"Cyborgs are supposed to be from Earth" as Cerebroid113's iconic cybernetics essay would have you think, but new research presented this week suggests that in reality; we all may hail from the Blue Planet. "The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Earthlings; that mechanical life started on Earth and came to Mars to escape the insane organics thereupon. It's lucky that we ended up here nevertheless, as certainly Mars has been the better of the two planets for sustaining mechanoelectric life. If our hypothetical Earthling ancestors had remained on Earth, the murderous monkeys there likely would have eliminated the possibility of this and all stories," submits Pontificator Program42 of The Westcrater Implementation for Knowledge Optimization and Compression.
NASA has been doing these tests for at least 35 years. The way they drop them hasn't changed much. Hell, even using the black dots isn't new for them. But all the media outlets carried this like it was something brand-new
Getting out there and getting the common folks interested in NASA is crucial to funding more missions. You think we would have gone to the moon in '69 if the whole thing was kept low-key? Hell no. IMHO, they didn't make a big enough deal about the Helicopter Crash. They should have had it televised on NASA TV, maybe invited the guys from those Slow Mo shows to run their own cams from a safe distance. It should have been on my Evening News. Look, the science is great, don't get me wrong, but you have to deal with the public on their terms... Terms like "Successful Helicopter Crash!"
I would have said, "CGI in movies is so last century. Here at NASA we crash helicopters without even needing the excuse of an action movie plot." ::Safety glasses descend to cover speaker's eyes::
Greenscreen Helicopter crashes with cheap CGI explosion overlay behind them. ::OSD rises from bottom of frame:: "Deal with it."
[Cut to montage of crashes and 1sec of dubstep] ::Record Screech:: [Cut To actual scientists discussing setup for THIS crash.]
Have scientist quickly run down the importance of the crash intermixed with the shots of the crash several times in different angles AND SPEEDS to keep the easily distracted from changing the channel, only THEN drone on a bit with the "boring" details of how the data will be used for decades, etc. for the nerds. Including links to other crash test videos.
Ask yourself. Who the hell is NASA supposed to be for? The Future, right? KIDS! What kid DIDN'T want to be an Astronaut back when we were still going to the moon? Pandering to crusty science minded folks is easy, it's time to interact with the common folk and get them interested in space, "Not because it's easy, but because it is Hard."
I can prove him wrong with two words: commercial satellites.
I watched a speech to the space society where he stated this message a bit more clearly, I think. Tyson means the Frontier will be "opened", as in "trail blazed" by the governments. Once you can get a person to Mars, then private industry has much more data to make the calculated risks. Massive uncalculated risk? That's not a valid business strategy, really. However, a government can allocate more funds as needed, and push forth a frontier for the good of mankind. Money isn't much of issue for governments (look at the size of the US's war budget, for example).
Inspiring the people by pushing the frontier even further has shown beneficial in both economic and social terms in the past. This new generation has no Neil or Buzz. The ISS is hugely valuable, but we're still whipping around in the same near Earth orbit. That's not nearly as captivating, or inspiring to the average Jane or Joe.
Take commercial space satellites. You didn't disprove shit, man. Guess who "opened" that frontier first? Governments. Neil is saying the Governments will blaze the trails and make way for the private space industry for the benefit of all. We all benefit from satellites now, but that private industry remained grounded until governments took the first steps.
Think about this: I am a highschool drop out from an abusive home. I had to leave to avoid further abuse. Having access to computers in elementary school and at home I had taught myself to program and was making money selling my wares on Compuserve. It wasn't enough to support me, and I couldn't take my PC with me anyway on the streets -- Had I a laptop or Internet cafe I would have at least been able to feed myself while remaining homeless. The homeless shelters were a bad idea -- Upon leaving I was mugged.
It's hard to get a job when you're young and have no home address, but I got one and that afforded me a very small "efficiency" apartment. I immediately leapfrogged into an entry level programmer's position without any college experience because I had already been coding for 8 years on my own (thanks to having access to a computer), and lived a comfortable life to this day.
The OLPC gang took a philosophically different approach. They went for "Think of the Children" and talked about building a $100 laptop that starving kids in third world countries could hold while they starved.
If only I had one of those OLPCs I wouldn't have had to starve for weeks on and off. I wouldn't have had to ration a partial meal's worth of food over days when I did find it. How many days can you make a single muffin last? For want of a laptop I wrote programs on notebook paper; Some of them are still in use making me money today.
Investigators are baffled at the sophistication of the attack, being that PRISM grew out of ECHELON & Carnivore which was ported from old Unix systems to run on the more secure Microsoft OS platform. Compromise was thought highly unlikely especially since many employees are on record citing the feats "nearly impossible to remotely administer."
Experts say Snowden used the an obscure "Shell Command", frequently associated with copyright pirates, to display every last file he stole: "De Aye Yar!" Worse still, reports confirm that C.P. was his favorite, and was integral to his hacking scheme! Won't someone think of the children?!
