The only question is how long until we can trust them to work totally autonomously. THAT probably won't come for a while.
I suspect it may be a matter of desperation. I can envision a realistic situation where militaries include auto-pilot fighting in their drones' software library "just in case".
But if a country starts losing a war badly, it may activate that auto-pilot out of desperation. The "philosophicals" about AI control go out the window when your ass is on the line.
US population is geographically* spread out. It's generally more expensive to provide service to a spread-out population, and that should be factored into any rating system.
* I added that adverb to reduce the probability of fat jokes.
might push even rational Americans to consider a Trump vote
While I hope Trump doesn't win, I do hope he gives Mrs. C hell on visa and trade issues, which have been dictated by corporate elites for faaaar too long.
Make her squirm doing what you do best, Mr. Trump. Make it a close election to send a message.
My body certainly has. Maybe the atoms examined simply reached middle-age. Time* to put the universe on a diet of neutrino shakes; but they are so bland and often just pass right through ya.
They are all in countries like Russia where nobody can do anything about it.
Send spies into their home at 3am to break both their arms in a "bathtub accident", or pull an Israel and cut off their Jingle Bells. Or trick them via Judo call-ladies, who perform both actions.
I concur. I just got done watching a fascinating NOVA series on human evolution.
Upright walking apes seem to have had been around for roughly 4 million years, at least, with small chimp-like brains and NOT using (shaped) stone tools. They probably still used trees to escape from predators. There were several species and it was a viable niche; and for 4 million years these creatures remained mostly as-is.
But around 2 million years ago the climate of Africa started swinging wildly. This appears to have favored bigger brains and stone-tool-makers, and stone tools and larger brains began appearing in the fossil record. Thus, ironically, humans appear to be the product of climate change. (Brains are metabolically expensive, so big brains have to justify themselves.)
Due to automation, offshoring, and commie nations subsidizing their labor to keep workers from rioting; more Americans are idle. This probably results in more total TV time.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that TV is not gradually being replaced by Internet and social networking, it just means there is a bigger pie of idle time, and a slice of roughly the same percent (TV) will grow bigger regardless.
(I personally believe "helicopter money" (HM) theory is the best economic solution to try get more working, being inflation is under-par, meaning production resources are underutilized, but HM is politically risky because the opposition will sell it as "cheating".)
halted their appeal...Their given reason makes no sense. They could outspend any litigant.
The discovery process could spill embarrassing details to the public.
I'm glad the lady won the lawsuit and hope there are more. MS has been a slime-ball for the 30 odd years I've been in or watching the industry. Stick it to the M!
My wife watched porn at double speed, and got mad at me because I cannot jizz fast enough. Now she watches it backwards and gets mad that I cannot clean up like they do.
But leaving just because you want to feel empowered is stupid
Who said humans are rational.
In the US, we waste a lot of resources on cars because we want the "freedom" and "control" of where and when we go and how much leg room we get, etc.
Cars in the more populated areas are expensive and wasteful in terms of waiting in traffic, cost, parking space, mass pavement costs, pollution, global warming, deaths, and a host of other things. Look at all the space wasted on parking lots.
If we put even half of those resources into public transportation instead, transportation would be far more efficient. Cars are simply not logical in non-rural areas, at least not for most everyday tasks.
But why does it prevail? We want Freedom & Control
The miles thing was a short-cut way to imply it's also a different culture and a different group of people, without getting wordy. Maybe I should have used "remote". I agree I worded it poorly.
I understand the theory, but the world is too big for mortals to manage properly. For one, huge trade imbalances create a plethora of problems, and the WTO is not equipped to deal with that, in part because it requires higher-level political change, and that's outside of their scope.
Voters rightfully want to control their country's own destiny without having to cater to some international rule-making body a thousand miles away. I feel the same about the World Trade Organization. Why are THEY making decisions for Americans?
True, voters are not always rational (Iraq cough), but people naturally want control and would rather make their own mistakes than let some world body far away make them instead.
commercial providers are presumably better at InfoSec than the nobody that ran Clinton's email server
That's questionable because it's potentially easier to buy an exploit on the black market for the common carriers than for a single one-off machine.
But even if you were correct, it's a rather subtle difference that I wouldn't expect somebody like Mrs. Clinton to grok. She could ask for expert advice, but likely would get different answers depending on who she asked, because there is no hard evidence either way. It's all speculative.
Further, the custom server argument could also be used against usage of the State Dept's regular email system, the one she "should have" been using.
These differences are all speculative and subtle, yet people's political beliefs seem to magnify perceived differences. Politics blinds people. I may be susceptible also; I'm human.
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I suspect it may be a matter of desperation. I can envision a realistic situation where militaries include auto-pilot fighting in their drones' software library "just in case".
But if a country starts losing a war badly, it may activate that auto-pilot out of desperation. The "philosophicals" about AI control go out the window when your ass is on the line.
