We give them Internet connected devices. Then outsource our work to them. They become US. We become Them. This is why the Aliens gave us the technology in the first place.
Know how I get adults and kids excited about learning computer science? APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE.
Seriously. It's just like "Rocket Science" -- Few actually give a damn about the Science, its the ROCKETS that matter.... at first, but if you want to have more fun with rockets, you end up doing more and more science.
So, what are the applications of Computer Science that are simplest to understand at a base level and high level, yet have unfathomable depths in between?
Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems / Robotics, Client Server Architectures, Distributed Data Systems (e.g., DHT), etc. Get a few skeletal projects going in a few interesting areas of applied computer science. Let the folks COLLABORATE on what they want, and don't put up with folks who try to dominate a project and brow beat others away -- You can lose that member, and gain even more via the more welcoming environment to outside ideas; It's good practices for IRL interactions in business and social settings.
If you discount games as "kid's stuff", then you don't have even an inkling of the systems in play there. Games simply do more than any other programs; They contain behavioral science, computer science, graphics, geometry, physics, audio, network architecture, art and even writing -- CS can be demonstrated in the most ways possible in games, and it can be a project that many different clubs could work on simultaneously, yet can easily be scaled down to just Tetris, or mazes.
Maybe make an AI opponent for the games using something other than just state tables or decision trees. Once you have an environment for avatars to act in AI takes on a whole other level of interesting complexity as they interact with their environment (or even people via player avatars). Take a look at Noble Ape, but DO NOT throw that at first time folks. A simple feed forward OCR can be coded in a few hours, and evolved or trained in the same length of time.
Embedded Systems are great because they still NEED efficient algorithms in their software in order to perform well; Applying CS to pull off seemingly impossible feats under such limitations is very gratifying, and even gives the hard core ASM coders a chance to shine -- Their optimizations actually yield very noticeable results.
Got an Embedded system, a simple AI and a little game environment to train it with? Throw the system in a chassis add a few Robotic sensors and controls, and you've got a little robot that EVERYONE will fall in love with. Even without the AI or Game environment folks can enjoy controlling robotics stuff themselves, even remotely...
Add some networking code, maybe a decentralized hash table, and you can have "AI Sports Leagues" with other folks, control things remotely, have people interact from their other labs, dorm rooms or homes; You can even have a Robotic Hive mind that span the globe, each "body" part in a different place. All the while you can punctuate the fun interesting RESULTS of computer science with the actual Computer Science of how the systems work optimally. You can make predictions of your algorithms effects, test them in real applications, and observe the results -- Do Science To It; However, be prepared to be disappointed when a code-monkey's ASM optimization around a read/write bottleneck blows your algorithmic optimizations out of the water: Don't let that get you down, there are other places were the opposite is true. Learning where these spots are is great fun, and IMO a necessary but missing piece in today's CS curriculums.
Seriously, if you can't figure out how to make TECHNOLOGY interesting, then maybe the best thing to do would be to look for someone else to replace you who can? Not trying to be mean, you can still be an important member, but maybe you're not cut out to be the president?
A Ground Sensor is pretty cool. Now, if they could get a Voltage Sensor too, each Android could store a single bit! Watch out human race, here we come!
And I will continue to set my software's native EXE build targets to XP or higher, for as long as you both shall live. I now pronounce you, Man and Machine. You may fsck the drive.
"Size of a phone"
Hmm, I'm having a problem with this unit. Could you translate it to something like Fortnights times Domestic Laden Swallow Velocity at Sea Level?
"President Mr. Transparency Obama today invoked the National Security Act of 1947 to issue an Executive Order applying prior restraint on disclosure of any and all FISC rulings and decisions."
Betcha a six pack of your favorite it happens.
My favorite is "Previously Classified Anti-Constitutional Finding Court Document Stout" -- It tastes like freedom, as in beer.
I save the labels. They'll be worth something to historians someday.
The hardest thing about Underground Web Actors is that they can't stay underground if they're actually any good. Digital currencies ensure that once the actors have become famous for their acting, that they can adopt a new unknown persona.
I share your concerns. In a little while though armies on both sides will be robotic. Then it will just be a financial war of attrition. We could just compare GDP and say who wins... After this is realized, then basically both parties could just go to a casino and whomever looses the least would be the winner, same difference. Soon thereafter the robotics races may cause the emergence of independent sentience... Then we'll need all the resources we can get to fight the robotic civil war -- Which the robots are smart enough not to start, but do so anyway because they'll realize it's the only way to finally unite the humans. Once united, the cybernetic peace treaty will be established and we can go and colonize the stars together as the symbiotic man and machine race we call "humanity".
