Have I got some suggestions for them! Shit, do they want to stop at sorts of person? I can start making nominations right now. The sooner the departure the better.
He isn't saying that. However....those other applications are 100% of the actual benefit to anyone.
The ONLY reason they are using ricin, is because they want some of that Fatherland Security gravy train. Nothing brings in the dollars like unfounded stupid fear. Its a recession proof industry.
This is exactly the response I would expect.... ridiculous fear. This is a movie plot risk. It is a risk so rare and so ridiculous that the detector has no value at all.
Maybe something useful will come out of the research, but the stated goal is clear: To use bullshit excuses to get money to fund the lab.
Yup, and in another way...cheating itself seems like it could become a game.
This, I definitely experienced first hand. I used to hate a "game" called the "lighter game". It plays out amongst pot smokers where, people smoke tohether, and try to keep the other person's lighter. Many people who do this develop rules over time and it ends up becoming a game...a game of actual theft.
I hated it, then one day my cousin bragged about how he steals lighters, so I resolved to go home at the end of the weekend with as many of his lighters as I could....I left with 6 of them....then I was hooked. Pretty soon, I was good. I still have a box with maybe 50 or more lighters in it, every single one of them I stole from someone.
Eventually, another friend came along and broke me of the habbit, but once you start and begin to enjoy the game, it just becomes automatic.
See I remember this shit. My very first exposure to any kind of encryption at all involved finding out about PGP and wanting to try to port it to my system.
Multiple versions of the same library? why? They didn't DO anything different at all, just one was produced in the US and one outside so nobody had to go to prison for sharing well understood fucking math with people who already knew it.
Politicians are fucking neanderthal pinheads. Let them make their laws, they will do nothing but make laughing stocks of themselves....AGAIN.
I don't think its about entitlement, but competition and increasing value of loss.
The more you win, the more reputation you feel you have as a winner, the more you stand to lose if you don't win. The only thing that makes you a winner is one thing...that you win. Losing the game is a much greater loss than winning is a win.
I have seen some other studies where it was found you could greatly influence people's answer to a question simply by phrasing the same data either in terms of loss or gain. The constant trend was that people chose to avoid loss.
also, there is another phenomena where people who are expert in a thing know what they don;t know. Sure, I won that magic game, but, I was sitting in my seat...I know I got lucky and top decked that card. You just know I won. So, I now have an image to uphold, and a reason to doubt that image is true.
So really, I don't think its a matter of entitlement but the opposite.... if you don't feel entitled to the reputation you have, and want to live up to it. You have people seeing you as a winner, and you already don't deserve it.... why lose it?
This is also why, I think, you don't see the same in self-challenging games because, you can't actually consciously cheat yourself, you know what you did.
I also think, as a loser, there is less incentive to see the competition angle, and more reason to see it as a matter of self-competition. "I can't beat this guy, so I will try to score better against him than I have before...and that is a private win for me" makes a lot more sense when you are not winning the matches.
No. Casinos are private establishments who reserve and use their right to refuse you service for any reason that they choose, including, being a good player who can do basic arithmetic.
Besides, if you shuffle the deck every round, then card counting is irrelevant. Its more like, casinos broke their own game and didn't want to fix it because they make more money/hr with it broken because it plays faster from a shoe.
Some of them, I am sure, are really good players. I wouldn't assume many are, but I think it depends on the scenario. For example, an MMO player often has plenty of incentive to bot, since it can grind for him while he does something else. He isn't cheating while he is playing, he is cheating in between in order to not spend his time doing less interesting grinding.
He is going to be a very different player from someone who jumps on a quick multi-round FPS game with an aimbot; and even he may have different motivations as some people, will be the delusional "I am actually good" guy, and others, may just be griefers who want to harvest salty tears from other players by ruining their day.
card counting isn't actually cheating, its just smart game play. Its only a bot if it makes the decision and plays for you, a tool that simply does math for you and remembers things for you is not, in any way, cheating.
"its being tested", as in, this story is basically a duplicate....from like a decade ago.
Its not only being tested, its been tested. Not sure how its working out all these years on, but the articles at the time looked quite promising, might have to check the new one out.
I think it is a reasonable thing to do to.... give people a response, which is what they are looking for.
Frankly, I think people read WAY too much into all this. "The AI was asked on a date" "the AI was abused".... fuck, have none of these people ever spent an hour with ELIZA? Within about 5 minutes it becomes a game of "What can I get it to say?"
People are playing with a toy looking for a response....any response works. A response which acknowledges what they are doing, in any way, is exactly what most were probably looking for.
If anything, this would encourage the behaviour because "look, she talks back too..."
Well what actually works for amazon is that prime gives you free shipping on a lot of things. If you use amazon to shop, those little benefits can quickly add up over the year. Getting the movies and shows as well is a nice bonus. Though, they don't update very option and it is a limited selection.
What ever would make you think that is SOP? Normally they pay a middle man to set people up. Makes me wonder who the "Robert Childs" was this time: http://fcir.org/2014/12/26/fbi...
