My favorite is the tale of what happens when someone researches a bit too deeply into the nature of humor. I won't spoil it, but it starts off with a Wisecrack who starts telling jokes to a computer to figure out the pattern...
No, the Turing test calls for a person of "Average intelligence." There is nothing about "competant" in the definition. Average intelliegence is an IQ of 100, average literacy is somewhere around a 5th grade reading level. (Newspapers are written for a 5th grade reading level for that reason.)
And perhaps one day we will have to pause and ask ourselves, are real people posting comments to slashdot, or are the comments generated by automatons trapsing through automated stimuli and responses?
That's an interesting constitutional question. Technically congress is barred by the Constitution from passing ex post facto laws. Generally, making something a crime, and then slipping in a clause that allows for the arrest and prosecution of folks who commited the offense before the law was written.
In this case, Congress isn't so much criminalizing or decriminalizing something so much as cutting the legs out from underneath litigation in progress. My head hurts just thinking about what sort of case law might exist for this.
The first rule of the OSI model is that you don't talk about the OSI model!
Seriously though, the trades are littered with terminology that is WAY outdated and I swear is just out there to confuse the laymen. If you've ever studied electricty, our notion of + and - comes from Benjamin Franklin, and he had it backwards. In truth, the negative end of the circuit is where the electrons are coming from. The whole notion of Voltage is a bit confused (people think it's anything from speed to pressure. It's actually neighter.) And then when you start getting into alternating current, whoooohaa, watch the sparks fly literally.
/Recoving EE major.
//Did you know that alternating current has a magentic component that you have to take into account when designing circuits to handle large motors and whatnot?
///And that magentic field is an imagionary number. There's complex math, and then there is Complex Math.
Actually UTP refers to the wiring (Unshielded Twisted Pair.) UTP covers CAT-3, CAT-5, CAT-5e and CAT-6. (CAT is simply short for category. It's a telco standard.)
Most switching power supplies will accept voltages between 90 and 240v. It's just cheaper to make the electronics run everywhere, and then just distribute the end-plugs to adapt to the outlet in the wall. Some have a little switch to flip between the two.
Ethernet... you just have to know who you talking too. It's like the word "secure" in the military. In the Navy, secure means to lash something to a deck so it doesn't blow off rough sees. In the army, to "secure" something means to post sentries. In the marines, to "secure" something means to call in a artillary bombardment, then riddle anything that is still moving full of bullets. In the Air Force, to secure something means to fill out a purchase order.
Er, I was making that point through sarcasm, and a bit of self deprication. I chide a book for being filler, while admitting that I've been influenced by a lot of books filled with, er, filler.
Point taken. And now that I think about it even Serial Killers feel a twisted sense of remorse. (Namely that they got caught, and woe is them, they are going to [rot in prison]|[fry in the chair].
Even in my own statement, I DO feel remorse. I've just learned not to trust it implicitly because it's quite moody and apt to beat me up about stuff I can't fix. And it's usually stupid things were not my fault in the first place.
Ok, now let me shut up before some nice men in a padded van stop by. The louder and longer I have to argue I'm sane the less convinced I am.
I have a confession to make. I'm a network engineer by trade. If anybody ought to be uptight about the difference between UDP and TCP, one would think it would be the guy who could tell you the difference between RIP and BGP.
You are putting the cart before the horse. Paleontological evidence show that we actually evolved our bodies first, lifestyle second, and the big brain followed on later.
Sure, I'm just parroting back the Discovery channel, but here goes. We are not the only species from the Homo genus to have developed. There are fossil records of several different "family trees", we are merely the last man standing. (The last competing species to H. Sapient was H. Neanderthalis which died out around 40,000 years ago.)
In any case, starting about 3 million years ago we began using tools and walking upright. We were so successful with tools that our diet diversified to include meat. The extra fat and protein helped us to support a larger brain when a mutation about 2.5 million years ago started stretching the mind, so to speak. 1.5 million years ago we started playing with fire, which allowed us to expand our range even further, hunt (and eat) bigger things, and cover the Earth.
Well, us and at least 3 other species that branched off from that common ancestor...
File it under YCGEMV (your chuch going experience may vary).
My principle complaint with the Canon is the idea the sets hold in the mindset of the faithful that the Canon is ALL, or even complete unto itself. One thing that annoys me about churches constantly quoting the Epistles is that they largely ignore the fact that Paul was addressing a specific question in a specific context.
I have no doubt the man was quite an enlightened individual, nor do I doubt is sincerity or motivation for a moment.
