It won't be cutting anything in half since it will never exist. This isn't a taunt, it's simply a political reality because if it was ever going to happen then it would have happened when Republicans controlled both chambers of congress. The reality is that neither party really wants the wall but Republicans in congress are demanding it now because they know there is no danger of it being built and only wish to be viewed as in favor of it.
Personalized advertisements in and of themselves are completely amoral. If a company kept everything completely compartmentalized so that nobody could ever access your information except a benevolent AI that want to help you then it could be moral because the AI wants to help you complete whatever your task is. However, in this scenario, the AI would also not advertise to you if it were determined you were better off with a competing product or none at all. This is the moral ideal of advertising but as we know, morality and advertising parted ways before they ever met. Advertisers are simply looking to make you purchase a product, even if it (slowly) kills you.
The same argument can be made for companies that churn out addictive games. The moral ideal is to offer entertainment that will improve someone's day but the reality is that neurology is exploited to maximize the addictiveness of the game to cause someone to pay out an endless stream of money.
TL;DR: Advertisers don't care if the product will ruin your life, they only care about getting you to buy the product (so that they get paid).
The problem here is not the technology, the problem here is the companies that make the technology. In short, they have positioned themselves in such a way that the more you use their technology, the more they profit. It's this parasitic relationship that is the issue. As such, some people are beginning to discover that their lives are better without these parasites invading their lives and stealing their time. A desirable outcome would be application that maximize your capabilities without trying to exploit you endlessly for profit. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening in the mainstream until society hits rock bottom and realizes it has an addiction problem which isn't going to happen any time soon because most fools still have Facebook accounts despite being told how it's hurting them.
The EU is fighting for their countries but the US is really doomed for until most of the current generations die off.
Sony Pictures Imageworks has contributed a software tool used to create movies like "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," "Hotel Transylvania 3," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" to the open source community.
This is false. OpenColorIO was not used to create these movies, OpenColorIO is just one of the many tools used in their production. OpenColorIO is specifically for dealing with colors, not rendering 3d stuff or anything else, just colors.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea but do you really want to be messing with your car using JavaScript, Unix shell and PHP? I know you're thinking, "but those are the most reliable languages!" and I'm going to have to disagree because that title clearly belongs to Adobe Flash and Microsoft ActiveX.;)
The myth that Republicans vote against their own interests is based on two fallacies:
Actually, I don't think they vote against their own interests for either of those reasons. I think they have and are being deliberately disinformed and propagandized via Fox News and living in social media bubbles. Many others are simply uninformed and vote like they have always voted. I don't think people who vote for Republicans are dumb at all, just mislead by opportunistic billionaires.
Epicenter.works is an advocacy organization, not a research organization. So this "study" may be a bit biased. They have an agenda to push.
"Our network consists of many people who volunteer for basic rights and freedoms in the digital age." - epicenter.works website
Given this bias, do you think they are interested in presenting information that would benefit the majority of people (which this study does) or a minority of people (which this study does not)?
Banning the account immediately only helps the abuser to switch tactics. Instead, put the account in isolation, so that the spammer wastes his time with a worthless account, and can't readily figure out why.
This is called a "shadow ban" and abusers become aware of them quickly because they do not get any feedback. For this reason, I propose a "Hell ban" that would effectively be a shadow ban but would employ the use of AI to simulate feedback (preferably mostly negative feedback) to keep the abuser from recognizing he's been shadow banned.
Instead of filtering malmail, they should be fighting malmail in a way that matters.
* Every phishing email should receive an equal number of plausible (scripted/AI written) replies from dedicated email addresses and domains. (This poisons the well.) * Every site employing "sign up for promotional emails by default" checkbox should be downranked on Google. * Every site employing "signing up implies consent for promotional emails until you cancel them" should be delisted from Google. * Every domain found to have hired spammers should be delisted from Google entirely (this requires an investigative unit).
Google enables malmailers to continue by not punishing their behavior.
Since a "complex" modification is really anything more than an edit or two, most everything is far beyond our reach. No lines needs to be drawn for quite some time.
You might as well be striking up an argument about AI person-hood because you're just invented the transistor in 1925 and are sure AI is just around the corner.
Everything that is sold needs to be evaluated for to cost of recycling it and then add that cost to the item as a tax. That way, when a recycler spends $X to recycle thrown out object Y then they get that recycling investment money.
This isn't a complex problem, we just have weak/corrupt politicians stopping us from doing what has to be done.
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Always nice to have random strangers on the internet giving unsolicited parenting advice.
If Florida Man/Woman has taught me anything then it's that there are a lot of people out there that could use all the advice they can get.
It won't be cutting anything in half since it will never exist. This isn't a taunt, it's simply a political reality because if it was ever going to happen then it would have happened when Republicans controlled both chambers of congress. The reality is that neither party really wants the wall but Republicans in congress are demanding it now because they know there is no danger of it being built and only wish to be viewed as in favor of it.
Thanks for the English lesson but that was quoted from the summary. -_-
How well does this software compare to Blender?
You are comparing apples and oranges. The software they are contributing toward is only for modifying colors and it won't render a single polygon.
Personalized advertisements in and of themselves are completely amoral. If a company kept everything completely compartmentalized so that nobody could ever access your information except a benevolent AI that want to help you then it could be moral because the AI wants to help you complete whatever your task is. However, in this scenario, the AI would also not advertise to you if it were determined you were better off with a competing product or none at all. This is the moral ideal of advertising but as we know, morality and advertising parted ways before they ever met. Advertisers are simply looking to make you purchase a product, even if it (slowly) kills you.
