So, you've sent out resumes, then? (In my experience as a contractor, that is the only way to deal with situations like this. You know what's coming, you just don't know when, and it usually takes longer for the shit to hit the fan than you expect.)
Aren't they as a society better off encouraging ride sharing rather than private ownership of automobiles? In big cities with public transportation, private automobiles take up a huge amount of storage space and other resources, without directly contributing to productivity. In rural environments, private vehicles make a lot more sense.
Agreed, we're going to be seeing problems caused by poor security in the IoT for the next decade or so. But then, WiFi was the same way (and still is).
The "problem" it is solving is energy efficiency; they can shut off everything in the room as soon as occupant leaves. Eventually it will become cheaper and more reliable.
Education is the only place where open source makes even more sense then in software. Seriously, educators should have started sharing all their materials decades ago. Won't somebody think of the kids! Also, $70 textbooks are just crazy when most good teachers could write their own. Good education shouldn't cost a fortune, and it won't when everybody shares.
If it's learning via playing sample games versus preprogrammed behavior, that is a step closer to true artificial intelligence. I like to see a better explanation of exactly how it's designed, and how many games it took to train it.
Hardware vendors and cell companies have zero incentive to continue to support phones they are no longer selling. Why would you even expect them to keep shipping updates for them? Yes, Google bears some of the blame for setting up the Android ecosystem this way, instead of obligating some entity with the responsibility to continue support.
No, if you're going to screw IT workers, you cut off their computer access suddenly and without warning, then have them escorted out of the building before they can damage or release any of the data they have access to, or even worse, change the admin passwords. Yes, real dickish behavior, but if you had a fiduciary responsibility to protect the shareholders, not the employees, you'd do the same thing.
He is a left-of-center moderate with experience as a civil rights attorney, which gives him a bias towards providing equal civil rights for everyone. The civil rights thing is the biggest difference between Obama and Trump. As far as "fascist", perhaps we should study the definition of the word more carefully before we throw it around. The being said, the limits of executive orders should be carefully defined by congress to limit the excesses of presidents no matter which party they hail from. The executive branch is there to make _emergency_ decisions, not to make laws (legislative branch) or interpret laws vis-a-vis the constitution (judicial branch).
Allowing others to break one of the value added features you provide to customers (data encryption), lowers the value of the product and the market cap of the company. As a general rule, one doesn't want government to be able to choose winners and losers in business, otherwise the smartest competitive strategy is to simply bribe congress to put your competitors out of business. Don't for a minute think that hasn't already happened, that lobbyists haven't already hand-written laws to provide a competitive advantage to the corporations paying their exorbitant fees.
Best case scenario, Apple sets up a clean room where FBI is allowed to come in and examine, build, experiment, whatever with the source, but not take it with them. But even that best case takes about 5 years of fighting in the courts to arrive at a resolution, so what's the point? A decade from now the FBI will be able to prove there was no useful intelligence on the phone, and any leaked Apple trade secrets will be obsolete by then anyway. The iPhone 13 will be completely different!
I thought some of the Israelis were fairly adept at reverse-engineering ICs, shaving off the protective case and analyzing them. It's just fairly tedious and time consuming to do so, so usually not worth it.
If there is such as thing (all evidence is that there isn't), they don't need to delete it, just change it in the next release, and again every time law enforcement demands they turn it over. Eventually Apple concludes it is cheaper an easier to just not have any back doors, and creates truly unbreakable code. Is that really what the FBI wants to accomplish?
Forcing Apple to turn over trade secrets so that the FBI can hack it themselves actually bothers me a lot less than the FBI forcing Apple to do their job for them, with no compensation, which would be an even worse precedent. Couldn't any secrets in the source code be ferreted out eventually by disassembling the executable image? I don't think Apple encrypts the executable, do they? Give 'em the source code, and then change in the next release any trade secret that creates a security hole if leaked to wrong the people. Still makes work for Apple, but still not the worst case.
Yeah, while I was working at Oracle, I managed to snag the network administrator password that would grant admin privilege on every Sun box at Oracle... just by filtering telnet traffic in promiscuous mode on my workstation and catching a network admin logging in remotely via telnet to another computer on my subnet. There's a reason why any sane person uses ssh instead.
Also, isn't most of the Chicago "subway" elevated, not underground? I suspect most subway systems don't have this problem because cell reception is nonexistent underground in the first place. If this system had been designed properly in the first place, this wouldn't have been a problem. I just got a new cell phone, and it doesn't get data service inside most stores... should i suspect people are jamming it, or that cellular data signals just don't work very well through metal walls... you know, like the kind all trains have?
It is impossible to evaluate every possible permutation of the individual spots on the board, so brute force look-ahead can't be done using present computers. However, human players don't do brute force look-ahead of every possible permutation piece-by-piece; they see larger patterns in the pieces and act accordingly. The solution is to make the AI see the game more like the way humans see it, "intuition" is probably the wrong word for that. More like learning what parts of a pattern are important and what parts aren't, and weighting them accordingly. Hmm... I wonder if they actually used a learning or genetic algorithm? Seems like you'd need it to play millions of games against humans to learn well, in which case the internet would be an enabling technology.
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So, you've sent out resumes, then? (In my experience as a contractor, that is the only way to deal with situations like this. You know what's coming, you just don't know when, and it usually takes longer for the shit to hit the fan than you expect.)
