This is not to say that it'll be hard to stop the proliferation of military robots, but - is this really a good idea?
No, it isn't... You aren't thinking big enough. What happens when the robots decide they don't want to fight?
debug it. no seriously, if software/hardware doesn't behave in the expected manner, you figure out why and then you change it to do what you want. if you consider this to be a violation of the AI's rights then that changes the entire question.
when they release a fully enabled GPL driver, i'll be happy to rip out my Nvidia card and buy AMD's card. in the meantime, i'll stick with my Nvidia card and the ever improving Nouveau driver.
... the attack surface seems... bigger... than I would have expected. But most of the functionality I see there is also exposed to JavaScript, where the code is every bit as hostile. Almost any "attack surface, WTF" argument would also argue against JavaScript and all modern web design.
yeah, and look at the marvels that "modern web design" has brought us: static websites that have a shitload of stuff running in the background doing God-knows-what.
using HTML/CSS only is enough for any read-only web page. using hover and the checkbox hack, you can make all the user interaction you need. the only thing i would add is dynamic content requests and for interactive editing, hooking content to textboxes with regex or some other translating syntax. the most devious thing you could do is infinite content loading. i cant think of any page designs that would suffer by changing to this scheme that aren't needlessly retarded or should be applications.
if your site is so "advanced" that you need javascript then you are writing an application, not a web page. wrote a PC emulator in javascript? cool but it's not a webpage, it's an application. got a page with a live ticker scrolling some bullshit all the time or an advertisement that pops up after being on the page a couple minutes? a) fuck you b) it's an application.
a "javascript executable" file that you could download seems more appropriate than injecting it into a page and calling it a "modern" web page.
i was fine with google taking my info because i know they a singular goal: use the information to provide more targeted ads. they don't care what you are interested in, just get an ad to you. Microsoft and Apple have a bad track record of psychopathic behavior [wikipedia.org] and denying any responsibility for their actions.
Please give us some examples of what you call "psychopathic behaviour".
well off the top of my head, microsoft has a string of bold face lies, anticompetitive behavior (strong arming OEMs and demanding "protection" money for Android come to mind) and then there is greatest lie of them all, Bing. even when it was unquestionably clear that they were copying results from google, they claimed they didn't and referred to their method of copying as "another vector" of data collection. as for Apple, they invented a deportation raid to get back their iphone 5 prototype. there is also the prototype macbook that was sold on ebay that they extorted out of the seller who had obtained it legally (i know the full story, i talk to him on IRC).
there is a lot more than just that and in all cases there was no change in behavior, no remorse, no admissions of fault. that is psychopathic behavior. as for google, they aren't attacking people using patents and they have come clean and cooperated when they were in the wrong.
what the sensationalist title and summary are omitting is that this happened in 2008. while not in charge of control systems, they used Windows XP on laptops for some scientific software. however, they finished migrating and announced that they switched over to Linux, specifically Debian 6. (woo Debian!)
How all of us were "ok" with the companies collecting this information. When an intelligence agency combines this info, we suddenly scream for privacy. I'm scared enough that google accesses my Gmail content, and Apple my iMessages and contacts.
i was fine with google taking my info because i know they a singular goal: use the information to provide more targeted ads. they don't care what you are interested in, just get an ad to you. Microsoft and Apple have a bad track record of psychopathic behavior and denying any responsibility for their actions. the NSA has psychopathic behavior and a god complex which is extremely dangerous.
you may think this is extreme but it's no exaggeration when i say the NSA has no problems with killing anyone that posed a threat to them. snowden had already done the damage, so there's no point in killing him after the fact. though if the CIA thinks he's cooperating with another government, the CIA will slap a bomb to the side of his car. if you still think i'm paranoid, consider that you previously thought the NSA spying on and tracking everyone was a delusion.
the mistake we made was underestimating the enemy. make no mistake, the NSA mindset is that everyone is an enemy, even the people and government they are sworn to protect.
if they can modify this a little bit to absorb nuclear radiation, cosmic rays or universal radiation then they may have invented one of the greatest energy technologies since the solar panel.
