Plus I'd like to see AI figure out how to OTDR and repatch around fiber cable that was chewed-through by rats when the LIU is mounted in a wall-mount enclosure behind an out-of-service boiler in a mechanical room of a 50 year old building that was built without even telephones in-mind originally.
Any competent AI would have its assets distributed in something like a RAID array. If rats chew through a vital component in one asset, it would write it off, acquire a replacement, transfer the necessary data from another site and make a note to release some cats in the area.
Why, good sir, personal data is the new oil! It's the new gold, crack cocaine and tulips ALL IN ONE, because as long as there are humans wandering about with unsecured phones, there'll be a constant supply! See here, this guy stopped at a red light on his way home! There has to be someone willing to pay for that data!
I'll be fascinated to see how they expect this to be implemented.
It probably won't be. It probably won't need to be. I expect it was proposed so they could look like they were doing something about the problem. Even if it somehow gets passed, the implementation will get bogged down in details like the ones mentioned elsewhere in this thread, perhaps one or two ISPs will proudly announce they are compliant with the "Pre-verted Internet" bill, they might even send out one letter to someone their system mistakenly tells them has violated the law, and in the end nothing will change.
Again, why? How much money do they have? What kind of market presence do children command? Is it because they can nag their parents until the parents give in and buy them that $1400 phone so they can take nude selfies and share them on whatever platform is trending?
I am coming around to the position where parents should be required to pass a four year university level course in parenting before they're allowed to take on that challenge.
They are primitive organisms. They have developed a rapacious hunger, ferocious attack skills, excellent camouflage, and the best know their way around their primary feeding grounds - the court system. Even so, they haven't developed anything like social awareness, shame, or a conscience. They won't develop a sense of humor any time in the foreseeable future... if they don't go extinct. That's something else they lack - an awareness of the fragility of their environment.
You don't have to obfuscate that word - there aren't any "n"s in "bureaucracy".
Adyway, this sort of thing dever works - people just fide workarouds (like typig as if you have a stuffed dose). Perhaps the government censors are looking for that - they don't want to catch people using "n", they want to catch the sort of people who are sufficiently motivated to be subversive without it.
That's the sad part about this whole thing: this is the Legislative branch, exercising its oversight of the FISA court which it established. They found abuses; they are now addressing those abuses. That the Executive branch is resisting tooth and nail and telling the Legislative branch that they are not under democratic control, that is the real scandal here. The attitude seems to be, "We'll do whatever the hell we want, and if you try to tell us no, we have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you."
I can't see a single thing in that reply that merits inclusion on a "news for nerds" tech site, or in the original article for that matter.
Next, NRA gives Martin Shkreli an award shaped like a gun... hey, maybe these awards aren't replicas. Maybe they work. And maybe each one comes with one bullet.
Hard to test for in a double blind study. Living in depressing circumstances is globally endemic.
True. But it is possible to lift people out of their depressing circumstances, often by something as simple as giving them a job (even if it's temporary), giving them a meal or helping them move to a place that isn't constantly being shelled by fanatical religious assholes.
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Bloody ijiot. You know exactly how to preserve you job, no matter what the fuck it is, 'DEMAND' to be served by a human being at every instance.
Old Lady: I demand better service!
Bernard Black: demand away!
- Black Books
Plus I'd like to see AI figure out how to OTDR and repatch around fiber cable that was chewed-through by rats when the LIU is mounted in a wall-mount enclosure behind an out-of-service boiler in a mechanical room of a 50 year old building that was built without even telephones in-mind originally.
Any competent AI would have its assets distributed in something like a RAID array. If rats chew through a vital component in one asset, it would write it off, acquire a replacement, transfer the necessary data from another site and make a note to release some cats in the area.
Buggy software problem? Have you tried turning the horse off and on again?
But, like the pharaoh and his attempt to beat back the tide, it'll all be for nought as the Marketeers will win.
Canute may have been delusional, but I don't think he imagined he was a Pharaoh.
But since it pushed a desired narrative, it wasn't questioned.
It's being questioned now. Isn't that good enough for you?
