Now come on Rei. There is little humor and warmth left in our world. Most of our headlines involve either the Trumps doing something short term insane, the climate doing something long term horrible or Slashdot editors mangling a bunch of clickbait stories.
The haystack grows bigger, and even though the data is there, it becomes permutationally harder to sift through.
Except for the fact that computers are extremely capable of sorting through piles of data, this might be true. Perhaps the Stasi had issues, but anybody with a decent Internet connection and a half powerful computer can sort through a whole bunch of hay bales.
Today all you need is a network connection to know what your employees are or aren't doing. You don't need to look at the screen.
For the life of me I don't understand why most engineering spaces don't have private offices surrounding an open area for collaboration or whatever. If you need to save money on your workers square footage requirements you are doing something wrong and you certainly aren't Apple who could afford a McMansion for every coder and engineer on the payroll.
A high end welder has motor skills as developed as a surgeon or a pilot. While the intellectual chops for that aren't quite as demanding, they're not all that far behind. The *really* good welders here in rural Alaska, the ones that do pipeline or marine construction have spent nearly as much time learning their trade as a surgeon or pilot and make nearly as much money.
A better analogy might be the various stages of electricians. At the low end you don't need to know much, don't need much of an education or job experience and don't make a great deal of money. The master electricians who are responsible for high voltage gear again spend decades learning this stuff and are compensated accordingly.
However, the US doesn't need huge volumes of either trade (unfortunately) so it is a difficult choice for say, a high school kid, to decide where to go unless you have a strong interest in the field.
Three plugs for the Mac Mini under the desk, Seven for the ancient X-serve in their halls of wire, Nine for MacPros doomed to die, One for Jony Ive on his dark (but tastefully brushed aluminum) throne In Cupertino where the Shadows lie. One Plug to rule them all, One Plug to find them, One Plug to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In Cupertino where the Shadows lie.
Going off the rails seems a given these days. It's how we roll.
People ARE researching 'strong AI' - we're just not even close. And it is very likely that all of our current approaches are wrong. But there is a really good chance that, given enough time (i.e., we stay on track long enough) that we will get disturbingly close to Musk's vision. Personally, I'm less worried about strong AI knocking out civilization than I am that simple exponential functions will kick most of us back to some impressively dystopian future.
You don't have to make it harder than it's going to be. Murphy was an optimist.
Some of us have Actual Work to do that doesn't involve tilting at IT windmills.
Not arguing with IT about installing some random bit of software on the locked down images is a real plus. Especially when all you need it to crop a bitmapped picture and put a red border around it.
Horses for courses. Hammers for nails. Remember, when things look as bad as they possibly can, they usually get considerably worse (RAH).
Welcome to the unstable and always-shifting world of **Software As A Service** where you can't trust that anything in it will still be there or that the workflow you've developed will continue to be applicable when you show up at work the next day.
Kinda generalized that for you. It's a much bigger problem than Windows 10.
Given that there have already been multiple near-miss incidents close to major airports, for example, it's obvious that we've basically just been lucky so far, and the consequences when that luck runs out will be very bad.
While I agree that licensing of drone pilots is a Good Thing, let's not get carried away. The risk to the airspace from consumer level drones is real, in reality pretty modest and certainly not to the point of 'multiple near-miss incidents close to major airports'. The actual number of real UAV incursions into the airspace is pretty low. There are lots of 'sightings' and 'incidents' which typically are ludicrous on their face (altitude 10000 feet, 4 foot diameter object, speeds over 100 mph) or just reported with insufficient information (the 'plastic bag' incident at Heathrow last year as an example).
UAVs are capable of intersecting other aircraft and therefore are appropriately regulated, but we can leave the Sturm Und Drang to the Kardashians.
You could high tech this today with an XB-37 launch and some 'rods from God'. Throwing rocks from the high ground has worked for a long, long time. GPS helps.
We could low tech the problem and toast 'Lil Kim and his barber with a boring old 1 million dollar cruise missile. As usual, the political ramifications of doing so, tend to er, Trump, the straight military application of force.
But full on schizophrenia is terrifying. Not to society at large, but to the patient, family and friends. Schizophrenia hits people in early adulthood and hits them hard. You are relegated to a life of horrible medications (so far), few job prospects, limited social avenues, depression and psychosis.
And one much harder to answer is 'who isn't compromised.
Given the low hanging fruit that is Internet connected industrial controls, I'd have to Wild Ass Guess that virtually all of the big companies have had their products peeled open by one or various disreputable groups (I'm looking at YOU ALL Five Eyes). Or maybe all of them.
What happens when it's back doors all the way down?
Saw a nice display a couple of weeks ago (at 52 degrees North). Have to wait until around 0100 for it to get reasonably dark. Of course, it's pouring rain right now. Boreal rain forests can be a trial sometimes.
Slashdot Mirror
Now come on Rei. There is little humor and warmth left in our world. Most of our headlines involve either the Trumps doing something short term insane, the climate doing something long term horrible or Slashdot editors mangling a bunch of clickbait stories.
Oh. Wait.
Peril sensitive?
The haystack grows bigger, and even though the data is there, it becomes permutationally harder to sift through.
Except for the fact that computers are extremely capable of sorting through piles of data, this might be true. Perhaps the Stasi had issues, but anybody with a decent Internet connection and a half powerful computer can sort through a whole bunch of hay bales.
