OK, let me explain the language that was used above that confused you.
The thing you saw talked about education. Because that is a data point you will have about a sub-population. But people aren't asked for an IQ score on forms, people don't have any sort of formal listing of their intelligence for you to track. So the data collection part will use education as a proxy for things like that.
Then, you came upon the slashdot comments, where somebody was offering an explanation that includes considerations of intelligence. This doesn't mean they misunderstood the story; it means they are commenting on it.
One example, they've tricked a bunch of people into thinking that the flu shot is a vaccine, and that having everybody take it would create "herd immunity." Even though it clearly doesn't; the success rate is far too low to create that effect. They think it is a public health benefit for everybody to do it, so instead of just saying that, they engage in a disinformation campaign to trick people into thinking that it is a vaccine that creates herd immunity and so everybody needs to do it.
Plus, we have immigrants from regions that experienced serious Soviet disinformation campaigns about vaccines, places where the Soviet disinformation in the `80s involved telling people that the CIA was stealing children to harvest their organs, all this nonsense. Then they get to the US, and they have this different but similar disinformation campaign about public health and vaccines. How can they be expected to tease out the truth? They have busy lives, they're just regular people.
The only way out is to stop saying that this is an area where parents have choice. But see the observation about flu shots above; the government can't actually be trusted not to abuse that power if they were given it. So maybe, wait for gene editing and then you can protect your children from smallpox, and until then, Hope or Pray.
This is a pattern that I recognized. There's a class of people that are smarter than the US average, yet still rather stupid and arrogantly over-confident from an actually smart point of view.
The above-average can't appear smart without being excessively credulous. It goes with not actually being all that smart. How else would they appear to be so? How else would they have more success than the next above-average person who doesn't have that extra appearance of intelligence? By being credulous, and identifying slightly better than average answers.
Or in Munroe's case, simply illustrating common ideas so that average people can understand them. He gets the credit for their understanding, so in their minds he's the equivalent of a college professor. But more fun, so he must be like a really good professor. Right?
My advice, if you don't know those answers, don't worry about that level of detail.
It isn't really reasonable to expect to be taught how to sysadmin in the comments.
All of your questions are circular or simply don't need answers; "If you can't make it to the store using a flying car, how do you buy Marmite?" It doesn't need an answer, because not everybody wants Marmite in the first place, and there are other ways to get to a store. Obviously, the use cases are different between having public DNS, and not having it; but the ability to make a use case for email function is there either way. Nobody said, "local DNS replaces your use case for email," what is being said is that you don't absolutely need public DNS to be using email.
The act of imagining is to combine elements of experience into a new combination that has some sort of intentional difference to how things are known to be. This could be to different because the details are simply unknown, or even different because they're believed to be impossible.
I don't believe it is hard to program a robot to use imagination, and I've seen chat bots use techniques that simulate that sort of process. People were writing that sort of bot on IRC 20 years ago.
The robot arm in the story does none of this; it has no experience, it only has programming. It is just running a simulation after collecting data, and finding the simplest configuration that scores best on a programmed calibration test. Then as it moves, it compares the results it gets to the expected results. All they actually did was create a self-calibration routine that uses AI techniques to get a poor result in a long period of time. It isn't imagining anything, it is measuring and crunching the numbers to get to an expected result; not to create some new result based on intent. In the end they merely have a closed-loop motor control system.
Using the word "imagine" is just a word game that invites the reader to anthropomorphisize the robot, which is a popular way to write. But it doesn't accurately describe the process.
Whereas the chat bot is trying really hard to combine its experiences into a brand new Yo' Mama joke that pokes fun at the people in the room. The intent belongs to the programmer, but the bot is the one recombining its experiences.
Sorry for my mistake, I said "280uW" instead of 280mW" so the duty cycle would be much lower. But you could still power a short wireless transmission every 10 minutes.
100uW is more than enough to run a microcontroller. For example, the popular ATTINY85 uses 4uA in power-down mode with the watchdog timer active which can give you a periodic interrupt. It uses 1mA when active. So at 2.8V that would be 280uW while active. You only need to keep the duty cycle below 20% or so. You could even power a short wireless transmission every 10 minutes or something.
So for a use case, maybe an RFID with built-in temperature sensor for use in refrigerated supply chain applications. The flexible part means that the micro could be embedded inside and the final package would be a semi-flexible adhesive-backed sticker.
People already use the ATTINY with an inductor to create passive RFID tags. (the inductor connects to the digital inputs, not the power supply pins, and the protection diodes rectify the power from the RFID reader; here you could use both)
IME it is actually easier to find open domain names than unused trademarks, so it is mostly a non-issue; without using it as a trademark, somebody else can do so and then take it. So the bottleneck is the trademark.
You don't have any sort of claim, legitimate or not.
The feeling of desiring something doesn't imply that you have a claim to it.
