You aren't making any sense. Even the worst case scenarios (just lichen can survive) are magnitudes more livable than Mars.
Is wiping hard disk makes it unusable? No, you can keep using it without issues. However, the data that was there is gone. How do you make sure that your data is safe from getting wiped? You copy it elsewhere, then you bring it back if your main drive got wiped.
The same idea applies here. You are complaining that tapes are clunky to use. Sure, they are. However, they serve one purpose very well - store data so it can be retrieved when needed and copied to a medium that is easier to use.
None of the catastrophes on earth the last billion years has ever made the Earth less habitable than Mars. Your scenario is nonsense.
Sure, but plenty were mass extinctions that left only lichens and small animals alive. Earth won't become uninhabitable, but that doesn't necessary means that it won't be inhabited without humans. Unless, you know, there are some humans living elsewhere that could come back when the dust settles.
Car analogy time: There is a difference between being a mechanic and being able to drive a car. Not everyone wants or has to be able to replace piston rings.
You know what's a great way to stop shitty games from being made? Stop fucking buying them.
Good in principle, but it requires everyone to adhere to this principle. For this to happen, marketing will have to be 0% effective. This won't happen.
What makes it gambling is "having crap in them 99%". This enables 1% of having really desirable items.
If loot boxes have really desirable items 100% of the time, it wouldn't be gambling, and wouldn't be as addictive (see: variable reinforcement schedule).
Why is this a problem that needs legislation to solve?
This isn't about solving anything, this is retribution for intentionally making games shittier. They deserve all the government there to help them they are going to get.
Why do you think that finding replacements for extensions (decrease of usability, security) is a worthwhile tradeoff to gain smaller memory footprint and faster speed?
My system has 64G or RAM and modern i7. As a web user I give exactly zero f***s about memory footprint - I have plenty for the worst kind of bloat and memory leaks you could throw at it. Speed is also largely irrelevant, when I don't load and render all the ads the bottleneck is network speed. However, when my NoScript stops working and I get assaulted with intrusive adds and potentially get pwned by malware hosted by unscrupulous ad networks, I get seriously annoyed.
I don't think we need any additional proof that social science is mostly junk science. Priming, intersectionality, trigger warnings all brought to you by these clowns.
According to TFA they look for "dodgy destinations" and self-signed certificates.
So no, they aren't looking at the actual contents of the encrypted traffic at all, and they aren't "sniffing" anything.
Then the article is wrong. I was at Cisco Live in Vegas in 2016 and attended a workshop in their developers zone where one of the engineers/researchers behind this technology made a presentation. They are looking at the encrypted data itself without decrypting it and just finds patterns. I probably still have the presentation somewhere.
If there are patterns in the encrypted data, then encryption is leaking information. I highly doubt they found a vulnerability in AES and decided to commercialize it.
They can look at the destination, they can look at handshakes, they can look at timing, they can look at frequency of communication. Am I forgetting something else?
They are not analyzing payload/application data, this is not possible with end-to-end. They are not analyzing metadata, as most malware C&C now pretends to be web traffic. So how? Packet sizes and frequency? This would be trivial for malware creators to circumvent.
SAT/ACT are multi-million dollar scams to make money for the ones running the tests.
I 100% agree with this. At some point these tests measured something useful, now they only measure amount of prep for these tests. You can't, for example, take a smart kid and expect him to get a good score without extensive prep.
I will grant Christopher Wray benefit of the doubt and interpret his words charitably - he must have meant it is public safety issue that more people don't use strong cryptography, potentially exposing sensitive data to FBI and other crooks.
Humans do suffer from similar problem, however we have compensatory mechanisms to correct visual errors.
Ever glanced at something, seen something weird and had to do a double-take? This is exactly what happened to you. Quick neural nets misidentified something and you had to do full image processing to clear the confusion up.
The reason Humans know to do a double-take is because we have many other neural nets sitting on top of image identification nets. So when our image identification malfunctions, other nets red-flag it and do error-correction. Sometimes it takes long time to process. Sometimes we decide it is just safer to get the hello out of there (e.g. seeing ghosts).
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You aren't making any sense. Even the worst case scenarios (just lichen can survive) are magnitudes more livable than Mars.
Is wiping hard disk makes it unusable? No, you can keep using it without issues. However, the data that was there is gone. How do you make sure that your data is safe from getting wiped? You copy it elsewhere, then you bring it back if your main drive got wiped.
The same idea applies here. You are complaining that tapes are clunky to use. Sure, they are. However, they serve one purpose very well - store data so it can be retrieved when needed and copied to a medium that is easier to use.
Dinosaur killing asteroid + total thermonuclear war Earth would still be more habitable than Mars.
Sure, but would there be any humans left alive? Dinosaur-killing asteroid did a very good job wiping dinosaurs.
None of the catastrophes on earth the last billion years has ever made the Earth less habitable than Mars. Your scenario is nonsense.
