Until you are chatting up the hottie next to you in your calc class as the professor walks through the ray, hears your number and you calling him sexy and start stalking you leading to months and months of unsolicited night time thought implantations and weird dreams about naked calculus and old men...
This deserves more discussion. I wonder if anyone out there with more time (aka not at work) has looked into if and on whom they even tested this device. It has many many many applications and no matter the results it will most likely be heavily utilized. But I would love to talk to some of the test subjects in 10 years and see what the long term affects might be.
A clue here, sonny: inanimate objects cannot function on anyone's behalf. The owner must grant you permission. This ain't science fiction Actually, you configure those technological-yet-imanimate objects to interact with other people on your behalf. I would hate to get a phone call asking for authorization to access my router everytime someone tried to connect. That's what the router is for, it knows who to allow and who not to. And if I fail to specify rules, that is my problem.
A decent analogy would be a webpage.
If you create a webpage for yourself and your family and do nothing to lock the content (password, ip filter etc) it is open to the public. You could not keep an ip log and sue everyone who accessed your website because it is your responsibility to secure it to the level you desire. If you do not it is open to the public, because it is in the public's domain. Google will crawl it and people will stumble across it. It is not the user's responsibility to determine if they are allowed on that webpage because they can access it freely.
Perhaps some crafty hacker can persuade the botnets to start spamming the government redflag words. Overwhelm the servers with flags and they might think twice about this type of spying.
I'd stand in busy locations singing copyrighted music, and make my own copyright infringing clothing so everyone around me would pay. If i could make copyrighted smells i'd do that too... but i have a feeling noone has cornered that particular market...
For instance: last night I was hit on by a truck-full of young girls (much to the chagrin of my wife) and their salutation was "What it is, what it do." Among other things I have heard coming out of the mouths of kids (just 3-5 years younger than I) this is by far the most embarrassing.
I wonder if all of the Deep Packet Inspection talk that has been happening as of late with ISPs was in preparation for the covert passing of the ACTA... and if they do "..restrict the use of online privacy tools.." i wonder how long until encrypted traffic was deemed illegal.
yay, increased solar activity along side CO2 levels! man, we're screwed no matter how we slice it. Thanks for the response, i hadn't thought of the solar factors.
That is an interesting idea. I wonder if there is not some process on jupiter that is altering the makeup of the atmosphere. TFA mentions climate change (and this time not our fault) as a possible reason. If there were something organic (bacteria etc) that was producing different gasses could that lead to Jupiter climate change? Aside from that, i would imagine that some factor would have to be changing to trigger a climate change.
There doesn't have to be proof for something to be real. 1000 years ago they didn't have the proof that all the objects in the world were comprised of tiny atoms, yet it was still true. Some things are beyond our technology and, though un-provable at the moment, worth believing in.
Clearly the idea of cloning our pets is the first one that's really going to sell the technology I think you hit on a key point, cloning pets, while silly, will open the public to the idea of cloning. It still amazes me how many people think cloning will create fully adult replicas like in the movies. There will be a bit of disappointment when they catch whiff of the truth, but it needs to happen. Hopefully it will make the public less fearful of the idea of some scientist making copies of people in a lab somewhere.
And as for the clone-lacking-a-soul comments I've seen higher up, The animal's DNA is placed into the nucleus of an egg and the fertilized egg is implanted into the uterus of a living animal. The only step that is really missing is the copulation. The only way that a soul would be missing is if sex was the act that implanted/created a soul, and I have serious doubts about that. The ratio of sex to pregnancy is much too large, we'd be living in a world overrun by disembodied souls.:)
it is interesting to me how adept the Scientologists are at all of this. Despite the number of critics and the widespread information about the strange beliefs of the religion, not to mention that it was started by a Sci-Fi author, and a whole laundry list of questionable practices, the church has a large following and tons of money at its disposal.
It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out over the course of the next 100 years... Would be a shame to see it emerge as a new world wide religion.
I stand corrected, they seem to have buckled to many many other before. YouTube is just trying to show how much Google will stand up for our rights after the whole India incicent. (can't find link atm... was on/. yesterday.)
