If were going to judge people by their brains and whatnot rather than just their actions, why stop at using it as evidence? Why not preemptively imprison or euthanize people with "defective" brain types, or force them to undergo "corrective" surgery? While were at it, why just sociopaths? Why not identify revolutionary or disobedient brain types and "fix" those as well?
The fact that you got modded up is a bit disconcerting. The vast majority of police armor is either class II or IIIA. The lowest class even rated for any rifles is III.
IIIA is rated up to 427m/s for 124gr 9mm FMJ rounds. Even assault rifles like the ak47 fire 200gr bullets at at least 700m/s. OP is dead on, light rifles (ak, m4 ect) firmly outclass police body armor. If the attacker's wielding a full power rifle like the m14 or an m700 in.300, the officer might as well be wearing a thick sweater.
I'd like some of the anti-nanny state conservatives here to answer something - why are you guys so much in favor of antidrug laws?
I don't know what gave you this impression.
The fundamental philosophy of "anti-nanny staters" is that it's not the governments job to protect people from themselves. Your mistaken if you believe that the majority of us take drug use to be an exception to this principle.
Am I the only one thinking wearing it down with solvent or electrolysis might be the way to go? It looks like they've got pretty good access, they could even pour a silicone sealant past it to keep the solvent out of places it shouldn't be, then peel it out afterward.
Only at NASA can a stuck knob result in 6 months of delays.
I'm sure 99.9% of the people on Slashdot, who care enough to open the discussion know what ZFS is, and those who don't are perfectly capable of entering the term "ZFS" into Google.
Alright fair enough, I mean that's what I did, but alot of slashdoters like myself whould first grumble about there not being a link to said article in the story. So I figured near the top of the comments was the next best thing.
Also, I've already got excelent karma. Once they come out with a +2 Godlike-Karma-bonus you can legitimatly troll me for karma-whoring.
In computing, ZFS is a file system designed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris Operating System. The features of ZFS include support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. ZFS is implemented as open-source software, licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
(sorry for the double post, should have included the quote from the beginning)
Teenagers tend to not believe adults when we tell them that working hard and doing good in school is for their own benefit. Probably because adults lie to children all the time, and because teenagers are bad listeners.
Tell me about it.
Back when I was in high school I would've responded to one of those lectures with "that's what you guys said about learning to write in cursive" and leave it at that.
The new "infofuse" satisfies the militaries desire to replace emergency Morse code lamps which are considered unfit for military use in that they are neither extremely expensive, awkward to use or proprietary.
The new equipment is expected to be welcomed by troops later this year when it will issued along with the militaries new grid based individual communication radios or gbicr's for short.
The 50 billion dollar gbicr system will allow an individual soldiers to communicate with any other soldier by simply punching the recipients unique 31 digit alphanumeric identification code into the device and speaking with them via the devices built in speaker and microphone. Through extensive use of advanced nanomaterials, the finished device is expected to be as small in size and weight as an average house brick.
that spent several seconds trying to figure out how a deep space probe could possibly have found clues to the origin of a piece of bush administration war propaganda?
This is actually one of the classic decisions that's alot easier with robots than with humans, if the soldiers getting shot at are humans there really is no good course of action accept maybe try to surrender, but for a robot it's easy, just sit back and get slaughtered, all that'll be lost is some easily replaceable machinery.
Robots have a significant advantage when decisions involving their own safety. For them, self defense is optional.
Take the following scenario for example, an individual within a combat zone is seen entering a building in front of a convoy, they're carrying something which may or may not be an rpg. Human soldiers couldn't take the chance and would probably just blow the building apart, whereas if a robot were available, it could be sent in to clear the building, possibly avoiding the killing of an innocent civilian.
If coal burning were to be restricted or coal made more expensive via a carbon price, biomass cofiring (mixing harvested vegetation in with coal at coal-fired power plants) would probably be one of the first alternatives to appear.
