This allows google and those who advertise with them to keep tracking despite the cookie legislation in europe. "Do no evil" is, yet again, looking more and more like "only do evil that can be veiled as altruism".
Sad but true. Most anonymous cowards are experts in every field of art, math, and science. If only they spent their time using their knowledge, and not just faffing about on slashdot and complaining about the idiot "experts" that have spent their entire adult lives learning about one tiny little topic... and fail utterly to understand the brilliance of this untapped resource. So sad. I'm going to go drown myself in my research.
Simply put, no. I do not believe that robots will be as adaptable as humans in my lifetime. I find it an acceptable risk to be killed by a human in traffic. I find it less acceptable to be killed by a robot. If a human's error kills, there's a process of grief, penance, and liability. If a robot kills... who is responsible? It's a bug in some code somewhere.
Your statement about me being in a small town is odd. I said "entrances and exits" of a highway -- small towns generally don't have those... my little town of 5 million has quite a few. Sometimes, major highway revisions just take forever. I used to drive quite a lot, and I recall Boise and Salt Lake City both having massive highway revisions for a number of years, too.
Yeah, so let's look at that robot car plan. They work great where lanes are well marked and road conditions are nice. Where I live, the main highway has been under construction for the last 3 years, and the entrances, exits, and lanes aren't in the same place two weeks in a row. And it rains a lot. And it snows in the winter. How's your robot car gonna handle that?
What I hear a lot of people say is "well, humans can take over in adverse conditions." Really? Humans that learned to drive once, but almost never do, who will be watching porn or playing some inane addictive game when the car says "excuse me gentle madam, but there seems to be a patch of ice 20 meters ahead, can you take the wheel for a moment?" Yeah, that'll go great. Total n00b of a driver is suddenly panicked behind the wheel.
I'm generally feel the same about the use of social media. However, the democratization of communication is something we must preserve for people to have any hope of staying free in this increasingly technological society.
Protecting the sources of journalists is strictly necessary for a free press. This isn't a fifth amendment issue. This is a first amendment issue. The government sticks up for this right almost universally, except apparently when it is the "victim" of having its dirty laundry aired.
Did you RTFB? Oh wait, no, I did. And I still have the same question. Funny thing about this horrific terrorist act by Snowden -- we barely know anything we didn't know beforehand -- but the administration totally pulled a Streisand and now more people are learning the truth
FFS...6 digit ID and you still haven't learned to RTFA.
Naw, I only RTFA I'm interested in, so yeah, tl;dr. Sometimes I browse the comments for the fun of it. I was amused by girlintraining's comment and even more amused by her detractors. And I do so enjoy not reading things and complaining about people not reading things. It's what's kept me coming back all these years.
But the REAL answer here is to tell the company trying to ditch $20,000 to suck it up and just pay their own damn taxes rather than illegally attempting to avoid it. (For the record, even attempting to avoid taxes is illegal...)
This makes zero sense in the context of TFS,
A management catch was that it could not appear to be a donation and it had to be for something we had notionally received in the current financial year.
If they wanted to make donations to "dodge" taxes (it isn't a dodge if it's written into the tax code), they'd just make a $20k donation. This is most likely a department in a large company worried that if they don't spend their entire budget, they'll have a smaller budget next year.
If you claim to support Manning, you know about his mental state and what he's gone through. Your reaction to this is sorrow for a broken soul, without a shred of offense. To take offense at this apology obtained under duress is about as selfish a reaction as possible.
Yeah, I supported him by thinking that the government should just be a bunch of nice guys and stop bothering the kid, and I feel sooo betrayed. Why is he being the nice guy and not the government?
Per image, it's a one-dimensional search space. If you expect a human to solve it, they have to be able to know if they're moving in the right direction once they get close. That means an binary search (probably 10-ary) will do the job. This problem is computationally trivial. If this gets used on a single interesting site or a large number of uninteresting sites (e.g. wordpress or phpBB), you'll soon be spending more time making keys than you would spend filtering spam.
Looks like it's a flash-based captcha that applies a simple transformation to an advertisement. So, it forces your users to stare at your ads. It's got a huge flaw -- a human might need to decode each ad once to train a bot to decode every instance of that ad. Minteye will work until the point that it gets even a little popular. It would take a competent programmer with experience in image processing an afternoon to break this.
