Why not recreate the brain of a simpler creature? I assume insects have some sort of brain. If we need an artificial mammal brain, how about one that's blind, or has otherwise limited connection with it's environment. Seems like a waste of time reproducing all the hardware of the brain when much of it wouldn't be of use to a machine so simple as a computer.
Here is an interesting documentary dealing with American-style censorship and propaganda in the media. The mechanism may be different, but in the end the public is still being fed misinformation.
Maybe we don't need a Big Brother in this country, we're all conspiring to misinform ourselves.
This was the most interesting part of the video to me, from the narrator's commentary:
"... I'm doing this on Windows Vista and Internet Explorer, but you can just as easily do this on Windows XP, Firefox, or even a Mac in - [audio suddenly cuts off]... Now I'm going to..."
I suppose he was going to say Safari? In any case it was sloppy editing.
He must not have edited this with Silverlight, because Silverlight makes precision editing so easy.
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"Loyalty is to the administration first and the party second.
And the Constitution? Oh, sure, we care about. And God, too. And Jesus, yeah. Look, just make a list of what you want us to say we care about, alright? We're busy."
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Good point. If it's controlled with remote signals, can someone hack into and take control of it?
Why not recreate the brain of a simpler creature? I assume insects have some sort of brain. If we need an artificial mammal brain, how about one that's blind, or has otherwise limited connection with it's environment. Seems like a waste of time reproducing all the hardware of the brain when much of it wouldn't be of use to a machine so simple as a computer.
Here is an interesting documentary dealing with American-style censorship and propaganda in the media. The mechanism may be different, but in the end the public is still being fed misinformation.
Maybe we don't need a Big Brother in this country, we're all conspiring to misinform ourselves.
This was the most interesting part of the video to me, from the narrator's commentary:
... Now I'm going to..."
"... I'm doing this on Windows Vista and Internet Explorer, but you can just as easily do this on Windows XP, Firefox, or even a Mac in - [audio suddenly cuts off]
I suppose he was going to say Safari? In any case it was sloppy editing.
He must not have edited this with Silverlight, because Silverlight makes precision editing so easy.
...
...
"Loyalty is to the administration first and the party second.
And the Constitution? Oh, sure, we care about. And God, too. And Jesus, yeah. Look, just make a list of what you want us to say we care about, alright? We're busy."
white_house@exxon.com