Yes, they can! And the flip-side of this technology is that you can zip a 500GB database down to 200GB, zip that down to 700MB, zip that down to a few hundred KB . . . when it's 1B, you can embed it on a carbon atom on my DNA and I can carry it back to Kronos, for the glory of the Empire!
That's part of the problem though, isn't it? We all root for the protagonists on CSI, Criminal Minds, Law & Order, and at least half a dozen other police dramas when they routinely use some mystical all-knowing government database or "hack" into government and private (corporate) databases and nail the bad guy beyond all shadow of doubt. Many of us would groan when the protagonists would "hack" into live bank ATM security cameras and enhance the medallion number of a cab half a block down from a dozen greyscale pixels (my own wife constantly reminds me "it's only television" when I point out how ridiculous it is that they can create data out of the ether).
So - will this algorithm always come up with medallion #1313, because that's what it "learned" a medallion number is? When the system "guesses" at the missing data based on what it "learned" during "training", will it always identify Christy Brinkley and Chuck Norris as the perpetrators? Some of this is valid - I can often read information which is blurry or even pixelated, but not always. Intuitively differentiating an 8 from a 0 based on how dark that few pixels are is different from proving that it was an 8 or a 0.
One other concern - in the past, enhanced video has been useful in court, when there was someone able to explain exactly what transformations were done, someone prepared to prove why the enhanced video is still representative of the portrayed reality. Learning systems may often produce surprisingly accurate results from seemingly inadequate data, but it's considerably harder to prove that the enhanced information accurately portrays reality - perhaps impossible, given the complexity of such systems.
Clear back in the twentieth century (the early nineties, IIRC), Goldman-Sachs could see that electronic trading by automated systems, especially wholly automatic trading based on rules and AI systems were more effective and more profitable and so bought Hull Trading. Hull's contribution to the art was the recognition that if his computers could recognize and act on a change in stock prices faster than the other guys', his computers could trade with a guaranteed profit on every transaction (by buying below and selling above the current market price). No need to know which stocks were going to take off or tank - just a system built to respond faster to those events. The occasional market "crash" attributed to automated electronic trading such as this were largely moderated by the market's built-in control mechanisms, which include shutting down such trading if certain criteria occur.
In short, no need to know what the market is going to do, just a need to know what it is doing right now. Profit not based on picking the right stock but by the fact that stock prices are not constant. As I used to think of it, not making money off the stocks but off of the changes in stock prices. A guaranteed winner. Genius!
How will artists like Da Vinci, Renoir, Monet, Picasso ever live if they're unable to collect royalties for the free public display of their works. Won't someone think of teh children?
As has been mentioned elsewhere, it is not necessary to master the technical hurdles present to set up a private email server. If you choose to use a free email service such as Gmail, you must accept the limitation that they have never guaranteed the privacy of their service. This, in turn, gives the government a valid argument that since the emails are not already truly private they should be subject to inspection by government agencies.
My simple recommendation? (As has also been mentioned elsewhere), use GPG, PHP, or some other form of encryption.. While not a perfect solution, it should prove adequate to the majority of end-user privacy needs. Waiting for the government or a free internet email provider to protect your privacy is not unlike waiting for a burglar to return your stolen property.
Why compress? HTTP can already compress the data stream and reliably decompress it on the receiving end. If they compressed it, they'd have to hear from everyone that had difficulty decompressing the data (because of the compression algorithm chosen, the configuration of that algorithm, possible incompatibility caused by people using old or broken decompression clients, etc.).
They made the data available. Now that you've downloaded one of the files (for some reason other than to load down their server and amuse yourself, I presume?), I'm sure you'll find the data so useful as to make compressing it yourself a welcome task rather than a burden.
Did anybody here believe that President Trump (nee: Drumpf) would ignore all of those intartubes in his efforts to control (or at least neutralize) the media?
Google's default launcher is not configurable enough for my tastes. I can change the wallpaper and color scheme, but there were many aspects of the launcher which were (apparently) hard coded. It's almost as though they took a cue from Microsoft and decided "Our stuff is just too cool! There's no way anybody would ever want to change anything here except for the display size of fonts."
Been using ADW launcher for several years now. The update from 1.3 to 2.0 caused me some heartburn, as features and abilities which used to be free are now only available in the paid version. It took me a week of trying every alternative I could find before I ponied up the nominal fee to run in the paid version of ADW 2.0. To be honest, the tiny investment was well worth the price.
but we can certainly blame Trump - say, because he's making Microsoft come to him to ask for an exception on the (Muslim) immigration ban. Without access to employees willing to be chained to their oars . . . er, desks, how can Microsoft continue to bring us the innovative software we've come to know and expect from them?
