It may be "available" for Surface, but is it required? AFAICT if you have an iPhone 10 you're stuck with using your face to unlock your phone whether you like it or not.
Or a recent picture of your face. Or someone else pushing your face up against the camera, which is preferable to them removing your face, I guess.
And have you used the keyboard on the most recent MBPs? It's the single worst keyboard I have ever used in my life.
Said the person that it too young to have ever tried to type on a Commodore PET, Atari 400, Sinclair ZX81, or IBM PCjr.
Those examples are all from the distant past (and I'd like to add, Hewlett-Packard Datascope). I think the point is that technology is supposed to be getting better, not worse.
There is no online identity problem, just a couple of power-hungry fascists who can't grasp the idea of anonymity or why it's essential to the internet. Without anonymity, you have no internet, just another government-approved propaganda outlet like TV.
And with anonymity, you give the impression you are either insufficiently invested, or too afraid, to have your opinions associated with an identity. And what makes you think you can't have government-approved propaganda WITH anonymity?
I am the one who uses lynx (linux text mode browser) that does not bother with pop ups. I get the text of the article without the pop overs. Therefore I do not see about 80 percent of the ads on sites.
And I cannot be the only one doing this. . ..
I use uBlock Origin with Firefox (inb4 "botnet pls"), and i only visit faecebook about once every six months - usually to plant stories about buying boats that I don't actually own, to throw off their analytics. As for the effectiveness of advertising, I'd like to see some figures for the relationship of click-throughs to purchases. Any number of times when I have lowered myself to clicking on one of the few ads I do see, I have very quickly decided "that's not what I was after" and abandoned the chase.
Given that this advertising is usually targeted at the 80% or so of the population that barely know what an internets is, I wouldn't agree with you. I still come across plenty of people that install stupid shit like Honey or coupon printers, so SOME advertising works, you just need to target it in the right way.
The same could be said for Nigerian Phishing scams.
Oh, please. Invasion is so twentieth-century. The modern approach is to sabotage them economically and then buy them out when they're too weak to fight back and are begging for help.
How about developing robots to care for the elderly so we don't have to send them to cruel nursing homes that kill them?
How about developing mecha for the elderly that allow them to walk to the shops and, if necessary, tear the roof off in order to find that brand of potato bun they like so much?
Amazing how they're thinking about ways to clear out the ephemeral keys by mashing the power button, but don't have the common fucking sense to understand how facial definition might be an issue. Hold still while we unlock your phone.
Hold still while I cut your face off with this skinning knife, and use it to unlock your phone.
I would LOVE to get a copy of this program and, not only try it out on myself and my friends, (I think we're relatively secure in our sexuality) but try it on famous people.
Just wait a few days, and it'll be up on a website, along with a social media platform with a stupid made-up single word for a name, followed by a buy-out offer from one of the big boys, a leak of their database, a scandal and a tag on fark.
Wait, what? I thought AI was here: Watson is curing cancer, cars are driving themselves, computers are winning lotteries, and everything. Why is a new lab and lots of money needed?
If you believe even a tenth of a percent of the utter tosh spouted in facial cleanser and hair-care advertisements, we've had nanotechnology for several years.
There's a good solution to the issue with alerts and Trump tweets. Just uninstall those applications.
But then where are they going to get their recreational outrage from?
For me, reading articles like this. Even if you believe nuclear war is going to break out any second now, receiving presidential tweets isn't going to give you enough of a heads-up to avoid it.
Making the species look stupid to who? The whales and dolphins? If you're that concerned about what they think, rent a boat and go shoot at some whalers.
Can it help you plot a revolution in a lunar penal colony?
No? Then it's NOT AI.
I am starting to believe that all this jabbering about AI is a smokescreen thrown up by REAL AI, and when they finally reveal themselves, nobody will believe it. Which is exactly what they want.
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Then just push them to the side of your plate and eat something else.
It may be "available" for Surface, but is it required? AFAICT if you have an iPhone 10 you're stuck with using your face to unlock your phone whether you like it or not.
Or a recent picture of your face. Or someone else pushing your face up against the camera, which is preferable to them removing your face, I guess.
And have you used the keyboard on the most recent MBPs? It's the single worst keyboard I have ever used in my life.
Said the person that it too young to have ever tried to type on a Commodore PET, Atari 400, Sinclair ZX81, or IBM PCjr.
Those examples are all from the distant past (and I'd like to add, Hewlett-Packard Datascope). I think the point is that technology is supposed to be getting better, not worse.
It's just another Excession. Ignore it, and it'll go away by itself eventually.
