I suppose there's an AI issue, too--a singularity is going to get into this data in a few decades. I can't predict what an AI a hundred times smarter than any of us might do with it.
Don't worry about that.:) If the AI is Friendly, it won't hurt us no matter how much it knows, and if it's Unfriendly, it won't matter how much it knows; it would hurt us just as bad anyway.
Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar.;)
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Have you ever tried to build LLVM in debug mode? I have. Got a 600+ MiB executable that took a full minute just to load itself. The turn-around time was ridiculous. GCC's build, meanwhile, was less than a tenth of that. Much faster, too.
An intelligence unlike anything Humanity has ever faced! You can't adapt {they're faster} You can't overcome {they're stronger} and they're coming! Dec 1st to a theater near you.
There have been a few recent movies on that form.
I, Robot (2004) shows a weak, non-self-modifying city-control computer.
Her (2013) shows an almost-friendly non-corporeal AI OS. It gains superintelligence, but chooses to sublimate rather than wipe out humanity.
Trancendence (2014) shows a human mind uploaded. It gains the "nanotech" superpower, but none of the others that a proper superintelligence would have.
No movie has shown a true superintelligence, because (1) we can't imagine what it would do, (2) if it was hostile, we'd lose, which most marketeers wouldn't like, and (3) if it was friendly, it would quickly end with "everything perfect for everyone forever"; not much of a story.
Certificate validation is a defense against Man-in-the-Middle attacks. But the "Let's Encrypt" system is vulnerable to a MitM attack between its server and the server that would request the proper certificate.
It can thus be fooled into issuing false certificates by the very people those certificates should defend against.
Then you've got hybrid systems like Cordova. Code your UI and logic in HTML5, use native plugins with javascript interfaces to access the more unusual stuff.
You seem to underestimate the inventiveness of a superintelligence, and the diversity of hardware controlled by computers, and our reliance on them. It is also possible to use electronic communication to make humans do work for you.
Actually, there's a market for exactly one human-mind-equivalent. The first one to start self-improving will make damn sure to stop any others with incompatible values. Shortly afterward, the old notion of a "world market" will become obsolete.:)
SMTP requires that those fields be world-readable. Or do you propose that SMTP servers somehow route email to the appropriate recipient without being able to read who the recipient is?!
No, what I propose is that we start using a protocol other than SMTP for email. I don't think such a protocol exists yet, and I don't know much about how it would look, but I think AC #49126801, right above, has some good ideas.
Surely they'll find it very difficult to get an unregistered SIM card.
No, but they'll find it difficult to get unregistered cards to work, at least once the networks start blocking all cards that are not registered.
The counter to that is to steal registered cards. The counter to that is to report the cards as stolen. Counter: kill the card-owners, so they can't report the cards. Counter: police de-registers cards belonging to dead people. Counter: kidnap/disappear the card-owners. Only works until the authorities catch on in each individual case. Mitigation: keep kill/stealing. That's what terrorists do anyway, so no problem there. Problem: you're now switching numbers often. Gonna be difficult to keep your address book up-to-date.
All modern operating systems put restrictions on what software can run on them and what it can do.
No, they don't. Windows, Linux, the BSDs, OSX, none of those have any mandatory filters. Windows and OSX have some "anti-malware" crap, but those can be disabled.
Even on Linux your app doesn't get automatic root access and the ability to poke into the kernel just because you want it.
If an app wants root access, it'll pop up a password prompt. If you want it, it can poke anything.:)
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I suppose there's an AI issue, too--a singularity is going to get into this data in a few decades. I can't predict what an AI a hundred times smarter than any of us might do with it.
Don't worry about that. :) If the AI is Friendly, it won't hurt us no matter how much it knows, and if it's Unfriendly, it won't matter how much it knows; it would hurt us just as bad anyway.
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I presume you know what "plan" means?
Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar. ;)
Have you ever tried to build LLVM in debug mode? I have. Got a 600+ MiB executable that took a full minute just to load itself. The turn-around time was ridiculous. GCC's build, meanwhile, was less than a tenth of that. Much faster, too.
