So it must either always be okay to mock a President's skin tone or it must never be okay. This is the dilemma.
No, it's not. It's always been okay for President's with bizarre skin tones, especially when they are bigots. I'm pretty sure someone has made fun of a president with excessively pale skin.
I'm still not following. Do you mean "racist software" in the literal AI sense that the software is thinking like a racist human being?
There is no point in pondering what nut-jobs think, so stop wasting your time on it.
You mean like a spot-light to the face? Then you get squinty photos.
Look at how they do photo-shoots for models and you'll understand because that kind of lighting is what's needed.
One probably has to manually adjust the gamma levels instead
A) that won't help B) the computer vision software already filters images in multiple ways to get the optimal contrast.
Either train the staff or...
The staff where? All staff everywhere? We're going to make cops into photographers now? Also, what about video camera footage? There are two sides of the equation and your introductory suggestion is unrealistic at best.
have the photos sent to an adjustment lab
They are all digital and CV software already filters images. The problem isn't tweaking the images, it's that there isn't enough information in the images.themselves.
Before you jump to conclusions about "racist software"...
What exactly are the accusations you are defending against?
I think you missed the keyword in there: before. If you didn't think it was coming, this is the internet, some people think the Earth is flat and the US government "did 9/11", so it's only a matter of time before someone claims the software is racist.
I will add that bias is not necessarily conscious racism; it could be those who build the equipment and/or train staff on using the equipment are mostly used to dealing with people of a certain ethnic group.
You misunderstand when I wrote, "have their face very well lit up," i mean that you need to have lights specifically for lighting their face. A bunch of pictures were from the DMV which isn't exactly a photography studio. A better solution might be to use polarized light and a polarized light to joint the red, green and blue that are already on the CCD and use the polarized light to produce a 3d model of the person's face. If it works with skin, it would be pefect.
NASA is the easiest go to for pork barrel politics.
I would like to remind you that about a trillion dollars a year go toward "defense". The budget for the F-35 is almost as large as the entire budget for NASA! If you want to talk about pork, you aren't talking about spending money on science, you're talking about defense spending.
F. Patiently sit in your house and yell at anyone "making a big fuss over an imaginary problem" then when you personally catch fire, panic and later claim it was impossible to have foreseen such a turn of events.
I worry that facebook will use this to try to manipulate elections
Oh come on. We have a mango-in-chief leading the government, do you really think having fewer easily misled/dimwitted/single-issue voters participating in politics would make things worse?
... are most likely to misidentify black people than white people.
Before you jump to conclusions about "racist software," I can tell you that the reason for this is very well known and understood: lighting and contrast ratios. Specifically, you get a much higher contrast ratio of faces with light skinned people from image sensors than do you for dark skinned people unless you have their face very well lit up. Simply put, camera sensors are a poor substitute for the human eye and this is one of the side-effects of that.
We can't even secure our non-brain-connected computers, devices, vehicles, etc, from outside intrusion,
Nobody is making you use those things. I use a smarterphone (aka a "dumbphone") with an uninteresting OS, my car has no wireless connectivity and both my desktop PC and router which run Linux have never been compromised.
why in the world would I want to open the door for someone to hack my brain through a computer?
At this point it's merely researching the possibility. Why do you think any medical-grade product made from this would be internet connected?
I'll leave my brain standalone and air-gapped from computers
If you live to see the resulting product, you may change your mind when everyone has perfect memory and significantly high cognition than you. You could easily be relegated to being only capable of menial labor like the mentally challenged.
and the internet.
Why do you have so much focus on it being internet connected?
1) Is there any reason these batteries cannot be used for grid-scale energy storage?
2) Who own the patents to the battery technology and will they license it cheaply or hold back the market for 20 years like the overly greedy venture capitalists behind Aquion Energy?
The intent was the undermine the ownership of game by the customer. Only a sociopath would think the "intent was good" because that shit is straight up evil.
He always said we should refer to it as GNU/Linux to avoid confusion.
Actually, if you are referring to something unixy, you should call it POSIX/Linux because there are more userland toolsets than just GNU and they are all centered around POSIX.
Certainly UEFI has provisions for entirely replacing your existing (in this case, failing) hard drive with a brand new blank one and allow you to install an OS on your computer.
You can replace your HDD but that won't help because UEFI bootloaders are stored on your motherboard in flash memory. In care of a system bricking, you need to directly power and reprogram that chip if possible. Some motherboards come with a socketed chip so that they can be removed and reprogrammed but there is nothing stopping manufactures from using a package-on-package chip and embedding that flash memory with another chip, making it physically inaccessible.
If not, please point me to the Commodore 64 aisle.
