Google is just as or more evil than... Wait. You know what? Fuck attempting to say something clever. I've always been on board with Open Source, yet I have always had my limits on the philosophy. It always seemed to me that the hard line Open Source philosophy wanted hold things back. I get it now. Not just because of this. Hold up and hold back. We are irresponsible with technology and ultimately we are holding back and damaging our species. If a hard line stance on Open Source means holding technology back, hold it back.
Lets just hope they don't start writing their own code, and communicating in their own languages. Ahem. Here is an anecdote. My dad is an R&D chemist and he graduated in the early 70's. At the same time, a friend of his graduated with a degree in computer science. His friend went to work for the Navy. Specifically on their under sea nuke network. More specifically on the AI system behind it. Think dead mans switch plus extra. Shortly after starting, he quit in protest. This early 1970's AI based nuke controlling system had already reached a point where no one working on it fully understood what it was doing or what it was saying to itself. Yet it was allowed to keep going. So this guy ended up going back under what he considered moral obligation. That's where my tale ends. That was early 1970's tech running under military mindset. Meditate on that for awhile.
No one ever said AI has to be sentient or represent some facsimile of what we consider intelligent to be very real. This does not make it less of a potential threat. Even a single celled organism is capable of responding to it's immediate environment for survival. Bacteria behave in intelligent ways and can kill a person in doing so with quickness. Intelligence does not have to equal consciousness. Nature clearly demonstrates awareness is more complicated - even if in being less so - than our human sensibilities care to deal with. For that matter we don't even know what consciousness really even is. So we can't use it as a litmus test. People say it can never be done because they cannot accept the possibility of a true AI in a way that does not offend their fragile sensibilities of what intelligence means. Let's take the anthropomorphic out of this discussion and start over.
YouTube is going nuts thought policing conservatives while this kind of garbage intended for kids gets right by? Yes, I watched some of the videos in question, and they are disturbing. I find it absolutely astounding that Google\YouTube puts human effort into censoring political material for adults, and then turns around and says it's up to adults to police the kids section. What the actual fuck?
Didn't see that coming. I can think of a couple other tech companies I would like to see work together on projects. Not quite on topic, but I would still like to see Microsoft buy the BB10 OS, spend a year working with it, NOT fuck up the still awesome interface and bring me a phone I actually want. I use an S8+ now, but the BB Classic is still the best phone I have ever used. I never had the slightest problem running side loaded Android apps. If whatever framework was behind that can be maintained and developed, perhaps MS could write a dev kit for an Android and MS BB11 with options to compile a single code base for Android AND OR MS BB11.
That fact that they are pursuing this and having successes at all is remarkable. Back when they first announced landing the first stage as a goal, it was called out left and right as being impossible. More power to them.
So far, there is too little information for me to pass judgement. But if Microsoft can produce a portable platform that is not merely something different, but also very useful in the ways that make it unique, I am at least interested. They are talking about a device that will have to have at least an 8 inch screen. Also, if it is going to be writing centric, they better do it right. There is a difference between a screen you can scribble notes on with a stylus, and a screen you can truly write on like a piece of paper. That is something that has not been done yet.
A bit off topic, but with MS having officially abandoned the phone market, except maybe not but yet maybe, I wish they would just purchase the BB10 OS already and spend a year working on it. Then, assuming they don't fuck up the amazing interface, they would have a true contender. Considering I never had any problems side loading Android apps on to my BB Classic, with some tinkering they could make porting Android apps so effortless there would be no reason for developers not to click, "make Windows Phone version" and be done with it.
Right... call me when they have full integration with Sassee, Peloozoid, Looplab, and Minivivi. Not to mention Ploosnar, Roinad, and Luwest. Let's not leave out Cazoova and Johackle. Then I can really increase my bumooxa.
I might consider it a good show if it where not trying to be Star Trek, with the declaration of being TOS canonical no less. I am honestly not sure. As a Trek fan, the show provides me with too much cognitive dissonance to enjoy. So I stopped watching.
