I believe that it should be illegal for people to take pictures of themselves. These so-called "selfies" are obviously a form of soliciting themselves for immoral purposes.
I don't care about the total number of errors. What counts, is the severity of those errors. I deal with a misspelled message. I can't deal with a system crash.
I believe that it is very important to have a non-coder to test software. As a friend put it:
If I print out a message saying, "Press the space bar to continue", the user will press every key except the space bar, in combination with ctrl and alt."
A coder won't do that. Coders are simply to smart to test.
what they really are (were) is too technologically disadvantaged to fight back against cannon, and smallpox.
A scientist named Jared Diamond postulated that there are three things a civilization needs to survive: Guns, Germans and Steele. I'm not sure if there is any iron ore on the Hawaiian Islands, but I have never heard about Hawaiians learning how to smelt iron and forge steel. If you don't have steel, you will not be able to make guns. Now Germans are the difficult Beanie Baby to get in the set. If the Hawaiians had acquired Germans, the Germans could have smelted the iron and forged steel guns for them.
This is squarely a fault of the ancient Hawaiian rulers, like King Kamehamehamehamehameha Dole Pineapple Juice. He should have done more to offer cheap package vacation trips to trap Germans in Hawaii. Then the Germans could have produced steel guns for them to fight off the like of Captain Crunch.
As it was, the Hawaiian Civilization was just too inferior to that of the folks who were invading, with a beach towel in one hand, an musket in another.
Put 100,000 randomly selected mainland Americans on an island and give them similar challenges as the Hawaiians have faced,I think the Haole would look even more ignorant, corrupt, self serving, and generally pathetic.
I think you need to visit Hawaii sometime, to really see how it is there. There are schools, hospitals, police, dentists, doctors, golf courses, Hawaii-5-0, surf board makers, over-priced hotels, universities, US naval bases, pool halls, pineapple plantations etc, etc, etc . . .
The pioneers in the mainland US faced all the same challenges as the Native Hawaiians, and also managed to produce the things listed above.
Native Hawaiians need to wake up, smell the coffee, and check their smart phones. The latest tweet is: "You lost."
Were Native American Indians in the USA treated any better?
Actually I see this as a cry for attention from the Native Hawaiians. Unfortunately, they have picked the wrong target. If they had protested against a new hotel / resort development, a lot of folks would be sympathetic. But trying to shake down astronomers only interested in the advance of science . . . ? This makes them look like either crooks or ignorant bumpkins.
I am sure someone will work out a gene therapy or countermeasure to the disease by then.
Oh, wonderful . . . we'll all be dependent on Monsanto Bananas.
Hey, wait . . . Monsanto developed the "more virulent strain of the disease", with all their genetic engineering prowess and is spreading it around . . . ?
Any program like this will have "exemptions" . . . for folks like doctors, policemen, politicians, etc. Normal folks will also be able to "buy" one by bribing the civil servant issuing the exemptions.
In the USA in the 70's, during the OPEC oil crisis, I remember there was also a system of odd/even license plates, odd/even days determining when you could tank up at the gas station. People were incredibly creative at finding ways around it.
I wonder if New Delhi has a way of tracking the effectiveness of this? Like counting the cars on the roads. It would be interesting to how many % less . . .
If your Stormtroopers been smokin' crack, they ain't gonna hit jack shit.
Your weed Stormtroopers won't do any better.
Booze and beer Stormtroopers? Forget it.
And your LSD Stormtroopers? They will hit all kinds of flying dragons, before quickly destroying your Death Star.
I may seem old fashioned, but I would prefer to have a group of clean Stormtroopers. Hey, they can all take turns and switch groups when they want, but it would be a good idea to have at least one group of clean Stormtroopers to support your evil plans to destroy the good guys, while trying to conquer the universe.
I think a sleazy guy like that has smuggled out enough cash to the Cayman Islands to keep him happy.
Oh, and he'll be back. We'll be discussing his new criminal "business" here on Slashdot in a couple of years. Folks like that never learn, have no moral ethics, and have no respect for the law. And never will.
Short of killing him, there is no way to prevent him from pursuing other dubious activities.
Yeah, I tried that. But this creepy little guy with huge ears showed up, and informed me that I was booked for life, and there was no way out of the contract . . .
The point is not to actually make it . . . the point is to patent it. So if some small, innovative start up actually does build such a critter . . . well, Airbus will demand royalties from them.
Sad, but this is the state of the patent system right now.
Slashdot Mirror
From TFS:
"to stop AI from ruining the world."
There is no need for AI to ruin the world . . . humans are perfectly capable of doing that themselves, without the help of AI.
A loftier goal for these rich folks, would be to research ways to stop humans from ruining the world.
I believe that it should be illegal for people to take pictures of themselves. These so-called "selfies" are obviously a form of soliciting themselves for immoral purposes.
And it is a mortal threat to the Empire.
Pain for Yahoo? Or pain for their customers?
I don't care about the total number of errors. What counts, is the severity of those errors. I deal with a misspelled message. I can't deal with a system crash.
I believe that it is very important to have a non-coder to test software. As a friend put it:
If I print out a message saying, "Press the space bar to continue", the user will press every key except the space bar, in combination with ctrl and alt."
A coder won't do that. Coders are simply to smart to test.
Rodents Of Unusual Size? (Rous)
Also known as lawyers.
It would be interesting to drop a few lawyers in a maze, and take a peak at their hippocampi . . .
Once again, Schrödinger's cat offers us some valuable insight here. A quantum computer is both secure and insecure . . . at the same time!
I'm wondering if this fits in with this story about a quantum computing grant for IBM, as well: http://www.zdnet.com/article/i...
what they really are (were) is too technologically disadvantaged to fight back against cannon, and smallpox.
