Ah, yes, so instead of implementing and following proper safety procedures as we have for other "non-robotic" industrial processes, let's make the problem an order of magnitude more difficult and try to implement an AI that knows when not to hurt humans!
I'd hate to be a test subject for the validation of those rules.
Now, HAL, I want you to shoot me, can you do that?
Unfortunately, silliness has spread to the once-revered Economist. I expected better.
So in other words, Google's defense will be an automated Wenzeling.
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What's with all the paranoia?
The invite system is a neat way to limit the user pool as they expanded the servers and to prevent spammers from signing up for 100+ accounts (and taking all the human-readable ones). It's their way of trying to make every address tied to a human being; hence the system of signing up with a phone number.
I think the issue at hand is that many people confuse leadership ability with skill. Being a good programmer doesn't necessarily make you a good project manager, nor is the best manager also the best coder. It's sometimes the case, and certainly some very skilled people successfully rise into management because their skill translates into seeing the big picture and hence being a good manager.
But not all really skilled people see the big picture, and that's when ego kicks in. They can't stand taking orders from somebody less skilled than them. People complain about pointy-headed PHB's with no skills getting paid more that them, but the reality is that having 20 coders is a waste if they lack direction, and ideally, that's what the PHB is there for.
Whether the PHB is actually effective is another story. Leadership is a nebulous thing and much harder to quantify and identify than skill - hence the embarrasing examples that slip through the cracks.
You apparently haven't seen Brian Greene's groupies. It's rumored the man keeps a recorder in his office to fend off students with... amorous intentions.
Is that why F9-11 was the number 1 movie in the US for the past week?
Yes, triumphing by a scant $2 mil over the much anticipated White Chicks, which Ebert called the worst film of the year. What an accomplishment for Michael Moore.
You must not have played much. The assault rifle is extremely accurate and has no trail to tell the target where your shots came from, unlike every other weapon. Its only fault is that it does no damage; otherwise it would be too powerful. Yes, I liked the pistols.
As for onslaught, games are interesting if you play with people who understand the map (much rides on the link layout, too). Since the cores drain in overtime faster if you hold more nodes, you can't just scratch their node and hold on. I've seen a few comebacks, each quite thrilling (well if you're on the winning team).
That's true if you or I are firing the gun. If an Agent inside the Matrix is firing the gun, however, the results may be somewhat different.
No, the agents can't change how machines work. If you remember the Metal Storm(lots of bullets in a tube machine gun) and from that discussion, remember that even at the maximum cyclical rate of an automatic machine gun, bullets are separated by hundreds of feet. That's because there's quite a bit to be done to extract the cartridge, eject it, and get a new cartridge in position, and usually you're cycling a pretty massive piece of metal, which has to accelerate and decelerate.
Pushing the trigger faster and faster on a semi-auto (which is what their Desert Eagles are) won't do a damned thing if the slide's still open and there isn't a bullet in the chamber.
That's not true, however, of revolvers - which cycle as fast as you can cycle the cylinder. So they'd be able to shoot it much faster than with a semi-auto - up to the point that it starts and stops so fast the catch breaks. They'd be much better off with the new S&W.50cal revolver than their Desert Ealges. Humans can do it, too. The fastest trick-shooters in the world do all their stuff with revolvers becasue semi-auto's are too slow for them. Something like 6 shots in half a second or something. Real freaky.
Thought it through? On slashdot? Good greif, man, nobody even bother's to READ the original article. God forbid they put some THOUGHT into it before they post.
True to a limited point. But if you're choosing your own hardware, you probably won't need IT help beyond getting your stuff to work with your company server.
I work in IT, as a student consultant at my school, so I see the user end of it.
The folks who would choose their own hardware we almost never see. They solve and deal with their own problems, and we visit them if, for example, they got hacked and we need to verify that their computer's been wiped before we turn their port back on. Things that clearly are an IT thing. They get to choose their own hardware, they can maintain it, and we love them for it. If you're an engineer, you probably know what you're doing as far as computers go.
