Pretty much every telecom company obeys the local laws. Your advice is to divest from every telecom company? What does that accomplish?
People, S/MIME exists for a reason. India can't break it. RIM can't break it. The NSA can't break it. Get a free S/MIME cert and enjoy your privacy on ANY network.
If I were designing such a system, I would use a stripped-down cell phone. It would be indistinguishable from a regular phone as far as EM goes, and it would work anywhere. Even when parked in a garage with no GPS signal, it would be able to tell which cell tower it is closest to.
if it takes ridiculous amounts of manual effort to deploy to a single extra test server, you're probably doing something remarkably inefficient.
If you work on something bigger than a PHP CMS for a dog-walking business, it really can be a lot of effort. There's all the networking gear you need to buy in duplicate, the extra Oracle licenses, the SAN gear, etc.. It isn't cheap or easy to duplicate a big IT system.
No, this is a non-stop sound. You wouldn't want to lay on your horn all the time. This safety feature also sounds a lot nicer than regular road noise. Toyota has already released a sample of the sound it will play.
He isn't being loony. If he were loony, he would predict things known to by impossible based on our understanding of physics. He is very specifically predicting developments which (a) people want, and (b) the universe (seems to) allow. This is necessarily murky business, but he at least attempts to set his time-tables based on quantifiable, empirical observations as best he can.
So accepting that predicting the longer-term future is inherently difficult, he at least makes an attempt. You are the sort to just throw up your hands and sling mud at those who try. It's a good thing we have a few people like him. It would be tragic if everyone thought like you.
Kurzweil is obviously optimistic about his time tables. But his theory of technology growth accelerating calls for optimism; there's good reason to believe that experts historically underestimate the rate of advancement.
Clearly, Myers has discovered that being unnecessarily angry and insulting leads to more pageviews in his blog. I'm sure he knows his field, and it's great when he tears into real jokers, but he has moved beyond that. He is now being inflammatory just for page hits.
This is notable because it is coming from HDM, a fellow with an excellent reputation who will no-doubt release an easy-to-use exploit (with Metasploit) after app developers have had a chance to patch.
There isn't some master DHCP server in Frankfurt, Germany
You are the only one who mentioned such a thing.
Then, the only place to get an IPv4 address will be from the megacorps or the ISPs that have the addresses because they've horded them. Basically a shift of power.
No, the number of devices on the Internet is continuing to grow, especially in Asia, but the number of v4 addresses is static. No amount of "power" by the "megacorps" can change this. When the number of devices exceeds the number of addresses routed to that area of the globe, the devices will not get internet-routable v4 addresses.
We have enough problems with culture & accepted practices of just about everything, let alone addressing.
Culture doesn't enter into it. It already works. Today. Right now.
My budget VPS host comes with 16 v6 addresses per server by default. But if you don't have that option, by all means use tunneling (gogo6 does it for free) to make sure everything works properly, then transition to addresses from your ISP when they are available.
First of all, you are already using IPv6. Your computer is auto-picking an FE80 address, and every other machine on your switch could be talking to it (or attacking it) via this address. Bonus: many host-based firewalls let this right through.
Secondly, it is easy to set up IPv6. Just get an ISP with the addresses and set up AAAA DNS records for your servers.
Third: you need to have IPv6 working in the next year. In 2011, all v4 addresses will be assigned. Some people will be getting v6 internet addresses but NO v4 internet addresses. So if you want to be able to connect to them, you need v6.
Drugs are not intrinsically bad. However, treating normal behavior as a "disorder" is bad.
If we honestly admit that these are "performance-enhancing drugs" of the psychological sort, and consider them to be elective, then at least we could have an honest debate.
His eyes may be traversing the pages, but he is not understanding any of that. He doesn't have the math to even begin to make sense of it. Why would he be going through such a charade?
It is not his nature to focus on simple tasks. He is a boy. Once he grows up, this may change. But you are forcing a square peg in a round hole.
I saw an interesting piece on PBS about apes which have to learn how to pull termites out of holes with sticks. Young males simply could not learn the task. They didn't have the patience. They ran around annoying the rest of the apes. Females of the same age did fine.
For this species of ape, it was perfectly natural for young males to lack the self-control of females by about a two-year lag. Humans, as I'm sure you know, are merely a different species of ape. Stop drugging your boys to act like girls.
Technological singularity refers to a prediction in Futurism that technological progress will become extremely fast, and consequently will make the future (after the technological singularity) unpredictable and qualitatively different from today.
The idea is more vague than your statement about AI writing AI; you indicate only one possible definition/manifestation of the concept.
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On a cosmic timescale, some asteroids have a tiny chance of impacts. This is not a practical concern.
Pretty much every telecom company obeys the local laws. Your advice is to divest from every telecom company? What does that accomplish?