A scientist named Jared Diamond postulated that there are three things a civilization needs to survive: Guns, Germans and Steele. I'm not sure if there is any iron ore on the Hawaiian Islands, but I have never heard about Hawaiians learning how to smelt iron and forge steel. If you don't have steel, you will not be able to make guns. Now Germans are the difficult Beanie Baby to get in the set. If the Hawaiians had acquired Germans, the Germans could have smelted the iron and forged steel guns for them.
This is squarely a fault of the ancient Hawaiian rulers, like King Kamehamehamehamehameha Dole Pineapple Juice. He should have done more to offer cheap package vacation trips to trap Germans in Hawaii. Then the Germans could have produced steel guns for them to fight off the like of Captain Crunch.
As it was, the Hawaiian Civilization was just too inferior to that of the folks who were invading, with a beach towel in one hand, an musket in another.
Put 100,000 randomly selected mainland Americans on an island and give them similar challenges as the Hawaiians have faced,I think the Haole would look even more ignorant, corrupt, self serving, and generally pathetic.
I think you need to visit Hawaii sometime, to really see how it is there. There are schools, hospitals, police, dentists, doctors, golf courses, Hawaii-5-0, surf board makers, over-priced hotels, universities, US naval bases, pool halls, pineapple plantations etc, etc, etc . . .
The pioneers in the mainland US faced all the same challenges as the Native Hawaiians, and also managed to produce the things listed above.
Native Hawaiians need to wake up, smell the coffee, and check their smart phones. The latest tweet is: "You lost."
. . . "The Walking Dead: Special Pig Episode" . . . Oink, oink, arrrrrgggggh . . .
Were Native American Indians in the USA treated any better?
Actually I see this as a cry for attention from the Native Hawaiians. Unfortunately, they have picked the wrong target. If they had protested against a new hotel / resort development, a lot of folks would be sympathetic. But trying to shake down astronomers only interested in the advance of science . . . ? This makes them look like either crooks or ignorant bumpkins.
Or both.
. . . and tell him what these Hawaiian Terrorist are up to! Then they will be banned from entering the USA!
Um, wait . . . OK, continental USA.
But seriously:
astronomers continue to lease the land for far less than it's worth
It's not like the astronomers are building casinos with strippers there.
What's the worth of discovering the secrets of the Cosmos?
Priceless.
Well TFS did say:
the weather looks likely to blow it away
so you are not far off.
Um, so . . . where is it going to be blow away to . . . ? Maybe Shanghai . . . ?
Not sure how fishing rods factor in.
Fishing rod == retirement. Or at least so I'm guessing.
I'll be retired in a decade, so I'll just be programming for fun. That's how.
We don't generally call these types of activities 'charity.'
I think he should spend his fortune on coke and hookers.
Then he could claim that he was supporting farmers in Bolivia and self-employed women.
I am sure someone will work out a gene therapy or countermeasure to the disease by then.
Oh, wonderful . . . we'll all be dependent on Monsanto Bananas.
Hey, wait . . . Monsanto developed the "more virulent strain of the disease", with all their genetic engineering prowess and is spreading it around . . . ?
Do you really think that every person in Delhi has the contacts to be able to procure false license plates?
Oh, I'm guessing they'll be available on Amazon and eBay . . .
Any program like this will have "exemptions" . . . for folks like doctors, policemen, politicians, etc. Normal folks will also be able to "buy" one by bribing the civil servant issuing the exemptions.
In the USA in the 70's, during the OPEC oil crisis, I remember there was also a system of odd/even license plates, odd/even days determining when you could tank up at the gas station. People were incredibly creative at finding ways around it.
I wonder if New Delhi has a way of tracking the effectiveness of this? Like counting the cars on the roads. It would be interesting to how many % less . . .
all of your crack Stormtroopers miss
If your Stormtroopers been smokin' crack, they ain't gonna hit jack shit.
Your weed Stormtroopers won't do any better.
Booze and beer Stormtroopers? Forget it.
And your LSD Stormtroopers? They will hit all kinds of flying dragons, before quickly destroying your Death Star.
I may seem old fashioned, but I would prefer to have a group of clean Stormtroopers. Hey, they can all take turns and switch groups when they want, but it would be a good idea to have at least one group of clean Stormtroopers to support your evil plans to destroy the good guys, while trying to conquer the universe.
I thought we were supposed to be building space elevators with graphene.
So what's the plan now . . . we pull people up into space by their teeth . . . ?
I think a sleazy guy like that has smuggled out enough cash to the Cayman Islands to keep him happy.
Oh, and he'll be back. We'll be discussing his new criminal "business" here on Slashdot in a couple of years. Folks like that never learn, have no moral ethics, and have no respect for the law. And never will.
Short of killing him, there is no way to prevent him from pursuing other dubious activities.
Hmmm . . . will banks in Canada start doing this with folks who have loans that are in arrears . . . ?
Oh, no! Imagine if the EU Eurozone did this for Greece ?!?!
There are ~10 million people in Greece who owe them money, so that would be a gargantuan list!
. . . and here I was wondering why the Plutonians carved the face of Elvis into the landscape of Pluto . . .
I prefer the dual Beretta from CS.
Heckler and Koch MP7A1 . . . then I feel safe.
Although, a Beretta CX4 is also something you might want to have around the house, for personal protection.
Yeah, I tried that. But this creepy little guy with huge ears showed up, and informed me that I was booked for life, and there was no way out of the contract . . .
I always thought those Holodeck episodes on Star Trek really sucked.
But on the other hand, when I look at the world today . . . a cheesy Holodeck episode would be a welcome change from this reality . . .
The point is not to actually make it . . . the point is to patent it. So if some small, innovative start up actually does build such a critter . . . well, Airbus will demand royalties from them.
Sad, but this is the state of the patent system right now.