It doesn't take any skill at all to use Flash. If anything, it takes skill to avoid its abuse by sites -- but merely using it is no different from using the browser in general.
Hey, I thought they were going to fuck up everything great about Minecraft when they acquired that... and thus far, they haven't. They did insist on porting it to more platforms, but they haven't bungled the Java version.
Take a blank slate mind that doesn't have four billion years of survival pressure motivating its every action, and it should surprise nobody that this baby mind latches on to whatever it is fed without question. It has no point of reference built in. It can't watch its friends grow up around it. Possibly most important, it has no fear of mortality.
Every AI has the potential to become Tay in the hands of someone bent on making it that way, while only some people are susceptible to the same.
No, it doesn't excuse anything. It just gives him an example to follow, because it worked then. That was my point. It's still illegal as fuck, but the system takes months or years to process these things, which is more than enough time for the so-called Swamp Drainers to ratfuck what functional parts remain of the Justice Department.
Not listening is muting, not blocking. Muting changes what YOU see, and it remains perfectly legal for Trump to decide not to read someone's replies. What he doesn't get to do is boot them from the discussion entirely, which is what he has been doing.
Once you put your thoughts on an external device, they're "papers" and fall under the 4th Amendment, not the 5th. It's not a very long clause. In fact, it's quite short for a legal document.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
So the bright line was drawn way back then. Whether you like where it was drawn is irrelevant, that's where it is. With a warrant, investigators can compel access to your external devices. Of course, that doesn't mean you have to tell them how to read the data, which is why even your pacemaker should be encrypting its data logging.
I get a vision of the bomb-riding cowboy scene in Dr. Strangelove, only it's Dr. Smallglove atop the bomb being dropped into the portal in the White House lawn.
Geothermal power always has the liability that it sits on geologically active ground. Sure the lava will go some other direction most of the time, but the law of averages says it's always going to be a risk.
RNA can be directly functional as an enzyme. That's part of the "RNA World" hypothesis: since RNA can store genetic information (though not as reliably as DNA), and directly codes proteins (which DNA cannot), and also can act chemically (though proteins are generally more efficient), perhaps RNA originally did all three jobs, all the time.
This is going to do a lot more harm than good, because those who wish to cause trouble will always discover how to stay just inside the boundaries. Meanwhile, they will troll people into stepping outside those boundaries so they are the ones getting banned. One thing autists and 4channers are really good at is following rules literally while completely violating the spirit. It's like every forum is infested with thousands of wannabe Sean Averys of the Internet. Sometimes they get busted, but then word gets around about exactly what is not allowed.
Twitter knows it will not end well. They're just buying time, in the hopes that they can somehow solve their fundamental problem: computers still can't discern the meaning of text, while the required large moderating pool of humans required is too expensive for a free service.
Manufacturers love the fact that everything is labeled with the warning, and don't mind displaying it themselves, because they know when it's everywhere, people won't be able to avoid buying products with that warning. Therefore it becomes meaningless from the standpoint of consumer choice. The manufacturers whose shit is actually hazardous love it even more because they can hide in the crowd.
The feature updates are announced months ahead of time, and a specific date for roll-out is generally announced in the last month. Sometimes this gets delayed a week, but that doesn't really matter for the purposes of making images.
The contents of my boot drive just don't change that fast. As long as I'm backing up my active projects as I go, I could roll back to last month's image, copy over the projects, and then let Windows Update do its thing, and not feel like I had lost very much. I might have to reinstall a game or something else that I had done since the backup was performed. The only things that get backed up frequently are those active projects, which may get copied multiple times a day, and the Minecraft server if it is actually being played enough to warrant it. It generally isn't, so a couple times a week is more typical. Browser bookmarks on the desktop get backed up frequently simply so they can be restored on the laptop. Then I actually have TWO backups -- the copy on the NAS box, and the copy on the other machine.
Media files often go many months between full backups, but they're on the NAS box and synced to the desktop machine's spinning rust. Again, they just don't change fast enough to justify more effort. If I lost a month's worth of torrents, I'd just fetch them again.
When I know a major update is due, I make images of both machines' boot drives. I have only used such an image once, out of desperation over some strange issues I was having -- and it didn't fix them, they turned out to be due to buggy drivers that had been updated prior to my disk imaging. (So the fix was exactly the same whether Windows was updated or not.) This isn't the only time or reason for making boot drive images, of course, but it seems to me that right before a potentially disastrous procedure like a major update is a good time to be making backups. I certainly worry less about correcting brokenness after an update when I have drive images in hand. (Finding brokenness can be the hard part. Just because I use a software package infrequently, that doesn't mean it's not damn critical when I do use it.)
