Any actual evidence that the pleo's AI is really as impressive as you imply? Is the pleo even able to build up a map of its surroundings? At least some robotic vacuum cleaners on the market do (they may not do a good job of it, but they appear to do that mapping;) ).
Maintaining a model of a simple external world is a very basic level of "Intelligence". Predicting that simple world is the next level. Being able to model and predict other similar creatures (or even "self") shows a higher level of "Intelligence".
So far what it does looks like simple scripting. Maybe not even "Eliza level".
Wow. That was pretty bad. They should jail that cop for murder or manslaughter.
Say you were upset at someone and just pushed them, if you were unlucky enough that they tripped over something, smacked their head on the ground and later died, you often end up in jail.
But the police get away with worse, even shooting people.
While bees have been around for a very long time, I'm not so sure it's been the same type of bees for millions of years. Commercial beekeepers are using only a very few varieties of bees.
In those millions of years it could well be that there have been many instances where a single variety of bee has been wiped out.
Or nearly wiped out. A 10 year recovery period may not show up in fossil records. But 10 years for recovery is a big deal for the fruit industry and other industries that depend on bees.
Also "past performance is not an indicator of future success". The fossil record has plenty of species that have been around for millions of years and then got wiped out. Some could have just been very unfortunate. Modern human society is actually very fragile and highly dependent on many things going right. We could go from billions of humans to millions in a very short time.
Well at least it provides more evidence that "using spammers opt out increases spam you get".
I use spammer opt outs when I want certain email addresses to get more spam.
There are many reasons to want more spam at a particular email address for example:
1) email address of someone you don't like (e.g. another spammer). 2) honeypot email address - any email that also ends up in the honeypots gets a higher "spam" score.
I also have suspect that "greeting card" sites and "free SMS" sites will cause more spam to go to the supplied email/phone number.
Lastly, do note that spammers might actually remove you from their list as they claim they would, but that doesn't mean they won't sell your address to others, or pass it to their partners...
I doubt the USA would allow Chinese container ships with cannons, and sailors well-armed with lethal weapons to enter US ports.
Same goes for combinations of other countries (e.g. China -> Japan, USA -> China).
As for soldiers/marines - there's no problem if it was US waters and the US marines got onto US ships to help get them into US ports safely.
But these aren't US waters. So there's a lot more political maneuvering, face saving, negotiating etc that needs to be done before something like that can happen.
Meanwhile, it seems countries are less likely to object to merchant ships with "pirate repellents".
Allowing merchant ships to carry lethal weapons also ends up being a political issue.
Once you allow merchant ships to carry lethal weapons, there can be rather heated arguments on whether some country's navy is invading another country or it's just some country's merchant ships entering it peacefully;).
There is nothing wrong with judges being members of legal organizations.
However, Justice must not only be done, but it must also be _seen_ to be done.
So even if a judge is impartial, he must also appear to most that he is impartial.
Thus a judge should recuse himself from a case if he has "interests" in it, even if he would actually be objective and impartial.
For example, if a judge's relative was being charged for murder, a good judge would not handle the case even if he knew he would be able to be objective and impartial. Because any verdict would be tainted.
If an attacker has physical access they can plant physical keyloggers, mikes, cams, sensors, etc in so many possible places it is NOT funny.
Each key on a keyboard tends to make a distinct and different sound compared to other keys.
So you can encrypt your drive for all you want, they can just copy everything, and then get your passphrase.
Maybe if you need a hardware token, but be careful to ensure the attacker can't derive the final key used to decrypt the data e.g. if you use something on a usb drive you have to prevent the attacker from successfully tampering with your usb ports.
Yeah. I did EE in UMIST back when there was a UMIST, and I only bought two books due to the course - one was "The Art of Electronics" and the other was "Oh! Pascal!".
Everything else was from handouts and course notes. I did OK. Not fantastic, but good enough I guess.
WRT to fees, I was an international student, and the fees are a lot higher for us than they are for the locals. UMIST won the Queen's Award for Export Achievement a few times:).
If the music industry can provide it cheaper maybe they are providing a service then:).
Of course if you really dislike the producer and the RIAA, the cheaper alternative is to get the stuff from P2P for 0 pounds, and then pay 8 pounds to the artist.
But marketing $$$ is often how you found the artist (even if not directly).
