No. Not at all. Not even one bit. Actually thinking machines are at the very least 50 years in the future, probably much longer and may also be completely impossible. Stop propagating such utter nonsense. All we have today is "weak AI" which is properly just called "automation". It has no intelligence, it has no concept of anything, it has no understanding of anything and it most certainly cannot think.
Also, does anybody remember the stupid pattern recognizers (also called "AI" by the clueless) that got fooled by subtle changes to traffic signs? I most definitely do not want something like that in systems that have a part in the decision about a nuclear strike. "Oops, sorry, we nuked you because our training data was faulty."
And that, unfortunately, is pretty much the situation. Java and JavaScript are the tool of choice for today's moron coders that understand absolutely nothing and that need to be protected from anything even a little complicated.
That basically means it is a dud. There have been countless others before. This one just ghosts around a bit longer, because it sounds a bit like "magic" and people without an actual grasp of Science like that.
Well, since the government side of this is essentially operating like organized crime, I doubt this will help. Also, they can just endlessly level charges against you until you run out of money and with no risk whatsoever to them. They can essentially be evil to an unlimited degree as long as they formally follow the rules enough so you cannot prove anything against them and make it stick. This means they can figuratively (and if they send the cops in just the right way also literally) kill anybody they do not like. This is an excellent example of "power corrupts".
Orbital manufacturing, manufacturing on the moon and asteroid mining could actually pay off handsomely in the long run, but that is speculation. Beyond that, it is unclear whether there are even potential payoffs.
It cannot. Not enough gravity to retain an atmosphere. What people are talking about is building a self-sustaining (as far as possible) moon base as a demonstration humans can survive long-term without deliveries from earth. My personal guess is this will take at least 100 years to accomplish.
And that is the kicker. The purely economic idea behind a UBI is to make sure people have money to spend to continue to buy things. It is, at best, a partial solution overall though, as people crave meaning in their lives and just being able to buy things will not be enough to supply that.
It stops being funny when you think about how these "victims" are allowed to vote or have children. That is a real danger to others and society as a whole.
Still a crime, but the law is useless to fight this. Except maybe to require some minimal understanding of reality and how things work before declaring somebody a legal adult. Doing it by age does clearly not work.
Humans will remain critical for a lot of processes, just much, much fewer than before. And, incidentally, at some point the few humans remaining will stop being a relevant cost factor and will just be left in the process because that is cheaper. That does not help the 80% or so of currently working people that will eventually lose their jobs permanently, though.
Indeed. Those that think reducing the need for server hardware this way is acceptable should be banned for life from coding anything. It does not get much more stupid than this when security is a factor.
The average attacker is dumb. But one non-dumb one can do a lot of attacks, especially with the help of automation. You have been competently attacked when you only notice months or years later or not at all.
Well, since it is a growing body of incompetent developers, it is at least a growing pain. The ever more complicated field of half-assed "frameworks" and intransparent mechanisms used makes things worse. The sheer amount of over-complicated, non-intuitive, "magic" technology used in the web and app fields is absolutely staggering and will never be secure.
More and more coders. Still the same (very small) number of people that can learn to code well. What do you expect? And no, coding well is not something everybody can learn. Might as well claim that anybody can be a PhD level Mathematician or a competent brain surgeon. Not so, not so in the least. And that utterly mistaken and completely unfounded belief is at the root of the problem.
Exactly. While this language may impress clueless people, anybody with some understanding gets the impression they do not really understand what they are doing.
True. This is a special-purpose power supply, e.g. for very long therm loggers, locators, beacons, safety interlocks and the like, running on ultra low-power MCUs. No general usage scenario.
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No. Not at all. Not even one bit. Actually thinking machines are at the very least 50 years in the future, probably much longer and may also be completely impossible. Stop propagating such utter nonsense. All we have today is "weak AI" which is properly just called "automation". It has no intelligence, it has no concept of anything, it has no understanding of anything and it most certainly cannot think.
