If someone hasn't updated to Windows 10 by now, they will never upgrade. Hell, even I have a few Windows 7 holdbacks I have no intention of upgrading, ever.
Just stop. There is absolutely no point in turning Windows 7 into nagware.
Have people learned NOTHING about the internet over the past 2 decades?
There is a reason a lot of the comment sections on website have been shuttered. They are abused. They become troll platforms, spam platforms, a place for the most disgruntled among us to make a whole lot of nonsense noises.
This is a monumentally foolish idea. We need more moderation of this stuff, not more free-wheeling comment sections for the worst of us to spew their nonsense.
This is a pretty foolish thing to say. Art is a very subjective sort of thing. One mans art is another mans garbage.
"Artists" make stuff, but they don't make art. The people who see it decide if it's art or it's not. Artist has very little control over this.
So saying an AI can never be an artist, when we barely understand what qualifies as art seems pretty naive and presumptuous.
In fact, what qualifies as 'art' is a moving target. Look at some of our famous artists. In their lifetimes, their work was often not considered anything special. It was much later, after they're long dead, we suddenly decided, that guy(gal) is a master! His(Her) works are masterpieces.
I think law makers need to sit down with telcoms and the two need to work out why and when throttling is appropriate.
Especially in an emergency situation when EVERYONE is trying to use it, greedily, and without throttling, you just end in a situation where no one can use it at all.
So basically, understanding why throttling is taking place, before you start making laws about something you potentially have no f'ing clue about.
Don't wanna vaccinate? Then please move into the woods and never expose anyone to your unvaccinated kids. Also, no doctors for you. You forfeit the right to all doctor and hospital care. You can stitch your own wounds and set your own bones, since you obviously know better than the professionals.
They should just make a law about this and be done with it. No one should have the right to endanger their fellow citizens based on falsehoods, unfounded paranoid and/or plain stupidity.
Society needs to shun these people like the lepers they aspire to be.
The costs of storing and transmitting data have plunged, approaching zero. By one estimate, the actual cost of retrieving court documents, including secure storage, is about one half of one ten-thousandth of a penny per page.
This right here is complete bullshit. It is not zero, not even close. There are servers, data centers, IT staff, hard drives, maintenance to maintain these servers, data centers. Air conditioning, building maintenance, building lease fees, electricity. Is any of this stuff free?
I think it's completely reasonable to charge to retrieve these documents when there is a entire not-free infrastructure that supports this ability to retrieve these documents online.
Don't like it? Drive to the court house you're interested in and request dead tree copies?
I say, so what. I've been using Popfile for years. Is this "new AI" some how a magical unicorn that's better than Bayesian style filtering? Probably the same thing.
How is this even news? Filtering is nothing special. Also not particularly difficult to 'train' up a filter.. just need a bunch of spam, and non-spam to feed it.
I install java on most my machines. I don't use it too terribly often, but when I do, the apps written in and running on Java seem as good as any other Apps. I don't see the problem.
Not sure why there's comments of licensing issues... it's a free download from Oracle's website, has been forever. Am I missing something? Do you need special permission to write java code and distribute it? I'm sure you might need permission to distribute the VM with your app, but that's not even necessary, for the reason I already stated.
I don't know it as a programming language, never had any interest in it. so can't really comment on that aspect of it.
All the societal impacts aside, fiddling with the human genome, when we BARELY understand how this stuff works seems like a really dangerous idea.
Who knows what sort of new problem you're introducing into our genome, that may not be expressed for a few generations?
You think you solved some awful human condition, start doing it widespread, and 150 years down the road, we're all fucked cuz it did something unintended like made everyone sterile, or have some other much worse disability.
The basic problem (and benefit, sadly) of these wretched App Stores is pretty simple. They put everyone on a level playing field to publish apps. This seems like a good thing, but it's not. Not even close.
Gone are the days of going to a reputable vendor to acquire software you're interested in. Instead, you search the app store, and reputable and disreputable apps are offered up.
This is a serious problem and the Achilles heel of App Store, and why I've railed against them for years. They are not a good idea, not even close. We need to go back to the previous way of doing things, where reputable companies are rewarded by customers when they act responsibly, and disreputable companies go out of business cuz no one buys their garbage.
The App store model short circuits this, and when an App is found to be malicious, the publisher found to be disreputable, they just fold up their junk and republish under a new name, with a new malicious app. This is really broken folks.
UV was a fantastic idea. It's a shame one studio can cause it's undoing.
This is not going to create any confidence in consumers interested in buying digital goods like music, movies, shows, etc.
If they're gunna keep pulling the rug out from under the consumer, you can bet nothing like this service will ever find success. You can only burn people so many times before they go 'no thanks, been there done that. got nothing to show for it.'
The purpose of this is to prevent inmates from hijacking/sharing each other's phone cards and usage of the phone system.
