No you should STOP the burglar and place crime scene tape down, just as they would have done by removing the DNS servers (as evidence) and leaving nothing in their place.
I can bitch about the Creationists who are inhabiting The Guardian newspaper's comments section at the moment, the idiots commenting on Yahoo! and the morons on YouTube. Hell, as I'm in the top 2% on intelligence tests, I've 98% of the planet I can feel smugly superior to if I really wanted to, but I'm going to be generous and only denigrate the bottom 2% and those are the inhabitants of Facebook.
If they want to move all Facebook traffic off the regular Internet and build a separate infrastructure for it, maybe we can get all the Facebook users to migrate entirely over to Internet 3 and leave everyone else alone.
Agreed. Force-feedback is a start, albeit a crude one, but it's not enough. It might be possible to electrically stimulate individual pressure nerves to give a sense of touch, since nerves are electrical by nature, but you're talking an amazing number of electrodes to get any detail and some major technological problems to get it to stimulate the right nerves.
For something that is compressible/expandable to some degree along only certain directions, you can simulate that with pneumatics. It's essentially the same as force-feedback (you apply pressure in one direction, something applies force in the opposite direction) but instead of having one or two motors, you can have a crude surface where each point applies different feedback. Mechanical devices of this kind aren't complex, require no new technology to be invented, and would be in the price range of a decent facility - I assume you don't hear of them because there's simply no scientific or industrial application outside of perhaps telerobotic pottery-making and there's not really a huge market for that, and the increase in the number of variables that could be fed back to the user is still going to be extremely small - an increase from 2 to 12 sounds reasonable - but the cost would be substantially more than 6x that of a joystick. The cost/benefit isn't there.
Most of the comments so far seem to confuse EEG-based interfaces with fMRI-based ones, or local with telerobotics, but no great surprise there. The politics is sad, but again only to be expected.
We still can't do true mind-control of robots (there's no way to read minds yet, we can only say "pattern X equals action Y", which is not the same thing) but this is an interesting development to say the least. Think in terms of medicine. Robotic interfaces in surgery are typically data gloves or joystick, plus goggles, but muscles have poor granularity of control, data gloves and joysticks reduce this further, and goggles are incredibly low-res. If they get to the point where surgeons are limited only by the precision of their mind, you're looking at a major revolution.
Don't be so sure - first to market is a major factor in business and if Linux is likely to beat all other rival OS' by a large enough margin in time, commercial vendors will look at that very seriously. More than a few would likely "gamble" (*cough*) on a free OS and gain marketshare when the profits are high than risk coming in very late when there's much less money floating around, a much higher entry fee and customers unhappy with them being late to the party.
It is, of course, essential that the chip works (remember Transmeta?), but hardware sells when there's software and if there's Linux support then there's software - and a lot of it. Assuming nobody has messed up, the chip is going to get deployed. The question is only one of where. Phones, yes, but not necessarily immediately as a lot of apps are compiled natively (not to an intermediate form) and the market is crowded with patent trolls right now.
Volkwagon? VOLKSWAGON?! REAL scientists use police telephone boxes to travel intergalactic distances! Everyone knows that! Only wizards and mad scientists fly by car.
What's new is that the US Government hasn't officially used disinformation against its own public before as that's "illegal", they've only unofficially done so.
You've got to take into consideration that this will mobilize any pollution currently locked in the soil, most of which is likely to be detrimental to any kind of life.
Sounds like a plan to me. If we can get a fusion plant running, even better - stick a giant iron spike somewhere on the coast and connect that to -ve. Connect the fence to +ve. Once the sea level gets above a certain depth, everything contained by the fence will be electroplated by the pollution, preventing it from spreading elsewhere.
Damn, Oregon has too many idiots as it is. I was hoping we could export them. Now you're asking us to take millions more? If they caused it, let 'em drown in it.
You're assuming the rise at the midpoint will equal the rise at the endpoint. The moon doesn't just drag the surface, it drags EVERYTHING. About two million meters of water extra per meter horizontal cuboid from Europe to the Americas, at a rough guess. I'll leave you to do the trig, but a crude estimate suggests you could be looking at between 32-100 feet increases during the spring tides. Hope you can swim.
32.2cm is the mean sea level rise. If you picture the ocean as one gigantic seesaw, it's how much the midpoint rises by, not the endpoints. The lever on either side of this midpoint is around 3200 km long. I will leave you to figure out the total area of any given slice your side of the midpoint - and what will happen to that during spring tide. Sure, low tide might actually be lower as a result, but I'm thinking that any land much below 32m below current sea levels will be in real trouble.
That's ignoring the ocean currents. Those help take hot water away from the Gulf of Mexico, so lose/weaken them and you get longer, more severe hurricanes.