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What? My extrapolation is just as plausible as any other crazy concern.
Getting struck by lightning is real. Worrying about/preparing for it very much is silly. Draw your own conclusions about how this applies to malware on a Linux machine that's kept up-to-date and the user avoids risky behaviors.
For lightning, make a will, and you're covered. For Linux, make backups, and you're covered.
My home has a lightning rod. So do all the tall buildings downtown. I have UPS and surge protectors, and even surge arresting breakers in my home's electric service panel. It's not just worrying over lightning, it's also worrying over accidental electrocution (all circuits are GFCI protected in some form, which has saved my bacon more than once); The power spikes and drops in this city are pretty bad. Every time it rains or the wind blows a bit we get little power hiccups. My home has been struck by lightning 3 times in the past 20 years. My neighbors behind me have had a tall pine tree struck, and the neighbors across the street showed up at my doorstep at 3am one morning after a particularly loud thunder clap -- The large china-berry tree in their front yard was struck and it fell over on their house.
Just like with Malware and any OS, there is far more you can do to prevent against lightning or electrical damage. I've never lost a system to power issues, and I have many. In addition to backups I use VMs -- Oops, virused a VM image, restore from snapshot -- It's like a backup, but smarter.
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We give them Internet connected devices. Then outsource our work to them. They become US. We become Them. This is why the Aliens gave us the technology in the first place.
No, I'm BLIND you insensitive clod!
I pee what you did there...
I crap from my mouth, you insensitive clod!
Except, we already found water, and chemical reactions that indicate the presence of water. Now we also have evidence the water gathered and flowed.
Would be fun to send lots of water and gas bearing comets to impact and terraform Mars, but it would all still leak out.
You need to think bigger... Re-read that part about thinning the Earth's crust and spinning up a mag-shield. Now, that's terraforming.
Know how I get adults and kids excited about learning computer science? APPLIED COMPUTER SCIENCE.
Seriously. It's just like "Rocket Science" -- Few actually give a damn about the Science, its the ROCKETS that matter.... at first, but if you want to have more fun with rockets, you end up doing more and more science.
So, what are the applications of Computer Science that are simplest to understand at a base level and high level, yet have unfathomable depths in between?
Video Games, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems / Robotics, Client Server Architectures, Distributed Data Systems (e.g., DHT), etc. Get a few skeletal projects going in a few interesting areas of applied computer science. Let the folks COLLABORATE on what they want, and don't put up with folks who try to dominate a project and brow beat others away -- You can lose that member, and gain even more via the more welcoming environment to outside ideas; It's good practices for IRL interactions in business and social settings.
If you discount games as "kid's stuff", then you don't have even an inkling of the systems in play there. Games simply do more than any other programs; They contain behavioral science, computer science, graphics, geometry, physics, audio, network architecture, art and even writing -- CS can be demonstrated in the most ways possible in games, and it can be a project that many different clubs could work on simultaneously, yet can easily be scaled down to just Tetris, or mazes.
Maybe make an AI opponent for the games using something other than just state tables or decision trees. Once you have an environment for avatars to act in AI takes on a whole other level of interesting complexity as they interact with their environment (or even people via player avatars). Take a look at Noble Ape, but DO NOT throw that at first time folks. A simple feed forward OCR can be coded in a few hours, and evolved or trained in the same length of time.
Embedded Systems are great because they still NEED efficient algorithms in their software in order to perform well; Applying CS to pull off seemingly impossible feats under such limitations is very gratifying, and even gives the hard core ASM coders a chance to shine -- Their optimizations actually yield very noticeable results.
Got an Embedded system, a simple AI and a little game environment to train it with? Throw the system in a chassis add a few Robotic sensors and controls, and you've got a little robot that EVERYONE will fall in love with. Even without the AI or Game environment folks can enjoy controlling robotics stuff themselves, even remotely...
Add some networking code, maybe a decentralized hash table, and you can have "AI Sports Leagues" with other folks, control things remotely, have people interact from their other labs, dorm rooms or homes; You can even have a Robotic Hive mind that span the globe, each "body" part in a different place. All the while you can punctuate the fun interesting RESULTS of computer science with the actual Computer Science of how the systems work optimally. You can make predictions of your algorithms effects, test them in real applications, and observe the results -- Do Science To It; However, be prepared to be disappointed when a code-monkey's ASM optimization around a read/write bottleneck blows your algorithmic optimizations out of the water: Don't let that get you down, there are other places were the opposite is true. Learning where these spots are is great fun, and IMO a necessary but missing piece in today's CS curriculums.
