Look, I'm a "techie" person but I'm not statistician. What the fuck do these graphs even show? One axis is "Density" which is seemingly the kernel density... of something? The other axis is "Geekbench 4 Score" and I have no fucking idea what that even is.
Seriously, if you are trying to explain something to me using charts, you're going to have to make it clear what in the flying fuck you are charting.
I'm not one to defend what the current administration/congress does but banning the use of software on government and government contractors' computers that is suspected to be under the control of a foreign government seems well within the scope of the law.
Frankly, if they banned Microsoft's shoddy products then you wouldn't need to bother with Kaspersky.
You don't support net neutrality, and you shouldn't pretend that you do.
You only want neutrality for the bottom 3 of the 7 layers of the OSI model.
Incorrect, I support all 7 layers because that is about the network. Neutrality on the part of the web server is NOT part of the OSI model, it's strictly about the network.
100% net neutrality means that users on social media web sites aren't banned for expressing legal ideas.
No, Network Neutrality has nothing to do with the content provider. If you become a content provider and your server (not rented) is removed as a destination then that would be a violation of network neutrality. Seeing as how that doesn't happen, you're being treated just like the rest of us.
Real net neutrality means that packets aren't judged by their content or source/destination,
Correct.
but net neutrality also means that comments don't get deleted/hidden/censored and users don't get banned just for engaging in perfectly reasonable and legal discussion that some thin-skinned mental weaklings on the political left dislike.
Incorrect. Network neutrality is all about connecting people to websites. It's like allowing people to use roads to drive to their destination. Once you get to your destination/website then you have gone onto private property. So if you drive to the grocery store and start yelling obscenities at other customers, they can tell you to leave and the police will kindly escort you out the door if you refuse. Further, if the grocery store does not want to let you back in later, they don't have to because they are a private establishment. Why would you think a website would be any different?
The surprise ending here is that you accuse other people of being "snowflakes" but really you have been the snowflake the whole time.
The internet and the legacy phone system may make use of related technologies, but the business, competitive environment, uses, and innovation are very different.
Let's take this argument back 80 years.
The telephone and the legacy power pole system may make use of related technologies, but the business, competitive environment, uses, and innovation are very different.
What business does a telephone company have caring about how I use my telephone? I paid for it, so but out! What business does an Internet Service Provider have caring about I my Internet service? I paid for it, so but out!
If you are only worried about "greedy companies" and aren't concerned about the stifling effects of government regulation then you don't worry enough about enough things.
Please, inform me of the stifling effects net neutrality because there literally are none. The people that claim there are list things that are not related to net neutrality which is to say they have no argument or don't understand what net neutrality means.
. . . the major problem with the FCC’s move: It forced ISPs into an 80-year-old framework designed for the telephone monopolies of a much different era. Those regulations were more concerned about things like controlling market power than, say, promoting innovation.
Except this is exactly the issue we are worried about. How is it a much different era? Did companies stop being greedy? Did they stop consolidating to control massive swaths of customers? How is this era any different?
Call your representatives and tell them what you want. Congress can pass a law to ensure net neutrality but they have to know it matters to voters. Also, if they won't support it then you need to get involved politically. If your preferred political party does not support net neutrality then you may want to reexamine why you are aligning yourself with them.
While it's possible to bend the IME to your own will, it's far more trouble than it's worth. For one, you can get an entire dedicated NAS that uses less power and space for less money than any comparable Intel setup. This approach requires magnitudes less time, effort and expertise. The design of the IME is such that it is suited to be an invisible backdoor that cannot be removed. It is for this reason that the most reasonable course of action is to disable and shutdown the IME after it has finished the system initialization.
You are merely repeating a narrative that has been cooked up to keep you distracted from the DNC leaked emails
So they cooked up Russian interference that was being investigated before the election? Let me guess, the "deep state" is now protecting the DNC? No conspiracy though, right?
Stop listening to that bullshit and stop repeating it.
Since when did factual information count as "bullshit"? I think you should start examining the facts before discounting the conclusions.
