I had noticed back when I was studying Physics that almost all of my classmates came from small cities (I was the exception). (I believe the situation is similar for other sciences such as biology and chemistry). However, the University itself is located in a small town so it may have skewed the data.
I think of mathematicians like Srinivasa Ramanujan or Évariste Galois. People like Newton or Einstein hardly qualifies as being alone, as they were well surrounded by scientists in their circle. As for Edison, he is probably the polar opposite of a lone genius, neither alone (he had a team working for him) or a genius (scientifically at least).
As a society, we should really applaud the Wii as being a device that is capable of distinguishing who the morons are and hopefully we can pass a law to outlaw the same said people to not breed ever.
Seriously I dont care if you are twelve or 90, if you don't understand the fact that if you throw something it will break things, IMO you dont deserve to breed.
"But the fact remains that no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities with firewalls -- a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security."
Actually, it is far more secure that way, if one organization did somehow owned all security online, the internet as a whole would be much less security because now you have a single point of failure. Once someone exploited that vulnerability, the entire Internet as a whole would be affected. Also I get the feeling from the article that what they are really after is not necessarily security, but CONTROL of the Internet. Lastly, that man DOES NOT protect the Internet in any way, shape or form. He might be responsible for the USA military Intranet, but that's about it. Stop the fear-mongering already.
"But the fact remains that no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities with firewalls -- a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security."
Actually, it is far more secure that way, if one organization did somehow owned all security online, the internet as a whole would be much less security because now you have a single point of failure. Once someone exploited that vulnerability, the entire Internet as a whole would be affected.
Also I get the feeling from the article that what they are really after is not necessarily security, but CONTROL of the Internet.
Lastly, that man DOES NOT protect the Internet in any way, shape or form. He might be responsible for the USA military Intranet, but that's about it. Stop the fear-mongering already.
You are missing the point, science needs funding and the only way to do that is to raise public awareness and perception. Without funding, how you plan to pay the next generation of scientists. Almost any airtime science can get is good given the state of our society.
That's pretty ridiculous, it is one thing to prevent discrimination against individuals but not when it endangers public safety or the general benefit of the REST of the society. Somehow we need to turn the tides on the all pervasiveness of being political correct (why are such instances even considered as PC, I have no idea), there are cases when it is actually doing more harms than goods.
(p.s. I should've been a lawyer myself seeing all these ridiculous laws.)
with For-profit companies? Even living on the street is not free you know, you have to make money somehow. IMO open-source by itself is fine, free is definitely not a given.
the missing wife is a friend of a MASS-MURDERER, and yet the police decide to not press charge against him and instead decide that the ex-husband is the more likely suspect... I think there is a good chance they got the wrong guy.
For those who are completely blind, the research in the Brain-machine interface may allow them to 'see' artificially. In fact, this has already been done and will only get better with progress in technology http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.html
They probably won't have the newer version of the Tachikoma in the movie, since the original GitS didn't have either. Although they may decide to include them anyway, which is not necessary a bad thing since they do portray a counterview of the A.I. as cold and emotionless. It all depends on whether they'll try to stick faithfully to the original script or write a new one.
The A.I. version of Tachikoma that everyone loves didn't show up until in SAC (not including the managa).
As a GitS fan, I am exciting but at the same time worried about what 'Western' adaption of GitS would look like. Also although the original GitS movie was good, the SAC season I and II series are superior in the sense that fully a full 26 episode season really allowed the story and its universe to be examined in detail, something that a movie can never truly do.
With that said, I'd still be eager to see Hollywood version of GitS, even if I may very well end up hating it.
I am not sure how you can be mod insightful, I could've mod you down but I would rather reply to your rather insightless comments. They very definitely did catch the right guy, I read the forum on beyond.ca and the people involved in catching the thief were not some retard retards, but rather some good guys helping out a fellow enthusiast.
They decide to post pictures because in the original description, the owner of the right-hand drive GTR (a very rare car in Canada) said that one of the thieft hand had two of its fingers cut off. So what happened was that one of the members, when spotted a similar GTR, flashed the 'rocker' hand-sign and the thief did the same, showing his hand which completely matched the owner's description.
And actually they did contact the police from the beginning, but the police only did show up in time the 2nd time and they BOX in the car.
There is actually some truth to that, I actually did find my last Dell laptop to be quite dull. Based on my own personal experiences in owning my last 3 laptops from Dell, HP and Lenovo. I'd say HP's design is by far much better than the other two, and I wonder if that's one of the reasons why it took over Dell's lead in the PC market.
There is a big issue with such simplified generalization as it does not differentiate between personal and economical freedom. Specifically, the Right-Left Wing viewpoint left out the Libertarian and Totalitarian view. In your example, the right may want lower tax and smaller government but they can also (and often) hold conversative viewpoint that advocates more restriction in social and personal freedom (which is often the view held by right-wing conservatism).
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I had noticed back when I was studying Physics that almost all of my classmates came from small cities (I was the exception). (I believe the situation is similar for other sciences such as biology and chemistry). However, the University itself is located in a small town so it may have skewed the data.
I think Kurzweil is desperate for Singularity to happen sooner because frankly he just doesn't want to die.
Happy new year! * Put on tin-foil party hat * (And I guess it's time to plan to move ...)
