This is going to be easily overturned. The ad blockers use the dns service and that is not part of what copyright protects.
Modifying the results of dns requests is not protected by the copyright law itself. The argument could be made that giving "false" or "changed results" could be modifying the websites programming but you can't have it both ways, saying that your use of a free and public service is part of your copyright rights is surely drawing a long bow.
It could be managed by implementing dns on the website (encrypted) to prevent normal dns from being used and hence blocked
Philosophically, the "thundering herd problem" actually CAUSES congestion.
There are 2 ways to handle it.
1 Stop the thundering herd.(make all the clients do something different). That may make things worse. Congestion in networks is usually exponential. You can't fulfill a request so you repeat the request, it can't be fulfilled so it repeats. You can add a random delay at the client end but that is just The US governments answer to the debt problem, it kicks the can down the road in the short term but it will almost certainly come back and bite you. Mathematically it is very easy for this scenario to become catastrophically exponential when a threshold is reach
2 Stop the congestion (make the handling process faster or add processes)
The system already has a cache to handle this but if its not in the cache it doesn't help.
There needs to be an extra request cache exclusively for congestion scenarios. The existing cache request is already doing some processing, so extend that to route "thundering herd requests processing". This second cache does a bit more processing as well.As each new request is routed to it, it checks itself to see if this requestor is in the cache and removes it or overwrites it. It should never contain more than one entry per client.
When no more editions are made to this congestion cache (or the rate has slowed significantly) then the requests can be forwarded and processed via the original cache system.
Under this configuration, the congestion does not become exponential and should only delay the thundering herd requests. All other requests will be handled as per normal.
Once the original cache has the information there is no need for any thundering herd requests to be routed to the congestion cache.
Some clients will encounter some delays but not all and only on the "thundering herd process".
Well one other aspect of this research springs to mind.
Most "bug zapper" design are wrong. It should consist of a light source and a single grid perpendicular to the light source rather than surrounding the light source.
The light source should also be constantly varying to ensure the insects' tilt (and hence their circling behavior) will also change the radius of their circles.
>Insects use the moon as a celestial compass cue to navigate, and mistakenly use artificial light sources instead
I think that was one of the theories being investigated by this research.
The paper demonstrates that it is the actual light (of the moon or stars or sun or artificial source) they use to orientate themselves in the horizontal plain BUT that is not navigation. With a "tilt" in their orientation they will fly in circles around the light but this tilt also causes inefficiencies in their actual flight mechanism so will cause erratic directional stability as their flight path rapidly changes their spacial relationship to the light source.
Whatever their navigation imperative (heat, cold pheromones,smell, sight, sound) will be affected by this spacial relationship instability.
Realistically this war is being fought politically in the worlds media. The fight is for public opinion.
So the orders of the IJC are about war.
The hair splitters may want to change the nature of war to "genocide" by one side rather than condemn BOTH sides in the conflict.
"but we can only take evidence from XYZ and only on matters ABC"
It seems to me to be a case of the UN wanting to have a seat at the table. They have become more & more irrelevant in matters of real importance or conflict. This ruling is pretty meaningless regardless of what your beliefs are. Its just more media circus.
We can argue about statistics and false testimony who is right and which side is credible but we are just adding to the noise.
Most terrorist organizations & actions are the direct result of one group having no political power. It ceases when that group obtains political power.
It seems to me the original attack by HAMAS was simply to ensure that there is more war and that war can be fought in the worlds media. This ruling and the whole procedure is just more of the same.
Wars usually continue to be prosecuted till one (or both) side loses the political will to continue. Does anyone here really believe Israel will lose that political will, regardless of world opinion? Hasn't in the past.
Just like Russia.
Buy a home "cryovac" machine like food saver.
Prepare cooked meals such as pasta sauce, stews, curry etc in meal size portions. Cryovac and put in the freezer.
To use them put, still in their sealed bags in hot water and bring to the boil.
You can do things like boiled, mashed rosti potatoes. Frozen beans, peas, broccoli etc can be portioned out into separate bags (either at use time or in advance).
It doesn't matter what combination you choose to use, they are all in separate bags in the same pot of water.
The range of meals is only open to your imagination.
Trust Crisis for AI?
What after we see the board/CEO of one company fired/changed apparently for allegations of lies or manipulation that nobody is clear on?
If Dropbox derives data from user data by scanning said data, then that "derived" data is no longer "users data" it is Dropbox data and can be shared.
