Credit card issuers have access to this information for years, right? I suppose there will be some relevant legislation somewhere. Google is bound to be doing this on a very large scale though and i m pretty sure these terms are already violating privacy laws in certain countries.
It is one thing to use the search data, because it involves just Google, so at least you know your private info is not spilled over. Using data from merchants is a whole different thing. Actually i m pretty sure many merchants will frown upon the fact that google knows what their customers are buying (thus potentially leading them to competitors and breaching buyer's trust).
The government of greece does not issue bonds at this time. This is probably mostly due to speculation. It's unlikely that the whole of europe went through so much pain just to let greece default now.
Thanks to the web, linux doesn't have to have a good desktop UI. I 've always used ubuntu, because it's the one you can easily install on a new laptop, but my desktop has always been xfce4. I hate unity and even the default ubuntu gnome, and consider them to be unworth hacks over a great bsd + kernel subsystem. As long as Chrome, Firefox and the terminal still work, i 'm a happy xubuntu user. Now, if only xorg didn't hang at random times i would be happier.
You can still use the iframe version of the facebook like button, but they've removed the relevant documentation.
Still i think all these buttons are malicious and a privacy nightmare. I 'd rather the browser vendors decided to standardize an extra sharing button, just like they effectively standardized the search field.
Bury it all you want, i have sympathy for the evicted, not this sleazy redditor. Posts like these are the reason i removed 'reddit.com' from my reddits.
Yours is even less so. Like the parent, i found the story uninteresting. If anyone with a sad job got to the frontpage, goodbye IT news. In the end, if the guy thinks his job is sad, quit it, or campaign against evictions. Pretending to be sad and effectively asking for sympathy is ... i can't find the word.
TBH, i would like to see all the like/+1/tweet/digg buttons gone, they are a big privacy hazard. This functionality should be included in the browser or available from extensions.
The article did not hide any of these facts though, so it's not "utter nonsense". The title of the original article is "A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History?", nothing like "RIP Higgs". The article, at best, is trying to be provocative. But, more importantly, you believe in god?
The article isn't just about spotify, but anyway, bandwidth usage is a concern now, but certainly as bandwidth goes up there will be more and more services taking advantage of P2P for faster and better service. It's not necessarily a bad thing.
Actually the difference is not that big. It's all in our brain anyway, and most virtual experiences evoke similar brain responses as real ones (theater, TV, cinema, mirror neurons etc). What virtual items lose is fine properties like touch, smell, permanence etc.
I think the bigger problem is both city planning and immobile technology: most of us are forced to live packed away from the nature in cities planned for the long-gone industrial era, and until recently we were forced to sit in front of our heavy information devices. I believe the mobile revolution is going to bring back a lot of those "physical" elements that we are missing now.
It's not the first time societies face transfomations. We already eat virtual food, i certainly don't remember slaughtering that many chicken, pigs and cows lately, and i 've only milked a goat once or twice in my life.
The processor would be no different to program than what we know, they haven't invented a new computational paradigm, it's still turing machines.
Just to illustrate your point about the intricacies of simulating synapses realistically, and to show how far this is from actual biological systems, here is a model of a single NMDA receptor: [1], It requires 26 floating point numbers just for the state-change rates and 20 floating point state variables. And that's just to simulate a single receptor!
This is no more cognitive than any artificial neural network we have until now. The only innovation is lower power consumption. So, it's just a power-friendly artificial neural network simulator. I would really like to see details about the abilities of these processors (why aren't they available anywhere?). When they say "programmable synapses" do they mean they have a programmable weight? Real synapses are not nearly like that, with very intricate computational abilities that come from the dynamics of presynaptic release and postsynaptic binding. How are they going to simulate something like this: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5999/1671.short
"Cognitive" sounds just like marketing fluff here. Scientists should not adopt this marketer-speak.
I thought Google+ was more like twitter. It seems Google+ envies facebook's "intimate friend groups" that cause people to upload personal photos and events. Alas they don't realize that people are under "social fatigue" right now after five years of frenzy. They are copying something that is already going out of fashion. Anyway it's crazy. I only registered to Google+ with my real name because i want to develop apps. Google+ is not my identity.
It is one thing to use the search data, because it involves just Google, so at least you know your private info is not spilled over. Using data from merchants is a whole different thing. Actually i m pretty sure many merchants will frown upon the fact that google knows what their customers are buying (thus potentially leading them to competitors and breaching buyer's trust).