A little background for those of you not in the know. Paul spent a lot of time in Prison for his teachings, and letters were often the only way he had to communicate with the church. His "greatest hits" were assembled together to form "The Epistles". The Epistles, since the often answer specific questions form the basis for many of the customs, beliefs, and practices of modern Christianity.
My complaint is not with the content. It is with the idea that there is only one answer to certain problems, and that the answer given works in every situation. I also feel that if fosters the notion that all the great thinking in the world has been already done for us, so as long as we follow the scriptures we'll be fine (until G_d shows up and smites the world...)
You know, people manage to fill books on just about anything. And the padding usually centers around the Philosophy behind it.
(Glances at shelf... sees "Longitude", Talbot's "The Holographic Universe", Glieck's "Chaos"... Ok, I never did read Longitude. That was for a Engineering Humanities course.)
Human who have experienced life shattering events, occasionally come out of it incapable for feeling remorse. Those that don't often lapse into depression. Think of it as a coping mechanism for "Why Me."
What they do as a result is a bit like the difference between Super Heros and Super Villans. A Hero, without a sense of feeling bad, persues good. A Villan, without a sense of feeling bad persues self interest. Who will end up as what is completely unpredictable. The genre of comic books covers this theory of humanity almost ad nausium. In the end, the only thing that really seperates the Heros and the Villans is their motivation. Heros and Villans even share similar backgrounds (which is why vendetta is often a theme in comics.)
Getting back on point. "Wronging" and "being wronged" is not clear cut. If A and B apply for a job, and B gets picked over A, would A feel wronged? Yes. Did B wrong A? No.
C and D are seated next to one another on an airplane. The plan crashes and C survives. Does C feel like she wronged D? Often (it's called survivor's guilt.) Does D feel wronged? No (or n/a depending on your view of the afterlife.)
The question was not about psychopathy in a primitive society, it was about how psychopathy manages to survive in our blood lines to this modern age.
Hemophilia is an interesting example because one can carry the gene and not express it. (It is a recessive gene linked to the X-chromosome.) You can be a parent of a hemophiliac, or a child of a hemophiliac, and not have hemophilia yourself.
A primative society, not understanding how a gene could skip a generation, would simply assume it happened randomly, or that the individuals afflicted were somehow cursed.
Which, going back to your point, isn't natural selection either. It's "he looks funny, lets hit him with a rock" selection, which on further reflection, may be the source of psychopathy.
It could be said that it takes one maniacle autoritarian to know one. In that case, Network Admins are probably as close as it gets to power unbridled by consequences.
CEOs derive their power from the board. The Board derives its power from the shareholders. We derive our power from the fear. Fear of intrusion by hackers. Fear of lost connectivity. Fear of data loss. Fear that we could walk out at any minute and a replacement would take months to find and years to train.
And the worst part is, I've seen a therapist. I'm actually perfectly normal. (My predicessor was arguably a paranoid schitzophrenic, but it does take a certain mindset...)
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Never underestimate the power of a human doing a half-assed job.
My favorite is the tale of what happens when someone researches a bit too deeply into the nature of humor. I won't spoil it, but it starts off with a Wisecrack who starts telling jokes to a computer to figure out the pattern...
No, the Turing test calls for a person of "Average intelligence." There is nothing about "competant" in the definition. Average intelliegence is an IQ of 100, average literacy is somewhere around a 5th grade reading level. (Newspapers are written for a 5th grade reading level for that reason.)
And the bots don't start flame wars, aren't generally malicious, and if they try to be mean the results are usually comical.
By some day, I think I meant around 1999 or so.
In this case, Congress isn't so much criminalizing or decriminalizing something so much as cutting the legs out from underneath litigation in progress. My head hurts just thinking about what sort of case law might exist for this.
(Oh who didn't see that one coming...)
But when does Sam get to Mount Doom?
Seriously though, the trades are littered with terminology that is WAY outdated and I swear is just out there to confuse the laymen. If you've ever studied electricty, our notion of + and - comes from Benjamin Franklin, and he had it backwards. In truth, the negative end of the circuit is where the electrons are coming from. The whole notion of Voltage is a bit confused (people think it's anything from speed to pressure. It's actually neighter.) And then when you start getting into alternating current, whoooohaa, watch the sparks fly literally.
Most switching power supplies will accept voltages between 90 and 240v. It's just cheaper to make the electronics run everywhere, and then just distribute the end-plugs to adapt to the outlet in the wall. Some have a little switch to flip between the two.
