Amazon likely doesn't want to reveal what it's recording (everything) and how long it holds onto it (forever).
This, pretty much. People might have second thoughts about buying one if they realized Amazon records *everything*, forever.
I'm far from a legal expert but doesn't the gov't already have the power to subpoena library records to see if a defendant checked out books on poison or bombs?
quinoa, a hugely popular "super-food" because it is well balanced and gluten-free
Seriously, wtf? When and why did gluten become an evil boogeyman? Was there a recent research that found gluten causes cancer or something? Or is it just a new age hippie thing?
Gluten is just wheat protein. It's nutritious. It's how Roman soldiers were able to go everywhere and fight because they had a reliable, portable, long-lasting and nutritious food supply. Wheat is actually the first superfood.
Yes a tiny percentage of the population can't eat wheat because of celiac or wheat allergies. So what, peanut allergies are far more common and yet I don't see a lot of anti-peanut crusading.
Is anyone shocked that corporate-owned media is serving up stories and interviews with corporate bosses that favor corporate profits? Where are the interviews with workers who lost their jobs?
I'm still puzzled at why there isn't any anger from rank-and-file liberals at how the corporate interests infiltrated and took over the liberal movement to the point where every liberal newspaper is advocating policies that favor corporate profits, such as globalization and importing cheap labor. There was a brief backlash in the form of the Bernie movement, but the corporate liberals squashed that pretty quick in favor of their stooge Clinton.
"Paris is the capital of Germany" -- some people will legitly not know the answer. And besides France and Germany are both white-man countries in Western Europe that are very close to each other; someone not fully alert could easily confuse the two.
"You were born in Berlin" -- people with varying degrees of amnesia or repression forget their personal details, but still retain general knowledge of the world. For instance, "Do Birds Fly?" or "Is ice hotter than the Sun?" are questions that even full-on amnesiacs can answer correctly.
Also, 70% seems like a pretty horrible accuracy rate. For yes/no answers to such super-simple questions, the success rate should be 100% or close to it.
At some point in the 70's, astronomers believed that normal planetary formation processes, for a planet of similar size and composition as Earth, would inevitably lead to a very dense atmosphere like Venus. Earth ended up with a small atmosphere because it had a giant, close-orbiting moon that "stripped away" particles from the very edges of the atmosphere. Therefore we should be thankful for this giant moon, which is probably very rare for a planet the size of Earth.
(in fact Asimov says in one of his later Foundation books that complex sentient life only evolved on Earth in this galaxy because of a very rare combination of a giant moon and radioactive crust)
Well, there is a doomsday but nuclear war would not be it. Yes a lot of humans would die in an all-out nuclear war, maybe even the majority, but it would not wipe out the human species. Not even close.
Climate change is also not it. Primitive stone age tribesmen millions of years ago survived far worse climate conditions than what climate change believers are projecting.
Big-ass asteroid would do it. Or a rogue planet. Or a mega volcano like the one that caused the Permian extinction.
Nuclear family of the 1950s usually started when the parents were in their 20's. Dad working a factory job, stay-at-home mom, living in a 1200 square foot house with formica countertops.
In 2016 millenials in their 20s are either living in the basement of their parents' 2200 square foot house or doubling/tripling up in an apartment with roommates. Yes they have cheap electronics and granite countertops in their parents house or their apartment, but are they really doing better than their 1950s counterparts?
I seriously hope Trump gets rid of H1B visa completely. (full stop)
We have decades of empirical data showing who H1B helps and who it hurts. It helps the business owners, and hurts the non-executive workers. For many decades we've had a government helping owners at the expense of workers. Let's try doing things the other way and see how that goes.
There's no fundamental law against a giant flying reptile that breathes fire either, but that doesn't mean it's actually gonna happen. Flying reptiles exist(ed), flamethrowers exist, biological cells have been known to produce all kinds of chemicals many of which are eminently flammable, so why can't flying firebreathing dragons exist?
Some things from science fiction are doomed to remain just that, fiction. That's my opinion. Of course your assertion that true AI will happen is also just an opinion. We'll see who's right... (although every day that passes with AI continuing to be lame just adds to my side of the argument)
Okay, that would actually be similar to what happened to the guy that died in his Tesla while watching a Harry Potter movie. The fault lies with the humans who entrusted AI to make decisions for them when it's clearly inadequate for the job.
AI is still so laughably bad that I think the "threat to humanity" danger can basically be counted as zero.
And before anyone says "yes but AI will improve"... there are some things that are simply not possible in this universe no matter how many tweaks and improvements you try to make. Self-aware sentient AI is one, small portal Mr. Fusion type reactor that gives useful net surplus energy is probably another.
On the other hand I think self-replicating nanobots or engineered microbes (not intelligent or sentient or anything, just mindlessly replicating physically) can be a real threat.
They were well known, even back in the 90's, to have paid scientists to come up with perfume (or smells) that they can pump in the air which could keep people gambling more. This is not news.
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Amazon likely doesn't want to reveal what it's recording (everything) and how long it holds onto it (forever).
This, pretty much. People might have second thoughts about buying one if they realized Amazon records *everything*, forever.
I'm far from a legal expert but doesn't the gov't already have the power to subpoena library records to see if a defendant checked out books on poison or bombs?
Valve failed.
Get with the times, grandpa. Everything is due to climate change. We don't call it global warming anymore.
Well to be fair, if Clinton were president she would probably just "drone this guy" anyways.
I thought I've heard this story before...
All the teens and 20 somethings I know have migrated from Snapchat to Whatsapp. Snap has jumped the shark already.
