Keep in mind that we're in this together. A large economic collapse due to robotics and AI advances will compel the american populace to find ways of supporting itself, be it through complete economic regulation (ie communism) or through philanthropic capitalism. After all, what's the point of building robots for profit if that profit can't be realized?
One thing is for certain though: things will get worse before they get better. Our hands need to be forced.
Most of the STEM students that I've met chose their major based on their interests and/or already possessed skills. It seems to me that there are viable career opportunities in all STEM fields. Why worry about your choice of education when you'll develop skills regardless?
Finding any job is a full time job regardless of your major. And you neither entitled nor guaranteed to get a job you'll like.
The reality of today is that, if you communicate any secrets, you must consider the possibility of your communications being tapped/intercepted. It is even possible that hardware is compromised before you even buy it.
With backdoors, BIOS hacking and packet sniffing being part of the daily talk on slashdot, you have to be prepared to communicate end-to-end with multiple levels of pre-planned encryption. That said, I don't think I've ever said anything that needs that much security, but a nation-state might have.
I built my current rig in 2009, investing heavily in forward-compatibility for upgrades. The investment payed out more than I could ever have imagined.
Forward compatibility is very important to me too.
Can you or somebody else recommend me a motherboard that fits the bill?
I'm putting together specs for a budget gaming rig that I can upgrade when I get more money. The only piece that I have set in stone is an nvidia GTX 960 graphics card, but I'm planning on getting either an i3 or pentium G series processor, then upgrading later on. I've been looking at Z97s that are LGA1150, but I know so little about motherboards that I can only base my criteria off of what other people have recommended. I guess I'd want it to be SLI ready so I can double up on the graphics card eventually w/ a dual monitor setup. Extra ram slots would be nice so I can just keep adding cheap ram.
Also, how important is it to get a good power supply? I guess efficiency might add up on the electricity bill. Can you recommend one of those?
I'm building a gaming/mini-simulation computer, and I have a mix of poor student syndrome along with excessive computer drooling disease (much more debilitating). Basically all I want is a fast GPU (nvid gtx 960), but I can't help but want a fast processor too, so I've been comparing the i5's, i3's and pentium G3450's.
Should I wait to buy an i5? or should I stick with the cheap processor? or maybe you know of a motherboard/cpu combo deal that will cut the cost of an i5 just enough?
I don't mind reading blog posts on the medium, but this is really not news. You might as well have included this wikipedia article with the others you linked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
In that same vein, people fear nuclear weapons for the same reason. They're hard to build, but once you've got all the components working together, you've got a weapon that could destroy an entire city in a matter of seconds. We better figure out a way to protect ourselves from ourselves. Because somebody will build a weapon eventually--AI or otherwise--no matter how hard we try to prevent it.
I wonder if it could be because of all the radioactive waste that we dropped? Just a shot in the dark, but this map lines up very nicely with the blob:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
It apparently lies between 120W and 150W, and 40N and 55N. That's almost exactly where we've dropped all our radioactive waste. The wikipedia article says that we haven't seen much environmental impact, but it's hard to say, considering how heavy radioactive nuclei are. Why would we see it on the surface?
Right. Would it? Okay. How is that supposed to help me imagine 5000 light years? I already know it's a bloody long way. You might as well have told me it was the length of x football pitches or y times the length of the Amazon river.
A comparison with the diameter of the galaxy in question would have been more useful.
Our galaxy is on the order of 100,000 lightyears in diameter. So 5,000 lightyears is about 1/20 the distance of our galaxy. That's a pretty large distance to lag behind our matter, considering that it also interacts with itself.
I think the slashdot rating system is broken. Every time I get the opportunity to moderate, I do so, and it gets modded up as a much nicer compliment than I intended.
This isn't thinking in the 50's this is standard modern political thinking. Protect profit. The politician is the president of the West Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Association and apparently owns dealers in Kentucky.
Tesla basically had ZERO chance here.