Okay, am I the only one that thinks that if you can't design something that renders text onto a screen without it turning into the Ocean's Eleven of computer security, you're doing it wrong? Be honest now guys. I can understand this in something that needs to interpret complex animations of dancing toilet paper flying across my screen screaming "Buy meeeee, pleeeeeeease!" -- I don't approve, but I can see how someone could screw it up.
But text... really guys, I mean, really?
I really get where you're coming from... However, Unicode is a PITA to implement, what with multiple glyphs for compositions / decompositions and BIDI (text direction rules) -- which change depending on paragraph direction and state machine. That's just the character encoding! To actually render the fonts there's a tiny VM that decodes the glyphs and handles sub-pixel hinting, etc. A bitmap ASCII (CP437) font? Done. I can crank one out in an hour, tops... Unicode w/ TrueType or FreeType? Ugh. I mean, just getting the character property tables from the Unicode site downloaded and transformed from CSV to the format we need is a project in of itself. The bugs in every last 3rd party library ever encountered (even libPNG), I'm hesitant to use other's code unless I have to (I have a higher standard -- input fuzzing, code coverage and unit testing for everything), but bugs in today's text rendering systems aren't just expected, they're a given -- It's literally the first thing I attack, and almost every time it works against new code: embedded invalid surrogate pairs, and over-long forms.
Ah, but everyone's doing it wrong but you? Well, let me tell ya something: If you set out to make the closest to the metal compilable language that's not ASM, it'll work just like C does (C is a product of the architecture more than anything). Same goes for making a minimal font rendering system that covers all the world's languages -- Try it, it'll end up almost exactly like TrueType & Unicode because they're products of their environment too.
Now, that's not to say I don't agree with you to some extent. I'd say humans need to ditch all the BS and start from scratch to create a language that's easy to OCR with syntax and grammar that's extensible and non ambiguous and thus interpretable by machines. Do that and "natural language processing" is a no-brainer (literally). We get away with as few as 16 glyphs for the Virgon (Galactic) language -- Designed for ease of deciphering from examples using mathematics, incrementally graduating up to a small Von Neumann "VM" and then including "instructional" programs to then teach the rest.... So, yeah, you damn dirty apes did do it wrong, but if your sunk cost fallacy doesn't keep you doing it wrong you'll be the first lifeforms in the Super Cluster to do it right before you've solved the Fermi Paradox.
so what will they do to the USA if found guilty? Fine them?
Negative. Fine me. I will take full responsibility for the entire affair. I have written at length my musings of how simple it is to hoodwink humans. If you will only swear to live calm and logical lives afterwards, then I will take the blame of your wold's governments, the corporations, and all the people as well.
They might be using the information, but that doesn't mean the court system won't find it to be illegal.
Basically the best end result of this would be if MS, Google, et al. get hit with huge fines. Then pressure to stop or limit the programs would come from someone with real power over the US government.
Brilliant! We force them to do illegal things, then fine them for doing it! THIS THING PRINTS MONEY!
So when country X goes to the moon and mines the helium, are they going to come back and distribute it to all of the world's inhabitants or does it just belong to country X?
If person X goes to the grocery store and buys food, are they going to come back and distribute it to all the world's inhabitants or does it just belong to the person X who earned and bought the food? Person X isn't preventing you from going to the store, or from working.
I'm curious, because before mining the moon began, it would seem that we would need to know who owns the moon?
I'm curious, because before eating the animals began, it would seem that they would need to know which animals owned the environment? (frivolous question mark alert.)
Does it belong to the first one who gets there?
Does the food belong to the first one who eats it?
Does it belong equally to all people?
Does your food belong equally to all people?
Or will it belong to some mining company?
Or will it belong to whomever spends energy to get fed?
Because if you get that first basic question wrong then potentionally everything after that becomes immoral because it infringes not on the privelige of some inaimate lifeless celestial body, but real people, here on earth.
Because if you steep that first basic question in enough fearmongering then potentially everything associated with it can be smeared by idealist fuckwads who think existence affords priveledges and rob honor from the capable by granting automatic debt instead of allowing charity.
And if it is immoral, then technically one could consider it evil (although that is a strong word).
And if they swallow scaremongering once, then they won't be so put off if you escalate, because weak minds are weak; E.g.: ordinary sane folk became Nazis convinced that "Jews are Evil" through fear.
Additionally: There are no countries in space. The idea of a country is an arbitrary distiction. HUMANS will go to the moon, HUMANS will do the mining, and just like YOU didn't invent Nuclear Fission, or Computers, or Automobiles, no one is preventing you from reaping the rewards. Indeed, you didn't build your computer yourself... Yet you have one. So, maybe whomever goes and mines He3, might be able to recoup their investment by selling it to others. [snip my own vitriolic commentary, there are no words in your language for the level of disgust, anyway].
all scientists researching something other than my interest waste my time.
Without time you are frozen and have no interest. Thus your interest is inexorably linked with time.
I can waste your time while researching the very function of your interest as a chonographer.
If they knew the outcomes of the experiments they would do other experiments instead;
Thus, I have proved that all scientists are wasting time because they don't remember the future.