- being able to clean up nuclear radiation would be great to avoid a "permanent" wasteland. then again, it brings the option of using nukes back on the table. - absorbing cosmic rays could make space travel safer and possibly satellites lighter. - if you can absorb universal radiation then you have a solar panel that always has sunlight.
i really hope this tech can be modified. there is a lot of potential for good.
Box Inc. is an online file sharing and cloud content management service for businesses. The company adopted a freemium business model, and provides up to 10 GB of free storage for personal accounts.
it seems like articles have started assuming we know what every product and corporation is and does.
There's an open issue on it, lots of people bitching about current Firefox being broken, but no fixes or response from Google.
Obviously, I need to switch to a different solution,
the only thing obvious here is that firefox is not following the w3c standard.
since I can't force all my volunteers to use a particular browser.
you dont have to force developers to fix an issue but they are much more likely to oblige if you offer them money in return for their services. now if only there was a place where you could do such a thing.
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AWS is building the CIA a massive private cloud that will run AWS infrastructure, but it will sit in a CIA data center.
there, that's the entire article in one sentence.
This is not to say that it'll be hard to stop the proliferation of military robots, but - is this really a good idea?
No, it isn't... You aren't thinking big enough. What happens when the robots decide they don't want to fight?
debug it. no seriously, if software/hardware doesn't behave in the expected manner, you figure out why and then you change it to do what you want. if you consider this to be a violation of the AI's rights then that changes the entire question.
when they release a fully enabled GPL driver, i'll be happy to rip out my Nvidia card and buy AMD's card. in the meantime, i'll stick with my Nvidia card and the ever improving Nouveau driver.
Maybe someone else has a decoder ring, but it's alphabet soup trying to figure out what video card one should get.
Drink your Ovaltine. :)
we better start posting fliers on telephone poles now.
Have you seen this drone?
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is anyone else so incredibly surprised by this as i am? -_-
article modded down "DUH!"
PS. To my Indian friends, can you please share with us how you guys can keep the budget so low?
duh, they obviously outsourced the work to ind-uhh... that is a good question.
Malware Targeted industries
19% - High-tech
17% - Financial services
11% - Telecommunications
10% - Federal government
9% - Energy/Utilities/Petroleum refining
6% - Aerospace/Defense/Airlines
5% - Chemicals/Manufacturing/Mining
etc...
at long last we're in popular crowd and those stupid jocks didn't even make the list! sweet justice is mine!
now if you will excuse me, the floozies from back in high school are flocking my way.
... the attack surface seems... bigger... than I would have expected. But most of the functionality I see there is also exposed to JavaScript, where the code is every bit as hostile. Almost any "attack surface, WTF" argument would also argue against JavaScript and all modern web design.
yeah, and look at the marvels that "modern web design" has brought us: static websites that have a shitload of stuff running in the background doing God-knows-what.
using HTML/CSS only is enough for any read-only web page. using hover and the checkbox hack, you can make all the user interaction you need. the only thing i would add is dynamic content requests and for interactive editing, hooking content to textboxes with regex or some other translating syntax. the most devious thing you could do is infinite content loading. i cant think of any page designs that would suffer by changing to this scheme that aren't needlessly retarded or should be applications.
if your site is so "advanced" that you need javascript then you are writing an application, not a web page. wrote a PC emulator in javascript? cool but it's not a webpage, it's an application. got a page with a live ticker scrolling some bullshit all the time or an advertisement that pops up after being on the page a couple minutes? a) fuck you b) it's an application.
a "javascript executable" file that you could download seems more appropriate than injecting it into a page and calling it a "modern" web page.
I dont think that's what they meant when they said they wanted Satellite TV.
i was fine with google taking my info because i know they a singular goal: use the information to provide more targeted ads. they don't care what you are interested in, just get an ad to you. Microsoft and Apple have a bad track record of psychopathic behavior [wikipedia.org] and denying any responsibility for their actions.
