I find it amusing that no-one ever goes after hotline while trying to abolish P2P software. This one single network has been around far longer than any other P2P software. In case you don't know already, it is an unregulated jungle where you can find just about any piece of software, movie, or mp3 you would ever want. Well, I probably just screwed the whole network by mentioning it here, but I am a karma whore after all;-)
I posted this two days ago, but of course 2001-08-21 22:16:52 Mainstream DMCA Coverage(articles,money) (rejected) for some unknown reason:-(
The Washington Post has a small editorial regarding the dangers of the DMCA. Newsweek is carrying a similar piece [registration required]. Although this news is nothing new for the/. crowd, the Post is read regularly by members of congress and their staff. Maybe this is the kick-in-the-pants that congress needs to take another look at this terrible lobby. There is also a relevant discussion here on k5.
This is my theory. It is mine, and it goes like this: the brontosaurus is small at the front...
It sucks that entites like the RIAA and now this class-action lunacy always go after the so-called "enablers". The fact is that the law-suits themselves would not be lucrative if they went after actual bone-fide music pirates (god I hate that word). The fscked up part is that when they stop one "enabler" a dozen others pop up in place.
The only way to stop this madness is for the record companies to make a harsh example of anyone they catch pirating music. This would (at least partially) dissuade music pirates from continuing to trade files. I think the reason we don't see this kind of action is that it is not lucrative for the lawyers involved. In order to make a law suit viable, they must: a) target a single entity instead of an unidentifiable group, and b) that target must have lots of money to fork over in a settlement.
This is remarkably similar to my own project to create an AI with the intelligence of a ten year old script kiddie. In the true American fashion, I am planning on letting the internet raise him. I will give him a slashdot account, and let everyone else do the teaching for me. His reward system is simply: -10 offtopic, +1 flamebait, +5 troll, +10 interesting, +15 insightful. When he starts posting coherently in ten years, you'll be the first to know.
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Thank you that was amazingly inspirational. I was wondering if this were possible.
One thing: are the chemicals necessary for the etching readily available for my ambitious DIY project? IANAChemist; how hard is it to find sulphuric acid? Have you got any safety tips for the etching stage?
They worked great, hold about 160mb data with only one catch: they don't work in front-loading CD-ROM drives like the ones you get in iMacs. My fear was that PC manufacturers would follow the iMac lead (like they did with the awful purple clear-plastic everything with a case) and start bundling front-loaders with wintel machines. This would render our disks (and these nifty new mp3 disks) useless.
Well, let's see. As soon as someone hands me some dead trees, I proceed to immediately put them in a large pile in the corner of my desk. When this pile reaches 6-7 inches high (about every two months), it gets filed away in the bin under my desk with the old diet-coke bottles. Next day, voila, the bin is magically emptied; clean as a whistle.:-P
You are right though, you should be -1, Redundant, so shut up and go back into your troll cave.
Um no. I think all the same lame jokes about the silly name and the even dumber ones about slashdot being slashdotted are redundant. And you are not helping.
I know you are running windows, but you could support the Cygnus team by purchasing the GNUPro toolkit. It offers some really useful stuff (optimized gcc, insight visual debugger, etc). Maybe it will provide the incentive you need to maintain a dual boot. It would certainly reward the developers monitarily (as would purchasing the boxed RedHat). Last one I purchased was $79.00 US. Remember, RedHat and Cygnus are the same entity now, so by supporting one you support the other by proxy.
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Ha! He got you. About every 10th visit or so, it graciously forwards you to goatse.cx. Just try again, and you'll get the real site.
I am starting to agree that the processing times/memory requirements just might be too large to consider as an option for creating a human-level intelligence. My own implementation is slow and memory hungry but I assumed it was because a) each "chromosome" program is interpreted, not compiled, and b) it uses gmp in all primitive terminals and nonterminals because of the very large numbers in my problem domain. I assumed that speed could be *vastly* increased by generating composites in assembler and using native number systems (int, long, float, double, etc). Running the fitness test is where my code spends 99.999% of it's time, so my first knee-jerk reaction is to make that as efficient as possible.
I like the idea of focusing a generated neural network on a specific subset of human intelligence. Perhaps a close-to-human intelligence could be built by creating many subset neural networks concurrently (perhaps one for interpreting visual input, one for natural language processing, one for avoiding car-collisions, etc.) and then gluing them together using yet another neural network designed soely for the task of delegation. Perhaps this loose collection of neural-nets could even, as another slashdotter suggested, recursively feed its own thoughts back into itself in order to improve it's conclusions.
I love speculating about this stuff. I spend many hours thinking about alternatives to procedural programming.
Another great site in this vein...
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I was suprised that there was no information at all to be found regarding genetic programming. This method builds a large population of random computer programs and then refines them through genetic mutation to accomodate a specific task. Darwinian selection ensures that only the most fit programs survive, and less useful ones die off quickly.