Then this is a serious conflict of interest. Is there anything that can be done against this type of scumbagery as a non-constituent of WV?
The comments in this thread are all made from a reasonable understanding of how the Internet works. Sen. Feinstein doesn't seem to share it. Ok, you can laugh about that once. But the contempt for her is beyond normal. It is at troll level. How much do her critics know about politics and running large public organizations? Next to nothing, I bet. And they have even less experience. In line with the season, let me say: think, before you throw the first stone
Seeing the world in a bad light, doesn't make you superior.
(source forgotten)
+1... also, I might add that, for all of the unfettered emotion being expressed in this thread, not very much of it will be focused on actually making things better. Most folks just complain then go back to eating their cheese puffs.
I vote occasionally. Here are some things that would encourage me to vote more:
1. Ranked ballot voting, top 3 choices.
This would shut everybody up. Now your vote counts.
2. Online/electronic absentee ballot.
I'm lazy. So are most people.
3. Transparency and availability of easy-to-read candidate data.
Most of the time I don't know any of the people on the ballot. I want a brief overview of the candidate's stances on core issues as well as record of their past accomplishments. It would also be nice if potential conflicts of interest were listed.
4. Make voting-day a national holiday.
If it's a part of the culture, it gains permanent respect. Quality voting is essential to our future. Take the day off? Sounds good to me!
Instead of having it at NASA, can't they just have it at the local Holiday Inn?
Those were my thoughts, too, but it looks like the legislation has been corrected (or at least "clarified"), as it was, apparently, not intended to be used that way.
Wolf said NASA officials may have believed that the move was needed because of extra temporary restrictions on foreign nationals after a potential security breach by a Chinese citizen at a NASA facility in Virginia earlier this year.
"I have ordered a moratorium on granting any new access to NASA facilities to individuals from specific designated countries, specifically China, Burma, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan."
I'm not going to lie, our "rivalry" with China kind of worries me sometimes. I wasn't around for the Cold War really, but it seems like we're heading for a second Cold War if we continue to restrict, contradict, spy on and threaten each other. It is undeniable that China is on the rise. They have a quarter of the worlds population. I don't want to start the first half of the century being hated by the Chinese (and everybody else for that matter).
I'm posting this from a hotel with pay-for internet access. I'm paying about $200 a night for two beds (so not too expensive, but expensive for me). As soon as I saw that the internet costs money here, I thought to myself, well shit, I won't be coming to the Hilton again. So yes, I would imagine that it does affect the amount of customers they get, but apparently not enough for them to lose money on charging for access. Fortunately the conference that I'm attending is paying for my internet.
As a side note, they don't offer any free breakfast either.:(
Males and females have absolutely no difference between them, despite the overwhelming experiential, physiological, neurological, anatomical, and hormonal evidence to the contrary, you sexist pigs, and how dare you even conduct this research into the issue!
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go open a jar of mayo for the little lady, though that in no way suggests she lacks the wrist and forearm strength to grasp and twist just as well as any man.
I dunno much about the Volt's angry slashdot history, but It seems like a pretty feasible way to transition to an electric car if you're worried about road trips.
Every time I pass one, it catches my eye. I'd say it's right up there in looks with the Model S, which also, in my opinion, looks attractive. If I had the money to choose between those two cars, I'd have to think about it.
Optical trapping can sometimes make use of radiation pressure, but that's generally not how you optically trap a particle, nor is that how they did it. Radiation pressure is characterized by absorption and reflection (like tennis balls hitting a wall). To trap a particle, you use refraction (when modeling the system with ray optics).
The change in index of refraction between water (or air) and your particle causes the light rays to "change direction" as they enter and leave the particle. There is a net momentum transferred to the particle in the direction of the focus of the laser beam, thus trapping the particle at the focus.
I'm not an expert with all this technology and stuff, but it seems that this does not "violate" net neutrality. I was under that the impression that net neutrality is concerned with the content of data sent/received, not with company policies that limit large amounts of traffic (or servers or whatever), regardless of the type of data being sent through.
