There is some truth to that, as much as we like to think what a particular country's government should be, ultimately it is up to its people to decide their own fate. While the (perhaps ignorant) individual may not consciously think of how their country should be governed, the mass which makes up the society as a whole does ultimately, whether consciously or not, ended up dictating the type of government that it deems unacceptable (at least in the sense that they would rather live with the government than revoke against it).
You see, the U.S. people got their freedom as their British ancestors who immigrated to North America decided to revoke against its government for paying too much tax (they had the geographical advantage of having an ocean divde), and the French followed similar course of action (their people were desperate). Their people, as a whole, paid its due for the price of freedom and fought through it. However, it should be noted that each culture and nation has its own unique situation. In the case of China, ultimately it'd be up to its citizens to decide.
Because this way it gives you more information on both size and efficency factors and a better idea than simply saying 12 times as strong (some information is lost).
That full BMI (Brain-machine Interface) will be available to us in this century. There is nothing in physics and biology (as far as we know) that fundamentally limits us to able to some day not only read thoughts (as this study shows, at least in a crude way), but to some day eventually even engineer thoughts.
There are many people who are fearful of new, groundbreaking technologies such as BMI, but I am not one of them. In fact, I'd love to embrace such technologies.
I'd imagine when man first experimented with using fire as a tools, there are many who were fearful too. If we let our fears and ignorance to hold us back, we would still be monkeys today.
if the specific Xbox was valuable to you, why would you risk even sending in it for repair in the first place. Personally I'd rather spend the $ and get another one versus having the risk of getting the original unit damaged, stolen, or lost.
Applying common sense and Murphy's Law can really save you a lot of headache and grief in life.
According to wikipedia,
On February 18, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a permanent injunction against Dynadot forcing it to "lock the wikileaks.org domain name
Whereas what wikileak did was to release the illegal activities of asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion.
We can be digested by all ridiculous patent stories on slashdot and yet we can still laugh at them becuase most of the time we are not directly affected by it. However, as ridiculous and terrible as most software and business patents are, they will be NOTHING compared to the next big trend in patents--genetics/DNA engineering. When some soulless companies in the future robbed people of a cure for a genetic diease because somehow they claim to 'invent' it, I bet most of us won't be laughing.
Patent reforms need to start NOW, or else it'd be too late and by then we (the general populace) would be too powerless to stop it.
I was going to say that you must be driving a real POS, then I found out that the "per-processor retail pricing of SQL Server 2005 is $24,999"... So include me into that category.
While it may be hard to find a Dell AMD, Dell itself is also no longer #1. That title now belongs to HP, and FYI my HP AMD x2 laptop is working pretty well. I really hope AMD would do well since it is not a good for consumers if Intel has a monopoly.
Some of these guys are hand-picked by the very same administration, did you expect these shrewd men and women to bite the very hand that feeds them? Don't expect any real change unless there are fundamental changes to the whole administrative.
People are going to get the iPhone one way or another if Apple doesn't release it. Same thing happened in Canada where Apple didn't even bother to release it.
As for the reverse-engineering, that happens everywhere to everything... not just in China.
It has nothing to do with whether Linux is free or not, but has everything to do with #1) the fact that almost 100% of all pre-installed PC comes with some sort of Windows. Your average user is NOT ever going to want to install an OS on their own. Unless there is some shift of balance away from the strategic advantage of #1, the dominance of MSW will not fade. #2) Due to #1, most people are already familiar and comfortable with Windows. Most people are inherently resistant to changes. You have to realize the arrival of GUI Linux came about a decade behind Windows 3.11, and this is a direct consequence of the fact that UNIX was (and still is in some regard) mainly built for a mainframe, CLI environment whereas MSW's main focus has always been GUI.
IMO there are another 2 issues that UNIX/Linux have: 1) Linux has too many different variants, which while is one of its strength, also happen to make matters confusing to new users. 2) UNIX/Linux's learning curve has always been higher than Windows. It also seem to demand some sort of programming experiences when running Unix/Solaris/Linux since most of the time you'd end up using the CLI. (e.g. I had to configure the install text and option parameters just to make sure it supported my AMDx2 64bit. Upon boot-up it did not even detect the wireless adapter etc.) You have to realize that there are obstacles that your average user will find insurmountable.
First of all, let me state my bias: Singularity is Near is one of my favorite books (the other is Artificial Life). Ray Kurzweil is someone that I respect tremendously. I do not think for a second that there is anything intrinsic special about human-level intelligent, other than the fact that it happens (or appears) to be the highest level of intelligence that has been achieved on this planet. From a bio-engineering point of view, if nature using a genetic algorithm can achieve this type of intelligence, there is no reason to doubt that we cannot at least duplicate this level of intelligence in the future, if not completely transcend it (which is arguably the Singularity scenario).