Perhaps someone would make a site, collect, organize music and do various Top 100 listings according to various taste categories. Not sure how that site would make money though.
I currently live in Malaysia. Low 80s (in F) would be cool for me. Definitely cooler than typical daytime temperatures.
So yes it would be worth opening the windows on such cool nights (last night was hot though, so naturally there was a power failure when more people used their airconditioners).
Note that you would also like mosquito netting on the windows to keep the mosquitoes out. Otherwise you let the heat out and the mosquitoes in.
Yah you open the windows only when it's cool outside (like a cool night), then you close them during the day when it's really hot and hope not too much heat leaks in.
Well at least China are clearly working at getting new nuclear plants which can help solve the electricity problem.
Though they have a lot of coal, they know they have a problem. They had a coal shortage problem not that long ago - they could barely get coal out of the mines fast enough and into the coal power stations. While that has become less of a problem with the recession, they know they need something else.
So they had an ambitious plan involving building lots of nuclear power plants. This is probably part of that plan.
It's pretty easy to reduce P2P significantly (as in "enough").
All you have to do is get most ISPs to NOT move to IPv6 and resort to NAT.
Once IPv4 addresses get scarce and users end up behind _ISP_ NATs, it sure gets hard to do P2P when you are no longer a peer on the Internet.
That's right, you are no longer a peer. You are just a subscriber. Game over.
Just the way Big Media would like it. They like the "few servers many viewers" concept.
The other way of course is to just use simple heuristics to detect P2P - when someone has 20 connections to 20 different sites, and is uploading and downloading a lot, even if it's all encrypted, it's safe to say it's P2P.
If the packets are small and the bandwidth usage is low, it's probably VoIP or something similar (if you want low latency comms you use small packets).
You could tunnel everything to some site and P2P from there, but that's just shifting the problem to that site. It's not guaranteed that you can keep shifting the problem to such sites.
Lastly, a lot of ISPs actually don't care much whether you are doing P2P or not. All they care is that you are downloading and uploading a lot. If there are lots of users like that it means they can't oversubscribe as much = less $$$$ for them. They don't have to do anything fancy like "deep packet inspection" - why should they? All they need to do is "limit/shape/police" people who are downloading/uploading a lot.
It's fine for exploring nearby places like Mars. But other than that it doesn't solve the main problem.
The nearest star is 4 light years away.
If we really want to explore space we should seriously figure out plans and methods to construct space colonies that can build space colonies - and maybe one day, ones that can survive interstellar journeys.
Then it doesn't matter so much how long we take to get to various places in the solar system or even the galaxy.
Uh, nerfing is different from the developers favouring one guild/team over the rest.
If you don't get it, here's a car analogy from you.
Nerfing is telling the race car teams that from now on they have to use a certain sort of tyres, or reduce downforce.
Sure it might affect some teams more than others, but it applies to all teams.
Corruption and cheating is when you allow one team to get inside info or resources that they are not supposed to have. For example they get a tip off from the race organizers what the other teams plans are for the upcoming race.
Mods can mod me troll all they want, but that sort of thing sure appears to happen in Eve more than the other popular MMOGs. Just google for the various eve scandals.
Actually the glowing of enemies in L4D reminded me of AvP2.
I think the AvP franchise still has potential as a game. Imagine using the crysis tech for AvP. Maybe the player controlled marines (as opposed to cannonfodder NPC ones) could have nanosuits, or maybe not:).
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Oops. I'm the confused one. I mean past performance does not guarantee future success :)
Any actual evidence that the pleo's AI is really as impressive as you imply? Is the pleo even able to build up a map of its surroundings? At least some robotic vacuum cleaners on the market do (they may not do a good job of it, but they appear to do that mapping ;) ).
Maintaining a model of a simple external world is a very basic level of "Intelligence". Predicting that simple world is the next level. Being able to model and predict other similar creatures (or even "self") shows a higher level of "Intelligence".
So far what it does looks like simple scripting. Maybe not even "Eliza level".
Wow. That was pretty bad. They should jail that cop for murder or manslaughter.
Say you were upset at someone and just pushed them, if you were unlucky enough that they tripped over something, smacked their head on the ground and later died, you often end up in jail.
But the police get away with worse, even shooting people.