If CBS had so much confidence that STD would help their fledgling streaming service, they should have given free accounts as a Star Trek\Whatever their service is called promotion. Anyone can sign up for free at any point during the first few episode or maybe even the season and get their whole service free for the duration of the first season. Then "because STD is so great" everyone would have signed up to pay for their service going forward.
At Least with The Orville, if I miss an episode I can just go to the Fox website and watch it for free - no sign up required.
"Disclaimer I am using Chrome so I am not drinking the coolaid."
Just what do you think coolaid is?
Disclaimer, I do not use Chrome since I don't like coolaid, but I have had the chance to use Edge extensively over the past year and found it favorable in every respect. Although Edge is not my primary browser, so I would really like you to elaborate on, "Where Edge sucks is it is more of a mobile browser than a desktop..." As I have no idea what you are talking about.
Google as we know and use it, is already blocked in China, the "sort of Google", Google China, a subsidiary, is state controlled. Further, it is only the number 3 search engine there. The other two most popular are of course, state controlled. They do not even have access to YouTube. Unless you want to try using a VPN, at your own peril.
While it existed, one of the things I liked about RT America is that they told the news without adding any emotional or SJW baggage. It was objective. RT is as close to non-globalist garbage as you can get outside Alex Jones. Despite his own feelings on them. I don't have to agree or disagree with integrity outside of where I call it. I am not a robot like... you? Learn to think and disseminate for yourself, not based on what either side tells you is so.
No, I'm linking to YouTube. Now take those two neurons of yours and rub them together. Unless that was a flippant remark. It is sometimes very hard to tell around here.
A lot can be said about the character of the person Guo Wengui if you look into it. Although to call him a bad guy, you have to read too much into it. None of us are all good. At the end of the day, he is a hero among the Chinese for valid reasons. Google\YouTube's pick-and-choose who gets banned, demonetized, or just plain buried because our algorithms aren't good enough so we have our Sjw's on the case mentality is only supported by them being a private company, and a total and complete monopoly. Google, as an extremists ultra far left company is taking advantage of their position in so many disgusting ways.YouTube's great potential has been squandered by Google, a company that somehow manages to maintain an average employee age of 29 and values enforced "diversity" above results and hard word, not to mention above lucid,objective thinking. For fucks sake, at Google, they have a weekly microaggression newsletter that they then have meetings about.
Google is already a bunch of commies. So it's no wonder.
Their biggest problem right now, is how to eliminate all ideology opposed to their ultra far left SJW culture, without losing 3/4 of their subscribers.
I can't even find any videos exposing YouTube through Earnest Pettie, and the full length is about as damning as can be.
"Do No Evil" has become highly subjective at Google\YouTube\Alphabet. I predict that within a decade, Alphabet will prove to be the next big company too big to fail. When it happens, it will happen fast.
Yeah, I remember Slashdot being announced on Chips n' Dips. I had a sub three digit ID that was lost in a database mishap... or am I getting senile and that was somewhere else? I have been a very regular visitor since the start, but never really started taking part until a few years ago, so I have a few lost accounts with much lower IDs.
I don't have a model M, but I do have an ancient IBM PS\2 from the early 90's heavy enough to be used as a lethal weapon. Clickity clack clack - it's a dream. One day adapters will not be enough, but until then, this is one of the best keyboards ever made - it refuses to die - and I'm not giving it up until I have no choice.
If they manage to make this concept successful, I might be interested after a few years of advancement. As it stands, Gorilla Glass 5 does not strike me as sufficient for having two outward facing screens. The screens themselves don't look like they belong together. Both screens need to be bezelless on the connecting sides, engineered so for the purpose of making it seem at least almost seamless. A litmus test would be the ability to draw an image with a stylus across both sides, where the experience would not be jarring. Also, the battery would be okay for a single screen, but your going to have to push it up to 4,000 mA for this to be a feature that can be used frequently. Engineering a solid case would be a challenge.
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Google is just as or more evil than... Wait. You know what? Fuck attempting to say something clever. I've always been on board with Open Source, yet I have always had my limits on the philosophy. It always seemed to me that the hard line Open Source philosophy wanted hold things back. I get it now. Not just because of this. Hold up and hold back. We are irresponsible with technology and ultimately we are holding back and damaging our species. If a hard line stance on Open Source means holding technology back, hold it back.
