AI image recognition systems will recognize what, and only what, they have been trained to recognize. If you train a system with a million pictures of dogs, and a million pictures of cats, it can learn to tell a cat from a dog. But if you then give it a picture of a goat, it will not classify it correctly, because that isn't what it was trained to do.
Similarly, current image recognition systems are not (yet) designed to resist the intentional spoofing described in TFA. In the future, they will become more robust. An obvious way to do this is to use a GAN, with one NN generating spoofs, while another NN learns to resist them.
The Halloween documents aren't good enough for you?
The Halloween Documents were 20 years ago, when Microsoft was managed by a completely different group of people. The documents describe a strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" that would never work today.
Microsoft is still evil, but their evilness today is very different than it was 20 years ago.
In the future, I would not be surprised one bit if free connections (such as WiFi) are phased out completely in favor of making hardware that forces you to subscribe to a cellular service
This is pure conjecture unsupported by evidence. I see new free Wifi hotspots all the time, including my neighborhood grocery store, barbershop, and playground. Once established, I have never seen a hotspot disappear again.
Free Wifi is becoming more established, not less.
The concept of one-time purchase and outright ownership will become a thing of the past thanks to Greed.
Greed incentivizes capitalists to give people what they want.
We can have nice things if they are implemented sensibly. Shanghai has 1.5 million shared bikes. Theft is not much of a problem because you have to use a cell phone to unlock the bike, which identifies the rider. There is a small rider fee, charged to your WeChat Wallet, which covers losses as well as providing a profit that pays for expanding the system to more outlying areas.
I have never needed to walk more than 100 meters to find an available bike, and it is cheap and convenient enough that it no longer makes sense to own a private bike.
The vast majority of people who get shot by police are black.
Bullcrap. In 2015, 1388 people were shot by police in America. 318, or 23% were black. That is not "the vast majority".
More blacks were shot as a percentage of their population, but it is roughly in line with their higher crime rate. A black man is more likely that a white man to have a encounter with the police, but either encounter is equally likely to result in a shooting.
Way too many people are killed by the police in America, but it is not "all about race" or even "mostly about race".
Nope... it's like he was just randomly chucking bricks off an overpass, and was unlucky enough to have gravity kill somebody with one.
More like he anonymously told the police that a bad guy would be driving under the bridge, and then the police randomly chucked bricks off the overpass.
Who is the hazard? The SWAT team went to a random address, based on an anonymous phone call, and killed the innocent occupant for basically no reason at all.
Barriss should be held accountable. But he didn't "murder" anyone. The SWAT team did that.
It wasn't. The "Open" in "OpenVMS" was marketing BS.
commercial UNIX(tm) was at least based on open standards
DEC was openly hostile to Unix... at a time when 90% of Unix ran on DEC hardware. This sounds stupid... and it was.
Sun used Unix, but was openly hostile to open source on their systems. They fought against X-Windows, and pushed their own crappy proprietary GUI. You mention Motif (which was closed source until 2012), but Sun was actually opposed to Motif for years. They switched from BSD Unix to SysV (Solaris) in the face of strong objections from developers, and viewed the Sun Users Group as a hostile organization. They even removed the C compiler from the system to keep people from downloading and compiling stuff from the Internet.
Give back to the people who worked for the corporations you drove out of business
Basic computing infrastructure software should not be controlled by "other corporations". It should be free. We got this right with the Internet, but we should have gotten it right with operating systems as well. If Linux or FreeBSD had been available in 1985 rather than 1991, then Windows would have never become dominant.
Companies like Sun and DEC deserved to be crushed. They were as hostile to open source as Microsoft, pushing Solaris and VMS, along with proprietary GUIs, until it was too late to matter.
So, are these what they call the Clovis or "pre-Clovis" people or are we talking way before them?
It is unlikely they are Clovis. The Clovis people are genetic ancestors of Native Americans, while the girls in TFA are not. Also, the Clovis people lived in Montana and New Mexico about 13 kya, while these girls lived in Alaska 11.5 kya, so they likely arrived from Siberia after the Clovis migration.
This seems to be a solid confirmation of that third wave, but not actually a 'new' discovery.
The DNA in the two girls' remains does not show up in extant native American populations, so they are more likely to represent a dead end rather than a "wave".
You are assuming a linear projection of something that is highly unlikely to scale linearly with either time or population growth. Even if you only look at current data, it is appears that we have already passed an inflection point (the second derivative is now negative).
