The point of venture capital is to provide for the expansion and development of an idea. To transform the idea into a product, or sometimes to provide the means to determine that it Just. Won't. Work.
The gamesmanship that is rewarded by making the funding the goal in itself is perhaps entertaining, but otherwise completely valueless.
Now still, if anyone wants to fund my research into why shiny things attract money...
Given what we ask them to do, browsers (even crappy ones, -cough-IE-cough) are remarkably fast.
If you are seeing 'slow' performance, try analyzing it objectively. Obviously, another machine with a clean browser environment would be a good starting point for comparison.
As far as "hundreds of tabs", well... maybe the first step should be to Get. A. Clue.
I can volunteer what information I wish to whomever I like, for or without reason. That does not constitute approval for anyone else to know any of it.
"questions begin to arise about Facebook's impartiality in the political race."
Why would anyone think that [Facebook | Google | Microsoft | Famous Amos Cookies] was supposed to be impartial? Did I miss something extra in the first amendment about only speaking if you present all views equally? Aside from the wishful fiction that they are somehow required to be, since when is anyone even claiming to be "fair and impartial"? (OK, other than the claims of Fox News) If you grant them any more credit for impartiality than what you allocate the wild-eyed crazy on the overpass with a bullhorn, you deserve what you get.
ALL information you get must be weighed against the source, and if you blindly accept as 'truth' everything from anyone, you are going to get burned.
In this case, of course, when enough of us get burned, we all (U.S. and 'the World') have to deal with the fallout.
The first time I heard about this it was being used on a freeway-adjacent billboard in Sacramento CA, around 2003.
I've always assumed the idea was being used lots of places, since it would explain why I see so many ads for Bail Bonds when travelling with my brother in law.
To be specific, Article 3 Federal judges are appointed for life, and must be confirmed by congress. These are Supreme Court justices and District Court judges. Other "Federal Judges", including Magistrates and Bankruptcy judges serve specific terms, and are not confirmed.
Thus, to have Judge Haldane Mayer do an about-face on Software Patents is Huuuge, in part because of the influence the Federal Court of Appeals has on lower courts, but mostly since it shows that learning can take place at that level, when presented with cogent arguments.
You have no right at all to know what is on my "secret list". I have compiled it by digesting every news article published worldwide on the subject of underwater cribbage, and cataloging the names mentioned in any way. My reasoning is that people who have anything to do with that horrible sport are more likely to die by drowning, and I will base my Life Insurance rate quotes to them on that belief.
You want to know who is on the list and why? Tough.
You want to sue me for unfair business practices? Go ahead. But don't whinge about actuarial tables that say middle aged black men are more likely to die of heart disease than young females from the Mediterranean. While liars may figure, figures don't lie.
Any company has a fiduciary responsibility to manage risk. One way to manage risk is by getting as much information as you can and making decisions based on that information. If you have bad information, you're not doing it right. But if you have no information, or are proscribed from making decisions based on what you know, you are (rightfully) out of business.
The only reason this is the least bit interesting is that there are so many people who consider Facebook a primary news source.
This Pew Research poll of last summer shows 63% of FB users get their news there (up from 47% two years ago).
ANYBODY who gets their news from only one source simply doesn't care whether it's true.
And we all know what they say about news without truth, right?
Yes, there are many physical things a machine can do as well or better than a human, though the task of building such a machine is to date not one of them.
As to the nascent "cognitive" capabilities of machines, take another look. For example, while there are some wonderful things being done with pattern recognition, that is largely a mathematical function.
Computers are great at math, hence the name. But things that can not be reduced to mathematics are still very much the domain of organic life forms. Even at the blistering current pace of progress in the field, I am confident that we are far away from an artificial intelligence fully capable of true cognition.
Given that the news two days ago was about the new alliance of Tesla competitors, which includes both Ford and Volvo, I can't imagine why a Volvo engineer might be biased..
First point: this is a rare reference to Steven H as "a party animal". Rock the Symposium!
I am perplexed by some of the responses to this article. Steven Hawkins is "unqualified to comment" on the future of our species? Why? Because "no one would care if he weren't in a wheelchair'? Would that there were an automated Moron Filter. (Chrome/Firefox snap-in, anyone?)
