Obviously science has not progressed far enough to know how to model the human brain in a computer, or else we would probably be doing it already. So I guess I concede that we can't transfer the human brain yet, but I never said we could. But it is silly to believe we won't figure this out eventually. I would be surprised if it takes us 50 years.
I was only responding to the idea that if you transfer your brain to another medium, the old you dies. This is potentially true, but very unlikely. People can lose large portions of their brain without dying, and if those portions were replaced with synthetic computing devices I don't think anyone would think the old them has died.
That "replaced bit-by-bit" shit doesn't even fly at car auctions. There's no chance in hell society would accept a fully-replaced human as the original.
None of those "theories" describe the physical manifestation of consciousness. They can't. I don't need to study philosophy. The sum total of human knowledge on consciousness is that one can know oneself is conscious but can never prove (or disprove) the same about anything else.
The extortion comes from being forced into either accepting the conditions of the bug bounty programs or going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
The bug bounty programs are set up as a PR move. They encourage "responsible disclosure" and offer amounts of money that look large to the uninformed public, but are a joke compared to the effort required to find and report and follow up on the bugs, let alone the actual value to malevolent hackers.
If a security researcher finds a significant bug affecting $BIG_CORP they have 3 options:
Publish details publicly. The absolute quickest way to get it fixed. Also the quickest way to end up in jail on all sorts of trumped up and imagined charges.
Sell it on the "black market". Profitable and, if done intelligently, legal. The second quickest way to get it fixed as it will be used by the people you sell it to.
Engage in "responsible disclosure", contact the company, file the bug report according to their procedures, wait weeks or months for initial contact, wait for them to verify the bug or pretend it's not an issue, then wait for them to say it's fixed even though it isn't, then wait for your joke of a check (if they decide you met all the requirements of their bug bounty program).
The thing everyone always ignores is that no matter what, eventually your brain dies. Whether in you or after you've been uploaded to a computer or another brain or what have you. And when that happens *THAT* you is dead. *YOU* still experience the pain of death. YOU still cease to exist. There is something out there with your memories and thoughts, but they are not you any more than a photo album or journal is you.
This is very easily solved as a concept, although the implementation will obviously be insanely difficult. As another poster mentioned, your brain cells are constantly dying already. You still feel like you probably because it happens so gradually. So the answer to replacing your brain is the same; do it gradually. Conceptually you would be hooking your brain to a helmet filled with electronics that slowly replace your brain functions. At the end of the process your brain is completely electronic and you are still you. This is the theory anyway.
If you consider this scenario to be the same as you experiencing death, then you have already died perhaps hundreds of times in your lifetime so far.
Which part of the brain holds your conscious self? There is no scientific explanation for the phenomenon of consciousness - no theory about how it arises, not even a definition of what qualifies. You cannot transfer consciousness without know what it is and how it works.
Here I am standing in front of our TERRORIST HEADQUARTERS on a great sunny day! My fav pic this week hope u like it!
I hope they spent at least a few of those 22 hours verifying that the place they were going to bomb was in fact the TERRORIST HEADQUARTERS. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a school, hospital, or frozen yogurt shop.
It becomes a thing whenever a corporation says it's a thing. Blacklisting and DDoSing hurt profits, express independent thought, and are non-conforming behavior. According to the feds, congress, Obama, etc., that's textbook terrorism.
Does anyone really give a fucking shit about every little thing Elon Musk does? Is the media really so determined to manufacture a new Steve Jobs? And are we really at the point of calling Solar City, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX "corporate empires"?
The only thing remotely interesting is the bit about the openers trying all codes in a rolling window. If you send 01010101010110101010100 it tests, 01010100, 101010100, 10101010, 0101010100, etc. It's essentially doing a find operation for the code (be it 8 bits, 12, or whatever) in the entire mess of shit that you send it. Knowing this, the only work you need to do in the attack is work out the timing of sending a string that contains all 4096 combinations.
Calling someone a cock sucker does not imply any reference to homosexuality, or to use your derogatory term, "gays". You are inferring that, and you are injecting your own hatred into the situation - you're literally asking for someone to call someone else a "faggot".
The government absolutely DOES need to prove you are aware of an investigation if they intend to prove your intent to to disrupt that investigation. Intent requires knowledge. Just because the government says shit doesn't make it true. Use your fucking brain.
You cannot meet the legal standard of criminal intent to obstruct an investigation if you do not know of that investigation. Hopefully, a defense lawyer can explain that to the jury and hopefully they're smarter than your dumb ass.
You must first prove he was informed of the investigation, what it covered, etc., before you can even try to prove he intentionally deleted evidence. Hint - he wasn't informed. If he has been informed, it would have been the moment he was arrested, which would have been the same moment they seized his computer and anything else they wanted.
All they have to do is strike. They can't be fired while striking, and if there's any hint of punishment for striking they'll get a much bigger payday than their severance package.
Not necessarily. You fucking poser grammar Nazis don't even know the rules, yet you try to enforce them. Pathetic. It's been fun owning your ass, though.
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The sheer magnitude of the number of players and money that WoW has brought to the gaming world probably eclipses any other game ever made.
Tetris is orders of magnitude bigger than WoW.
Obviously science has not progressed far enough to know how to model the human brain in a computer, or else we would probably be doing it already. So I guess I concede that we can't transfer the human brain yet, but I never said we could. But it is silly to believe we won't figure this out eventually. I would be surprised if it takes us 50 years.
I was only responding to the idea that if you transfer your brain to another medium, the old you dies. This is potentially true, but very unlikely. People can lose large portions of their brain without dying, and if those portions were replaced with synthetic computing devices I don't think anyone would think the old them has died.