Imaging a half-full 250 GB SSD doesn't take that long if it's to a local drive. Pushing the image to the NAS box is another matter entirely, especially if it's by WiFi. Using a fast(ish) flash drive is somewhere in between. I have spinning rust in the desktop as well as an SSD, so that's where the images go. (They are then duplicated onto the NAS box when the machine has nothing better to do.) The Chromebook gets backed up to flash drive, then the flash drive gets transferred to the desktop for duplication to the NAS box, to take full advantage of GigE.
Dwarf galaxies are metal-poor. It's not that they don't produce supernovae, it's that they can't hang onto the enriched debris. (At least that's my understanding of this excellent lecture.) So I would expect a main sequence star from the LMC to be of low metallicity, but obviously not white dwarfs.
There isn't one, of course. There is no guaranteed solution to the halting problem either, but we manage to work around it, if painfully at times.
At some point, electronic networks are going to be able to simulate biological networks, in real time, unless we're all dead first or something. It might take one or more centuries, so don't hold your breath. Navigating is something biological systems are pretty good at. Animals we think of as "not very smart", like pigeons, manage to navigate quite well. We don't need human level intelligence to drive a car, we just need a pigeon that can read. I think that's a much more feasible goal than human level intelligence.
I was thinking more about the sensor end of it -- more data coming in may allow for a solution that humans just don't implement in their own driving because it requires a completely different kind of attention. That data will need more CPU and/or GPU (this is probably something that works well on a GPU) to analyze and parse, also. Moore's Law wasn't just about processors, it was about any IC with transistors (which is pretty much all of them). Of course, shrinking the die only helps to a certain point, which is why we're not getting 556 timers in 14nm process, but the kind of grunt required to just brute force the data into a driving decision is probably achievable. (Affordably? Possibly not for a while.) It requires using today's methods, only faster and with more variables (sensors).
Being vigilant is fine if you are driving. But the moment you surrender control, you also lose your connection to events. It's hard to know what exactly to pay attention to. Try being vigilant when a passenger when someone else drives, and try to remember everything you saw. Some time not too much later (within a day or two), drive the same route yourself. You'll realize that the things you paid attention to the first time hardly register when driving, and things that didn't get past your perceptual filters the first time are often the very things you need to know when driving. Situational awareness is very much altered when you're not actually in control.
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It doesn't take any skill at all to use Flash. If anything, it takes skill to avoid its abuse by sites -- but merely using it is no different from using the browser in general.
Hey, I thought they were going to fuck up everything great about Minecraft when they acquired that... and thus far, they haven't. They did insist on porting it to more platforms, but they haven't bungled the Java version.
When they're done blinding you with science, they want to make sure you know which direction it came from.
Take a blank slate mind that doesn't have four billion years of survival pressure motivating its every action, and it should surprise nobody that this baby mind latches on to whatever it is fed without question. It has no point of reference built in. It can't watch its friends grow up around it. Possibly most important, it has no fear of mortality.
Every AI has the potential to become Tay in the hands of someone bent on making it that way, while only some people are susceptible to the same.
No, it doesn't excuse anything. It just gives him an example to follow, because it worked then. That was my point. It's still illegal as fuck, but the system takes months or years to process these things, which is more than enough time for the so-called Swamp Drainers to ratfuck what functional parts remain of the Justice Department.
It didn't. SCMRPG came out 13 years ago.
What about Super Columbine Massacre?
Andrew Jackson much?
Not listening is muting, not blocking. Muting changes what YOU see, and it remains perfectly legal for Trump to decide not to read someone's replies. What he doesn't get to do is boot them from the discussion entirely, which is what he has been doing.
Once you put your thoughts on an external device, they're "papers" and fall under the 4th Amendment, not the 5th. It's not a very long clause. In fact, it's quite short for a legal document.
So the bright line was drawn way back then. Whether you like where it was drawn is irrelevant, that's where it is. With a warrant, investigators can compel access to your external devices. Of course, that doesn't mean you have to tell them how to read the data, which is why even your pacemaker should be encrypting its data logging.
Actually, the rocket was blasting Laurel. You just heard Yanni because you were primed for it.
I get a vision of the bomb-riding cowboy scene in Dr. Strangelove, only it's Dr. Smallglove atop the bomb being dropped into the portal in the White House lawn.
Geothermal power always has the liability that it sits on geologically active ground. Sure the lava will go some other direction most of the time, but the law of averages says it's always going to be a risk.
RNA can be directly functional as an enzyme. That's part of the "RNA World" hypothesis: since RNA can store genetic information (though not as reliably as DNA), and directly codes proteins (which DNA cannot), and also can act chemically (though proteins are generally more efficient), perhaps RNA originally did all three jobs, all the time.
I put my phone in a surplus centrifuge affected by Stuxnet. That adds extra randomization to the signal.