Defense against what? Hackers that leak emails proving that the mainstream media is in bed with the DNC? Controversial trolls that force people to question the political dogmas?
No, defense against propaganda that is intended to intensify the divisions within out nation. What they do does not make people question their politics but rather harden people in their viewpoints. I'm all for exposing corruption but their goal is simply to cause civil unrest and promote political extremism to fuel that agenda.
I very much want to what you are claiming they do but the fact is that they are making people more extreme in their viewpoints and normalizing that extremism.
This is a very reasonable form of defense (this is information warfare after all) but I hope they coordinate with other sites too. Sure they know a bunch of Twitter accounts point to false/misleading news but will they then automatically alert Twitter so that they can investigate and possibly take down rings of accounts created to mislead or halt the links made by fooled bystanders?
I know this is a dangerous technology because it can be misused but the same could be said about the internet but we still have it. Information warfare is real and we've already been lambasted. It's time to defend ourselves.
First AIM goes offline and now this?! I haven't been this surprised by upsetting news since I lost all my money in the bitcoin crash on January 7, 2018!;)
The application of neuroscience is smartphone apps is ubiquitous among apps that make the makers money from the users continued use of said app. It doesn't matter if it's a game or social media app, they all apply neurological tricks to maximize how much money the user will fetch them. This is should not be news to you and if it is then you should reconsider owning a smartphone and participating in social media.
The people who suddenly can't afford to pay for electricity, couldn't afford the cost to do this even with 80% subsidies in the first place. Things are really that bad.
read closer, i wrote "fully subsidizing" meaning it would be free for them.
Those jobs you're talking about as installers? Short term work, maybe a year, maybe two. Then you're right back at the same problem.
Nobody said it was a permanent solution, just a boon.
On top of that, the problem is the cost of electricity is so high in many places that people can barely scrape by between rent and electricity.
You conveniently ignored a vital section of my post: "we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest."
So those people that can't afford it would suddenly not have to pay for electricity.
This is actually one of the few good points, the poor are hurt most by people leaving the grid. It's precisely this reason that we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest.
The massive number of solar installations that would start occurring would be a boon for the unemployed who could then get jobs as installers.
Look, if we're serious about addressing climate change then we'll need to ramp solar and wind to the point where they are widespread enough that politicians will stop turning a blind eye to the serious damage being done. This of course means either campaign finance reform or clean energy companies bribing politicians better. I'd like to see laws on the books that would require new commercial developments to include solar+battery for each housing unit.
The good news is that solar+battery installations are recursive self-improvement as each installation reduces the amount of emissions while decreasing the market price of solar installations. Elon really needs to get his battery factory building in gear!
One of the big issues with decompilers is that compilers do not generate the same output for the same input. In addition, multiple versions of a compiler and different flags yield different results as well. After some thought, I've come to the conclusion that the only viable solution is to build a neural network that can detect and compensate for all the idiosyncrasy using many different test cases (and their binaries) as training data. Ultimately be able to return not only the most likely version of the source code but also the compiler name, version and flags used to compile it.
We have the technology to solve this seemingly impossible problem.
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Look, I'm a "techie" person but I'm not statistician. What the fuck do these graphs even show? One axis is "Density" which is seemingly the kernel density... of something? The other axis is "Geekbench 4 Score" and I have no fucking idea what that even is.
Seriously, if you are trying to explain something to me using charts, you're going to have to make it clear what in the flying fuck you are charting.
I'm not one to defend what the current administration/congress does but banning the use of software on government and government contractors' computers that is suspected to be under the control of a foreign government seems well within the scope of the law.
Frankly, if they banned Microsoft's shoddy products then you wouldn't need to bother with Kaspersky.
You don't support net neutrality, and you shouldn't pretend that you do.
You only want neutrality for the bottom 3 of the 7 layers of the OSI model.
Incorrect, I support all 7 layers because that is about the network. Neutrality on the part of the web server is NOT part of the OSI model, it's strictly about the network.
