I live in Florida and I'm amazed that Florida residents are so anti-government we'll cut off our nose to spite our face. The Indian River Lagoon is facing a pretty severe cyanobacteria crisis right now. The last time we had this issue was right before an election, where Rick Scott basically refused to do anything useful. Martin County (the county where much of the lagoon crisis is occurring) re-elected Rick Scott 55% to 40%.
Mod this up a thousand times. We need to start addressing the fact that people are the ones carrying this stuff out. If we can understand them and why they do it, maybe we can intervene years in advance. We seem obsessed with getting rid of the tools for destruction and/or stopping them 30 seconds before they act.
After 9/11 one of my neighbors had a sign on his lawn "Kill 'em all and let god sort them out." That pretty much sums up the world's interest in understanding the brains of terrorists.
I've seen this happen in several industries. I'm not sure if there's an official name for it, but I call it the "Netflix effect." Data mining and machine learning work really well for certain things like shopping. This causes people in other industries to assume they can use the same data mining techniques in their industries. I've seen it happen in education as well. There are two fundamental problems I see.
First, big silicon valley companies can afford the best statisticians and computer scientists in the world. They have the resources to train and validate very complex models. Then an industry specific company without those resources says "bring netflix-like data analytics into your industry!" They might offer something simple like linear regression and call it a day. Or even worse, make up a "score" that has no theoretical basis and use a misleading metric like accuracy to promote it.
The cost of misclassification is not the same across all industries. Misclassifying a movie suggestion is way different than deciding how to treat humans.
The fundamental problem with using data like this is that race is often hidden in the data. A simple question like "Do you feel you have ever been singled out by police" might be highly predictive of race. Combine that with several variables w/ interaction in a complex model and race is almost guaranteed to be a factor.
What makes the problem worse is that the best machine learning models can be very difficult to interpret. After doing dimensionality reduction with stacked autoencoders and using boosting with decision trees, the model will most likely produce good results and be a "black box." This is fine if you're trying to predict someone's next shopping purchase, but becomes a civil rights issue when used to determine whether they are allowed to be released from jail.
When this bubble comes crashing down, I think people are doing to use the Nest as the archetype company that got a lot of investment for little return. Kinda like the cuecat or something similar from that era. Analysis will say "how could Alphabet pay that much for a thermostat company!?!?"
And the country is having a national debate whether it's better to elect a liar or a thief. How about neither? It reminds me of that scene in the Blue Brothers. "We got both kinds of music... Country AND Western!"
When the cost argument started to gain traction here in Florida, Rick Scott just tried to make it cheaper to kill people by speeding up the process. It's not about justice, it's about revenge.
I would argue an RTOS is not necessary and may be cumbersome to use. A very minimal version of RHEL or similar would be ideal. No virus scan needed. OS updates could actually be heavily reviewed by the vendor since there would be so few on a minimal system.
That would be impracticable. You could however require a "certified OS" that is more along the lines of QNX which supports QT. My guess is, the reason this isn't done is because managers consider Windows "off the shelf" and think it's going to be cheaper.
For equipment like this, it's pretty common that the PC does very little and an RTOS is probably not necessary. Anything important or real-time is done on the equipment itself and the PC is just a dummy terminal. If the PC goes haywire, a watchdog timer probably puts the system into a safe state. I think that's why it's so common to use Windows.
I'm not saying it's right. In fact, it's all the more reason to use as simple and streamlined OS as possible. Something like a customized RHEL that only has enough installed to run QT.
If those that dislike Hillary and Trump voted for a single 3rd party candidate, they'd probably win. I'm a Bernie supporter that has decided to vote 3rd party. I've heard "you're wasting your vote" every time I've mentioned it. I don't care at this point. It's the only way we'll ever buck the current two party system.
The president's powers are so limited without a cooperative congress that none of this matters anyway. As much as I detest Clinton, she will probably win. The house and senate will probably remain very Republican and nothing will get done. Unless she screws up royally, Hillary will probably be re-elected which will again push congress more Republican in the mid-terms.
Get ready for 8 more years of nothing getting accomplished. I would be surprised if the supreme court seat is ever filled. Maybe 2024 will offer something different.
The American government has done such a bad job at preventing terrorism in the "pre-encryption era" I have no faith that having access to encrypted devices will improve anything. Since 9/11, I can't think of a single terror plot that the U.S. government has single handedly stopped. They've either succeeded or been stopped by active citizens or local police.