I hear Hillary Clinton likes Snapchat though, the messages you type automatically disappear! Maybe they can cater to the over 60 crowd.
cocaine, hookers and casinos are involved. And a chair throwing incident (or at least baguette throwing)
Yesterday's Fling story was way more interesting. This one is pretty much "meh".
quinoa, a hugely popular "super-food" because it is well balanced and gluten-free
Seriously, wtf? When and why did gluten become an evil boogeyman? Was there a recent research that found gluten causes cancer or something? Or is it just a new age hippie thing?
Gluten is just wheat protein. It's nutritious. It's how Roman soldiers were able to go everywhere and fight because they had a reliable, portable, long-lasting and nutritious food supply. Wheat is actually the first superfood.
Yes a tiny percentage of the population can't eat wheat because of celiac or wheat allergies. So what, peanut allergies are far more common and yet I don't see a lot of anti-peanut crusading.
call me when you build a computer that can survive the interior of Uranus
Is anyone shocked that corporate-owned media is serving up stories and interviews with corporate bosses that favor corporate profits? Where are the interviews with workers who lost their jobs?
I'm still puzzled at why there isn't any anger from rank-and-file liberals at how the corporate interests infiltrated and took over the liberal movement to the point where every liberal newspaper is advocating policies that favor corporate profits, such as globalization and importing cheap labor. There was a brief backlash in the form of the Bernie movement, but the corporate liberals squashed that pretty quick in favor of their stooge Clinton.
"Paris is the capital of Germany" -- some people will legitly not know the answer. And besides France and Germany are both white-man countries in Western Europe that are very close to each other; someone not fully alert could easily confuse the two.
"You were born in Berlin" -- people with varying degrees of amnesia or repression forget their personal details, but still retain general knowledge of the world. For instance, "Do Birds Fly?" or "Is ice hotter than the Sun?" are questions that even full-on amnesiacs can answer correctly.
Also, 70% seems like a pretty horrible accuracy rate. For yes/no answers to such super-simple questions, the success rate should be 100% or close to it.
At some point in the 70's, astronomers believed that normal planetary formation processes, for a planet of similar size and composition as Earth, would inevitably lead to a very dense atmosphere like Venus. Earth ended up with a small atmosphere because it had a giant, close-orbiting moon that "stripped away" particles from the very edges of the atmosphere. Therefore we should be thankful for this giant moon, which is probably very rare for a planet the size of Earth.
(in fact Asimov says in one of his later Foundation books that complex sentient life only evolved on Earth in this galaxy because of a very rare combination of a giant moon and radioactive crust)
I see you're blaming Trump for the government's behavior in 2016. Typical leftist logic.
FYI, Trump took office in Jan 2017. Obama was the president for all of 2016.
There is no such thing as doomsday
Well, there is a doomsday but nuclear war would not be it. Yes a lot of humans would die in an all-out nuclear war, maybe even the majority, but it would not wipe out the human species. Not even close.
Climate change is also not it. Primitive stone age tribesmen millions of years ago survived far worse climate conditions than what climate change believers are projecting.
Big-ass asteroid would do it. Or a rogue planet. Or a mega volcano like the one that caused the Permian extinction.
without being evil.
You're confusing Facebook with Google.
Nuclear family of the 1950s usually started when the parents were in their 20's. Dad working a factory job, stay-at-home mom, living in a 1200 square foot house with formica countertops.
In 2016 millenials in their 20s are either living in the basement of their parents' 2200 square foot house or doubling/tripling up in an apartment with roommates. Yes they have cheap electronics and granite countertops in their parents house or their apartment, but are they really doing better than their 1950s counterparts?
I seriously hope Trump gets rid of H1B visa completely. (full stop)
We have decades of empirical data showing who H1B helps and who it hurts. It helps the business owners, and hurts the non-executive workers. For many decades we've had a government helping owners at the expense of workers. Let's try doing things the other way and see how that goes.
There's no fundamental law against a giant flying reptile that breathes fire either, but that doesn't mean it's actually gonna happen. Flying reptiles exist(ed), flamethrowers exist, biological cells have been known to produce all kinds of chemicals many of which are eminently flammable, so why can't flying firebreathing dragons exist?
Some things from science fiction are doomed to remain just that, fiction. That's my opinion. Of course your assertion that true AI will happen is also just an opinion. We'll see who's right... (although every day that passes with AI continuing to be lame just adds to my side of the argument)
Okay, that would actually be similar to what happened to the guy that died in his Tesla while watching a Harry Potter movie. The fault lies with the humans who entrusted AI to make decisions for them when it's clearly inadequate for the job.
AI is still so laughably bad that I think the "threat to humanity" danger can basically be counted as zero.
And before anyone says "yes but AI will improve"... there are some things that are simply not possible in this universe no matter how many tweaks and improvements you try to make. Self-aware sentient AI is one, small portal Mr. Fusion type reactor that gives useful net surplus energy is probably another.
On the other hand I think self-replicating nanobots or engineered microbes (not intelligent or sentient or anything, just mindlessly replicating physically) can be a real threat.
CEO of Apple screwed his business partner Wozniak out of hundreds of dollars by lying about his Atari chip bonus. That's pretty corrupt too, no?
here's what happened when Airbus built a fully automated airliner (with no human inside) and have it land itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They were well known, even back in the 90's, to have paid scientists to come up with perfume (or smells) that they can pump in the air which could keep people gambling more. This is not news.
"It's unclear if the devices will run on software based on Android".
Either it's gonna run Android and be swimming in a sea of Android phones, or it's gonna run something else and be dead on arrival.
What you gonna do if Bill Gates is ever involved in a scandal? Call it Gatesgate?