It does make sense and it is what happens currently... the SSR(secondary surveillance radar) data overlays the primary radar return data, so if the aircraft stops squawking it's still visible as a dot or slash on the display. I'd expect the same would happen with ADS-B.
To better the lives of everyone, to experience things, to explore, to wonder... being human is pretty interesting and exciting and DOES NOT require a soul or anything mystical to make it so.
I don't mean to advertise, but I got a free wireless induction clamp when I signed up with one of the plans from southern electric (a UK power company, and since the submitter is in the UK, this might be what they are looking for).
It clamps on to the line and transmits the current reading wirelessly every second or so. The reciever box keeps a log of the power used over the last day-week-month and shows you how much you use at different times of the day(morning, afternoon, night).
Interestingly the reciever box has an RJ-45 port on the bottom, but I havn't tried plugging it in yet.
Good idea... except that here in the UK, the Libertarian party... well.. they're not. I'd say that libertarians should not vote in general, but then I'm more on the anarcho-capitalist / radical libertarian side of things:)
Further, the Tesla is not a "zero emissions" vehicle because it has to be charged from a power grid. Most likely that grid is supplied in large part by a coal-fired power plant somewhere, which belches out lots of carbon (gee, thanks, you anti-nuke "environmentalists"). The electrons do not magically find their way into the Tesla all on their own, and no large grid in existence is supplied in any measurable quantity by any renewable power sources (wind, solar, geothermal, etc.). The bulk of power comes from coal, and that's not going to change anytime soon unless we start building nuclear reactors again.
I don't know if this is entirely fair because scale means that it's probably a lot more efficient to perform Fuel->Electricity conversion at a large power plant than in your little car, although transmition may reduce a lot of that efficiency. Of course, the advantage here is that as we change to using renewable enrgy sources(or nuclear again, totally agree with you re: the anti-nuclear lot), our cars will change automatically:)
Does that not depend on the error of your expectation of 3 waking up?
If the average(expected) is 3 but the SD of that value is 2 then 5 people waking up really is not statistically significant.
Remember, know your Zs!
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That's true, but it doesnt deny that the Turing test is capable of detecting a real AI over one that just "fakes" it. The main problem here is that when people are looking for "intelligence" they don't really know what they are looking for. Turing test offers one solution to this problem(can it talk like a human). It is certainly not the be-all and end-all of intelligence/thought tests and I don't think anyone ever stated it was.
Unfortunatly, no-one can come up with a suitable, testable, definition of intelligence. Turing's answer is to say that the problem is meaningless because there can be no definition of such an abstract concept, so he devised the test as a way of showing that, in a very behaviourist manner, it doesnt matter. If it can act intelligent according to a human without bias(hence the seperation between human and machine) then there's nothing that can be said to deny that the machine is intelligent. No doubt people will claim it's not, but those people will always have bias against a machine.
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Well that's really the point of the test. Any "AI" that simply manipulates text as symbols is going to fail the turing test. To make one that can pass the test, imho, would probably require years of training it to speak, like one would with a child. It also requires solving all the associated problems of reference - how can a deaf, blind and anesthesic child truly get a sense of what something is, so much so that they can talk about it(or type about it, assuming they have some kind of direct computer hook up which allows them to read and write text).
Basically, nothing's going to pass the turing test until we have actual AI. Which is the whole point of the test!
I study AI at Reading by the way so I'll be going along to the event tomorrow morning:)
I personally am on the fence on this issue. As a libertarian, I am against government regulation and pro-free market and net neutrality seems to me to be a regulation against the telecom providers to do what they want with their lines. But on the other hand freedom of communication and open networks are definitely positive things, so I do wonder how an unregulated free market would handle this issue. It's somewhat off topic, but would be interested in your thoughts, especially if you also consider yourself libertarian.
I'd say it is, I'm pretty sure I used to read pdf's quite easily back when I had an 800x600 monitor, although they may have become "bigger" since then due to larger screens. Anyway, it'd probably be fine if you have the pdf and the device rotated so you have the 800 pixels across, rather than downwards (the original eee was only 800x480 so it's better than that already)
Well that's what encryption is for. Seriously, I'd much much rather have my data encrypted on a remote server than have it unencrypted on my own computer, especially if I ever want to go to the US.
In fact, even if it's encrypted locally, that means I'm even more likely to lose it at the border because if it's encrypted then surely I'm an evil terrorist come to take away all your freedoms that you enjoy, such as your protection from unreasonable search or seizure...
I know this is an old post and probably no-one will notice this, but just to let you know, scrabulous has now been disabled for the rest of the world, as there is now an official version of the scrabble game for the rest of the world.
