Obviously, there should be a place where you can send noobs on a routine basis. I can think of several for things like windows spyware decontamination (spyware warrior, spywareinfo.com, etc).
So there should be sites for noobs that all the folks annoyed by them
Linux was established as an os for Programmers, among other things. Asking noobs to learn two complex technical subjects at the same time is over the heads of some. Many don't even get the concept of an email list. Many are not college graduates, and haven't been to school in a while.
I'll have to write it up someday, but there is a way to model human interface procedures based entirely on modem protocals.
The Human Interface Protocol includes things like error correction (for misduplication of data), continuous handshaking until viability of the data stream is verified, and procedures for buffer overflows (this is too much information, will robinson)
It works well. Let's face it, some folks are 14.4 modems in a broadband world. Adjust your dataflow protocols appropriately.
Learn to be H.I.P. - use and update your Human Interface Protocol.
or merely the newest bell and whistle? I can imagine so many ways this could be abused.
Remember the Red Stapler.
Any system which fails to account for the chaos of human interaction and people running amock with their own personal agendas can hardly be called effective, never mind modern.
the Security edition assumes that AOL is going to be your only method for acessing the internet, and that your are enforcing controls on the kid's accounts. For some parents this works well. Of course, if you are a 13 yr old looking for funkiness, you might have a problem.
Of course, this might not be a perfect solution, either.
:
Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer stated flatly
in a speech in Toronto on September 25 that
UFOs are
not only real but that "current and past US activities risk
"intergalactic war." Hellyer, Canada's Defense Minister from
1963-67, said, "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly
over your head."
He then went on to say that the current US effort to create
a permanent moon base was to give American forces a better means of tracking and possibly shooting at UFOs, and that "the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war."
Of course, he would have no expertise whatsoever on the matter. And he could be a major league kook.
It has been said that in the field of UFOlogy, of all things, that they eat their own young. A strange reference, from a strange field. But what does it mean?
In this context, it means that in that field, when someone becomes something of a celebrity, for one reason or another, many, if not all of the other celebs and bloggers, etc. in the field have a tendency to gang up on the new comer. If someone is succesful, the others sabotage him as they can. Flame wars and other forms of infighting are routine. The field never really gains respect, because, to one degree or another, they are off their rockers, and tear each other down.
The phrase seems to be applicable to the arena of internet companies. Or is beginning to. But your milage will vary.
The problem usually comes when someone wants to see the experiment replicated. For some reason the effect always seems to go away when other people are looking. Or worse, other people notice things like "you've got a lot of evaporating liquid nitrogen flying past your mass sensor, isn't that going to affect the readings?
This is due to the effect of Quantum Mechanics as applied to the Real World. This accounts for Un-Reproducable results.
Of course, the paradoxical effect of the observer in quantum mechanics could be a result of some sort of sub-quantum phenomena, something like sub-space. yeh that's the ticket, sub-space and sub-time phenomena, account for sub quantum mechanics and the apparency of paradox.
Please be aware, that the use of nightly developer builds has some risks associated with it. Don't use them with production data.
* There are KNOWN DATALOSS BUGS in the calendaring code.
o Don't trust these builds with important calendaring or mail data
o Always make backups (one possible strategy for Calendaring data backups is described at Calendar:WebDAV testing harness)
It's not funny because We, as a society, may choose to elect new officials, spend our money in places of our choosing, may create our own art, music and movies (with the advent of modern technology), and with effort, organize ourselves in a manor of our choosing, with laws of our choosing. Unfortunately, many in our society choose to be complacent and fail to make choices for themselves. This allows for others to choose for them. Choices must and will be made; would you choose for yourself, or allow others to choose for you?
I doubt if a lab monkey would choose to have a poker up his ass. That, my friend, is the difference. We have a choice, they don't. Some of us fail to realize this.
That was well thought out enough that it deserves posting outside the anonymous coward rubrick.
Although it is arguable as to how much free will is merely an apparency created by marketeers, at least at the mass market level. Within that context, much of public taste may be only an apparency, a world of golden shackels. That said, on the curve of the slippery slope, you get points because the monkey is far worse off.
will happen because of the absurdities growing in both Patent and Copyright Law. This is what it feels like to be a test monkey in a laboratory, folks.
Heck, I've even got a few legit copies of Office98 still in their shrink wrap around here somewhere (along with copies of Win95 sr2, NT4, and Win2000... you'd be amazed at how many shrinkwraped packages people never open and just discard). Maybe I can offer them on eBey?:)
Microsoft would likely classify this as an illegimate sale on the basis of some sort of logic. Remember just because you paid for them doesn't mean you own them, not at all... At least according to Microsoft.
Now if they made this plainly known and explicit on the package from day one, this would be a rather large dis-incentive to potential sales. A variant on the classic Bait and switch.
Many researchers are spending lots of time researching AI, and the problems for which the Laws of Robotics are a an attempted solution
In the above, I assumed enough intelligence that the discussion of a potential problem in a work of fiction would not cause confusion. Of course, we could avoid thinking about this at all until it does become a real problem. Maybe this is a good idea, and the prefered method of operation. It certainly is in politics.
