I checked the character, it is anything but weird. It is a valid character in a language used by millions of people.
For those curious: It is a Telugu character; Telugu is one of several widely spoken languages in India.
I used to browse with lynx till few years ago. I am not sure if it is practical to do that anymore. Most of the web is no longer friendly for text browsing.
The real answer is more sinister. Throughout the 19th century, South American slave raids took away as much as half of the native population. By 1877, the Rapanui numbered just 111. Introduced disease, destruction of property and enforced migration by European traders further decimated the natives and lead to increased conflict among those remaining.
You are using a “ready” product and so everyone gets the updates to model but your own modifications for the model are impossible with current providers.
I think this may not be true about Azure. In Build conference this year, they demoed cognitive service APIs where one can use transfer learning techniques, and train models and use them.
I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor.
The tone of your writing suggests that you are OK with treating these people badly. If a company treats some set of its workers badly, what stops them from treating other employees the same way?
In this case, they may treat SW engineers well because there is a lot of demand for engineers, and they have to be treated well to retain good folks. That is not comparable to the good culture that OP claims WF has.
Yeah, I read about Morris worm a year later in my networking textbook. It was a good feeling to realize what I have done was similar in nature.
Of course, Morris worm was a real technical exploit (buffer overflow was involved IIRC)
Mine was nowhere comparable to that in sophistication.
Good thought :)
When I put out the first version, I haven't really understood the consequences or its effectiveness; In fact it had my code name in the greeting :(
When it first appeared, people found it amusing; but it quickly went out of control and kept appearing again and again. This annoyed people. I was in trouble. I had to quickly find a solution in that panic.
Reminds me of a tricky situation I got myself into :
When I was in college, I wrote a simple worm to display a new year greeting on all computers it infects.
Once it infects a computer, it did the following:
1. it replicated itself to as many computers as possible
2. Displayed the greeting (till user acknowledges it through a key press)
3. self delete (in the hope that it will quickly die by itself)
I seeded it in one of the computers in our college network.
I didn't expect it to be so effective; It spread itself very quickly in the entire network.
With self-delete, I thought it would die on its own. I was wrong. Machines kept infecting each other in a perpetual loop.
The only way I could stop it was to write a new version that replicated, and cleaned the first version. This new version kept replicating in the network even after a year. This new version was not doing anything visible to the user, and I was saved :)
The point when it became clear to me that Microsoft had lost their way was when they decided to get into the search business. [This was PG's view in the article]
In retrospect, this seems to be a wrong conclusion. I know Bing is far far away from Google; But I think that Bing investment was well worth it for Microsoft.
If you have followed Build 2017 conference, it is obvious how Microsoft is leveraging AI/ML in several of their products; and of course, they have a good offering of cognitive service cloud APIs.
Without their heavy investment in Bing, Microsoft perhaps would have found it hard to make such quick jump onto the AI/ML bandwagon.
As a side note, is Microsoft still considered a company on its way to oblivion? I personally think they reinvented themselves in the new era. Am I mistaken in my view?
Thanks for the response. I should have been more explicit, but when I said BTC n/w I meant a consensus sort of thing from users/miners.
Thanks for your explanation regarding the need of a fork to achieve this even with consensus.
I am trying to understand impact of crypto currency. Sorry for my ignorance, and or impertinence.
1. Is it possible to run such large scale ransom demands without cryptocurrency?
2. Do we know if the attacker is using a single BTC wallet, or if ransoms are being collected in a distributed fashion.
3. Is it possible for BTC n/w to hijack BTCs going to the ransom wallet(s). That is to say collectively overwrite/override the transactions and may be reroute the coins to some non-profit wallet? I know it will be a very bad precedent, but I am trying to understand if it is technically possible.
Curious: Does conditioner help you avoid dandruff? Any explanation as to how it does?