This is actually a result of Japan's very interesting labor laws. Basically, when you hire somebody in Japan, it's a lifelong hire. This means that in a place like Sony, when a project ends and there is nothing in the pipeline that needs additional work that they can't just layoff their workers. Instead, the workers either sit around and do nothing or quit. So when you get a bunch of smart people sitting around, they come up with interesting ideas that could make some profit and they become non-priority company projects. I'm certain AIBO is one of those things.
Expect a multitude of EV clones in China appearing that look strangely similar to Teslas.
Tesla Motors was created for the purpose of proving EVs were viable and proliferating them, so this would be a win for Elon. If you haven't you noticed, all their patents are free to use.
Everyone mocked Sarah Palin's "Death Panels" but this is a big step towards them.
Requirements for non-urgent surgeries isn't anything new. The issue is that in their current state the patient has an elevated risk of dying as a result of the surgery. Do no harm is something that is taken seriously.
However, we've already had death panels, you just didn't know about them. Just read about this history of dialysis.
In 1962, Scribner started the world’s first outpatient dialysis facility. Immediately the problem arose of who should be given dialysis, since demand far exceeded the capacity of the six dialysis machines at the center. In another brilliant move, Scribner decided that the decision about who would receive dialysis and who wouldn’t—a matter of life and death for the patients involved—would not be made by him. Instead, the choices would be made by an anonymous committee composed of local residents from various walks of life plus two doctors who practiced outside of the kidney field. Although his decision caused controversy at the time, it was the creation of the first bioethics committee, which changed the approach to accessibility of health care in this country.
When resources are limited, doctors treat the patients (with life-threatening ailments) that have a higher chance of survival. This has been and will remain true as long as the doctors have a say in the matter.
Feedback loops define behavior, so the answer is simple, create feedback loops for bad security. There are many ways to do this. One way would be turn every ill-secured IoT devices against it maker and perform a periodic DoS attack on the company website and/or the sites that sell them. This would result in a rising level of traffic that will cause the company money which is the exact reason why they didn't bother to secure the devices. However, if you wish to force government regulation then you need only should turn IoT devices against websites that accept political donations for the current dominant political party. Some feedback loops are stronger than others, so it's something worth thinking about.
In my experience, anything that agitates congress will get immediate attention.
I envy those people I know who are capable of insanity and irrationality.
Then you're a fool.
It's a problem because the rational person sees a lot of the bad in the world and can't really alleviate their own suffering other than by taking mind altering substances or temporarily distracting activities.
As someone who suffers from mental illness, I perceive people who are distraught by the everyday evils in the world to be like children crying over spilled milk. You seek to escape what I would consider an ideal state. The world isn't great but you fail to recognize that it's full of issues that can be rectified.
This is the endgame for javascript: executing unauthorized code on your computer. Now that it's becoming so entirely blatant, we may actually start seeing the general public getting protection from runaway javascript scripts.
As I post this, there are three topically relevant and accurate stories modded down to 0 or -1.
What do those posts have to do with the Russian interference in US elections? That is the topic.
This one (and the others) are perfectly legitimate
If they are legitimate then please submit a story citing a reputable source. They sound like stories that would leave a trail for investigative journalists to follow but all that's being posted are intangible conspiracy theories.
"ASSSANGGGE!!!!" - Screamed yet another agitated U.S. President at the sky.
Nah, the current US President is more likely to scream, "TRUMP IS GREAT!" at the sky because that's where he thinks Sky Magazine comes from and they are being so unfair to him!;)
Chinese scientists also blame what they call the skewed incentives they say are embedded within their nation's academic system.
It sounds like they have a similar problem to the US's collapsing "publish or perish" paradigm. People should be less focused on what the scientists are doing and focus on the cause of such behavior.
To change the behavior of a group you must correct the feedback loops that control them.
how about robots that pick up smoldering butts and use them to burn the faces of the smokers that throw them. I think this kind of negative reinforcement is a better solution and doesn't involve enslaving animals.
