FFS, they shouldn't be requesting this kind of warrant, and it shouldn't be issued. It's so obviously too broad and against human rights. Both the person who requested this warrant and the person that issued it should face repercussions, as should the feds overall for obstructing justice of the freedom of the people.
It's a fair post, but shouldn't have been modded up so high because it's factually unlikely to be a problem.
Apples and oranges. You can't compare wearing away paint with wearing away plastic.The layer of paint would be thin and raised too, compared to a thicker uniform plastic surface.
Modders please downvote the original post (with no disrespect to the poster) or upvote some of the replies.
... he's abusing his own fame to push his own unfounded beliefs. I wish he wouldn't try and quantify it by saying there's a very high probability we're in a simulation, a very low probability we're not. As a person in a scientific / engineering industry there's a chance he'll get people believing he knows what he's talking about. Especially people who distrust religion and want to believe that people in the scientific / technology fields are credible
He can't justify those numbers in any way
Being smart about something has no relation to being smart about everything, as we've seen with inventors, leaders and thinkers of the past that had beliefs outside their fields that are seen as outrageous today.
His argument... there are some beings that have humungous computing resources (why?how?assuming murphy's law extends forever?) that have been simulating what (a few generations of people? several billions of years of the whole universe? and why?). There are so many assumptions, it's ridiculous.
... I'm not from a country where suing people is a common occurrence but usually the way you fix is through the beauracracy. With a few sensible steps to shortcut the process.
You call/email/talk to people until you find someone that has any measure of power, and escalate to management as necessary.
If you have a bill that is "signed" by the manager of some collections department etc of the company (even though it would have been processed by some underling), you politely request that person's phone number and establish a one-to-one dialog, explaining calmly that it's clearly a mistake and that you expect the charges to be reversed and a full explanation of what has happened.
If you have a name of someone who is, or should be, responsible within the company, you can often infer an email address. Firstname.lastname@companyname.com or some such. If you have one person's email, you can infer another's.
Phone and-or email at least weekly. Ideally keep a polite, calm,reasonable email paper trail, copy in anyone you've talked to along the way. Don't get angry but do insist that it's clearly a mistake, that you expect someone to take responsibility and that you expect the charges to be reversed.
The biggest surprise, as with so many news stories, is that it became a news story at all. If you are a squeaky enough wheel, you basically become someone's full-time job to figure out some kind of solution.
The numbers are easier to understand here:http://news.mit.edu/2016/solving-network-congestion-megamimo-0823
Both Owen Hughes' ibtimes article and the summary say "triple" the speed, which. should be four times the speed.
Three times faster is technically correct, but seems asinine when allowing this kind of English should allow you to say "one time faster" for twice as fast ("my new car can go one time faster than my old car").
Exactly. And for something like this if you're not sure it's a con or not, there's a nice exercise in critical thinking...
Can you imagine the monetary budget required and time / boredom involved with cops or BBC staff actually driving around doing this even with perfect technology.
It's not hard to see that it's just not that likely unless you're paranoid, buy into conspiracy theories, and have a belief in people's extreme devotion to boring, useless jobs.
PS, if you search for "three aquatic mammals" you don't get three typical aquatic mammals either. You get a picture of a single seal or something because the text doesn't come up so much.
Because people don't take pictures and label them "3 black teenagers", for regular social photos more like: "me and my friends". The people that label photos like "three blahblah teenagers" are stock photography companies or police.
Google gave you what you searched for, it didn't anticipate your context and doesn't have a human level understanding of what a human is, let alone a black teenager.
Treat Google as a simple text and you won't be disappointed.
Everything beyond that is a bonus. Google does it better than most, but...
AI, machine learning... there's some smoke and mirrors, some very impressive and valuable niche and specific applications, but does Google have the cognitive ability to hold a human-equivalent realistic model of the world?... that's the AI holy grail, we're not there yet.
I don't know anything about this particular project, and yes I'd guess it's plausibly snakeoil. But...
Positive thoughts, critic and cynic acknowledged upfront. The cynic and critic will say you can see how bad Google translate is by translating and reverse translating.
So let's put voice recognition capability aside and ask what if this new gadget is exactly as good/bad as Google translate?
it will still save you your free hands and a lot of time from looking things up in a phrase book or one word at a time in a dictionary.
After living three years in Japan, I've become very good at communicating in very simple English and very simple Japanese. Google translate can give you workable results for bare and not unreasonably imperfect communication. Keep your sentences very short with self-contained context. Don't expect pronouns and plurals to translate.
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Develop the skill of talking simply, and with clear gestures. If you're lucky or determined you will find others with these same skills.
. Even current technology, well applied, could be a god send if your traveling well off the beaten track. Not to translate your life's work, but for a (newbie) stranger in a strange land.
