Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 1) 681
Building a simple SoC that works on an FPGA is sufficient. You're getting low enough level by writing HDL to make a simple computer on a FPGA.
Building a simple SoC that works on an FPGA is sufficient. You're getting low enough level by writing HDL to make a simple computer on a FPGA.
So why hasn't it happened? Is the panopticon that good? Are they just burying all the stories of thwarted attempts?
I'd go with another theory -- there are very, very few people inside the USA who want to be terrorists (and even fewer with the required combination of skills and ruthlessness to actually pull off a successful act of terrorism).
The reason why: If you're living in a hopelessly dysfunctional third-world hellhole, you don't have a lot to lose, so you may well just say "screw it" and throw in your lot with the local terrorist militia, in the hopes that shaking things up enough might somehow improve things. If you're inside the USA, on the other hand, your quality of life is (or at least, can be) much higher, so you'll be less tempted to throw all that away for the glory of jihad.
The TSA will be at all entrances doing bag checks.
Getting into the mall will become such a hassle that almost nobody will go there; instead people will do most of their shopping on line and the rest at non-mall locations.
Actually, that doesn't sound too bad.
A lot of positions require learning algorithms. Once you have those, what's stopping them from learning whole new jobs without programmer's intervention?
A major part of programming is talking to your users, learning about what the problem is that they need to have solved, and then designing a program that will (hopefully) solve that problem for them in a reasonably acceptable manner. If/when a computer program is intelligent enough to do that, then we've pretty much reached human-level AI, and at that point the world will be so different from today's that underemployment of human programmers will likely be the least of our concerns.
So it's reinventing quantum physics: it's fuzzy until you look at it more carefully. P.S. don't look at cats.
He's not kidding. I looked at my cat through VR glasses and saw this.
The problem with a vaccum tube, though, is that it is closed at both ends. As much as it sucks coming to an early stop below the surface, slamming into the airlock is going to hurt, at a speed which would otherwise get you up for another 4km
The fix is to make the "short" end of the tube taller, so that it sticks up above the Earth's surface as much as necessary. Oh yeah, and put a handrail next to the airlock.
And this is why such services actually exist. For example, in the nearest town (pop. ~30,000) there are two shops that will do repairs on things like iPhones/Android phones (the usual stuff - repairing broken screens, replacing dead batteries, removing the SIM lock from any locked phones, replacing home buttons that have stopped working and the usual other wear-and-tear failures that smartphones suffer over time).
I lived in the US for a few years. We all knew it was the richest country in the world (and much richer than the country I'm from) but I was astonished by how common obvious poverty was. I thought our inner cities were bad, but I'd never seen things like trailer parks and some of the small towns in the south that look like they belong in the third world.
We've had chip&pin here now for over a decade, and people still forget their cards.
However: in nearly every system you can put your card in while the cashier is still ringing up your goods, you don't have to wait for the total to come out. When the total does come out the wait for the transaction to complete after entering the pin is normally well under a second on any remotely modern system.
It's kind of beside the point whether it's a good thing or a bad thing. No doubt it will have some combination of good and bad effects, but regardless of what the effects are, the cat is out of the bag -- the algorithm is invented and it's not going to go away. And if these guys hadn't invented it, somebody else would have. The only question that remains is how society ought to react to its existence.
...that he will be strongly in favor of whatever the audience is in favor of in whatever venue he's speaking (because he won't really talk to Republicans anyway, so in that sense self-selecting).
Should I infer from this that you believe that Republicans are against strong encryption?
I'd think the Libertarian wing of the Republican party, at least, would want to promote strong encryption everywhere. I'm not sure where the "Defend America Against Evil" wing stands on the issue. (The "We Are Against Whatever Obama Is For" wing, of course, doesn't itself know where it stands on any given issue, until after Obama has stated his position
I think it will be more like:
Alright sir, I see you are here to defend patent XJ82934952H28354. Why isn't the inventor here?
> I'm right here, your Honor!
Someone said you used a computer program to write this patent. Is that true?
> It sure is, your Honor! But then again, most everybody uses a computer program to write patents these days. Microsoft Word, for example.
Ah, I see. Carry on!
except automation is getting to the point where the new job will be automated from the get go.
This is supported by a lot of data.
The easiest to grok is the decrease in jobs, but the increase in GDP. creating more, with less. Easy to look up.
Oh good ol hornwumpus. WHen you argument fails, always falling back on the tried and true ad hom.
"Or do you not understand the concept of "Artificial Intelligence"?"
actually, you don't understand that term.
It doesn't men self aware. YOU can have specialty AIs that make decision in the fields of expertise and that's it.
You might want to move past the 1950's version of AI.
There are Chess AI's that are better then almost everyone on the planet. WHen was the last times chess AI demanded a Union?
"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen
