You see, these neurons were wired in the living worm to send signals to different parts of the body. A signal from its nose, in the real worm, would go to a neuron, which would fire other neurons, that caused it to stop moving. This happened by sending a signal to other neurons which then sent them down to parts of the body.
What they did, was use UDP packets to be the 'signal', and then sent electrical currents down to the robotic corresponding parts as the original living worm did, which resulted in the same behavior.
They didn't put a chip in where it goes if range 20cm stop. They mimicked the worm and said if range 20cm send signal to neuron C. Neuron C in the worm and robot goes if receive signal, send electrical pulse to wire C. Wire C causes it to stop motion.
So behaviors emerged, were not "programmed" so to speak.
If you look at the amount of things in this world that can make you dead, if you didn't understand them, it's a good reaction.
Car coming towards you. Will it kill you if it doesn't stop? Yes. Bus. Plane, motorbike. Injury or death if it doesn't stop.
Any object falling towards you, pole, power line, rock, house (flood) etc. Will it kill you? Good chance of it.
The human race wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for that instinct, it's a good and proper instinct to have. It SHOULD require higher level thinking to investigate somethings potential danger before deciding we shouldn't vaporize it first. On instinct, we don't know enough that we should risk our lives until we are confident it is killing us.
You don't have to use your real name if you don't want to, except where law requires it, such as the government.
You can sign up for services using an assumed name if you wish. You cannot provide false government identification though, false drivers license, false social insurance number, those are illegal. You can live in a town with assumed names, use that to talk to people, setup email accounts using them, generally for any reason, like privacy.
However - you cannot do it for fraudulent purposes. If you use a false name to commit a crime or fraud, it's a federal crime. E.G Spoofing your caller ID is okay. Spoofing your caller ID to fraudulently represent another company to steal information for more potential fraud, is illegal. Then just spoofing your caller ID on it's own, is illegal.
It's a matter of intent or purpose. E.G Driving a car down a street isn't illegal if you have a license and own it. However, driving someone elses car that you have stolen down the street without a license will get you hit for multiple crimes / fines. Driving without a license, fine. Even though "driving" E.G "Faking caller ID" isn't illegal on it's own.
Shock surprise! Slashdotters are against people getting tens of thousands in fines over their kid downloads a single MP3 that got shared! Damn, people want their invisible money, because man, all those people would have totally purchased THAT SONG if they couldn't have downloaded it.
We also think that when it's a case of fraud, that people would engage properly instead of ignoring it. I work in a datacenter.
If we receive a phishing email complaint, or website, and confirm it exists, we SHUT THEM DOWN. The owner of the server might not be responsible, but they have to communicate with us and correct it or it stays down.
By the same margin, if Level3 can confirm that spoofed caller ID is coming from another company, contact that company. If they won't shut it down, shut them down.
The problem is that you only have to remember specific information to pass a certification. This doesn't mean you know/why/ it is the way it is. Only that it is.
This makes the difference between IT professionals who love their work, and will find new solutions, versus the sys admin who can follow the instructions laid out before him.
You might be able to say 'FTP uses TCP' 'Voice uses UDP' Oh, you passed. This doesn't mean that they understand that TCP sends acks for each received packet to insure each one is received in order, and if it isn't, it resends the package. That UDP sends it blindly hoping it worked.
Or why. E.G FTP uses TCP because you're transferring files, if part of the file is missing, it's toast. So you need acknowledgement for each packet sent. UDP is used for voice. This is because with voice, if part of it is missing you get a slight drop in quality, a blip or blurp in sound, machine like sounds or depending how long, a missed word or two.
You can still understand the conversation for the most part with minor impact. If it was TCP, people would cut out a lot more vs the odd artifact in the sound.
Fair enough, I can see not wanting google glass around you.
By the way, shut your android or apple phone off whenever you are near me, as it can record audio and video, it also knows exactly where you are at all times, if I have mine on, it knows we're standing next to each other. Especially if it's an apple phone, apparently I hear all calls are recorded by apple. You're already giving all your information to these companies anyway, and if you want to discriminate against a chosen piece of technology that performs the same functions as yours except with a heads up display, I will treat your technology with the/exact same/ treatment.
If you don't like it, you can take it up with the fact that I'm 6'3 and have done roofing, likely can prevent you from removing any of my technology and it would be at your own peril.
Alternatively, I'll remove it from your belt / pocket.