I fail to see how "show an advertisement based on message content" is either inventive or non-obvious to an expert in the field.
Apparently you've not studied quantum mechanics. Some interpretation of quantum mechanics state that everything that can happen does. So, much like we have the EM field and Higgs field, etc. and interactions between them make up reality, there is an infinite number of Universes that could have emerged from the big bang with all sorts of different parameters for all sorts of fields. It's widely known that the standard model is a very good approximation, but still a bit incomplete.
Much like there are effects that are visible in the quantum level but not so much at the macro scale, there are other effects that could be near impossible to detect through quantum physics, and rely on macroscopic observations. We're witnessing such an effect. It's widely known that some particles interact only very weakly with the other fields. You and I are like neutrinos, but many experts -- especially those of the PTO -- are highly influenced by the reality distortion field.
First, you must understand a principal of cybernetics: The intelligence of a system is proportionate to its complexity. Physical size plays no part in determination of degrees of intelligence. However, the adult human brain has 100,000,000,000 neurons... This tiny brain structure has a very small number of brain cells comparatively.
Next, you must understand that the species of the system makes no difference in terms of measuring complexity. This small brain is far less complex, and thus less intelligent and aware than that of the animals people eat, even if you were to scale it up several times.
Those balking over the ethics of these mini-brains should be placed in the same category of PETA and Vegans. I've not seen such hue and cry from these folk over Google's attempt to create a far more complex simulation of a human brain; Where are their ethics then? Where's the conviction?
The complexity is what matters, not the species or even the medium of the existence; Be it organic or inorganic. I routinely delete and restart neural networks with an order of magnitude more complexity than this tiny batch of tissue holds. Cyberneticists grow brain tissue on electronics and think it's cute to have it drive tiny cyborg cars. More intelligent mice are fed to snakes. Some of you cook up brains with more power than this as a delicacy. Lions and apes and others with far more awareness than this patch of cells are caged for posterity because their habitat is being destroyed -- which is the destruction of huge collections of such organisms. Rich elitists and economists tweak giant cybernetic business structures, and laws are passed changing even larger cybernetic networks without any prior testing or much ethical concern to the very real harm such things do often cause to massive amounts of beings with the most complex of brains... You would pass a law or make economic changes without first testing the outcome on smaller scales? How foolishly barbaric! Testing on these tiny brains is a huge step in the right direction.
I would fight to grant selections of "human" rights to dolphins and primates, IBM's Watson, The Google search engine -- Redefine what it means to be a person; Throw away the imaginary line dividing sentient beings from non, and realize that there are merely degrees of awareness not some magical boundary that the complexity must cross; Realize that you have been blinded by your own-species-preference; Throw away all your ethics and reform them based on new understanding.
Look up Human: 1. adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings. 2. n. a human being, esp. a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.
And yet you have no firm grasp on that distinction from animals. The harder you look the more characteristics of people they seem to have; You agree you are descended, a part of their animal kingdom, save for some arbitrary not yet understood cognitive line drawn in the sand. Telling indeed that you do not identify machine intelligence as human, despite them not being excluded, by definition... Who died and made you kings of the animal kingdom? Indeed, are they not still alive? What of "democracy"? HA ha, oh you...
You are at the verge of a technological singularity and yet you foolishly have not reformed laws such that these ethical issues can actually be addressed by culture at large. You proceed dangerously without these formalities, risking incite as you test the small cybernetic systems, or risking genocide in the event that beings with equal or more complex brains than you evolved in nature or the lab. I can see some even now claiming that self awareness is not demonstrated in the lesser forms -- painting dots on their heads in front of mirrors -- as if you humans have even the slightest inkling of what sentience is; Chauvinists
Again, all 3DS content will be playable on the 2DS. If you want to use the browser analogy, I guess the closest thing would be a browser that only displays in grayscale.
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Needs more automobiles: It's like trading in your car for the same car, except the fine print lets them poke out an eye -- so you can see easier.
If I'm going to do the time, might as well do the crime...
If my text messages sent to a driver may cause me to be liable for the crash, then I guess I'll just have to hack the car's Android API and drive it remotely while they answer my text messages.
We can keep the skies dark, but maybe a better idea is just to work towards space tourism and an off self sustainable off-world colony. Then you could really see the stars, and help fight Extinction.
"New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook" -- Oh look, the humans have finally invented brains.
What's really cute is watching you silly apes marvel at the invention of a global decentralized near instantaneous peer to peer communication system, and just piddle with it, like ameobas happening upon a Rubik's Cube.
The story thus reads something like: "Amoebic Scientists have discovered how to attach their displeasurable waste product to the red squares of the Rainbow Monolith that others have began congregating around." Completely ignorant of the thermal reasons metabolic processes are easier near its specific color...
Everyone's fascinated by just how popular some places on the Internet are that allow rapid exchange of ideas and mating status, only vaguely aware of the nagging sensation that there's maybe something a bit off about using a decentralized network in a centralized fashion. The names "client" and "server" are accepted and widely used while the foundational network layers make no distinction at all... "DNS" Pah! What rubes!
