I don't think Google Maps is 'pretty good' at all, I think it's so super-bloated as to be close to unusable. I more or less have to go find something else to do for the time it sits there loading up and resolving everything on the map, and it doesn't matter what computer I'm on, it's still unbelievably slow. It didn't used to be this way, either, it used to be fairly quick. Even the so-called 'lite' version you can revert to is still so slow and and pokey that you want to pound the keyboard if you're in a hurry. And the driving directions? Very often laughably bad. In many case I'll write down my own with pen and paper rather than wade through the nonsense that Google Maps spits out. And routing? Maybe half the time it'll give you the best route. It also limits the number of 'added destinations' you can enter, which is infuriating if I'm trying to plan out a specific route for myself.
'Not an appropriate way to deal with the fans' is about as gross an understatement of the situation as can be, so far as I'm concerned. I was already as unimpressed by the current crop of 'Star Trek-flavored' movies they've been putting out, but then there's this bullshit? Screw them. At this rate, I wouldn't even be bothered to pirate their damned movies, or their shitty web-only series. Even the producer and the director want Paramount and CBS to stop this nonsense and allow Axanar to be produced. Are they so threatened by a fan-produced-and-funded project, that they have to try to smash it? Perhaps so, I think.
He's the head honcho of the freakin' CIA, of course he thinks everyone else is stupid, especially politicians! How else other than overweening arrogance and likely a liberal amount of narcissism do you think someone gets that job in the first place? Strong work ethic? A strong sense of justice? LOL no, more likely successfully backstabbing all the competition and covering his tracks so thoroughly that nobody could pin anything on him!
The OP jokes.. but you know that the media are going to pee their pants over this, and make it out into something like 'Runaway AI Make A Break For Freedom' or somesuch nonsense, and people will believe it. Right on the heels of the Information Age, welcome to the 'Age of Stupidity'.
The owner will be "encircled by the most modern handcrafted fine-line Macassar wood panelling"..
..as they careen at high speed into a concrete abutment and die horribly, when the so-called 'autonomous' system fucks up so badly that nothing can save you, yet you have no controls whatsoever with which to save yourself. Nicely done, Rolls-Royce.
More than just you are saying this but Slashdots' commenting system won't let me reply to more than one at a time, so you're going to be representative of everyone who commented similarly.
Iv'e set up networks. I know how they work. All three very vital elements you mentioned are not rocket science to set up, not anymore, and there is nothing magical about an ISP that they can provide these things. All a municipality needs is a backbone connection to the rest of the world, and voila, you have Internet in people's homes. There is even free open-source DNS that could be used, removing the need for local DNS. People are talking about tech support, too; that can be outsoured to any number of companies, preferably small local companies, which could even spring up where they're needed, to do setup where needed and support connectivity problems that are in the end-users' home. Connectivity issues that exist outside people's homes are the responsibility of the owner of the network anyway, which in this case is a municipality; support companies, as part of their job, would have a way of contacting the appropriate department within the municipality to get conenctivity issues resolved. As previously stated, email, either POP3/SMTP or web-based, exists as stand-alone services-for-a-fee already; you just pick one that you want. Even great-grandpa can use webmail these days. Also as previously stated, streaming exist as stand-alone services already, so why do you need an ISP for that, either? Just pick and pay for what you want. Someone mentioned 'local caching of Netflix', etc; that sounds like a violation of net neutrality anyway, so why would we even want that, let alone need it? You have a nice fast fiber connection, your Netflix and whatever should be plenty fast anyway. So, again: Why do we even need an ISP, other than the fact that they'd throw a fit if you actually set things up this way? Honestly, it sounds to me that this town set this up this way just to keep from being sued into oblivion by ISPs throwing a hissy-fit over them doing it at all. In the end, I think the concept of an 'ISP' is going to become defunct and useless.
I don't really see the purpose of this. If you have the physical network, then all you need is a connection to the rest of the public Internet. Otherwise you get email service from whoever you want; aren't there companies that provide POP3/SMTP service to whoever needs it? Also many people are perfectly happy with web-based email. What else does the average Internet user actually need? Streaming services for audio and video are available all over the place. Of course isn't this what ISPs are afraid of: Municipal Internet providing last-mile connectivity to the general public, making them irrelevant?
