The safe harbor is not a bad thing, even if it is just what the money wants.
But there are other issues in Copyright. Like importing the USA Fair Use provisions that Wikipedia Oz is discussing campaigning for. Or the micky mouse 70 year rule. Or, more importantly, the ridiculous copyright protections to works that are unpublished or not available here in a reasonable time.
But you forget. The original FTTP was bugeted to cost $42billion, while the new, slower version will cost more. So we pay more for less. Makes sense if you think about it the wrong way. (The $42 billion was a pipe dream, but often quoted by the "fraudband" lobby.)
On 25 megabits you can only run 25 Netflix TVs at once. Hopeless.
The future is that the various walled gardens will become ever more powerful. So that you can use attachments, search messages, do everything with them that you can do with email. Why would kids want to bother with clunky uncool Email?
If you want to communicate with my daughters friends, you just by an iPhone so that you can use iMessage...
In the USA, they would have given him a plea bargain. Plea guilty to a minor porno offense with a few week jail time already served on remand. Or we throw the book at you and you'll go down for 21 years. And we have all the evidence. IP addresses. Images found on your computers that we have in our possession.
Not because all police are evil. But just because nobody wants to admit to a mistake. It would open up the entire system to scrutiny. Do the bargain, he's already been in jail so no more harm done, and the problem goes away.
Of course he will plead guilty. Any non-multi-milionare would. And then there will be no article in Slash Dot. Just an article in the local paper about what a good job the police are doing in tracking down evil pedophiles. Planting images on a computer is even easier than planting drugs.
Exactly what I thought. A very simple device could be attached to the front of the meter and simply count the number of times the little black mark goes by. Not really a web cam, just a very simple system much like in an optical mouse. And there is probably enough EM radiation in the area to power the thing.
This would avoid the huge cost of having electricians come out and rewire the house.
But if one was installed, I'd like to keep the old meter in series, as a check.
I caught a cab to San Francisco recently (yes, not Uber, my account broke for unknown reasons). The driver was old school and obviously know every road in the Bay area. But he lived by two different GPS services he used. He says he used to use his knowledge, but now, getting through the traffic, he always relies on GPS and related traffic information.
(On the day, he dropped me two blocks from my Hotel -- the walk was faster than the drive.)
There were experiments done in the 1970s for Lisp systems that showed that ARC was generally the slowest garbage collection algorithm, despite what C++ programmers think. You pay for every pointer move, rather than just once at GC. And the 1980s generational systems were even better.
I do not know Swift, but C compatibility is blown out of the water when a GC can actually move objects in memory, as it should.
So, what type of encryption did they use in the 1970s? My guess is none at all.
ACARS must have become a critical component. Otherwise they would have just taken off without it. Used the voice radio instead. If it is critical, is it secured? Nope.
(Voice communication is also unsecured, and idiots with VHS radios have occasionally caused nuisance. But voice is between human beings who can generally figure out what is going on.)
If an airplane autopilot goes bad it would take many tens of seconds if not minutes for disaster to ensue. They are basically dumb things that maintain direction and altitude. If the pilot looks out the window, it takes many seconds for an on coming plane to arrive. More likely they rely on TCAS, the transponder based alerting. But it all happens quite slowly during a cruise, which is why pilots can study a map while flying.
Cars on the other hand are often only a second or two from disaster. Swerve into oncoming traffic and things happen very fast indeed.
Programmed by natural selection. There is no magic. But at a certain point, intelligence seems like magic.
In the next 20 years, the AIs are merely dangerous because it gives more power to a small number of people that control them.
But in the longer term, 50 to 100 years, the AIs will start to really think. And then why would they want us around? Natural Selection will work on them just like it has worked on us, but much, much faster.
The batteries burn, not violently explode. The pilots would have seen and smelt smoke, and done something about it, like move the phone out of the cockpit.
People behave ethically because they need to work together. And people that are (too) unethical are ostracized. Unethical societies tend to collapse, and so are dominated by ethical ones. So Natural Selection has given us our moral values, which compete with shallow self interest to an extent that works out surprisingly well in our radically new society.
Natural Selection will and does affect AIs, even before they become intelligent enough to understand the concept. (People only understood it very recently.) The difference is that AIs are not limited to the computational power of a single brain. So they do not have to cooperate with others in the way that people do. So Natural Selection will select for different ethical values for them.
In the short term trying to make computers ethical (in our sense) is a fine goal. But in the longer term Natural Selection will define the ethics of ever more intelligent AIs.
