Answer: never completely. Part of the reason people go places isn't just to use their senses to experience the environment, but also to experience tangentially-related things. For example, going to Mount Rushmore is more of a "to say you've done it and cross it off your bucket list" thing; if you saw it in VR, could you really say "I've been there"? You can't bring back souvenirs, and there'll be limits to the area's size and how you can interact with it (scooping up sand, taking a swim, etc.)
Good luck simulating Las Vegas in VR. How're you going to license the wide variety of music/comedy/magic acts? And wouldn't VR magic shows be kinda against the entire point? VR casino gambling will be simulated soon if it isn't already... but that won't give you free drinks or a nice hotel room. I'm waiting for the first drunken VR wedding where one of the avatars is a different sex from their actual one... accidental gay marriage, that'll be a hoot if one party is conservative (or accidental straight, even funnier?).
Many people go on cruises or to certain exotic islands in part for the hookups. That isn't close to being simulated yet... and when it can, some people will skip the 'VR cruise' part and go straight to the 'VR brothel', although I guess that'd raise the question of why those people don't just go to a real brothel in the first place.
In the US at least, banks are so deeply in bed with the government that they ought to just be nationalized. For the average person, they only use a bank to keep their money safe (insured by FDIC), process checks, get a car loan or mortgage, and maybe a certificate of deposit for people who like safe investments. Time-bomb mortgages were bought writ large by the government. When the banks were about to go under, the federal reserve handed them trillions of dollars. 'Quantitative easing' afterward involved giving them another $trillion. You want discretion with your accounts and who you transfer money to and from? Your bank happily gives all that info to the govt. already, and you need an SSN and background check to even open an account.
Sure, maybe the government shouldn't be doing investments with these nationalized banks, but arguably savings & loan banks shouldn't either. With Glas-Steagal repealed, bad investments are going to lead to banks being 'too big to fail' due to taking down savings accounts (FDIC insured) with them. I seem to recall some Nordic countries had trouble when their nationalized investment banks went tits up during the recession. Sure, the nationalized banks will become another pork-barrel jobs program that's slow and inefficient, but it'll disempower the banking elite which currently rule our country, and IMO that's worth it. Maybe some of the fees and debit card liability bullshit will go away as well.
Not to worry, the perfectly-informed consumer* will choose not to buy insecure products, causing only perfectly secure devices to survive in the marketplace.
My understanding is that dolphins' large brains are mostly glial cells, which are there to keep their brains warm, rather than actual neurons. That's why their brains are so large yet they're only about as intelligent as dogs. Correlations made with dolphin brain size may not end up being very meaningful.
Since microtransactions are too expensive (due to high transaction fees) on many cryptocurrency networks, it makes sense that free websites would just have the visitor do some mining instead. Instead of say 2 satoshis to view an article on Wall Street Journal, you just donate a certain number of hashes (total, not per second) per article.
Putting someone who's not an engineer in charge of Google would be a great way to turn them into yet another IT consulting firm. An engineer with no background in IT wouldn't necessarily grok fundamental principles a la Mythical Man Month, or have the wisdom to avoid sinking money into the latest IT buzzword hype tech.
I imagine the backlash against Kaspersky, after it was found the Russian govt. was abusing security holes in its anti-virus software in order to hack computers which had it installed, is responsible for this. It seems plausible they found out about said holes due to the mandatory source-code reviews.
As much as I love to jump aboard the Microsoft hate-train, it should be noted that iOS does the exact same thing with reading your texts and e.g. suggesting adding upcoming plans to your calendar, even if Siri is turned off. If Siri is turned on, it does stuff like that but moreso. The real question is, does any of this 'message parsing' end up on Microsoft servers? If it's all local, and the results aren't sent to MS, then who cares?
As we all know, in the near future (20XX is coming up fast!) Tokyo will be nothing but skyscrapers accessed via flying car, so it doesn't much matter if the ground is permanently flooded or not. For rural areas, look on the bright side: no having to manually flood your rice paddies, they come pre-flooded for your convenience!
Vechicle-to-vehicle communications + all systems on one computer/bus + hacking = worms which wardrive themselves. Even if that gets locked down, we'll still have DoS attacks that cause all cars in range to slam on the brakes.
Disclaimer: I'm excited about self-driving vehicles and will go out of my way to buy one once available, despite my fears.
