I had a couple of dogs that seemed to me to be self-aware. They did not have the same legal rights I did as far as I know. So why would a computer be granted legal rights based on self-awareness?
Cause computers could be really mean to us. It would be better to start off on the right foot showing the future computer overlords that we've always been nice to them and treated them just like humans...
whining how we would have been wiped out long ago in the past if his numbers are right:
Statistics were only recently discovered, hence they didn't apply back then.
Stupids.
So we just need to burn all the statistics books and kill all those math professors that want to teach it. We'd be much better off with statistics any way. We wouldn't have to worry about the environment at all. (All that research is based on statistics.) Remember most statistics are evil lies except those that I generate they happen to be the holy truth.
Unmanned and remotely controlled probes are just fine and dandy and they yield plenty of useful information about the conditions in space and on other planets, but what's that information good for if we're never going to leave our planet and/or when we're going to get hit by an extinction level event?
I personnally think manned exploration should be stopped for about 10-20 years. My list of things we need to do are 1. develop and build a cheap space delivary service (My favorite is the space elevator.) 2. launch enough probes to every one of our our solar systems planets and moons for long term study 50-100 years min. should be the planned length of study time. 3. map every piece of matter in this solar system the could hit this planet. 4. start asteriod mining with remote controlled robots. 5. have hollowed out asteriods ready for space stations. 6. start planning long term generation ships. 7. launch a generation ship that would take about 1000 years to get where it is going unless we think up some FTL transport mechanism.
We aren't in a hurry; we have a few billion years until that sun burns out. We are much more likely to nuke this planet, pollute it, or release some bio warfare agents that kills off all the humans.
I'll admit that it would be annoying as hell for those that have made their business and hobbies simpler by using GPS if it was turned off. They should do it once every 3 months as a drill. I really hate to mention it, but GPS is a military system. Until Congress takes GPS away from the military due to corporate and/. complants, the military could do anything they want to the system without notifying you. I'd bet the only ones that would really be annoyed are rescue personnel. I read a post that mentioned that the cell phone system and the power system will magically crash without GPS on. I really hope some one from each of those industries will explain the only uses of GPS in their field. I can guess several uses, but they are all in troubleshooting tower or lines.
For 16 Billon I want a space elevator! I know we don't currently have the tech. to build one, but we have the vision and money. All it needs is some good old fashioned R&D, which would mainly be stronger materials, energy transfer, and elevator research.
I don't care spit about sending a single person anywhere else in our solar system. I want us to be sending dozens or hundreds of people out there into space and not really just to another plant. Before we can do that though, we need a cheap space delivery system.
The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
That is without exception, the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Let's take Firefox - known for it's security - and have you enable ActiveX, the mack-daddy of all virus vectors. And then for an encore, have it run the mother-of-all virus vectors, IE - inside it!
You are right. But you forget that AOL isn't OSS. AOL now lives in the land of PHBs. In the land of PHB, IE and Microsoft have browser mindshare and a new brand FireFox is entrenching in MS turf. To have AOL release a Netscape browser that has IE with Active X is very very PHB smart. This new AOL/Netscape/FireFox/IE may be with worst thing to happen to FireFox, but it will be more likly to be installed and used. You will more likly see TV Ads for this browser than for FireFox.
There are rumors that, at the Pole, there are nubile virgin maidens ready to pleasure any/.er who runs naked in their direction....
You are using the second Choctaw tense. In the first Choctaw tense, it would be: There are virgin maidens that are horny for any male who runs naked in their direction. I know it is a slight difference, but it is important. Think about what kind of virgin maidens would be stationed at the Pole. Not the nubile kind.
The only story here, as in the quote above, is that they made a bit of a visible statement about where they were headed, before knowing for sure. Minor mis-step, if mis-step at all.
Note to self, never ever let marketing know what R&D is doing and investing in.
I'm pretty certain that the New York Times, newspaper of record in the United States for over a century, does not need to seed Slashdot in order to drum up circulation.
Nah, they just seed New York to drum up circulation. Why bother with/.? They've been at it for over a century. They know who is likely to buy the paper, who is likely to pick up the paper out of his neighbor's or co-workers trash, and who will just discuss the paper after hearing about the headline but not the article from his/her neighbors and/or co-workers. It's/. on a much larger scale with paper and gossip.