My Favorite is that the dude didn't just find a mentally handicapped person to manipulate, no... he got money off him first too. Can you imagine, they paid a child molesting informant for setting up and informing on....someone he owed money to.
And? Its not like rm -rf / is the only way to recurse filesystems deleting things.
These things can easily happen from typos and scripts.... so like:
"rm -rf $MYPATH/*" becomes "rm -rf/* if $MYPATH" is unset.
I dunno, I am very much of the feeling that anything that can brick the system should be hidden behind a hardware switch in order to update. If a motherboard advertised having a jumper that needed to be set in order to update boot info, I would consider that a desirable feature in general.
While I love being able to use vim over a terminal connection, and most of my career has depended on my ability to do so.... its been a while since I have. Under linux there is gvim, and under windows well, just run vim, its basically the same thing.
Its text editing, you are editing text, it has the best text editing features....ever devised, plus syntax hilighting, code folding, split buffer editing, and.... is mouse support, and a menu bar.
Conspiracy theories are so simple.... it would be so much easier. I think I could feel more hopeful as a conspiracy theorist. Because then its just a few bad apples. Sure, a few bad apples do spoil the whole bunch..... but you can toss out a whole bunch, you can scrap a whole years apple harvest.... if you just buck up, check those apples, and don't keep the bad ones.
But, I don't see that. Conspiracies are hard. They do tend to unravel. They only work when of very short duration and scope, when the people involved all have aligned interests. Its unstable. I wont say its rare or never works.... but.... its not one of the driving forces in the world. No.
However, what if you don't need conspiracy or even bad apples to get bad results? This is what I see. I don't think it matters who the president is. Any man will just be a man, with only 24 hours in a day, and thousands of interested parties trying to feed him information to influence his decisions.
I honestly believe that if you put the Dalai Lama in the commander in chief seat, you would have drone strikes on weddings within a year. The problem isn't conspiracy, it is fundamental design flaws.
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Have I got some suggestions for them! Shit, do they want to stop at sorts of person? I can start making nominations right now. The sooner the departure the better.
He isn't saying that. However....those other applications are 100% of the actual benefit to anyone.
The ONLY reason they are using ricin, is because they want some of that Fatherland Security gravy train. Nothing brings in the dollars like unfounded stupid fear. Its a recession proof industry.
Exactly....like he said....why?
This is exactly the response I would expect.... ridiculous fear. This is a movie plot risk. It is a risk so rare and so ridiculous that the detector has no value at all.
Maybe something useful will come out of the research, but the stated goal is clear: To use bullshit excuses to get money to fund the lab.
Yup, and in another way...cheating itself seems like it could become a game.
This, I definitely experienced first hand. I used to hate a "game" called the "lighter game". It plays out amongst pot smokers where, people smoke tohether, and try to keep the other person's lighter. Many people who do this develop rules over time and it ends up becoming a game...a game of actual theft.
I hated it, then one day my cousin bragged about how he steals lighters, so I resolved to go home at the end of the weekend with as many of his lighters as I could....I left with 6 of them....then I was hooked. Pretty soon, I was good. I still have a box with maybe 50 or more lighters in it, every single one of them I stole from someone.
Eventually, another friend came along and broke me of the habbit, but once you start and begin to enjoy the game, it just becomes automatic.
See I remember this shit. My very first exposure to any kind of encryption at all involved finding out about PGP and wanting to try to port it to my system.
Multiple versions of the same library? why? They didn't DO anything different at all, just one was produced in the US and one outside so nobody had to go to prison for sharing well understood fucking math with people who already knew it.
Politicians are fucking neanderthal pinheads. Let them make their laws, they will do nothing but make laughing stocks of themselves....AGAIN.
I don't think its about entitlement, but competition and increasing value of loss.
The more you win, the more reputation you feel you have as a winner, the more you stand to lose if you don't win. The only thing that makes you a winner is one thing...that you win. Losing the game is a much greater loss than winning is a win.
I have seen some other studies where it was found you could greatly influence people's answer to a question simply by phrasing the same data either in terms of loss or gain. The constant trend was that people chose to avoid loss.
also, there is another phenomena where people who are expert in a thing know what they don;t know. Sure, I won that magic game, but, I was sitting in my seat...I know I got lucky and top decked that card. You just know I won. So, I now have an image to uphold, and a reason to doubt that image is true.
So really, I don't think its a matter of entitlement but the opposite.... if you don't feel entitled to the reputation you have, and want to live up to it. You have people seeing you as a winner, and you already don't deserve it.... why lose it?
This is also why, I think, you don't see the same in self-challenging games because, you can't actually consciously cheat yourself, you know what you did.
I also think, as a loser, there is less incentive to see the competition angle, and more reason to see it as a matter of self-competition. "I can't beat this guy, so I will try to score better against him than I have before...and that is a private win for me" makes a lot more sense when you are not winning the matches.
No. Casinos are private establishments who reserve and use their right to refuse you service for any reason that they choose, including, being a good player who can do basic arithmetic.
Besides, if you shuffle the deck every round, then card counting is irrelevant. Its more like, casinos broke their own game and didn't want to fix it because they make more money/hr with it broken because it plays faster from a shoe.