While bees have been around for a very long time, I'm not so sure it's been the same type of bees for millions of years. Commercial beekeepers are using only a very few varieties of bees.
In those millions of years it could well be that there have been many instances where a single variety of bee has been wiped out.
Or nearly wiped out. A 10 year recovery period may not show up in fossil records. But 10 years for recovery is a big deal for the fruit industry and other industries that depend on bees.
Also "past performance is not an indicator of future success". The fossil record has plenty of species that have been around for millions of years and then got wiped out. Some could have just been very unfortunate. Modern human society is actually very fragile and highly dependent on many things going right. We could go from billions of humans to millions in a very short time.
Neat? They were only a step or two more advanced than those "talking dolls" like barney and tickle me elmo.
They most certainly weren't worth the price.
They might have been about as advanced as those robotic vacuum cleaners (except some of those robot vacuum cleaners can at least charge themselves).
Some people might call it defense in depth.
Well at least it provides more evidence that "using spammers opt out increases spam you get".
I use spammer opt outs when I want certain email addresses to get more spam.
There are many reasons to want more spam at a particular email address for example:
1) email address of someone you don't like (e.g. another spammer).
2) honeypot email address - any email that also ends up in the honeypots gets a higher "spam" score.
I also have suspect that "greeting card" sites and "free SMS" sites will cause more spam to go to the supplied email/phone number.
Lastly, do note that spammers might actually remove you from their list as they claim they would, but that doesn't mean they won't sell your address to others, or pass it to their partners...
I doubt the USA would allow Chinese container ships with cannons, and sailors well-armed with lethal weapons to enter US ports.
Same goes for combinations of other countries (e.g. China -> Japan, USA -> China).
As for soldiers/marines - there's no problem if it was US waters and the US marines got onto US ships to help get them into US ports safely.
But these aren't US waters. So there's a lot more political maneuvering, face saving, negotiating etc that needs to be done before something like that can happen.
Meanwhile, it seems countries are less likely to object to merchant ships with "pirate repellents".
Allowing merchant ships to carry lethal weapons also ends up being a political issue.
;).
Once you allow merchant ships to carry lethal weapons, there can be rather heated arguments on whether some country's navy is invading another country or it's just some country's merchant ships entering it peacefully
There is nothing wrong with judges being members of legal organizations.
However, Justice must not only be done, but it must also be _seen_ to be done.
So even if a judge is impartial, he must also appear to most that he is impartial.
Thus a judge should recuse himself from a case if he has "interests" in it, even if he would actually be objective and impartial.
For example, if a judge's relative was being charged for murder, a good judge would not handle the case even if he knew he would be able to be objective and impartial. Because any verdict would be tainted.
If an attacker has physical access they can plant physical keyloggers, mikes, cams, sensors, etc in so many possible places it is NOT funny.
Each key on a keyboard tends to make a distinct and different sound compared to other keys.
So you can encrypt your drive for all you want, they can just copy everything, and then get your passphrase.
Maybe if you need a hardware token, but be careful to ensure the attacker can't derive the final key used to decrypt the data e.g. if you use something on a usb drive you have to prevent the attacker from successfully tampering with your usb ports.
Yeah. I did EE in UMIST back when there was a UMIST, and I only bought two books due to the course - one was "The Art of Electronics" and the other was "Oh! Pascal!".
:).
Everything else was from handouts and course notes. I did OK. Not fantastic, but good enough I guess.
WRT to fees, I was an international student, and the fees are a lot higher for us than they are for the locals. UMIST won the Queen's Award for Export Achievement a few times
If the music industry can provide it cheaper maybe they are providing a service then :).
Of course if you really dislike the producer and the RIAA, the cheaper alternative is to get the stuff from P2P for 0 pounds, and then pay 8 pounds to the artist.
But marketing $$$ is often how you found the artist (even if not directly).
Perhaps someone would make a site, collect, organize music and do various Top 100 listings according to various taste categories. Not sure how that site would make money though.
DFW and "downtown Dallas" still appear to cool down at night at least according to:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KTXCOPPE2&month=8&day=1&year=2008
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KTXDALLA46&month=8&day=1&year=2008
I guess their measuring points are cooler than some "built up" places with plenty of hot buildings around.
Location location location :).
I currently live in Malaysia. Low 80s (in F) would be cool for me. Definitely cooler than typical daytime temperatures.
