Having a well educated population is an economic advantage, but so are things like access to lifesaving drugs and medical treatments, or even access to something as basic as clean water.
In the case of medicines and health care, the profit motive of the life sci companies means the poor do not get these treatments. Even when the outcome severely debilitates that community's ability to compete economically.
In the case of water, privatization of municipal water supplies in the developing world has shown time and again that those who can't pay will have something as fundamental as access to water cut off. Even when the outcome severely debilitates that community's ability to compete economically.
there is a subtle philosophical issue at play here
There is another, even less subtle philosophical issue at play here: This sort of neural enhancement will certainly not be free. In fact it will probably be fairly expensive. Assuming the bugs and kinks get worked out at some point in the future and we have the means to double somebody's IQ, who gets access to that treatment?
If it is only available to "those who can afford it" then you are essentially saying that the poor (or the less-than-rich) should be content to live out their lives as second-class citizens - unable to compete intellectually with their wealthy peers they will be forever confined in a sort of intellectual apartheid.
This apartheid will only deepen generation after generation, with the wealthy having access to more and better wet hacks, while the unwealthy fall further behind.
I've taken up R/C Helicopters as a hobby to try to get away from gaming too much
Good thinking - replace a finger-intensive task involving lots of fine movements with a finger-intensive task involving lots of fine movements. Nerd logic at its finest!
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Just as we've found that the ecosphere is an uncontrollably complex system that defies simple cause/effect manipulation, we will learn the hard way that simply "inserting" a gene for blue eyes or increased hemoglobin production causes unexpected and undesirable spinoff effects.
Why announce it to begin with?... gays/lesbians are looking to start fights... a lot of minorities play that game.
As others have pointed out, it has nothing to do with starting fights and everything to do with expressing what is an integral part of your personal identity and choosing what kinds of online relationships you want to pursue.
In a similar vein, I'm curious what "game" it is that you feel minorities are playing? The "game" where they don't try to hide their identity and culture? The "game" where they expect to be treated fairly and equally with others in their workplace and community?
Doesn't matter if HR is "on your side." In any corporation of any size at all, HR is bound by a million and a half regulations (both internal and external) that obligate them to document the situation. That's one of the (several) actions you want to take in order to make sure this case of attempted blackmail leaves a large and foul-smelling paper trail leading directly back to your manager's desk.
With a written record of your concerns on file with the HR department, your superiors will understand that a spiteful, negative reference will carry direct negative consequences for them.
As for which references you choose, if you've been working there as many years as you say then there are probably lots of colleagues who can vouch for your performance on projects where you've worked together... there is no law saying the references you provide have to be in your direct management chain.
the device would not likely be discovered visually, given it was placed well to begin with.
But if you're going to go to the trouble of carefully hiding an electronic device somewhere in an office, would you really choose this wall wart or something else?
Yes, but you'd only need one or two devices to service a potentially huge cloud of these things if they had power line networking built in. That's where the real power of this device gets interesting.
I do see one potential problem nobody seems to be talking about. If you raise cattle on the same land being used for a rectenna array, after a few generations I'm pretty sure they would start firing laser beams out of their eyes and try to take over the planet.
I suspect we're not going to see practical SBSP until we've reached the point where the following things are also "practical":
- The ability to tow or guide an asteroid to a lagrange point or GEO.
- Some kind of autonomous, self-replicating assembly technology that turns the raw materials from the asteroid into solar cells along with a supporting skeletal structure.
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I thought some of the online brokerages were already using SecurID (or similar) authentication?
find someone who was recently in debt, and is now very much out of debt
Agreed, let's go after the bailout recipients.
Having a well educated population is an economic advantage, but so are things like access to lifesaving drugs and medical treatments, or even access to something as basic as clean water.
In the case of medicines and health care, the profit motive of the life sci companies means the poor do not get these treatments. Even when the outcome severely debilitates that community's ability to compete economically.
In the case of water, privatization of municipal water supplies in the developing world has shown time and again that those who can't pay will have something as fundamental as access to water cut off. Even when the outcome severely debilitates that community's ability to compete economically.
