Boy, and here I was just pissing my life away on this chicken and egg theory.
That's been solved. The egg came first. Evolution is true: two not-quite chickens had sex, and the mutant offspring was a modern chicken, who of course started life as an egg.
Normally Verizon sells this data, so the only thing the gov't is doing here is forcing them to hand it over for free. The NSA can't pay for it like everyone else because of the sequester.
Verizon already collects all this data. Is that unconstitutional? Verizon is probably only upset about this because they normally SELL this data and the gov't is forcing them to hand it over for free. That's the real outrage here. The NSA should pay for it just like everyone else.
I think this is great! Imagine the cool graph theory information they'll be able to compute! Network sizes, social graph small-worldness, hubs, power-laws of node degree, entropy, percolation, mutual information, the list goes on and on. I am happily awaiting the science articles that will come out of all the analysis. As the technology improves they'll be able to handle even more nodes in the graph.
(Imagine when they get to 80 billion nodes with degree 1e4 or so; they'll be able to track all the connections in your brain.)
Besides, Verizon *already* has all this data, right? Nobody seems to mind that.
You can always run denyhosts, block any IP that attacks you, but it sounds like these guys are on your side, doing penetration testing. If they are not, block the addresses. If they are local staff, call the IT dept. and talk to them, don't post to/.
Each user gets a "private" copy. I wonder if that copy is about 64 bytes long, just a symlink to the master; they could claim it's merely a compression scheme.
This will inevitably lead to a new kind of pr0n on the interwebs. Send your musk by email. Synchronize your periods on facebook. And that guy whose handle is "mustyballsack"? You don't want to know.
Well, this counts as free advertising, however, I totally agree, companies like Tesla should stop trying to legislate their profits, which just makes them look like dicks, and put in the work to make the product better.
A spokesperson for the ATF said that while operating a business as a firearm manufacturer requires a license, an individual manufacturing one for personal use is legal.
The ATF has been emasculated (that means their balls were cut off) by NRA lobbyists, so nothing they say has meaning; however, making a gun and using a gun are still different under the (remaining) law.
Go ahead and make guns. Go ahead and make assault rifles. Good luck defending against cruise missiles.
There's a lawyer standing behind the drone pilot. He's there to make sure no laws are violated. So it isn't the drone, or the ROV pilot, it's the lawyer who makes the kill decision. So if you are complaining about it, ask yourself who makes the laws? More importantly, in other countries that are about to become drone capable, what sorts of laws do they have preventing arbitrary kills?
How many times must it be said? Asimov's 3 "laws" have nothing to do with real robotics, future or present. They were a _plot device_, designed to make his (fictional) stories more interesting. Even mentioning them at all in this context implies ignorance of actual robotics in reality. In reality, robot 'brains' are computers, programmed with software. Worry more about bugs in that software, and lack of oversight on the people controlling them.
So, have you actually done anything? Sure, I believe you fail when you're forced to work in one of those horrible office/cube environments. That's you, and I understand that. Some people can function in that environment, and some people just can't hack it. Tell us of your creations, away from bosses and distractions. We don't really care about how your mind cramps up. Tell us what you've actually done. Or are you the guy who outsources his own work to India?
You negate your own point by being an uneducated moron. "Than", not "that". You probably also used "you" in the subject because you aren't sure if it should be "your" or "youire".
No, America's RPVs will always be the best, we can take out anyone anywhere in the world at the touch of a button, without a pilot and for so little cost it's clear the government would use it so much more they're terrified of people calling "skynet!" The old military systems are like PDP-10 processors in an iPhone world.
The F-series has run its course. It's time we admitted it and built a new, cheaper, more agile force without feathering the nests of the fat military contractors.
so you're saying cutting the F35 cuts even more than we think, so cutting it will save even more money for programs that already work for less, like unmanned vehicles
and the remotely piloted aircraft are doing those jobs already. seriously, why do we need billions of dollars worth of aircraft carriers full of overpriced defense-contract-airshow F-stuff when we are already taking out our enemies with cheap drones and no risk to pilots?
Ha ha! What I get for not RTFA. This is their argument. They could have used the words inversely correlated. However they also say too much genetic similarity is bad. It's too easy to just say stuff...
It seems to me the argument is backwards. Genetic diversity should be, and is, larger in Africa because that population has been evolving longer. Japan? A study in cooperation among genetically similar people.
