It's named after a mythical place mostly known for staring in a comic book hero movie and they're concerned about having a flag and an anthem. Seems like they have their priorities straight.
I dare bet most people would be interrested in an ever-growing movie database. Ever-changing is something they settle with as a second-best solution. What they're actually getting is ever-cheaper with expensive movies being replaced with cheaper movies. The reality is that the IMDB Top 250 is mostly movies popular with movie buffs; a relatively small group. They don't include many of the movies that are popular with a larger crowd. Guess which type of customers Netflix would prefer; a small group of highly opinionated and critical people or a much larger group of people who just want whatever movie was recently released. Netflix picks movies based on what makes them the most money, not on what's had the highest review scores. They optimize supply and demand just like every other company that doesn't give a shit about anything but profit (i.e. every other company).
You are highly overexagerating the level of "intelligence" of AI. The data going into a machine learning system is typically in the exact same format as what comes out. If you have a loan application application (sorry, couldn't resist myself) that predicts based on marital status and children, than the only type of data going in is long table with three columns; married (yes or no), children (yes or no) and repaid (yes or no). The AI is not going to get newspaper articles and infer all kinds of possibilities about what a marriage is. The only thing the AI knows about marital status is that status "yes" had different letters in it from status "no". The problem discussed here is that you cannot completely remove the data for "gender", as the combination of the data for "married" and "children" is not universally distributed amongst genders. Essentially, you cannot remove a bias unless all other data is completely independant of the data you want to remove.
I sincerely hope this entire shitstorm will lead to political reforms. Abolishing the two-party system which inevitably leads to lesser-of-two-evils choices such as this. Imagine how the current US political climate would be if voting for the "losing" primary candidates would still be a viable option. You could vote for a third party candidate or second-tier first-party candidate and your vote wouldn't just be a protest vote but would actually matter.
FWIW, My personal opinion is that neither choice will last for over a year, if only because the opposing party will block the winning party all the way. This goes for both parties.
Disclaimer; I'm not a US citizen, but a concerned European who's watching US democracy crumble under it's own weight.
Trump has lived his life in public for a very long time now, thanks to being the star of a hit reality TV show.
Regardless of your political opinions, surely you cannot believe that appearing as a judge on a reality TV show makes his life public. There's plenty of other media out there that displays a far less edited and far more honest view of him.
There needs to be clear guidelines that say x% of similarity is OK but if there is more than you may be violating someone else's copyright.
I think copyright already has some amount of "fair use" in it. At one point during the famous SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, some header files were contested because they were identical. Given their content (essentially some constants defined in a publicly available book), the header files were not considered copyrightable because, essentially, there is no reasonable way to make the header files any differently; any independant implementation would end up looking the same. If you and I independantly come up with the same algorithm implemented in nearly identical code, copyright offers enough room for interpretation to have experts voice their opinion on how likely it is those implementations were copied, developed independantly or whether there's any reasonable wiggle room for implementation choices at all.
Patents are bad for makers, copyrights are bad for users.
I was overgeneralizing. Neither are universally bad or good. It's that generally, the bad parts of patents mostly affect developers whereas the bad parts of copyright mostly affect non-developers.
At best, you have a programming instruction that's represented in binary symbols rather than some other kind of symbols. Back in my 6502 days, I used a disassembler where I entered the hex instead of the assembler instruction names; hex "A9" is functionally identical to asm "LDA", which is functionally identical to binary "10101001". "1010100" was nothing, not was "010101001". Only when used in some specific combinations of 8 bits did the bits actually do anything. Individually, the bits have no meaning; you can't program in individual bits.
There are esoteric programming languages out there that work on 1's and 0's, but even in those, the bits are an encoding system for higher-level concepts.
As a developer, I'm okay with that. It means I can implement the best algorithm I can imagine as long as I take the time to implement it myself. We no longer have to invent contrived ways of to make algorithms not look like the most obvious solution just because somebody patented it.
Patents are bad for makers, copyrights are bad for users.
I once had the joy of working with that clusterfuck called Oracle Apex; a simplistic and severely limited intranet site builder locked to an incredibly expensive database.
