The fact that you're even asking this question tells me that you've never taken a course in ethics before. Any society that needs to write down it's ethics laws, let alone teach them is already fucked beyond repair.
Which leads to the question of how do ethics get passed on if there is no education in them?
What is interesting is just to see the speed of advance in the technology. I recall one story from the 70s or 80s which was set about a thousand years in the future. It had a PDA like device with a 3d projector built into it, outrageous library connections and storage, etc.
Suddenly this sounds plausible, given moore's law and all that, and likely to be developed in the lifetimes of most people reading this.
The rules of the world change because they are a monoply.
Microsoft has yet to adjust to this.
Also, there is a blurring of the lines of what constitutes an operating system. It seems here that Microsoft has defined the operating system as a Marketing system for Microsoft products, vs a system that allows the computer to run other applications. Microsoft has the idea that the appearance of certain icons is essentail or harmful to the marketing functions of the operating system. When those icons are irrelevent to to the actual core non-marketing functions of the system.
This is the most irritating part of Microsoft.
Microsoft, of course, finds it rude and unsettling when someone else engages in the practices that Microsoft has engaged in for years and years.
Lawsuit prospects continue.n I would love to see microsoft forced to allow everyone do what they want on the desktop, just to tweak there noses. but it would be a bit of a pain for tech support geeks, all those "non standard" menu systems.
Mafia Don Announces New Anti-Spam Venture Posted on Fri 02 Apr 19:25:26 1999 PST
As the NSA and FBI fear, traditional crime organizations have been incorporating high-tech communication into their organizations. Although Janet Reno was quoted stating "This is law enforcement's worst nightmare.", techies around the world are sure to be pleased with one New York Syndicate's new venture.
It all started when Don Dominiqi signed onto his AOL account last Monday morning. His inbox was filled with "Make Money Fast", "Viagra On-Line", and "Teenybopper Web Sex" ads. Lost amidst the drivel was an important note detailing a non-taxed shipment of Marlboros, which were later confiscated by the BATF. Little did he know, as he shouted "Bring me the left hand of this f*cking gutterslime!" what would become of it all.
Later that same day, Billy "Run!" Brutekowski and Larry "My Eyes!" Plucker cornered the pasty-faced offender of the Family in a small cyber cafe in Grenich Village. "This was by far the creepiest place the Boss has ever sent us." stated Billy, who only spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everyone in this place looked pale and sickly, like they had already been 'spoken to'. We asked for this punk, and several people quickly pointed him out. Most of the scum we find in gin joints aren't so quick to finger one of their own," Billy continued.
"He must not watch much TV, because this sh*t didn't even flinch when we came to the corner he was hiding in," Larry proceeded to relate. "We dropped this sheet of paper the Boss had given us on his table and he says 'So you guys want to make money fast, eh?' He puts out his and says to give him $20. This scrawny little dirtball tells me to give him $20!" Larry was quite agitated at this part in his story, and his description of how Sammy Spammer's hand fell off was quite garbled.
Billy continued, "Up till now, this was a routine visit. We was just being playful. The weird sh*t began when we tried to leave." "This pimply faced kid blocks the door as we try to leave, and I'm thinking to myself 'Great, a f*cking Karate Kid hero. He just stand there, and then he hands me a $5 bill." Billy pulls out the $5, and holds it like it is his first quarter from his favorite grandmother. "They lined up after that, and we had $175 in 'tips' when we left the joint."
Later that day the Don himself visited the café, unwilling to believe the story. Although the details are unclear, sources at the café indicate that the Don has hired them to build and host a new Anti-Spam site. Through a SSL transaction system, the site will accept spam complaints and credit card donations towards 'solutions to problems'. Multiple complaints against the same spammer are added to the total until an acceptable solution has been found.
Larry tells us that a typical $250 solution is a broken hand, and for $2000 all anyone ever sees again of 'the problem' are his shoes.
The URL is to be announced next week, and the cyber café's phones have been jammed with requests for more information.
7. Illegal software is more likely to fail, leaving your company's computers and their information useless. 8. Illegal software is one of the prime sources of computer viruses that can destroy your company's valuable data.
Since that vast majority of illegal software is microsoft, does this mean that microsoft software is more likely to fail, have viruses, and have other defects?
I still think that we have to make it profitable for folks to go after spammers.
Spammers need to be licensed (preferably with an ear tag, but i'll consider substitutes) and fully identified. all spam needs to have a spam license number in the header someplace.