It's just taking to long to get released. People get over things eventually. It's been out of reach for the average person. I would have loved to have one, I think it's the future, more convenient, and people will get used to it.
But I swear it feels like it's been five years since these were announced. How long am I supposed to care before I go fuck it and move on to something else to play with and explore? I moved on. So did other people.
The only people waiting for them are the same people who are friendzoned and thinking it will change. Google, you have friendzoned us with your google glasses, and more men these days are getting the picture and moving on.
I think you're right, people who use more should pay more.
So if someone wants a 30 MBit and a transfer cap of 200 GB a month should pay more than someone who wants 10 mbit connections and a transfer cap of 50 GB a month.
However if I pay for a 30 Mbit connection and a transfer cap of 200 GB a month, and you pay for a 30 Mbit with a cap of 200 GB, I don't expect I have to pay more for my 200 GB than you do because comcast doesn't like what I use my 200 GB for. Because I run adblocker, or use a video service besides their cable.
Maybe we both don't have cable so it's not a bundled deal, but they just assume you don't watch cable. Since I have netflix, they know I watch TV shows, so they're mad now and want to charge me more for not getting their cable service. Is that fair?
Either they're offering direct TV options through the net, comparable to cable, with saving the program for 28 days, or they plan to charge per show.
Micro transactions are not going to work on everything. In fact, they only work with things provided for free that happen to have microtransactions to get ahead further like video games.
They probably want you to rent shows. Good luck Sony.
Maybe two separate kinds of courts? One to basically screen this out?
I couldn't say for all cases that they're important but maybe a prescreening to determine if the results of the defendant are significantly impacting someones life with their actions before it's permitted to go to court? You have your small counts for amounts under 5000$, but funded with lawyers the same, and then have your criminal and significant damages courts which deal with people significantly impacted by what someone has done, for individuals.
Then maybe one last separate court which rules over corporate entities, so all the patent crap between giants can be fought there.
Ubisoft probably has this as a moto around their office, painted on the walls.
I'm really getting sick of Ubisoft, the last game I purchased under their banner was Anno 2070. Great game, only part of that game that ever pisses me off? Ubisoft game launcher that comes with it and is necessary to operate it. Even though i purchased it on steam and launch from there.
Ubisoft needs to focus less on market manipulation and DRM software, more on quality games. Anno 2070 was a fantastic game, great quality, you waste time and effort on your uplay launcher and other things trying to mimic software that is out there that already does it better.
Sure, just because there is better software doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but at least (Even though I'm not a fan of Origin) At least EA with Origin actually put serious effort into making a distribution platform and making improvements to it so it has similar quality to something well known as Steam.
Now, I still think Steam is way beyond Origin and definitely my preferred content distributor, and I have origin only for Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3. Steam gets installed every single time as part of my top 5 programs to reinstall if I format my system, for my contacts and extensive game library. Also because Steam feels quick, I don't feel it bogs down my system, and is useful to me.
I don't recommend using your own private server on a IP that is served by a company that owns residential blocks.
Your IP address can be close to another spammer from comcast and you'll get a very basic response as to why it was blocked. They won't tell you that your entire/24 or anything like that has been blocked due to other people abusing it.
It might not even be a residential client that is doing this but another comcast business user. If you get a dedicated server in a datacenter, they take reports for spam quite seriously and will disconnect peoples servers much faster than Comcast will disconnect a clients internet.
This is in part that many people using dedicated servers with an email server either as a webhost, company mail server or otherwise. If they get entire subnets blocked, they get a lot of really upset clients/very/ quickly.
So they are a lot more responsible in that regards.
I use eSecureData for my servers and have seen their responses.
That's along the lines of "More people die from X in America than terrorists"
Spending all that money to keep terrorists from doing whatever they do into automated cars and other things that save lives might ultimately be more cost efficient if you look at it that way.
The difference is, is accidents are often quite preventable by the average person. Someone running into a crowd and exploding themselves is often not a preventable act by average people having their coffee that day.
Also the possibility that without the protection / spying, deaths caused by terrorists could be significantly increased, which would make it plausible that funding these programs is actually more efficient.
In addition, even though some people can protect themselves, they don't want you concerned with it, they want you working your low wage jobs and feeding the economy nightmare machine instead.
Fantastic, you must be someone who believes they have no choice over what they do!
You choose what to think about, it affects you as a whole. It's like anger, I can CHOOSE to be angry over something, or I can choose to let it go.
Myth: Depression is a mystical force which you have no control over.