I prefer Android myself, but I have to admit; most Android devices don't even have the option of updating to a new Android version supported by the hardware vendor. Apple makes up for it's (obvious) lack in hardware choices by not abandoning older hardware nearly as quickly as most Android vendors. Samsung's then-flagship Galaxy S4 officially support upto Android 5, and it's slightly newer than an iPhone 5. Google itself doesn't even offer updating support on it's Nexus devices. My 2012 Nexus 7" tables can run upto Android 3 officially.
That's because besides the need for some hardware, technical expertese and the right location, you'd also need a psychopathic murderer who can't think of an easier way to kill people.
Your numbers are trumped-up. There largest file is 854KB at 1920x1280, scaled down to about 70% on my 1920x1080 screen. It's probably scaled up on a high-resolution screen. The entire frontpage combined is slightly below 4MB. For comparison, Apple's frontpage is 6MB.
You assume all users affected by the bug HP introduced are aware of the fix. How about users who are still using HP ink today but who will be buying non-HP ink tomorrow? Most users won't even know what a firmware is, let alone understand it can be updated. Not even mentioning that it can be updated optionally. HP didn't really fix the problem at all; the non-optional update is going to screw users for years to come.
ADL is what happens when you let terrorists win. They're calling an innocent cartoon frog a hate symbol because rascists have used it as such. Nice way to kowtow to your evil overlords, ADL.
The moderator also complained far more about Trump overrunning the alotted time. Boohoohoo, he's got such an anti-Trump bias. Tardy Trump can't help it if he needs a little more time.
I might be a conspiracy theorist here, but what might Akamai gain by blocking the guy who's taking down one of the largest criminal organizations providing the type of attacks that Akamai is being paid for to prevent?
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Only in the sense that every god is an overhyped individual that turns out to be just another charlatan.
It's named after a mythical place mostly known for staring in a comic book hero movie and they're concerned about having a flag and an anthem.
Seems like they have their priorities straight.
I dare bet most people would be interrested in an ever-growing movie database. Ever-changing is something they settle with as a second-best solution. What they're actually getting is ever-cheaper with expensive movies being replaced with cheaper movies. The reality is that the IMDB Top 250 is mostly movies popular with movie buffs; a relatively small group. They don't include many of the movies that are popular with a larger crowd. Guess which type of customers Netflix would prefer; a small group of highly opinionated and critical people or a much larger group of people who just want whatever movie was recently released. Netflix picks movies based on what makes them the most money, not on what's had the highest review scores. They optimize supply and demand just like every other company that doesn't give a shit about anything but profit (i.e. every other company).
You are highly overexagerating the level of "intelligence" of AI. The data going into a machine learning system is typically in the exact same format as what comes out. If you have a loan application application (sorry, couldn't resist myself) that predicts based on marital status and children, than the only type of data going in is long table with three columns; married (yes or no), children (yes or no) and repaid (yes or no). The AI is not going to get newspaper articles and infer all kinds of possibilities about what a marriage is. The only thing the AI knows about marital status is that status "yes" had different letters in it from status "no". The problem discussed here is that you cannot completely remove the data for "gender", as the combination of the data for "married" and "children" is not universally distributed amongst genders. Essentially, you cannot remove a bias unless all other data is completely independant of the data you want to remove.
I sincerely hope this entire shitstorm will lead to political reforms. Abolishing the two-party system which inevitably leads to lesser-of-two-evils choices such as this. Imagine how the current US political climate would be if voting for the "losing" primary candidates would still be a viable option. You could vote for a third party candidate or second-tier first-party candidate and your vote wouldn't just be a protest vote but would actually matter.
FWIW, My personal opinion is that neither choice will last for over a year, if only because the opposing party will block the winning party all the way. This goes for both parties.
Disclaimer; I'm not a US citizen, but a concerned European who's watching US democracy crumble under it's own weight.
Trump has lived his life in public for a very long time now, thanks to being the star of a hit reality TV show.
Regardless of your political opinions, surely you cannot believe that appearing as a judge on a reality TV show makes his life public.
There's plenty of other media out there that displays a far less edited and far more honest view of him.
They could have changed it 10 years ago and nobody would have noticed.
Which part of this has to do with software patents?
There needs to be clear guidelines that say x% of similarity is OK but if there is more than you may be violating someone else's copyright.
