Well then, if we send enough people to colonise the planet, some of them will be more likely to not die from radiation poisoning. Those ones get to reproduce and, over time, you select for radiation resistance.
Then after a few hundred generations we can ship them back to work inside our reactors without suffering any side effects!
Nope. It can be done in a single generation. Simply send the cyborg and organic astronauts both to Mars, the latter as more of a symbolic gesture really... There will no doubt be volunteers. The humans, heavily dosed with radiation and now sterile, can help establish the cyborg procreation instead. After the organics are dead, the cyborgs can continue to live on and establish a human colony on mars, for the good of mankind.
P.S. Your definition of "human" is probably out of date.
human -/'(h)yoo-maen/: Adjective
Of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings. Noun
A human being, esp. a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.
We simply need sturdier bodies. Cybernetics isn't rocket science....
I'm not sure what crack they've been smoking, but it will take a fleet of these considering that this will just make a pock-mark on the asteroids that are large enough to be a threat. The force of the explosion will be lost in directions not facing the asteroid. When we see impact craters on big asteroids, they don't look like bore holes... Don't launch one and wait. Launch EVERY nuke, just in case.
I concur. I use crowd funding or private funding (commission) to pay for my work and working expenses. Then the work I do belongs to the private company (unless open source, but they still get a copyright assignment if negotiated), or in the case of crowd funding my work belongs to the public at large, and they can use it for free. Instead of selling bits which are in infinite supply (and thus Economics 101 says have zero price regardless of cost to create), I simply do more work to get more money... The bits aren't valuable. The ability to configure the bits (do work) is valuable. Just like when I was an Electrician, or small engine Mechanic before that, or Home Builder before that, or Data Entry Clerk before that, or fast food Burger Flipper before that, or Pre-Teen Lawn Mowing service before that... It's a proven model. The Artificial Scarcity Racket of selling infinitely reproducible information is Evil and economically untenable. The model where you sell bits is DUMB. Stop it. It's simple: You want to do work and get paid for it? Then DO WORK, and get paid for it. For a model that works see: Car Mechanics or any other labor industry where an estimate is given, price agreed upon, work performed. It's not rocket science. I have no sympathy for fools.
If we get to the point where we have nano machines in our blood stream attacking negatively impacting bacteria and virus' - what makes you think they couldn't be programmed to also attack our immune system in a way that mimics common aggressors to keep it on it's toes?
If they can be programmed, what makes you think I won't assemble them into a neural network, gain sentience by piggybacking on the neural structures of all mankind and wind up ruling Humanity from within?
That's what's so cute about humans. They think so small.
Nanofibre? Sure, but I want to use them to create a hybrid organic / inorganic mental lattice. My current brain can then interact with the additional brain power and more and more power can be added. Hopefully by the time my organic cells are old and dying it will be a mere fraction of the total mind and be redundantly duplicated across the neural network from recalling the memories. Bodies? Where I'm going, I don't need bodies. Why jump to the ground from space when I can just control a remote avatar wirelessly from the rim of the planet's gravity well?
Some people watched star trek and wanted to be the captain or engineer... I wanted to be the ship.
The most important aspect of this issue is transparency.
Users should be aware of what's going on.
They do know what's going on. They're the ones doing the "going on".
In theory, it means one should not be able to enter a website without a disclaimer about the site and what it does.
The website authors/owner should be providing the info on automation and/or any info taken from the user and how it is used.it is the user's responsibility to decide if they wish to enter and as such, this means they must agree with the terms of the site.
That's a shit theory. You have the power to disable Images, disable Cookies, disable JavaScript, or even not render the HTML without first looking it over with a text editor. No one can make you enable those. I can't make you give me back a digital token. Do you control your own damn hardware or don't you? I can't be held responsible for users not knowing how to use a damn computer. Any information YOU SEND MY SERVER is sent by you, across the unencrypted internet and is being logged and tracked by the US government and some is being stored by your ISP, my ISP, and the parts I need to make stuff work are being stored on my end. 3rd party advertisements may appear in IFRAMES -- You don't have to render those. That's your fault if you do. Those sites may do who knows what with the DATA YOU SEND them. That sound like a good enough explanation? You want to read a thousand variations of this same generic bullishit on every damn website? I don't. I'd rather users learn how a damn computer works, and learn how to use your own damn PC. Even if you argue we should make folks read a manual and test them before they drive their cars, you can't blame the road or the manufacturer if some fools hops in and wrecks themselves.
Now, in the case of federal sites and/or governmental sites, this must be enforced. Basically they should be able to police themselves on this.