Of course, a company could violate net neutrality by banning specific servers or censoring information that they don't like, but I don't see how splitting up your "business" and "residential" service has anything to do with freedom of information. Can someone explain to me exactly why this is a violation of net neutrality? It sounds more to me like many of you are upset because of false advertisement, or even simply because you think something should be free when it's not.
As far as evilness goes... meh. Evil, to me, is synonymous to greed. And, to varying degrees, just about everybody in our country and every other country is greedy. It comes with the territory.;)
This measure of potent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere should spark renewed discussion about the use of fossil fuels.
No it won't. It's not like politicians and the public have been just sitting on the sidelines, waiting util a value about 400 PPM was observed. I don't believe the public really doubts that atmospheric CO2 is increasing, and so a wonky measure of it is pretty irrelevant to public sentiment.
I think you misinterpreted the use of "should" there. It's not that it should happen, as in it likely will happen, it's just we have an obligation to do it.
People have HEARD (and accept) that we're pumping too much CO2 into our atmosphere, but very few people have taken serious effort against it. As I'm sure many slashdotters would agree (hopefully I'm not stretching myself too far here), renewed discussion of fossil fuels in public forums, media and government needs to happen. Our population is large enough to affect an entire planet. Following our reckless impulses and immediate desires is NOT an option, and we should work [our asses off] to change that.
For example, if you're interested in physics, pick a section out of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics PDF, read it, then later during another break take a look at an example or practice problem. Hell, practice the method of Loci memorization technique. You'll get something out of that if you stick with it.
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Keep in mind that we're in this together. A large economic collapse due to robotics and AI advances will compel the american populace to find ways of supporting itself, be it through complete economic regulation (ie communism) or through philanthropic capitalism. After all, what's the point of building robots for profit if that profit can't be realized?
One thing is for certain though: things will get worse before they get better. Our hands need to be forced.
Most of the STEM students that I've met chose their major based on their interests and/or already possessed skills. It seems to me that there are viable career opportunities in all STEM fields. Why worry about your choice of education when you'll develop skills regardless?
Finding any job is a full time job regardless of your major. And you neither entitled nor guaranteed to get a job you'll like.
The reality of today is that, if you communicate any secrets, you must consider the possibility of your communications being tapped/intercepted. It is even possible that hardware is compromised before you even buy it.
With backdoors, BIOS hacking and packet sniffing being part of the daily talk on slashdot, you have to be prepared to communicate end-to-end with multiple levels of pre-planned encryption. That said, I don't think I've ever said anything that needs that much security, but a nation-state might have.
I built my current rig in 2009, investing heavily in forward-compatibility for upgrades. The investment payed out more than I could ever have imagined.
Forward compatibility is very important to me too.
Can you or somebody else recommend me a motherboard that fits the bill?
I'm putting together specs for a budget gaming rig that I can upgrade when I get more money. The only piece that I have set in stone is an nvidia GTX 960 graphics card, but I'm planning on getting either an i3 or pentium G series processor, then upgrading later on. I've been looking at Z97s that are LGA1150, but I know so little about motherboards that I can only base my criteria off of what other people have recommended. I guess I'd want it to be SLI ready so I can double up on the graphics card eventually w/ a dual monitor setup. Extra ram slots would be nice so I can just keep adding cheap ram.
Also, how important is it to get a good power supply? I guess efficiency might add up on the electricity bill. Can you recommend one of those?
Will i5 prices go down this month?
I'm building a gaming/mini-simulation computer, and I have a mix of poor student syndrome along with excessive computer drooling disease (much more debilitating). Basically all I want is a fast GPU (nvid gtx 960), but I can't help but want a fast processor too, so I've been comparing the i5's, i3's and pentium G3450's.
Should I wait to buy an i5? or should I stick with the cheap processor? or maybe you know of a motherboard/cpu combo deal that will cut the cost of an i5 just enough?
