The only time "only use in case of" works is with fire extinguishers, and thats because if you use in times of not fire you get thrown out of housing. You look at someone's searches and they arent a terrorist? BAM 20 years incarceration.
Notice also that a fire has to break out FIRST. Not such a good preventative measure, more like something to keep it from spreading which terrorism does all by itself.
I love the complete bullshit rhetoric that is in use here. This is about as "synthetic" as a plagiarized paper is original. Hacking up a bunch of real genomes is easypeasy compared to actually making life from scratch. The way this was done you dont even have to know the rules, you just put it all together and hope it works.
Life can never be "synthetic." Life is a process, and maybe we will one day be able to stick some genetic code into a cell composed of protiens and lipids and carbohydrates that were all synthesized in a lab, but until then we will always have to steal and cheat our way by taking what evolution has given us.
As much as this concerns me, the underlying assumption here is that kids actually learn things from textbooks. I find that assumption lacking giving the complete failure of our educational system no matter what they are trying to teach other than that school sucks and the government gives you money.
Maybe advertising is a bubble, but sometimes there really are products out there that would make your life 1000 times easier if you knew about them (if only university procurement departments could somehow be enlightened about the existence of 3ply toilet paper).
Haha, right now we're having a hell of a time getting other human beings to be friendy and they are quite a bit smarter and more dangerous than any robot, so until the meat is less dangerous than the quartz I think it is a grand waist of resources to try and make robots "friendly." To tell you the truth there are certain things that real intelligence should be unfriendly towards.
Thats all well and good Mark, but see there is this little problem, which is that 99% of all governments in the world (and probably 90% of all users on the internet) cant distinguish Internet from IRL and in fact are actively pushing them together in ways which should be quite alarming to long time net users. Lack of privacy would be fine if the government couldnt punish you for it, but they can. Every single legal system extant today has not sufficiently dealt with the realities of cheap and fast information, they were all constructed over hundreds (some times thousands for those of you living in countries following in the tradition of Roman law and Cannon law) of years where the basic assumption was the certain physical facts about the universe protected individuals from each other and from their government. That is no longer the case, and until it is we should all be very very cautious.
From my own experience its not so much a specific constant frame rate as it is the fact that the frame rate fluctuates. If all game developers made sure that their games NEVER dipped below 30fps during major action (fps obvs) that would be fine, but when 30fps is the average between 45 and 15 fps we have a big problem. Heck, even a drop form 60fps to 30fps is noticable and disconcerting. I bet if you were to hook players up to a machine that could measure emotional responses you would find that sudden drops in framerate elicit strong negative responses which negatively effect performance.
What the hell is a nettop that does not use local storage doing with a 64gb SSD harddrive!??!??! Also what the hell is it doing with 2gigs of ram!? I'm calling bullshit until we get some real info. If these are real they could cut the cost in half by using a 16gig ssd and 1gig of ram and see zero performance hit this isnt a gaming rig ffs.
Some day they will find out that we've been faking it. Don't EVER let them find out about "first order approximation" or we will be sitting around trying to explain Taylor's theorem to them for the next 150 years >_.
The real badguys already use proxies, so way to go google, punish the stupid wannabe badguys >_. Well I guess social darwinism is still in. Also, they may say it, but they still index it. That said there are ways for google to really increase privacy but then the wouldnt get their precious data and they would fall behind so its a damned if you do and damned if you dont. Also, after reading the old somethingawful leaked AOL searches I think we can agree that sometimes it would be better if you could just call the police when you saw search logs.
I personally have found that you can use fluxbox's keys file to bind just about anything, so I have keys bound that launch a script which calls xrandr with the right options and modes for my monitors, works prefectly.
Thank god someone else realized this. Did everyone miss the part where this stuff is basically grown from cow extract?? If you stop raising livestock you remove the primary food source for this monstrosity. Sure you could view it as an increase in efficiency for livestock industries since otherwise useless blood and serum can now be turned into muscle, but as far as the whole PETA thing goes, they are completely off the mark.
Don't we already have one of these? I think its called the "Power" button unless I'm very much mistaken. There's even a key-combo for it "alt-f4" or "ctrl-w".
I'm sure if you cooked up some algorithms you would have no trouble finding out so pretty darned interesting things about yourself, google doesnt give you those, it just gives you the raw data, which is pretty much useless by itself.
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Just don't recite any poetry and we will come along quietly.
Anyone else feeling a TMNT / Captain Planet crossover right about now?
Just call them "Twit alerts"
Finally! A way to bump off those jackass who you can smell from a block away without getting caught.
Is it just me or have people still not properly defined what they mean by the internet?