Quantify "more often". Is this first-hand experience, anecdotes gleaned from one or two news stories, or do you have citations to support your notion that a majority of unions are corrupt? Because in my experience (been a member of 3 unions, am currently a steward and frequently sit in on executive committee meetings), unions are there to protect their members. And in some cases, "protecting their members" includes advising the employer not to do stupid illegal shit that will get their shop shut down.
Besides. Unions can be dissolved. In your "example" of a factory closing down because the bargaining committee didn't want to give in (please post a link to even one example of this), where the workers were willing to work for cheaper... why didn't they fire their union? Probably because (a) it didn't happen (citation please!), or (b) you're only hearing one side of the story and there's much more to it -- like the employer mismanaged funds, the factory produced a product whose supply outstripped the demands (or simply fell out of vogue), etc., etc., etc.
The difference is, unions collude to protect the interests of thousands of people, whereas corporations collude to protect the interests of their boards of directors.
Idiot. Get your ignorant head out of your uninformed ass. Democrats and Republicans are both owned by big business. You're as bad as the watchers of Fox News who get riled up over the "evil democrats" and have never bothered to look in the mirror. There NO DIFFERENCE between these parties and you're a chump to fall for their finger-pointing.
I once worked for a company that used XMission's downtown SLC location as its colo location; excellent guys, and kick-ass service.
I second this. My boss was a good friend of Pete's, and our site was hosted there. I got to hang out with Pete quite a bit, and he's a superb example of a human being. Moral, upstanding, and fair. XMission isn't just a 'tiny ISP', it's a long-proven company with a history of smashing success; rather than expand to a national then multinational power, it has kept sight of its core, takes care of its people, and focuses on offering the best product for its customers. This is the ISP after which all others should be modeled. Pete Ashdown for president!
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This allows google and those who advertise with them to keep tracking despite the cookie legislation in europe. "Do no evil" is, yet again, looking more and more like "only do evil that can be veiled as altruism".
Sad but true. Most anonymous cowards are experts in every field of art, math, and science. If only they spent their time using their knowledge, and not just faffing about on slashdot and complaining about the idiot "experts" that have spent their entire adult lives learning about one tiny little topic... and fail utterly to understand the brilliance of this untapped resource. So sad. I'm going to go drown myself in my research.
Simply put, no. I do not believe that robots will be as adaptable as humans in my lifetime. I find it an acceptable risk to be killed by a human in traffic. I find it less acceptable to be killed by a robot. If a human's error kills, there's a process of grief, penance, and liability. If a robot kills... who is responsible? It's a bug in some code somewhere. Your statement about me being in a small town is odd. I said "entrances and exits" of a highway -- small towns generally don't have those... my little town of 5 million has quite a few. Sometimes, major highway revisions just take forever. I used to drive quite a lot, and I recall Boise and Salt Lake City both having massive highway revisions for a number of years, too.
Yeah, so let's look at that robot car plan. They work great where lanes are well marked and road conditions are nice. Where I live, the main highway has been under construction for the last 3 years, and the entrances, exits, and lanes aren't in the same place two weeks in a row. And it rains a lot. And it snows in the winter. How's your robot car gonna handle that? What I hear a lot of people say is "well, humans can take over in adverse conditions." Really? Humans that learned to drive once, but almost never do, who will be watching porn or playing some inane addictive game when the car says "excuse me gentle madam, but there seems to be a patch of ice 20 meters ahead, can you take the wheel for a moment?" Yeah, that'll go great. Total n00b of a driver is suddenly panicked behind the wheel.
I'm generally feel the same about the use of social media. However, the democratization of communication is something we must preserve for people to have any hope of staying free in this increasingly technological society.
Cynic version: government finds new justification to censor social media.
Vote the wiener in? And then out! And in again!
Yup. The problem with GMO is that Monsanto uses it so they can soak crops with RoundUp. Say no to RoundUp, not GMO.
Protecting the sources of journalists is strictly necessary for a free press. This isn't a fifth amendment issue. This is a first amendment issue. The government sticks up for this right almost universally, except apparently when it is the "victim" of having its dirty laundry aired.
Yup. It's only secure as your OS, and the NSA pwns that. Always airgap your private key, or it's theirs.
