I fantasized about stealing their category hierarchy RDF file (i.e., structure.rdf.u8.gz ) - for building a classification thingamajig of my own. Here's their short sample: http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/struct...
Maybe the "interests" behind the reports were just some crazy day trader with potential upside of chump change compared to total market movement. Or, If not this time, some time soon it will be kids or terrorists or a disgruntled ex-employee.
Do you think that as long as an organization lets us know that "People will be able to track the aircraft online whenever they're used in order to learn where and why they were deployed" we should allow the creepy, annoying presence of machines buzzing around our visual and sonic spheres?
Except banks should be able to transfer all your assets, if not in cash, at least in some form (given a reasonable amount of notice in any reasonably likely situation) by calling in investments. They are constrained by regulations and audit scrutiny, etc., It's going to be hard for privately-held, internationally cloaked Full Tilt to get customers' money back out of their exec's pockets.
The Greater Internet Jerkwad Theory: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Jerkwad
As TheGratefulNet suggests, anonymity is very important. At least in the sense that we value intellectual freedom. Sometimes the quality/range/expressive power of the discussion improves too, so I guess we need it as a comunication tool. I don't know that we NEED tons of anonymity to survive as a species, but it does seem like one of the more enlightened human rights and a good thing to try to preserve.
For now, we have plenty of technologies and forums supporting some degree of anonymity, and I don't see them going away just because Google+ landed on the individuation side. Bad news (for + users): Google+ will lose some userbase and some amount of the good things that anonymous communication can foster. Good news (for lovers of aliases-based communication): some other, less-omniscient service will get a market opportunity they wouldn't have had if Google+ allowed aliases.
FWIW, I have a + alias-as-name and will probably drop 'em like Friendster if they make me change it. I already have a RealIdentity-style social network. (On Facebook. For now. Can't wait to try the Great Opensource Distributed Social Network that I know one of y'all is going to invent.)
Comparing vector to raster is like apples and oranges, but that's an interesting observation... the choke point for graphics has shifted way up. it's because vectors are like blueprints (and the cpu cycles are like fantastic builders) whereas raster is a less-dimensional structure that can be easily displayed and copied, but not easily manipulated.
The soulless zombie (wikipedia: lacks a soul but is otherwise indistinguishable from a human; this concept is used to inquire to what, if anything, the soul might amount) is useful in that it illustrates the beliefs of many people. it symbolizes romantic/religious/human intuitions about consciousness. i don't think it's especially relevant to the philosophy of consciousness, but it is a useful construct.
Slashdotters would love the challenge of a neurological zombie: Could you invent a beautiful machine that has a living human brain driving it? And if you could, would there be a way it could not have consciousness? I think this zombie supports functionalism, and so do I.
The role of the behavioral zombie (wp: behaviorally indistinguishable from a human and yet has no conscious experience) is again as a useful construct that's not that philosophically relevant. Most nerds don't have much trouble imagining a replicant of their own demising that would be very hard to distinguish from a human, but wouldn't have free will or self-awareness.
The white elephant in the philosopher's office is that the study of consciousness will eventually become more of an empirical discipline and rely less on the linguistic false-distinction or the unrealistic thought experiment.
Not to mention USB/PCI and AGP implementations are all hardware devices, presumably to be sold. Your comparison is horrible.
The day Firefox is "taken" by commercial software will be a sad day indeed. The Mozilla Foundation could probably get a reduced price on a license easily enough, but that's not the point.
HELL NO! And furthermore, even if Flash penetration were 100% and they fixed the bug where the player captures my Firefox url and search bar shortcut keystrokes, I wouldn't develop for it. In my 14 years of web development, the only Flash I've ever created was a hidden music player on my otherwise-DHTML animated personal homepage. As soon as HTML5 embedded sound supports multiple simultaneous audio streams, you can bet I'm turfing that bullshit. Long live the open web.
The AP's concern isn't the right of the citizen to be informed, it's the threate to their legitimacy as a syndicator of unaltered news photos.
I think the AP is over-reacting. If it were me, I'd suspend them for six months and give them a warning that next time it'll be 20 years. We'll see how the DOD likes the loss of a valuable dissemination outlet.
And since when does the AP circulate supermodel ads for Coke?
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oops, bad URL! This one works: https://www.dmoz.org/rdf/struc...
I fantasized about stealing their category hierarchy RDF file (i.e., structure.rdf.u8.gz ) - for building a classification thingamajig of my own. Here's their short sample: http://rdf.dmoz.org/rdf/struct...
Or you could launch your drone-interceptor drone.
It's easy to justify drones economically-- if not now, then really soon when they're cheaper. (They won't always be bigger than king sized beds.)
The important question is, do we want to let the drones get a foot in the door?
Maybe the "interests" behind the reports were just some crazy day trader with potential upside of chump change compared to total market movement. Or, If not this time, some time soon it will be kids or terrorists or a disgruntled ex-employee.
Do you think that as long as an organization lets us know that "People will be able to track the aircraft online whenever they're used in order to learn where and why they were deployed" we should allow the creepy, annoying presence of machines buzzing around our visual and sonic spheres?
hopefully this will encourage misinformation awareness or foster some web-of-trust technology.