I must be missing something here, why is this even important?
Wow do you always go around making so many assumptions?
Nah, I'm mostly just being snarky and sarcastic, don't take me too seriously; my apologies if you were offended. Mainly I just hate smartphones, for what a security swisscheese they are, and for how so many people (not you, apparently) seem to be attached at the hip to them. Meanwhile they're being turned into yet another way to track and monitor people, invade their privacy, and overall take advantage of them (again, not you, apparently). The whole thing kind of makes me sick to my stomach.
Aww, that's adorable, he actually thinks that any of the 'privacy' settings on his smartphone actually do anything!
I got bad news for you, sunshine: Your carrying a smartphone at all is more or less equivalent to wearing an ankle monitor like the police would put on you while you're under house arrest. You want to be free of being tracked by your phone? Get rid of it and get the simplest wireless phone you can find, with no GPS at all, and with a battery you can physically remove to completely shut it off if need be. Then only turn it on when you need to use it. Then at least they'll only know where you are when you're actually using the phone.
Five years from now Facebook will be as irrelevant as Myspace, Livejournal, and other more-or-less defunct 'social media' sites have become -- and nothing of value will have been lost.
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you, apparently, have no sense of humor. Or are easily triggered. Not sure which. I was just making a joke, which went right over your heads, apparently. If I'd've been trolling, I'd've got a perfect score. Y SO SERIOUS??? Jeez lighten up already.
At the rate things are going, the human race may not exist in any significant way 1500 years from now. We'll either pull ourselves out of the various tailspin-inducing shenanigans, or it'll get us.
This is all true. You can disable the ME coprocessor in BIOS settings. You also aren't required to install the ME driver in your (Windows) OS in order for Windows to function.
Could the ME coprocessor/firmware be compromised by an attacker? Maybe. But it can all be disabled. It's firmware could also be hacked out of the BIOS entirely without compromising the operation of the rest of the system.
The ME is mainly for remote administration/management of corporate systems. It allows access to the machine remotely even in the event of a hardware failure, like the HDD failing completely. It can bring the system out of a completely powered-off state, so long as the box is still connected to the mains and the switch in the back is still 'on'. But so far as I know it's not necessary for the rest of the computer to operate.
Aside from being the absolutely stupidest idea I've heard yet, chances are that in 5 years from now, Facebook will be going the way of Myspace, Livejournal, and all the other now-irrelevant social media sites. People are already moving away from all this fake 'sharing' nonsense anyway, posting less and less relevant things, and more and more fluff. I'm sure something else will come along to replace Facebook when it truly transforms into Failbook (and I will cheer on that day) and chaces are it's replacement will be more invasive, more draconic, and even more chillingly ominous than Facebook has become, but at least Facebook will, sooner or later, die -- and nothing of value will have been lost.
Waiting with eagerly, with open arms, for the trolls and Facebook shills to rain their negative moderation points down upon me, like pennies from heaven; their discomfiture assures me I'm speaking Truth. xD
So basically you need to have enough margin designed into the engines that 2 out of 3 can still compensate for loss of thrust from 1, assuming there's also enough thrust available from attitude jets to stabilize? Does the engine design have that margin already?
If more people remembered that there's more than just two political parties in this country, and that furthermore you don't have to be a member of ANY political party to hold office in the United States, then things would be very different. Also if we had the ability to vote for 'None of the Above' in any general election things would likewise be very different. I'm sick and tired of voting for the 'least bad' candidate of any party and flatly refuse to do so anymore. I'll vote for someone I've never heard of that has no chance of winning before I'll vote for someone I don't think is qualified, don't like, and don't trust. Then when it all goes to hell I can at least say with a straight face that it's not my fault, I didn't vote for so-and-so.
Because religious extremists aren't interested in 'education', they're only interested in enforcing, with murder if necessary, what some jackass(es) wrote in some old book thousands of years ago, that allegedly is the 'word' of some unseen, unknowable, unprovable, allegedly omnipotent and omniscent 'being' that they call a 'god'. Logic and reason have no place in their world, therefore 'education' is anathema to them, and in fact they'll go out of their way to destroy education, educators, and students whenever and wherever possible, unless of course it's 'educating' them in their ancient, irrelevant, and highly questionable book that they supposedly live by -- but that they feel free to 'interpret', and even cherry-pick parts of, to suit their agenda.