It may only be statistical in nature and not related directly to individual users but isn't that exactly what training data is?
Isn't that how it works?
That can be shared to train AI models can't it?
Its not lies its hair splitting.
No its called unethical behavior and has become the norm for big tech.
Who is driving the company (companies)? Certainly not the board, when it can be ousted on the whim of one person.
Might as well just get rid of the board (all boards in this organization) as any decision made can be overthrown by a bit of publicity and ego.
Perhaps it about getting rich at the expense of any ethics?
Those who work for this company should bear this in mind, they are all expendable!
Battery Technology is a bit of a handy distraction. The only solution is to move the "Duck Curve" to later in the day. So use batteries? well yes if you use them at the household WITHOUT solar.
If you have solar + batteries you just increase the duck curve
You can use centralized batteries but that probably means major upgrades to the distribution infrastructure.
If the power companies would charge according to cost of supply (so ALL power is cheaper during the Duck Curve period) so you can charge the home battery during "duck Curve" and use it ONLY during the evening peak.
But most power companies have multiple generator technology and use power generated by "cheaper" generators to subsidize the costly overnight or non renewable generation.
absolutely correct, but Firefox takes notice of ideas.
They can be influenced by what is proposed as fixes or contributions.
"Everyone knows" that Firefox may break some websites, just ask google.
Has anyone ever come across that pretty regularly?
Firefox has become a follower rather than a leader and I think the influence of contributors has done that.
It is no good for Firefox going in a direction that a good deal of their contributors wont go. The users be damned!
Sort of...
But Firefox is open source, so anyone can contribute. Mozilla accepted money from google to "just make google the default search engine".
But they also accept contributions in programming (its open source after all) from google, Microsoft & others employees.
The google/Microsoft contributors whether working after hours or as part of their employment have some influence in the direction of Firefox.
That may be deliberate or benign (a really good direction by google, in a workers mind, will bias their thinking in other projects and visa versa)
That is one disadvantage of open source. A foundation can't avoid that unless you setup like Greenpeace and don't give the riff raff any real say.
Firefox users are "captured" by any adds on google search even though they may advertise chrome.
People that comment here are interested, most users of browsers ARE NOT. It is so much easier to use the default. Google knows this, Twitter knows this.
One of the more brilliant ideas in Firefox was containers, chrome could not implement them because of architectural constraints but rather than build on that beautiful idea, Firefox went in a slightly different direction that Chrome & Edge could follow and still protect their advertising revenue.
I know the post above was long, but I must mention the contents come from personal experience.
One thing I found, sadly, was that people I love and trust including family often become greedy and grasping when there is inheritance at stake. Bear that in mind when you make a list with access details to things like bank accounts.
You may not believe it but that is what will happen to your family.
I like to think it is a reaction to grief, rather than an innate selfishness.
Power of attorney- no real help, you are dead.
Depending on your country....
When you die your estate "owns" everything and only your estate can operate it.
But any property in joint names AUTOMATICALLY becomes the property of the joint owner and IS NOT subject to any restrictions
What????
In most jurisdictions, the law says the executor of your will can operate on the will, its contents etc, but there are strict legal requirements and it is NOT automatic. A court usually has to OK it.
In Australia it is a probate court. It takes several weeks to make sure the will in question is the real and most recent.
As a general case, the courts allow the estate to pay for things like funerals etc.
If there is no will then someone has to apply to the courts for administration.
Your "next of kin" is a Hollywood dramatization and in Australia has absolutely no actual power to do anything.
Usually the "next of kin" will actually do the organizing to inform the executor (if the executor doesn't know)
So the important things to put in your "In case of Death file"
Location of will
Name of Executor
Burial insurance details (if you have any)
Location of a secondary file for the executor with email account and website account passwords, Bank Account details, Insurance policy details
Location of a secondary file for the executor with email account and website account passwords, in short everything the executor needs.
I also have a document containing the "order of my life"
This is how I have organized my life.
Whose name the cars/boat/golf buggy is in, what insurance companies, Utility companies for power water and services, clubs I am members of, things like roadside assistance etc.
How I buy and sell my equities and shares, who I am paying hush money to and who is blackmailing me from porn hub.
Basically all the minor things I do in everyday life.
If you are uncomfortable with this topic, if nothing else investigate an "Enduring Power of Attorney" (it may be called something else in your jurisdiction).