Well stereotyping cheaters is still stereotyping.
Some of them, I am sure, are really good players. I wouldn't assume many are, but I think it depends on the scenario. For example, an MMO player often has plenty of incentive to bot, since it can grind for him while he does something else. He isn't cheating while he is playing, he is cheating in between in order to not spend his time doing less interesting grinding.
He is going to be a very different player from someone who jumps on a quick multi-round FPS game with an aimbot; and even he may have different motivations as some people, will be the delusional "I am actually good" guy, and others, may just be griefers who want to harvest salty tears from other players by ruining their day.
card counting isn't actually cheating, its just smart game play. Its only a bot if it makes the decision and plays for you, a tool that simply does math for you and remembers things for you is not, in any way, cheating.
> In what alternative universe does slowing down reduce journey time?
Perceptive time. The more engaged you are in your activity, the less aware you are of time passing.
Try turning off your internal chronometer Mr Data.
"its being tested", as in, this story is basically a duplicate....from like a decade ago.
Its not only being tested, its been tested. Not sure how its working out all these years on, but the articles at the time looked quite promising, might have to check the new one out.
I think it is a reasonable thing to do to.... give people a response, which is what they are looking for.
Frankly, I think people read WAY too much into all this. "The AI was asked on a date" "the AI was abused".... fuck, have none of these people ever spent an hour with ELIZA? Within about 5 minutes it becomes a game of "What can I get it to say?"
People are playing with a toy looking for a response....any response works. A response which acknowledges what they are doing, in any way, is exactly what most were probably looking for.
If anything, this would encourage the behaviour because "look, she talks back too..."
Well what actually works for amazon is that prime gives you free shipping on a lot of things. If you use amazon to shop, those little benefits can quickly add up over the year. Getting the movies and shows as well is a nice bonus. Though, they don't update very option and it is a limited selection.
What ever would make you think that is SOP? Normally they pay a middle man to set people up. Makes me wonder who the "Robert Childs" was this time: http://fcir.org/2014/12/26/fbi...
My Favorite is that the dude didn't just find a mentally handicapped person to manipulate, no... he got money off him first too. Can you imagine, they paid a child molesting informant for setting up and informing on....someone he owed money to.
I think what you should be asking yourself is, how did they know I would see it here?
Check your hotmail for explicit instructions on how to proceed. It might be in the spam folder. You will know when you see it.
As much as I wish you were right, I don't think it will happen.
You know, it probably doesn't make much difference, we would do better picking by lot.
SSN 000-35-2462 ..... Report to DC, you are the new president!
Seriously, you will NEVER convince me this will produce worst results. As long as it was a truely random selection of the population from ages 25-60
ROTFL like it matters to them, ALL the candidates are their man.
And? Its not like rm -rf / is the only way to recurse filesystems deleting things.
These things can easily happen from typos and scripts.... so like:
"rm -rf $MYPATH/*" becomes "rm -rf /* if $MYPATH" is unset.
I dunno, I am very much of the feeling that anything that can brick the system should be hidden behind a hardware switch in order to update. If a motherboard advertised having a jumper that needed to be set in order to update boot info, I would consider that a desirable feature in general.
Dude, do you even vim?
While I love being able to use vim over a terminal connection, and most of my career has depended on my ability to do so.... its been a while since I have. Under linux there is gvim, and under windows well, just run vim, its basically the same thing.
Its text editing, you are editing text, it has the best text editing features....ever devised, plus syntax hilighting, code folding, split buffer editing, and.... is mouse support, and a menu bar.
I am talking vim here, not solaris 8 /bin/vi
I often feel like the "Left" and "Right" sounds little more than the argument as to whether hungry slaves or well fed slaves produce better results.
Both sides are conservative, they just don't agree on which path will best conserve their power into the future.
oh no you mean the account that became useless due to spam over 50,000 unread messages ago is unshielded?
Anyone familiar with psycho-metaphysics has been aware of this since the revelations of the Brunswickian sect.
If he had done that research today he would have died in the swat raid looking for his bomb.
But its ok, it would be his own fault for making them suspicious enough to put him on the no fly list for his seditious publication about bombs.
Conspiracy theories are so simple.... it would be so much easier. I think I could feel more hopeful as a conspiracy theorist. Because then its just a few bad apples. Sure, a few bad apples do spoil the whole bunch..... but you can toss out a whole bunch, you can scrap a whole years apple harvest.... if you just buck up, check those apples, and don't keep the bad ones.
But, I don't see that. Conspiracies are hard. They do tend to unravel. They only work when of very short duration and scope, when the people involved all have aligned interests. Its unstable. I wont say its rare or never works.... but.... its not one of the driving forces in the world. No.
However, what if you don't need conspiracy or even bad apples to get bad results? This is what I see. I don't think it matters who the president is. Any man will just be a man, with only 24 hours in a day, and thousands of interested parties trying to feed him information to influence his decisions.
I honestly believe that if you put the Dalai Lama in the commander in chief seat, you would have drone strikes on weddings within a year. The problem isn't conspiracy, it is fundamental design flaws.