So basically in your above post saying infinity = infinity was the mistake in your logic. Not all infinites are created equal, is the really mind bending thing.
The easiest way to demonstrate this is to examine the set of numbers called integers and the set of numbers called real numbers. The set called integers has no 0, no negative numbers and no decimals. Real numbers have these elements, plus everything that the integer set contains. Therefore, the real number infinite set is larger than the integer infinte set.
The SP2 firewall won't alert you to programs *sending* data. It will alert you to programs trying to open a port to *recieve* data. This means the firewall doesn't protect you from the Russian keylogger sending your cc#'s to the communists. It *will* protect you from server-style trojans, a la NetBus, PCAnywhere, BackOriface, etc.
Since the grandparent indicated he was natted, the real internet can't get to his box even if he had a backdoor open on it because of no static nat mapping. (Would *you* map port 37337 to your main box?) Your standard off-the-shelf router from BestBuy *will* do NAT for you.
I leave the SP2 firewall on simply because the cpu hit is negligible and worth the notification that an app is trying to *listen* from my box.
Given: The physical workings of our brains could be reproduced, chemically and electrically, to the current knowledge of physics, in a computer simulation. This might not demonstrate intelligence, but it would create an interesting situation.
Given a state of a closed system and given certain forces acting on that system, one can predict the resulting state of the system. In the above simulation of the chemical and electrical activity of the brain, one could apply the forces such as hearing a sound to the simulation and predict what the outcome would be. At that point, you could predict what the state of the simulation would be, given any number of forces, eyesight, touch, etc. So if I tell the simulation something, I can predict what the resulting state will be.
If the simulation is the state of YOUR brain, all I need to do is figure out how to translate the state of the simulated brain into something I can comprehend, and I can know what you'll think if I say something. Further, I can apply the same reasoning to my own brain and predict how I'll react to your reaction to my statement. And so on and so forth.
At this point, the question arises, are we rule-based creatures or is there something that makes us unpredictable, that cannot be reproduced in a chemical or electrical, physics rule-based simulation?
If this guy wants to fight Coca-Cola, perhaps he should change his legal name to Coke.ch whatever-his-last-name-is. It seems that would be difficult to fight.
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So we should shoot all the smart people RIGHT NOW, before they discover something that will kill us sooner!
Death to intelligence!
So basically in your above post saying infinity = infinity was the mistake in your logic. Not all infinites are created equal, is the really mind bending thing.
The easiest way to demonstrate this is to examine the set of numbers called integers and the set of numbers called real numbers. The set called integers has no 0, no negative numbers and no decimals. Real numbers have these elements, plus everything that the integer set contains. Therefore, the real number infinite set is larger than the integer infinte set.
RTFA.
You can turn it on, but you can't plug it into their network.
It is now a 747 full of backup tapes.
I don't agree with his politics but I don't agree with locking his ass up because of them.
The people you are going to vote for are the people who wanted his ass locked up because of his politics.
The SP2 firewall won't alert you to programs *sending* data. It will alert you to programs trying to open a port to *recieve* data. This means the firewall doesn't protect you from the Russian keylogger sending your cc#'s to the communists. It *will* protect you from server-style trojans, a la NetBus, PCAnywhere, BackOriface, etc.
Since the grandparent indicated he was natted, the real internet can't get to his box even if he had a backdoor open on it because of no static nat mapping. (Would *you* map port 37337 to your main box?) Your standard off-the-shelf router from BestBuy *will* do NAT for you.
I leave the SP2 firewall on simply because the cpu hit is negligible and worth the notification that an app is trying to *listen* from my box.
Concept Album.
Heh this isn't far from the truth. An axiom at MS is that they're 'Designing software to run on computers that don't exist yet.'
Given: The physical workings of our brains could be reproduced, chemically and electrically, to the current knowledge of physics, in a computer simulation. This might not demonstrate intelligence, but it would create an interesting situation.
Given a state of a closed system and given certain forces acting on that system, one can predict the resulting state of the system. In the above simulation of the chemical and electrical activity of the brain, one could apply the forces such as hearing a sound to the simulation and predict what the outcome would be. At that point, you could predict what the state of the simulation would be, given any number of forces, eyesight, touch, etc. So if I tell the simulation something, I can predict what the resulting state will be.
If the simulation is the state of YOUR brain, all I need to do is figure out how to translate the state of the simulated brain into something I can comprehend, and I can know what you'll think if I say something. Further, I can apply the same reasoning to my own brain and predict how I'll react to your reaction to my statement. And so on and so forth.
At this point, the question arises, are we rule-based creatures or is there something that makes us unpredictable, that cannot be reproduced in a chemical or electrical, physics rule-based simulation?
If this guy wants to fight Coca-Cola, perhaps he should change his legal name to Coke.ch whatever-his-last-name-is. It seems that would be difficult to fight.