Yes. we should send the best under cover agent on the british secret service.
Chinese communist hacker: After we complete our attack to the electric grid, we will bring chaos to the ENTIRE WORLD!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
James Bond (trapped on a complicated mechanism designed to kill him after 40 minutes): You will never get away with this !!! Chinese communist hacker: See you in hell Mr. Bond. HAHAHAHAHAHA (and leaves the room)
and region 4 dvds are relatively expensive because of the smaller quantities and the 'protected' market.
Also, region 4 is Latin america too, so they'll have to add spanish and portuguese content to the same dvd. And latin america has to be an even smaller market than australia.
I saw this on TV last week. Channel ~94, around 4am. I had to call a blinking number to get it.
18. Loss of culinary skills due to all food being delivered "fresh frozen"
I guess the guy failed to predict the whole change in the society. People would get out of school, go to some war, get married, and work on some factory. There were no single 20-years-old people, and no working moms. My grandmother cooks better than them.
Personally, I my pr0n is on 1 CD, mostly.jpg files from the BBS times. And I must have about 200 anime cds. And you are correct: I don't have time to watch them, and I still have to copy about 150 more from my friends. I'm seriously considering learning japanese, just to watch anime while I code.
The definition is quite lax, so BSD, Mozilla, and the like are allowed.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think a 'lax' law is a bad idea. The law seems to imply that BSD-like licenses are against it, and you know what happends with lax definitions, it leaves big room for corruption (I'm very tempted to say 'especially in argentina' here.;)
That's just my impression tho., a lawyer will know better.
What will happend when there is no free solution, and there is no budget to develope one; on a small agency with low budget for ex. (of course there is also the problem with the big companyes paying money to the politicians to say 'there is no free solution')
What about the BSD and LGPL-like licences? They can be free and non-free at the same time. Will *BSD be discarded? Mozilla?
hey would ban or at least make it very expensive by imposing duties
This also happened in Argentina during most of the cold war. It still applies on some industryes, like the cars. During the 80's, the Commodore 64 computers for the internal market were manufactured here (that was cool, but they were very expensive of course; I got my first c64 on 90 I think).
Indian cars sucked
Exactly! We don't have automatic cars here. All cars are stick.
Fortunately, computers are almost free of tax since ~1992. I'm really looking forward to this law. Every time I go to a public office I have to wait because 'the system is down' (if they have a system at all).
Cobalt makes their patches available for everyone to download and install
Also, the cobalt raqs are very easy to patch. They have a GUI, a section to install software (Maintenance/Intall Software). You can just paste the URL of the patch, and it installs it. The patches are here.
That said, communitech sucks. I've had problems with them in many other areas too. I can't recomend another ISP that will patch the servers for you, but I can say that communitech sucks.
When I was in "high school" (or the equivalent; I'm not from US), I would go to the internet to search for my homework. Not 'useful information', I wanted all my homework alredy done, or at least big paragraphs I could paste together on a.doc file and sign my name on it.
This was on 1996, and the homework had to be in spanish. The web pages were just starting to have a backbround color, and over here, access to the internet was expensive. $50/month + the telephone bill (about $.75/hour). So I almost never found anything useful for my homework.
I think it's a matter of determining the self awareness of the individual (especially in the case of the AI; the alien is probably smarter than us).
The brains of a mouse, a person, and a computer are basically the same: a bounch of neurons (or transistors, or whatever the aliens have). We have to determine what is it that make us different from the mouse. Then we'll know if we can kill the alien, just like we kill a mouse, or a bigger animal.
It's also a matter of the society. We could kill a dolphin if it wasn't in extintion, but we can't kill a retarded person (that probably has a less developed brain than the dolphin). I wonder what would happend if the alien was part of a big 'collective inteligence' thing, and it comes alone, and it's not that smart.
they'd do best to actually have some knowledge in that field [...] rather than a bunch of code-monkeys[...]
Ok, for the code monkeys: it's the TTL.
Each cell has a TTL field, just like a network packet. If the TTL hits 0, the cell dies (TTL is set to TTL-1 every time the cell is reproduced). If the TTL gets set to -1 or something, it will never be 0, and the cell will never stop reproducing. That's cancer.
The problem with cloning is that they get the original cell with a low TTL, and use that to create the new individual, who will have less time to live. They can't reset it.
They must have some kind of problem with their routers or something.
I don't get it. During the BBS days you had to provide a copy of your drivers' license to prove you were old enough to view adult content.
No.
My porn directory is still c:\ter400\download\pictures, because most of the porn I have I downloaded from BBSs. I was 14 then.
And it was so much easier. You just selected the files, and download them. No popups, no spam, no 'FREE!!' signs everywere. I would just chat with the sysop (probably a 16 years old kid) and ask 'where is the porn?'