This expires with your death but it allows the holder to make medical and other decisions should you become unable to make decisions for yourself (dementia, coma, stroke accidents that leave you in a vegetative stake)
(In Australia a spouse has that right automatically but if your spouse is unable to make that decision (died in the same accident, has dementia etc) then you NEED an Enduring Power of Attorney).
Your children do not have the right and your executor in the future can take legal action against them)
This is way more important than a "in case of death file"
I am more a lurker than a poster...
What I have noticed is wander. Comments start to wander off topic and "evolve" into comments on some consensus comment rather than the subject of the actual comment.
Having said that it is so hard to make commenters to stick to the subject.
Comments become full discussions, rather than well, just comments.
Is this a concerted effort to kill browsers in favor of proprietary apps?
With proprietary apps the owners have all the power over privacy, advertising search results...basically everything.
Where have we heard "we have to do better" only for the big players to become infinitely worse?
We badly need the federated universe to mature and close out these greedy behemoths controlling social media.
Depends what you define as progress.
On a purely philosophical view point the answer is most certainly no.
From a speed/operational/deployment perspective probably yes.
How and what you consider and measure progress is the problem.
Consider what happens when you use output from LLM as training data for LMMs. If there is any "falsehoods" or "incorrections" then the very processes of LMM training will provide "bias" in it's output. That will then become exponential. That is the disinformation issue you mention. I would submit that this is/will/should be the paramount area for research and hence progress. In that regard there doesn't seem to be much progress at all, except to deny or cover it up.
Just like the self perpetuating myths on Wikipedia, where entries are corrected and then those corrections are repeatedly replaced because people read it in articles quoting previous (bad) information from Wikipedia.
I guess we can have an army of moderators (probably need several hundred thousand) correcting data or "preselecting" only truthful real data for training. That means for the most part its not Artificial Intelligence, its human.
Been there done that and reversed.
Manual labor (of any sort) can be very fulfilling, particularly if you enjoy it.
You can do manual labor that you love, its easy.
But when you look around and see the little old men still doing the same as you and you realize those little old men are only 50 years old and will still be doing it when they are 65, then its an eye opener. If they live to 70 they will probably have arthritis and other wear and tear on their bodies.
Do you want to do that? This is reality check time.
If you are going to do it, do the retirement plan first. Put the nest egg away for retirement, then go for it.
Reckon you can keep working when you have the flu? You can at your present job, but you will ruin your long time health if you do hard physical labor when you are sick.
First think about what ELSE you can use that physics degree for. Sales in finance is probably the low end of using your knowledge.
One other thing to consider, is that if you change your mind 5~10 years down the track (you did once :) )can you go back and put up with the younger brighter more recently experienced who will be your bosses?
And when you add a new account you have to do that for all the folders individually.
That doesn't apply to a folders sub folder either.
There is a method to copy all settings to a folder and its sub folders but that does not include sub folders of the sub folder.
So you end up for a while with some folders showing up as threaded and some not.
And you have to do it for each account individually. (some of us have multiple accounts for businesses and personal emails)
Nightmare when deleting, because you may delete a thread rather than an individual email.
For most of us it means threading was foisted on us without notice or discussion.
Ever tried to find out what is being considered? Good luck with that.
Surely a global button to remove all threading can't be all that hard.
Well it looks like Betterbird war is having an affect on Thunderbird itself. While not the same logo, it has a similar "feel" to the Betterbird logo.
Now if Thunderbird will finally make it possible to NOT have threading as the default for new accounts or have an easy button to remove threading, rather than the cumbersome way they do it now, (listen to the endusers guys , not the sponsored contributors), we will all feel a little bit more love for the venerable Thunderbird.
I do like the new logo though.
assuming that Stephen wasn't playing games with me, GPT-4 not only
gave the best possible answer to my query, it even knew somehow
that I was referring to the Wolfram language.
Given the earlier interactions, is it not possible that the very references to Wolfram in these previous interactions provide a "bias" or inference in answers that ChatGPT gives and as noted in other comments, the need to appear courteous and knowledgeable (even condescending?) makes it provide an answer using wolfram language?
Perhaps it is unanswerable because a truly separate same query by another unrelated user to attempt to remove the bias is no longer possible, the bias in THAT question is now embedded.
Isn't this exactly the problem with these models, they actually can become self biassing based on all their own previous answers?