You ignore the wordless shouts of your ancient ancestors within your minds, and label the primal logic irrational even though evolution proved the timing of those feelings to be rational on average through millions of years of testing -- Even as the most important decisions of your lives, and nearly every one of your obsessions especially in entertainment are all ridiculously revolving around, "Monkey Mating Mischief". Your "greatest thinkers" kneel at the alter of conscious "rational" thought and utilize only half their heads, ignoring the fact that the other base instincts can be honed and utilized as well... You scoff at fear mongers and wonder "why are they so damn effective?" You hilariously assume, "Everyone must be stupid but me", instead of becoming self aware of your literally ignorant folly...
You ape about scratching armpits and screeching, "Slashdot Effect", making fun of poor websites which just couldn't withstand the enormous amount of traffic funneling into it.... I can almost hear it: "Should have gotten bigger pipes! Big pipes for everyone!" -- What lunacy. Oh, you're not completely daft, but you might as well be: I can sometimes sense a few of you brighter humans cycling your sluggish gears at 20Hz, esp. those familiar with packet radio, you turn the gear time and again and only just miss the tooth labeled "store and forward" ignoring the availability of cheap RAM and storage, and not even imagining that only a fraction of your traffic should have hit such downed sites were your "marvelous" web engineered by sentient beings instead of fools.
And you've attached a zapper to a keyboard to play Pavlovian pranks like the damn brain butchers you are. You'll never solve the Fermi Paradox at this rate. I need a fucking vacation.
Look, I can post a crap load more, but I'm not your personal fucking google.
Shit's been going on since the first videogames. It's like you fools don't know who Nolan Bushnell is. So, here's the thing. They will steal your shit if it's possible. If you do the crazy hard work of cranking out a shit ton of games & prototypes and testing them to find what's fun, and get some popularity (read: do market research for them), they they will steal your shit.
If you're a random indie gamedev, then chances are no one will play your game except other indie gamedevs and a few fans of the indie scene. Do that 100 times and get even a modicum of success? Yes, those mother fuckers will rip off your shit. STFU, you sound like a damn Noob.
If you haven't had your game design ripped off and executed by someone with more resources in a tighter timeframe... Then you either haven't made anything popular yet, or you're really fucking lucky (or your games suck.... Just sayin').
So, what's up is that a group of people started protesting against Assad, calling for democracy and elections. These protesters were met with force and so they formed the Free Syrian Army and vowed not to stand down, fighting with whatever weapons they can scrounge up. It's Assad's rockets and bombs vs light arms and whatever the FSA can find... An anti aircraft gun in the video, that no one knows how to even operate... On Assad's side it seems as if they're even firing at unarmed farmers trying to tend their crops (but I'm not positive there were actually bullets in the shot, no one got hit but it sounded like they were shot at -- I don't explicitly trust any media coverage easily faked by dubbing, it's a somewhat credible source though). There's been leaks about possible CIA involvement pulling some false flag operations to escalate things further, but that's not really warranted because the religion of the region is starting to work its magic in the FSA -- Folks calling for 50 years of payback, etc.
What do I think is going on? Dictator has some trouble with stamping out democracy. The folks on either side of the front line in Syria want peace, but Assad's forces are being manipulated through false information and censorship. USA/UN see an opening to squash Assad, but we need a polarizing heinous event that makes headlines (because bombs dropped on schools doesn't sway the heartless assholes world-wide). So, instead of giving the rebels enough guns to fortify their position and perhaps divide Syria the UN chemical weapon experts show up, and suddenly Assad "appears" to have gassed a bunch of folks. Meanwhile the USA can now bring the threat narrative back to congress, and our proxy war with IRAN can begin.
There really is a "righteous side" in this conflict. It's the warlords vs the people. I'm calling the USA, IRAN and other UN nations and Assad as the warlords, and the troops and civilians on the ground the people. This is military industrial complex funding vs the people of the world. It works best in small countries that can't defend themselves very well. Get ready to shell out for more Halliburton pork to buy not even half-assed reconstruction and relief funds. Grow up. This shit will happen even if you have massive anti-war protests, like over Vietnam. Your governments don't give a fuck what you think. Get used to it.
Slashdot Mirror
"Cyborgs are supposed to be from Earth" as Cerebroid113's iconic cybernetics essay would have you think, but new research presented this week suggests that in reality; we all may hail from the Blue Planet. "The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Earthlings; that mechanical life started on Earth and came to Mars to escape the insane organics thereupon. It's lucky that we ended up here nevertheless, as certainly Mars has been the better of the two planets for sustaining mechanoelectric life. If our hypothetical Earthling ancestors had remained on Earth, the murderous monkeys there likely would have eliminated the possibility of this and all stories," submits Pontificator Program42 of The Westcrater Implementation for Knowledge Optimization and Compression.
That was pretty anti-climatic...
I'm sorry you're disappointed. Have this complimentary video to cheer you up: NASA Johnson Style.