Note that I am not specifically naming Islamic religions here; I am calling out ALL RELIGION as illogical, irrational, corrupt to it's core, anti-life, and otherwise completely and totally WHACK.
You want a 'techonological' solution to prevent these sorts of mass shootings? Find a way to fix the fundamental flaw in the human brain that causes religion in the first place. The sooner that we, as in the entire human race, can get over this irrational 'religion' nonsense, take responsibility 100% for ourselves, our actions, how we treat each other, and our planet in general, the better off the human race will be. It's all holding back our evolution and it needs to STOP.
Is he responsible for the pain which his robot inflicts?
Yes. In fact I'd call the police and file charges for assault. It's not a thinking, conscious thing, making a thinking, conscious decision to injure someone, it's a little machine that some jerk made that goes around making people bleed. It's a nuisance at best, infection at worst, and legally speaking assault, and I'd see him answer for it in front of a judge, just as surely as if he went around with something sharp in his hand poking people to make them bleed. What an asshole thing to do!
Yeah. YOU get it, others don't seem to. Call it the 'convenience economy', that's what they're caught up in. We seem to be living in the age of 'Just Google It', and neither is anyone expected to actually learn anything for themselves, they're not even really motivated to learn anything anyway, when they can 'just google it' instead. When I was in 5th grade, I was put in a small private school, because I had ADHD, but it was long enough ago that people had no idea about it really, except for some doctors and educators, and parents didn't know a thing about it. My parents refused to medicate me. Anyway, in 5th grade at the new school I had a nasty, hard-nosed teacher who scared the crap out of me, and made me stay after school, doing page after page of multiplication tables, forcing me to learn them by rote. I hated it, hated her, but that's the reason, I'm fairly sure, I can do math in my head now as an adult. The reasons why I wasn't learning were totally different, but the effects would have been the same: If I hadn't learned, I wouldn't be as capable as I am as an adult, probably wouldn't be able to think as clearly and precisely as I do. People's minds get lazy if they don't make themselves learn things. Your mind is a tool, too, and like any tool it can get dull and useless with neglect. Too many 'conveniences', too many machines to do everything for us, including think for us, and our minds will turn to mush, people turn into little more than animals in a zoo -- much like your reference to Asimov's Empire novels, which I'd read so long ago and had forgotten about until now: We not only build AI's (in the form of positronic brains) that are more capable in every way than a human brain, but robot bodies to put them in. Eventually they decide, in a progression of thought of the Three Laws, that we need to be 'taken care of' to the point where we do nothing for ourselves -- and aren't allowed to by our robotic servants, because too many things are 'not safe' for humans to engage in. Cautionary, indeed! The question is, though: If we succeed in creating AI on that level, will we prevent it from ruining us, or do we suffer the fate of Asimov's version of humanity in the future? I hope to not live long enough to witness it.
Don't be a jackass. The role of tools in human societies, is to help humans do work and enhance their lives. If tools created overall hamper humans and hurt human societies, then they need to be abandoned. If so-called 'AI' (and by the way everyone is misusing that term, thanks mainly to mainstream media, who do not understand it, and oh by the way any decent neuroscientist will tell you we don't have anything even close to real 'AI' yet!) destroys too many people's jobs in the name of corporate profits (i.e., the rich getting richer) and/or causes people to be dumber and less skilled in their own survival, then it's not a Good Thing at all. We'll see, won't we?
If you search for "three teenagers", among the search results you get pictures of black teenager and white teenager mugshots, along with just normal pics of teenagers of all backgrounds. If you search for "three african american teenagers" then among the search results you get happy-looking black teenagers, and the mugshots are still in the mix.
It occurs to me that just like 'interpreting' the Bible (or the Quoran, or whatever ancient document you care to name) you can contextualize things in such a way that you can make it mean whatever you want it to mean. By tailoring your search parameters you can get whatever images you want to see, then cherry-pick the ones that support the point you want to make (or your agenda, whichever is the most appropriate term here). The phrase 'logical fallacies' comes to mind..
