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Iris also reported on her twitter that the site was down.......
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Gathered on sites such as the subreddit r/darknetplan, entrepreneurs and activists discuss plans to create an alternative to the current Internet by beaming data packets from router to router, circumventing ISPs. Let's all be mesh buddies!
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Makes sense to me; good to see it's working in some areas. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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These folks[^] have been using mesh network for a while now. I just finished working on a project for them helping to write the Kiosk software.
I would think that mesh networks will definitely be the way to go in the future -- it's secure from the biggest vulnerability the Internet has in security: governments shutting down ISP's. And it's secure from the second biggest vulnerability: corporations in control of the network.
Marc
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Up until this point, the musical genre known as "drone rock" had been a weird, indie niche that consisted of slow, loud guitar noise. If machinists and programmers have their way, that description will need some major rewriting—but it'll probably seem just as weird. Bands with real people playing real instruments are soooooo last year.
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Facebook and Twitter are on a well-documented mission to one-up each other. But Facebook threw the latest punch on Thursday, announcing a new feature that caters to Twitter’s most avid users: Journalists. Breaking news! I just ate a delicious grilled cheese sandwich.
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In my experience, journalists seem to be quite avid users of Wikipedia. It's quicker than having an independently acquired education.
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The problem is, is that 99.9999999999999% of the drivel posted on farcebook is not "news".
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In yet another sign that the internet is eating traditional television, Netflix announced on Friday that it has inked a deal with three cable TV companies to make watching Netflix as easy as changing the channel. In related news, the company also announced that it will now be known simply as "Flix".
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Always using the latest high-tech gadget is one way to boost your image at work, new research suggests.
Indeed, business professionals who want to be perceived as leaders should be investing in the latest technology breakthroughs, according to a study published recently in The Journal of Product Innovation Management. "No. I'm not playing games... I'm advancing my career."
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This article highlights how a discovered quirk is just a few steps away from becoming a feature. "It's a feature." Here we go again.
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Chaochao Lu and Xiaoou Tang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong say they’ve developed a face recognition algorithm called GaussianFace that outperforms humans for the first time. Yea, but can it write a symphony?
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I can write symphony, but still I don't like to do so. Am I artificial intelligence or not?
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The article contained: But when the algorithm is faced with images that are entirely different from the training set, it often fails. “When the [image] distribution changes, these methods may suffer a large performance drop,” say Chaochao and Xiaoou.
The problem where the computer defeats humans is a narrowly-defined situation where the system is trained with a specific set of faces.
Typically humans can recognize thousands of faces in various contexts much of the time.
It is still an impressive accomplishment though.
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Finding look a likes might be much easier now 
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Quote: But when the algorithm is faced with images that are entirely different from the training set, it often fails. [] say Chaochao and Xiaoou.
So it's all about speed of processing! Get a extremely powerful computer and run all the known face-recognition algorithms on the pictures - you probably got a 100% success in less time a human need to look at the picture...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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When Scott Erven was given free rein to roam through all of the medical equipment used at a large chain of Midwest health care facilities, he knew he would find security problems–but he wasn’t prepared for just how bad it would be. Please don't tell my big brother about this. He thinks he's hilarious.
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That is f^cking ridiculous.... Death by Bluetoof? That would suck!
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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Back in 2013 The Register reported that Google sets its bets on SQL again. On the first sight this might look like a surprising move because it was of all things Google’s publications about MapReduce and BigTable that gave the NoSQL movement a big boost in the first place. On a second sight it turns out that there is a trend to use SQL or similar languages to access data from NoSQL systems—and that’s not even a new trend. However, it raises a question: What remains of NoSQL if we add SQL again? Big things have small beginnings.
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The sooner NoSQL dies, the better, IMO. The idea of storing data in a non-relational manner is a step back to the stone ages. The relationships are information, and removing them and creating willy-nilly JSON-formatted hashes results in a significant loss of useful information. Which is ironic, because this stuff is supposed to help with information management! OK, there might be some narrow application for this stuff, but when I hear some newbie (or seasoned!) developer say "ooh, let's use a NoSQL database like Mongo for this application", I cringe (which is probably better than doing what I really want to do, which is hit them over the head with a 2x4.)
Marc
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Not all data is relational. SQL isn't always the best choice for hierarchical data or graphs.
It's interesting, though, when I read the NoSQL advocates using the argument that the only reason we have normalised tables was that it was necessary in order to conserve disk space.
They are tools. They each solve problems. Please just use the right tool.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Exactly - but a blended tool (if available) would be able to solve this for all of us. i.e SQL + extensibility of NoSQL + file system.
This can, in fact, be created in SQL Server - you use an XML column (or NTEXT full of JSON) for the variable component of your entities, standard columns for what you need to be pure relational and files for the totally unstructured stuff.
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Absolutely true. But SQL can act like a dumb storage (XML, JSON) as well. While NoSQL have big troubles doing anything else than operator[].
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Chris Maunder wrote: It's interesting, though, when I read the NoSQL advocates using the argument that the only reason we have normalised tables was that it was necessary in
order to conserve disk space.
Wrong argument. The arguments are "consistency" and "correctness" (of the data). We've had non-relational data for ages; a game-map will probably not be encoded as a RDB, nor does one need a RDB for a logger.
Chris Maunder wrote: They are tools. They each solve problems. Please just use the right tool.
That's the point; what 'problem' does NoSQL solve?
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