....is every rational person's productivity advance. If apps are a "walled garden" compared to the web, then a web browser is a maximum security prison compared to the verable UNIX command shell.
Alternatively, calling apps a "walled garden" is stupid.
Over our dead bodies, and possibly his.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
--Thomas Jefferson
If I'm not mistaken, the only way to make a Windows recovery CD is with a Windows computer. Same with the MacOS, Linux, and most versions of Unix. I don't see what makes the chrome books so unique.
I hereby propose formalizing a nascent medium for expressive critical speech using satirical sculpture with the following term: paro3dy.
With the power of 3D printing at our disposal, these thick cartoons have already shown themselves rich with new methods of mockery. First, of course, is the added detail available with the third dimension, letting the satirist examine an issue from several angles, as it were. There are endless possibilities for caricature, lampooning, burlesque, even complimentary mimicry. You can ape a politician's nonsensical positions using a real ape, for example, with clever expressive details only apparent when viewed from certain vantage points. And your audience need not actually print out paro3dies, as they can be examined and appreciated in all their oblique glory using any 3D object viewer.
Plus moving parts! Easter eggs!
I have a work in mind: a representation of the UK government as a sprawling amoeba sprouting file cabinets and wigs, advancing on various freedoms of its citizens. Perhaps a few video cameras and guns can be poking up as well.
The term "paro3dy" finds no hits in Google other than license plates. I have therefore registered the domain names paro3dy.com and paro3dy.org, thus using the term in international commerce. But I will not trademark it. By dint of first use, I today place the term "paro3dy" into the public domain, forever barring intellectual trolls from absconding with the concept for their own greedy ends. Anyone can use the term freely.
I may make those domains into paro3dy index sites. However, simply tagging any 3D object with the term #paro3dy will suffice to create a virtual museum of satirical statuary.
I found a combo I find extremely useful, but which I've not seen replicated elsewhere. As a network engineer I have to do a lot of modeling using CPU-intensive simulation software (GNS3, Ekahau, etc). Some of this software runs on Windows only, and doesn't work well in VMware or Parallels. So I really need a second computer, but most of the time I don't need to see its screen, as the simulation software runs in the background for hours at a time.
Apple's iMac with Thunderbolt lets one iMac use another as a second display, while the second iMac remains a fully-functional system in the background. I tailor each iMac for the tasks they run -- desktop software or simulation. My primary iMac is a 5K retina 27" i5 and 16GB. The secondary iMac is an older non-retina but maxed-out with a quad core I7 and 32GB. Both have SSD main drives, with a 4TB OWC Thunderbolt RAID array.
I can boot the secondary iMac in either MacOS or Windows, and then use its screen directly to set up a simulation before swapping the screen to my primary iMac (cmd-F2) as a second monitor. To check up on simulation status, I VNC into the secondary machine using the OS X ScreenSharing utility. This lets me enjoy the desktop advantages of the retina display and a second monitor for basic tasks like CAD and presentations, without being dragged down by CPU-intensive simulations,
Some companies use AWS in a HIPAA-compliant fashion, but many more don't. Achieving HIPAA compliance in AWS is quite complex -- and expensive -- requiring a separate virtual instance for every covered entity (e.g., insurance company or medical provider) and a slew of other sophisticated security measures. And it's not Amazon's responsibility to police companies claiming compliance. Amazon just provides APIs and services that can be built into a software company's infrastructure. But nobody is checking to make sure they do.
The controlling regulatory authority for medical records in the U.S. Is HIPAA. Amazon's AWS can be made HIPAA-compliant, but only by the cloud-based medical provider, not Amazon itself. Achieving HIPAA compliance in AWS is quite complex -- and costly -- requiring a separate virtual instance for every covered entity (e.g., insurance company or medical provider) and a slew of other sophisticated security measures.
I'm a HIPAA IT security auditor, and have been amazed at how many cloud-based medical startups claim HIPAA compliance just because they use AWS. These companies are either too incompetent to understand that they have the burden for compliance, not AWS, or they are consciously lying to the public. Unfortunately, there are few enforcement mechanisms for HIPAA fraudsters because, ironically, they don't actually have a legal requirement to be compliant. That's up to the covered entity.
So ask any cloud medical provider to give you documented proof that they have actually implemented all HIPAA security measures. I ask for screen shots of the AWS provisioning pages. And don't let them claim confidentiality.
Both scenarios are equally likely. The amazing thing is that "natural" intelligence is still falling for the gigantic sham that is "artificial intelligence." True AI believers have demonstrated time and again that they vastly underestimate how hard AI is. There still is no serious definition of intelligence, which works in their favor. AI researchers just keep dumbing down the definition (e.g., "weak" vs "strong" AI) in an effort to find an achievable goal. In other scientific disciplines that's called "cheating."