No, on second thought let's not blame it on Trump. There's plenty else he correctly deserves the blame for, and Microsoft alone is responsible for the reputation and state of the OS software they provide. Software which while not perfect has nonetheless improved considerably over the years. They've made numerous mistakes along the way but as a UNIX Administrator with well over two decades of experience I can tell you their current product offering is considerably more stable, more usable and less vulnerable than it used to be. Anybody that remembers Windows 2.0, 3.1, 95, 98, ME and XP will no doubt have horror stories relating to feeling like Microsoft's crash test dummies. It hasn't stopped, but my personal experience is that it seems to happen less often than it used to.
No, merely an attempt to point out the disturbing similarities between the current POTUS and a notable historical figure. You seem somewhat sensitive on the subject. Between a barely disguised ban on persons of a specific religion and the revocation of huge numbers of lawfully issued visas you must see the parallels, unless you intentionally choose to accept only information which accords with your chosen world view.
As for his daughter and son-in-law - well, neither her conversion nor their marriage represent permanent conditions, do they? I'm sure your church will happy welcome her back into the fold (and with a handle like yours, yes it is valid to note this).
Incidentally, I looked at the linked blog from your post. Just a tad to the alternative right, don't you think?
There are those of us for whom the phrase "Never Forget" has special meaning. Sorry, you can't sleep just now - we need you awake and alert with your memory intact.
There's no way you can jive whose previously stated views with the views he espouses now, without suggesting either some sort of severe psychiatric episode or brain injury.
Okay - but you know, there's no reason to reject out of hand the possibility. I'm not a trained psychologist or psychiatrist, nor do I have direct access to the President to perform the appropriate tests, but much of his behavior could readily be described as maniacal. Perhaps sleeping no more than four hours per night has caused permanent psychological or even physical damage. How often have we heard of the wealthy and powerful in the US successfully concealing mental disease (for example, addiction, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, etc.). In this particular instance, I find it likely we're looking at an undiagnosed incident of ADHD or perhaps an autism-spectrum disorder. When DJD was young, such diagnoses would have been impossible and as a wealthy adult he would use his resources to prevent even the possibility of such a determination.
OTOH, it's knowledge, and should be shared for the benefit of all (including Apple, who will doubtless learn from the now available information to craft even better cryptography).
OTOH, they've intentionally made the private data of many users of this privacy/encryption scheme less secure - not only from the US government and Cellbrite, but now from all who would know what they saw fit to hide, whether nefarious or banal.
I've already had half a fifth of whiskey tonight . . . Help me out here, Slashdot. A/C's need not apply.
His policies in the Middle East were beyond abysmal, and the Affordable Care Act was nothing more than a thinly-disguised "redistribute the wealth" play. But at least I wasn't worried that when the Muslims, Hispanics and Blacks were done it'd be my turn. Obama was bad, but Trump (nee: Drumpf) is worse. Considerably worse.
Don't worry - after Donald Trump (nee: Drumpf) has been relegated to history's dustbin, we'll all stop trying to convince you that truth is not optional and let you get back to your fantasy . . . er, alternate reality.
Never mind the cause (which seems obvious to me) - what can we do to stabilize our planet's ecology? It may cost a fortune, but it strikes me as money well spent, and think of all the jobs it could create!
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Yes, they can! And the flip-side of this technology is that you can zip a 500GB database down to 200GB, zip that down to 700MB, zip that down to a few hundred KB . . . when it's 1B, you can embed it on a carbon atom on my DNA and I can carry it back to Kronos, for the glory of the Empire!
So - will this algorithm always come up with medallion #1313, because that's what it "learned" a medallion number is? When the system "guesses" at the missing data based on what it "learned" during "training", will it always identify Christy Brinkley and Chuck Norris as the perpetrators? Some of this is valid - I can often read information which is blurry or even pixelated, but not always. Intuitively differentiating an 8 from a 0 based on how dark that few pixels are is different from proving that it was an 8 or a 0.
One other concern - in the past, enhanced video has been useful in court, when there was someone able to explain exactly what transformations were done, someone prepared to prove why the enhanced video is still representative of the portrayed reality. Learning systems may often produce surprisingly accurate results from seemingly inadequate data, but it's considerably harder to prove that the enhanced information accurately portrays reality - perhaps impossible, given the complexity of such systems.