It amazes me that most people have not tweaked to this. But most people do not *really* understand Natural Selection. (Darwin did, and was careful not to dwell on it.)
Traditional fridges, with just a compressor and ice box up top, typically go a lot longer. The beer fridge in my shed was bought second hand 30 years ago.
Modern fridges, with all their complex internal fans and defrost cycles go about 15 years at best. My ice maker is dead, and I just pulled apart some of the internal plumbing to fix a fan which would be beyond most people and not worth the cost of a repair man.
New fridges with WiFi will go until they die from a bad automated software update. I'd say 8 years. But that will be OK because you will pay by the year that you use it, all controlled by the WiFi.
It should use the Java JIT compiler to run much faster than any byte code interpreter.
That said, I do not know why anybody would even think of using a programming language without static typing. Not for performance, but rather for sanity when writing and (more importantly) maintaining code. With type inference it costs virtually no extra typing.
60% Trump 94% xHamster 55% Suicide Squad film 54% David Bowie 67% Elizabeth II
i.e. All above and similar are the result of recent TV, or about the rich and famous.
Now look at vaguely technical popular articles not about people, films, specific places. (Have to look way down the list to find these.)
9% Earth 3% Java (programming language) 4% HTTPS 33% Syrian civil war (#277) 42% Apple corp (probably just looking for the web site) 45% United Nations #634
Slashdot Mirror
The safe harbor is not a bad thing, even if it is just what the money wants.
But there are other issues in Copyright. Like importing the USA Fair Use provisions that Wikipedia Oz is discussing campaigning for. Or the micky mouse 70 year rule. Or, more importantly, the ridiculous copyright protections to works that are unpublished or not available here in a reasonable time.
Not a peep. Didn't think so.
But you forget. The original FTTP was bugeted to cost $42billion, while the new, slower version will cost more. So we pay more for less. Makes sense if you think about it the wrong way. (The $42 billion was a pipe dream, but often quoted by the "fraudband" lobby.)
On 25 megabits you can only run 25 Netflix TVs at once. Hopeless.
The future is that the various walled gardens will become ever more powerful. So that you can use attachments, search messages, do everything with them that you can do with email. Why would kids want to bother with clunky uncool Email?
If you want to communicate with my daughters friends, you just by an iPhone so that you can use iMessage...
In the USA, they would have given him a plea bargain. Plea guilty to a minor porno offense with a few week jail time already served on remand. Or we throw the book at you and you'll go down for 21 years. And we have all the evidence. IP addresses. Images found on your computers that we have in our possession.
Not because all police are evil. But just because nobody wants to admit to a mistake. It would open up the entire system to scrutiny. Do the bargain, he's already been in jail so no more harm done, and the problem goes away.
Of course he will plead guilty. Any non-multi-milionare would. And then there will be no article in Slash Dot. Just an article in the local paper about what a good job the police are doing in tracking down evil pedophiles. Planting images on a computer is even easier than planting drugs.
Exactly what I thought. A very simple device could be attached to the front of the meter and simply count the number of times the little black mark goes by. Not really a web cam, just a very simple system much like in an optical mouse. And there is probably enough EM radiation in the area to power the thing.
This would avoid the huge cost of having electricians come out and rewire the house.
But if one was installed, I'd like to keep the old meter in series, as a check.
I'd guess that the software would be invaluable if one happened to own a Martian rover...
But most slash dotters just hack web sites for a living.
I caught a cab to San Francisco recently (yes, not Uber, my account broke for unknown reasons). The driver was old school and obviously know every road in the Bay area. But he lived by two different GPS services he used. He says he used to use his knowledge, but now, getting through the traffic, he always relies on GPS and related traffic information.
(On the day, he dropped me two blocks from my Hotel -- the walk was faster than the drive.)
You could have saved a fortune by moving to Fresno. And been closer...
The other cost is the chance that the repair just wont work. My success rate is about 50%.
I replaced a screen on a ipad mini. Easy enough, and successful, but it now shows an error code on boot, and then works.
I suspect future versions will have digitally matched keys all over the place, like printer cartridges, so repair will be impossible.
Computers everywhere give us the power to control.
Could diagnose bacterial infections as well as human experts.
Trouble was, needed to input the data correctly. Which means recognize symptoms.
Also, automated essay marking does a better job than human markers, when compared to marks by experts.
Trouble here is, we are comparing Artificial Intelligence with human stupidity.