Climate change alarmists are always using false analogies to dismiss the questions of climate change skeptics. There is actually zero relationship between the questions posed by climate skeptics and the tobacco industry. And see how easily you slide into another long-belabored alarmism: population overgrowth. The whole "populution" cry has been soundly debunked ever since Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne predicted mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s. While famine exists, its root cause has been political instability, not global food shortage. Nations with democracy and a free press have virtually never suffered from extended famines. Which is why the alarmists switched their sirens to climate change: how better to sap the productivity of free people than to tax their self-generated wealth through baseless fear mongering?
Secure from battle stations, environmental joiners. Nobody has actually _measured_ a depletion trend for O2 in the Earth's oceans. It's all based on dodgy climate simulations:
To cut through this natural variability and investigate the impact of climate change, the research team—including Curtis Deutsch of the University of Washington and Taka Ito of Georgia Tech—relied on the NCAR-based Community Earth System Model, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy...Using the simulations to study dissolved oxygen gave the researchers guidance on how much concentrations may have varied naturally in the past. With this information, they could determine when ocean deoxygenation due to climate change is likely to become more severe than at any point in the modeled historic range.
Note to readers of research papers: phrases such as "relied on", "gave the researchers guidance", and "is likely to become" are all code words for "we don't have any real data."
Let us know when you do. Otherwise, file this report in the fiction section.
The traditional University is a dying educational model. It no longer delivers value for the tens of thousands of dollars required in tuition and living expenses. My recommendation: save that money and attend distance learning and massive online courseware from the comfort and inexpense of your home. Eschew the silly social constructs of campus life for real social interactions with the adult world. Universities will morph into excellent content producers. Or they will die. And the next generation will all live more mature, debt free lives.
When a paper uses terms like "link" and "clue" it means they don't have proof for their hypothesis. So the report didn't "find global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles." It found some correlations between various data sets. And as every scientist knows, and most lay persons should learn, correlations are a time a dozen and prove nothing.
We can't even define intelligence, let alone create an artificial one. AI will go down as the biggest academic scam of the century.
Both centuries, actually.
mysidia: while good-intentioned, that's simply not how the law works. A third party that destroys evidence as a side effect of securing the safety of themselves or their property commits no crime, because their intent is not to destroy evidence, but to regain their own security.
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....is every rational person's productivity advance. If apps are a "walled garden" compared to the web, then a web browser is a maximum security prison compared to the verable UNIX command shell.
Alternatively, calling apps a "walled garden" is stupid.
Over our dead bodies, and possibly his. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson
If I'm not mistaken, the only way to make a Windows recovery CD is with a Windows computer. Same with the MacOS, Linux, and most versions of Unix. I don't see what makes the chrome books so unique.
Virtualization treats appicide as obsolescence and emulates around it.
I hereby propose formalizing a nascent medium for expressive critical speech using satirical sculpture with the following term: paro3dy.
With the power of 3D printing at our disposal, these thick cartoons have already shown themselves rich with new methods of mockery. First, of course, is the added detail available with the third dimension, letting the satirist examine an issue from several angles, as it were. There are endless possibilities for caricature, lampooning, burlesque, even complimentary mimicry. You can ape a politician's nonsensical positions using a real ape, for example, with clever expressive details only apparent when viewed from certain vantage points. And your audience need not actually print out paro3dies, as they can be examined and appreciated in all their oblique glory using any 3D object viewer.
Plus moving parts! Easter eggs!
I have a work in mind: a representation of the UK government as a sprawling amoeba sprouting file cabinets and wigs, advancing on various freedoms of its citizens. Perhaps a few video cameras and guns can be poking up as well.
The term "paro3dy" finds no hits in Google other than license plates. I have therefore registered the domain names paro3dy.com and paro3dy.org, thus using the term in international commerce. But I will not trademark it. By dint of first use, I today place the term "paro3dy" into the public domain, forever barring intellectual trolls from absconding with the concept for their own greedy ends. Anyone can use the term freely.
I may make those domains into paro3dy index sites. However, simply tagging any 3D object with the term #paro3dy will suffice to create a virtual museum of satirical statuary.
I found a combo I find extremely useful, but which I've not seen replicated elsewhere. As a network engineer I have to do a lot of modeling using CPU-intensive simulation software (GNS3, Ekahau, etc). Some of this software runs on Windows only, and doesn't work well in VMware or Parallels. So I really need a second computer, but most of the time I don't need to see its screen, as the simulation software runs in the background for hours at a time.
Apple's iMac with Thunderbolt lets one iMac use another as a second display, while the second iMac remains a fully-functional system in the background. I tailor each iMac for the tasks they run -- desktop software or simulation. My primary iMac is a 5K retina 27" i5 and 16GB. The secondary iMac is an older non-retina but maxed-out with a quad core I7 and 32GB. Both have SSD main drives, with a 4TB OWC Thunderbolt RAID array.
