Some social warriors complain that IBM didn't answer in 2-minute video all the important questions world is facing? What?
It seems to me that group of intellectuals is making cheap PR by picking up on nonsense. Those "revolutionaries" always try to fight and destruct... because they are incapable of building and solving problems. Give them a chance to find solutions and they come up with gulags and secret police.:-D
And if we want to be more contemporary the picture should be a pile of human excrement with teared up New York Times used instead of toiled paper. But I guess once the Mueller finishes that symbol will be no longer representative depiction.
Because what can represent us - as a modern humanity better? Many animals have bigger brains, legs, hair... but human hands?
And yes, to avoid all those left/right/gender/gay/lesbian/age/color/hue/IQ/size/DNA/wealth/... controversies, to appease all people of all the colors of the rainbow and invisible light spectrum and... The hand must be an imprint of a hand into something characteristic of our civilization - concrete - that way nobody will be able to say who's hand was it.
So I therefore propose THE IMPRINT OF HAND IN CONCRETE because it characterizes us the most and it has a clear upgrade path to robotic Hand 2.0 imprint in Mars' dust. Who can beat my proposal? Ha!:-D
Longevity Linked To Leaving the House in Older Adults
Which means, if you are destined to live longer then you are more likely to leave the house. I mean, it simply will not change a thing if you force your grandma twice a day out of the house... (Contrary the stress levels caused by interrupting favorite soap opera may have even adverse effects... and not only on her health.;-) )
Is it investment in throttling technology and deep packet inspection servers? Yeah, that is expensive stuff. And I can imagine all those new jobs for calling customers to push them new paid features like $5 for your VPN running fast... So at the end those $5B will need to be extracted from customers anyway...
I wish customers will get some real improvements for their $5B.
Is it just a way how to prevent US startups from getting into very profitable market? Is the "investigator" sponsored by competing lens producers? Or is it just a cheap way how to do bombastic reporting?:-) It is like sun-glasses in my country. You can obtain information what UV filter is good for your health from your doctor but then it is up to you what glasses you actually buy.
If Netflix was thought to possibly kill piracy it would mean that pirates were supposed to saturate their pirating urges with Netflix services. So the research was in a nutshell asking "Is vast majority of pirates going to pay for Netflix?"
OK, but how will we know that some bitcoins are practically lost if they are still on the books?
There will be less BTC in practical circulation which will naturally keep nominal prices of goods pressed down since the BTC will go up virtually indefinitelly... I mean, you buy a flat for 1k BTC and due to this in a year it will cost 0.5k BTC... so it may impact consumption because people will prefere to keep virtual digital numbers on disk drives rather then consume goods... which is not good...
I am not an economist but I guess it has many implications people even didn't think of yet...
How is it solved? If there is maximum of 21,000,000 BTC to be issued... and people keep forgetting wallet passwords and loosing storage drives... Then while the amount of issued BTC is limited the amount of BTC accidents is unlimited.
What is that LaptopMag.com source? Underneath the article I found scams in my language pointing to "interesting" articles "FROM THE WEB". It cointained even links to obvious cosmetics-selling scams posing as state-established Czech doctors' organization (Camera Medica Bohemica - "eská lékaská komora"). That is totally outlawed in my country!
Don't trust a source that takes money from scammers.
Intel graphics sux... we all know that. But now we will get used to Intel chips being really good in graphics... and in a year or two when you will be buying your next Intel CPU you won't bother to ask (as an average customer) if it is AMD chip on the die or Intel's own... and I bet it will soon be again Intel.
Double hit - get the quick GPU reputation fix thanks to AMD and ready own GPU (to replace AMD in the future) by stealing top engineer from AMD. Not a good move for AMD! IMO earning few bucks from Intel will come too costly for AMD.
We need DIGITAL currency that BTC currently is not:
- has low latency transactions (seconds at most, scaling problem, transaction history drag) - is eco-friendly = transactions are near free (minimum payment for watts/others/intermediaries/...) - the price is fixed (to avoid speculations/currency being a subject of trade instead of tool for trade, maybe price fixed to Basket of Goods?)
+ all the cool features that BTC curently has like limited amount of coins (to avoid inflation), security, validability, decentralization,...
We need a new solution. BTC is a great start but it is not a solution yet.
Looks like somebody sold too much Bitcoins and bought too much Bitcoin Cash... These small-sized virtual currency markets are vulnerable to big investors. You sell BTC and you buy BCH and BTC dives while BCH rises... then you reverse the course...
