asciilifeform: 'Я просто кончил :) красношляп доставляет!' << from comments
asciilifeform: 'restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive (rm -rf /*)' << not bug, pheature!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: methinks the entrie drone thing is getting abandoned eventually. they don't actually seem to work worth a shit << whatcha talking about, they're as good for rocketing trucks full of unarmed people as they ever were...
asciilifeform: then they carefully waltz it out of yer brain
asciilifeform: ^ for anyone who was sleeping in a cave for the past decade
asciilifeform: of them have explained exactly how it works or what information is conveyed. No law requires printer companies to help track printer users this way, and no law prevents them from stopping this practice or giving customers a solution to avoid being tracked.'
asciilifeform: 'Most color laser printers made and sold today intentionally add invisible information to make it easier to determine where (and when) a particular document was printed. This seems to have been done as part of a secret deal between the United States Secret Service and the individual manufacturers. Some of the manufacturers have mentioned the existence of the tracking information in their documentation, and others haven't. None
asciilifeform: but it is very much gibson's 'ugly shirt.'
asciilifeform: we had a thread in #b-a about this, i'm quite certain
asciilifeform: and also, 'Both PSP and Photoshop identify this image (from an Adobe Forum discussion) as being currency and refuse to open it, despite there being no instance of the Eurion constellation...' << 'eurion' is only the -publicly known- trick of this variety. no one knows how many other boobytraps lurk in idiot closed-source image processors
asciilifeform: punkman: that almost happened in life!
asciilifeform: 'If a new image was identified as a particular class with more certainty than the original, the researchers would discard the old version and continue to mutate the new one. Eventually this produced images that were recognized by the DNN with over 99 percent confidence but were not recognizable to human vision.' << i though everybody's tried this as a student. works great
asciilifeform: '“We realized that the neural nets did not encode knowledge necessary to produce an image of a fire truck, only the knowledge necessary to tell fire trucks apart from other classes,” he explained.' << no shit
asciilifeform: (re: 'images that fool computer vision')
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: recall my fpga story at conf. II ? same idea
asciilifeform: trinque: (re: earlier thread) why would the woman object to your having money? or was it that you earned it 'sinfully' ?
asciilifeform: there's one 'genius' who will never need his mandatory day job.
