and all EULA language that requires scrolling to read
should be outright invalidated by the supreme court.
In the former case, because baby boomers or older can't physically read it (failing eyes). In the latter case, because it's well known that most users, at least on PCs as opposed to smart phones, don't scroll (pretty much anything).
of developer real-world identity (corportate and/or personal) for each developer id.
And a requirement that developers buy into an insurance plan so that if their developer id is used for malware, end-users can file a class-action lawsuit against the developer and recover damages via the insurance pool.
Or better yet, rather than a cumbersome class-action, have a pre-setup mediation service administered by Apple.
Either rewrite from scratch, or develop smart auto-migration tools then repair the results. The auto-migration tools can try to infer "intent of a sane programmer" and put in a whole bunch of additional memory safety checks. I suppose it could put the memory safety checks in to code in the original language (yuck) or could put them in by migrating the code to the new safer language.
BTW Betrand Meyer has some interesting stuff going on in the area of safe concurrent programs these days, using an extension of Eiffel.
I would argue that the network effect is a benefit to the consumer in the area of IT services or devices.
This technology is so complex that the average non-engineer couldn't wade through a litany of incompatible choices. And would get stuck in islands of unusability. So, what, I have to install 10 ride-sharing apps, depending on where I'm going to be, and carry 5 different kinds of payment card to use them, because each service uses a different payment infrastructure?
Probably the ideal end-state, as far as the consumer is concerned, is a duopoly, to ensure competitive improvement and price competition, but also with regulated mandated interoperability / mobility of data, eventually, once the tech is mature enough and market well defined enough to enable that.
Each tab should have its own "main thread" right? Or it not, then a tab's content that is found to be using resources greedily should be re-located to its own thread, which can be de-prioritized so that browsing elsewhere, and main browser controls, are not affected much performance-wise.
Then I suppose "never-slow mode" could be enabled/disabled by user wrt a particular tab, or particular content, upon prompting from browser performance pop-up modal dialogs.
So thanks USA for piling on the economic sabotage on top of that to push the Venezuelan economy over the edge and get regime change.
Granted, any country that is relying on being an "oil power" going into the future needs to do a re-think on that. But countries should be helping other countries transition to an environmentally sustainable economy. What has US done recently to help create Solar and Wind energy industries in sunny Venezuela? It's a rhetorical question.
I'm in favour of an independent and transparent non-profit global agency equipping itself with modern tech (inspectable open systems e-voting tech, most likely) to be able to offer election and referendum services (and citizen authentication services) to any country / state.
That being said, around the world, in all but a handful of countries, whenever there are close elections, the losing party ALWAYS claims fraud. Why wouldn't you? Sad but true.
And even those election-accepting countries have problems like gerrymandering of districts, politically biased supreme courts deciding elections, FBI directors implying one candidate is a criminal 11 days before the big vote etc.
how to get by in a world where AI and automation are doing most of the work formerly done by people. I guess you'll either be teaching them how to steal with firearms, or educating them about the merits of universal basic income (a suspiciously "socialist" solution, no? but a solution nonetheless.)
Don't believe AI is coming for their jobs? Good luck with that.
Chile, Contras in Nicaragua, Supporting fascist thug government in Guatemala, Cuba.... now Venezuela (and I'm sure I missed a few).
USA sort out your own f'**ing mess and stay out of other peoples' countries. You say you make the world safe for democracy. That's BS, you kill democratically elected governments who don't let you steal resources, or who you have some political disagreement with.
Venezuelan crisis is a creation of US economic sabotage. (embargos, preventing international lending, etc etc) Wikipedia it yourself.
Summary: The slim majority of people in Venezuela have for 20 years and continue to support the democratic socialist regime in power. The main CRIME of this government party according to US was nationalizing oil resources. In other words refusing to sit back and just take a few bribes while US oil companies raped the resources and took almost all of the profits. Current US government can't STAND that there is a democratic socialist government in South America that dares to say that its own people own their natural resources and US does not own it. It's an afront to the US's worldwide modus operandi. We are seeing the process of the US stealing the Venezuelan oil reserves back from the uppity local socialists.
work by recording the light reflected from objects. Darker-toned faces reflect less visible-wavelength light. That's just physics, not racism. So the amount of light, and ability to resolve contrasts, edges etc, would be less. So the image classification task might be subject to more error. Perhaps a different spectral range would work better?
