She wants to predict outbreaks and enable authorities to prevent the next pandemic.
it's easy to prevent, you just need good sanitation laws. the problem we face is corrupt governments who don't give a flying fuck about their people. there is a reason that outbreaks start in poor areas with bad/no sanitation practices.
How long will it be before the police come a'knocking at your door to arrest you and take you into custody the day before you were intending to commit a crime?
As a member of the Millenial generation, I find Matthew Costlow's point of view to be shortsighted and dim witted.
Lastly, my generation has a nasty habit of encountering a problem and insisting that we do something about it. If you press us for specifics, you only hear crickets. So when we are confronted with the problem of, say, nuclear crises, a Millennial response goes something like this: “If humanity is ever to be free from the threat of nuclear catastrophe, people need to stand up and demand further action on nuclear reductions from their representatives.” What specific actions would free humanity from the threat of nuclear catastrophe? Why were these actions not taken earlier? How would unilateral nuclear reductions enhance our security? Crickets
* What specific actions would free humanity from the threat of nuclear catastrophe? 1) nuclear disarmament is a start. 2) advancing our nuclear technology to use thorium would eat up nuclear waste and not produce plutonium.
* Why were these actions not taken earlier? 1) nuclear disarmament has been going on for a LONG time! 2) it will take time and money to fully develop and the public has been conditioned to be terrified of nuclear anything. 3) politics
* How would unilateral nuclear reductions enhance our security? It would ensure that these dangerous weapons are not used on humans.
So... can we do those or are you going to just bitch about other Millenials on the internet?
schools are and should be funded by taxes. it's quite simple, works for lots of other things and ensures there are no strings attached. hell... maybe if you just repeal some tax cuts on the rich you could get all that money and more without taking a penny from the common folk.
it's important to remember that DARPA is military. while repairing satellites is interesting, this is more about hijacking, spying on and taking down other peoples' satellites. the falling cost of launching satellites is the reason they are making this!
i'm just going to go out on a limb and say this is an advertisement because the first thing "alphamore" aka Alphamore Media Solutions did after creating an account was submit this story. despite their address being created on 2015-06-23, they claim to have completed 1,412 projects and written 712,094 lines of code.
How about free culture (copyrights that expire in time to share your favouring movies with grandkids)?
that's a conflict of interest for RMS because code is only covered by the GPL because of absurdly long copyright. companies could make custom closed source versions of linux 2.4 and GNU tools and not even the GPLv3 could touch them. it would also make it more difficult to prove GPL violation because you would have to find the software version if it's old software like GNU.
RMS likes the eternal copyright because it makes the GPL stronger.
Network producers think there's "too much on television" and people think "there's nothing to watch on television". Who is right? Well, how about we look at the rising trend of people cancelling their cable subscriptions.
Bullshit, there's another, more serious issue
There's not enough reason to commit to shows on american television because they're highly prone to cancellation. Why should I commit to a show if the network won't? I've seen too many shows run on for a long time (gotta milk that cash cow until it dies, apparently) and then get cancelled before concluding.
This damages the viewers' trust in future shows. Nobody wants to commit to anything because it's almost guaranteed to die instead of finish. What percentage of american television shows reach their conclusion? 1%? 3%? There's no reason to take the risk.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world...
Interpretation
Here's the interpretation you should take away from this: "We have lost all negotiating power since all these show creators can take their show so many other places. We can't resurrect old crap anymore for guaranteed income, but we're not risky enough to bet on new material. We even tried to lock as much content behind paywalls, but people just stop watching our stuff instead of paying us again to watch it any other way than when it airs. We actually have to do the job we've been claiming to do since cable was conceived....and it's HARD!"
Edgewood lab is the only place in the country certified to remove level 4 hazards from explosives. You can't get that kind of excitement just anywhere.
* Improved hair/fur simulation and rendering * Enhanced 3D view (with cool effcts like screen-space ambient occlusion and depth of field) * Painting features and performance increases (including cavity masks) * Updated/improved dependency graph * Forceviz forcefield visualization * Filebrowser preview of image sequences (including playback) * Sticky keys * Progress integrating open source libraries such as OpenVBD (volumetric data), Alembic (mesh caching), and Ptex (high-detail textures) * Two external-to-Blender tools for rendering and pipeline management, Flamenco and ATTRACT * Lots of bug fixes * And of course, a wide array of small, but time-saving enhancements all across Blender (particularly in tools for animating, sculpting, and sequencing shots). These are the kinds of important improvements that can only be made by being in the same room as artists while they work.
