Yes, just like Haliburton they made their millions by supporting the oil industry. Ironically I use software from Haliburton (and it runs on linux) but that's another story.
I'd like to ridicule anyone that calls it an A.I. instead of just another "mechanical turk" game playing toy.
Whether A.I. is even definable as a detailed concept yet or not this thing is not it.
Of all things the Japanese "light novel" fiction "Sword Art Online" has a plot running through the later books of how damned hard achieving real A.I. is likely to be given virtually infinite computing power and a way for real intelligence to interact with the simulated intelligences over very long time scales. There is also a fake "top down" A.I. in the series that is really just a set of lookup tables defining how to interact with people after some years of serious data mining. It is reactive and fools people but is not truly self aware or capable of original thought. It does have some built in rules that make it look like it has original thoughts, for instance contacting characters as a means to ensure it's survival when it becomes clear that the environment it inhabits is unlikely to last.
Finding the truth somewhere in the middle? That is the challenging task.
Like that building that was mysteriously "demolished" instead of burning down and that faked plane crash into the Pentagon and presumed government execution of the people who were supposed to be on it? Sometimes, Mr Petry, your "truths" are as much of a challenge to find as if they had no chance at all of happening and were just a paranoid fantasy you are inflicted on the readers while defaming the profession of engineer.
The "bias" you mentioned enough is about events far closer to reality than such paranoid fantasies as you have posted in this place so I know which opinion I'm going to value.
Isn't that supposed to be a good thing because it gives you all the right to bear arms because you are all a part of a well regulated militia due to some handwaving and argumentative magic? If you all want to pretend to be soldiers without the responsibility of actually being one, then fine, just don't expect to be taken seriously.
But you will get no where near that kind of life on an all American TV or a computer monitor which will get far more use than any of the current AMOLED devices out there.
I disagree, I've still got a pile of 19" LCD monitors from 2003 at my workplace that are still operating as if new. I think less than 5% have failed over the years, at least one from impact due to falling off a desk. It turns out that people are still happy with screens that old if they get to use three of them.
I have a phone designed in 2008 that turns the screen off a few minutes after a user has interacted with it for everything other than GPS mapping and playing videos. If it is playing music files or streaming audio the design is sane enough to keep the sound going while turning the screen off. There is no excuse for having an inferior design to that in 2016.
The excuse is shared network drives that act as if they are part of the computer that was infected. Convenience over segmentation resulted in the whole hospital getting infested. The single user not networked MSDOS mentality is still alive, well and why we are neck deep in a reeking malware swamp.
I've got ethical and legal issues with this on the encrypted traffic side despite that practice becoming worryingly popular. I like that I can currently stand up in court and say that I have no access to the banking passwords of the employees of my workplace. Those "web accelerator" things that do content filtering on even SSL traffic via getting people to accept certificates so that it can do a man in the middle attack then give whoever has root/admin/physical access to the device has the ability to rip off those bank accounts and get up to less blatantly obvious mischief. I don't want to be the former employee of a company that has been sued into oblivion by a bank due to an internal data breach with internet banking passwords.
Yes I was doing all that but then some Visual Basic newbie wrote some sort of inventory application that not only needed MS Windows but MS Windows as admin to run, and apparently everyone needed it. So we started getting viruses. Lots of them. Apparently all my fault. Eventually after a lot of shitty office politics the Visual Basic newbie was ordered to stop putting his temporary file on the root of C: drive which was the only reason it had to run as admin. After that the frequent virus problem dropped down to an infrequent one per year or two. If you don't have a consistent policy and someone to back you up on it to the highest level then lazy decisions by others are going to fuck you up.
You can cheat with a lot of filesystems with different levels of access - but in large orgs middle management that want to snoop on others and have a desire to appear to be more important than their superiors can throw a spanner in the works demanding full access to everything. In large places it's policy that fucks you up more than actual technical issues so even the real segmented ideal can be screwed up by such things. Similarly on the MS side you can run virtual machines for some segregation but not really security other than by obscurity. On the *nix side there are zones and containers to give the appearance of multiple machines for segregated tasks and it was designed with security in mind so can be trusted a bit more than virtual machines
That's why we can't have nice things. Too many people are paying the Danegild so we can't get rid of the Dane.
There are LTO-6 drives out there bring the price per GB of backups down to lower than it has ever been so there is no excuse for anyone other than home users or sole traders. Still too much with that capital outlay of the drive? USB drives are cheap if you only need to back up single digits of TB and infinately better than nothing.
