Can we now get an analysis of all the bat-shit crazy posts on this article. A number of things that could be investigated.
- Is this one crazy person, or has an entire neighborhood of crazy town come visiting? - Do these crazy people think that crazy shit like this helps persuade voters to vote Trump? - Or is it a false flag effort designed to show Trump supporters as bat-shit crazy people? - Does anyone care?
Obviously you have never been in a terminal session before or you would have known what to do.
...And this is why Linux will never be a success on the desktop.
Linux doesn't work on your video card? You just need to allow it to boot to a terminal session (you do know how to use a command line, don't you?), fire up your copy of vi (you do know how to use vi, don't you?) and modify these configuration files (you do know where the configuration files are, don't you?) Don't know what to modify it to? Post on this random forum and, if you're in luck, user eLi86Hxor will explain it within 72 hours in terms that way over-estimates your level of Linux drivers knowledge. Be sure to copy the answer exactly, because this configuration file is very fussy about white space characters (you do know what white space characters are, don't you?) Then you need to re-compile the driver, of course. But you definitely know how to do that, don't you?
Easy, huh? Can't see why an average end-user would have a problem with any of this.
And if it still doesn't work, go back to the forum where a number of users will be happy to explain to you that the problem is with you, not Linux.
You don't understand. The average slashdotter can envisage things in 1 min's consideration that 100s of Chinese engineers will simply not think of in years of work.
"Oh no! I've been upgraded to Windows 10 when I wanted to stay on Windows 7. I'm confused how to use my computer now and maybe some of my software won't work! I know, the solution to my dilemma is to request a switch to a totally different OS that has even less in common with the Windows 7 I wanted to remain on, and most of my software is certain to not work."
Actually it's that crappy App they pulled out of their existing App which I refuse to install because it insists on permissions to rifle through everything on your phone and upload it to Facebook.
You are absolutely right. What you put on Facebook is of no value whatsoever. You have nothing to regret giving it to us. We just like collecting meaningless chatter and none of our client advertisers have the slightest interest in it. Nothing to worry your little heads over, nothing to see here.
What kind of crazy, concocted scenario are you coming up with where the AI controlling the car has to make a Boolean decision that kills people?
My car is driving down a busy road at a safe and steady 30mph. There is traffic in the opposite direction travelling at 40mph. The sidewalk alongside is crowded with people.
A child suddenly runs onto the road 4 feet in front of the car. There is nothing my vehicle can do to stop in that distance. It is mechanically not possible. However, it can swerve left or swerve right. One direction means a head-on collision, the other means mowing down a dozen pedestrians. Or maybe it does nothing and strikes the child. Whatever decision it makes will result in injuries, perhaps serious, and possibly deaths.
Which should it chose? Maybe my car reckons its safety systems will protect its passengers from the head-on. But unless it instantly enters into a split-second negotiation with the head-on traffic, how does it know what the outcome will be for it? What if the head-on traffic can react and avoid the collision? Or maybe it has actually got ancient, slow, AI and will not avoid the crash? What if it's a model with far superior AI, and has already calculated a path that is optimal for its passengers, but really bad for you?
This is not a crazy or unlikely scenario and involves the AI making several life/death decisions, perhaps in competition with other AIs doing the same.
The whole thing appears to have been written by someone with very specific inside knowledge of a lot of technical details about Twitter.
It more reads like someone making a whole heap of guesses and reaching unsupported conclusions, based on what they think they know about technical details about Twitter. The English language mangling and failure to write clearly comes as special added bonus that only Slashdot can supply.
All the summary you need;
"Something odd happened on Twitter. It was probably something they did themselves and it's not clear why anyone but Twitter should care."
The big problem here is that Walmart's customers are still have the trauma of manually lifting the food into their gaping mouths. This robot needs added to it an arm with spoon.
Please refer to the discussion at hand. We're not talking about what happened, we're talking about what would happen if everyone was armed. Some believe the solution to incidents like this is ensure everyone has a gun. Because life is like the movies; the bad guys wear black t-shirts with skulls on them, and the good guys are easily identified because they're the handsome ones with the nice teeth.
