I cannot resist repeating it : Anything euphemistically called "smart" really means "a computer you do not, and cannot, control." Thank you for this:-)
A couple of years ago the news here went on full of the story of a man calling the police while on the highway in order to have the next toll barrage cleared for him, because his cruise control was locked on full speed. There was a lot of roar in the news, but little reality in the end, as obviously on any vehicle the brake is far more powerful than the motor (specially when on high gear), so the guy could trivially stop pressing the brake pedal.
But, he was an old man, and definitely not prepared to the unusual circumstances he was in -which in itself may become an issue more significant than just the autocruise control : among the general population (not just us), which proportion indeed can deal with these brand-new autopilot thingies, that 90% of us never experienced yet? Think of a 60-years old renting such a car and pressing the wrong command, how'd he react?
Don't dream too much, Brexiter;-) Galileo encryption module is just a module. It will be supplied by another European industrial. There are many fully capable guys which are probably already fighting to catch the money. "Crippling the system before it even goes live" is, erm, a wild dream:-)
This, all the more than in France and the US at least, ICBMs have been designed and validated for underwater launches from nuclear submarines, for dozens of years -in other words : this know-how for "engine-water interactions at launch" definitely exists...
Panspermia is, to me, a manner of evacuating any ambition of explaining Life towards an unreachable, outwards source. 'coming from outer space millions of years ago' = 'created by a God', for that matter.
That's the weakminded solution : modifying our view of the world so that answers to your questions become impossible by design, if I dare say.
My main fear is to discover the same process at work within closer, more critical analyses (economy, science, even ethics...). It's difficult to discernate.
Magnetotorquer bars have been used in space for dozens of years to desaturate the reaction wheels. These are perfectly adjusted to their function (no need for fancy EM things) and generate pure torques when interacting with the Earth magnetic field. Just, no forces, as, well, expected.
At the time we bought our two Tuxedo laptops, last year, Syst76 proposed almost the same configs but didn't offer anything else than US keyboards -contrary to the German guys at Tuxedo...
Who will prevent me to automate faster than you, sell at a lower price immediately, and kill your company while developing mine? All ordinarily sane companies will consider this, verify it to be true (even if globally bad) and play the move as fast as they can. The global result may be bad : they are not responsible for the global result. And the fastest within them companies will actually demonstrate you that they have improved their results...
Wow. My first 'moderated flamebait' in years, for this... I should have replaced 'jews' with 'muslims', I'd have been moderated 'fashion' maybe;-) But, back to serious : I really believe what I said : trained with artificial simulations introduces a bias.
No, that's much worse than that -or else, a tautology in a quite different meaning : they trained an AI onto artificial images of what they THINK should be what they will see, and then the AI is confirming their bias -of course. To me this is the apogee of biased training, to date. (of course if it has been someone training the same NN onto artificially simulated jewish greediness, then showing that actual jews presented to it are found greedy, it'd have been an entirely different thing, isn't it?)
To me, Signal is definitely, terribly, unperfect, but it is the single and only *open-source* app allowing end-to-end encryption for short messaging (and, sometimes, phone calls). I use it daily. How does this Google move hits Signal?
I say the title of this post is seriously misleading. Brian Acton is only co-founder of WhatsApp, in other words, a direct competitor of the FOSS Signal application.
That he (only now) consider Signal as better than WhatsApp is good ; that he now donates to Signal is even better (as long as he doesn't take control, e. g. through new hired friends) -but definitely Acton never was a 'Signal, WhatsApp Co-Founder'.
And now the message diffused by/. title to the general crowd is : 'so, after all, WhatsApp and Signal are roughly the same kind of cool, no need to change'...
From a guy that spent years explaining to his management that they should switch from WhatsApp to Signal...
I am not young : I discovered Photolab, the initial software before it was bought by Adobe and renamed Photoshop. I think at the time the complete package did fit within a single 400K disk;-)
I have used *many* successive versions of Photoshop -I remember when the fashion was to add 'Kai Power Tools' and if you didn't have KPT you were being considered a beginner:-) (who remember this?)