People, S/MIME exists for a reason. India can't break it. RIM can't break it. The NSA can't break it. Get a free S/MIME cert and enjoy your privacy on ANY network.
I think the idea is that driving 95 miles and flying 5 is cheaper than flying 100 miles.
If I were designing such a system, I would use a stripped-down cell phone. It would be indistinguishable from a regular phone as far as EM goes, and it would work anywhere. Even when parked in a garage with no GPS signal, it would be able to tell which cell tower it is closest to.
If you work on something bigger than a PHP CMS for a dog-walking business, it really can be a lot of effort. There's all the networking gear you need to buy in duplicate, the extra Oracle licenses, the SAN gear, etc.. It isn't cheap or easy to duplicate a big IT system.
No, this is a non-stop sound. You wouldn't want to lay on your horn all the time. This safety feature also sounds a lot nicer than regular road noise. Toyota has already released a sample of the sound it will play.
No, it would be like saying you can't put a camera on your toilet to keep tabs on your daughter when she goes to the bathroom.
He isn't being loony. If he were loony, he would predict things known to by impossible based on our understanding of physics. He is very specifically predicting developments which (a) people want, and (b) the universe (seems to) allow. This is necessarily murky business, but he at least attempts to set his time-tables based on quantifiable, empirical observations as best he can.
So accepting that predicting the longer-term future is inherently difficult, he at least makes an attempt. You are the sort to just throw up your hands and sling mud at those who try. It's a good thing we have a few people like him. It would be tragic if everyone thought like you.
It isn't really a dispute.
Kurzweil is obviously optimistic about his time tables. But his theory of technology growth accelerating calls for optimism; there's good reason to believe that experts historically underestimate the rate of advancement.
Clearly, Myers has discovered that being unnecessarily angry and insulting leads to more pageviews in his blog. I'm sure he knows his field, and it's great when he tears into real jokers, but he has moved beyond that. He is now being inflammatory just for page hits.
This is notable because it is coming from HDM, a fellow with an excellent reputation who will no-doubt release an easy-to-use exploit (with Metasploit) after app developers have had a chance to patch.
Wait: you RFID scan peoples' garbage when you collect it? Do you take photos, too? That would be some really interesting data.
The tags are in the tags, not the shoes. Do you leave your tags on your shoes? And how often do you walk across networked RFID transceivers, anyway?
At the current rate of assignment, which has already been severely limited to postpone exhaustion, all addresses will be assigned in 285 days.
You are. Or at least, your network is.
You are the only one who mentioned such a thing.
No, the number of devices on the Internet is continuing to grow, especially in Asia, but the number of v4 addresses is static. No amount of "power" by the "megacorps" can change this. When the number of devices exceeds the number of addresses routed to that area of the globe, the devices will not get internet-routable v4 addresses.
Culture doesn't enter into it. It already works. Today. Right now.
My budget VPS host comes with 16 v6 addresses per server by default. But if you don't have that option, by all means use tunneling (gogo6 does it for free) to make sure everything works properly, then transition to addresses from your ISP when they are available.
First of all, you are already using IPv6. Your computer is auto-picking an FE80 address, and every other machine on your switch could be talking to it (or attacking it) via this address. Bonus: many host-based firewalls let this right through.
Secondly, it is easy to set up IPv6. Just get an ISP with the addresses and set up AAAA DNS records for your servers.
Third: you need to have IPv6 working in the next year. In 2011, all v4 addresses will be assigned. Some people will be getting v6 internet addresses but NO v4 internet addresses. So if you want to be able to connect to them, you need v6.
Drugs are not intrinsically bad. However, treating normal behavior as a "disorder" is bad.
If we honestly admit that these are "performance-enhancing drugs" of the psychological sort, and consider them to be elective, then at least we could have an honest debate.
His eyes may be traversing the pages, but he is not understanding any of that. He doesn't have the math to even begin to make sense of it. Why would he be going through such a charade?
Just remember that ADHD is within the spectrum of normal childhood behavior. It is not a disorder.
It is not his nature to focus on simple tasks. He is a boy. Once he grows up, this may change. But you are forcing a square peg in a round hole.
I saw an interesting piece on PBS about apes which have to learn how to pull termites out of holes with sticks. Young males simply could not learn the task. They didn't have the patience. They ran around annoying the rest of the apes. Females of the same age did fine.
For this species of ape, it was perfectly natural for young males to lack the self-control of females by about a two-year lag. Humans, as I'm sure you know, are merely a different species of ape. Stop drugging your boys to act like girls.
That's not the real Kurzwiel; it's just some joker.
Again, that is only one possible definition/manifestation of the concept.
From your wikipedia link:
The idea is more vague than your statement about AI writing AI; you indicate only one possible definition/manifestation of the concept.
Reread my post. You are arguing with a strawman.
So you are admitting that you use more than the average person?