In the reverse, if the business has a trademark and you've got one of those domains, they might have a claim to it if it isn't your full legal name; ie, including middle name or initial as displayed on the relevant legal documents. (birth certificate, marriage license, name changer order)
If the name does not resolve to any IP address, how is email sent to it?
One obvious answer that everybody on slashdot should already know; mail can be sent from systems with the right hosts file!
Or in general, you don't have to send mail out through a mail gateway, your mail client can instead connect directly to the recipient server.
You might have a setup where email can be routed normally inside a private network, but from the outside you have to know the IP. Like for an emergency sysadmin contact in case the private network is down, in a situation where normally everything is on the private network.
Not saying it is common or recommended, just that there are lots of obvious places that an IP address might come from.
First of all, you can use only private DNS to get the IP.
Second, the domain portion of the email address is still the domain, regardless of if the mail is currently deliverable.
Third, the owner of the domain is in control of the DNS. It resolves to a mail server if I say so, not simply because an email address exists that references it. Perhaps the email address was routable in the past; or perhaps it will be routable in the future. Maybe it is only routable on Fridays.
I've got 3 domains for business use that don't have public-facing anything, and a third one that I did at least put up a parking page for.
1 of them will have an active site this year, another one, probably next year.
In the past I've had at least 4 or 5 that eventually expired without ever having hosted anything. Not "domain speculation," merely "business name speculation." No, I never tried to sell any of them.
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OK, let me explain the language that was used above that confused you.
The thing you saw talked about education. Because that is a data point you will have about a sub-population. But people aren't asked for an IQ score on forms, people don't have any sort of formal listing of their intelligence for you to track. So the data collection part will use education as a proxy for things like that.
Then, you came upon the slashdot comments, where somebody was offering an explanation that includes considerations of intelligence. This doesn't mean they misunderstood the story; it means they are commenting on it.
Hopefully that was educational.
Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
Not, "trade unto Caesar where you expect to benefit from Caesar's public works."
One example, they've tricked a bunch of people into thinking that the flu shot is a vaccine, and that having everybody take it would create "herd immunity." Even though it clearly doesn't; the success rate is far too low to create that effect. They think it is a public health benefit for everybody to do it, so instead of just saying that, they engage in a disinformation campaign to trick people into thinking that it is a vaccine that creates herd immunity and so everybody needs to do it.
Plus, we have immigrants from regions that experienced serious Soviet disinformation campaigns about vaccines, places where the Soviet disinformation in the `80s involved telling people that the CIA was stealing children to harvest their organs, all this nonsense. Then they get to the US, and they have this different but similar disinformation campaign about public health and vaccines. How can they be expected to tease out the truth? They have busy lives, they're just regular people.
The only way out is to stop saying that this is an area where parents have choice. But see the observation about flu shots above; the government can't actually be trusted not to abuse that power if they were given it. So maybe, wait for gene editing and then you can protect your children from smallpox, and until then, Hope or Pray.
This is a pattern that I recognized. There's a class of people that are smarter than the US average, yet still rather stupid and arrogantly over-confident from an actually smart point of view.
The above-average can't appear smart without being excessively credulous. It goes with not actually being all that smart. How else would they appear to be so? How else would they have more success than the next above-average person who doesn't have that extra appearance of intelligence? By being credulous, and identifying slightly better than average answers.
Or in Munroe's case, simply illustrating common ideas so that average people can understand them. He gets the credit for their understanding, so in their minds he's the equivalent of a college professor. But more fun, so he must be like a really good professor. Right?
My advice, if you don't know those answers, don't worry about that level of detail.
It isn't really reasonable to expect to be taught how to sysadmin in the comments.
All of your questions are circular or simply don't need answers; "If you can't make it to the store using a flying car, how do you buy Marmite?" It doesn't need an answer, because not everybody wants Marmite in the first place, and there are other ways to get to a store. Obviously, the use cases are different between having public DNS, and not having it; but the ability to make a use case for email function is there either way. Nobody said, "local DNS replaces your use case for email," what is being said is that you don't absolutely need public DNS to be using email.
Wow, weird world you live in, where if you harm a person and don't have a contract, no problem they can't sue.
LOL
You even "Bzzt"'d yourself! LOLOLOLOLOLOL
The act of imagining is to combine elements of experience into a new combination that has some sort of intentional difference to how things are known to be. This could be to different because the details are simply unknown, or even different because they're believed to be impossible.
I don't believe it is hard to program a robot to use imagination, and I've seen chat bots use techniques that simulate that sort of process. People were writing that sort of bot on IRC 20 years ago.
The robot arm in the story does none of this; it has no experience, it only has programming. It is just running a simulation after collecting data, and finding the simplest configuration that scores best on a programmed calibration test. Then as it moves, it compares the results it gets to the expected results. All they actually did was create a self-calibration routine that uses AI techniques to get a poor result in a long period of time. It isn't imagining anything, it is measuring and crunching the numbers to get to an expected result; not to create some new result based on intent. In the end they merely have a closed-loop motor control system.