Today all you need is a network connection to know what your employees are or aren't doing. You don't need to look at the screen.
For the life of me I don't understand why most engineering spaces don't have private offices surrounding an open area for collaboration or whatever. If you need to save money on your workers square footage requirements you are doing something wrong and you certainly aren't Apple who could afford a McMansion for every coder and engineer on the payroll.
A high end welder has motor skills as developed as a surgeon or a pilot. While the intellectual chops for that aren't quite as demanding, they're not all that far behind. The *really* good welders here in rural Alaska, the ones that do pipeline or marine construction have spent nearly as much time learning their trade as a surgeon or pilot and make nearly as much money.
A better analogy might be the various stages of electricians. At the low end you don't need to know much, don't need much of an education or job experience and don't make a great deal of money. The master electricians who are responsible for high voltage gear again spend decades learning this stuff and are compensated accordingly.
However, the US doesn't need huge volumes of either trade (unfortunately) so it is a difficult choice for say, a high school kid, to decide where to go unless you have a strong interest in the field.
iTunes will be killed in a few weeks.
Really? You sure?
This is the best news I've heard in months. I feel better already.
And scientists are just starting to create designer humans.
"My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose" JBS Haldane
Maybe you're channeling Mr. Ive?
Three plugs for the Mac Mini under the desk,
Seven for the ancient X-serve in their halls of wire,
Nine for MacPros doomed to die,
One for Jony Ive on his dark (but tastefully brushed aluminum) throne
In Cupertino where the Shadows lie.
One Plug to rule them all, One Plug to find them,
One Plug to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In Cupertino where the Shadows lie.
Going off the rails seems a given these days. It's how we roll.
People ARE researching 'strong AI' - we're just not even close. And it is very likely that all of our current approaches are wrong. But there is a really good chance that, given enough time (i.e., we stay on track long enough) that we will get disturbingly close to Musk's vision. Personally, I'm less worried about strong AI knocking out civilization than I am that simple exponential functions will kick most of us back to some impressively dystopian future.
You don't have to make it harder than it's going to be. Murphy was an optimist.
Right.
"The program is called GIMP? Are you pulling my leg?"
"Get out of here you pervert."
I'm not even going to try that one.
Some of us have Actual Work to do that doesn't involve tilting at IT windmills.
Not arguing with IT about installing some random bit of software on the locked down images is a real plus. Especially when all you need it to crop a bitmapped picture and put a red border around it.
Horses for courses. Hammers for nails. Remember, when things look as bad as they possibly can, they usually get considerably worse (RAH).
Welcome to the unstable and always-shifting world of **Software As A Service** where you can't trust that anything in it will still be there or that the workflow you've developed will continue to be applicable when you show up at work the next day.
Kinda generalized that for you. It's a much bigger problem than Windows 10.
Given that there have already been multiple near-miss incidents close to major airports, for example, it's obvious that we've basically just been lucky so far, and the consequences when that luck runs out will be very bad.
While I agree that licensing of drone pilots is a Good Thing, let's not get carried away. The risk to the airspace from consumer level drones is real, in reality pretty modest and certainly not to the point of 'multiple near-miss incidents close to major airports'. The actual number of real UAV incursions into the airspace is pretty low. There are lots of 'sightings' and 'incidents' which typically are ludicrous on their face (altitude 10000 feet, 4 foot diameter object, speeds over 100 mph) or just reported with insufficient information (the 'plastic bag' incident at Heathrow last year as an example).
UAVs are capable of intersecting other aircraft and therefore are appropriately regulated, but we can leave the Sturm Und Drang to the Kardashians.
You could high tech this today with an XB-37 launch and some 'rods from God'. Throwing rocks from the high ground has worked for a long, long time. GPS helps.
We could low tech the problem and toast 'Lil Kim and his barber with a boring old 1 million dollar cruise missile. As usual, the political ramifications of doing so, tend to er, Trump, the straight military application of force.
Yeah, that's coming in the iPhone 9. No 1/4 inch headphone jack. though.
Bribery doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it bribery.
To misquote Sir John Harrington
But full on schizophrenia is terrifying. Not to society at large, but to the patient, family and friends. Schizophrenia hits people in early adulthood and hits them hard. You are relegated to a life of horrible medications (so far), few job prospects, limited social avenues, depression and psychosis.
Oh. Wait. How many UIDs are there here?
1500595200 you insensitive clod.
Opsec is hard.
It's harder if your stupid.
-- John Wayne
Perhaps I am the only one, but this is meaningless to me.
Scrabble
And one much harder to answer is 'who isn't compromised.
Given the low hanging fruit that is Internet connected industrial controls, I'd have to Wild Ass Guess that virtually all of the big companies have had their products peeled open by one or various disreputable groups (I'm looking at YOU ALL Five Eyes). Or maybe all of them.
What happens when it's back doors all the way down?
(Don't answer that, please.)
Folks, you're missing the point here:
so a device carried by that cop on his shoulder can learn to recognize shapes and -- potentially faces -
Donuts are a shape.....
There is something more than a little creepy about a keyboard app talking to a server 'to check things'.
It just gives me the willies. Brave New World, indeed.
Damn. That really does work.
Saw a nice display a couple of weeks ago (at 52 degrees North). Have to wait until around 0100 for it to get reasonably dark. Of course, it's pouring rain right now. Boreal rain forests can be a trial sometimes.