I agree with you that the example is not the best, but obscurity has a lot of benefits. We did an experiment with a few students on obscuring a WordPress installation some years ago to catch ppl scanning for certain plugins. That gave us the ability to use the regular paths as honeypots. Gives you an ability to detect 0-day attacks as well.
I don't want to personalize the comment. But in Europe there are many examples where McKinsey implement a model to fix the money distribution problem. At the end, society gives up the culture and ideals. While the ppl get short handed the partners get a bonus. Still, I think this is mostly a problem of bad public leadership that is not approachable.
In all kindness, let me ensure you that experience is rarely gained until your forties. Early on we may feel on top and hold important positions, but it is not the same thing as understanding the other side. To gain wisdom, not there yet, probably take another 20 years.
McKinsey have messed up government policies all over the world when it comes to McDonaldization of Society. They are using simple measurements to model how complex societies should work, unfortunately this is only works for McKinsey and their partners.
Going after a subset of low end devices seems a bit off-putting to me. A-One should be mandatory, but most manufacturers are hooked on adding bloatware to track you.
I use it every day. Regarding P1, if an app ask for permission access to e.g. images or location, and you use the app, how would you limit what the app can send home or even review it? See discussion in the other comments if you're not an Andriod developer.
We can still not sandbox apps access to data by default. Numerous academic projects have show how this can be implemented, e.g. by fudging data when details are not needed. Also, in order to get these security fixes I have to buy a new device from one of their partners.. Google has failed society by advancing surveillance capitalism to the extreme.
In principal e-voting to increase transparency is a nice ideology, but how would you engage the people over time? I'm afraid this would rather cause an increase in fake news and the likes. The obvious case is the Brexit vote, that gave the people two options: a remain (no change) and leave (open ended in terms of how).
If Firefox would add a smooth zoom for pinch for Windows touchscreens, then I would never look back to Chrome. Its a feature that has been promised for many years, but has never been implemented properly.
I wonder if this should really be called a holographic network:
"we are projecting all training example into a single bounded dimension. As with VAEs, we also combine the input information with an optimized prior. However, we treat
the prior as a separate input to the network. Because the network has very little information from the
training examples, it must complement it with an accurate general representation of the training set.
Because these representations are continuous, multi-dimensional, and represent the whole training
set, we call them ‘Holographic Representations’ and the architectures capable of generating them
‘Holographic Neural Architectures’ (HNAs)."
This seems to me to be very similar to what has always been done in regressions on complex data.
This is the best thing for innovation on the decentralized web, the focus on websites in the legal text will force platforms down on the protocol level.
Can we assume the main motivation for google is to be able to track mobile users better? Particullary as more users are using various blocking methods and the legal environment regarding 3rd party trackers I questionable.
"With QUIC, however, the identifier for a connection is not the traditional concept of a "socket" (the source/destination port/address protocol combination), but a 64-bit identifier assigned to the connection."
I heard a funny saying about Neuroscience (by a well know AGI expert) that went something like this: Neuroscience research and its ability to explain AGI is like an engineer would take a microscope to study birds in order to explain the physical laws regarding flight.
That IPR is an interesting blockchain/DLT use case is well known, what is perhaps not that well known is that Google does not like permissionless blockchain solutions as it would disrupt their conceptually centralized platform model. A few years ago there was a start-up planning such a solution for handling IPR related to music, but the copyrights holders or rather their national governance agencies did not want to enlist their IPR through this system, possibly because a transparent automatic system would have replaced these governing bodies and their armies of lawyers. Hopefully the @European Commission will fund a standardization effort regarding IPR and a permissionless blockchain solution to solve the issue described in the article. The worst case scenario is that Google pushes its own ContentID solution on everyone and charges a percentage to perform the billing. This is a much larger issue than what is presented by the CEO.
Please, stop linking to Techcrunch on HN if you respect privacy. For those in located Europe you have to go through a disrespective process to read a story.
Who can come up with these stories? Like saying that if you let someone hack your email and download all your emails its the providers fault. These unknowingly ignorant media superstars of today.. Cheeze.
I've been looking for one as well, but figured that basing it on Nvidias Jetson platform would allow for RT processing on the drone, e.g. object detection. But I haven't found any good candidate yet.. Share if you find something and what you go with.
These studies try to point out that things are binary, but its not of course. You have to remember what they are measuring in general, stable vs. unstable. For example, drinking is bad when it becomes destructive. Two-three bottles of red wine per week is ok, unless you do it to forget things.
I believe Estonia is unique in offering this around the world. Once they get the banking up and running then its getting interesting. They have been considering allowing English in courts/dealing with government as well, but I don't think this has materialized yet as a law.
You are actually wrong, they have been classed as an essential platform, see the discussion in regards to the NIS directive and its application to Google.