"... scrambling to curtail (some of) the manipulation he now acknowledges exists" facebook founder, users, employees, and critics, all seem to live in a bubble, spouting nonsense back and forth, about a non-incident, backed with no independently verifiable evidence, made up entirely of unverified allegations about, relatively minuscule ad spending by unidentified americans with, fuzzy at best, connections several nodes removed from anything real named kremlin.
given that most of this post talks about maketing man saint jobs, while saying he did not "create" it, and was removed from project, while giving zero info on people who were really developing it, i don't think anyone should care.
must say this is becoming ridiculous. that musk, who has a record of under delivering, thinks about doing something is not tech news, i my opinion. but it is obviously/.'s.
10 Mbps is a complete joke, you'd be lucky to get two Netflix streams on that without stuttering.
two stutterless netflix streams should be a legal right? - what this regulation really means,
1/ people,including poor, who live in areas where a connection is easily obtainable cheaply are forced to pay higher for faster connections to subsidize those who choose to live in remote hard to connect areas. maybe healthy countryside living in rural areas, with full facilities, should also be legal right?
2/ consolidate position of now regulated established monopoly suppliers, by raising barriers to new competitors.
Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
a premature celebratory comment here, about this grandstanding gesture which achieves nothing, and far from guaranteed to succeed at even that meaningless vote (not only gop, dems are also divided btw), about pai getting his "ass handed" back is now rated "insightful" . oh \. !
with such meaningless opposition, and idiotic support for it, trump is going to be succeed.
"the best show ever made about silicon Valley...They're talking about amc's halt and catch fire" really?! i watched 1st two seasons, started out promising, but it was clear writers had no idea about the techs they were speaking about (or more likely deliberately dumbed things down quite a lot). actors, for example, mackenzie davis, obviously did not study or was nowhere near a good coder, like she was portraying, you can tell by the way she was literally banging on her keyboard
uber, a company set up to profit through finding loopholes, or outright breaking, of regulations and laws, that its competitors adhere to, is only now facing prosecution? justice is slow in usa.
online "social networks/media" bloats till they can follow the most idiotic popular thing, just like all the other "social networks/media". then they slowly die.
But I'd be a little happier if it was asteroid-hunting.
i'd be happier if nasa, and those who do real science, refrain from tagging currently fashionable buzzwords like "machine learning", "artificial intelligence", etc, straight out of corporate hype to their own revelations.
"google's data analysis helped in analysis of kepler data, in making yet another one discovery to add to others already made", would be the straight real story here
"can run Opera, Firefox, and Mozilla all at once, which is good news for those among us who want to use ReactOS on a more daily basis" judging by those words, running several(and same?) browsers at once, for a long time, is one of "our" primary daily activities.
The most important skill and experience you take away from public school is the ability to deal with the public.
Homeschooled kids lose out on that big time, and no, your church, sports, and social field trips you organize with other homeschooled kids is not a substitute.
And don't forget that you brainwash your kids too, just with the ideas and beleifs you hold. Public school for all its flaws, exposes them to other ideas, some good, some bad
do you have any data/study that demonstrate kids exposed to social world of a real world community, including among other things, "church, sports, and social field trips" etc, are less exposed to reality, than kids who grow up in extremely juvenile social world of american public high school(an artificial world of recent construction, very different from "real" world")?
also , given the snow-flaky behavior of kids coming who come out of public schools, who loudly, and sometimes violently, demand they want to to be protected from ideas that conflict with dominant establishment "liberal" ideology, there is enough proof, that contrary to what you say, brainwashing and inability to deal with reality is definitely a public school thing. whether it is also home school thing is yet to be demonstrated.
default should be no sharing. then users should be given an option on sharing, and which data.
and to be really fair, if apple/others-using-them are making money out of that data, users should get a share of that money.
to be perhaps impractically fair, apple should recognize data about third parties in data( such as someone else in image), and at least inform the user about facts and consequences of who has legal right to that data, on case by case.
alleged dangers of " human incompetence and greed." is one thing, dangers from alleged "a new form of life" is another.
one expects respected scientist like stephen hawking not to use "hyperbole" to fear monger about "a new form of life" that does not exist. if he wants to warn about dangers of "human incompetence and greed", or use of modern data analysis methods (what is now called "artificial intelligence, see my previous comment) by all means.
