One key problem with keeping your phone number confidential is the spammers don't care who you are as long as someone picks up the phone. Lucky for them, phone numbers are very easy to brute force, so they don't have to mine phone numbers from databases. They just pick a target area, string together the country code, regional code, then iterate through the list of the remaining digits... cheap.
However, I've been wondering how long it will be until the vast majority of voice services are handled by messaging applications like Facebook Messenger, discord, skype etc which have the capability of bypassing the need for phone numbers entirely. What is keeping our phone tied to the ancient concept of a phone number?
I think a short lived invite code to initiate a conversation with a new contact, then whitelisting that contact by a user id for all future calls would go a long way toward preventing robocalls.
In my opinion, robocalls are hastening the demise of the phone number for personal use, however businesses that depend on phone numbers will keep the technology alive for decades to come, much like they did with the fax machine.
My personal theory is that dark matter is actually the uncounted mass of space-time itself. Gravity warps space, causing the space around large bodies of mass to be more dense, in an evenly distributed halo pattern. The dark matter particles that we seek are the particles that make up space-time itself:D
Because there isn't incentive enough for Reddit users to come up with the most intricate lies to get as much upvote karma as possible, we will now offer monetary incentives for the most interesting (aka fabricated) content. Fakes news levels will sky rocket, fake personal stories, fake pitty stories, fake everything all to get as much traffic, and as much freely donated money, as possible.
I mean, it's cool that you can pull nuclear fuel from the ocean, but it still has to be enriched as presumably aqueous uranium has the same abysmal percentage of U-235 as the terrestrial ores that are already being mined. Now figure it out how to enrich it at the same time and watch as the world destroys itself building nukes from ocean water.
Old guy attempts to remain relevant in modern age by working on a solar concentrator, makes premature promises of unlimited green energy. Fails to mention the vast space required for his possible future invention to fulfill his premature promises.
Data is cheap... ad driven data is free (at the cost of privacy). Why should I ever delete an email? I reply to emails that merit a response. The rest might be spam or random notifications. Ultimately, I never delete emails because I like having a record of them in a convenient, searchable format.
Even if processing power stopped increasing per mm^2 of die space (it's not), the answer is no.
AI processing work is highly parallel. That means you can use things like GPUs. Even better is you can use many CPUs and many GPUs. So the processing power is limited by how much hardware and power you can supply.
No, AI is just starting.
So one problem that comes up here is that giving a plant species such a powerful advantage will change where it can and can't grow. Plants that can't typically grow wild in a region could easily become a noxious weed if they have a +40% resource bonus. Sure, it's great for any organisms that are above these new plants in the food chain, but not great for species being displaced and the organisms that depend on them for survival.
Normally I'm all for GMOs, but this one scares me a bit.
I used to work in a technical support role. We used a chat service provider called comm100 which does show the agent what you type in real time.
At first, I felt dirty like I was invading their privacy, but it does help efficiency considerably. It's invaluable when it comes to de-escalating clients that start to type out a giant rant, then slowly edit it to be more civil... eventually they just chicken out and delete their entire whiny post when they decide it's not worth it.
It feels bad and dirty, but also consider that the support agent is usually multi-tasking between clients, so being able to know what you are typing as you are typing it is a real time saver.
The worst is when the client has typed out part of a question which you know the answer to and have a full response typed out, then you have to wait for them to hit the 'send' button before you can continue answering the question or solving the problem. Sometimes you have to wait a LONG time.
Yeah, DVORAK can replace QWERTY keyboards... but you'll be condemning yourself to a life of fighting your environment to work in DVORAK instead of QWERTY.
looking up the actual terms of service rules, they have nothing against videos assembling firearms as mentioned in the overview. They do prohibit videos on how to manufacture them however.
Why waste man hours on something computers and machines can do?
As a lazy guy, I'd love it if society could be more automated.
Unfortunately humans don't like becoming obsolete as their incomes being built around obsolete skills.
Fortunately, humans, unlike machines, can develop new (marketable) skills without being programmed, though AI may take that advantage away from us too.
There are problems for sure, but making society more efficient by automation is a very good thing. The Technology isn't the first revolution that made millions of jobs obsolete... the industrial revolution did that 100 years ago and we don't regret that change, do we?
