Tldr but my personal (therefore potentially worthless) impression is the main impact of violent video games are likely: - Immediate term: potential physical impact on preexisting heart or epileptic condition and psychological stress for those without militaristic mindset who mightbe forced to play. Combined with euphoeia / self actualization for most players. - Long term: Reinforcement of militaristic outlook and interest in violent resolution scenarios. Combined with heightened or maintained support for military and weapons manufacturers since games allow you to play with guns without fatalities. So it might be interesting to look at whether there is evidence in the data to support these hypotheses.
So far not useful. What would be useful is to have a lidar or radar system that can actually detect deep potholes and deer, paint it with a laser, and use the headlight projectors to indicate where it will be and where you should move the car, assuming the car is not smart enough to avoid them itself. Car mountable projectors actually could be powerful enough to fully illuminate a deer but what happens in fog? The headlights could at least alert you to something the car can detect while keeping your eyes at the long distance focus.
Regarding "If they can make up and fabricate events and have a jury believe them -- well that's going to have a far greater effect than chilling researchers and data breach reporting," I wonder if a blockchain might be useful to allow multiple people including journalistic outfits in different countries to confirm the facts at identifiable points in time. This might weaken the ability of rich, illegal operations to attempt to sue lone security researchers.
Does anyone have info about how to easily run in a sandbox mac apps that are not from the app store and don't use the sandbox api? I only found the below article from 3 years ago, and had trouble getting it to work in the past. I just want to run an app in a jail and maybe as a less privileged user. I am not talk8ng about apps that voluntarily implement the api so that they are allowed in the app store. Otherwise I'm very uncomfortable about installing a dmg from some website even if it is a known vendor. It seems to be a major problem that it is so difficult for ordinary users to use a sandbox to jail apps.
If you read the PR and website it looks a bit too sleek. I wondered which ad agency had gotten Kodak to buy in (providing its name and perhaps not much else). Apparently Deloitte's blockchain solutions division hired Wenn Digital to build it. Unfortunately since they also use the buzzword "artificial intelligence" without clarifying what it does, one wonders if there is enough useful functionality being delivered and will they have the stamina to build it over the long term. Some photo agencies spend money to be ahead of the curve but in general the industry is slow to change. The part about doing web spidering to find photo usage might sound good to photographers but honestly? This assumes you are selling limited term web usage which is going to be very low price. The site is buzzword heavy and light on specifics, such that it looks like a sales campaign of Deloitte's more than Kodak doing anything. Might be great but then again might disappear in a puff of vapor.
I installed Whatsapp because it is very popular in Europe. For those who do not know, it is telephone number based chatting with ability to attach photos and voice memos to a chat, and now you can call for free through Whatsapp. It is useful for meeting up with a team at the hotel for example when you are all arriving at different times. I found groups stay active even long after a project ends though. I did not realize this info is going to Facebook though and I really don't like the idea that what is a critical business tool could be used to let FB stalk me or my colleagues even if they don't have FB. Just another input to their social network analyzer but personally I try not to use FB and only have an account in defense. I'm older skool and don't feel comfortable tweeting all my activities to the entire world where it is archived forever. If Whatsapp told me they would feed my activity to FB I would have brought it up at a meeting and suggested something else like email maybe.
I read this press release today about how Japan and the EU agreed on a free trade agreement. Though not knowledgeable about the details, I was stunned at the words the people involved are quoted as saying. It sounds like honest, altruistic, intelligent, dedicated people doing a great job over years and succeeding. Then I thought about the whole duplicitous, cynical, horrible crapfest that is the U.S. right now. The U.S. is so fucked because the criminal thuggish mindset has penetrated so deep into the psyche that it has become infrastructure. I can't imagine the U.S. government is capable of anything like the effort suggested in this press release. The only similar breath of fresh air I remember is the group of mayors who are trying to lead their own clean energy plan in spite of the federal government. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-r...
I'm working on an enterprise project where ability to do a lot offline is a major part of the functionality, for example think about service reps traveling far from reliable wifi. It's a thing. Meanwhile I'd just be happy if I could read slashdot on my Kindle Paperwhite without suffering insanity..