I don't see why this persistent need in the tech community that one tool is always and for everything better than another.
The bad news we aren't good with tools. We can't handle nice simple tools that do one function well. We have to have multi-tools that do 5-6 functions poor to average. Then we complain about our multi-tools.
The impetus behind this article might have a lot less to do with the actual oncoming death of email and a lot more to do with maintaining a tech-obsessed culture -- much easier to do if you're constantly promoting new toys, which Korea is.
And we keep getting told that we were the ones that are obsessed. I love Korea. I can now point to them and say see I'm not obsessed.
email is for old people what do they think of those who use the "physical" postal service...
Ancient. I actually enjoyed writing letters to my girlfriend over the summer holidays. The waiting is the fun part. After e-mail, it is fun to wait 4-5 days for the letter to get there and 4-5 days for a reply. IM/AIM you have conversations, in letters you have to think about what to put down on the paper. Its funny, but its like my gibberish that I usually stuck in my e-mails was never enough, so I'd rewrite the letter 4-5 times before sending it. It must have worked because that girlfriend is now my wife. Of course now the only physical mail that I use is UPS and Fedex.
Sept 27 2007 the little drummer boy becomes self aware
Not to worry, all little drummer boys are defenseless, cute and not self ware by definition. IF they do gain self awarness, the first thing that they do is complain to their mom about how much of a dork that they look in the little drummer outfit. Instead of seeking the destruction of man kind, the self ware drummer boy well be seeking more stylish clothes.
Google Zeitgeist [google.com] shows Firefox the #10 search in October in Germany.
Sadly, using that above piece of evidence, Firefox is still not as popular a web browser as (apparently) Christina Aguilera.
Damn, now, they will try and get Christina Aguilera to support FireFox, and the next the we know instead of FireFox 2.0 we will have Christina Aguilera's Web browser. Then when she isn't popular in 4-5 years and FireFox 3.0 comes out we will have to get another highly atractive female to market the product.
Please, no! We don't want you to sell out. (You could add her to a splash screen though.)
If people are accustomed to paying for gasoline, would it be out of the question for them to pay a fee when they get a fresh battery? That fee could obviously cover the costs of battery replacements as needed.
I don't have to pay a $5 or $10 dollar usage fee when I drive up to get gas now. Paying anything that has "fee" in it for what used to be a simple $X per gallon, would kill this idea.
They don't put up a fuss about locker searches because the lockers are owned by the school. They're just allowing you to use them to store your supplies.
We had to pay fees for the usage of them. I'd call that rental. Do you have laws that basically say that the owner of any rental unit can open up all rental units to police at random times for searches? How about taking one step farther? Apartment are rental units that house people. Do you believe that apartment owners have the right to open up all the apartments that they own to the police for searches at random times for the good of the community?
I'm sure Sun has their reasons, but I'd imagine they are fairly short term. What will finally cause Sun to go completely GPL is a mystery yet to be solved.
Uh, I have an idea. Maybe the day after IBM, Microsoft and Oracle open source all their code will Sun follow.
If I owned any voting shares of stock in a company and their board of directors voted to freely give away everything that they were previously selling, I would try 3 things. 1 Sell some of the stock, 2 wait for the next shareholders meeting and vote for an entire new board, or 3 talk to a lawyer about a class action suit against the board of directors for not doing what is most profitable for the shareholders.
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You wouldn't pilot an aircraft with real people in it by remote control via a flight sim or camera setup.
Why not? I think it would make more sense. The home life of those pilots more regular. All they'd have to do is drive to the control center and then do their thing. Actually, if you combine this with in flight auto pilot you really just need a pilot for take offs and landings. (I know you really don't need pilots for that, but I'm thinking of the cost. I don't know how much those systems cost, I know it would be practical for them to fly remotely via cameras.
I thought the entire excuse for hunting was for tradition and the sportsmanship. This completely removes both. This is purely idiotic.
You apparently have some other "hobby" to get you out of the house. I'll say it is safe to say that most of/.'s hobby is computer's and what you can do with them. Which I hate to say it is about the dumbest hobby we could pick to get us out of the house for a few mornings and/or evenings a week.
From what I've found here in AR, the most common reason any guy fishes, hunts, or plays golf is to get them away from either the wife or mom. The social aspect of male bonding comes in second.
