Because most people have been convinced that AI can turn garbage inputs into perfect outputs.
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
We already are "delt with". Started a few months ago when Slashdot added member posts start at +1
It's been that way for as long as I remember, and I've been here well over 10 years.
that wasn't enough though so they added +2 for some (maybe based on UID?).
It's based on "karma", which is having a large number of posts moderated up. In other words, once you've shown that you can make a positive contribution to discussions, you get an extra +1 bonus.
What the fuck did I just read? Usage of tactical nukes on biggest and most important ship in the fleet of peer competitor isn't a declaration of war in a world of MAD?
A nuclear tipped anti-ship torpedo isn't a declaration of nuclear war.
I highlighted the part that I'm guessing is the important word that you missed. Firing torpedoes (of any variety) at a carrier would certainly be considered an act of war, but it wouldn't justify responding by turning the other country into a radioactive wasteland.
I truly HATE when politicians force citizens to do something against their will, when the only person being harmed is the citizen himself.
Compromised devices are used to harm others. Instead of requiring manufacturers to follow this law, how about we make you personally liable when your device is compromised and used in a DDoS attack?
Only if you're on the same LAN segment. If you're just scanning random IPs from afar, you won't have the MAC.
Unless you're using IPv6.
In which case you would need to be intercepting traffic, to somehow get the device to connect to a server you control, or to scan the/48 to find the device. None of those are impossible, but they're significantly more difficult than just trying a bunch of IPv4 addresses.
Eventually it WILL be better for everyone that EVERYONE be mandated to have a self-driving car.
I don't expect that to happen anytime soon. Probably not for at least another 30 years or more... but eventually yes, people won't drive themselves... and that's a good thing.
I basically agree, though I would guess 50 years instead of 30. But that's just a guess.
The major issue is that the transition to requiring self-driving cars can't be done in one year, and the current politicians in the US lack any ability to put together a plan that goes beyond the next election. It's the kind of thing that needs to be planned years, probably even a couple decades, in advance. Self-driving cars are most effective when the only other cars that they have to deal with are also self-driving, but they may not be any better, or maybe even slightly worse, when all of the cars around them are human-driven. So you may need a plan where you mandate all new cars have the capability, especially regarding hardware, for self-driving by 2040 (to pick an arbitrary year), and then mandate turning on the self-driving functionality in 2065.
eat a burger while driving down the road?
text?
rubber-necking?
weave in and out of traffic?
race it's buddies on the highway?
engage in road rage?
speed?
put on makeup?
etc etc
You've got to be one stone cold prick to think that cancer is an appropriate punishment for having pre-marital sex. How can you be such a horrible person as to say 'Well honey, you made Jesus sad, so now you have to die miserably.' They're literally using disease as a cudgel to help enforce their views on sexuality. Congratulations, you've literally partnered with cancer, way to demonstrate your moral superiority.
It's a direct consequence of the belief that life isn't really important because the eternal afterlife is all that matters.
Also keep in mind that not all religions share this belief.
At a 1:8 ratio, and assuming that someone above is correct that Verizon has 160,000 employees, the 6th level of management would be a single person (i.e. the CEO). In such a structure, the total number of managers would still be barely over 20,000. You can make the math easier and get a good-enough estimate by saying 160,000 "regular" employees, who would have 20,000 direct managers, and then the next level is only 250 managers, then 32, then 4, and put 1 person at the top.
But Republicans disagree with you, and worse, they disagree even more than Democrats do. It's one of the reasons (among several, especially since 2016) I'd plot 'em as being left of Democrats.
This is the problem with trying to put all possible political ideologies/practices on a single spectrum. When it comes to economic issues, the Republican party is still farther to the right than the Democratic party (the Democratic party, or at least its leaders and politicians, hasn't been left of center for a few decades, though the voters appear to be pulling back to the left). Republicans are generally still more opposed to corporate regulation than Democrats are, and generally want the tax rate to be lower, which puts them to the right of Democrats.
Authoritarianism in regards to things other than taxes and commerce is a separate issue. The Republican party tends to be more authoritarian than the Democratic party when it comes to regulating individual, personal behaviors, but, as you point out, both parties are quite happy to increase government power.
What's the liability laws for something like that in the USA?
