Esp if they are going to hide away in a cave and control everyone else using robots while holding back on information that could be used to improve quality of life for everyone..... I agree we need innovators or entrepreneurs, we just don't need the ones who would do that.
That is the biggest bit I don't get. I mean already it is pretty easy for a rich, even honestly a non-rich or middle class person, to bug out a head to a paradise escape off the grid. If a group of rich people wanted to do that I can already think of a few places where they do... (Resort islands in the Caribbean etc.) The movie trailers seem to me to be a lot more like a group of people trying to hoard a bunch of awesome tech from the rest of the world for no good or economic reason, while making the poor people on earth salves to do everything that could be done by the very robots they are using to control the people.
Robots all the way up..... Robots controlling armies of robots, controlling repair robots, cleaning robots, construction robots, mining robots, refining robots, police robots....... If you systemize everything enough, you don't really even need strong AI. And without strong AI, it is even easier for a small group to control vast armies of "just smart enough for their job" robots. And if they self destruct if someone gets too close to the inner workings you can make sure someone else doesn't get control of your tools.
I like this.. Obviously use something better then md5, and salt it with something generated from the private key and create a b-tree with message ids. This could likely be stored and searched server side with very little risk. Otherwise actually have a clear text b-tree in client memory, update it locally, and send it encrypted to the server. Might take more bandwidth but it would just be an index.
The only standard that would need to be agreed upon would be the design of the shell.
Not really, as others have mentioned, 3D printing could solve that problem pretty easily. Though the 3D printer still costs more then the laptop would cost... Not sure where the break-even point would be at this time.
And this one comes complete with a tin foil brain protection system, and the tin foil is completely inspectable and replaceable by you, the whackjob^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hintelligent purchaser of portable habitats.
Zooming in often has dumb limits where the programmer decided "no one needs to zoom that much" just like youtube often feels like someone put in the restriction "no one needs the volume that high" From the programming point of view, there is no reason it couldn't be unlimited(aside from HW limitations), except someone decided the UI would be easier if they didn't give that ability.
Moving my head closer to a screen with a good resolution does make a difference in how sharp I can see a detail in a photo, not so much with a poor resolution screen.
I agree "at normal viewing distances" I don't have perfect vision, but when I want to see a detail, guess what I do? I zoom in, and move closer. This is where high resolution on those devices becomes important. Not at the standard "laboratory condition" distances, but when I want to inspect something closer. Am I abnormal in this?
Ok, probably just being pedantic, but what do they mean by two-cylinder on an electric motor? I thought cylinders were reserved for motors with explosions inside.
You mean you didn't DIRECTLY pay for your doctor. You sound like one of those brain-dead morons that support Obamacare because "FREE HEALTH CARE! IT DON"T COST ME NUTHIN'"
WTF? You sir are insane. 1. No, I didn't directly pay for my doctor, but that has not effect on my point because I was responding to the comment that most people "pay for a doctor's appointment," which in Canada, isn't true. There is no additional cost to me if I need to go to the doctor once or many times. That part is "included with the package." 2. I don't even need an opinion on Obamacare cause I'm not American, nor use American services. Not that my vote counts for anything in our attempt at democracy, I certainly don't get to vote on who your dictator is.
And the practical reason for this is what, exactly?
It has a vibration sensor, right in the jaw. It can listen to everything you say or whisper. Gives new meaning to "hiding a wire." Just wait for the the first spook^H^H^H^H^Hhacker....
In Canada I didn't pay for my doctor. While traveling I do, but I rarely have the same doctor twice...
Well I could see this as kinda being like an early warning system.. "What you are doing isn't good for you." or "You are reaching the point of excess, slow down." This way you could receive feedback before it is a debilitating addiction or illness. Prevention rather than cure.
Another group has claimed they use OCR to defeat reCAPTCHA, but have never proven that to be the case and if they can, why not prove it?
Why would they? It would be in their best interests to let the algorithm work for as long as possible, no point rocking the boat, and showing the reCaptcha developers how to block it more.
I think this would be 100x more effective if it just gave you a mild shock or direct feedback, instead of waiting for the rare doctor's (dentist's?) visit. Heck, even to my own smartphone would be better... No doctor needed to see a nice graph. Maybe some optional social integration for those who like to be socially encouraged to do better.
