You have yet to convince me that the internet is threat enough to bend the Constitution. How many people have been hurt by the internet in a way that the FBI could have previously prevented?
Invalid questions I am sure, but call me curious.
No, I don't use Napster and have no intention of doing so. Yes, I love my family but I think daily traffic poses a larger risk than anything here. No, I do not think we should stop traffic just to make people safer.
I think that would cover it for me. This is a constitutional issue and I don't think I'm being wild and wacky by claiming the freedoms in that document can be considered the essnetial ones.
Some laws you like, some you don't. It is generally accepted that you change the laws you don't like, rather than break them.
It sounds like you would like to change the Bill of Rights to get around this little problem or just have the FBI break the law.
If you want safety, just criogenically freeze your family. The universe is a dangerous place. Being safe is pretty nice, but it isn't everyone's goal, nor should it be.
They won't need people if the promise of categorizing aritificial intelligence takes hold. You know the power of regulators. They make rules that are separate from the normal legislative process. Suppose AIs are given even tiny amount of power to do things. What would we be surrendering to them?
Right now, we can surf around, gathering information over the net, and communicating over it. We even have drive storage sites. Something like a distributed Operating System would be really really cool. It would provide processing ticks as resources just like information and storage is now a resource.
I forsee intelligent programs wandering the net, finding out watering holes such as processing power and memory resources. I see people setting aside a percent of their computer for a distributed community effort.
Eventually, the use of the new net's processing power would be transparent to the user. People will barter processing power for processing power, give away to friends, sell to others, etc.
erll, rbrm og yjru str esyvjomh upi. ejst fprd yjsy dsu snpiy ytiyj smf vpmbovtopm/ o fpm t esny yo hry omyp s htrsy frnsyr snpiy oy. niy yjr tsvr od s;trsfu;pdy/
It is the artists that hold the copyrights to their work, not the record industry. The record industry holds the rights to distribution and production of the works due to the contract agreements.
Invalidating the copyrights on the music will screw the artists more than the industry. A percentage of sales goes to the American Federation of Muscians and is used to promote free live concerts (to schools and such) and to compensate the sidemen on the records.
It's small, but many muscians depend on that little check. Don't forget the side men! -coyo
maybe the multinationals are sentient all ready. They are organisms consisting of millions of cells (workers) and have behaviors that can be measured and predicted. There is no human face on them to interact with. They protect their turf and interact with each other.
It is the artists that hold the copyrights to their work, not the record industry. The record industry holds the rights to distribution and production of the works due to the contract agreements.
Invalidating the copyrights on the music will screw the artists more than the industry. A percentage of sales goes to the American Federation of Muscians and is used to promote free live concerts (to schools and such) and to compensate the sidemen on the records.
It's small, but many muscians depend on that little check. Don't forget the side men!
I am advised by the Department of Justice that certain provisions of H.R. 2281 and the accompanying Conference Report regarding the Register of Copyrights raise serious constitutional concerns. Contrary to assertions in the Conference Report, the Copyright Office is, for constitutional purposes, an executive branch entity. Accordingly, the Congress may exercise its constitutionally legitimate oversight powers to require the Copyright Office to provide information relevant to the legislative process. However, to direct that Office's operations, the Congress must act in accord with the requirements of bicameralism and presentment prescribed in Article I of the Constitution.
Further, the Congress may not require the Register to act in a manner that would impinge upon or undermine the President's discretion under Article II, section 3 of the Constitution to determine which, if any, executive branch recommendations to the Congress would be "necessary and expedient." Accordingly, I will construe sections 103(a), 104(b), 401(b), and 403(a) of H.R. 2281 to require the Register to perform duties only insofar as such requirements are consistent with these constitutional principles.
Here is the letter I sent. I noticed that they were pretty much overagressive in their suggestions. I sent this polite letter.
Dear Mr Weston,
Regarding the proposed net censorship of slashdot: you had indicated comment #86 was to be censored. Please explain. Here is the full text of the comment:
Posting the data is all well and good, but.... (Score:2)
by smartin on Tuesday May 02, @04:20PM EDT (#86)
What happens to the people that implement it (ie. the Samba guys) even if they obtain the information without intentionally breaking the license. Are they exposing themselves to expensive litigation? Are they endangering the project?
Suggesting that an innoculous comment like this should be censored may endanger your case.
I've not seen one that has. They model charactures that are exteremely unlike a neuron. If they were serious about modelling a neuron, they would model the sodium/potassium pump. There are certain neurons (Pyramidal, I believe) that actually fire spontaniously without a synaptic jolt. They simply pump so many ions untill a critical voltage released and the neuron discharges. I've never seen any models that take these behaviors into account.
The people in the middle of the bell curve of smarts are always going to outnumber the more saavy people. AOL/Time Warner knows how to connect to these people and make them feel like the company is full of people like them. AOL/Time Warner (and Microsoft) give social smarts priority over any technical smarts in the company. Yes, I know this sounds like the emotional intelligence crud, and maybe it is, but my point is that in the business world, social smarts is more important than technical smarts. We will never achieve that amount of social smarts and still be the geeks we are. coyo
Not even horizontal and vertical lines are hardwired in. There have been experiments done with animals (not very ethical ones, I'd say), where they were put in environments with only horizontal lines. Their brains never developed the software for vertical line detections.