I am lucky : I only have thousands of pictures to handle, and I am satisfied with the EXIF way of tagging. Because of that probably, I have sitched away from Photoshop *years* ago.
I now use Rawtherapee daily, and Darktable for some arcane noise removing capacity that I found nowhere else (by 'nowhere' I mean, after having tried all paid solutions).
When I bought my last Leica, there was a free Adobe license associated with it. I went through the painful process of installing it -and definitely it was painful, having to cancel the automatic monthly subscriptions to select the permanent version, which actually needed me asking for help on the Adobe forums.
It lasted, I'd say, four months until I decided to clean it up.
It is quite sad you consider locked in, but, well, it's you...
Work perfectly for me, with thousands of pics, spread on dozens of years and various cameras. Properly handle Raw files along with jpegs too...
I remember I started to consider Darktable seriously, years ago, when I discovered one of their noise filter was far better than any paying thing on the market...
If you don't want to leave Adobe just say this, don't say there are no alternatives.
Almost a perfect posting, and I definitely retain the 'Enemy contact' quote:-D
May I just add : you also should have, within your plan, some *margin* on all three features : a couple of weeks hidden margin that you'll carefully release in front of trouble, some extra work capacity ('money') for the like, and -as you mention- an idea of which feature Z you can remove if need be. Margin management is key, while in general poorly done or underprovisioned... I for one work in a big company where these three margins are perfecly mandatory, everywhere -but also almost always too small.
Even worse, many brilliant managers when facing this constraint do turn innovative (after all this is the story topic here;-), but the only possible innovation there consists in finding tricks to fool the 'margin controllers' : like, there is obviously too little margin provisioned for delay contractual penalties, but it is because we expect our subcontractors to share that risk (...we just didn't finalize that negotiation with them)
Please don't take this as a criticism, I'm really interested. Here in Europe we don't really work with heroes à la Andy Rubin, but we've had the Dutch Fairphone company for years now, which is geared to ethical procurement rather than google independence but still have a rooted version, and even a version compatible with the Sailfish OS (for the daring). Their latest model, Fairphone 2, is about one year old now. I had the Fairphone 1 before my company forced me to use their Samsung-VPNed standard : FF1 was technically reasonable only (but an excellent root experience). The new Fairphone 2 looks clearly better on all specs, with a very impressive modularity (each element dismountable with a simple screwdriver, of course replaceable battery etc.) While I'd have little need for a second, non-company-owned phone, I have been considering Fairphone 2 for quite a while -the company is well afloat now. I wonder how Rubins' specs compare, I'm definitely interested... TIA!
When we migrated from macs to linux laptops one year ago, I first considered buying System76 machines. I quickly understood they'd never offer the non-US keyboard in use here (I went up to asking them if a separate procurement would be feasible... no) Then I discovered, much closer to my home, the German guys from Tuxedo. Smaller company, not the same surface on internet. But brilliant products. And localized keyboards. Well, when the Intel-mgt-bug was discussed (first on LWN, months and months ago) I contacted Tuxedo asking if they'd upgrade things. Basically, the thing was already disabled on the recent machines I just bought. As some other said, Syst76 are VERY late at the party...
I am a subscriber to LWN, but you definitely can read it for free, only, with one week delay. And honestly, once you get used to reading it, you'll be considering subscribing...
... but as some already said, it's just an app more... If really you want to see what an actual, independent mesh network can be, please go to http://www.servalproject.org/ And yes there is an app:-D But this one, works -including from tablets with no SIMcard inside. IMHO the only issue is, this will become useable only when thousands will run it, including some in your neigborhood...
Well, I for one am writing this on one of our two family Tuxedo computers, which came with Ubuntu Mate preinstalled, and I can say I don't even know what GRUB is...
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In fact no, but the main expectation is probably that bees will look like dots in the image, while 'complete customers' will be more complex shapes?
I cannot resist repeating it : :-)
Anything euphemistically called "smart" really means "a computer you do not, and cannot, control."
Thank you for this
A couple of years ago the news here went on full of the story of a man calling the police while on the highway in order to have the next toll barrage cleared for him, because his cruise control was locked on full speed.