It's not magic. Depression is not magic special extra-dimensional phase of planets event that comes to you and now that's it, there's nothing you can do. If you believe that, then you're not going to like the solution.
We're not going to accept you. In fact, if no one can control depression, and once you have it, it's not your fault and there's nothing you can do, you are now going to be considered diseased by society and avoided at all costs. If it isn't a choice, (And I don't mean like you pushed a button, but everything comes down to choice in reality) then this is as it should be.
You cannot defend your need to emotionally drain other people or the costs you place onto society over it. People have their own emotions and they cannot just feed it to you. You become toxic.
You will be treated like any other disease that can spread to other people and affect their health.
I can't wait until someone gets enough political correct rejects to follow them that anger isn't a choice, I can't help it if everything makes me so angry I have to punch people in the face. Like depression, can't help that they're so depressed they cut themselves. So with anger, so angry that they cut other people.
I'd like to add that there can be green initiatives like having a data center part of the power plant, and running liquid hydrogen through pipes to provide cooling when active instead of using alternative air cooling systems during normal operation. This will reduce the energy being used while heating the hydrogen at the same time.
Given the scale of the operation they might be able to devise a non energy using way to accomplish the hydrogen reheat and hydrogen leakage could possibly be solved by modern technology.
What it really comes down to if it's worth while to store excess electricity is how high of a capacity can we reasonably store, which I believe is quite high.
In the end the costs of setting up and running a hydrogen based storage system might be more effective in the long run, especially if we frequently have a significant excess in electricity at most times.
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Actually they did just emerge.
You see, these neurons were wired in the living worm to send signals to different parts of the body. A signal from its nose, in the real worm, would go to a neuron, which would fire other neurons, that caused it to stop moving. This happened by sending a signal to other neurons which then sent them down to parts of the body.
What they did, was use UDP packets to be the 'signal', and then sent electrical currents down to the robotic corresponding parts as the original living worm did, which resulted in the same behavior.
They didn't put a chip in where it goes if range 20cm stop. They mimicked the worm and said if range 20cm send signal to neuron C. Neuron C in the worm and robot goes if receive signal, send electrical pulse to wire C. Wire C causes it to stop motion.
So behaviors emerged, were not "programmed" so to speak.
If you look at the amount of things in this world that can make you dead, if you didn't understand them, it's a good reaction.
Car coming towards you. Will it kill you if it doesn't stop? Yes.
Bus. Plane, motorbike. Injury or death if it doesn't stop.
Any object falling towards you, pole, power line, rock, house (flood) etc. Will it kill you? Good chance of it.
The human race wouldn't have survived if it wasn't for that instinct, it's a good and proper instinct to have. It SHOULD require higher level thinking to investigate somethings potential danger before deciding we shouldn't vaporize it first. On instinct, we don't know enough that we should risk our lives until we are confident it is killing us.
Actually, you're kind of wrong in my opinion.
You don't have to use your real name if you don't want to, except where law requires it, such as the government.
You can sign up for services using an assumed name if you wish. You cannot provide false government identification though, false drivers license, false social insurance number, those are illegal. You can live in a town with assumed names, use that to talk to people, setup email accounts using them, generally for any reason, like privacy.
However - you cannot do it for fraudulent purposes. If you use a false name to commit a crime or fraud, it's a federal crime.
E.G Spoofing your caller ID is okay. Spoofing your caller ID to fraudulently represent another company to steal information for more potential fraud, is illegal. Then just spoofing your caller ID on it's own, is illegal.
It's a matter of intent or purpose. E.G Driving a car down a street isn't illegal if you have a license and own it. However, driving someone elses car that you have stolen down the street without a license will get you hit for multiple crimes / fines. Driving without a license, fine. Even though "driving" E.G "Faking caller ID" isn't illegal on it's own.
Shock surprise! Slashdotters are against people getting tens of thousands in fines over their kid downloads a single MP3 that got shared!
Damn, people want their invisible money, because man, all those people would have totally purchased THAT SONG if they couldn't have downloaded it.
We also think that when it's a case of fraud, that people would engage properly instead of ignoring it. I work in a datacenter.
If we receive a phishing email complaint, or website, and confirm it exists, we SHUT THEM DOWN.
The owner of the server might not be responsible, but they have to communicate with us and correct it or it stays down.
By the same margin, if Level3 can confirm that spoofed caller ID is coming from another company, contact that company. If they won't shut it down, shut them down.