Seriously, this inability to let x86 go is just getting sad. If you want something that is power efficient, you go with ARM chips. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple announced it was switching it's laptop/desktop machines over to their own ARMv8 chips because in addition to power savings, it wouldn't cost nearly as much as the chips from Intel.
The compilation tests they ran are completely pointless because all it measures is the amount of time required to build XYZ which is not a measure of a good compiler. What they should be looking at is what is actually being generated for it's size, efficiency and most importantly, accuracy.
Compiling code with -O3 on GCC will get you in trouble yet they still use it. However, I noticed some of there tests use -O2 instead which I presume is because some optimization resulted in an incorrect result.
However, there was no comparison to how small it could make a binary or a comparison in the efficiency of the resulting binaries when executed.
it seems to me that we can stop shit commercial software from being published if governments set up a mandatory bug bounty systems. it's simple, you demo the exploit and get money based on the severity and the company making the software must pay it and has X days to fix it before paying the fine again. this would result in either better education on how to find exploits, better Q/A mechanism or companies going under. frankly, i don't care which happens as long as commercial software is held accountable for bad code.
Slashdot Mirror
They'd have to get in line behind the estate of Philip K. Dick.
wrong. Minority Report had nothing to do with AI, it was mutants.
She wants to predict outbreaks and enable authorities to prevent the next pandemic.
it's easy to prevent, you just need good sanitation laws. the problem we face is corrupt governments who don't give a flying fuck about their people. there is a reason that outbreaks start in poor areas with bad/no sanitation practices.
How long will it be before the police come a'knocking at your door to arrest you and take you into custody the day before you were intending to commit a crime?
before or after being sued by CBS for copying the plot of Person of Interest? ;)
i dont see what these people are upset about. i mean, this is just a vision of your future if trump were to be President. ;)
As a member of the Millenial generation, I find Matthew Costlow's point of view to be shortsighted and dim witted.
Lastly, my generation has a nasty habit of encountering a problem and insisting that we do something about it. If you press us for specifics, you only hear crickets. So when we are confronted with the problem of, say, nuclear crises, a Millennial response goes something like this: “If humanity is ever to be free from the threat of nuclear catastrophe, people need to stand up and demand further action on nuclear reductions from their representatives.” What specific actions would free humanity from the threat of nuclear catastrophe? Why were these actions not taken earlier? How would unilateral nuclear reductions enhance our security? Crickets
* What specific actions would free humanity from the threat of nuclear catastrophe?
1) nuclear disarmament is a start.
2) advancing our nuclear technology to use thorium would eat up nuclear waste and not produce plutonium.
* Why were these actions not taken earlier?
1) nuclear disarmament has been going on for a LONG time!
2) it will take time and money to fully develop and the public has been conditioned to be terrified of nuclear anything.
3) politics
* How would unilateral nuclear reductions enhance our security?
It would ensure that these dangerous weapons are not used on humans.
So... can we do those or are you going to just bitch about other Millenials on the internet?
schools are and should be funded by taxes. it's quite simple, works for lots of other things and ensures there are no strings attached. hell... maybe if you just repeal some tax cuts on the rich you could get all that money and more without taking a penny from the common folk.
it's important to remember that DARPA is military. while repairing satellites is interesting, this is more about hijacking, spying on and taking down other peoples' satellites. the falling cost of launching satellites is the reason they are making this!
i'm just going to go out on a limb and say this is an advertisement because the first thing "alphamore" aka Alphamore Media Solutions did after creating an account was submit this story. despite their address being created on 2015-06-23, they claim to have completed 1,412 projects and written 712,094 lines of code.
seems legit, right? -_-
I'm still waiting for them to make a good phone! *ZING!* :)
How about free culture (copyrights that expire in time to share your favouring movies with grandkids)?
that's a conflict of interest for RMS because code is only covered by the GPL because of absurdly long copyright. companies could make custom closed source versions of linux 2.4 and GNU tools and not even the GPLv3 could touch them. it would also make it more difficult to prove GPL violation because you would have to find the software version if it's old software like GNU.