Ethernet... you just have to know who you talking too. It's like the word "secure" in the military. In the Navy, secure means to lash something to a deck so it doesn't blow off rough sees. In the army, to "secure" something means to post sentries. In the marines, to "secure" something means to call in a artillary bombardment, then riddle anything that is still moving full of bullets. In the Air Force, to secure something means to fill out a purchase order.
I think.
Actually, I'll shut up now.
Even in my own statement, I DO feel remorse. I've just learned not to trust it implicitly because it's quite moody and apt to beat me up about stuff I can't fix. And it's usually stupid things were not my fault in the first place.
Ok, now let me shut up before some nice men in a padded van stop by. The louder and longer I have to argue I'm sane the less convinced I am.
Actually I'm a big Joseph Campbell fan.
Go figure.
Sure, I'm just parroting back the Discovery channel, but here goes. We are not the only species from the Homo genus to have developed. There are fossil records of several different "family trees", we are merely the last man standing. (The last competing species to H. Sapient was H. Neanderthalis which died out around 40,000 years ago.)
In any case, starting about 3 million years ago we began using tools and walking upright. We were so successful with tools that our diet diversified to include meat. The extra fat and protein helped us to support a larger brain when a mutation about 2.5 million years ago started stretching the mind, so to speak. 1.5 million years ago we started playing with fire, which allowed us to expand our range even further, hunt (and eat) bigger things, and cover the Earth.
Well, us and at least 3 other species that branched off from that common ancestor...
Do an employee get an automatic 16 if they work at SCO?
I think you meant Alternating Current. Alternat[e] Current leads me to believe there is a large scale application of quantum mechanics involved.
My principle complaint with the Canon is the idea the sets hold in the mindset of the faithful that the Canon is ALL, or even complete unto itself. One thing that annoys me about churches constantly quoting the Epistles is that they largely ignore the fact that Paul was addressing a specific question in a specific context.
I have no doubt the man was quite an enlightened individual, nor do I doubt is sincerity or motivation for a moment.
A little background for those of you not in the know. Paul spent a lot of time in Prison for his teachings, and letters were often the only way he had to communicate with the church. His "greatest hits" were assembled together to form "The Epistles". The Epistles, since the often answer specific questions form the basis for many of the customs, beliefs, and practices of modern Christianity.
My complaint is not with the content. It is with the idea that there is only one answer to certain problems, and that the answer given works in every situation. I also feel that if fosters the notion that all the great thinking in the world has been already done for us, so as long as we follow the scriptures we'll be fine (until G_d shows up and smites the world...)
(Glances at shelf... sees "Longitude", Talbot's "The Holographic Universe", Glieck's "Chaos"... Ok, I never did read Longitude. That was for a Engineering Humanities course.)
Bugger. I guess I'm going to need a seperate ISP feed if I want to use both networks the same time.
What they do as a result is a bit like the difference between Super Heros and Super Villans. A Hero, without a sense of feeling bad, persues good. A Villan, without a sense of feeling bad persues self interest. Who will end up as what is completely unpredictable. The genre of comic books covers this theory of humanity almost ad nausium. In the end, the only thing that really seperates the Heros and the Villans is their motivation. Heros and Villans even share similar backgrounds (which is why vendetta is often a theme in comics.)
Getting back on point. "Wronging" and "being wronged" is not clear cut. If A and B apply for a job, and B gets picked over A, would A feel wronged? Yes. Did B wrong A? No.
C and D are seated next to one another on an airplane. The plan crashes and C survives. Does C feel like she wronged D? Often (it's called survivor's guilt.) Does D feel wronged? No (or n/a depending on your view of the afterlife.)
UDP and TCP are part of TCP/IP. (Just a question of whether we are working on level 3-4 or 4-5 on our OSI model.)
It was far too long and I have far too little time to read it.
Hemophilia is an interesting example because one can carry the gene and not express it. (It is a recessive gene linked to the X-chromosome.) You can be a parent of a hemophiliac, or a child of a hemophiliac, and not have hemophilia yourself.
A primative society, not understanding how a gene could skip a generation, would simply assume it happened randomly, or that the individuals afflicted were somehow cursed.
Which, going back to your point, isn't natural selection either. It's "he looks funny, lets hit him with a rock" selection, which on further reflection, may be the source of psychopathy.
CEOs derive their power from the board. The Board derives its power from the shareholders. We derive our power from the fear. Fear of intrusion by hackers. Fear of lost connectivity. Fear of data loss. Fear that we could walk out at any minute and a replacement would take months to find and years to train.
And the worst part is, I've seen a therapist. I'm actually perfectly normal. (My predicessor was arguably a paranoid schitzophrenic, but it does take a certain mindset...)