I'm not suggesting any solution is silver bullet, but if combined with a pollution tax, our forests could provide a huge, reasonably profitable source of fuel, perhaps not as spectacularly profitable as fossil fuels, but profitable none the less.
ike I said, it's a near-term strategy and isn't scalable to eliminate fossil fuel emissions, but it can help some, if you sequester the biomass carbon somewhere so it doesn't return to the atmosphere.
I'm suggesting wood as a substitute for fossil fuels, not compensation. No one expects the stored wood to be carbon negative enough to counteract the rate at which we're burning other fuels.
Yeah yeah, you're a genius and everyone else who has ever worked on this problem is an idiot, too politically biased to see the plainly obvious solution that only you have thought of.
I'm not arguing that no ones though of this (or something better) before. The real problem is that the ones making the decisions are making them for their own political benefit. Lets say for example nuclear power is assumed to be cost effective and produce almost no pollution, but maintained its current stigma. Do you honestly think our politicians would advocate it anyway, in lieu of the public backlash?
Here's a simple solution I haven't heard anyone propose. Extensive renewable thinning of the forests.
Forests only absorb co2 as they grow, once they reach maximum density they become carbon neutral. When a forest reaches maximum density all carbon absorbed by new trees is offset by the trees that died and provided the room. But by continually thinning out our forests and allowing them to regrow we'd gain a infinitely renewable supply of zero net carbon fuel in the form of the harvested wood.
The wood produced could be used to generate electricity, or could be even chemically converted directly to combustible fuel. In addition, the wood could be used for cheap carbon negative building material.
The infrastructure for this would be cheap, the technologies available, and most importantly, it would be immediately profitable. I'm not surprised this hasn't been seriously considered though, both sides in this controversy seam more interested in using it for political leverage than approaching the problem with any sense of logic.
Your probably right, but the problem could easily be solved by adding illegal photos to the mix. If the examiner correctly classifies all the test cases, then their classification of the image being tested is probably accurate, if not, then their interpretation differs from legal precedent and their conclusion can be disregarded.
I would agree - to a degree. To me, an AI should be as smart as possible (even if superhumanly so - if I wanted a human opponent, I'd go to a gaming club), but should do so on no more information than a human player would have
As much as I agree, I'm confident that developers don't just give their AI's Omniscient features because they think players will prefer them that way. Mirroring how a human controls their character is usually just too computationally expensive to be viable. It's orders of magnitude simpler to just start with an AI that knows everything, then add enough human like defects to make it beatable. With that said, if these defects are added tactfully and aren't too buggy, the resulting AI's can be nearly as realistic as AI's that only have access to information a player would have, while not requiring all the computation.
For instance, say a player ambushes an AI from behind. It's alot simpler to just make an AI occasionally shoot wildly instead of turning straight to the player then it is to have them approximate their enemy's location via sound and turn in the direction the AI deemes most likely to result in their fov crossing the threat, before shooting for its last few seconds of life at whatever its reflexive observation decides is most likely to be the threat.
Of course I didn't read TFA, but it doesn't sound like this exploit has shown up in any malware yet. At this point the potential for attack has just been demonstrated.
A cording to some other commenters, the exploit code must run in ring 0, so you already have to be rooted for it to work. In a nutshell, this vulnerability can't be used to infect your OS in the first place, but it can potentially make detection and removal near impossible.
Where do you think that money comes from? Without insurance, individuals run the risk of incurring damages that exceed what they can afford, but insured individuals still have to pay significantly more on average, since the money for all the "flesh-and-blood rig" repair still comes from the insured, just not directly, and with a large dividend taken off for the insurer.
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If were going to judge people by their brains and whatnot rather than just their actions, why stop at using it as evidence? Why not preemptively imprison or euthanize people with "defective" brain types, or force them to undergo "corrective" surgery? While were at it, why just sociopaths? Why not identify revolutionary or disobedient brain types and "fix" those as well?
The fact that you got modded up is a bit disconcerting. The vast majority of police armor is either class II or IIIA. The lowest class even rated for any rifles is III.