Unless you are war driving, most computer hobbies have you trapped at home within easy reach of the wife and / or parents. I've found this makes us more likely to get assigned to do household chores than those with the traditional hunting/fishing/sports hobbies. Laptops don't help in this respect either.
When you are on PUBLIC property, such as a school you right to privacy (which is actually never stated explictly in the US Constitution) is very limited. That horse has been beat to death by the courts. Yes, having concealing containers is a concern. There has to be some suspicion the container has something illegal inside.
I'm going to make my case for see though clothing even stronger now. How much property do you own? I don't fully own my own home yet. But given that, I'm paying for the piece of land that my house sits on and my fenced in backyard. By your logic, on any public property we have no expections of any privacy. Um, the moment I leave my home, I'm on a public road. Do you advocate that all vehicles need to be made entirely transparent to prevent transport of contraband? After I'm off of the road, I'm in a parking lot. Do you mean that because it hasn't been spelled out in a document over 200 years old, that I can't expect this right to exist? Well, now I'm back to needing transparent clothing so that you can make sure that I'm not a security threat to you. (If I walked anywhere instead of driving, I'd be wearing transparent clothing so each property own could see that I'm not a threat.
Maybe it really wasn't a bad idea for highschool students, but I've found that I like clothing for myself. I'm not nearly as fit as I once was. It would be terrible if we had to give up what little privacy we have left so that you can be secure.
I think it has be/. approved to have a pilot project of females 15 - 20 yrs. try out the transparent clothing to make sure that they are durable and provide protection from the elements.
If we set forth an example that it's OKAY for the authorities to monitor your every movement for our children now, how much easier do you think it will be able to convince them unwarranted searches are similarly okay in the future?
School childern are already trained not to put up a fuss about school wide locker searches or searching of persons. Now they are being taught that have any concealing containers on you is wrong. How much longer until all school clothing is see through for a security measure?
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I had a couple of dogs that seemed to me to be self-aware. They did not have the same legal rights I did as far as I know. So why would a computer be granted legal rights based on self-awareness?
Cause computers could be really mean to us. It would be better to start off on the right foot showing the future computer overlords that we've always been nice to them and treated them just like humans...
whining how we would have been wiped out long ago in the past if his numbers are right:
Statistics were only recently discovered, hence they didn't apply back then.
Stupids.
So we just need to burn all the statistics books and kill all those math professors that want to teach it. We'd be much better off with statistics any way. We wouldn't have to worry about the environment at all. (All that research is based on statistics.) Remember most statistics are evil lies except those that I generate they happen to be the holy truth.
Unmanned and remotely controlled probes are just fine and dandy and they yield plenty of useful information about the conditions in space and on other planets, but what's that information good for if we're never going to leave our planet and/or when we're going to get hit by an extinction level event?
I personnally think manned exploration should be stopped for about 10-20 years. My list of things we need to do are
1. develop and build a cheap space delivary service (My favorite is the space elevator.)
2. launch enough probes to every one of our our solar systems planets and moons for long term study 50-100 years min. should be the planned length of study time.
3. map every piece of matter in this solar system the could hit this planet.
4. start asteriod mining with remote controlled robots.
5. have hollowed out asteriods ready for space stations.
6. start planning long term generation ships.
7. launch a generation ship that would take about 1000 years to get where it is going unless we think up some FTL transport mechanism.
We aren't in a hurry; we have a few billion years until that sun burns out. We are much more likely to nuke this planet, pollute it, or release some bio warfare agents that kills off all the humans.
I cant imagine someone asking that out of all of the questions there is to ask a perspective employee.
My current job and the last 3 all asked the question. Maybe it's just an Arkansas thing. It's not like we have any public transportation.
I'll admit that it would be annoying as hell for those that have made their business and hobbies simpler by using GPS if it was turned off. They should do it once every 3 months as a drill. I really hate to mention it, but GPS is a military system. Until Congress takes GPS away from the military due to corporate and /. complants, the military could do anything they want to the system without notifying you. I'd bet the only ones that would really be annoyed are rescue personnel. I read a post that mentioned that the cell phone system and the power system will magically crash without GPS on. I really hope some one from each of those industries will explain the only uses of GPS in their field. I can guess several uses, but they are all in troubleshooting tower or lines.