Well if Nokia financial situation becomes unbearable, I am sure Microsoft can step up and buy her up, obviously at a discounted price. Which likely was the objective all along.
You know, if that was their plan, I would be quite impressed. 1. Create sucky OS 2. Convince excellent well respected cellular phone company to use said OS 3. Make that cellular phone company look bad, lose profitability 4. Buy that cellular phone company 5. Drop CEO and sucky OS in favour of better OS and flashy new CEO 6. Give CEO huge leaving bonus 7. Convince people it was all the CEO's fault 8. Profit!
Guess what- they did all that. You just weren't paying attention because there wasn't a sensational media story about it.
Right, and isn't that the whole problem? They couldn't make it public. They couldn't make a big deal of it. I wish it were illegal to ever squelch the fact that you are being squelched.
That is my question too... What did they detect? Who was watching the network so closely as to notice this? Why? Is there an ongoing privacy violation going on by schools to keep their networks clean? It just kinda leads to more questions... Who's watching the watchers?
I think I'm one of the privileged minority that gets the most bites...
I have a racket that zaps the little buggers. Makes a satisfying snapping sound when I get one. I've thought it would be easy enough to stick the thing in the "on" position and put it over a bowl of sugar water with yeast:-)
-- I doubt I can find any Limburger around here...
What I feel most commenters are ignoring is the fact that we all learn at different rates and hit different choke points. The math and science programs are particularly prone to this. All it takes is a major enough stumbling block and a student will be thrown off course for an entire year or their entire lives. We need better mechanisms to tailor math and science courses to the individual students. I think this is really the only way to make sure that students achieve the most that they can.
Slashdot Mirror
Esp if they are going to hide away in a cave and control everyone else using robots while holding back on information that could be used to improve quality of life for everyone.....
I agree we need innovators or entrepreneurs, we just don't need the ones who would do that.
That is the biggest bit I don't get. I mean already it is pretty easy for a rich, even honestly a non-rich or middle class person, to bug out a head to a paradise escape off the grid. If a group of rich people wanted to do that I can already think of a few places where they do... (Resort islands in the Caribbean etc.)
The movie trailers seem to me to be a lot more like a group of people trying to hoard a bunch of awesome tech from the rest of the world for no good or economic reason, while making the poor people on earth salves to do everything that could be done by the very robots they are using to control the people.
Robots all the way up.....
Robots controlling armies of robots, controlling repair robots, cleaning robots, construction robots, mining robots, refining robots, police robots....... If you systemize everything enough, you don't really even need strong AI. And without strong AI, it is even easier for a small group to control vast armies of "just smart enough for their job" robots. And if they self destruct if someone gets too close to the inner workings you can make sure someone else doesn't get control of your tools.
I like this..
Obviously use something better then md5, and salt it with something generated from the private key and create a b-tree with message ids. This could likely be stored and searched server side with very little risk.
Otherwise actually have a clear text b-tree in client memory, update it locally, and send it encrypted to the server. Might take more bandwidth but it would just be an index.
The only standard that would need to be agreed upon would be the design of the shell.
Not really, as others have mentioned, 3D printing could solve that problem pretty easily.
Though the 3D printer still costs more then the laptop would cost... Not sure where the break-even point would be at this time.
And this one comes complete with a tin foil brain protection system, and the tin foil is completely inspectable and replaceable by you, the whackjob^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hintelligent purchaser of portable habitats.
Zooming in often has dumb limits where the programmer decided "no one needs to zoom that much" just like youtube often feels like someone put in the restriction "no one needs the volume that high" From the programming point of view, there is no reason it couldn't be unlimited(aside from HW limitations), except someone decided the UI would be easier if they didn't give that ability.
Moving my head closer to a screen with a good resolution does make a difference in how sharp I can see a detail in a photo, not so much with a poor resolution screen.
I agree "at normal viewing distances" I don't have perfect vision, but when I want to see a detail, guess what I do? I zoom in, and move closer. This is where high resolution on those devices becomes important. Not at the standard "laboratory condition" distances, but when I want to inspect something closer.
Am I abnormal in this?