It must be evolutionarily expensive, but very necessary to recognize faces. More important than recognizing the most basic feature of lines right away.
Is that each group seems to focus on one aspect of intelligence to try to model.
It's more than likely that many if not all of the different aspects of intelligence are needed to form into an AI.
One case in point are Kohonen neural networks, which are a close model to the behavior of how sound gets processed by the brain. The Situated Action camp has produced models that very well model the motor control and locomotive behavior of insects and fish. And then there is the field of emergent intelligence (related to situated cognition) that seems promising in its attempts to model large scale collective cognition such as ant colonies or beaurocrasies.
Isn't it possible that nervous systems must utilize many different tools that act in concert? I think people should split resarch into the following separate categories:
A bad idea right from the start? I guess I'm kinda cynical about _all_ religions. I'm not sure if judging their origins makes much of a difference, and I'm not going to charitibly assume they were not put their to controll the masses. Every one of the can have really cool people and have horrible jerks.
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No, I don't use Napster and have no intention of doing so. Yes, I love my family but I think daily traffic poses a larger risk than anything here. No, I do not think we should stop traffic just to make people safer.
-coyo
-coyo
It sounds like you would like to change the Bill of Rights to get around this little problem or just have the FBI break the law.
If you want safety, just criogenically freeze your family. The universe is a dangerous place. Being safe is pretty nice, but it isn't everyone's goal, nor should it be.
-coyo
-coyo da silly.
-coyo
I forsee intelligent programs wandering the net, finding out watering holes such as processing power and memory resources. I see people setting aside a percent of their computer for a distributed community effort.
Eventually, the use of the new net's processing power would be transparent to the user. People will barter processing power for processing power, give away to friends, sell to others, etc.
- coyo
-coyo
I drive a
SUV
car
pickup truck
spoorts car
motorcycle
bicycle
tank
I don't drive
-coyo
Having said that, I can't complain about high gas prices. I contribute horribly to the problem of pollution and energy use.
Why are gas prices going up? We're using gas like crazy. Period. SUV drivers and I have no right to complain about high gas prices.
-coyo
erll, rbrm og yjru str esyvjomh upi. ejst fprd yjsy dsu snpiy ytiyj smf vpmbovtopm/ ;pdy/
o fpm
t esny yo hry omyp s htrsy frnsyr snpiy oy. niy yjr tsvr od s;trsfu
Invalidating the copyrights on the music will screw the artists more than the industry. A percentage of sales goes to the American Federation of Muscians and is used to promote free live concerts (to schools and such) and to compensate the sidemen on the records.
It's small, but many muscians depend on that little check. Don't forget the side men! -coyo
Sounds like meta-animal behavior to me
- coyo
Invalidating the copyrights on the music will screw the artists more than the industry. A percentage of sales goes to the American Federation of Muscians and is used to promote free live concerts (to schools and such) and to compensate the sidemen on the records.
It's small, but many muscians depend on that little check. Don't forget the side men!
-coyo
So is C# a pointered java with some Visual Basic syntatic sugar? -coyo
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Yes, it is disgusting and terrible, but does it really turn kids into slavoring monstors and cause lots of harm to them?
I've not seen one that has. They model charactures that are exteremely unlike a neuron. If they were serious about modelling a neuron, they would model the sodium/potassium pump. There are certain neurons (Pyramidal, I believe) that actually fire spontaniously without a synaptic jolt. They simply pump so many ions untill a critical voltage released and the neuron discharges. I've never seen any models that take these behaviors into account.
The people in the middle of the bell curve of smarts are always going to outnumber the more saavy people. AOL/Time Warner knows how to connect to these people and make them feel like the company is full of people like them. AOL/Time Warner (and Microsoft) give social smarts priority over any technical smarts in the company. Yes, I know this sounds like the emotional intelligence crud, and maybe it is, but my point is that in the business world, social smarts is more important than technical smarts. We will never achieve that amount of social smarts and still be the geeks we are. coyo
For more info >> Facial Recognition Page.
Not even horizontal and vertical lines are hardwired in. There have been experiments done with animals (not very ethical ones, I'd say), where they were put in environments with only horizontal lines. Their brains never developed the software for vertical line detections.
It must be evolutionarily expensive, but very necessary to recognize faces. More important than recognizing the most basic feature of lines right away.
coyo the coyote
It's more than likely that many if not all of the different aspects of intelligence are needed to form into an AI.
One case in point are Kohonen neural networks, which are a close model to the behavior of how sound gets processed by the brain. The Situated Action camp has produced models that very well model the motor control and locomotive behavior of insects and fish. And then there is the field of emergent intelligence (related to situated cognition) that seems promising in its attempts to model large scale collective cognition such as ant colonies or beaurocrasies.
Isn't it possible that nervous systems must utilize many different tools that act in concert? I think people should split resarch into the following separate categories:
coyo the coyote
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