I don't want to stifle anyone's creativity. But being stoned at a party where some buddy of you snaps a pic of you with the bong to your mouth, who then posts it on Facebook with your name tagged to it? Not smart, especially when a future employer finds it and tells you you're not hired because they don't employ drug users, or the cops find it and decide to toss your entire house looking for said drugs, question everyone you know, resulting in half the people you know deciding they don't want to associate with you anymore. Or any number of other scenarios where bad shit happens.
This sort of thing is why old people need to fuck off out of the way, retire and make room for younger people who know what they're doing.
You mean the "younger" people who are surrendering their privacy by posting every goddamn thing they do on "social media" sites? Who don't even understand what "privacy" means, why it's important, and who scoff at anyone who tries to tell them what they're giving away? "Younger" people who have been indoctrinated since birth by corporations and corrupt governments? Yeah, sure, that'll work.
In typical kid fashion, they think "that will never happen to me!", and in typical kid fashion, they're completely wrong.
Memo to youth of today: You hate it when your parents or your siblings or your teachers never seem to forget all the dumb things you'e done, and how they keep getting brought up and used as leverage against you? Well, guess what: The internets never forget anything you've posted on it, or that someone else posted about you, and as the OP says, your future employers, your future schools, your government, maybe even that girl or boy you're interested in? They'll be able to access all of it, in it's terrible glory, and you will never be able to escape it. So think twice about what you're doing online.
Never mind the fact that even if they can create such tech in a handgun, it'll be hacked in less than a week, and there'll still be plenty of old-fashioned, 100% mechanical guns out there in the world, and more produced every day overseas. It's a nice idea, but woefully misguided and ineffective.
That's what that sounds like. Would I eat that stuff if the choice was that or starve? Yes. But I wouldn't choose it. Talk about the ultimate in processed food!
For starters, why we produce more mucus when we're sick: more habitat for the symbiote virus, so it can try to repel the invader. Too bad it isn't (more?) effective against invading virii.
Enjoy posting your shit comments anonymously while you can, if these people have their way no one will be allowed to be anonymous on the internet. Ever.
You know what? It doesn't even have to be a pointed stick! I'm not into martial arts, but I am aware of them; how many different martial arts techniques are there out there that involve just a plain old stick, not even pointed, that you can kill a man with? Hell, consider the lowly baseball bat! One shot and someone's head is bashed in. Shall we ban anything not made of felt or foam rubber from the common citizens' hands?
It's even worse than that. Given their way they'd probably require anyone who wants a 3D printer to purchase one from an authorized company, after of course obtaining a license to own and operate one, depending of course on regular inspections and auditing to make sure it's not being used for "illegal, unauthorized" purposes. Naturally DIY 3D printer construction and operation would become a felony, because obviously only criminals are going to circumvent the perfectly reasonable laws governing their ownership and operation, right? What would naturally follow is that all machining equipment would have to licensed and regulated as well, with background checks for all machinists, because devices like lathes and mills and whatnot could all be used to create not only 3D printers, but firearms themselves, oh no! Can't have that. Let them do whatever they want, and nobody other than police and military (and of course the Chosen Few, who "obviously" can be "trusted", aka the rich and influential) would be allowed to posess so much as a kitchen knife without a full background check and a lengthy licensing and registration process, with regular lie detector auditing of the owners of such "dangerous cutting weapons", to be sure they're not using them for illicit purposes.
Yes, obviously I'm engaging in utter hyperbole and sarcasm, but you can't disagree that I've accurately illustrated the mindset involved here. The sad part is that because some assholes (who ironically are probably anti-gun assholes) decided to try to make a working firearm with a 3D printer, and then publicized the results, the entire 3D printer thing is probably going to get cut off at the neck and will actually get regulated right into the ground, to the point where only the biggest and richest corporations will be able to afford them, and then there'll be false positives in the CAD/CAM software driving them, detecting perfectly benign assemblies as firearm parts, rendering the entire expensive mess totally useless. Fuck this shit. I'd rather everyone was mandated by law to openly carry a firearm and furthermore be mandated to take and pass a firearm safety and proficiency course, and insecure asshole politicians be damned.
I was hmmm-ing and hawww-ing over the 2009 movie, right up to that point, beyond which I started throwing things at the screen and demanding my money back.
I seriously doubt I'll see this new atrocity in the theatre. I may just wait for someone else to rent it so I don't have to pay a penny. J.J. Abrahms and associates make pretty good television shows (liked Fringe very much) but I am dubious at best about their movies.