I saw an experimental option on 2.4.2, an httpd on the kernel that servers the static pages, and leaves all the other requests for the normal httpd.
I've never tryed it, but sounds nice.
They are using Linux on some offices right now, the first 'big aplication' will be a database for a system where people renew the licence plates of their cars, and catch up with the payments (or something).
They plan to have linux on all the government computers in 1-2 years.
Some of the areas that will use linux are: tax recollection, transit related databases, and some social programs.
They don't plan to pach linux, or develop anything (really, that's what the guy says), but they want to turn all the systems to 'open systems' (not just linux, all free software around it)
They don't just use windows, they use other propietary OSs right now.
They will save millons of pesos, that will go to the pour, the kids, and the cute puppies.
The rest is a very long a boring interview with stupid cuestions, like 'will it have a search engine?'.
Big deal if you can create some program that fits some vague system of what is life [...] You have to program the program so that it notices something attacking and defends or protects itself BECAUSE it is self-aware
The thing is that we don't know where the line is. Any computer can reproduce the behaviour of an insect. Can we say that the insect is not self aware? How about a simple rectile? The insect, rectile, and a human, have brains that are based on the same principle: a bounch of neurons. Where is the line between self-awarenes and just 'a program'?
Acording to some people (scientists) we use a primitive part of our brain when we dream. We got this part of the brain from reptiles and small mammals. Did you notice how you can't think straight, or you can't read on a dream? can you say you are not self aware? You are, but on a lower level.
Maybe the 'programmed reactions' are a simple form of self-awareness. Of course our brains are a lot more complex, it's a bounch of neurons.
but it will never, ever take off until Microsoft supports IPv6
in a consumer OS
I'm not that old, but I remember internet before windows95. Win3.1 didn't have tcp/ip, so I had to load this "trumpet winsock" program (the icon was blue) before I could use netscape to look at web sites (mostly porn. I was 14).
I bet AOL CDs (diskettes?) had a program like that. And I bet the lack of tcp/ip on windows didn't stop them from giving them away like crazy.
Maybe we should have more porn websites running on ipv6.. That should motivate everyone.:-)
Actually, right after the page loaded, I was like 'where _is_ the article??', and it was right in front of me. But because of all the ads, it was invisible. It took me like 6 seconds to disable the 'filter' on my head and start reading.
That's funny. your user info page says "Please donate your used, reliable PCs and Macs to independent journalists here". We should stop that, because it "will destroy the need for a computer hardware insdustry in certain sectors."
Also, this designs could be open-sourced.. That would be nice.
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The answer to that question is the reason why the world is not dominated by a crazed supercomputer (or why 'clippy' was so annoying and stupid)
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I agree. If you have to teach programming to old people, Perl is the way to go.
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You could try overwriting parts of the ebook with random characters.. That should screw up the book the way you like it.
Here is another question: can I set the ebook on fire???
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Chinese communist hacker: After we complete our attack to the electric grid, we will bring chaos to the ENTIRE WORLD!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
James Bond (trapped on a complicated mechanism designed to kill him after 40 minutes): You will never get away with this !!!
Chinese communist hacker: See you in hell Mr. Bond. HAHAHAHAHAHA (and leaves the room)
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Also, region 4 is Latin america too, so they'll have to add spanish and portuguese content to the same dvd. And latin america has to be an even smaller market than australia.
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I saw this on TV last week. Channel ~94, around 4am. I had to call a blinking number to get it.
18. Loss of culinary skills due to all food being delivered "fresh frozen"
I guess the guy failed to predict the whole change in the society. People would get out of school, go to some war, get married, and work on some factory. There were no single 20-years-old people, and no working moms. My grandmother cooks better than them.
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4) pr0n
5) anime
Personally, I my pr0n is on 1 CD, mostly .jpg files from the BBS times. And I must have about 200 anime cds. And you are correct: I don't have time to watch them, and I still have to copy about 150 more from my friends. I'm seriously considering learning japanese, just to watch anime while I code.
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The definition is quite lax, so BSD, Mozilla, and the like are allowed.
I'm not a lawyer, but I think a 'lax' law is a bad idea. The law seems to imply that BSD-like licenses are against it, and you know what happends with lax definitions, it leaves big room for corruption (I'm very tempted to say 'especially in argentina' here. ;)
That's just my impression tho., a lawyer will know better.
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Yeah. it conflicts with BSD-like licenses. The english translation is acurate.
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Please, comments wanted.
What will happend when there is no free solution, and there is no budget to develope one; on a small agency with low budget for ex. (of course there is also the problem with the big companyes paying money to the politicians to say 'there is no free solution')
What about the BSD and LGPL-like licences? They can be free and non-free at the same time. Will *BSD be discarded? Mozilla?