... and Dag-Nabbit! We need a bad guy is the the cause on why I am not happy all the time.
That's why we have Uber.
Perhaps they should capitalize on this. Get uniforms for their staff, like the one Raul Julia wore in the Mortal Kombat film.
Why, good sir, personal data is the new oil! It's the new gold, crack cocaine and tulips ALL IN ONE, because as long as there are humans wandering about with unsecured phones, there'll be a constant supply! See here, this guy stopped at a red light on his way home! There has to be someone willing to pay for that data!
I see a lot of that sort of thing, here and there, on the web. I shrug, smile and think "Someone is going to lose their avocado toast privileges."
I'll be fascinated to see how they expect this to be implemented.
It probably won't be. It probably won't need to be. I expect it was proposed so they could look like they were doing something about the problem. Even if it somehow gets passed, the implementation will get bogged down in details like the ones mentioned elsewhere in this thread, perhaps one or two ISPs will proudly announce they are compliant with the "Pre-verted Internet" bill, they might even send out one letter to someone their system mistakenly tells them has violated the law, and in the end nothing will change.
Programming isn't the hard bit, figuring out what the humans want, is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
Why are children allowed on Facebook?
Because marketing to children is profitable.
Again, why? How much money do they have? What kind of market presence do children command? Is it because they can nag their parents until the parents give in and buy them that $1400 phone so they can take nude selfies and share them on whatever platform is trending?
I am coming around to the position where parents should be required to pass a four year university level course in parenting before they're allowed to take on that challenge.
If only US megacorps had a sense of humour.
They are primitive organisms. They have developed a rapacious hunger, ferocious attack skills, excellent camouflage, and the best know their way around their primary feeding grounds - the court system. Even so, they haven't developed anything like social awareness, shame, or a conscience. They won't develop a sense of humor any time in the foreseeable future... if they don't go extinct. That's something else they lack - an awareness of the fragility of their environment.
I basically log into WoW to meet people I know there.
Isn't 37 GB kind of bloated for a chat program, nice though the graphics are?
Was it so hard to tell us that?
... yeah, it was. The site was down.
Sounds like a good idea for a... thread, on slashdot!
China has a lot of people and bueracary.
You don't have to obfuscate that word - there aren't any "n"s in "bureaucracy".
Adyway, this sort of thing dever works - people just fide workarouds (like typig as if you have a stuffed dose). Perhaps the government censors are looking for that - they don't want to catch people using "n", they want to catch the sort of people who are sufficiently motivated to be subversive without it.
"Only the use of "n" as a standalone character."
Gives the N-word a complete new meaning.
Makes it that much harder to get anywhere in nethack - sorry, "ethack" - if you can't see the nymphs or Nagas coming.
Everything has chemistry.
Forget about promotion, who makes most âââ?
Devin Townsend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aOy7bEkbCU
Given that the nearest candidate for a black hole is approximately 3,300 light-years away, isn't this all kind of speculative?
Saying "it has a locked bootloader" is a challenge. Wait a few days.
Perhaps they're using a new server that runs on memristors.
"Okay, what's two plus two?"
-thinks- "... two."
"What happened to the other two?"
"... I forgot about it.
That's the sad part about this whole thing: this is the Legislative branch, exercising its oversight of the FISA court which it established. They found abuses; they are now addressing those abuses. That the Executive branch is resisting tooth and nail and telling the Legislative branch that they are not under democratic control, that is the real scandal here. The attitude seems to be, "We'll do whatever the hell we want, and if you try to tell us no, we have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you."
I can't see a single thing in that reply that merits inclusion on a "news for nerds" tech site, or in the original article for that matter.
Next, NRA gives Martin Shkreli an award shaped like a gun... hey, maybe these awards aren't replicas. Maybe they work. And maybe each one comes with one bullet.
Hard to test for in a double blind study. Living in depressing circumstances is globally endemic.
True. But it is possible to lift people out of their depressing circumstances, often by something as simple as giving them a job (even if it's temporary), giving them a meal or helping them move to a place that isn't constantly being shelled by fanatical religious assholes.