RMS likes the eternal copyright because it makes the GPL stronger.
Millennia after the impending nuclear war, archaeologists (under a different name in some new language, presumably "fjjakkjalers") ...
Ég, fyrir einn, velkomin nýja íslenskum okkar overlords.
(I, for one, welcome our new Icelandic overlords.)
for me to poop on!
already discussed this on the red site
Hilarious
Network producers think there's "too much on television" and people think "there's nothing to watch on television". Who is right? Well, how about we look at the rising trend of people cancelling their cable subscriptions.
Bullshit, there's another, more serious issue
There's not enough reason to commit to shows on american television because they're highly prone to cancellation. Why should I commit to a show if the network won't? I've seen too many shows run on for a long time (gotta milk that cash cow until it dies, apparently) and then get cancelled before concluding.
This damages the viewers' trust in future shows. Nobody wants to commit to anything because it's almost guaranteed to die instead of finish. What percentage of american television shows reach their conclusion? 1%? 3%? There's no reason to take the risk.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world...
Interpretation
Here's the interpretation you should take away from this: ...and it's HARD!"
"We have lost all negotiating power since all these show creators can take their show so many other places. We can't resurrect old crap anymore for guaranteed income, but we're not risky enough to bet on new material. We even tried to lock as much content behind paywalls, but people just stop watching our stuff instead of paying us again to watch it any other way than when it airs. We actually have to do the job we've been claiming to do since cable was conceived.
Edgewood lab is the only place in the country certified to remove level 4 hazards from explosives. You can't get that kind of excitement just anywhere.
oh yeah? well i work from home.
and guess who just so happens to have several patents on the code generation?
It still sucks.
* Improved hair/fur simulation and rendering
* Enhanced 3D view (with cool effcts like screen-space ambient occlusion and depth of field)
* Painting features and performance increases (including cavity masks)
* Updated/improved dependency graph
* Forceviz forcefield visualization
* Filebrowser preview of image sequences (including playback)
* Sticky keys
* Progress integrating open source libraries such as OpenVBD (volumetric data), Alembic (mesh caching), and Ptex (high-detail textures)
* Two external-to-Blender tools for rendering and pipeline management, Flamenco and ATTRACT
* Lots of bug fixes
* And of course, a wide array of small, but time-saving enhancements all across Blender (particularly in tools for animating, sculpting, and sequencing shots). These are the kinds of important improvements that can only be made by being in the same room as artists while they work.
Seriously, this inability to let x86 go is just getting sad. If you want something that is power efficient, you go with ARM chips. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple announced it was switching it's laptop/desktop machines over to their own ARMv8 chips because in addition to power savings, it wouldn't cost nearly as much as the chips from Intel.
The compilation tests they ran are completely pointless because all it measures is the amount of time required to build XYZ which is not a measure of a good compiler. What they should be looking at is what is actually being generated for it's size, efficiency and most importantly, accuracy.
Compiling code with -O3 on GCC will get you in trouble yet they still use it. However, I noticed some of there tests use -O2 instead which I presume is because some optimization resulted in an incorrect result.
However, there was no comparison to how small it could make a binary or a comparison in the efficiency of the resulting binaries when executed.
Don't bother reading TFA.
here is the logo he designed.
slashdot editors are seriously slacking off.
it seems to me that we can stop shit commercial software from being published if governments set up a mandatory bug bounty systems. it's simple, you demo the exploit and get money based on the severity and the company making the software must pay it and has X days to fix it before paying the fine again. this would result in either better education on how to find exploits, better Q/A mechanism or companies going under. frankly, i don't care which happens as long as commercial software is held accountable for bad code.
Thanks Microsoft! Windows 10 gives all the users that were thinking of trying Linux an obvious incentive to make the switch!
FUCK YEAH! coming to save the motherfucking day, YEAH! :D
This is big, and I'm excited.
yes, i'm sure there are plenty of people who are excited about a Ceder-Wang battery. ;)
I was really expecting the statue to be an androided version of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man. The statue is a little disappointing.
i dunno, it doesn't seem as cute: http://phandroid.s3.amazonaws....