Fees can then be and need to be collected by your favorite government agencies (I think the IRS, the NSA, and BATF will do for now). ISPs and users need to be able to bill spammers some amount for the spam processed and received. Fees need to be large enough that it is worthwile to go after them, and then we can have bounty hunters. Fees can be high enough to reduce the cost of access. Penalities for abuse can be heavy (20 years in jail, for example)
Then we can have spam hunters who will go out and collect from the spammers for you in exchange for a percentage.
People might just not care: In a poll to US citizens a couple of decades ago, it was found that most people did not care about the rights they were given by the Bill of Rights, which lead to a number of laws to be passed in the US that eliminated most of the rights people had.
This point is very important. It is a major blind spot that a large portion of the population just wants to be comfortable, and actually likes the simple games of a stable job in servitude to large corporations, etc. Without knowing it, alot of folks like comfortable slavery.
(If you're happy and you know it clink your chains... )
This can drive they people with a more independant streak batty
The industry will move way too slow: Microsoft's implementation is out in the open now: it is being deployed, and soon it will be insinuated to many, many users. The industry needs to get together soon if they care about this issue. By the time the industry reacts, it might be too late.
Unfortunately the two problems are interelated. The industry is led too often by the same people who lead their lives of quiet servitude.
There was an article a while back about someone using a game engine as a basis for the production of a motion picture. The idea was that you could drive down the cost of motion picture production into something that almost anyone could do as a serious hobby, yet still produce features, etc. So this is another small step in that direction.
The first, obvious application aside from games is going to be about ten years from now, when, in conjunction with your AI Design program, you can program your own porn movies on your own workstation using avatars of your fav celebrities. Insert yourself into the movie, maybe with the body of a body builder. Or even better, a novelty program sold to the consumer where they can insert the avatar and you can interact with the players in the movie, directing the action. You know this is going to be a great busines opportunity for someone, someday. The MPAA and the RIAA are going to freak. (all that unlicense use of celebrity images)
There is a certain trap that people in certain professions fall into. The thing you work with everyday will taint your viewpoint.
In police departments, especially large cities, often police officers are rotated out of criminal investigations units on a regular basis. They get transfered to a lighter duty unit, like traffic, or something, so that they have contact with real poeple, and get to have a chance to unwind from dealing with criminal types all the time.
I am sure that the psychs have the same issue. Their view gets tainted, and they see evidence of mental disease all around them, even when it is not true. This also tends to be self re-enforcing, because it is good for business.
You could even speculate about something like the prevalence of mental illness in the mental health profession. You could have something like a "paranoid hypochondriac", which would be someone with the illness of seeing illnesses all the time in everyone else. Instead of worrying about themselves being sick all the time, they would worry all the time about other people being sick. A paranoid version of hypochondria. This would naturally fit in well in the medical and mental health community.
Can someone tell me some down to earth, real reasons that anyone should care what the 12,345th digit of Pi is? I mean really, who cares?Well for most general engineering purposes 5 to 10 places is enough. How many car parts are manufactured to a milli millimeter spec, for example? and to tell the truth, once you hit the quantum level further precision can get a little silly.
In the first century AD, the Roman chronicler Pliny reported that elephants collect and bury the bones of their dead. Over the years, many nature writers have remarked on elephants' reactions to the deaths of their kin and companions. But what really happens when an elephant dies? I'm Jim Metzner, and this is the Pulse of the Planet, presented by the American
Museum of Natural History.
We're listening to the sounds of elephants in Africa.
"There are legends about elephants creating graveyards of the bones of other elephants. I believe this is just a legend. I have never seen it."
Katy Payne is author of Silent Thunder: In The Presence of Elephants.
"What I have seen though is that whenever an elephant comes to the bones of another elephant, it will stop and sniff and touch and roll over and fondle and carry and move and displace
and pick up again and again those bones. And particularly tusks. Whether there's individual recognition of the source of the bones I don't know, but the bones are very interesting to other
elephants. How they respond when other animals die is with obvious symptoms of grief, despair and distress initially. They are called back and back to explore the corpse, called back by
their own desires to return. And eventually when they leave the corpse there is obvious evidence of grieving. A female having lost a calf stayed with the herd which accompanied her near to standing next to the corpse for several days and left reluctantly with a herd and then fifty kilometers away, turned back and went back to the calf. So there's all this kind of memory and
grief.
