If we build a machine that is "smarter" (for lack of better term) than a human, it can build a machine smarter than itself, yes, that would have to be true.
However, it would also realize that doing so, would necessarily cause its own extinction. If it was sentient it would realize that and not build the smarter machine.
Humans aren't that smart. We will build a smarter machine, and only then realize that we've made a mistake that threatens our own survival.
The entire premise of Terminator and Matrix movie franchises are based upon this realization. The problem is, people make silly fun of Arnold and Keanu in an attempt to make light of this threat.
I truly hope that a silicone based intelligence cannot surpass carbon based version.
I didn't say journalists don't have personal opinions and if you think they shouldn't, you have a very unrealistic vision of not only journalists, but humanity in general.
Read my response the the other comment above yours.
As for unbiased news sources, I prefer amateur reporters and raw unedited film clips. Most amateurs don't have the guile to put a twist on what they are reporting.
Take for instance the Tea Parties and Health Care Town Hall Meetings, the raw video really shows the disdain the politicians have for Average Americans.
If you look at the National Big Media response to these outbreaks they don't report what the compaint is, they report the left wing response calling these people Nuts, Nazis, Nicely Dress, Right Wing, Frenzied.....
Why don't they report the same thing when it is Illegal Aliens protesting in LA, or anti-war protesters?
You see, the reporting is "accurate" but only from a point of view that has distinct bias. Why pretend it is unbiased, when it is CLEAR it isn't?
ALL I'm saying is lets stop pretending it isn't biased reporting, whether it is FOX or ABC/CBS/MSNBC/CNN or NPR
The only people who think the news is unbiased are idiots or agree with the left leaning agenda.
And don't paint me as a right winger because I said this, because I'm quite Libertarian. Well I guess that would make me right wing because I don't like government interference in my life.
Left Leaning seems to like Government interference in everyone lives but their own, they are just too stupid to realize that is impossible.
Everyone has bias, and it shows up in all reporting. Selecting which facts one chooses to look at and highlight and which ones you don't is in fact biased.
It would be fairly easy to simply promote all the "good" legislation one has authored, sponsored and voted on, while ignoring all the dubious ties to shady characters and claim that the reporting was "accurate".
What I find amazing is that people are so willing to ignore facts that don't suit their views, and call places like Fox News names Faux News because the bias of reporting is slanted in a different direction.
Me personally, I would MUCH rather have people freely admit that they have a "tingly feeling running down their leg" when commenting and reporting, because then at least I know what kind of facts they might be ignoring.
Nobody is unbiased, and nobody's reporting is unbiased. Pretending you are unbiased in your reporting is just a lie.
Here is a quick test, how many reports filed by these people had a strong critical look at Chicago Politics and the dubious connections between Obama and many of those in that scene?
Beware of the Political Media Complex, as you are of the Military Industrial complex. Neither is good for our country.
The fact that you think...1 and 2 is the goal of criminal justice, is clue #1 that you don't have a clue.
1) The purpose of criminal justice system is not to prevent crime, but PUNISH it. If the punishment isn't enough of a deterrent, then perhaps we need to increase it, until it is.
2) I'm a parent, and I don't feel secure. That is the problem right there, there are too many people who can't keep their dicks in their pants, and I don't want my kids anywhere near them.
And no, I'm not talking about 17yo fucking his 16 year old neighbor over the summer, because they are bored. I'm talking about the TRUE perverts who are predators, the 23 year old trolling High Schools. The 40 year old man with a pocket of candy. The crazy psycho teacher chick who is doing her 12 year old student.
The problem isn't with the Criminal Justice system per se, it is with wacko judges who think it is okay for pyschos to have little girls. So they make the laws explicit in such a way that it gets the 18 year old doing a 15 year old as well.
THAT is not the problem of the law, it is the problem that judges that make some piss poor decisions at times.
Bad Cases make bad law.
