You can look up the stats if you want to get a nice quantitative measurement of risk. You're somewhere in the neighbourhood of ten times safer from violent death if you visit wester Europe instead of the US. The incarceration rate in the US is around 5 to 10 times higher than most western European countries (or other notable destinations such as Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan or China). I couldn't find stats on the relative rate of incarceration of foreigners.
True. However, it seems that the answer to the question "do you know if Facebook collects audio data?" is "I don't know."
His speculation that they *might* isn't any more credible than, for example, some random Slashdot poster.
They probably do, of course. If they can, why wouldn't they? Particularly since they're about to launch a digital assistant, and several people who actually have insider knowledge have said that companies that collect and store audio data have an easier time making digital assistants.
Sounds like a good reason not to use Chrome, to be honest. If Firefox wanted to gain some marketshare and stand up for privacy, now would seem to be a great time to push this. Google wouldn't like it, but with everyone pissed at Facebook they're probably fairly desperate for the public not to be reminded that their business model is even more invasive than than FBs.
Google might not even mind that much. Google's competitors all get their information from tracking people. If this got passed, Google might stand to win big: they're the only ones with a giant ad network AND a secondary method of spying via being the ubiquitous search engine.
Websites would get fixed in a hurry if it was the default. Could be you'd need the three majors to all do it at the same time.
Alternately, Firefox could provide a reasonable default whitelist and pop up a scary warning when a page makes a request from a third party. That seems to have worked out pretty well for https. If the default whitelist was well made people might not even notice. The ads would disappear, darn, and the tracking bugs and like buttons, but most of the content is either local or delivered by reputable CDN.
Instead of picking on Facebook specifically, you could have a setting that refuses to load any off-site data, unless it's on a whitelist. Then make it the default. Problem solved.
There's a joke in Eve Online that however careful the developers are, the players will very quickly figure out how to break any new game mechanic or balancing.
When you start asking algorithms to learn their own solutions, you frequently get solutions that exploit bugs in your simulation. Just like if you give a flawed game to a bunch of people.
It probably won't even be necessary. Bitcoin is a crappy currency. As a system for transferring money, it has a few advantages (and lots of disadvantages). The biggest advantage is that it's somewhat anonymous. Except governments figured that out and are cracking down. When everything settles down, including the actual price of bitcoin, Western Union might be getting some competition, but government issued currencies probably aren't.
I suspect the OP's comment about the miners going to jail was hyperbole. Embedding kiddie porn in the blockchain DOES seem to be a pretty clever attack on BitCoin though. YOU may not need a copy of the blockchain as an individual miner, but your pool definitely does.
In fact, the only thing that secures the blockchain is that a whole bunch of people have a copy of it. If the blockchain is illegal to possess (or too large to conveniently possess, or in any other way difficult to possess) fewer people will have it, making the whole system less secure. Likewise, if the whole chain needs to be rewritten frequently to delete illegal stuff unknowingly embedded in it, that's going to add a LOT of overhead and vulnerability to shenanigans.
PS: my beard isn't the least bit grey.
PPS: there does seem to be something about blockchains that attracts idiots to make sweeping proclamations based on nothing but sound-bite sized sweeping proclamations about what blockchains are. It's an intriguing idea that this tendency is correlated with age.
Inflation is also an effective tax on the idle rich, which works to decrease inequalities. In some places it is the only form of effective wealth/inheritance tax.
These things are being tested for a reason. They're still in development. Anyone who says a self driving car is today ready for unrestricted deployment is wrong. That also doesn't mean they will never be, or that they aren't already better than humans. We don't know. Thus testing.
I've hit a deer in the middle of a wide open road, at night, while I was going 60 km/h. Something coming at you from the side can be VERY hard to avoid, particularly if it jumps out from cover after your headlights have swept over.
Are you a relative of this woman or something? I'm just reading through the thread and my first impression was that you were a corporate sock puppet, maybe for some Uber competitor, but the hysteria in this post seems more like someone emotionally involved.
"Now, perhaps a human might have realized the limited sight lines and the possible pedestrian conflict and slowed down before arriving at this location?"
Ha ha ha, sure. Unless drivers in Phoenix are very different from drivers, well, everywhere else?
The problem isn't you working on something with your friends. It's me coming along and saying thanks sucker, this belongs to my corporation because we paid for the Mountain Dew you drank.
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It's contributing to the bank account of the lawyer who brought the lawsuit.
Apparently in California an individual can bring a lawsuit "on behalf of the state" and then keep at least some of the damages.
You can look up the stats if you want to get a nice quantitative measurement of risk. You're somewhere in the neighbourhood of ten times safer from violent death if you visit wester Europe instead of the US. The incarceration rate in the US is around 5 to 10 times higher than most western European countries (or other notable destinations such as Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan or China). I couldn't find stats on the relative rate of incarceration of foreigners.
