I'd love to be able to use Kodi for all of my media viewing - ideally including live TV as well. If Kodi had a Netflix plugin, we'd use Kodi in place of the crappy Netflix player built into the TV. If they had an Amazon Video plugin, we'd ditch the Amazon FireTV box too. If there was a decent way to hook up a MythTV server and Kodi, then we could ditch the satellite box too. We'd be down to a couple of raspberry pis to do the lot. Sounds pretty awesome to me.
...and yet right now, algorithms do the trading, and humans just alter the config of the algorithm. It's not too much of a reach to expect that in a few years what takes 10 traders today will take 1 trader because the algorithms will be better and controlled in more circumstances by machine learning.
Fast forward that a bit further and maybe one person controls the same volume of trading as one of the bigger algo-trading companies do today. Keep going, and maybe it's really down to 10 guys around the world, each operating their own super-trading systems and they represent 99.9% of all trading in the world. Eventually even those 10 guys will be replaced by computers, and then you have an almost entirely computer-run financial system. The more automation there is, the more trades take place, so whilst there may still be humans doing the odd trade for their pension investments or whatever, the sum total of all of that trading will be some pitifully small percentage of the total, and so largely insignificant to the markets.
Not really true - what's happening is that algorithmic trading has become harder (because you're now 'playing' against other algorithms and not just slow humans, and because the spreads have got smaller). Now, if you want to trade any real volume algorithmically, you're going to need to be really, really good at it from the outset. Had you started 5 years ago and evolved you'd be doing just fine. If you start now, or started back then and failed to evolve then you've got a really steep hill to climb.
That said, I've seen it's possible to make some personal money relatively 'easily' on certain instruments at certain times. The trick of course if knowing when is the right time, and which instruments to use. Programming that behaviour into a 'bot' isn't trivial either because it's very hard to analyse your own behaviour and assumptions sufficiently to write them in a program. However, if you're just trying to make a bit of pocket money (rather than getting rich quick), it is within the bounds of possibility. The thing is, if that's all you're aiming to do, then it's scarcely worth the financial outlay of writing the bot. To overcome the economics you need to trade at high volume, which puts you back into the big leagues and the problems therein.
True, but this sounds like it's (possibly) more environmentally friendly and cheaper to make than regular Flash. I guess it also opens up possibilities for a printed business card or whatever that you can put into a reader. Sort of like the branded flash drives people throw around now, but cheaper, more disposable and in (even more) different shapes.
Most cameras and other things with a phone-based interface will try to automatically open ports on the firewall (via upnp). A lot of routers have upnp enabled by default, and so this works in a lot of cases. For those people with routers that don't play along, the product will ask them to setup port forwarding - let's be honest, most people who just bought a webcam to watch over their driveway will do anything the product tells them to do because they want to watch their driveway when they're out of the house. It's only/.ers (or 1% or however you like to think of it) that really think about the consequences of such actions.
Given the human realities of such devices, they really should have considerably more security by default. However, the other reality if of course that security costs some extra R&D time and money, which puts up the product price. If you're in business you can either make a more expensive but secure product and sell 100 of them, or make a cheaper insecure one which might not get hacked for a year or two and sell 100,000 of them. Even if it does get hacked, you might not be held accountable - with that in mind, it seems pretty obvious why these products are they way they are.
Now... these products are getting bricked. The kinds of people that didn't think about security probably won't be able to fix them, so will either throw them away or return them to vendors for a replacement. Of course, the replacement will be equally insecure and will brick again. Eventually, after some bad Amazon reviews the product will disappear from the market. I'm sure there are some side effects which the media will pounce on as a reason why this is the work of some sort of paedo-terrorist-commie, but time will tell...
It's probably more like cruising around all the streets in the world looking for houses that are empty but have their doors open. Then, going into the house and barricading all the doors and windows so that no one (not even the owner) can get in without some specialist help (eg. locksmiths, trades people etc).
For decades the US visa forms have asked "Are you a terrorist?". Oddly, it didn't catch any real terrorists (although I imagine a few people are in jail because of it). I suspect this whole policy will be equally effective.
It's all part of a plan to discredit the S8 to open up a bit of market for the Surface Phone;-)
Honestly though, why did Samsung agree to this? After the battery debarcle, the S8 has to work flawlessly and brilliantly for every customer. Adding MS stuff to it and making these additional hurdles seems like the opposite of that and just going to make people say "Samsung's products are crap - first that battery thing and now this!"
Well, at least no one will give it to you as a gift. If you've got to open the box in the store, plug in the charger and wait for the battery to charge up a bit, then turn it on and connect it to MS Wifi to make it work, that sounds like you're paying for torture rather than a product. Surely they should be paying you for all this hassle?
It's not so much "they're both as bad as each other" that's the issue, it's that "my side is glorious and good, the others are terrible". The truth of it is that neither side is virtuous, they may have slightly different aims and biases, but ultimately, neither are "good".
As for "... got Trump elected in the first place" - I seriously doubt the alternative wasn't going to fsck people over. Maybe not via the ISPs, but via some other means, and so some mirror image of you would be posting "gaw! if only we'd got Trump - he wouldn't do anything this crazy!".
US politics is doomed to a never ending ping-pong between two parties until it's generally understood that there can be (and are) more than two answers to every question.
I suspect it's as much a comment about the skillz at Nasa as it is about this kids abilities.
The reason it's news is because of its incredible rarity. It's almost never that a British kid gets to do anything cool, let alone find something no one else did. We're a pretty small place, and we don't have a space agency of our own, so usually by the time we get to look at anything it's already been washed out by plenty of other people. As I say, it's as much comment about others as it is about us.
...although it arguably puts up the "cost of doing business" for ISIS. That is, they now (may) have to make up fake social media accounts over a period of many months/years to make one their dodgy people look 'clean'.
I'd imagine though, if you want to get anyone 'dodgy' into the US, a fake passport is probably a lot easier than fake social media accounts.
...but if your tumble dryer catches fire due to a build up of (your) fluff, it's the manufacturer's fault, and not yours.
Before the design defect in the product was established, insurance companies would pay out to owners and then take it up with the manufacturers. The manufacturers presumably paid out a few times, did an investigation and realised they needed to alert end-users so the slew of claims would come to an end. Now we believe it's the manufacturer's problem and that they need to fix it.
In the case of AI-based products, it's not really any different. However, because the product makes actual decisions based on inputs, there is room to suggest that something other than the product may be liable. It's more like if you knock someone over in your car, it's not always your fault - if you were doing the right speed, paying attention, took evasive action, etc then it may not be your fault.
Of course, all this means nothing because the whole thing is in front of politicians and bureaucrats, where logic and reasoning do not apply;-)
There's a qualifier which is "Edge is the most secure browser *from Microsoft*". Making something less terrible than IE wasn't especially hard, but they're still trying.
FWIW, if the terms and conditions of operation and maintenance of the vehicle are made clear by the vendor at sale time (or hire time?), and are fixed for the life of the product, then I'd have to say "fair enough". If you don't like the terms, buy elsewhere. If a vendor decides that the support calls from modified vehicles are too much hassle, then they do (IMHO) have the right to stop them from happening.
However, in this cases JD are quite massively extending their side of that agreement without giving anything in return. As such, it's quite rightly being criticised. I suspect if JD has said "for anyone who bought their tractor before X date, we'll give you 10K refund", I doubt anyone would be complaining nearly as loudly (although it'd still be a highly questionable action on their part).
It's a little like HP pushing out software (with a timer on it) that suddenly stopped accepting non-HP ink. As customers we lost something we had at the time of purchase, and so we're quite rightly pissed off and now buying non-HP printers any chance we get. The difference being printers cost a couple of hundred, where as these cost a quarter of a million, and so don't get replaced nearly as often.
All true. It's also worth noting that most sizeable governments are working on their own blockchain based crypto currencies. So, it'll just be Bitcoin they don't accept, they'll (one day) quite happily accept e-dollars or e-pounds or whatever because they'll be the ones in control of it.
Are gambling gains taxed in the US? If so, yeah, you're stuffed. If not, then one could argue that speculating on the value of BYC would be like speculating on the value of some magic beans, ie. gambling.
Hey Samsung - how about you make all the apps you bundle on your phones uninstallable? They're really great apps, so no one will uninstall them, right!?
...and also they're not "personal assistants" in so much as they don't really assist you. You can't ask any of them "hold my calls unless they're important" (I'm not sure any of them can even "hold calls" beyond maybe turning your phone to silent).
As for Samsung getting into this - honestly, not one bit of Samsung-built software I've knowingly ever used has been any use or any good (look no further than the comical 'Samsung Push Service' on the Play store). They make good hardware, but their software sucks. Since this is software-only, I'd imagine it's terrible.
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You'll be back - just like the rest of us ;-)
No.... it's because they fixed everything already.