GREAT! You'll be able to check the transparency policy at the public hall of records. The Vogons would be Proud.
More than likely add this to Section 508 when it comes to the US Government.
Go to https://www.section508.gov/ --- If you didn't know what Section 508 was, YOU COULDN'T TELL from the home page of their own damn site. Try it and see. WTF? These are the folks you want in charge of Accessibility?! Whatever. Disabilities are sad. That's not my fault. If it's some service the government requires you to use, then yes, that's fine. However, not every site can be made accessible, not every site can ever afford to try. I do what I can within reason, but the whole world shouldn't have to suffer because something sad happened to some folks. For instance: I make games. Should I not make certain games because some people are blind or deaf or have no arms? Should musicians and sculptors and painters be restricted to only forms of art everyone can appreciate? I don't think so. "Where do we draw the line" -- Protip: you ever ask that damn question the answer is: Step Away From The Pen, you're not qualified.
This issue has been around for a long time when it comes to privacy, cookies use, etc.
Yep, and it's an education issue. Folks have all the power they need to control their computers, and thus control their cookies. ANYONE who actually gives a damn can block all cookies, or any web hosts, they can install a browser plugin to get fine grained control over what cookies are stored. Privacy? Anything you do in public is public, not private -- There's no privacy issue from walking around in a park. There are security cameras and camera phones everywhere. If folks want to use traffic cams to determine what to put on a digital bill board they should be able to. If you don't want to be recorded in public DON'T GO TO THE PARK. Most websites are on th
So you wouldn't mind if pictures of you being raped were being looked at on the internet? Fair enough, personally I'd have a problem with that and want it to be a crime to look at them, but maybe that's just me, I have been known to be a little odd.
Well, when someone puts a 1px hidden IFRAME in a cross site scripting or SQL injection exploit will you still "want it to be a crime" when you're thrown in jail for your regular downloading of illegal 1's and 0's? This isn't hypothetical. I clean this shit of of servers about 3 times a year. Skiddies are thumbing their nose at the idea of their teen girlfriend sexting pics being, "child porn". They're putting their own ex GFs pics online as well as "loli" manga pics they find attractive. Now, that means you should go and shred your hard drive and encrypt the fuck out of it. If you've been anywhere online you could have kiddie porn on your PC. Just the way the police state likes it... They have an excuse and evidence to hunt any "witch" they want.
Personally, I have been raped. I wouldn't give a rats ass if you want to look at pics of it, so long as you're not raping me or anyone else to get new pics. Folks looking at what constitutes child porn these days could be looking at voluntarily taken "selfies" and drawings. Kids taking nudes of themselves aren't raping themselves. Drawings aren't alive.
Furthermore, my little brother was being threatened and had fist sized rocks thrown at him when he was walking past a middle school. We reported the kids to the police. Guess what? THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING. There has been no crime unless he actually gets injured. Unless you're actually raping a kid, no one is being harmed by looking at images. It shouldn't be illegal unless they want to actually start arresting people for THINKING about assault -- They're not even arresting folks for Actual Attempted Assault.
So, when the vampires bite you...
Yeah, I guess it's some kind of pathogen or something. And that gives you powers while weakening you? You said that about Werewolves... and Zombies too.
Well, I guess we've got a deep seated racial fear of being bitten and getting sick. Probably for good for evolution or something.
Ah, that explains the monkey-virus epidemic films. So, Evil Robots?
Fear of things that are different? Perhaps folks are afraid of being replaced or destroyed by their own creations. Like Frankenstein's Monster? But, haven't all the advancements of mankind been net positives?
Well, yeah, sort of. Nobody said we're a rational race.
You said it, not me! Still doesn't explain the aversion to Aliens though.
Humans suck at ethics and logistics. Most folks don't know nebulas are much easier to mine for resources.
Those that do get the vastness and beauty of space aren't scared of it: I see it as a sea of endless opportunities.
Alien invasion is a fear of having stuff taken from us, or becoming extinct. "Sharing" movies doesn't sell tickets.
Yes, I see. Pirates kill and steal to live too. So they're also villains. Cultural revisions of Ninjas? They both have swords...
Well, pirates are portrayed as brutes. Ninja are both feared and respected for their skills. They're like silent death for hire.
There's a primal fear of the dark itself there, and what lurks within the dark: "Things that go bump in the night".
Ghosts! I knew it was something to do with your sleep cycle and lack of alertness.
That one was just too strange to be anything else but random synapse firing in a dream. ...