Some surprises I could do without, and the nature of this problem is such that a few years of forethought is possibly beneficial. Your Milage May Vary.
Technology has a bad habit of advancing slightly faster than one has previously imagined.
Many researchers are spending lots of time researching AI, and the problems for which the Laws of Robotics are a an attempted solution; Namely how do you keep the robotis from taking over and/or indiscriminately killing mere humans, as seen in so many hollywood movies. So fictional laws are important as experiments in looking at potential solutions to a real problem.
As I see it, the main problem consists of two factors. One factor develops as a result of the first.
The first factor is consciousness, also known as self awareness. The second factor sounds like it is the first, but it includes other areas.
The second factor is Identity. Identity is not restricted to Self Awareness, but also includes group awareness, etc in expanding circles to include universes, subjective and otherwise. When someone else is considered part of a group identity, as "one of us", then you tend not to act against yourself. When the other person is seen as being "one of the Not Us but Them" then you tend to get an opposition, etc.
In wars, it is more a universe thing, the Hitler Universe vs the Churchill Universe, for example. Or Religious Figure One (tm) vs Religious Figure Two (tm). Or a religious universe vs a scientific universe.
Part of the problem of psychopaths, sociopaths, etc. is that they tend to group their victims into the "One of the Not Us/Not Me" category. No sense of being or identity is allowed or granted to the other person, and so, to one degree or another, this rationalizes pigeon-holing people into things that can be abused one way or another. Or else the identity given is some other alteration of reality that legitimizes criminal activity.
This is difficult enough to deal with in humans. Psychologists and psychiatrists have no cure for psychopaths, since it is seen as being in the genes. You can't make a pill for it, and no psychopath would take it as they do not have the luxury of seeing that anything is wrong with themselves.
Now we try to apply this to Robotics. Probably the only real solution for the problem is to redefine Human as self aware creatures from earth, and incorporate this awareness somehow into robots, to some slight degree, so that Robots see Humans as "One of Us".
It is a little touchy on how you would do this. It exposes some of the potential hypocrisy of humans in actions towards other potentially self aware creatures on earth, as well as each other. A self aware robot could see the hypocrisy without the emotional justification people exhibit. At this point, we could be in trouble.
while I can appreciate the logic of the research, I imagine this only gives creedance to the theories that companies deliberately design viruses so that they can sell more of their latest security product. or system/OS upgrade
Many investment firms, especially during the internet bubble, pushed companies to turn around quick profits at the expense of long term growth. This was fine for the cowboy investors, looking to make a quick buck, but very bad for long term prospects. With a strategy for long term interests, you can sometimes do things that are risky as far as short term profits go. Which makes all of the short term investors nervous.
Sometimes it is better not to let these folks get a foot in the door, because otherwise you get a bunch of people second guessing what your intentions are, and advocating positions that are great for them, but not for the long term prospects of the company.
If playing a video game or watching pro football increases the probability that somebody will engage in violence, then that is causation. Absolute certainty is not required.
What if the culture is already violent, so such things seem routinely normal?
Slashdot Mirror
Considering the funky keyboard they named after him, is this any surprise?
;-)
I know there has to be a joke in here someplace. but politicians need not apply, since snakes are mostly backbone as it is.
So there should be sites for noobs that all the folks annoyed by them
Linux was established as an os for Programmers, among other things. Asking noobs to learn two complex technical subjects at the same time is over the heads of some. Many don't even get the concept of an email list. Many are not college graduates, and haven't been to school in a while.
I'll have to write it up someday, but there is a way to model human interface procedures based entirely on modem protocals.
The Human Interface Protocol includes things like error correction (for misduplication of data), continuous handshaking until viability of the data stream is verified, and procedures for buffer overflows (this is too much information, will robinson)
It works well. Let's face it, some folks are 14.4 modems in a broadband world. Adjust your dataflow protocols appropriately.
Learn to be H.I.P. - use and update your Human Interface Protocol.
Remember the Red Stapler.
Any system which fails to account for the chaos of human interaction and people running amock with their own personal agendas can hardly be called effective, never mind modern.
the Security edition assumes that AOL is going to be your only method for acessing the internet, and that your are enforcing controls on the kid's accounts. For some parents this works well. Of course, if you are a 13 yr old looking for funkiness, you might have a problem.
Of course, this might not be a perfect solution, either.
Watch Out, It's a Trap - Ackbar
Here's a better link, with a link to the video. and yes, this version is pretty good, in a dreary sort of way. Interesting how the change to minor transforms it.
The sweet irony of it al
That should cover it, although there is this recent comment from a former canadian defense minister
: Former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer stated flatly in a speech in Toronto on September 25 that UFOs are not only real but that "current and past US activities risk "intergalactic war." Hellyer, Canada's Defense Minister from 1963-67, said, "UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."
He then went on to say that the current US effort to create a permanent moon base was to give American forces a better means of tracking and possibly shooting at UFOs, and that "the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war."
Of course, he would have no expertise whatsoever on the matter. And he could be a major league kook.
Take your pick
This might even count as a single shred
Imagine all the people ..... ....