Did you RTFB? Oh wait, no, I did. And I still have the same question. Funny thing about this horrific terrorist act by Snowden -- we barely know anything we didn't know beforehand -- but the administration totally pulled a Streisand and now more people are learning the truth
FFS...6 digit ID and you still haven't learned to RTFA.
Naw, I only RTFA I'm interested in, so yeah, tl;dr. Sometimes I browse the comments for the fun of it. I was amused by girlintraining's comment and even more amused by her detractors. And I do so enjoy not reading things and complaining about people not reading things. It's what's kept me coming back all these years.
But the REAL answer here is to tell the company trying to ditch $20,000 to suck it up and just pay their own damn taxes rather than illegally attempting to avoid it. (For the record, even attempting to avoid taxes is illegal...)
This makes zero sense in the context of TFS,
A management catch was that it could not appear to be a donation and it had to be for something we had notionally received in the current financial year.
If they wanted to make donations to "dodge" taxes (it isn't a dodge if it's written into the tax code), they'd just make a $20k donation. This is most likely a department in a large company worried that if they don't spend their entire budget, they'll have a smaller budget next year.
If you would read just a little more carefully...
Redhat... sells support for Linux
That's an on-topic and relevant answer to TFQ. Reading comprehension in kids these days is just abysmal.
If you claim to support Manning, you know about his mental state and what he's gone through. Your reaction to this is sorrow for a broken soul, without a shred of offense. To take offense at this apology obtained under duress is about as selfish a reaction as possible.
Yeah, I supported him by thinking that the government should just be a bunch of nice guys and stop bothering the kid, and I feel sooo betrayed. Why is he being the nice guy and not the government?
Per image, it's a one-dimensional search space. If you expect a human to solve it, they have to be able to know if they're moving in the right direction once they get close. That means an binary search (probably 10-ary) will do the job. This problem is computationally trivial. If this gets used on a single interesting site or a large number of uninteresting sites (e.g. wordpress or phpBB), you'll soon be spending more time making keys than you would spend filtering spam.
... but only because you asked for it: captchas are unnecessary.
Looks like it's a flash-based captcha that applies a simple transformation to an advertisement. So, it forces your users to stare at your ads. It's got a huge flaw -- a human might need to decode each ad once to train a bot to decode every instance of that ad. Minteye will work until the point that it gets even a little popular. It would take a competent programmer with experience in image processing an afternoon to break this.
Quantify "more often". Is this first-hand experience, anecdotes gleaned from one or two news stories, or do you have citations to support your notion that a majority of unions are corrupt? Because in my experience (been a member of 3 unions, am currently a steward and frequently sit in on executive committee meetings), unions are there to protect their members. And in some cases, "protecting their members" includes advising the employer not to do stupid illegal shit that will get their shop shut down.
Besides. Unions can be dissolved. In your "example" of a factory closing down because the bargaining committee didn't want to give in (please post a link to even one example of this), where the workers were willing to work for cheaper... why didn't they fire their union? Probably because (a) it didn't happen (citation please!), or (b) you're only hearing one side of the story and there's much more to it -- like the employer mismanaged funds, the factory produced a product whose supply outstripped the demands (or simply fell out of vogue), etc., etc., etc.
The difference is, unions collude to protect the interests of thousands of people, whereas corporations collude to protect the interests of their boards of directors.
Are you new to the internet? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=More+encryption+is+not+the+solution+Poul-Henning+Kamp&l=1
NB: the article is about a month old.
FTFY.
Idiot. Get your ignorant head out of your uninformed ass. Democrats and Republicans are both owned by big business. You're as bad as the watchers of Fox News who get riled up over the "evil democrats" and have never bothered to look in the mirror. There NO DIFFERENCE between these parties and you're a chump to fall for their finger-pointing.
I once worked for a company that used XMission's downtown SLC location as its colo location; excellent guys, and kick-ass service.
I second this. My boss was a good friend of Pete's, and our site was hosted there. I got to hang out with Pete quite a bit, and he's a superb example of a human being. Moral, upstanding, and fair. XMission isn't just a 'tiny ISP', it's a long-proven company with a history of smashing success; rather than expand to a national then multinational power, it has kept sight of its core, takes care of its people, and focuses on offering the best product for its customers. This is the ISP after which all others should be modeled. Pete Ashdown for president!
Irrelevant that Mongolia has no navy? Probably. Who needs facts on the internet?