I too am hopeful for the future of our species on this planet, but not optimistic. I agree with the expressed opinion that this is a particularly vulnerable and dangerous time for that future, as we have developed several ways to significantly imperil human life on the planet, but no means to expand to any other habitat. Until that changes, the chances of our species having a lasting presence in the universe would seem at significant risk.
Am I qualified to have an opinion? Cogito, ergo sum.
Yet a tethered craft is still legal.
You can still legally fly a kite (with pretty much any payload you like)
My 'tethered drone' remains legal for use in the National parks, as well. Since upgrading my kite to quad-engine status, it works well even with no wind... As I was reminded by a federal judge, do not forget to hang on to your end of the string...
I would be happy to save Uncle Sam 10% of that, and get plenty of seat time in my log book. I'm sure a lot of other private pilots would be glad to do the same.
The extroverts get all the attention, and everything is designed around what they want.
Now, let's hear it for us Introverts! Come on, get up and.... ooohh! Math Puzzles!
Seriously? This is a networked Windows XP computer storing data on the movements of private individuals until they run out of space...
Forget the idiotic complaint about the horrors of a government purchasing process: who is responsible for the security of this "system"? If a real argument could be made for the need of this data, the system would have been quietly upgraded, and we would have even more information at risk. he lack of the upgrade is the best evidence that there is no compelling reason to keep this information at all.
Six months? I guess I'm OK then, having not been through Oakland in the last six months. So what other municipalities are quietly using this same hopelessly lame system?
Interesting that we seem to be overlooking the 'rest of the story':
That the United, Anthem, and OPM breaches are ALL blamed on the same actors.
So we now have a cool name ('Black Vine') to supplant "Chinese State Sponsored Hackers".
I suppose that will make it easier to report without offending our good friend China, right?
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The point of venture capital is to provide for the expansion and development of an idea. To transform the idea into a product, or sometimes to provide the means to determine that it Just. Won't. Work.
The gamesmanship that is rewarded by making the funding the goal in itself is perhaps entertaining, but otherwise completely valueless.
Now still, if anyone wants to fund my research into why shiny things attract money...
Given what we ask them to do, browsers (even crappy ones, -cough-IE-cough) are remarkably fast.
If you are seeing 'slow' performance, try analyzing it objectively. Obviously, another machine with a clean browser environment would be a good starting point for comparison.
As far as "hundreds of tabs", well... maybe the first step should be to
Get.
A.
Clue.
Seriously.
I can volunteer what information I wish to whomever I like, for or without reason.
That does not constitute approval for anyone else to know any of it.
Jealous much?
Why would anyone think that [Facebook | Google | Microsoft | Famous Amos Cookies] was supposed to be impartial?
Did I miss something extra in the first amendment about only speaking if you present all views equally?
Aside from the wishful fiction that they are somehow required to be, since when is anyone even claiming to be "fair and impartial"?
(OK, other than the claims of Fox News)
If you grant them any more credit for impartiality than what you allocate the wild-eyed crazy on the overpass with a bullhorn, you deserve what you get.
ALL information you get must be weighed against the source, and if you blindly accept as 'truth' everything from anyone, you are going to get burned.
In this case, of course, when enough of us get burned, we all (U.S. and 'the World') have to deal with the fallout.
At least if your phone service is Google fi there is a lessened chance of it being hijacked. (requires Nexus / Pixel phone)
Simple solution: stop responding to advertising.
If you/everyone did, it would go away almost instantly...
Nimrod.
The reason you see advertising is that advertising works. Get over it.
The first time I heard about this it was being used on a freeway-adjacent billboard in Sacramento CA, around 2003.
I've always assumed the idea was being used lots of places, since it would explain why
I see so many ads for Bail Bonds when travelling with my brother in law.
Thus, to have Judge Haldane Mayer do an about-face on Software Patents is Huuuge, in part because of the influence the Federal Court of Appeals has on lower courts, but mostly since it shows that learning can take place at that level, when presented with cogent arguments.
Perhaps there is hope, after all.
Ditto.
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*Neatness == readability and (dare we hope?) clarity.