Also, does anybody remember the stupid pattern recognizers (also called "AI" by the clueless) that got fooled by subtle changes to traffic signs? I most definitely do not want something like that in systems that have a part in the decision about a nuclear strike. "Oops, sorry, we nuked you because our training data was faulty."
Fun fact: "Kot" literally means "shit" in German....
Protip: It is not a good idea to replace something bad with something worse...
And that, unfortunately, is pretty much the situation. Java and JavaScript are the tool of choice for today's moron coders that understand absolutely nothing and that need to be protected from anything even a little complicated.
The whole article is cheerleading for some of the worst technologies ever to get mainstream attention, so forget about factual accuracy.
That basically means it is a dud. There have been countless others before. This one just ghosts around a bit longer, because it sounds a bit like "magic" and people without an actual grasp of Science like that.
Well, since the government side of this is essentially operating like organized crime, I doubt this will help. Also, they can just endlessly level charges against you until you run out of money and with no risk whatsoever to them. They can essentially be evil to an unlimited degree as long as they formally follow the rules enough so you cannot prove anything against them and make it stick. This means they can figuratively (and if they send the cops in just the right way also literally) kill anybody they do not like. This is an excellent example of "power corrupts".
Orbital manufacturing, manufacturing on the moon and asteroid mining could actually pay off handsomely in the long run, but that is speculation. Beyond that, it is unclear whether there are even potential payoffs.
Trump as president is just a symptom. Removing him will do nothing about the actual problem.
It cannot. Not enough gravity to retain an atmosphere. What people are talking about is building a self-sustaining (as far as possible) moon base as a demonstration humans can survive long-term without deliveries from earth. My personal guess is this will take at least 100 years to accomplish.
And that is the kicker. The purely economic idea behind a UBI is to make sure people have money to spend to continue to buy things. It is, at best, a partial solution overall though, as people crave meaning in their lives and just being able to buy things will not be enough to supply that.
It stops being funny when you think about how these "victims" are allowed to vote or have children. That is a real danger to others and society as a whole.
Still a crime, but the law is useless to fight this. Except maybe to require some minimal understanding of reality and how things work before declaring somebody a legal adult. Doing it by age does clearly not work.
Humans will remain critical for a lot of processes, just much, much fewer than before. And, incidentally, at some point the few humans remaining will stop being a relevant cost factor and will just be left in the process because that is cheaper. That does not help the 80% or so of currently working people that will eventually lose their jobs permanently, though.
Anybody competent does it. Seriously.
Indeed. Those that think reducing the need for server hardware this way is acceptable should be banned for life from coding anything. It does not get much more stupid than this when security is a factor.
The average attacker is dumb. But one non-dumb one can do a lot of attacks, especially with the help of automation. You have been competently attacked when you only notice months or years later or not at all.
Well, since it is a growing body of incompetent developers, it is at least a growing pain. The ever more complicated field of half-assed "frameworks" and intransparent mechanisms used makes things worse. The sheer amount of over-complicated, non-intuitive, "magic" technology used in the web and app fields is absolutely staggering and will never be secure.
Client-side: Usability.
Server-side: Security.
Still the same incompetents that have no business coding anything connected to the Internet.
More and more coders. Still the same (very small) number of people that can learn to code well. What do you expect? And no, coding well is not something everybody can learn. Might as well claim that anybody can be a PhD level Mathematician or a competent brain surgeon. Not so, not so in the least. And that utterly mistaken and completely unfounded belief is at the root of the problem.
Exactly. While this language may impress clueless people, anybody with some understanding gets the impression they do not really understand what they are doing.
That is 3.3Wh per g, _distributed_ over some centuries...
True. This is a special-purpose power supply, e.g. for very long therm loggers, locators, beacons, safety interlocks and the like, running on ultra low-power MCUs. No general usage scenario.
Kills the semiconductor pretty fast by creating defects.