No, BTC has no future. It just became the currency controlled by speculative capital without any real-world backing as the practical currency of daily goods exchange... Sooner or later we will need other solution. For normal people. For buying bread and toilet paper.:-) BTC is just for players.
The dangerous thing here is that this company didn't say - it is bad to intentionally brick the fully functional (non-subscription) product after the warranty expired - they fully maintain their current position. They just shut up critics by sending them a new product (that they will brick soon anyway). After few "responsible" shut downs it will become a norm.
Are you looking forward to your car being bricked because some company just made "the business decision" [sic] that you need to buy another one?
Well you are being too rational. Look at the other side (I mean the rest of normal people - not techies like you).
Don't you see it? If you want to understand the customers and why people are buying things that should not exist (thus justifying their production) you need to loose at least half of your brain - that half that asks questions.
The referenced PDF bears the date May 2013? Is the Slashdot review process so slow?
And what researches did is "we have devised a system to locate, download, and analyze the content of millions of social media posts... all over China before the Chinese government is able to find, evaluate, and censor... they deem objectionable.". Do I understand that they devised a way how to find very fast objectionable content? Chinese government will be sending congratulations on the accomplishment soon. I am sure it saved Chinese censors few years of research how to find objectionable content fast...
When Google Reader died off ( https://www.google.com/reader/ ) I built my own snews.eu where I added Slashodt and other news aggregators. When there is something interesting I follow the links and that way I find other sources. I add them to my aggregator and when crappy articles start popping up I remove them... Takes time to build the portfolio that suits you but then you are rewarded with great articles every day.
Now I don't add news sources that often but time to time somebody posts on Slashdot or elsewhere some really interesting source...
- Year 2013: "BBC's websites killing Press and threatening local democracy, says Theresa May" https://goo.gl/ccgTPH - Year 2014: "Theresa May: We need to collect communications data 'haystack'" https://goo.gl/Ew4gMf - Year 2015: "Theresa May: Internet data will be recorded under new spy laws" https://goo.gl/1hNBdk - Year 2016: "Theresa May's Snoopers' Charter dealt major setback as EU court rules against 'indiscriminate' collection of internet data" https://goo.gl/455OWU - Year 2017: "Theresa May Wants A ‘New’ Internet Monitored By The Government" https://goo.gl/mGPKlx
That woman simply hates that people can freely speak through the medium she does not control!
Terrorist attack? We need more control and censorship. Child abuse? We need more control and censorship. Meteor heading to earth? We need more control and censorship. Is it Sunday today? We need more control and censorship. Nothing happened? We need more control and censorship.
What is the difference between windows 10 S and phone with Android or Gaming Console? Is it the death of universal computers as we know them? Simple machines that can process any code written for them?
If you want a AppConsole that is nice a runs fast but restricts you to content AppConsole's owner wants you to use then use Android (or some left-behind competitor like Wind 10S). If you want to have universal PC then use Linux.
I must say: Turkey will get what they voted for. Unfortunately recovering from this will be much more pricey then getting into this s*t.
This shows the problem with democracy. Average people are dumb. As the result the dictator can be democratically elected.
According to what Erdogan already advertised the Twitter will be next and Facebook will follow. Not sure if I should be sympathetic with that country if majority is getting what they voted for. Although I am sympathetic with that smarter minority because history shows us that this smarter minority will sacrifice the most in the future when trying to fix mistakes of dumb majority.
This happens when there is a third party between a user and business. Google controls when and if the user gets to you. At one point it will take over your services and user will not even notice (actually they will be happy to receive faster answers in more unified way).
And that is only the beginning - with everybody jumping on voice inputs, AIs and such. At one point most of the internet sites providing information will be made obsolete because "order food" or "what is the...?" will be answered/fulfilled right away by your phone or whatever device will use Google API or Apple API without any chance that the user will ever see the origin of the information or the service provider behind it...
It will be just a user-phone (Google, Apple, Samsung) interaction and somewhere on the backend there will be inter-changeable swarm of slave (businesses in very tough near perfect competition environment running on near 0-profit margins) service providers for big names owning the API gates. Dim future is ahead.
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Some social warriors complain that IBM didn't answer in 2-minute video all the important questions world is facing? What?
It seems to me that group of intellectuals is making cheap PR by picking up on nonsense. Those "revolutionaries" always try to fight and destruct... because they are incapable of building and solving problems. Give them a chance to find solutions and they come up with gulags and secret police. :-D
And if we want to be more contemporary the picture should be a pile of human excrement with teared up New York Times used instead of toiled paper. But I guess once the Mueller finishes that symbol will be no longer representative depiction.