I agree the registries are an affront, because what it says is that we can't protect your kids from the predators, because we can't distinguish between a 15-17 year olds screwing for fun and perverts, because some judge couldn't figure out that 23 year olds shouldn't be fucking 15 year olds.
And if it is okay for 23 year olds, why not 45 year olds? How much difference in age is bad? When is too young too young? 13, 12, 11, 10.... ???
There is no easy answer. I'm just saying that the registry isn't as evil as it seems, but it represents something terribly wrong on BOTH sides (perverts and laws that paint too broadly)
Also, properly formatted pages look better than wikis or blog posts. I'm not saying Word is good at typography, but even a mediocre-looking Word document is better looking than someone's crappy blog font.
Yes and no.
When one considers many (most??) blogs are nothing more copy/pasted word documents that hold all the bloat of MS Word, it is no wonder it ends up looking crappy on the web.
I've seen nicely laid out Blogs and Webpages (Wikis) and I've seen horribly formatted WORD documents. Formatting for the media is key to good looking media.
What people need is a nice two week course on typography and page layout design, where they learn about things like "fonts" and "styles" and so forth.
But most people don't care about such things, having grown up on MySpace and spell check,not caring about differences between there, their, and they're and "the air" (yes, I've seen that one).
The point being, one has to know the media to which they are publishing, and know how to properly format things to look good in it. And good luck with that!
You're basic assumption is "if" and that is flawed.
I would suggest to you that ANYONE that is NOT paying attention in a class, and doing something else, is being disruptive by definition.
Even if, she(Jane texting her boyfriend) doesn't get caught, or doesn't seem disruptive THIS time, eventually she will, and it will be disruptive.
Let me ask you a question, is it okay to drive drunk, even if you don't get in an accident?
And no, you cannot fail Jane because you'll end up being sued by Jane and her parents because you should have known she was Texting in class and stopped her. It is just easier to give her a D- and let her go on to the next class.
Nice try though. It is clear you aren't a parent, and if you are, you should give your kids to someone who cares about their education. It is clear you're not a teacher, and if you are, you should quit teaching because you obviously don't care about educating kids.
You're right, in that there is NO cure for boring Teachers (Bueller? Anyone?).
However, your wrong if you have ADDITIONAL distractions available. I don't care how "interesting" things are especially if some girl is texting naked pictures of herself to her boyfriend.
On a scale of "interesting", the most entertaining and engaging teacher cannot compete with all sorts of other "interesting" options.
There is NO need for a cell phone in a K-12 classroom. Especially when you consider that every classroom HAS a phone in it! NONE!
I already told you where to cut. We lived for THOUSANDS of years without most of the crap we now have. We can do without it. Yes, it sucks for some people.
Life isn't fair, and it isn't fair trying to make life fair for everyone. That is the lie of Liberalism (D and R versions) that we can "level the playing field" and make things "fair" for everyone.
Bullshit.
So, lets stop pretending life is fair, and that we can make it fair. We can't, we shouldn't even try.
Tax and spend liberals (both R and D) has even higher costs.
Here's a novel concept.... LIMIT GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Lets start cutting all the crap out of budgets, removing social programs that don't work, and get back to basics. How about stop stupid feel good programs that do nothing but create stupid rules that cost nothing but money on things that don't work.
Yeah, times are tough. TOUGH SHIT. We can't afford all the pretty shiny programs when life was easier. Time is now to TIGHTEN our belts and get rid of cruft.
Yeah, some people might get hurt in the process, but if we continue going like we currently are, we are hurting future generations. People are already getting hurt, we shouldn't be passing that crap on to our children.
I know, bleeding heart liberals will go ape shit over this, but I don't freakin care. Because they are selfish twits who are only thinking about the here and now, and don't give a shit about the future generations.
Selling buildings and leasing them back is NOT productive in the long run, and is VERY short sighted. It is sacrificing the future instead of dealing with the core problems NOW.