So yes it would be worth opening the windows on such cool nights (last night was hot though, so naturally there was a power failure when more people used their airconditioners).
Note that you would also like mosquito netting on the windows to keep the mosquitoes out. Otherwise you let the heat out and the mosquitoes in.
Yah you open the windows only when it's cool outside (like a cool night), then you close them during the day when it's really hot and hope not too much heat leaks in.
Well at least China are clearly working at getting new nuclear plants which can help solve the electricity problem.
Though they have a lot of coal, they know they have a problem. They had a coal shortage problem not that long ago - they could barely get coal out of the mines fast enough and into the coal power stations. While that has become less of a problem with the recession, they know they need something else.
So they had an ambitious plan involving building lots of nuclear power plants. This is probably part of that plan.
It's pretty easy to reduce P2P significantly (as in "enough").
All you have to do is get most ISPs to NOT move to IPv6 and resort to NAT.
Once IPv4 addresses get scarce and users end up behind _ISP_ NATs, it sure gets hard to do P2P when you are no longer a peer on the Internet.
That's right, you are no longer a peer. You are just a subscriber. Game over.
Just the way Big Media would like it. They like the "few servers many viewers" concept.
The other way of course is to just use simple heuristics to detect P2P - when someone has 20 connections to 20 different sites, and is uploading and downloading a lot, even if it's all encrypted, it's safe to say it's P2P.
If the packets are small and the bandwidth usage is low, it's probably VoIP or something similar (if you want low latency comms you use small packets).
You could tunnel everything to some site and P2P from there, but that's just shifting the problem to that site. It's not guaranteed that you can keep shifting the problem to such sites.
Lastly, a lot of ISPs actually don't care much whether you are doing P2P or not. All they care is that you are downloading and uploading a lot. If there are lots of users like that it means they can't oversubscribe as much = less $$$$ for them. They don't have to do anything fancy like "deep packet inspection" - why should they? All they need to do is "limit/shape/police" people who are downloading/uploading a lot.
Really? I thought Earth-Sun was 8 light minutes.
Earth-Moon on average is 1.25 seconds. So round trip time is 2.5 seconds.
Even earth-geostationary takes 0.12 seconds (round trip is about 0.25 seconds).
Maybe the universe has changed since I last checked.
My ping still sucks, I guess I should tell my ISP they should stop giving lame excuses and the speed of light has increased.
It's fine for exploring nearby places like Mars. But other than that it doesn't solve the main problem.
The nearest star is 4 light years away.
If we really want to explore space we should seriously figure out plans and methods to construct space colonies that can build space colonies - and maybe one day, ones that can survive interstellar journeys.
Then it doesn't matter so much how long we take to get to various places in the solar system or even the galaxy.
Uh... Aren't they forgetting the inconvenient slowness of the speed of light?
Unless they solve the FTL comms problem it takes seconds even for a short distance like Earth to Moon.
So if you are going to explore some far away place, telepresence will still require you to ship some human to the general vicinity.
Uh, nerfing is different from the developers favouring one guild/team over the rest.
If you don't get it, here's a car analogy from you.
Nerfing is telling the race car teams that from now on they have to use a certain sort of tyres, or reduce downforce.
Sure it might affect some teams more than others, but it applies to all teams.
Corruption and cheating is when you allow one team to get inside info or resources that they are not supposed to have. For example they get a tip off from the race organizers what the other teams plans are for the upcoming race.
Mods can mod me troll all they want, but that sort of thing sure appears to happen in Eve more than the other popular MMOGs. Just google for the various eve scandals.
Maybe the leaders have got smarter and realized raising the average IQ of a population beyond a certain point doesn't help them.
They just need a few smart people for the brainy stuff. The rest they can use for other stuff.
EVE Online also has had developers cheating and favouring one party over the rest. Not just once.
I find it silly to play a game like that- like trying to play a game when there's a explicitly biased umpire/referee.
If I wanted corruption on top of conflicts between thousands of people day to day, I already have real life for that.
Actually the glowing of enemies in L4D reminded me of AvP2.
:).
I think the AvP franchise still has potential as a game. Imagine using the crysis tech for AvP. Maybe the player controlled marines (as opposed to cannonfodder NPC ones) could have nanosuits, or maybe not