This is a big deal, if it works reasonably well. Interacting with the real world is much more difficult than interacting with a mathematical abstraction.
This would require very sensitive movement, plus quite a bit of analysis. It may well beat most human players with better forward planning, but that is just minimax.
We will start to see a *lot* of robots over the next few years.
It is the number one hack. And largely address by browsers 20 years ago.
We only need to send a proof of possession of the password. The website only needs enough info to verify that we have it. A little crypto magic makes that very possible.
My technical videos are just on my own website. Click on the link and they download and play fine in any browser, not even any JavaScript required.
Or use Vimeo, or one of the other lesser providers. And pay a little for the service.
Sure, if you want to access a new audience of teenages, you may be stuck with YouTube. But YouTube is not synonymous with Video.
I also search for videos using a search engine which runs across all video stites, and DuckDuckGo and Bing make this quite nice. Sadly most people just search YouTube.
For a bank to implement any system costs $100s millions. Let alone the annoyance to their customers.
If they lose $1million to fraud then that is just a cost of doing business. And most money lost to fraud is eventually recovered.
What we need is phones with more features. Like every time they visit a web site they execute code on that website that can potentially take over the phone. Wait...
But as it slowly dawns on the JavaScript community that statically declared types are a really useful concept, TypeScript et. al. are becoming much more popular.
So eventually you will see JavaScript as a Java like language for practical purposes. A surreal, twisted Java for sure, but with the three most important features Java introduced to the mainstream. Garbage collection, type safety, and, using incredibly complex compilers, efficiently compiled code that is not C.
This is not only a method that ensures work for UI designers. It genuinely works. Most people will recognize "new" vs "old", and want "new". "New" just looks better than "old". Always.
Eventually UIs will have white text on pale grey backgrounds before the next crop of designers develops green text on a black background and we will all know that this new green screen design is the pinnacle of novel user experience development.
Many here will remember how harmless looking printers were used to hack corporate networks.
So yes, a camera chip is a pretty obscure place to hack, but it probably talks to the main system over an unsecured protocol that was never designed for a hostile chip at the other end.
Everything is so complex now, with so much power, that many weird things can be done.
It would be very interesting to know what Chinese thought about this.
(We already know what we think about it. Outside the USA it is terrible, inside the USA with the privately run credit agencies it is just business as normal.)
But seriously, does anyone have any feedback upon what the Chinese themselves think about this sort of thing?
Over the next ten years, just normal automation. Factory jobs, some agricultural work. A few percent each year.
In about ten years time self driving vehicles will become mainstream. And many other easily automated tasks. At that point 25% may become reasonable over the next few decades.
In some 50..100 years after that computers will be able to program themselves. They will then no longer need humans at all.
But the good news is that bureaucracies will continue to grow regardless of any attempt at automation. 50 years ago there were typing pools and clerks balancing ledgers by hand. All those jobs gone but bureaucracies just grow and grow. So soon, everyone will be a bureaucrat whose job it is to regulate everybody else. As predicted by Parkinson long ago.
I can imagine that the court would rule that merely copying the style of the API is not copyright. But copying the exact text of it, down to the names of the methods is another matter entirely.
You cannot copyright a genre of novels, or the types of characters within. But you can certainly copyright specific characters with specific names.
It flows exactly to *Nix. SCO might live again.
We would have to go through all of our applications and rename the methods. Or new legislation would need to be passed, which is unthinkable.
Interestingly, a big loser in that would be Oracle themselves. They should have bought SCO (or whoever now "owns" Unix) before starting this. Then they could have it all.
They have a huge domestic market. A large and growing middle class.
They are actively disengaging from the West. It has become more difficult to get money out of China to buy western goods. The less interaction with corrupting influences the better.
Let us just hope it goes back to the old days, when China was completely separate. But I fear that they will soon invade Taiwan, and then put huge pressure on their other neighbors.
I think that you will find that the number of Chinese using VPNs is reducing. The government is cracking down. Would you really want to risk your treasured social credit score just to read a few western articles and a bit of porn? Most do not.
Also, if critical apps like WeChat (critical if you are in China) detect a VPN on the phone they seem to close the account.
If the battery costs about $8K, and the electric motors should be cheaper than an ICE, I would expect a surcharge of about $4K, not $10K.
The trouble for Telsa is when battery prices halve again, all the big manufacturers will be making electric cars, and they have experience at keeping costs very low.
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This is a big deal, if it works reasonably well. Interacting with the real world is much more difficult than interacting with a mathematical abstraction.
This would require very sensitive movement, plus quite a bit of analysis. It may well beat most human players with better forward planning, but that is just minimax.
We will start to see a *lot* of robots over the next few years.
It is the number one hack. And largely address by browsers 20 years ago.
We only need to send a proof of possession of the password. The website only needs enough info to verify that we have it. A little crypto magic makes that very possible.
Secure Remote Password.
To access an audience you already have.
My technical videos are just on my own website. Click on the link and they download and play fine in any browser, not even any JavaScript required.
Or use Vimeo, or one of the other lesser providers. And pay a little for the service.
