To be fair we are bombing ISIS territories and various Arab nations (via drones) and killing a crapload of non-military forces.
I'm not going to defend the drone strikes, but I will point out that every one is absolutely an attempt to strike some military target, the question is what percentage they get wrong...
There is no chance that taking over a coffee shop is going to be a strike at a military target.
If you're a religious fanatic in the Middle East and want to kill Christians you become a terrorist.
Or, you can join ISIS (the army killing and/or enslaving/raping everyone including Christians).
So there's an equal choice to be had, yet some are choosing to capture and harm non-military forces - those people doing so have been wholly Muslim.
When there's a dark layer of soil on top of sand it's usually a macrobiotic crust, that has taken a few hundred years to do its thing - that is what they crushed as they walked. There's not much worse you can do as far as lasting ecological damage except for sawing down trees a few hundred years old...
They did also harm the aesthetics of the lines themselves.
Facebook is doing some interesting research. Is it even possible to determine, from a picture, if someone is drunk? Do you start with face recognition algorithms, and look at the face? Can the algorithm learn body language? I am skeptical on this.
Fashioning such a tool is largely about building image recognition technology that can distinguish between your drunken self and your sober self, and using a red-hot form of artificial intelligence called “deep learning”—a technology bootstrapped by LeCun and other academics—Facebook has already reached a point where it can identify your face and your friends’ faces in the photos you post to its social network, letting you more easily tag them with the right names.
Identifying one's face is not barely even AI any more. The fingerprint is based on the distance between the facial features. Yes, neural networks and things are good at finding those features, so AI is involved to some degree. Identifying some vague concept like drunkenness based on a facial recognition algorithm seems like a big step. I'll be impressed if they can do this with any reliability. I bet you could do better looking at the GPS coordinates of the picture, proximity to bars, the people in the picture, and the time of day. Maybe that is more like what they are doing, than actually judging the image itself.
P.S. This is supposed to be a tech blog. How sad is it that a story about deep learning AI yields nothing but a series of jokes about drunkenness?
It also sends a really clear message: "This behavior will not be tolerated."
The video has nothing to do with his behavior. Having it online benefitted others far more than himself.
The message it does send is that they are so afraid of controversy they are willing to hurt anyone rather than endure it.
Sounds like the HP and IBM law suits over printer cartridge lock-in.
This is *exactly* the kind of thing that the DMCA was made to prevent! Tape is a circumvention device and should be banned! (Since there was recently an article here about how the DMCA is being abused, so I'm itching for them to issue a DMCA takedown against this article so I can add it to the list of reasons to repeal the DMCA).
The only thing removing these lectures does is make it harder for others to learn physics without attending school in person.
I would argue removing the videos does far more harm than he ever did, when you consider there aggregate effect on humanity.
By 2017, they anticipate 1.95 customers.
Who are the customers of this? I am skeptical of the business model for 3D printing as a service.
There are 2 kinds of people who want to 3D print:
- Makers
- Gimmick lovers
The makers won't use this service. 3 years ago every hackerspace had a 3D printer, and it was a cool reason to join up. Now, the makers just buy their own printer. The cost has gone down, and designing a 3D object is an iterative interactive process.
The gimmick lovers could use the service. There are two types of gimmicks:
- Stock gimmicks that are all the same
- Custom gimmicks
If there is significant demand for a stock gimmick, then it is cheaper and faster to mass produce the item and sell it. This is how we have done it for decades. Popular items on Thingiverse and are now sold on Amazon.
That leaves custom gimmicks and low-demand stock items for 3D printing. Does the royal mail have a system for customizing gimmicks? If not, then the pool grows yet smaller. I don't know if that customer base is big enough to be profitable. Maybe someone who wants a custom or rare gimmick can find a friend with a 3D printer. That's how it was with 2D printing back in the 80s. You always had a friend with a computer and a color dot-matrix printer, and they could make those "Happy Birthday" banners for you. I suspect that might be the way this really works.
How many places offer CNC routing as a service? That seems like the most equivalent thing to 3D printing. It has been around for decades, but I don't know of the post-office offering that service.
What problem will be solved RIGHT NOW by passing strict regulations for ISP's to abide by?
None? They why pass a regulation to fight terrors not yet real, and increase costs?
From what I can tell, they seem to accept none of that
That's pretty much bullshit since Uber pays for extra insurance for drivers, and screens them which means obviously Uber has some liability they are guarding against.
Where I live, to be a cab you need a commercial drivers license
Which is just a note that you have given the state extra money, of no actual value to anyone. Uber drivers have that though, just not UberX.
proper insurance
Which Uber provides.
regular vehicle inspections
UberX also makes sure you have a vehicle in good shape before you can drive
a tax license
Well THAT should stop the raping!
and are legally required to have a camera installed in your car.
Uber drivers are all tracked by GPS continuously and if they are smart have a camera in the car or voice recording app also. It's not magic.
Basically you've done no research and don't know what the hell you are talking about, but don't let that stop you from complaining.
I mentioned that once before, and was roundly shouted down... By people who noted that Uber in fact DOES do background checks.
They may have had a failing in this case, but it's the exception rather than a rule and a problem with the division in India, not generally.
If you don't like being shouted down perhaps do some research before speaking?
In the USA and Canada, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum did not exist.
In the U.S. I had a Timex-Sinclair 2068, which was basically the Spectrum but with some improvements.
It was a lot nicer to use and program for than the Timex-Sinclair 1000 (ZX-81), really a pretty solid machine and nice to program for.
It absolutely was a classic in every sense that the C64 was, just for a smaller group of people.
I agree that is some companies - I worked on things like that also.
But there are many, many smaller companies that need programmers where life is nothing like that. The great thing is that a competent programmer really can choose the kind of life that fits them best - some people actually fit in and like the environment you describe, but you can escape if not.
I posted what I did because I want younger developers to ponder the freedom they have and take advantage of it while it exists, and to really take themselves in a direction they want to go.
That's the really hard part though - getting an idea of where you want to go, and sometimes sitting at company for a while until you work that out makes sense.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