I'm not your lawyer or your insurance agent, but the risk is probably low enough that it would be covered the same as any other way someone might get injured on your property. I think, if I remember correctly, that accidental injuries like that are covered by typical homeowner's insurance.
Warner Brothers is also lenient when it comes to fan-made Babylon 5 sites. They only require we include a Trademark and Copyright notice on the bottom of the page to protect WB's IP.
They can be like that, since they'll never allow another official project for the rest of the lifetime of the universe.
I don't know a single Kickstarter project that is not a scam.
I've backed 3 Kickstarter projects (one video game, one small board game, and MST3K), and all of them delivered what they promised, though not always on the original schedule.
Then, why do they state that the earth is still coming out of the ice age? Yeah, they say it -- it's right there in my first post, copied directly from the summary, moron.
They don't. The sentence you quoted says that the land is still rebounding after the glaciers melted, not that the temperature would still be rising without human contribution. Glaciers don't reappear the moment that global temperature begins to drop.
That's the whole point of the story; with improved software architecture you might be using an algorithm that scales horizontally, in which case there would be no need at all for a faster CPU, just more CPUs.
That isn't a new computer architecture, it's the same kind of distributed computing that I learned ~20 years ago, and it wasn't all that new back then, either. Maybe some new programming language could make it easier to implement some distributed algorithms, but current languages have the capabilities already.
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Because most people have been convinced that AI can turn garbage inputs into perfect outputs.
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
/obligatory Babbage quote
We already are "delt with". Started a few months ago when Slashdot added member posts start at +1
It's been that way for as long as I remember, and I've been here well over 10 years.
that wasn't enough though so they added +2 for some (maybe based on UID?).
It's based on "karma", which is having a large number of posts moderated up. In other words, once you've shown that you can make a positive contribution to discussions, you get an extra +1 bonus.
The government will f you over, but harder and with much more gusto. And who will you complain to?
My ballot.
If an insurance company does something you don't like, who are you going to complain to?
What the fuck did I just read? Usage of tactical nukes on biggest and most important ship in the fleet of peer competitor isn't a declaration of war in a world of MAD?
A nuclear tipped anti-ship torpedo isn't a declaration of nuclear war.
I highlighted the part that I'm guessing is the important word that you missed. Firing torpedoes (of any variety) at a carrier would certainly be considered an act of war, but it wouldn't justify responding by turning the other country into a radioactive wasteland.
People getting locked out of their stuff because they forgot the password and cant reset to default.
How exactly are either of those things related to what the manufacturer can use for default passwords?
I truly HATE when politicians force citizens to do something against their will, when the only person being harmed is the citizen himself.
Compromised devices are used to harm others. Instead of requiring manufacturers to follow this law, how about we make you personally liable when your device is compromised and used in a DDoS attack?
Only if you're on the same LAN segment. If you're just scanning random IPs from afar, you won't have the MAC.
Unless you're using IPv6.
In which case you would need to be intercepting traffic, to somehow get the device to connect to a server you control, or to scan the /48 to find the device. None of those are impossible, but they're significantly more difficult than just trying a bunch of IPv4 addresses.
But how long does your snapshot last is the question?
I have snapshots going back to 2015, so I'd guess the answer is "as long as you want".
Capitalism gave you everything you have in life, including the medium required to bitch about it.
Capitalism didn't create vocal cords and air.
I will acknowledge that capitalism gave us mass-produced pens, paper, and printing presses.
Capitalism didn't give us the Internet, that was the US military.
Eventually it WILL be better for everyone that EVERYONE be mandated to have a self-driving car.
I don't expect that to happen anytime soon. Probably not for at least another 30 years or more... but eventually yes, people won't drive themselves... and that's a good thing.
I basically agree, though I would guess 50 years instead of 30. But that's just a guess.
The major issue is that the transition to requiring self-driving cars can't be done in one year, and the current politicians in the US lack any ability to put together a plan that goes beyond the next election. It's the kind of thing that needs to be planned years, probably even a couple decades, in advance. Self-driving cars are most effective when the only other cars that they have to deal with are also self-driving, but they may not be any better, or maybe even slightly worse, when all of the cars around them are human-driven. So you may need a plan where you mandate all new cars have the capability, especially regarding hardware, for self-driving by 2040 (to pick an arbitrary year), and then mandate turning on the self-driving functionality in 2065.
