Or what if they do find it and can't figure out how to use the key? Even a written language can become undecipherable after enough time passes. Now they think they can ensure digital access to an unknown future generation with technology we can't imagine? At the very least that requires electricity analogous to what we have now, and - now I'm talking hundreds of years - just the idea of encoding data in 1's and 0's. By then we'll just be imprinting information in viscous goop and reading it by dipping our finger in the goop and tasting it. Try that with any current storage media.
The long lines and endless searching of passengers is to break down your will so that when the plane is turned into a weapon you will simply welcome death because you realize you don't have to worry about flying ever again.
There will always be hyperchondriacs and there always were. Technology isn't changing any of that.
I disagree somewhat. While I doubt technology/Google makes non-hypochondriacs into hypochondriacs, I do think it makes the existing ones worse. The last thing such a person needs is a seemingly definitive diagnosis of the worst thing that could be wrong with them. ("Oh no! A woman with AIDS reported having a rash on her legs. I have a rash. Oh my god!!! I have AIDS!")
And here I thought syllogistic reasoning was so obvious it didn't need to be taught...
Is it still on ATMs? I know the ATM I use is on Windows. I know because I saw it during a bluescreen.
My local bank was using it as of last year. I saw the boot screen when they did their daily reboot. Since then, however, they upgraded their ATMs, and I do not know the platform on which they run.
It is worthy as a topic in a psychology or sociology class, but otherwise:
[profressor]: What is that in the sky?
[student]: I don't know.
[professor]: Very good! You get an 'A.'
Maybe the real problem is that we haven't given a program/computer a reason to learn. We (and the rest of the animal kingdom) are motivated by necessity. Learning = survival. It is part of the design.
incidentally, this puts the lie to libertarians and free market fundamentalists who believe the market is healthiest when left alone.
Om my god, you are right! People need to be protected by the government. No one should be forced into a position where they must make their own decisions, because life just isn't fair if everyone doesn't succeed.
One thing bothers me about that: invariably, those who oversee us "little people" will wind up living a much more prosperous life as we continually and increasingly rely on them to police that which might harm us. Their position of power will ultimately be threatened by us gaining knowledge, history will be re-written to their liking, books will be burned, their excess will spiral out of control, and...Viva la revolution!
Makes you wonder how Orwell, Bradbury, and Huxley got their ideas...
I tend to agree with you, but it brings up the question of why the effects of time are different on an observer in motion compared to one at rest.
Maybe we are using the concept of time improperly in those cases.
No other animal on this planet observes time as we do. They exist in a state of nature and respond to their instincts and their environment. They have no need to rationalize existence. Shit happens or it doesn't.
Time travel as has been popularized in movies and books is crap. Think about it: if time travel to the past is possible, someone will eventually invent/discover it. When they do they'll go back in time, and simply setting foot in the past will branch reality, putting them on a new path towards the future. They will never be able to return to the future from which they came. I do not believe, however, that their previous reality will be destroyed or even changed, for that matter. But now there would be no future in front of them to which they could travel anyway. Maybe the better question is, "What is reality?"
The movie Primer has the best imaginary possibility for time travel I have ever seen or read. If time travel were possible it would look like that, not Homer Simpson and his toaster.
Traveling near the speed of light doesn't count because you can't "un-fry" that egg.
I don't mean to imply people become lazy (as in "lazy American!"), but that they come to expect more of their government. Frankly, I don't expect anything from my (federal) government except national defense, some interstate commerce, and maybe a little administration and oversight of basic liberties. Our country was founded on the idea that rulers are servants. My problem with "leftist ideals" is that rulers start to think they know better than everyone else.
The Soviet Union and China are poor examples of socialist countries. They are (or were, for the CCCP) dictatorships. And all that hard work the Chinese are doing to fill dollar stores across America is in the name of capitalism.
If I had more than anecdotal evidence I would be publishing professional papers, not posting on slashdot.
I want the people at Starbucks to not fuck up my order because they were hired to not fuck up coffee orders.
The problem with socialism is that as people expect more and more from their government they begin to expect less and less of themselves. If you socialist, wealth-redistributing, vomit-spewers scorn the idea of trickle-down economics in business why do you think it will magically work at the highest levels of government? In fact, it can work in business because companies are ultimately accountable to consumers. The government, however, becomes decreasingly accountable to it's citizenry until it becomes a tyranny when people are lulled into false security by the socialist agenda.