IIIA is rated up to 427m/s for 124gr 9mm FMJ rounds. Even assault rifles like the ak47 fire 200gr bullets at at least 700m/s. OP is dead on, light rifles (ak, m4 ect) firmly outclass police body armor. If the attacker's wielding a full power rifle like the m14 or an m700 in .300, the officer might as well be wearing a thick sweater.
I'd like some of the anti-nanny state conservatives here to answer something - why are you guys so much in favor of antidrug laws?
I don't know what gave you this impression.
The fundamental philosophy of "anti-nanny staters" is that it's not the governments job to protect people from themselves. Your mistaken if you believe that the majority of us take drug use to be an exception to this principle.
Lol, that's great. I wish I had mod points.
Am I the only one thinking wearing it down with solvent or electrolysis might be the way to go? It looks like they've got pretty good access, they could even pour a silicone sealant past it to keep the solvent out of places it shouldn't be, then peel it out afterward.
Only at NASA can a stuck knob result in 6 months of delays.
I'm sure 99.9% of the people on Slashdot, who care enough to open the discussion know what ZFS is, and those who don't are perfectly capable of entering the term "ZFS" into Google.
Alright fair enough, I mean that's what I did, but alot of slashdoters like myself whould first grumble about there not being a link to said article in the story. So I figured near the top of the comments was the next best thing.
Also, I've already got excelent karma. Once they come out with a +2 Godlike-Karma-bonus you can legitimatly troll me for karma-whoring.
ZFS:
In computing, ZFS is a file system designed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris Operating System. The features of ZFS include support for high storage capacities, integration of the concepts of filesystem and volume management, snapshots and copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking and automatic repair, RAID-Z and native NFSv4 ACLs. ZFS is implemented as open-source software, licensed under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
(sorry for the double post, should have included the quote from the beginning)
ZFS
Teenagers tend to not believe adults when we tell them that working hard and doing good in school is for their own benefit. Probably because adults lie to children all the time, and because teenagers are bad listeners.
Tell me about it.
Back when I was in high school I would've responded to one of those lectures with "that's what you guys said about learning to write in cursive" and leave it at that.
Get with the times man.
10 Mb/s is fine sure, if you ok with your furnace topping out at 20 kilio-tweets/sec. I'll bet your furnace isn't even HD capable.
How American Homeless Stay Wired
The same way they get their manicures.
The new "infofuse" satisfies the militaries desire to replace emergency Morse code lamps which are considered unfit for military use in that they are neither extremely expensive, awkward to use or proprietary.
The new equipment is expected to be welcomed by troops later this year when it will issued along with the militaries new grid based individual communication radios or gbicr's for short.
The 50 billion dollar gbicr system will allow an individual soldiers to communicate with any other soldier by simply punching the recipients unique 31 digit alphanumeric identification code into the device and speaking with them via the devices built in speaker and microphone. Through extensive use of advanced nanomaterials, the finished device is expected to be as small in size and weight as an average house brick.
that spent several seconds trying to figure out how a deep space probe could possibly have found clues to the origin of a piece of bush administration war propaganda?
This is actually one of the classic decisions that's alot easier with robots than with humans, if the soldiers getting shot at are humans there really is no good course of action accept maybe try to surrender, but for a robot it's easy, just sit back and get slaughtered, all that'll be lost is some easily replaceable machinery.
Robots have a significant advantage when decisions involving their own safety. For them, self defense is optional.
Take the following scenario for example, an individual within a combat zone is seen entering a building in front of a convoy, they're carrying something which may or may not be an rpg. Human soldiers couldn't take the chance and would probably just blow the building apart, whereas if a robot were available, it could be sent in to clear the building, possibly avoiding the killing of an innocent civilian.
They should really just start linking straight to the uTube page for vids. I've yet to see them get /.'d.
If coal burning were to be restricted or coal made more expensive via a carbon price, biomass cofiring (mixing harvested vegetation in with coal at coal-fired power plants) would probably be one of the first alternatives to appear.