I have been doing some work involving genetic programming lately, and have found it to be an amazing tool for finding creative solutions to complex problems. The problem domain I have been training my genetic program to solve is purely mathematical, but it seems to me that the technique could easily be adapted to find solutions to some of the tougher problems in AI, including but not limited to: data mining, natural language processing, and parellization.
I read somewhere (can't find the reference right now, sorry) that some work was being done whereby the genetic programs were being evolved that could themselves create neural networks. Each genetic program could be considered a template for creating a neural network. This seems to me like the most likely means of creating a software that could eventually pass a Turing test. I won't get into the self-conciousness debate here.
I wonder if they would let me run my Illuminati(tm) software. I stayed up all night last night, coding like a maniac on speed, and have come up with something pretty special:
Win the RSA factoring challenge, put the money in a swiss bank account, and feed Illuminati(tm) back the account number.
Use genetic programming to predict the stock market, making billions of dollars from the $500,000 won in the factoring challenge.
Buy and sell peoples lives, based on loyalty to myself and Illuminati(tm).
So, didn't you use "Crapobat" to obtain this to begin with? So everyone reading it is using Reader by proxy. Even if you used Ghostscript, you still used Adobe protocol. Karma whore.
This is not the first (and most certainlly won't be the last) time that a descision has been made where it's painfully obvious that those making the decision don't even begin to comprehend the issues.
Kind of like slashdot moderators, huh? BTW: I moderated this thread and then posted. WTF? I thought that wasn't allowed.
That's because you and your future husband are mind-numbingly stupid.
What kind of "community" do we actually have here on slashdot, where one member can flame another to such a degree?
First of all, I am marrying a woman, not a man, and it is not appropriate for you to make assumptions such as this.
Second, my point was that we only view quality advertisements that catch our attention. We use the click tracking mechanism, to show which ads we like and which we don't. We don't simply ignore all advertising.
You're the one who needs to get a fscking clue. Troll.
"I sometimes miss the toll-free phone numbers on ads and wanted to be able to pause them. I also like to watch really good ads over and over. Don't you just love the Budweiser ads with the frogs and lizards? Advertising has gotten so clever..."
The problem with lying like this is the market statistics that devices like Tivo collect. Even if they got a thousand face to face respnses that said people love ads, the data that Tivo collected (every click!) will tell them otherwise. My fiance and I deliberately fast forward through all commercials, even taking that extra couple of seconds to find the beginning of the show. The reason is that we want advertisers to realize just how ineffective their advertising has become. We will watch those cartoon network ads on occasion though; they are not obnoxious and there's usually only one or two anyway.
Speaking of which, remind me to pick up some VHS tapes to collect those Dr. Who episodes that are eating up my disk space...
I cannot count the number of newbies that kill their windows partition by installing linux!
Blame Windows for this, not linux. There is a fairly easy fix, but it is not very well documented:
fdisk/mbr
This restores the master boot record to the way Windows likes it.
So what you need to do is have a dos boot disk ready with fdisk on it, in case of emergency. It sucks that newbies can lose data this way, but it doesn't "kill their windows partition," they do it themselves when they use that OEM restore disk.
Use safeweb, or a similar secure proxy. Let them snoop all they like, but it will be a cold day in hell before they figure out where you've been surfing;-)
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Because jerk-ass I looked at previous DMCA related articles, and that's what they used, flame-boy.
I find it amusing that no-one ever goes after hotline while trying to abolish P2P software. This one single network has been around far longer than any other P2P software. In case you don't know already, it is an unregulated jungle where you can find just about any piece of software, movie, or mp3 you would ever want. Well, I probably just screwed the whole network by mentioning it here, but I am a karma whore after all ;-)
I posted this two days ago, but of course 2001-08-21 22:16:52 Mainstream DMCA Coverage(articles,money) (rejected) for some unknown reason :-(
/. crowd, the Post is read regularly by members of congress and their staff. Maybe this is the kick-in-the-pants that congress needs to take another look at this terrible lobby. There is also a relevant discussion here on k5.
The Washington Post has a small editorial regarding the dangers of the DMCA. Newsweek is carrying a similar piece [registration required]. Although this news is nothing new for the
This is my theory. It is mine, and it goes like this: the brontosaurus is small at the front...
It sucks that entites like the RIAA and now this class-action lunacy always go after the so-called "enablers". The fact is that the law-suits themselves would not be lucrative if they went after actual bone-fide music pirates (god I hate that word). The fscked up part is that when they stop one "enabler" a dozen others pop up in place.
The only way to stop this madness is for the record companies to make a harsh example of anyone they catch pirating music. This would (at least partially) dissuade music pirates from continuing to trade files. I think the reason we don't see this kind of action is that it is not lucrative for the lawyers involved. In order to make a law suit viable, they must: a) target a single entity instead of an unidentifiable group, and b) that target must have lots of money to fork over in a settlement.
Agreed. If this was a troll, it was a damned good one :-) Perhaps it had something to do with this?
This is remarkably similar to my own project to create an AI with the intelligence of a ten year old script kiddie. In the true American fashion, I am planning on letting the internet raise him. I will give him a slashdot account, and let everyone else do the teaching for me. His reward system is simply: -10 offtopic, +1 flamebait, +5 troll, +10 interesting, +15 insightful. When he starts posting coherently in ten years, you'll be the first to know.
