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Nothing about Gmail (which allows IMAP) prevents you from doing your own encryption of the messages.
No shit. That's why I never implied that such was the case.
The point is that it could have been ridiculously easy by now and that Google could have pushed to make it that way, but they have an incentive not to do so.
Because major webmail providers don't really want email to be encrypted.
Google/Gmail could easily push it and make it happen, but they would just be throwing money away by not being able to profile their users anymore.
If everybody were still using Outlook Express and/or Thunderbird and ISP provided email accounts, there would have been loads of easy install plugins that would allow cross-client encryption.
The symbol grounding 'problem' isn't a problem for AI at all. It is merely a fundamental misunderstanding of the world born out of the arrogance that our consciousness and sentience are somehow special and must arise from something non-physical. If you disagree, I challenge you to define 'meaning' and show me how an artificial neural net cannot possess it.
Beyond the above, even if a sufficiently advanced AI being was somehow devoid of 'understanding' or 'meaning' (in the Searle's Chinese Room sense), it would be impossible for us to know and it would have no effect on its behavior.
I've downloaded the data and as a way of getting contact info of your friends, it is utterly useless.
Basically just a list of plaintext names of which a whopping 2 had an email next to them. They were gmail addresses, though.
Facebook does have the option to 'download your data', which should include a list of 'Friends' with the email addresses they have chosen to disclose.
I hadn't ever used the functionality, so I am curious what the archive will contain when they have compiled it and I am able to download it. I would be sortof surprised if indeed I found only @facebook.com addresses in there, but if so, it's a real dick move by FB.
On the other hand, the contacts in my Android contacts list do have info (email addresses and phone numbers) from their associated FB accounts. Exporting the whole contact list to
I will add that I sync them using HaxSync, but I would be surprised if it made any difference if I were to use the official Facebook application to sync the contacts.
Sounds pretty awesome, actually!
Screw the Russians with their dashcams. Now we get the view from onlookers AND First Person Road Rage shots!
BTW, what kind of stupid asshole would expect "making pretty photo's from your car whilst driving" to be a reasonable use case for Google Glass?
I bet it would work great for traffic jam flirting, though. Keep your window-sized QR codes of your facebook url handy!
Yeah, that is almost the same thing.
What most Europeans don't understand is that Louisiana is about as foreign too 95% of the US as Romania is to the UK.
Don't be silly. (People in) States in the US have only had several hundred years to diverge from each other. European cultures have been able to do that for millennia (it is no wonder that so many different languages are spoken in Europe).
And let's not forget two huge recent wars fought on European soil between majorly different political mindsets. Some European countries were Soviet ruled states less than three decades ago. Some Europeans still alive today were nazis that played their part in the Holocaust. The effects of recent history are obvious.
Minimum monthly wage in Romania is about 160 EUR. In Austria, it is about 1000 EUR and in France it is about 1450 EUR: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_minimum_wage
The distance between Austria and Romania is about 250 miles.
The animosity between European inhabitants can be very strong. I'd be surprised if New Yorkers complained about all those poor people from Lousiana coming to their state and stealing all their jobs, undercutting their wages and being useless criminals in general. Because that is exactly how an alarming amount of Western Europeans feels about Romanians and other Eastern Europeans. Ironically, the main solutions to the problems people complain about lie in more (synchronization of) legislation at the European level instead of less (which is what populists tell the gullible is the answer).
Simplest thing to do is to use a 8 char string as the base password and append, prepend or insert a three char string based on the web site name into it.
I used to do this, but the problem is that it only protects against automated attempts to abuse a compromised password. If I happen to have bought something at EvilWebshopHosterX and made an account with BasePasswordEWHX, it's easy for anyone that gets their hands on the password to figure out all my other passwords based on the scheme.
Rotate the base password once a year or so.
This is a terrible hassle and generally leads to having to try multiple base passwords before giving up and using the password reset mechanism because at that particular website, none of the base passwords plus the website specific scheme were allowed by retarded password restrictions.
The main point is that I just don't want to trust any entity with key information that can be used for doing other things. Things like LastPass generated unique tokens and application specific tokens are things that remove that risk, although of course pretty much everything is compromised if your emailaccount used in password reset mechanisms is compromised.
That is why you use LastPass generated passwords for the millions of accounts you don't really give a fuck about and can ultimately always access through password reset mechanisms. This allows you to focus on creating and remembering unique passwords that you know for truly important accounts, such as emailaccounts and banking accounts.
The alternative of using a single throwaway password for all those crap accounts instead of LastPass 'tokens' will inevitably lead to using a terribly weak password due to differing password restrictions on different websites and still allows all the accounts in the crap zone to be compromised by a hack of one of them.
This was something like 5-6 big boxes worth of parts, and involved some assembly that was a real challenge to do by myself.
That is besides the point. The IKEA-construction meme revolves around having parts left over and lack of understanding of the intended assembly process.
That is markedly different from construction being difficult when done alone.
Furthermore, I just looked at the type of bed you mentioned and the second page of the assembly instructions actually very intuitively makes clear that assembly should be done with two people:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/assembly_instructions/brimnes-bed-frame-with-storage__AA-473492-10_pub.pdf
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/assembly_instructions/mandal-bed-frame-with-storage__AA-261173-9_pub.PDF
You might want to check whether the instructions you have contain a similar indication.
Oh I know the problem! IKEA manuals assume you have a brain!
This is exactly right.
In reality, assembling IKEA stuff isn't much (if any) harder than assembling a certain LEGO design (which most 8 year old children have very little difficulties with).
The whole bitching about assembling IKEA furniture is nothing more than a popular meme originating from and perpetuated by people who consider everything that requires slightly more mental effort than scratching their ass and operating a TV remote a burden.
These are the same people who find operating a microwave or a washing machine mystifying ("How DO they work??").
That said, a lot of it is similar to how the police do investigations, the 'internet' just had less information. We didn't get to see things like CCTV footage and such.
This.
There is no doubt in my mind that if the CCTV footage had been publicly accessible, it would have been a matter of hours or minutes before the crowd came to the same conclusions as the officials did.
It all boils down to the physical exertion of lifting my arm to perform input vs resting my arm on a desk and lightly moving my wrist.
You shouldn't have to. Considering the precision of Leap Motion, it could behave like sort of a 3D touchpad that you mainly operate by moving your finger(s) slightly (although large arm based motions should be easy to support simultaneously). It should even be possible to put a Leap Motion unit in a monitor and then interpret the movements of your hand on your desk as if you were moving a mouse.
The awesomeness of the sensing technology simply cannot be contested. The challenges lie in where to physically put the technology and how to interpret the data.
a civil war similar to the mid-19th century civil war in the United States. The United States of Europe will go through the same thing.
What the fuck are you talking about? How on earth are a bunch of cowboys with muskets (or slave owners with revolvers, whatever, fuck you) in a sticks and stones society on a recently sortof-civilized continent similar to millions of 9 to 5 schmucks in highly advanced societies where smartphones, computers and TVs pretty much rule life?
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The difference between dogs and cats is that dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you.