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Until you are chatting up the hottie next to you in your calc class as the professor walks through the ray, hears your number and you calling him sexy and start stalking you leading to months and months of unsolicited night time thought implantations and weird dreams about naked calculus and old men...
is the cake a lie again, cause i'm tired of all the cake-fibbing...
Would a fairaday cage hat work as well?
This deserves more discussion. I wonder if anyone out there with more time (aka not at work) has looked into if and on whom they even tested this device. It has many many many applications and no matter the results it will most likely be heavily utilized. But I would love to talk to some of the test subjects in 10 years and see what the long term affects might be.
Next time you think about putting your new quantum motherboard in your mouth think again.
In soviet russia Q seeks U.
Getyoubackistan ready and waiting...
A decent analogy would be a webpage.
If you create a webpage for yourself and your family and do nothing to lock the content (password, ip filter etc) it is open to the public. You could not keep an ip log and sue everyone who accessed your website because it is your responsibility to secure it to the level you desire. If you do not it is open to the public, because it is in the public's domain. Google will crawl it and people will stumble across it. It is not the user's responsibility to determine if they are allowed on that webpage because they can access it freely.
Perhaps some crafty hacker can persuade the botnets to start spamming the government redflag words. Overwhelm the servers with flags and they might think twice about this type of spying.
did they expidite the end of the world. i thought it was scheduled for Dec 21. 2012. Man, i hate it when they shorten my deadlines (ba dum chi)
I can't wait till my wife AND my computer can call me a dumbass simultaneously
hehe i was thinking more on the lines of.. oh never mind. /retract fart joke
I'd stand in busy locations singing copyrighted music, and make my own copyright infringing clothing so everyone around me would pay. If i could make copyrighted smells i'd do that too... but i have a feeling noone has cornered that particular market...
This needs modded +1 insightful
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it is more scary and true than funny
For instance: last night I was hit on by a truck-full of young girls (much to the chagrin of my wife) and their salutation was "What it is, what it do." Among other things I have heard coming out of the mouths of kids (just 3-5 years younger than I) this is by far the most embarrassing.
I wonder if all of the Deep Packet Inspection talk that has been happening as of late with ISPs was in preparation for the covert passing of the ACTA... and if they do "..restrict the use of online privacy tools.." i wonder how long until encrypted traffic was deemed illegal.
yay, increased solar activity along side CO2 levels! man, we're screwed no matter how we slice it. Thanks for the response, i hadn't thought of the solar factors.
I would imagine this would just make it easier for the authorities to find those who infinge the copyright laws... count me out
That is an interesting idea. I wonder if there is not some process on jupiter that is altering the makeup of the atmosphere. TFA mentions climate change (and this time not our fault) as a possible reason. If there were something organic (bacteria etc) that was producing different gasses could that lead to Jupiter climate change? Aside from that, i would imagine that some factor would have to be changing to trigger a climate change.
There doesn't have to be proof for something to be real. 1000 years ago they didn't have the proof that all the objects in the world were comprised of tiny atoms, yet it was still true. Some things are beyond our technology and, though un-provable at the moment, worth believing in.
And as for the clone-lacking-a-soul comments I've seen higher up, The animal's DNA is placed into the nucleus of an egg and the fertilized egg is implanted into the uterus of a living animal. The only step that is really missing is the copulation. The only way that a soul would be missing is if sex was the act that implanted/created a soul, and I have serious doubts about that. The ratio of sex to pregnancy is much too large, we'd be living in a world overrun by disembodied souls.
...said SOE director Constance Phuckup. I laughed. I cried.What happens if x is negative?
I've gotta read that book! Sounds awesome!
On a side note, anyone watch Stargate SG-1 and notice a HUGE similarity between the Ori and Christianity?
it is interesting to me how adept the Scientologists are at all of this. Despite the number of critics and the widespread information about the strange beliefs of the religion, not to mention that it was started by a Sci-Fi author, and a whole laundry list of questionable practices, the church has a large following and tons of money at its disposal.
It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out over the course of the next 100 years... Would be a shame to see it emerge as a new world wide religion.
I stand corrected, they seem to have buckled to many many other before. YouTube is just trying to show how much Google will stand up for our rights after the whole India incicent. (can't find link atm... was on /. yesterday.)