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This also happened in Argentina during most of the cold war. It still applies on some industryes, like the cars. During the 80's, the Commodore 64 computers for the internal market were manufactured here (that was cool, but they were very expensive of course; I got my first c64 on 90 I think).
Indian cars sucked
Exactly! We don't have automatic cars here. All cars are stick.
Fortunately, computers are almost free of tax since ~1992. I'm really looking forward to this law. Every time I go to a public office I have to wait because 'the system is down' (if they have a system at all).
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Also, the cobalt raqs are very easy to patch. They have a GUI, a section to install software (Maintenance/Intall Software). You can just paste the URL of the patch, and it installs it. The patches are here.
That said, communitech sucks. I've had problems with them in many other areas too. I can't recomend another ISP that will patch the servers for you, but I can say that communitech sucks.
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This was on 1996, and the homework had to be in spanish. The web pages were just starting to have a backbround color, and over here, access to the internet was expensive. $50/month + the telephone bill (about $.75/hour). So I almost never found anything useful for my homework.
I did find a lot of porn, so I couldn't complain.
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The brains of a mouse, a person, and a computer are basically the same: a bounch of neurons (or transistors, or whatever the aliens have). We have to determine what is it that make us different from the mouse. Then we'll know if we can kill the alien, just like we kill a mouse, or a bigger animal.
It's also a matter of the society. We could kill a dolphin if it wasn't in extintion, but we can't kill a retarded person (that probably has a less developed brain than the dolphin). I wonder what would happend if the alien was part of a big 'collective inteligence' thing, and it comes alone, and it's not that smart.
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(well, for programmers at least)
Yes, but I wouldn't make much sense to the sysadmin.
'to be pipe pipe not to be'? Is that some kind of dirty talk or something?
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Ok, for the code monkeys: it's the TTL.
Each cell has a TTL field, just like a network packet. If the TTL hits 0, the cell dies (TTL is set to TTL-1 every time the cell is reproduced). If the TTL gets set to -1 or something, it will never be 0, and the cell will never stop reproducing. That's cancer.
The problem with cloning is that they get the original cell with a low TTL, and use that to create the new individual, who will have less time to live. They can't reset it.
They must have some kind of problem with their routers or something.
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No.
My porn directory is still c:\ter400\download\pictures, because most of the porn I have I downloaded from BBSs. I was 14 then.
And it was so much easier. You just selected the files, and download them. No popups, no spam, no 'FREE!!' signs everywere. I would just chat with the sysop (probably a 16 years old kid) and ask 'where is the porn?'
Good times.
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He's ok now.
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I saw an experimental option on 2.4.2, an httpd on the kernel that servers the static pages, and leaves all the other requests for the normal httpd.
I've never tryed it, but sounds nice.
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They are using Linux on some offices right now, the first 'big aplication' will be a database for a system where people renew the licence plates of their cars, and catch up with the payments (or something).
They plan to have linux on all the government computers in 1-2 years.
Some of the areas that will use linux are: tax recollection, transit related databases, and some social programs.
They don't plan to pach linux, or develop anything (really, that's what the guy says), but they want to turn all the systems to 'open systems' (not just linux, all free software around it)
They don't just use windows, they use other propietary OSs right now.
They will save millons of pesos, that will go to the pour, the kids, and the cute puppies.
The rest is a very long a boring interview with stupid cuestions, like 'will it have a search engine?'.
Nice news.
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The thing is that we don't know where the line is. Any computer can reproduce the behaviour of an insect. Can we say that the insect is not self aware? How about a simple rectile? The insect, rectile, and a human, have brains that are based on the same principle: a bounch of neurons. Where is the line between self-awarenes and just 'a program'?
Acording to some people (scientists) we use a primitive part of our brain when we dream. We got this part of the brain from reptiles and small mammals. Did you notice how you can't think straight, or you can't read on a dream? can you say you are not self aware? You are, but on a lower level.
Maybe the 'programmed reactions' are a simple form of self-awareness. Of course our brains are a lot more complex, it's a bounch of neurons.
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I'm not that old, but I remember internet before windows95. Win3.1 didn't have tcp/ip, so I had to load this "trumpet winsock" program (the icon was blue) before I could use netscape to look at web sites (mostly porn. I was 14).
I bet AOL CDs (diskettes?) had a program like that. And I bet the lack of tcp/ip on windows didn't stop them from giving them away like crazy.
Maybe we should have more porn websites running on ipv6.. That should motivate everyone. :-)
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The filter is back on now.
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That's funny. your user info page says "Please donate your used, reliable PCs and Macs to independent journalists here". We should stop that, because it "will destroy the need for a computer hardware insdustry in certain sectors."
Also, this designs could be open-sourced.. That would be nice.
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