And this is still ignoring the fact that much of the SE is reclaimed swamp. Water table shoots up, even if only 32cm, and you WILL lose houses nominally on dry land because they're not designed for that. You'll also lose your storm drains and sewage systems, so the survivors can expect massive outbreaks of cholera. If there are any survivors - the road system there basically uses sand as a foundation, so you WILL lose most of your road network and that means no possibility of evacuation when the hurricanes arrive. New Orleans had substantially evacuated before Katrina, you won't be able to. With South Carolina in the same boat - literally, there also will be far fewer places to evacuate to.
By 2112, everything from Florida to the middle of North Carolina will be an uninhabited, uninhabitable lost land, barren of all life. Nothing will survive there.
Out of how many billions who don't have degrees? An exceedingly poor ratio.
Also, Gates and Zuckerberg "utilizeD" and/or stole other people's work - sometimes work done by people WITH degrees. Not sure about the rest, but I'm skeptical. Theft doesn't require a degree, neither does buying up other people's stuff and rebadging it.
And most shoppers are uninformed, brainless or both. Otherwise, I'd build my own line of routers - beating anything on the market today would be so very easy.
Crude, yes, but most such simulations are. The problem is that the system is chaotic and would require near-infinite resources to compute correctly plus near-perfect initial conditions.
That's why I picked examples were it would (in theory) be possible to prove a lack of intent. If it is possible to be a part of a group with provable lack of intent of collaborating/conspiring with that group, then being part of the group is at best very circumstantial evidence (it raises the probability but proves nothing) and in order for justice to both be done and be seen to be done, such an individual must have the opportunity to present that evidence fairly and without prejudice.
I do not know if the person referenced in the original article can offer such proof, but if joining the swarm can be achieved by opening a socket, any fool could write an applet that takes the necessary metadata, opens such a socket, waits until the other side closes, then repeats forever. Not a solitary network read or write to the swarm would be possible because no such code exists in this theoretical applet. Such an applet could be useful for something, I suppose.
Well, to critics of the **AA, or investigative journalists of **AA tactics, the obvious use would be to have hard, concrete proof you had zero possession, no intent to supply, made no offer to supply, made no offer to receive, had no intent to receive and took no action to receive. It would allow the critics to meet the burden of proof (and thus discredit any actual overzealous tactics) and allow journalists to conclusively establish whether **AA tactics were indeed as excessive as the tech community regularly claims.
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No you should STOP the burglar and place crime scene tape down, just as they would have done by removing the DNS servers (as evidence) and leaving nothing in their place.
In this case, working Edward de Bono would seem more appropriate.
I can bitch about the Creationists who are inhabiting The Guardian newspaper's comments section at the moment, the idiots commenting on Yahoo! and the morons on YouTube. Hell, as I'm in the top 2% on intelligence tests, I've 98% of the planet I can feel smugly superior to if I really wanted to, but I'm going to be generous and only denigrate the bottom 2% and those are the inhabitants of Facebook.
FIFY. Even if GCHQ never did anything with the technology, you only stipulated it had to exist. :)
If they want to move all Facebook traffic off the regular Internet and build a separate infrastructure for it, maybe we can get all the Facebook users to migrate entirely over to Internet 3 and leave everyone else alone.
Agreed. Force-feedback is a start, albeit a crude one, but it's not enough. It might be possible to electrically stimulate individual pressure nerves to give a sense of touch, since nerves are electrical by nature, but you're talking an amazing number of electrodes to get any detail and some major technological problems to get it to stimulate the right nerves.
For something that is compressible/expandable to some degree along only certain directions, you can simulate that with pneumatics. It's essentially the same as force-feedback (you apply pressure in one direction, something applies force in the opposite direction) but instead of having one or two motors, you can have a crude surface where each point applies different feedback. Mechanical devices of this kind aren't complex, require no new technology to be invented, and would be in the price range of a decent facility - I assume you don't hear of them because there's simply no scientific or industrial application outside of perhaps telerobotic pottery-making and there's not really a huge market for that, and the increase in the number of variables that could be fed back to the user is still going to be extremely small - an increase from 2 to 12 sounds reasonable - but the cost would be substantially more than 6x that of a joystick. The cost/benefit isn't there.
Most of the comments so far seem to confuse EEG-based interfaces with fMRI-based ones, or local with telerobotics, but no great surprise there. The politics is sad, but again only to be expected.
We still can't do true mind-control of robots (there's no way to read minds yet, we can only say "pattern X equals action Y", which is not the same thing) but this is an interesting development to say the least. Think in terms of medicine. Robotic interfaces in surgery are typically data gloves or joystick, plus goggles, but muscles have poor granularity of control, data gloves and joysticks reduce this further, and goggles are incredibly low-res. If they get to the point where surgeons are limited only by the precision of their mind, you're looking at a major revolution.
Don't be so sure - first to market is a major factor in business and if Linux is likely to beat all other rival OS' by a large enough margin in time, commercial vendors will look at that very seriously. More than a few would likely "gamble" (*cough*) on a free OS and gain marketshare when the profits are high than risk coming in very late when there's much less money floating around, a much higher entry fee and customers unhappy with them being late to the party.