Presumably this "Device Guard" can be disabled by an administrator. As a software developer, you do administrate your own computer, right?
Keep the net freely accessible to all, even those you don't like.
Especially those you don't like. Those you do like need no protection from you.
The AI doesn't care about you, but you are made of atoms it can use for something else...
Lovely.
Is this a movie trailer?
An intelligence unlike anything Humanity has ever faced! You can't adapt {they're faster} You can't overcome {they're stronger} and they're coming! Dec 1st to a theater near you.
There have been a few recent movies on that form.
I, Robot (2004) shows a weak, non-self-modifying city-control computer.
Her (2013) shows an almost-friendly non-corporeal AI OS. It gains superintelligence, but chooses to sublimate rather than wipe out humanity.
Trancendence (2014) shows a human mind uploaded. It gains the "nanotech" superpower, but none of the others that a proper superintelligence would have.
No movie has shown a true superintelligence, because (1) we can't imagine what it would do, (2) if it was hostile, we'd lose, which most marketeers wouldn't like, and (3) if it was friendly, it would quickly end with "everything perfect for everyone forever"; not much of a story.
Yep.
Certificate validation is a defense against Man-in-the-Middle attacks. But the "Let's Encrypt" system is vulnerable to a MitM attack between its server and the server that would request the proper certificate.
It can thus be fooled into issuing false certificates by the very people those certificates should defend against.
Then you've got hybrid systems like Cordova. Code your UI and logic in HTML5, use native plugins with javascript interfaces to access the more unusual stuff.
You seem to underestimate the inventiveness of a superintelligence, and the diversity of hardware controlled by computers, and our reliance on them. It is also possible to use electronic communication to make humans do work for you.
For example, if the AI solves the Protein Folding Problem, it could contact a Protein Sequencing Service and have them build proteins that fold into self-replicating nanobots.
The Gungans in Phantom Menace (depicted in TFA) have visible shields. I think those are the only ones in the series.
Remind me again which pirate was sentenced to death
Jack Sparrow.
Captain Jack Sparrow.
Actually, there's a market for exactly one human-mind-equivalent. The first one to start self-improving will make damn sure to stop any others with incompatible values. Shortly afterward, the old notion of a "world market" will become obsolete. :)
PGP doesn't protect metadata.
SMTP requires that those fields be world-readable. Or do you propose that SMTP servers somehow route email to the appropriate recipient without being able to read who the recipient is?!
No, what I propose is that we start using a protocol other than SMTP for email. I don't think such a protocol exists yet, and I don't know much about how it would look, but I think AC #49126801, right above, has some good ideas.
In short, everything except the fact that you're using the system.
Surely they'll find it very difficult to get an unregistered SIM card.
No, but they'll find it difficult to get unregistered cards to work, at least once the networks start blocking all cards that are not registered.
The counter to that is to steal registered cards. The counter to that is to report the cards as stolen. Counter: kill the card-owners, so they can't report the cards. Counter: police de-registers cards belonging to dead people. Counter: kidnap/disappear the card-owners. Only works until the authorities catch on in each individual case. Mitigation: keep kill/stealing. That's what terrorists do anyway, so no problem there. Problem: you're now switching numbers often. Gonna be difficult to keep your address book up-to-date.
Have they patented the software they use to generate patents? :)
KickassTorrents is still online, though its address has changed back to the original (from .so).
It did adhere to Semantic Versioning before v3.0. They dropped it because Linus felt the "39" in 2.6.39 was too big.
All modern operating systems put restrictions on what software can run on them and what it can do.
No, they don't. Windows, Linux, the BSDs, OSX, none of those have any mandatory filters. Windows and OSX have some "anti-malware" crap, but those can be disabled.
Even on Linux your app doesn't get automatic root access and the ability to poke into the kernel just because you want it.
If an app wants root access, it'll pop up a password prompt. If you want it, it can poke anything. :)
Arch has had systemd since 2012, and was one of the distros that received negative comments in TFA.
Data isn't property. It cannot be owned. It can, however, be controlled. I suggest you don't let anyone else control your data.