Unfortunately having these seperate versions means that US/Canadians can no longer play scrabble against anyone else in the world(and vice versa of course). Way to go Hasbro/Mattel
Personal flying machines using ducted fan's were about back in the 50s as military projects, but scrapped because they were ultimately too impractical as combat vehicles:( imagine what the tech might have been like today if they had commercialised the projects:(
I would disagree. Life, or at least life that we could recognise as life, would have to start on planets with the right conditions, i.e. Earth-like. Given this, it is therefore likely that evolutionary pressures will be similar, and that similar successful designs will result. Look at the crocodile vs alligator for example. I propose that in fact, humanoid life is probably more likely than people would expect.
that's not entirely true. The infrared sensor on the wiimote is a 1024x768 black and white cmos camera, with an ir filter on it. It also has an on board chip to do the feature extraction to figure out the position of the IR blobs, there is no way to extract the actual image data without opening the controller and taking the output from the camera directly.
Stupid users and administrators would still be considered a vulnerability, which is the problem with the wording. If a system has no vulnerabilities it is impossible to break into.
I wish I could find a reference but I remember finding out about this years ago. Scientists were studying levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and found it to be about half of what it "should" have been based on how much we were outputting (i.e. instead of 6 bazillion tons it was only 3 bazillion tons). They realised that it's because the added carbon was causing an increase in biomass.
But, considering that the amount of CO2 is still rising, as are temperatures, it is clear that this process is not fast enough and it will reach saturation very easily. Trees only use CO2 when they're growing - after that, if they are burnt in a fire, or if they die from some cause, they will release all that CO2 again back into the atmosphere. It's clear that new trees cannot keep growing forever.
Basically, in the short term this is a good thing, but in the long term, it's likely to make the shock bigger, when the process reaches saturation or when a massive fire happens(and it will, rising temperatures + more trees = more likelyhood of fire), and all that CO2 stops being absorbed or gets released back from the trees.
I think it displays that screenshot while it's loading, try just leaving it for a while and it should change to a smaller image with a play arrow on it.
Living in the UK, I used to be pro gun control, I thought it was ridiculous that you guys are able to purchase guns. But now I can see the wisdom. If only you would all use them for something worthwhile.
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It does make sense and it is what happens currently... the SSR(secondary surveillance radar) data overlays the primary radar return data, so if the aircraft stops squawking it's still visible as a dot or slash on the display. I'd expect the same would happen with ADS-B.
what would be the point of going on?
To better the lives of everyone, to experience things, to explore, to wonder... being human is pretty interesting and exciting and DOES NOT require a soul or anything mystical to make it so.
I don't mean to advertise, but I got a free wireless induction clamp when I signed up with one of the plans from southern electric (a UK power company, and since the submitter is in the UK, this might be what they are looking for).
It clamps on to the line and transmits the current reading wirelessly every second or so. The reciever box keeps a log of the power used over the last day-week-month and shows you how much you use at different times of the day(morning, afternoon, night).
Interestingly the reciever box has an RJ-45 port on the bottom, but I havn't tried plugging it in yet.
Good idea... except that here in the UK, the Libertarian party... well.. they're not. I'd say that libertarians should not vote in general, but then I'm more on the anarcho-capitalist / radical libertarian side of things :)
Further, the Tesla is not a "zero emissions" vehicle because it has to be charged from a power grid. Most likely that grid is supplied in large part by a coal-fired power plant somewhere, which belches out lots of carbon (gee, thanks, you anti-nuke "environmentalists"). The electrons do not magically find their way into the Tesla all on their own, and no large grid in existence is supplied in any measurable quantity by any renewable power sources (wind, solar, geothermal, etc.). The bulk of power comes from coal, and that's not going to change anytime soon unless we start building nuclear reactors again.
I don't know if this is entirely fair because scale means that it's probably a lot more efficient to perform Fuel->Electricity conversion at a large power plant than in your little car, although transmition may reduce a lot of that efficiency. Of course, the advantage here is that as we change to using renewable enrgy sources(or nuclear again, totally agree with you re: the anti-nuclear lot), our cars will change automatically :)
Outlaws, an ancient FPS set in the west had scary moments.
Where are you, Marshal?
I loved that game.
Does that not depend on the error of your expectation of 3 waking up?
If the average(expected) is 3 but the SD of that value is 2 then 5 people waking up really is not statistically significant.
Remember, know your Zs!
That's true, but it doesnt deny that the Turing test is capable of detecting a real AI over one that just "fakes" it. The main problem here is that when people are looking for "intelligence" they don't really know what they are looking for. Turing test offers one solution to this problem(can it talk like a human). It is certainly not the be-all and end-all of intelligence/thought tests and I don't think anyone ever stated it was.
Unfortunatly, no-one can come up with a suitable, testable, definition of intelligence. Turing's answer is to say that the problem is meaningless because there can be no definition of such an abstract concept, so he devised the test as a way of showing that, in a very behaviourist manner, it doesnt matter. If it can act intelligent according to a human without bias(hence the seperation between human and machine) then there's nothing that can be said to deny that the machine is intelligent. No doubt people will claim it's not, but those people will always have bias against a machine.