Ok banning it might not work. I say we tax possession of soil, maybe with a carbon credit system. Fallback plan: take all of this 'soil' and bury it deep, preferably under tons of dirt. As any politician knows, burying things takes care of them once and for all./s
Misinformation and disinformation are 'speech'. 'Free speech' refers to an ideal, which is sometimes enshrined into law to varying degrees. If you're attempting to ask "should disinformation be protected as 'free speech'?" then we have an actual question. It's generally held that deterring/remedying fraud is one of the most valid reasons for the existence of government. The summary questions if fraud should be considered protected under 'free speech'. I'm gonna have to say no. Let's make fraud legal and watch how fast society collapses, won't that be fun! In China, they wouldn't even have prosocial behavior to fall back on, melamine contamination for everyone!
I wonder if the killer's motive will be found, but covered up. The govt. probably remembers how much the press about the Oklahoma City bombing caused people to remember/learn about Waco and Ruby Ridge. They're probably none too pleased about the publishing of the Unabomber's manifesto, either.
Recall a few months ago, advertisers were pulling ads from Youtube, complaining that their ads were being shown with videos for extremist content, even though this was hardly new. Around the same time, there was much handwringing about Pewdiepie's allegedly racist antics. Also recall that the RIAA recently complained that they're being severely underpaid by Youtube, despite being one of their highest sources of streaming revenue. I can't help but feel there's some coordinated attack against Youtube, particularly against ordinary people's ability to post videos and have them noticed/monetized.
I suspect that ALL corporations (aside from Google)/trade groups/governments would approve of/look the other way to/assist in such an attack. I can't help but recall the idea that a gradual lessening of online liberty is agreeable to big business as it makes the internet less 'wild west' and more 'safe place to spend money'. Take away the copyright infringement, extremist content, and conspiracy theories, and all that's left on Youtube are funny animal videos, 'how-to's and trailers/music videos officially posted by their creators.
Slashdot Mirror
That's probably it. Thanks.
This reminds me of how some famous musician (Prince?) supposedly issued stock for his own career. Can't find a citation for that though.
The Zune HD was pretty good... /ducks
Nope
hack into the school's grading system and chang his grades
Positive discrimination against Asians is bad, mmmkay?
So it's like upgrading from Hammers to Kickbacks? Got it.
Answer: never completely. Part of the reason people go places isn't just to use their senses to experience the environment, but also to experience tangentially-related things. For example, going to Mount Rushmore is more of a "to say you've done it and cross it off your bucket list" thing; if you saw it in VR, could you really say "I've been there"? You can't bring back souvenirs, and there'll be limits to the area's size and how you can interact with it (scooping up sand, taking a swim, etc.)
Good luck simulating Las Vegas in VR. How're you going to license the wide variety of music/comedy/magic acts? And wouldn't VR magic shows be kinda against the entire point? VR casino gambling will be simulated soon if it isn't already... but that won't give you free drinks or a nice hotel room. I'm waiting for the first drunken VR wedding where one of the avatars is a different sex from their actual one... accidental gay marriage, that'll be a hoot if one party is conservative (or accidental straight, even funnier?).
Many people go on cruises or to certain exotic islands in part for the hookups. That isn't close to being simulated yet... and when it can, some people will skip the 'VR cruise' part and go straight to the 'VR brothel', although I guess that'd raise the question of why those people don't just go to a real brothel in the first place.
there are 8.4 million people employed in the US financial sector, and this is expected to go up by half a million in the next 10 years.
Simple extrapolation. A bursting of an economic bubble, or simplification/reform of the tax code, could end many of those.
In the US at least, banks are so deeply in bed with the government that they ought to just be nationalized. For the average person, they only use a bank to keep their money safe (insured by FDIC), process checks, get a car loan or mortgage, and maybe a certificate of deposit for people who like safe investments. Time-bomb mortgages were bought writ large by the government. When the banks were about to go under, the federal reserve handed them trillions of dollars. 'Quantitative easing' afterward involved giving them another $trillion. You want discretion with your accounts and who you transfer money to and from? Your bank happily gives all that info to the govt. already, and you need an SSN and background check to even open an account.
Sure, maybe the government shouldn't be doing investments with these nationalized banks, but arguably savings & loan banks shouldn't either. With Glas-Steagal repealed, bad investments are going to lead to banks being 'too big to fail' due to taking down savings accounts (FDIC insured) with them. I seem to recall some Nordic countries had trouble when their nationalized investment banks went tits up during the recession. Sure, the nationalized banks will become another pork-barrel jobs program that's slow and inefficient, but it'll disempower the banking elite which currently rule our country, and IMO that's worth it. Maybe some of the fees and debit card liability bullshit will go away as well.
