I'm not sure developing robots through evolution is a good thing. If they're evolutionary scale follows Moore's law instead of natural evolutionary scales, they could evolve into new species in years, instead of hundreds of thousands of years.
If they're evolving, we may not be able to control what they want to do. If we design robots ourselves, we can add safeguards to protect humanity (like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics). If htey just evolve, who know what may happen, they may decide we are competition for resources and get rid of us.
I think Bill Joy made quite a few good points about this.
You know, I'm sick of your ungrateful Europeans never, ever, ever thanking us Yanks for keeping your climate nice.
Every day, the sun heats up water in American territorial waters, to the tune of millions of BTUs. Courtesy of the Gulfstream, this water circulates over to Europe and releases it's millions of BTU's of heat, giving Europe, with a latitude of North Dakota, a mild climate.
Millions of BTU's of our American heat goes to Europe to keep you people warm, and do you ever thank us?
I'm writing a letter to President Dubya, and as soon as he find s out about this, he's gonna shut the Gulfstream down.
if you want pics of nude men, considering that about 230,000 men are users here. We can all take nude pics of ourselves and post them somewhere, maybe even a Men of Slashdot calender to raise money for Athlon's, or the kids or something.
Where you can take an image of a foxy female, and then have the script-fu trace her clothing, remove them and replace them with the appropriate flesh tones.
You'd have to allow customization though, for nipple and aurolae size and color, as well as pubic hair color, shaping and or lack of.
Once this gets done, though, I then need many screencaps of a certain George Lucas movie.
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and not French or Belgium or anything.
The invention of the chronometer helped the British rule the sea, and estable colonies all over the world, thus indoctrinating the natives in decnt British ways.
Thus, when the colonies became independent, they became decent, productive countries, like India, Australia, South Africa, and yes, the United States and Canada.
Contrast this with former colonies of France of Belgium, they're generally still roouted in savagery and firmly mired in the third world. The Congo, Cambodia, Algeria.
How about pre-forklist driving anger testing? You certainly don't want someone who just broke up with his girlfriend driving a forklift around.
And maybe sleep-deprivation testing? Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest reasons for automobile accidents, yet you don't see the sleep deprived as public enemy number one.
Drug testing is just a convenient PR ploy, IMHO. Once Bush gets firmly ensconced in office, it will be latent homosexual tendency testing, liberal testing, and differently thinking testing.
Isn't that the hardware chain that proudly announces that they drug test their employees?
Yeap, it's not just 20 hours of minumum wage work a week, it's your entire life. If you try drugs, or even be in the same room with someone smoking pot, you're out of there!
I guess it makes sense, you don't want the 16 year old running the cash register, to press the wrong button because they're stoned. Makes me want to run out and support them.
I would have thought that with demeaning, invasice and controlling attitudes like that, they'd be running Win2k.
It went on and on for hours, yet I wasn't bored. The cinematography was astounding, and Wim managed to weave a few different story lines into one movie.
I know it's been talked about before, but it seems odd to try to buy computers that have rapidly developing feature sets, such as CDRW, 3D video, USB ports, without some mechanism for the user to get the next version or three at a free or reduced cost. (Mind you, Tiger direct computerss are generally inexpensive, but this is true for all publishers).
Certainly has having used the 286 processor, I know that computers has changed a lot in 7 or so years, and much of my 286, while not fully useless, doesn't fully cover what I need to know nowadays for computing. I've been hestitent to buy the more recent computers because I see the same problem happening in another 2 or 3 years. As this review points out, some of the features on USB and 3D video when the next generation computers are released, making this computer useless.
While code morphing can easily fix this problem, that's not the solution when you need to be productive. Maybe there should be some way to 'register' the computer, such that when the n+1(th) edition comes out, you can get it for a substanially less cost, because your initial purchase of the nth edition helped to make the n+1(th) edition possible. Or one could send in the cover of the nth edition and a S&H charge to get a copy of the new computer. Or something along these lines.
If any computer book publishing company could do this, I would expect ORA to be the first to try such, given their helpfulness in the past and present. But with many standard 'things' moving so fast (XML, HTML, Perl, Python, etc), we need a some book upgrade mechanism in place ASAP.
I have a friend who calls himself a musician. As far as I can tell, his working day is:
smoke pot
listen to music
pick up the guitar and noodle
smoke pot
yell at kids
order take out
smoke pot
listen to music
pick up guitar and noodle.
