What this is going to enable people to do is destroy zombie computers and devices under the guise of retribution. While this may seem good at first, it's just going to be the moms and pops of the world losing all their data because they got infected with a virus and somebody unleashed hell on their machine. It seems like it would be far more helpful to require ISPs to detect a DoS in progress and cut off the infected customer. A scorched Earth campaign will do little to change the world.
I head up Firefox marketing, but I use Chrome every day.
That speaks volumes to the quality of Firefox.
But talking to friends, it sounds more and more like living on Chrome has started to feel like their only option. And unfortunately, too many people think Firefox isn’t a modern alternative. Except it is. Yes, three years ago, Firefox was reeling. But today, Firefox is SO much better than it was even a year ago.
So, you're failing at your job and blaming your friends for not using a browser that you won't even use? Hold on, I came prepared.
Apple loves to tell everyone how to run their society but then they go and dodge taxes which are a fundamental underpinning of any modern society. I think Apple needs to pay up or shut the fuck up.
The issue here is less about greedy journals and more about the fact that universities are being run like businesses which results in the "publish or perish" expectation. The system has become completely mismanaged into being a capitalist nightmare where you do what they want or you lose what you love. I believe this could be remedied if it became exceptionally difficult to revoke tenure, requiring that colleagues agree to it. The greedy journals problem can easily be done away with by freely releasing the research and only allowing non-profit journals to publish their work.
TL;DR: The problem is the culture of university administrations, not with the researchers themselves.
So it's a magical non-science thing? No, it's all chemical reactions. You need to figure out what intelligence is, how it's formed and then what causes its formation then you can figure out what makes it optimal. I realize it's a huge macro-property which is why it's foolish to think you've found it without understanding it.
Nobody CARES if Thog didn't understand the chemical process of oxidation, he INVENTED FIRE!
Discovering something and understanding it are very different things. Using your analogy, Thog has claimed things like wood catch fire because they float which explains why rocks don't catch fire. It's rudimentary and not even wrong. That's what we have here.
What I don't know about epigenetic is how this stuff gets transferred to kids if not through the DNA.
it is transferred through DNA but the DNA is only activated under certain conditions.
Everyone SAYS they want cleaner air, less pollution, and to stop global warming. They just want everyone else to stop consuming so they don't have to.
There is a social psychology where people are only willing to change/sacrifice if people around them are doing the same. This is why we need individuals that will get the ball rolling and why we need entertainment media to put a lot of positive emphasis on things that are good for the environment without being so extreme as to alienate the audience. If every home makeover show included changing homes over to solar and battery then you would have a lot more people doing the same.
Behavior (both social and individual) is based on feedback loops, so the stronger the feedback the faster the change.
Because I'd define intelligence as how fast you can internalize new rule-sets and data. ie, how fast you learn stuff.
Alright, now you have to identify the specific mechanisms that cause that to be true and determine if it's cellular, structural or something else completely. You then need to identify which genes cause that cellular/structural/etc behavior to be exhibited.
I think we should broach every possible issue.
Sure, there is no problem with looking into the matter but unless you are getting to the actual root cause any conclusions about intelligence that you draw are going to be premature and ethically questionable at best.
no perfect test exists
No perfect test exists because you haven't really defined what you are looking for and then found what causes that specific behavior at the lowest level. You need to approach this from the viewpoint that people are complex machines rather than simple mechanisms that have degrees of "smartness".
And while correlation does not imply causation. The fact that the genes come first kinda lends weight to that argument.
You're not allowed to talk about the possibility of there being a genetic basis for variations in intelligence.
The real problem here is that this is no absolute definition for intelligence because it's a quality. There is a lot of neuroscience that needs to be done before we should even broach the issue of genetic associations because "intelligence tests" are no more than crude attempts to quantify this quality that we cannot define.