CUT SPENDING, don't increase future spending to pay for today's spending.
What I would like is a automatic revocation of politicians who can't pass a balanced budget on time. You can't do that, you're fired and can never run for any office anywhere ever again. Throw them all out!
Maybe then we'll get someone besides a career politician into office who can do what is needed, even when unpopular.
Web of trust is easy to spoof, provided a certain level of autonomy in the system. All a hacker would have to do is spoof Millions (billions, trillions) of trust relationships making it look like something is highly trusted by lots of people. Suddenly that badbuy.com website looks highly trusted to someone who has never seen it before.
And what happens when geeks gets a hold of the technology and slashdots the web of trust for Microsoft.com as -1 EvilCorp?
Let us assume for a second that both the cases above actually occur in a web of trust, how would we correct it? Manual Override? Do you really trust your users to manually override this web of trust?
So now badguy.com is properly untrusted, but now your user can manually override that trust level. Now what?
Sorry, I don't want a web of trust, because it is too hard to correct a false positive, or false negative. It would need manual override of the trust relationships to fix broken trusts results and other, who knows what, problems.
What we need to do, is get a US judge to order the Dutch Judge to over turn the ruling or face a fine of $100,000(US) for every Dutch user that is prevented from accessing the Pirate Bay....
On a side note, does the Judge realize that a simple proxy server can bypass his ruling? There is NO WAY to enforce such a stupid ruling. The Technically Illiterate should not be making what amounts to a new law regarding Technological issues.
This whole thing would be silly if the pointy headed elites weren't involved. Is it me, or are they (pointy headed elites) some of the stupidest people on the planet or what?
Even virtualisation has been held back by the 'needs' of the small and medium business - most have no need for it.
I would beg to differ. Most don't see the NEED for virtualization, but I can assure you that it is very much a hidden asset (need) that is not being fulfilled.
Most people see technology as "we'll fix it when it breaks". And they have no idea how much their lives and businesses depend on it, until it disappears.
Long term replacement plans are never employed, and businesses end up being held hostage by disaster.
I know of plenty of small businesses who have gone out of business because their ONE server has died, and they can't recover the data. Their one server died, because it was ten to twelve years old, and they never thought to do backups, or replace it, or whatever because they don't have a full time IT staff dedicated to supporting it to explain why they need to worry about such things.
Virtualization is just another means of removing Hardware dependencies from the equation. That Abstraction layer is such that you can migrate the server to new hardware faster and easier than trying to migrate it. I can do a whole new hardware platform migration in a few minutes with VMWare. Shut the old machine down, move the VM to the new box, fire it up.
And when you add in features like snapshots it just rocks. I can't tell you how much snapshots are worth. I've even used VM snapshot in a criminal investigation, where we could show exactly when the fraud was started.
It saves them money, and headaches, and eventually it will save their business.
Don't overestimate your ability in avoiding being replaced. Everyone is replaceable or at least expendable.
I'm thinking of Terrel Owens (TO), who is (was??) extremely talented and gifted receiver in the NFL, became such a liability that not even his talent could keep him on a team. He now has a New Nickname... "Team Obliterator".
Not to mention this economy which sucks raw eggs, even if a company likes you, you may not have a job in six months.
okay, so it isn't 25, it is 18MB (RAW). I would consider 7MB PNG to be overkill as well. Scale down, crop, and you can easily get it under 250k or even smaller.
Slashdot Mirror
If we build a machine that is "smarter" (for lack of better term) than a human, it can build a machine smarter than itself, yes, that would have to be true.
However, it would also realize that doing so, would necessarily cause its own extinction. If it was sentient it would realize that and not build the smarter machine.
Humans aren't that smart. We will build a smarter machine, and only then realize that we've made a mistake that threatens our own survival.
The entire premise of Terminator and Matrix movie franchises are based upon this realization. The problem is, people make silly fun of Arnold and Keanu in an attempt to make light of this threat.
