I proposed something to the W3C many years ago that would have improved web security (and if implemented would have stopped the myspace and other XSS worms). But the W3C are just interested in more and more "Go" buttons and they didn't even want a single "Stop" button.
Anyway, Mozilla has finally proposed something in concept (more encompassing but also more complex) CSP which might help: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CSP.
If you could cite a source or give some firm background as to why your opinion is relevant, then that's another matter, but you're just spewing crap you thought up in your sad little brain and wasting peoples' time.[1]
I've seen many friends tagged in adverts - pictures of models wearing clothes for sale. I suppose the system could avoid those by skipping pics that have many people tagged in it.
But as you said - many people tag others to get their attention. Could be a pic of someone famous doing something interesting/stupid etc. Or, judging from recent pics of my friends: a BMW, a chicken on a plate, a calendar, a teddy bear. Or themselves actually, but curled up in woollen garments with face and features hidden.
Tagging is used to alert or link people to a picture. It doesn't mean the picture is of the person itself.
Plus there's the tineye search engine. So the machines might do better than the humans if publicly available profile pics are used:).
Soldiers that are able to play games for 3-4 hours might tend to be those that: a) spend less time in combat or "PTSD inducing" situations. b) are inherently less affected by such stuff _therefore_ they are able to play games rather than spend the rest of the day traumatized or too exhausted to recover properly.
It's a stupid idea. Where would facebook get the photos from?
If it's from their profile photos it's often NOT them. It could be some cartoon character, some scenery, some random object. If it's from the tagged photo, it could even an advert pic.
Also, they better still require passwords, because there are so many others who can identify the same people.
You can create friend lists and have people on that list get a very restricted view.
What I do is create an extremely restrictive list. Then if someone with a name I don't recognize (some random nick) and a profile photo I don't recognize (say some cartoon character) tries to add me as friend, and based on mutual friends it seems like I might know him, I can put him on the restrictive list first. Once I do that, since I am now his "friend" (and assuming he doesn't have "friends" default to restricted access) I can more easily figure out who he is, based on photos etc.
Of course there could be bugs, or FB could always change stuff.
Some modern cars behave differently. Some start engine braking when you tap the brakes slightly. Some even completely cut fuel during engine braking this actually reduces fuel consumption more than having the engine idle while braking.
Thing is, engine braking puts more stress on an automatic transmission (at least the torque converter ones), I'd rather change brake pads/disks more often than have to repair the transmission more often. If the transmission is good (or the rest of car is crappier than it;) ) I guess it won't be a problem.
Write it? It would be crap too - I suck. Story ideas and concepts are dime a dozen, I'm crap at dialogue and the flowery stuff - and that's actually the important bit - otherwise books and movies would just be very short and not be engrossing/captivating.
Here's "yet another matrix-like story":
You could have the humans actually being in suspended animation and on a journey to some distant place, and something went wrong (place not suitable?) and the AIs in charge of the fleet have gone to "Plan B" (look for another place), and the original humans actually have died. There's still a limit to how long you can last deep frozen, and one of the techniques to keep minds alive for longer is to hook them to virtual worlds which are run by the computers. Since the minds are in suspended animation (and thus very very slow), the computers can keep up with the simulation. After many generations of humans (and damage to the fleet in accidents ), the humans mostly forget about the truth.
And of course the heroine/hero (and various notable people in history) figure out some of the "admin/power user" features in the simulation, and that's where the magic/superhuman stuff comes in.
Then you have the other parties (including some of the bad guys) the AIs (angels, daemons) in the simulation itself (not the same as the ones "outside" which don't have personality etc). Add some plot-lines, love interest, back story etc, e.g. one of the bad guys getting "account locked out" of the World by getting tricked into trying to get more "admin rights" with the wrong "password+gesture+thoughtmacro" too many times.
Then the finale could be the heroine/hero saves the day at the last moment by actually waking up. Turns out the Evil AI just isn't as fast in "real time" (which is why the Evil AI wants to pull the plug on "unnecessary resources" so that the Evil AI can have enough compute resources to be "real time"), and the simulated world is slow, so there's enough time to save the day;).
OK so that sucks. Might be OK as a B movie (B= add lots of Beer;) ).
The idea that the machines want humans as batteries is just what Morpheus claimed. It may be true in the inner Matrix world, but may not be for the outer matrix worlds. Remember even in the first movie the question was asked: "What if when you woke up, you didn't know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?"
So my interpretation is the Oracle is trying to upgrade herself- she believes humans have something the machines don't. Think of the whole thing as a "hybrid/breeding program".
Neo is likely at least partly a machine[1] (and a special one). The Oracle gives Neo cookies to add features/upgrades at critical moments.
After each world iteration (you can see the previous Neos try and fail etc), Neo has a chance of becoming more human but crucially retaining the abilities of machines. Smith goes about merging with all the humans and other machines, including the Oracle (who still _somehow_ retains enough of herself to prompt Neo), and Neo merges with Smith.