All that will happen is that we have BOTH weak encryption and terrorists plotting to kill Americans.
The really big picture that no one seems to talk about is that this is guerrilla warfare, and established governments can not stop guerrilla warfare. It's how we beat the British. It's why we had to pull out of Vietnam. It's how the Afgans beat the Soviets. To win a traditional war you have to get the leader of the opposing side to say "OK guys, war is over" and it's basically over. With guerrilla warfare, the only way to stop the opposing side is to kill or convert every single fighter, which is obviously an impossible task. To add irony to all this, the more fathers you kill, the more sons will pick up arms. It's a never ending game of whack-a-mole.
I think the reason so many CEO's attack Trump specifically is because he's not bought and paid for. They don't have him in their pocket, so there's no telling what he'd do as president. He's a wild card. Many people assume he'd "make America great again" but most likely he'd just do whatever got him a lot of news and made him popular.
He already has money. At his age he probably started to think about death and if people will remember him. Win or lose, people are going to remember Trump.
I think the Panama papers are a perfect example. In my opinion, this probably ranks in the top political scandals of my lifetime. But most people I know seem to care very little and don't know much about it.
I hate to say it, but the general population doesn't really care. If they did, they wouldn't buy/use this stuff and the companies would go out of business. It's not a situation where people aren't informed, they just don't care.
I can't imagine Home Depot still being in business 10 or 15 years from now. Walking through Home Depot reminds me of every retail chain 6 months before filing for bankruptcy. Lumber is always in bad shape. Overpriced tools. Nursery can't compare to local mom and pop places. The only thing that makes sense to buy from Home Depot are consumables like nails and tape. I can't imagine nails and tape keeping them in business. Home Depot reminds me of Radio Shack circa 2010.
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I live in Florida and I'm amazed that Florida residents are so anti-government we'll cut off our nose to spite our face. The Indian River Lagoon is facing a pretty severe cyanobacteria crisis right now. The last time we had this issue was right before an election, where Rick Scott basically refused to do anything useful. Martin County (the county where much of the lagoon crisis is occurring) re-elected Rick Scott 55% to 40%.
Mod this up a thousand times. We need to start addressing the fact that people are the ones carrying this stuff out. If we can understand them and why they do it, maybe we can intervene years in advance. We seem obsessed with getting rid of the tools for destruction and/or stopping them 30 seconds before they act.
After 9/11 one of my neighbors had a sign on his lawn "Kill 'em all and let god sort them out." That pretty much sums up the world's interest in understanding the brains of terrorists.
I've seen this happen in several industries. I'm not sure if there's an official name for it, but I call it the "Netflix effect." Data mining and machine learning work really well for certain things like shopping. This causes people in other industries to assume they can use the same data mining techniques in their industries. I've seen it happen in education as well. There are two fundamental problems I see.
First, big silicon valley companies can afford the best statisticians and computer scientists in the world. They have the resources to train and validate very complex models. Then an industry specific company without those resources says "bring netflix-like data analytics into your industry!" They might offer something simple like linear regression and call it a day. Or even worse, make up a "score" that has no theoretical basis and use a misleading metric like accuracy to promote it.
The cost of misclassification is not the same across all industries. Misclassifying a movie suggestion is way different than deciding how to treat humans.
The fundamental problem with using data like this is that race is often hidden in the data. A simple question like "Do you feel you have ever been singled out by police" might be highly predictive of race. Combine that with several variables w/ interaction in a complex model and race is almost guaranteed to be a factor.
What makes the problem worse is that the best machine learning models can be very difficult to interpret. After doing dimensionality reduction with stacked autoencoders and using boosting with decision trees, the model will most likely produce good results and be a "black box." This is fine if you're trying to predict someone's next shopping purchase, but becomes a civil rights issue when used to determine whether they are allowed to be released from jail.
She did this to skirt FOIA requests. I'm not sure why there aren't any major news agencies with the balls to say it.
When this bubble comes crashing down, I think people are doing to use the Nest as the archetype company that got a lot of investment for little return. Kinda like the cuecat or something similar from that era. Analysis will say "how could Alphabet pay that much for a thermostat company!?!?"
And the country is having a national debate whether it's better to elect a liar or a thief. How about neither? It reminds me of that scene in the Blue Brothers. "We got both kinds of music... Country AND Western!"