Some kids played with model airplanes and found it fun, grew up to be pilots or aerospace engineers.
This kid, assuming he enjoys computers, more power to him.
The problem is that you only have to remember specific information to pass a certification. /why/ it is the way it is. Only that it is.
This doesn't mean you know
This makes the difference between IT professionals who love their work, and will find new solutions, versus the sys admin who can follow the instructions laid out before him.
You might be able to say 'FTP uses TCP' 'Voice uses UDP' Oh, you passed.
This doesn't mean that they understand that TCP sends acks for each received packet to insure each one is received in order, and if it isn't, it resends the package.
That UDP sends it blindly hoping it worked.
Or why. E.G FTP uses TCP because you're transferring files, if part of the file is missing, it's toast. So you need acknowledgement for each packet sent.
UDP is used for voice. This is because with voice, if part of it is missing you get a slight drop in quality, a blip or blurp in sound, machine like sounds or depending how long, a missed word or two.
You can still understand the conversation for the most part with minor impact. If it was TCP, people would cut out a lot more vs the odd artifact in the sound.
So...if..the gas industry can charge crazy prices..citing we're running out of oil...
Then we could charge a whole lot more for chocolate if we say we're running out of cocoa! GENIUS!
Fair enough, I can see not wanting google glass around you.
By the way, shut your android or apple phone off whenever you are near me, as it can record audio and video, it also knows exactly where you are at all times, if I have mine on, it knows we're standing next to each other. Especially if it's an apple phone, apparently I hear all calls are recorded by apple. /exact same/ treatment.
You're already giving all your information to these companies anyway, and if you want to discriminate against a chosen piece of technology that performs the same functions as yours except with a heads up display, I will treat your technology with the
If you don't like it, you can take it up with the fact that I'm 6'3 and have done roofing, likely can prevent you from removing any of my technology and it would be at your own peril.
Alternatively, I'll remove it from your belt / pocket.
I think we do have the technology, just look at the size of a raspberry pi.
You would think they could just scale the electronics in a longer format and it would work.
Electronics are fairly light weight these days.
It's just taking to long to get released. People get over things eventually. It's been out of reach for the average person. I would have loved to have one, I think it's the future, more convenient, and people will get used to it.
But I swear it feels like it's been five years since these were announced. How long am I supposed to care before I go fuck it and move on to something else to play with and explore? I moved on. So did other people.
The only people waiting for them are the same people who are friendzoned and thinking it will change. Google, you have friendzoned us with your google glasses, and more men these days are getting the picture and moving on.
I think you're right, people who use more should pay more.
So if someone wants a 30 MBit and a transfer cap of 200 GB a month should pay more than someone who wants 10 mbit connections and a transfer cap of 50 GB a month.
However if I pay for a 30 Mbit connection and a transfer cap of 200 GB a month, and you pay for a 30 Mbit with a cap of 200 GB, I don't expect I have to pay more for my 200 GB than you do because comcast doesn't like what I use my 200 GB for. Because I run adblocker, or use a video service besides their cable.
Maybe we both don't have cable so it's not a bundled deal, but they just assume you don't watch cable. Since I have netflix, they know I watch TV shows, so they're mad now and want to charge me more for not getting their cable service. Is that fair?
but it's running out of power...shit.
I figured it out.
This is them whenever they see money, period. mine!
Either they're offering direct TV options through the net, comparable to cable, with saving the program for 28 days, or they plan to charge per show.
Micro transactions are not going to work on everything. In fact, they only work with things provided for free that happen to have microtransactions to get ahead further like video games.
They probably want you to rent shows. Good luck Sony.
I'm not exactly against them catching criminals, but how often has someone receive shitty cell service and 'drops' because of these fake towers?
Maybe two separate kinds of courts? One to basically screen this out?
I couldn't say for all cases that they're important but maybe a prescreening to determine if the results of the defendant are significantly impacting someones life with their actions before it's permitted to go to court? You have your small counts for amounts under 5000$, but funded with lawyers the same, and then have your criminal and significant damages courts which deal with people significantly impacted by what someone has done, for individuals.
Then maybe one last separate court which rules over corporate entities, so all the patent crap between giants can be fought there.
Well, I would think laws would hopefully be adjusted to stay on Justice but make it so delay tactics are not viable.
If someone is delaying on the need to gather more evidence, maybe limit it, but allow people to submit appeals when more evidence is available easier?
Also shouldn't justice not be about what takes up peoples time but justice?