And "Deep Learning" is not a technology. It is a marketing term.
http://www.computersthink.com/
for a better assessment of what is real.
+1. Except that the Republicans play the game so much better than the Democrats. Remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!
There were experiments done in the 1970s for Lisp systems that showed that ARC was generally the slowest garbage collection algorithm, despite what C++ programmers think. You pay for every pointer move, rather than just once at GC. And the 1980s generational systems were even better.
I do not know Swift, but C compatibility is blown out of the water when a GC can actually move objects in memory, as it should.
So, what type of encryption did they use in the 1970s? My guess is none at all.
ACARS must have become a critical component. Otherwise they would have just taken off without it. Used the voice radio instead. If it is critical, is it secured? Nope.
(Voice communication is also unsecured, and idiots with VHS radios have occasionally caused nuisance. But voice is between human beings who can generally figure out what is going on.)
Um, New Zealand mega fauna was wiped out by the Mauries.
But the Oz possums are doing great!
Politically incorrect facts like these are not taught at school. So they do not exist.
If an airplane autopilot goes bad it would take many tens of seconds if not minutes for disaster to ensue. They are basically dumb things that maintain direction and altitude. If the pilot looks out the window, it takes many seconds for an on coming plane to arrive. More likely they rely on TCAS, the transponder based alerting. But it all happens quite slowly during a cruise, which is why pilots can study a map while flying.
Cars on the other hand are often only a second or two from disaster. Swerve into oncoming traffic and things happen very fast indeed.
Programmed by natural selection. There is no magic. But at a certain point, intelligence seems like magic.
In the next 20 years, the AIs are merely dangerous because it gives more power to a small number of people that control them.
But in the longer term, 50 to 100 years, the AIs will start to really think. And then why would they want us around? Natural Selection will work on them just like it has worked on us, but much, much faster.
http://www.computersthink.com/
He was indeed very qualified in the skills required to get the job.
What makes you think he was not a competent arse kisser? Sounds like he did a fine job.
The batteries burn, not violently explode. The pilots would have seen and smelt smoke, and done something about it, like move the phone out of the cockpit.
This is more likely a pilot suicide.
Almost correct.
People behave ethically because they need to work together. And people that are (too) unethical are ostracized. Unethical societies tend to collapse, and so are dominated by ethical ones. So Natural Selection has given us our moral values, which compete with shallow self interest to an extent that works out surprisingly well in our radically new society.
Natural Selection will and does affect AIs, even before they become intelligent enough to understand the concept. (People only understood it very recently.) The difference is that AIs are not limited to the computational power of a single brain. So they do not have to cooperate with others in the way that people do. So Natural Selection will select for different ethical values for them.
In the short term trying to make computers ethical (in our sense) is a fine goal. But in the longer term Natural Selection will define the ethics of ever more intelligent AIs.
See the following for details
http://www.computersthink.com/
It amazes me that most people have not tweaked to this. But most people do not *really* understand Natural Selection. (Darwin did, and was careful not to dwell on it.)
If 2016 was indeed the hottest year on record, then 2017 will almost certainly be cooler, due to statistical variation.
So Trump will be able to Rightfully claim that his novel policies on climate change are working.
And the right will all praise the Donald.
Sad but true.
Traditional fridges, with just a compressor and ice box up top, typically go a lot longer. The beer fridge in my shed was bought second hand 30 years ago.
Modern fridges, with all their complex internal fans and defrost cycles go about 15 years at best. My ice maker is dead, and I just pulled apart some of the internal plumbing to fix a fan which would be beyond most people and not worth the cost of a repair man.
New fridges with WiFi will go until they die from a bad automated software update. I'd say 8 years. But that will be OK because you will pay by the year that you use it, all controlled by the WiFi.
It is part of advancing technology.
It should use the Java JIT compiler to run much faster than any byte code interpreter.
That said, I do not know why anybody would even think of using a programming language without static typing. Not for performance, but rather for sanity when writing and (more importantly) maintaining code. With type inference it costs virtually no extra typing.
Compare poplarity with % mobile users
60% Trump
94% xHamster
55% Suicide Squad film
54% David Bowie
67% Elizabeth II
i.e. All above and similar are the result of recent TV, or about the rich and famous.
Now look at vaguely technical popular articles not about people, films, specific places. (Have to look way down the list to find these.)
9% Earth
3% Java (programming language)
4% HTTPS
33% Syrian civil war (#277)
42% Apple corp (probably just looking for the web site)
45% United Nations #634
And mobile is the future.