.. "consciousness" is merely the unintended side-effect..
and therefore, conscuiousness, as well as life, is just an emergent property of the matter/energy, given enough space and time. (where time is just how we describe the movement of space; time as such doesn't exist).
to me, the most interesting thing is how our brain tricks itself to believe, that the feeling of pain is so real. yet pain is just a set of electrical impulses and chemistry, and doesn't differ from other thoughts/feelings much.
In other news: Scientists are puzzled as it only took 2 weeks for the west half of what was previously the african continent to reach the east shores of North America.
To provide a more accurate picture to the voting masses, just replace the voting machines with modified slot machines. You have to insert $1 coin and strike 3 Obamas in a row to actually vote for him. All other votes go to McCain. Top part of the machine could display laughing members of Congress, and what are they worth (only the millionaires).
calling to your ISP's tech support, trying to convince them that you really need to access more than us.cnn.com and that yes you already have restarted your modem.
Welcome to the future brought to you by the reality-disconnected managerial know-it-all dumbasses.
*turns off his ww2 backpack flamethrower*
Didn't know that. Anyway - I'm using filters to mark the spam as read, so that the right-side "Spam" menuitem doesn't bother me by being marked as "unread items".
However, have you tried:
1. new filter
2. Has the words: is:spam
3. press Next, ignore the warning
4. click "Delete it", click finish
That should work I guess..
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Exactly.. Plus I'd probably set an incoming rule for the kids' account to auto-delete the spam as it comes in.
The more clever an AI is, the better it can explain complex systems to humans, up to a limit. After that, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to let the AIs to run this world, without us understanding what they are doing, without us keeping them in check. That said, first and foremost, (strong) AI is a national security issue from the day 1 it is conceived. Need a bioweapon? Just pour more AI. So by a logical extension, not only the AI itself, but the use of AI by humans will be heavily controlled.
As for the cyborgism - I'm really fine as I am, and don't want to blue screen any time soon:) But the possibility to emulate *any* feeling for my brain to feel does tempt me a bit.
You get to pick from lifelong vacation on Guantanamo and having the chip implanted (early adopter, you then have to tell people you did that volutarily). They also take all your amero money and prevent you from leaving the North American Union. I assume since you dare to ask such questions on internet, you already are on the no-fly list, so they just add you to the no-boat and no-train lists. On the contrary, if you choose the implant, you get a free foreclosed home (left by someone who had chosen the Guantanamo) and bunch of empty credit cards, so you can start a new life without such mistakes. Happy days!
If not Osama and not Saddam, who did 9/11?
But it actually doesn't matter, bucause not 9/11, but the gov't reaction to it, was what has fucked the US completely. Any mavericks telling me $4 gas, no-fly lists, and spending zillions on war instead of medicare and science is a good thing, plese go wank off elsewhere.
Also, it's no surprise that home buyers prefer homes with windows. Linux homes tend to be pretty dark, and you must know the home better (from technical side) to be able to do anything in it.
Actually, that is far and away the best reason to not mess with it.
No it's not - at least not for Microsoft. They could just code a new engine from scratch and provide this engine in a separate "mode", keeping the old one to support old webpages.
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thanks. yawn. next story.
.. "consciousness" is merely the unintended side-effect ..
and therefore, conscuiousness, as well as life, is just an emergent property of the matter/energy, given enough space and time. (where time is just how we describe the movement of space; time as such doesn't exist).
to me, the most interesting thing is how our brain tricks itself to believe, that the feeling of pain is so real. yet pain is just a set of electrical impulses and chemistry, and doesn't differ from other thoughts/feelings much.
No, in all my experiments, the stupid cats always broke the flask before I was able to radiate the box.
In other news: Scientists are puzzled as it only took 2 weeks for the west half of what was previously the african continent to reach the east shores of North America.
So all the "Smoking can kill you" warnings should now be postfixed with "Instantly".
since sliced bread, if I'm not mistaken.
To provide a more accurate picture to the voting masses, just replace the voting machines with modified slot machines. You have to insert $1 coin and strike 3 Obamas in a row to actually vote for him. All other votes go to McCain. Top part of the machine could display laughing members of Congress, and what are they worth (only the millionaires).
calling to your ISP's tech support, trying to convince them that you really need to access more than us.cnn.com and that yes you already have restarted your modem.
Welcome to the future brought to you by the reality-disconnected managerial know-it-all dumbasses.
*turns off his ww2 backpack flamethrower*
Didn't know that. Anyway - I'm using filters to mark the spam as read, so that the right-side "Spam" menuitem doesn't bother me by being marked as "unread items".
However, have you tried:
1. new filter
2. Has the words: is:spam
3. press Next, ignore the warning
4. click "Delete it", click finish
That should work I guess..
Exactly.. Plus I'd probably set an incoming rule for the kids' account to auto-delete the spam as it comes in.
The more clever an AI is, the better it can explain complex systems to humans, up to a limit. After that, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to let the AIs to run this world, without us understanding what they are doing, without us keeping them in check. That said, first and foremost, (strong) AI is a national security issue from the day 1 it is conceived. Need a bioweapon? Just pour more AI. So by a logical extension, not only the AI itself, but the use of AI by humans will be heavily controlled.
As for the cyborgism - I'm really fine as I am, and don't want to blue screen any time soon:) But the possibility to emulate *any* feeling for my brain to feel does tempt me a bit.
Two burning shuttles tailed by a big space telescope hit the LHC, causing a massive disruption in the very fabric of time and space.
http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=37485
evokes the feeling that it's just a viewport into actual field with 100s of shuttles ready to launch, as a sign of civilian space travel gone mainstream:)
You get to pick from lifelong vacation on Guantanamo and having the chip implanted (early adopter, you then have to tell people you did that volutarily). They also take all your amero money and prevent you from leaving the North American Union. I assume since you dare to ask such questions on internet, you already are on the no-fly list, so they just add you to the no-boat and no-train lists. On the contrary, if you choose the implant, you get a free foreclosed home (left by someone who had chosen the Guantanamo) and bunch of empty credit cards, so you can start a new life without such mistakes. Happy days!
So, will it run raytraced (software-rendered) Quake 3?
:-)
Looks like from now on I will not reply to any comment on slashdot without first consulting Google:)
No, bunch of pissed of muslims is what the same people who programmed you to mark me as retarded have created in Iraq and Afganistan.
If not Osama and not Saddam, who did 9/11?
But it actually doesn't matter, bucause not 9/11, but the gov't reaction to it, was what has fucked the US completely. Any mavericks telling me $4 gas, no-fly lists, and spending zillions on war instead of medicare and science is a good thing, plese go wank off elsewhere.
I'm wondering what sort of build process converts 8 GB of sources to 0.5 MB of installation exe. Must be some alien technology.
Also, it's no surprise that home buyers prefer homes with windows. Linux homes tend to be pretty dark, and you must know the home better (from technical side) to be able to do anything in it.
What fun is to overwrite Suse with Ubuntu? The real satisfaction is to buy a laptop with Vista and overwrite it with Ubuntu! Lenovo knows that!
He assailed OEM system builders for including bad, buggy, or just plain useless apps on their machines..
Great stuff, thanks for posting.
Actually, that is far and away the best reason to not mess with it.
No it's not - at least not for Microsoft. They could just code a new engine from scratch and provide this engine in a separate "mode", keeping the old one to support old webpages.
Wake me up when Chrome supports web development as Firefox does (via Firebug).
Altough everything considered, it shouldn't be too long before that.