The Funny mod needs to give a point. I have seen Funny mods on a post that wasn't funny and I'm convinced it was a way to downmod it and discourage further moderation.
The unions can chill out. The only "incredible exponential growth in technology" in drones and autonomous vehicles was 5-10 years ago. They've been struggling against the wall of reality ever since.
"they've aggregated more market cap than the majority of nation's GDP" - This seems like either a misplaced apostrophe or a math fail. US GDP is something like 4 times their combined market caps.
I remember when my company got a big SAP system sold to us (An SAP salesman infiltrated our leadership) and we were told, "well, it's not supposed to meet your business needs, you are supposed to change your business practices to conform to SAP". And the executives like this, because it meant our system would be just like everyone else's at the cocktail party -- no more questions or embarrassment.
Self-driving cars could easily go the same way, with politicians forcing us to conform to the limited capabilities of the "AI", mainly so they can all feel like part of the in-crowd and enjoy a good cigar smoking.
Most people have something that they just want to believe in, and for practical purposes in their particular lives it just makes things better. Big things like God/No God, yes, but also small things like "my wife did not eat the last cookie", which is easily proven, but it's just easier and better for them to stay on the couch and not eat the cookie, even if it's true.
"But they were all active in the PRNG scene and frequenters of the PRNG discussion on reddit. The infringer stole a special seed -- 123456789 -- that was known to produce the highest-quality white noise, pushing the brain into enhanced delta-wave activity sooner than noise created with less ingenious seeds."
My $50 Lumia 640 with WP8.1 could do all of that beautifully, and works with band 12 on Tmobile...except the web browser was falling too far behind for my needs. So I updated to WP10. It has more features and the browser works much better, though the UI was a bit of step backwards in usability, mostly around things getting smaller and more complicated. I have no issue with missing apps. I may pick up a used Idol4s when they get under $100.
Basic security steps like you mention are totally analogous to locking your door and not driving through bad neighborhoods. That's the easy stuff. Extra locks, alarms systems, reading every day to keep up on criminal techniques and following police blotters is stuff that goes beyond and most people won't do it. But strangely enough we have to hear about every worm, bug, bot, and breach in the news headlines. And every one of those stories has some "security expert" telling us what new thing we need to do today or we'll be PwNed!! They need to dial back the hype before nobody listens to them any more than they listen to the guy selling alarm systems. It's already too late. Security fatigue has set in, in earnest.
I am Grand Poobah of the local "It'll Never Work" Society, regularly hating on "AI" and self-driving car stories, but I have no problem with Elon beyond a tinge of jealousy. He delivers FAR more on his promises than the average gasbag.
Other companies do this, just not in so many words. Aside from the nudging and winking policies, some things are done under overt, yet bogus reasons. My company now deletes virtually all email after 3 months, to better manage storage resources and adhere to best practices for retention.
I've changed. Originally I wanted them to build a dome over the city and make the robots pay for it. But now I understand that we need them, to help solve our crimes, and to tell us what we're thinking.
Slashdot Mirror
After peak smartphone, it's all downhill from here.
The Funny mod needs to give a point. I have seen Funny mods on a post that wasn't funny and I'm convinced it was a way to downmod it and discourage further moderation.
It's better than an S8 because it's $5 cheaper! Screwy S8 prices have stayed jacked up since before the holidays.
and get some of their surplus glass holes.
But how do you know who you are when you wake up?
The unions can chill out. The only "incredible exponential growth in technology" in drones and autonomous vehicles was 5-10 years ago. They've been struggling against the wall of reality ever since.
"they've aggregated more market cap than the majority of nation's GDP"
- This seems like either a misplaced apostrophe or a math fail. US GDP is something like 4 times their combined market caps.
I remember when my company got a big SAP system sold to us (An SAP salesman infiltrated our leadership) and we were told, "well, it's not supposed to meet your business needs, you are supposed to change your business practices to conform to SAP". And the executives like this, because it meant our system would be just like everyone else's at the cocktail party -- no more questions or embarrassment.
Self-driving cars could easily go the same way, with politicians forcing us to conform to the limited capabilities of the "AI", mainly so they can all feel like part of the in-crowd and enjoy a good cigar smoking.
Most people have something that they just want to believe in, and for practical purposes in their particular lives it just makes things better. Big things like God/No God, yes, but also small things like "my wife did not eat the last cookie", which is easily proven, but it's just easier and better for them to stay on the couch and not eat the cookie, even if it's true.
+1, Advanced Slashdot trolling.
10 years later, I still can't find anything better. Maybe I need to learn to like stutters and hiccups though...
Because https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/01/05/1940255/arbitrary-deadlines-are-the-enemy-of-creativity-according-to-harvard-research/
"But they were all active in the PRNG scene and frequenters of the PRNG discussion on reddit. The infringer stole a special seed -- 123456789 -- that was known to produce the highest-quality white noise, pushing the brain into enhanced delta-wave activity sooner than noise created with less ingenious seeds."
My $50 Lumia 640 with WP8.1 could do all of that beautifully, and works with band 12 on Tmobile...except the web browser was falling too far behind for my needs. So I updated to WP10. It has more features and the browser works much better, though the UI was a bit of step backwards in usability, mostly around things getting smaller and more complicated. I have no issue with missing apps. I may pick up a used Idol4s when they get under $100.
I was there and this is true.
OK, if that's the bar we're going set, then I get to mod you "-1 Snowflake".
Basic security steps like you mention are totally analogous to locking your door and not driving through bad neighborhoods. That's the easy stuff. Extra locks, alarms systems, reading every day to keep up on criminal techniques and following police blotters is stuff that goes beyond and most people won't do it. But strangely enough we have to hear about every worm, bug, bot, and breach in the news headlines. And every one of those stories has some "security expert" telling us what new thing we need to do today or we'll be PwNed!! They need to dial back the hype before nobody listens to them any more than they listen to the guy selling alarm systems. It's already too late. Security fatigue has set in, in earnest.
What is it with people modding ordinary posts as Troll lately? Either snowflakes or actual trolls must be getting mod points now.
Now does this mean we can finally move on to the "post security" era? Please, can we? So much security fatigue...
Anybody can bust into my house with a solid kick, but I don't lose any sleep over it.
Actually, the work will be done by exploited children, but YouTube will hire them through enough middle-men to keep their hands clean.
When "The Universe" has an outside, it is demoted to being "a universe", or a region within"The Universe".
I am Grand Poobah of the local "It'll Never Work" Society, regularly hating on "AI" and self-driving car stories, but I have no problem with Elon beyond a tinge of jealousy. He delivers FAR more on his promises than the average gasbag.
Other companies do this, just not in so many words. Aside from the nudging and winking policies, some things are done under overt, yet bogus reasons. My company now deletes virtually all email after 3 months, to better manage storage resources and adhere to best practices for retention.
No reason why he can't be both!
I've changed. Originally I wanted them to build a dome over the city and make the robots pay for it. But now I understand that we need them, to help solve our crimes, and to tell us what we're thinking.