I can't think of too many specific dates. Lots of ages, but no indication of how they relate to each other, or how they are measured. (Let's take the extreme example of Adam. Since he did not age until after he left the Garden, there was nobody around to make the measurement, and was never born in any of the usual versions of the story, from what do you measure his age?)
You can achieve comparable security using Byzantine methods to split a one-time encryption pad into relatively secure fragments. Since the fragments can be reordered and then randomly embedded in the data, you can achieve everything boasted for quantum encryption but using methods tried-and-tested.
What amazed me was not that antimatter could destroy a GP hull, but that the main character who happened to be in said hull at the time was still more-or-less intact afterwards (as opposed to becoming a thin veneer over the cosmic background radiation).
Most of the civilized parts of Europe had outlawed slavery by 1200 AD, with Britain being one of the last at outlawing it in 1770. The only western nations of any significance with active slavery after that were America and France. (And if you visit the Bible Belt today, you can see how much they resent that.) Indeed, although Britain now places modern sex slaves into witness protection programs, the importation of "modern" slaves into America and much of the EU from eastern Europe is every bit as extreme, cruel, violent and criminal as the worst of the worst of the slave triangle era. There might be a very reasonable case to be made for blacklisting and penalizing nations that ignore or encourage modern slave practices. This does not alter historic crimes, but ensures that the crimes of history do not become the crimes of tomorrow.
And, ultimately, the question then turns to whether corporate crimes of the past (such as the subjugation of nation states for commercial exploitation) must be deault with as potential future threats. Is there evidence of corporations (Microsoft/ISO) controlling (Microsoft/DOJ) modern (Microsoft/Peru) nations in a way that is harmful to those nations and clearly for just the sole purpose of using political muscle for commercial exploitation? Well, yeah, there is. As such, it is entirely reasonable to regard this as an ongoing disease within society, even if the original carriers of the disease are no longer the major contributors of the infection.
Sadly, I fear you are correct. However, there is another consideration. There ARE other standards bodies, and standards bodies are no different from commodities or currencies - once they are devalued, nobody wants to buy in. A standards body is only a tradable commodity whilst people are still buying in, same as with the dollar or the zlotty. If one of the other bodies were to become politically attractive to enough countries and enough businesses, the ISO currency collapses.
It doesn't matter if it's not a total collapse, it just has to scare ISO. Scare them badly. So badly they stop messing around and pocketing back-handers, but go straight for a bit.
True, but the extreme depth aquefiers under the deserts are fairly pure, and water filtered by sandstone and gritstone is also fairly pure. Also, if the main chemistry takes place on the surface, then that's where the salts will be.
...strong AI cannot come from the processing of real data. That is not how minds work. Minds exist in a self-contained virtual reality that are periodically updated with real-world sensory data. This is why autism can impact the flow of that data and its connectedness without impacting the underlying mind. They're simply not associated in that way.
*wonders how many remember the live incident at the BBC, many years ago, when the Grandstand teleprinter stopped displaying match results and started printing updates on a fire running through the building.
No, I've a much better idea. Place the specification on a genuine fast track - say, the Monte Carlo F1 circuit - and let it be utterly crushed into oblivion before being smeared across the landscape.
You are correct. Although it has been pointed out by others that terrestrial lifeforms that handle extreme salinity first evolved in purer waters, this doesn't tell us a whole lot, as water at extreme depths may well be extremely pure, with life migrating towards the surface as it became more tolerent of conditions. Also, knowing it was salty at one point in time does not tell us about salt levels prior to this, or indeed about salt levels anywhere on Mars outside of the points so far examined. All this also assumes a traditional carbon-based lifeform, which although the most likely, is not guaranteed to be the only form of life. Silicon is a strong contender, particularly if you have environments in which carbon-based structures would be less likely to survive.
In short, we could easily dream up a million and one scenarios in which life could have existed on Mars or could exist there today. Without more information, all we can say with any certainty is that terrestrial life could not have arisen on the surface of Mars within the narrow region of space and time for which we have reliable geological data. We can say nothing about any other form of life, any other location on Mars, or any other point in Martian history.
(God, I hate agreeing with someone who's got me marked as a foe. It's so... so... Un-Slashdotish, somehow.)
Not enough layering. The problems I have with the proliferation of variants are that it's hard to pick the specific spin of a specific package that you want and that picking a desired end result will often lead to Ubuntu's installer complaining that that permutation isn't valid because of a conflict, even if the permutation would not conflict if a sane installation policies were in use. What's needed is to break the problem down into more manageable chunks and to provide far greater granularity.