But not you? You're not scared?
Hell no! Ever since I was a kid I rooted for the misunderstood "monsters".
Look, I can explain all the RF transmissions later, after we've gotten the hell off this primitive rock!
"Hell" That's an embodiment of your fear of death?
No, that's a place stupid people fear. Stories like those helped create order when laws and superstition were one and the same.
The average level of ignorance among Earth's people is what scares me the most.
Hypothetical BS. All of it. We have folks falling in love with dolls, and having sex with robots, going to concerts to hear programs sing. There are troves of Xenomorph Pornography. That's right, the ailens from aliens... having sex with humans. From Eldritch Horrors to Toaster Ovens, We'll "love" anything! Even Farm Animals!
Yeah, it's not a species wide thing, but tell you what: You go to Japan and pass a law saying no more Vocalids. Just see how fast you get lynched. Go to the comic-cons in the USA and speak out about anthropomorphic porn. We're more accepting now than ever before. Just like in the past there will always be whites at the "I have a Dream" rally, or Men in the Women's Rights movement: Humans will be in the Robotic Freedom Rallies, or Humans for Alien Love gatherings. Just like in the past, there will be friction to folks who are "different". This will pass as the rational make the extreme less so.
Anyone citing history here, needs to look at the relevant part when extrapolating into the future: The Present.
I would. If only the stuff you say actually works did. Know why we have malware? Single Stack for code and data. x86 even has a damn CALL and RET operations to hard-code this C-ish brain damage directly into everything. Anything doing it differently suffers.
There are lots of things that are broken in languages today, and only using "stuff that actually works" means they never get fixed. Protip: COBOL and Fortran and FORTH actually worked too.... Hell, at least FORTH has separate code and data stacks -- You actually had to ignore the correct design to create an inherent stack-smashing vulnerability in all programs. Yep, "actually works", well, sort of.
I'm just going to say it: If you kill yourself before you procreate, that is a good thing. Keeps such self destructive genes out of the pool. I've battled with self destructive thoughts, and went though some truly heinous shit as a kid to get to that point. Yet, I survived. I've been beaten as a minority (the only caucasoid in an otherwise all black boot-camp disguised as a rehab run by Quanell X (the leader of the new Black Panther Party in H-town), who was sneaked the other kids out at night to a recording studio where the stars were installed in their eyes and their hearts were filled with hateful militant islamic views. The late night meetings were about, "Hating them crackers, as usual". You can't imagine the level of harassment.
Was the poor girl mocked? So was I. Was she beaten? No? I was. Was she raped? I have been, yet I still survived. If your mind is that weak, then good riddance. The world is better off without your genetic contributions. We've got humans to spare. May the most fit to survive do so.
What part did Facebook play in this girl offing herself? Well, what part did my parents play in the abuse I received at the hands of others? NONE. Deal with it. It was my choice not to be so stupid as to end my life. No force in this universe can cause you to take your own life. That is the one thing you can only blame yourself for. Her parents should blame her, and failing that, themselves, for their flawed parenting skills and bad genes. Certainly not a Internet Service.
I mean, fuck Facebook, but to file criminal charges based on some dumb hairless apes teasing each other with a fucking video? Get bent.
Think about all of the people that have access to these drawings in electronic form.
It would be like Princess Leia being able to snatch the Death Star plans off of any poorly secured 3rd party contractor's droid.
You don't need the entire set of blueprints to build a single part of the machine -- That's why it cost more than one life to secure the Death Star's plans.
The sad thing is that they essentially dropped a droid right down our exhaust port, which then walked over to the terminal, accessed, then transmitted the plans. No lives lost at all. The Chinese could teach the Rebel Alliance a thing or two about droid spys...
You supposed an Equation where none existed. This is a false equality. You can have both sides of that AND contributed to by the fear factor and leak coefficient (note here as well, AND is used to mean combination, not dichotomy).
Of all the tabs I have open in Firefox, only a few actually are loaded. This happy accident was a bug, where tabs wouldn't automatically load after browser restart. The tabs would be there, but wouldn't load until you clicked on them. That's an example of a bug that's a feature. Thus I can have hundreds of tabs open (vertical tab list is great -- use some of that horizontal screen realestate), but only have a few actually loaded in memory. It's basically "fast bookmarks" -- Where the bookmark has its own tab instead of taking over the current tab. Try also: Middle Click a folder of bookmarks to open them all in tabs -- This will load them all though, and that does eat memory.
Remember Mechanical Games? Dedicated machines for implementing one game: Basketball, Hockey, Pinball, etc.