These are the folks that buy PDA's of their own will, experiment with linux at home, whatever.
For the rest of the users, we're basically tech support. Where's my e-mail? I deleted office! My computer crashes! What are all these popups doing on my computer(as I see that they're running Kazaa)? These aren't engineers. They're managers. These guys don't do CAD! They send e-mail, have meetings, write memos, manage spreadsheets. When these users choose their own hardware, things don't go downhill, they completely blow up in their(and subsequentlym our) faces! Like running Kazaa, or visiting porn sites, and clicking haphazardly on any dialog that pops up to close it. Then they ask us why their computer got hacked. These are the folks that get fooled by the fake dialog box pop-ups, or the gator *anti-pop-up* install dialog. They'll buy the cheapest hardware available or the flashiest junk and come to us when it breaks or won't talk to our network.
That's why we have to take over and have _supported_ hardware and software - stuff we choose. If you can run your own stuff, great! Buy whatever you like, call us to get the server settings, and make our life easier.
But if you can't find online help by yourself, then don't buy your own hardware. Listen to us. Buy what we support - stuff we test and know is compatible with out network.
IT needs for these folks aren't outstanding, so they don't drive product development. I'm sorry, but the needs of the managers and executives here aren't driving Sony to make better and newer PDAs. The market stagnated becuase there is now a market of executives who will never take advantage of that the newer PDA's can do and for whom a Palm Vx is as good or better than anything currently on the market since it's simple and does what they want it to do. Technology purchases are driven by the needs of the user, and frankly, these users don't need a whole lot.
77 in physics curved to an A+ - because it was one of the better scores. Absolutely unbelieveable. I botched two problems out of 4 - one because I didn't know the relativistic 4-vectors well enough to solve the problem. This wasn't some extra credit part we never covered. It was an essential part of the course and cirriculum.
Instead of getting a cruddy score like I honestly deserved, I walk away with an A+ on my transcript because everyone else in the class was as dumb or dumber. I'm not complaining (since it's not my major and I don't intend on taking any more physics courses), but it bodes ill on the quality of students we're churning out.
Yes, perhaps I should get credit for doing better than most of the class. But I clearly failed to master the material required - and the 77 is far more reflective of my mastery of the material than that A+. If everyone got such atrocious grades, then *maybe* there shouldn't be any A's being handed out.
P.S. This is an Ivy. And I don't think we're alone.
Bullet fingerprinting is "BULLSHIT?" How exactly is bullet fingerprinting supposed to be unique? A gun is a piece of metal. You can change it. You can sanpaper your skin, but the pattern that grows back WILL BE THE SAME. The same is not true for guns.
BUT, fingerprinting creates a registry of guns. What is this supposed to accomplish? Making it easier for them to take it away if they ever get that.
What, you're Muslim. REGISTER with the FBI! You could be a terrorist for we know. It's just registration! If you aren't a terrorist it does you no harm!
Same thing, with an innocent veneer.
"Ahem, Ma'm our records show three guns registered to his house. Surrender them or come with us."
Oh, and the rally in Denver - it was to counter the gun-grabbers who jump on every one of these tragedies - they have their rallies too. Why aren't you outraged at them?
Uhh, WiFi has a 200 foot range, right? Ever look at a map of the U.S? A fricking lot of the country in uninhabited. Perhaps this would work in urban cities but you are still talking 20-100 node jumps just to get to the other side of the city. Then how are you supposed to get from NYC to Philly? The interstate's got some lonely stretches. You're still going to need copper.