I would like Apple to stop nagging me to upgrade to High Sierra via notifications. I am deathly afraid of clicking by accident. It is seldom that a Mac operating system upgrade soon after its launch goes well for the hapless end user. I'm sure I will do it some time, after I feel really good about my backup system and have no critical business scheduled. But when I invested in this MacBook Pro I felt it would last me 5-10 years as-is. Something closer to ZFS is great but not worth the aggravation that the Apple user is GUARANTEED to get if they upgrade soon after it comes out. Let some other early adopters become roadkill and just sit back and let the fireworks die down for a year. Some of us can't afford to be experimented on.
I'd be intetested to hear what ideas those big players might come up with. If ad money and tracking should suffer I expect even ideas including hardware, finance and politics may be considered well within fair play. Drone and balloon meshes, a Youtube VPN, PACs to remove incumbents, federal lawsuits and hostile takeovers are all potential tools for such juggernauts. It just has to hit their bottom line, so they can then turn around and do the same favor for Pai's crowd. There should be people already wargaming it. The danger is that corps may not think it is painful enough to act.
I have not come across this guy until now, but I watched his whole speech. I will leave a logician to handle deconstructing his rhetoric. But I would like to make a few points here, and reminisce about how I started an ISP when it became legal in this country to do so.
First of all, Weev is swearing at Google, Facebook and Twitter for banning him. Apparently he has political views that were seen as uncool in the wake of Charlottesville? Personally not interested in researching him more.
However, he is posting this rant at 1080p on YouTube which is owned by Google. That is pretty disingenuous. He also directs people to his own website to download his podcast. This self-broadcasting ability makes use of net neutrality doesn't it? He says his own personal income is mostly from bitcoins and Patreon for his podcast and he is going to keep posting more videos. How is he not enjoying net neutrality already? I am hearing him LOUD AND CLEAR at 2 MEGABITS/SECOND in TOKYO. That's right my network interface was between 280 and 380 KB/s the whole time. He's not paying for any of that. Rather, that was his advertising since he told people to fund him on Patreon in the video.
I do agree with him that ISP monopolies are a major problem. But I do not see the logical connection that makes net neutrality a scam. There is every reason to expect that an ISP could ban him too, and that would have a bigger impact than being banned from Facebook.
Okay this was going to be a short post, the above is what I mainly wanted to say. In fact I have made a separate post on this page in support of net neutrality because it is damaging to education, open innovation, and American competitiveness. I even suggest the top tech companies should put their money to work. But here I would like to share two personal experiences that are reasons why I viscerally feel that net neutrality - spirit of it at least - is necessary and desirable.
I have two memories.. one of immense frustration - where is this rumored thing called the Internet?!?!!? and another one of when the net was illegal.
The first memory was when I as a lucky kid in New Jersey got an Apple ][ (Integer Basic, no floating point arithmetic until you get the extra PCI card!) and later a Hayes 300bps modem. I had been lucky enough before that to learn Fortran and key punch jobs using Hollerith cards (before the floppy disk) at a huge highschool on the weekends when I was in elementary school. I got into deciphering my Apple and I remember delivering a middle school art project as an animated drive through the desert. Though this didn't hold a candle to a real genius I met in high school later who programmed 3d asteroids, Robotron and a polyphonic synthesizer all in assembly language - written with pencil and paper, then performed on stage in front of the whole school - on the same kind of Apple ][. Through family I was lucky enough to have met some engineers then, one a famous respected one who kept breaking every code people thought was secure, the other a physically huge hacker with a day job at the phone company who let me see some of how he worked on the green screen. There was no public Internet, just individual experiences like this spaced apart in time and for a kid it was impossible for me to imagine how to create such opportunities on my own. From word of mouth I heard there was something called "The Internet" but not how to access it. On dialup bulletin-board systems I scoured for information but could only find pirated games. One of the upper classmen at highschool later turned out to be a cracker of games but I didn't get into that scene. I couldn't figure out where to find the F*ING Internet as a kid! F*CK!! Now I know I should have just gone to one of the universities that was developing it! Doh. I did get an account on Compuserve which was great but felt like a closed system even though it was large.. running on a Prime computer. I remember the immense frustration of not being able to find the net, and having to instead find the right BBS with the
It's not just about ISPs getting too rich, although they are, and for little value added considering their monopolies compared to other countries and what is technically feasible for them to deliver on an honest basis. Pai's plan a horrible thing for democracy, consumers. But it is also likely to cause massive damage to American competitiveness in the future. Why?
