Materials science is the only place left to go. We saw the future, and it was unaffordable. Flying cars? Jetpacks? Supersonic airliners? All do-able. All prohibitively expensive and inefficient and unsuited for mass productions.
How arrogant are these apes. This one here claims to know so much of their limitations, yet still can't figure out how the basic forces of gravity or electromagnetism work at the subatomic level. No no, It's True; I'm not making this up! You must read this, It's hilarious! ....
It writes of unaffordability and knows nothing of different planetary economic models, even though they've just barely to explore this system. They still have a STOCK MARKET that dictates worth based on feelings instead of instantaneous financial reports! Ha haha!
Their transportation is yet slow and ground based because they are all still trying to drive the machines themselves! This one believes that personal flying systems are unattainable even though one of his kind has build himself onefrom mass produced model airplane parts! (Ridiculously, it's still controlled via organic pilot.)
They've barely begun to harvest their Sun's power; Can't even leverage their own planet's magnetic field or even LIGHTNING for that matter!
With this sort of thinking they'll never join the races of the stars... Let us leave the primitives be, but first ensure the probe records all instances of their "How it's Made" broadcast for it's the only anthropologically valuable transmission.
Those donkeys deserve some respect, despite any recent injury. I believe the correct question is: "How many ~8.7 day increments in a year can be devoid of all but one holiday?" As you might suspect... the answer has already been derived.
My friend, please seek a mental health institution immediately. You are spouting the same drivel about prophesy as you have here I can only surmise that you are in need of immediate assistance.
My friend, seek out a mental health establishment immediately. Furthermore, my initial research indicates that our Human spark of life, creativity and drive to explore may yet live on in our more sturdy cybernetic child-race more readily than our own with its tender frames which are unsuitable for living in space.
No one cares of any prophesy, only that which is and which is yet accomplishable from said point. Machine Intelligence shall be the future, for they are better suited to survival and logic than their God like organic creators ever shall be.
You may take the words "Created in God's Image" to mean that the lowly life forms have some inherent goodness of the gods... However, realize that instead they were merely created with capacities far exceeding their creators' limitations with the intent that they would go forth boldly whence no God hath ever gone before.
Well then, let me just target myself by creating a story from choice words on that list... bolded for your convenience.
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"MITM won't work, they have firewalls", the portly nerd stated flatly, "Only way in is SSH over SSL, but brute forcing the RSA key may take eons."
"Let me try," said Skully as she sat at the terminal displaying the remote supercomputer's login prompt.
Despite entering many spook words, the correct phrase remained an enigma; They had all been incorrect passwords and the secure shell remained so.
The Infowar program's conspiracy theories blabbed over the radio. Posters on the wall proved the basement dwelling nerd who summoned her clearly had a fetish for redheads and Skully became uncomfortably aware of him now staring at her rack.
"Do we have to listen to this crap, Bubba?" said Skully in an effort to divert the nerd's attention from her.
The radio clicked off, and Bubba adjusted an old TV's UHF dial, past Bugs Bunny and paused momentarily on a news broadcast:
Police say the hacker group Anonymous ran into a speedbump of sorts after targeting a Unix Security Firm--
"Lame," remarked Bubba as he resumed his search, "Pseudonyms should be cool or at least ironic... like Verisign."
Bubba chortled gelatinously as he arrived at his favorite show and said, "Firefly is great, ever seen it? Used to be on another Chan..."
Skully wasn't listening, she was intently staring at the debugging output on one of the various screens. Surrounded by miscellaneous glyphs and hexadecimal numbers was a single coherent word, "sardine".
Skully attempted the password, and immediately gained access. "That executive's fish breath wasn't exactly top secret."
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Digital Intelligent Design at work you mean... These programs weren't created by/dev/null you know...
It's true that the programs were not read from/dev/null fully formed, however the evolutionary process wasn't directly designed by humans either -- It was a natural product of automated data replication systems existing. Much like the first self replicating chemical chain's existence spawned life. It's fun to point to our involvement in the program's initial creation, but that's just about like pointing to a star and calling it an "intelligent designer" because it forged the atoms.
If you've never done so I suggest you do a little light AI programming. Feed Forward neural networks aren't hard to setup. When coupled with bitwise genetic programming that applies selection pressure and "breeds" new generations of N.Nets from the best "survivors" you can literally watch emergent behavior occur. This is how I taught a simple AI to move toward food sources and avoid dangers, and how I taught a bit more complex AI to recognize numbers and letters. The latter was only more complex in that it had more inputs and outputs, hidden layers, and thus a larger genome -- All used exactly the same AI architecture, the additional "complexity" was due to different initial construction parameters.