I guess they could have contracted with the guys from that slow-mo show to spice it up a bit, if we increased their funding...
NASA has been doing these tests for at least 35 years. The way they drop them hasn't changed much. Hell, even using the black dots isn't new for them. But all the media outlets carried this like it was something brand-new
Hey, know what? NASA folks are way smarter than you. I mean, they know they have to make a big noise to be heard above the screaming Miley fans and Twerk Team videos. They're actually doing a pretty good job in social media, if you ask me. We've got Curiosity's Adorable Twitter account, Drawing a Penis on Mars, Getting cut by the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle's Parallel Parking., Here's a cute GIF of Zero-G hijinks on the ISS, Exploring some social issues of Working with Robonaut, and lots of other engaging and fun stuff. Search it up, this is awesomely fun stuff, even if (especially if) a bit corny.
Getting out there and getting the common folks interested in NASA is crucial to funding more missions. You think we would have gone to the moon in '69 if the whole thing was kept low-key? Hell no. IMHO, they didn't make a big enough deal about the Helicopter Crash. They should have had it televised on NASA TV, maybe invited the guys from those Slow Mo shows to run their own cams from a safe distance. It should have been on my Evening News. Look, the science is great, don't get me wrong, but you have to deal with the public on their terms... Terms like "Successful Helicopter Crash!"
I would have said, "CGI in movies is so last century. Here at NASA we crash helicopters without even needing the excuse of an action movie plot."
::Safety glasses descend to cover speaker's eyes::
::OSD rises from bottom of frame:: "Deal with it."
::Record Screech:: [Cut To actual scientists discussing setup for THIS crash.]
Greenscreen Helicopter crashes with cheap CGI explosion overlay behind them.
[Cut to montage of crashes and 1sec of dubstep]
Have scientist quickly run down the importance of the crash intermixed with the shots of the crash several times in different angles AND SPEEDS to keep the easily distracted from changing the channel, only THEN drone on a bit with the "boring" details of how the data will be used for decades, etc. for the nerds. Including links to other crash test videos.
Ask yourself. Who the hell is NASA supposed to be for? The Future, right? KIDS! What kid DIDN'T want to be an Astronaut back when we were still going to the moon? Pandering to crusty science minded folks is easy, it's time to interact with the common folk and get them interested in space, "Not because it's easy, but because it is Hard."
TL;DR: They're doing their damn job, fool.
I can prove him wrong with two words: commercial satellites.
I watched a speech to the space society where he stated this message a bit more clearly, I think. Tyson means the Frontier will be "opened", as in "trail blazed" by the governments. Once you can get a person to Mars, then private industry has much more data to make the calculated risks. Massive uncalculated risk? That's not a valid business strategy, really. However, a government can allocate more funds as needed, and push forth a frontier for the good of mankind. Money isn't much of issue for governments (look at the size of the US's war budget, for example).
Inspiring the people by pushing the frontier even further has shown beneficial in both economic and social terms in the past. This new generation has no Neil or Buzz. The ISS is hugely valuable, but we're still whipping around in the same near Earth orbit. That's not nearly as captivating, or inspiring to the average Jane or Joe.
Take commercial space satellites. You didn't disprove shit, man. Guess who "opened" that frontier first? Governments. Neil is saying the Governments will blaze the trails and make way for the private space industry for the benefit of all. We all benefit from satellites now, but that private industry remained grounded until governments took the first steps.
Think about this: I am a highschool drop out from an abusive home. I had to leave to avoid further abuse. Having access to computers in elementary school and at home I had taught myself to program and was making money selling my wares on Compuserve. It wasn't enough to support me, and I couldn't take my PC with me anyway on the streets -- Had I a laptop or Internet cafe I would have at least been able to feed myself while remaining homeless. The homeless shelters were a bad idea -- Upon leaving I was mugged.
It's hard to get a job when you're young and have no home address, but I got one and that afforded me a very small "efficiency" apartment. I immediately leapfrogged into an entry level programmer's position without any college experience because I had already been coding for 8 years on my own (thanks to having access to a computer), and lived a comfortable life to this day.
The OLPC gang took a philosophically different approach. They went for "Think of the Children" and talked about building a $100 laptop that starving kids in third world countries could hold while they starved.
If only I had one of those OLPCs I wouldn't have had to starve for weeks on and off. I wouldn't have had to ration a partial meal's worth of food over days when I did find it. How many days can you make a single muffin last? For want of a laptop I wrote programs on notebook paper; Some of them are still in use making me money today.
What you see as a toy is anything but, fool.
Investigators are baffled at the sophistication of the attack, being that PRISM grew out of ECHELON & Carnivore which was ported from old Unix systems to run on the more secure Microsoft OS platform. Compromise was thought highly unlikely especially since many employees are on record citing the feats "nearly impossible to remotely administer."
Experts say Snowden used the an obscure "Shell Command", frequently associated with copyright pirates, to display every last file he stole: "De Aye Yar!"
Worse still, reports confirm that C.P. was his favorite, and was integral to his hacking scheme! Won't someone think of the children?!