Two reasons: Killing STEM / open education, and 2) Killing open innovation. And I believe this is something that could cost the U.S. the $500 billion dollars in cash that its biggest tech titans have amassed, as outlined below.
1) Killing open education, STEM, innovative software and media developers and entrepreneurs before they hatch.
It is going to be more difficult if not impossible for individual experts to share their knowledge by creating videos free for access to all. How do they pay for the bandwidth? Currently there are a very small number of altruistic organizations and then most like YouTube which for the moment are free because they make money from advertising to offset storage and delivery costs. Will a university be able to pay for hosting a huge number of streaming 4K videos by themselves? No. If high quality, free open courseware could be developed on a serious ongoing basis it would require net neutrality to reach a maximum of viewers, let alone making it economically viable to even contemplate starting such a service. In reality a publically funded educational institution ought to be able to deliver its knowledge freely over the Internet and take advantage of the latest technology. Public education could be changed from a backwater to a leading world-class disseminator of the highest quality educational materials and it doesn't require a Harvard-sized endowment. At least, it wouldn't now but without net neutrality it might not be possible at all. The goals of STEM are also going to be recalculated when students and their advisors become sophisticated enough to consider how the cost-benefit equation concerning the massive investment needed for education in the sciences at present will change for the worse when they are forced to pay extra for communications fees and can expect more difficulty repaying without becoming beholden to a major corporation.
Also Internet based technologies with open APIs, open manuals, open source code and freely deployable are typically learned by study online, and are deployable by low cost hosting companies at the present. This freewheeling opportunity is like a petri dish that has all the nutrients needed for an organism - a startup or just a couple of guys in a garage - to land in and take off exponentially. This ability to freely self educate and continue learning and deploying new technologies as they appear is part of the innovation engine and this experience is also likely to be weakened when net neutrality means all sites hosting the technology and the blogs about it are not going to be on an equal footing. So Pai's plan is anti-STEM and damages the potential for education, self-teaching, and growing up our home-grown inventors and investors most of whom started out young and insolvent once upon a time.
2) Killing the innovation engine that allowed post-cold war Silicon Valley to enter the modern age, and later caused a small network to spark and explode into the public Internet.
Because successful brands and innovation has up to now been coming from individuals and small ventures. Some from larger companies but my perception is that after making their core money they are unable to grow fast enough to use it all by investing in themselves, instead they grow by gobbling up smaller innovative ones and even then have huge cash positions. They have too much cash and are not able to invest fast enough in high enough quality ventures. In addition, advertising and media delivery need to be affordable to startups in order to enable digital distribution in this attention-driven economy that has grown ascendant. When the playing field is not level, there will be fewer players a
This is the kind of prediction you don't really want to be correct about. Would have liked to see some more technical explanation, but from a little googling I see there is a 32 year cycle of slowing which the scientists think might be due to mantle and crust sticking together more, which would also mess up the magnetic field a bit. I had no idea this was a thing. There are various other causes according to wikipedia apparently such as the Indian ocean earthquake which redistributed mass. So I wonder whether there would be any impact from water that melts from arctic ice. People living at the intersection of tectonic plates tend to think about this stuff. Two links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://qz.com/1133304/as-eart...
I found this really useful page, look at the Prizes Chosen column. Each has a blurb and score of the top entries that year and if you click on it, you get reviews and links to the files. http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Pr... There are just so many entries from these years that I would love to see if there are any recommendations for best of in different categories! Well... googling for best interactive fiction gave me this very interesting page Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time (2015 edition) It is awesome because each entry's page has a Play Online button so you don't even need to install it!
