"TrueCrypt has been part of security-minded users' toolkits for nearly a decade — but there's one problem: no one has ever conducted a full security audit on it except the NSA.
Riiight...let he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that. Not a very practical parable though. I'm not sure what exactly it's trying get across, but it certainly has nothing to do with how our laws are enforced.
Seriously, how is this different from all the other AI research programs that have been done so far?
What's different? Computing power is approaching the estimated requirement needed to simulate the number of neurons in the human brain. Don't you think you should know that before totally shooting down the idea? You're probably right, but that doesn't mean no new insights will come out of the research.
I have heard that before but haven't heard of any good reason to believe it. Sounds like a theory from those who don't want to believe consciousness is just a bajillion neurons networked together.
Sorry, I don't buy it. This thing is the antithesis of stealthy. When it's moving it's constantly bouncing up and down and can be heard from the next valley. So to actually move your troops anywhere, they have to telegraph their position. Any kind of pack mule is infinitely superior to this monstrosity in the situation you describe.
They're still working on the software and hardware to perfect moving like a animal. Stealth comes later. This obviously has no practical purpose yet and your retort makes no sense.
You know, if you poll the entire population of the United States, the vast majority of people despise buying a new car because of the car salesmen constantly trying to fuck you over. It's not at all unreasonable to want them out of the picture. The average consumer wants that prepackage for the lowest common denominator.
I'll take an AI that actually watches and responds to all sensors constantly than someone who doesn't watch the road for 4-10 seconds.
Then you must not have much experience with AI. Unless driving under very controlled conditions, they will wreck in situations that a drunk, stoned, and tripping person could still easily deal with.
I'm not sure I'd call Journey a puzzle game. It's barely a game, more like an interactive movie. But it is definitely the most beautiful game I've ever played. It's a shame it's only available on PS3.
The answer is obviously yes. There is no global or even national controls over CO2 emission. It's businesses that produce it or sell the products that produce it. Businesses aren't concerned with potential long term climate disasters. In fact, rebuilding what environmental disasters have destroyed could be good for business.
Sorry. I don't mean griefer in the same way. I mean griefer as in someone who deliberately tries to annoy you. I'm not including PKers in that definition... unless they're doing something like resurrecting you and killing you over and over, which is obviously griefing.
F2P kills MMOs. It attracts the lowest form of gamer...obnoxious children who like to do nothing more than grief and yell obscenities and clutter up the forums with repetitive complaints about whatever they don't like.
I didn't like doing this either and usually kept my tower on it's side. I actually found it cools much better in this orientation...but I think that's just because I did a terrible job of tightening down my cooler. Anyway, in my new build I bought a HAF XB case, so the motherboard lies flat and I don't have to worry about it anymore.
So we evolved a tendency to monoculture, making us more vulnerable to disease? That would seem... counterintuitive.
Not necessarily. It could be a simple side effect of our internal program that makes us social animals instead of solitary. So then perhaps the effect on disease vulnerability doesn't have a detrimental evolutionary effect greater than the evolutionary benefits of forming tribes.
The program opens up exoplanet-observing to amateur astronomers and undergraduate students across the globe."
Yeah, but don't those with small telescopes just run into the same problem that asteroid observers have? New systems like Pan-STARRS with gigantic field of views and resolution can scan the whole sky very quickly and then a computer can simply analyze the superior data and come up with more numerous and more accurate discoveries...drowning out the discoveries from amateurs.
If you believe "kids" use text-slang because of ignorance and lack of respect for others, then you are the one who is ignorant here. In their limited interactions with others, it is simply the standard way of communicating. They have to adjust to communicating more formally. It doesn't demonstrate a lack of respect. It is a normal adjustment to the business world and interacting with people who didn't learn the same non-standard style of communication that they did.
Listening to the customers would lead to less profit. The customers really don't want to buy a new OS every 2 to 4 years. They don't want to relearn a UI that is functionally the same as the old one, but has simply been reorganized. Customers don't want to have to be forced into a hardware upgrade just because their old machine is too bogged down with malware, or can't handle all the new services (and crapware) that are turned on by default but have little practical value to the average user. Customers want to spend as little as possible, and they don't like change. Microsoft is successful because they can force/con customers into paying for new versions.
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"TrueCrypt has been part of security-minded users' toolkits for nearly a decade — but there's one problem: no one has ever conducted a full security audit on it except the NSA.
FTFY
Riiight...let he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that. Not a very practical parable though. I'm not sure what exactly it's trying get across, but it certainly has nothing to do with how our laws are enforced.
Enslaved human here. Can confirm.
11 year old children may not drink beer. You don't need to drink beer in order to brew it.
We are in a clockwork universe, but we (at the deepest level) are not of the clockwork universe.
Nice. All that and it all boils down to your belief that consciousness is something magical and unexplainable.