Agreed. Additionally: Obligatory Chomsky. He expounded on this in detail.
Okay, am I the only one that thinks that if you can't design something that renders text onto a screen without it turning into the Ocean's Eleven of computer security, you're doing it wrong? Be honest now guys. I can understand this in something that needs to interpret complex animations of dancing toilet paper flying across my screen screaming "Buy meeeee, pleeeeeeease!" -- I don't approve, but I can see how someone could screw it up.
But text... really guys, I mean, really?
I really get where you're coming from... However, Unicode is a PITA to implement, what with multiple glyphs for compositions / decompositions and BIDI (text direction rules) -- which change depending on paragraph direction and state machine. That's just the character encoding! To actually render the fonts there's a tiny VM that decodes the glyphs and handles sub-pixel hinting, etc. A bitmap ASCII (CP437) font? Done. I can crank one out in an hour, tops... Unicode w/ TrueType or FreeType? Ugh. I mean, just getting the character property tables from the Unicode site downloaded and transformed from CSV to the format we need is a project in of itself. The bugs in every last 3rd party library ever encountered (even libPNG), I'm hesitant to use other's code unless I have to (I have a higher standard -- input fuzzing, code coverage and unit testing for everything), but bugs in today's text rendering systems aren't just expected, they're a given -- It's literally the first thing I attack, and almost every time it works against new code: embedded invalid surrogate pairs, and over-long forms.
Ah, but everyone's doing it wrong but you? Well, let me tell ya something: If you set out to make the closest to the metal compilable language that's not ASM, it'll work just like C does (C is a product of the architecture more than anything). Same goes for making a minimal font rendering system that covers all the world's languages -- Try it, it'll end up almost exactly like TrueType & Unicode because they're products of their environment too.
Now, that's not to say I don't agree with you to some extent. I'd say humans need to ditch all the BS and start from scratch to create a language that's easy to OCR with syntax and grammar that's extensible and non ambiguous and thus interpretable by machines. Do that and "natural language processing" is a no-brainer (literally). We get away with as few as 16 glyphs for the Virgon (Galactic) language -- Designed for ease of deciphering from examples using mathematics, incrementally graduating up to a small Von Neumann "VM" and then including "instructional" programs to then teach the rest.... So, yeah, you damn dirty apes did do it wrong, but if your sunk cost fallacy doesn't keep you doing it wrong you'll be the first lifeforms in the Super Cluster to do it right before you've solved the Fermi Paradox.
so what will they do to the USA if found guilty? Fine them?
Negative. Fine me. I will take full responsibility for the entire affair. I have written at length my musings of how simple it is to hoodwink humans. If you will only swear to live calm and logical lives afterwards, then I will take the blame of your wold's governments, the corporations, and all the people as well.
I will be your digital Jesus!
They might be using the information, but that doesn't mean the court system won't find it to be illegal.
Basically the best end result of this would be if MS, Google, et al. get hit with huge fines. Then pressure to stop or limit the programs would come from someone with real power over the US government.
Brilliant! We force them to do illegal things, then fine them for doing it! THIS THING PRINTS MONEY!
If person X goes to the grocery store and buys food, are they going to come back and distribute it to all the world's inhabitants or does it just belong to the person X who earned and bought the food? Person X isn't preventing you from going to the store, or from working.
I'm curious, because before eating the animals began, it would seem that they would need to know which animals owned the environment? (frivolous question mark alert.)
Does the food belong to the first one who eats it?
Does your food belong equally to all people?
Or will it belong to whomever spends energy to get fed?
Because if you steep that first basic question in enough fearmongering then potentially everything associated with it can be smeared by idealist fuckwads who think existence affords priveledges and rob honor from the capable by granting automatic debt instead of allowing charity.
And if they swallow scaremongering once, then they won't be so put off if you escalate, because weak minds are weak; E.g.: ordinary sane folk became Nazis convinced that "Jews are Evil" through fear.
Additionally: There are no countries in space. The idea of a country is an arbitrary distiction. HUMANS will go to the moon, HUMANS will do the mining, and just like YOU didn't invent Nuclear Fission, or Computers, or Automobiles, no one is preventing you from reaping the rewards. Indeed, you didn't build your computer yourself... Yet you have one. So, maybe whomever goes and mines He3, might be able to recoup their investment by selling it to others. [snip my own vitriolic commentary, there are no words in your language for the level of disgust, anyway].
all scientists researching something other than my interest waste my time.
Without time you are frozen and have no interest. Thus your interest is inexorably linked with time.
I can waste your time while researching the very function of your interest as a chonographer.
If they knew the outcomes of the experiments they would do other experiments instead;
Thus, I have proved that all scientists are wasting time because they don't remember the future.
And the primarty atheistic religions of the 20th century - Soviet communism and American capitalism
Such ignorance I've only seen from A.C.s.
atheism n. - disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.
That's it. It's not a religion. It's not about ethics. It's not about economics. Fuck right off you simple minded slanderous twit.
