-sue for image damaging.
Why not go to court ? The problem is that there is this feeling they go to court only "because it could work anyway" and because they risk nothing.
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As a French I think that if it was known that a politician "pulled strings" in order to push a US trial of Airbus in one direction, that particular politician would be strongly suspected of corruption, of being 'payed by' Airbus. That would be politicaly difficult for him afterwards (but not impossible, I confess, see our current President). Remember that it is not considered normal in every country that a company can give a few million to a congressman in order to defend its interests. Here it is called corruption.
Where have all the teachings of the Age of Enlightenment gone ? What has happened to the :
"You can't convince me of anything unless you present facts before my mind that makes me think like you do" ? (grossly paraphrased)
"I submit to no authority except Reason ?"
Facts are there, dig them. Trust no one, the truth is accessible to anyone with a brain, espiecially in the internet era. But nobody ever said it would come without efforts.
Yes, it will bring you to debates, to arguments, retort, counter-retort. But contrary to a popular belief, this is not an endless ping-pong game. This is not because there is debate that one must settle for a middle ground. When there are enough facts gathered, all assertions are either true or false. Famous people, fundings, politics don't matter, they don't enter into consideration. See the facts, see the claims. Evaluate their merits. Don't trust those who say you can't. You can.
... is "we will not patent any software".
You can hire some guy to "correct this nasty bug in XXX OSS software". You can't hire some guy to correct this problem in IE or in Windows. It is technically more difficult, and legally questionable. That is what is meant when someone talks about independance in the OSS community.
Last time I saw a Second Life article on /. (a few months ago) I decided to try it, met a few persons, all in there recently for 2 or three weeks. I wonder how many people spend more than 3 months in Second Life (yes, I only logged in two times, I didn't like their creation methods)
That's it. They allow users in forum to post links, and URL. URL can have a lot of strange characters in it, & ? ! # etc... Apparently, the basis of XSS is to make a link that appears like a valid URL but that will, in some clients, execute as a javascript code, usually in order to steal cookies (therefore, an opened session) of the user watching the post. There seems to be a shield vs sword thing growing between attackers and web developers. You have numerous ways of "hiding" a code in an URL, hexadecimal notation, strange utf-8 characters and so on. Here again, an incomplete implementation of a standard is the cause of major headaches.
True. Mod him up, mod me down...
You surely mean Lenovo ?
...what do they know ?
It has been written the year North Korea government was formed. There, War is Peace (they are still technically at war with S. Korea and US), Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength.
Prestigious ? The Loebner Prize ?
Agreed, this is the only publicized contest of Turing tests, but in the AI community, it is subject to hot debate (and flaming). Rules and scoring systems are known to change from year to year, and its result are really unimpressive. If you take the logs of the contest, you'll see that the winner bots are often those who constantly (and consistently) insult the user, disregarding his questions. They are not mistaken for a human but get a higher grade as they behave "more humanly" (that is at least what happened one year, I hope it changed)
Most contestants (and winners) are remakes of ALICE : it is a database of generic questions and sentence formula to recognize and to react. For instance if you say it "I think X" it will answer you "Why do you think X ?" or, to score more points , "Why should I care, mothaf...r ?!". By pure luck, a coherent thread of conversation can happen, but the bot doesn't try to make sense of the user's sentence in order to react to it, it just tries something that "could probably sound good".
Some chatbots can display interesting behaviors, learning some things in the conversation, but this prize simply doesn't encourage the emergence of these behaviors.
Maybe, only maybe... this could be a good use for stem cell research ? And public funding ?
Prosthetics are getting better all the time, but they will never be as good as the limbs we were born with.
This is an arbitrary affirmation. The cyberpunk geek in me firmly disagrees.
Oh no, god forbid you have to change your strategy in a 10 year old game.
From now on, bishops in chess games can also move like a pawn and pawns can take in front of them. It was about time to change something!
Weight : 9 kilograms Thrust : 88 milinewtons Quite better than the european ion engine but still awfully far away from being able to lift its own weight (in earth gravity field). And I don't even speak about the weight of a car or a plane. Still an interesting effect though, but the reporter obviously overhyped it. I'll reconsider when it can thrust its own weight, that would only be a x1000 factor...
All of the equipment that was lost or stolen contained protections to prevent a breach of personal information.
Like what ? a BIOS password ? A prosecution warning ? or was it really something serious like encryption that can't be broken in a few days ?
What is the status of non-american regarding privacy rights in the current american law ?
If the CIA is reading my gmail account, is it kosher ?
And those who don't gamble never win.
Uh? The "face on mars" only looks like a face on the 1976 Viking's photographs. There has been numerous pictures of this region at higher resolution ever since :
;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_on_mars
I remember the 1998 Mars Surveyor pictures. I wasn't surprise, but who can say honestly that he was not a bit disapointed ?
What is the shuttle doing in front page so ?
And I am not talking about front page, I am talking about the "science page" which had numerous articles on Atlantis
I have seen dozens of news report about Atlantis' launch. Never saw a single report about the fact that China is doing research about breeding crops in orbit (doesn't this give some insights about the seriousness of their plan to build a permanent moon base or is it just me ?). The question is simpel : why do the medias don't report this ?
It is always about documentation of their "standards" and protocol. About the ability to custom the OS. I understand many don't like the modifications Adobe make on pdf specs, tell me, do you really trust MS on this one ?
Basically, it's a neat feat that took years to prepare for, like going through a process to be "pre-qualified", but he isn't quite Doogie.
considering he is 18, taking years to prepare still makes it neat.
It would be good that MS eats Apple part if only to show how evil DRMs can be.
... This would result only in one of the following :
- Defendants guilty. They disobeyed some environmental law, they pay compensation for this. It is normal.
- Defendants innocents. They obeyed the law case cleared. Maybe they counter-sue for image damaging.
Why not go to court ? The problem is that there is this feeling they go to court only "because it could work anyway" and because they risk nothing.