"I suspect that gun toting thugs in the UK are less jumpy and trigger happy as they don't have to worry about being shot at"
*sarcasm* You're right. Let's cater to the criminals. If we just leave our wads of cash clearly and easily protruding from our back pockets, muggers won't have to threaten us, and we can all go on leading happy, peaceful lives. End Gun Violence! Legalize Pickpocketing!!! Don't turn ordinary, uhhh, criminals, into criminals! */sarcasm*
Seriously, you're happy that you've just victimized your society? "I don't have the means to defend myself, don't hurt me please!" Self-defense is a individual duty - failure to properly defend yourself creates opportunity and motive for crime. To take things to the other ridiculous extreme, if every burgler got shot upon entry, maybe they would take a hint and find something better to do with their time.
Like learning a skill so you can pick up a job (and then read and post on slashdot all day at work).
[i]Oh -- and they have no political plan that's viable. This, in my opinion, is very irresponsible and dangerous. Many millions of people would die should there be revolution in china. many millions more would die if there wasn't a VERY strong government after the revolution.
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Right, as opposed to the tens of millions that died in the famines of the Mao regime, or the tens of millions in the Chinese gulags. I find it hard to believe that keeping the current regime is worth any number of lives. It's irresponsible to let them stay, it's not to try to kick them out.
As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the Falung Gong is a nut cult that turned to politics after they started getting their butts kicked. If they manage to stir up some rebellious feelings, then more power to them.
Personal safety is the enemy of liberty.
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Ah, yes, so instead of implementing and following proper safety procedures as we have for other "non-robotic" industrial processes, let's make the problem an order of magnitude more difficult and try to implement an AI that knows when not to hurt humans!
I'd hate to be a test subject for the validation of those rules.
Now, HAL, I want you to shoot me, can you do that?
Unfortunately, silliness has spread to the once-revered Economist. I expected better.
The MacBook Pro looks like a great desktop replacement; I have half a mind to suggest my company get one in lieu of the iMac we were about to buy.
But as a personal user of an IBM X31 who's been eyeing that 12" Powerbook I was really hoping for an x86 ultraportable Powerbook.
Ah well, wait and see.
Regardless, Giap was still in a position to know the effectiveness of the VC and they were indeed completely spent after the Tet offensive.
Exceptions are: chocolates, wines, and blowjobs, as long as you are certain that they are of high quality.
I.e. consumables.
That's why good spirits are always a good gift.
So in other words, Google's defense will be an automated Wenzeling.
What's with all the paranoia?
The invite system is a neat way to limit the user pool as they expanded the servers and to prevent spammers from signing up for 100+ accounts (and taking all the human-readable ones). It's their way of trying to make every address tied to a human being; hence the system of signing up with a phone number.
Thanks for clarifying that. My exprience is as a tech (and officer candidate) so everyone above me looks pretty much the same :-).
The military analogy would be
leader = officer
manager = NCO
tech = private
Hmm, so that explains why the (extremely successful) head of the NBA is an overweight Jewish lawyer?
Skill doesn't automatically translate into leadership. It helps, but it isn't necessary.
I think the issue at hand is that many people confuse leadership ability with skill. Being a good programmer doesn't necessarily make you a good project manager, nor is the best manager also the best coder. It's sometimes the case, and certainly some very skilled people successfully rise into management because their skill translates into seeing the big picture and hence being a good manager.
But not all really skilled people see the big picture, and that's when ego kicks in. They can't stand taking orders from somebody less skilled than them. People complain about pointy-headed PHB's with no skills getting paid more that them, but the reality is that having 20 coders is a waste if they lack direction, and ideally, that's what the PHB is there for.
Whether the PHB is actually effective is another story. Leadership is a nebulous thing and much harder to quantify and identify than skill - hence the embarrasing examples that slip through the cracks.
You apparently haven't seen Brian Greene's groupies. It's rumored the man keeps a recorder in his office to fend off students with... amorous intentions.
Still, he's certainly the exception to the rule.
Ahem, except Japan owns ten times as much of the US debt as China. So economically, Japan could still tell China to f off.
You mean John Kerry? Sure. Not like he's got much to do these days.
Is that why F9-11 was the number 1 movie in the US for the past week?
