Sure the AI part is new, but If figured this had been going on for decades, only using a human to decide what categories of ads match well with the preceding or upcoming scenes instead of a computer.
Shouldâ(TM)ve read the article first, where the author explained that oddly-commented code similar to this was used TEMPORARILY on early processor revisions or on early microcode revisions.
In these cases, the check-in logs or the context of the code - say, itâ(TM)s in a block of code that only runs on processors that are in pre-production at the time - should make it clear that this is âoework-atoundâ code that we expect to be removed soon.
"Narrow banking" - where "liquid no-risk cash" accounts cannot be used to back loans - can work on a small scale but credit unions still need to cover their costs and for-profit banks still need to make a buck.
So, either they charge for this service, or they find some other way to make money off of customers, such as selling their personal data, sending them pad ads from third parties, or advertising their other money-making services in hopes that customers will buy enough to cover the loss from the "deposit money with us so we can loan it out" model.
On a large scale, it creates another problem:
Cash in such an account is like cash in a piggy bank: It's not available for others it use. Granted, this is the intent, but it will mean that the "useful money supply" will go down and interest rates will go up, or the fed or other central banks will have to take other steps to increase the "useful money supply." This isn't a deal-breaker but it is something that has to be thought through.
Personally, I'm fine with the rules we've lived in since the 1930s, which allow lending with small-ish reserve requirements but insurance of the first $X to cover bank failures, where $X is several years' income for the average American household. I'm fine with it as long as a responsibly-used (balance is always more than a reasonably small minimum amount) checking account not only free but earning me interest.
You're lumping in National Banks with Community Banks
A National Bank can be a community bank.
A National Bank refers to its federal charter, as opposed to a state-chartered bank.
A community bank is what most of us think of when we think of a small bank that has only 1 branch or maybe a few branches and which focuses on a small geographic community. It can have either a national or state charter.
"Be better than the other" if the only metrics are producing small, efficient binaries that run on bare metal.
If it could, then it would eliminate some of the features that make Ada different than C - it would just be another procedural language.
Sometimes Ada is a better tool than C, sometimes C is a better tool than Ada. Sometimes neither is better than the other. Same goes for any other pair of languages.
I think sometime in the mid-late 2000s or every early 2010s Microsoft re-focused on security at the expense of new non-security features.
For awhile.
These days, any company that's in the market that Microsoft is in needs to have a "security in depth first" approach. This means as close to zero security-related bugs as possible and fixing or providing reasonable mitigations for security issues as quickly as possible.
Bugs that lead to unwanted data deletion or, for that matter, "silent failures" on requests to delete data, are security bugs even if they do not lead to unauthorized access.
Electronics are freakishly reliable. They basically never fail.
Wrong.
Even ignoring sloppy manufacturing and using them outside of their rated environments, electronics DO wear out with lots of use or lots of heating/cooling cycles or which is exposed to too much heat too quickly. Anything with a motor in it will wear out, including hard drives and fans.
Many a consumer-grade PC has died an early death due to mains electricity that, while clean enough for most consumers to not notice, is not as clean as the manufacturer expected. What would have lasted 10 or 20 years may last only 3/4 or half that time. Bad mains electricity can wear out a power supply and after several years, the power supply is delivering "not quite on spec" power to the motherboard and other equipment, and after a few years of that, those components become unreliable or just plain die.
I will credit you for asking the important questions about a hot or dusty environment or about not using a UPS. However, these days most consumers and many businesses don't use UPSes on non-server/non-infrastructure equipment and they may run them routinely in a home or office that, over time, is exposed to dust. Manufacturers know this, or at least they should, and they should be building things accordingly. When they don't, it's fair to complain.
I don't expect consumer/small-business-grade equipment to be the same spec or same price as enterprise or mil-spec equipment, but I do expect it to run for many, many years in a typical home or office. In some cases, home/small office equipment has to have BETTER specs than enteprise-grade equipment because you can expect or even demand (as a condition of your support contract or warranty) that enterprise-grade equipment to be on a UPS in a climate-controlled environment, but you can't expect the same for consumer- and home-office equipment.
There is a market for this kind of thing, but it's a small one.
If I am a very small company or an individual who needs "in house" email where no third party can be subpoenaed and where I control the encryption keys, AND where it's easy to run with minimal management, that is worth paying for.
But for most companies small enough where this would be worth considering, a completely outsourced email solution is better. For almost all individuals, outsourced email is better.
In the unlikely event that something like this gets more than "niche market" traction, expect the major players to either buy these guys out or come out with competing products. There's not much in this product that is innovative enough that the proprietary features, if any, can't be worked around and/or that customers won't care about them enough to deter competition.