I'm not suggesting any solution is silver bullet, but if combined with a pollution tax, our forests could provide a huge, reasonably profitable source of fuel, perhaps not as spectacularly profitable as fossil fuels, but profitable none the less.
ike I said, it's a near-term strategy and isn't scalable to eliminate fossil fuel emissions, but it can help some, if you sequester the biomass carbon somewhere so it doesn't return to the atmosphere.
I'm suggesting wood as a substitute for fossil fuels, not compensation. No one expects the stored wood to be carbon negative enough to counteract the rate at which we're burning other fuels.
Yeah yeah, you're a genius and everyone else who has ever worked on this problem is an idiot, too politically biased to see the plainly obvious solution that only you have thought of.
I'm not arguing that no ones though of this (or something better) before. The real problem is that the ones making the decisions are making them for their own political benefit. Lets say for example nuclear power is assumed to be cost effective and produce almost no pollution, but maintained its current stigma. Do you honestly think our politicians would advocate it anyway, in lieu of the public backlash?
They're biodegraded by various organisms which release the co2 via their respiration.
It's late so I'll cut you some slack, but fire up a search engine before you get all sarcastic next time.
Here's a simple solution I haven't heard anyone propose. Extensive renewable thinning of the forests.
Forests only absorb co2 as they grow, once they reach maximum density they become carbon neutral. When a forest reaches maximum density all carbon absorbed by new trees is offset by the trees that died and provided the room. But by continually thinning out our forests and allowing them to regrow we'd gain a infinitely renewable supply of zero net carbon fuel in the form of the harvested wood.
The wood produced could be used to generate electricity, or could be even chemically converted directly to combustible fuel. In addition, the wood could be used for cheap carbon negative building material.
The infrastructure for this would be cheap, the technologies available, and most importantly, it would be immediately profitable. I'm not surprised this hasn't been seriously considered though, both sides in this controversy seam more interested in using it for political leverage than approaching the problem with any sense of logic.
/. should start keeping track of times to server-meltdown for these linked stories.
Improving /.'s uptime would be good, but I guess knocking down other sights until the bar is lowered to our level works too
If only this could be modded higher than 5
http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/
Obviously the AZ police didn't like what this guy was publishing. I figure the more exposure it gets, the better.
Your probably right, but the problem could easily be solved by adding illegal photos to the mix. If the examiner correctly classifies all the test cases, then their classification of the image being tested is probably accurate, if not, then their interpretation differs from legal precedent and their conclusion can be disregarded.
This seams like the way to go IMO.
I would agree - to a degree. To me, an AI should be as smart as possible (even if superhumanly so - if I wanted a human opponent, I'd go to a gaming club), but should do so on no more information than a human player would have
As much as I agree, I'm confident that developers don't just give their AI's Omniscient features because they think players will prefer them that way. Mirroring how a human controls their character is usually just too computationally expensive to be viable. It's orders of magnitude simpler to just start with an AI that knows everything, then add enough human like defects to make it beatable. With that said, if these defects are added tactfully and aren't too buggy, the resulting AI's can be nearly as realistic as AI's that only have access to information a player would have, while not requiring all the computation.
For instance, say a player ambushes an AI from behind. It's alot simpler to just make an AI occasionally shoot wildly instead of turning straight to the player then it is to have them approximate their enemy's location via sound and turn in the direction the AI deemes most likely to result in their fov crossing the threat, before shooting for its last few seconds of life at whatever its reflexive observation decides is most likely to be the threat.
Of course I didn't read TFA, but it doesn't sound like this exploit has shown up in any malware yet. At this point the potential for attack has just been demonstrated.
A cording to some other commenters, the exploit code must run in ring 0, so you already have to be rooted for it to work. In a nutshell, this vulnerability can't be used to infect your OS in the first place, but it can potentially make detection and removal near impossible.
Where do you think that money comes from? Without insurance, individuals run the risk of incurring damages that exceed what they can afford, but insured individuals still have to pay significantly more on average, since the money for all the "flesh-and-blood rig" repair still comes from the insured, just not directly, and with a large dividend taken off for the insurer.