100% net neutrality means that users on social media web sites aren't banned for expressing legal ideas.
No, Network Neutrality has nothing to do with the content provider. If you become a content provider and your server (not rented) is removed as a destination then that would be a violation of network neutrality. Seeing as how that doesn't happen, you're being treated just like the rest of us.
Real net neutrality means that packets aren't judged by their content or source/destination,
Correct.
but net neutrality also means that comments don't get deleted/hidden/censored and users don't get banned just for engaging in perfectly reasonable and legal discussion that some thin-skinned mental weaklings on the political left dislike.
Incorrect. Network neutrality is all about connecting people to websites. It's like allowing people to use roads to drive to their destination. Once you get to your destination/website then you have gone onto private property. So if you drive to the grocery store and start yelling obscenities at other customers, they can tell you to leave and the police will kindly escort you out the door if you refuse. Further, if the grocery store does not want to let you back in later, they don't have to because they are a private establishment. Why would you think a website would be any different?
The surprise ending here is that you accuse other people of being "snowflakes" but really you have been the snowflake the whole time.
Search engines that don't derank for US party political reasons.
Actually, now google can pay to ensure that competing search engines always have a slower connection or do not connect at all.
News sites that don't ban and remove news.
Actually, now big news sites can pay to ensure that smaller sites have long loading times or even inject ads.
SJW social media that is not banning accounts and reporting users to their governments.
Actually, now SJW social media can pay to keep a competing site from ever connecting.
NN provided political cover for a lot of net censorship.
Reads like you don't understand the first thing about what NN really means.
With the NN rules removed new networks and services can emerge.
With the NN rules removed, new networks and services will have to be able to spend as much money as the giants they are competing against.
The internet and the legacy phone system may make use of related technologies, but the business, competitive environment, uses, and innovation are very different.
Let's take this argument back 80 years.
The telephone and the legacy power pole system may make use of related technologies, but the business, competitive environment, uses, and innovation are very different.
What business does a telephone company have caring about how I use my telephone? I paid for it, so but out!
What business does an Internet Service Provider have caring about I my Internet service? I paid for it, so but out!
If you are only worried about "greedy companies" and aren't concerned about the stifling effects of government regulation then you don't worry enough about enough things.
Please, inform me of the stifling effects net neutrality because there literally are none. The people that claim there are list things that are not related to net neutrality which is to say they have no argument or don't understand what net neutrality means.
So, internet regulation is now back to what it was from circa 1980 - 2015? The horror .... the horror ....
Yeah, they have been doing some really shady shit.
. . . the major problem with the FCC’s move: It forced ISPs into an 80-year-old framework designed for the telephone monopolies of a much different era. Those regulations were more concerned about things like controlling market power than, say, promoting innovation.
Except this is exactly the issue we are worried about. How is it a much different era? Did companies stop being greedy? Did they stop consolidating to control massive swaths of customers? How is this era any different?
Embedded NAS boxes don't have much CPU/GPU power though.
If that's what you need from a NAS then you are doing it wrong for sure.
Call your representatives and tell them what you want. Congress can pass a law to ensure net neutrality but they have to know it matters to voters. Also, if they won't support it then you need to get involved politically. If your preferred political party does not support net neutrality then you may want to reexamine why you are aligning yourself with them.
While it's possible to bend the IME to your own will, it's far more trouble than it's worth. For one, you can get an entire dedicated NAS that uses less power and space for less money than any comparable Intel setup. This approach requires magnitudes less time, effort and expertise. The design of the IME is such that it is suited to be an invisible backdoor that cannot be removed. It is for this reason that the most reasonable course of action is to disable and shutdown the IME after it has finished the system initialization.
You are merely repeating a narrative that has been cooked up to keep you distracted from the DNC leaked emails
So they cooked up Russian interference that was being investigated before the election? Let me guess, the "deep state" is now protecting the DNC? No conspiracy though, right?
Stop listening to that bullshit and stop repeating it.
