Whose law enforcement? It's not like the FBI can go down to India and round up a factory-sized building with workers. India just doesn't care whether or not it is unethical, as long as they aren't doing anything illegal within India (or keep paying their taxes and bribes) they're not going to stop them.
To the Indians, people are giving them money for a service they sold on the phone. Even US courts in front of a tech-illiterate judge may not find much fault with their methodology other than that it's not entirely ethical, but to the law it simply doesn't matter whether you bought a car or a computer program that wasn't necessary, you made the decision to buy it because they demonstrated to you that you needed it.
A better analogy would be: a locksmith comes by your house and says, your lock isn't safe, can I demonstrate. You say "sure" and then he goes on and picks the lock on your door. You say "oh no, I need a better lock" and the locksmith says "here it is" and then asks $70-250 to get you a "better" lock. Doesn't mean your house was at immediate risk because of the lock, it doesn't mean the new lock can't be picked, it doesn't even mean you can go to a different locksmith and ask about it. It just means you got a sleazy locksmith and you made a panic decision.
I wouldn't call a 100ft diesel-electric sub carrying 20T of cocaine a small thing - those are indeed the exception but none of them are being torpedoed out of the water. About 20% of US drugs is estimated to come from narco-subs. That's a LOT of potential nuclear armament.
Yet South American drug convoys manage to run subs and boats back and forth on a daily basis spitting distance off the US coast. You vastly overstate the quality and readiness of the US military.
The figure head has little impact. NK is lead by its military and China has a huge influence. NK is basically China's Cuba and Castro reigned well into his deathbed.
You're looking at ~1 kWh to generate a half liter of water in optimal (50%+ humidity) conditions - a car battery worth of energy to get a few glasses of water.
Large solar panels come at ~300-400W but this device needs to work both day and night so you also need to get some extra plus energy storage.
Even if this device is able to basically match current output rates in a 10% humidity environment which would be a huge feat you're looking at approx 12 large solar panels (a small house install) per liter (not gallon) of water.
Sounds more like shaping the message they want you to hear.
We all know how well "fact checking" and poll massaging CNN and Politifact were doing prior to the elections in an attempt to shape the election and it backfired.
Even if the content is considered fringe to the MSM, repressing it usually has the opposite effect, it only confirms the persecution complex of those fringe groups.
Even the BK thing could be exploited. If you know of a string that the device can't parse well (there IS a buffer overflow or similar exploit they haven't found yet) just editing Wikipedia could instantly affect all devices.
Having a voice controlled system that doesn't authenticate the voice is the problem. BK is just responsibly disclosing the problem before others start doing it.
It may be relatively complex, but neural networks aren't all THAT complex. Usually there are a few hundred nodes, facial recognition can be done in a few dozen or so (less if you only want to recognize 1 feature). The nice thing about "AI" is that you can halt the program and inspect it's state, then step through the program. Sure it's difficult and at first glance, you may not be able to infer input from output but it's not impossible.
The problem with true "intelligence", besides the lack of definition, is that we can't just 'halt' a brain, add breakpoints or even inspect it's state at any particular point in time. We know they're just biological processes but they're both advanced and brittle enough that anytime we 'do' something to it, we alter the states.
I know IBM still makes mainframes, I have at least one client that purchased a brand new one. IBM also continued to support this system, a 1985 mainframe that processes orders sent by inter-office mail to a mainframe operator, printed out and sent back by inter-office mail. About a decade ago I had a customer that was just trucking out it's Winchester's out of the data center.
It's not just a random computer language, it has quite a bit of intricacies and used to be geared towards solving business logic problems. It also has numerous dialects. Additionally, these programs are often huge and nobody knows for sure what test cases need to be applied, so even if you could translate and then write the amount of tests for the logic that has evolved over 30 years you might as well just rewrite it which is the cost they're trying to avoid.
The problem is not necessarily the software that needs to be translated, it's also the hardware and operating system these are still running on. IBM and a number of subsidiaries is making a killing supporting these old systems which makes it still a cheaper (quarterly speaking) option than rewriting.
One of the institutions I work with just finished moving an old COBOL system from an IBM mainframe to a 'virtual platform', so at least it's on better hardware but the OS and software remains the same so they still need COBOL people but also people that understand the particular business logic implemented in that system. Both IBM and their 'virtualization partner' is glad to make these processes as long and painful as possible. On the other hand, the rewrite is slated in the next 5-10 years but this is again, being done by SAS/Oracle/IBM types which make a killing making an inferior product.
A lot of established US and UK companies will only deal with US and UK companies, to get their products, you have to go through one of their shell companies directly.
Startups and competitors looking for a good market share won't care, especially not in China.
Does Nissan or GM sell more electric cars compared to their respective total production and market share?