This sounds expensive to build and maintain. Let's just optimize it a little bit and just have robots that burn the faces of people that drop cigarette butts. No wait, that'll still be too expensive. Ok, so we can just have them burn the faces of people holding a cigarette butt. Hmm... still rather expensive. We could use a much slower processor if we just have robots that will burn people's faces. Now it's best if we optimize the mechanical aspect too so that we can really get the prices into range. We can do away with most moving and electronic components if we just have people line up to have their faces burned! It's perfect!
I think everyone will agree that faceburning stations are an affordable future we can all live with.;)
The solution to that is easy: accountability, culpability and limitations on capability. Plenty of books have been written on ensuring secure practices and minimizing the level of damage any single idiot can do. If that part of your banking system is fucked up then you are in the wrong business.
It's not like banks aren't being adequately compensated for their services. If they won't fund the creation of a bulletproof banking network that can withstand close scrutiny then they really only have themselves to blame.
As long as neural networks continue to be task specific, there will still be a need for programmers as we know them today. Neural networks are good for interfacing with fuzzy problems (e.g. object discrimination) which we have relied on humans to do in the past but they are generally useless for designing systems. Maybe if we chain enough neural network subsystems together, we can finally create a general intelligence but that's not even a certainty. Without a general intelligence, we'll still need humans to make software for humans.
Slashdot Mirror
Who knew that cleanliness was a resource and you could use it up and run out?
Pff! Anyone who has been friends was Swamp Thing. He doesn't even wipe his feet before he enters your house, it's just swamp everywhere!
Cusomers DEMANDED this?
This is actually a result of Japan's very interesting labor laws. Basically, when you hire somebody in Japan, it's a lifelong hire. This means that in a place like Sony, when a project ends and there is nothing in the pipeline that needs additional work that they can't just layoff their workers. Instead, the workers either sit around and do nothing or quit. So when you get a bunch of smart people sitting around, they come up with interesting ideas that could make some profit and they become non-priority company projects. I'm certain AIBO is one of those things.
First they grab my attention...
2,322 great tits from the UK and the Netherlands
and then they show me some birds? Is the internet broken today? ;)
Only for those companies that reciprocate and make all of their patents free to use for Tesla.
Where did you get that information?
Expect a multitude of EV clones in China appearing that look strangely similar to Teslas.
Tesla Motors was created for the purpose of proving EVs were viable and proliferating them, so this would be a win for Elon. If you haven't you noticed, all their patents are free to use.
Everyone mocked Sarah Palin's "Death Panels" but this is a big step towards them.
Requirements for non-urgent surgeries isn't anything new. The issue is that in their current state the patient has an elevated risk of dying as a result of the surgery. Do no harm is something that is taken seriously.
However, we've already had death panels, you just didn't know about them. Just read about this history of dialysis.
In 1962, Scribner started the world’s first outpatient dialysis facility. Immediately the problem arose of who should be given dialysis, since demand far exceeded the capacity of the six dialysis machines at the center. In another brilliant move, Scribner decided that the decision about who would receive dialysis and who wouldn’t—a matter of life and death for the patients involved—would not be made by him. Instead, the choices would be made by an anonymous committee composed of local residents from various walks of life plus two doctors who practiced outside of the kidney field. Although his decision caused controversy at the time, it was the creation of the first bioethics committee, which changed the approach to accessibility of health care in this country.
When resources are limited, doctors treat the patients (with life-threatening ailments) that have a higher chance of survival. This has been and will remain true as long as the doctors have a say in the matter.
XNU/Darwin is based on FreeBSD and Mach.
This is exactly the kind of thing I told you was going to happen yesterday and yet, only +3 Insightful.