Yes, they are. And it's happening too fast, and people are turning into Missouri mules because of it, the harder progress tries to pull them ahead, the harder they dig their heels in and pull backwards. You see it every day, and it's only getting worse. We haven't even reached the crisis point with it yet, and when it happens it's not going to be pretty.
People need a sense of purpose or Bad Things will happen. Some will turn to violence and crime; some more 'enabled' types will start wars.
Of course I don't believe any of this crap in the first place; robots are not going to replace the majority of human labor, not at least in the next 30 years.
Up next: Irish judge finds the Internet in contempt of court for not complying with his orders to remove video, orders the Internet be arrested and jailed until such time as it apologizes, complies with his original order.
I am no neurobiologist. Is it not so that the various areas of the brain, especially the more primitive portions, contain much "hardwiring"? Wouldn't that qualify as the "bare intelligence" mentioned here?
Are you implying that it should be able physically grow of it's own accord? It seems like in the past this is something that hasn't been done, and I think it's a vital design feature.
Wouldn't a major feature of the design be emulating how a wetware brain can reconfigure it's own neural connections? I'm assuming here that we're talking about creating a "blank slate" brain and allowing it to learn and develop it's own personality.
If I could think of it in 3 seconds, wireless companies must have thought of it long ago: Change the business model so consumers are only "leasing" their wireless devices, they remain property of the wireless carrier. Of course I and many others would tell the first company that did this to go fuck themselves, but if they all did it at once..
I'd much prefer a car that is reliable and has decent fuel economy, and you can keep all your "entertainment", "cloud", and "4G software upgradability". It's transportation, it's not a lifestyle.
When they can create a robotic fly that can do all this and has it's own self-contained power source instead of having to have wires trailing it to a power supply, then I'll be impressed.
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I don't want to stifle anyone's creativity. But being stoned at a party where some buddy of you snaps a pic of you with the bong to your mouth, who then posts it on Facebook with your name tagged to it? Not smart, especially when a future employer finds it and tells you you're not hired because they don't employ drug users, or the cops find it and decide to toss your entire house looking for said drugs, question everyone you know, resulting in half the people you know deciding they don't want to associate with you anymore. Or any number of other scenarios where bad shit happens.
This sort of thing is why old people need to fuck off out of the way, retire and make room for younger people who know what they're doing.
You mean the "younger" people who are surrendering their privacy by posting every goddamn thing they do on "social media" sites? Who don't even understand what "privacy" means, why it's important, and who scoff at anyone who tries to tell them what they're giving away? "Younger" people who have been indoctrinated since birth by corporations and corrupt governments? Yeah, sure, that'll work.
In typical kid fashion, they think "that will never happen to me!", and in typical kid fashion, they're completely wrong.
Memo to youth of today: You hate it when your parents or your siblings or your teachers never seem to forget all the dumb things you'e done, and how they keep getting brought up and used as leverage against you? Well, guess what: The internets never forget anything you've posted on it, or that someone else posted about you, and as the OP says, your future employers, your future schools, your government, maybe even that girl or boy you're interested in? They'll be able to access all of it, in it's terrible glory, and you will never be able to escape it. So think twice about what you're doing online.
Never mind the fact that even if they can create such tech in a handgun, it'll be hacked in less than a week, and there'll still be plenty of old-fashioned, 100% mechanical guns out there in the world, and more produced every day overseas. It's a nice idea, but woefully misguided and ineffective.
That's what that sounds like. Would I eat that stuff if the choice was that or starve? Yes. But I wouldn't choose it. Talk about the ultimate in processed food!
Nice job, Hollywood. You just elevated TPB in the eyes of the general public and made yourselves look like even bigger villians than you already did.
For starters, why we produce more mucus when we're sick: more habitat for the symbiote virus, so it can try to repel the invader. Too bad it isn't (more?) effective against invading virii.
Enjoy posting your shit comments anonymously while you can, if these people have their way no one will be allowed to be anonymous on the internet. Ever.
You know what? It doesn't even have to be a pointed stick! I'm not into martial arts, but I am aware of them; how many different martial arts techniques are there out there that involve just a plain old stick, not even pointed, that you can kill a man with? Hell, consider the lowly baseball bat! One shot and someone's head is bashed in. Shall we ban anything not made of felt or foam rubber from the common citizens' hands?