Well that's really the point of the test. Any "AI" that simply manipulates text as symbols is going to fail the turing test. To make one that can pass the test, imho, would probably require years of training it to speak, like one would with a child. It also requires solving all the associated problems of reference - how can a deaf, blind and anesthesic child truly get a sense of what something is, so much so that they can talk about it(or type about it, assuming they have some kind of direct computer hook up which allows them to read and write text).
:)
Basically, nothing's going to pass the turing test until we have actual AI. Which is the whole point of the test!
I study AI at Reading by the way so I'll be going along to the event tomorrow morning
I personally am on the fence on this issue. As a libertarian, I am against government regulation and pro-free market and net neutrality seems to me to be a regulation against the telecom providers to do what they want with their lines. But on the other hand freedom of communication and open networks are definitely positive things, so I do wonder how an unregulated free market would handle this issue. It's somewhat off topic, but would be interested in your thoughts, especially if you also consider yourself libertarian.
I'd say it is, I'm pretty sure I used to read pdf's quite easily back when I had an 800x600 monitor, although they may have become "bigger" since then due to larger screens.
Anyway, it'd probably be fine if you have the pdf and the device rotated so you have the 800 pixels across, rather than downwards (the original eee was only 800x480 so it's better than that already)
I believe grandparent was referring to Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Nice try though.
Well that's what encryption is for. Seriously, I'd much much rather have my data encrypted on a remote server than have it unencrypted on my own computer, especially if I ever want to go to the US.
In fact, even if it's encrypted locally, that means I'm even more likely to lose it at the border because if it's encrypted then surely I'm an evil terrorist come to take away all your freedoms that you enjoy, such as your protection from unreasonable search or seizure...
woosh :P
your experience is about the same as everyone else's here I think.
I know this is an old post and probably no-one will notice this, but just to let you know, scrabulous has now been disabled for the rest of the world, as there is now an official version of the scrabble game for the rest of the world.
Unfortunately having these seperate versions means that US/Canadians can no longer play scrabble against anyone else in the world(and vice versa of course). Way to go Hasbro/Mattel
Someone didn't rtfa/wtfv, but this is /. It has ballistic parachutes in case of a failure.. I'd say parachutes are fairly graceful :)
Personal flying machines using ducted fan's were about back in the 50s as military projects, but scrapped because they were ultimately too impractical as combat vehicles :( imagine what the tech might have been like today if they had commercialised the projects :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VZ-1_Pawnee
I would disagree. Life, or at least life that we could recognise as life, would have to start on planets with the right conditions, i.e. Earth-like.
Given this, it is therefore likely that evolutionary pressures will be similar, and that similar successful designs will result. Look at the crocodile vs alligator for example. I propose that in fact, humanoid life is probably more likely than people would expect.
how do you propose to keep them openly viewable, while also locking them so they can't be edited, and without using DRM?
Unfortunately those are conflicting goals.
that's not entirely true. The infrared sensor on the wiimote is a 1024x768 black and white cmos camera, with an ir filter on it. It also has an on board chip to do the feature extraction to figure out the position of the IR blobs, there is no way to extract the actual image data without opening the controller and taking the output from the camera directly.
Stupid users and administrators would still be considered a vulnerability, which is the problem with the wording. If a system has no vulnerabilities it is impossible to break into.
http://www.icontrolpad.com/
it's an ipod/phone cradle device with gaming style buttons, being made by the same people who are working on the pandora linux based handheld console
I wish I could find a reference but I remember finding out about this years ago. Scientists were studying levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and found it to be about half of what it "should" have been based on how much we were outputting (i.e. instead of 6 bazillion tons it was only 3 bazillion tons). They realised that it's because the added carbon was causing an increase in biomass.
But, considering that the amount of CO2 is still rising, as are temperatures, it is clear that this process is not fast enough and it will reach saturation very easily. Trees only use CO2 when they're growing - after that, if they are burnt in a fire, or if they die from some cause, they will release all that CO2 again back into the atmosphere. It's clear that new trees cannot keep growing forever.
Basically, in the short term this is a good thing, but in the long term, it's likely to make the shock bigger, when the process reaches saturation or when a massive fire happens(and it will, rising temperatures + more trees = more likelyhood of fire), and all that CO2 stops being absorbed or gets released back from the trees.
I think it displays that screenshot while it's loading, try just leaving it for a while and it should change to a smaller image with a play arrow on it.
absolutely.
Living in the UK, I used to be pro gun control, I thought it was ridiculous that you guys are able to purchase guns. But now I can see the wisdom. If only you would all use them for something worthwhile.