So this Slashdot story about $11 prank... or "ICO"... basically will up chewing about $25,000 worth of time from its primarily tech/IT-related audience.
*interested* How did you arrive at that $25,000 figure? The number of "penis" posts multiplied by how long it took to post each one, multiplied by, what? An estimate of the wage of the average slashdotter?
To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of 2053 A.D., or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.
There is a saying in talk.bizarre, you asshat, used if you quote someone else's work: "ATTRIBUTION, DAMNIT"
How did they know someone's phone had the Evil Pixel? phone company records of IP addresses, or did the pre-dawn raids also involve searching the house for any phones and then trying to get a file manager app to show the appropriate directory? My phone isn't rooted, and it won't show me anything unless I threaten to hit it. I've never been able to get ES File manager to locate anything, even if I know roughly where the file should be.
Also, slightly amazed that people in some places are being targeted for using the wrong app. I thought things were weird when the Rwandans had to check ID cards during the Tutsi/Hutu genocide.
"The scam e-mail, which first appeared in December 2006, purports to be a hired assassin, but is in reality a mass spamming looking to grab your personal information.
Right. Because if someone emails you, saying "By the way, I've been hired to kill you," the very first thing you do is give them your personal information.
Hollywood is pathologically incapable of making a movie that conveys a conservative message. I doubt we will ever see a faithful interpretation of any golden age Heinlein novel.
Given the current socio-poltiical climate in Hollywood, I would think they could make "I Will Fear No Evil" quite handily.
For my own ease of use during the project I wrote a front end for it (all done in Java) that allowed you to set the parameters by choosing icons for aggression, sassyness, kindness and humour.
I have to ask. How did the cows demonstrate humour?
As for the article.. can this AI pass a Turing test? It can't? Get out of here.
I know the Turing test isn't a good measure of AI, but I am getting tired of seeing articles about machine learning with the "OMG! WE HAVE AI!" banner draped over them.
I expect that by 2025 we'll be close to the point where you can book a room in a private space station.
What you mean "we", white man? Are you one of the one percent who could afford it? I won't be going, and neither will most Slashdotters. When you get there, drink some champagne and then empty your bladder into your Gaultier space-suit's piss-tube, and think of us back on Earth, will ya?
Yes... I suspect the "reskilling" revolution will be actually looking ahead. There's no point in retraining people to do work that is just going to be in the next wave (or the one after that) of jobs that are automated.
(sweetly)And what jobs might those be? Can you tell us? I've retrained so many times that I often joke about becoming a politician or a policeman next, because it seems every field I get into EVAPORATES.
Gold can be confiscated by the government as it crosses a boarder. Also, transferring $5mil in gold might be much more expensive due to security concerns, not to mention time-consuming depending on the distance. Bitcoin isn't perfect, but it does have a several advantages.
Gold doesn't disappear when the exchange vanishes.
An example of the last are illustrated instructions for use written in English with the intent that others will translate the work into Arabic, Chinese, and even Australian...
What is the fucking point? This person could gather more evidence of the earth being round or flat by spending a few hundred on a commercial airline flight and looking out the fucking window at 5.5-6 miles up
gonna go way out on a limb here, and when not admiring the earth's visible curvature from this height i'll guess that he's doing this for the attention, and not any variety of scientific truth. perhaps society should stop convincing people that they're not real unless they're famous, even if they're famous for being suicidally stupid.
It's a small Caldari missile boat with a bonus to lasers. Also a variety of wild cat.
I followed the links and it seems the solution to a compromised messaging app is to download their protection app. I didn't read their report on the malware because they didn't present it as a webpage - it was a link that said "download report", and I'm wary of downloading crap from sites like this. If you've ever gone looking for solutions to malware, it seems every variant has a website that offers a specific tool to fix it, even things like SecurityHealthService.exe.
sure are a lot of people who aren't dork enough to have an account, but they still want to say something, and without accountability. 4chan's/g/ is just over there. Bye!
What's worse, making less than (I assume you mean US) minimum wage in a factory in China, or making almost nothing working on a farm in China?
What's worse, being paid almost nothing in a factory that might close down the minute someone builds a machine to do what you do, or to be working on a farm where you can at least grown your own food?
It probably means a lot more to all those sweatshop workers making iphone parts... oh, wait, they aren't Apple employees, are they? Too bad, kids! Get back to work.
Slashdot Mirror
"Next week. With all thats going on in science and tech nowadays, fake scifi just isnt the same anymore."
Why? There are already electric cars on Mars.
Really? How many electric cars are there on Mars? The Mars Rover doesn't count, because it doesn't have bucket seats.
... (and we're supposedly among the best and the brightest),
Every clique believes this, with the possible exception of the Coalition of Village Idiots.
So this Slashdot story about $11 prank... or "ICO"... basically will up chewing about $25,000 worth of time from its primarily tech/IT-related audience.
*interested* How did you arrive at that $25,000 figure? The number of "penis" posts multiplied by how long it took to post each one, multiplied by, what? An estimate of the wage of the average slashdotter?
To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of 2053 A.D., or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.
There is a saying in talk.bizarre, you asshat, used if you quote someone else's work: "ATTRIBUTION, DAMNIT"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pedestrian
Why do you need to test it at all? Obviously inhaling exhaust fumes is bad.