This probably doesn't apply to everyone, but I found an old (ugly beige colored) HP laser jet printer at my University's surplus store for $.25. It took a bit of cleaning on the rollers, but I just hooked it into my LAN via an ethernet cable and it works great! I literally paid 12 times for the paper for what I did for the printer and she works like a champ:)
I'll have to remember to flip a random bit in each of my revenge porn images that I upload. What a nuisance... I'll never put up with that. The power of checksums is that they are completely changed if any single bit is altered, so this solution has more holes than my spaghetti strainer.
You can't expect the internet to be full of good content unless people get paid somehow... frankly, the advertising has gotten out of control to the point that I feel no guilt using an adblocker on every site. However, I'm perfectly happy to contribute spare CPU cycles within reason.
However, this is a very slippery slope. I typically have 10+ tabs open at any given time. I can easily see this getting abused. In my tests TPB was using about 15% CPU on each of my 16 threads (Ryzen 1800X), so all together it was using just over an entire core, or two threads, but distributed over all threads makes it unnoticeable to anyone with a decent CPU.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
It really does a good job of putting in perspective just how screwed the world is if someone does something stupid.
Sure it's obnoxious of them to exploit such a vulnerability, but it was Google who put that vulnerability there intentionally. The interesting thing is that Google responded by blacklisting only one sound sample... not fixing the actual exploit. That's like someone reporting an extremely common form of SQL injection then the software developer only blacklists a single SQL sample. A shoddy quickfix that does nothing to prevent any other advertiser from doing the same.
You could call Burger King the White Hat Hacker here and Google the lazy (or unwilling) software developer.
With the age of technology and robotics, a lot of cheap labor is on the horizon. If you aren't 100% confident that a robot could not do your job, then you may want to step up your game or find a different job/career.
This is probably beyond the grasp of someone that doesn't think to take backups, but scavenging some of the images or even html pages from your browsers cache (assuming it hasn't been recently cleared) is possible. I don't think you will get everything, but something is certainly better than nothing.
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One key problem with keeping your phone number confidential is the spammers don't care who you are as long as someone picks up the phone. Lucky for them, phone numbers are very easy to brute force, so they don't have to mine phone numbers from databases. They just pick a target area, string together the country code, regional code, then iterate through the list of the remaining digits... cheap. However, I've been wondering how long it will be until the vast majority of voice services are handled by messaging applications like Facebook Messenger, discord, skype etc which have the capability of bypassing the need for phone numbers entirely. What is keeping our phone tied to the ancient concept of a phone number? I think a short lived invite code to initiate a conversation with a new contact, then whitelisting that contact by a user id for all future calls would go a long way toward preventing robocalls. In my opinion, robocalls are hastening the demise of the phone number for personal use, however businesses that depend on phone numbers will keep the technology alive for decades to come, much like they did with the fax machine.
... here's a good case of whether or not to fire the system admin that just learned a multi-million dollar lesson at your expense.
My personal theory is that dark matter is actually the uncounted mass of space-time itself. Gravity warps space, causing the space around large bodies of mass to be more dense, in an evenly distributed halo pattern. The dark matter particles that we seek are the particles that make up space-time itself :D
Because there isn't incentive enough for Reddit users to come up with the most intricate lies to get as much upvote karma as possible, we will now offer monetary incentives for the most interesting (aka fabricated) content. Fakes news levels will sky rocket, fake personal stories, fake pitty stories, fake everything all to get as much traffic, and as much freely donated money, as possible.
I mean, it's cool that you can pull nuclear fuel from the ocean, but it still has to be enriched as presumably aqueous uranium has the same abysmal percentage of U-235 as the terrestrial ores that are already being mined. Now figure it out how to enrich it at the same time and watch as the world destroys itself building nukes from ocean water.
Old guy attempts to remain relevant in modern age by working on a solar concentrator, makes premature promises of unlimited green energy. Fails to mention the vast space required for his possible future invention to fulfill his premature promises.
Data is cheap... ad driven data is free (at the cost of privacy). Why should I ever delete an email? I reply to emails that merit a response. The rest might be spam or random notifications. Ultimately, I never delete emails because I like having a record of them in a convenient, searchable format.
Even if processing power stopped increasing per mm^2 of die space (it's not), the answer is no. AI processing work is highly parallel. That means you can use things like GPUs. Even better is you can use many CPUs and many GPUs. So the processing power is limited by how much hardware and power you can supply. No, AI is just starting.