What do you expect when you fail to promote intellectual achievement and instead promote thug culture, fundamentalist anti-evolution schools and finally a thuggish president? It isn't a problem that the person's name is Indian. Rather it indicates that less of the families who don't have Indian names worked on educating their kids. You want a football culture, you got it. Personally, you bigotted oaf.
It must be fun to comfortably pontificate from your armchair. I believe there were some deaths or sicknesses in the people who were cleaning up the plutonium that was lying on the ground, which is an utterly horrifying thought. There were a lot of deaths due to the tsunami itself. You can't feasibly build walls against them. However the actual leakage of nuclear fuel into the environment is so scarily toxic that you have no way to know if you are correct about minimizing the danger. As it happens the freak event of a tsunami happens rather frequently and the authorities were even warned of the vulnerability, but the nuclear power authority was in bed with the government, so they were proven to be utterly untrustworthy. Fact. Nuclear power may still be critical to infrastructure and a rational choice but nobody will trust it if proven that the people in charge are corrupt, willfully ignorant, and negligent. In fact there have been other nuclear accidents in Japan, I remember one in which a worker was pouring nuclear fuel with a bucket (!) and caused a small chain reaction. The answer seems to be to minimize nuclear power if possible.
Funny, I quite enjoyed writing in Perl 5 and the feeling was empowerment, and the community was excellent. At the time Python was quite immature. Python has grown but Perl 5 is still quite useful.
There is also quite a difference between legacy code and code written today using modern extensions, though it seems people enjoy trashing things, instead of admitting they did not actually learn it.
It would be more interesting to hear exactly what analyses they are, since it might give some fun ideas to the/. readership. But since it is a bit of a puff piece with a leading photo of a woman taking a selfie with a toy robot what do you expect? Guessing they have a clear training manual for their research analysts and they are able to automate 80% of that, then increase hiring of people who understand machine learning to improve that?
How about some security experts try to provide guidelines which would allow them to recommend to any government that they trust Kaspersky? This would be a major advance that would benefit all software vendors including competing antivirus vendors.
The idea is it costs money but this is an investment in infrastructure security so governments or cash-rich computer companies like google. microsoft, apple could fund it perhaps.
So far I have not heard of anything that has not got a potential workaround. Here is a start:
- Full source code and build tools are maintained in multiple repositories maintained by trusted third parties (at least one per country). - They identify functionality that may be questionable and opt-out by a country or user, such as sending any data at all from user computer to tt heir cloud. - Source code review by experts, including review of updates - Builds managed by experts. - The built exe / dmg / etc. is deployed to a protected deployment server (an app store trusted by your OS) from which end user can download a licensed copy. Apple may wish it to go through the App Store but that would reduce security by adding more people into the chain. The server can also work for free software. - List of files or patterns for which to search is maintained by a third party database, potentially this could be open to public (up to vendor). This kind of strategy can be used to limit the impact any single country's security agency can have on the activity. - If phone-home tactics are necessary to beat malware bot swarms then this info could be anonymized and maintained in a third party database to which vendor has access. Potentially a country or organization could pay vendor to invest in this kind of proactive anti-malware activity. - The above deployment server can also host open source tools for users that will monitor and prove that the currently running binary and processes in fact belong to the guaranteed safe code, build and tool chain above. This might limit the ability of malicious programs to corrupt the executing code on systems that do not have protection or for which such protection has been subverted
To a limited extent as most people who do not use cryptocurrency. Perhaps not as much as you, since it has not been a major interest of mine. How do you see it playing out?
I see now that there is indeed an ether-evancoin exchange, so perhaps it is not dependent on Evan. My point was what happens to the popularity of it as a currency, what do you do with your evancoin, if he gets bored or something happens to him.
I am guessing that if all developers make their own similar coin which can interoperate / be exchanged for ethers, it could become interesting.
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Tldr but my personal (therefore potentially worthless) impression is the main impact of violent video games are likely:
- Immediate term: potential physical impact on preexisting heart or epileptic condition and psychological stress for those without militaristic mindset who mightbe forced to play. Combined with euphoeia / self actualization for most players.