Irony.
Lets just hope they don't start writing their own code, and communicating in their own languages. Ahem. Here is an anecdote. My dad is an R&D chemist and he graduated in the early 70's. At the same time, a friend of his graduated with a degree in computer science. His friend went to work for the Navy. Specifically on their under sea nuke network. More specifically on the AI system behind it. Think dead mans switch plus extra. Shortly after starting, he quit in protest. This early 1970's AI based nuke controlling system had already reached a point where no one working on it fully understood what it was doing or what it was saying to itself. Yet it was allowed to keep going. So this guy ended up going back under what he considered moral obligation. That's where my tale ends. That was early 1970's tech running under military mindset. Meditate on that for awhile.
Our antibiotic disaster comes to mind.
"There's 7.5 billion of us, increasing at more than 1% annually, and you think we're doing a good job of killing each other off???"
Yes, and we are getting more efficient at it all the time.
"Therefore humans are a threat and we really ought to kill each other for our own protection"
We are already doing exactly that and we are doing a damn good job of it.
No one ever said AI has to be sentient or represent some facsimile of what we consider intelligent to be very real. This does not make it less of a potential threat. Even a single celled organism is capable of responding to it's immediate environment for survival. Bacteria behave in intelligent ways and can kill a person in doing so with quickness. Intelligence does not have to equal consciousness. Nature clearly demonstrates awareness is more complicated - even if in being less so - than our human sensibilities care to deal with. For that matter we don't even know what consciousness really even is. So we can't use it as a litmus test. People say it can never be done because they cannot accept the possibility of a true AI in a way that does not offend their fragile sensibilities of what intelligence means. Let's take the anthropomorphic out of this discussion and start over.
YouTube is going nuts thought policing conservatives while this kind of garbage intended for kids gets right by? Yes, I watched some of the videos in question, and they are disturbing. I find it absolutely astounding that Google\YouTube puts human effort into censoring political material for adults, and then turns around and says it's up to adults to police the kids section. What the actual fuck?
Didn't see that coming. I can think of a couple other tech companies I would like to see work together on projects. Not quite on topic, but I would still like to see Microsoft buy the BB10 OS, spend a year working with it, NOT fuck up the still awesome interface and bring me a phone I actually want. I use an S8+ now, but the BB Classic is still the best phone I have ever used. I never had the slightest problem running side loaded Android apps. If whatever framework was behind that can be maintained and developed, perhaps MS could write a dev kit for an Android and MS BB11 with options to compile a single code base for Android AND OR MS BB11.
If like me you gave up on it years ago because it became bloated and slow, try out the latest beta. It's really fast even under a heavy load.
Do I get access to real news?
That fact that they are pursuing this and having successes at all is remarkable. Back when they first announced landing the first stage as a goal, it was called out left and right as being impossible. More power to them.
So far, there is too little information for me to pass judgement. But if Microsoft can produce a portable platform that is not merely something different, but also very useful in the ways that make it unique, I am at least interested. They are talking about a device that will have to have at least an 8 inch screen. Also, if it is going to be writing centric, they better do it right. There is a difference between a screen you can scribble notes on with a stylus, and a screen you can truly write on like a piece of paper. That is something that has not been done yet.
A bit off topic, but with MS having officially abandoned the phone market, except maybe not but yet maybe, I wish they would just purchase the BB10 OS already and spend a year working on it. Then, assuming they don't fuck up the amazing interface, they would have a true contender. Considering I never had any problems side loading Android apps on to my BB Classic, with some tinkering they could make porting Android apps so effortless there would be no reason for developers not to click, "make Windows Phone version" and be done with it.
Right... call me when they have full integration with Sassee, Peloozoid, Looplab, and Minivivi. Not to mention Ploosnar, Roinad, and Luwest. Let's not leave out Cazoova and Johackle. Then I can really increase my bumooxa.