It basically prevents Prisoner A from using Prisoner B's phone time because (s)he won't have the same voice print. This is mostly a good thing, inmates can no longer share phone time, or steal it from each other, or even trade it. Everything inside a prison becomes a valuable commodity to be traded for other commodities.
This is an environment where you someone just might beat you within an inch of your life for a fucking prestamped envelope, ok?
I was not aware it was being used for anything outside the jail/prison system though.
One effect of these seeming continuous reports of data breaches of all sorts of internet companies is the changes to the types of Spam/phishing emails I am receiving.
It's most disturbing to see your password in the clear, in an email subject, along with an email explaining you've been hacked and blah blah send us bitcoin or we'll do stuff. Whatever.
Personally I was a bit alarmed by this initially, but also, it was my least important password, the one I use I garbage sites once to download a forum post or similar things.
But you know, other people who may not be wise enough to not use the same password on different sites, they might take this sort of email entirely differently. As I said, it alarmed me initially. Certainly got me to inspect all my gear for signs of compromise.
Later in the evening, after finding no evidence of any tampering on any of my stuff, I concluded it must have been a hacked site's data falling into a phishing outfit's hands. It was my least 'secure' password that I throw at sites I don't really plan to use more than once.
Watch out for these emails, is what i'm saying here. They can really unnerve even a old dinosaur like myself.
This is what you get when you refuse to employ humans to process claims from other humans. Humans are smart, they will game your automation, every time, guaranteed.
I'm afraid I can't really blame YouTube directly for this sort of thing. We're all kind of responsible for this. We don't want to pay people to moderate our internet. So this it the result. Enjoy?
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How about hiding tweets, and adverts too?
How glorious would it be if Twitter was just a blank page?
Where are the dollars coming from? Who the fuck is giving Facebook.. what did it say? $19 billion? Over 2 years.
WHERE IS IT COMING FROM? Who is stupid enough to be giving Facebook money for anything, ESPECIALLY crypto currency. Someone getting scammed hard.
As long as anonymity is a staple of the Internet, it will never 'grow up' or mature.
It's that very anonymity that encourages people to be on their worst behavior because there's absolutely no consequences to that behavior.
As much as I love the anonymity afforded to internet users, I can freely admit, it's a root cause of a lot of the trouble we're having.
It probably needs to go away. Humans have shown they can't behave in a responsible civil manner with anonymity on the table.
If someone hasn't updated to Windows 10 by now, they will never upgrade. Hell, even I have a few Windows 7 holdbacks I have no intention of upgrading, ever.
Just stop. There is absolutely no point in turning Windows 7 into nagware.
The rule of law is alive and well, in the USA, thank goodness. And if you defy a court of law, you will pay a price.
So, Chelsea better get comfortable unless she wants to answer questions.
Encrypt ALL of Facebook, every page, every picture, every word. And lose the key. This would be a great improvement to the site.
The name of this vehicle ... just too close to Pornstar.
Have people learned NOTHING about the internet over the past 2 decades?
There is a reason a lot of the comment sections on website have been shuttered. They are abused. They become troll platforms, spam platforms, a place for the most disgruntled among us to make a whole lot of nonsense noises.
This is a monumentally foolish idea. We need more moderation of this stuff, not more free-wheeling comment sections for the worst of us to spew their nonsense.
This is a pretty foolish thing to say. Art is a very subjective sort of thing. One mans art is another mans garbage.
"Artists" make stuff, but they don't make art. The people who see it decide if it's art or it's not. Artist has very little control over this.
So saying an AI can never be an artist, when we barely understand what qualifies as art seems pretty naive and presumptuous.
In fact, what qualifies as 'art' is a moving target. Look at some of our famous artists. In their lifetimes, their work was often not considered anything special. It was much later, after they're long dead, we suddenly decided, that guy(gal) is a master! His(Her) works are masterpieces.
Once again, we're getting news items that lack any technology, nerdiness, or anything Slashdot users care about. Who green lighted this story? UGH.
It's still a cesspool of ad infected garbage.
I can't even find a simple weather widget that doesn't start making my phone spew full screen ads at me randomly.
Take your Play Store and shove it.
I think law makers need to sit down with telcoms and the two need to work out why and when throttling is appropriate.
Especially in an emergency situation when EVERYONE is trying to use it, greedily, and without throttling, you just end in a situation where no one can use it at all.
So basically, understanding why throttling is taking place, before you start making laws about something you potentially have no f'ing clue about.
"don't try to bolt on security to insecure software."
Oh you mean, like the TCP/IP protocols we all use today? Security wasn't even close to on the minds of the original specs.
Kind of shows.
How do these things keep happening? What happened to sanity checking your input? Geezus, this is inexcusable.
Don't wanna vaccinate? Then please move into the woods and never expose anyone to your unvaccinated kids. Also, no doctors for you. You forfeit the right to all doctor and hospital care. You can stitch your own wounds and set your own bones, since you obviously know better than the professionals.