Ok, probably just being pedantic, but what do they mean by two-cylinder on an electric motor? I thought cylinders were reserved for motors with explosions inside.
You mean you didn't DIRECTLY pay for your doctor. You sound like one of those brain-dead morons that support Obamacare because "FREE HEALTH CARE! IT DON"T COST ME NUTHIN'"
WTF? You sir are insane.
1. No, I didn't directly pay for my doctor, but that has not effect on my point because I was responding to the comment that most people "pay for a doctor's appointment," which in Canada, isn't true. There is no additional cost to me if I need to go to the doctor once or many times. That part is "included with the package."
2. I don't even need an opinion on Obamacare cause I'm not American, nor use American services. Not that my vote counts for anything in our attempt at democracy, I certainly don't get to vote on who your dictator is.
Sorry to American mods who are offended by this.
And the practical reason for this is what, exactly?
It has a vibration sensor, right in the jaw. It can listen to everything you say or whisper. Gives new meaning to "hiding a wire." Just wait for the the first spook^H^H^H^H^Hhacker....
In Canada I didn't pay for my doctor. While traveling I do, but I rarely have the same doctor twice...
Well I could see this as kinda being like an early warning system.. "What you are doing isn't good for you." or "You are reaching the point of excess, slow down." This way you could receive feedback before it is a debilitating addiction or illness. Prevention rather than cure.
Oh dear.... Yeah, thanks.
Another group has claimed they use OCR to defeat reCAPTCHA, but have never proven that to be the case and if they can, why not prove it?
Why would they? It would be in their best interests to let the algorithm work for as long as possible, no point rocking the boat, and showing the reCaptcha developers how to block it more.
I think this would be 100x more effective if it just gave you a mild shock or direct feedback, instead of waiting for the rare doctor's (dentist's?) visit.
Heck, even to my own smartphone would be better... No doctor needed to see a nice graph. Maybe some optional social integration for those who like to be socially encouraged to do better.
Well if Nokia financial situation becomes unbearable, I am sure Microsoft can step up and buy her up, obviously at a discounted price. Which likely was the objective all along.
You know, if that was their plan, I would be quite impressed.
1. Create sucky OS
2. Convince excellent well respected cellular phone company to use said OS
3. Make that cellular phone company look bad, lose profitability
4. Buy that cellular phone company
5. Drop CEO and sucky OS in favour of better OS and flashy new CEO
6. Give CEO huge leaving bonus
7. Convince people it was all the CEO's fault
8. Profit!
But I think that is too many steps for MS...
it would kill the job creation program for unskilled, slack-jawed mouth breathers
Just move them to the IRS.
Except if you are not an American, the rights aren't even presumed to have existed.
Guess what- they did all that. You just weren't paying attention because there wasn't a sensational media story about it.
Right, and isn't that the whole problem? They couldn't make it public. They couldn't make a big deal of it.
I wish it were illegal to ever squelch the fact that you are being squelched.
I don't see how *this* could end badly....... /sarcasm>
That is my question too...
What did they detect? Who was watching the network so closely as to notice this? Why? Is there an ongoing privacy violation going on by schools to keep their networks clean? It just kinda leads to more questions... Who's watching the watchers?
If you want it to work right, you're going to have to hang your racket zapper over your mouth.
Sadly that doesn't work either... they are clever little demons.
This is why I want to try the Limburger suggested by other studies..
nor sugar water with yeast
and what you need is a CO2 trap
You do know that yeast produces CO2 right? Used that for a long time to make my plants grow greener in my fish aquarium.
What I described is a CO2 trap... that zaps the little buggers if they come to investigate the source of the C02.
I think I'm one of the privileged minority that gets the most bites...
I have a racket that zaps the little buggers. Makes a satisfying snapping sound when I get one. :-)
I've thought it would be easy enough to stick the thing in the "on" position and put it over a bowl of sugar water with yeast
-- I doubt I can find any Limburger around here...
What I feel most commenters are ignoring is the fact that we all learn at different rates and hit different choke points. The math and science programs are particularly prone to this. All it takes is a major enough stumbling block and a student will be thrown off course for an entire year or their entire lives. We need better mechanisms to tailor math and science courses to the individual students. I think this is really the only way to make sure that students achieve the most that they can.