I guarantee you, when they make me take off my shoes transiting a US airport after twelve hours of flying, it's not me who's suffering.
*cough* Google *cough*.
True. However, it seems that the answer to the question "do you know if Facebook collects audio data?" is "I don't know."
His speculation that they *might* isn't any more credible than, for example, some random Slashdot poster.
They probably do, of course. If they can, why wouldn't they? Particularly since they're about to launch a digital assistant, and several people who actually have insider knowledge have said that companies that collect and store audio data have an easier time making digital assistants.
Sounds like a good reason not to use Chrome, to be honest. If Firefox wanted to gain some marketshare and stand up for privacy, now would seem to be a great time to push this. Google wouldn't like it, but with everyone pissed at Facebook they're probably fairly desperate for the public not to be reminded that their business model is even more invasive than than FBs.
Google might not even mind that much. Google's competitors all get their information from tracking people. If this got passed, Google might stand to win big: they're the only ones with a giant ad network AND a secondary method of spying via being the ubiquitous search engine.
Websites would get fixed in a hurry if it was the default. Could be you'd need the three majors to all do it at the same time.
Alternately, Firefox could provide a reasonable default whitelist and pop up a scary warning when a page makes a request from a third party. That seems to have worked out pretty well for https. If the default whitelist was well made people might not even notice. The ads would disappear, darn, and the tracking bugs and like buttons, but most of the content is either local or delivered by reputable CDN.
Instead of picking on Facebook specifically, you could have a setting that refuses to load any off-site data, unless it's on a whitelist. Then make it the default. Problem solved.
There's a joke in Eve Online that however careful the developers are, the players will very quickly figure out how to break any new game mechanic or balancing.
When you start asking algorithms to learn their own solutions, you frequently get solutions that exploit bugs in your simulation. Just like if you give a flawed game to a bunch of people.
https://deepmind.com/blog/deep...
Deep Mind did exactly that.
It probably won't even be necessary. Bitcoin is a crappy currency. As a system for transferring money, it has a few advantages (and lots of disadvantages). The biggest advantage is that it's somewhat anonymous. Except governments figured that out and are cracking down. When everything settles down, including the actual price of bitcoin, Western Union might be getting some competition, but government issued currencies probably aren't.
He should just do like everyone else and change the name to Square Blockchain Technologies Inc.
I suspect the OP's comment about the miners going to jail was hyperbole. Embedding kiddie porn in the blockchain DOES seem to be a pretty clever attack on BitCoin though. YOU may not need a copy of the blockchain as an individual miner, but your pool definitely does.
In fact, the only thing that secures the blockchain is that a whole bunch of people have a copy of it. If the blockchain is illegal to possess (or too large to conveniently possess, or in any other way difficult to possess) fewer people will have it, making the whole system less secure. Likewise, if the whole chain needs to be rewritten frequently to delete illegal stuff unknowingly embedded in it, that's going to add a LOT of overhead and vulnerability to shenanigans.
PS: my beard isn't the least bit grey.
PPS: there does seem to be something about blockchains that attracts idiots to make sweeping proclamations based on nothing but sound-bite sized sweeping proclamations about what blockchains are. It's an intriguing idea that this tendency is correlated with age.
Inflation is also an effective tax on the idle rich, which works to decrease inequalities. In some places it is the only form of effective wealth/inheritance tax.
These things are being tested for a reason. They're still in development. Anyone who says a self driving car is today ready for unrestricted deployment is wrong. That also doesn't mean they will never be, or that they aren't already better than humans. We don't know. Thus testing.
Come on, he only got six and a half. He had a partner who had to get some. And a bit left over for all the little people.
I hear the Russians are interested in collecting fake profiles.
And this is relevant to what the OP said, or the article, how?
I've hit a deer in the middle of a wide open road, at night, while I was going 60 km/h. Something coming at you from the side can be VERY hard to avoid, particularly if it jumps out from cover after your headlights have swept over.
Are you a relative of this woman or something? I'm just reading through the thread and my first impression was that you were a corporate sock puppet, maybe for some Uber competitor, but the hysteria in this post seems more like someone emotionally involved.
My brain is magic. It's such a common (and strong) reaction whenever anyone mentions automation or AI that it almost seems like some kind of instinct.
Maybe this has all happened before....
"Now, perhaps a human might have realized the limited sight lines and the possible pedestrian conflict and slowed down before arriving at this location?"
Ha ha ha, sure. Unless drivers in Phoenix are very different from drivers, well, everywhere else?
"How will it choose if it has to decide between killing 4 people or 1?"
How would you?
The problem isn't you working on something with your friends. It's me coming along and saying thanks sucker, this belongs to my corporation because we paid for the Mountain Dew you drank.