Feedback loops define behavior, so the answer is simple, create feedback loops for bad security. There are many ways to do this. One way would be turn every ill-secured IoT devices against it maker and perform a periodic DoS attack on the company website and/or the sites that sell them. This would result in a rising level of traffic that will cause the company money which is the exact reason why they didn't bother to secure the devices. However, if you wish to force government regulation then you need only should turn IoT devices against websites that accept political donations for the current dominant political party. Some feedback loops are stronger than others, so it's something worth thinking about.
In my experience, anything that agitates congress will get immediate attention.
I envy those people I know who are capable of insanity and irrationality.
Then you're a fool.
It's a problem because the rational person sees a lot of the bad in the world and can't really alleviate their own suffering other than by taking mind altering substances or temporarily distracting activities.
As someone who suffers from mental illness, I perceive people who are distraught by the everyday evils in the world to be like children crying over spilled milk. You seek to escape what I would consider an ideal state. The world isn't great but you fail to recognize that it's full of issues that can be rectified.
This is the endgame for javascript: executing unauthorized code on your computer. Now that it's becoming so entirely blatant, we may actually start seeing the general public getting protection from runaway javascript scripts.
As I post this, there are three topically relevant and accurate stories modded down to 0 or -1.
What do those posts have to do with the Russian interference in US elections? That is the topic.
This one (and the others) are perfectly legitimate
If they are legitimate then please submit a story citing a reputable source. They sound like stories that would leave a trail for investigative journalists to follow but all that's being posted are intangible conspiracy theories.
Is someone trying to steal their rounded corners idea again?! ;)
If you still have a Flash plugin installed then now is the proper time to uninstall it.
"ASSSANGGGE!!!!" - Screamed yet another agitated U.S. President at the sky.
Nah, the current US President is more likely to scream, "TRUMP IS GREAT!" at the sky because that's where he thinks Sky Magazine comes from and they are being so unfair to him! ;)
Our current society rewards the selfish and conceited but the laws of physics don't give a shit about that.
Chinese scientists also blame what they call the skewed incentives they say are embedded within their nation's academic system.
It sounds like they have a similar problem to the US's collapsing "publish or perish" paradigm. People should be less focused on what the scientists are doing and focus on the cause of such behavior.
To change the behavior of a group you must correct the feedback loops that control them.
Computer keyboards will be phased out over the next 20 years
[citation needed]
how about robots that pick up smoldering butts and use them to burn the faces of the smokers that throw them. I think this kind of negative reinforcement is a better solution and doesn't involve enslaving animals.
This sounds expensive to build and maintain. Let's just optimize it a little bit and just have robots that burn the faces of people that drop cigarette butts. No wait, that'll still be too expensive. Ok, so we can just have them burn the faces of people holding a cigarette butt. Hmm... still rather expensive. We could use a much slower processor if we just have robots that will burn people's faces. Now it's best if we optimize the mechanical aspect too so that we can really get the prices into range. We can do away with most moving and electronic components if we just have people line up to have their faces burned! It's perfect!
I think everyone will agree that faceburning stations are an affordable future we can all live with. ;)
If the Dutch police made this application then why are they working as police rather than programmers? ;)
Oh, the police didn't make this at all. Words matter.
Why not create a competitive service? -_-
America is winning the race on anti-science rhetoric! I'd post a link to the numbers but we all know numbers are FAKE NEWS. ;)
The solution to that is easy: accountability, culpability and limitations on capability. Plenty of books have been written on ensuring secure practices and minimizing the level of damage any single idiot can do. If that part of your banking system is fucked up then you are in the wrong business.
It's not like banks aren't being adequately compensated for their services. If they won't fund the creation of a bulletproof banking network that can withstand close scrutiny then they really only have themselves to blame.
As long as neural networks continue to be task specific, there will still be a need for programmers as we know them today. Neural networks are good for interfacing with fuzzy problems (e.g. object discrimination) which we have relied on humans to do in the past but they are generally useless for designing systems. Maybe if we chain enough neural network subsystems together, we can finally create a general intelligence but that's not even a certainty. Without a general intelligence, we'll still need humans to make software for humans.