Capitalism isn't perfect, but don't scorn it because all you have left to live for is fucking up my order when I go to your Starbucks. Ass.
I hate taxes as much as anyone, but I foresee we're gonna have to pay an increase. I could swallow that a lot easier if I saw the federal spending was DRASTICALLY cut.
If federal spending was drastically cut there would be no need for a tax increase.
We could start with all the subsidies we pay out...for instance, do the corn farmers need all that money we give them?
Yes, because they sell the corn for less than it costs to produce it. That, in and of itself, is completely insane, but without that subsidy the beef industry would have to pay dramatically more for their feed, then prices at the market would go up, and then people would complain that food costs too much. Of course, food actually costs too little since the government subsidies and horrific factory farming practices keep the market price artificially low.
the problem with your theory is that you're dictating what people can and can't watch IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME.
It is not legal to watch child porn in the privacy of your own home. That said, I think this judge is smoking crack even hearing the case, and the jury should be shot.
What about two Civics having a head-on collision while the drivers are getting hummers? And which matters more, the speed of the Civics or the speed of the hummers?
Yes, but in related news, Iran claims to have had a stealth fighter in continuous since 1984, but we can't see it. Poland also built one, in 1993, but they can't find it.
Slashdot Mirror
archetypcal classic Game Boy version
What about the archetypal classic NES version? I've always identified Tetris with the console.
Or what if they do find it and can't figure out how to use the key? Even a written language can become undecipherable after enough time passes. Now they think they can ensure digital access to an unknown future generation with technology we can't imagine? At the very least that requires electricity analogous to what we have now, and - now I'm talking hundreds of years - just the idea of encoding data in 1's and 0's. By then we'll just be imprinting information in viscous goop and reading it by dipping our finger in the goop and tasting it. Try that with any current storage media.
The long lines and endless searching of passengers is to break down your will so that when the plane is turned into a weapon you will simply welcome death because you realize you don't have to worry about flying ever again.
There will always be hyperchondriacs and there always were. Technology isn't changing any of that.
I disagree somewhat. While I doubt technology/Google makes non-hypochondriacs into hypochondriacs, I do think it makes the existing ones worse. The last thing such a person needs is a seemingly definitive diagnosis of the worst thing that could be wrong with them. ("Oh no! A woman with AIDS reported having a rash on her legs. I have a rash. Oh my god!!! I have AIDS!")
And here I thought syllogistic reasoning was so obvious it didn't need to be taught...
That's neither exceptional, nor necessarily a bad thing. Judges tend to be pretty far removed from the way most Americans live.
The Supreme Court is about the constitution. Congress is about the way "most American's live."
and if we see Taco Bell buy out all the other restaurants in the US, you'll know where we're headed.
Demolition Man?
Is it still on ATMs? I know the ATM I use is on Windows. I know because I saw it during a bluescreen.
My local bank was using it as of last year. I saw the boot screen when they did their daily reboot. Since then, however, they upgraded their ATMs, and I do not know the platform on which they run.
It is worthy as a topic in a psychology or sociology class, but otherwise:
[profressor]: What is that in the sky? [student]: I don't know. [professor]: Very good! You get an 'A.'
Who hasn't hearsd of Scientific Notation?
I haven't hearsd of it.
* What type of DRM will she have?
Pay the [place favorite licensing org here] a monthly fee or you have to pull out when you cum.
Maybe the real problem is that we haven't given a program/computer a reason to learn. We (and the rest of the animal kingdom) are motivated by necessity. Learning = survival. It is part of the design.
WHAT DOES MY TYPING SPEED HAVE TO DO WITH WHO I WANT TO FUCK?
Clearly you are trying to communicate with an audience unfamiliar with lower case letters. My guess? Young boys. You sicken me.
incidentally, this puts the lie to libertarians and free market fundamentalists who believe the market is healthiest when left alone.
Om my god, you are right! People need to be protected by the government. No one should be forced into a position where they must make their own decisions, because life just isn't fair if everyone doesn't succeed.
