I think we do know what makes some evil. It comes down to his/her programing, not programing that's installed before they are born but programing it receives through eyes, ears, feel and interactions with the environment during its life. If you look at all the people in prison i think you'll find some pretty horrific pasts; majority are from poor family, lots of missing or abusive parents, limited options for a future (although that covers the majority there are endless ways to screw up a kid). Now if your looking to simulate a brain as it is then you could run into these problems thankfully who ever has the brains to create such a brain probably wont use the same parenting methods or lifestyle that the criminals had received. The other issue and path to skynet is an imperfection of miscalculation within the brain like a mental illness, but when you have such control over the state of each bit you should be able to find out where you going wrong and where your not simulating the normal brain properly. If you do create an insane AI and can't figure out why, you should turn it off and go back to your design (if you really wanted to keep them alive it would be easy to put them in their own virtual world with no connection to the outside world). However this type of complete simulation AI is hardly the aim of the corporations and governments funding them, they want an ai that only thinks about driving a particular car and is installed via a port, or a computer that only identifies different weapons and lethality in a war zone (always watching, never sleeping, no need for a vacation or raise).
You can buy a smartphone for $80 now, how hard would it be to set the pigeon hole account as a no data cost service (like how some Telco's provide free Facebook); They made us without digital TV's spend about that on a set top box so they can turn off the analogue signal. When the cost of communicating with the public drops to practically nothing a lot of things will become possible and could even feed information back to the government (surveys, public opinion, votes).
I don't know any more, at least that's how i though communism was meant to work. I know all the inventors always got their name on the patent but i didn't realize they were paid the royalties. Interesting that Mr Manfred Von Ardenne's business flourished under communist rule only to fail with substantial debts after the reunification of Germany.
I hardly think pirates would stand a chance. Some good radar, sonar and an optical tracker a few snipers and a couple of rpgs maybe even wrap a flame thrower round the outside. They would have to send a lot of pirates and greatly increase their fire power to have a chance. It's possible the us navy would come in to stop the show but i doubt they would try to kill any one its not like you have any oil.
Yeah but the state owned all the patents not aggressive companies that would lock down the technology.
"In contrast with capitalist West Germany, GDR patents were available for use by all of the country's socialist firms, and while inventors received a premium, they could not benefit from any profits garnered due to their creation, according to Leipzig historian Matthias Wießner."
I'm pretty sure Russia made many advancements while under communism. The people that do invent techniques and products are rewarded just not with stupid monopolies (and they are rewarding the engineers, coders and inverters not some big faceless company). Then those ideas are free to be used by others, increasing the amount of innovation. Don't get me wrong i know communism has a lot of flaws but in many ways its better than the supposedly free market that is heavily heavily controlled.
Its not as straight forward as go to this x site and read, but if you go to Google news and type in stuff that is inevitable, you can get a good idea what each manufacture is up to. It takes a bit of guess and work and substitution, for example you know the latest smartphones now are dual core 1 ghz so if you want a next gen phone a Google news search for dual core 1.2ghz up to X ghz, smartphone, os of choice; or maybe quad core phones and it will bring back many results.
Its also helpful to search the manufactures of the parts involved in the phones. For example Nvidia have a road map for their next 4 socs (system on a chip), by looking up the next product code name you can substitute that in front of 'smartphone', and Google news will bring back information from all kinds of sources on all kinds of phones. This can be repeated for Qualcomm, Intel, Texas instruments, Samsung or screen and communication manufactures.
Aren't all women a little gay (maybe its just wishful thinking). Something to do with the difference in relationship between mother daughter and father son.
I wouldn't put it past apple to try and stop it; but the $4000 microsoft surface is about the same thickness, does the same job and been out for a while, although its not 82 inchs.
Paintball guns are regulated aswell not to mention half the brands are completly illigal (can't even get a licence for them) because they look to much like a real gun. How did one insane tasmanian stop me from being able to have a nice paintball gun.
Just because you 'copy' a swipe (the equivalent of pushing a button in pre touch screen days) or a rectangle with rounded corners dosn't mean the rest of your machine has to be worse. Sure samsung borrowed some elements from ios but they took the concepts a lot further (which apple is now copying). This is why apple is scared. If not there would be no point in stopping samsung, if apple is better and the same price.
