We do for our sensitive data. We handle a LOT of sensitive private data in a jurisdiction with privacy laws. We need to know it's sitting in a jurisdiction with the same privacy laws and being able to see the servers helps us stay comfortable with that.
trash talk or support Trump you're alienating fully half the readership.
I suspect your stats are actually wrong here - you're assuming 100% of the readership is American. I can speak for my small piece of the rest of the world when I say that pretty much unanimously the response in Toronto is "Umm, we tried electing someone like that as our mayor... did you not follow the late night comedy jokes about him? It didn't go so well."
Maybe. We also don't need a generation of people who can muddle through poetry analysis, so they can go work as middling college professors.
There's value in knowledge for knowledge's sake. There's value in everyone having enough programming knowledge to know they're not "magic boxes", in the same way as there's value in people understanding how electricity works at a basic level.
Therefore I'm somewhat confused as to what "We don't need all these kids employed in our field, ('driving down my wages' is usually implied although not always said)" attitude is.
I for one, look forward to a generation of people who when faced with a basic issue can plug in their own monitor, and maybe have a useful discussion about technological issues as opposed to running away and passing laws against the 'scary magic box that's going to take my job away".
Now CS class may not be the best solution, I'll grant you, but it's better then the nothing everyone is proposing to replace it with.
And he said to them, âoeGo into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 24:10-20
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come....
And that was just 3 minutes of cursory research.
The point being, we're all living in the same glass house and it behoves all of us to be sparing with our rocks:).
For the record, in the 'none of the above' camp, being a follower of the flying spaghetti monster, may His noodley appendages flavor your life with aromatic spices.
And I would put it to you that once again, you could swap places with Christianity and Islam in your statement. Even as a total outsider to both cultures, the simple math when you consider there's 2.08 BILLION Muslims in the wold will tell you that if anything more then a "small subset" (I'd say very small myself) of them wanted to "spend their entire lives trying to spread Islam" we'd notice, because they'd be at our doors every day!
The argument is even more striking when you consider how small a proportion of that 2.08B must be who favor violence, given that we're both still here to argue with each other.
You cannot haul loads of people or freight on batteries
Logic and reality means nothing to these officious, ignorant twits.
Yes, because ad hominem attacks are the solution to our problems. If only there was a solution for moving people without desiel, but such a thing is obviously not possible right?
Isn't that basically what humans do all the time? We're really good pattern recognition systems (sometimes too good, that's why we keep seeing the Flying Spaghetti Monster in our grilled cheese sandwiches. Humans are notoriously bad for finding patterns in randomness and attaching significance to it.)
If so, he should look up 'latency' - because unless he's got a solution to the speed of light in his back pocket, we're not going to have 'latency free' anything in 5 years.
I ran a bluedoor BBS on my C-64 until I moved on and ran a OMMM enabled Opus fidonet node, and was network coordinator for my town.
It was a great way to prepare for being a sysadmin. "Did the mail go out last night, because your system didn't make the pickup" "Damn! OMMM crashed. Let me get on that"
I once did a stint working for govt, in the dept of Education. Interestingly, that department also had responsibility for libraries and archives.
We had an effort underway to in the 1990s to copy records form 8" disks to 3.5 inch floppies in order to ensure their viability. It was non-trivial to find a working 8" floppy, but fortunately most of the data was in flat text which made it easier then dealing with proprietary formats.
Good point, usually I'm a stickler on that too, but I waved my comedic license at myself and gave me a pass. Glad to see someone call me on it tho (riiiiinnnnngggg:))
I respectfully disagree. I'd argue the find suggests that it is theoretically possible to find or interpolate an intact DNA strand from a long extinct creature. That SHOULD raise the question of weather it's right to do so.
It takes time to come to a cultural consensus on these things. The right time to have the conversation is now, not when some grad student shows up at her university's ethics panel saying "I can haz baby Tyrannosaurus Rex?"
That moment is far too late and we'll have lawmakers falling all over themselves in reactionary hysterics. I've seen that movie (pun intended). Let's instead have the sober adult discussions NOW so that when the foreseeable happens we can say "Yep, we knew this was coming, and have given it a lot of thought and..."
