so they should make echelon's results freely available to the public, with a nifty web search interface. It just might lead to more honesty and faster progress...
Let's say someone has a brilliant idea for waste water treatment. How is ThinkCycle going to test that that idea works? It can't just run a computation or ask a bunch of random people to verify the idea. You need to build a pilot and try it out
This is why we need simulation software. Try out all ideas in parallel and see their effects...
why don't they make suicide legal and easy? I am a drug addict, and therefore useless to society. I accept this judgment and am ready to remove myself from the competition for survival. But killing yourself is difficult and uncertain. If the powers that be would just let those of us who want to kill ourselves quickly and painlessly without fear of discovery, a lot of worthless baggage would be eliminated and the world would be a better place for normal people.
The real problem this author has is with human nature; the internet may facilitate some of the less rational charactersitics of human nature, such as spreading rumors faster, but the internet doesn't create rumors on its own.
So the problem of believing rumors without evidence to back it up was not created by the internet. The problem may be made more obvious because the internet is very efficient at distributing information. But the problem is not the internet; the problem is the human tendency to believe what we want to, without requiring any rigorous evidence.
It can be reversed only with education, exchanges, diplomacy and human interaction -- stuff you have to upload the old-fashioned way, one on one. Let's hope it's not too late.
This makes me feel ill - human interaction used to be the best way to spread rumors before the internet.
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so they should make echelon's results freely available to the public, with a nifty web search interface. It just might lead to more honesty and faster progress...
and what does our productivity get us? lots of badly-designed low-quality crap that marketers try to convince us we need...
And you really think torturing script kiddies (if you can catch them...) would prevent all future attacks?
didn't they used to think that the absolute smallest unit of matter was the atom?
that one didn't bother me, but yours did, hrm.
I'm on the west coast. I chose to read the spoilers, because I don't like to be manipulated by cheesy tv scripts.
The best episode was the self-mocking one, with Lord KenBoat (or whatever) and the fake air force aliens.
Thought-recognition?
the thing is, he might not be able to do it by himself, but if he remembered one part and someone else remembered another part...
Democracies don't have famines.
India has no starving people?
so if I'm a thinker, and I have a great idea that would do something much more efficiently, but I myself can't do it, it's better to stay silent?
If so, please make suicide easier.
...perhaps the idea of applying this ancient technology somewhere where it is unknown or has been forgotten, is something new?
Let's say someone has a brilliant idea for waste water treatment. How is ThinkCycle going to test that that idea works? It can't just run a computation or ask a bunch of random people to verify the idea. You need to build a pilot and try it out
This is why we need simulation software. Try out all ideas in parallel and see their effects...
Didn't the Newton have handwriting recognition (of natural handwriting) before Palm?
If (when) I buy a handheld, I certainly want one that will recognize my natural handwriting...
Without a system of laws, morals, and controls we would have anarchy.
Perhaps people can be educated so they see how it is in their best interests not to hurt others?
It cannot be known or concluded a priori that this new population will displace the other population.
If the environment changes in such a way that the subpopulation is better adapted...
he states that the probability of "success" was still only 33% using the methods he describes, so maybe he's not a risk-taker...
why is graffiti (the palm os handwriting language) successful then...
geeks in charge
when did that happen again?
I have patented the idea of trolling websites.
why don't they make suicide legal and easy? I am a drug addict, and therefore useless to society. I accept this judgment and am ready to remove myself from the competition for survival. But killing yourself is difficult and uncertain. If the powers that be would just let those of us who want to kill ourselves quickly and painlessly without fear of discovery, a lot of worthless baggage would be eliminated and the world would be a better place for normal people.
from societal constraints. the same place where the desire to believe unfounded rumors comes from. So you fit in with the crowd.
The real problem this author has is with human nature; the internet may facilitate some of the less rational charactersitics of human nature, such as spreading rumors faster, but the internet doesn't create rumors on its own.
So the problem of believing rumors without evidence to back it up was not created by the internet. The problem may be made more obvious because the internet is very efficient at distributing information. But the problem is not the internet; the problem is the human tendency to believe what we want to, without requiring any rigorous evidence.
It can be reversed only with education, exchanges, diplomacy and human interaction -- stuff you have to upload the old-fashioned way, one on one. Let's hope it's not too late.
This makes me feel ill - human interaction used to be the best way to spread rumors before the internet.
ya I totally agree I'm giving you the response I usually get when I say what you're saying.
problem is offices cost more money than open environments...