One thing bothers me about that: invariably, those who oversee us "little people" will wind up living a much more prosperous life as we continually and increasingly rely on them to police that which might harm us. Their position of power will ultimately be threatened by us gaining knowledge, history will be re-written to their liking, books will be burned, their excess will spiral out of control, and...Viva la revolution!
Makes you wonder how Orwell, Bradbury, and Huxley got their ideas...
I tend to agree with you, but it brings up the question of why the effects of time are different on an observer in motion compared to one at rest.
Maybe we are using the concept of time improperly in those cases.
No other animal on this planet observes time as we do. They exist in a state of nature and respond to their instincts and their environment. They have no need to rationalize existence. Shit happens or it doesn't.
Time travel as has been popularized in movies and books is crap. Think about it: if time travel to the past is possible, someone will eventually invent/discover it. When they do they'll go back in time, and simply setting foot in the past will branch reality, putting them on a new path towards the future. They will never be able to return to the future from which they came. I do not believe, however, that their previous reality will be destroyed or even changed, for that matter. But now there would be no future in front of them to which they could travel anyway. Maybe the better question is, "What is reality?"
The movie Primer has the best imaginary possibility for time travel I have ever seen or read. If time travel were possible it would look like that, not Homer Simpson and his toaster.
Traveling near the speed of light doesn't count because you can't "un-fry" that egg.
I don't mean to imply people become lazy (as in "lazy American!"), but that they come to expect more of their government. Frankly, I don't expect anything from my (federal) government except national defense, some interstate commerce, and maybe a little administration and oversight of basic liberties. Our country was founded on the idea that rulers are servants. My problem with "leftist ideals" is that rulers start to think they know better than everyone else.
The Soviet Union and China are poor examples of socialist countries. They are (or were, for the CCCP) dictatorships. And all that hard work the Chinese are doing to fill dollar stores across America is in the name of capitalism.
If I had more than anecdotal evidence I would be publishing professional papers, not posting on slashdot.
Fail.
I want the people at Starbucks to not fuck up my order because they were hired to not fuck up coffee orders.
The problem with socialism is that as people expect more and more from their government they begin to expect less and less of themselves. If you socialist, wealth-redistributing, vomit-spewers scorn the idea of trickle-down economics in business why do you think it will magically work at the highest levels of government? In fact, it can work in business because companies are ultimately accountable to consumers. The government, however, becomes decreasingly accountable to it's citizenry until it becomes a tyranny when people are lulled into false security by the socialist agenda.
Capitalism isn't perfect, but don't scorn it because all you have left to live for is fucking up my order when I go to your Starbucks. Ass.
You are exactly correct: We'll never win a Cyber War unless we build a big, shiny Robot Army.
Granted, they don't enable remote access, but really, what is so hard about writing down passwords and taping them to the bottom of the router?
The Chuck Norris botnet can read the password taped to the bottom of your router.
Has been since Gutenberg invented his infernal machine.
Johnny Five?
I hate taxes as much as anyone, but I foresee we're gonna have to pay an increase. I could swallow that a lot easier if I saw the federal spending was DRASTICALLY cut.
If federal spending was drastically cut there would be no need for a tax increase.
We could start with all the subsidies we pay out...for instance, do the corn farmers need all that money we give them?
Yes, because they sell the corn for less than it costs to produce it. That, in and of itself, is completely insane, but without that subsidy the beef industry would have to pay dramatically more for their feed, then prices at the market would go up, and then people would complain that food costs too much. Of course, food actually costs too little since the government subsidies and horrific factory farming practices keep the market price artificially low.
But I digest...
I think we should start a 'legalise all torrents' campaign similar to the 'legalise weed' one.
And while we wait for legalized torrents all we'll get is medical torrents?
the problem with your theory is that you're dictating what people can and can't watch IN THE PRIVACY OF THEIR OWN HOME.
It is not legal to watch child porn in the privacy of your own home. That said, I think this judge is smoking crack even hearing the case, and the jury should be shot.
What about two Civics having a head-on collision while the drivers are getting hummers? And which matters more, the speed of the Civics or the speed of the hummers?
Yes, but in related news, Iran claims to have had a stealth fighter in continuous since 1984, but we can't see it. Poland also built one, in 1993, but they can't find it.
Bruce Sterling coined the term Cyberspace
Yeah, but TFS says Gibson "first coined" it, and the general consensus is that "first coining" trumps regular coining