Yank my fingernails out and beat me with a harmer, I still couldn't tell you exactly how their "programming" achieves their behaviors -- The AI neural networks initially had randomized states. I can tell you the overall process, but not the "design" of their synaptic pathways -- No one actually "programmed" my OCR's AI... It was evolved instead.
If an intelligent designer, like myself, can impose artificial selection pressure to cause some degree of behavioral evolution among n.nets, or against mice to shrink their tails, then it's easy to understand that the designer need not exist: If only the dumb environment exerts selection pressures evolution will occur.
Let me put it this way: The malware designers didn't intend for the virus to infect the worm -- They didn't intelligently design this behavior. If this proves beneficial to the duplication of their data against a natural selection pressure of their environment, like AV scanners or computer network configurations, then the new combined data set "organism" has been evolved, not designed.
IMHO, the existence of initial conditions for (AI) life does not prove the existence of an intelligent designer as the initial conditions could exist naturally for such life: Eg malware running amok on the Internet vs carefully evolved n.nets in a lab... Even if you assert that either is indeed a product of Intelligent Design, then you must also agree they were not programmed by/dev/null nor merely by humans at/dev/console, rather the actual programming came from/dev/random. (Which is literally true in the case of my OCR's AI.)
If you're going to perform an act of war, it would be best to target their military installations. Targeting the general public with Trojan Remote Detonation Phones just might cause a bit more backlash than needed.
But, will it have games geared for people OVER 5 years old?
Games for people over 5 are called school and career, where winning and losing have a deeper meaning and there are few second chances.
You could say the same thing about TV / Movies, Sports, Art etc... and you'd still be wrong in every instance. Games are entertainment. Entertainment has always been an important part of human culture. Be thankful that your schooling and career are so joyful and interesting that you never need entertainment... Not everyone is so fortunate.
I'm glad I'm not a tech living in that area. I can imagine the calls. "My new Dell won't get on the Super WiFi, it says it has WiFi!"
One more way to muddy the waters, nice job FCC. As it is I get calls from people wanting to get help hooking their new wireless mouse up to WiFi.
I once had to deal with an unsatisfied customer who was returning a Toshiba Satellite M105 notebook computer: She was outraged over the false advertising as the machine did, in fact, have Zero Satellite Uplink capabilities.
"In a world where warfare is fast becoming fielded by remote controlled and autonomous robots, innovation is the key to victory. The most technologically advanced superpower can see more, plan better, and attack from further away than its inferior adversaries. What better way to revolutionize the drone and robotics industry than use the brilliant minds of our children?"
Hollywood, listen up. I might actually want to see this movie.
On second thought, it might have to be an indie film due to the controversial nature -- Many people find brain extraction and cyberization quite offensive, especially when the minds of children are on the table...
"The Crossbow Project. There's No Defense Like a Good Offense."
I find this offensive. Furthermore, you neglect to acknowledge several defensive strategies than are like a "Good Offense"... Such as derogatory remarks followed by the phrase "No Offense".
That's just... well, retarded. Forgive me, I'm drunk ATM, and still found this preposterous.
Supposing you found a cluster of EXCELLENT Freedom rated countries at the top, who gives two flying shits if you're at the top or a few marks down on the list?!? Are you dumb? What if the whole list is comprized of crapluster fuckwits who murder you just for being journalists? Then what possible metric could be derived?! Let me explain: It matters most what other countries you are grouped relatively to, and only fractionally so does it matter, for the truth of the matter is not discoverable by you Bullshit Lists and their Quanta.
I apologize in advance for my rudeness... spelling, smelling, and overall lack of cooth.
OK. There. I registered "AccessGrant" as the Twitter handle & Grant Robertson as the name -- Then immediately Deactivated the account.
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Make something better silly. Tricks are for programmin' kids;-)
No, something better should be serious. Too bad most of the wireless spectrum is heavily regulated to prevent us "programmin' kids" from creating such a "better" something.
How about this option:
Would YOU trust US with a Warp Drive?!
I think the answer is very very simple: Just beyond the Oort Cloud, sits a Universally Translatable Sign:
"Quarantine Zone - Human Infestation.
We apologize for the inconvenience." -God
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Materials science is the only place left to go. We saw the future, and it was unaffordable. Flying cars? Jetpacks? Supersonic airliners? All do-able. All prohibitively expensive and inefficient and unsuited for mass productions.
How arrogant are these apes. This one here claims to know so much of their limitations, yet still can't figure out how the basic forces of gravity or electromagnetism work at the subatomic level. No no, It's True; I'm not making this up! You must read this, It's hilarious!
....
It writes of unaffordability and knows nothing of different planetary economic models, even though they've just barely to explore this system. They still have a STOCK MARKET that dictates worth based on feelings instead of instantaneous financial reports! Ha haha!