Not necessarily. If the car is burning hydrogen, inhaling the exhaust is just going to make you damp.
I guess if you inhaled enough of it, you might drown.
Is no-one else entertained by the idea of tiny volkswagens with monkeys behind the wheel? How cute!
How did they know someone's phone had the Evil Pixel? phone company records of IP addresses, or did the pre-dawn raids also involve searching the house for any phones and then trying to get a file manager app to show the appropriate directory? My phone isn't rooted, and it won't show me anything unless I threaten to hit it. I've never been able to get ES File manager to locate anything, even if I know roughly where the file should be.
Also, slightly amazed that people in some places are being targeted for using the wrong app. I thought things were weird when the Rwandans had to check ID cards during the Tutsi/Hutu genocide.
Where the fuck are we supposed to grab a window in order to move it if the title bar is crammed full of junk?
Perhaps the next step is to sell advertising space, and they want to trick people into accidentally clicking on urls.
"The scam e-mail, which first appeared in December 2006, purports to be a hired assassin, but is in reality a mass spamming looking to grab your personal information.
Right. Because if someone emails you, saying "By the way, I've been hired to kill you," the very first thing you do is give them your personal information.
Hollywood is pathologically incapable of making a movie that conveys a conservative message. I doubt we will ever see a faithful interpretation of any golden age Heinlein novel.
Given the current socio-poltiical climate in Hollywood, I would think they could make "I Will Fear No Evil" quite handily.
For my own ease of use during the project I wrote a front end for it (all done in Java) that allowed you to set the parameters by choosing icons for aggression, sassyness, kindness and humour.
I have to ask. How did the cows demonstrate humour?
As for the article.. can this AI pass a Turing test? It can't? Get out of here.
I know the Turing test isn't a good measure of AI, but I am getting tired of seeing articles about machine learning with the "OMG! WE HAVE AI!" banner draped over them.
I expect that by 2025 we'll be close to the point where you can book a room in a private space station.
What you mean "we", white man? Are you one of the one percent who could afford it? I won't be going, and neither will most Slashdotters. When you get there, drink some champagne and then empty your bladder into your Gaultier space-suit's piss-tube, and think of us back on Earth, will ya?
"Two Twin Long-Tailed Macaque Monkeys Are the First Primates Cloned Using the Dolly Method"
My first attempt to parse this resulted in me thinking there was some sort of monkey with two tails, and now I am sad that there is not.
The "Dolly " method isn't perfect. Keep watching. It could happen.
You're right. Apparently my brain replaces the word legal with illegal.
Please tell me you aren't a policeman or a judge in real life.
Yes... I suspect the "reskilling" revolution will be actually looking ahead. There's no point in retraining people to do work that is just going to be in the next wave (or the one after that) of jobs that are automated.
(sweetly)And what jobs might those be? Can you tell us? I've retrained so many times that I often joke about becoming a politician or a policeman next, because it seems every field I get into EVAPORATES.
Gold can be confiscated by the government as it crosses a boarder. Also, transferring $5mil in gold might be much more expensive due to security concerns, not to mention time-consuming depending on the distance. Bitcoin isn't perfect, but it does have a several advantages.
Gold doesn't disappear when the exchange vanishes.
Neat idea, and even better if we can establish a system where everything is made out of small polystyrene spheres.
An example of the last are illustrated instructions for use written in English with the intent that others will translate the work into Arabic, Chinese, and even Australian...
Get a dog up ya! Bloody nong.
What is the fucking point? This person could gather more evidence of the earth being round or flat by spending a few hundred on a commercial airline flight and looking out the fucking window at 5.5-6 miles up
gonna go way out on a limb here, and when not admiring the earth's visible curvature from this height i'll guess that he's doing this for the attention, and not any variety of scientific truth. perhaps society should stop convincing people that they're not real unless they're famous, even if they're famous for being suicidally stupid.
What is a caracal?
It's a small Caldari missile boat with a bonus to lasers. Also a variety of wild cat.
I followed the links and it seems the solution to a compromised messaging app is to download their protection app. I didn't read their report on the malware because they didn't present it as a webpage - it was a link that said "download report", and I'm wary of downloading crap from sites like this. If you've ever gone looking for solutions to malware, it seems every variant has a website that offers a specific tool to fix it, even things like SecurityHealthService.exe .
sure are a lot of people who aren't dork enough to have an account, but they still want to say something, and without accountability. 4chan's /g/ is just over there. Bye!
Herobrine.
Perhaps he'll be replaced by a team of three Elder Guardians.
What's worse, making less than (I assume you mean US) minimum wage in a factory in China, or making almost nothing working on a farm in China?
What's worse, being paid almost nothing in a factory that might close down the minute someone builds a machine to do what you do, or to be working on a farm where you can at least grown your own food?
Also, $2,500 is pretty sad.
It probably means a lot more to all those sweatshop workers making iphone parts... oh, wait, they aren't Apple employees, are they? Too bad, kids! Get back to work.
Also, the premise behind the article is bollocks. "Man dies in freak accident...
'e's not dead yet. Also, 'e doesn't want to go on the cart.