One of the biggest problems with bureaucracy is that someone has to define the rules that decisions are based upon. Whoever defines those rules is a villain to SOMEONE, so no one wants to be traceably responsible for the rules.
But, if it's an Artificial Intelligence that makes the decisions, it makes for the perfect excuse - "We didn't make that decision, the AI Expert did."
The scientists involved in actual AI research don't like this, because now they become the villains...
This is FB advertising the cost effectiveness of placing inexpensive ads on their service. And they're doing it "for free" by "revealing" the information to a willing press.
"SEE HOW MANY IMPRESSIONS RUSSIA GOT FOR ONLY $[insert current estimate here]. YOUR AD COULD DO AS WELL!"
These ads are getting more play now than they got before, most likely.
How closely you need to monitor the specifications depends entirely on how close to the limits of the material you're designing to.
For example, if you design a bridge with a 100% safety margin (design can carry twice its rated load), a 5% variation in the quality of the steel is not as critical as it would be when the design only has a 10% safety margin.
Someone using a 10% safety margin better be testing the metal at all stages of the process. Especially if you're relying on the specific properties of a particular alloy.
If you are SO bored by the content you're viewing that you can spend time looking at the number of pixels of resolution and how black the blacks are, adding more resolution isn't going to make it better.
I tried to come up with an analogy for how profoundly this change affects me, but even the year-to-year butterfly counts in Botswanna are more significant.
"A fascinating image of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere here:"
It would have been a better image if they had stopped rotating it and changing elevations to make it harder to track the sources and sinks for CO2. Towards the end, the large amounts of CO2 coming off of Asia just became a red mist covering the arctic. And how the amount of CO2 rose during the winder and fell during the summer in the northern hemisphere, tracking the heating done in cold climates.
I did notice that the amounts of CO2 didn't climb that much in the southern hemisphere during it's cold seasons. Is that because a smaller portion of the population lives in places that get really cold in the south?
Using ESR only delays the issue until the ESR runs out.
I have three different add-ons to allow security camera monitoring. All three developers have decided the FF market is too small to jump through hoops, so they recommend migrating to IE.
FireFox stopped allowing key add-ons I use already, because the authors have not created signed versions. So I had to reinstall version 47, where I could at least tell it to accept the fact that they add-on wasn't signed.
5 years ago, our client insisted that we implement this sort of mischief on one site, with a 30-day change rule. One of the requirements was to check that the new password was not previously used or too similar to a previously-used PW.
"How does that work when you also tell us we cannot save the PW in plain text?"
To their credit, they admitted that it wasn't possible to comply with all the rules. But they have not yet relented on the 30 day change rule.
Which bit them big time during one of their security sweeps - the PW for the scanner's account "expired" part way through the testing. The subsequent lock-out for excessive failed login attempts was then interpreted as "server becomes unresponsive if excessive characters are injected at login." (we'll accept up to 32MB for passwords)
"However, the Firefox version of both the extensions was unaffected."
The difference is that Chrome will automagically update things, while Firefox makes you manually update extensions.
Biggest issue I see is that all of the popular browsers are in an all-out war to include as many extensions in their core code, so that you don't need ones they don't control. This may be "more secure", but, it makes the browsers bloody slow for ALL users, instead of the few who need their browser to keep them connected to 145 different social media sites.
And that means you need a browser extension to shut crap off...
The coating make some of the solar-sourced infrared heat NOT get absorbed by the roadway. Does it magically go straight back to space, or does it reflect onto other structures, heating THEM up?
I suspect mostly the latter in an urban environment. So, how does changing WHAT absorbs the heat affect the overall retention of the heat island?
Using plants absorbs more CO2, but the heat increases evaporation.
"No matter how much Knight Rider you watch, AI is no where close to this."
AI might be up to it, but the sensors aren't. The fact that it can respond as quickly as it does to inputs that reflect a blurry picture of what is 2-5 seconds ahead of the vehicle is respectable; That is what sets it ahead of the average inattentive driver.
Having more cars with sensors that can share their information and then coordinate their actions would make it much better, but you have to get a much broader distribution of sensor-equipped cars.
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One of the biggest problems with bureaucracy is that someone has to define the rules that decisions are based upon. Whoever defines those rules is a villain to SOMEONE, so no one wants to be traceably responsible for the rules.
But, if it's an Artificial Intelligence that makes the decisions, it makes for the perfect excuse - "We didn't make that decision, the AI Expert did."
The scientists involved in actual AI research don't like this, because now they become the villains...
So why should we sign on to something that does not benefit us, or is even "fair"?
This is FB advertising the cost effectiveness of placing inexpensive ads on their service. And they're doing it "for free" by "revealing" the information to a willing press.
"SEE HOW MANY IMPRESSIONS RUSSIA GOT FOR ONLY $[insert current estimate here]. YOUR AD COULD DO AS WELL!"