The system would be raising the alarm everytime you came near a US person, since each one is in debt USD$ 62,034 as their per capita share of the national debt.
Or how about trying to beat Google at a general knowledge test? (But Google is just organizing information that it reads or sees, and deciding what to regurgitate when asked.) (Aren't we all, aren't we all.)
of FOSS, because it preferentially promotes creation of overly complex software artifacts / applications that require lots of support. It also would tend to encourage crap / no / minimal documentation.
So some alternative to that model would be helpful.
"There is a zero chance we can stop emitting CO2 any time soon."
Let it just be said that the only reason we can't is because of cowardly, disempowered, disempowering, unimaginative, hopeless statements like yours, and the inaction that that engenders.
Technologically, we are 90% there. Economically, a rapidly increasing carbon fee and dividend is a simple and non-market-tampering measure that can greatly accelerate the transition in the most cost-effective way. General intelligence / education wise, and political will wise. That's where we're completely f**ked, which is why statements like yours are actively and probably intentionally destructive to the needed energy transition.
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and all EULA language that requires scrolling to read
should be outright invalidated by the supreme court.
In the former case, because baby boomers or older can't physically read it (failing eyes).
In the latter case, because it's well known that most users, at least on PCs as opposed to smart phones, don't scroll (pretty much anything).
of developer real-world identity (corportate and/or personal) for each developer id.
And a requirement that developers buy into an insurance plan so that if their developer id is used for malware, end-users can file a class-action lawsuit against the developer and recover damages via the insurance pool.
Or better yet, rather than a cumbersome class-action, have a pre-setup mediation service administered by Apple.
Developer ids and signed software was to provide a level of assurance to the downloader user.
Clearly these developer ids should be invalidated (revoked) in a MacOS update, no?
Get off these 50 year old languages?
Either rewrite from scratch, or develop smart auto-migration tools then repair the results.
The auto-migration tools can try to infer "intent of a sane programmer" and put in a whole bunch of additional memory safety checks.
I suppose it could put the memory safety checks in to code in the original language (yuck) or could put them in by migrating the code to the new safer language.
BTW Betrand Meyer has some interesting stuff going on in the area of safe concurrent programs these days, using an extension of Eiffel.
Perhaps the requirement not yet achieved would be:
safe and efficient, and simple and comprehensible.
The former two for obvious reasons, and the latter two so that it is adopted widely for development, and so that it is maintainable.
I would argue that the network effect is a benefit to the consumer in the area of IT services or devices.
This technology is so complex that the average non-engineer couldn't wade through a litany of incompatible choices. And would get stuck in islands of unusability. So, what, I have to install 10 ride-sharing apps, depending on where I'm going to be, and carry 5 different kinds of payment card to use them, because each service uses a different payment infrastructure?
Probably the ideal end-state, as far as the consumer is concerned, is a duopoly, to ensure competitive improvement and price competition, but also with regulated mandated interoperability / mobility of data, eventually, once the tech is mature enough and market well defined enough to enable that.
(unaltered, provably non-deepfake, good chain of custody) or it didn't happen.
Rule of the Internet, remember?
The opposition was never content to just run a candidate in a presidential election, in Venezuela.
Because they knew they would lose. It's a bitch when the usually powerless majority disagrees with you.
So they use protests, strikes, inciting other countries to impose sanctions and sabotage the economy.
Or they try to organize coups from the outside.
That's a damn good idea.
User gets to enable bloat crap-ware per tab and only when they need it.
Each tab should have its own "main thread" right?
Or it not, then a tab's content that is found to be using resources greedily should be re-located to its own thread, which can be de-prioritized so that browsing elsewhere, and main browser controls, are not affected much performance-wise.
Then I suppose "never-slow mode" could be enabled/disabled by user wrt a particular tab, or particular content, upon prompting from browser performance pop-up modal dialogs.
You can't fool all of the people all of the time,
but you can fool most of the people most of the time.
- D. H. Trump
So thanks USA for piling on the economic sabotage on top of that to push the Venezuelan economy over the edge and get regime change.