- Long term: Reinforcement of militaristic outlook and interest in violent resolution scenarios. Combined with heightened or maintained support for military and weapons manufacturers since games allow you to play with guns without fatalities.
So it might be interesting to look at whether there is evidence in the data to support these hypotheses.
So far not useful. What would be useful is to have a lidar or radar system that can actually detect deep potholes and deer, paint it with a laser, and use the headlight projectors to indicate where it will be and where you should move the car, assuming the car is not smart enough to avoid them itself. Car mountable projectors actually could be powerful enough to fully illuminate a deer but what happens in fog? The headlights could at least alert you to something the car can detect while keeping your eyes at the long distance focus.
Regarding "If they can make up and fabricate events and have a jury believe them -- well that's going to have a far greater effect than chilling researchers and data breach reporting," I wonder if a blockchain might be useful to allow multiple people including journalistic outfits in different countries to confirm the facts at identifiable points in time. This might weaken the ability of rich, illegal operations to attempt to sue lone security researchers.
Does anyone have info about how to easily run in a sandbox mac apps that are not from the app store and don't use the sandbox api? I only found the below article from 3 years ago, and had trouble getting it to work in the past. I just want to run an app in a jail and maybe as a less privileged user. I am not talk8ng about apps that voluntarily implement the api so that they are allowed in the app store. Otherwise I'm very uncomfortable about installing a dmg from some website even if it is a known vendor. It seems to be a major problem that it is so difficult for ordinary users to use a sandbox to jail apps.
https://paolozaino.wordpress.c...
Google Street View cams and self driving car tech might be able to catch who is attacking the busses. Or just a video camera?
If you read the PR and website it looks a bit too sleek. I wondered which ad agency had gotten Kodak to buy in (providing its name and perhaps not much else). Apparently Deloitte's blockchain solutions division hired Wenn Digital to build it. Unfortunately since they also use the buzzword "artificial intelligence" without clarifying what it does, one wonders if there is enough useful functionality being delivered and will they have the stamina to build it over the long term. Some photo agencies spend money to be ahead of the curve but in general the industry is slow to change. The part about doing web spidering to find photo usage might sound good to photographers but honestly? This assumes you are selling limited term web usage which is going to be very low price. The site is buzzword heavy and light on specifics, such that it looks like a sales campaign of Deloitte's more than Kodak doing anything. Might be great but then again might disappear in a puff of vapor.
I installed Whatsapp because it is very popular in Europe. For those who do not know, it is telephone number based chatting with ability to attach photos and voice memos to a chat, and now you can call for free through Whatsapp. It is useful for meeting up with a team at the hotel for example when you are all arriving at different times. I found groups stay active even long after a project ends though. I did not realize this info is going to Facebook though and I really don't like the idea that what is a critical business tool could be used to let FB stalk me or my colleagues even if they don't have FB. Just another input to their social network analyzer but personally I try not to use FB and only have an account in defense. I'm older skool and don't feel comfortable tweeting all my activities to the entire world where it is archived forever. If Whatsapp told me they would feed my activity to FB I would have brought it up at a meeting and suggested something else like email maybe.
I read this press release today about how Japan and the EU agreed on a free trade agreement. Though not knowledgeable about the details, I was stunned at the words the people involved are quoted as saying. It sounds like honest, altruistic, intelligent, dedicated people doing a great job over years and succeeding. Then I thought about the whole duplicitous, cynical, horrible crapfest that is the U.S. right now. The U.S. is so fucked because the criminal thuggish mindset has penetrated so deep into the psyche that it has become infrastructure. I can't imagine the U.S. government is capable of anything like the effort suggested in this press release. The only similar breath of fresh air I remember is the group of mayors who are trying to lead their own clean energy plan in spite of the federal government.
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-r...
I'm working on an enterprise project where ability to do a lot offline is a major part of the functionality, for example think about service reps traveling far from reliable wifi. It's a thing.
Meanwhile I'd just be happy if I could read slashdot on my Kindle Paperwhite without suffering insanity..