They should just make a law about this and be done with it. No one should have the right to endanger their fellow citizens based on falsehoods, unfounded paranoid and/or plain stupidity.
Society needs to shun these people like the lepers they aspire to be.
First you want the opinion of your peers on your content, and when they don't like it, now you don't want their opinion?
Look, it's an all or nothing situation, IMHO. Take both buttons away and never report likes/dislikes on anything ever again, or leave it be.
The costs of storing and transmitting data have plunged, approaching zero. By one estimate, the actual cost of retrieving court documents, including secure storage, is about one half of one ten-thousandth of a penny per page.
This right here is complete bullshit. It is not zero, not even close. There are servers, data centers, IT staff, hard drives, maintenance to maintain these servers, data centers. Air conditioning, building maintenance, building lease fees, electricity. Is any of this stuff free?
I think it's completely reasonable to charge to retrieve these documents when there is a entire not-free infrastructure that supports this ability to retrieve these documents online.
Don't like it? Drive to the court house you're interested in and request dead tree copies?
I say, so what. I've been using Popfile for years. Is this "new AI" some how a magical unicorn that's better than Bayesian style filtering? Probably the same thing.
How is this even news? Filtering is nothing special. Also not particularly difficult to 'train' up a filter.. just need a bunch of spam, and non-spam to feed it.
I install java on most my machines. I don't use it too terribly often, but when I do, the apps written in and running on Java seem as good as any other Apps. I don't see the problem.
Not sure why there's comments of licensing issues... it's a free download from Oracle's website, has been forever. Am I missing something? Do you need special permission to write java code and distribute it? I'm sure you might need permission to distribute the VM with your app, but that's not even necessary, for the reason I already stated.
I don't know it as a programming language, never had any interest in it. so can't really comment on that aspect of it.
All the societal impacts aside, fiddling with the human genome, when we BARELY understand how this stuff works seems like a really dangerous idea.
Who knows what sort of new problem you're introducing into our genome, that may not be expressed for a few generations?
You think you solved some awful human condition, start doing it widespread, and 150 years down the road, we're all fucked cuz it did something unintended like made everyone sterile, or have some other much worse disability.
The basic problem (and benefit, sadly) of these wretched App Stores is pretty simple. They put everyone on a level playing field to publish apps. This seems like a good thing, but it's not. Not even close.
Gone are the days of going to a reputable vendor to acquire software you're interested in. Instead, you search the app store, and reputable and disreputable apps are offered up.
This is a serious problem and the Achilles heel of App Store, and why I've railed against them for years. They are not a good idea, not even close. We need to go back to the previous way of doing things, where reputable companies are rewarded by customers when they act responsibly, and disreputable companies go out of business cuz no one buys their garbage.
The App store model short circuits this, and when an App is found to be malicious, the publisher found to be disreputable, they just fold up their junk and republish under a new name, with a new malicious app. This is really broken folks.
UV was a fantastic idea. It's a shame one studio can cause it's undoing.
This is not going to create any confidence in consumers interested in buying digital goods like music, movies, shows, etc.
If they're gunna keep pulling the rug out from under the consumer, you can bet nothing like this service will ever find success. You can only burn people so many times before they go 'no thanks, been there done that. got nothing to show for it.'
The purpose of this is to prevent inmates from hijacking/sharing each other's phone cards and usage of the phone system.
It basically prevents Prisoner A from using Prisoner B's phone time because (s)he won't have the same voice print. This is mostly a good thing, inmates can no longer share phone time, or steal it from each other, or even trade it. Everything inside a prison becomes a valuable commodity to be traded for other commodities.
This is an environment where you someone just might beat you within an inch of your life for a fucking prestamped envelope, ok?
I was not aware it was being used for anything outside the jail/prison system though.
One effect of these seeming continuous reports of data breaches of all sorts of internet companies is the changes to the types of Spam/phishing emails I am receiving.
It's most disturbing to see your password in the clear, in an email subject, along with an email explaining you've been hacked and blah blah send us bitcoin or we'll do stuff. Whatever.
Personally I was a bit alarmed by this initially, but also, it was my least important password, the one I use I garbage sites once to download a forum post or similar things.
But you know, other people who may not be wise enough to not use the same password on different sites, they might take this sort of email entirely differently. As I said, it alarmed me initially. Certainly got me to inspect all my gear for signs of compromise.
Later in the evening, after finding no evidence of any tampering on any of my stuff, I concluded it must have been a hacked site's data falling into a phishing outfit's hands. It was my least 'secure' password that I throw at sites I don't really plan to use more than once.
Watch out for these emails, is what i'm saying here. They can really unnerve even a old dinosaur like myself.
This is what you get when you refuse to employ humans to process claims from other humans. Humans are smart, they will game your automation, every time, guaranteed.
I'm afraid I can't really blame YouTube directly for this sort of thing. We're all kind of responsible for this. We don't want to pay people to moderate our internet. So this it the result. Enjoy?