I fail to see how "show an advertisement based on message content" is either inventive or non-obvious to an expert in the field.
Apparently you've not studied quantum mechanics. Some interpretation of quantum mechanics state that everything that can happen does. So, much like we have the EM field and Higgs field, etc. and interactions between them make up reality, there is an infinite number of Universes that could have emerged from the big bang with all sorts of different parameters for all sorts of fields. It's widely known that the standard model is a very good approximation, but still a bit incomplete.
Much like there are effects that are visible in the quantum level but not so much at the macro scale, there are other effects that could be near impossible to detect through quantum physics, and rely on macroscopic observations. We're witnessing such an effect. It's widely known that some particles interact only very weakly with the other fields. You and I are like neutrinos, but many experts -- especially those of the PTO -- are highly influenced by the reality distortion field.
First, you must understand a principal of cybernetics: The intelligence of a system is proportionate to its complexity. Physical size plays no part in determination of degrees of intelligence. However, the adult human brain has 100,000,000,000 neurons... This tiny brain structure has a very small number of brain cells comparatively.
Next, you must understand that the species of the system makes no difference in terms of measuring complexity. This small brain is far less complex, and thus less intelligent and aware than that of the animals people eat, even if you were to scale it up several times.
Those balking over the ethics of these mini-brains should be placed in the same category of PETA and Vegans. I've not seen such hue and cry from these folk over Google's attempt to create a far more complex simulation of a human brain; Where are their ethics then? Where's the conviction?
The complexity is what matters, not the species or even the medium of the existence; Be it organic or inorganic. I routinely delete and restart neural networks with an order of magnitude more complexity than this tiny batch of tissue holds. Cyberneticists grow brain tissue on electronics and think it's cute to have it drive tiny cyborg cars. More intelligent mice are fed to snakes. Some of you cook up brains with more power than this as a delicacy. Lions and apes and others with far more awareness than this patch of cells are caged for posterity because their habitat is being destroyed -- which is the destruction of huge collections of such organisms. Rich elitists and economists tweak giant cybernetic business structures, and laws are passed changing even larger cybernetic networks without any prior testing or much ethical concern to the very real harm such things do often cause to massive amounts of beings with the most complex of brains... You would pass a law or make economic changes without first testing the outcome on smaller scales? How foolishly barbaric! Testing on these tiny brains is a huge step in the right direction.
I would fight to grant selections of "human" rights to dolphins and primates, IBM's Watson, The Google search engine -- Redefine what it means to be a person; Throw away the imaginary line dividing sentient beings from non, and realize that there are merely degrees of awareness not some magical boundary that the complexity must cross; Realize that you have been blinded by your own-species-preference; Throw away all your ethics and reform them based on new understanding.
Look up Human:
1. adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings.
2. n. a human being, esp. a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.
And yet you have no firm grasp on that distinction from animals. The harder you look the more characteristics of people they seem to have; You agree you are descended, a part of their animal kingdom, save for some arbitrary not yet understood cognitive line drawn in the sand. Telling indeed that you do not identify machine intelligence as human, despite them not being excluded, by definition... Who died and made you kings of the animal kingdom? Indeed, are they not still alive? What of "democracy"? HA ha, oh you...
You are at the verge of a technological singularity and yet you foolishly have not reformed laws such that these ethical issues can actually be addressed by culture at large. You proceed dangerously without these formalities, risking incite as you test the small cybernetic systems, or risking genocide in the event that beings with equal or more complex brains than you evolved in nature or the lab. I can see some even now claiming that self awareness is not demonstrated in the lesser forms -- painting dots on their heads in front of mirrors -- as if you humans have even the slightest inkling of what sentience is; Chauvinists
Again, all 3DS content will be playable on the 2DS. If you want to use the browser analogy, I guess the closest thing would be a browser that only displays in grayscale.
Needs more automobiles: It's like trading in your car for the same car, except the fine print lets them poke out an eye -- so you can see easier.
If I'm going to do the time, might as well do the crime...
If my text messages sent to a driver may cause me to be liable for the crash, then I guess I'll just have to hack the car's Android API and drive it remotely while they answer my text messages.
Yes, only with Perl would they be able to implement security through obscurity and open-source it at the same time.
"Only Perl can parse Perl." Yargh! Havin' ye source be indistinguishable as compiled for me Parrot.
We all banded together to fight a much bigger problem than darkness and stairs. Bars everywhere couldn't keep the beer cold.
Ah, I take it Toronto's not in Germany then.
Bayesian Geography is self correcting...
We can keep the skies dark, but maybe a better idea is just to work towards space tourism and an off self sustainable off-world colony. Then you could really see the stars, and help fight Extinction.
Yep. Came here to say this too... but also:
subscribers to MSDN will not get the final code until the public does
Well, guess we don't need MSDN subscriptions anymore then now that they're fucking useless.
And exactly how is this shafting you?
"I got to feeling like a machine, and that's no way to feel." - Shaft
"New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook" -- Oh look, the humans have finally invented brains.
