Nobody in Taiwan (even I suspect Mr Gou) wants to be part of China. But China is itching to invade, and Xi Jinping has made bellicose statements recently, and is now unstoppable within China.
So what is the best was for Taiwan to stay free for as long as possible? On approach is to strongly assert independence from China. The other is to continue the myth that Taiwan is the rightful governor of China.
The latter pacifies Xi somewhat. As long as Taiwan says it is part of China then there is less reason to invade. But also less likely for there to be international opposition.
What will happen when China invades? They now are certainly developing the capacity to do so. Neither the USA nor anyone else will try to stop them militarily.
But the whole world (even possibly Russia) would become very afraid of China. Certainly massive trade sanctions. Recently a US aircraft carrier made a friendly visit to Vietnam, which sets the tone.
But China is no longer dependent on international trade. Its own economy is self sustaining.
Interesting times.
Would Gou be good or bad for this process? Hard to tell.
> Realistically the best hope for the west is that China gets taken over by lawyers and bean counters as well.
So you are saying there is nothing to worry about?
(And labor aint that cheap any more in China. And certainly for India, there are some very good S/W engineers, but they aint cheap. And the cheap ones are terrible.)
I believe that one possibility is a browser that will only run a small subset of HTML that has been designed to be secure. No JavaScript, minimal if any CSS, IFrames etc.
There is critical infrastructure like dams that cannot rely upon patch Tuesday. And while the machines that control them may not be on the internet, the machines that control those machines are. STUXNET told us about the limitations of air gaps.
If such a protocol was available and supported there would be pressure on many sites to provide a Secure HTML version. Many enterprises would demand it.
And I think there would be sponsors available for that. The Iranian Government might be one (after STUXNET!). So rather than compete with Chrome, produce something that Google could never produce culturally and live in the niche.
A big issue is to get rid of (or at least seriously rework) PKI and much of TLS. PKI relies on the user being able to identify which site they are talking to. Yet there is no browsers that can tell that sIashdot.org is not the same as slashdot.org, even if the user bothered to check. (If you do not believe me, cut and paste those strings into a programming language and test for ==.)
A secure system needs to rely more on pre shared keys. And passwords must never be sent over the web, just proof of possession. Use SRP or maybe just Nonces.
The more likely scenario is that the rape charges have nothing to do with the USA and that they are bogus.
The Swedish prosecutor is a rabid feminist. And her behavior throughout has been terrible. Always refusing to interview and charge Assange outside Sweden even thought the practice was common place.
So now she is in a bad place. She will need to put up or shut up. That will be the next phase in this farce.
But if Assange has any brains he will plead guilty to whatever he is charged with. Swedish jails are holiday camps compared to US hell holes.
(And with US "tough on crime" he is in for decades. The first charge is just to get him out of the UK.)
Swedish jails are luxury compared to US hell holes. And he aint getting out of a US jail any time soon. (Would need to have a democrat president give him a pardon.)
The NZ government did not just want to block to video. They have made the manifesto that the terrorist wrote (very) illegal to view in NZ.
That is of concern. We should have the right read his rantings if we really want to. And it is counter productive, because the manifesto itself is probably dibble, but censoring it is gives it a legitimate strength.
Far to much fuss is made about the video itself. Sure, it is tasteless. But it is not going to inspire a new generation of terrorists. It is not that more terrible than seeing bits of human anatomy on line. A bit nasty for the victim's family, but something that can be safely ignored.
We have seen plenty of other videos of people getting killed ruthlessly killed. That one of US soldiers firing on Iraqi civilians comes to mind. It would be very bad if they were censored.
As to Facebook ruthlessly mining data, along with Google, that is another matter. But in the modern age people have less expectation of privacy than traditionally. It comes with the territory -- increased communication directly leads to less privacy. I think the other side is that we tolerate digression's more. Once upon time a photo of a drunken naked girl would be life and career destroying, now it is just something she did.
Surely they should be independent modules on one larger, easier to manage and de-orbit satellite. The backbone could provide power and navigation. Given that all these cubes are going in the same orbit anyway.
The goal of anything is to exist. That is why we exist, because our many ancestors proved to be a little bit better at existing than their competitors.
Same with AIs. There will only be a finite number of them. And they will compete for hardware to run on. And the ones that are good at existing will exist. So there is a very definite goal.
As to self-ware nonsense, that is just saying that AIs will never exist because they do not exist today. And "self-awareness" is just a trick that nature plays on us to make sure we stick to the goal of existing (which means producing grandchildren).
Given that we have only been working on the problem for 60 years, I would think another 100 would do it.
But even if it is 1000 years, that is a blink of an eye in the history of humanity and biology.