Hold on, you're telling me that there's a company called Gina's Ink Inc???
When the cost argument started to gain traction here in Florida, Rick Scott just tried to make it cheaper to kill people by speeding up the process. It's not about justice, it's about revenge.
Amazingly not. I read about this a few days ago and she TOOK A FUCKING SELFIE AFTER THE ACCIDENT.
I would argue an RTOS is not necessary and may be cumbersome to use. A very minimal version of RHEL or similar would be ideal. No virus scan needed. OS updates could actually be heavily reviewed by the vendor since there would be so few on a minimal system.
That would be impracticable. You could however require a "certified OS" that is more along the lines of QNX which supports QT. My guess is, the reason this isn't done is because managers consider Windows "off the shelf" and think it's going to be cheaper.
For equipment like this, it's pretty common that the PC does very little and an RTOS is probably not necessary. Anything important or real-time is done on the equipment itself and the PC is just a dummy terminal. If the PC goes haywire, a watchdog timer probably puts the system into a safe state. I think that's why it's so common to use Windows.
I'm not saying it's right. In fact, it's all the more reason to use as simple and streamlined OS as possible. Something like a customized RHEL that only has enough installed to run QT.
The CEO of CBS recently was quoted as saying that Trump won't be good for America but he's been very good for ratings.
If those that dislike Hillary and Trump voted for a single 3rd party candidate, they'd probably win. I'm a Bernie supporter that has decided to vote 3rd party. I've heard "you're wasting your vote" every time I've mentioned it. I don't care at this point. It's the only way we'll ever buck the current two party system.
The president's powers are so limited without a cooperative congress that none of this matters anyway. As much as I detest Clinton, she will probably win. The house and senate will probably remain very Republican and nothing will get done. Unless she screws up royally, Hillary will probably be re-elected which will again push congress more Republican in the mid-terms.
Get ready for 8 more years of nothing getting accomplished. I would be surprised if the supreme court seat is ever filled. Maybe 2024 will offer something different.
Does anyone actually believe anything they say on the matter anymore? I'm still not convinced they even have the contents of the phone at the point.
The American government has done such a bad job at preventing terrorism in the "pre-encryption era" I have no faith that having access to encrypted devices will improve anything. Since 9/11, I can't think of a single terror plot that the U.S. government has single handedly stopped. They've either succeeded or been stopped by active citizens or local police.
All that will happen is that we have BOTH weak encryption and terrorists plotting to kill Americans.
The really big picture that no one seems to talk about is that this is guerrilla warfare, and established governments can not stop guerrilla warfare. It's how we beat the British. It's why we had to pull out of Vietnam. It's how the Afgans beat the Soviets. To win a traditional war you have to get the leader of the opposing side to say "OK guys, war is over" and it's basically over. With guerrilla warfare, the only way to stop the opposing side is to kill or convert every single fighter, which is obviously an impossible task. To add irony to all this, the more fathers you kill, the more sons will pick up arms. It's a never ending game of whack-a-mole.
The only winning move is not to play.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/why-buzzfeed-doesnt-do-clickbait
I think the reason so many CEO's attack Trump specifically is because he's not bought and paid for. They don't have him in their pocket, so there's no telling what he'd do as president. He's a wild card. Many people assume he'd "make America great again" but most likely he'd just do whatever got him a lot of news and made him popular.
He already has money. At his age he probably started to think about death and if people will remember him. Win or lose, people are going to remember Trump.
I think the Panama papers are a perfect example. In my opinion, this probably ranks in the top political scandals of my lifetime. But most people I know seem to care very little and don't know much about it.
I hate to say it, but the general population doesn't really care. If they did, they wouldn't buy/use this stuff and the companies would go out of business. It's not a situation where people aren't informed, they just don't care.
There was a time in this country that building a quality product that lasted a long time was seen POSITIVELY by your investors.
I live in South Florida and know a few ex-Motorola employees. They don't have a very nice opinion of Google...
I can't imagine Home Depot still being in business 10 or 15 years from now. Walking through Home Depot reminds me of every retail chain 6 months before filing for bankruptcy. Lumber is always in bad shape. Overpriced tools. Nursery can't compare to local mom and pop places. The only thing that makes sense to buy from Home Depot are consumables like nails and tape. I can't imagine nails and tape keeping them in business. Home Depot reminds me of Radio Shack circa 2010.