I think copyright already has some amount of "fair use" in it. At one point during the famous SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, some header files were contested because they were identical. Given their content (essentially some constants defined in a publicly available book), the header files were not considered copyrightable because, essentially, there is no reasonable way to make the header files any differently; any independant implementation would end up looking the same. If you and I independantly come up with the same algorithm implemented in nearly identical code, copyright offers enough room for interpretation to have experts voice their opinion on how likely it is those implementations were copied, developed independantly or whether there's any reasonable wiggle room for implementation choices at all.
Patents are bad for makers, copyrights are bad for users.
I was overgeneralizing. Neither are universally bad or good. It's that generally, the bad parts of patents mostly affect developers whereas the bad parts of copyright mostly affect non-developers.
you can program software using 1s and 0s.
No, you can't.
At worst, you've just got a big number.
At best, you have a programming instruction that's represented in binary symbols rather than some other kind of symbols.
Back in my 6502 days, I used a disassembler where I entered the hex instead of the assembler instruction names; hex "A9" is functionally identical to asm "LDA", which is functionally identical to binary "10101001". "1010100" was nothing, not was "010101001". Only when used in some specific combinations of 8 bits did the bits actually do anything. Individually, the bits have no meaning; you can't program in individual bits.
There are esoteric programming languages out there that work on 1's and 0's, but even in those, the bits are an encoding system for higher-level concepts.
As a developer, I'm okay with that.
It means I can implement the best algorithm I can imagine as long as I take the time to implement it myself.
We no longer have to invent contrived ways of to make algorithms not look like the most obvious solution just because somebody patented it.
Patents are bad for makers, copyrights are bad for users.
I once had the joy of working with that clusterfuck called Oracle Apex; a simplistic and severely limited intranet site builder locked to an incredibly expensive database.
I prefer Android myself, but I have to admit; most Android devices don't even have the option of updating to a new Android version supported by the hardware vendor.
Apple makes up for it's (obvious) lack in hardware choices by not abandoning older hardware nearly as quickly as most Android vendors.
Samsung's then-flagship Galaxy S4 officially support upto Android 5, and it's slightly newer than an iPhone 5.
Google itself doesn't even offer updating support on it's Nexus devices. My 2012 Nexus 7" tables can run upto Android 3 officially.
It's okay. Just make sure you don't click on or even look at ads, this problem will go away by itself.
If it's going to end up being the same asses going to Mars anyway, why not let them pay for it themselves?
That's because besides the need for some hardware, technical expertese and the right location, you'd also need a psychopathic murderer who can't think of an easier way to kill people.
Your numbers are trumped-up.
There largest file is 854KB at 1920x1280, scaled down to about 70% on my 1920x1080 screen. It's probably scaled up on a high-resolution screen.
The entire frontpage combined is slightly below 4MB.
For comparison, Apple's frontpage is 6MB.
Lost network sharing on all updated computers.
Printer automatically uninstalled (had Win10 drivers).
Lost most file associations.
Reboot problems.
Yup, the 1607 update was really great!
Atleast my start menu is a lot messier now.
You assume all users affected by the bug HP introduced are aware of the fix.
How about users who are still using HP ink today but who will be buying non-HP ink tomorrow?
Most users won't even know what a firmware is, let alone understand it can be updated. Not even mentioning that it can be updated optionally.
HP didn't really fix the problem at all; the non-optional update is going to screw users for years to come.
Ink these days is a commodity in the way that when my ink runs out, it's cheaper to buy a new printer instead.
ADL is what happens when you let terrorists win.
They're calling an innocent cartoon frog a hate symbol because rascists have used it as such.
Nice way to kowtow to your evil overlords, ADL.
The moderator also complained far more about Trump overrunning the alotted time.
Boohoohoo, he's got such an anti-Trump bias.
Tardy Trump can't help it if he needs a little more time.
How do you not buy HP retroactively?
Do you have any newssource to back up that story that DOESN'T have a huge popup on the front page asking for Trump campaign donations?
I might be a conspiracy theorist here, but what might Akamai gain by blocking the guy who's taking down one of the largest criminal organizations providing the type of attacks that Akamai is being paid for to prevent?