Why would neural enhancement be any different?
there is a subtle philosophical issue at play here
There is another, even less subtle philosophical issue at play here: This sort of neural enhancement will certainly not be free. In fact it will probably be fairly expensive. Assuming the bugs and kinks get worked out at some point in the future and we have the means to double somebody's IQ, who gets access to that treatment?
If it is only available to "those who can afford it" then you are essentially saying that the poor (or the less-than-rich) should be content to live out their lives as second-class citizens - unable to compete intellectually with their wealthy peers they will be forever confined in a sort of intellectual apartheid.
This apartheid will only deepen generation after generation, with the wealthy having access to more and better wet hacks, while the unwealthy fall further behind.
They can watch me all they want while I live it up in grand style in some foreign country somewhere beyond their reach ...
One word: Diebold
I've taken up R/C Helicopters as a hobby to try to get away from gaming too much
Good thinking - replace a finger-intensive task involving lots of fine movements with a finger-intensive task involving lots of fine movements. Nerd logic at its finest!
Just as we've found that the ecosphere is an uncontrollably complex system that defies simple cause/effect manipulation, we will learn the hard way that simply "inserting" a gene for blue eyes or increased hemoglobin production causes unexpected and undesirable spinoff effects.
Why announce it to begin with? ... gays/lesbians are looking to start fights ... a lot of minorities play that game.
As others have pointed out, it has nothing to do with starting fights and everything to do with expressing what is an integral part of your personal identity and choosing what kinds of online relationships you want to pursue.
In a similar vein, I'm curious what "game" it is that you feel minorities are playing? The "game" where they don't try to hide their identity and culture? The "game" where they expect to be treated fairly and equally with others in their workplace and community?
the reason i was fired was for having my resume' listed on monster
Then I'm thinking half the IT workers on the planet are in danger of being fired - if their resume isn't on Monster it's on some other job site.
if one day you go a little Fight Club in the boss's office ...
I still dream of doing that one day.
Doesn't matter if HR is "on your side." In any corporation of any size at all, HR is bound by a million and a half regulations (both internal and external) that obligate them to document the situation. That's one of the (several) actions you want to take in order to make sure this case of attempted blackmail leaves a large and foul-smelling paper trail leading directly back to your manager's desk.
With a written record of your concerns on file with the HR department, your superiors will understand that a spiteful, negative reference will carry direct negative consequences for them.
... there is no law saying the references you provide have to be in your direct management chain.
As for which references you choose, if you've been working there as many years as you say then there are probably lots of colleagues who can vouch for your performance on projects where you've worked together
Fixed that for ya.
the device would not likely be discovered visually, given it was placed well to begin with.
But if you're going to go to the trouble of carefully hiding an electronic device somewhere in an office, would you really choose this wall wart or something else?
Up to 200Mbps
... it's because not one single publisher has been able to successfully decipher the hundreds of pages of idiotic scribbling.
Yes, but you'd only need one or two devices to service a potentially huge cloud of these things if they had power line networking built in. That's where the real power of this device gets interesting.
... because wall warts with a tail plugged into the nearest network port wouldn't attract any kind of attention.
From the linked page: "This device connects to the network using GbE"
Does it strike anybody else as strange that this device wouldn't have power line networking built in?
So? It's still Vista and the machine is running it.
Whether or not Vista blows goats is outside the scope of this particular lawsuit.
It's pitch black. You are likely to be seasoned by a Grue ...
Well, first they have to form a Selection Committee ...
I do see one potential problem nobody seems to be talking about. If you raise cattle on the same land being used for a rectenna array, after a few generations I'm pretty sure they would start firing laser beams out of their eyes and try to take over the planet.
I suspect we're not going to see practical SBSP until we've reached the point where the following things are also "practical":
- The ability to tow or guide an asteroid to a lagrange point or GEO.
- Some kind of autonomous, self-replicating assembly technology that turns the raw materials from the asteroid into solar cells along with a supporting skeletal structure.