Arrr, ye must hide PDL, cookies, MAC addy, IP address, hostname, and browser fingerprint. In Soviet Russia 2022, everybody knows everybody's treasure.
mod parent up. i guess, as an earlier poster mentioned, we need steganographic vpns. openVPN feature request? Thought these were interesting:
STEGAN0GRAPHY APPLIED 0N NETW0RK SESSi0NS AND NEiGHB0URH00D
http://www.s0ftpj.org/bfi/dev/en/BFi12-dev-10-en
Except banks should be able to transfer all your assets, if not in cash, at least in some form (given a reasonable amount of notice in any reasonably likely situation) by calling in investments. They are constrained by regulations and audit scrutiny, etc., It's going to be hard for privately-held, internationally cloaked Full Tilt to get customers' money back out of their exec's pockets.
The Greater Internet Jerkwad Theory:
Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Jerkwad
As TheGratefulNet suggests, anonymity is very important. At least in the sense that we value intellectual freedom. Sometimes the quality/range/expressive power of the discussion improves too, so I guess we need it as a comunication tool. I don't know that we NEED tons of anonymity to survive as a species, but it does seem like one of the more enlightened human rights and a good thing to try to preserve.
For now, we have plenty of technologies and forums supporting some degree of anonymity, and I don't see them going away just because Google+ landed on the individuation side. Bad news (for + users): Google+ will lose some userbase and some amount of the good things that anonymous communication can foster. Good news (for lovers of aliases-based communication): some other, less-omniscient service will get a market opportunity they wouldn't have had if Google+ allowed aliases.
FWIW, I have a + alias-as-name and will probably drop 'em like Friendster if they make me change it. I already have a RealIdentity-style social network. (On Facebook. For now. Can't wait to try the Great Opensource Distributed Social Network that I know one of y'all is going to invent.)
Comparing vector to raster is like apples and oranges, but that's an interesting observation... the choke point for graphics has shifted way up. it's because vectors are like blueprints (and the cpu cycles are like fantastic builders) whereas raster is a less-dimensional structure that can be easily displayed and copied, but not easily manipulated.
I don't think your black-and-white line test is a good one. The eye treats parallel lines specially.
For me, I can't distinguish lines from gray starting at about 30 inches from my 72-dpi laptop monitor.
http://djradon.com/bw_test/
By your test, I wouldn't fail to distinguish until 80" away. Or is my math off?
good for you.
now if only we had super-smooth AI agents to adopt your technique for us!
You could have a democracy of largely informed and conscientious citizens.
The soulless zombie (wikipedia: lacks a soul but is otherwise indistinguishable from a human; this concept is used to inquire to what, if anything, the soul might amount) is useful in that it illustrates the beliefs of many people. it symbolizes romantic/religious/human intuitions about consciousness. i don't think it's especially relevant to the philosophy of consciousness, but it is a useful construct.
Slashdotters would love the challenge of a neurological zombie: Could you invent a beautiful machine that has a living human brain driving it? And if you could, would there be a way it could not have consciousness? I think this zombie supports functionalism, and so do I.
The role of the behavioral zombie (wp: behaviorally indistinguishable from a human and yet has no conscious experience) is again as a useful construct that's not that philosophically relevant. Most nerds don't have much trouble imagining a replicant of their own demising that would be very hard to distinguish from a human, but wouldn't have free will or self-awareness.
The white elephant in the philosopher's office is that the study of consciousness will eventually become more of an empirical discipline and rely less on the linguistic false-distinction or the unrealistic thought experiment.
Not to mention USB/PCI and AGP implementations are all hardware devices, presumably to be sold. Your comparison is horrible.
The day Firefox is "taken" by commercial software will be a sad day indeed. The Mozilla Foundation could probably get a reduced price on a license easily enough, but that's not the point.
scrabble is more fun when played with the universal dictionary.
I agree, authoring tool is a huge factor. A flash-the-application work-alike for multimedia, IMHO, is the open-source holy grail.
HELL NO! And furthermore, even if Flash penetration were 100% and they fixed the bug where the player captures my Firefox url and search bar shortcut keystrokes, I wouldn't develop for it. In my 14 years of web development, the only Flash I've ever created was a hidden music player on my otherwise-DHTML animated personal homepage. As soon as HTML5 embedded sound supports multiple simultaneous audio streams, you can bet I'm turfing that bullshit. Long live the open web.
If you mean an App Store SDK, not sure what that is, but I'd bet MS will host 3rd-party apps soon.
If you mean a development SDK, they've already released one:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/archive/2009/09/15/xna-game-studio-3-1-zune-extensions.aspx
Look for SDK support for NVidia graphics soon.
I agree with this guy, Zune game programming could be a great educational platform:
http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2009/09/16/zune-hd-as-a-programming-teaching-platform.aspx.
If you teach kids to write Zune games, you're teaching them how to write xbox and windows games too.
zing! take that, funny guy.
chines checkers != go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Checkers
The AP's concern isn't the right of the citizen to be informed, it's the threate to their legitimacy as a syndicator of unaltered news photos.
I think the AP is over-reacting. If it were me, I'd suspend them for six months and give them a warning that next time it'll be 20 years. We'll see how the DOD likes the loss of a valuable dissemination outlet.
And since when does the AP circulate supermodel ads for Coke?
Not insightful. I'd give you -1, incoherent.
>piles of computers and ethernet switches by themselves aren't enough to teach students .... well, anything.
Wrong. Some kids will teach themselves, and some will teach others, including teaching the teachers.
I say: if you've got access to some unused computers and the school will accept them, do it.