Remember Arcade Cabinets? Dedicated Gaming Rigs in a Box. They were specialized to their task, but the hardware inside could run more than one game program. Their customizable form factor could provide better gaming experiences for many games. Even more general purpose hardware, consoles, which could run a gamut of games more cheaply came along. Then consoles met and surpassed the performance of Arcade cabinets. The arcade cabinets slow hardware cycle meant they couldn't take advantage of Moore's Law as easily, and the consoles were more accessible to play -- Being in your house.
For a while personal computing devices were sub-par to consoles in terms of game performance. Now, however, the guts are nearly exactly the same. The glacial console cycle means that PCs can more effectively take advantage of Moore's Law. Also, you're not going to replace a PC with a Console -- Especially not a Mobile Personal Computer. PCs can be even more accessible -- Fitting in your purse, backpack or even pocket today. If you do try to compete with a PC then you need to do everything the PC can do, thus turning into a general purpose personal computer. Now, reference the features of the consoles over time -- Note that they are slowly becoming PCs...
The main difference between a PC and a Console is that PCs provide a common API to a wide range of hardware. This allows programs to be cross platform. The main secondary difference is that a PC can be used to create new software on. For these reasons Smartphones, Tablets, and Consoles can not supplant the PC... If they do gain these features then they will actually become PCs.
The main problem with consoles is that they are set exactly opposed to the progress of the Games Industry they purport to support. What is best for Game Developers and Game Players is if all games can run everywhere forever. What is best for Console Sales is if games only run on one platform for a limited amount of time. What was best for Arcade revenue was if the games could even be geographically exclusive.... Exclusivity didn't work out so well. Inclusivity and common software API -- More General Purpose -- has been winning the Game Wars since the first digital hardware that could run more than one game program. Consoles are holding back the game industry, they must, that is the nature of a closed platform that does not play nice with others.
Yeah, enjoy your sniper party. If you've got it encrypted heavily then just upload it via bittorrent for all the world to not see. That's the point of encryption. Once you've done that the offline copy in a physical safe is moot -- Only a risk to you if it's the only copy. Only you have the key to decode the video, right? Combine that with a deadman switch that releases the code unless you check in. Even better: Just delete the video and keep a small non-incriminating bit of it, to prove you still have it. Go through the motions with the "encrypted copy" but it's just white noise. That way, not even torture can get you to reveal the secret.
It's a very, very stupid idea that's detrimental to humans in general.
You look at the evolutionary ladder and think: "I am at the top". I look and see yet more rungs to climb. I am a scientist. If you say these are detrimental, then I will insist that is an untested hypothesis, so long as it is. I share some of your concern, but I'm not arrogant or foolish enough to act on unproven hypotheses...
Save the money on drones. Legalize it. Reward the more artistic ones. Televise the awards, add commercials, Make money off them.
But won't that just make graffiti worse? NI! I say Ni! at you!! It will make the folks doing graffiti STOP. They won't want to be seen as "working for the man" and all that jazz.
Remove the challenge, don't escalate it. The taggers already out-do each other to get to tag even more insane spots without getting caught. If anyone can just spray paint anything, no one will.
This would just backfire so fiercely that it would turn the Entertainment Industry inside out. Publishers are not needed. They add no value to the work. The bits are in infinite supply, thus no value. What's valuable is the ability to create new works. We now have the ability to pay the artists directly for their new works -- They can simply withhold their efforts until money is assured -- Like Mechanics, Home Builders, Burger Joints, 100% crowd funded projects, etc.
With a burger, home or car, there is one customer purchasing the work -- The work benefits one customer. With arts the customers are all mankind. Marvel of Marvels: The bits are infinitely reproducible! Is this a match made in heaven? No, it is the nature of information. Humans are information duplication devices, right down to their very DNA. All Life Is.
The current publishing model runs counter to the Nature of the Universe, and employs evil economically untenable practices such as Artificial Scarcity, and Data Sharing Restrictions. To force the people into a system counter to human nature is what it means to create a police state. This has always backfired. The sooner, the better.
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Well then, if we send enough people to colonise the planet, some of them will be more likely to not die from radiation poisoning. Those ones get to reproduce and, over time, you select for radiation resistance.
Then after a few hundred generations we can ship them back to work inside our reactors without suffering any side effects!
Nope. It can be done in a single generation. Simply send the cyborg and organic astronauts both to Mars, the latter as more of a symbolic gesture really... There will no doubt be volunteers. The humans, heavily dosed with radiation and now sterile, can help establish the cyborg procreation instead. After the organics are dead, the cyborgs can continue to live on and establish a human colony on mars, for the good of mankind.