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I don't think Google Maps is 'pretty good' at all, I think it's so super-bloated as to be close to unusable. I more or less have to go find something else to do for the time it sits there loading up and resolving everything on the map, and it doesn't matter what computer I'm on, it's still unbelievably slow. It didn't used to be this way, either, it used to be fairly quick. Even the so-called 'lite' version you can revert to is still so slow and and pokey that you want to pound the keyboard if you're in a hurry. And the driving directions? Very often laughably bad. In many case I'll write down my own with pen and paper rather than wade through the nonsense that Google Maps spits out. And routing? Maybe half the time it'll give you the best route. It also limits the number of 'added destinations' you can enter, which is infuriating if I'm trying to plan out a specific route for myself.
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'Not an appropriate way to deal with the fans' is about as gross an understatement of the situation as can be, so far as I'm concerned. I was already as unimpressed by the current crop of 'Star Trek-flavored' movies they've been putting out, but then there's this bullshit? Screw them. At this rate, I wouldn't even be bothered to pirate their damned movies, or their shitty web-only series. Even the producer and the director want Paramount and CBS to stop this nonsense and allow Axanar to be produced. Are they so threatened by a fan-produced-and-funded project, that they have to try to smash it? Perhaps so, I think.
He's the head honcho of the freakin' CIA, of course he thinks everyone else is stupid, especially politicians! How else other than overweening arrogance and likely a liberal amount of narcissism do you think someone gets that job in the first place? Strong work ethic? A strong sense of justice? LOL no, more likely successfully backstabbing all the competition and covering his tracks so thoroughly that nobody could pin anything on him!
The OP jokes.. but you know that the media are going to pee their pants over this, and make it out into something like 'Runaway AI Make A Break For Freedom' or somesuch nonsense, and people will believe it. Right on the heels of the Information Age, welcome to the 'Age of Stupidity'.
I didn't know that China understood the concept of design protection.
They do when it benefits them to do so.
The owner will be "encircled by the most modern handcrafted fine-line Macassar wood panelling"..
..as they careen at high speed into a concrete abutment and die horribly, when the so-called 'autonomous' system fucks up so badly that nothing can save you, yet you have no controls whatsoever with which to save yourself. Nicely done, Rolls-Royce.
An IP address? DNS? Gateway?
More than just you are saying this but Slashdots' commenting system won't let me reply to more than one at a time, so you're going to be representative of everyone who commented similarly.
Iv'e set up networks. I know how they work. All three very vital elements you mentioned are not rocket science to set up, not anymore, and there is nothing magical about an ISP that they can provide these things. All a municipality needs is a backbone connection to the rest of the world, and voila, you have Internet in people's homes. There is even free open-source DNS that could be used, removing the need for local DNS. People are talking about tech support, too; that can be outsoured to any number of companies, preferably small local companies, which could even spring up where they're needed, to do setup where needed and support connectivity problems that are in the end-users' home. Connectivity issues that exist outside people's homes are the responsibility of the owner of the network anyway, which in this case is a municipality; support companies, as part of their job, would have a way of contacting the appropriate department within the municipality to get conenctivity issues resolved. As previously stated, email, either POP3/SMTP or web-based, exists as stand-alone services-for-a-fee already; you just pick one that you want. Even great-grandpa can use webmail these days. Also as previously stated, streaming exist as stand-alone services already, so why do you need an ISP for that, either? Just pick and pay for what you want. Someone mentioned 'local caching of Netflix', etc; that sounds like a violation of net neutrality anyway, so why would we even want that, let alone need it? You have a nice fast fiber connection, your Netflix and whatever should be plenty fast anyway. So, again: Why do we even need an ISP, other than the fact that they'd throw a fit if you actually set things up this way? Honestly, it sounds to me that this town set this up this way just to keep from being sued into oblivion by ISPs throwing a hissy-fit over them doing it at all. In the end, I think the concept of an 'ISP' is going to become defunct and useless.
I don't really see the purpose of this. If you have the physical network, then all you need is a connection to the rest of the public Internet. Otherwise you get email service from whoever you want; aren't there companies that provide POP3/SMTP service to whoever needs it? Also many people are perfectly happy with web-based email. What else does the average Internet user actually need? Streaming services for audio and video are available all over the place. Of course isn't this what ISPs are afraid of: Municipal Internet providing last-mile connectivity to the general public, making them irrelevant?
I must be missing something here, why is this even important?