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You have no right at all to know what is on my "secret list". I have compiled it by digesting every news article published worldwide on the subject of underwater cribbage, and cataloging the names mentioned in any way. My reasoning is that people who have anything to do with that horrible sport are more likely to die by drowning, and I will base my Life Insurance rate quotes to them on that belief.
You want to know who is on the list and why? Tough.
You want to sue me for unfair business practices? Go ahead. But don't whinge about actuarial tables that say middle aged black men are more likely to die of heart disease than young females from the Mediterranean. While liars may figure, figures don't lie.
Any company has a fiduciary responsibility to manage risk. One way to manage risk is by getting as much information as you can and making decisions based on that information. If you have bad information, you're not doing it right. But if you have no information, or are proscribed from making decisions based on what you know, you are (rightfully) out of business.
This Pew Research poll of last summer shows 63% of FB users get their news there (up from 47% two years ago).
ANYBODY who gets their news from only one source simply doesn't care whether it's true.
And we all know what they say about news without truth, right?
It gets repeated...
As to the nascent "cognitive" capabilities of machines, take another look. For example, while there are some wonderful things being done with pattern recognition, that is largely a mathematical function.
Computers are great at math, hence the name. But things that can not be reduced to mathematics are still very much the domain of organic life forms.
Even at the blistering current pace of progress in the field, I am confident that we are far away from an artificial intelligence fully capable of true cognition.
Months, at least.
Given that the news two days ago was about the new alliance of Tesla competitors, which includes both Ford and Volvo, I can't imagine why a Volvo engineer might be biased..
Where would one look?
I am perplexed by some of the responses to this article. Steven Hawkins is "unqualified to comment" on the future of our species? Why? Because "no one would care if he weren't in a wheelchair'?
Would that there were an automated Moron Filter. (Chrome/Firefox snap-in, anyone?)
I too am hopeful for the future of our species on this planet, but not optimistic. I agree with the expressed opinion that this is a particularly vulnerable and dangerous time for that future, as we have developed several ways to significantly imperil human life on the planet, but no means to expand to any other habitat. Until that changes, the chances of our species having a lasting presence in the universe would seem at significant risk.
Am I qualified to have an opinion? Cogito, ergo sum.
Yet a tethered craft is still legal.
You can still legally fly a kite (with pretty much any payload you like)
My 'tethered drone' remains legal for use in the National parks, as well. Since upgrading my kite to quad-engine status, it works well even with no wind...
As I was reminded by a federal judge, do not forget to hang on to your end of the string...
I would be happy to save Uncle Sam 10% of that, and get plenty of seat time in my log book.
I'm sure a lot of other private pilots would be glad to do the same.
Which airstrip shall we report to?
"Autonomous". You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means...
So, "self-driving" cars will require licensed drivers with more qualifications than every other car on the road. Brilliant!
Is there no one with a suggestion for a new operating environment (or OS) to answer the OP's question?
(No, I don't know of one either)
The extroverts get all the attention, and everything is designed around what they want.
Now, let's hear it for us Introverts! Come on, get up and.... ooohh! Math Puzzles!
Next month on the Discovery Channel!
A deadly epidemic reaches around the globe and across cultures:
See it all on...
Selfie Week!
Happy Birthday to You!
and this song is free too!
Warner Bro-thers can Bite me!
This one is G N U !
Forget the idiotic complaint about the horrors of a government purchasing process: who is responsible for the security of this "system"?
If a real argument could be made for the need of this data, the system would have been quietly upgraded, and we would have even more information at risk.
he lack of the upgrade is the best evidence that there is no compelling reason to keep this information at all.
Six months? I guess I'm OK then, having not been through Oakland in the last six months. So what other municipalities are quietly using this same hopelessly lame system?
Obviously the time offset is way more than 30 minutes.
Like about 70 years, maybe?
This will be a burden to the Sysadmins there though: They will have to manually timesync both of their computers.
Interesting that we seem to be overlooking the 'rest of the story':
That the United, Anthem, and OPM breaches are ALL blamed on the same actors.
So we now have a cool name ('Black Vine') to supplant "Chinese State Sponsored Hackers".
I suppose that will make it easier to report without offending our good friend China, right?