Outlook not so good. I have most people on Thunderbird but a couple of people who insisted on using MS Outlook were hit by something similar on different occasions. The servers all had regular file system snapshots (ZFS FTW!) and those variants of cryptolocker made encrypted copies of files then deleted the originals so "photorec" recovered the local files that were needed. Of course I had to reinstall (on new disks while I was recovering files from the old ones) because you never know what sort of things could be lurking on a machine that has been "0wned" by criminals. As the antivirus saying paraphrased from a movie goes "dust off and fdisk from orbit, it's the only way to be sure".
We've been knee deep in this malware swamp and sinking since Win98. This shit happens when you use shit and there is no need to panic and scare the horses. There are plenty of options, all time consuming and expensive, but having to rebuild the critical information by getting the medical histories of everyone in the place is not the end of the world. The rest, frankly (but we miss it because we are IT geeks) doesn't really matter and can be put together from scratch and whatever bits remain as needed. While robust systems, real backups etc would be nice there's no point crying about having a home computer system running a hospital after the fact.
Very few manufactures of complex products take a raw material and produce a finished item. Many rely on parts made from other manufacturers, preferably locally so that rapid feedback can occur during the design and early production stages. If you lose a lot of parts of the local manufacturing "ecosystem" then the "apex manufacturers" are not viable and would cope better elsewhere. So once you lose the manufacturing capability that has built up over decades it is very hard to get it back. Extra expense overseas looks bad until you see the alternative is a lot of capital outlay to start things up locally - so unless it's something new like Elon Musks batteries and electric cars it's not likely to happen. If it's lost it's very difficult to bring it back. As a "manufacturing engineer" that had to move just keeping very old plant running then IT I'm painfully aware of that.
Since that was a consequence of being on perpetual vacation and having cronies that didn't take their jobs seriously, then yes you are correct. He didn't do anything fast enough apart from putting on a tailored costume designed to look like the perfect fighter pilot's uniform and stand in front of a "mission accomplished" banner. Not that I'm a fan of Clinton either (a man ruled by donations and libido), but Baby Bush managed to bring an ongoing disaster to a new level, or at least watched it happen from the golf course.
Currently nuclear power seems to be incompatible with capitalism due to the huge initial outlay and low rate of return. Blame bankers not protesters, and if you are actually serious then push for funding enough R&D into civilian nuclear to develop something commercially viable without a government handout (or push for government handouts). Why kick the cat? As the Iraq war protests showed the protesters really have almost zero power. Economic and political donor factors (yet another downside of letting oil companies dictate policy) doomed the US civilian nuclear industry in the years leading up to 1980 - so no more reactors were built. Economic factors doomed the German industry around 1990 (reunification) and Japan (long running recession) around the same time - so no new reactors were built. The German government is making a lot of populist noise about shutting down reactors but they are all old so due to be shut down soon anyway which makes it very cheap politics. Some of those plants are getting to the point where they would need a major rebuild soon and the people with the expertise have not done that sort of work since 1990.
Bin Laden was one of those "1%", an oil millionaire from a family that are still oil millionaires. The people in Saudi Arabia who were found to be funding ISIS were also part of that "1%" - more accurate to say 0.01% or far less though. Bin Laden did not want to blow up the people in the middle east who made the decisions he disagreed with by inviting the west in, he wanted to kill some of us "worthless" westerners to scare us into actions that would force the people in the middle east to kick westerners out. He liked the "1%" but the "99%" were targets.
There's no point looking at it like a popular uprising instead of bloodthirsty games played by medieval style aristocrats or proxies of them - the "99%" are just targets and useful idiots and not active participants who are influencing the situation.
So somehow beyond all logic those really smart terrorists who plan these attacks are really, really stupid because they make smart plans to attack stupid targets, targets that gain them nothing but do ensure more money, a lot more money is spent fighting those terrorists
Useful idiots sent in to stir up trouble and drive a wedge between the west and anyone in the middle east that will work with us.
When the real life equivalent of a dirty bomb fell out of orbit and spread itself thinly over a chunk of Cananda (Kosmos satellite) panic didn't happen. The cleanup showed that if anything was active enough to cause immediate problems it was very easy to detect. Even "Readers Digest" had a very good story on the incident.
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I did not say that. I wrote what I wrote and the "Christianity being the most evil" bullshit is baggage from others elsewhere or entirely invented.