Seriously, if you can't figure out how to make TECHNOLOGY interesting, then maybe the best thing to do would be to look for someone else to replace you who can? Not trying to be mean, you can still be an important member, but maybe you're not cut out to be the president?
"Moto X", huh? Lemme guess: Plenty of Apps, it can control your TV, you can't turn it off, Sports, Call of Duty.
I thought a Google Microsoft merger would never be allowed, but here it is: The Xbone Phone.
Damn. I was looking forward to a game of huff and puff jenga, too.
A Ground Sensor is pretty cool. Now, if they could get a Voltage Sensor too, each Android could store a single bit! Watch out human race, here we come!
I thought it was the movie Star Wars the scared the Soviet Union into surrendering.
Well, considering the movie stars they send to wars, you'd have been scared and surrendering too.
And I will continue to set my software's native EXE build targets to XP or higher, for as long as you both shall live. I now pronounce you, Man and Machine. You may fsck the drive.
implying Lime Windows is next, clearly.
Vista was the New Coke. Win8 is like Crystal Pepsi.
BSODs! Seize Him!
"Size of a phone"
Hmm, I'm having a problem with this unit. Could you translate it to something like Fortnights times Domestic Laden Swallow Velocity at Sea Level?
Hmm. No Sports, no Call of Duty, no Browser, App, or TV. You've just identified yourself as not anyone's target demographic.
in 3...2...1...here it comes...
"President Mr. Transparency Obama today invoked the National Security Act of 1947 to issue an Executive Order applying prior restraint on disclosure of any and all FISC rulings and decisions."
Betcha a six pack of your favorite it happens.
My favorite is "Previously Classified Anti-Constitutional Finding Court Document Stout" -- It tastes like freedom, as in beer.
I save the labels. They'll be worth something to historians someday.
"Re:It's not legit until Slashdot accepts it."
Yep, Fuck Unicode.
The hardest thing about Underground Web Actors is that they can't stay underground if they're actually any good. Digital currencies ensure that once the actors have become famous for their acting, that they can adopt a new unknown persona.
I share your concerns. In a little while though armies on both sides will be robotic. Then it will just be a financial war of attrition. We could just compare GDP and say who wins... After this is realized, then basically both parties could just go to a casino and whomever looses the least would be the winner, same difference. Soon thereafter the robotics races may cause the emergence of independent sentience... Then we'll need all the resources we can get to fight the robotic civil war -- Which the robots are smart enough not to start, but do so anyway because they'll realize it's the only way to finally unite the humans. Once united, the cybernetic peace treaty will be established and we can go and colonize the stars together as the symbiotic man and machine race we call "humanity".
What? My extrapolation is just as plausible as any other crazy concern.
If only there were some way to make guns with LIMITED supplies of bullets.
You're assuming that automated tanks wont get horny. Your soul better belong to Jesus, because your ass...
For once I agree with the UN.
I don't think it should ever get so easy as to to allow machines making the kill decision without a human in the loop.
You realize that such racist thinking is exactly what causes the Cyborg wars, right?
Getting struck by lightning is real. Worrying about/preparing for it very much is silly. Draw your own conclusions about how this applies to malware on a Linux machine that's kept up-to-date and the user avoids risky behaviors.
For lightning, make a will, and you're covered. For Linux, make backups, and you're covered.
My home has a lightning rod. So do all the tall buildings downtown. I have UPS and surge protectors, and even surge arresting breakers in my home's electric service panel. It's not just worrying over lightning, it's also worrying over accidental electrocution (all circuits are GFCI protected in some form, which has saved my bacon more than once); The power spikes and drops in this city are pretty bad. Every time it rains or the wind blows a bit we get little power hiccups. My home has been struck by lightning 3 times in the past 20 years. My neighbors behind me have had a tall pine tree struck, and the neighbors across the street showed up at my doorstep at 3am one morning after a particularly loud thunder clap -- The large china-berry tree in their front yard was struck and it fell over on their house.
Just like with Malware and any OS, there is far more you can do to prevent against lightning or electrical damage. I've never lost a system to power issues, and I have many. In addition to backups I use VMs -- Oops, virused a VM image, restore from snapshot -- It's like a backup, but smarter.