And about once a month, he gets a gig at Starbucks for tip money.
He calls this being a musician, I call it being a pot smoking bum.
Are you seriously telling me these stole from musicians are working as hard and as long as a ditch digger, or even an SA? Or are they just getting high, partying, having sex with underage girls and trying to make the big score.
My words of wisdom for anyone hoping to be a rock star or actor/actress, get a good fallback career or learn to starve, the competition is immense, and don't expect anything sympathy if you're in it for the lifestyle.
Seriously, how did the Canadian elections pertain to IT, the internet and computers?
That seems to be the biggest common thread amongst all the election stories.
Though, it might help if you Canadians were less polite, diligent and respectful. Get some good cases of election fraud going, some blatant lying and misrepresentation, maybe even persecute a few nerds. You'll have Jon Katz beating down your doors. Maybe you should find a few oppressed French-Canadian nerds.
More to the point, there are important things about Canada that could be submitted that are Slashdot-worthy. Aren't the Canadian press laws more censorius? I'm thinking of the BArbie-Ken murders there a few years ago, with Time and Newsweek being banned becuase they went into details of them that the Canadian press had suppressed, for fair trial reasons. Also, even more near and dear to geek hearts, aren't there weird laws about Canadian pornography, wrt to American?
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Though it gave alot of bad press to the nuclear industry.
Too much time has gone past now without BT making a claim.
I believe that's the same reason Apple's look and feel lawsuit against Microsoft failed.
I'm not sure developing robots through evolution is a good thing. If they're evolutionary scale follows Moore's law instead of natural evolutionary scales, they could evolve into new species in years, instead of hundreds of thousands of years.
If they're evolving, we may not be able to control what they want to do. If we design robots ourselves, we can add safeguards to protect humanity (like Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics). If htey just evolve, who know what may happen, they may decide we are competition for resources and get rid of us.
I think Bill Joy made quite a few good points about this.
You know, I'm sick of your ungrateful Europeans never, ever, ever thanking us Yanks for keeping your climate nice.
Every day, the sun heats up water in American territorial waters, to the tune of millions of BTUs. Courtesy of the Gulfstream, this water circulates over to Europe and releases it's millions of BTU's of heat, giving Europe, with a latitude of North Dakota, a mild climate.
Millions of BTU's of our American heat goes to Europe to keep you people warm, and do you ever thank us?
I'm writing a letter to President Dubya, and as soon as he find s out about this, he's gonna shut the Gulfstream down.
No, you misunderstand. I meant animating it to add real bootie action, heat and vibration!
Thanks Bob, maybe I'll pull a Signal11 and mod that up from one of my other accounts.
But some prude at Slashdot keeps rejecting my Ask Slashdot: How to animate a Realdoll.
Any ideas? Disney won't return my emails either.
Good point, we have to find someone to sift through the 80% of Slashdot men that are too skinny, too fat or too pale.
Hey, has anyone registered amIaHotGeekorNot.com yet?
5'8". 150 pounds, running and cybex machines keep me a sleek sex machine!
if you want pics of nude men, considering that about 230,000 men are users here. We can all take nude pics of ourselves and post them somewhere, maybe even a Men of Slashdot calender to raise money for Athlon's, or the kids or something.
Where you can take an image of a foxy female, and then have the script-fu trace her clothing, remove them and replace them with the appropriate flesh tones.
You'd have to allow customization though, for nipple and aurolae size and color, as well as pubic hair color, shaping and or lack of.
Once this gets done, though, I then need many screencaps of a certain George Lucas movie.
and not French or Belgium or anything.
The invention of the chronometer helped the British rule the sea, and estable colonies all over the world, thus indoctrinating the natives in decnt British ways.
Thus, when the colonies became independent, they became decent, productive countries, like India, Australia, South Africa, and yes, the United States and Canada.
Contrast this with former colonies of France of Belgium, they're generally still roouted in savagery and firmly mired in the third world. The Congo, Cambodia, Algeria.
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How about pre-forklist driving anger testing? You certainly don't want someone who just broke up with his girlfriend driving a forklift around.
And maybe sleep-deprivation testing? Sleep deprivation is one of the biggest reasons for automobile accidents, yet you don't see the sleep deprived as public enemy number one.