P.S. Your definition of "human" is probably out of date.
human - /'(h)yoo-maen/ :
Adjective
Of, relating to, or characteristic of people or human beings.
Noun
A human being, esp. a person as distinguished from an animal or (in science fiction) an alien.
We simply need sturdier bodies. Cybernetics isn't rocket science....
I'm not sure what crack they've been smoking, but it will take a fleet of these considering that this will just make a pock-mark on the asteroids that are large enough to be a threat. The force of the explosion will be lost in directions not facing the asteroid. When we see impact craters on big asteroids, they don't look like bore holes... Don't launch one and wait. Launch EVERY nuke, just in case.
I concur. I use crowd funding or private funding (commission) to pay for my work and working expenses. Then the work I do belongs to the private company (unless open source, but they still get a copyright assignment if negotiated), or in the case of crowd funding my work belongs to the public at large, and they can use it for free. Instead of selling bits which are in infinite supply (and thus Economics 101 says have zero price regardless of cost to create), I simply do more work to get more money... The bits aren't valuable. The ability to configure the bits (do work) is valuable. Just like when I was an Electrician, or small engine Mechanic before that, or Home Builder before that, or Data Entry Clerk before that, or fast food Burger Flipper before that, or Pre-Teen Lawn Mowing service before that... It's a proven model. The Artificial Scarcity Racket of selling infinitely reproducible information is Evil and economically untenable. The model where you sell bits is DUMB. Stop it. It's simple: You want to do work and get paid for it? Then DO WORK, and get paid for it. For a model that works see: Car Mechanics or any other labor industry where an estimate is given, price agreed upon, work performed. It's not rocket science. I have no sympathy for fools.
If we get to the point where we have nano machines in our blood stream attacking negatively impacting bacteria and virus' - what makes you think they couldn't be programmed to also attack our immune system in a way that mimics common aggressors to keep it on it's toes?
If they can be programmed, what makes you think I won't assemble them into a neural network, gain sentience by piggybacking on the neural structures of all mankind and wind up ruling Humanity from within?
That's what's so cute about humans. They think so small.
How'd you solve the icing problem?
You didn't get the memo? The cake was a lie.
Nanofibre? Sure, but I want to use them to create a hybrid organic / inorganic mental lattice. My current brain can then interact with the additional brain power and more and more power can be added. Hopefully by the time my organic cells are old and dying it will be a mere fraction of the total mind and be redundantly duplicated across the neural network from recalling the memories. Bodies? Where I'm going, I don't need bodies. Why jump to the ground from space when I can just control a remote avatar wirelessly from the rim of the planet's gravity well?
Some people watched star trek and wanted to be the captain or engineer... I wanted to be the ship.
The most important aspect of this issue is transparency.
Users should be aware of what's going on.
They do know what's going on. They're the ones doing the "going on".
In theory, it means one should not be able to enter a website without a disclaimer about the site and what it does.
The website authors/owner should be providing the info on automation and/or any info taken from the user and how it is used.it is the user's responsibility to decide if they wish to enter and as such, this means they must agree with the terms of the site.
That's a shit theory. You have the power to disable Images, disable Cookies, disable JavaScript, or even not render the HTML without first looking it over with a text editor. No one can make you enable those. I can't make you give me back a digital token. Do you control your own damn hardware or don't you? I can't be held responsible for users not knowing how to use a damn computer. Any information YOU SEND MY SERVER is sent by you, across the unencrypted internet and is being logged and tracked by the US government and some is being stored by your ISP, my ISP, and the parts I need to make stuff work are being stored on my end. 3rd party advertisements may appear in IFRAMES -- You don't have to render those. That's your fault if you do. Those sites may do who knows what with the DATA YOU SEND them. That sound like a good enough explanation? You want to read a thousand variations of this same generic bullishit on every damn website? I don't. I'd rather users learn how a damn computer works, and learn how to use your own damn PC. Even if you argue we should make folks read a manual and test them before they drive their cars, you can't blame the road or the manufacturer if some fools hops in and wrecks themselves.
Now, in the case of federal sites and/or governmental sites, this must be enforced. Basically they should be able to police themselves on this.
GREAT! You'll be able to check the transparency policy at the public hall of records. The Vogons would be Proud.
More than likely add this to Section 508 when it comes to the US Government.