Who do you sue when a driverless car runs you over?
The insurance company, same as when a human driver runs you over.
Is a self driving car more likely to:-
eat a burger while driving down the road? text? rubber-necking? weave in and out of traffic? race it's buddies on the highway? engage in road rage? speed? put on makeup? etc etc
You left out the most obvious one: be drunk.
You've got to be one stone cold prick to think that cancer is an appropriate punishment for having pre-marital sex. How can you be such a horrible person as to say 'Well honey, you made Jesus sad, so now you have to die miserably.' They're literally using disease as a cudgel to help enforce their views on sexuality. Congratulations, you've literally partnered with cancer, way to demonstrate your moral superiority.
It's a direct consequence of the belief that life isn't really important because the eternal afterlife is all that matters.
Also keep in mind that not all religions share this belief.
At a 1:8 ratio, and assuming that someone above is correct that Verizon has 160,000 employees, the 6th level of management would be a single person (i.e. the CEO). In such a structure, the total number of managers would still be barely over 20,000. You can make the math easier and get a good-enough estimate by saying 160,000 "regular" employees, who would have 20,000 direct managers, and then the next level is only 250 managers, then 32, then 4, and put 1 person at the top.
Does not seem legit.
Painfully obvious advertisement paid article/post. Come on Slashdot, at least TRY to make your ads less obvious.
I miss the good old days when Slashdot wasn't as obvious a sell out.
The good old days of what, 1995?
But Republicans disagree with you, and worse, they disagree even more than Democrats do. It's one of the reasons (among several, especially since 2016) I'd plot 'em as being left of Democrats.
This is the problem with trying to put all possible political ideologies/practices on a single spectrum. When it comes to economic issues, the Republican party is still farther to the right than the Democratic party (the Democratic party, or at least its leaders and politicians, hasn't been left of center for a few decades, though the voters appear to be pulling back to the left). Republicans are generally still more opposed to corporate regulation than Democrats are, and generally want the tax rate to be lower, which puts them to the right of Democrats.
Authoritarianism in regards to things other than taxes and commerce is a separate issue. The Republican party tends to be more authoritarian than the Democratic party when it comes to regulating individual, personal behaviors, but, as you point out, both parties are quite happy to increase government power.
I certainly don't remember it saying anything about global GDP.
...an increase in global GDP will always have waste heat. That's a law of physics.
I guess we skipped that chapter in my physics textbook.
What's the liability laws for something like that in the USA?
I'm not your lawyer or your insurance agent, but the risk is probably low enough that it would be covered the same as any other way someone might get injured on your property. I think, if I remember correctly, that accidental injuries like that are covered by typical homeowner's insurance.
Warner Brothers is also lenient when it comes to fan-made Babylon 5 sites. They only require we include a Trademark and Copyright notice on the bottom of the page to protect WB's IP.
They can be like that, since they'll never allow another official project for the rest of the lifetime of the universe.
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I don't know a single Kickstarter project that is not a scam.
I've backed 3 Kickstarter projects (one video game, one small board game, and MST3K), and all of them delivered what they promised, though not always on the original schedule.
Then, why do they state that the earth is still coming out of the ice age? Yeah, they say it -- it's right there in my first post, copied directly from the summary, moron.
They don't. The sentence you quoted says that the land is still rebounding after the glaciers melted, not that the temperature would still be rising without human contribution. Glaciers don't reappear the moment that global temperature begins to drop.
Sometimes we don't have to dig at all. There are places where the liquid rock comes right up to the surface all by itself.
That's the whole point of the story; with improved software architecture you might be using an algorithm that scales horizontally, in which case there would be no need at all for a faster CPU, just more CPUs.
That isn't a new computer architecture, it's the same kind of distributed computing that I learned ~20 years ago, and it wasn't all that new back then, either. Maybe some new programming language could make it easier to implement some distributed algorithms, but current languages have the capabilities already.
Have you tries iTunes lately? Apple has improved it to the point it's nearly useless.
Well, "nearly useless" would definitely be an improvement over what it used to be.