There was a lot of roar in the news, but little reality in the end, as obviously on any vehicle the brake is far more powerful than the motor (specially when on high gear), so the guy could trivially stop pressing the brake pedal.
But, he was an old man, and definitely not prepared to the unusual circumstances he was in -which in itself may become an issue more significant than just the autocruise control : among the general population (not just us), which proportion indeed can deal with these brand-new autopilot thingies, that 90% of us never experienced yet?
Think of a 60-years old renting such a car and pressing the wrong command, how'd he react?
Don't dream too much, Brexiter ;-) :-)
Galileo encryption module is just a module. It will be supplied by another European industrial. There are many fully capable guys which are probably already fighting to catch the money.
"Crippling the system before it even goes live" is, erm, a wild dream
This, all the more than in France and the US at least, ICBMs have been designed and validated for underwater launches from nuclear submarines, for dozens of years -in other words : this know-how for "engine-water interactions at launch" definitely exists...
Panspermia is, to me, a manner of evacuating any ambition of explaining Life towards an unreachable, outwards source.
'coming from outer space millions of years ago' = 'created by a God', for that matter.
That's the weakminded solution : modifying our view of the world so that answers to your questions become impossible by design, if I dare say.
My main fear is to discover the same process at work within closer, more critical analyses (economy, science, even ethics...). It's difficult to discernate.
Magnetotorquer bars have been used in space for dozens of years to desaturate the reaction wheels.
These are perfectly adjusted to their function (no need for fancy EM things) and generate pure torques when interacting with the Earth magnetic field.
Just, no forces, as, well, expected.
At the time we bought our two Tuxedo laptops, last year, Syst76 proposed almost the same configs but didn't offer anything else than US keyboards -contrary to the German guys at Tuxedo...
All is in the title -from agricultural US 100y ago the shift was managed; from now to next year with 70% of our work AI-fied will it be managed too?
Who will prevent me to automate faster than you, sell at a lower price immediately, and kill your company while developing mine?
All ordinarily sane companies will consider this, verify it to be true (even if globally bad) and play the move as fast as they can.
The global result may be bad : they are not responsible for the global result.
And the fastest within them companies will actually demonstrate you that they have improved their results...
Wow. My first 'moderated flamebait' in years, for this... I should have replaced 'jews' with 'muslims', I'd have been moderated 'fashion' maybe ;-)
But, back to serious : I really believe what I said : trained with artificial simulations introduces a bias.
No, that's much worse than that -or else, a tautology in a quite different meaning :
they trained an AI onto artificial images of what they THINK should be what they will see, and then the AI is confirming their bias -of course.
To me this is the apogee of biased training, to date.
(of course if it has been someone training the same NN onto artificially simulated jewish greediness, then showing that actual jews presented to it are found greedy, it'd have been an entirely different thing, isn't it?)
To me, Signal is definitely, terribly, unperfect, but it is the single and only *open-source* app allowing end-to-end encryption for short messaging (and, sometimes, phone calls).
I use it daily.
How does this Google move hits Signal?
I say the title of this post is seriously misleading.
Brian Acton is only co-founder of WhatsApp, in other words, a direct competitor of the FOSS Signal application.
That he (only now) consider Signal as better than WhatsApp is good ; that he now donates to Signal is even better (as long as he doesn't take control, e. g. through new hired friends) -but definitely Acton never was a 'Signal, WhatsApp Co-Founder'.
And now the message diffused by /. title to the general crowd is : 'so, after all, WhatsApp and Signal are roughly the same kind of cool, no need to change'...
From a guy that spent years explaining to his management that they should switch from WhatsApp to Signal...
I am not young : I discovered Photolab, the initial software before it was bought by Adobe and renamed Photoshop. I think at the time the complete package did fit within a single 400K disk ;-)
I have used *many* successive versions of Photoshop -I remember when the fashion was to add 'Kai Power Tools' and if you didn't have KPT you were being considered a beginner :-)
(who remember this?)
I am lucky : I only have thousands of pictures to handle, and I am satisfied with the EXIF way of tagging.
Because of that probably, I have sitched away from Photoshop *years* ago.