This is really only a problem with newer x86 system, so just use an older system or another arch and you will be fine.
Don't think OSS would be immune either. The argument of "but I didn't charge for it" doesn't eliminate liability.
Apparently you haven't read any open source licenses because they took care of liability a LOOONG time ago. Normally the text would be in caps but Slashdot didn't like the caps.
GPL:
in no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will any copyright holder, or any other party who modifies and/or conveys the program as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
MIT:
the software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
BSD:
this software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. in no event shall the copyright owner or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.
I haven't seen a Windows upgrade (note: UPGRADE) destroy data in a meaningful way in.....I don't even know how long.
As someone who has worked closely with NTFS, I can tell you that it's not far fetched to think that someone's NTFS partition could have been corrupted. There are no backups of the file index (unless they changed it since Win7), so if your file was fragmented and the index is lost then any file that is fragmented will be unrecoverable with the publically available automated tools. However, I can also tell you that losing the filenames and directory structure of all your data can be just as devastating as losing the files themselves.
That's a neat trick, unless they mean their IDEA of their computer rather than the physical hardware. Windows is shitty, not malicious.
If this were 20 years ago, you would be 100% right. Unfortunately, UEFI has made it entirely possible for a ill-tested operating system installer to brick your system.
They've fought for years to get market share, but even with a competitive product it's still only gone down. Microsoft just isn't cool enough for people.
Stop trying to give Microsoft good advice! Don't you want them to fail? Come on, I can't be the only one sending MS letters of encouragement telling them to make a new Windows smartphone.;)
I was told Slashdot would be adding UTF-8 support "soonish" and that was like a year ago. I'm not saying that hasn't happened, I'm saying they are hoarding the sweet UTF-8 support and keeping it offline!
Slashdot Mirror
M$ is bad because M$!
Yes but what makes them bad?
Each section is discussed here.
* Bloat
* Backward Incompatibility
* Perpetual Upgrading
* Vaporware
* Hostile treatment of customers
* Predatory Practices
* Bundling of inferior products
* Bugs, bugs, and more bugs
* Insecurity
* Closed "standards"
* Mutilation of existing standards
* Lack of innovation
* Attempts at taking over appliance markets
* Attempts at buying the public's trust
* Outright Deception
There's on one reason it died but who cares? Honestly, we should just be happy it did die!
I realize that packing up immediately would be bad so a deliberate unwinding would be needed.
It'll only happen after we stop buying oil from other nations.
So it must either always be okay to mock a President's skin tone or it must never be okay. This is the dilemma.
No, it's not. It's always been okay for President's with bizarre skin tones, especially when they are bigots. I'm pretty sure someone has made fun of a president with excessively pale skin.
I'm still not following. Do you mean "racist software" in the literal AI sense that the software is thinking like a racist human being?
There is no point in pondering what nut-jobs think, so stop wasting your time on it.
You mean like a spot-light to the face? Then you get squinty photos.
Look at how they do photo-shoots for models and you'll understand because that kind of lighting is what's needed.
One probably has to manually adjust the gamma levels instead
A) that won't help
B) the computer vision software already filters images in multiple ways to get the optimal contrast.
Either train the staff or...
The staff where? All staff everywhere? We're going to make cops into photographers now? Also, what about video camera footage? There are two sides of the equation and your introductory suggestion is unrealistic at best.
have the photos sent to an adjustment lab
They are all digital and CV software already filters images. The problem isn't tweaking the images, it's that there isn't enough information in the images.themselves.
"The code is self-documenting!"
What exactly are the accusations you are defending against?
I think you missed the keyword in there: before. If you didn't think it was coming, this is the internet, some people think the Earth is flat and the US government "did 9/11", so it's only a matter of time before someone claims the software is racist.
I will add that bias is not necessarily conscious racism; it could be those who build the equipment and/or train staff on using the equipment are mostly used to dealing with people of a certain ethnic group.
You misunderstand when I wrote, "have their face very well lit up," i mean that you need to have lights specifically for lighting their face. A bunch of pictures were from the DMV which isn't exactly a photography studio. A better solution might be to use polarized light and a polarized light to joint the red, green and blue that are already on the CCD and use the polarized light to produce a 3d model of the person's face. If it works with skin, it would be pefect.
... we end up being world police...
Nobody asked us to be, so why are we doing it? You can claim whatever justification you want but we both know it comes down to money.
Mango in chief? Since when is it okay to make fun of a President's skin color?
December 15, 1791
Funding NASA has continually paid off with new scientific knowledge, much of which has even been used to make weapons. War only destroys lives.
NASA is the easiest go to for pork barrel politics.