Wow do you always go around making so many assumptions?
Nah, I'm mostly just being snarky and sarcastic, don't take me too seriously; my apologies if you were offended. Mainly I just hate smartphones, for what a security swisscheese they are, and for how so many people (not you, apparently) seem to be attached at the hip to them. Meanwhile they're being turned into yet another way to track and monitor people, invade their privacy, and overall take advantage of them (again, not you, apparently). The whole thing kind of makes me sick to my stomach.
Aww, that's adorable, he actually thinks that any of the 'privacy' settings on his smartphone actually do anything!
I got bad news for you, sunshine: Your carrying a smartphone at all is more or less equivalent to wearing an ankle monitor like the police would put on you while you're under house arrest. You want to be free of being tracked by your phone? Get rid of it and get the simplest wireless phone you can find, with no GPS at all, and with a battery you can physically remove to completely shut it off if need be. Then only turn it on when you need to use it. Then at least they'll only know where you are when you're actually using the phone.
Five years from now Facebook will be as irrelevant as Myspace, Livejournal, and other more-or-less defunct 'social media' sites have become -- and nothing of value will have been lost.
You, and you, and you, and you, and you, apparently, have no sense of humor. Or are easily triggered. Not sure which. I was just making a joke, which went right over your heads, apparently. If I'd've been trolling, I'd've got a perfect score. Y SO SERIOUS??? Jeez lighten up already.
There can't be any 'paleo vegans', ever, though; they'd starve to death.
At the rate things are going, the human race may not exist in any significant way 1500 years from now. We'll either pull ourselves out of the various tailspin-inducing shenanigans, or it'll get us.
This is all true. You can disable the ME coprocessor in BIOS settings. You also aren't required to install the ME driver in your (Windows) OS in order for Windows to function.
Could the ME coprocessor/firmware be compromised by an attacker? Maybe. But it can all be disabled. It's firmware could also be hacked out of the BIOS entirely without compromising the operation of the rest of the system.
The ME is mainly for remote administration/management of corporate systems. It allows access to the machine remotely even in the event of a hardware failure, like the HDD failing completely. It can bring the system out of a completely powered-off state, so long as the box is still connected to the mains and the switch in the back is still 'on'. But so far as I know it's not necessary for the rest of the computer to operate.
Aside from being the absolutely stupidest idea I've heard yet, chances are that in 5 years from now, Facebook will be going the way of Myspace, Livejournal, and all the other now-irrelevant social media sites. People are already moving away from all this fake 'sharing' nonsense anyway, posting less and less relevant things, and more and more fluff. I'm sure something else will come along to replace Facebook when it truly transforms into Failbook (and I will cheer on that day) and chaces are it's replacement will be more invasive, more draconic, and even more chillingly ominous than Facebook has become, but at least Facebook will, sooner or later, die -- and nothing of value will have been lost.
Waiting with eagerly, with open arms, for the trolls and Facebook shills to rain their negative moderation points down upon me, like pennies from heaven; their discomfiture assures me I'm speaking Truth. xD
So basically you need to have enough margin designed into the engines that 2 out of 3 can still compensate for loss of thrust from 1, assuming there's also enough thrust available from attitude jets to stabilize? Does the engine design have that margin already?
Marketing speak for we've just cornered the market.
Also probably 'market speak' for 'we will jack up the price'.
If more people remembered that there's more than just two political parties in this country, and that furthermore you don't have to be a member of ANY political party to hold office in the United States, then things would be very different. Also if we had the ability to vote for 'None of the Above' in any general election things would likewise be very different. I'm sick and tired of voting for the 'least bad' candidate of any party and flatly refuse to do so anymore. I'll vote for someone I've never heard of that has no chance of winning before I'll vote for someone I don't think is qualified, don't like, and don't trust. Then when it all goes to hell I can at least say with a straight face that it's not my fault, I didn't vote for so-and-so.
Why don't you try education and common sense?
Because religious extremists aren't interested in 'education', they're only interested in enforcing, with murder if necessary, what some jackass(es) wrote in some old book thousands of years ago, that allegedly is the 'word' of some unseen, unknowable, unprovable, allegedly omnipotent and omniscent 'being' that they call a 'god'. Logic and reason have no place in their world, therefore 'education' is anathema to them, and in fact they'll go out of their way to destroy education, educators, and students whenever and wherever possible, unless of course it's 'educating' them in their ancient, irrelevant, and highly questionable book that they supposedly live by -- but that they feel free to 'interpret', and even cherry-pick parts of, to suit their agenda.
