Submission + - Something for Everyone in Benghazi (nytimes.com)
sunsurfandsand writes: Lefties and righties both will enjoy David Kirkpatrick's story.
It's ransomware: it encrypts your files with a public key. The private key is controlled by the gang. You don't pay, you end up with a bunch of random-looking data substituted for your files, since the gang destroys the unique private key after the time is up.
Unfortunately, I couldn't afford the $300. Fortunately, I never liked my data anyway.
The assumption that we humans will be able to develop AI that can then create new and better technology is a logical fallacy.
How is it a logical fallacy? Isn't it just an empirical question as yet unanswered?
For this the AI must become sentient, or can only optimize existing processes and technology, but never create new one.
Why? The fact that no one has yet invented a robot-designing robot is no guarantee that no one ever will. I work with neuroscientists who build animats and cultured neural networks that interface with computers. The latter have been shown to learn. Sure, those examples are to robot-designing robots as protozoa are to humans, but that's the point. Protozoa evolved and here we are. The real logical fallacy is in assuming that because we claim to be sentient now that we have evolved, that the eventual robot-designing robot will make the same claim.
silly me thought my 5GH miner was going to make me stupid rich...
One out of two ain't bad.
Both parties in a trade value what they are getting more than what they give.
The party that values cash more than bitcoins, though, probably will suffer less buyer's remorse.
In the U.S. the "right" actually proposes reducing government power
Does it, in practical effect, count as reducing government power if all you actually do is transfer that power from the constitutional government to large corporations? If so, is that a good thing? Isn't it in fact marginally worse for me if completely unaccountable corporations wrest power from a nearly unaccountable government? Government does a lousy job of protecting me from AT&T, Goldman Sachs, and Monsanto...but AT&T, Goldman Sachs, and Monsanto don't protect me from government at all, and certainly not from themselves.
Who gives a crap about sports? Grown men fighting over a ball...
Fighting over a ball and generating a huge load of statistics. Fantasy football is a fun intellectual pastime...if you have an interest in predictive analytics...which I do. Watching actual games not only provides some insight regarding what to include in modeling, but also makes the process more interesting...even exciting at times. But if there were no actual grown men out there fighting over actual balls, there would be no fantasy football. So I guess I'd have to say that I, for one, give a crap about sports.
"The more Toyota / Nissan / Nexus / Mazda / Honda on your neighborhood, the more you guys are asking them to lord over you !"
Not to mention Hello Kitty.
Did they get a date on that meat?
"Best by 1334 BC"
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
