Re: If it is in memory
I've been saying for a while that, with China making all the chips, they could bake the malware right into the hardware.
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I didn't need a powerful command to destroy a system - just the OS and a little help from the office power.
A company I worked for put me on a project in which they decided that the user workstations would be X86 boxes running Xenix. I found out, one day, how fragile Xenix is as an operating system. One of the workstations in my test group lost power, Needless to say, it didn't shut down clean. When I started the box up again, the Xenix boot sequence began to analyze every file on the system. I watched in horror as, one by one, the files were analyzed and deleted - leaving me with an absolutely pristine hard drive that had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Ah, those were the days.
This sounds very much like the shoe event horizon postulated in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In this case, it's recursive, redigested information being thrown at consumers in an endless loop burying them in utter nonsense. Eventually you can't filter past the garbage fast enough to prevent the total collapse of the system.
The Voyager space craft for all their longevity and the terrific science they provided, also demonstrate the biggest impediment to interstellar travel - electrical power. Machines could be created to store and revive frozen genetic material to grow a colony on arrival to a new planet. But without the electrical power to operate the machines, the ship would arrive a a frozen block of ice with no means to animate the colonists or guide the ship.
The Voyager craft used radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) to generate electricity. These have lasted for 50 years but are running out of power - and the space craft have only just left the heliosphere. The RTGs are powered by fission. Packing additional fuel for the journey won't work because the stored fuel will decay just as fast as the fuel generating power.
Fusion isn't the answer either since it also requires a supply of fuel that would last the entire journey. Far too much to be able to carry. And solar cells won't work in interstellar space, too far from any sufficient light source.
Absent some form of warp or wormhole drive, humanity is stuck in our own solar system for a long time to come.
Not only is pictorial art being used to produce images "in the style of", but it's happening to music, novels, short stories, plays, screen plays, etc. It's the whole creative market. Besides streaming residuals, the actors' strike is about is their images being scanned to be used to generate performances without just compensation. Anyone that creates is at risk of having their body of work stolen and used without permission and compensation.
It's one thing when someone searches for an image to look at. It's quite another when they download it, tweak it, and upload it as their own work. That's what DMCA is all about. The entire movie industry exists because of intellectual property rights. All of that can be destroyed by unethical use of generative AI.
People have a right to profit from their work. What these generative AI products are doing amounts to theft.
Equifax donated my entire credit information and history to the dark web years ago (why are they still in business). I froze my credit then. Lately Experion decided to make their contribution to identity theft. Between the two of these monsters, what can a measly hospital do? It's to the point where it's hardly worth mentioning any more.
1) Maybe this was really planned as payback for all those Viking raids.
2) I thought most rocket launches took place near the equator to take advantage of gravity and the Earth's rotation. And ...
3) Using their glossy sales video when talking about their unplanned flight path was cold Reg - real cold.
While Ai-Da will not pass the Turing Test, I found this presentation fascinating. Ai-Da is a crude tool. I say that not to denigrate the thousands of man-hours that went into her creation but because all tools start out that way.
What I found most interesting was the analogy of the camera that cropped up midway through the video. Some artists tried to throw their sabot at the camera to prove that it could never be used to create "ART". Others adopted the camera wholeheartedly to demonstrate that the new medium could be used to capture great drama and beauty in light and shadow. They were the ones that made photography into an art form of its own and proved the saboteurs wrong.
Ai-Da is a very early stage of AI. There are other forms of machine learning out there that are more sophisticated in their use of data analysis. However, they've also graphically demonstrated the age old computer science adage; Garbage In - Garbage Out. The question of "what is art" has been challenged again. I didn't see examples of Ai-Da's art. But I suspect most of the oxygen will be taken up with whether it's original or derivative.
I'm not sure how it works in the UK but Frank would be in the Bog of Eternal Stench in the US. Retribution and restitution would be the order of the day. If I got the story right, Frank deleted everything. But the parts that Frank wrote belonged to the company. Frank might have been right to delete the shareware portion since the company didn't own that. But the portion that Frank wrote belonged to the company. Deleting that portion was a crime punishable both civilly and criminally.
Frank overstepped his authority.
The name of the party is The Democratic Party. When referring to the party's nominee, the correct phrase is Democratic contender. Calling the nominee the Democrat contender is a right wing trope to denigrate the Democratic party.
In reference to the party one is the Democratic contender or Democratic nominee.
An individual may be referred to as a Democrat.
But if you wish, the Republicans may be referred to as:
republicans,
Repugnants,
Repubs,
Repugs,
or a$$ hats.
If you live in rural America you are forgotten. Only the lowest level of service from AT&T that can still be called DSL (speeds less than 1M) is available to me. My alleged other provider is Charter Communications, a cable company that can't be bothered to string a wire to my house. And a complaint to the FCC yielded a raft of phone calls and excuses and not results. And that was before Ajit (pronounced idiot) Pai made things worse.
The point being that this use of social media constitutes official communication from an elected official. Every one of their constituents has the right to access that information. And if comments are allowed, every one of their constituents has the right to weigh in whether they agree or not, whether they like the official or not.