Granted, any country that is relying on being an "oil power" going into the future needs to do a re-think on that.
But countries should be helping other countries transition to an environmentally sustainable economy.
What has US done recently to help create Solar and Wind energy industries in sunny Venezuela?
It's a rhetorical question.
I'm in favour of an independent and transparent non-profit global agency equipping itself with modern tech (inspectable open systems e-voting tech, most likely) to be able to offer election and referendum services (and citizen authentication services) to any country / state.
That being said, around the world, in all but a handful of countries, whenever there are close elections, the losing party ALWAYS claims fraud. Why wouldn't you? Sad but true.
And even those election-accepting countries have problems like gerrymandering of districts, politically biased supreme courts deciding elections, FBI directors implying one candidate is a criminal 11 days before the big vote etc.
how to get by in a world where AI and automation are doing most of the work formerly done by people.
I guess you'll either be teaching them how to steal with firearms,
or educating them about the merits of universal basic income (a suspiciously "socialist" solution, no? but a solution nonetheless.)
Don't believe AI is coming for their jobs?
Good luck with that.
Chile, Contras in Nicaragua, Supporting fascist thug government in Guatemala, Cuba. ... now Venezuela (and I'm sure I missed a few).
USA sort out your own f'**ing mess and stay out of other peoples' countries.
You say you make the world safe for democracy. That's BS, you kill democratically elected governments who don't let you steal resources, or who you have some political disagreement with.
Venezuelan crisis is a creation of US economic sabotage. (embargos, preventing international lending, etc etc) Wikipedia it yourself.
Venezuelan Presidential Elections:
1998 Chavez (Democratic Socialist): 56%
2000 Chavez (Democratic Socialist): 60%
2004 Recall-Chavez-Referendum: No: 58%
2006: Chavez (Democratic Socialist): 63%
2012: Chavez (Democratic Socialist): 55%
2013: Maduro (Democratic Socialist): 50.6%
2018: Maduro (Democratic Socialist): 68%
Summary: The slim majority of people in Venezuela have for 20 years and continue to support the democratic socialist regime in power.
The main CRIME of this government party according to US was nationalizing oil resources. In other words refusing to sit back and just take a few bribes while US oil companies raped the resources and took almost all of the profits.
Current US government can't STAND that there is a democratic socialist government in South America that dares to say that its own people own their natural resources and US does not own it. It's an afront to the US's worldwide modus operandi.
We are seeing the process of the US stealing the Venezuelan oil reserves back from the uppity local socialists.
ever heard of the lunatic fringe?
work by recording the light reflected from objects.
Darker-toned faces reflect less visible-wavelength light.
That's just physics, not racism.
So the amount of light, and ability to resolve contrasts, edges etc, would be less.
So the image classification task might be subject to more error.
Perhaps a different spectral range would work better?
Along with all the other morons who believe that local weather = global climate.
MAGAts (short form of MAGA ass-hats)
The system would be raising the alarm everytime you came near a US person, since each one is in debt USD$ 62,034 as their per capita share of the national debt.
That could get noisy fast.
as a monoculture, we'd all die of the same "potato blight" or similar.
or is Jeopardy more to your taste?
Or how about trying to beat Google at a general knowledge test?
(But Google is just organizing information that it reads or sees, and deciding what to regurgitate when asked.)
(Aren't we all, aren't we all.)
Good luck.
Indeed!
9 out of 10 dentists agree 95 times out of a hundred that using tools with care and precision is important.
of FOSS, because it preferentially promotes creation of overly complex software artifacts / applications that require lots of support.
It also would tend to encourage crap / no / minimal documentation.
So some alternative to that model would be helpful.
"There is a zero chance we can stop emitting CO2 any time soon."
Let it just be said that the only reason we can't is because of cowardly, disempowered, disempowering, unimaginative, hopeless statements like yours, and the inaction that that engenders.
Technologically, we are 90% there.
Economically, a rapidly increasing carbon fee and dividend is a simple and non-market-tampering measure that can greatly accelerate the transition in the most cost-effective way.
General intelligence / education wise, and political will wise. That's where we're completely f**ked, which is why statements like yours are actively and probably intentionally destructive to the needed energy transition.