Digby wrote a guest column for Salon, "Let's talk about tasers" that I think is very relevant here;
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/10/tasers/index.html
Basically his assertion is that tasers are being used more often when handguns would not have otherwise been used, and are sometimes being used as a means of intimidation, often arbitrarily.
Sure, death by taser is unlikely. But if you give them to every policeman in America, the odds of it occuring go way up.
It's a big leap to presume that we understand all the physics that goes on inside a human brain or even any sizable piece of bulk matter, at this point. There are recent findings that show that quantum interactions (entanglement, for instance) are ubiquitous in living matter, just as one example. What you say is generally true but not likely to be soon practicable - we cannot accurately simulate something before we've truly understood it.
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Digby wrote a guest column for Salon, "Let's talk about tasers" that I think is very relevant here; http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/10/tasers/index.html Basically his assertion is that tasers are being used more often when handguns would not have otherwise been used, and are sometimes being used as a means of intimidation, often arbitrarily. Sure, death by taser is unlikely. But if you give them to every policeman in America, the odds of it occuring go way up.
Well it's incumbent on the programmer for the emulator to enforce that limit, is it not? How would Apple verify that? Maybe I'm being naive here.
Seriously? What? What can you do from a C64 shell on an iPhone?
"peek" and "poke"
It's a big leap to presume that we understand all the physics that goes on inside a human brain or even any sizable piece of bulk matter, at this point. There are recent findings that show that quantum interactions (entanglement, for instance) are ubiquitous in living matter, just as one example. What you say is generally true but not likely to be soon practicable - we cannot accurately simulate something before we've truly understood it.