The Tesla will be hard to get for a long time to come because they haven't yet ramped up production to a Nissan-level. The problem is that no dealer wants to sell the electrics because they lose everything. They're already making minimal margins on the sale of a car, they may get a cut from the bank but they get more income reselling second hand or end-of-leases and the service work.
Well, since you prefer to be blind, Wikipedia has a nice section on Democrats use of the nuclear option during Obama's presidency as well as the use of the option by Robert Byrd including raising the option during nominations blocked by Republicans.
It's not backfiring on anyone if it's just an option that both parties can and have used whenever they chose. If the Reps didn't do it this time, the Dems wouldn't be held back to do it again next time because "they didn't last time, so let's be nice".
Off course you don't give a fuck, you're clearly aligned against the Republicans using it, it doesn't matter to you when the Dems use it as long as the Reps don't and thus your argument is inconsequential to the discussion.
No, it just goes to show that when you align yourself with either party, you're not going to get any real change in your politics. You're the one that just made it a binary choice. I pointed out that both parties do it because they're the ones in power and they know people like you will continue with the same pattern.
Both sides have done this. The 'rules' are put in and out of place to allow or block votes as people see fit. As long as it's constitutional (a majority vote is necessary to change the rules), there isn't much you can do about this.
The Republicans have the majority, it's their show to run. Obama lost a bunch of seats for the Dems both at State and Federal levels over the last 8 years. If Bernie or Trump had gone third party, there would be a viable third party in this country right now, they both have proven that they're not that interested in real change.
Federal lobbying is ~$100/citizen/year. Good luck on getting even 10% of the population to give $1000/year to their congress critters, if you can even agree on legislation to promote.
Depending on your legislation and industry, but federal lobbying is ~$3B/year, I'd guess Utah probably is in the few hundreds of millions of dollars, you're probably averaging a few thousand per legislator you want to buy the vote from per year.
Well, if it costs $200 for 4 fixtures (an outlet, 2 switches and a light), replacing all the outlets, switches and lights will cost you a significant chunk of money not to mention the electrician's/permitting cost for such an overhaul.
$5k is a low estimate especially in older homes and that is IF you get it to work once it's all in. A lot of power line communication doesn't work (well) across both halves of the breaker box or sometimes even across circuits and a lot of houses don't have the requisite two legs of the circuit in every switch box and then it gets really fun with redoing the circuits on two-way or three-way circuits. Wireless communication is a joke when all your boxes are encased in 3mm of steel, most usable distances simply aren't covered without repeaters and then not every widget you get has 2-way communication or repeaters built-in.
Then the summary on/. is wrong. Either way, it's the wrong conclusion to make. The average student debt increased 25% while 300% more people went to colleges.
If more people are going to go to school every year, that is probably a 'good thing' but it also makes positions in good institutions much scarcer and thus due to the scarcity the cost will go up.
Your copyright and patents don't apply in China/India and even if they do, there is nobody there to protect them for you, the courts (if any) will usually go in the locals' favor if you have any standing at all. Contracts are worthless if they're not enforced.
Most engineering companies do have some patents, bigger companies even more, outsourcing out of the country is too costly and involved if you're that small to not have either.
An easy way to put listings up, automatic screenings, feedback and getting a fair market price for both parties. If it's anything like E-Bay, you'll be able to give stars to your renters and landlords, something Craigslist currently doesn't do.
If you're just renting out a room, in-law apartment or an inherited property and you have no clue about the current housing market and don't want to involve a real estate agent with their huge cuts (which is more than 25%), this should give you current market prices pretty accurately (+/- 15%).
If you need to move for whatever reason and this makes it easier and makes it feel 'safer' (because you will know more, including past landlord comments, about your tenants before they come knocking on your door) you could consider renting out the property you own for a while instead of selling it increasing the pool of rentals in your area while you don't have to take a loss on a quick sale right away.
The entire McD burger cost less than a dollar to produce and are sold for $8-15. A quarter pound of real beef from a local butcher costs about $1.50, $2-4 for organic and is usually still sold for $8-15. If Wal-Mart and McD is allowed to externalize it's costs, why aren't local business owners? What's more, McD and Wal-Mart, even their franchises, operate from PO boxes in lower tax states. The complaint is not about competing with chains, they have the scale and low quality going for them, local businesses need and will do better to work against their competition.
It's the fact that business owners are competing against the government (unemployment and benefits) to attract workers, few people are willing to work if they get better benefits which is given to them through higher taxes to the business owners. And whenever business owners set the wages high enough, the government moves the level up further. Again, I have no problem with giving people unemployment for a period of time but to me, earning $35k/y in benefits is doing "pretty well".
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Whose law enforcement? It's not like the FBI can go down to India and round up a factory-sized building with workers. India just doesn't care whether or not it is unethical, as long as they aren't doing anything illegal within India (or keep paying their taxes and bribes) they're not going to stop them.