okay, so we have a danger with automated systems with highly limited and filtered sets of data being put in charge of infrastructure, weapons systems, trading....
sound right to you?
last time i checked these things are not really in charge of anything independently, or in very controlled environments where input and output are both very limited. "driver less" vehicles either require human drivers at the wheel, or very controlled environments(basically invisible rail tracks). triggers in algorithms(which are not what is called "artificial intelligence" in either sense of that term) that run trading, search results, social media feeds, etc, are decided and put in there by humans. algorithm doesn't decide anything, just executes the action faster based on instructions.
"here's what stephen hawking said about artificial intelligence: the genie is out of the bottle.... i fear that AI may replace humans altogether. if people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that replicates itself. this will be a new form of life that will outperform humans."
this is pure fear mongering. what is called "artificial intelligence" these days is not a "new form of life", but mere hype buzzword for data analysis (using theoretical methods developed decades ago, now made practical due to fast computers), of highly limited and filtered sets of data, usually trading accuracy and precision for speed, .
genie of "new form of life" artificial intelligence is well within "bottle".
If you are discussing your top secret plans with Alexa you're doing it wrong.
that would be true if only thing spied on is " top secret plans " of actual illegal crimes,subject to a court approved warrant. unfortunately that is not true. everything gets spied on now. and then usually hacked too.
and what about the 3rd parties who had no say on this, whose voices are captured and profiled.
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"... scrambling to curtail (some of) the manipulation he now acknowledges exists"
facebook founder, users, employees, and critics, all seem to live in a bubble, spouting nonsense back and forth, about a non-incident, backed with no independently verifiable evidence, made up entirely of unverified allegations about, relatively minuscule ad spending by unidentified americans with, fuzzy at best, connections several nodes removed from anything real named kremlin.
sad.
given that most of this post talks about maketing man saint jobs, while saying he did not "create" it, and was removed from project, while giving zero info on people who were really developing it, i don't think anyone should care.
this explains why there is zero independently verifiable evidence of any russian "election hacking".
russians must have hacked ghosts.
we should rejoice!
must say this is becoming ridiculous. that musk, who has a record of under delivering, thinks about doing something is not tech news, i my opinion. but it is obviously /.'s.
10 Mbps is a complete joke, you'd be lucky to get two Netflix streams on that without stuttering.
two stutterless netflix streams should be a legal right?
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what this regulation really means,
1/ people,including poor, who live in areas where a connection is easily obtainable cheaply are forced to pay higher for faster connections to subsidize those who choose to live in remote hard to connect areas. maybe healthy countryside living in rural areas, with full facilities, should also be legal right?
2/ consolidate position of now regulated established monopoly suppliers, by raising barriers to new competitors.
Now we find out exactly how unified the GOP is. Spoiler: They're not unified at all. If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
a premature celebratory comment here, about this grandstanding gesture which achieves nothing, and far from guaranteed to succeed at even that meaningless vote (not only gop, dems are also divided btw), about pai getting his "ass handed" back is now rated "insightful" .
oh \. !
with such meaningless opposition, and idiotic support for it, trump is going to be succeed.
"the best show ever made about silicon Valley ...They're talking about amc's halt and catch fire"
really?!
i watched 1st two seasons, started out promising, but it was clear writers had no idea about the techs they were speaking about (or more likely deliberately dumbed things down quite a lot). actors, for example, mackenzie davis, obviously did not study or was nowhere near a good coder, like she was portraying, you can tell by the way she was literally banging on her keyboard
does all these mostly bloat features have an easy turn off option if user does not need them, not just when running, but when building/getting binary?
all who want everything they have online, for no or trivial reasons, are asking for it. feel no sympathy for such idiots.
uber, a company set up to profit through finding loopholes, or outright breaking, of regulations and laws, that its competitors adhere to, is only now facing prosecution? justice is slow in usa.
With the future of visa programs in question, makes sense to be able to hire in other countries rather than let the knowledge go to other countries.
A reasonable hedge.
so, according to you, google and usa are synonymous?
online "social networks/media" bloats till they can follow the most idiotic popular thing, just like all the other "social networks/media". then they slowly die.