If he really has forgotten to code then it's entirely his own fault. If he has had no "real" work to do for six years then he has had ample time to do whatever took his fancy. Who wouldn't love a job like that? Learn a new language. Play with new tech. Write an open-source game. Invest in new skills. Whatever.
But instead he apparently pissed his days away playing games and reading reddit. If he's fallen out of the job market its his own doing.
when a good guy kills that bad guy who has just started shooting up a night club, the shooting stops.
No it doesn't. These situations are chaos. Most people do not know what's going on, just that there are people with guns running about and people are dying.
So.. Good Guy shoots Bad Guy. Hurrah. But Good Guy #2 arrives at this point and has absolutely no idea who is the Good Guy, and who is the Bad Guy. Oh no! They have forgotten to wear a hat of the appropriate color! He just sees one guy shoot another guy. But Good Guy #1's appearance is enough to trigger Good Guy #2's personal prejudices about how a bad guy might look, and so he takes a shot at him. Good Guy #1 thinks "Shit, it's Bad Guy #2!" and shoots back.
Meanwhile Good Guy #3 has arrived, having heard gun fire, to see two guys shooting it out. Unsure who is the Bad Guy he hesitates. Good Guy #2 sees him, decides he's a Good Guy too, and shouts at him to take cover. Good Guy #1 hears that and decides that Good Guy #3 is Bad Guy #3, and so shoots at him too. Good Guy #3 concludes that Good Guy #1 is Bad Guy, and that the body of Bad Guy is Good Guy #1. He opens fire, but is a poor shot and takes out Innocent #1 instead.
Good Guy #4 arrives. He's a personal friend of Good Guy #1 and knows he's a Good Guy. He also has a bigger gun. He stafs Good Guys #2 and #3, making the safe conclusion that anyone firing at his friend and Innocent #1 must be the Bad Guys. Good Guy #2 fires back, taking out Good Guy #1. Good Guy #4 is upset about this and goes on the rampage .
“If you’re living a normal life,” Thornhill reassures me, “then, frankly, you have nothing to worry about.”"
The definition of "normal" is not for this company, or my landlord, to decide.
"Tenant Assured doesn’t give users any way to view their ratings or dispute misleading data."
I think Tenant Assured might find that European law has quite a different view on that.
But I am happy to create an empty Facebook profile and share it with my landlord. I'll even put a post up there about paying my bills on time, and getting an early night. No other data in there? I'm sorry, I don't use Facebook that much, and it's not compulsory to use Twitter, so I don't have anything to share with you there.
That's a strange definition of exploitation. Poor teenage boys. Exploited by free streams. Forced into hours of watching. Robbed of the time they could be gaming.
Well this is exactly what I'm going to do. Not use it.
Messenger is user-sanctioned spyware. Once installed it pretty much helps itself to anything it can get its hands on in your device, and sucks it back up to Facebook. No way is it going on my phone.
I've used the mobile website for a while now. Today I get constant redirections to the Messenger download page. It's been on the cards for a while, and now it looks like it's time for me to part company with Facebook. I think I'll manage.
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Can we now get an analysis of all the bat-shit crazy posts on this article. A number of things that could be investigated.
- Is this one crazy person, or has an entire neighborhood of crazy town come visiting?
- Do these crazy people think that crazy shit like this helps persuade voters to vote Trump?
- Or is it a false flag effort designed to show Trump supporters as bat-shit crazy people?
- Does anyone care?
And that bold woman? Marie Antoinette.
And the man who witnessed and recorded this exchange? Albert Einstein.
Obviously you have never been in a terminal session before or you would have known what to do.
...And this is why Linux will never be a success on the desktop.
Linux doesn't work on your video card? You just need to allow it to boot to a terminal session (you do know how to use a command line, don't you?), fire up your copy of vi (you do know how to use vi, don't you?) and modify these configuration files (you do know where the configuration files are, don't you?) Don't know what to modify it to? Post on this random forum and, if you're in luck, user eLi86Hxor will explain it within 72 hours in terms that way over-estimates your level of Linux drivers knowledge. Be sure to copy the answer exactly, because this configuration file is very fussy about white space characters (you do know what white space characters are, don't you?) Then you need to re-compile the driver, of course. But you definitely know how to do that, don't you?