Aren't they as a society better off encouraging ride sharing rather than private ownership of automobiles? In big cities with public transportation, private automobiles take up a huge amount of storage space and other resources, without directly contributing to productivity. In rural environments, private vehicles make a lot more sense.
Big Brother is watching you!
Agreed, we're going to be seeing problems caused by poor security in the IoT for the next decade or so. But then, WiFi was the same way (and still is).
The "problem" it is solving is energy efficiency; they can shut off everything in the room as soon as occupant leaves. Eventually it will become cheaper and more reliable.
In India, the TOP priority of every parent is to make sure their kids all get college degrees... and those are the people that are taking our "jerbs".
Education is the only place where open source makes even more sense then in software. Seriously, educators should have started sharing all their materials decades ago. Won't somebody think of the kids! Also, $70 textbooks are just crazy when most good teachers could write their own. Good education shouldn't cost a fortune, and it won't when everybody shares.
If it's learning via playing sample games versus preprogrammed behavior, that is a step closer to true artificial intelligence. I like to see a better explanation of exactly how it's designed, and how many games it took to train it.
Hardware vendors and cell companies have zero incentive to continue to support phones they are no longer selling. Why would you even expect them to keep shipping updates for them? Yes, Google bears some of the blame for setting up the Android ecosystem this way, instead of obligating some entity with the responsibility to continue support.
No, if you're going to screw IT workers, you cut off their computer access suddenly and without warning, then have them escorted out of the building before they can damage or release any of the data they have access to, or even worse, change the admin passwords. Yes, real dickish behavior, but if you had a fiduciary responsibility to protect the shareholders, not the employees, you'd do the same thing.
He is a left-of-center moderate with experience as a civil rights attorney, which gives him a bias towards providing equal civil rights for everyone. The civil rights thing is the biggest difference between Obama and Trump. As far as "fascist", perhaps we should study the definition of the word more carefully before we throw it around. The being said, the limits of executive orders should be carefully defined by congress to limit the excesses of presidents no matter which party they hail from. The executive branch is there to make _emergency_ decisions, not to make laws (legislative branch) or interpret laws vis-a-vis the constitution (judicial branch).
Yeah, way to drive the entire cell phone industry overseas!
Law of supply and demand, my friend, law of supply and demand.
But, that would be the _logical_ thing to do. If the FBI was logical, it wouldn't need Apple's help in the first place, would it?
Allowing others to break one of the value added features you provide to customers (data encryption), lowers the value of the product and the market cap of the company. As a general rule, one doesn't want government to be able to choose winners and losers in business, otherwise the smartest competitive strategy is to simply bribe congress to put your competitors out of business. Don't for a minute think that hasn't already happened, that lobbyists haven't already hand-written laws to provide a competitive advantage to the corporations paying their exorbitant fees.
Best case scenario, Apple sets up a clean room where FBI is allowed to come in and examine, build, experiment, whatever with the source, but not take it with them. But even that best case takes about 5 years of fighting in the courts to arrive at a resolution, so what's the point? A decade from now the FBI will be able to prove there was no useful intelligence on the phone, and any leaked Apple trade secrets will be obsolete by then anyway. The iPhone 13 will be completely different!
I thought some of the Israelis were fairly adept at reverse-engineering ICs, shaving off the protective case and analyzing them. It's just fairly tedious and time consuming to do so, so usually not worth it.
In Soviet Russion, encryption break you!
If there is such as thing (all evidence is that there isn't), they don't need to delete it, just change it in the next release, and again every time law enforcement demands they turn it over. Eventually Apple concludes it is cheaper an easier to just not have any back doors, and creates truly unbreakable code. Is that really what the FBI wants to accomplish?
Forcing Apple to turn over trade secrets so that the FBI can hack it themselves actually bothers me a lot less than the FBI forcing Apple to do their job for them, with no compensation, which would be an even worse precedent. Couldn't any secrets in the source code be ferreted out eventually by disassembling the executable image? I don't think Apple encrypts the executable, do they? Give 'em the source code, and then change in the next release any trade secret that creates a security hole if leaked to wrong the people. Still makes work for Apple, but still not the worst case.
Yeah, while I was working at Oracle, I managed to snag the network administrator password that would grant admin privilege on every Sun box at Oracle... just by filtering telnet traffic in promiscuous mode on my workstation and catching a network admin logging in remotely via telnet to another computer on my subnet. There's a reason why any sane person uses ssh instead.
"The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
Wait... explain to me why are consensual value-for-value trades are considered "illegal"? I'm a libertarian, and I'd like to know.
Also, isn't most of the Chicago "subway" elevated, not underground? I suspect most subway systems don't have this problem because cell reception is nonexistent underground in the first place. If this system had been designed properly in the first place, this wouldn't have been a problem. I just got a new cell phone, and it doesn't get data service inside most stores... should i suspect people are jamming it, or that cellular data signals just don't work very well through metal walls... you know, like the kind all trains have?
It is impossible to evaluate every possible permutation of the individual spots on the board, so brute force look-ahead can't be done using present computers. However, human players don't do brute force look-ahead of every possible permutation piece-by-piece; they see larger patterns in the pieces and act accordingly. The solution is to make the AI see the game more like the way humans see it, "intuition" is probably the wrong word for that. More like learning what parts of a pattern are important and what parts aren't, and weighting them accordingly. Hmm... I wonder if they actually used a learning or genetic algorithm? Seems like you'd need it to play millions of games against humans to learn well, in which case the internet would be an enabling technology.