Thank you that was amazingly inspirational. I was wondering if this were possible.
One thing: are the chemicals necessary for the etching readily available for my ambitious DIY project? IANAChemist; how hard is it to find sulphuric acid? Have you got any safety tips for the etching stage?
They worked great, hold about 160mb data with only one catch: they don't work in front-loading CD-ROM drives like the ones you get in iMacs. My fear was that PC manufacturers would follow the iMac lead (like they did with the awful purple clear-plastic everything with a case) and start bundling front-loaders with wintel machines. This would render our disks (and these nifty new mp3 disks) useless.
Well, let's see. As soon as someone hands me some dead trees, I proceed to immediately put them in a large pile in the corner of my desk. When this pile reaches 6-7 inches high (about every two months), it gets filed away in the bin under my desk with the old diet-coke bottles. Next day, voila, the bin is magically emptied; clean as a whistle. :-P
Didn't we do this two weeks ago? (Score:-1, Redundant)
I presume physicists #define their constants the same way I do :-P
I know you are running windows, but you could support the Cygnus team by purchasing the GNUPro toolkit. It offers some really useful stuff (optimized gcc, insight visual debugger, etc). Maybe it will provide the incentive you need to maintain a dual boot. It would certainly reward the developers monitarily (as would purchasing the boxed RedHat). Last one I purchased was $79.00 US. Remember, RedHat and Cygnus are the same entity now, so by supporting one you support the other by proxy.
Ha! He got you. About every 10th visit or so, it graciously forwards you to goatse.cx. Just try again, and you'll get the real site.
I am starting to agree that the processing times/memory requirements just might be too large to consider as an option for creating a human-level intelligence. My own implementation is slow and memory hungry but I assumed it was because a) each "chromosome" program is interpreted, not compiled, and b) it uses gmp in all primitive terminals and nonterminals because of the very large numbers in my problem domain. I assumed that speed could be *vastly* increased by generating composites in assembler and using native number systems (int, long, float, double, etc). Running the fitness test is where my code spends 99.999% of it's time, so my first knee-jerk reaction is to make that as efficient as possible.
I like the idea of focusing a generated neural network on a specific subset of human intelligence. Perhaps a close-to-human intelligence could be built by creating many subset neural networks concurrently (perhaps one for interpreting visual input, one for natural language processing, one for avoiding car-collisions, etc.) and then gluing them together using yet another neural network designed soely for the task of delegation. Perhaps this loose collection of neural-nets could even, as another slashdotter suggested, recursively feed its own thoughts back into itself in order to improve it's conclusions.
I love speculating about this stuff. I spend many hours thinking about alternatives to procedural programming.
http://www.somethingawful.com. 'Nuff said.
I was suprised that there was no information at all to be found regarding genetic programming. This method builds a large population of random computer programs and then refines them through genetic mutation to accomodate a specific task. Darwinian selection ensures that only the most fit programs survive, and less useful ones die off quickly.
I have been doing some work involving genetic programming lately, and have found it to be an amazing tool for finding creative solutions to complex problems. The problem domain I have been training my genetic program to solve is purely mathematical, but it seems to me that the technique could easily be adapted to find solutions to some of the tougher problems in AI, including but not limited to: data mining, natural language processing, and parellization.
I read somewhere (can't find the reference right now, sorry) that some work was being done whereby the genetic programs were being evolved that could themselves create neural networks. Each genetic program could be considered a template for creating a neural network. This seems to me like the most likely means of creating a software that could eventually pass a Turing test. I won't get into the self-conciousness debate here.
- Win the RSA factoring challenge, put the money in a swiss bank account, and feed Illuminati(tm) back the account number.
- Use genetic programming to predict the stock market, making billions of dollars from the $500,000 won in the factoring challenge.
- Buy and sell peoples lives, based on loyalty to myself and Illuminati(tm).
- Voila, world domination
Pinky will probably screw it up, as usual.So, didn't you use "Crapobat" to obtain this to begin with? So everyone reading it is using Reader by proxy. Even if you used Ghostscript, you still used Adobe protocol. Karma whore.
First of all, I am marrying a woman, not a man, and it is not appropriate for you to make assumptions such as this.
Second, my point was that we only view quality advertisements that catch our attention. We use the click tracking mechanism, to show which ads we like and which we don't. We don't simply ignore all advertising.
You're the one who needs to get a fscking clue. Troll.
Speaking of which, remind me to pick up some VHS tapes to collect those Dr. Who episodes that are eating up my disk space...
This restores the master boot record to the way Windows likes it. So what you need to do is have a dos boot disk ready with fdisk on it, in case of emergency. It sucks that newbies can lose data this way, but it doesn't "kill their windows partition," they do it themselves when they use that OEM restore disk.
Use safeweb, or a similar secure proxy. Let them snoop all they like, but it will be a cold day in hell before they figure out where you've been surfing ;-)
Sweet! Thanks.