The port problem is easy to solve by offering optional port-forwarding subscriptions to forward "incoming mail to your domain" ports to a user-selected non-blocked port.
Also, most home users can buy business-contract internet in their homes, which typically allow all incoming ports.
The same people who would pay $500 for this box are the same people who would buy either of the above services.
Teachers who merely impart knowledge were partially replaced with the advent of writing: Once the student learns to read, he can teach himself a lot from the works of long-dead teachers.
Teachers who are "good teachers" - inspiring, able to reach those who are hard to reach, etc. - those are much harder to replace. However, radio and TV have allowed people like Mister Rogers of Mister Rogers Neighborhood to teach long after they stopped filming, and in some cases, after they died.
Critical infrastructure should not be accessible from the internet.
Yes, the previously mentioned trebuchet and drone attacks on 3-phase circuits still work but you need to be closer than a few hundred miles to pull this off without anyone noticing before it's too late.
Never underestimate the power of an insider with a USB stick.
translated from Russian "What is this this USB stick of which you speak?"...after examining USB stick... "I have never seen such a device. There is no place to plug this in to our equipment, so I am no longer interested."
The tampering in 2016 was mostly "wetware attacks" - using propaganda and misleading information while pretending to be a news organization or other presumably-neutral party.
At each voting location, drop ballots into the local vote-tabulating ballot box, which is sealed.
At the end of election the box prints out a local tally. Send copies of the tally to the press if they aren't there watching the printout as it is printed.
Take the entire sealed ballot box to the central location.
Take all ballots to another machine that is made by a different vendor which uses totally different chips inside.
Re-count the votes with this second machine and publish the results to the press.
If there is a mis-match of more than +/- 1 vote in any race, hand-count the votes in that box with many people watching.
If there is no mismatch or a small mismatch, put the ballots into a sealed container in case they need to be re-counted later. If the total of mis-matched votes plus other factors suggest a hand-count is needed for the voters to have confidence in the outcome of a particular race, do a hand-count of that entire race.
Separate from all of the above, do a complete hand-count audit of a small random sample of all voting locations. Also to check for anomalies and deter rigging the machines, count a random sample of ballots from a large number of randomly-selected voting locations.
All steps except that of the actual voter casting his ballot should be done under watchful eyes of representatives from any group that wants to watch. Even the actual voting should be open to poll-watchers as long as they are far enough away to not see who is voting for what.
---- Note: This won't stop all bad behavior. You can still deter people likely to vote against you from voting by making it hard to vote (like Florida's felony-can't-vote rules), voter intimidation, wrecking your car on a major road thereby making it inconvenient for people to get to the polls, and other ways that have nothing to do with the vote-counting process.
---- As a condition of use, all vote-related equipment that is at the "local level" - everything used to collect the votes and create the local tallies - must have a published design and implementation and it must be audit-able. This way, I can build an identical machine and compare the one I built to the one that is being used and prove they are identical. This means that the computer chips will have a simple enough design that I can remove the tops, look at them under a microscope, and see that they are identical to what I made. I'm not so concerned about equipment that creates the aggregate tallies, as any cheating at that level will be easily caught by a watchful press.
Employers have responsibilities to their direct employees.
Outside contractors have responsibilities to their own direct employees.
Facebook should have no legal obligations to the employees of contractors other than to limit exposure and to not expose them to dangerous things that are beyond the scope of their job. All the things they are complaining about are within the scope of their job.
Now, Facebook may have a moral responsibility to include in its contract that all contracting firms must provide psychological screening prior to placement, regular breaks, emergency/puke breaks as needed, and mental health care for their own employees.
Facebook would be wise to not hire independent contractors unless they first make sure the independent contractor had a note from a psychological professional stating that the person had a suitable psychological profile and that the person had access to psychological care when needed.
Don't be surprised if companies start to hide EU-law-violating and even EU-legally-questionable content if they think you are accessing it from within the EU or are an EU citizen.
If doing so "breaks" their economic model - say, by putting onerous burdens on the hosting company or by making an ad-based model infeasible, they may charge for access from the EU or deny access altogether.
An "EU-surcharge" approach or even a "NO SOUP FOR YOU!" approach may put pressure on voters to put pressure on their EU MPs to loosen up a bit.
Slashdot Mirror
Sure the AI part is new, but If figured this had been going on for decades, only using a human to decide what categories of ads match well with the preceding or upcoming scenes instead of a computer.
Appearently, the apostrophe got turned into a curly-apostrophe. Bad computer.
Still my fault for not previewing.
Shouldâ(TM)ve read the article first, where the author explained that oddly-commented code similar to this was used TEMPORARILY on early processor revisions or on early microcode revisions.
In these cases, the check-in logs or the context of the code - say, itâ(TM)s in a block of code that only runs on processors that are in pre-production at the time - should make it clear that this is âoework-atoundâ code that we expect to be removed soon.
