Posts by stiine 2118 publicly visible posts • joined 9 May 2018
I suggest that the answer is no. I would also suggest that it doesn't matter because there is absolutely no "I" in the current implementations claiming to be AI. If there was any "I" in AI it wouldn't make any difference what data was fed into the system because of the "I" of the system itself. On the other hand, I don't understand calculus, French, or women.
" This is not an opinion, it is fact."
I disagree. Anyone with fine tactile sense can type on any keyboard if the keys are in the correct locations. Even if they aren't, those of us who learned to touch-type in the dark in the past when it was still possible to have a modem generate an XOFF, or fill a standard keyboard buffer and make the keyboard beep at us, can switch from keyboard to keyboard to keyboard (say from a Smith Corona to a Compaq M100 to a Logi MX Keys S) and still type with speed and precision. If you need the clickety clack, install an app and wear headphones.
That can't be true because the compiler must know how to find the end of a comment, whether its the end of a line or an end-comment character string.
Comments slow down all interpreted languages. By all means, don't delete comments, but don't tell me that your computer spends 0ms skipping comments in your code.
And some aren't. APC PDUs used to require pkcs15 certs. Some HP arrays require a very long list of subjectAltName entries for controller clusters' certificates. Graylog requires pkcs7 certs. Some systems are smart enough to contruct their certificate chain from CA, sub-CA, sub-CA, and device certificates. Others require the full chain in a single file. Some require the certificates to be copied to the device blind, and to followed by a reboot.
15 hours? You weenie. You aren't a serious IT person until you've put a mark in every 15 minute box for a whole day on a timesheet...and then had to have your manager explain to Payroll and Accounting that yes, you did, in fact, work from 00:00 Thursday until 23:59:59 Thursday, in addition to 16 hours on Wednesday and 7 hours on Friday.
I bet the next rule change they make is that no entity will be permitted to renew a certificate if its been hacked, and doesn't have a clean statement of health from Mandiant.
I'm going to reconfigure my internal sub-CA to start giving out certificates that expire in 2030 (which is when my sub-CA cert expires.) Between now and 2030, I'll generate a new root CA and give it a 50 year lifetime and my new sub-CA will get a 25 year lifetime and just one more round of certificates and i'll be retired before they expire again.
The browser/CA forum are solving the wrong problem. We all know this, but it doesn't help that they don't have the power or ability to solve the underlying problem.
p.s. Are they going to shorten the CA certificate lifetimes as well? What about the DNSSEC root key lifetimes?
Ever been past a terrible accident where the 4-lane has been chopped to a 1-lane? They'll station two guys with stop/go signs on poles at either side to continue at least some traffic passing.
This reminds me of the scene in the museum attic in Thief of Time (Pratchett) with the sign that said keep right over an arrow pointing left (or vice versa).
I suggest putting a 1 in front or a 0 after the printed numbers on speed limit signs.
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