I would like to remind you that about a trillion dollars a year go toward "defense". The budget for the F-35 is almost as large as the entire budget for NASA! If you want to talk about pork, you aren't talking about spending money on science, you're talking about defense spending.
F. Patiently sit in your house and yell at anyone "making a big fuss over an imaginary problem" then when you personally catch fire, panic and later claim it was impossible to have foreseen such a turn of events.
Nifty. I think I'll try it on QEmu. :P
I worry that facebook will use this to try to manipulate elections
Oh come on. We have a mango-in-chief leading the government, do you really think having fewer easily misled/dimwitted/single-issue voters participating in politics would make things worse?
... are most likely to misidentify black people than white people.
Before you jump to conclusions about "racist software," I can tell you that the reason for this is very well known and understood: lighting and contrast ratios. Specifically, you get a much higher contrast ratio of faces with light skinned people from image sensors than do you for dark skinned people unless you have their face very well lit up. Simply put, camera sensors are a poor substitute for the human eye and this is one of the side-effects of that.
We can't even secure our non-brain-connected computers, devices, vehicles, etc, from outside intrusion,
Nobody is making you use those things. I use a smarterphone (aka a "dumbphone") with an uninteresting OS, my car has no wireless connectivity and both my desktop PC and router which run Linux have never been compromised.
why in the world would I want to open the door for someone to hack my brain through a computer?
At this point it's merely researching the possibility. Why do you think any medical-grade product made from this would be internet connected?
I'll leave my brain standalone and air-gapped from computers
If you live to see the resulting product, you may change your mind when everyone has perfect memory and significantly high cognition than you. You could easily be relegated to being only capable of menial labor like the mentally challenged.
and the internet.
Why do you have so much focus on it being internet connected?
1) Is there any reason these batteries cannot be used for grid-scale energy storage?
2) Who own the patents to the battery technology and will they license it cheaply or hold back the market for 20 years like the overly greedy venture capitalists behind Aquion Energy?
While the intent was good...
The intent was the undermine the ownership of game by the customer. Only a sociopath would think the "intent was good" because that shit is straight up evil.
RMS was right.
He always said we should refer to it as GNU/Linux to avoid confusion.
Actually, if you are referring to something unixy, you should call it POSIX/Linux because there are more userland toolsets than just GNU and they are all centered around POSIX.
Certainly UEFI has provisions for entirely replacing your existing (in this case, failing) hard drive with a brand new blank one and allow you to install an OS on your computer.
You can replace your HDD but that won't help because UEFI bootloaders are stored on your motherboard in flash memory. In care of a system bricking, you need to directly power and reprogram that chip if possible. Some motherboards come with a socketed chip so that they can be removed and reprogrammed but there is nothing stopping manufactures from using a package-on-package chip and embedding that flash memory with another chip, making it physically inaccessible.
If not, please point me to the Commodore 64 aisle.
This is really only a problem with newer x86 system, so just use an older system or another arch and you will be fine.
Don't think OSS would be immune either. The argument of "but I didn't charge for it" doesn't eliminate liability.
Apparently you haven't read any open source licenses because they took care of liability a LOOONG time ago. Normally the text would be in caps but Slashdot didn't like the caps.
GPL:
in no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will any copyright holder, or any other party who modifies and/or conveys the program as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
MIT:
the software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. in no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
BSD:
this software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. in no event shall the copyright owner or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.
I haven't seen a Windows upgrade (note: UPGRADE) destroy data in a meaningful way in.....I don't even know how long.
As someone who has worked closely with NTFS, I can tell you that it's not far fetched to think that someone's NTFS partition could have been corrupted. There are no backups of the file index (unless they changed it since Win7), so if your file was fragmented and the index is lost then any file that is fragmented will be unrecoverable with the publically available automated tools. However, I can also tell you that losing the filenames and directory structure of all your data can be just as devastating as losing the files themselves.
That's a neat trick, unless they mean their IDEA of their computer rather than the physical hardware. Windows is shitty, not malicious.
If this were 20 years ago, you would be 100% right. Unfortunately, UEFI has made it entirely possible for a ill-tested operating system installer to brick your system.
They've fought for years to get market share, but even with a competitive product it's still only gone down. Microsoft just isn't cool enough for people.
Stop trying to give Microsoft good advice! Don't you want them to fail? Come on, I can't be the only one sending MS letters of encouragement telling them to make a new Windows smartphone. ;)
I'll wait for the Linux port, thanks. ;)
I was told Slashdot would be adding UTF-8 support "soonish" and that was like a year ago. I'm not saying that hasn't happened, I'm saying they are hoarding the sweet UTF-8 support and keeping it offline!
whipslash, why hath thou forsaken thine brethren?! ;(