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  1. Indeed. In a recent art performance somewhere in Europe, all that happened was that the police came to check whether woman doing it was all right and not confused or something. That assured, they left again and no harm done.

  2. Might get even shot by the police, you know because you tried to assault them visually with your nude looks.

  3. It is not that millennials are stupid, it just they are not getting the same life experiences any more that most of us non-milennials got.

    They are getting it. But far too late, when the harm is a lot larger than what it would have been at the age they should have been getting it. Stupid. Protecting your children like that harms them.

  4. Bullshit. A smart 13 year old can spot a scam. The problem is not age but upbringing.

  5. Comes from over-protective parents and society on Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Protect children and teenagers (no, teenagers are _not_ children anymore) too much, and when they are finally exposed to reality unfiltered, they are unprepared. The whole thing seems to be the result of a demented "cult of the child", where everybody under 18 years old is viewed as a child that is under threat from all sides all the time and needs to be protected to the highest level possible. Boomers and older people did not have that. They were allowed to walk to school or ride their bike there as soon as competent and able. They played outside, visited neighbors and friends that lived more distant and went shopping on their own as children. On the way, they picked up the skills needed to evaluate mild and more serious threats (traffic) and learned that a critical eye is needed when interacting with the world.

    In short: Infantilization and over-protectiveness harms children and teenagers and that harm will mostly manifest when they are finally regarded as not-children.

  6. Re:Where is AI when you need it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Also quite infeasible, since expert systems cannot do this. You would need strong AI, but that does not exist and may well never exist.

  7. I agree. And the term "security researcher" seems to be used quite inflationary these days. An actual researcher would have understood professional ethics.

  8. Re:And how do these people want to do it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And how often does that happen? Enough to give thousands of moderators a lot of incidents of that nature? No. It does not. This is so rare that it makes the national news.

  9. Re:And how do these people want to do it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Read my Sig.

  10. Re:And how do these people want to do it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Could be taken directly from "Idiocracy".

  11. "Deep learning" is not "deep" on Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    What is "deep" in deep learning is the neural network used, and you only need that if you have no clue how your data is structured. The thing about deep leaning is that it is a bit worse or not better than normal learning, but you also lean the network structure from the data. That makes it cheaper in general. It is _not_ better except for that.

  12. And how do these people want to do it? on Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    Should somebody else watch all videos and moderate them for the moderators? Apparently, logical thinking is not available to the ones complaining here...

    Also, I very much doubt that much illegal content gets uploaded to Facebook, were it should be pretty easy to identify who did it. People getting traumatized by legal content, on the other hand, should not agree to do this job in the first place.

  13. Re:Intel blew their credibility on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: 1

    Also, AMD can compile custom chips, including a variable amount of powerful GFX. See all the consoles with AMD CPUs.

  14. Re:Intel blew their credibility on How Qualcomm Tried and Failed To Steal Intel's Crown Jewel · · Score: 1

    Intel has slept very long and was happy to gauge its customers with inflated prices. AMD is at least 5 years ahead of Intel now, probably more. Ideal situation would be if longer-term they basically have roughly equal market shares to keep each other honest. What Intel does when they have no competition, we already know. There is no reason to assume a dominant AMD would be much batter.

  15. Re:"Cyber", the mark of incompetence... on Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    There are always enough useful idiots and enough people that do not have personal morals at all. These willingly do what they are told. They are the backbone of every good totalitarian state.

  16. Re:"Cyber", the mark of incompetence... on Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M (sky.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to have no purpose in life....

  17. Re:Because they need a toy language? on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    You wish. And you should stop deducing from yourself what others may do...

  18. Re: Because they need a toy language? on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    To soft key-press on the second o. What else? Happens to me all the time.

  19. Re:Because they need a toy language? on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    And if that were a grammar error, you would be right. It is a typo. Makes you a dumb spelling Nazi though, with obviously nothing worthwhile to contribute.

  20. "Cyber", the mark of incompetence... on Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M (sky.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nobody with an actual clue uses that word. They will probably only get wannabees that are eager to fulfill their authoritarian masters bidding though.

  21. Re:Filtered inputs on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 1

    They probably will discover this as a "new" idea in 10 to 20 years or so. MS and its community are always far, far behind.

  22. Because they need a toy language? on Why Attackers Are Using C# For Post-PowerShell Attacks (forcepoint.com) · · Score: 0

    Shell, even the dumbed-down "Power"-shell seems to be to hard for them to code in....

  23. And fail. Coding is far more than a "transcription process". If it were, the input to that process would need to have the same level of detail as the output. Guess what, in that situation it is less effort to code directly than create that input.

    What actually happens is that coding transforms a somewhat to very abstract description into a concrete one in a programming language, respecting aspects of performance, reliability, security and others. It is a process that requires insight and some degree of creativity. Approaches to "program" on the level of a formal specification language have failed some 40 years ago or so, because doing this is more effort than coding directly and the translation result is not very good. The same still applies today.

    And no, "AI" cannot do refactoring, because that requires coding skills and no machine in existence has those or will have those for the foreseeable future.

  24. Actually, that is something that was solved a few decades ago. There is no need for anything new here, the only need would be that the people that wrote this JS engine knew the state-of-the-art. That is if there was no good reason to make this engine single-thread. Making it multi-threaded comes with a host of well-known problems, that may or may not make it worth it. In particular, single-threaded applications get slowed down and garbage-collections becomes much more difficult to do.

  25. Written language is a mature technology that is exceptionally well optimized for interfacing to humans.

    Having an AI write code would require strong AI and that is not even on the distant horizon, despite the current demented hype where things that have been known for half a century or longer are suddenly called "AI".