Drug testing is just a convenient PR ploy, IMHO. Once Bush gets firmly ensconced in office, it will be latent homosexual tendency testing, liberal testing, and differently thinking testing.
Home Depot?
Isn't that the hardware chain that proudly announces that they drug test their employees?
Yeap, it's not just 20 hours of minumum wage work a week, it's your entire life. If you try drugs, or even be in the same room with someone smoking pot, you're out of there!
I guess it makes sense, you don't want the 16 year old running the cash register, to press the wrong button because they're stoned. Makes me want to run out and support them.
I would have thought that with demeaning, invasice and controlling attitudes like that, they'd be running Win2k.
I saw this New Years Day and was enthralled.
It went on and on for hours, yet I wasn't bored. The cinematography was astounding, and Wim managed to weave a few different story lines into one movie.
Any other good Wim Wenders movies to rent?
I know it's been talked about before, but it seems odd to try to buy computers that have rapidly developing feature sets, such as CDRW, 3D video, USB ports, without some mechanism for the user to get the next version or three at a free or reduced cost. (Mind you, Tiger direct computerss are generally inexpensive, but this is true for all publishers).
Certainly has having used the 286 processor, I know that computers has changed a lot in 7 or so years, and much of my 286, while not fully useless, doesn't fully cover what I need to know nowadays for computing. I've been hestitent to buy the more recent computers because I see the same problem happening in another 2 or 3 years. As this review points out, some of the features on USB and 3D video when the next generation computers are released, making this computer useless.
While code morphing can easily fix this problem, that's not the solution when you need to be productive. Maybe there should be some way to 'register' the computer, such that when the n+1(th) edition comes out, you can get it for a substanially less cost, because your initial purchase of the nth edition helped to make the n+1(th) edition possible. Or one could send in the cover of the nth edition and a S&H charge to get a copy of the new computer. Or something along these lines.
If any computer book publishing company could do this, I would expect ORA to be the first to try such, given their helpfulness in the past and present. But with many standard 'things' moving so fast (XML, HTML, Perl, Python, etc), we need a some book upgrade mechanism in place ASAP.
Ok, the plutonium is gone.
Now let's tell those green folks about how gravity assist steals energy from Jupiter, and may cause Jupiter to fall into Earth's orbit!
I'm sure we can prove it with a few strategic Newtonian equations.
Dune was so much cooler when only the hard core sf fans knew about it, but now everyone will know, and it will get ruined.
Hmm, kind of like what happened to Slashdot, after all those 6 figure users showed up.
Now, forget about the language, or the culture thing, I would pick depending on the babes overseas.
So, Slashdot, who's sexier, French, Italian or German babes?
Well, this pot smoking bum is forcing his wife and three kids to go on welfare.
If it wasn't for an overly generous mother in law, they wouldn't even have shoes.
If you want to be a pot smoking bum your life, fine, but don't reproduce.
And about once a month, he gets a gig at Starbucks for tip money.
He calls this being a musician, I call it being a pot smoking bum.
Are you seriously telling me these stole from musicians are working as hard and as long as a ditch digger, or even an SA? Or are they just getting high, partying, having sex with underage girls and trying to make the big score.
My words of wisdom for anyone hoping to be a rock star or actor/actress, get a good fallback career or learn to starve, the competition is immense, and don't expect anything sympathy if you're in it for the lifestyle.
Seriously, how did the Canadian elections pertain to IT, the internet and computers?
That seems to be the biggest common thread amongst all the election stories.
Though, it might help if you Canadians were less polite, diligent and respectful. Get some good cases of election fraud going, some blatant lying and misrepresentation, maybe even persecute a few nerds. You'll have Jon Katz beating down your doors. Maybe you should find a few oppressed French-Canadian nerds.
More to the point, there are important things about Canada that could be submitted that are Slashdot-worthy. Aren't the Canadian press laws more censorius? I'm thinking of the BArbie-Ken murders there a few years ago, with Time and Newsweek being banned becuase they went into details of them that the Canadian press had suppressed, for fair trial reasons. Also, even more near and dear to geek hearts, aren't there weird laws about Canadian pornography, wrt to American?
Now maybe some of us can get dates in 18 years (13 if you're Patrick Naughton).
Do you need a special handicapped sticker to park your heads?