Additional funding for Pulse of the Planet has been provided by the National Science Foundation. I'm Jim Metzner.
>>>>>>
I'm sure he was accidentally shot, and then just left there to freeze for us to find him thousands of years later.
Actually, he was likely shot and severly wounded, and tried to escape over the mountains as the storm closed in.
No, the only time you kill someone and leave 'em in a snowbank is because you're pretty sure the statute of limitations is longer than
5,000 years.
The day we have to pay for crime from past lifes is the day we all have to worry. Currently the rules are that anything that happened from past lives is not very important. With all of the junk that happens in one life, and what we know of history, it could be very nasty.
My question is, when are distros going to start shipping with all services turned off by default?
Of course, it is not Linux, but there is always OpenBSD. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX.
That said, I tend to advocate being exposed to as many distros and variants as possible. Load em up on a spare box, blow them up, etc.
I wonder what they are asking for as Relief? Let's take a look:
REQUEST FOR RELIEF
Wherefore, the Complainants request that the Commission:
A. Initiate an investigation into the information collection practices of Microsoft
through Passport and associated services;
B. Order Microsoft to revise the XP registration procedures so that purchasers of
Microsoft XP are clearly informed that they need not register for Passport to
obtain access to the Internet;
C. Order Microsoft to block the sharing of personal information among Microsoft
areas provided by a user under the Passport registration procedures absent explicit
consent;
D. Order Microsoft to incorporate techniques for anonymity and pseudo-anonymity
that would allow users of Windows XP to gain access to Microsoft web sites
without disclosing their actual identity
E. Order Microsoft to incorporate techniques that would enable users of Windows
XP to easily integrate services provided by non-Microsoft companies for online
payment, electronic commerce, and other Internet-based commercial activity; and
F. Provide such other relief as the Commission finds necessary to redress injury to
consumers resulting from Microsoft's practices as described herein.
I imagine that Microsoft will scream bloody murder on Point E.
And I wonder what other redress for injury could be ordered.
I wonder how well the open source encyclopedia will function when dealing with controversial subjects. Some folks get rabid on certain points, and you can even get disputes of what are the facts.
In the town where I went to High School, there was an English Edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. It was completely fascinating to read, often at complete variance with the western version of the same information. Although it was often the only source of detailed regional information like the politics and history of Estonia in the Middle Ages.
In a similar vein, I can see Microsoft publicists contributing their take on the History of the Open Source movement.
Obviously, there could be problems. You could have the History of Microsoft as well. Should MS be trusted or distrusted here as well?
It comes down to what world view do you want to promote? and if it is open source who do you let in to write the articles? I can see the controversy in the writing of articles covering the history of the American Elections of 2000. The variety of Vested interests would have a blood bath over the details.
Never mind those hot button issues near and dear to the open source community. It is one thing when you are dealing with code that implements widget X. You can see if it works or not. But when you get into areas outside of technology, it is not so simple.
How long before I become acclimatized to chussssh chussssh chussssh?
There is a link to an interview with a video clip lower on the page.
Nice clip, educational.
Chussssh chussssh chussssh is not really the sound. It is just pulses of white noise. Definitely less harsh than a simple buzzer. Niceties include varying the pulse speed depending on how close you are to the exit, etc.
Pulses of white noise have a better chance of being directional and cutting through the other background noise in an emergency.
They are really just navigational aids for humans. I do not think sirens are going to go any place for a while
The animation is available in three formats: flipbook/flic (207k), QuickTime (13.4 MB), or as an animated gif (4.1 MB) [...] Note: The recommended way to view the flipbook format is to use xanim on a Unix platform, or QuickTime Player 5 on Macintosh and Windows boxes. Use the "open URL" feature of a QuickTime player and paste in the URL.
how much you want to make a bet that a lot of folks are going to grab the 13 meg quicktime file?
It is a very common tactic to use Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt to try to sell the public and public officials on spending money for some eleaborate project.
Problem is, there are sometimes credible threats out there. Although I wonder if national security is served better by the equivalent of thicker walls for the castle, or by simply by not stepping on so many toes. The american sense of imperialism has too often not paid the simple courtesy of proper manners to many interests. This does not mean that we should walk in fear of offending just about anyone for any reason. It is a matter of respect as well as finesse and expertise.