I can boot the secondary iMac in either MacOS or Windows, and then use its screen directly to set up a simulation before swapping the screen to my primary iMac (cmd-F2) as a second monitor. To check up on simulation status, I VNC into the secondary machine using the OS X ScreenSharing utility. This lets me enjoy the desktop advantages of the retina display and a second monitor for basic tasks like CAD and presentations, without being dragged down by CPU-intensive simulations,
Here is the EEVBLOG video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
He makes many interesting points and calls BS on the large number of unsubstantiated claims made by solar roadway nuts.
"This watermarking is different in that it is unique to each copy..."
It's not different. That's the definition of watermarking. If the watermark text was not unique, is would just be called "text".
Some companies use AWS in a HIPAA-compliant fashion, but many more don't. Achieving HIPAA compliance in AWS is quite complex -- and expensive -- requiring a separate virtual instance for every covered entity (e.g., insurance company or medical provider) and a slew of other sophisticated security measures. And it's not Amazon's responsibility to police companies claiming compliance. Amazon just provides APIs and services that can be built into a software company's infrastructure. But nobody is checking to make sure they do.
The controlling regulatory authority for medical records in the U.S. Is HIPAA. Amazon's AWS can be made HIPAA-compliant, but only by the cloud-based medical provider, not Amazon itself. Achieving HIPAA compliance in AWS is quite complex -- and costly -- requiring a separate virtual instance for every covered entity (e.g., insurance company or medical provider) and a slew of other sophisticated security measures.
I'm a HIPAA IT security auditor, and have been amazed at how many cloud-based medical startups claim HIPAA compliance just because they use AWS. These companies are either too incompetent to understand that they have the burden for compliance, not AWS, or they are consciously lying to the public. Unfortunately, there are few enforcement mechanisms for HIPAA fraudsters because, ironically, they don't actually have a legal requirement to be compliant. That's up to the covered entity.
So ask any cloud medical provider to give you documented proof that they have actually implemented all HIPAA security measures. I ask for screen shots of the AWS provisioning pages. And don't let them claim confidentiality.
Both Apple and the whiner stole the idea from God, who created the original app to remind us to breathe. It's called Death..
Or a dictionary Word. Just ask Microsoft.
Both scenarios are equally likely. The amazing thing is that "natural" intelligence is still falling for the gigantic sham that is "artificial intelligence." True AI believers have demonstrated time and again that they vastly underestimate how hard AI is. There still is no serious definition of intelligence, which works in their favor. AI researchers just keep dumbing down the definition (e.g., "weak" vs "strong" AI) in an effort to find an achievable goal. In other scientific disciplines that's called "cheating."
Climate change alarmists are always using false analogies to dismiss the questions of climate change skeptics. There is actually zero relationship between the questions posed by climate skeptics and the tobacco industry. And see how easily you slide into another long-belabored alarmism: population overgrowth. The whole "populution" cry has been soundly debunked ever since Stanford University Professor Paul R. Ehrlich and his wife, Anne predicted mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s. While famine exists, its root cause has been political instability, not global food shortage. Nations with democracy and a free press have virtually never suffered from extended famines. Which is why the alarmists switched their sirens to climate change: how better to sap the productivity of free people than to tax their self-generated wealth through baseless fear mongering?
To cut through this natural variability and investigate the impact of climate change, the research team—including Curtis Deutsch of the University of Washington and Taka Ito of Georgia Tech—relied on the NCAR-based Community Earth System Model, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy...Using the simulations to study dissolved oxygen gave the researchers guidance on how much concentrations may have varied naturally in the past. With this information, they could determine when ocean deoxygenation due to climate change is likely to become more severe than at any point in the modeled historic range.
Note to readers of research papers: phrases such as "relied on", "gave the researchers guidance", and "is likely to become" are all code words for "we don't have any real data."
Let us know when you do. Otherwise, file this report in the fiction section.
The traditional University is a dying educational model. It no longer delivers value for the tens of thousands of dollars required in tuition and living expenses. My recommendation: save that money and attend distance learning and massive online courseware from the comfort and inexpense of your home. Eschew the silly social constructs of campus life for real social interactions with the adult world. Universities will morph into excellent content producers. Or they will die. And the next generation will all live more mature, debt free lives.
When a paper uses terms like "link" and "clue" it means they don't have proof for their hypothesis. So the report didn't "find global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles." It found some correlations between various data sets. And as every scientist knows, and most lay persons should learn, correlations are a time a dozen and prove nothing.
So this is just more AGW Chicken Little alarmism.
No, it will kill the bad spellers first. Low hanging fruit.
Based on data from the NSA. Also up: average zip codes, pedestrian speeds, and railroad cars.
I think we are witnessing Artificial Insanity.
We can't even define intelligence, let alone create an artificial one. AI will go down as the biggest academic scam of the century. Both centuries, actually.
Well, will it?
"If you like your BBC3, you can keep you ur BBC3.,
mysidia: while good-intentioned, that's simply not how the law works. A third party that destroys evidence as a side effect of securing the safety of themselves or their property commits no crime, because their intent is not to destroy evidence, but to regain their own security.
tlambert: I can certainly see why you're not a prosecutor.