If things go fine, the Oracle gets her upgrade... If things go wrong, as the Architect said, the Oracle is playing a dangerous game.
As you can see, there's still plenty of room for reasonable interpretations.
Of course the upcoming sequels could prove that it really was stupid;).
[1] FWIW, in the first movie the humans themselves mention "he's a machine" they weren't serious of course, but the film writers might be dropping hints.
Maybe somebody who's been in the military or similar positions can comment: What's it like to be in a life and death situation with a team member you really hate?
The best people to ask would probably be the crew of nuclear submarines. They'd probably be most suitable psychologically for such stuff.
I think you miss an important point. There's typically no bacteria in properly cooked food either, but typically still goes bad (unless it's dried/smoked/cured/pickled/frozen/chilled etc).
It's a matter of whether pathogenic/undesirable[1] bacteria grows significantly better on denim with urine on it, than denim without.
[1] Some bacteria do not cause disease but they might make stuff smelly or do other unwanted stuff.
Wouldn't a.xxx TLD be helpful for those looking for porn? Don't see how that would be like painting yourself into a corner.
Of course what happens to most such domains is they end up being link-spam sites.
Many years ago I personally proposed the reservation of.here for private local use, similar to the way the RFC1918 addresses are reserved. I thought it was a much better idea than the.biz and.info that were being proposed at the time (which were just "yet another.com" and hence added rather little value from a technical point of view).
In case anyone is unaware:.local is not a proper reserved/allocated TLD. Perhaps it should be reserved by ICANN since lots of people and companies (including Apple) are already using/abusing it. But it's the ICANN after all - they're incompetent and/or evil.
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The way I see it, if energy costs go up in the USA it'll be a bit like a tropical jungle turning into a temperate forest or even the Arctic.
Right now in the US you can have all sorts of businesses and organizations operate because of cheap energy.
If the cost of energy goes up a lot suddenly, you'll see a massive "die-off".
Do it gradually and more may be able to adapt.
Yeah, no great loss.
I proposed something to the W3C many years ago that would have improved web security (and if implemented would have stopped the myspace and other XSS worms). But the W3C are just interested in more and more "Go" buttons and they didn't even want a single "Stop" button.
Anyway, Mozilla has finally proposed something in concept (more encompassing but also more complex) CSP which might help: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/CSP.
If you could cite a source or give some firm background as to why your opinion is relevant, then that's another matter, but you're just spewing crap you thought up in your sad little brain and wasting peoples' time.[1]
[1] Kashgarinn, Slashdot, Jan 28 2011.
I've seen many friends tagged in adverts - pictures of models wearing clothes for sale. I suppose the system could avoid those by skipping pics that have many people tagged in it.
:).
But as you said - many people tag others to get their attention. Could be a pic of someone famous doing something interesting/stupid etc. Or, judging from recent pics of my friends: a BMW, a chicken on a plate, a calendar, a teddy bear. Or themselves actually, but curled up in woollen garments with face and features hidden.
Tagging is used to alert or link people to a picture. It doesn't mean the picture is of the person itself.
Plus there's the tineye search engine. So the machines might do better than the humans if publicly available profile pics are used
Soldiers that are able to play games for 3-4 hours might tend to be those that:
:).
a) spend less time in combat or "PTSD inducing" situations.
b) are inherently less affected by such stuff _therefore_ they are able to play games rather than spend the rest of the day traumatized or too exhausted to recover properly.
Too lazy to RTFA
It's a stupid idea. Where would facebook get the photos from?
If it's from their profile photos it's often NOT them. It could be some cartoon character, some scenery, some random object. If it's from the tagged photo, it could even an advert pic.
Also, they better still require passwords, because there are so many others who can identify the same people.
You can create friend lists and have people on that list get a very restricted view.
What I do is create an extremely restrictive list. Then if someone with a name I don't recognize (some random nick) and a profile photo I don't recognize (say some cartoon character) tries to add me as friend, and based on mutual friends it seems like I might know him, I can put him on the restrictive list first. Once I do that, since I am now his "friend" (and assuming he doesn't have "friends" default to restricted access) I can more easily figure out who he is, based on photos etc.
Of course there could be bugs, or FB could always change stuff.
Some modern cars behave differently. Some start engine braking when you tap the brakes slightly. Some even completely cut fuel during engine braking this actually reduces fuel consumption more than having the engine idle while braking.
;) ) I guess it won't be a problem.
Thing is, engine braking puts more stress on an automatic transmission (at least the torque converter ones), I'd rather change brake pads/disks more often than have to repair the transmission more often. If the transmission is good (or the rest of car is crappier than it
Or bad-air-boom-crash?
Heh it's from Bologna. Where are the baloney jokes?
I guess it's all to beat the 2012 deadline.
Write it? It would be crap too - I suck. Story ideas and concepts are dime a dozen, I'm crap at dialogue and the flowery stuff - and that's actually the important bit - otherwise books and movies would just be very short and not be engrossing/captivating.
;).
;) ).