Sure, if you want to access a new audience of teenages, you may be stuck with YouTube. But YouTube is not synonymous with Video.
I also search for videos using a search engine which runs across all video stites, and DuckDuckGo and Bing make this quite nice. Sadly most people just search YouTube.
For a bank to implement any system costs $100s millions. Let alone the annoyance to their customers.
If they lose $1million to fraud then that is just a cost of doing business. And most money lost to fraud is eventually recovered.
What we need is phones with more features. Like every time they visit a web site they execute code on that website that can potentially take over the phone. Wait...
Well, almost.
But as it slowly dawns on the JavaScript community that statically declared types are a really useful concept, TypeScript et. al. are becoming much more popular.
So eventually you will see JavaScript as a Java like language for practical purposes. A surreal, twisted Java for sure, but with the three most important features Java introduced to the mainstream. Garbage collection, type safety, and, using incredibly complex compilers, efficiently compiled code that is not C.
Whatever it was, make it different.
This is not only a method that ensures work for UI designers. It genuinely works. Most people will recognize "new" vs "old", and want "new". "New" just looks better than "old". Always.
Eventually UIs will have white text on pale grey backgrounds before the next crop of designers develops green text on a black background and we will all know that this new green screen design is the pinnacle of novel user experience development.
I needed to buy a five(!) pointed screw driver to open an iPhone (5?).
Must have some very special technical advantage over a normal screw.
Look this up, you would enjoy it. What happens when you lose your manufacturing.
The US used to subsidize the watch making industry to make sure they could build aeroplane instruments in time of war.
Many here will remember how harmless looking printers were used to hack corporate networks.
So yes, a camera chip is a pretty obscure place to hack, but it probably talks to the main system over an unsecured protocol that was never designed for a hostile chip at the other end.
Everything is so complex now, with so much power, that many weird things can be done.
In South Australia they power their geothermal sites using nuclear energy.
Really.
Much of the world's Uranium is there and it makes the ground hot as it very slowly fissiles naturally.
It would be very interesting to know what Chinese thought about this.
(We already know what we think about it. Outside the USA it is terrible, inside the USA with the privately run credit agencies it is just business as normal.)
But seriously, does anyone have any feedback upon what the Chinese themselves think about this sort of thing?
Indeed. Probably reduces the likelihood by a couple of orders of magnitude.
Un paywalled version
http://www.berglas.org/Article...
A critical detail.
Over the next ten years, just normal automation. Factory jobs, some agricultural work. A few percent each year.
In about ten years time self driving vehicles will become mainstream. And many other easily automated tasks. At that point 25% may become reasonable over the next few decades.
In some 50..100 years after that computers will be able to program themselves. They will then no longer need humans at all.
But the good news is that bureaucracies will continue to grow regardless of any attempt at automation. 50 years ago there were typing pools and clerks balancing ledgers by hand. All those jobs gone but bureaucracies just grow and grow. So soon, everyone will be a bureaucrat whose job it is to regulate everybody else. As predicted by Parkinson long ago.
https://www.economist.com/news...
(A classic, well worth reading.)
Indeed. The iCar that only runs on iRoads might be somewhat limiting.
A nice euphansim.
If Google loses, what happens to Unix?
I can imagine that the court would rule that merely copying the style of the API is not copyright. But copying the exact text of it, down to the names of the methods is another matter entirely.
You cannot copyright a genre of novels, or the types of characters within. But you can certainly copyright specific characters with specific names.
It flows exactly to *Nix. SCO might live again.
We would have to go through all of our applications and rename the methods. Or new legislation would need to be passed, which is unthinkable.
Interestingly, a big loser in that would be Oracle themselves. They should have bought SCO (or whoever now "owns" Unix) before starting this. Then they could have it all.
IBM have been patenting interfaces for decades.
It is not the job of the court to decide whether the law makes sense. Merely how it applies.
Do you really think that they do not notice use of a VPN?
How will it affect your social credit score?
They have a huge domestic market. A large and growing middle class.
They are actively disengaging from the West. It has become more difficult to get money out of China to buy western goods. The less interaction with corrupting influences the better.
Let us just hope it goes back to the old days, when China was completely separate. But I fear that they will soon invade Taiwan, and then put huge pressure on their other neighbors.
I think that you will find that the number of Chinese using VPNs is reducing. The government is cracking down. Would you really want to risk your treasured social credit score just to read a few western articles and a bit of porn? Most do not.
Also, if critical apps like WeChat (critical if you are in China) detect a VPN on the phone they seem to close the account.
2nd tier ones are dirt cheap. Then they can link to those as much as they want to.
Maybe that is the plan. Pull out now, depress the market, and then buy.
If the battery costs about $8K, and the electric motors should be cheaper than an ICE, I would expect a surcharge of about $4K, not $10K.
The trouble for Telsa is when battery prices halve again, all the big manufacturers will be making electric cars, and they have experience at keeping costs very low.
They should be identical. Will not be due to normal error. Or may not be even close due to incompetence.
Absolutely. Ice is terrifying in a light aircraft or glider.