Ubisoft probably has this as a moto around their office, painted on the walls.
I'm really getting sick of Ubisoft, the last game I purchased under their banner was Anno 2070. Great game, only part of that game that ever pisses me off? Ubisoft game launcher that comes with it and is necessary to operate it. Even though i purchased it on steam and launch from there.
Ubisoft needs to focus less on market manipulation and DRM software, more on quality games. Anno 2070 was a fantastic game, great quality, you waste time and effort on your uplay launcher and other things trying to mimic software that is out there that already does it better.
Sure, just because there is better software doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but at least (Even though I'm not a fan of Origin) At least EA with Origin actually put serious effort into making a distribution platform and making improvements to it so it has similar quality to something well known as Steam.
Now, I still think Steam is way beyond Origin and definitely my preferred content distributor, and I have origin only for Mass Effect 3 and Battlefield 3. Steam gets installed every single time as part of my top 5 programs to reinstall if I format my system, for my contacts and extensive game library. Also because Steam feels quick, I don't feel it bogs down my system, and is useful to me.
I don't recommend using your own private server on a IP that is served by a company that owns residential blocks.
Your IP address can be close to another spammer from comcast and you'll get a very basic response as to why it was blocked. They won't tell you that your entire /24 or anything like that has been blocked due to other people abusing it.
It might not even be a residential client that is doing this but another comcast business user.
If you get a dedicated server in a datacenter, they take reports for spam quite seriously and will disconnect peoples servers much faster than Comcast will disconnect a clients internet.
This is in part that many people using dedicated servers with an email server either as a webhost, company mail server or otherwise. If they get entire subnets blocked, they get a lot of really upset clients /very/ quickly.
So they are a lot more responsible in that regards.
I use eSecureData for my servers and have seen their responses.
It's funny but you're right.
That's along the lines of "More people die from X in America than terrorists"
Spending all that money to keep terrorists from doing whatever they do into automated cars and other things that save lives might ultimately be more cost efficient if you look at it that way.
The difference is, is accidents are often quite preventable by the average person. Someone running into a crowd and exploding themselves is often not a preventable act by average people having their coffee that day.
Also the possibility that without the protection / spying, deaths caused by terrorists could be significantly increased, which would make it plausible that funding these programs is actually more efficient.
In addition, even though some people can protect themselves, they don't want you concerned with it, they want you working your low wage jobs and feeding the economy nightmare machine instead.
It's really odd honestly, in a place of justice that money controls the outcome still.
I don't know what to suggest? Maybe a legal system where lawyers are funded purely by taxes and still only receive payment for the services rendered?
Fantastic, you must be someone who believes they have no choice over what they do!
You choose what to think about, it affects you as a whole. It's like anger, I can CHOOSE to be angry over something, or I can choose to let it go.
Myth: Depression is a mystical force which you have no control over.
It's not magic. Depression is not magic special extra-dimensional phase of planets event that comes to you and now that's it, there's nothing you can do.
If you believe that, then you're not going to like the solution.
We're not going to accept you. In fact, if no one can control depression, and once you have it, it's not your fault and there's nothing you can do, you are now going to be considered diseased by society and avoided at all costs. If it isn't a choice, (And I don't mean like you pushed a button, but everything comes down to choice in reality) then this is as it should be.
You cannot defend your need to emotionally drain other people or the costs you place onto society over it. People have their own emotions and they cannot just feed it to you. You become toxic.
You will be treated like any other disease that can spread to other people and affect their health.
I can't wait until someone gets enough political correct rejects to follow them that anger isn't a choice, I can't help it if everything makes me so angry I have to punch people in the face. Like depression, can't help that they're so depressed they cut themselves. So with anger, so angry that they cut other people.
Watch it turns out to be printing hello world in C and too many people had identical designs :P
I'd like to add that there can be green initiatives like having a data center part of the power plant, and running liquid hydrogen through pipes to provide cooling when active instead of using alternative air cooling systems during normal operation. This will reduce the energy being used while heating the hydrogen at the same time.
Given the scale of the operation they might be able to devise a non energy using way to accomplish the hydrogen reheat and hydrogen leakage could possibly be solved by modern technology.
What it really comes down to if it's worth while to store excess electricity is how high of a capacity can we reasonably store, which I believe is quite high.
In the end the costs of setting up and running a hydrogen based storage system might be more effective in the long run, especially if we frequently have a significant excess in electricity at most times.