The major cause of "dead zones" is agricultural fertilizer run off. Fertilizer running off the land is inherently wasteful, so farmers already have a financial incentive to fix this problem... and they are doing so. Modern "no-till" farming can dramatically reduce run off. Data driven systems can also optimize fertilizer application with soil condition and weather. In the future, robotic application of fertilizer directly to either foliage or crop root zones will dramatically reduce fertilizer volume by delivering the nutrients only to the crop and not to weeds and bare soil.
The solution to "dead zones" is already in the pipeline, and within a decade the zones will be in decline.
Indeed. A system that allows anyone to take out a loan in my name by reciting the last four digits of my SSN is not secure. Nor is a system that allows a thief to use a stolen credit card as long as he knows the 3 digit CVV code that is printed directly on the back of the card.
I'm trying to understand the price/value issue in play here.
Most likely the database is available from more than one seller, and competitive pressure is pushing the price down to near the marginal cost of providing the goods.
This is indicative of a properly functioning free market.
It is really stupid to design a system that depends on "security through obscurity". A billion person database was unlikely to ever remain secure, since hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats need access to it everyday. So the security of the system should not have been designed on the assumption that any of that information is confidential.
Using biometric information is reasonable if it is done as an additional factor. It is not reasonable to rely on it as the only factor (except perhaps for very small transactions), and it is ever dumber to store the biometric data on the ID card itself, where it can be easily falsified.
The real story here is not "data breach" but "dumb design".
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AI image recognition systems will recognize what, and only what, they have been trained to recognize. If you train a system with a million pictures of dogs, and a million pictures of cats, it can learn to tell a cat from a dog. But if you then give it a picture of a goat, it will not classify it correctly, because that isn't what it was trained to do.
Similarly, current image recognition systems are not (yet) designed to resist the intentional spoofing described in TFA. In the future, they will become more robust. An obvious way to do this is to use a GAN, with one NN generating spoofs, while another NN learns to resist them.
Companies don't and shouldn't have dictatorial powers over things they have sold.
Software isn't sold. It is licensed.
The Halloween documents aren't good enough for you?
The Halloween Documents were 20 years ago, when Microsoft was managed by a completely different group of people. The documents describe a strategy of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" that would never work today.
Microsoft is still evil, but their evilness today is very different than it was 20 years ago.
In the future, I would not be surprised one bit if free connections (such as WiFi) are phased out completely in favor of making hardware that forces you to subscribe to a cellular service
This is pure conjecture unsupported by evidence. I see new free Wifi hotspots all the time, including my neighborhood grocery store, barbershop, and playground. Once established, I have never seen a hotspot disappear again.
Free Wifi is becoming more established, not less.
The concept of one-time purchase and outright ownership will become a thing of the past thanks to Greed.
Greed incentivizes capitalists to give people what they want.
We can have nice things if they are implemented sensibly. Shanghai has 1.5 million shared bikes. Theft is not much of a problem because you have to use a cell phone to unlock the bike, which identifies the rider. There is a small rider fee, charged to your WeChat Wallet, which covers losses as well as providing a profit that pays for expanding the system to more outlying areas.
I have never needed to walk more than 100 meters to find an available bike, and it is cheap and convenient enough that it no longer makes sense to own a private bike.
Citizens take note: the rule of law is failing in this country.
Bullcrap. Property crime in America peaked around 1990, and has since fallen dramatically.
The vast majority of people who get shot by police are black.
Bullcrap. In 2015, 1388 people were shot by police in America. 318, or 23% were black. That is not "the vast majority".
More blacks were shot as a percentage of their population, but it is roughly in line with their higher crime rate. A black man is more likely that a white man to have a encounter with the police, but either encounter is equally likely to result in a shooting.
Way too many people are killed by the police in America, but it is not "all about race" or even "mostly about race".
Nope... it's like he was just randomly chucking bricks off an overpass, and was unlucky enough to have gravity kill somebody with one.
More like he anonymously told the police that a bad guy would be driving under the bridge, and then the police randomly chucked bricks off the overpass.
Better yet, just don't be a hazard to society.
Who is the hazard? The SWAT team went to a random address, based on an anonymous phone call, and killed the innocent occupant for basically no reason at all.
Barriss should be held accountable. But he didn't "murder" anyone. The SWAT team did that.