Yes, triumphing by a scant $2 mil over the much anticipated White Chicks, which Ebert called the worst film of the year. What an accomplishment for Michael Moore.
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Man, the moderation is funnier than the post.
You must not have played much. The assault rifle is extremely accurate and has no trail to tell the target where your shots came from, unlike every other weapon. Its only fault is that it does no damage; otherwise it would be too powerful. Yes, I liked the pistols.
As for onslaught, games are interesting if you play with people who understand the map (much rides on the link layout, too). Since the cores drain in overtime faster if you hold more nodes, you can't just scratch their node and hold on. I've seen a few comebacks, each quite thrilling (well if you're on the winning team).
Already done , though you might have trouble running it on linux. You might want to invite a newbie to use it for a bit for best results.
That's true if you or I are firing the gun. If an Agent inside the Matrix is firing the gun, however, the results may be somewhat different.
.50cal revolver than their Desert Ealges. Humans can do it, too. The fastest trick-shooters in the world do all their stuff with revolvers becasue semi-auto's are too slow for them. Something like 6 shots in half a second or something. Real freaky.
No, the agents can't change how machines work. If you remember the Metal Storm(lots of bullets in a tube machine gun) and from that discussion, remember that even at the maximum cyclical rate of an automatic machine gun, bullets are separated by hundreds of feet. That's because there's quite a bit to be done to extract the cartridge, eject it, and get a new cartridge in position, and usually you're cycling a pretty massive piece of metal, which has to accelerate and decelerate.
Pushing the trigger faster and faster on a semi-auto (which is what their Desert Eagles are) won't do a damned thing if the slide's still open and there isn't a bullet in the chamber.
That's not true, however, of revolvers - which cycle as fast as you can cycle the cylinder. So they'd be able to shoot it much faster than with a semi-auto - up to the point that it starts and stops so fast the catch breaks. They'd be much better off with the new S&W
Well, there's always the imprint on the other side.
"Poisonous. Do no Eat"
Or something to that effect. No kidding. Apparently there was a rumor(confirmed, unconfirmed?) that the explosive would get you a buzz if you ate it.
Clearly they haven't throught it through
Thought it through? On slashdot? Good greif, man, nobody even bother's to READ the original article. God forbid they put some THOUGHT into it before they post.
True to a limited point. But if you're choosing your own hardware, you probably won't need IT help beyond getting your stuff to work with your company server.
I work in IT, as a student consultant at my school, so I see the user end of it.
The folks who would choose their own hardware we almost never see. They solve and deal with their own problems, and we visit them if, for example, they got hacked and we need to verify that their computer's been wiped before we turn their port back on. Things that clearly are an IT thing. They get to choose their own hardware, they can maintain it, and we love them for it. If you're an engineer, you probably know what you're doing as far as computers go.
These are the folks that buy PDA's of their own will, experiment with linux at home, whatever.
For the rest of the users, we're basically tech support. Where's my e-mail? I deleted office! My computer crashes! What are all these popups doing on my computer(as I see that they're running Kazaa)?
These aren't engineers. They're managers. These guys don't do CAD! They send e-mail, have meetings, write memos, manage spreadsheets. When these users choose their own hardware, things don't go downhill, they completely blow up in their(and subsequentlym our) faces! Like running Kazaa, or visiting porn sites, and clicking haphazardly on any dialog that pops up to close it. Then they ask us why their computer got hacked. These are the folks that get fooled by the fake dialog box pop-ups, or the gator *anti-pop-up* install dialog. They'll buy the cheapest hardware available or the flashiest junk and come to us when it breaks or won't talk to our network.
That's why we have to take over and have _supported_ hardware and software - stuff we choose. If you can run your own stuff, great! Buy whatever you like, call us to get the server settings, and make our life easier.
But if you can't find online help by yourself, then don't buy your own hardware. Listen to us. Buy what we support - stuff we test and know is compatible with out network.