Since when did factual information count as "bullshit"? I think you should start examining the facts before discounting the conclusions.
Who will be the ones left holding the bag?
This is a very reasonable form of defense
Defense against what? Hackers that leak emails proving that the mainstream media is in bed with the DNC? Controversial trolls that force people to question the political dogmas?
No, defense against propaganda that is intended to intensify the divisions within out nation. What they do does not make people question their politics but rather harden people in their viewpoints. I'm all for exposing corruption but their goal is simply to cause civil unrest and promote political extremism to fuel that agenda.
I very much want to what you are claiming they do but the fact is that they are making people more extreme in their viewpoints and normalizing that extremism.
This is a very reasonable form of defense (this is information warfare after all) but I hope they coordinate with other sites too. Sure they know a bunch of Twitter accounts point to false/misleading news but will they then automatically alert Twitter so that they can investigate and possibly take down rings of accounts created to mislead or halt the links made by fooled bystanders?
I know this is a dangerous technology because it can be misused but the same could be said about the internet but we still have it. Information warfare is real and we've already been lambasted. It's time to defend ourselves.
A) Uninstall/disable the Flash plugin and uninstall the Disable HTML5 Autoplay extension.
B) Install the AutoplayStopper extension.
First AIM goes offline and now this?! I haven't been this surprised by upsetting news since I lost all my money in the bitcoin crash on January 7, 2018! ;)
The application of neuroscience is smartphone apps is ubiquitous among apps that make the makers money from the users continued use of said app. It doesn't matter if it's a game or social media app, they all apply neurological tricks to maximize how much money the user will fetch them. This is should not be news to you and if it is then you should reconsider owning a smartphone and participating in social media.
bitcoin isn't a silk road for hackers, money launderers and tax evaders,"
Except when it is.
Doesn't work that way in Canada, not enough money.
Well if it doesn't work in Canada then it must be impossible for the whole planet! Oh wait, that's not how reality works.
It’s a canvas for human imagination.
So... it's a void*? ;)
The people who suddenly can't afford to pay for electricity, couldn't afford the cost to do this even with 80% subsidies in the first place. Things are really that bad.
read closer, i wrote "fully subsidizing" meaning it would be free for them.
Those jobs you're talking about as installers? Short term work, maybe a year, maybe two. Then you're right back at the same problem.
Nobody said it was a permanent solution, just a boon.
On top of that, the problem is the cost of electricity is so high in many places that people can barely scrape by between rent and electricity.
You conveniently ignored a vital section of my post: "we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest."
So those people that can't afford it would suddenly not have to pay for electricity.
Ontario did that. Electricity prices are now unaffordable, and the government just finished passing a law that stops the utilities from disconnecting people in the winter. Your entire idea hurts the poor.
This is actually one of the few good points, the poor are hurt most by people leaving the grid. It's precisely this reason that we should be fully subsidizing solar+battery installations for people below the poverty line. Subsidies should be a gradient so that people just above the poverty line aren't hit the hardest.
The massive number of solar installations that would start occurring would be a boon for the unemployed who could then get jobs as installers.
Look, if we're serious about addressing climate change then we'll need to ramp solar and wind to the point where they are widespread enough that politicians will stop turning a blind eye to the serious damage being done. This of course means either campaign finance reform or clean energy companies bribing politicians better. I'd like to see laws on the books that would require new commercial developments to include solar+battery for each housing unit.
The good news is that solar+battery installations are recursive self-improvement as each installation reduces the amount of emissions while decreasing the market price of solar installations. Elon really needs to get his battery factory building in gear!
One of the big issues with decompilers is that compilers do not generate the same output for the same input. In addition, multiple versions of a compiler and different flags yield different results as well. After some thought, I've come to the conclusion that the only viable solution is to build a neural network that can detect and compensate for all the idiosyncrasy using many different test cases (and their binaries) as training data. Ultimately be able to return not only the most likely version of the source code but also the compiler name, version and flags used to compile it.
We have the technology to solve this seemingly impossible problem.