- An imprint of hand into concrete.
Because what can represent us - as a modern humanity better? Many animals have bigger brains, legs, hair... but human hands?
And yes, to avoid all those left/right/gender/gay/lesbian/age/color/hue/IQ/size/DNA/wealth/... controversies, to appease all people of all the colors of the rainbow and invisible light spectrum and... The hand must be an imprint of a hand into something characteristic of our civilization - concrete - that way nobody will be able to say who's hand was it.
So I therefore propose THE IMPRINT OF HAND IN CONCRETE because it characterizes us the most and it has a clear upgrade path to robotic Hand 2.0 imprint in Mars' dust. Who can beat my proposal? Ha! :-D
Longevity Linked To Leaving the House in Older Adults
Which means, if you are destined to live longer then you are more likely to leave the house. I mean, it simply will not change a thing if you force your grandma twice a day out of the house... (Contrary the stress levels caused by interrupting favorite soap opera may have even adverse effects... and not only on her health. ;-) )
Is it investment in throttling technology and deep packet inspection servers? Yeah, that is expensive stuff. And I can imagine all those new jobs for calling customers to push them new paid features like $5 for your VPN running fast... So at the end those $5B will need to be extracted from customers anyway...
I wish customers will get some real improvements for their $5B.
Is it just a way how to prevent US startups from getting into very profitable market? Is the "investigator" sponsored by competing lens producers? Or is it just a cheap way how to do bombastic reporting? :-) It is like sun-glasses in my country. You can obtain information what UV filter is good for your health from your doctor but then it is up to you what glasses you actually buy.
If Netflix was thought to possibly kill piracy it would mean that pirates were supposed to saturate their pirating urges with Netflix services. So the research was in a nutshell asking "Is vast majority of pirates going to pay for Netflix?"
Duh!!!
OK, but how will we know that some bitcoins are practically lost if they are still on the books?
There will be less BTC in practical circulation which will naturally keep nominal prices of goods pressed down since the BTC will go up virtually indefinitelly... I mean, you buy a flat for 1k BTC and due to this in a year it will cost 0.5k BTC... so it may impact consumption because people will prefere to keep virtual digital numbers on disk drives rather then consume goods... which is not good...
I am not an economist but I guess it has many implications people even didn't think of yet...
How is it solved? If there is maximum of 21,000,000 BTC to be issued... and people keep forgetting wallet passwords and loosing storage drives... Then while the amount of issued BTC is limited the amount of BTC accidents is unlimited.
I see it as unsustainable due to human error.
Or can we re-e-print new BTC money?
So does it mean that CloudFlare will be throttled? If yes then no point to use CloudFlare. If they pay then no point to provide free service.
Either way Consumer loose, Telcos win. Drain that swamp (Urban Dictionary: "swamp": consumer's wallet).
That is a cool feature that won't break anything (except the sites tracking you across multiple domains - which is the point here).
Why do they hide it? To don't piss off Yahoo/Yandex/Baidoo sponsors? I guess (sane/informed) people love it so make it DEFAULT!
What is that LaptopMag.com source? Underneath the article I found scams in my language pointing to "interesting" articles "FROM THE WEB". It cointained even links to obvious cosmetics-selling scams posing as state-established Czech doctors' organization (Camera Medica Bohemica - "eská lékaská komora"). That is totally outlawed in my country!
Don't trust a source that takes money from scammers.
Intel graphics sux... we all know that. But now we will get used to Intel chips being really good in graphics... and in a year or two when you will be buying your next Intel CPU you won't bother to ask (as an average customer) if it is AMD chip on the die or Intel's own... and I bet it will soon be again Intel.
Double hit - get the quick GPU reputation fix thanks to AMD and ready own GPU (to replace AMD in the future) by stealing top engineer from AMD. Not a good move for AMD! IMO earning few bucks from Intel will come too costly for AMD.
We need DIGITAL currency that BTC currently is not:
- has low latency transactions (seconds at most, scaling problem, transaction history drag)
- is eco-friendly = transactions are near free (minimum payment for watts/others/intermediaries/...)
- the price is fixed (to avoid speculations/currency being a subject of trade instead of tool for trade, maybe price fixed to Basket of Goods?)
+ all the cool features that BTC curently has like limited amount of coins (to avoid inflation), security, validability, decentralization, ...
We need a new solution. BTC is a great start but it is not a solution yet.
Looks like somebody sold too much Bitcoins and bought too much Bitcoin Cash... These small-sized virtual currency markets are vulnerable to big investors. You sell BTC and you buy BCH and BTC dives while BCH rises... then you reverse the course...