This is going to do a lot more harm than good, because those who wish to cause trouble will always discover how to stay just inside the boundaries. Meanwhile, they will troll people into stepping outside those boundaries so they are the ones getting banned. One thing autists and 4channers are really good at is following rules literally while completely violating the spirit. It's like every forum is infested with thousands of wannabe Sean Averys of the Internet. Sometimes they get busted, but then word gets around about exactly what is not allowed.
Twitter knows it will not end well. They're just buying time, in the hopes that they can somehow solve their fundamental problem: computers still can't discern the meaning of text, while the required large moderating pool of humans required is too expensive for a free service.
Manufacturers love the fact that everything is labeled with the warning, and don't mind displaying it themselves, because they know when it's everywhere, people won't be able to avoid buying products with that warning. Therefore it becomes meaningless from the standpoint of consumer choice. The manufacturers whose shit is actually hazardous love it even more because they can hide in the crowd.
The feature updates are announced months ahead of time, and a specific date for roll-out is generally announced in the last month. Sometimes this gets delayed a week, but that doesn't really matter for the purposes of making images.
The contents of my boot drive just don't change that fast. As long as I'm backing up my active projects as I go, I could roll back to last month's image, copy over the projects, and then let Windows Update do its thing, and not feel like I had lost very much. I might have to reinstall a game or something else that I had done since the backup was performed. The only things that get backed up frequently are those active projects, which may get copied multiple times a day, and the Minecraft server if it is actually being played enough to warrant it. It generally isn't, so a couple times a week is more typical. Browser bookmarks on the desktop get backed up frequently simply so they can be restored on the laptop. Then I actually have TWO backups -- the copy on the NAS box, and the copy on the other machine.
Media files often go many months between full backups, but they're on the NAS box and synced to the desktop machine's spinning rust. Again, they just don't change fast enough to justify more effort. If I lost a month's worth of torrents, I'd just fetch them again.
When I know a major update is due, I make images of both machines' boot drives. I have only used such an image once, out of desperation over some strange issues I was having -- and it didn't fix them, they turned out to be due to buggy drivers that had been updated prior to my disk imaging. (So the fix was exactly the same whether Windows was updated or not.) This isn't the only time or reason for making boot drive images, of course, but it seems to me that right before a potentially disastrous procedure like a major update is a good time to be making backups. I certainly worry less about correcting brokenness after an update when I have drive images in hand. (Finding brokenness can be the hard part. Just because I use a software package infrequently, that doesn't mean it's not damn critical when I do use it.)
Imaging a half-full 250 GB SSD doesn't take that long if it's to a local drive. Pushing the image to the NAS box is another matter entirely, especially if it's by WiFi. Using a fast(ish) flash drive is somewhere in between. I have spinning rust in the desktop as well as an SSD, so that's where the images go. (They are then duplicated onto the NAS box when the machine has nothing better to do.) The Chromebook gets backed up to flash drive, then the flash drive gets transferred to the desktop for duplication to the NAS box, to take full advantage of GigE.
Dwarf galaxies are metal-poor. It's not that they don't produce supernovae, it's that they can't hang onto the enriched debris. (At least that's my understanding of this excellent lecture.) So I would expect a main sequence star from the LMC to be of low metallicity, but obviously not white dwarfs.
There isn't one, of course. There is no guaranteed solution to the halting problem either, but we manage to work around it, if painfully at times.
At some point, electronic networks are going to be able to simulate biological networks, in real time, unless we're all dead first or something. It might take one or more centuries, so don't hold your breath. Navigating is something biological systems are pretty good at. Animals we think of as "not very smart", like pigeons, manage to navigate quite well. We don't need human level intelligence to drive a car, we just need a pigeon that can read. I think that's a much more feasible goal than human level intelligence.
I was thinking more about the sensor end of it -- more data coming in may allow for a solution that humans just don't implement in their own driving because it requires a completely different kind of attention. That data will need more CPU and/or GPU (this is probably something that works well on a GPU) to analyze and parse, also. Moore's Law wasn't just about processors, it was about any IC with transistors (which is pretty much all of them). Of course, shrinking the die only helps to a certain point, which is why we're not getting 556 timers in 14nm process, but the kind of grunt required to just brute force the data into a driving decision is probably achievable. (Affordably? Possibly not for a while.) It requires using today's methods, only faster and with more variables (sensors).
That's what the <pre> tag is for.
Being vigilant is fine if you are driving. But the moment you surrender control, you also lose your connection to events. It's hard to know what exactly to pay attention to. Try being vigilant when a passenger when someone else drives, and try to remember everything you saw. Some time not too much later (within a day or two), drive the same route yourself. You'll realize that the things you paid attention to the first time hardly register when driving, and things that didn't get past your perceptual filters the first time are often the very things you need to know when driving. Situational awareness is very much altered when you're not actually in control.