I don't know how open OpenVMS actually was so
It wasn't. The "Open" in "OpenVMS" was marketing BS.
commercial UNIX(tm) was at least based on open standards
DEC was openly hostile to Unix ... at a time when 90% of Unix ran on DEC hardware. This sounds stupid ... and it was.
Sun used Unix, but was openly hostile to open source on their systems. They fought against X-Windows, and pushed their own crappy proprietary GUI. You mention Motif (which was closed source until 2012), but Sun was actually opposed to Motif for years. They switched from BSD Unix to SysV (Solaris) in the face of strong objections from developers, and viewed the Sun Users Group as a hostile organization. They even removed the C compiler from the system to keep people from downloading and compiling stuff from the Internet.
Give back to the people who worked for the corporations you drove out of business
Basic computing infrastructure software should not be controlled by "other corporations". It should be free. We got this right with the Internet, but we should have gotten it right with operating systems as well. If Linux or FreeBSD had been available in 1985 rather than 1991, then Windows would have never become dominant.
Companies like Sun and DEC deserved to be crushed. They were as hostile to open source as Microsoft, pushing Solaris and VMS, along with proprietary GUIs, until it was too late to matter.
We clearly don't trust Intel ... why would we trust Chinese CPUs??
Who is more likely to put in a backdoor for the NSA? Intel or China?
80-90% of x86 CPUs.
80-90% is not a monopoly. If you don't like Intel, there are reasonable alternatives that will run 100% of your current software.
So, are these what they call the Clovis or "pre-Clovis" people or are we talking way before them?
It is unlikely they are Clovis. The Clovis people are genetic ancestors of Native Americans, while the girls in TFA are not. Also, the Clovis people lived in Montana and New Mexico about 13 kya, while these girls lived in Alaska 11.5 kya, so they likely arrived from Siberia after the Clovis migration.
This seems to be a solid confirmation of that third wave, but not actually a 'new' discovery.
The DNA in the two girls' remains does not show up in extant native American populations, so they are more likely to represent a dead end rather than a "wave".
Do the suits collect analytic data on how much work each user is doing?
It is an assembly line, so they already know how much work people are doing.
In all instances there was no asking of permission to take anothers money.
This is gender specific. My wife can take money from my wallet without permission, because my money is "ours". But the money in her wallet is "hers".
You are assuming a linear projection of something that is highly unlikely to scale linearly with either time or population growth. Even if you only look at current data, it is appears that we have already passed an inflection point (the second derivative is now negative).
The major cause of "dead zones" is agricultural fertilizer run off. Fertilizer running off the land is inherently wasteful, so farmers already have a financial incentive to fix this problem ... and they are doing so. Modern "no-till" farming can dramatically reduce run off. Data driven systems can also optimize fertilizer application with soil condition and weather. In the future, robotic application of fertilizer directly to either foliage or crop root zones will dramatically reduce fertilizer volume by delivering the nutrients only to the crop and not to weeds and bare soil.
The solution to "dead zones" is already in the pipeline, and within a decade the zones will be in decline.
Indeed. A system that allows anyone to take out a loan in my name by reciting the last four digits of my SSN is not secure. Nor is a system that allows a thief to use a stolen credit card as long as he knows the 3 digit CVV code that is printed directly on the back of the card.
I'm trying to understand the price/value issue in play here.
Most likely the database is available from more than one seller, and competitive pressure is pushing the price down to near the marginal cost of providing the goods.
This is indicative of a properly functioning free market.
It is really stupid to design a system that depends on "security through obscurity". A billion person database was unlikely to ever remain secure, since hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats need access to it everyday. So the security of the system should not have been designed on the assumption that any of that information is confidential.
Using biometric information is reasonable if it is done as an additional factor. It is not reasonable to rely on it as the only factor (except perhaps for very small transactions), and it is ever dumber to store the biometric data on the ID card itself, where it can be easily falsified.
The real story here is not "data breach" but "dumb design".
... to prepare to run for president in 2020.
Not without changing the constitution. He won'd be old enough to run until 2028.
You mean like the police and fire departments?
Privatized police are problematic, but there are privately run fire departments.
If you don't pay your bill, they let your house burn down.
Why doesn't the US do the same?
Because electric car subsidies are one of the least effective methods to help the environment.
Spending the same amount of money on literacy and contraceptives for 3rd World women will have 100 times the impact over a century.
the same place the fossil fuel subsidies come from?
Norway does not subsidize fossil fuel production or consumption. To the contrary, it is heavily taxed.