No, BTC has no future. It just became the currency controlled by speculative capital without any real-world backing as the practical currency of daily goods exchange... Sooner or later we will need other solution. For normal people. For buying bread and toilet paper. :-) BTC is just for players.
The dangerous thing here is that this company didn't say - it is bad to intentionally brick the fully functional (non-subscription) product after the warranty expired - they fully maintain their current position. They just shut up critics by sending them a new product (that they will brick soon anyway). After few "responsible" shut downs it will become a norm.
Are you looking forward to your car being bricked because some company just made "the business decision" [sic] that you need to buy another one?
Well you are being too rational. Look at the other side (I mean the rest of normal people - not techies like you).
Don't you see it? If you want to understand the customers and why people are buying things that should not exist (thus justifying their production) you need to loose at least half of your brain - that half that asks questions.
Dictionary: void = a space containing no matter
So they found literally nothing? Must be certainly the discovery of the century.
Is it a new trick how to program new citizens to ensure that totalitarian dynasty will never be ousted?
You know... it is so easy to clone new citizens by just one key press in case the real ones decide to vote for somebody else...
The referenced PDF bears the date May 2013? Is the Slashdot review process so slow?
And what researches did is "we have devised a system to locate, download, and analyze the content of millions of social media posts... all over China before the Chinese government is able to find, evaluate, and censor ... they deem objectionable.". Do I understand that they devised a way how to find very fast objectionable content? Chinese government will be sending congratulations on the accomplishment soon. I am sure it saved Chinese censors few years of research how to find objectionable content fast...
When Google Reader died off ( https://www.google.com/reader/ ) I built my own snews.eu where I added Slashodt and other news aggregators. When there is something interesting I follow the links and that way I find other sources. I add them to my aggregator and when crappy articles start popping up I remove them... Takes time to build the portfolio that suits you but then you are rewarded with great articles every day.
Now I don't add news sources that often but time to time somebody posts on Slashdot or elsewhere some really interesting source...
- Year 2013: "BBC's websites killing Press and threatening local democracy, says Theresa May" https://goo.gl/ccgTPH
- Year 2014: "Theresa May: We need to collect communications data 'haystack'" https://goo.gl/Ew4gMf
- Year 2015: "Theresa May: Internet data will be recorded under new spy laws" https://goo.gl/1hNBdk
- Year 2016: "Theresa May's Snoopers' Charter dealt major setback as EU court rules against 'indiscriminate' collection of internet data" https://goo.gl/455OWU
- Year 2017: "Theresa May Wants A ‘New’ Internet Monitored By The Government" https://goo.gl/mGPKlx
That woman simply hates that people can freely speak through the medium she does not control!
Terrorist attack? We need more control and censorship.
Child abuse? We need more control and censorship.
Meteor heading to earth? We need more control and censorship.
Is it Sunday today? We need more control and censorship.
Nothing happened? We need more control and censorship.
What is the difference between windows 10 S and phone with Android or Gaming Console? Is it the death of universal computers as we know them? Simple machines that can process any code written for them?
If you want a AppConsole that is nice a runs fast but restricts you to content AppConsole's owner wants you to use then use Android (or some left-behind competitor like Wind 10S). If you want to have universal PC then use Linux.
I must say: Turkey will get what they voted for. Unfortunately recovering from this will be much more pricey then getting into this s*t.
This shows the problem with democracy. Average people are dumb. As the result the dictator can be democratically elected.
According to what Erdogan already advertised the Twitter will be next and Facebook will follow. Not sure if I should be sympathetic with that country if majority is getting what they voted for. Although I am sympathetic with that smarter minority because history shows us that this smarter minority will sacrifice the most in the future when trying to fix mistakes of dumb majority.
This happens when there is a third party between a user and business. Google controls when and if the user gets to you. At one point it will take over your services and user will not even notice (actually they will be happy to receive faster answers in more unified way).
And that is only the beginning - with everybody jumping on voice inputs, AIs and such. At one point most of the internet sites providing information will be made obsolete because "order food" or "what is the ...?" will be answered/fulfilled right away by your phone or whatever device will use Google API or Apple API without any chance that the user will ever see the origin of the information or the service provider behind it...
It will be just a user-phone (Google, Apple, Samsung) interaction and somewhere on the backend there will be inter-changeable swarm of slave (businesses in very tough near perfect competition environment running on near 0-profit margins) service providers for big names owning the API gates. Dim future is ahead.