In short, no need to know what the market is going to do, just a need to know what it is doing right now. Profit not based on picking the right stock but by the fact that stock prices are not constant. As I used to think of it, not making money off the stocks but off of the changes in stock prices. A guaranteed winner. Genius!
How will artists like Da Vinci, Renoir, Monet, Picasso ever live if they're unable to collect royalties for the free public display of their works. Won't someone think of teh children?
Yes, it's called "alt-Slashdot, I don't think it's fake news for White Nationalists, stuff you can cite when truth and logic fail you".
Damned Android auto-correct.
My simple recommendation? (As has also been mentioned elsewhere), use GPG, PHP, or some other form of encryption.. While not a perfect solution, it should prove adequate to the majority of end-user privacy needs. Waiting for the government or a free internet email provider to protect your privacy is not unlike waiting for a burglar to return your stolen property.
Gotta admit, that one's got me scratching my head.
Now Vizio will be able to tell that I'm a rabid Star Trek fan. Also, Farscape, Firefly and Lexx.
I was just about to upmod it - I thought this guy was going for a "+5, Funny".
They made the data available. Now that you've downloaded one of the files (for some reason other than to load down their server and amuse yourself, I presume?), I'm sure you'll find the data so useful as to make compressing it yourself a welcome task rather than a burden.
As the military's C in C, he should be obliged to do so as well.
(not the real one from WWII. The one from B5.)
Did anybody here believe that President Trump (nee: Drumpf) would ignore all of those intartubes in his efforts to control (or at least neutralize) the media?
Been using ADW launcher for several years now. The update from 1.3 to 2.0 caused me some heartburn, as features and abilities which used to be free are now only available in the paid version. It took me a week of trying every alternative I could find before I ponied up the nominal fee to run in the paid version of ADW 2.0. To be honest, the tiny investment was well worth the price.
No, on second thought let's not blame it on Trump. There's plenty else he correctly deserves the blame for, and Microsoft alone is responsible for the reputation and state of the OS software they provide. Software which while not perfect has nonetheless improved considerably over the years. They've made numerous mistakes along the way but as a UNIX Administrator with well over two decades of experience I can tell you their current product offering is considerably more stable, more usable and less vulnerable than it used to be. Anybody that remembers Windows 2.0, 3.1, 95, 98, ME and XP will no doubt have horror stories relating to feeling like Microsoft's crash test dummies. It hasn't stopped, but my personal experience is that it seems to happen less often than it used to.
Looks like they're setting us up the bomb. For greater glory! Launch all apps!
Actually, exactly twice the distance of one meter. Damned near a rod and almost 1/11th of a chain!
As for his daughter and son-in-law - well, neither her conversion nor their marriage represent permanent conditions, do they? I'm sure your church will happy welcome her back into the fold (and with a handle like yours, yes it is valid to note this).
Incidentally, I looked at the linked blog from your post. Just a tad to the alternative right, don't you think?
There are those of us for whom the phrase "Never Forget" has special meaning. Sorry, you can't sleep just now - we need you awake and alert with your memory intact.
Okay - but you know, there's no reason to reject out of hand the possibility. I'm not a trained psychologist or psychiatrist, nor do I have direct access to the President to perform the appropriate tests, but much of his behavior could readily be described as maniacal. Perhaps sleeping no more than four hours per night has caused permanent psychological or even physical damage. How often have we heard of the wealthy and powerful in the US successfully concealing mental disease (for example, addiction, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, autism, etc.). In this particular instance, I find it likely we're looking at an undiagnosed incident of ADHD or perhaps an autism-spectrum disorder. When DJD was young, such diagnoses would have been impossible and as a wealthy adult he would use his resources to prevent even the possibility of such a determination.
OTOH, they've intentionally made the private data of many users of this privacy/encryption scheme less secure - not only from the US government and Cellbrite, but now from all who would know what they saw fit to hide, whether nefarious or banal.
I've already had half a fifth of whiskey tonight . . . Help me out here, Slashdot. A/C's need not apply.
His policies in the Middle East were beyond abysmal, and the Affordable Care Act was nothing more than a thinly-disguised "redistribute the wealth" play. But at least I wasn't worried that when the Muslims, Hispanics and Blacks were done it'd be my turn. Obama was bad, but Trump (nee: Drumpf) is worse. Considerably worse.
It's the one where Spock had a beard, right?
Never mind the cause (which seems obvious to me) - what can we do to stabilize our planet's ecology? It may cost a fortune, but it strikes me as money well spent, and think of all the jobs it could create!