I now use Rawtherapee daily, and Darktable for some arcane noise removing capacity that I found nowhere else (by 'nowhere' I mean, after having tried all paid solutions).
When I bought my last Leica, there was a free Adobe license associated with it. I went through the painful process of installing it -and definitely it was painful, having to cancel the automatic monthly subscriptions to select the permanent version, which actually needed me asking for help on the Adobe forums.
It lasted, I'd say, four months until I decided to clean it up.
It is quite sad you consider locked in, but, well, it's you...
too bad :-D
Work perfectly for me, with thousands of pics, spread on dozens of years and various cameras. Properly handle Raw files along with jpegs too...
I remember I started to consider Darktable seriously, years ago, when I discovered one of their noise filter was far better than any paying thing on the market...
If you don't want to leave Adobe just say this, don't say there are no alternatives.
Almost a perfect posting, and I definitely retain the 'Enemy contact' quote :-D
May I just add : you also should have, within your plan, some *margin* on all three features : a couple of weeks hidden margin that you'll carefully release in front of trouble, some extra work capacity ('money') for the like, and -as you mention- an idea of which feature Z you can remove if need be.
Margin management is key, while in general poorly done or underprovisioned...
I for one work in a big company where these three margins are perfecly mandatory, everywhere -but also almost always too small.
Even worse, many brilliant managers when facing this constraint do turn innovative (after all this is the story topic here ;-), but the only possible innovation there consists in finding tricks to fool the 'margin controllers' : like, there is obviously too little margin provisioned for delay contractual penalties, but it is because we expect our subcontractors to share that risk (...we just didn't finalize that negotiation with them)
Ghostery, I don't know. But now I know you are not credible.
Please don't take this as a criticism, I'm really interested.
Here in Europe we don't really work with heroes à la Andy Rubin, but we've had the Dutch Fairphone company for years now, which is geared to ethical procurement rather than google independence but still have a rooted version, and even a version compatible with the Sailfish OS (for the daring).
Their latest model, Fairphone 2, is about one year old now.
I had the Fairphone 1 before my company forced me to use their Samsung-VPNed standard : FF1 was technically reasonable only (but an excellent root experience). The new Fairphone 2 looks clearly better on all specs, with a very impressive modularity (each element dismountable with a simple screwdriver, of course replaceable battery etc.)
While I'd have little need for a second, non-company-owned phone, I have been considering Fairphone 2 for quite a while -the company is well afloat now.
I wonder how Rubins' specs compare, I'm definitely interested...
TIA!
When we migrated from macs to linux laptops one year ago, I first considered buying System76 machines. I quickly understood they'd never offer the non-US keyboard in use here (I went up to asking them if a separate procurement would be feasible... no)
Then I discovered, much closer to my home, the German guys from Tuxedo. Smaller company, not the same surface on internet. But brilliant products. And localized keyboards.
Well, when the Intel-mgt-bug was discussed (first on LWN, months and months ago) I contacted Tuxedo asking if they'd upgrade things. Basically, the thing was already disabled on the recent machines I just bought.
As some other said, Syst76 are VERY late at the party...
I am a subscriber to LWN, but you definitely can read it for free, only, with one week delay.
And honestly, once you get used to reading it, you'll be considering subscribing...
... but as some already said, it's just an app more... :-D
If really you want to see what an actual, independent mesh network can be, please go to http://www.servalproject.org/
And yes there is an app
But this one, works -including from tablets with no SIMcard inside.
IMHO the only issue is, this will become useable only when thousands will run it, including some in your neigborhood...
With a dongle : http://hexus.net/tech/news/per...
With some Linux 'firewalls' : USBGuard, https://github.com/dkopecek/us... , USBauth, https://github.com/kochstefan/...
Nice paper on LWV, that's still paying this week but will become free after 8 days as usual : https://lwn.net/Articles/73830...
HTH,
Hervé
BTW : anyone in region 06 in France wishing to share shipping costs for the dongle?
Well, I for one am writing this on one of our two family Tuxedo computers, which came with Ubuntu Mate preinstalled, and I can say I don't even know what GRUB is...