Jebus, what imaginations you people have. Who the hell is talking about arresting the false positives? There's a HUMAN IN THE LOOP. Someone is watching the alerts, which means innocent behavior gets discarded before the police show up. Fucking relax.
I'm not really sure what you're upset about. That a security guard at a camera has to look at an occasional false positive the computer recorded? What is your alternative? Someone staring at the camera 24 hours a day? No security?
I did mention in the first post I think intelligent life is possible in other gallaxies, and the rate of expansion and maximum speed are the reasons I think we'll never meet. In this gallaxy, I think other intelligent life is unlikely.
There are several reasons, but the primary ones are:
1. Intelligent life evolved on earth mostly due to accidents rather than selective pressure. The vast majority of living things get along just fine being "dumb". The book Big Brain also goes into detail how the evolution of said title evolved due to accidents, such as walking upright leading to more room in the room, leading to bigger babies, which always leads to bigger brains. Fascinating book.
2. The earth was lucky to get 3 billion or so years with a stable environment. Most planets get much much less and are thus far less likely to develop complex life, let alone intelligent complex life. The book Rare Earth covers this, and other arguments, really well.
3. The Fermi Paradox. If aliens existed, why haven't they colonized Earth yet? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox)
Sure, life exists elsewhere. Probably microbes of various sorts. Intelligent life on the other hand is probably unique to Earth, at least in this galaxy. Perhaps in other galaxies there is intelligent life, but that means very little to me considering we'll never meet.
Was that sand and pebbles?
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I can walk outside and see that in 3D anytime I want.
You'd think on a geek website the CSS would work, links wouldn't take you to random parts of the page, text wouldn't constantly overlap, etc. If maybe we could get that simple stuff to work first before we take on all this over stuff.
Holographic TV, that's just what we need. So millions of geeks can watch Star Wars - and chuckle amusingly to themselves when they see a holograph of a holograph. Someone just shoot me now.
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Jebus, what imaginations you people have. Who the hell is talking about arresting the false positives? There's a HUMAN IN THE LOOP. Someone is watching the alerts, which means innocent behavior gets discarded before the police show up. Fucking relax.
I'm not really sure what you're upset about. That a security guard at a camera has to look at an occasional false positive the computer recorded? What is your alternative? Someone staring at the camera 24 hours a day? No security?
The wikipedia article is not bad, though it is fairly technical.
You must be new here. And to Wikipedia.
Yeah, and imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I'm sorry, that was uncalled for.
I think the parent merely forgot the SML (Sarcasm Markup Language) tags.
In Soviet Russia, Skype is used to listen in on YOU! Oh wait...
somebody else is actually reading my blog? Wow, I never thought I'd see the day my hit counter went to 2.
That is the combination to my luggage, you insensitive clod!
Yeah, because without a gun there's no way this sociopath could have killed his wife and 3yo daughter.
Oh, right. Nevermind.
I did mention in the first post I think intelligent life is possible in other gallaxies, and the rate of expansion and maximum speed are the reasons I think we'll never meet. In this gallaxy, I think other intelligent life is unlikely.
No, it really is that bad. I know I must be new here and everything, but you could actually RTFA.
I'll go to a brick and mortar school next time. No way am I putting one of those things in my house.
There are several reasons, but the primary ones are:
1. Intelligent life evolved on earth mostly due to accidents rather than selective pressure. The vast majority of living things get along just fine being "dumb". The book Big Brain also goes into detail how the evolution of said title evolved due to accidents, such as walking upright leading to more room in the room, leading to bigger babies, which always leads to bigger brains. Fascinating book.
2. The earth was lucky to get 3 billion or so years with a stable environment. Most planets get much much less and are thus far less likely to develop complex life, let alone intelligent complex life. The book Rare Earth covers this, and other arguments, really well.
3. The Fermi Paradox. If aliens existed, why haven't they colonized Earth yet? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox)
Sure, life exists elsewhere. Probably microbes of various sorts. Intelligent life on the other hand is probably unique to Earth, at least in this galaxy. Perhaps in other galaxies there is intelligent life, but that means very little to me considering we'll never meet.
I can walk outside and see that in 3D anytime I want.
I know this sounds incredible, but it's actually possible to be in a shower with a girl in person without the aid of technology.
Why bother with innumerable blogs, when there's Wikileaks?
I read almost all the comments thus far and not a single overlord joke! I, for one, welcome new robot overlord jokes!
Everybod knows the Flying Spaghetti Monster hid them from us. He's such a prankster!
What, like out of the toilet?
You'd think on a geek website the CSS would work, links wouldn't take you to random parts of the page, text wouldn't constantly overlap, etc. If maybe we could get that simple stuff to work first before we take on all this over stuff.
He didn't use all the jokes. If he did, I'd have to mussel him around.
At a dollar a piece, I'd buy a few. But what would you do with 200 of them?
And what the hell is 200 hundred?
Holographic TV, that's just what we need. So millions of geeks can watch Star Wars - and chuckle amusingly to themselves when they see a holograph of a holograph. Someone just shoot me now.