For 16 Billon I want a space elevator! I know we don't currently have the tech. to build one, but we have the vision and money. All it needs is some good old fashioned R&D, which would mainly be stronger materials, energy transfer, and elevator research.
I don't care spit about sending a single person anywhere else in our solar system. I want us to be sending dozens or hundreds of people out there into space and not really just to another plant. Before we can do that though, we need a cheap space delivery system.
Not every *AA is evil!
Just wait until NOAA has weather control figured out.
Turns out that the reaction only occurs in people's basements." Damn. Time for a career change. -WF
That just means we need to build a really big basement to put the industrial level reactors in.
The biggest difference from Firefox, however, is the ability to switch to the Internet Explorer rendering engine from within the browser using an IE ActiveX control.
That is without exception, the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.
Let's take Firefox - known for it's security - and have you enable ActiveX, the mack-daddy of all virus vectors. And then for an encore, have it run the mother-of-all virus vectors, IE - inside it!
You are right. But you forget that AOL isn't OSS. AOL now lives in the land of PHBs. In the land of PHB, IE and Microsoft have browser mindshare and a new brand FireFox is entrenching in MS turf. To have AOL release a Netscape browser that has IE with Active X is very very PHB smart. This new AOL/Netscape/FireFox/IE may be with worst thing to happen to FireFox, but it will be more likly to be installed and used. You will more likly see TV Ads for this browser than for FireFox.
Did anyone else think this was a list made for future Darwin Awards winners?
There are rumors that, at the Pole, there are nubile virgin maidens ready to pleasure any /.er who runs naked in their direction....
You are using the second Choctaw tense. In the first Choctaw tense, it would be: There are virgin maidens that are horny for any male who runs naked in their direction. I know it is a slight difference, but it is important. Think about what kind of virgin maidens would be stationed at the Pole. Not the nubile kind.
The only story here, as in the quote above, is that they made a bit of a visible statement about where they were headed, before knowing for sure. Minor mis-step, if mis-step at all.
Note to self, never ever let marketing know what R&D is doing and investing in.
I'm pretty certain that the New York Times, newspaper of record in the United States for over a century, does not need to seed Slashdot in order to drum up circulation.
/.? They've been at it for over a century. They know who is likely to buy the paper, who is likely to pick up the paper out of his neighbor's or co-workers trash, and who will just discuss the paper after hearing about the headline but not the article from his/her neighbors and/or co-workers. It's /. on a much larger scale with paper and gossip.
Nah, they just seed New York to drum up circulation. Why bother with
I don't see why this persistent need in the tech community that one tool is always and for everything better than another.
The bad news we aren't good with tools. We can't handle nice simple tools that do one function well. We have to have multi-tools that do 5-6 functions poor to average. Then we complain about our multi-tools.
The impetus behind this article might have a lot less to do with the actual oncoming death of email and a lot more to do with maintaining a tech-obsessed culture -- much easier to do if you're constantly promoting new toys, which Korea is.
And we keep getting told that we were the ones that are obsessed. I love Korea. I can now point to them and say see I'm not obsessed.
email is for old people what do they think of those who use the "physical" postal service...
Ancient. I actually enjoyed writing letters to my girlfriend over the summer holidays. The waiting is the fun part. After e-mail, it is fun to wait 4-5 days for the letter to get there and 4-5 days for a reply. IM/AIM you have conversations, in letters you have to think about what to put down on the paper. Its funny, but its like my gibberish that I usually stuck in my e-mails was never enough, so I'd rewrite the letter 4-5 times before sending it. It must have worked because that girlfriend is now my wife. Of course now the only physical mail that I use is UPS and Fedex.
Sept 27 2007 the little drummer boy becomes self aware
Not to worry, all little drummer boys are defenseless, cute and not self ware by definition. IF they do gain self awarness, the first thing that they do is complain to their mom about how much of a dork that they look in the little drummer outfit. Instead of seeking the destruction of man kind, the self ware drummer boy well be seeking more stylish clothes.
Google Zeitgeist [google.com] shows Firefox the #10 search in October in Germany.
Sadly, using that above piece of evidence, Firefox is still not as popular a web browser as (apparently) Christina Aguilera.
Damn, now, they will try and get Christina Aguilera to support FireFox, and the next the we know instead of FireFox 2.0 we will have Christina Aguilera's Web browser. Then when she isn't popular in 4-5 years and FireFox 3.0 comes out we will have to get another highly atractive female to market the product.