I would like Apple to stop nagging me to upgrade to High Sierra via notifications. I am deathly afraid of clicking by accident. It is seldom that a Mac operating system upgrade soon after its launch goes well for the hapless end user. I'm sure I will do it some time, after I feel really good about my backup system and have no critical business scheduled. But when I invested in this MacBook Pro I felt it would last me 5-10 years as-is. Something closer to ZFS is great but not worth the aggravation that the Apple user is GUARANTEED to get if they upgrade soon after it comes out. Let some other early adopters become roadkill and just sit back and let the fireworks die down for a year. Some of us can't afford to be experimented on.
I'd be intetested to hear what ideas those big players might come up with. If ad money and tracking should suffer I expect even ideas including hardware, finance and politics may be considered well within fair play. Drone and balloon meshes, a Youtube VPN, PACs to remove incumbents, federal lawsuits and hostile takeovers are all potential tools for such juggernauts. It just has to hit their bottom line, so they can then turn around and do the same favor for Pai's crowd. There should be people already wargaming it. The danger is that corps may not think it is painful enough to act.
I have not come across this guy until now, but I watched his whole speech. I will leave a logician to handle deconstructing his rhetoric. But I would like to make a few points here, and reminisce about how I started an ISP when it became legal in this country to do so.
First of all, Weev is swearing at Google, Facebook and Twitter for banning him. Apparently he has political views that were seen as uncool in the wake of Charlottesville? Personally not interested in researching him more.
However, he is posting this rant at 1080p on YouTube which is owned by Google. That is pretty disingenuous. He also directs people to his own website to download his podcast. This self-broadcasting ability makes use of net neutrality doesn't it?
He says his own personal income is mostly from bitcoins and Patreon for his podcast and he is going to keep posting more videos. How is he not enjoying net neutrality already? I am hearing him LOUD AND CLEAR at 2 MEGABITS/SECOND in TOKYO. That's right my network interface was between 280 and 380 KB/s the whole time. He's not paying for any of that. Rather, that was his advertising since he told people to fund him on Patreon in the video.
I do agree with him that ISP monopolies are a major problem. But I do not see the logical connection that makes net neutrality a scam. There is every reason to expect that an ISP could ban him too, and that would have a bigger impact than being banned from Facebook.
Okay this was going to be a short post, the above is what I mainly wanted to say. In fact I have made a separate post on this page in support of net neutrality because it is damaging to education, open innovation, and American competitiveness. I even suggest the top tech companies should put their money to work. But here I would like to share two personal experiences that are reasons why I viscerally feel that net neutrality - spirit of it at least - is necessary and desirable.
I have two memories.. one of immense frustration - where is this rumored thing called the Internet?!?!!? and another one of when the net was illegal.
The first memory was when I as a lucky kid in New Jersey got an Apple ][ (Integer Basic, no floating point arithmetic until you get the extra PCI card!) and later a Hayes 300bps modem. I had been lucky enough before that to learn Fortran and key punch jobs using Hollerith cards (before the floppy disk) at a huge highschool on the weekends when I was in elementary school. I got into deciphering my Apple and I remember delivering a middle school art project as an animated drive through the desert. Though this didn't hold a candle to a real genius I met in high school later who programmed 3d asteroids, Robotron and a polyphonic synthesizer all in assembly language - written with pencil and paper, then performed on stage in front of the whole school - on the same kind of Apple ][. Through family I was lucky enough to have met some engineers then, one a famous respected one who kept breaking every code people thought was secure, the other a physically huge hacker with a day job at the phone company who let me see some of how he worked on the green screen. There was no public Internet, just individual experiences like this spaced apart in time and for a kid it was impossible for me to imagine how to create such opportunities on my own. From word of mouth I heard there was something called "The Internet" but not how to access it. On dialup bulletin-board systems I scoured for information but could only find pirated games. One of the upper classmen at highschool later turned out to be a cracker of games but I didn't get into that scene. I couldn't figure out where to find the F*ING Internet as a kid! F*CK!! Now I know I should have just gone to one of the universities that was developing it! Doh. I did get an account on Compuserve which was great but felt like a closed system even though it was large.. running on a Prime computer. I remember the immense frustration of not being able to find the net, and having to instead find the right BBS with the
It's not just about ISPs getting too rich, although they are, and for little value added considering their monopolies compared to other countries and what is technically feasible for them to deliver on an honest basis. Pai's plan a horrible thing for democracy, consumers. But it is also likely to cause massive damage to American competitiveness in the future. Why?