How bout dual cameras on a tablet. This isn't good news for apple fans; if apple wins with lawyers they arn't going to put the profit into R&D they will put into improving the leagal department.
What kind of debt do you think apple has over the rectangle with rounded corners invention. Now i know apple is populated by designers and designers aren't always the sharpest tool in the shed but that would of taken 1 guy 1 week tops; and is just as absurd as a pattent for a one click sale button.
Android copied apple as much as apple copied Microsoft. Also have you not noticed how ios has changed and taken on more and more of androids features. Samsung was the first to put dual cameras on a tablet does that mean they can stop the import (not that apple has any to send anyone) of the ipad2. If you can’t see an issue with apple taking/keeping their market share by force rather by innovation then you should leave this site and go back to mac rummurs. Unless you are a share holder (and even then its debatable in the long run) these aggressive legal moves are not in your interst.
Ok maybe they are all mindless idiots but mindless idiots don't just naturally hate police and all simultaneously think its time to burn down a foot locker. Its not all about the dead guy, its also about all the discontent citizens. To be honest i don't think this will have much of an effect on police behavior not because it shouldn't (and it should) but because the problem lies so deep in the police (possibly in human psyche, think Stanford prison experiment), and would be quite hard to change. As far as some guy taking shots at them is concerned, I'm leaning to the idea that adrenaline hyped cops with a finger on the trigger got scared, opened fire, and ended up hitting one of their own with a ricochet (how else would a bullet not go through a radio), but then again i am a little bias about police brutality and their disregard for the truth (due to personal experience).
They were mainly attacking the police (governments blue gang) although with that many individuals and no central management it would be hard to stop the people that just really want some new shoes. Thug cops are much worse than terrorists even though they have sworn to uphold the law they still criminally assault their own people and worse use there position of power to make life even worse for the victim. We all seem to rally behind Syria and Libya rioting (oh that because their government is evil but ours is made of flowers and should be able to do whatever they want). Rioting is a form of protest.
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I think we do know what makes some evil. It comes down to his/her programing, not programing that's installed before they are born but programing it receives through eyes, ears, feel and interactions with the environment during its life. If you look at all the people in prison i think you'll find some pretty horrific pasts; majority are from poor family, lots of missing or abusive parents, limited options for a future (although that covers the majority there are endless ways to screw up a kid). Now if your looking to simulate a brain as it is then you could run into these problems thankfully who ever has the brains to create such a brain probably wont use the same parenting methods or lifestyle that the criminals had received. The other issue and path to skynet is an imperfection of miscalculation within the brain like a mental illness, but when you have such control over the state of each bit you should be able to find out where you going wrong and where your not simulating the normal brain properly. If you do create an insane AI and can't figure out why, you should turn it off and go back to your design (if you really wanted to keep them alive it would be easy to put them in their own virtual world with no connection to the outside world). However this type of complete simulation AI is hardly the aim of the corporations and governments funding them, they want an ai that only thinks about driving a particular car and is installed via a port, or a computer that only identifies different weapons and lethality in a war zone (always watching, never sleeping, no need for a vacation or raise).
You can buy a smartphone for $80 now, how hard would it be to set the pigeon hole account as a no data cost service (like how some Telco's provide free Facebook); They made us without digital TV's spend about that on a set top box so they can turn off the analogue signal. When the cost of communicating with the public drops to practically nothing a lot of things will become possible and could even feed information back to the government (surveys, public opinion, votes).
I don't know any more, at least that's how i though communism was meant to work. I know all the inventors always got their name on the patent but i didn't realize they were paid the royalties. Interesting that Mr Manfred Von Ardenne's business flourished under communist rule only to fail with substantial debts after the reunification of Germany.
I hardly think pirates would stand a chance. Some good radar, sonar and an optical tracker a few snipers and a couple of rpgs maybe even wrap a flame thrower round the outside. They would have to send a lot of pirates and greatly increase their fire power to have a chance. It's possible the us navy would come in to stop the show but i doubt they would try to kill any one its not like you have any oil.
"In contrast with capitalist West Germany, GDR patents were available for use by all of the country's socialist firms, and while inventors received a premium, they could not benefit from any profits garnered due to their creation, according to Leipzig historian Matthias Wießner."