To the Indians, people are giving them money for a service they sold on the phone. Even US courts in front of a tech-illiterate judge may not find much fault with their methodology other than that it's not entirely ethical, but to the law it simply doesn't matter whether you bought a car or a computer program that wasn't necessary, you made the decision to buy it because they demonstrated to you that you needed it.
A better analogy would be: a locksmith comes by your house and says, your lock isn't safe, can I demonstrate. You say "sure" and then he goes on and picks the lock on your door. You say "oh no, I need a better lock" and the locksmith says "here it is" and then asks $70-250 to get you a "better" lock. Doesn't mean your house was at immediate risk because of the lock, it doesn't mean the new lock can't be picked, it doesn't even mean you can go to a different locksmith and ask about it. It just means you got a sleazy locksmith and you made a panic decision.
I wouldn't call a 100ft diesel-electric sub carrying 20T of cocaine a small thing - those are indeed the exception but none of them are being torpedoed out of the water. About 20% of US drugs is estimated to come from narco-subs. That's a LOT of potential nuclear armament.
Yet South American drug convoys manage to run subs and boats back and forth on a daily basis spitting distance off the US coast. You vastly overstate the quality and readiness of the US military.
The figure head has little impact. NK is lead by its military and China has a huge influence. NK is basically China's Cuba and Castro reigned well into his deathbed.
The conversion is awful.
You're looking at ~1 kWh to generate a half liter of water in optimal (50%+ humidity) conditions - a car battery worth of energy to get a few glasses of water.
Large solar panels come at ~300-400W but this device needs to work both day and night so you also need to get some extra plus energy storage.
Even if this device is able to basically match current output rates in a 10% humidity environment which would be a huge feat you're looking at approx 12 large solar panels (a small house install) per liter (not gallon) of water.
Sounds more like shaping the message they want you to hear.
We all know how well "fact checking" and poll massaging CNN and Politifact were doing prior to the elections in an attempt to shape the election and it backfired.
Even if the content is considered fringe to the MSM, repressing it usually has the opposite effect, it only confirms the persecution complex of those fringe groups.
Even the BK thing could be exploited. If you know of a string that the device can't parse well (there IS a buffer overflow or similar exploit they haven't found yet) just editing Wikipedia could instantly affect all devices.
Having a voice controlled system that doesn't authenticate the voice is the problem. BK is just responsibly disclosing the problem before others start doing it.
It may be relatively complex, but neural networks aren't all THAT complex. Usually there are a few hundred nodes, facial recognition can be done in a few dozen or so (less if you only want to recognize 1 feature). The nice thing about "AI" is that you can halt the program and inspect it's state, then step through the program. Sure it's difficult and at first glance, you may not be able to infer input from output but it's not impossible.
The problem with true "intelligence", besides the lack of definition, is that we can't just 'halt' a brain, add breakpoints or even inspect it's state at any particular point in time. We know they're just biological processes but they're both advanced and brittle enough that anytime we 'do' something to it, we alter the states.
I know IBM still makes mainframes, I have at least one client that purchased a brand new one. IBM also continued to support this system, a 1985 mainframe that processes orders sent by inter-office mail to a mainframe operator, printed out and sent back by inter-office mail. About a decade ago I had a customer that was just trucking out it's Winchester's out of the data center.
It's not just a random computer language, it has quite a bit of intricacies and used to be geared towards solving business logic problems. It also has numerous dialects. Additionally, these programs are often huge and nobody knows for sure what test cases need to be applied, so even if you could translate and then write the amount of tests for the logic that has evolved over 30 years you might as well just rewrite it which is the cost they're trying to avoid.
The problem is not necessarily the software that needs to be translated, it's also the hardware and operating system these are still running on. IBM and a number of subsidiaries is making a killing supporting these old systems which makes it still a cheaper (quarterly speaking) option than rewriting.
One of the institutions I work with just finished moving an old COBOL system from an IBM mainframe to a 'virtual platform', so at least it's on better hardware but the OS and software remains the same so they still need COBOL people but also people that understand the particular business logic implemented in that system. Both IBM and their 'virtualization partner' is glad to make these processes as long and painful as possible. On the other hand, the rewrite is slated in the next 5-10 years but this is again, being done by SAS/Oracle/IBM types which make a killing making an inferior product.
A lot of established US and UK companies will only deal with US and UK companies, to get their products, you have to go through one of their shell companies directly.
Startups and competitors looking for a good market share won't care, especially not in China.
Does Nissan or GM sell more electric cars compared to their respective total production and market share?