I realize I'm coming back to this thread late (was travelling, sorry), but in tech writing class we learned that the best practice was to use the pluralization that would apply if we had spelled out the acronym. So in this case "Artificial Intelligences can drive cars" would be the natural sounding construction instead of "Artificial Intelligence can drive cars" where I am referring to multiple separate code bases operating in independent instantiations, as opposed to one central AI coordinating all cars, which could be inferred if I had used the forced-singular construction you are advocating. When in doubt pick the language that is clearer over the 'right' formulation.
The term AI has become synonymous with "something we'll see in 30 years".
AIs can drive cars and pick people out of pictures and even go back through my google photos album and match my 7 yr old with her baby picture (regardless if it does this by inferring that I only have one kid and therefore this is probably it or through facial recognition or some combination of the two, it's a nifty trick.), and beat a world class human at not only Chess but Go. My 13 yr old self, fresh out of reading Neuromancer would have told you we'd need an AI for that.
Now that we've reached there AI has receded into the future.
I saw the presentation last year DC about what they're attempting to accomplish. They want to write code that without human assistance can analyze a binary, (a neat trick by itself with the halting problem) for weaknesses, develop a patch for them, and at the same time attack its opponents and circumvent their fixes.
The real trick will be tho, the winner from the AI contest goes against the human's at Defcon on CTF. The money is heavily against the AI, but even if it places a good showing, it'll
The other issue is that people mistakenly assume that AI means Human-Level intellect (and usually greater-then human, since most of us couldn't beat a wold class Go player.
It's also separate from consciousness.
A computer that's as smart as a barn owl is artificially intelligent (and would probably be a scary good drone pilot).
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Agreed - mine dropped almost 20$/mo. That's not nothing.
Thanks CRTC!
Min
We do for our sensitive data. We handle a LOT of sensitive private data in a jurisdiction with privacy laws. We need to know it's sitting in a jurisdiction with the same privacy laws and being able to see the servers helps us stay comfortable with that.
Min
trash talk or support Trump you're alienating fully half the readership.
I suspect your stats are actually wrong here - you're assuming 100% of the readership is American. I can speak for my small piece of the rest of the world when I say that pretty much unanimously the response in Toronto is "Umm, we tried electing someone like that as our mayor... did you not follow the late night comedy jokes about him? It didn't go so well."
Min
Had Canadians wanted to deal with real issues they wouldn't have elected a feminist government.
Seriously? With all the various legitimate criticisms of the government, you went with THAT?
I have no words.
Min
Maybe. We also don't need a generation of people who can muddle through poetry analysis, so they can go work as middling college professors.
There's value in knowledge for knowledge's sake. There's value in everyone having enough programming knowledge to know they're not "magic boxes", in the same way as there's value in people understanding how electricity works at a basic level.
Therefore I'm somewhat confused as to what "We don't need all these kids employed in our field, ('driving down my wages' is usually implied although not always said)" attitude is.
I for one, look forward to a generation of people who when faced with a basic issue can plug in their own monitor, and maybe have a useful discussion about technological issues as opposed to running away and passing laws against the 'scary magic box that's going to take my job away".
Now CS class may not be the best solution, I'll grant you, but it's better then the nothing everyone is proposing to replace it with.
Min
Mark 16:15-16
And he said to them, âoeGo into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Matthew 28:19
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Matthew 24:10-20
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. ...
And that was just 3 minutes of cursory research.
The point being, we're all living in the same glass house and it behoves all of us to be sparing with our rocks :).
For the record, in the 'none of the above' camp, being a follower of the flying spaghetti monster, may His noodley appendages flavor your life with aromatic spices.
Min
And I would put it to you that once again, you could swap places with Christianity and Islam in your statement. Even as a total outsider to both cultures, the simple math when you consider there's 2.08 BILLION Muslims in the wold will tell you that if anything more then a "small subset" (I'd say very small myself) of them wanted to "spend their entire lives trying to spread Islam" we'd notice, because they'd be at our doors every day!
The argument is even more striking when you consider how small a proportion of that 2.08B must be who favor violence, given that we're both still here to argue with each other.
Min
You cannot haul loads of people or freight on batteries
Logic and reality means nothing to these officious, ignorant twits.
Yes, because ad hominem attacks are the solution to our problems. If only there was a solution for moving people without desiel, but such a thing is obviously not possible right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Min
Isn't that basically what humans do all the time? We're really good pattern recognition systems (sometimes too good, that's why we keep seeing the Flying Spaghetti Monster in our grilled cheese sandwiches. Humans are notoriously bad for finding patterns in randomness and attaching significance to it.)