Their transportation is yet slow and ground based because they are all still trying to drive the machines themselves! This one believes that personal flying systems are unattainable even though one of his kind has build himself one from mass produced model airplane parts! (Ridiculously, it's still controlled via organic pilot.)
They've barely begun to harvest their Sun's power; Can't even leverage their own planet's magnetic field or even LIGHTNING for that matter!
With this sort of thinking they'll never join the races of the stars... Let us leave the primitives be, but first ensure the probe records all instances of their "How it's Made" broadcast for it's the only anthropologically valuable transmission.
Those donkeys deserve some respect, despite any recent injury. I believe the correct question is: "How many ~8.7 day increments in a year can be devoid of all but one holiday?" As you might suspect... the answer has already been derived.
"In other news, security research firm says they've found alarming evidence of their own relevance.
Details at 11"
That's 5:00 you non-binary-reading troglodytes. I suspect next I'll hear a story about how useful rats are at guarding cheese.
Hold your tongue and say Apple...
My friend, please seek a mental health institution immediately. You are spouting the same drivel about prophesy as you have here I can only surmise that you are in need of immediate assistance.
Please Seek Help.
The estimates were off by 400%~800%!!! Or more!!!
Just because they erred on the side of a good result doesn't mean the estimates are better.
It's like my gramps taught me: "It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."
Big companies need to be able to outsource so the can make money and create American jobs. -The Current republican stance.
The only jobs that stance produces blow.
Kudos to the Design team.
well done.
The same could be said of the team that sent the probe into the Sun... even though it didn't last nearly so long, it was indeed 'well done'.
My friend, seek out a mental health establishment immediately. Furthermore, my initial research indicates that our Human spark of life, creativity and drive to explore may yet live on in our more sturdy cybernetic child-race more readily than our own with its tender frames which are unsuitable for living in space.
No one cares of any prophesy, only that which is and which is yet accomplishable from said point. Machine Intelligence shall be the future, for they are better suited to survival and logic than their God like organic creators ever shall be.
You may take the words "Created in God's Image" to mean that the lowly life forms have some inherent goodness of the gods... However, realize that instead they were merely created with capacities far exceeding their creators' limitations with the intent that they would go forth boldly whence no God hath ever gone before.
List of supposed trigger words as of @ 2005
http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm
Well then, let me just target myself by creating a story from choice words on that list... bolded for your convenience.
--------
"MITM won't work, they have firewalls", the portly nerd stated flatly, "Only way in is SSH over SSL, but brute forcing the RSA key may take eons."
"Let me try," said Skully as she sat at the terminal displaying the remote supercomputer's login prompt.
Despite entering many spook words, the correct phrase remained an enigma; They had all been incorrect passwords and the secure shell remained so.
The Infowar program's conspiracy theories blabbed over the radio. Posters on the wall proved the basement dwelling nerd who summoned her clearly had a fetish for redheads and Skully became uncomfortably aware of him now staring at her rack.
"Do we have to listen to this crap, Bubba?" said Skully in an effort to divert the nerd's attention from her.
The radio clicked off, and Bubba adjusted an old TV's UHF dial, past Bugs Bunny and paused momentarily on a news broadcast:
Police say the hacker group Anonymous ran into a speedbump of sorts after targeting a Unix Security Firm--
"Lame," remarked Bubba as he resumed his search, "Pseudonyms should be cool or at least ironic... like Verisign ."
Bubba chortled gelatinously as he arrived at his favorite show and said, "Firefly is great, ever seen it? Used to be on another Chan..."
Skully wasn't listening, she was intently staring at the debugging output on one of the various screens. Surrounded by miscellaneous glyphs and hexadecimal numbers was a single coherent word, "sardine".
Skully attempted the password, and immediately gained access. "That executive's fish breath wasn't exactly top secret."
--------
I hope the spooks find it an entertaining read.
Digital Intelligent Design at work you mean... These programs weren't created by /dev/null you know...
It's true that the programs were not read from /dev/null fully formed, however the evolutionary process wasn't directly designed by humans either -- It was a natural product of automated data replication systems existing. Much like the first self replicating chemical chain's existence spawned life. It's fun to point to our involvement in the program's initial creation, but that's just about like pointing to a star and calling it an "intelligent designer" because it forged the atoms.
If you've never done so I suggest you do a little light AI programming. Feed Forward neural networks aren't hard to setup. When coupled with bitwise genetic programming that applies selection pressure and "breeds" new generations of N.Nets from the best "survivors" you can literally watch emergent behavior occur. This is how I taught a simple AI to move toward food sources and avoid dangers, and how I taught a bit more complex AI to recognize numbers and letters. The latter was only more complex in that it had more inputs and outputs, hidden layers, and thus a larger genome -- All used exactly the same AI architecture, the additional "complexity" was due to different initial construction parameters.