However, having said all that, I think Ray Kurzweil is too much of an optimist and I have serious doubt about his timeline. Even with the exponential growth of technology factored in, it is not certain whether the challenge we'll face may also be exponential themselves. Furthermore, factored in various social issues and elements, 2029 (which is only 21 years away) appears to be a vast underestimate of time needed.
There is however, one viable alternative to AI that may be achievable in shorter time, and that would be augmenting our intelligence with the machine through the use of Brain-machine interface. There is tremendous possibility in this direction in that:
#1) we do NOT need to invent human-level AI since we are already using what we have-our minds. The technical challenge thus scale down from re-inventing/developing human-level intelligence to one of medical/bio-engineering, specifically focusing our attention to the development of BCIs (which btw, we already have crude 2-way BCIs now) and understanding the brain wave signal that are generated/transferred. The big IF in this scenario is whether (and how) our brain would react to BCI as through it was part of its own network, and so far there isn't anything that seem to indicate any insurmountable difficulty. I am particularly inspired and impressed by the scenario depicted 'Ghost in the Shell' where external signal is received/transferred through an input/output on the spinal cord (arguably any location on the central nervous system would work on a varying degree).
Obviously huge medical breakthrough would need to happen but there are always good signs of this type of technology available in its primitive form now.
#2) We can take a much better advantage of the Internet, as used in this fashion will arguably become humanity's largest neural network. While it would be too speculatively at this point to say since the question of what can be achieved in this fashion hinges the level of BCIs technology.
If your attacker can get a hold of your key and alter it, your system is already compromised... thus it is incorrect to claim that encryption can lead to MORE vulnerability because without it you are as good as dead.
I literally just switched to Firefox yesterday from Opera, but even with this bad news, I'm going to stick with Firefox. Extensions are just too good a feature in a browser.
... I stopped caring what the author said after he complained he can't go onto facebook. If you can't get whatever broswer to open facebook, please go off/.
It is definitely just Mircosoft that does it, a lot of companies even setup "corporate" HQ in countries like Bermuda. e.g. Accenture is one that comes to mine, but there are tons of others that do it.
I don't think I am the only one on/. to be offended by an article with subjects on both sport (a pathetic one like American football) and religion! Get off the interweb jocks and churchgoers!
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There is some truth to that, as much as we like to think what a particular country's government should be, ultimately it is up to its people to decide their own fate. While the (perhaps ignorant) individual may not consciously think of how their country should be governed, the mass which makes up the society as a whole does ultimately, whether consciously or not, ended up dictating the type of government that it deems unacceptable (at least in the sense that they would rather live with the government than revoke against it).
You see, the U.S. people got their freedom as their British ancestors who immigrated to North America decided to revoke against its government for paying too much tax (they had the geographical advantage of having an ocean divde), and the French followed similar course of action (their people were desperate). Their people, as a whole, paid its due for the price of freedom and fought through it. However, it should be noted that each culture and nation has its own unique situation. In the case of China, ultimately it'd be up to its citizens to decide.
Because this way it gives you more information on both size and efficency factors and a better idea than simply saying 12 times as strong (some information is lost).
What happened to e and i day? You insensitive clod!
That full BMI (Brain-machine Interface) will be available to us in this century. There is nothing in physics and biology (as far as we know) that fundamentally limits us to able to some day not only read thoughts (as this study shows, at least in a crude way), but to some day eventually even engineer thoughts.
There are many people who are fearful of new, groundbreaking technologies such as BMI, but I am not one of them. In fact, I'd love to embrace such technologies.
I'd imagine when man first experimented with using fire as a tools, there are many who were fearful too. If we let our fears and ignorance to hold us back, we would still be monkeys today.
if the specific Xbox was valuable to you, why would you risk even sending in it for repair in the first place. Personally I'd rather spend the $ and get another one versus having the risk of getting the original unit damaged, stolen, or lost.
Applying common sense and Murphy's Law can really save you a lot of headache and grief in life.
On February 18, 2008, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a permanent injunction against Dynadot forcing it to "lock the wikileaks.org domain name
Whereas what wikileak did was to release the illegal activities of asset hiding, money laundering and tax evasion.
So U.S. District Court, where is the justice?
We can be digested by all ridiculous patent stories on slashdot and yet we can still laugh at them becuase most of the time we are not directly affected by it. However, as ridiculous and terrible as most software and business patents are, they will be NOTHING compared to the next big trend in patents--genetics/DNA engineering. When some soulless companies in the future robbed people of a cure for a genetic diease because somehow they claim to 'invent' it, I bet most of us won't be laughing.
Patent reforms need to start NOW, or else it'd be too late and by then we (the general populace) would be too powerless to stop it.
I was going to say that you must be driving a real POS, then I found out that the "per-processor retail pricing of SQL Server 2005 is $24,999"... So include me into that category.
While it may be hard to find a Dell AMD, Dell itself is also no longer #1. That title now belongs to HP, and FYI my HP AMD x2 laptop is working pretty well. I really hope AMD would do well since it is not a good for consumers if Intel has a monopoly.