US population is geographically* spread out. It's generally more expensive to provide service to a spread-out population, and that should be factored into any rating system.
* I added that adverb to reduce the probability of fat jokes.
So, maybe it's really "spooky distance at an action".
While I hope Trump doesn't win, I do hope he gives Mrs. C hell on visa and trade issues, which have been dictated by corporate elites for faaaar too long.
Make her squirm doing what you do best, Mr. Trump. Make it a close election to send a message.
Dave: "HAL, please open the pod-bay doors."
HAL: "Sorry, Dave, I cannot do that unless you install Windows 10."
If they point toward Mecca, I will be fully freaked out.
And, dammit, I just bought a bunch of Xmas decorations last year.
My body certainly has. Maybe the atoms examined simply reached middle-age. Time* to put the universe on a diet of neutrino shakes; but they are so bland and often just pass right through ya.
* No pun intended
My DeLorean stocks just took a bigger hit than Brexit.
Bridget now eats oatmeal through a straw. Unfortunately, Marla took her place.
Is there a compromise stance O could take, such as limiting any sentence to 2 years max or the like?
Send spies into their home at 3am to break both their arms in a "bathtub accident", or pull an Israel and cut off their Jingle Bells. Or trick them via Judo call-ladies, who perform both actions.
Perl? ;-)
I concur. I just got done watching a fascinating NOVA series on human evolution.
Upright walking apes seem to have had been around for roughly 4 million years, at least, with small chimp-like brains and NOT using (shaped) stone tools. They probably still used trees to escape from predators. There were several species and it was a viable niche; and for 4 million years these creatures remained mostly as-is.
But around 2 million years ago the climate of Africa started swinging wildly. This appears to have favored bigger brains and stone-tool-makers, and stone tools and larger brains began appearing in the fossil record. Thus, ironically, humans appear to be the product of climate change. (Brains are metabolically expensive, so big brains have to justify themselves.)
Due to automation, offshoring, and commie nations subsidizing their labor to keep workers from rioting; more Americans are idle. This probably results in more total TV time.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that TV is not gradually being replaced by Internet and social networking, it just means there is a bigger pie of idle time, and a slice of roughly the same percent (TV) will grow bigger regardless.
(I personally believe "helicopter money" (HM) theory is the best economic solution to try get more working, being inflation is under-par, meaning production resources are underutilized, but HM is politically risky because the opposition will sell it as "cheating".)
The discovery process could spill embarrassing details to the public.
I'm glad the lady won the lawsuit and hope there are more. MS has been a slime-ball for the 30 odd years I've been in or watching the industry. Stick it to the M!
My wife watched porn at double speed, and got mad at me because I cannot jizz fast enough. Now she watches it backwards and gets mad that I cannot clean up like they do.
There's no equivalent gender-neutral word, so rotation seems the next best thing.
I meant too big to manage (well) centrally. We can agree to rough guidelines and negotiate as needed.
I bet there's also a Yugo lover or two out there somewhere.
Yet another Slashdotter who convinced themselves that they can read minds.
Who said humans are rational.
In the US, we waste a lot of resources on cars because we want the "freedom" and "control" of where and when we go and how much leg room we get, etc.
Cars in the more populated areas are expensive and wasteful in terms of waiting in traffic, cost, parking space, mass pavement costs, pollution, global warming, deaths, and a host of other things. Look at all the space wasted on parking lots.
If we put even half of those resources into public transportation instead, transportation would be far more efficient. Cars are simply not logical in non-rural areas, at least not for most everyday tasks.
But why does it prevail? We want Freedom & Control
The miles thing was a short-cut way to imply it's also a different culture and a different group of people, without getting wordy. Maybe I should have used "remote". I agree I worded it poorly.
I understand the theory, but the world is too big for mortals to manage properly. For one, huge trade imbalances create a plethora of problems, and the WTO is not equipped to deal with that, in part because it requires higher-level political change, and that's outside of their scope.
Voters rightfully want to control their country's own destiny without having to cater to some international rule-making body a thousand miles away. I feel the same about the World Trade Organization. Why are THEY making decisions for Americans?
True, voters are not always rational (Iraq cough), but people naturally want control and would rather make their own mistakes than let some world body far away make them instead.
That's questionable because it's potentially easier to buy an exploit on the black market for the common carriers than for a single one-off machine.
But even if you were correct, it's a rather subtle difference that I wouldn't expect somebody like Mrs. Clinton to grok. She could ask for expert advice, but likely would get different answers depending on who she asked, because there is no hard evidence either way. It's all speculative.
Further, the custom server argument could also be used against usage of the State Dept's regular email system, the one she "should have" been using.
These differences are all speculative and subtle, yet people's political beliefs seem to magnify perceived differences. Politics blinds people. I may be susceptible also; I'm human.