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Everything is relative. For example, the Federal Reserve is the huge elephant in the room that everyone ignores and which makes Google look like a mouse.
Odd how we frown upon the potential evil of Google when the historical evils of the Federal Reserve are there for all to see. The US debt is close to $7,000,000,000,000 and it ain't Google that is collecting the huge interest payments from fiat loans 'graciously provided' by the Fed.
Me thinks people have their priorities in the wrong place!
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Microsoft is looking to get more feedback from IT pros about business-focused Windows 10 features via a new virtual lab, known as Olympia Corp. Because if there's one thing enterprise sysadmins love, it's testing new features
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Yes, yes, the holodeck on the Enterprise
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The case could set a legal precedent for workers' rights to privacy. Is this going to be another round of those "we use cookie" notifications?
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Nine years after going open source, Reddit is archiving the source code for its website and mobile apps. The source code will still be accessible, but will no longer be updated -- Reddit cites concerns about competition as one of the reasons for the change in direction. Open for thee, but not for me
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Why didn't everybody just get that? If you leave the cookies out..
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A team of researchers from the U.S. and China has demonstrated electronic devices that can degrade and disappear on demand using nothing but moisture in the air. Oh good: because mine always disappear whenever they feel like it
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Mine degrade as soon as warrantee runs out.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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So you ran away? Or did you mean warranty?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Mozilla used to be our bulwark against the the closure of the web. Can it muster a defense again? This news item looks best at 1024x768 in Netscape Navigator 4.0
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The Russian president warned that artificial intelligence offers ‘colossal opportunities’ as well as dangers But some people do
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North Korea ‘low on our list of concerns’ says Tesla boss following Putin’s statement that whoever leads in AI will rule world. OK, Elon, we get it: you don't like AI
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I think it will be different than previous wars...
In past war was about controlling resources between those who already had a lot, but with AI resources will be divide in a more business like way and the real war will be between those who control and those who don't want to be controlled...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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that will be only the first AI war...
the second one will be probably machines trying to defeat that pest of humanity and humans fighting to avoid extinction.
And yes... I know this is not possible blah blah, only films blah blah...
To answer that I only have a quote (don't remember who said it):
What today is written as science fiction will (or can) be reminded as history in the future.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Sounds like something Arthur C. Clarke would say...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: the real war will be between those who control and those who don't want to be controlled...
We've already got that between the media and those who vote "the wrong way"
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Cyber-criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research. It doesn't take a thief to catch one?
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At least someone is still watching the BBC
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[^]Quote: Apple launched a public blog in July to talk about its work, for example, and has allowed its researchers to speak at several conferences on artificial intelligence, including a TED Talk in April by Tom Gruber, co-creator of Apple’s Siri voice assistant, that was posted on YouTube last month.
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Indeed many big tech companies have embraced academia’s relative transparency. They have aggressively recruited top researchers over the years such as Yann LeCun of New York University, who joined Facebook in 2013, and Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, who joined Alphabet’s Google unit in 2013. The companies together also have churned out hundreds of research papers over the past several years.
Apple was slow to follow, AI analysts and leading researchers say. And even since its public embrace of greater transparency, it has published a fraction of its competitors’ research, and its scientists have avoided speaking about Apple-related research at conferences.
«While I complain of being able to see only a shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is now, since I'm not at a stage of development where I'm capable of seeing it. A few hundred years later another traveler despairing as myself, may mourn the disappearance of what I may have seen, but failed to see.» Claude Levi-Strauss (Tristes Tropiques, 1955)
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It's not quantity, but quality that matters
And: it's no use comparing apples to oranges
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Joseph Stalin supposedly said:
"Quantity has a quality all its own"
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Ironic that that man was born in Georgia
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Well... he did have other "qualities".
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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