First, correlation will not tell you causes. Second, correlation does not necessary make individual outcome predictions possible.

For example, out of population that have bad scores on this test mortality may be 19 times higher, but for any given individual it does not necessary means they are going to die in 5 years, or event that they are significantly more likely to die in 5 years.

You don't need to guess what app is going to do with these permissions, you just assume it will abuse it, because it has no reason not to. What missing is ability to push back against unreasonable permission requests without having to root your device. Both Apple and Google dropped the ball on this.

The key difference is motive - it is trolling because Voltage's profit is not deterrence, not recovering damages from potential loss of a sale, but judicial extortion for profit.

Consider following - you are 100% innocent person that got "mistakenly" targeted by these lawsuits. It will cost you considerable sum to simply defend yourself, if Voltage prices settlement offer just under that amount then rational decision is to always settle.

Again, copyright trolls are called so because they only care to get a list of people they can legally extort under threat of litigation costs. Just look at their identification methods - IP address! Could there be any less reliable way to identify someone? This demonstrate that they don't really care WHO, they just want A RANDOM LIST OF PEOPLE to extort!

If Beta was hot grits, then Natalie Portman would be driving Beowulf cluster of HUGOs!

It would be nice if they let Beta render without allowing half the internet run random sh1t on your browser.

Also, if you ever seen pop-up announcment about Beta - you are not doing intrwebs right. Secure your browser!

Now imagine Beowulf cluster of Beta covered in hot grits.

I don't understand anyone would think "Beta" is anything other than a disaster, but someone please post where we all going to move to.

I love sanitizing telephones. I dream of sanitizing telephones. I enjoy sanitizing telephones. I find high quality telephone sanatization deeply satisfying. I feel the same way about helping others sanitizing telephones so they can feel proud. Please hire me so I can buy food and shelter.

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RTFM

>>>Don't put anything on the internet that you don't want Facebook, Google, the NSA, and every one else looking at.
 
  This is a very good advice that I followed to the letter when I killed my sister and buried her body in my backyard so I could collect insurance money.
 
  -Bill from KY, Carlisle County

Finally, a device to punch someone in the face over Internet. It couldn't have arrived sooner.

Likely as a Robotic Overlord.

Fundamental principle of any intelligent life form is that it will compete for resources within its ecosystem. It is conceivable that we don't understand something about the nature of our galaxy, but to our best knowledge everything is finite, even in Very Large but Finite universe.
 
  Therefore any "hard to explain" places would have its own ecosystem constrained by finite resources. At this point two possibilities remain - newcomer to already occupied ecosystem (likely), breakthrough into the new territory creating a new niche (unlikely). In the first case existing ecosystem will be leveraged to full extent (converted into computronium) to help establish a foothold in the new niche, in the second case "pulling up the ladder" to protect the new niche, because what would stop the humanity from re-loading from backups to create second round and new competition for recently departed?

In ether case humanity is toasted. There is just no good outcomes in emergence/singularity cases where it is not human or human-based minds that are doing emergence/singularity.

I think humanity's best chance is to create human-like AIs, and have them carry our legacy. Currently, this AI field does not approach things this way. We are not focusing on "what makes our minds human", instead "what makes it more efficient at task X". As such, AIs will be alien beings, nothing like us (and are naturally efficient at fighting and sending spam) and completely devoid of ethics, compassion, creativity and all other aspects that we typically associate with humanity.

Soon when you upgrade OS, your old one keeps the house and half of your assets.

No, not again. I... why does it say time jam when there is no time jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window.

It is all about specific types ofintelligence - logical-mathematical. In layman's terms - geeks do better in our techno-centric society. The ethnicity with most geeks ends up with an advantage, then the resulting socioeconomic factors cement the advantage..