+1 (me too)
I'd love to be able to use Kodi for all of my media viewing - ideally including live TV as well. If Kodi had a Netflix plugin, we'd use Kodi in place of the crappy Netflix player built into the TV. If they had an Amazon Video plugin, we'd ditch the Amazon FireTV box too. If there was a decent way to hook up a MythTV server and Kodi, then we could ditch the satellite box too. We'd be down to a couple of raspberry pis to do the lot. Sounds pretty awesome to me.
...and yet right now, algorithms do the trading, and humans just alter the config of the algorithm. It's not too much of a reach to expect that in a few years what takes 10 traders today will take 1 trader because the algorithms will be better and controlled in more circumstances by machine learning.
Fast forward that a bit further and maybe one person controls the same volume of trading as one of the bigger algo-trading companies do today. Keep going, and maybe it's really down to 10 guys around the world, each operating their own super-trading systems and they represent 99.9% of all trading in the world. Eventually even those 10 guys will be replaced by computers, and then you have an almost entirely computer-run financial system. The more automation there is, the more trades take place, so whilst there may still be humans doing the odd trade for their pension investments or whatever, the sum total of all of that trading will be some pitifully small percentage of the total, and so largely insignificant to the markets.
Not really true - what's happening is that algorithmic trading has become harder (because you're now 'playing' against other algorithms and not just slow humans, and because the spreads have got smaller). Now, if you want to trade any real volume algorithmically, you're going to need to be really, really good at it from the outset. Had you started 5 years ago and evolved you'd be doing just fine. If you start now, or started back then and failed to evolve then you've got a really steep hill to climb.
That said, I've seen it's possible to make some personal money relatively 'easily' on certain instruments at certain times. The trick of course if knowing when is the right time, and which instruments to use. Programming that behaviour into a 'bot' isn't trivial either because it's very hard to analyse your own behaviour and assumptions sufficiently to write them in a program. However, if you're just trying to make a bit of pocket money (rather than getting rich quick), it is within the bounds of possibility. The thing is, if that's all you're aiming to do, then it's scarcely worth the financial outlay of writing the bot. To overcome the economics you need to trade at high volume, which puts you back into the big leagues and the problems therein.
True, but this sounds like it's (possibly) more environmentally friendly and cheaper to make than regular Flash. I guess it also opens up possibilities for a printed business card or whatever that you can put into a reader. Sort of like the branded flash drives people throw around now, but cheaper, more disposable and in (even more) different shapes.
Most cameras and other things with a phone-based interface will try to automatically open ports on the firewall (via upnp). A lot of routers have upnp enabled by default, and so this works in a lot of cases. For those people with routers that don't play along, the product will ask them to setup port forwarding - let's be honest, most people who just bought a webcam to watch over their driveway will do anything the product tells them to do because they want to watch their driveway when they're out of the house. It's only /.ers (or 1% or however you like to think of it) that really think about the consequences of such actions.
Given the human realities of such devices, they really should have considerably more security by default. However, the other reality if of course that security costs some extra R&D time and money, which puts up the product price. If you're in business you can either make a more expensive but secure product and sell 100 of them, or make a cheaper insecure one which might not get hacked for a year or two and sell 100,000 of them. Even if it does get hacked, you might not be held accountable - with that in mind, it seems pretty obvious why these products are they way they are.
Now... these products are getting bricked. The kinds of people that didn't think about security probably won't be able to fix them, so will either throw them away or return them to vendors for a replacement. Of course, the replacement will be equally insecure and will brick again. Eventually, after some bad Amazon reviews the product will disappear from the market. I'm sure there are some side effects which the media will pounce on as a reason why this is the work of some sort of paedo-terrorist-commie, but time will tell...
It's probably more like cruising around all the streets in the world looking for houses that are empty but have their doors open. Then, going into the house and barricading all the doors and windows so that no one (not even the owner) can get in without some specialist help (eg. locksmiths, trades people etc).
For decades the US visa forms have asked "Are you a terrorist?". Oddly, it didn't catch any real terrorists (although I imagine a few people are in jail because of it). I suspect this whole policy will be equally effective.
It's all part of a plan to discredit the S8 to open up a bit of market for the Surface Phone ;-)
Honestly though, why did Samsung agree to this? After the battery debarcle, the S8 has to work flawlessly and brilliantly for every customer. Adding MS stuff to it and making these additional hurdles seems like the opposite of that and just going to make people say "Samsung's products are crap - first that battery thing and now this!"
Well, at least no one will give it to you as a gift. If you've got to open the box in the store, plug in the charger and wait for the battery to charge up a bit, then turn it on and connect it to MS Wifi to make it work, that sounds like you're paying for torture rather than a product. Surely they should be paying you for all this hassle?