Please give us some examples of what you call "psychopathic behaviour".
well off the top of my head, microsoft has a string of bold face lies, anticompetitive behavior (strong arming OEMs and demanding "protection" money for Android come to mind) and then there is greatest lie of them all, Bing. even when it was unquestionably clear that they were copying results from google, they claimed they didn't and referred to their method of copying as "another vector" of data collection. as for Apple, they invented a deportation raid to get back their iphone 5 prototype. there is also the prototype macbook that was sold on ebay that they extorted out of the seller who had obtained it legally (i know the full story, i talk to him on IRC).
there is a lot more than just that and in all cases there was no change in behavior, no remorse, no admissions of fault. that is psychopathic behavior. as for google, they aren't attacking people using patents and they have come clean and cooperated when they were in the wrong.
happy now?
what the sensationalist title and summary are omitting is that this happened in 2008. while not in charge of control systems, they used Windows XP on laptops for some scientific software. however, they finished migrating and announced that they switched over to Linux, specifically Debian 6. (woo Debian!)
this is just more FUD
So, when is Slashdot going to turn on https and stop the attack vector?
the real question is when will the internet switch to an uncompromised encryption scheme.
How all of us were "ok" with the companies collecting this information. When an intelligence agency combines this info, we suddenly scream for privacy. I'm scared enough that google accesses my Gmail content, and Apple my iMessages and contacts.
i was fine with google taking my info because i know they a singular goal: use the information to provide more targeted ads. they don't care what you are interested in, just get an ad to you. Microsoft and Apple have a bad track record of psychopathic behavior and denying any responsibility for their actions. the NSA has psychopathic behavior and a god complex which is extremely dangerous.
you may think this is extreme but it's no exaggeration when i say the NSA has no problems with killing anyone that posed a threat to them. snowden had already done the damage, so there's no point in killing him after the fact. though if the CIA thinks he's cooperating with another government, the CIA will slap a bomb to the side of his car. if you still think i'm paranoid, consider that you previously thought the NSA spying on and tracking everyone was a delusion.
the mistake we made was underestimating the enemy. make no mistake, the NSA mindset is that everyone is an enemy, even the people and government they are sworn to protect.
$500,000? To one of the biggest companies on Earth? They spend more than that on coffee. Go big or go home, Brazil. :)
that's just how the preexisting law is written, dummy.
yes, it absolutely was inevitable. no program or product lasts forever, everything dies.
if they can modify this a little bit to absorb nuclear radiation, cosmic rays or universal radiation then they may have invented one of the greatest energy technologies since the solar panel.
- being able to clean up nuclear radiation would be great to avoid a "permanent" wasteland. then again, it brings the option of using nukes back on the table.
- absorbing cosmic rays could make space travel safer and possibly satellites lighter.
- if you can absorb universal radiation then you have a solar panel that always has sunlight.
i really hope this tech can be modified. there is a lot of potential for good.
Box Inc. is an online file sharing and cloud content management service for businesses. The company adopted a freemium business model, and provides up to 10 GB of free storage for personal accounts.
it seems like articles have started assuming we know what every product and corporation is and does.
The source code for the challenge was written in the C# programming language
nice try Microsoft but i'm still not falling for it!
Why should a firm be forced to upgrade?
nobody is forcing them to do anything. if they dont want to upgrade, the consequences of their [in]actions are their own doing.
IE 9 runs fine. ...
If it aint broke dont fix it
if IE9 is not broken, then there isnt a problem. the problem is that IE9 is broken which is why it needs special support.
this is the cost of involving your business with microsoft. adapt or die.
to be clear, i do not support the Silk Road.
Long Live The Silk Road.
Gate One is an HTML5 web-based terminal emulator and SSH client.
We're stuck on 9
incorrect! your firm is simply refusing to upgrade. there is a BIG difference.
There's an open issue on it, lots of people bitching about current Firefox being broken, but no fixes or response from Google.
Obviously, I need to switch to a different solution,
the only thing obvious here is that firefox is not following the w3c standard.
since I can't force all my volunteers to use a particular browser.
you dont have to force developers to fix an issue but they are much more likely to oblige if you offer them money in return for their services. now if only there was a place where you could do such a thing.