These are way too broad for a workable regulation. Anything that has a neural network could be regulated and that is just too rudimentary a technology to be usefully regulated. Also, it's probable that even things like adaptive filters could be regulated under such a definition.
If the bill regulates the areas in which the applications are used - e.g. driving vehicles, surveillance, etc. where the federal government already has an interest, well MAYBE that's OK, but this seems like an easy overreach nonetheless.
Lots and lots of researchers have been making their work separately available on arXiv for many years. The coverage is not 100% of published research, but I recently attended a conference and virtually all of the papers presented were posted to arXiv and a link was provided. Seems to me that the days of sequestered and economically controlled/distributed research are very much limited.
The biggest impact this will have is on work being done by companies who can only hire US citizens who can obtain a security clearance. Supply and demand are making it increasingly difficult to get a STEM graduate who wants to and can obtain a clearance, and who can be solid contributors early in their careers.
I just returned from a small technical conference and about 95% of the grad students presenting their work were foreign students. They are doing good work and even with a language barrier, it was not hard to see the rigor and technical strength of their research. US universities and other institutions do attract the best from around the world.
OK, so we are still a few decades to centuries away from that point in the Dune timeline, but one can project a revolt such as this as an alternative to Kurzweil's seemingly smooth transition eternally from one status quo to the next. If the threshold for skilled work creeps ever higher and the people below the threshold are kept on a subsistence lifestyle, revolt may be inevitable.
Needed: 1 drilling team willing to crash their spacecraft craft into an asteroid, drill a hole in it, place a nuclear weapon and then kiss their asses goodbye.
Send CV and client testimonials to NASA, c/o CraZY Eddie, PO Box 1998, Canaveral, FL
Exactly! As an investment, I'd like a lot more information in a prospectus than some feel-good California sensibilities. Has the prior green bond had a good return, or is it even stable value? I fault the news media (not Apple so much) in not asking the proper questions for these kinds of stories. Typical headline grabbing eyeballs with no substance for the actual story.
They just need to re-brand these as 'Hoverboard Extreme' and they can sell as many as they like. For the hipsters shooting vines of their hoverboard tricks, the added features of these so-called defects can only put more eyeballs on the link.
The technical arguments can and will continue until someone decides the best trade-offs against the future needs and complications.
The real impediment is the costs that will need to be allocated for attorney's fees ad infinitum. The involvement of politicians and their attorneys, the EPA and their attorneys, and various NIMBY and other group's attorneys is why it takes so long to permit and build a nuclear plant. Moreover, that's why so few are in operation anyway. Power companies will not pay the lawyer tax if they can help it, and that's what has made investment in coal and natural gas generating plants so much more financially rewarding. Even the subsidies for renewable energy pale in comparison to attorney's fees in a balance sheet.
A rather obscure book by Robert Heinlein included this very thing. The book was called "Starman Jones" and was published in 1953. There was a kind of transport that electromagnetically launched a capsule along a trajectory between rings. I don't recall the name they used in the book, but that's the first thing I thought of when I heard about Musk's announcement.
Indeed, I love the Zebra F-701. Clean and fine lines. I gave up on engineering pads and only use notebooks now: Leuchtturm 1917 quad-ruled in several form factors depending on the occasion. My everyday book is 5.5 by 8. I keep smaller ones on hand for trail notebooks when I need something to fit in the back pocket.
My company helped build the antennas for Streetline's sensor packages. All the electronics, batteries, and antenna gets potted up in epoxy and is every bit as durable as any other raised pavement marker. Of course, that makes it every bit as vulnerable to snowplows, unless they are recessed into the pavement. You can beat them up if you've a mind to, but rubber tires are not a significant threat, no matter how much weight is on top of the tires.
We may want to re-examine that campfire radiation link. After all, when campfires were the only radiation source 10,000 years ago, the average human life span was only about 30-40 years. Coincidence? Perhaps not - film at 11.
- Or maybe I shouldn't get all my science from Hollywood films.
but if attorneys are officers of the court (as I believe is recognized when they pass the bar), and if they deem something actionable at law, does not a letter stating that fact become, de facto, court property? In other words, if you want to sue me, you have to state the grounds for such and enter that into the public record in order to take action against me.
How would a C&D letter be substantially different from that? It seems lawyers (as usual) want to have it both ways (they want YOUR money and MY money as well as theirs). OK that means they want it all three ways, technically.
Coincidentally, as I walked in the door at home on Thursday, my 12-year old asked me how to spell 'attorney'. I said: L-I-A-R. It took him about 30 seconds to get it and now he won't leave it alone.
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These are way too broad for a workable regulation. Anything that has a neural network could be regulated and that is just too rudimentary a technology to be usefully regulated. Also, it's probable that even things like adaptive filters could be regulated under such a definition. If the bill regulates the areas in which the applications are used - e.g. driving vehicles, surveillance, etc. where the federal government already has an interest, well MAYBE that's OK, but this seems like an easy overreach nonetheless.