Go to https://www.section508.gov/ --- If you didn't know what Section 508 was, YOU COULDN'T TELL from the home page of their own damn site. Try it and see. WTF? These are the folks you want in charge of Accessibility?! Whatever. Disabilities are sad. That's not my fault. If it's some service the government requires you to use, then yes, that's fine. However, not every site can be made accessible, not every site can ever afford to try. I do what I can within reason, but the whole world shouldn't have to suffer because something sad happened to some folks. For instance: I make games. Should I not make certain games because some people are blind or deaf or have no arms? Should musicians and sculptors and painters be restricted to only forms of art everyone can appreciate? I don't think so. "Where do we draw the line" -- Protip: you ever ask that damn question the answer is: Step Away From The Pen, you're not qualified.
This issue has been around for a long time when it comes to privacy, cookies use, etc.
Yep, and it's an education issue. Folks have all the power they need to control their computers, and thus control their cookies. ANYONE who actually gives a damn can block all cookies, or any web hosts, they can install a browser plugin to get fine grained control over what cookies are stored. Privacy? Anything you do in public is public, not private -- There's no privacy issue from walking around in a park. There are security cameras and camera phones everywhere. If folks want to use traffic cams to determine what to put on a digital bill board they should be able to. If you don't want to be recorded in public DON'T GO TO THE PARK. Most websites are on th
So you wouldn't mind if pictures of you being raped were being looked at on the internet? Fair enough, personally I'd have a problem with that and want it to be a crime to look at them, but maybe that's just me, I have been known to be a little odd.
Well, when someone puts a 1px hidden IFRAME in a cross site scripting or SQL injection exploit will you still "want it to be a crime" when you're thrown in jail for your regular downloading of illegal 1's and 0's? This isn't hypothetical. I clean this shit of of servers about 3 times a year. Skiddies are thumbing their nose at the idea of their teen girlfriend sexting pics being, "child porn". They're putting their own ex GFs pics online as well as "loli" manga pics they find attractive. Now, that means you should go and shred your hard drive and encrypt the fuck out of it. If you've been anywhere online you could have kiddie porn on your PC. Just the way the police state likes it... They have an excuse and evidence to hunt any "witch" they want.
Personally, I have been raped. I wouldn't give a rats ass if you want to look at pics of it, so long as you're not raping me or anyone else to get new pics. Folks looking at what constitutes child porn these days could be looking at voluntarily taken "selfies" and drawings. Kids taking nudes of themselves aren't raping themselves. Drawings aren't alive.
Furthermore, my little brother was being threatened and had fist sized rocks thrown at him when he was walking past a middle school. We reported the kids to the police. Guess what? THEY CAN'T DO ANYTHING. There has been no crime unless he actually gets injured. Unless you're actually raping a kid, no one is being harmed by looking at images. It shouldn't be illegal unless they want to actually start arresting people for THINKING about assault -- They're not even arresting folks for Actual Attempted Assault.
So, when the vampires bite you...
Yeah, I guess it's some kind of pathogen or something.
And that gives you powers while weakening you? You said that about Werewolves... and Zombies too.
Well, I guess we've got a deep seated racial fear of being bitten and getting sick. Probably for good for evolution or something.
Ah, that explains the monkey-virus epidemic films. So, Evil Robots?
Fear of things that are different? Perhaps folks are afraid of being replaced or destroyed by their own creations.
Like Frankenstein's Monster? But, haven't all the advancements of mankind been net positives?
Well, yeah, sort of. Nobody said we're a rational race.
You said it, not me! Still doesn't explain the aversion to Aliens though.
Humans suck at ethics and logistics. Most folks don't know nebulas are much easier to mine for resources.
Those that do get the vastness and beauty of space aren't scared of it: I see it as a sea of endless opportunities.
Alien invasion is a fear of having stuff taken from us, or becoming extinct. "Sharing" movies doesn't sell tickets.
Yes, I see. Pirates kill and steal to live too. So they're also villains. Cultural revisions of Ninjas? They both have swords...
Well, pirates are portrayed as brutes. Ninja are both feared and respected for their skills. They're like silent death for hire.
There's a primal fear of the dark itself there, and what lurks within the dark: "Things that go bump in the night".
Ghosts! I knew it was something to do with your sleep cycle and lack of alertness.
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That one was just too strange to be anything else but random synapse firing in a dream.
But not you? You're not scared?
Hell no! Ever since I was a kid I rooted for the misunderstood "monsters".
Look, I can explain all the RF transmissions later, after we've gotten the hell off this primitive rock!