Using DNA for data storage is a real possibility but what they need to do more than anything is to simplify the encoding and decoding so that it is both speedy and more importantly, costs next to nothing. What this really means is building complex molecular machines which is something we have yet to manage. It might take 50 years before we manage to figure out how make complex molecular machines but the result will be amazing in the same way that graphics rendering thought up 50 years ago is amazing on modern GPUs.
the Media, which is strangely willing to let Mrs. Clinton slide by for failing to protect classified information
LOL! What does she have to do with anything? Are you one of those people that got stuck in the past? Do you want to talk about how Trump had a "larger" inauguration crowd too?
Smart move. Nuclear Fission isn't cost-effective. That's the plain and simple truth. Nuclear Fission only looks like it works if it is cross-funded by obscene truckloads of taxpayers money and nobody looks too hard at centralized power cartels (funded by said taxpayers money), reactor runtimes and maintenance costs (also paid by taxpayers mones). Factor in waste handling, storage and the risks of nuclear disasters and the balance sheet goes really deep-red.
Current uranium breeder reactors weren't designed for to be cost effective, they were designed to generate weapons grade plutonium. If you want a cost-effective long-term energy solution then you should be doing R&D to make a fourth generation reactor which is more commonly known as LFTR or a Thorium reactor. A proper design could be completely autonomous, relatively small, consume existing nuclear waste but cannot meltdown/leak radiation.
People have to see the light: Nuclear Fission as we know it is a 60ies techno-romatic pipe-dream. And a dangerous one at that, with a 200 000 year waste problem attached.
This is foolishness of mdsolar proportions. We developed the technology to make weapons but if we invest and develop it further we can make the cleanest form of energy generation on Earth.
Maybe it's just me but I think it's bizarre that the US wants prosecute someone that was never in their jurisdiction nor attempted to help one country over another. It wreaks of tyranny.
How would it help to do that when the executives will be perfectly happy to follow the regulations which give them more power and make it hard for startups to compete with them?
Obviously you don't understand what net neutrality is.
I don't think it will be an issue to read many files because many of them use open standards. It's the closed source proprietary stuff that could be lost to time. However, it seems unlikely because we make emulators for all our dead hardware platforms and keep them accessible with their software.
Really, I think the worst case scenario here is that people in the future think that Comic Sans was used for everything.;)
It sounds to me like he did pay for it to be implemented. He bought Office.
Then he has no need to drone on about it.
If open source wants to seriously compete with closed software, they need to do everything closed software does, better than closed source, and they need to be compatible with that same closed software while doing it.
An eternal game of catch up means you are always behind and have partially implemented systems that suck in comparison to the original. It's far better to innovate and make something that it better and let closed source software try to catch up with you.
Nobody seriously uses over Linux or BSD over Windows on their servers because it's free
Generalizations like this are easily proven false.
we use them because they do the same things and they do them better.
No, they do something similar but it's very different and everything that works great isn't compatible with Windows' proprietary shit. This proves my point, not yours.
Where that falls apart (running as an AD DC for newer versions of Windows, as a singular example), we use Windows because we need it to work.
Where it falls apart is where it's playing catch up with Windows. This proves my point yet again.
TL;DR: If Windows suddenly became better at running servers than Linux or BSD distros, there would suddenly be a whole lot more Windows servers out there. Oh, and the guy you're bitching at did pay for the features he wanted.
If Windows suddenly became better then it wouldn't be a Microsoft product, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
Also, it's quite clear that you don't understand what makes open source successful.
The world doesn't turn for you. Pay for it to be implemented, implement it yourself or just shut the fuck up and stop acting like your are entitled to it.
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What this is going to enable people to do is destroy zombie computers and devices under the guise of retribution. While this may seem good at first, it's just going to be the moms and pops of the world losing all their data because they got infected with a virus and somebody unleashed hell on their machine. It seems like it would be far more helpful to require ISPs to detect a DoS in progress and cut off the infected customer. A scorched Earth campaign will do little to change the world.
I head up Firefox marketing, but I use Chrome every day.
That speaks volumes to the quality of Firefox.
But talking to friends, it sounds more and more like living on Chrome has started to feel like their only option. And unfortunately, too many people think Firefox isn’t a modern alternative.