All these worlds are yours - except Europa ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
Just huck all the mass into the converter and fire away.
Lots and lots of researchers have been making their work separately available on arXiv for many years. The coverage is not 100% of published research, but I recently attended a conference and virtually all of the papers presented were posted to arXiv and a link was provided. Seems to me that the days of sequestered and economically controlled/distributed research are very much limited.
The biggest impact this will have is on work being done by companies who can only hire US citizens who can obtain a security clearance. Supply and demand are making it increasingly difficult to get a STEM graduate who wants to and can obtain a clearance, and who can be solid contributors early in their careers. I just returned from a small technical conference and about 95% of the grad students presenting their work were foreign students. They are doing good work and even with a language barrier, it was not hard to see the rigor and technical strength of their research. US universities and other institutions do attract the best from around the world.
OK, so we are still a few decades to centuries away from that point in the Dune timeline, but one can project a revolt such as this as an alternative to Kurzweil's seemingly smooth transition eternally from one status quo to the next. If the threshold for skilled work creeps ever higher and the people below the threshold are kept on a subsistence lifestyle, revolt may be inevitable.
Needed: 1 drilling team willing to crash their spacecraft craft into an asteroid, drill a hole in it, place a nuclear weapon and then kiss their asses goodbye. Send CV and client testimonials to NASA, c/o CraZY Eddie, PO Box 1998, Canaveral, FL
Exactly! As an investment, I'd like a lot more information in a prospectus than some feel-good California sensibilities. Has the prior green bond had a good return, or is it even stable value? I fault the news media (not Apple so much) in not asking the proper questions for these kinds of stories. Typical headline grabbing eyeballs with no substance for the actual story.
It looks like the Butlerian Jihad will begin much earlier than predicted!
This robot seems to have not followed the three laws. Probably needs some kind of tune up.
Unless there is a Slashdot mobile app that you can stare at vacuously while swerving all over the road, then it's not really a "social network".
And get off my front lawn you noisy kids ...
They just need to re-brand these as 'Hoverboard Extreme' and they can sell as many as they like. For the hipsters shooting vines of their hoverboard tricks, the added features of these so-called defects can only put more eyeballs on the link.
The technical arguments can and will continue until someone decides the best trade-offs against the future needs and complications. The real impediment is the costs that will need to be allocated for attorney's fees ad infinitum. The involvement of politicians and their attorneys, the EPA and their attorneys, and various NIMBY and other group's attorneys is why it takes so long to permit and build a nuclear plant. Moreover, that's why so few are in operation anyway. Power companies will not pay the lawyer tax if they can help it, and that's what has made investment in coal and natural gas generating plants so much more financially rewarding. Even the subsidies for renewable energy pale in comparison to attorney's fees in a balance sheet.
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A rather obscure book by Robert Heinlein included this very thing. The book was called "Starman Jones" and was published in 1953. There was a kind of transport that electromagnetically launched a capsule along a trajectory between rings. I don't recall the name they used in the book, but that's the first thing I thought of when I heard about Musk's announcement.
Indeed, I love the Zebra F-701. Clean and fine lines. I gave up on engineering pads and only use notebooks now: Leuchtturm 1917 quad-ruled in several form factors depending on the occasion. My everyday book is 5.5 by 8. I keep smaller ones on hand for trail notebooks when I need something to fit in the back pocket.
My company helped build the antennas for Streetline's sensor packages. All the electronics, batteries, and antenna gets potted up in epoxy and is every bit as durable as any other raised pavement marker. Of course, that makes it every bit as vulnerable to snowplows, unless they are recessed into the pavement. You can beat them up if you've a mind to, but rubber tires are not a significant threat, no matter how much weight is on top of the tires.
I realized there was a problem when my solar beach house got flooded. -Apollo
We may want to re-examine that campfire radiation link. After all, when campfires were the only radiation source 10,000 years ago, the average human life span was only about 30-40 years. Coincidence? Perhaps not - film at 11. - Or maybe I shouldn't get all my science from Hollywood films.
I have a suite in Villa Straylight available for long-term lease to the first person who can cover my rewiring costs at the clinic in Chiba.
Those with the gripping hand could never be terrorists. The watchmakers OTOH are definitely terrorist material.
but if attorneys are officers of the court (as I believe is recognized when they pass the bar), and if they deem something actionable at law, does not a letter stating that fact become, de facto, court property? In other words, if you want to sue me, you have to state the grounds for such and enter that into the public record in order to take action against me. How would a C&D letter be substantially different from that? It seems lawyers (as usual) want to have it both ways (they want YOUR money and MY money as well as theirs). OK that means they want it all three ways, technically. Coincidentally, as I walked in the door at home on Thursday, my 12-year old asked me how to spell 'attorney'. I said: L-I-A-R. It took him about 30 seconds to get it and now he won't leave it alone.