The Tesla will be hard to get for a long time to come because they haven't yet ramped up production to a Nissan-level. The problem is that no dealer wants to sell the electrics because they lose everything. They're already making minimal margins on the sale of a car, they may get a cut from the bank but they get more income reselling second hand or end-of-leases and the service work.
Well, since you prefer to be blind, Wikipedia has a nice section on Democrats use of the nuclear option during Obama's presidency as well as the use of the option by Robert Byrd including raising the option during nominations blocked by Republicans.
It's not backfiring on anyone if it's just an option that both parties can and have used whenever they chose. If the Reps didn't do it this time, the Dems wouldn't be held back to do it again next time because "they didn't last time, so let's be nice".
Off course you don't give a fuck, you're clearly aligned against the Republicans using it, it doesn't matter to you when the Dems use it as long as the Reps don't and thus your argument is inconsequential to the discussion.
No, it just goes to show that when you align yourself with either party, you're not going to get any real change in your politics. You're the one that just made it a binary choice. I pointed out that both parties do it because they're the ones in power and they know people like you will continue with the same pattern.
Both sides have done this. The 'rules' are put in and out of place to allow or block votes as people see fit. As long as it's constitutional (a majority vote is necessary to change the rules), there isn't much you can do about this.
The Republicans have the majority, it's their show to run. Obama lost a bunch of seats for the Dems both at State and Federal levels over the last 8 years. If Bernie or Trump had gone third party, there would be a viable third party in this country right now, they both have proven that they're not that interested in real change.
The "poor" in western countries can universally pay for cars, phones and $120/mo cable. If they can't the government gives it to them for free.
I'm sure setting up a call center is of minimal cost to an Uber-sized company.
Federal lobbying is ~$100/citizen/year. Good luck on getting even 10% of the population to give $1000/year to their congress critters, if you can even agree on legislation to promote.
Depending on your legislation and industry, but federal lobbying is ~$3B/year, I'd guess Utah probably is in the few hundreds of millions of dollars, you're probably averaging a few thousand per legislator you want to buy the vote from per year.
Well, if it costs $200 for 4 fixtures (an outlet, 2 switches and a light), replacing all the outlets, switches and lights will cost you a significant chunk of money not to mention the electrician's/permitting cost for such an overhaul.
$5k is a low estimate especially in older homes and that is IF you get it to work once it's all in. A lot of power line communication doesn't work (well) across both halves of the breaker box or sometimes even across circuits and a lot of houses don't have the requisite two legs of the circuit in every switch box and then it gets really fun with redoing the circuits on two-way or three-way circuits. Wireless communication is a joke when all your boxes are encased in 3mm of steel, most usable distances simply aren't covered without repeaters and then not every widget you get has 2-way communication or repeaters built-in.
Then the summary on /. is wrong. Either way, it's the wrong conclusion to make. The average student debt increased 25% while 300% more people went to colleges.
If more people are going to go to school every year, that is probably a 'good thing' but it also makes positions in good institutions much scarcer and thus due to the scarcity the cost will go up.
Your copyright and patents don't apply in China/India and even if they do, there is nobody there to protect them for you, the courts (if any) will usually go in the locals' favor if you have any standing at all. Contracts are worthless if they're not enforced.
Most engineering companies do have some patents, bigger companies even more, outsourcing out of the country is too costly and involved if you're that small to not have either.
An easy way to put listings up, automatic screenings, feedback and getting a fair market price for both parties. If it's anything like E-Bay, you'll be able to give stars to your renters and landlords, something Craigslist currently doesn't do.
If you're just renting out a room, in-law apartment or an inherited property and you have no clue about the current housing market and don't want to involve a real estate agent with their huge cuts (which is more than 25%), this should give you current market prices pretty accurately (+/- 15%).
If you need to move for whatever reason and this makes it easier and makes it feel 'safer' (because you will know more, including past landlord comments, about your tenants before they come knocking on your door) you could consider renting out the property you own for a while instead of selling it increasing the pool of rentals in your area while you don't have to take a loss on a quick sale right away.
Don't like it, form your own well-armed militia.
The entire McD burger cost less than a dollar to produce and are sold for $8-15. A quarter pound of real beef from a local butcher costs about $1.50, $2-4 for organic and is usually still sold for $8-15. If Wal-Mart and McD is allowed to externalize it's costs, why aren't local business owners? What's more, McD and Wal-Mart, even their franchises, operate from PO boxes in lower tax states. The complaint is not about competing with chains, they have the scale and low quality going for them, local businesses need and will do better to work against their competition.
It's the fact that business owners are competing against the government (unemployment and benefits) to attract workers, few people are willing to work if they get better benefits which is given to them through higher taxes to the business owners. And whenever business owners set the wages high enough, the government moves the level up further. Again, I have no problem with giving people unemployment for a period of time but to me, earning $35k/y in benefits is doing "pretty well".