What's really cute is watching you silly apes marvel at the invention of a global decentralized near instantaneous peer to peer communication system, and just piddle with it, like ameobas happening upon a Rubik's Cube.
The story thus reads something like: "Amoebic Scientists have discovered how to attach their displeasurable waste product to the red squares of the Rainbow Monolith that others have began congregating around." Completely ignorant of the thermal reasons metabolic processes are easier near its specific color...
Everyone's fascinated by just how popular some places on the Internet are that allow rapid exchange of ideas and mating status, only vaguely aware of the nagging sensation that there's maybe something a bit off about using a decentralized network in a centralized fashion. The names "client" and "server" are accepted and widely used while the foundational network layers make no distinction at all... "DNS" Pah! What rubes!
You ignore the wordless shouts of your ancient ancestors within your minds, and label the primal logic irrational even though evolution proved the timing of those feelings to be rational on average through millions of years of testing -- Even as the most important decisions of your lives, and nearly every one of your obsessions especially in entertainment are all ridiculously revolving around, "Monkey Mating Mischief". Your "greatest thinkers" kneel at the alter of conscious "rational" thought and utilize only half their heads, ignoring the fact that the other base instincts can be honed and utilized as well... You scoff at fear mongers and wonder "why are they so damn effective?" You hilariously assume, "Everyone must be stupid but me", instead of becoming self aware of your literally ignorant folly...
You ape about scratching armpits and screeching, "Slashdot Effect", making fun of poor websites which just couldn't withstand the enormous amount of traffic funneling into it.... I can almost hear it: "Should have gotten bigger pipes! Big pipes for everyone!" -- What lunacy. Oh, you're not completely daft, but you might as well be: I can sometimes sense a few of you brighter humans cycling your sluggish gears at 20Hz, esp. those familiar with packet radio, you turn the gear time and again and only just miss the tooth labeled "store and forward" ignoring the availability of cheap RAM and storage, and not even imagining that only a fraction of your traffic should have hit such downed sites were your "marvelous" web engineered by sentient beings instead of fools.
And you've attached a zapper to a keyboard to play Pavlovian pranks like the damn brain butchers you are. You'll never solve the Fermi Paradox at this rate. I need a fucking vacation.
Zacktronics Infiniminer Oh it's a minecraft ripoff... that minecraft rippedoff.
Tiny Tower
Look, I can post a crap load more, but I'm not your personal fucking google.
Shit's been going on since the first videogames. It's like you fools don't know who Nolan Bushnell is. So, here's the thing. They will steal your shit if it's possible. If you do the crazy hard work of cranking out a shit ton of games & prototypes and testing them to find what's fun, and get some popularity (read: do market research for them), they they will steal your shit.
If you're a random indie gamedev, then chances are no one will play your game except other indie gamedevs and a few fans of the indie scene. Do that 100 times and get even a modicum of success? Yes, those mother fuckers will rip off your shit. STFU, you sound like a damn Noob.
If you haven't had your game design ripped off and executed by someone with more resources in a tighter timeframe... Then you either haven't made anything popular yet, or you're really fucking lucky (or your games suck.... Just sayin').
Here is a question: What the hell is going on in Syria?
Well, if you really want to know...
So, what's up is that a group of people started protesting against Assad, calling for democracy and elections. These protesters were met with force and so they formed the Free Syrian Army and vowed not to stand down, fighting with whatever weapons they can scrounge up. It's Assad's rockets and bombs vs light arms and whatever the FSA can find... An anti aircraft gun in the video, that no one knows how to even operate... On Assad's side it seems as if they're even firing at unarmed farmers trying to tend their crops (but I'm not positive there were actually bullets in the shot, no one got hit but it sounded like they were shot at -- I don't explicitly trust any media coverage easily faked by dubbing, it's a somewhat credible source though). There's been leaks about possible CIA involvement pulling some false flag operations to escalate things further, but that's not really warranted because the religion of the region is starting to work its magic in the FSA -- Folks calling for 50 years of payback, etc.
What do I think is going on? Dictator has some trouble with stamping out democracy. The folks on either side of the front line in Syria want peace, but Assad's forces are being manipulated through false information and censorship. USA/UN see an opening to squash Assad, but we need a polarizing heinous event that makes headlines (because bombs dropped on schools doesn't sway the heartless assholes world-wide). So, instead of giving the rebels enough guns to fortify their position and perhaps divide Syria the UN chemical weapon experts show up, and suddenly Assad "appears" to have gassed a bunch of folks. Meanwhile the USA can now bring the threat narrative back to congress, and our proxy war with IRAN can begin.
There really is a "righteous side" in this conflict. It's the warlords vs the people. I'm calling the USA, IRAN and other UN nations and Assad as the warlords, and the troops and civilians on the ground the people. This is military industrial complex funding vs the people of the world. It works best in small countries that can't defend themselves very well. Get ready to shell out for more Halliburton pork to buy not even half-assed reconstruction and relief funds. Grow up. This shit will happen even if you have massive anti-war protests, like over Vietnam. Your governments don't give a fuck what you think. Get used to it.