Using the word "imagine" is just a word game that invites the reader to anthropomorphisize the robot, which is a popular way to write. But it doesn't accurately describe the process.
Whereas the chat bot is trying really hard to combine its experiences into a brand new Yo' Mama joke that pokes fun at the people in the room. The intent belongs to the programmer, but the bot is the one recombining its experiences.
Purity, in the context of genetics, means very badly inbred.
These sorts of bugs do open a whole can of worms, you want to make extra sure that you can't activate cameras and microphones in the wrong app state.
They have enough engineers to do better, IMO.
Sorry for my mistake, I said "280uW" instead of 280mW" so the duty cycle would be much lower. But you could still power a short wireless transmission every 10 minutes.
100uW is more than enough to run a microcontroller. For example, the popular ATTINY85 uses 4uA in power-down mode with the watchdog timer active which can give you a periodic interrupt.
It uses 1mA when active. So at 2.8V that would be 280uW while active. You only need to keep the duty cycle below 20% or so.
You could even power a short wireless transmission every 10 minutes or something.
So for a use case, maybe an RFID with built-in temperature sensor for use in refrigerated supply chain applications. The flexible part means that the micro could be embedded inside and the final package would be a semi-flexible adhesive-backed sticker.
People already use the ATTINY with an inductor to create passive RFID tags. (the inductor connects to the digital inputs, not the power supply pins, and the protection diodes rectify the power from the RFID reader; here you could use both)
Hospitals and long-term care centers usually have telephone service, though.
If they make giant umbrellas out of this stuff, I'd totally be willing to switch from a rain hat to umbrella.
In fact, I'd like to line the inside of my car with it, too, to top off the battery in case I don't drive for a long time.
And hey, if it is cheap enough to line the walls, I could reduce interference and reduce my access point density!
I can't really see why you'd install it in between your access points, instead of at the perimeter.
It had me smiling for the same reason you're complaining; expect this technology to be popular!
There were already scientists warning about global warming in the 1800s.
You're not actually that old. You were merely surrounded by ignorance, the science hasn't changed.
What amazes me is that so many people know about the problem, but don't know which companies do it, and which don't.
I can't imagine facing this situation, and not spending the time to do a little research and do some tests to find a good company.
Creation Date: 2018-07-09T11:04:15Z
Registrant Country: ZA
$ HEAD furryballsploppedmenacinglyonthetableinc.com
...
403 Forbidden
Client-Warning: Redirect loop detected (max_redirect = 7)
Highly unlikely to be a registrar squatting on it; doesn't display a sales page.
I've had an enom reseller account for over 15 years, and this has never happened to me.
A few times I used the linux command-line whois tool, which queried whois.verisign-grs.com and it never happened to me there, either.
But when a business asks you to call them "Daddy," expect to get treated the way you'd expect to get treated.
I don't have that much trouble finding domains.
IME it is actually easier to find open domain names than unused trademarks, so it is mostly a non-issue; without using it as a trademark, somebody else can do so and then take it. So the bottleneck is the trademark.
as I have a legitimate claim to the domain name.
You don't have any sort of claim, legitimate or not.
The feeling of desiring something doesn't imply that you have a claim to it.
In the reverse, if the business has a trademark and you've got one of those domains, they might have a claim to it if it isn't your full legal name; ie, including middle name or initial as displayed on the relevant legal documents. (birth certificate, marriage license, name changer order)
If the name does not resolve to any IP address, how is email sent to it?
One obvious answer that everybody on slashdot should already know; mail can be sent from systems with the right hosts file!
Or in general, you don't have to send mail out through a mail gateway, your mail client can instead connect directly to the recipient server.
You might have a setup where email can be routed normally inside a private network, but from the outside you have to know the IP. Like for an emergency sysadmin contact in case the private network is down, in a situation where normally everything is on the private network.
Not saying it is common or recommended, just that there are lots of obvious places that an IP address might come from.
First of all, you can use only private DNS to get the IP.
Second, the domain portion of the email address is still the domain, regardless of if the mail is currently deliverable.
Third, the owner of the domain is in control of the DNS. It resolves to a mail server if I say so, not simply because an email address exists that references it. Perhaps the email address was routable in the past; or perhaps it will be routable in the future. Maybe it is only routable on Fridays.
I have 2 that don't even have DNS set up.
They are absolutely "in use," and I would die on that hill to protect my right to them.
Squatters don't matter very much, their antics don't survive a trademark registration.
I've got 3 domains for business use that don't have public-facing anything, and a third one that I did at least put up a parking page for.
1 of them will have an active site this year, another one, probably next year.
In the past I've had at least 4 or 5 that eventually expired without ever having hosted anything. Not "domain speculation," merely "business name speculation." No, I never tried to sell any of them.