It's even worse than that. Given their way they'd probably require anyone who wants a 3D printer to purchase one from an authorized company, after of course obtaining a license to own and operate one, depending of course on regular inspections and auditing to make sure it's not being used for "illegal, unauthorized" purposes. Naturally DIY 3D printer construction and operation would become a felony, because obviously only criminals are going to circumvent the perfectly reasonable laws governing their ownership and operation, right? What would naturally follow is that all machining equipment would have to licensed and regulated as well, with background checks for all machinists, because devices like lathes and mills and whatnot could all be used to create not only 3D printers, but firearms themselves, oh no! Can't have that. Let them do whatever they want, and nobody other than police and military (and of course the Chosen Few, who "obviously" can be "trusted", aka the rich and influential) would be allowed to posess so much as a kitchen knife without a full background check and a lengthy licensing and registration process, with regular lie detector auditing of the owners of such "dangerous cutting weapons", to be sure they're not using them for illicit purposes.
Yes, obviously I'm engaging in utter hyperbole and sarcasm, but you can't disagree that I've accurately illustrated the mindset involved here. The sad part is that because some assholes (who ironically are probably anti-gun assholes) decided to try to make a working firearm with a 3D printer, and then publicized the results, the entire 3D printer thing is probably going to get cut off at the neck and will actually get regulated right into the ground, to the point where only the biggest and richest corporations will be able to afford them, and then there'll be false positives in the CAD/CAM software driving them, detecting perfectly benign assemblies as firearm parts, rendering the entire expensive mess totally useless. Fuck this shit. I'd rather everyone was mandated by law to openly carry a firearm and furthermore be mandated to take and pass a firearm safety and proficiency course, and insecure asshole politicians be damned.
Yeah, no shit, buddy. We may as well have the goddamn motherfucking Taliban for Congress.
..mandate wiretapping facilities in end users' computers and software
And "FUCK YOU" are those two words. I'd also like to add "Eat shit and die", and furthermore "Die in a fire". This shit has got to stop, now!
I was hmmm-ing and hawww-ing over the 2009 movie, right up to that point, beyond which I started throwing things at the screen and demanding my money back.
I seriously doubt I'll see this new atrocity in the theatre. I may just wait for someone else to rent it so I don't have to pay a penny. J.J. Abrahms and associates make pretty good television shows (liked Fringe very much) but I am dubious at best about their movies.
Yes, they are. And it's happening too fast, and people are turning into Missouri mules because of it, the harder progress tries to pull them ahead, the harder they dig their heels in and pull backwards. You see it every day, and it's only getting worse. We haven't even reached the crisis point with it yet, and when it happens it's not going to be pretty.
People need a sense of purpose or Bad Things will happen. Some will turn to violence and crime; some more 'enabled' types will start wars.
Of course I don't believe any of this crap in the first place; robots are not going to replace the majority of human labor, not at least in the next 30 years.
Up next: Irish judge finds the Internet in contempt of court for not complying with his orders to remove video, orders the Internet be arrested and jailed until such time as it apologizes, complies with his original order.
I am no neurobiologist. Is it not so that the various areas of the brain, especially the more primitive portions, contain much "hardwiring"? Wouldn't that qualify as the "bare intelligence" mentioned here?
Are you implying that it should be able physically grow of it's own accord? It seems like in the past this is something that hasn't been done, and I think it's a vital design feature.
Wouldn't a major feature of the design be emulating how a wetware brain can reconfigure it's own neural connections? I'm assuming here that we're talking about creating a "blank slate" brain and allowing it to learn and develop it's own personality.
If I could think of it in 3 seconds, wireless companies must have thought of it long ago: Change the business model so consumers are only "leasing" their wireless devices, they remain property of the wireless carrier. Of course I and many others would tell the first company that did this to go fuck themselves, but if they all did it at once..
Can't wait? Buy it online now. Did a Google Shopping search, looks like you can buy the stuff now "for research purposes only", of course.
Am I going to do it? Hell, no. Too expensive. xD
I'd much prefer a car that is reliable and has decent fuel economy, and you can keep all your "entertainment", "cloud", and "4G software upgradability". It's transportation, it's not a lifestyle.
Or at least an analysis of his EEG readings, if they'd thought to record such.
That stinks. It's just another way to suck money out of people's wallets.
When they can create a robotic fly that can do all this and has it's own self-contained power source instead of having to have wires trailing it to a power supply, then I'll be impressed.