Some of these guys are hand-picked by the very same administration, did you expect these shrewd men and women to bite the very hand that feeds them? Don't expect any real change unless there are fundamental changes to the whole administrative.
People are going to get the iPhone one way or another if Apple doesn't release it. Same thing happened in Canada where Apple didn't even bother to release it. As for the reverse-engineering, that happens everywhere to everything... not just in China.
It has nothing to do with whether Linux is free or not, but has everything to do with #1) the fact that almost 100% of all pre-installed PC comes with some sort of Windows. Your average user is NOT ever going to want to install an OS on their own. Unless there is some shift of balance away from the strategic advantage of #1, the dominance of MSW will not fade. #2) Due to #1, most people are already familiar and comfortable with Windows. Most people are inherently resistant to changes. You have to realize the arrival of GUI Linux came about a decade behind Windows 3.11, and this is a direct consequence of the fact that UNIX was (and still is in some regard) mainly built for a mainframe, CLI environment whereas MSW's main focus has always been GUI.
IMO there are another 2 issues that UNIX/Linux have: 1) Linux has too many different variants, which while is one of its strength, also happen to make matters confusing to new users. 2) UNIX/Linux's learning curve has always been higher than Windows. It also seem to demand some sort of programming experiences when running Unix/Solaris/Linux since most of the time you'd end up using the CLI. (e.g. I had to configure the install text and option parameters just to make sure it supported my AMDx2 64bit. Upon boot-up it did not even detect the wireless adapter etc.) You have to realize that there are obstacles that your average user will find insurmountable.
First of all, let me state my bias: Singularity is Near is one of my favorite books (the other is Artificial Life). Ray Kurzweil is someone that I respect tremendously. I do not think for a second that there is anything intrinsic special about human-level intelligent, other than the fact that it happens (or appears) to be the highest level of intelligence that has been achieved on this planet. From a bio-engineering point of view, if nature using a genetic algorithm can achieve this type of intelligence, there is no reason to doubt that we cannot at least duplicate this level of intelligence in the future, if not completely transcend it (which is arguably the Singularity scenario).
However, having said all that, I think Ray Kurzweil is too much of an optimist and I have serious doubt about his timeline. Even with the exponential growth of technology factored in, it is not certain whether the challenge we'll face may also be exponential themselves. Furthermore, factored in various social issues and elements, 2029 (which is only 21 years away) appears to be a vast underestimate of time needed.
There is however, one viable alternative to AI that may be achievable in shorter time, and that would be augmenting our intelligence with the machine through the use of Brain-machine interface. There is tremendous possibility in this direction in that:
#1) we do NOT need to invent human-level AI since we are already using what we have-our minds. The technical challenge thus scale down from re-inventing/developing human-level intelligence to one of medical/bio-engineering, specifically focusing our attention to the development of BCIs (which btw, we already have crude 2-way BCIs now) and understanding the brain wave signal that are generated/transferred. The big IF in this scenario is whether (and how) our brain would react to BCI as through it was part of its own network, and so far there isn't anything that seem to indicate any insurmountable difficulty. I am particularly inspired and impressed by the scenario depicted 'Ghost in the Shell' where external signal is received/transferred through an input/output on the spinal cord (arguably any location on the central nervous system would work on a varying degree).
Obviously huge medical breakthrough would need to happen but there are always good signs of this type of technology available in its primitive form now.
#2) We can take a much better advantage of the Internet, as used in this fashion will arguably become humanity's largest neural network. While it would be too speculatively at this point to say since the question of what can be achieved in this fashion hinges the level of BCIs technology.
Canadian Group Calls U.S.A. a Top Humans Rights Violator.
If your attacker can get a hold of your key and alter it, your system is already compromised... thus it is incorrect to claim that encryption can lead to MORE vulnerability because without it you are as good as dead.
I think we got the news. Yes, Vista is badddd ... We need a redundant tag if we don't have one already.
Move along now, nothing to see here.
I literally just switched to Firefox yesterday from Opera, but even with this bad news, I'm going to stick with Firefox. Extensions are just too good a feature in a browser.
that I got from Acrobat 8 today and it downloaded really slow. Still it is good to know that it is being patched fairly quickly.
... I stopped caring what the author said after he complained he can't go onto facebook. If you can't get whatever broswer to open facebook, please go off /.
The above comment is actually insightful as it takes in the energy consideration in relation to the size into the equation.
It is definitely just Mircosoft that does it, a lot of companies even setup "corporate" HQ in countries like Bermuda. e.g. Accenture is one that comes to mine, but there are tons of others that do it.
I always wanted to impress someone with a powerful handshake.
I don't think I am the only one on /. to be offended by an article with subjects on both sport (a pathetic one like American football) and religion! Get off the interweb jocks and churchgoers!
I thought the tiger flew.
Is that in monopoly money?