Two reasons: Killing STEM / open education, and 2) Killing open innovation. And I believe this is something that could cost the U.S. the $500 billion dollars in cash that its biggest tech titans have amassed, as outlined below.
1) Killing open education, STEM, innovative software and media developers and entrepreneurs before they hatch.
It is going to be more difficult if not impossible for individual experts to share their knowledge by creating videos free for access to all. How do they pay for the bandwidth? Currently there are a very small number of altruistic organizations and then most like YouTube which for the moment are free because they make money from advertising to offset storage and delivery costs. Will a university be able to pay for hosting a huge number of streaming 4K videos by themselves? No. If high quality, free open courseware could be developed on a serious ongoing basis it would require net neutrality to reach a maximum of viewers, let alone making it economically viable to even contemplate starting such a service. In reality a publically funded educational institution ought to be able to deliver its knowledge freely over the Internet and take advantage of the latest technology. Public education could be changed from a backwater to a leading world-class disseminator of the highest quality educational materials and it doesn't require a Harvard-sized endowment. At least, it wouldn't now but without net neutrality it might not be possible at all. The goals of STEM are also going to be recalculated when students and their advisors become sophisticated enough to consider how the cost-benefit equation concerning the massive investment needed for education in the sciences at present will change for the worse when they are forced to pay extra for communications fees and can expect more difficulty repaying without becoming beholden to a major corporation.
Also Internet based technologies with open APIs, open manuals, open source code and freely deployable are typically learned by study online, and are deployable by low cost hosting companies at the present. This freewheeling opportunity is like a petri dish that has all the nutrients needed for an organism - a startup or just a couple of guys in a garage - to land in and take off exponentially. This ability to freely self educate and continue learning and deploying new technologies as they appear is part of the innovation engine and this experience is also likely to be weakened when net neutrality means all sites hosting the technology and the blogs about it are not going to be on an equal footing. So Pai's plan is anti-STEM and damages the potential for education, self-teaching, and growing up our home-grown inventors and investors most of whom started out young and insolvent once upon a time.
2) Killing the innovation engine that allowed post-cold war Silicon Valley to enter the modern age, and later caused a small network to spark and explode into the public Internet.
Because successful brands and innovation has up to now been coming from individuals and small ventures. Some from larger companies but my perception is that after making their core money they are unable to grow fast enough to use it all by investing in themselves, instead they grow by gobbling up smaller innovative ones and even then have huge cash positions. They have too much cash and are not able to invest fast enough in high enough quality ventures. In addition, advertising and media delivery need to be affordable to startups in order to enable digital distribution in this attention-driven economy that has grown ascendant. When the playing field is not level, there will be fewer players a
Does Joost have a PhD? I would think twice before giving money to a shady character named Doom, but that's just me.
This is the kind of prediction you don't really want to be correct about. Would have liked to see some more technical explanation, but from a little googling I see there is a 32 year cycle of slowing which the scientists think might be due to mantle and crust sticking together more, which would also mess up the magnetic field a bit. I had no idea this was a thing. There are various other causes according to wikipedia apparently such as the Indian ocean earthquake which redistributed mass. So I wonder whether there would be any impact from water that melts from arctic ice. People living at the intersection of tectonic plates tend to think about this stuff.
Two links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://qz.com/1133304/as-eart...
Um, so I'm guessing it would be bad to get infected by one of these virii. It could end up being a time delay a la bladerunner.
p.s. looks like maybe you really should install your platform's player since online versions may be stripped down.
I found this really useful page, look at the Prizes Chosen column. Each has a blurb and score of the top entries that year and if you click on it, you get reviews and links to the files.
http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Pr...