RAM is cheap enough that ECC or similar tech should be routine. Iâ(TM)ll pay 10-15% more per GB for this.
"Narrow banking" - where "liquid no-risk cash" accounts cannot be used to back loans - can work on a small scale but credit unions still need to cover their costs and for-profit banks still need to make a buck.
So, either they charge for this service, or they find some other way to make money off of customers, such as selling their personal data, sending them pad ads from third parties, or advertising their other money-making services in hopes that customers will buy enough to cover the loss from the "deposit money with us so we can loan it out" model.
On a large scale, it creates another problem:
Cash in such an account is like cash in a piggy bank: It's not available for others it use. Granted, this is the intent, but it will mean that the "useful money supply" will go down and interest rates will go up, or the fed or other central banks will have to take other steps to increase the "useful money supply." This isn't a deal-breaker but it is something that has to be thought through.
Personally, I'm fine with the rules we've lived in since the 1930s, which allow lending with small-ish reserve requirements but insurance of the first $X to cover bank failures, where $X is several years' income for the average American household. I'm fine with it as long as a responsibly-used (balance is always more than a reasonably small minimum amount) checking account not only free but earning me interest.
You're lumping in National Banks with Community Banks
A National Bank can be a community bank.
A National Bank refers to its federal charter, as opposed to a state-chartered bank.
A community bank is what most of us think of when we think of a small bank that has only 1 branch or maybe a few branches and which focuses on a small geographic community. It can have either a national or state charter.
What exactly is it Ada can't do but C/C++ can?
"Be better than the other" if the only metrics are producing small, efficient binaries that run on bare metal.
If it could, then it would eliminate some of the features that make Ada different than C - it would just be another procedural language.
Sometimes Ada is a better tool than C, sometimes C is a better tool than Ada. Sometimes neither is better than the other. Same goes for any other pair of languages.
I think sometime in the mid-late 2000s or every early 2010s Microsoft re-focused on security at the expense of new non-security features.
For awhile.
These days, any company that's in the market that Microsoft is in needs to have a "security in depth first" approach. This means as close to zero security-related bugs as possible and fixing or providing reasonable mitigations for security issues as quickly as possible.
Bugs that lead to unwanted data deletion or, for that matter, "silent failures" on requests to delete data, are security bugs even if they do not lead to unauthorized access.
I wonder how much environment I've saved by keeping a couple of 40 year old cars on the road.
Depends on the car and how much you drive it. The 1973 Honda Civic got 27 MPG. Today's gets in the mid-30s.
Electronics are freakishly reliable. They basically never fail.
Wrong.
Even ignoring sloppy manufacturing and using them outside of their rated environments, electronics DO wear out with lots of use or lots of heating/cooling cycles or which is exposed to too much heat too quickly. Anything with a motor in it will wear out, including hard drives and fans.
Many a consumer-grade PC has died an early death due to mains electricity that, while clean enough for most consumers to not notice, is not as clean as the manufacturer expected. What would have lasted 10 or 20 years may last only 3/4 or half that time. Bad mains electricity can wear out a power supply and after several years, the power supply is delivering "not quite on spec" power to the motherboard and other equipment, and after a few years of that, those components become unreliable or just plain die.
I will credit you for asking the important questions about a hot or dusty environment or about not using a UPS. However, these days most consumers and many businesses don't use UPSes on non-server/non-infrastructure equipment and they may run them routinely in a home or office that, over time, is exposed to dust. Manufacturers know this, or at least they should, and they should be building things accordingly. When they don't, it's fair to complain.
I don't expect consumer/small-business-grade equipment to be the same spec or same price as enterprise or mil-spec equipment, but I do expect it to run for many, many years in a typical home or office. In some cases, home/small office equipment has to have BETTER specs than enteprise-grade equipment because you can expect or even demand (as a condition of your support contract or warranty) that enterprise-grade equipment to be on a UPS in a climate-controlled environment, but you can't expect the same for consumer- and home-office equipment.
There is a market for this kind of thing, but it's a small one.
If I am a very small company or an individual who needs "in house" email where no third party can be subpoenaed and where I control the encryption keys, AND where it's easy to run with minimal management, that is worth paying for.
But for most companies small enough where this would be worth considering, a completely outsourced email solution is better. For almost all individuals, outsourced email is better.
In the unlikely event that something like this gets more than "niche market" traction, expect the major players to either buy these guys out or come out with competing products. There's not much in this product that is innovative enough that the proprietary features, if any, can't be worked around and/or that customers won't care about them enough to deter competition.
The port problem is easy to solve by offering optional port-forwarding subscriptions to forward "incoming mail to your domain" ports to a user-selected non-blocked port.