It's easy, if you can
(etc)
In this context, it means that in that field, when someone becomes something of a celebrity, for one reason or another, many, if not all of the other celebs and bloggers, etc. in the field have a tendency to gang up on the new comer. If someone is succesful, the others sabotage him as they can. Flame wars and other forms of infighting are routine. The field never really gains respect, because, to one degree or another, they are off their rockers, and tear each other down.
The phrase seems to be applicable to the arena of internet companies. Or is beginning to. But your milage will vary.
This is due to the effect of Quantum Mechanics as applied to the Real World. This accounts for Un-Reproducable results.
Of course, the paradoxical effect of the observer in quantum mechanics could be a result of some sort of sub-quantum phenomena, something like sub-space. yeh that's the ticket, sub-space and sub-time phenomena, account for sub quantum mechanics and the apparency of paradox.
No, Really. ;)
Funny!
Please be aware, that the use of nightly developer builds has some risks associated with it. Don't use them with production data.
* There are KNOWN DATALOSS BUGS in the calendaring code.
o Don't trust these builds with important calendaring or mail data
o Always make backups (one possible strategy for Calendaring data backups is described at Calendar:WebDAV testing harness)
That was well thought out enough that it deserves posting outside the anonymous coward rubrick.
Although it is arguable as to how much free will is merely an apparency created by marketeers, at least at the mass market level. Within that context, much of public taste may be only an apparency, a world of golden shackels. That said, on the curve of the slippery slope, you get points because the monkey is far worse off.
And this differs from the effors of MPAA, RIAA, and various patent, trademark, and copyright law how?
note that even DC And Marvel Comics are trying to get a joint trademark on the phrase "Super Hero" so that no one else can use it.
The death of a thousand cuts.
will happen because of the absurdities growing in both Patent and Copyright Law. This is what it feels like to be a test monkey in a laboratory, folks.
Microsoft would likely classify this as an illegimate sale on the basis of some sort of logic. Remember just because you paid for them doesn't mean you own them, not at all... At least according to Microsoft.
Now if they made this plainly known and explicit on the package from day one, this would be a rather large dis-incentive to potential sales. A variant on the classic Bait and switch.
In the above, I assumed enough intelligence that the discussion of a potential problem in a work of fiction would not cause confusion. Of course, we could avoid thinking about this at all until it does become a real problem. Maybe this is a good idea, and the prefered method of operation. It certainly is in politics.
Some surprises I could do without, and the nature of this problem is such that a few years of forethought is possibly beneficial. Your Milage May Vary.
Technology has a bad habit of advancing slightly faster than one has previously imagined.
Please insert ten pages of laughter, Rofl, until the medics arrive to handle the heart attack this creates.
Many researchers are spending lots of time researching AI, and the problems for which the Laws of Robotics are a an attempted solution; Namely how do you keep the robotis from taking over and/or indiscriminately killing mere humans, as seen in so many hollywood movies. So fictional laws are important as experiments in looking at potential solutions to a real problem.
As I see it, the main problem consists of two factors. One factor develops as a result of the first.
The first factor is consciousness, also known as self awareness. The second factor sounds like it is the first, but it includes other areas.
The second factor is Identity. Identity is not restricted to Self Awareness, but also includes group awareness, etc in expanding circles to include universes, subjective and otherwise. When someone else is considered part of a group identity, as "one of us", then you tend not to act against yourself. When the other person is seen as being "one of the Not Us but Them" then you tend to get an opposition, etc.
In wars, it is more a universe thing, the Hitler Universe vs the Churchill Universe, for example. Or Religious Figure One (tm) vs Religious Figure Two (tm). Or a religious universe vs a scientific universe.
Part of the problem of psychopaths, sociopaths, etc. is that they tend to group their victims into the "One of the Not Us/Not Me" category. No sense of being or identity is allowed or granted to the other person, and so, to one degree or another, this rationalizes pigeon-holing people into things that can be abused one way or another. Or else the identity given is some other alteration of reality that legitimizes criminal activity.
This is difficult enough to deal with in humans. Psychologists and psychiatrists have no cure for psychopaths, since it is seen as being in the genes. You can't make a pill for it, and no psychopath would take it as they do not have the luxury of seeing that anything is wrong with themselves.
Now we try to apply this to Robotics. Probably the only real solution for the problem is to redefine Human as self aware creatures from earth, and incorporate this awareness somehow into robots, to some slight degree, so that Robots see Humans as "One of Us".
It is a little touchy on how you would do this. It exposes some of the potential hypocrisy of humans in actions towards other potentially self aware creatures on earth, as well as each other. A self aware robot could see the hypocrisy without the emotional justification people exhibit. At this point, we could be in trouble.
yeh, most consumers have this crazy idea that they own something just because they paid money for something.
while I can appreciate the logic of the research, I imagine this only gives creedance to the theories that companies deliberately design viruses so that they can sell more of their latest security product. or system/OS upgrade
Sometimes it is better not to let these folks get a foot in the door, because otherwise you get a bunch of people second guessing what your intentions are, and advocating positions that are great for them, but not for the long term prospects of the company.
What if the culture is already violent, so such things seem routinely normal?