*napkins mouth*
I have a crackberry look-alike that gets the job done -- it was $60 at radioshack.
I'd say a flip phone, probably the razr, is the best option. I often butt-dial people with my crackberry (or it tries to dial 911 if it's locked).
I don't mind reading blog posts on the medium, but this is really not news. You might as well have included this wikipedia article with the others you linked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
Agreed.
In that same vein, people fear nuclear weapons for the same reason. They're hard to build, but once you've got all the components working together, you've got a weapon that could destroy an entire city in a matter of seconds. We better figure out a way to protect ourselves from ourselves. Because somebody will build a weapon eventually--AI or otherwise--no matter how hard we try to prevent it.
I wonder if it could be because of all the radioactive waste that we dropped? Just a shot in the dark, but this map lines up very nicely with the blob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
It apparently lies between 120W and 150W, and 40N and 55N. That's almost exactly where we've dropped all our radioactive waste. The wikipedia article says that we haven't seen much environmental impact, but it's hard to say, considering how heavy radioactive nuclei are. Why would we see it on the surface?
Right. Would it? Okay. How is that supposed to help me imagine 5000 light years? I already know it's a bloody long way. You might as well have told me it was the length of x football pitches or y times the length of the Amazon river.
A comparison with the diameter of the galaxy in question would have been more useful.
Our galaxy is on the order of 100,000 lightyears in diameter. So 5,000 lightyears is about 1/20 the distance of our galaxy. That's a pretty large distance to lag behind our matter, considering that it also interacts with itself.
as long as I have equal opportunity to get laid.
Hey, where's my paternal leave!
How's that insightful?
I think the slashdot rating system is broken. Every time I get the opportunity to moderate, I do so, and it gets modded up as a much nicer compliment than I intended.
This isn't thinking in the 50's this is standard modern political thinking. Protect profit. The politician is the president of the West Virginia Automobile & Truck Dealers Association and apparently owns dealers in Kentucky.
Tesla basically had ZERO chance here.
Then this is a serious conflict of interest. Is there anything that can be done against this type of scumbagery as a non-constituent of WV?
Where are my cheese puffs?
The comments in this thread are all made from a reasonable understanding of how the Internet works. Sen. Feinstein doesn't seem to share it. Ok, you can laugh about that once. But the contempt for her is beyond normal. It is at troll level. How much do her critics know about politics and running large public organizations? Next to nothing, I bet. And they have even less experience. In line with the season, let me say: think, before you throw the first stone
Seeing the world in a bad light, doesn't make you superior. (source forgotten)
+1 ... also, I might add that, for all of the unfettered emotion being expressed in this thread, not very much of it will be focused on actually making things better. Most folks just complain then go back to eating their cheese puffs.
I vote occasionally. Here are some things that would encourage me to vote more:
1. Ranked ballot voting, top 3 choices. This would shut everybody up. Now your vote counts.
2. Online/electronic absentee ballot. I'm lazy. So are most people.
3. Transparency and availability of easy-to-read candidate data. Most of the time I don't know any of the people on the ballot. I want a brief overview of the candidate's stances on core issues as well as record of their past accomplishments. It would also be nice if potential conflicts of interest were listed.
4. Make voting-day a national holiday. If it's a part of the culture, it gains permanent respect. Quality voting is essential to our future. Take the day off? Sounds good to me!
Instead of having it at NASA, can't they just have it at the local Holiday Inn?
Those were my thoughts, too, but it looks like the legislation has been corrected (or at least "clarified"), as it was, apparently, not intended to be used that way.
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-nasa-chinese-scientists-boycott.html
Wolf said NASA officials may have believed that the move was needed because of extra temporary restrictions on foreign nationals after a potential security breach by a Chinese citizen at a NASA facility in Virginia earlier this year.
"I have ordered a moratorium on granting any new access to NASA facilities to individuals from specific designated countries, specifically China, Burma, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Uzbekistan."