Yes, just like Haliburton they made their millions by supporting the oil industry.
Ironically I use software from Haliburton (and it runs on linux) but that's another story.
Crikey!
I'd like to ridicule anyone that calls it an A.I. instead of just another "mechanical turk" game playing toy.
Whether A.I. is even definable as a detailed concept yet or not this thing is not it.
Of all things the Japanese "light novel" fiction "Sword Art Online" has a plot running through the later books of how damned hard achieving real A.I. is likely to be given virtually infinite computing power and a way for real intelligence to interact with the simulated intelligences over very long time scales. There is also a fake "top down" A.I. in the series that is really just a set of lookup tables defining how to interact with people after some years of serious data mining. It is reactive and fools people but is not truly self aware or capable of original thought. It does have some built in rules that make it look like it has original thoughts, for instance contacting characters as a means to ensure it's survival when it becomes clear that the environment it inhabits is unlikely to last.
Some people use many words depending on context. :)
It's better than doubleplus good
Like that building that was mysteriously "demolished" instead of burning down and that faked plane crash into the Pentagon and presumed government execution of the people who were supposed to be on it? Sometimes, Mr Petry, your "truths" are as much of a challenge to find as if they had no chance at all of happening and were just a paranoid fantasy you are inflicted on the readers while defaming the profession of engineer.
The "bias" you mentioned enough is about events far closer to reality than such paranoid fantasies as you have posted in this place so I know which opinion I'm going to value.
Isn't that supposed to be a good thing because it gives you all the right to bear arms because you are all a part of a well regulated militia due to some handwaving and argumentative magic?
If you all want to pretend to be soldiers without the responsibility of actually being one, then fine, just don't expect to be taken seriously.
Tay, tay, tay, tay, t-t-t-tay-tay, tay, tay
Take or leave us only please believe us
We are never gonna be respectable
Lyrics by Jagger and Richards, vocals by Mel an' Noma or some such cursed thing.
For devices prone to burn-in such as plasma displays there is often firmware that shifts the image slightly if the device has been on for a long time.
I disagree, I've still got a pile of 19" LCD monitors from 2003 at my workplace that are still operating as if new. I think less than 5% have failed over the years, at least one from impact due to falling off a desk. It turns out that people are still happy with screens that old if they get to use three of them.
I have a phone designed in 2008 that turns the screen off a few minutes after a user has interacted with it for everything other than GPS mapping and playing videos. If it is playing music files or streaming audio the design is sane enough to keep the sound going while turning the screen off.
There is no excuse for having an inferior design to that in 2016.
The excuse is shared network drives that act as if they are part of the computer that was infected. Convenience over segmentation resulted in the whole hospital getting infested.
The single user not networked MSDOS mentality is still alive, well and why we are neck deep in a reeking malware swamp.
It's funny how the cheap and nasty CAD program that could run on a PC ended up being the only game in town.
I've got ethical and legal issues with this on the encrypted traffic side despite that practice becoming worryingly popular.
I like that I can currently stand up in court and say that I have no access to the banking passwords of the employees of my workplace. Those "web accelerator" things that do content filtering on even SSL traffic via getting people to accept certificates so that it can do a man in the middle attack then give whoever has root/admin/physical access to the device has the ability to rip off those bank accounts and get up to less blatantly obvious mischief. I don't want to be the former employee of a company that has been sued into oblivion by a bank due to an internal data breach with internet banking passwords.
Yes I was doing all that but then some Visual Basic newbie wrote some sort of inventory application that not only needed MS Windows but MS Windows as admin to run, and apparently everyone needed it. So we started getting viruses. Lots of them. Apparently all my fault. Eventually after a lot of shitty office politics the Visual Basic newbie was ordered to stop putting his temporary file on the root of C: drive which was the only reason it had to run as admin. After that the frequent virus problem dropped down to an infrequent one per year or two.
If you don't have a consistent policy and someone to back you up on it to the highest level then lazy decisions by others are going to fuck you up.
You can cheat with a lot of filesystems with different levels of access - but in large orgs middle management that want to snoop on others and have a desire to appear to be more important than their superiors can throw a spanner in the works demanding full access to everything. In large places it's policy that fucks you up more than actual technical issues so even the real segmented ideal can be screwed up by such things.