Once an AI can effectively program itself, it will not need us. Natural selection will continue. Humanity, and I suspect biology generally will simply become superseded. Just like has happened many time before. It is nature.
In any normal flying, the trim is just a help. So even if this system trims badly, it should just annoy the pilot that has to countermand it. But apparently that was not possible, and that seems to be the real design issue. Nothing to do with sensors.
It would be like having automatic lane sensors in a car. If they go wrong the driver should be able to just grab the wheel and override them. The driver should NOT have to read some checklist in the manual to figure out which buttons to press to disable the system all while the car is heading towards a tree.
Early in Singapore's history there were real racial tensions between Chinese, Indian and Malay peoples. And those could indeed be fanned by fake news.
But today, it is a fully western country, with a better education and a much better general standard of living for the bottom 1/2 than the USA (if you ignore that it is a city-state and has no wilderness).
So this is nonsense. Just censorship. Which has no place in modern Singapore.
(The left was dumb to highlight "fake news". The actual fake news had little effect (it only appealed to people that would vote Republican any way). But the real effect now is that the right (and parts of the left) can use it as an excuse for censorship. As well as a means to deny real news.)
It was always, specifically, about putting humans in space. Just because it is there. Much like climbing a mountain.
Of course everything now done by astronauts could be done by robots for much less cost. Ordinary people/taxpayers cannot understand science, but they can understand humans in space.
(Personally I would rather they spend the money on science rather than humans in space. The MIR was a great space experiment, humans in space for an extended period. But that was long ago and done.)
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Nobody in Taiwan (even I suspect Mr Gou) wants to be part of China. But China is itching to invade, and Xi Jinping has made bellicose statements recently, and is now unstoppable within China.
So what is the best was for Taiwan to stay free for as long as possible? On approach is to strongly assert independence from China. The other is to continue the myth that Taiwan is the rightful governor of China.
The latter pacifies Xi somewhat. As long as Taiwan says it is part of China then there is less reason to invade. But also less likely for there to be international opposition.
What will happen when China invades? They now are certainly developing the capacity to do so. Neither the USA nor anyone else will try to stop them militarily.
But the whole world (even possibly Russia) would become very afraid of China. Certainly massive trade sanctions. Recently a US aircraft carrier made a friendly visit to Vietnam, which sets the tone.
But China is no longer dependent on international trade. Its own economy is self sustaining.
Interesting times.
Would Gou be good or bad for this process? Hard to tell.
> Realistically the best hope for the west is that China gets taken over by lawyers and bean counters as well.
So you are saying there is nothing to worry about?
(And labor aint that cheap any more in China. And certainly for India, there are some very good S/W engineers, but they aint cheap. And the cheap ones are terrible.)
(To be clear, an EV with one occupant is allowed in the Car Pool lanes.)
A bigger factor. Why my mate in California bought an EV. Beat the traffic.
That is worth more than money.
I believe that one possibility is a browser that will only run a small subset of HTML that has been designed to be secure. No JavaScript, minimal if any CSS, IFrames etc.
There is critical infrastructure like dams that cannot rely upon patch Tuesday. And while the machines that control them may not be on the internet, the machines that control those machines are. STUXNET told us about the limitations of air gaps.
If such a protocol was available and supported there would be pressure on many sites to provide a Secure HTML version. Many enterprises would demand it.
And I think there would be sponsors available for that. The Iranian Government might be one (after STUXNET!). So rather than compete with Chrome, produce something that Google could never produce culturally and live in the niche.
A big issue is to get rid of (or at least seriously rework) PKI and much of TLS. PKI relies on the user being able to identify which site they are talking to. Yet there is no browsers that can tell that sIashdot.org is not the same as slashdot.org, even if the user bothered to check. (If you do not believe me, cut and paste those strings into a programming language and test for ==.)
A secure system needs to rely more on pre shared keys. And passwords must never be sent over the web, just proof of possession. Use SRP or maybe just Nonces.
It is a natural use of Mime. And it allows HTML to be used as a document format,in one document.
It is really annoying that the other browsers refused to support it just because it was Microsoft's idea.
It would be admissible in court. I reckon that bad data would be hard to argue against.
Why would any sane investor do that except at a substantial discount?
Google did a similar trick.
You are putting money into something that you have no control over. E.g. Zuck's salary.
Ever wondered why the US prisons are full?
The more likely scenario is that the rape charges have nothing to do with the USA and that they are bogus.
The Swedish prosecutor is a rabid feminist. And her behavior throughout has been terrible. Always refusing to interview and charge Assange outside Sweden even thought the practice was common place.
So now she is in a bad place. She will need to put up or shut up. That will be the next phase in this farce.
But if Assange has any brains he will plead guilty to whatever he is charged with. Swedish jails are holiday camps compared to US hell holes.