Please, no! We don't want you to sell out. (You could add her to a splash screen though.)
If people are accustomed to paying for gasoline, would it be out of the question for them to pay a fee when they get a fresh battery? That fee could obviously cover the costs of battery replacements as needed.
I don't have to pay a $5 or $10 dollar usage fee when I drive up to get gas now. Paying anything that has "fee" in it for what used to be a simple $X per gallon, would kill this idea.
They don't put up a fuss about locker searches because the lockers are owned by the school. They're just allowing you to use them to store your supplies.
We had to pay fees for the usage of them. I'd call that rental. Do you have laws that basically say that the owner of any rental unit can open up all rental units to police at random times for searches? How about taking one step farther? Apartment are rental units that house people. Do you believe that apartment owners have the right to open up all the apartments that they own to the police for searches at random times for the good of the community?
I'm sure Sun has their reasons, but I'd imagine they are fairly short term. What will finally cause Sun to go completely GPL is a mystery yet to be solved.
Uh, I have an idea. Maybe the day after IBM, Microsoft and Oracle open source all their code will Sun follow.
If I owned any voting shares of stock in a company and their board of directors voted to freely give away everything that they were previously selling, I would try 3 things. 1 Sell some of the stock, 2 wait for the next shareholders meeting and vote for an entire new board, or 3 talk to a lawyer about a class action suit against the board of directors for not doing what is most profitable for the shareholders.
You wouldn't pilot an aircraft with real people in it by remote control via a flight sim or camera setup.
Why not? I think it would make more sense. The home life of those pilots more regular. All they'd have to do is drive to the control center and then do their thing. Actually, if you combine this with in flight auto pilot you really just need a pilot for take offs and landings. (I know you really don't need pilots for that, but I'm thinking of the cost. I don't know how much those systems cost, I know it would be practical for them to fly remotely via cameras.
I thought the entire excuse for hunting was for tradition and the sportsmanship. This completely removes both. This is purely idiotic.
/.'s hobby is computer's and what you can do with them. Which I hate to say it is about the dumbest hobby we could pick to get us out of the house for a few mornings and/or evenings a week.
You apparently have some other "hobby" to get you out of the house. I'll say it is safe to say that most of
From what I've found here in AR, the most common reason any guy fishes, hunts, or plays golf is to get them away from either the wife or mom. The social aspect of male bonding comes in second.
Unless you are war driving, most computer hobbies have you trapped at home within easy reach of the wife and / or parents. I've found this makes us more likely to get assigned to do household chores than those with the traditional hunting/fishing/sports hobbies. Laptops don't help in this respect either.
When you are on PUBLIC property, such as a school you right to privacy (which is actually never stated explictly in the US Constitution) is very limited. That horse has been beat to death by the courts. Yes, having concealing containers is a concern. There has to be some suspicion the container has something illegal inside.
/. approved to have a pilot project of females 15 - 20 yrs. try out the transparent clothing to make sure that they are durable and provide protection from the elements.
I'm going to make my case for see though clothing even stronger now. How much property do you own? I don't fully own my own home yet. But given that, I'm paying for the piece of land that my house sits on and my fenced in backyard. By your logic, on any public property we have no expections of any privacy. Um, the moment I leave my home, I'm on a public road. Do you advocate that all vehicles need to be made entirely transparent to prevent transport of contraband? After I'm off of the road, I'm in a parking lot. Do you mean that because it hasn't been spelled out in a document over 200 years old, that I can't expect this right to exist? Well, now I'm back to needing transparent clothing so that you can make sure that I'm not a security threat to you. (If I walked anywhere instead of driving, I'd be wearing transparent clothing so each property own could see that I'm not a threat.
Maybe it really wasn't a bad idea for highschool students, but I've found that I like clothing for myself. I'm not nearly as fit as I once was. It would be terrible if we had to give up what little privacy we have left so that you can be secure.
I think it has be
If we set forth an example that it's OKAY for the authorities to monitor your every movement for our children now, how much easier do you think it will be able to convince them unwarranted searches are similarly okay in the future?
School childern are already trained not to put up a fuss about school wide locker searches or searching of persons. Now they are being taught that have any concealing containers on you is wrong. How much longer until all school clothing is see through for a security measure?