IT needs for these folks aren't outstanding, so they don't drive product development. I'm sorry, but the needs of the managers and executives here aren't driving Sony to make better and newer PDAs. The market stagnated becuase there is now a market of executives who will never take advantage of that the newer PDA's can do and for whom a Palm Vx is as good or better than anything currently on the market since it's simple and does what they want it to do. Technology purchases are driven by the needs of the user, and frankly, these users don't need a whole lot.
77 in physics curved to an A+ - because it was one of the better scores.
Absolutely unbelieveable.
I botched two problems out of 4 - one because I didn't know the relativistic 4-vectors well enough to solve the problem. This wasn't some extra credit part we never covered. It was an essential part of the course and cirriculum.
Instead of getting a cruddy score like I honestly deserved, I walk away with an A+ on my transcript because everyone else in the class was as dumb or dumber. I'm not complaining (since it's not my major and I don't intend on taking any more physics courses), but it bodes ill on the quality of students we're churning out.
Yes, perhaps I should get credit for doing better than most of the class. But I clearly failed to master the material required - and the 77 is far more reflective of my mastery of the material than that A+. If everyone got such atrocious grades, then *maybe* there shouldn't be any A's being handed out.
P.S. This is an Ivy. And I don't think we're alone.
Bullet fingerprinting is "BULLSHIT?"
How exactly is bullet fingerprinting supposed to be unique? A gun is a piece of metal. You can change it. You can sanpaper your skin, but the pattern that grows back WILL BE THE SAME. The same is not true for guns.
BUT, fingerprinting creates a registry of guns. What is this supposed to accomplish? Making it easier for them to take it away if they ever get that.
What, you're Muslim. REGISTER with the FBI! You could be a terrorist for we know. It's just registration! If you aren't a terrorist it does you no harm!
Same thing, with an innocent veneer.
"Ahem, Ma'm our records show three guns registered to his house. Surrender them or come with us."
Oh, and the rally in Denver - it was to counter the gun-grabbers who jump on every one of these tragedies - they have their rallies too. Why aren't you outraged at them?
Uhh, WiFi has a 200 foot range, right? Ever look at a map of the U.S? A fricking lot of the country in uninhabited. Perhaps this would work in urban cities but you are still talking 20-100 node jumps just to get to the other side of the city. Then how are you supposed to get from NYC to Philly? The interstate's got some lonely stretches. You're still going to need copper.
"I suspect that gun toting thugs in the UK are less jumpy and trigger happy as they don't have to worry about being shot at"
*sarcasm*
You're right. Let's cater to the criminals. If we just leave our wads of cash clearly and easily protruding from our back pockets, muggers won't have to threaten us, and we can all go on leading happy, peaceful lives.
End Gun Violence! Legalize Pickpocketing!!! Don't turn ordinary, uhhh, criminals, into criminals!
*/sarcasm*
Seriously, you're happy that you've just victimized your society? "I don't have the means to defend myself, don't hurt me please!" Self-defense is a individual duty - failure to properly defend yourself creates opportunity and motive for crime. To take things to the other ridiculous extreme, if every burgler got shot upon entry, maybe they would take a hint and find something better to do with their time.
Like learning a skill so you can pick up a job (and then read and post on slashdot all day at work).
[i]Oh -- and they have no political plan that's viable. This, in my opinion, is very irresponsible and dangerous. Many millions of people would die should there be revolution in china. many millions more would die if there wasn't a VERY strong government after the revolution. [/i] Right, as opposed to the tens of millions that died in the famines of the Mao regime, or the tens of millions in the Chinese gulags. I find it hard to believe that keeping the current regime is worth any number of lives. It's irresponsible to let them stay, it's not to try to kick them out. As mentioned elsewhere in this discussion, the Falung Gong is a nut cult that turned to politics after they started getting their butts kicked. If they manage to stir up some rebellious feelings, then more power to them. Personal safety is the enemy of liberty.