...you are correct. However, technology is currently providing tools that are more powerful than society is equipt to support. Arguably, this is the fault of society and not technology, that society needs to evolve at a pace no slower than the means it provides for its own self-destruction. However, let's face it. Societies evolve slowly and with extreme prejudice against any kind of progressive stance. The Second Amendment in the USA is nothing more than a remnant of the War of Independence (I won't call it a revolution, except in the sense that it went around in circles) and is completely incompatible with any kind of civilized society. Yes, yes, I understand the theories (and also why they simply don't work), and I also understand that they're a part of American tradition. (Tradition and evolution are necessarily enemies and never invite each other round for tea.) But that is just the point. Clinging on to antique "Trial By Fire" and "Trial By Combat" notions only work if you live in a society primitive enough for these to be viable. As science and technology improve, not only do the underlying assumptions behind such antique thinking cease to be valid, but the blind adherence to them becomes a religious doctorine that is obsessed with destroying anything or anyone who dares question the Holy Church of Blind Faith.
Advancement in society comes at a risk. That risk is that you must be willing to throw away anything that you felt sure on, anything that you felt you could depend upon being there. It's scary to some people even today to believe the world isn't flat. Some of humanity's greatest triumphs (such as the American Constitution) have depended upon some of the assumptions that must now be held to the light. If humanity is to avoid another Dark Age, it MUST be willing to let go of anything found to be false, no matter how dear, no matter how precious.
And that is precisely why I used one of the most inflamatory of possible examples. You must be willing to throw away ANYTHING. If you are not, if you insist that some baggage is necessary, then techology will outpace humanity's ability to make constructive use of it, and humanity's self-destructive tendencies will eventually win out. They always have. If you like, that's "bonus material" in the DVD version of Darwinism. Self-elimination forms a part of human natural selection. If you wish to avoid self-elimination, then social progress must take absolute priority over social traditions. You cannot remain Peter Pan forever, and you won't survive if you try.
Excel as a scientific programming tool makes as much sense as using a KIM-1 or a ZX-80 in controlling a modern high-end linear accelerator. If a spreadsheet programming language were to be insisted on, at least go for Smartware's integrated system. It's antique, but it's fast and the spreadsheets supported are considerably larger. And if a spreadsheet is all you need, then why waste department money on an inferior product like Excel?
If you were to tell them that a spreadsheet was acceptable, so long as it was Smartware, or that low-end kit was fine so long as it was Z80-based, the serious programmers in the department would choke with laughter so hard that they'd pick it up on seismographs a mile away. The wooshing sound over the heads of the idiots as the satirical bite completely missed them would serve only to reinforce things.
I cut my teeth on a 20 MeV tandem accelerator being controlled by systems only Professor Brainstawm could understand, and I gained more science knowledge from that than I could ever have gained from an Excel-based computer-assisted ignorance - err, learning - package. The science is important, yes, but you remember that GIGO thing? GIGO doesn't just apply to the data, it also applies to the methods. Garbage method in, garbage out.
Let me take your co-workers by the hand and lead them down the streets of science. Maybe I can show them something that'll make them change their mind.
Although not a similar case, Clive Sinclair structured his company with an eye to surviving collapse. He split it into "Sinclair" (which carried all of the losses) and "Sinclair Research" (which carried all of the profits, intellectual property, et al). After the Sinclair C5 fiasco, "Sinclair" was sold to Amstrad for a small fortune (ie: he sold off the debt) and "Sinclair Research" (which had all the useful stuff and was now considerably richer) remained in his hands.
The idea MediaDefender is nothing more than a disposable front-end, therefore, is entirely possible and would make a lot of sense.
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After 1 square metre, it is no longer called a die. It is called a dead.
If it was an x86, it would be mostly 'armless.
If fictional viruses can be that lethal, just imagine what the real ones can do.
I can't think of too many specific dates. Lots of ages, but no indication of how they relate to each other, or how they are measured. (Let's take the extreme example of Adam. Since he did not age until after he left the Garden, there was nobody around to make the measurement, and was never born in any of the usual versions of the story, from what do you measure his age?)
You can achieve comparable security using Byzantine methods to split a one-time encryption pad into relatively secure fragments. Since the fragments can be reordered and then randomly embedded in the data, you can achieve everything boasted for quantum encryption but using methods tried-and-tested.
The title does, in fact, refer to movie-edition Ming The Merciless' ring, which was found encompassing a micro-miniaturized Hollywood celebrity.
What amazed me was not that antimatter could destroy a GP hull, but that the main character who happened to be in said hull at the time was still more-or-less intact afterwards (as opposed to becoming a thin veneer over the cosmic background radiation).
No, only Nine Lords are doomed to die. But it would be interesting to know why Sauron and Melkor are messing around with a magnetar.
