Why doesn't DRM-protected stuff belong on the web? I dare you to answer my question without resorting to meaningless tautologies (such as 'DRM stuff doesnt belong on the web because that's not what the web is!').
He just removed "territories" from the "Palestine territories" google picture because he thought it looked better. Now every major news outlet is carrying this (non)story.
Mining isn't free - the cost of mining is actually less than the cost of electricity on normal desktop machines (otherwise everyone would be doing it already).
No. Look at the top 1000 world strongest people. They're all men. Men and women and physically different (including our brains). It's not sexism that causes the strongest people to all be men, it's just physiology - men just have bigger muscles than women. But when the majority of engineers are male instead of saying "well I suppose the male brain is better suited for engineering tasks" cries of "sexism!" are made. To accuse an organization of sexism you have to find evidence of it (the proportion of females in the workforce is not evidence).
It'd be like taking a count of all the letters used in Slashdot posts. a = 23,345,494, b = 12,342,463 etc, and then coming to the conclusion that Slashdot is letterist against the letter 'x' because it's used the least - the underlying belief being that "in any fair system, all letters would be used the same amount". This isn't true. It isn't true of men and women either.
Typically you see a rule like "at least 10% of the workforce m ust be x% female". This means that people will be hired according to their gender - sexism is built into the system. The same applies to many anti racist rules. You can't ever have rules that explicitly favor one gender over another.
If you can work remotely... it's probable that somewhere on the other side of the planet a potential employer will open up their work for you.
Pessimism or optimism. Choose one.
If P = NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in "creative leaps," no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss...
— Scott Aaronson, MIT
I think that this is a more accurate description of how creativity and intelligence works. People claim they "invented" or "created" a new machine or song, but in reality they just copied it from somewhere else in nature (with or without realizing it).
I am certain that the algorithms being used today will never result with human level AI. If we want to design strong AI we need to first prove P = NP. This is the missing key to solving our AI problems - it's why there's a huge difference between expectations and the reality of AI. I will spend much of my life trying to prove P = NP, no matter how many tell me it's completely futile.
Do you think P = NP?
What the fuck is your problem? He stated "as far as I know..." which is the GOOD thing to do instead of saying "It is true that...". Nowhere did he claim that because he believe something it makes it true. It makes perfect sense to act in accordance with your beliefs (rather than what is true) because you can never know the truth with certainty.
The bottom line is that Reddit has been, and can be, an interesting site full of interesting content. But the willingness of the admins there to allow such abhorrent (and clearly illegal) content until publicity won't allow them to continue to do so is a glaring flaw in the organization of the site, and I'd rather not be associated with such a wild west approach to such things, especially when their morals seem to be dictated more on whether something will affect their reputation than whether or not it's right.
The admins NEVER allowed illegal content on their site. Child pornography was never allowed. Not caring about what people in each subreddit did was not a glaring flaw. If you didn't like a subreddit, you didn't go there. It worked pretty well actually - reddit is very popular.
Yawn. It's clearly progress. Ideally everything in your wallet could be in your phone, so this is just a step towards that. It's not pointless, its progress.
Slashdot Mirror
Fork over some money, Micro$oft, if you want it that bad...
They are - to the lawyers.
hold shift when pressing delete. it deletes permanently, no questions asked.
Surely they could just number them from 1 to infinity. Why does name matter? Who knows.
http://emphatious.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/warning-this-website-is-upside-down/
Why doesn't DRM-protected stuff belong on the web? I dare you to answer my question without resorting to meaningless tautologies (such as 'DRM stuff doesnt belong on the web because that's not what the web is!').
He just removed "territories" from the "Palestine territories" google picture because he thought it looked better. Now every major news outlet is carrying this (non)story.
Mining isn't free - the cost of mining is actually less than the cost of electricity on normal desktop machines (otherwise everyone would be doing it already).
http://xkcd.com/793/
No. Look at the top 1000 world strongest people. They're all men. Men and women and physically different (including our brains). It's not sexism that causes the strongest people to all be men, it's just physiology - men just have bigger muscles than women. But when the majority of engineers are male instead of saying "well I suppose the male brain is better suited for engineering tasks" cries of "sexism!" are made. To accuse an organization of sexism you have to find evidence of it (the proportion of females in the workforce is not evidence). It'd be like taking a count of all the letters used in Slashdot posts. a = 23,345,494, b = 12,342,463 etc, and then coming to the conclusion that Slashdot is letterist against the letter 'x' because it's used the least - the underlying belief being that "in any fair system, all letters would be used the same amount". This isn't true. It isn't true of men and women either.
Typically you see a rule like "at least 10% of the workforce m ust be x% female". This means that people will be hired according to their gender - sexism is built into the system. The same applies to many anti racist rules. You can't ever have rules that explicitly favor one gender over another.
If you can work remotely... it's probable that somewhere on the other side of the planet a potential employer will open up their work for you. Pessimism or optimism. Choose one.
Energy is measured in joules fools.
Perhaps when sending an email the user does not want to reveal his or her real name. By putting names in email addresses you make this impossible.
If P = NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in "creative leaps," no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss... — Scott Aaronson, MIT
I think that this is a more accurate description of how creativity and intelligence works. People claim they "invented" or "created" a new machine or song, but in reality they just copied it from somewhere else in nature (with or without realizing it).
I am certain that the algorithms being used today will never result with human level AI. If we want to design strong AI we need to first prove P = NP. This is the missing key to solving our AI problems - it's why there's a huge difference between expectations and the reality of AI. I will spend much of my life trying to prove P = NP, no matter how many tell me it's completely futile. Do you think P = NP?
There is 0 chance someone is going to steal your luggage if its bright pink. It's that simple.
Check your filters. Go to /r/all it is there
Instead of criticizing him, say "I'm really struggling to read your code, could you do x y z to make it easier for me to understand? Thanks".
You, sir, are a fucking idiot.
with tips just one-twentieth of the width of a human hair, but able to apply pressures that could compete easily with those from human jaws
The size of the surface area has no bearing on the amount of pressure that can be applied because pressure is force per unit area.
The bottom line is that Reddit has been, and can be, an interesting site full of interesting content. But the willingness of the admins there to allow such abhorrent (and clearly illegal) content until publicity won't allow them to continue to do so is a glaring flaw in the organization of the site, and I'd rather not be associated with such a wild west approach to such things, especially when their morals seem to be dictated more on whether something will affect their reputation than whether or not it's right.
The admins NEVER allowed illegal content on their site. Child pornography was never allowed. Not caring about what people in each subreddit did was not a glaring flaw. If you didn't like a subreddit, you didn't go there. It worked pretty well actually - reddit is very popular.
I don't know how you run things, but corporations are not people in the EU.
IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition
Incorrect. Watson does not use speech recognition. The questions were fed to it by text when playing against Ken Jennings.
Don't you have anything better to do than to troll websites? Why not go post on WoW forums telling them they should spend their time more wisely?
Yawn. It's clearly progress. Ideally everything in your wallet could be in your phone, so this is just a step towards that. It's not pointless, its progress.