It is, of course, essential that the chip works (remember Transmeta?), but hardware sells when there's software and if there's Linux support then there's software - and a lot of it. Assuming nobody has messed up, the chip is going to get deployed. The question is only one of where. Phones, yes, but not necessarily immediately as a lot of apps are compiled natively (not to an intermediate form) and the market is crowded with patent trolls right now.
Volkwagon? VOLKSWAGON?! REAL scientists use police telephone boxes to travel intergalactic distances! Everyone knows that! Only wizards and mad scientists fly by car.
What's new is that the US Government hasn't officially used disinformation against its own public before as that's "illegal", they've only unofficially done so.
The easy solution is to have 30x as many fireworks and then run it at this speed all the time.
Maybe if we feed them to the Humboldt squid that are causing such a nuisance on the west coast, they'll leave the humans alone.
You've got to take into consideration that this will mobilize any pollution currently locked in the soil, most of which is likely to be detrimental to any kind of life.
Sounds like a plan to me. If we can get a fusion plant running, even better - stick a giant iron spike somewhere on the coast and connect that to -ve. Connect the fence to +ve. Once the sea level gets above a certain depth, everything contained by the fence will be electroplated by the pollution, preventing it from spreading elsewhere.
Damn, Oregon has too many idiots as it is. I was hoping we could export them. Now you're asking us to take millions more? If they caused it, let 'em drown in it.
You're assuming the rise at the midpoint will equal the rise at the endpoint. The moon doesn't just drag the surface, it drags EVERYTHING. About two million meters of water extra per meter horizontal cuboid from Europe to the Americas, at a rough guess. I'll leave you to do the trig, but a crude estimate suggests you could be looking at between 32-100 feet increases during the spring tides. Hope you can swim.
32.2cm is the mean sea level rise. If you picture the ocean as one gigantic seesaw, it's how much the midpoint rises by, not the endpoints. The lever on either side of this midpoint is around 3200 km long. I will leave you to figure out the total area of any given slice your side of the midpoint - and what will happen to that during spring tide. Sure, low tide might actually be lower as a result, but I'm thinking that any land much below 32m below current sea levels will be in real trouble.
That's ignoring the ocean currents. Those help take hot water away from the Gulf of Mexico, so lose/weaken them and you get longer, more severe hurricanes.
And this is still ignoring the fact that much of the SE is reclaimed swamp. Water table shoots up, even if only 32cm, and you WILL lose houses nominally on dry land because they're not designed for that. You'll also lose your storm drains and sewage systems, so the survivors can expect massive outbreaks of cholera. If there are any survivors - the road system there basically uses sand as a foundation, so you WILL lose most of your road network and that means no possibility of evacuation when the hurricanes arrive. New Orleans had substantially evacuated before Katrina, you won't be able to. With South Carolina in the same boat - literally, there also will be far fewer places to evacuate to.
By 2112, everything from Florida to the middle of North Carolina will be an uninhabited, uninhabitable lost land, barren of all life. Nothing will survive there.
Out of how many billions who don't have degrees? An exceedingly poor ratio.
Also, Gates and Zuckerberg "utilizeD" and/or stole other people's work - sometimes work done by people WITH degrees. Not sure about the rest, but I'm skeptical. Theft doesn't require a degree, neither does buying up other people's stuff and rebadging it.
So, no, that list is worth absolutely nothing.
And most shoppers are uninformed, brainless or both. Otherwise, I'd build my own line of routers - beating anything on the market today would be so very easy.
Curiosity is real. Unless declared integer.
EARWORM!
They have their Raisins.
We have perfectly intact microbial DNA from 45 million years.
Crude, yes, but most such simulations are. The problem is that the system is chaotic and would require near-infinite resources to compute correctly plus near-perfect initial conditions.
That's why I picked examples were it would (in theory) be possible to prove a lack of intent. If it is possible to be a part of a group with provable lack of intent of collaborating/conspiring with that group, then being part of the group is at best very circumstantial evidence (it raises the probability but proves nothing) and in order for justice to both be done and be seen to be done, such an individual must have the opportunity to present that evidence fairly and without prejudice.
I do not know if the person referenced in the original article can offer such proof, but if joining the swarm can be achieved by opening a socket, any fool could write an applet that takes the necessary metadata, opens such a socket, waits until the other side closes, then repeats forever. Not a solitary network read or write to the swarm would be possible because no such code exists in this theoretical applet. Such an applet could be useful for something, I suppose.
Well, to critics of the **AA, or investigative journalists of **AA tactics, the obvious use would be to have hard, concrete proof you had zero possession, no intent to supply, made no offer to supply, made no offer to receive, had no intent to receive and took no action to receive. It would allow the critics to meet the burden of proof (and thus discredit any actual overzealous tactics) and allow journalists to conclusively establish whether **AA tactics were indeed as excessive as the tech community regularly claims.