"Hell" That's an embodiment of your fear of death?
No, that's a place stupid people fear. Stories like those helped create order when laws and superstition were one and the same.
The average level of ignorance among Earth's people is what scares me the most.
Come on! Abduct Me Already!
Hypothetical BS. All of it. We have folks falling in love with dolls, and having sex with robots, going to concerts to hear programs sing. There are troves of Xenomorph Pornography. That's right, the ailens from aliens... having sex with humans. From Eldritch Horrors to Toaster Ovens, We'll "love" anything! Even Farm Animals!
Yeah, it's not a species wide thing, but tell you what: You go to Japan and pass a law saying no more Vocalids. Just see how fast you get lynched. Go to the comic-cons in the USA and speak out about anthropomorphic porn. We're more accepting now than ever before. Just like in the past there will always be whites at the "I have a Dream" rally, or Men in the Women's Rights movement: Humans will be in the Robotic Freedom Rallies, or Humans for Alien Love gatherings. Just like in the past, there will be friction to folks who are "different". This will pass as the rational make the extreme less so.
Anyone citing history here, needs to look at the relevant part when extrapolating into the future: The Present.
I would. If only the stuff you say actually works did. Know why we have malware? Single Stack for code and data. x86 even has a damn CALL and RET operations to hard-code this C-ish brain damage directly into everything. Anything doing it differently suffers.
There are lots of things that are broken in languages today, and only using "stuff that actually works" means they never get fixed. Protip: COBOL and Fortran and FORTH actually worked too.... Hell, at least FORTH has separate code and data stacks -- You actually had to ignore the correct design to create an inherent stack-smashing vulnerability in all programs. Yep, "actually works", well, sort of.
I'm just going to say it: If you kill yourself before you procreate, that is a good thing. Keeps such self destructive genes out of the pool. I've battled with self destructive thoughts, and went though some truly heinous shit as a kid to get to that point. Yet, I survived. I've been beaten as a minority (the only caucasoid in an otherwise all black boot-camp disguised as a rehab run by Quanell X (the leader of the new Black Panther Party in H-town), who was sneaked the other kids out at night to a recording studio where the stars were installed in their eyes and their hearts were filled with hateful militant islamic views. The late night meetings were about, "Hating them crackers, as usual". You can't imagine the level of harassment.
Was the poor girl mocked? So was I. Was she beaten? No? I was. Was she raped? I have been, yet I still survived. If your mind is that weak, then good riddance. The world is better off without your genetic contributions. We've got humans to spare. May the most fit to survive do so.
What part did Facebook play in this girl offing herself? Well, what part did my parents play in the abuse I received at the hands of others? NONE. Deal with it. It was my choice not to be so stupid as to end my life. No force in this universe can cause you to take your own life. That is the one thing you can only blame yourself for. Her parents should blame her, and failing that, themselves, for their flawed parenting skills and bad genes. Certainly not a Internet Service.
I mean, fuck Facebook, but to file criminal charges based on some dumb hairless apes teasing each other with a fucking video? Get bent.
Think about all of the people that have access to these drawings in electronic form.
It would be like Princess Leia being able to snatch the Death Star plans off of any poorly secured 3rd party contractor's droid.
You don't need the entire set of blueprints to build a single part of the machine -- That's why it cost more than one life to secure the Death Star's plans.
The sad thing is that they essentially dropped a droid right down our exhaust port, which then walked over to the terminal, accessed, then transmitted the plans. No lives lost at all.
The Chinese could teach the Rebel Alliance a thing or two about droid spys...
You supposed an Equation where none existed. This is a false equality. You can have both sides of that AND contributed to by the fear factor and leak coefficient (note here as well, AND is used to mean combination, not dichotomy).
Of all the tabs I have open in Firefox, only a few actually are loaded. This happy accident was a bug, where tabs wouldn't automatically load after browser restart. The tabs would be there, but wouldn't load until you clicked on them. That's an example of a bug that's a feature. Thus I can have hundreds of tabs open (vertical tab list is great -- use some of that horizontal screen realestate), but only have a few actually loaded in memory. It's basically "fast bookmarks" -- Where the bookmark has its own tab instead of taking over the current tab. Try also: Middle Click a folder of bookmarks to open them all in tabs -- This will load them all though, and that does eat memory.
Remember Mechanical Games? Dedicated machines for implementing one game: Basketball, Hockey, Pinball, etc.