These ads are getting more play now than they got before, most likely.
> Perhaps they should focus on more basic needs.
Internet is a VERY big need.
How can you convince people that they're living in a utopia if you can't distract them from reality? In fact, Internet is VITAL making things better!
How closely you need to monitor the specifications depends entirely on how close to the limits of the material you're designing to.
For example, if you design a bridge with a 100% safety margin (design can carry twice its rated load), a 5% variation in the quality of the steel is not as critical as it would be when the design only has a 10% safety margin.
Someone using a 10% safety margin better be testing the metal at all stages of the process. Especially if you're relying on the specific properties of a particular alloy.
> Why go public now?
Because Flash hasn't had a critical vulnerability reported in almost a week, so it was overdue.
If you are SO bored by the content you're viewing that you can spend time looking at the number of pixels of resolution and how black the blacks are, adding more resolution isn't going to make it better.
3000 ads got 10,000,000 "impressions" - just think what our marketing department can do for YOU!
> Not everyone can walk out and afford a 40K brand new electric car.
Well, everyone that counts can. If you can't, you don't count.
I tried to come up with an analogy for how profoundly this change affects me, but even the year-to-year butterfly counts in Botswanna are more significant.
Deja vu, except for the company name.
"A fascinating image of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere here:"
It would have been a better image if they had stopped rotating it and changing elevations to make it harder to track the sources and sinks for CO2. Towards the end, the large amounts of CO2 coming off of Asia just became a red mist covering the arctic. And how the amount of CO2 rose during the winder and fell during the summer in the northern hemisphere, tracking the heating done in cold climates.
I did notice that the amounts of CO2 didn't climb that much in the southern hemisphere during it's cold seasons. Is that because a smaller portion of the population lives in places that get really cold in the south?
Using ESR only delays the issue until the ESR runs out.
I have three different add-ons to allow security camera monitoring. All three developers have decided the FF market is too small to jump through hoops, so they recommend migrating to IE.
FireFox stopped allowing key add-ons I use already, because the authors have not created signed versions. So I had to reinstall version 47, where I could at least tell it to accept the fact that they add-on wasn't signed.
.... Killed by people who CLAIM to stand up for keeping "what people do in their spare time" their own private matter.
But that's only so long as they AGREE with "what people do in their spare time", meaning "Social Justice Warriors" are the intolerant bigots now.
Yes, Backblaze regularly advertises on Slashdot ... Oh, wait! Those are STORIES!
5 years ago, our client insisted that we implement this sort of mischief on one site, with a 30-day change rule. One of the requirements was to check that the new password was not previously used or too similar to a previously-used PW.
"How does that work when you also tell us we cannot save the PW in plain text?"
To their credit, they admitted that it wasn't possible to comply with all the rules. But they have not yet relented on the 30 day change rule.
Which bit them big time during one of their security sweeps - the PW for the scanner's account "expired" part way through the testing. The subsequent lock-out for excessive failed login attempts was then interpreted as "server becomes unresponsive if excessive characters are injected at login." (we'll accept up to 32MB for passwords)
https://xkcd.com/875/
"However, the Firefox version of both the extensions was unaffected."
The difference is that Chrome will automagically update things, while Firefox makes you manually update extensions.
Biggest issue I see is that all of the popular browsers are in an all-out war to include as many extensions in their core code, so that you don't need ones they don't control. This may be "more secure", but, it makes the browsers bloody slow for ALL users, instead of the few who need their browser to keep them connected to 145 different social media sites.
And that means you need a browser extension to shut crap off...
The original title implied the books themselves were being discontinued.
... that in 5 years, $6.3 trillion dollars will only be worth what $1.3 trillion is worth now?
The coating make some of the solar-sourced infrared heat NOT get absorbed by the roadway. Does it magically go straight back to space, or does it reflect onto other structures, heating THEM up?
I suspect mostly the latter in an urban environment. So, how does changing WHAT absorbs the heat affect the overall retention of the heat island?
Using plants absorbs more CO2, but the heat increases evaporation.
"No matter how much Knight Rider you watch, AI is no where close to this."
AI might be up to it, but the sensors aren't. The fact that it can respond as quickly as it does to inputs that reflect a blurry picture of what is 2-5 seconds ahead of the vehicle is respectable; That is what sets it ahead of the average inattentive driver.
Having more cars with sensors that can share their information and then coordinate their actions would make it much better, but you have to get a much broader distribution of sensor-equipped cars.
"Wouldn't this be a decent project for a machine learning solution?"
No, because a machine-learning solution would realize that it should just bulk-erase the media more quickly than a human would.
"68% of millennials have saved less than $1000 towards a down payment on buying a house."
But probably 100% of them have spent twice that much for a smart phone and data plan within the last year.
Not to mention games.