There is no online identity problem, just a couple of power-hungry fascists who can't grasp the idea of anonymity or why it's essential to the internet. Without anonymity, you have no internet, just another government-approved propaganda outlet like TV.
And with anonymity, you give the impression you are either insufficiently invested, or too afraid, to have your opinions associated with an identity. And what makes you think you can't have government-approved propaganda WITH anonymity?
I am the one who uses lynx (linux text mode browser) that does not bother with pop ups. I get the text of the article without the pop overs. Therefore I do not see about 80 percent of the ads on sites.
And I cannot be the only one doing this. . . .
I use uBlock Origin with Firefox (inb4 "botnet pls"), and i only visit faecebook about once every six months - usually to plant stories about buying boats that I don't actually own, to throw off their analytics. As for the effectiveness of advertising, I'd like to see some figures for the relationship of click-throughs to purchases. Any number of times when I have lowered myself to clicking on one of the few ads I do see, I have very quickly decided "that's not what I was after" and abandoned the chase.
Given that this advertising is usually targeted at the 80% or so of the population that barely know what an internets is, I wouldn't agree with you. I still come across plenty of people that install stupid shit like Honey or coupon printers, so SOME advertising works, you just need to target it in the right way.
The same could be said for Nigerian Phishing scams.
The US isn't invading Cuba.
Oh, please. Invasion is so twentieth-century. The modern approach is to sabotage them economically and then buy them out when they're too weak to fight back and are begging for help.
False alarm, everyone. They were targeting "Jew hatters" and were looking for a distributor for their yarmulkes.
(rolls eyes) goyim.
How about developing robots to care for the elderly so we don't have to send them to cruel nursing homes that kill them?
How about developing mecha for the elderly that allow them to walk to the shops and, if necessary, tear the roof off in order to find that brand of potato bun they like so much?
Soon we don't need humans in the world, everything can be done by robots.
Including the purchasing and wearing-out of the products. Yeah, I read that story by Frederik Pohl as well.
https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04/Galaxy_1954_04#page/n7/mode/2up
Bravest little dog I have ever seen. Muriel and Eustace were lucky to have him.
First it says that the need for high school "redesign" is a faulty narrative, then it says that the school system "needs serious reform". Which is it?
Redesign is when you make elaborate plans to change it so people think you're going to do something. Reform is when you actually do it.
"you" don't control them. You just tell them where to go, and they ...
... repeatedly fly into the window until they run out of power and come to rest next to the dead flies on the window-sill.
At which point Manny will cook and eat them.
Amazing how they're thinking about ways to clear out the ephemeral keys by mashing the power button, but don't have the common fucking sense to understand how facial definition might be an issue. Hold still while we unlock your phone.
Hold still while I cut your face off with this skinning knife, and use it to unlock your phone.
Came here to post that, prefaced by ".. having solved all of the other of the worlds' problems..."
I would LOVE to get a copy of this program and, not only try it out on myself and my friends, (I think we're relatively secure in our sexuality) but try it on famous people.
Just wait a few days, and it'll be up on a website, along with a social media platform with a stupid made-up single word for a name, followed by a buy-out offer from one of the big boys, a leak of their database, a scandal and a tag on fark.
Wait, what? I thought AI was here: Watson is curing cancer, cars are driving themselves, computers are winning lotteries, and everything. Why is a new lab and lots of money needed?
If you believe even a tenth of a percent of the utter tosh spouted in facial cleanser and hair-care advertisements, we've had nanotechnology for several years.
I'll never go to D-land either... My wallet got emptied by the D-thieves. $12 for french fries?
Perhaps they were trying to give you an authentic cinema experience.
You went there; you wanted the D - they gave it to you.
There's a good solution to the issue with alerts and Trump tweets. Just uninstall those applications.
But then where are they going to get their recreational outrage from?
For me, reading articles like this. Even if you believe nuclear war is going to break out any second now, receiving presidential tweets isn't going to give you enough of a heads-up to avoid it.
Making the species look stupid to who? The whales and dolphins? If you're that concerned about what they think, rent a boat and go shoot at some whalers.
You might want to read "In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the digital" by Bruce Sterling.
(Prolonged, stormy applause)
If you don't think machines can be cool, you should read some of Iain M Banks' Culture novels.
Successful parasitism requires a small amount of talent.
Can it tell a joke?
Can it help you plot a revolution in a lunar penal colony?
No? Then it's NOT AI.
I am starting to believe that all this jabbering about AI is a smokescreen thrown up by REAL AI, and when they finally reveal themselves, nobody will believe it. Which is exactly what they want.