The US is definitely walking in the direction of Empire vs a remaining a Republic. The British and Roman experiences serve as a warning. Empires need thick walls and send armies over seas to protect extended interests, often vested interests. Our Republic used to reserve the Navy (with the Marines) for presidential escapades, with the Army reserved to Congressional Approval. This line is blurring. All we need is to start hiring mercenaries to do the dirty work, since the american public has such a distaste for doing the stuff themselves. This would not be good.
But it would serve the interests of those devoted to their particular pork barrel. Who, of course, use FUD to their advantadge.
they will all be outclassed by a truly intelligent search engine emerging eventually as the progeny of Mind.SourceForge.Net, the Open Source inevitable AI platform that evolves towards full civil rights on a par with human beings and
towards a superintelligence beyond any human IQ. When the Singularity described at://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html gets here, human minds and cyborg brains will co-wander the Web in search of information of interest to both of us symbiontically, and we will nevermore be plagues with thousand of useless, off-the-mark search results.
This idea is fine, until you look at the idea that any super intelligent AI like that might censor the links for your own good. You might not find anti microsoft links unless you specified hate and microsoft, for example. Or it might be too much stress in your life to know about the impending comet strike, and so that is left out of the search results, even if you choose to vacation at ground zero.
After all, it is smarter than humans, and hopefully is more moral? The question on what to do with "the questions of morals", and whose "morals to program it with" becomes very disturbing when applied to super intelligent search engines.
Which shows you the logic of the allegations on the net. [shrug]
The lines of logic in the allegations get rather twisted after a while. Certainly the probable infighting doesn't help. People start to read between the line a little too much, and sometimes see things that are not there, or are different than imagined.
Slashdot Mirror
Which leads to the question of how do ethics get passed on if there is no education in them?
Suddenly this sounds plausible, given moore's law and all that, and likely to be developed in the lifetimes of most people reading this.
Microsoft has yet to adjust to this.
Also, there is a blurring of the lines of what constitutes an operating system. It seems here that Microsoft has defined the operating system as a Marketing system for Microsoft products, vs a system that allows the computer to run other applications. Microsoft has the idea that the appearance of certain icons is essentail or harmful to the marketing functions of the operating system. When those icons are irrelevent to to the actual core non-marketing functions of the system.
This is the most irritating part of Microsoft.
Microsoft, of course, finds it rude and unsettling when someone else engages in the practices that Microsoft has engaged in for years and years.
Lawsuit prospects continue.n I would love to see microsoft forced to allow everyone do what they want on the desktop, just to tweak there noses. but it would be a bit of a pain for tech support geeks, all those "non standard" menu systems.
Well there is this classic from a couple years ago on Segfault:
Mafia Don Announces New Anti-Spam Venture
Posted on Fri 02 Apr 19:25:26 1999 PST
As the NSA and FBI fear, traditional crime organizations have been incorporating high-tech communication into their organizations. Although Janet Reno was quoted stating "This is law enforcement's worst nightmare.", techies around the world are sure to be pleased with one New York Syndicate's new venture.
It all started when Don Dominiqi signed onto his AOL account last Monday morning. His inbox was filled with "Make Money Fast", "Viagra On-Line", and "Teenybopper Web Sex" ads. Lost amidst the drivel was an important note detailing a non-taxed shipment of Marlboros, which were later confiscated by the BATF. Little did he know, as he shouted "Bring me the left hand of this f*cking gutterslime!" what would become of it all.
Later that same day, Billy "Run!" Brutekowski and Larry "My Eyes!" Plucker cornered the pasty-faced offender of the Family in a small cyber cafe in Grenich Village. "This was by far the creepiest place the Boss has ever sent us." stated Billy, who only spoke on condition of anonymity. "Everyone in this place looked pale and sickly, like they had already been 'spoken to'. We asked for this punk, and several people quickly pointed him out. Most of the scum we find in gin joints aren't so quick to finger one of their own," Billy continued.
"He must not watch much TV, because this sh*t didn't even flinch when we came to the corner he was hiding in," Larry proceeded to relate. "We dropped this sheet of paper the Boss had given us on his table and he says 'So you guys want to make money fast, eh?' He puts out his and says to give him $20. This scrawny little dirtball tells me to give him $20!" Larry was quite agitated at this part in his story, and his description of how Sammy Spammer's hand fell off was quite garbled.