Except it is. Yes, three years ago, Firefox was reeling. But today, Firefox is SO much better than it was even a year ago.
So, you're failing at your job and blaming your friends for not using a browser that you won't even use? Hold on, I came prepared.
Apple loves to tell everyone how to run their society but then they go and dodge taxes which are a fundamental underpinning of any modern society. I think Apple needs to pay up or shut the fuck up.
The issue here is less about greedy journals and more about the fact that universities are being run like businesses which results in the "publish or perish" expectation. The system has become completely mismanaged into being a capitalist nightmare where you do what they want or you lose what you love. I believe this could be remedied if it became exceptionally difficult to revoke tenure, requiring that colleagues agree to it. The greedy journals problem can easily be done away with by freely releasing the research and only allowing non-profit journals to publish their work.
TL;DR: The problem is the culture of university administrations, not with the researchers themselves.
Huh? It's not a True/False sort of thing.
So it's a magical non-science thing? No, it's all chemical reactions. You need to figure out what intelligence is, how it's formed and then what causes its formation then you can figure out what makes it optimal. I realize it's a huge macro-property which is why it's foolish to think you've found it without understanding it.
Nobody CARES if Thog didn't understand the chemical process of oxidation, he INVENTED FIRE!
Discovering something and understanding it are very different things. Using your analogy, Thog has claimed things like wood catch fire because they float which explains why rocks don't catch fire. It's rudimentary and not even wrong. That's what we have here.
What I don't know about epigenetic is how this stuff gets transferred to kids if not through the DNA.
it is transferred through DNA but the DNA is only activated under certain conditions.
Everyone SAYS they want cleaner air, less pollution, and to stop global warming. They just want everyone else to stop consuming so they don't have to.
There is a social psychology where people are only willing to change/sacrifice if people around them are doing the same. This is why we need individuals that will get the ball rolling and why we need entertainment media to put a lot of positive emphasis on things that are good for the environment without being so extreme as to alienate the audience. If every home makeover show included changing homes over to solar and battery then you would have a lot more people doing the same.
Behavior (both social and individual) is based on feedback loops, so the stronger the feedback the faster the change.
It's a good idea in concept but reality has a habit of getting in the way.
When did they stop using Visual Source Safe ?
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe was first released in 1994, so by my estimate they stopped using it in 1994.
Because I'd define intelligence as how fast you can internalize new rule-sets and data. ie, how fast you learn stuff.
Alright, now you have to identify the specific mechanisms that cause that to be true and determine if it's cellular, structural or something else completely. You then need to identify which genes cause that cellular/structural/etc behavior to be exhibited.
I think we should broach every possible issue.
Sure, there is no problem with looking into the matter but unless you are getting to the actual root cause any conclusions about intelligence that you draw are going to be premature and ethically questionable at best.
no perfect test exists
No perfect test exists because you haven't really defined what you are looking for and then found what causes that specific behavior at the lowest level. You need to approach this from the viewpoint that people are complex machines rather than simple mechanisms that have degrees of "smartness".
And while correlation does not imply causation. The fact that the genes come first kinda lends weight to that argument.
Sounds like you don't know about epigenetics.
I understand the sentiment, though I disagree with it. "Trump == BAD || Trump == OTHERPARTY" so let's do all we can to delegitimize the election."
You've jumped to a conclusion. Defcon is about exposing weaknesses for fun and has no political affiliations.
You're not allowed to talk about the possibility of there being a genetic basis for variations in intelligence.
The real problem here is that this is no absolute definition for intelligence because it's a quality. There is a lot of neuroscience that needs to be done before we should even broach the issue of genetic associations because "intelligence tests" are no more than crude attempts to quantify this quality that we cannot define.
And remember, correlation does not imply causation.
Please do not correct this Wolfgang Delta fellow. ;)
The just need to start manufacturing the Plumbus!
A Plumbus is an all purpose home device. Everyone knows what it does, so there is no reason to explain it.
