Posts by Mark 85

Re: Contact Previous Owner

I suspect the real problem is with the manufacturers own systems not being able to easily handle this natural transfer of ownership.

Some of this could be simply rectified by the manufacturer just needing to change the "owner" on the data file and lock out previous data when that changes. With the dealer "lockin" that gives the dealer the ability to pressure sell new vehicles and at this point, who's paying the dealer to this "data transfer" work? From the tone of the article, not only is this process rather undefined by the manufacturer but there's no incentive (legal or otherwise) for them to do something that costs bit of money.

Re: 6000 civilian deaths

First a disclaimer/background. I'm a former US Marine who put time in Vietnam. Read into that what you may but this is from my perspective.

Maybe instead of blaming the AI, blame the "fog of war"? Crap happens. People die because of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, It goes back to beginning of human civilization and warfare. Yes, war is hard on civilians. Always has been, always will be. The tactics used by Al-Qaeda are no different than that of the honored Resistance and others: Hide in civilian populations and damage the other side as best you can.

We look back at wars since wars started and civilians have always suffered the most. Ancient times, whole cities were slaughtered and destroyed. Move forward to WWII.. carpet bombing of cities with incendiary bombs, etc. The atom bomb drops. Come forward some more and we have My Lai. Currently, we have terrorists, etc. still targeting civilians.

Does this justify civilian deaths by either side? No it does not. One would think that AI does have the potential (once it's truly AI and not the current BS) of the AI giving choices and then a human selecting the targets that things might get more finely grained. Having said that.. we still have the a-bombs targeting cities.

As has been said, "War is hell". What's needed is either we as humans mature and find a way not to need war, or at the minimum, not take out civilians. I don't see the first being accomplished in our live times but maybe the second... maybe.

Re: I'm actually surprised that it works on raw samples at all

I was surprised they don't find using actual music score (or similar) works... it's the language of music encoded quite strictly. Training AI on "just the noise" is counterintuitive to me.

Probably because no one thought of that. It should be a easy solution and implantation as opposed to what they're doing now. But... this research and that means grants and degree of difficulty. Someone's just not thinking outside the box.

Re: Plausible

A large part of contingency planning is plan for the unexpected. The planners have to assume X will happen to plan for it. For example, where I am, forest fires and flooding have in depth plans. Can't remember the last time there was a flood but we get forest fires every year. But that 1 in a million chance may come true.

There is some motive (taxes most likely) for Amazon to make it's statements about their planning as seldom does any company publicize their planning for competitive reasons.

@The JP -- Re: eh?

The problem with Brexit is that facts and evidence has long since been replaced by blind belief.

The blind belief now appears on both sides of the aisle but each belief opposes the other. As this becomes more ingrained it's possible that something along the line of riots may occur. Especially if the actual Brexit doesn't fit in with the beliefs. There seems to be a slippery slope that's been trod upon here.

Re: Another reason this is such a successful exploit

Quite a few sites are using that scheme of a "unique username" and not email to log in. It should be used by all sites but most sites that I see selling products use the email addy and a password and therein is the problem. It just takes a few popular sites for you to be compromised. Funny thing is, all the sites I visit that don't sell things use the username to log in... except for that one certain tech site that should change the log in from "email" to user name. <twiddles thumbs><whistles>

Before the white man arrived in Africa and various Pacific island cultures, clothing was pretty much unknown as was sexual attacks (separate those from war conquests). Only after the white man came (read as "missionaries) and insisted on "proper clothing" did sex crimes really start among those populations.

The best way to "protect" children is to expose them to many things at the appropriate times otherwise they end up as "snowflakes" and attempt to eat the forbidden fruit before they're ready to handle it. (Sorry for the mixed metaphor but appropriate methinks).

Nudity per se soon becomes normal and boring.

Quite agree. Visit a nudist camp for longer than a day or two and it's rather boring. Clothing sparks the mind and imagination of what is unseen. Lack of clothing removes all the pretense as once it's out there, it's no big deal.

I'm a tad bit surprised that they haven't drawn certain other religions universities into this pit. Quite a few preach that a woman's body is sinful and should not be seen except by her husband. Punishment is often severe for violators. But then again, not working is other religions because they are "false" is also in the mindset.

Re: So Long

Sounds like the "wonderful" button some field service guys attached to system power controller many years ago. Customer had complained endlessly about the equipment even though nothing was ever found to be amiss. They installed the "wonderful" button, told him to make things "wonderful" again, rotate it clockwise and never ever counter-clockwise. After that, no more service calls until the power supply finally died.

Re: Catholic and Anglican Churches - @Chris 244

if you tried to argue it in public against a Jesuit I fear you'd come a very poor second.

Jesuits are one's you'll never win against. Doesn't matter the topic and they don't need in depth knowledge. On the up side, many do know the best local brews.

Re: Details

Maybe it should be phrased "vote management system" but that has it's own implications.....

Didn't these used to just be called "voting machines and systems"?