I'm not going to lie, our "rivalry" with China kind of worries me sometimes. I wasn't around for the Cold War really, but it seems like we're heading for a second Cold War if we continue to restrict, contradict, spy on and threaten each other. It is undeniable that China is on the rise. They have a quarter of the worlds population. I don't want to start the first half of the century being hated by the Chinese (and everybody else for that matter).
I'm posting this from a hotel with pay-for internet access. I'm paying about $200 a night for two beds (so not too expensive, but expensive for me). As soon as I saw that the internet costs money here, I thought to myself, well shit, I won't be coming to the Hilton again. So yes, I would imagine that it does affect the amount of customers they get, but apparently not enough for them to lose money on charging for access. Fortunately the conference that I'm attending is paying for my internet.
As a side note, they don't offer any free breakfast either. :(
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That's one expensive assessment. I can't imagine that an educational assessment would cost $30,000. If they can manage to market that, good for them.
Males and females have absolutely no difference between them, despite the overwhelming experiential, physiological, neurological, anatomical, and hormonal evidence to the contrary, you sexist pigs, and how dare you even conduct this research into the issue! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go open a jar of mayo for the little lady, though that in no way suggests she lacks the wrist and forearm strength to grasp and twist just as well as any man.
I find your sentiment absolutely discussing!!
I dunno much about the Volt's angry slashdot history, but It seems like a pretty feasible way to transition to an electric car if you're worried about road trips.
Every time I pass one, it catches my eye. I'd say it's right up there in looks with the Model S, which also, in my opinion, looks attractive. If I had the money to choose between those two cars, I'd have to think about it.
Optical trapping can sometimes make use of radiation pressure, but that's generally not how you optically trap a particle, nor is that how they did it. Radiation pressure is characterized by absorption and reflection (like tennis balls hitting a wall). To trap a particle, you use refraction (when modeling the system with ray optics).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pressure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_tweezers
The change in index of refraction between water (or air) and your particle causes the light rays to "change direction" as they enter and leave the particle. There is a net momentum transferred to the particle in the direction of the focus of the laser beam, thus trapping the particle at the focus.
I'm not an expert with all this technology and stuff, but it seems that this does not "violate" net neutrality. I was under that the impression that net neutrality is concerned with the content of data sent/received, not with company policies that limit large amounts of traffic (or servers or whatever), regardless of the type of data being sent through.
Of course, a company could violate net neutrality by banning specific servers or censoring information that they don't like, but I don't see how splitting up your "business" and "residential" service has anything to do with freedom of information. Can someone explain to me exactly why this is a violation of net neutrality? It sounds more to me like many of you are upset because of false advertisement, or even simply because you think something should be free when it's not.
As far as evilness goes... meh. Evil, to me, is synonymous to greed. And, to varying degrees, just about everybody in our country and every other country is greedy. It comes with the territory. ;)
No it won't. It's not like politicians and the public have been just sitting on the sidelines, waiting util a value about 400 PPM was observed. I don't believe the public really doubts that atmospheric CO2 is increasing, and so a wonky measure of it is pretty irrelevant to public sentiment.
I think you misinterpreted the use of "should" there. It's not that it should happen, as in it likely will happen, it's just we have an obligation to do it.
People have HEARD (and accept) that we're pumping too much CO2 into our atmosphere, but very few people have taken serious effort against it. As I'm sure many slashdotters would agree (hopefully I'm not stretching myself too far here), renewed discussion of fossil fuels in public forums, media and government needs to happen. Our population is large enough to affect an entire planet. Following our reckless impulses and immediate desires is NOT an option, and we should work [our asses off] to change that.
For example, if you're interested in physics, pick a section out of Halliday's Fundamentals of Physics PDF, read it, then later during another break take a look at an example or practice problem. Hell, practice the method of Loci memorization technique. You'll get something out of that if you stick with it.
Really, just pick anything you're interested in.