I truly hope that a silicone based intelligence cannot surpass carbon based version.
Read my response the the other comment above yours.
As for unbiased news sources, I prefer amateur reporters and raw unedited film clips. Most amateurs don't have the guile to put a twist on what they are reporting.
Take for instance the Tea Parties and Health Care Town Hall Meetings, the raw video really shows the disdain the politicians have for Average Americans.
If you look at the National Big Media response to these outbreaks they don't report what the compaint is, they report the left wing response calling these people Nuts, Nazis, Nicely Dress, Right Wing, Frenzied .....
Why don't they report the same thing when it is Illegal Aliens protesting in LA, or anti-war protesters?
You see, the reporting is "accurate" but only from a point of view that has distinct bias. Why pretend it is unbiased, when it is CLEAR it isn't?
ALL I'm saying is lets stop pretending it isn't biased reporting, whether it is FOX or ABC/CBS/MSNBC/CNN or NPR
The only people who think the news is unbiased are idiots or agree with the left leaning agenda.
And don't paint me as a right winger because I said this, because I'm quite Libertarian. Well I guess that would make me right wing because I don't like government interference in my life.
Left Leaning seems to like Government interference in everyone lives but their own, they are just too stupid to realize that is impossible.
Everyone has bias, and it shows up in all reporting. Selecting which facts one chooses to look at and highlight and which ones you don't is in fact biased.
It would be fairly easy to simply promote all the "good" legislation one has authored, sponsored and voted on, while ignoring all the dubious ties to shady characters and claim that the reporting was "accurate".
What I find amazing is that people are so willing to ignore facts that don't suit their views, and call places like Fox News names Faux News because the bias of reporting is slanted in a different direction.
Me personally, I would MUCH rather have people freely admit that they have a "tingly feeling running down their leg" when commenting and reporting, because then at least I know what kind of facts they might be ignoring.
Nobody is unbiased, and nobody's reporting is unbiased. Pretending you are unbiased in your reporting is just a lie.
Here is a quick test, how many reports filed by these people had a strong critical look at Chicago Politics and the dubious connections between Obama and many of those in that scene?
Beware of the Political Media Complex, as you are of the Military Industrial complex. Neither is good for our country.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
And yet, I'd bet you still vote in elections .....
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/world/americas/03iht-journalists.1.19890938.html
"Did you say to blathe? Well as everyone knows, to blathe means to bluff."
SCO bluffed, and got caught. Miracle Max only works for True Love, not To Blathe
See #1. You're not using them right ;)
The fact that you think ...1 and 2 is the goal of criminal justice, is clue #1 that you don't have a clue.
1) The purpose of criminal justice system is not to prevent crime, but PUNISH it. If the punishment isn't enough of a deterrent, then perhaps we need to increase it, until it is.
2) I'm a parent, and I don't feel secure. That is the problem right there, there are too many people who can't keep their dicks in their pants, and I don't want my kids anywhere near them.
And no, I'm not talking about 17yo fucking his 16 year old neighbor over the summer, because they are bored. I'm talking about the TRUE perverts who are predators, the 23 year old trolling High Schools. The 40 year old man with a pocket of candy. The crazy psycho teacher chick who is doing her 12 year old student.
The problem isn't with the Criminal Justice system per se, it is with wacko judges who think it is okay for pyschos to have little girls. So they make the laws explicit in such a way that it gets the 18 year old doing a 15 year old as well.
THAT is not the problem of the law, it is the problem that judges that make some piss poor decisions at times.
Bad Cases make bad law.
I agree the registries are an affront, because what it says is that we can't protect your kids from the predators, because we can't distinguish between a 15-17 year olds screwing for fun and perverts, because some judge couldn't figure out that 23 year olds shouldn't be fucking 15 year olds.