Sure, but plenty were mass extinctions that left only lichens and small animals alive. Earth won't become uninhabitable, but that doesn't necessary means that it won't be inhabited without humans. Unless, you know, there are some humans living elsewhere that could come back when the dust settles.
Agreed. We already got to 10th Rule of Acquisition here on Earth, no reason to think it will be any different on Mars.
The real question is 'why' we would colonize Mars
Offsite backup for Humanity.
and it has to make some kind of economic sense because it will be an expensive endeavor.
What is the total economic value of humanity's existence?
Car analogy time: There is a difference between being a mechanic and being able to drive a car. Not everyone wants or has to be able to replace piston rings.
You know what's a great way to stop shitty games from being made? Stop fucking buying them.
Good in principle, but it requires everyone to adhere to this principle. For this to happen, marketing will have to be 0% effective. This won't happen.
What makes it gambling is "having crap in them 99%". This enables 1% of having really desirable items.
If loot boxes have really desirable items 100% of the time, it wouldn't be gambling, and wouldn't be as addictive (see: variable reinforcement schedule).
Why is this a problem that needs legislation to solve?
This isn't about solving anything, this is retribution for intentionally making games shittier. They deserve all the government there to help them they are going to get.
I never knew my grandpa was against net neutrality, I will now stop visiting his grave.
Why do you think that finding replacements for extensions (decrease of usability, security) is a worthwhile tradeoff to gain smaller memory footprint and faster speed?
My system has 64G or RAM and modern i7. As a web user I give exactly zero f***s about memory footprint - I have plenty for the worst kind of bloat and memory leaks you could throw at it. Speed is also largely irrelevant, when I don't load and render all the ads the bottleneck is network speed. However, when my NoScript stops working and I get assaulted with intrusive adds and potentially get pwned by malware hosted by unscrupulous ad networks, I get seriously annoyed.
It's not about being wrong, it's about being wrong and simultaneously applying that wrongness to change society.
Exactly. We quickly forget that outcomes like day care abuse hysteria are the norm instead of exception.
Is there good social science? Sure, but on the whole it is junk science that does more harm than good.
I don't think we need any additional proof that social science is mostly junk science. Priming, intersectionality, trigger warnings all brought to you by these clowns.
When facts meet politics, politics win. All it shows is that Google is more concerned about optics than making decisions based on facts.
It is much worse. Google, being a dominant search engine, can largely decide what the facts are.
Sorry, what, I didn't quite heard what you just said. Maybe there is an issue with pairing of my headphones?
Not homeless man, but man from indeterminate address. Also not holding a knife, but presenting coercive evidence.
A person from an indeterminate address initiated an unwanted surcharge against the man while presenting a coercive evidence.
Now you are just asking to get lynched by AmiMojo fellow travelers.
So how?
According to TFA they look for "dodgy destinations" and self-signed certificates.
So no, they aren't looking at the actual contents of the encrypted traffic at all, and they aren't "sniffing" anything.
Then the article is wrong. I was at Cisco Live in Vegas in 2016 and attended a workshop in their developers zone where one of the engineers/researchers behind this technology made a presentation. They are looking at the encrypted data itself without decrypting it and just finds patterns. I probably still have the presentation somewhere.
If there are patterns in the encrypted data, then encryption is leaking information. I highly doubt they found a vulnerability in AES and decided to commercialize it.
They can look at the destination, they can look at handshakes, they can look at timing, they can look at frequency of communication. Am I forgetting something else?
They are not analyzing payload/application data, this is not possible with end-to-end. They are not analyzing metadata, as most malware C&C now pretends to be web traffic. So how? Packet sizes and frequency? This would be trivial for malware creators to circumvent.
nobody posting here knows what meaningful social interaction means
Meaningful social interaction is when my cat greets me at the door when I get home after work.
SAT/ACT are multi-million dollar scams to make money for the ones running the tests.
I 100% agree with this. At some point these tests measured something useful, now they only measure amount of prep for these tests. You can't, for example, take a smart kid and expect him to get a good score without extensive prep.
Unlike last time this article is click bait, if you can roll back the PC it isn't bricked.
My patching script includes purging of all old kernel versions.
... but what about...
I said ALL! It bricked. I need a new laptop now. Can't be helped.
I will grant Christopher Wray benefit of the doubt and interpret his words charitably - he must have meant it is public safety issue that more people don't use strong cryptography, potentially exposing sensitive data to FBI and other crooks.
So what happens if I don't install any AV-product and also don't use the Microsoft AV-Solution?
It is highly unreasonable to expect MS to be able to patch your Linux box. :P
Humans do suffer from similar problem, however we have compensatory mechanisms to correct visual errors.
Ever glanced at something, seen something weird and had to do a double-take? This is exactly what happened to you. Quick neural nets misidentified something and you had to do full image processing to clear the confusion up.
The reason Humans know to do a double-take is because we have many other neural nets sitting on top of image identification nets. So when our image identification malfunctions, other nets red-flag it and do error-correction. Sometimes it takes long time to process. Sometimes we decide it is just safer to get the hello out of there (e.g. seeing ghosts).