That "replaced bit-by-bit" shit doesn't even fly at car auctions. There's no chance in hell society would accept a fully-replaced human as the original.
None of those "theories" describe the physical manifestation of consciousness.
They can't.
I don't need to study philosophy. The sum total of human knowledge on consciousness is that one can know oneself is conscious but can never prove (or disprove) the same about anything else.
None of those "theories" describe the physical manifestation of consciousness,
The extortion comes from being forced into either accepting the conditions of the bug bounty programs or going to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
The bug bounty programs are set up as a PR move. They encourage "responsible disclosure" and offer amounts of money that look large to the uninformed public, but are a joke compared to the effort required to find and report and follow up on the bugs, let alone the actual value to malevolent hackers.
If a security researcher finds a significant bug affecting $BIG_CORP they have 3 options:
Publish details publicly. The absolute quickest way to get it fixed. Also the quickest way to end up in jail on all sorts of trumped up and imagined charges.
Sell it on the "black market". Profitable and, if done intelligently, legal. The second quickest way to get it fixed as it will be used by the people you sell it to.
Engage in "responsible disclosure", contact the company, file the bug report according to their procedures, wait weeks or months for initial contact, wait for them to verify the bug or pretend it's not an issue, then wait for them to say it's fixed even though it isn't, then wait for your joke of a check (if they decide you met all the requirements of their bug bounty program).
The thing everyone always ignores is that no matter what, eventually your brain dies. Whether in you or after you've been uploaded to a computer or another brain or what have you. And when that happens *THAT* you is dead. *YOU* still experience the pain of death. YOU still cease to exist. There is something out there with your memories and thoughts, but they are not you any more than a photo album or journal is you.
This is very easily solved as a concept, although the implementation will obviously be insanely difficult. As another poster mentioned, your brain cells are constantly dying already. You still feel like you probably because it happens so gradually. So the answer to replacing your brain is the same; do it gradually. Conceptually you would be hooking your brain to a helmet filled with electronics that slowly replace your brain functions. At the end of the process your brain is completely electronic and you are still you. This is the theory anyway.
If you consider this scenario to be the same as you experiencing death, then you have already died perhaps hundreds of times in your lifetime so far.
Which part of the brain holds your conscious self?
There is no scientific explanation for the phenomenon of consciousness - no theory about how it arises, not even a definition of what qualifies.
You cannot transfer consciousness without know what it is and how it works.
Microsoft's implementation of what, exactly?
Java vulnerabilities come from the fucking JVM and the plugin. You can thank Sun and Oracle.
Here I am standing in front of our TERRORIST HEADQUARTERS on a great sunny day! My fav pic this week hope u like it!
I hope they spent at least a few of those 22 hours verifying that the place they were going to bomb was in fact the TERRORIST HEADQUARTERS.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be a school, hospital, or frozen yogurt shop.
It becomes a thing whenever a corporation says it's a thing.
Blacklisting and DDoSing hurt profits, express independent thought, and are non-conforming behavior. According to the feds, congress, Obama, etc., that's textbook terrorism.
No, guns are prohibited outside schools across the country.
Such "gun free zones" are blatantly unconstitutional.
Contrasting it against a white stormtrooper outfit, yes, even if I was some dumbass who didn't know what a stormtrooper was.
Does anyone really give a fucking shit about every little thing Elon Musk does? Is the media really so determined to manufacture a new Steve Jobs?
And are we really at the point of calling Solar City, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX "corporate empires"?
Go ask your doctor what headphones he recommends for compensating for your hearing loss.
That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron.
The only thing remotely interesting is the bit about the openers trying all codes in a rolling window.
If you send 01010101010110101010100 it tests, 01010100, 101010100, 10101010, 0101010100, etc. It's essentially doing a find operation for the code (be it 8 bits, 12, or whatever) in the entire mess of shit that you send it.
Knowing this, the only work you need to do in the attack is work out the timing of sending a string that contains all 4096 combinations.
Conspiracy to commit cyber terrorism?
Calling someone a cock sucker does not imply any reference to homosexuality, or to use your derogatory term, "gays".
You are inferring that, and you are injecting your own hatred into the situation - you're literally asking for someone to call someone else a "faggot".
Fuck off.
The government absolutely DOES need to prove you are aware of an investigation if they intend to prove your intent to to disrupt that investigation. Intent requires knowledge. Just because the government says shit doesn't make it true. Use your fucking brain.
You cannot meet the legal standard of criminal intent to obstruct an investigation if you do not know of that investigation.
Hopefully, a defense lawyer can explain that to the jury and hopefully they're smarter than your dumb ass.
You must first prove he was informed of the investigation, what it covered, etc., before you can even try to prove he intentionally deleted evidence.
Hint - he wasn't informed. If he has been informed, it would have been the moment he was arrested, which would have been the same moment they seized his computer and anything else they wanted.
All they have to do is strike. They can't be fired while striking, and if there's any hint of punishment for striking they'll get a much bigger payday than their severance package.
I had walkie talkies (the biiiiiiiig ones) that used this scheme.
Look up the word "catastrophically".
Then look up the word "fail" to find a picture of yourself.
it's means it is.
Not necessarily. You fucking poser grammar Nazis don't even know the rules, yet you try to enforce them. Pathetic.
It's been fun owning your ass, though.
Just because you're an idiot, doesn't mean every other audiophile is.
It just means the last line is redundant.
Idiot(X) :- Audiophile(X).
Idiot(Hussman32).
Audiophile(Hussman32).