Firstly this person is probably your customer, or your customer's customer. So they pay your salary.
Next, are you sure they live in your country? On holiday? Visiting?
Next, do they speak only in their foreign language all day, every day? Are you sure? Do you suggest everyone becomes fluent in a language before they visit the country?
For some languages,with dedicated effort, even getting close to high-school level language will take several years on average. And guess what? The best way to learn a foreign language is to live in a foreign country.
Are you so sure you'd be happy to communicate at the level of a one year old to your family, friends, co-workers if you were in their position?
Source: I'm an English Teacher and part-time Japanese student in Japan. Please feel free to give specific examples of who does you such great injustices and I'll be happy to debunk them.
Wow. OK, I'll feed the troll.
Firstly this person is probably your customer, or your customer's customer. So they pay your salary.
Next, are you sure they live in your country? On holiday? Visiting?
Next, do they speak only in their foreign language all day, every day? Are you sure?
Do you suggest everyone becomes fluent in a language before they visit the country. For some languages,with dedicated effort, even getting close to high-school level language will take several years on average.
And guess what? The best way to learn a foreign language is to live in a foreign country?
Are you so sure you'd be happy to communicate at the level of a one year old to your family, friends, co-workers if you were in their position.
Source: I'm an English Teacher and part-time Japanese student in Japan.
Please feel free to give specific examples of who does you such great injustices and I'll be happy to debunk them.
"On April 29, another 180 filed a separate lawsuit making the same claim: that Google's Apps for Education, which provided them with official university email accounts to use for school and personal communication, allowed Google until April 2014 to scan their emails without their consent for advertising purposes."
I get to "until April 2014", and my brain won't parse it. What was/wasn't promised before April 2014 and what was/wasn't delivered? Was the situation before April 2014 undesirable? Was the situation after April 2014 undesirable?
Maybe it's just me, but the wording seems really unclear.
I don't get it. Is there a mistake in the summary? 2 million is not the bulk of 3.5 billion (out by a few orders of magnitude).
I also followed the "$2 million donation" link but I couldn't see these numbers on the web page.
I found this for android: "Guess-free minesweeper"
It has an ad-supported free version and a cheap paid version, $1 - $2 I think .
It's like the puzzle game that comes free in Windows but less frustrating... you never get to an unsolvable point.
It still requires enough focus that it'll close your brain off from your serious work, and on the "expert" setting you'll find that you're better challenged than the old windows one... you keep searching (rather than guessing) for a solution because you know there is one.
I think someone's made something similar for windows too as freeware. Anyhow, it's good... but surprisingly addictive. I guess that's different problem though:)
Talk to your IT department, say "my computer runs slowly", and see what they say.
I'm serious, keep it simple and to the point. Say what the problem is, not the solution.
They may well have more RAM around lying spare, 1GB is about the minimum for Windows XP SP3 for a comfortable experience without too many heavyweight apps running, 2GB for Vista. I haven't tried Windows 7 with less than 2GB, but it's touted as running faster than Vista in the interest of netbooks etc.
Use Window's performance mode instead of "let windows choose" (right click on my computer > properties > advanced settings). You may want to tick a few extra options if you notice fonts are too jagged or you want to view pictures as thumbnails in windows explorer, etc, etc. Use Smooth Screen Fonts and Turn On Drop Shadows are the only two I normally bother with
Setting your swap space to a constant size, about 1.5x your RAM, tends to make the system run slightly faster. ie. set the minimum the same number as the maximum instead of "let windows choose".
If your hard drive needs defragging, do it.
Without knowing what kind of company you're in, you may find your IT department don't support browsers other than their standard IE6 / IE7 / whatever. So the internal web applications and intranet might not behave quite as you expect.
(I've worked in various IT support roles for the last 5 years including a lot of desktop support)
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FFS, they shouldn't be requesting this kind of warrant, and it shouldn't be issued. It's so obviously too broad and against human rights. Both the person who requested this warrant and the person that issued it should face repercussions, as should the feds overall for obstructing justice of the freedom of the people.
TFS title says the answer is three words. TFS gives 12 sentences without the 3 words.
From TFA:
Because it's better
It's a fair post, but shouldn't have been modded up so high because it's factually unlikely to be a problem.
Apples and oranges. You can't compare wearing away paint with wearing away plastic.The layer of paint would be thin and raised too, compared to a thicker uniform plastic surface.
Modders please downvote the original post (with no disrespect to the poster) or upvote some of the replies.
... he's abusing his own fame to push his own unfounded beliefs. I wish he wouldn't try and quantify it by saying there's a very high probability we're in a simulation, a very low probability we're not. As a person in a scientific / engineering industry there's a chance he'll get people believing he knows what he's talking about. Especially people who distrust religion and want to believe that people in the scientific / technology fields are credible
He can't justify those numbers in any way
Being smart about something has no relation to being smart about everything, as we've seen with inventors, leaders and thinkers of the past that had beliefs outside their fields that are seen as outrageous today.