That Orwell was an optimist...
I think of mathematicians like Srinivasa Ramanujan or Évariste Galois. People like Newton or Einstein hardly qualifies as being alone, as they were well surrounded by scientists in their circle. As for Edison, he is probably the polar opposite of a lone genius, neither alone (he had a team working for him) or a genius (scientifically at least).
As a society, we should really applaud the Wii as being a device that is capable of distinguishing who the morons are and hopefully we can pass a law to outlaw the same said people to not breed ever. Seriously I dont care if you are twelve or 90, if you don't understand the fact that if you throw something it will break things, IMO you dont deserve to breed.
"But the fact remains that no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities with firewalls -- a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security."
Actually, it is far more secure that way, if one organization did somehow owned all security online, the internet as a whole would be much less security because now you have a single point of failure. Once someone exploited that vulnerability, the entire Internet as a whole would be affected. Also I get the feeling from the article that what they are really after is not necessarily security, but CONTROL of the Internet. Lastly, that man DOES NOT protect the Internet in any way, shape or form. He might be responsible for the USA military Intranet, but that's about it. Stop the fear-mongering already.
"But the fact remains that no one really owns security online, which leads to gated communities with firewalls -- a highly unreliable and wasteful way to try to assure security."
Actually, it is far more secure that way, if one organization did somehow owned all security online, the internet as a whole would be much less security because now you have a single point of failure. Once someone exploited that vulnerability, the entire Internet as a whole would be affected. Also I get the feeling from the article that what they are really after is not necessarily security, but CONTROL of the Internet. Lastly, that man DOES NOT protect the Internet in any way, shape or form. He might be responsible for the USA military Intranet, but that's about it. Stop the fear-mongering already.
You are missing the point, science needs funding and the only way to do that is to raise public awareness and perception. Without funding, how you plan to pay the next generation of scientists. Almost any airtime science can get is good given the state of our society.
That's pretty ridiculous, it is one thing to prevent discrimination against individuals but not when it endangers public safety or the general benefit of the REST of the society. Somehow we need to turn the tides on the all pervasiveness of being political correct (why are such instances even considered as PC, I have no idea), there are cases when it is actually doing more harms than goods. (p.s. I should've been a lawyer myself seeing all these ridiculous laws.)
Why is your computer off in the first place?
with For-profit companies? Even living on the street is not free you know, you have to make money somehow. IMO open-source by itself is fine, free is definitely not a given.
Orwell was an optimist.
the missing wife is a friend of a MASS-MURDERER, and yet the police decide to not press charge against him and instead decide that the ex-husband is the more likely suspect ... I think there is a good chance they got the wrong guy.
They should've just re-direct to MySpace.
the land of the Criminals.
For those who are completely blind, the research in the Brain-machine interface may allow them to 'see' artificially. In fact, this has already been done and will only get better with progress in technology http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/vision.html
They probably won't have the newer version of the Tachikoma in the movie, since the original GitS didn't have either. Although they may decide to include them anyway, which is not necessary a bad thing since they do portray a counterview of the A.I. as cold and emotionless. It all depends on whether they'll try to stick faithfully to the original script or write a new one.
The A.I. version of Tachikoma that everyone loves didn't show up until in SAC (not including the managa).
As a GitS fan, I am exciting but at the same time worried about what 'Western' adaption of GitS would look like. Also although the original GitS movie was good, the SAC season I and II series are superior in the sense that fully a full 26 episode season really allowed the story and its universe to be examined in detail, something that a movie can never truly do.
With that said, I'd still be eager to see Hollywood version of GitS, even if I may very well end up hating it.
Addressed to the government: GET your GREEDY PAWS OFF the INTERNET!
I am not sure how you can be mod insightful, I could've mod you down but I would rather reply to your rather insightless comments. They very definitely did catch the right guy, I read the forum on beyond.ca and the people involved in catching the thief were not some retard retards, but rather some good guys helping out a fellow enthusiast.
They decide to post pictures because in the original description, the owner of the right-hand drive GTR (a very rare car in Canada) said that one of the thieft hand had two of its fingers cut off. So what happened was that one of the members, when spotted a similar GTR, flashed the 'rocker' hand-sign and the thief did the same, showing his hand which completely matched the owner's description.
And actually they did contact the police from the beginning, but the police only did show up in time the 2nd time and they BOX in the car.
Blue font, Black background. I found it to be the easiest on my eyes as I do a lot of reading and editing.
There is actually some truth to that, I actually did find my last Dell laptop to be quite dull. Based on my own personal experiences in owning my last 3 laptops from Dell, HP and Lenovo. I'd say HP's design is by far much better than the other two, and I wonder if that's one of the reasons why it took over Dell's lead in the PC market.
There is a big issue with such simplified generalization as it does not differentiate between personal and economical freedom. Specifically, the Right-Left Wing viewpoint left out the Libertarian and Totalitarian view. In your example, the right may want lower tax and smaller government but they can also (and often) hold conversative viewpoint that advocates more restriction in social and personal freedom (which is often the view held by right-wing conservatism).
The Nolan Chart http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_chart illustrates this concept and shows why a Right-Left viewpoint missed out important details.
Can we just agree and summarize by saying that the world would be a better place without any religion? Just imagine ... (yea that song)