Attempts to cajole you to reduce yourself to nothing more than another lump of matter have to do with those that seek power over you.
Um...this makes no sense. The institutions that try to make you believe your brain is made of magic are in fact always seeking power over us.
Seriously, how is this different from all the other AI research programs that have been done so far?
What's different? Computing power is approaching the estimated requirement needed to simulate the number of neurons in the human brain. Don't you think you should know that before totally shooting down the idea? You're probably right, but that doesn't mean no new insights will come out of the research.
I have heard that before but haven't heard of any good reason to believe it. Sounds like a theory from those who don't want to believe consciousness is just a bajillion neurons networked together.
Sorry, I don't buy it. This thing is the antithesis of stealthy. When it's moving it's constantly bouncing up and down and can be heard from the next valley. So to actually move your troops anywhere, they have to telegraph their position. Any kind of pack mule is infinitely superior to this monstrosity in the situation you describe.
They're still working on the software and hardware to perfect moving like a animal. Stealth comes later. This obviously has no practical purpose yet and your retort makes no sense.
The US has vast tracts of uninhabited, relatively safe land, yet we have people trying to live in the worst possible choices.
There's a reason nobody lives in those places. It's because there's no economic activity. You can't live without money.
Next obvious question.
You know, if you poll the entire population of the United States, the vast majority of people despise buying a new car because of the car salesmen constantly trying to fuck you over. It's not at all unreasonable to want them out of the picture. The average consumer wants that prepackage for the lowest common denominator.
I'll take an AI that actually watches and responds to all sensors constantly than someone who doesn't watch the road for 4-10 seconds.
Then you must not have much experience with AI. Unless driving under very controlled conditions, they will wreck in situations that a drunk, stoned, and tripping person could still easily deal with.
I'm not sure I'd call Journey a puzzle game. It's barely a game, more like an interactive movie. But it is definitely the most beautiful game I've ever played. It's a shame it's only available on PS3.
In other words, do we dare take a chance?
The answer is obviously yes. There is no global or even national controls over CO2 emission. It's businesses that produce it or sell the products that produce it. Businesses aren't concerned with potential long term climate disasters. In fact, rebuilding what environmental disasters have destroyed could be good for business.
Sorry. I don't mean griefer in the same way. I mean griefer as in someone who deliberately tries to annoy you. I'm not including PKers in that definition... unless they're doing something like resurrecting you and killing you over and over, which is obviously griefing.
F2P kills MMOs. It attracts the lowest form of gamer...obnoxious children who like to do nothing more than grief and yell obscenities and clutter up the forums with repetitive complaints about whatever they don't like.
Since I'm in Denver, I'm thinking of washed out roads.
So kids won't see your extremely out of style TV and laugh at you, Grandpa.
I didn't like doing this either and usually kept my tower on it's side. I actually found it cools much better in this orientation...but I think that's just because I did a terrible job of tightening down my cooler. Anyway, in my new build I bought a HAF XB case, so the motherboard lies flat and I don't have to worry about it anymore.
Yeah... the legendary NH-D14 was conspicuously missing from this review. Not even using any case fans right now. Just using this monstrosity.
So we evolved a tendency to monoculture, making us more vulnerable to disease? That would seem ... counterintuitive.
Not necessarily. It could be a simple side effect of our internal program that makes us social animals instead of solitary. So then perhaps the effect on disease vulnerability doesn't have a detrimental evolutionary effect greater than the evolutionary benefits of forming tribes.
That's only because comet discoveries are typically made near the sun, where it doesn't makes sense to the large searches to look.
The program opens up exoplanet-observing to amateur astronomers and undergraduate students across the globe."
Yeah, but don't those with small telescopes just run into the same problem that asteroid observers have? New systems like Pan-STARRS with gigantic field of views and resolution can scan the whole sky very quickly and then a computer can simply analyze the superior data and come up with more numerous and more accurate discoveries...drowning out the discoveries from amateurs.
If you believe "kids" use text-slang because of ignorance and lack of respect for others, then you are the one who is ignorant here. In their limited interactions with others, it is simply the standard way of communicating. They have to adjust to communicating more formally. It doesn't demonstrate a lack of respect. It is a normal adjustment to the business world and interacting with people who didn't learn the same non-standard style of communication that they did.
But if it were Bush's idea...they'd love it.
Listening to the customers would lead to less profit. The customers really don't want to buy a new OS every 2 to 4 years. They don't want to relearn a UI that is functionally the same as the old one, but has simply been reorganized. Customers don't want to have to be forced into a hardware upgrade just because their old machine is too bogged down with malware, or can't handle all the new services (and crapware) that are turned on by default but have little practical value to the average user. Customers want to spend as little as possible, and they don't like change. Microsoft is successful because they can force/con customers into paying for new versions.