His argument... there are some beings that have humungous computing resources (why?how?assuming murphy's law extends forever?) that have been simulating what (a few generations of people? several billions of years of the whole universe? and why?). There are so many assumptions, it's ridiculous.
Edit (typos)
/Sigh/, while I'm up on my soapbox, posting to slashdot on mobile still sucks, since there's no edit/delete can we *please *have preview capability?
Buzzwords no substitute for an accurate summary
This is verging on click bait.
"Indonesia wants to criminalize political parody" would be better. I would have some insight about what the TFS is about.
Include the word "memes" too if you want, it's a real word with a real meaning, but it's just insufficient in this case.
I don't think we're talking about "I can haz cheeseburgers?" here.
This is verging on click bait.
"Indonesia wants to criminalize political parody" would be better. I would have some insight about what the TFS is about.
Include the word "memes" too if you want, it's a real word with a real meaning, but it's just insufficient in this case.
I don't think we're talking about "I can haz cheeseburgers?â here.
... I'm not from a country where suing people is a common occurrence but usually the way you fix is through the beauracracy. With a few sensible steps to shortcut the process.
You call/email/talk to people until you find someone that has any measure of power, and escalate to management as necessary.
If you have a bill that is "signed" by the manager of some collections department etc of the company (even though it would have been processed by some underling), you politely request that person's phone number and establish a one-to-one dialog, explaining calmly that it's clearly a mistake and that you expect the charges to be reversed and a full explanation of what has happened.
If you have a name of someone who is, or should be, responsible within the company, you can often infer an email address. Firstname.lastname@companyname.com or some such. If you have one person's email, you can infer another's.
Phone and-or email at least weekly. Ideally keep a polite, calm,reasonable email paper trail, copy in anyone you've talked to along the way. Don't get angry but do insist that it's clearly a mistake, that you expect someone to take responsibility and that you expect the charges to be reversed.
The biggest surprise, as with so many news stories, is that it became a news story at all. If you are a squeaky enough wheel, you basically become someone's full-time job to figure out some kind of solution.
... Pedantic, but it effects the readability and meaning (mistake in summary not article).
**original source (posting to slashdot on mobile - aargh)
http://news.mit.edu/2016/solving-network-congestion-megamimo-0823
The numbers are easier to understand here:http://news.mit.edu/2016/solving-network-congestion-megamimo-0823
Both Owen Hughes' ibtimes article and the summary say "triple" the speed, which. should be four times the speed.
Three times faster is technically correct, but seems asinine when allowing this kind of English should allow you to say "one time faster" for twice as fast ("my new car can go one time faster than my old car").
Exactly. And for something like this if you're not sure it's a con or not, there's a nice exercise in critical thinking...
Can you imagine the monetary budget required and time / boredom involved with cops or BBC staff actually driving around doing this even with perfect technology.
It's not hard to see that it's just not that likely unless you're paranoid, buy into conspiracy theories, and have a belief in people's extreme devotion to boring, useless jobs.
The first WTF was the disclaimer itself, but OK, if you must. Buy then, not one but two sets of weasel words?!!
"Necessarily", "in most cases". Choose one and leave it at that.
I'm not necessarily an old pregnant black Kenyan woman most of the time.
In fact, today I'm a young, white, male, New Zealander.
65 degrees Celsius. This information is very prominent in the article, I wish it made the /. summary too for slashdot's international readers.
...nothing to see here.
PS, if you search for "three aquatic mammals" you don't get three typical aquatic mammals either. You get a picture of a single seal or something because the text doesn't come up so much.
Because people don't take pictures and label them "3 black teenagers", for regular social photos more like: "me and my friends". The people that label photos like "three blahblah teenagers" are stock photography companies or police.
Google gave you what you searched for, it didn't anticipate your context and doesn't have a human level understanding of what a human is, let alone a black teenager.
Treat Google as a simple text and you won't be disappointed. Everything beyond that is a bonus. Google does it better than most, but...
AI, machine learning... there's some smoke and mirrors, some very impressive and valuable niche and specific applications, but does Google have the cognitive ability to hold a human-equivalent realistic model of the world?... that's the AI holy grail, we're not there yet.
**you're.
Apologies for other typos or formatting errors made in haste.
I don't know anything about this particular project, and yes I'd guess it's plausibly snakeoil. But...
Positive thoughts, critic and cynic acknowledged upfront. The cynic and critic will say you can see how bad Google translate is by translating and reverse translating.
So let's put voice recognition capability aside and ask what if this new gadget is exactly as good/bad as Google translate?
it will still save you your free hands and a lot of time from looking things up in a phrase book or one word at a time in a dictionary.