Here's "yet another matrix-like story":
You could have the humans actually being in suspended animation and on a journey to some distant place, and something went wrong (place not suitable?) and the AIs in charge of the fleet have gone to "Plan B" (look for another place), and the original humans actually have died. There's still a limit to how long you can last deep frozen, and one of the techniques to keep minds alive for longer is to hook them to virtual worlds which are run by the computers. Since the minds are in suspended animation (and thus very very slow), the computers can keep up with the simulation. After many generations of humans (and damage to the fleet in accidents ), the humans mostly forget about the truth.
And of course the heroine/hero (and various notable people in history) figure out some of the "admin/power user" features in the simulation, and that's where the magic/superhuman stuff comes in.
Then you have the other parties (including some of the bad guys) the AIs (angels, daemons) in the simulation itself (not the same as the ones "outside" which don't have personality etc). Add some plot-lines, love interest, back story etc, e.g. one of the bad guys getting "account locked out" of the World by getting tricked into trying to get more "admin rights" with the wrong "password+gesture+thoughtmacro" too many times.
Then the finale could be the heroine/hero saves the day at the last moment by actually waking up. Turns out the Evil AI just isn't as fast in "real time" (which is why the Evil AI wants to pull the plug on "unnecessary resources" so that the Evil AI can have enough compute resources to be "real time"), and the simulated world is slow, so there's enough time to save the day
OK so that sucks. Might be OK as a B movie (B= add lots of Beer
I don't see the sequels as bad or stupid.
;).
The idea that the machines want humans as batteries is just what Morpheus claimed. It may be true in the inner Matrix world, but may not be for the outer matrix worlds. Remember even in the first movie the question was asked: "What if when you woke up, you didn't know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?"
So my interpretation is the Oracle is trying to upgrade herself- she believes humans have something the machines don't. Think of the whole thing as a "hybrid/breeding program".
Neo is likely at least partly a machine[1] (and a special one). The Oracle gives Neo cookies to add features/upgrades at critical moments.
After each world iteration (you can see the previous Neos try and fail etc), Neo has a chance of becoming more human but crucially retaining the abilities of machines. Smith goes about merging with all the humans and other machines, including the Oracle (who still _somehow_ retains enough of herself to prompt Neo), and Neo merges with Smith.
If things go fine, the Oracle gets her upgrade... If things go wrong, as the Architect said, the Oracle is playing a dangerous game.
As you can see, there's still plenty of room for reasonable interpretations.
Of course the upcoming sequels could prove that it really was stupid
[1] FWIW, in the first movie the humans themselves mention "he's a machine" they weren't serious of course, but the film writers might be dropping hints.
If you're unlucky, you might be accused of hacking them.
Sometimes it's a good idea to stay clear of crime scenes.
Maybe somebody who's been in the military or similar positions can comment: What's it like to be in a life and death situation with a team member you really hate?
The best people to ask would probably be the crew of nuclear submarines. They'd probably be most suitable psychologically for such stuff.
NASA seem to prefer pilots though.
There's also this: http://ehs.okstate.edu/news/KAREN.HTM
Interestingly enough the above link had the uni recommend neoprene gloves but this link says neoprene is not good enough: http://www.osha.gov/dts/hib/hib_data/hib19980309.html
I was thinking more of getting dogs to talk. Then again, their barking can already be annoying enough. So maybe some things are best left unsaid :).
I guess that's what the multicore GHz CPUs will be used for :).
And a whole load of patents in the area.
And with quantum computing we can have "I'm in two (or more) minds about this" ;).
Another question: will it work on animals?
I know we could have animals use computers to talk, but I'm curious what they'd do if they had a suitable larynx.
I think you miss an important point. There's typically no bacteria in properly cooked food either, but typically still goes bad (unless it's dried/smoked/cured/pickled/frozen/chilled etc).
It's a matter of whether pathogenic/undesirable[1] bacteria grows significantly better on denim with urine on it, than denim without.
[1] Some bacteria do not cause disease but they might make stuff smelly or do other unwanted stuff.
Wouldn't a .xxx TLD be helpful for those looking for porn? Don't see how that would be like painting yourself into a corner.
Of course what happens to most such domains is they end up being link-spam sites.
Many years ago I personally proposed the reservation of .here for private local use, similar to the way the RFC1918 addresses are reserved. I thought it was a much better idea than the .biz and .info that were being proposed at the time (which were just "yet another .com" and hence added rather little value from a technical point of view).
In case anyone is unaware: .local is not a proper reserved/allocated TLD. Perhaps it should be reserved by ICANN since lots of people and companies (including Apple) are already using/abusing it. But it's the ICANN after all - they're incompetent and/or evil.
I haven't really been watching Red Dwarf since more than 15 years ago.
But I found this more recent bit funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUFkb0d1kbU
Is that from Back to Earth?
IMO the way to go for large scale solar energy would be with mirrors and solar thermal electric generation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Conversion_rates_from_solar_energy_to_electrical_energy
Using tons of PV panels is a waste.
Nuclear will still be better in density terms, but in places where sunlight is plentiful and land is cheap, solar is a good idea.