Billy continued, "Up till now, this was a routine visit. We was just being playful. The weird sh*t began when we tried to leave." "This pimply faced kid blocks the door as we try to leave, and I'm thinking to myself 'Great, a f*cking Karate Kid hero. He just stand there, and then he hands me a $5 bill." Billy pulls out the $5, and holds it like it is his first quarter from his favorite grandmother. "They lined up after that, and we had $175 in 'tips' when we left the joint."
Later that day the Don himself visited the café, unwilling to believe the story. Although the details are unclear, sources at the café indicate that the Don has hired them to build and host a new Anti-Spam site. Through a SSL transaction system, the site will accept spam complaints and credit card donations towards 'solutions to problems'. Multiple complaints against the same spammer are added to the total until an acceptable solution has been found.
Larry tells us that a typical $250 solution is a broken hand, and for $2000 all anyone ever sees again of 'the problem' are his shoes.
The URL is to be announced next week, and the cyber café's phones have been jammed with requests for more information.
8. Illegal software is one of the prime sources of computer viruses that can destroy your company's valuable data.
Since that vast majority of illegal software is microsoft, does this mean that microsoft software is more likely to fail, have viruses, and have other defects?
;-)
Spammers need to be licensed (preferably with an ear tag, but i'll consider substitutes) and fully identified. all spam needs to have a spam license number in the header someplace.
Fees can then be and need to be collected by your favorite government agencies (I think the IRS, the NSA, and BATF will do for now). ISPs and users need to be able to bill spammers some amount for the spam processed and received. Fees need to be large enough that it is worthwile to go after them, and then we can have bounty hunters. Fees can be high enough to reduce the cost of access. Penalities for abuse can be heavy (20 years in jail, for example)
Then we can have spam hunters who will go out and collect from the spammers for you in exchange for a percentage.
People might just not care: In a poll to US citizens a couple of decades ago, it was found that most people did not care about the rights they were given by the Bill of Rights, which lead to a number of laws to be passed in the US that eliminated most of the rights people had.
This point is very important. It is a major blind spot that a large portion of the population just wants to be comfortable, and actually likes the simple games of a stable job in servitude to large corporations, etc. Without knowing it, alot of folks like comfortable slavery.
(If you're happy and you know it clink your chains ... )
This can drive they people with a more independant streak batty
The industry will move way too slow: Microsoft's implementation is out in the open now: it is being deployed, and soon it will be insinuated to many, many users. The industry needs to get together soon if they care about this issue. By the time the industry reacts, it might be too late.
Unfortunately the two problems are interelated. The industry is led too often by the same people who lead their lives of quiet servitude.
The first, obvious application aside from games is going to be about ten years from now, when, in conjunction with your AI Design program, you can program your own porn movies on your own workstation using avatars of your fav celebrities. Insert yourself into the movie, maybe with the body of a body builder. Or even better, a novelty program sold to the consumer where they can insert the avatar and you can interact with the players in the movie, directing the action. You know this is going to be a great busines opportunity for someone, someday. The MPAA and the RIAA are going to freak. (all that unlicense use of celebrity images)
If anyone is using a workstation by then.
In police departments, especially large cities, often police officers are rotated out of criminal investigations units on a regular basis. They get transfered to a lighter duty unit, like traffic, or something, so that they have contact with real poeple, and get to have a chance to unwind from dealing with criminal types all the time.
I am sure that the psychs have the same issue. Their view gets tainted, and they see evidence of mental disease all around them, even when it is not true. This also tends to be self re-enforcing, because it is good for business.
You could even speculate about something like the prevalence of mental illness in the mental health profession. You could have something like a "paranoid hypochondriac", which would be someone with the illness of seeing illnesses all the time in everyone else. Instead of worrying about themselves being sick all the time, they would worry all the time about other people being sick. A paranoid version of hypochondria. This would naturally fit in well in the medical and mental health community.
Can someone tell me some down to earth, real reasons that anyone should care what the 12,345th digit of Pi is? I mean really, who cares?Well for most general engineering purposes 5 to 10 places is enough. How many car parts are manufactured to a milli millimeter spec, for example? and to tell the truth, once you hit the quantum level further precision can get a little silly.
This transcript from a short "Pulse of the Planet" radio piece sheds light on that legend
>>>>>>I'm sure he was accidentally shot, and then just left there to freeze for us to find him thousands of years later.
Actually, he was likely shot and severly wounded, and tried to escape over the mountains as the storm closed in.
No, the only time you kill someone and leave 'em in a snowbank is because you're pretty sure the statute of limitations is longer than 5,000 years.