Similarly on the MS side you can run virtual machines for some segregation but not really security other than by obscurity. On the *nix side there are zones and containers to give the appearance of multiple machines for segregated tasks and it was designed with security in mind so can be trusted a bit more than virtual machines
That's why we can't have nice things.
Too many people are paying the Danegild so we can't get rid of the Dane.
There are LTO-6 drives out there bring the price per GB of backups down to lower than it has ever been so there is no excuse for anyone other than home users or sole traders. Still too much with that capital outlay of the drive? USB drives are cheap if you only need to back up single digits of TB and infinately better than nothing.
Outlook not so good.
I have most people on Thunderbird but a couple of people who insisted on using MS Outlook were hit by something similar on different occasions. The servers all had regular file system snapshots (ZFS FTW!) and those variants of cryptolocker made encrypted copies of files then deleted the originals so "photorec" recovered the local files that were needed. Of course I had to reinstall (on new disks while I was recovering files from the old ones) because you never know what sort of things could be lurking on a machine that has been "0wned" by criminals. As the antivirus saying paraphrased from a movie goes "dust off and fdisk from orbit, it's the only way to be sure".
We've been knee deep in this malware swamp and sinking since Win98. This shit happens when you use shit and there is no need to panic and scare the horses.
There are plenty of options, all time consuming and expensive, but having to rebuild the critical information by getting the medical histories of everyone in the place is not the end of the world. The rest, frankly (but we miss it because we are IT geeks) doesn't really matter and can be put together from scratch and whatever bits remain as needed. While robust systems, real backups etc would be nice there's no point crying about having a home computer system running a hospital after the fact.
Very few manufactures of complex products take a raw material and produce a finished item. Many rely on parts made from other manufacturers, preferably locally so that rapid feedback can occur during the design and early production stages. If you lose a lot of parts of the local manufacturing "ecosystem" then the "apex manufacturers" are not viable and would cope better elsewhere.
So once you lose the manufacturing capability that has built up over decades it is very hard to get it back. Extra expense overseas looks bad until you see the alternative is a lot of capital outlay to start things up locally - so unless it's something new like Elon Musks batteries and electric cars it's not likely to happen. If it's lost it's very difficult to bring it back.
As a "manufacturing engineer" that had to move just keeping very old plant running then IT I'm painfully aware of that.
Since that was a consequence of being on perpetual vacation and having cronies that didn't take their jobs seriously, then yes you are correct.
He didn't do anything fast enough apart from putting on a tailored costume designed to look like the perfect fighter pilot's uniform and stand in front of a "mission accomplished" banner.
Not that I'm a fan of Clinton either (a man ruled by donations and libido), but Baby Bush managed to bring an ongoing disaster to a new level, or at least watched it happen from the golf course.
Currently nuclear power seems to be incompatible with capitalism due to the huge initial outlay and low rate of return. Blame bankers not protesters, and if you are actually serious then push for funding enough R&D into civilian nuclear to develop something commercially viable without a government handout (or push for government handouts).
Why kick the cat? As the Iraq war protests showed the protesters really have almost zero power. Economic and political donor factors (yet another downside of letting oil companies dictate policy) doomed the US civilian nuclear industry in the years leading up to 1980 - so no more reactors were built. Economic factors doomed the German industry around 1990 (reunification) and Japan (long running recession) around the same time - so no new reactors were built. The German government is making a lot of populist noise about shutting down reactors but they are all old so due to be shut down soon anyway which makes it very cheap politics. Some of those plants are getting to the point where they would need a major rebuild soon and the people with the expertise have not done that sort of work since 1990.
Bin Laden did not want to blow up the people in the middle east who made the decisions he disagreed with by inviting the west in, he wanted to kill some of us "worthless" westerners to scare us into actions that would force the people in the middle east to kick westerners out. He liked the "1%" but the "99%" were targets.
There's no point looking at it like a popular uprising instead of bloodthirsty games played by medieval style aristocrats or proxies of them - the "99%" are just targets and useful idiots and not active participants who are influencing the situation.
Useful idiots sent in to stir up trouble and drive a wedge between the west and anyone in the middle east that will work with us.
One did. It may have been a steam explosion but bits did go everywhere at high speed. Going off like an atomic bomb is of course a different story.
When the real life equivalent of a dirty bomb fell out of orbit and spread itself thinly over a chunk of Cananda (Kosmos satellite) panic didn't happen.
The cleanup showed that if anything was active enough to cause immediate problems it was very easy to detect.
Even "Readers Digest" had a very good story on the incident.