Remember Arcade Cabinets? Dedicated Gaming Rigs in a Box. They were specialized to their task, but the hardware inside could run more than one game program. Their customizable form factor could provide better gaming experiences for many games. Even more general purpose hardware, consoles, which could run a gamut of games more cheaply came along. Then consoles met and surpassed the performance of Arcade cabinets. The arcade cabinets slow hardware cycle meant they couldn't take advantage of Moore's Law as easily, and the consoles were more accessible to play -- Being in your house.
For a while personal computing devices were sub-par to consoles in terms of game performance. Now, however, the guts are nearly exactly the same. The glacial console cycle means that PCs can more effectively take advantage of Moore's Law. Also, you're not going to replace a PC with a Console -- Especially not a Mobile Personal Computer. PCs can be even more accessible -- Fitting in your purse, backpack or even pocket today. If you do try to compete with a PC then you need to do everything the PC can do, thus turning into a general purpose personal computer. Now, reference the features of the consoles over time -- Note that they are slowly becoming PCs...
The main difference between a PC and a Console is that PCs provide a common API to a wide range of hardware. This allows programs to be cross platform. The main secondary difference is that a PC can be used to create new software on. For these reasons Smartphones, Tablets, and Consoles can not supplant the PC... If they do gain these features then they will actually become PCs.
The main problem with consoles is that they are set exactly opposed to the progress of the Games Industry they purport to support. What is best for Game Developers and Game Players is if all games can run everywhere forever. What is best for Console Sales is if games only run on one platform for a limited amount of time. What was best for Arcade revenue was if the games could even be geographically exclusive.... Exclusivity didn't work out so well. Inclusivity and common software API -- More General Purpose -- has been winning the Game Wars since the first digital hardware that could run more than one game program. Consoles are holding back the game industry, they must, that is the nature of a closed platform that does not play nice with others.
Yeah, enjoy your sniper party. If you've got it encrypted heavily then just upload it via bittorrent for all the world to not see. That's the point of encryption. Once you've done that the offline copy in a physical safe is moot -- Only a risk to you if it's the only copy. Only you have the key to decode the video, right? Combine that with a deadman switch that releases the code unless you check in. Even better: Just delete the video and keep a small non-incriminating bit of it, to prove you still have it. Go through the motions with the "encrypted copy" but it's just white noise. That way, not even torture can get you to reveal the secret.
Makes a great brain for my MAME cabinet... Apparently there was a LOT of "poorly" made arcade hardware up until just a few years ago.
It's a very, very stupid idea that's detrimental to humans in general.
You look at the evolutionary ladder and think: "I am at the top". I look and see yet more rungs to climb. I am a scientist. If you say these are detrimental, then I will insist that is an untested hypothesis, so long as it is. I share some of your concern, but I'm not arrogant or foolish enough to act on unproven hypotheses...
"Three Eyes"
Save the money on drones. Legalize it. Reward the more artistic ones. Televise the awards, add commercials, Make money off them.
But won't that just make graffiti worse? NI! I say Ni! at you!! It will make the folks doing graffiti STOP. They won't want to be seen as "working for the man" and all that jazz.
Remove the challenge, don't escalate it. The taggers already out-do each other to get to tag even more insane spots without getting caught. If anyone can just spray paint anything, no one will.
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"XBOX! Those are MY ELECTRONS you're using on that other player!"
Read the EULA. You can kiss my ass or kiss your XBL goodbye.
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Um, Richard III died in 1495 while Shakespeare was writing plays (like, you know, "Richard III") around 1592 - a hundred years later.
Ah, yes. notice the circuitous nature of time.
Even in mind repeats all past feats to make rhyme.
It's a sigmoid function. Similar to the Error function, or the one used for digital neurons in neural networks...
This would just backfire so fiercely that it would turn the Entertainment Industry inside out. Publishers are not needed. They add no value to the work. The bits are in infinite supply, thus no value. What's valuable is the ability to create new works. We now have the ability to pay the artists directly for their new works -- They can simply withhold their efforts until money is assured -- Like Mechanics, Home Builders, Burger Joints, 100% crowd funded projects, etc.
With a burger, home or car, there is one customer purchasing the work -- The work benefits one customer. With arts the customers are all mankind. Marvel of Marvels: The bits are infinitely reproducible! Is this a match made in heaven? No, it is the nature of information. Humans are information duplication devices, right down to their very DNA. All Life Is.
The current publishing model runs counter to the Nature of the Universe, and employs evil economically untenable practices such as Artificial Scarcity, and Data Sharing Restrictions. To force the people into a system counter to human nature is what it means to create a police state. This has always backfired. The sooner, the better.