If Microsoft's "Tay" is any indication, teaching AI not to discriminate isn't going to be easy. She started off as a cheerful innocent teenager, and in under 24 hours the internet turned her into a raging Nazi.
It may be true that people of whatever race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime, but it's not OK to deny an individual a loan on that basis, for instance.
Where does that stop though? Statistically men die earlier than women; is it wrong to charge men more for life insurance? Statistically women cost the medical system more than men; is it wrong to charge women more for health insurance? Statistically men are more likely to be involved in a traffic accident; is it wrong to charge men more for car insurance?
A useful definition would be one that points to a distinct, tangible concept. If you look up "spirituality" the definition is basically "belief in god and the soul and stuff". Earlier you made a distinction between spirituality and religion, but the dictionary definition doesn't give any basis for such a distinction. So, in the context of this discussion, a useful definition would be one which explains what you think spirituality is and how it differs from religion.
Not sure this is correct. End to end encryption is for individual chat windows. Group chatting can be read by the mothership.
As explained in their white paper (warning, PDF), group chats support full end-to-end encryption. Your client encrypts multiple copies of the message using the keys of each person in the conversation, and then sends them out as individual messages.
Cute idea, but think about it for a second. Having your friends overrule a decision by Facebook? Really? You've just given actual spammers a free pass to do what they like. Half of the spam accounts are already bots; all they have to do is friend each other and they automatically win every challenge.
We remember the influence the tobacco industry had on the public perception of the dangers of smoking.
Yeah, about the same effect as the "Organic" industry is currently having on the public perception of the "benefits" of their products and the "dangers" of genetic engineering.
Luckily, in the long run, the truth does tend to win out. In the meantime we just have to keep the organic lobby in check enough to stop them from passing more insane laws.
Nobody has ever suggested that you can't put "non-GMO" on a product. You're horribly confused. The "labeling" debate was about the quacks trying to force companies to label "GMO" products.
Also no part of your comment in any way supports or justifies an anti-GMO position.
It's on the phone. There's a backup feature to Google drive or SD card, the problem is that sometimes (always?) a new phone will fail to restore the backups
Well, that's a different thing entirely. You said "Facebook have my chat history" and I was pointing out that they do not.
I was not aware of the backup problems with the app, but that's because I never use it; my devices are all rooted and I just do nightly backups of all my app data with TitaniumBackup. If the backup feature in the app is that unreliable I can certainly understand your frustration.
So Facebook have my chat history but WhatsApp won't let me see it on a new phone. Gee thanks, you utter fuckknuckles.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
No, I'm actually serious. You utter fucknuckle. The reason they can't show you your chat history is because they don't have it. When you use WhatsApp, unlike some other chat apps, your messages are generally either sent fully encrypted straight to the recipient, or, if the recipient cannot be reached directly, are sent via a WhatsApp server acting as an intermediary. If the latter, the server only stores the message long enough to confirm that your intended recipient had received it; after that it is deleted.
Personally, that's what I love about the service. I am more than happy to take responsibility for my own backups if it means that I don't have yet another mega-corp maintaining decade long histories of all of my interactions. Since you appear to care more about convenience than privacy, perhaps WhatsApp is not the service for you.
No way. That's completely the wrong direction to go with this. What they really need to do is partner with McDonald's so you can pick up a happy meal for the ride home.
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Of course they did. They also faked the moon landing and gave the footage to NASA.
Go ask NASA about "space dust" ... At 25,000mph, even the head of pin can do a tremendous amount of damage.
To a small area. It would probably be a better idea to ask NASA how often they have to replace the solar panels on the ISS.
Who the hell said it wouldn't work? You realize we worked out this "battery" thing well over 200 years ago, right?
What people have always said is "it'll be too expensive". How you get "never work" from that ... well, it takes some creativity.
"Micro" means very small.
If Microsoft's "Tay" is any indication, teaching AI not to discriminate isn't going to be easy. She started off as a cheerful innocent teenager, and in under 24 hours the internet turned her into a raging Nazi.
