Now, can they please put this code to use on those terrible phone menus? With single words or phrases, like the article says? They can even have the advantage of AI-understandable context -- only a few responses match the question -- and yet they still get it horribly, hilariously wrong.
The main problem with the web, and one of the problems with journalism, is advertisement. With donations or subscriptions, they'd only get income if people thought they were worth something -- but with ads, they get the income as soon as anyone looks at the page. It works similarly with TV, radio, and print. The incentive is merely for more eyeballs, no matter how you get them.
The other problem for news is that a lot of stuff that used to be expensive got really cheap. Now we can get news from across the world as easily as from one's city, so there's a lot of competition. "Journalism" got cheap, just browse the web and copy someone else's work. Pictures and video are cheap, you can photograph any old crap now. Webpages are almost free, or worse with ads they generate revenue. When it cost a ton of money to print something, it was worthwhile having some fact-checkers and editors make sure it wasn't crap. Now crap is more profitable, in fact if it sparks outrage it could rake in a lot of advertisement dollars.
Don't use your company's email or other stuff for personal business. It's unprofessional, and you might get your personal communications subpoenaed should your company be involved in a court case.
I'm willing to bet that Valentina Zarya, David Marcus, and Facebook all have phone numbers which they don't plan to replace with applications like Facebook's Messenger.
Because, odds are the soldiers would decide to shoot the politicians that asked them to illegally attack the population, rather than shoot their own friends and family.
Rebellions ending in a more stable, prosperous and free country have happened - but they are the exception, not the norm.
Worked well enough for that English colony in the Americas.
But what is more important is not actually using the weapons, but that the threat of their use suffice to keep one safe -- the same reason most gun owners, or nuclear weapons owners, give for having them in the first place.
The obvious algorithm is to vacuum up all data from every citizen, in case your other algorithm gets updated you can re-run it more quickly and without risk of some of the data having been deleted since then.
My observation is that I wish most of the internet fulfilled the technical requirements for a site to be on Free Basics. It would be a slashdotter's wet dream if it didn't look suspiciously like a walled garden/trap.
Specifically, mobile websites should work in the absence of:
JavaScript
SVG images and WOFF font types
iframes
Video and large images
Flash and Java applets
Personally, I'm totally Snowden-proof, and I don't have a fraction of the resources of the NSA. To stop someone like Snowden, all you need to do is stop committing tons and tons of crimes.
Edison's team invented the first long-lasting and efficient (relatively speaking) lightbulb. Thus, this nanotech -- if it works -- would obsolete his invention. Also, it is probable that we can use nanotech to create flying pigs.
I'd be willing to bet that they're better in really poor driving conditions than humans are.
Perhaps, but for now the most important thing is the effort to prove the self-driving car safe. If that means driving only in perfect weather and traffic conditions on pre-scanned roads with two professional human drivers, then so be it.
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First post! (9th draft)
Note to self: better turn this in now, it's as good as it's going to get. It's way past the deadline, but better late then never.
Hire the wrong security, and you might be wasting your money or even exacerbating the problem. The cheapest security is usually not the cheapest.
Now, can they please put this code to use on those terrible phone menus? With single words or phrases, like the article says? They can even have the advantage of AI-understandable context -- only a few responses match the question -- and yet they still get it horribly, hilariously wrong.
Just run your favorite version of Windows inside a virtual machine on a Linux box.
Anyhow, it's a problem that can be mitigated by a meditation exercise. Imagine you're a leaf on the wind...
Blames Backdoor In the Code of a Wallet
Or maybe it was bad security.
The main problem with the web, and one of the problems with journalism, is advertisement. With donations or subscriptions, they'd only get income if people thought they were worth something -- but with ads, they get the income as soon as anyone looks at the page. It works similarly with TV, radio, and print. The incentive is merely for more eyeballs, no matter how you get them.
The other problem for news is that a lot of stuff that used to be expensive got really cheap. Now we can get news from across the world as easily as from one's city, so there's a lot of competition. "Journalism" got cheap, just browse the web and copy someone else's work. Pictures and video are cheap, you can photograph any old crap now. Webpages are almost free, or worse with ads they generate revenue. When it cost a ton of money to print something, it was worthwhile having some fact-checkers and editors make sure it wasn't crap. Now crap is more profitable, in fact if it sparks outrage it could rake in a lot of advertisement dollars.
Just improve your adblocker. Add the Adblock Warning Removal List to AdBlock, and Forbes is once again viewable. Of course, you can also boycott them.
This sounds like an excellent way to prepare to get a license to distribute in other locations.
Just use a wood chipper to take care of the problem. I know it works cause I saw it on TV.
Fuck Madagascar.
Oh, that's been said, repeatedly, by anyone who's ever played one of those "infect the world" games.
Let's put him in "pound me in the ass" federal prison, *without* reminding him not to drop the soap.
Don't use your company's email or other stuff for personal business. It's unprofessional, and you might get your personal communications subpoenaed should your company be involved in a court case.
I'm willing to bet that Valentina Zarya, David Marcus, and Facebook all have phone numbers which they don't plan to replace with applications like Facebook's Messenger.
Because, odds are the soldiers would decide to shoot the politicians that asked them to illegally attack the population, rather than shoot their own friends and family.
If you put your armed american population on one side and your US military forced on the other side, which one wins?
Then both the American population and the US military win, and the politicians lose.
Rebellions ending in a more stable, prosperous and free country have happened - but they are the exception, not the norm.
Worked well enough for that English colony in the Americas.
But what is more important is not actually using the weapons, but that the threat of their use suffice to keep one safe -- the same reason most gun owners, or nuclear weapons owners, give for having them in the first place.
It's so accurate you can shoot it right down a building's chimney, before it detonates and levels the city.
The obvious algorithm is to vacuum up all data from every citizen, in case your other algorithm gets updated you can re-run it more quickly and without risk of some of the data having been deleted since then.
My observation is that I wish most of the internet fulfilled the technical requirements for a site to be on Free Basics. It would be a slashdotter's wet dream if it didn't look suspiciously like a walled garden/trap.
technical guidelines
Specifically, mobile websites should work in the absence of:
JavaScript
SVG images and WOFF font types
iframes
Video and large images
Flash and Java applets
Painting the door the same color as the wall works as camouflage right up until someone gets up and touches it.
On the other hand panting the wall the same as a door has fooled many wily coyotes.
It's never fooled a roadrunner though.
Personally, I'm totally Snowden-proof, and I don't have a fraction of the resources of the NSA. To stop someone like Snowden, all you need to do is stop committing tons and tons of crimes.
Edison's team invented the first long-lasting and efficient (relatively speaking) lightbulb. Thus, this nanotech -- if it works -- would obsolete his invention. Also, it is probable that we can use nanotech to create flying pigs.
I'd be willing to bet that they're better in really poor driving conditions than humans are.
Perhaps, but for now the most important thing is the effort to prove the self-driving car safe. If that means driving only in perfect weather and traffic conditions on pre-scanned roads with two professional human drivers, then so be it.
That's why it will have espionage, ahem, security features!