The day we have to pay for crime from past lifes is the day we all have to worry. Currently the rules are that anything that happened from past lives is not very important. With all of the junk that happens in one life, and what we know of history, it could be very nasty.
Chicago to California is a decent road trip
On another note
On sunny days, and on flat stretches of highway, the cars hit speeds as high as 110 kilometres an hour.
which is starting to be respectable.
Of course, it is not Linux, but there is always OpenBSD. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX.
That said, I tend to advocate being exposed to as many distros and variants as possible. Load em up on a spare box, blow them up, etc.
Educational, if nothing else.
And I wonder what other redress for injury could be ordered.
I'm sure many folks will volunteer suggestions.
;-)
In the town where I went to High School, there was an English Edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. It was completely fascinating to read, often at complete variance with the western version of the same information. Although it was often the only source of detailed regional information like the politics and history of Estonia in the Middle Ages.
In a similar vein, I can see Microsoft publicists contributing their take on the History of the Open Source movement. Obviously, there could be problems. You could have the History of Microsoft as well. Should MS be trusted or distrusted here as well?
It comes down to what world view do you want to promote? and if it is open source who do you let in to write the articles? I can see the controversy in the writing of articles covering the history of the American Elections of 2000. The variety of Vested interests would have a blood bath over the details.
Never mind those hot button issues near and dear to the open source community. It is one thing when you are dealing with code that implements widget X. You can see if it works or not. But when you get into areas outside of technology, it is not so simple.
There is a link to an interview with a video clip lower on the page.
Nice clip, educational.
Chussssh chussssh chussssh is not really the sound. It is just pulses of white noise. Definitely less harsh than a simple buzzer. Niceties include varying the pulse speed depending on how close you are to the exit, etc.
Pulses of white noise have a better chance of being directional and cutting through the other background noise in an emergency.
They are really just navigational aids for humans. I do not think sirens are going to go any place for a while
Of Course, being the fringe, they have alot of other weird things as well.
The way I look at it, when you turn up the sensitivity on the radar, you tend to get more noise along with extra advanced warning.
It comes with the territory.
how much you want to make a bet that a lot of folks are going to grab the 13 meg quicktime file?
The .fli file works just fine.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
Problem is, there are sometimes credible threats out there. Although I wonder if national security is served better by the equivalent of thicker walls for the castle, or by simply by not stepping on so many toes. The american sense of imperialism has too often not paid the simple courtesy of proper manners to many interests. This does not mean that we should walk in fear of offending just about anyone for any reason. It is a matter of respect as well as finesse and expertise.
The US is definitely walking in the direction of Empire vs a remaining a Republic. The British and Roman experiences serve as a warning. Empires need thick walls and send armies over seas to protect extended interests, often vested interests. Our Republic used to reserve the Navy (with the Marines) for presidential escapades, with the Army reserved to Congressional Approval. This line is blurring. All we need is to start hiring mercenaries to do the dirty work, since the american public has such a distaste for doing the stuff themselves. This would not be good.
But it would serve the interests of those devoted to their particular pork barrel. Who, of course, use FUD to their advantadge.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
Which is part of the problem. People who sell folks on bad solutions because it also spells job security
;-)
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Marketing Systems (as opposed to Operating Systems)
Marketing Systems are systems designed purely for marketing purposes, with operations being hardly even secondary considerations.
We have seen the gradual development of this type of thing with Microsoft. AOL and Amazon have the capabilities to really bring it to maturity.
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(Yes, the link has a nice graphic of this.)
I don't why, but it does seem strangely appropriate.
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so on an MS system, you have just enough time to boot before you have to shut down. Maybe?
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This idea is fine, until you look at the idea that any super intelligent AI like that might censor the links for your own good. You might not find anti microsoft links unless you specified hate and microsoft, for example. Or it might be too much stress in your life to know about the impending comet strike, and so that is left out of the search results, even if you choose to vacation at ground zero.
After all, it is smarter than humans, and hopefully is more moral? The question on what to do with "the questions of morals", and whose "morals to program it with" becomes very disturbing when applied to super intelligent search engines.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip
True enough
Which shows you the logic of the allegations on the net. [shrug]
The lines of logic in the allegations get rather twisted after a while. Certainly the probable infighting doesn't help. People start to read between the line a little too much, and sometimes see things that are not there, or are different than imagined.
Check out the Vinny the Vampire comic strip