There are just so many entries from these years that I would love to see if there are any recommendations for best of in different categories! Well... googling for best interactive fiction gave me this very interesting page
Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time (2015 edition)
It is awesome because each entry's page has a Play Online button so you don't even need to install it!
What do you expect when you fail to promote intellectual achievement and instead promote thug culture, fundamentalist anti-evolution schools and finally a thuggish president? It isn't a problem that the person's name is Indian. Rather it indicates that less of the families who don't have Indian names worked on educating their kids. You want a football culture, you got it. Personally, you bigotted oaf.
It must be fun to comfortably pontificate from your armchair.
I believe there were some deaths or sicknesses in the people who were cleaning up the plutonium that was lying on the ground, which is an utterly horrifying thought.
There were a lot of deaths due to the tsunami itself. You can't feasibly build walls against them.
However the actual leakage of nuclear fuel into the environment is so scarily toxic that you have no way to know if you are correct about minimizing the danger.
As it happens the freak event of a tsunami happens rather frequently and the authorities were even warned of the vulnerability, but the nuclear power authority was in bed with the government, so they were proven to be utterly untrustworthy. Fact. Nuclear power may still be critical to infrastructure and a rational choice but nobody will trust it if proven that the people in charge are corrupt, willfully ignorant, and negligent. In fact there have been other nuclear accidents in Japan, I remember one in which a worker was pouring nuclear fuel with a bucket (!) and caused a small chain reaction. The answer seems to be to minimize nuclear power if possible.
Funny, I quite enjoyed writing in Perl 5 and the feeling was empowerment, and the community was excellent. At the time Python was quite immature. Python has grown but Perl 5 is still quite useful.
There is also quite a difference between legacy code and code written today using modern extensions, though it seems people enjoy trashing things, instead of admitting they did not actually learn it.
It would be more interesting to hear exactly what analyses they are, since it might give some fun ideas to the /. readership. But since it is a bit of a puff piece with a leading photo of a woman taking a selfie with a toy robot what do you expect? Guessing they have a clear training manual for their research analysts and they are able to automate 80% of that, then increase hiring of people who understand machine learning to improve that?
How about some security experts try to provide guidelines which would allow them to recommend to any government that they trust Kaspersky? This would be a major advance that would benefit all software vendors including competing antivirus vendors.
The idea is it costs money but this is an investment in infrastructure security so governments or cash-rich computer companies like google. microsoft, apple could fund it perhaps.
So far I have not heard of anything that has not got a potential workaround. Here is a start:
- Full source code and build tools are maintained in multiple repositories maintained by trusted third parties (at least one per country).
- They identify functionality that may be questionable and opt-out by a country or user, such as sending any data at all from user computer to tt heir cloud.
- Source code review by experts, including review of updates
- Builds managed by experts.
- The built exe / dmg / etc. is deployed to a protected deployment server (an app store trusted by your OS) from which end user can download a licensed copy. Apple may wish it to go through the App Store but that would reduce security by adding more people into the chain. The server can also work for free software.
- List of files or patterns for which to search is maintained by a third party database, potentially this could be open to public (up to vendor). This kind of strategy can be used to limit the impact any single country's security agency can have on the activity.
- If phone-home tactics are necessary to beat malware bot swarms then this info could be anonymized and maintained in a third party database to which vendor has access. Potentially a country or organization could pay vendor to invest in this kind of proactive anti-malware activity.
- The above deployment server can also host open source tools for users that will monitor and prove that the currently running binary and processes in fact belong to the guaranteed safe code, build and tool chain above. This might limit the ability of malicious programs to corrupt the executing code on systems that do not have protection or for which such protection has been subverted
To a limited extent as most people who do not use cryptocurrency. Perhaps not as much as you, since it has not been a major interest of mine. How do you see it playing out?
I see now that there is indeed an ether-evancoin exchange, so perhaps it is not dependent on Evan. My point was what happens to the popularity of it as a currency, what do you do with your evancoin, if he gets bored or something happens to him.
I am guessing that if all developers make their own similar coin which can interoperate / be exchanged for ethers, it could become interesting.
Now we just need public wifi to stop breaking https!