Easy, huh? Can't see why an average end-user would have a problem with any of this.
And if it still doesn't work, go back to the forum where a number of users will be happy to explain to you that the problem is with you, not Linux.
You don't understand. The average slashdotter can envisage things in 1 min's consideration that 100s of Chinese engineers will simply not think of in years of work.
Buses are a contentious political hot topic. Who knew?
"Oh no! I've been upgraded to Windows 10 when I wanted to stay on Windows 7. I'm confused how to use my computer now and maybe some of my software won't work! I know, the solution to my dilemma is to request a switch to a totally different OS that has even less in common with the Windows 7 I wanted to remain on, and most of my software is certain to not work."
Yeah. That totally happened.
Actually it's that crappy App they pulled out of their existing App which I refuse to install because it insists on permissions to rifle through everything on your phone and upload it to Facebook.
You are absolutely right. What you put on Facebook is of no value whatsoever. You have nothing to regret giving it to us. We just like collecting meaningless chatter and none of our client advertisers have the slightest interest in it. Nothing to worry your little heads over, nothing to see here.
- Mark Zuckerberg
What kind of crazy, concocted scenario are you coming up with where the AI controlling the car has to make a Boolean decision that kills people?
My car is driving down a busy road at a safe and steady 30mph. There is traffic in the opposite direction travelling at 40mph. The sidewalk alongside is crowded with people.
A child suddenly runs onto the road 4 feet in front of the car. There is nothing my vehicle can do to stop in that distance. It is mechanically not possible. However, it can swerve left or swerve right. One direction means a head-on collision, the other means mowing down a dozen pedestrians. Or maybe it does nothing and strikes the child. Whatever decision it makes will result in injuries, perhaps serious, and possibly deaths.
Which should it chose? Maybe my car reckons its safety systems will protect its passengers from the head-on. But unless it instantly enters into a split-second negotiation with the head-on traffic, how does it know what the outcome will be for it? What if the head-on traffic can react and avoid the collision? Or maybe it has actually got ancient, slow, AI and will not avoid the crash? What if it's a model with far superior AI, and has already calculated a path that is optimal for its passengers, but really bad for you?
This is not a crazy or unlikely scenario and involves the AI making several life/death decisions, perhaps in competition with other AIs doing the same.
This interview is full of classic self-justification;
"I like to think I am a businessman. Not a criminal."
"I like to think my victims are rich and won't miss the money I'm stealing."
"I like to think those I'm stealing from had the opportunities I didn't. This makes us even."
"I like to think that because scamming is hard and takes time, it's like a real job."
"I like to think it's my victim's own fault I'm scamming them. It's not my fault they don't follow the rules and don't know the game."
U2's last album = 2 years ago.
McCartney's last album = 3 years ago
What was your point again?
McCartney is 74 years old. Does he get to retire? Or is that also "sitting around and eating off work he once did"?
The whole thing appears to have been written by someone with very specific inside knowledge of a lot of technical details about Twitter.
It more reads like someone making a whole heap of guesses and reaching unsupported conclusions, based on what they think they know about technical details about Twitter. The English language mangling and failure to write clearly comes as special added bonus that only Slashdot can supply.
All the summary you need;
"Something odd happened on Twitter. It was probably something they did themselves and it's not clear why anyone but Twitter should care."
Do you not find it cramped inside your tiny little brain with its tiny little horizons?
You are confused, but that is because the contributor has mangled English. I think the phrase that the literate would use is "a company in London".
Unless the OP is making a point about where the company used to be in the past?
The big problem here is that Walmart's customers are still have the trauma of manually lifting the food into their gaping mouths. This robot needs added to it an arm with spoon.
Please refer to the discussion at hand. We're not talking about what happened, we're talking about what would happen if everyone was armed. Some believe the solution to incidents like this is ensure everyone has a gun. Because life is like the movies; the bad guys wear black t-shirts with skulls on them, and the good guys are easily identified because they're the handsome ones with the nice teeth.