Note that I am not specifically naming Islamic religions here; I am calling out ALL RELIGION as illogical, irrational, corrupt to it's core, anti-life, and otherwise completely and totally WHACK.
You want a 'techonological' solution to prevent these sorts of mass shootings? Find a way to fix the fundamental flaw in the human brain that causes religion in the first place. The sooner that we, as in the entire human race, can get over this irrational 'religion' nonsense, take responsibility 100% for ourselves, our actions, how we treat each other, and our planet in general, the better off the human race will be. It's all holding back our evolution and it needs to STOP.
Is he responsible for the pain which his robot inflicts?
Yes. In fact I'd call the police and file charges for assault. It's not a thinking, conscious thing, making a thinking, conscious decision to injure someone, it's a little machine that some jerk made that goes around making people bleed. It's a nuisance at best, infection at worst, and legally speaking assault, and I'd see him answer for it in front of a judge, just as surely as if he went around with something sharp in his hand poking people to make them bleed. What an asshole thing to do!
Yeah. YOU get it, others don't seem to. Call it the 'convenience economy', that's what they're caught up in. We seem to be living in the age of 'Just Google It', and neither is anyone expected to actually learn anything for themselves, they're not even really motivated to learn anything anyway, when they can 'just google it' instead. When I was in 5th grade, I was put in a small private school, because I had ADHD, but it was long enough ago that people had no idea about it really, except for some doctors and educators, and parents didn't know a thing about it. My parents refused to medicate me. Anyway, in 5th grade at the new school I had a nasty, hard-nosed teacher who scared the crap out of me, and made me stay after school, doing page after page of multiplication tables, forcing me to learn them by rote. I hated it, hated her, but that's the reason, I'm fairly sure, I can do math in my head now as an adult. The reasons why I wasn't learning were totally different, but the effects would have been the same: If I hadn't learned, I wouldn't be as capable as I am as an adult, probably wouldn't be able to think as clearly and precisely as I do. People's minds get lazy if they don't make themselves learn things. Your mind is a tool, too, and like any tool it can get dull and useless with neglect. Too many 'conveniences', too many machines to do everything for us, including think for us, and our minds will turn to mush, people turn into little more than animals in a zoo -- much like your reference to Asimov's Empire novels, which I'd read so long ago and had forgotten about until now: We not only build AI's (in the form of positronic brains) that are more capable in every way than a human brain, but robot bodies to put them in. Eventually they decide, in a progression of thought of the Three Laws, that we need to be 'taken care of' to the point where we do nothing for ourselves -- and aren't allowed to by our robotic servants, because too many things are 'not safe' for humans to engage in. Cautionary, indeed! The question is, though: If we succeed in creating AI on that level, will we prevent it from ruining us, or do we suffer the fate of Asimov's version of humanity in the future? I hope to not live long enough to witness it.
Don't be a jackass. The role of tools in human societies, is to help humans do work and enhance their lives. If tools created overall hamper humans and hurt human societies, then they need to be abandoned. If so-called 'AI' (and by the way everyone is misusing that term, thanks mainly to mainstream media, who do not understand it, and oh by the way any decent neuroscientist will tell you we don't have anything even close to real 'AI' yet!) destroys too many people's jobs in the name of corporate profits (i.e., the rich getting richer) and/or causes people to be dumber and less skilled in their own survival, then it's not a Good Thing at all. We'll see, won't we?
If you search for "three teenagers", among the search results you get pictures of black teenager and white teenager mugshots, along with just normal pics of teenagers of all backgrounds. If you search for "three african american teenagers" then among the search results you get happy-looking black teenagers, and the mugshots are still in the mix.
It occurs to me that just like 'interpreting' the Bible (or the Quoran, or whatever ancient document you care to name) you can contextualize things in such a way that you can make it mean whatever you want it to mean. By tailoring your search parameters you can get whatever images you want to see, then cherry-pick the ones that support the point you want to make (or your agenda, whichever is the most appropriate term here). The phrase 'logical fallacies' comes to mind..