After living three years in Japan, I've become very good at communicating in very simple English and very simple Japanese. Google translate can give you workable results for bare and not unreasonably imperfect communication. Keep your sentences very short with self-contained context. Don't expect pronouns and plurals to translate.
. Develop the skill of talking simply, and with clear gestures. If you're lucky or determined you will find others with these same skills.
. Even current technology, well applied, could be a god send if your traveling well off the beaten track. Not to translate your life's work, but for a (newbie) stranger in a strange land.
my two yen.
Oops, typos, formatting.
Wow. OK, I'll feed the troll.
Firstly this person is probably your customer, or your customer's customer. So they pay your salary.
Next, are you sure they live in your country? On holiday? Visiting?
Next, do they speak only in their foreign language all day, every day? Are you sure? Do you suggest everyone becomes fluent in a language before they visit the country?
For some languages,with dedicated effort, even getting close to high-school level language will take several years on average. And guess what? The best way to learn a foreign language is to live in a foreign country.
Are you so sure you'd be happy to communicate at the level of a one year old to your family, friends, co-workers if you were in their position?
Source: I'm an English Teacher and part-time Japanese student in Japan. Please feel free to give specific examples of who does you such great injustices and I'll be happy to debunk them.
Wow. OK, I'll feed the troll. Firstly this person is probably your customer, or your customer's customer. So they pay your salary. Next, are you sure they live in your country? On holiday? Visiting? Next, do they speak only in their foreign language all day, every day? Are you sure? Do you suggest everyone becomes fluent in a language before they visit the country. For some languages,with dedicated effort, even getting close to high-school level language will take several years on average. And guess what? The best way to learn a foreign language is to live in a foreign country? Are you so sure you'd be happy to communicate at the level of a one year old to your family, friends, co-workers if you were in their position. Source: I'm an English Teacher and part-time Japanese student in Japan. Please feel free to give specific examples of who does you such great injustices and I'll be happy to debunk them.
Does this sentence make sense?
From both the article and the summary...
"On April 29, another 180 filed a separate lawsuit making the same claim: that Google's Apps for Education, which provided them with official university email accounts to use for school and personal communication, allowed Google until April 2014 to scan their emails without their consent for advertising purposes."
I get to "until April 2014", and my brain won't parse it. What was/wasn't promised before April 2014 and what was/wasn't delivered? Was the situation before April 2014 undesirable? Was the situation after April 2014 undesirable? Maybe it's just me, but the wording seems really unclear.
Scratch that, I guess I misread it; sleepy eyes and sleepy brain
I don't get it. Is there a mistake in the summary? 2 million is not the bulk of 3.5 billion (out by a few orders of magnitude). I also followed the "$2 million donation" link but I couldn't see these numbers on the web page.
Call myself a toaster? Sure; why not?
holds 9 degrees in programming and web design.
The "9 degrees" in the summary seems to be sourced from his linked in page:
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Daytona State College
AS, Computer Programming and Analysis - Software Engineering, Internet Services Technology
2006 – 2011
9 Computer & Internet Degrees/Certificates With Honors
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/wshawnwilkerson
I found this for android: "Guess-free minesweeper"
It has an ad-supported free version and a cheap paid version, $1 - $2 I think . It's like the puzzle game that comes free in Windows but less frustrating... you never get to an unsolvable point.
It still requires enough focus that it'll close your brain off from your serious work, and on the "expert" setting you'll find that you're better challenged than the old windows one... you keep searching (rather than guessing) for a solution because you know there is one.
I think someone's made something similar for windows too as freeware. Anyhow, it's good... but surprisingly addictive. I guess that's different problem though :)
Talk to your IT department, say "my computer runs slowly", and see what they say. I'm serious, keep it simple and to the point. Say what the problem is, not the solution.
They may well have more RAM around lying spare, 1GB is about the minimum for Windows XP SP3 for a comfortable experience without too many heavyweight apps running, 2GB for Vista. I haven't tried Windows 7 with less than 2GB, but it's touted as running faster than Vista in the interest of netbooks etc.
Use Window's performance mode instead of "let windows choose" (right click on my computer > properties > advanced settings). You may want to tick a few extra options if you notice fonts are too jagged or you want to view pictures as thumbnails in windows explorer, etc, etc. Use Smooth Screen Fonts and Turn On Drop Shadows are the only two I normally bother with
Setting your swap space to a constant size, about 1.5x your RAM, tends to make the system run slightly faster. ie. set the minimum the same number as the maximum instead of "let windows choose".
If your hard drive needs defragging, do it.
Without knowing what kind of company you're in, you may find your IT department don't support browsers other than their standard IE6 / IE7 / whatever. So the internal web applications and intranet might not behave quite as you expect.
(I've worked in various IT support roles for the last 5 years including a lot of desktop support)