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by PredictorY 8y ago
"Mortals never sell me their souls. They give them away." -Satan, "The Broken Sword" by Poul Anderson
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by PredictorY 8y ago
Some governments are more callous than others.
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by PredictorY 8y ago
"...a mechanism to dispute entries" I seriously doubt that the Chinese government is interested in inviting dispute. Dispute is exactly what such a surveillance system is designed to suppress.
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by PredictorY 8y ago
A callous government which oversees the lives of 1,000 million citizens isn't concerned with thousands of false positives.
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“Lawmakers press Facebook over Chinese data sharing” (Reuters)(reuters.com)
50 points by PredictorY 8y ago|7 comments
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“VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 devices is worse than we thought” (Ars)(arstechnica.com)
3 points by PredictorY 8y ago|0 comments
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Why in the World Do Doctor’s Offices Still Use Fax Machines? (Slate)(slate.com)
3 points by PredictorY 8y ago|1 comments
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by PredictorY 8y ago
I don't think this is new. "TRON" (1982) and "Robocop" (1987), for instance, featured "evil CEOs".
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by PredictorY 8y ago
When strong commercial encryption becomes illegal, two things will happen: 1. Criminals and terrorists will construct their own strong encryption (anyone can buy books explaining how to do this from Amazon, and any competent programmer can
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by PredictorY 8y ago
Do these costs come from the Snowden leak, the various behaviors it exposed, or some combination of both?
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by PredictorY 8y ago
For ages, the world has dangerously low-balled the economic (and human) cost of war, political apathy, hyper-allegiance to nation and God: Why should this be any different?
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What is the fastest serial computer?
5 points by PredictorY 8y ago|1 comments
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by PredictorY 8y ago
Unless I am married to Dr. Seung or Dr. Lee, I'm not sure why this should matter to me?
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by PredictorY 8y ago
The Pyramids of Giza are near Pizza Hut. What's the problem? Just remember that, thousands of years from now, when empires have risen and fallen, the Pizza Hut will still be here.
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by PredictorY 8y ago
I don't know about software engineers specifically (and I know that this title is abused by applying it to other positions), but I can tell you that both general pay-scales and the cost of living vary quite a bit in the United States,
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by PredictorY 8y ago
The hot item today, both popular and used on a variety of platforms, is Java. A lot can happen in 50 years, so it's conceivable to me than Java does not make it to 50, but I'm guessing that some version of the JVM does (whatever l
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by PredictorY 8y ago
It's too bad the author doesn't once explain what "KPI" means.
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by PredictorY 8y ago
I used my VISA a few hours ago in the northeastern US without a problem.
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by PredictorY 8y ago
I suggest beginning with "Computer Systems That Learn" by Weiss and Kulikowski.
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by PredictorY 8y ago
Most often, "machine learning" refers specifically to supervised learning. Generally, such technology requires an historic set of examples of sufficient volume and quality (what this means varies greatly from problem to problem) f