It's not so much "they're both as bad as each other" that's the issue, it's that "my side is glorious and good, the others are terrible". The truth of it is that neither side is virtuous, they may have slightly different aims and biases, but ultimately, neither are "good".
As for "... got Trump elected in the first place" - I seriously doubt the alternative wasn't going to fsck people over. Maybe not via the ISPs, but via some other means, and so some mirror image of you would be posting "gaw! if only we'd got Trump - he wouldn't do anything this crazy!".
US politics is doomed to a never ending ping-pong between two parties until it's generally understood that there can be (and are) more than two answers to every question.
I suspect it's as much a comment about the skillz at Nasa as it is about this kids abilities.
The reason it's news is because of its incredible rarity. It's almost never that a British kid gets to do anything cool, let alone find something no one else did. We're a pretty small place, and we don't have a space agency of our own, so usually by the time we get to look at anything it's already been washed out by plenty of other people. As I say, it's as much comment about others as it is about us.
...or download Linux From Scratch for a similarly authentic feel ;-)
...although it arguably puts up the "cost of doing business" for ISIS. That is, they now (may) have to make up fake social media accounts over a period of many months/years to make one their dodgy people look 'clean'.
I'd imagine though, if you want to get anyone 'dodgy' into the US, a fake passport is probably a lot easier than fake social media accounts.
Oh, I was hoping for one, super-dense mouse ;-)
"You follow through on your follow through"
Gees, I didn't realise you had to shit yourself twice to qualify.
...but if your tumble dryer catches fire due to a build up of (your) fluff, it's the manufacturer's fault, and not yours.
Before the design defect in the product was established, insurance companies would pay out to owners and then take it up with the manufacturers. The manufacturers presumably paid out a few times, did an investigation and realised they needed to alert end-users so the slew of claims would come to an end. Now we believe it's the manufacturer's problem and that they need to fix it.
In the case of AI-based products, it's not really any different. However, because the product makes actual decisions based on inputs, there is room to suggest that something other than the product may be liable. It's more like if you knock someone over in your car, it's not always your fault - if you were doing the right speed, paying attention, took evasive action, etc then it may not be your fault.
Of course, all this means nothing because the whole thing is in front of politicians and bureaucrats, where logic and reasoning do not apply ;-)
There's a qualifier which is "Edge is the most secure browser *from Microsoft*". Making something less terrible than IE wasn't especially hard, but they're still trying.
FWIW, if the terms and conditions of operation and maintenance of the vehicle are made clear by the vendor at sale time (or hire time?), and are fixed for the life of the product, then I'd have to say "fair enough". If you don't like the terms, buy elsewhere. If a vendor decides that the support calls from modified vehicles are too much hassle, then they do (IMHO) have the right to stop them from happening.
However, in this cases JD are quite massively extending their side of that agreement without giving anything in return. As such, it's quite rightly being criticised. I suspect if JD has said "for anyone who bought their tractor before X date, we'll give you 10K refund", I doubt anyone would be complaining nearly as loudly (although it'd still be a highly questionable action on their part).
It's a little like HP pushing out software (with a timer on it) that suddenly stopped accepting non-HP ink. As customers we lost something we had at the time of purchase, and so we're quite rightly pissed off and now buying non-HP printers any chance we get. The difference being printers cost a couple of hundred, where as these cost a quarter of a million, and so don't get replaced nearly as often.
All true. It's also worth noting that most sizeable governments are working on their own blockchain based crypto currencies. So, it'll just be Bitcoin they don't accept, they'll (one day) quite happily accept e-dollars or e-pounds or whatever because they'll be the ones in control of it.
Are gambling gains taxed in the US? If so, yeah, you're stuffed. If not, then one could argue that speculating on the value of BYC would be like speculating on the value of some magic beans, ie. gambling.
Hey Samsung - how about you make all the apps you bundle on your phones uninstallable? They're really great apps, so no one will uninstall them, right!?
...and also they're not "personal assistants" in so much as they don't really assist you. You can't ask any of them "hold my calls unless they're important" (I'm not sure any of them can even "hold calls" beyond maybe turning your phone to silent).
As for Samsung getting into this - honestly, not one bit of Samsung-built software I've knowingly ever used has been any use or any good (look no further than the comical 'Samsung Push Service' on the Play store). They make good hardware, but their software sucks. Since this is software-only, I'd imagine it's terrible.
You're being modded a troll. Want to explain why you think Wikileaks are arseholes? What are they doing that's so bad in this case?