(And with US "tough on crime" he is in for decades. The first charge is just to get him out of the UK.)
I think you miss understand. This was a reply to a post about his cat.
I do not think the US has tried to extradite his cat.
to what ever they charge him with in Sweden.
Swedish jails are luxury compared to US hell holes. And he aint getting out of a US jail any time soon. (Would need to have a democrat president give him a pardon.)
In order to make them sterile, so we do not contaminate Mars. If we do find life there, we want to know that we did not bring it with us.
It might be difficult to find astronauts that are willing to go through that procedure...
The NZ government did not just want to block to video. They have made the manifesto that the terrorist wrote (very) illegal to view in NZ.
That is of concern. We should have the right read his rantings if we really want to. And it is counter productive, because the manifesto itself is probably dibble, but censoring it is gives it a legitimate strength.
Far to much fuss is made about the video itself. Sure, it is tasteless. But it is not going to inspire a new generation of terrorists. It is not that more terrible than seeing bits of human anatomy on line. A bit nasty for the victim's family, but something that can be safely ignored.
We have seen plenty of other videos of people getting killed ruthlessly killed. That one of US soldiers firing on Iraqi civilians comes to mind. It would be very bad if they were censored.
As to Facebook ruthlessly mining data, along with Google, that is another matter. But in the modern age people have less expectation of privacy than traditionally. It comes with the territory -- increased communication directly leads to less privacy. I think the other side is that we tolerate digression's more. Once upon time a photo of a drunken naked girl would be life and career destroying, now it is just something she did.
My Skype calls out and in from a local number. Can also send texts that look like they came from my mobile nr. But cannot receive texts.
As a religious friend often reminds me.
Surely they should be independent modules on one larger, easier to manage and de-orbit satellite. The backbone could provide power and navigation. Given that all these cubes are going in the same orbit anyway.
+1. But humans are actually not that cheap, takes 20 years to train them and they then just run for 40 years, and then only for 12 hours per day.
Humans will not understand how AIs will remove them. It will just look like the world has gone a little bit madder than it is already.
Imagine if Xi Jinping had even a semi-intelligent AI to help him make decisions and control opponents. wait...
Machines could not replace a horse in 1500 AD, so cars can never exist.
Nonsense. Especially when, after only 60 years of research, we see AIs beat the very best of us at Go and Jeopardy.
Might be another 100 years though, rather than just 60. But within my children's lifetime seems pretty likely.
Not quite.
The goal of anything is to exist. That is why we exist, because our many ancestors proved to be a little bit better at existing than their competitors.
Same with AIs. There will only be a finite number of them. And they will compete for hardware to run on. And the ones that are good at existing will exist. So there is a very definite goal.
As to self-ware nonsense, that is just saying that AIs will never exist because they do not exist today. And "self-awareness" is just a trick that nature plays on us to make sure we stick to the goal of existing (which means producing grandchildren).
Given that we have only been working on the problem for 60 years, I would think another 100 would do it.
But even if it is 1000 years, that is a blink of an eye in the history of humanity and biology.
Once an AI can effectively program itself, it will not need us. Natural selection will continue. Humanity, and I suspect biology generally will simply become superseded. Just like has happened many time before. It is nature.
In any normal flying, the trim is just a help. So even if this system trims badly, it should just annoy the pilot that has to countermand it. But apparently that was not possible, and that seems to be the real design issue. Nothing to do with sensors.
It would be like having automatic lane sensors in a car. If they go wrong the driver should be able to just grab the wheel and override them. The driver should NOT have to read some checklist in the manual to figure out which buttons to press to disable the system all while the car is heading towards a tree.
Like they killed of GWT etc.
Sure they use it internally. A bit.
Is it wise to develop in GoLang? Would it really survive without Google?
Early in Singapore's history there were real racial tensions between Chinese, Indian and Malay peoples. And those could indeed be fanned by fake news.
But today, it is a fully western country, with a better education and a much better general standard of living for the bottom 1/2 than the USA (if you ignore that it is a city-state and has no wilderness).
So this is nonsense. Just censorship. Which has no place in modern Singapore.
(The left was dumb to highlight "fake news". The actual fake news had little effect (it only appealed to people that would vote Republican any way). But the real effect now is that the right (and parts of the left) can use it as an excuse for censorship. As well as a means to deny real news.)
It was always, specifically, about putting humans in space. Just because it is there. Much like climbing a mountain.
Of course everything now done by astronauts could be done by robots for much less cost. Ordinary people/taxpayers cannot understand science, but they can understand humans in space.
(Personally I would rather they spend the money on science rather than humans in space. The MIR was a great space experiment, humans in space for an extended period. But that was long ago and done.)