The only time "only use in case of" works is with fire extinguishers, and thats because if you use in times of not fire you get thrown out of housing. You look at someone's searches and they arent a terrorist? BAM 20 years incarceration.
Notice also that a fire has to break out FIRST. Not such a good preventative measure, more like something to keep it from spreading which terrorism does all by itself.
I love the complete bullshit rhetoric that is in use here. This is about as "synthetic" as a plagiarized paper is original. Hacking up a bunch of real genomes is easypeasy compared to actually making life from scratch. The way this was done you dont even have to know the rules, you just put it all together and hope it works.
Life can never be "synthetic." Life is a process, and maybe we will one day be able to stick some genetic code into a cell composed of protiens and lipids and carbohydrates that were all synthesized in a lab, but until then we will always have to steal and cheat our way by taking what evolution has given us.
As much as this concerns me, the underlying assumption here is that kids actually learn things from textbooks. I find that assumption lacking giving the complete failure of our educational system no matter what they are trying to teach other than that school sucks and the government gives you money.
Maybe advertising is a bubble, but sometimes there really are products out there that would make your life 1000 times easier if you knew about them (if only university procurement departments could somehow be enlightened about the existence of 3ply toilet paper).
The ruling will probably be struck down on interstate commerce grounds.
Its easy, all you need is to already know what information it is going to send!
Those of you who are married surely have large amounts of data on this FTL communication device!
Haha, right now we're having a hell of a time getting other human beings to be friendy and they are quite a bit smarter and more dangerous than any robot, so until the meat is less dangerous than the quartz I think it is a grand waist of resources to try and make robots "friendly." To tell you the truth there are certain things that real intelligence should be unfriendly towards.
Another government money waister that should go tits up, how fitting.
Thats all well and good Mark, but see there is this little problem, which is that 99% of all governments in the world (and probably 90% of all users on the internet) cant distinguish Internet from IRL and in fact are actively pushing them together in ways which should be quite alarming to long time net users. Lack of privacy would be fine if the government couldnt punish you for it, but they can. Every single legal system extant today has not sufficiently dealt with the realities of cheap and fast information, they were all constructed over hundreds (some times thousands for those of you living in countries following in the tradition of Roman law and Cannon law) of years where the basic assumption was the certain physical facts about the universe protected individuals from each other and from their government. That is no longer the case, and until it is we should all be very very cautious.
God did it! God teir troll that man is.
From my own experience its not so much a specific constant frame rate as it is the fact that the frame rate fluctuates. If all game developers made sure that their games NEVER dipped below 30fps during major action (fps obvs) that would be fine, but when 30fps is the average between 45 and 15 fps we have a big problem. Heck, even a drop form 60fps to 30fps is noticable and disconcerting. I bet if you were to hook players up to a machine that could measure emotional responses you would find that sudden drops in framerate elicit strong negative responses which negatively effect performance.
What the hell is a nettop that does not use local storage doing with a 64gb SSD harddrive!??!??! Also what the hell is it doing with 2gigs of ram!? I'm calling bullshit until we get some real info. If these are real they could cut the cost in half by using a 16gig ssd and 1gig of ram and see zero performance hit this isnt a gaming rig ffs.
Some day they will find out that we've been faking it. Don't EVER let them find out about "first order approximation" or we will be sitting around trying to explain Taylor's theorem to them for the next 150 years >_.
The real badguys already use proxies, so way to go google, punish the stupid wannabe badguys >_. Well I guess social darwinism is still in. Also, they may say it, but they still index it. That said there are ways for google to really increase privacy but then the wouldnt get their precious data and they would fall behind so its a damned if you do and damned if you dont. Also, after reading the old somethingawful leaked AOL searches I think we can agree that sometimes it would be better if you could just call the police when you saw search logs.
I personally have found that you can use fluxbox's keys file to bind just about anything, so I have keys bound that launch a script which calls xrandr with the right options and modes for my monitors, works prefectly.
Thank god someone else realized this. Did everyone miss the part where this stuff is basically grown from cow extract?? If you stop raising livestock you remove the primary food source for this monstrosity. Sure you could view it as an increase in efficiency for livestock industries since otherwise useless blood and serum can now be turned into muscle, but as far as the whole PETA thing goes, they are completely off the mark.
Welcome to the internet, please enjoy your stay or GTFO promptly.
Don't we already have one of these? I think its called the "Power" button unless I'm very much mistaken. There's even a key-combo for it "alt-f4" or "ctrl-w".
This sucks.
I'm sure if you cooked up some algorithms you would have no trouble finding out so pretty darned interesting things about yourself, google doesnt give you those, it just gives you the raw data, which is pretty much useless by itself.