Well, they had a choice. Either switch to the small scale or have very, very large billiard tables.
And, ultimately, the question then turns to whether corporate crimes of the past (such as the subjugation of nation states for commercial exploitation) must be deault with as potential future threats. Is there evidence of corporations (Microsoft/ISO) controlling (Microsoft/DOJ) modern (Microsoft/Peru) nations in a way that is harmful to those nations and clearly for just the sole purpose of using political muscle for commercial exploitation? Well, yeah, there is. As such, it is entirely reasonable to regard this as an ongoing disease within society, even if the original carriers of the disease are no longer the major contributors of the infection.
It doesn't matter if it's not a total collapse, it just has to scare ISO. Scare them badly. So badly they stop messing around and pocketing back-handers, but go straight for a bit.
True, but the extreme depth aquefiers under the deserts are fairly pure, and water filtered by sandstone and gritstone is also fairly pure. Also, if the main chemistry takes place on the surface, then that's where the salts will be.
The responsible parties are drowning their sorrows in champaign, their guilt crushed under the weight of party hats and women of ill repute.
...strong AI cannot come from the processing of real data. That is not how minds work. Minds exist in a self-contained virtual reality that are periodically updated with real-world sensory data. This is why autism can impact the flow of that data and its connectedness without impacting the underlying mind. They're simply not associated in that way.
*wonders how many remember the live incident at the BBC, many years ago, when the Grandstand teleprinter stopped displaying match results and started printing updates on a fire running through the building.
No, I've a much better idea. Place the specification on a genuine fast track - say, the Monte Carlo F1 circuit - and let it be utterly crushed into oblivion before being smeared across the landscape.
In short, we could easily dream up a million and one scenarios in which life could have existed on Mars or could exist there today. Without more information, all we can say with any certainty is that terrestrial life could not have arisen on the surface of Mars within the narrow region of space and time for which we have reliable geological data. We can say nothing about any other form of life, any other location on Mars, or any other point in Martian history.
(God, I hate agreeing with someone who's got me marked as a foe. It's so... so... Un-Slashdotish, somehow.)
Not enough layering. The problems I have with the proliferation of variants are that it's hard to pick the specific spin of a specific package that you want and that picking a desired end result will often lead to Ubuntu's installer complaining that that permutation isn't valid because of a conflict, even if the permutation would not conflict if a sane installation policies were in use. What's needed is to break the problem down into more manageable chunks and to provide far greater granularity.
Advancement in society comes at a risk. That risk is that you must be willing to throw away anything that you felt sure on, anything that you felt you could depend upon being there. It's scary to some people even today to believe the world isn't flat. Some of humanity's greatest triumphs (such as the American Constitution) have depended upon some of the assumptions that must now be held to the light. If humanity is to avoid another Dark Age, it MUST be willing to let go of anything found to be false, no matter how dear, no matter how precious.
And that is precisely why I used one of the most inflamatory of possible examples. You must be willing to throw away ANYTHING. If you are not, if you insist that some baggage is necessary, then techology will outpace humanity's ability to make constructive use of it, and humanity's self-destructive tendencies will eventually win out. They always have. If you like, that's "bonus material" in the DVD version of Darwinism. Self-elimination forms a part of human natural selection. If you wish to avoid self-elimination, then social progress must take absolute priority over social traditions. You cannot remain Peter Pan forever, and you won't survive if you try.
This has been possible since IPv4-over-Avian was introduced. After conviction, however, prisoners are required to set the Evil Bit.
If you were to tell them that a spreadsheet was acceptable, so long as it was Smartware, or that low-end kit was fine so long as it was Z80-based, the serious programmers in the department would choke with laughter so hard that they'd pick it up on seismographs a mile away. The wooshing sound over the heads of the idiots as the satirical bite completely missed them would serve only to reinforce things.
I cut my teeth on a 20 MeV tandem accelerator being controlled by systems only Professor Brainstawm could understand, and I gained more science knowledge from that than I could ever have gained from an Excel-based computer-assisted ignorance - err, learning - package. The science is important, yes, but you remember that GIGO thing? GIGO doesn't just apply to the data, it also applies to the methods. Garbage method in, garbage out.
Let me take your co-workers by the hand and lead them down the streets of science. Maybe I can show them something that'll make them change their mind.
You wasted one of your 12 regenerations to get out of a reckless driving charge? What are they teaching in the Time Acadamy these days?
The idea MediaDefender is nothing more than a disposable front-end, therefore, is entirely possible and would make a lot of sense.
Would this be closer to what you're looking for?
...what is the speed of law in a perfect vaccuum?