But I'd be a little happier if it was asteroid-hunting.
i'd be happier if nasa, and those who do real science, refrain from tagging currently fashionable buzzwords like "machine learning", "artificial intelligence", etc, straight out of corporate hype to their own revelations.
"google's data analysis helped in analysis of kepler data, in making yet another one discovery to add to others already made", would be the straight real story here
"Judging by the screenshots ..."
way to go!
"can run Opera, Firefox, and Mozilla all at once, which is good news for those among us who want to use ReactOS on a more daily basis"
judging by those words, running several(and same?) browsers at once, for a long time, is one of "our" primary daily activities.
"killing net neutrality will help disabled people"
says verizon, comcast, fcc, etc
"killing net neutrality will disable people."
says vice, google, facebook, etc
don't trust either.
The most important skill and experience you take away from public school is the ability to deal with the public.
Homeschooled kids lose out on that big time, and no, your church, sports, and social field trips you organize with other homeschooled kids is not a substitute.
And don't forget that you brainwash your kids too, just with the ideas and beleifs you hold. Public school for all its flaws, exposes them to other ideas, some good, some bad
do you have any data/study that demonstrate kids exposed to social world of a real world community, including among other things, "church, sports, and social field trips" etc, are less exposed to reality, than kids who grow up in extremely juvenile social world of american public high school(an artificial world of recent construction, very different from "real" world")?
also , given the snow-flaky behavior of kids coming who come out of public schools, who loudly, and sometimes violently, demand they want to to be protected from ideas that conflict with dominant establishment "liberal" ideology, there is enough proof, that contrary to what you say, brainwashing and inability to deal with reality is definitely a public school thing. whether it is also home school thing is yet to be demonstrated.
only number that matter to consumer, is the price directly paid by consumer.
every other number is selected subjectively, thus open to interpretation.
"lies, dammed lies and statistics"
wonder how many of current /. readers will get that reference?
default should be no sharing.
then users should be given an option on sharing, and which data.
and to be really fair, if apple/others-using-them are making money out of that data, users should get a share of that money.
to be perhaps impractically fair, apple should recognize data about third parties in data( such as someone else in image), and at least inform the user about facts and consequences of who has legal right to that data, on case by case.
alleged dangers of " human incompetence and greed." is one thing, dangers from alleged "a new form of life" is another.
one expects respected scientist like stephen hawking not to use "hyperbole" to fear monger about "a new form of life" that does not exist.
if he wants to warn about dangers of "human incompetence and greed", or use of modern data analysis methods (what is now called "artificial intelligence, see my previous comment) by all means.
okay, so we have a danger with automated systems with highly limited and filtered sets of data being put in charge of infrastructure, weapons systems, trading....
sound right to you?
last time i checked these things are not really in charge of anything independently, or in very controlled environments where input and output are both very limited.
"driver less" vehicles either require human drivers at the wheel, or very controlled environments(basically invisible rail tracks).
triggers in algorithms(which are not what is called "artificial intelligence" in either sense of that term) that run trading, search results, social media feeds, etc, are decided and put in there by humans. algorithm doesn't decide anything, just executes the action faster based on instructions.
uber is bypassing local government regulations to make money.
somebody else(russians?) are bypassing uber to make money.
end of story.
"here's what stephen hawking said about artificial intelligence: the genie is out of the bottle. ... i fear that AI may replace humans altogether. if people design computer viruses, someone will design AI that replicates itself. this will be a new form of life that will outperform humans."
this is pure fear mongering.
what is called "artificial intelligence" these days is not a "new form of life", but mere hype buzzword for data analysis (using theoretical methods developed decades ago, now made practical due to fast computers), of highly limited and filtered sets of data, usually trading accuracy and precision for speed, .
genie of "new form of life" artificial intelligence is well within "bottle".
If you are discussing your top secret plans with Alexa you're doing it wrong.
that would be true if only thing spied on is " top secret plans " of actual illegal crimes,subject to a court approved warrant. unfortunately that is not true. everything gets spied on now. and then usually hacked too.
and what about the 3rd parties who had no say on this, whose voices are captured and profiled.