It may be true that people of whatever race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime, but it's not OK to deny an individual a loan on that basis, for instance.
Where does that stop though? Statistically men die earlier than women; is it wrong to charge men more for life insurance? Statistically women cost the medical system more than men; is it wrong to charge women more for health insurance? Statistically men are more likely to be involved in a traffic accident; is it wrong to charge men more for car insurance?
A useful definition would be one that points to a distinct, tangible concept. If you look up "spirituality" the definition is basically "belief in god and the soul and stuff". Earlier you made a distinction between spirituality and religion, but the dictionary definition doesn't give any basis for such a distinction. So, in the context of this discussion, a useful definition would be one which explains what you think spirituality is and how it differs from religion.
Not sure this is correct. End to end encryption is for individual chat windows. Group chatting can be read by the mothership.
As explained in their white paper (warning, PDF), group chats support full end-to-end encryption. Your client encrypts multiple copies of the message using the keys of each person in the conversation, and then sends them out as individual messages.
Cute idea, but think about it for a second. Having your friends overrule a decision by Facebook? Really? You've just given actual spammers a free pass to do what they like. Half of the spam accounts are already bots; all they have to do is friend each other and they automatically win every challenge.
The only data they have is which numbers you are interacting with and when.
We remember the influence the tobacco industry had on the public perception of the dangers of smoking.
Yeah, about the same effect as the "Organic" industry is currently having on the public perception of the "benefits" of their products and the "dangers" of genetic engineering.
Luckily, in the long run, the truth does tend to win out. In the meantime we just have to keep the organic lobby in check enough to stop them from passing more insane laws.
An atheist is, by definition, one who lacks belief in gods. What about this is confusing you?
Nobody has ever suggested that you can't put "non-GMO" on a product. You're horribly confused. The "labeling" debate was about the quacks trying to force companies to label "GMO" products.
Also no part of your comment in any way supports or justifies an anti-GMO position.
Yeah, that's about what I figured. Like everyone else, you have no useful definition of the word; you just like the way it sounds.
It's on the phone. There's a backup feature to Google drive or SD card, the problem is that sometimes (always?) a new phone will fail to restore the backups
Well, that's a different thing entirely. You said "Facebook have my chat history" and I was pointing out that they do not.
I was not aware of the backup problems with the app, but that's because I never use it; my devices are all rooted and I just do nightly backups of all my app data with TitaniumBackup. If the backup feature in the app is that unreliable I can certainly understand your frustration.
So Facebook have my chat history but WhatsApp won't let me see it on a new phone. Gee thanks, you utter fuckknuckles.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
No, I'm actually serious. You utter fucknuckle. The reason they can't show you your chat history is because they don't have it. When you use WhatsApp, unlike some other chat apps, your messages are generally either sent fully encrypted straight to the recipient, or, if the recipient cannot be reached directly, are sent via a WhatsApp server acting as an intermediary. If the latter, the server only stores the message long enough to confirm that your intended recipient had received it; after that it is deleted.
Personally, that's what I love about the service. I am more than happy to take responsibility for my own backups if it means that I don't have yet another mega-corp maintaining decade long histories of all of my interactions. Since you appear to care more about convenience than privacy, perhaps WhatsApp is not the service for you.
Like a 13 year old playing The Sims.
It says a lot about your mental health that you truly believe only trump followers are familiar with crime statistics.
APK is being too polite.
It's cute that you honestly think you've fooled anyone into believing that APK and you are two different people.
No way. That's completely the wrong direction to go with this. What they really need to do is partner with McDonald's so you can pick up a happy meal for the ride home.
It's illegal to lock someone up against their will, too. Guess they better stop doing that before they get in trouble.
That explains their insanely high crime rate I suppose. Thanks, very informative!
he's ordering Americans not to welcome the enemy into their homes.
I pity the poor bastards who call government agencies "home".
I enjoyed your comment, but you really need to fix your sarcasm detector.
If you could define "spiritual" in any meaningful way, that might be an interesting discussion. You would be the first.