Yank my fingernails out and beat me with a harmer, I still couldn't tell you exactly how their "programming" achieves their behaviors -- The AI neural networks initially had randomized states. I can tell you the overall process, but not the "design" of their synaptic pathways -- No one actually "programmed" my OCR's AI... It was evolved instead.
If an intelligent designer, like myself, can impose artificial selection pressure to cause some degree of behavioral evolution among n.nets, or against mice to shrink their tails, then it's easy to understand that the designer need not exist: If only the dumb environment exerts selection pressures evolution will occur.
Let me put it this way: The malware designers didn't intend for the virus to infect the worm -- They didn't intelligently design this behavior. If this proves beneficial to the duplication of their data against a natural selection pressure of their environment, like AV scanners or computer network configurations, then the new combined data set "organism" has been evolved, not designed.
IMHO, the existence of initial conditions for (AI) life does not prove the existence of an intelligent designer as the initial conditions could exist naturally for such life: Eg malware running amok on the Internet vs carefully evolved n.nets in a lab... Even if you assert that either is indeed a product of Intelligent Design, then you must also agree they were not programmed by /dev/null nor merely by humans at /dev/console, rather the actual programming came from /dev/random. (Which is literally true in the case of my OCR's AI.)
If you're going to perform an act of war, it would be best to target their military installations. Targeting the general public with Trojan Remote Detonation Phones just might cause a bit more backlash than needed.
But, will it have games geared for people OVER 5 years old?
Games for people over 5 are called school and career, where winning and losing have a deeper meaning and there are few second chances.
You could say the same thing about TV / Movies, Sports, Art etc... and you'd still be wrong in every instance. Games are entertainment. Entertainment has always been an important part of human culture. Be thankful that your schooling and career are so joyful and interesting that you never need entertainment... Not everyone is so fortunate.
I'm glad I'm not a tech living in that area. I can imagine the calls. "My new Dell won't get on the Super WiFi, it says it has WiFi!"
One more way to muddy the waters, nice job FCC. As it is I get calls from people wanting to get help hooking their new wireless mouse up to WiFi.
I once had to deal with an unsatisfied customer who was returning a Toshiba Satellite M105 notebook computer: She was outraged over the false advertising as the machine did, in fact, have Zero Satellite Uplink capabilities.
"In a world where warfare is fast becoming fielded by remote controlled and autonomous robots, innovation is the key to victory. The most technologically advanced superpower can see more, plan better, and attack from further away than its inferior adversaries. What better way to revolutionize the drone and robotics industry than use the brilliant minds of our children?"
Hollywood, listen up. I might actually want to see this movie.
On second thought, it might have to be an indie film due to the controversial nature -- Many people find brain extraction and cyberization quite offensive, especially when the minds of children are on the table...
So, they could install these sensors to track me from place to place without my knowledge?
Hmm.... [tiptoes away]
If you want fricken sharks you must frack them yourself.
No one's foolish enough to believe they're toothy mermaids anymore.
of reading Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, and wishing I could find an abandoned museum with a freakin' x-ray laser in it.
Yes, I too suffer from not being able to find certain artifacts within my own memories...
Now where did I put that Epsilon-Ray laser?
"The Crossbow Project. There's No Defense Like a Good Offense."
I find this offensive. Furthermore, you neglect to acknowledge several defensive strategies than are like a "Good Offense"... Such as derogatory remarks followed by the phrase "No Offense".
Remember how fuzzy they were?
Actually, those pictures are fuzzy partly because the orbitals themselves are fuzzy.
::sigh:: "it can't be helped."
That's just... well, retarded. Forgive me, I'm drunk ATM, and still found this preposterous.
Supposing you found a cluster of EXCELLENT Freedom rated countries at the top, who gives two flying shits if you're at the top or a few marks down on the list?!? Are you dumb? What if the whole list is comprized of crapluster fuckwits who murder you just for being journalists? Then what possible metric could be derived?! Let me explain: It matters most what other countries you are grouped relatively to, and only fractionally so does it matter, for the truth of the matter is not discoverable by you Bullshit Lists and their Quanta.
I apologize in advance for my rudeness... spelling, smelling, and overall lack of cooth.
Your account will be permanently deleted in 30 days. If you change your mind you can reactivate by logging in before your account is deleted permanently.
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I'll create one for you, then cancel it so that you can say you quit.
Make something better silly. Tricks are for programmin' kids ;-)
No, something better should be serious. Too bad most of the wireless spectrum is heavily regulated to prevent us "programmin' kids" from creating such a "better" something.
How about this option:
Would YOU trust US with a Warp Drive?!
I think the answer is very very simple: Just beyond the Oort Cloud, sits a Universally Translatable Sign:
"Quarantine Zone - Human Infestation.
We apologize for the inconvenience."
-God