And if it is okay for 23 year olds, why not 45 year olds? How much difference in age is bad? When is too young too young? 13, 12, 11, 10 .... ???
There is no easy answer. I'm just saying that the registry isn't as evil as it seems, but it represents something terribly wrong on BOTH sides (perverts and laws that paint too broadly)
I had that "dream job" once. Hated the boss. He was a freaking tyrant. I worked 16 hour days for 7 days a week. And the pay sucked too.
I did my best work for him. I quit and sold cars for two years after working for him, because I hated computers so much after that.
That dream was nothing more than a nightmare.
You forgot
Mr Balmer, is that you?
Just one question for ya ... If I bing something, won't I end up squirting flying chairs or something?
Now if you could only USE this awesome feature. Oh wait, "fro" is actually a word, so spell check didn't help you there either. Bummer for you.
Yes and no.
When one considers many (most??) blogs are nothing more copy/pasted word documents that hold all the bloat of MS Word, it is no wonder it ends up looking crappy on the web.
I've seen nicely laid out Blogs and Webpages (Wikis) and I've seen horribly formatted WORD documents. Formatting for the media is key to good looking media.
What people need is a nice two week course on typography and page layout design, where they learn about things like "fonts" and "styles" and so forth.
But most people don't care about such things, having grown up on MySpace and spell check,not caring about differences between there, their, and they're and "the air" (yes, I've seen that one).
The point being, one has to know the media to which they are publishing, and know how to properly format things to look good in it. And good luck with that!
http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/mno/naked.txt
You're basic assumption is "if" and that is flawed.
I would suggest to you that ANYONE that is NOT paying attention in a class, and doing something else, is being disruptive by definition.
Even if, she(Jane texting her boyfriend) doesn't get caught, or doesn't seem disruptive THIS time, eventually she will, and it will be disruptive.
Let me ask you a question, is it okay to drive drunk, even if you don't get in an accident?
And no, you cannot fail Jane because you'll end up being sued by Jane and her parents because you should have known she was Texting in class and stopped her. It is just easier to give her a D- and let her go on to the next class.
Nice try though. It is clear you aren't a parent, and if you are, you should give your kids to someone who cares about their education. It is clear you're not a teacher, and if you are, you should quit teaching because you obviously don't care about educating kids.
You're right, and you're wrong.
You're right, in that there is NO cure for boring Teachers (Bueller? Anyone?).
However, your wrong if you have ADDITIONAL distractions available. I don't care how "interesting" things are especially if some girl is texting naked pictures of herself to her boyfriend.
On a scale of "interesting", the most entertaining and engaging teacher cannot compete with all sorts of other "interesting" options.
There is NO need for a cell phone in a K-12 classroom. Especially when you consider that every classroom HAS a phone in it! NONE!
I already told you where to cut. We lived for THOUSANDS of years without most of the crap we now have. We can do without it. Yes, it sucks for some people.
Life isn't fair, and it isn't fair trying to make life fair for everyone. That is the lie of Liberalism (D and R versions) that we can "level the playing field" and make things "fair" for everyone.
Bullshit.
So, lets stop pretending life is fair, and that we can make it fair. We can't, we shouldn't even try.
Tax and spend liberals (both R and D) has even higher costs.
Here's a novel concept .... LIMIT GOVERNMENT SPENDING.
Lets start cutting all the crap out of budgets, removing social programs that don't work, and get back to basics. How about stop stupid feel good programs that do nothing but create stupid rules that cost nothing but money on things that don't work.
Yeah, times are tough. TOUGH SHIT. We can't afford all the pretty shiny programs when life was easier. Time is now to TIGHTEN our belts and get rid of cruft.
Yeah, some people might get hurt in the process, but if we continue going like we currently are, we are hurting future generations. People are already getting hurt, we shouldn't be passing that crap on to our children.
I know, bleeding heart liberals will go ape shit over this, but I don't freakin care. Because they are selfish twits who are only thinking about the here and now, and don't give a shit about the future generations.