You're welcome, Sony! ;)
just think how much longer the battery will last with Linux installed. ;)
Using DNA for data storage is a real possibility but what they need to do more than anything is to simplify the encoding and decoding so that it is both speedy and more importantly, costs next to nothing. What this really means is building complex molecular machines which is something we have yet to manage. It might take 50 years before we manage to figure out how make complex molecular machines but the result will be amazing in the same way that graphics rendering thought up 50 years ago is amazing on modern GPUs.
the Media, which is strangely willing to let Mrs. Clinton slide by for failing to protect classified information
LOL! What does she have to do with anything? Are you one of those people that got stuck in the past? Do you want to talk about how Trump had a "larger" inauguration crowd too?
I understand what you mean by net neutrality, but I also know that government regulations always end up favoring the incumbents, not the consumer.
Generalizations are easily proved wrong.
Smart move. Nuclear Fission isn't cost-effective. That's the plain and simple truth. Nuclear Fission only looks like it works if it is cross-funded by obscene truckloads of taxpayers money and nobody looks too hard at centralized power cartels (funded by said taxpayers money), reactor runtimes and maintenance costs (also paid by taxpayers mones). Factor in waste handling, storage and the risks of nuclear disasters and the balance sheet goes really deep-red.
Current uranium breeder reactors weren't designed for to be cost effective, they were designed to generate weapons grade plutonium. If you want a cost-effective long-term energy solution then you should be doing R&D to make a fourth generation reactor which is more commonly known as LFTR or a Thorium reactor. A proper design could be completely autonomous, relatively small, consume existing nuclear waste but cannot meltdown/leak radiation.
People have to see the light: Nuclear Fission as we know it is a 60ies techno-romatic pipe-dream. And a dangerous one at that, with a 200 000 year waste problem attached.
This is foolishness of mdsolar proportions. We developed the technology to make weapons but if we invest and develop it further we can make the cleanest form of energy generation on Earth.
reeks*
Maybe it's just me but I think it's bizarre that the US wants prosecute someone that was never in their jurisdiction nor attempted to help one country over another. It wreaks of tyranny.
How would it help to do that when the executives will be perfectly happy to follow the regulations which give them more power and make it hard for startups to compete with them?
Obviously you don't understand what net neutrality is.
I don't think it will be an issue to read many files because many of them use open standards. It's the closed source proprietary stuff that could be lost to time. However, it seems unlikely because we make emulators for all our dead hardware platforms and keep them accessible with their software.
Really, I think the worst case scenario here is that people in the future think that Comic Sans was used for everything. ;)
It sounds to me like he did pay for it to be implemented. He bought Office.
Then he has no need to drone on about it.
If open source wants to seriously compete with closed software, they need to do everything closed software does, better than closed source, and they need to be compatible with that same closed software while doing it.
An eternal game of catch up means you are always behind and have partially implemented systems that suck in comparison to the original. It's far better to innovate and make something that it better and let closed source software try to catch up with you.
Nobody seriously uses over Linux or BSD over Windows on their servers because it's free
Generalizations like this are easily proven false.
we use them because they do the same things and they do them better.
No, they do something similar but it's very different and everything that works great isn't compatible with Windows' proprietary shit. This proves my point, not yours.
Where that falls apart (running as an AD DC for newer versions of Windows, as a singular example), we use Windows because we need it to work.
Where it falls apart is where it's playing catch up with Windows. This proves my point yet again.
TL;DR: If Windows suddenly became better at running servers than Linux or BSD distros, there would suddenly be a whole lot more Windows servers out there. Oh, and the guy you're bitching at did pay for the features he wanted.
If Windows suddenly became better then it wouldn't be a Microsoft product, so I wouldn't hold your breath.
Also, it's quite clear that you don't understand what makes open source successful.
The world doesn't turn for you. Pay for it to be implemented, implement it yourself or just shut the fuck up and stop acting like your are entitled to it.
Then throw the executives of companies who violate the regulations in jail. Problem solved.