Comment Correction (Score 1) 101
A (slightly- confused] excerpt:
FTFY
Comment You can't regulate it (Score 4, Insightful) 113
AI, or what passes for AI these days (ie. not AI), can not be regulated. The cat is out of the bag. This isn't like nuclear regulation where it can be physically controlled (and even that doesn't work; eg. North Korea). You're not going to stop some mad scientist in the basement from creating something harmful.
Instead of regulation what needs to be worked on is technologies to defend against AI threats.
Comment Re: Note that this isn't being released for Window (Score 1) 29
Windows 2000 was the best ever made. It is the last true version of Windows NT. NT kept getting better with every release. Each was faster, smaller, more stable. It was going places, the legacy of OS/2.
Then they merged all the Windows 95/ME crap to make XP. Windows never recovered from that blunder.
Comment High-end? Only one choice (Score 5, Informative) 196
The absolute best? There is only one choice:
GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone.
There are cheaper phone alternatives like LineageOS on supported Androids but it doesn't have the functionality of Graphene.
CalyxOS is similar to but not as good as Graphene but maybe worth a try. Also Pixel-only.
Comment More crowdfund bullshit (Score 1) 207
Please give us demonstrable results, not marketing wank. Then we might believe you. All you have to do is simply show actual provable results. It's easy because scammers can't do it. Just do it...
Solar roadways, anyone?
Comment Re:Causal or coincidental? (Score 1) 61
Not only that but people like me that ride motorcycles and have wind damage to ears. Or in the 90's I used to be in the SPL race and had sound systems that would break windows. Or people like me that suffer from trichotillomania and have hearing loss from sticking/twirling hairs in the ear and pounding the eardrum.
I'm nearly 50 so in the age group.
Comment Whatever, 40-year-old tech does this (Score 1) 66
Many C64's, hell even TI-99/4A's, serve web pages these days. I won't link to them because that would probably kill them but if you search you can find them. This is 40+ year-old tech.
Comment Why is a a "suspect" on hard labor? (Score 2) 85
The question I want answered is why someone simply suspected of something (NOT convicted) is out on labor duty for a crime they possibly didn't commit? This is weird on all levels.
Comment "Contests" = Free Labor (Score 5, Informative) 82
You'd have to be an idiot to participate in this. They're just getting a whole bunch of free work then pick the one they like.
India's First CPUs Are Ready For App Development (tomshardware.com) 142
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has released the software development kit (SDK) for its open-source Shakti processor. Shakti is based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set architecture and was funded by the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The institute promised that a development board will also be released soon. Tom's Hardware reports: The RISE group at IIT Madras started working on the Shakti project in 2016 with a plan to release a family of six classes of processors, each serving a different market. The group promised that the reference processors will be competitive with commercial offerings in terms of area, performance and power consumption. Now India, like China and the European Union, are showing interest in designing their own processors, rather than relying on ones designed by U.S. manufacturers. With the release of the Shakti SDK, developers can begin to develop applications for the Shakti processors, even before they're commercialized.
Comment Re:Kudos for actually having a link with the apps (Score 2) 37
US Doctors Plan To Treat Cancer Patients Using CRISPR (technologyreview.com) 53
An anonymous reader shares a report: The first human test in the U.S. involving the gene-editing tool CRISPR could begin at any time and will employ the DNA cutting technique in a bid to battle deadly cancers. Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say they will use CRISPR to modify human immune cells so that they become expert cancer killers, according to plans posted this week to a directory of ongoing clinical trials. The study will enroll up to 18 patients fighting three different types of cancer -- multiple myeloma, sarcoma, and melanoma -- in what could become the first medical use of CRISPR outside China, where similar studies have been under way. An advisory group to the National Institutes of Health initially gave a green light to the Penn researchers in June 2016, but until now it was not known whether the trial would proceed.
Comment Re:Not everything need story be encrypted (Score 1) 244
What waste? Modern processors have AES in hardware. Except for the initial TLS negotiation (and even that is hardware accelerated on most systems) it costs almost nothing to use encryption.
Comment Not gonna happen (Score 5, Insightful) 595
For as long as we're running Von Neumann architecture machines then C and C++ will continue to dominate anything and everything that needs to be high performance and/or low-level/hardware access.
Because if you don't need C/C++ then you're scripting or whatever much-higher-level language stuff. Languages like Go and Rust fit somewhere in between... no-man's land, where they're doomed to get lost like every single previous attempt at such languages.
Comment Re:Why shut down nuclear? (Score 1) 153
Nuclear power is definitely the answer to our current power problems. Fusion is hopefully eventually the answer but regular old fission is orders of magnitude more safe and more efficient than anything else we have. A "person" is smart, "people" are just absolutely dumbfuckery stupid.