The same argument can be made for companies that churn out addictive games. The moral ideal is to offer entertainment that will improve someone's day but the reality is that neurology is exploited to maximize the addictiveness of the game to cause someone to pay out an endless stream of money.
TL;DR: Advertisers don't care if the product will ruin your life, they only care about getting you to buy the product (so that they get paid).
The problem here is not the technology, the problem here is the companies that make the technology. In short, they have positioned themselves in such a way that the more you use their technology, the more they profit. It's this parasitic relationship that is the issue. As such, some people are beginning to discover that their lives are better without these parasites invading their lives and stealing their time. A desirable outcome would be application that maximize your capabilities without trying to exploit you endlessly for profit. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening in the mainstream until society hits rock bottom and realizes it has an addiction problem which isn't going to happen any time soon because most fools still have Facebook accounts despite being told how it's hurting them.
The EU is fighting for their countries but the US is really doomed for until most of the current generations die off.
Sony Pictures Imageworks has contributed a software tool used to create movies like "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," "Hotel Transylvania 3," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" to the open source community.
This is false. OpenColorIO was not used to create these movies, OpenColorIO is just one of the many tools used in their production. OpenColorIO is specifically for dealing with colors, not rendering 3d stuff or anything else, just colors.
I think it's hilarious that the mods went crazy on this. I guess they didn't read the post subject... or anything else. ;)
Live by the sword, die by the sword. However, I do not think they envisioned Microsoft Seppuku. ;)
Actually, ActionScript is the language, not "Flash" and it was originally made by-
Thanks, asshole. It's just a joke. Not everyone knows the technical details about every language.
Flash Player and ActiveX are really just platforms. Flash Player executes bytecode using a JIT compiler while ActiveX executes native-
THANKS, ASSHOLE. IT'S JUST A JOKE. NOT EVERYONE KNOWS THE TECHNICAL DETAILS ABOUT EVERY LANGUAGE.
I know you were thinking it... we were all thinking it. ;)
I'm not saying it's a bad idea but do you really want to be messing with your car using JavaScript, Unix shell and PHP? I know you're thinking, "but those are the most reliable languages!" and I'm going to have to disagree because that title clearly belongs to Adobe Flash and Microsoft ActiveX. ;)
The myth that Republicans vote against their own interests is based on two fallacies:
Actually, I don't think they vote against their own interests for either of those reasons. I think they have and are being deliberately disinformed and propagandized via Fox News and living in social media bubbles. Many others are simply uninformed and vote like they have always voted. I don't think people who vote for Republicans are dumb at all, just mislead by opportunistic billionaires.
Epicenter.works is an advocacy organization, not a research organization. So this "study" may be a bit biased. They have an agenda to push.
"Our network consists of many people who volunteer for basic rights and freedoms in the digital age." - epicenter.works website
Given this bias, do you think they are interested in presenting information that would benefit the majority of people (which this study does) or a minority of people (which this study does not)?
Not at all, that's the point. I could work from home in my underwear.
you know they invented these things called "telephones" which only transmit your voice, right? -_-
The same thing that happens to false positives currently.
Banning the account immediately only helps the abuser to switch tactics. Instead, put the account in isolation, so that the spammer wastes his time with a worthless account, and can't readily figure out why.
This is called a "shadow ban" and abusers become aware of them quickly because they do not get any feedback. For this reason, I propose a "Hell ban" that would effectively be a shadow ban but would employ the use of AI to simulate feedback (preferably mostly negative feedback) to keep the abuser from recognizing he's been shadow banned.
Instead of filtering malmail, they should be fighting malmail in a way that matters.
* Every phishing email should receive an equal number of plausible (scripted/AI written) replies from dedicated email addresses and domains. (This poisons the well.)
* Every site employing "sign up for promotional emails by default" checkbox should be downranked on Google.
* Every site employing "signing up implies consent for promotional emails until you cancel them" should be delisted from Google.
* Every domain found to have hired spammers should be delisted from Google entirely (this requires an investigative unit).
Google enables malmailers to continue by not punishing their behavior.
Every anon speaks from "the gut" because their brain is their liver and it's bloated by fructose and damaged by alcohol.
Wait, if that is your "traditional role", where have you been? On vacation? Too busy?
Haven't you noticed? Republicans have been blocking ALL oversight for several years.
So where does society draw the line?
Since a "complex" modification is really anything more than an edit or two, most everything is far beyond our reach. No lines needs to be drawn for quite some time.
You might as well be striking up an argument about AI person-hood because you're just invented the transistor in 1925 and are sure AI is just around the corner.
You've simply assumed it's incorrect and completely overlooked the fact that parties like Mozilla are involved.
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange based on trading volume...
Seems like the title should read "Money Laundering Outfit Now Accepts Credit Cards".
While we're at it, what we really need is something like Brave's wallet/patron system to go global and burn the ad industry to the ground.
WTF is "Brave"?
"Light switch rave" anyone? ;)
Everything that is sold needs to be evaluated for to cost of recycling it and then add that cost to the item as a tax. That way, when a recycler spends $X to recycle thrown out object Y then they get that recycling investment money.
This isn't a complex problem, we just have weak/corrupt politicians stopping us from doing what has to be done.