I'm pretty sure Russia made many advancements while under communism. The people that do invent techniques and products are rewarded just not with stupid monopolies (and they are rewarding the engineers, coders and inverters not some big faceless company). Then those ideas are free to be used by others, increasing the amount of innovation. Don't get me wrong i know communism has a lot of flaws but in many ways its better than the supposedly free market that is heavily heavily controlled.
Its also helpful to search the manufactures of the parts involved in the phones. For example Nvidia have a road map for their next 4 socs (system on a chip), by looking up the next product code name you can substitute that in front of 'smartphone', and Google news will bring back information from all kinds of sources on all kinds of phones. This can be repeated for Qualcomm, Intel, Texas instruments, Samsung or screen and communication manufactures.
Samsung, Motorola, Google and Nokia should team up combine patents, then block all apple's products and see how they like it.
Aren't all women a little gay (maybe its just wishful thinking). Something to do with the difference in relationship between mother daughter and father son.
yeah but its part of a forest
no its A TREE IT HAS BARK AS WELL
Just because your only looking at one tree dosn't mean there isn't a forest behind it.
stop dismissing my FACTS with your talk of the big picture this its just a tree.
Yeah let’s lock it down so only big monopoly companies with loads of patents can make products.
If no one would want to buy one why is apple attacking them so aggressively.
I wouldn't put it past apple to try and stop it; but the $4000 microsoft surface is about the same thickness, does the same job and been out for a while, although its not 82 inchs.
Paintball guns are regulated aswell not to mention half the brands are completly illigal (can't even get a licence for them) because they look to much like a real gun. How did one insane tasmanian stop me from being able to have a nice paintball gun.
So as long as you only screw over the minority your free to do what you want.
Its doubtful. Most people can't see the big picture.
Just because you 'copy' a swipe (the equivalent of pushing a button in pre touch screen days) or a rectangle with rounded corners dosn't mean the rest of your machine has to be worse. Sure samsung borrowed some elements from ios but they took the concepts a lot further (which apple is now copying). This is why apple is scared. If not there would be no point in stopping samsung, if apple is better and the same price.
The Chinese actually invented the ipad, granted it was arguably a big iphone that ran xp but they were the first with that form factor.
How bout dual cameras on a tablet. This isn't good news for apple fans; if apple wins with lawyers they arn't going to put the profit into R&D they will put into improving the leagal department.
What kind of debt do you think apple has over the rectangle with rounded corners invention. Now i know apple is populated by designers and designers aren't always the sharpest tool in the shed but that would of taken 1 guy 1 week tops; and is just as absurd as a pattent for a one click sale button.
Android copied apple as much as apple copied Microsoft. Also have you not noticed how ios has changed and taken on more and more of androids features. Samsung was the first to put dual cameras on a tablet does that mean they can stop the import (not that apple has any to send anyone) of the ipad2. If you can’t see an issue with apple taking/keeping their market share by force rather by innovation then you should leave this site and go back to mac rummurs. Unless you are a share holder (and even then its debatable in the long run) these aggressive legal moves are not in your interst.
Ok maybe they are all mindless idiots but mindless idiots don't just naturally hate police and all simultaneously think its time to burn down a foot locker. Its not all about the dead guy, its also about all the discontent citizens. To be honest i don't think this will have much of an effect on police behavior not because it shouldn't (and it should) but because the problem lies so deep in the police (possibly in human psyche, think Stanford prison experiment), and would be quite hard to change. As far as some guy taking shots at them is concerned, I'm leaning to the idea that adrenaline hyped cops with a finger on the trigger got scared, opened fire, and ended up hitting one of their own with a ricochet (how else would a bullet not go through a radio), but then again i am a little bias about police brutality and their disregard for the truth (due to personal experience).
They were mainly attacking the police (governments blue gang) although with that many individuals and no central management it would be hard to stop the people that just really want some new shoes. Thug cops are much worse than terrorists even though they have sworn to uphold the law they still criminally assault their own people and worse use there position of power to make life even worse for the victim. We all seem to rally behind Syria and Libya rioting (oh that because their government is evil but ours is made of flowers and should be able to do whatever they want). Rioting is a form of protest.
Instead use Chinese whispers to spread the plan of the protest
i've seen a fair few peacefull protests but not much change.