So one problem that comes up here is that giving a plant species such a powerful advantage will change where it can and can't grow. Plants that can't typically grow wild in a region could easily become a noxious weed if they have a +40% resource bonus. Sure, it's great for any organisms that are above these new plants in the food chain, but not great for species being displaced and the organisms that depend on them for survival. Normally I'm all for GMOs, but this one scares me a bit.
I used to work in a technical support role. We used a chat service provider called comm100 which does show the agent what you type in real time. At first, I felt dirty like I was invading their privacy, but it does help efficiency considerably. It's invaluable when it comes to de-escalating clients that start to type out a giant rant, then slowly edit it to be more civil... eventually they just chicken out and delete their entire whiny post when they decide it's not worth it. It feels bad and dirty, but also consider that the support agent is usually multi-tasking between clients, so being able to know what you are typing as you are typing it is a real time saver. The worst is when the client has typed out part of a question which you know the answer to and have a full response typed out, then you have to wait for them to hit the 'send' button before you can continue answering the question or solving the problem. Sometimes you have to wait a LONG time.
12 Gb seems wrong. Why would DRAM chips be measured in Gb? It would make more sense to be in GiB ?
Yeah, DVORAK can replace QWERTY keyboards... but you'll be condemning yourself to a life of fighting your environment to work in DVORAK instead of QWERTY.
looking up the actual terms of service rules, they have nothing against videos assembling firearms as mentioned in the overview. They do prohibit videos on how to manufacture them however.
Why waste man hours on something computers and machines can do? As a lazy guy, I'd love it if society could be more automated. Unfortunately humans don't like becoming obsolete as their incomes being built around obsolete skills. Fortunately, humans, unlike machines, can develop new (marketable) skills without being programmed, though AI may take that advantage away from us too. There are problems for sure, but making society more efficient by automation is a very good thing. The Technology isn't the first revolution that made millions of jobs obsolete... the industrial revolution did that 100 years ago and we don't regret that change, do we?
This probably doesn't apply to everyone, but I found an old (ugly beige colored) HP laser jet printer at my University's surplus store for $.25. It took a bit of cleaning on the rollers, but I just hooked it into my LAN via an ethernet cable and it works great! I literally paid 12 times for the paper for what I did for the printer and she works like a champ :)
I'll have to remember to flip a random bit in each of my revenge porn images that I upload. What a nuisance... I'll never put up with that. The power of checksums is that they are completely changed if any single bit is altered, so this solution has more holes than my spaghetti strainer.
You can't expect the internet to be full of good content unless people get paid somehow... frankly, the advertising has gotten out of control to the point that I feel no guilt using an adblocker on every site. However, I'm perfectly happy to contribute spare CPU cycles within reason. However, this is a very slippery slope. I typically have 10+ tabs open at any given time. I can easily see this getting abused. In my tests TPB was using about 15% CPU on each of my 16 threads (Ryzen 1800X), so all together it was using just over an entire core, or two threads, but distributed over all threads makes it unnoticeable to anyone with a decent CPU.
I agree, this looks very scammy indeed.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie It really does a good job of putting in perspective just how screwed the world is if someone does something stupid.
So what happens when my infinitely fast CPU finds an infinite loop?
Sure it's obnoxious of them to exploit such a vulnerability, but it was Google who put that vulnerability there intentionally. The interesting thing is that Google responded by blacklisting only one sound sample... not fixing the actual exploit. That's like someone reporting an extremely common form of SQL injection then the software developer only blacklists a single SQL sample. A shoddy quickfix that does nothing to prevent any other advertiser from doing the same. You could call Burger King the White Hat Hacker here and Google the lazy (or unwilling) software developer.
... and suddenly they're all over the news...
Must be a snow news day.
Are you sure MOORE is better?
I'm pretty sure less is Moore
With the age of technology and robotics, a lot of cheap labor is on the horizon. If you aren't 100% confident that a robot could not do your job, then you may want to step up your game or find a different job/career.
This is probably beyond the grasp of someone that doesn't think to take backups, but scavenging some of the images or even html pages from your browsers cache (assuming it hasn't been recently cleared) is possible. I don't think you will get everything, but something is certainly better than nothing.