Also, most home users can buy business-contract internet in their homes, which typically allow all incoming ports.
The same people who would pay $500 for this box are the same people who would buy either of the above services.
Teachers who merely impart knowledge were partially replaced with the advent of writing: Once the student learns to read, he can teach himself a lot from the works of long-dead teachers.
Teachers who are "good teachers" - inspiring, able to reach those who are hard to reach, etc. - those are much harder to replace. However, radio and TV have allowed people like Mister Rogers of Mister Rogers Neighborhood to teach long after they stopped filming, and in some cases, after they died.
Holy Blake's 7 Batman!
Critical infrastructure should not be accessible from the internet.
Yes, the previously mentioned trebuchet and drone attacks on 3-phase circuits still work but you need to be closer than a few hundred miles to pull this off without anyone noticing before it's too late.
Never underestimate the power of an insider with a USB stick.
translated from Russian ...after examining USB stick... "I have never seen such a device. There is no place to plug this in to our equipment, so I am no longer interested."
"What is this this USB stick of which you speak?"
BeOS reborn
Many years in the making
Spring comes to the south
Remind me again, I forgot.
The tampering in 2016 was mostly "wetware attacks" - using propaganda and misleading information while pretending to be a news organization or other presumably-neutral party.
At each voting location, drop ballots into the local vote-tabulating ballot box, which is sealed.
At the end of election the box prints out a local tally. Send copies of the tally to the press if they aren't there watching the printout as it is printed.
Take the entire sealed ballot box to the central location.
Take all ballots to another machine that is made by a different vendor which uses totally different chips inside.
Re-count the votes with this second machine and publish the results to the press.
If there is a mis-match of more than +/- 1 vote in any race, hand-count the votes in that box with many people watching.
If there is no mismatch or a small mismatch, put the ballots into a sealed container in case they need to be re-counted later. If the total of mis-matched votes plus other factors suggest a hand-count is needed for the voters to have confidence in the outcome of a particular race, do a hand-count of that entire race.
Separate from all of the above, do a complete hand-count audit of a small random sample of all voting locations. Also to check for anomalies and deter rigging the machines, count a random sample of ballots from a large number of randomly-selected voting locations.
All steps except that of the actual voter casting his ballot should be done under watchful eyes of representatives from any group that wants to watch. Even the actual voting should be open to poll-watchers as long as they are far enough away to not see who is voting for what.
----
Note: This won't stop all bad behavior. You can still deter people likely to vote against you from voting by making it hard to vote (like Florida's felony-can't-vote rules), voter intimidation, wrecking your car on a major road thereby making it inconvenient for people to get to the polls, and other ways that have nothing to do with the vote-counting process.
----
As a condition of use, all vote-related equipment that is at the "local level" - everything used to collect the votes and create the local tallies - must have a published design and implementation and it must be audit-able. This way, I can build an identical machine and compare the one I built to the one that is being used and prove they are identical. This means that the computer chips will have a simple enough design that I can remove the tops, look at them under a microscope, and see that they are identical to what I made. I'm not so concerned about equipment that creates the aggregate tallies, as any cheating at that level will be easily caught by a watchful press.
The only natural predator left for these rats on hooves are the the genus Automobilia species sedanis, suvis, truckis and truckis
They are rare, but A. stationwagonus, A. coupes, A hatchbackus, A. sportscarus and other lesser-known species are also lethal threats to Ratonhoovus gigantus .
Robots Are Our Friends
Employers have responsibilities to their direct employees.
Outside contractors have responsibilities to their own direct employees.
Facebook should have no legal obligations to the employees of contractors other than to limit exposure and to not expose them to dangerous things that are beyond the scope of their job. All the things they are complaining about are within the scope of their job.
Now, Facebook may have a moral responsibility to include in its contract that all contracting firms must provide psychological screening prior to placement, regular breaks, emergency/puke breaks as needed, and mental health care for their own employees.
Facebook would be wise to not hire independent contractors unless they first make sure the independent contractor had a note from a psychological professional stating that the person had a suitable psychological profile and that the person had access to psychological care when needed.
Don't be surprised if companies start to hide EU-law-violating and even EU-legally-questionable content if they think you are accessing it from within the EU or are an EU citizen.
If doing so "breaks" their economic model - say, by putting onerous burdens on the hosting company or by making an ad-based model infeasible, they may charge for access from the EU or deny access altogether.
An "EU-surcharge" approach or even a "NO SOUP FOR YOU!" approach may put pressure on voters to put pressure on their EU MPs to loosen up a bit.
When will computers be subject to mandatory recalls when they have bugs that effectively prevent them from being used "as designed" or "as marketed?"
Manufacturers would have a choice: Fix the problem or refund the purchase price.