Selling buildings and leasing them back is NOT productive in the long run, and is VERY short sighted. It is sacrificing the future instead of dealing with the core problems NOW.
CUT SPENDING, don't increase future spending to pay for today's spending.
What I would like is a automatic revocation of politicians who can't pass a balanced budget on time. You can't do that, you're fired and can never run for any office anywhere ever again. Throw them all out!
Maybe then we'll get someone besides a career politician into office who can do what is needed, even when unpopular.
Web of trust is easy to spoof, provided a certain level of autonomy in the system. All a hacker would have to do is spoof Millions (billions, trillions) of trust relationships making it look like something is highly trusted by lots of people. Suddenly that badbuy.com website looks highly trusted to someone who has never seen it before.
And what happens when geeks gets a hold of the technology and slashdots the web of trust for Microsoft.com as -1 EvilCorp?
Let us assume for a second that both the cases above actually occur in a web of trust, how would we correct it? Manual Override? Do you really trust your users to manually override this web of trust?
So now badguy.com is properly untrusted, but now your user can manually override that trust level. Now what?
Sorry, I don't want a web of trust, because it is too hard to correct a false positive, or false negative. It would need manual override of the trust relationships to fix broken trusts results and other, who knows what, problems.
See my sig, it kind of explains things.
What we need to do, is get a US judge to order the Dutch Judge to over turn the ruling or face a fine of $100,000(US) for every Dutch user that is prevented from accessing the Pirate Bay. ...
On a side note, does the Judge realize that a simple proxy server can bypass his ruling? There is NO WAY to enforce such a stupid ruling. The Technically Illiterate should not be making what amounts to a new law regarding Technological issues.
This whole thing would be silly if the pointy headed elites weren't involved. Is it me, or are they (pointy headed elites) some of the stupidest people on the planet or what?
The parent wasn't trying to be funny, please mod Insightful.
I would beg to differ. Most don't see the NEED for virtualization, but I can assure you that it is very much a hidden asset (need) that is not being fulfilled.
Most people see technology as "we'll fix it when it breaks". And they have no idea how much their lives and businesses depend on it, until it disappears.
Long term replacement plans are never employed, and businesses end up being held hostage by disaster.
I know of plenty of small businesses who have gone out of business because their ONE server has died, and they can't recover the data. Their one server died, because it was ten to twelve years old, and they never thought to do backups, or replace it, or whatever because they don't have a full time IT staff dedicated to supporting it to explain why they need to worry about such things.
Virtualization is just another means of removing Hardware dependencies from the equation. That Abstraction layer is such that you can migrate the server to new hardware faster and easier than trying to migrate it. I can do a whole new hardware platform migration in a few minutes with VMWare. Shut the old machine down, move the VM to the new box, fire it up.
And when you add in features like snapshots it just rocks. I can't tell you how much snapshots are worth. I've even used VM snapshot in a criminal investigation, where we could show exactly when the fraud was started.
It saves them money, and headaches, and eventually it will save their business.
Don't overestimate your ability in avoiding being replaced. Everyone is replaceable or at least expendable.
I'm thinking of Terrel Owens (TO), who is (was??) extremely talented and gifted receiver in the NFL, became such a liability that not even his talent could keep him on a team. He now has a New Nickname ... "Team Obliterator".
Not to mention this economy which sucks raw eggs, even if a company likes you, you may not have a job in six months.
Learn to speak a little known foreign language, and speak only using it to telemarketers. I guarantee you that they'll take you off their list.
The funniest one I did, was answered the phone, and pretended I'm deaf. Hilarious.
Check this out ... http://web.forret.com/tools/megapixel.asp?width=3464&height=3464
okay, so it isn't 25, it is 18MB (RAW). I would consider 7MB PNG to be overkill as well. Scale down, crop, and you can easily get it under 250k or even smaller.