Min
I figured that out when I was 8!
Slow researchers!
(In seriousness, its a nice hack. Now excuse me while I put black electrical tape over all my microphones... oh wait...)
I increasingly believe /. needs a "+1 True, but depressing"
ObXkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
Does he own a dictionary?
If so, he should look up 'latency' - because unless he's got a solution to the speed of light in his back pocket, we're not going to have 'latency free' anything in 5 years.
I ran a bluedoor BBS on my C-64 until I moved on and ran a OMMM enabled Opus fidonet node, and was network coordinator for my town.
It was a great way to prepare for being a sysadmin. "Did the mail go out last night, because your system didn't make the pickup" "Damn! OMMM crashed. Let me get on that"
Ant's are VERY trustworthy. I can predict their behavior reliably. Put food out, they eat it. Trust in it.
"OK, I admit I rickrolled you this time, but click on my link NEXT time, because I'd never rickroll you again, honest!"
I once did a stint working for govt, in the dept of Education. Interestingly, that department also had responsibility for libraries and archives.
We had an effort underway to in the 1990s to copy records form 8" disks to 3.5 inch floppies in order to ensure their viability. It was non-trivial to find a working 8" floppy, but fortunately most of the data was in flat text which made it easier then dealing with proprietary formats.
Min
Good point, usually I'm a stickler on that too, but I waved my comedic license at myself and gave me a pass. Glad to see someone call me on it tho (riiiiinnnnngggg :))
Min
This find raises no such question
I respectfully disagree. I'd argue the find suggests that it is theoretically possible to find or interpolate an intact DNA strand from a long extinct creature. That SHOULD raise the question of weather it's right to do so.
It takes time to come to a cultural consensus on these things. The right time to have the conversation is now, not when some grad student shows up at her university's ethics panel saying "I can haz baby Tyrannosaurus Rex?"
That moment is far too late and we'll have lawmakers falling all over themselves in reactionary hysterics. I've seen that movie (pun intended). Let's instead have the sober adult discussions NOW so that when the foreseeable happens we can say "Yep, we knew this was coming, and have given it a lot of thought and..."
Min
Sounds like someone read the comments on here where people are forever saying they just patented and you owe them money, and said "Hey! Good idea!"
Even if the goal were just policy, having someone with actual technology experience with cybersecurity would be sensible."
... or failing that an 8 year old child.
I realize I'm coming back to this thread late (was travelling, sorry), but in tech writing class we learned that the best practice was to use the pluralization that would apply if we had spelled out the acronym. So in this case "Artificial Intelligences can drive cars" would be the natural sounding construction instead of "Artificial Intelligence can drive cars" where I am referring to multiple separate code bases operating in independent instantiations, as opposed to one central AI coordinating all cars, which could be inferred if I had used the forced-singular construction you are advocating. When in doubt pick the language that is clearer over the 'right' formulation.
Anyways, just wanted to comment.
Min
The term AI has become synonymous with "something we'll see in 30 years".
AIs can drive cars and pick people out of pictures and even go back through my google photos album and match my 7 yr old with her baby picture (regardless if it does this by inferring that I only have one kid and therefore this is probably it or through facial recognition or some combination of the two, it's a nifty trick.), and beat a world class human at not only Chess but Go. My 13 yr old self, fresh out of reading Neuromancer would have told you we'd need an AI for that.
Now that we've reached there AI has receded into the future.
I saw the presentation last year DC about what they're attempting to accomplish. They want to write code that without human assistance can analyze a binary, (a neat trick by itself with the halting problem) for weaknesses, develop a patch for them, and at the same time attack its opponents and circumvent their fixes.
The real trick will be tho, the winner from the AI contest goes against the human's at Defcon on CTF. The money is heavily against the AI, but even if it places a good showing, it'll
The other issue is that people mistakenly assume that AI means Human-Level intellect (and usually greater-then human, since most of us couldn't beat a wold class Go player.
It's also separate from consciousness.
A computer that's as smart as a barn owl is artificially intelligent (and would probably be a scary good drone pilot).
Min
Ya, all the rich and famous people who live there pay off Google to suppress it. Not to mention the aliens.
Do 0N 0E to find null island on google maps.