I might consider it a good show if it where not trying to be Star Trek, with the declaration of being TOS canonical no less. I am honestly not sure. As a Trek fan, the show provides me with too much cognitive dissonance to enjoy. So I stopped watching.
If CBS had so much confidence that STD would help their fledgling streaming service, they should have given free accounts as a Star Trek\Whatever their service is called promotion. Anyone can sign up for free at any point during the first few episode or maybe even the season and get their whole service free for the duration of the first season. Then "because STD is so great" everyone would have signed up to pay for their service going forward.
At Least with The Orville, if I miss an episode I can just go to the Fox website and watch it for free - no sign up required.
"Disclaimer I am using Chrome so I am not drinking the coolaid."
Just what do you think coolaid is?
Disclaimer, I do not use Chrome since I don't like coolaid, but I have had the chance to use Edge extensively over the past year and found it favorable in every respect. Although Edge is not my primary browser, so I would really like you to elaborate on, "Where Edge sucks is it is more of a mobile browser than a desktop..." As I have no idea what you are talking about.
Google as we know and use it, is already blocked in China, the "sort of Google", Google China, a subsidiary, is state controlled. Further, it is only the number 3 search engine there. The other two most popular are of course, state controlled. They do not even have access to YouTube. Unless you want to try using a VPN, at your own peril.
While it existed, one of the things I liked about RT America is that they told the news without adding any emotional or SJW baggage. It was objective. RT is as close to non-globalist garbage as you can get outside Alex Jones. Despite his own feelings on them. I don't have to agree or disagree with integrity outside of where I call it. I am not a robot like... you? Learn to think and disseminate for yourself, not based on what either side tells you is so.
But I did not see any fighting.
No, I'm linking to YouTube. Now take those two neurons of yours and rub them together. Unless that was a flippant remark. It is sometimes very hard to tell around here.
A lot can be said about the character of the person Guo Wengui if you look into it. Although to call him a bad guy, you have to read too much into it. None of us are all good. At the end of the day, he is a hero among the Chinese for valid reasons. Google\YouTube's pick-and-choose who gets banned, demonetized, or just plain buried because our algorithms aren't good enough so we have our Sjw's on the case mentality is only supported by them being a private company, and a total and complete monopoly. Google, as an extremists ultra far left company is taking advantage of their position in so many disgusting ways.YouTube's great potential has been squandered by Google, a company that somehow manages to maintain an average employee age of 29 and values enforced "diversity" above results and hard word, not to mention above lucid,objective thinking. For fucks sake, at Google, they have a weekly microaggression newsletter that they then have meetings about.
Google is already a bunch of commies. So it's no wonder.
Ironically a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Their biggest problem right now, is how to eliminate all ideology opposed to their ultra far left SJW culture, without losing 3/4 of their subscribers.
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I can't even find any videos exposing YouTube through Earnest Pettie, and the full length is about as damning as can be.
"Do No Evil" has become highly subjective at Google\YouTube\Alphabet. I predict that within a decade, Alphabet will prove to be the next big company too big to fail. When it happens, it will happen fast.
Yeah, I remember Slashdot being announced on Chips n' Dips. I had a sub three digit ID that was lost in a database mishap... or am I getting senile and that was somewhere else? I have been a very regular visitor since the start, but never really started taking part until a few years ago, so I have a few lost accounts with much lower IDs.
I don't have a model M, but I do have an ancient IBM PS\2 from the early 90's heavy enough to be used as a lethal weapon. Clickity clack clack - it's a dream. One day adapters will not be enough, but until then, this is one of the best keyboards ever made - it refuses to die - and I'm not giving it up until I have no choice.
If they manage to make this concept successful, I might be interested after a few years of advancement. As it stands, Gorilla Glass 5 does not strike me as sufficient for having two outward facing screens. The screens themselves don't look like they belong together. Both screens need to be bezelless on the connecting sides, engineered so for the purpose of making it seem at least almost seamless. A litmus test would be the ability to draw an image with a stylus across both sides, where the experience would not be jarring. Also, the battery would be okay for a single screen, but your going to have to push it up to 4,000 mA for this to be a feature that can be used frequently. Engineering a solid case would be a challenge.