If he really has forgotten to code then it's entirely his own fault. If he has had no "real" work to do for six years then he has had ample time to do whatever took his fancy. Who wouldn't love a job like that? Learn a new language. Play with new tech. Write an open-source game. Invest in new skills. Whatever.
But instead he apparently pissed his days away playing games and reading reddit. If he's fallen out of the job market its his own doing.
when a good guy kills that bad guy who has just started shooting up a night club, the shooting stops.
No it doesn't. These situations are chaos. Most people do not know what's going on, just that there are people with guns running about and people are dying.
So.. Good Guy shoots Bad Guy. Hurrah. But Good Guy #2 arrives at this point and has absolutely no idea who is the Good Guy, and who is the Bad Guy. Oh no! They have forgotten to wear a hat of the appropriate color! He just sees one guy shoot another guy. But Good Guy #1's appearance is enough to trigger Good Guy #2's personal prejudices about how a bad guy might look, and so he takes a shot at him. Good Guy #1 thinks "Shit, it's Bad Guy #2!" and shoots back.
Meanwhile Good Guy #3 has arrived, having heard gun fire, to see two guys shooting it out. Unsure who is the Bad Guy he hesitates. Good Guy #2 sees him, decides he's a Good Guy too, and shouts at him to take cover. Good Guy #1 hears that and decides that Good Guy #3 is Bad Guy #3, and so shoots at him too. Good Guy #3 concludes that Good Guy #1 is Bad Guy, and that the body of Bad Guy is Good Guy #1. He opens fire, but is a poor shot and takes out Innocent #1 instead.
Good Guy #4 arrives. He's a personal friend of Good Guy #1 and knows he's a Good Guy. He also has a bigger gun. He stafs Good Guys #2 and #3, making the safe conclusion that anyone firing at his friend and Innocent #1 must be the Bad Guys. Good Guy #2 fires back, taking out Good Guy #1. Good Guy #4 is upset about this and goes on the rampage .
The shooting continues. Everyone dies.
It's not really a bear trap, as the person putting their finger there is, presumably, aware that it may hurt them. That's not how a bear trap works.
I'd say, in this example, the person offering up their finger has to take a fair proportion of the responsibility for any resulting pain.
And the irony of that is they only did it because Thatcher was worried that if they didn't, the Germans would.
“If you’re living a normal life,” Thornhill reassures me, “then, frankly, you have nothing to worry about.”"
The definition of "normal" is not for this company, or my landlord, to decide.
"Tenant Assured doesn’t give users any way to view their ratings or dispute misleading data."
I think Tenant Assured might find that European law has quite a different view on that.
But I am happy to create an empty Facebook profile and share it with my landlord. I'll even put a post up there about paying my bills on time, and getting an early night. No other data in there? I'm sorry, I don't use Facebook that much, and it's not compulsory to use Twitter, so I don't have anything to share with you there.
Are you still on here telling us about your failure to teach your daughter any morals?
That's a strange definition of exploitation. Poor teenage boys. Exploited by free streams. Forced into hours of watching. Robbed of the time they could be gaming.
Was he not married?
How is this relevant?
He was sexually harassing men? women? or both?
Does it matter?
Men can simply say fuck off how can you sexually harass a man?
You have no idea how sexual harassment works. Particularly in a workplace/professional setting.
So I assume they are saying he was sexually harassing women?
Based on your reasoning, your assumption is unsafe.
And I think he is not an unpleasant looking fella and I would love to be sexually harassed by him.
All becomes clear. You're not just wrong, you are also an idiot.
Well this is exactly what I'm going to do. Not use it.
Messenger is user-sanctioned spyware. Once installed it pretty much helps itself to anything it can get its hands on in your device, and sucks it back up to Facebook. No way is it going on my phone.
I've used the mobile website for a while now. Today I get constant redirections to the Messenger download page. It's been on the cards for a while, and now it looks like it's time for me to part company with Facebook. I think I'll manage.