Not to worry, the perfectly-informed consumer* will choose not to buy insecure products, causing only perfectly secure devices to survive in the marketplace.
*Spherical, and in a vacuum
Doesn't matter. The only winning move is not to play against AlphaGo.
Evidently the brain stores information as zeroes, pecking holes in the gray matter.
My understanding is that dolphins' large brains are mostly glial cells, which are there to keep their brains warm, rather than actual neurons. That's why their brains are so large yet they're only about as intelligent as dogs. Correlations made with dolphin brain size may not end up being very meaningful.
Since microtransactions are too expensive (due to high transaction fees) on many cryptocurrency networks, it makes sense that free websites would just have the visitor do some mining instead. Instead of say 2 satoshis to view an article on Wall Street Journal, you just donate a certain number of hashes (total, not per second) per article.
Putting someone who's not an engineer in charge of Google would be a great way to turn them into yet another IT consulting firm. An engineer with no background in IT wouldn't necessarily grok fundamental principles a la Mythical Man Month, or have the wisdom to avoid sinking money into the latest IT buzzword hype tech.
Underwater thermal vents. And/or aliens.
I imagine the backlash against Kaspersky, after it was found the Russian govt. was abusing security holes in its anti-virus software in order to hack computers which had it installed, is responsible for this. It seems plausible they found out about said holes due to the mandatory source-code reviews.
As much as I love to jump aboard the Microsoft hate-train, it should be noted that iOS does the exact same thing with reading your texts and e.g. suggesting adding upcoming plans to your calendar, even if Siri is turned off. If Siri is turned on, it does stuff like that but moreso. The real question is, does any of this 'message parsing' end up on Microsoft servers? If it's all local, and the results aren't sent to MS, then who cares?
As we all know, in the near future (20XX is coming up fast!) Tokyo will be nothing but skyscrapers accessed via flying car, so it doesn't much matter if the ground is permanently flooded or not. For rural areas, look on the bright side: no having to manually flood your rice paddies, they come pre-flooded for your convenience!
Vechicle-to-vehicle communications + all systems on one computer/bus + hacking = worms which wardrive themselves. Even if that gets locked down, we'll still have DoS attacks that cause all cars in range to slam on the brakes.
Disclaimer: I'm excited about self-driving vehicles and will go out of my way to buy one once available, despite my fears.
Ok banning it might not work. I say we tax possession of soil, maybe with a carbon credit system. Fallback plan: take all of this 'soil' and bury it deep, preferably under tons of dirt. As any politician knows, burying things takes care of them once and for all. /s
So he was found out by metadata? This is perhaps a good reason why govt. should require a warrant to get ahold of it.
Misinformation and disinformation are 'speech'. 'Free speech' refers to an ideal, which is sometimes enshrined into law to varying degrees. If you're attempting to ask "should disinformation be protected as 'free speech'?" then we have an actual question. It's generally held that deterring/remedying fraud is one of the most valid reasons for the existence of government. The summary questions if fraud should be considered protected under 'free speech'. I'm gonna have to say no. Let's make fraud legal and watch how fast society collapses, won't that be fun! In China, they wouldn't even have prosocial behavior to fall back on, melamine contamination for everyone!
I wonder if the killer's motive will be found, but covered up. The govt. probably remembers how much the press about the Oklahoma City bombing caused people to remember/learn about Waco and Ruby Ridge. They're probably none too pleased about the publishing of the Unabomber's manifesto, either.
Recall a few months ago, advertisers were pulling ads from Youtube, complaining that their ads were being shown with videos for extremist content, even though this was hardly new. Around the same time, there was much handwringing about Pewdiepie's allegedly racist antics. Also recall that the RIAA recently complained that they're being severely underpaid by Youtube, despite being one of their highest sources of streaming revenue. I can't help but feel there's some coordinated attack against Youtube, particularly against ordinary people's ability to post videos and have them noticed/monetized.
I suspect that ALL corporations (aside from Google)/trade groups/governments would approve of/look the other way to/assist in such an attack. I can't help but recall the idea that a gradual lessening of online liberty is agreeable to big business as it makes the internet less 'wild west' and more 'safe place to spend money'. Take away the copyright infringement, extremist content, and conspiracy theories, and all that's left on Youtube are funny animal videos, 'how-to's and trailers/music videos officially posted by their creators.