A genetic component does not make it moral. Brain damage that leads to you becoming an ax murderer doesn't give you the moral high ground. You're defective. Any concept of morality must depend on the values of others. Even among homosexuals, there is such a thing as intolerable behavior.
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Boy, and here I was just pissing my life away on this chicken and egg theory.
That's been solved. The egg came first. Evolution is true: two not-quite chickens had sex, and the mutant offspring was a modern chicken, who of course started life as an egg.
Normally Verizon sells this data, so the only thing the gov't is doing here is forcing them to hand it over for free. The NSA can't pay for it like everyone else because of the sequester.
Verizon already collects all this data. Is that unconstitutional? Verizon is probably only upset about this because they normally SELL this data and the gov't is forcing them to hand it over for free. That's the real outrage here. The NSA should pay for it just like everyone else.
I think this is great! Imagine the cool graph theory information they'll be able to compute! Network sizes, social graph small-worldness, hubs, power-laws of node degree, entropy, percolation, mutual information, the list goes on and on. I am happily awaiting the science articles that will come out of all the analysis. As the technology improves they'll be able to handle even more nodes in the graph.
(Imagine when they get to 80 billion nodes with degree 1e4 or so; they'll be able to track all the connections in your brain.)
Besides, Verizon *already* has all this data, right? Nobody seems to mind that.
This is like the mirror therapy used for phantom limb patients. Using a mirror they can "see" their phantom limb and regain control of it. Very cool.
I especially like how half of the review is about the user experience when Home is turned off.
You can always run denyhosts, block any IP that attacks you, but it sounds like these guys are on your side, doing penetration testing. /.
If they are not, block the addresses. If they are local staff, call the IT dept. and talk to them, don't post to
Each user gets a "private" copy. I wonder if that copy is about 64 bytes long, just a symlink to the master; they could claim it's merely a compression scheme.
Seriously. You don't even have to be logged in! Anyone running for rot13 translators got fooled today.
This will inevitably lead to a new kind of pr0n on the interwebs. Send your musk by email. Synchronize your periods on facebook. And that guy whose handle is "mustyballsack"? You don't want to know.
Well, this counts as free advertising, however, I totally agree, companies like Tesla should stop trying to legislate their profits, which just makes them look like dicks, and put in the work to make the product better.
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Fire all the lawyers.
A spokesperson for the ATF said that while operating a business as a firearm manufacturer requires a license, an individual manufacturing one for personal use is legal.
The ATF has been emasculated (that means their balls were cut off) by NRA lobbyists, so nothing they say has meaning; however, making a gun and using a gun are still different under the (remaining) law.
Go ahead and make guns. Go ahead and make assault rifles. Good luck defending against cruise missiles.
Yeah, you *are* asking for it.
"If you don't like the "state" you live under then move or change it."
There really aren't any places to flee to
Mars. You can go to Mars.
There's a lawyer standing behind the drone pilot. He's there to make sure no laws are violated. So it isn't the drone, or the ROV pilot, it's the lawyer who makes the kill decision. So if you are complaining about it, ask yourself who makes the laws? More importantly, in other countries that are about to become drone capable, what sorts of laws do they have preventing arbitrary kills?
How many times must it be said? Asimov's 3 "laws" have nothing to do with real robotics, future or present. They were a _plot device_, designed to make his (fictional) stories more interesting. Even mentioning them at all in this context implies ignorance of actual robotics in reality. In reality, robot 'brains' are computers, programmed with software. Worry more about bugs in that software, and lack of oversight on the people controlling them.
So, have you actually done anything? Sure, I believe you fail when you're forced to work in one of those horrible office/cube environments. That's you, and I understand that. Some people can function in that environment, and some people just can't hack it. Tell us of your creations, away from bosses and distractions. We don't really care about how your mind cramps up. Tell us what you've actually done. Or are you the guy who outsources his own work to India?
R.I.P.
You negate your own point by being an uneducated moron. "Than", not "that". You probably also used "you" in the subject because you aren't sure if it should be "your" or "youire".
No, America's RPVs will always be the best, we can take out anyone anywhere in the world at the touch of a button, without a pilot and for so little cost it's clear the government would use it so much more they're terrified of people calling "skynet!" The old military systems are like PDP-10 processors in an iPhone world.
The F-series has run its course. It's time we admitted it and built a new, cheaper, more agile force without feathering the nests of the fat military contractors.
There is a case for keeping the F-35B. It is to replace the aging and very outdated Harrier.
not a compelling argument. tech has moved on, yes. so has the enemy. fight smarter, not more expensively
so you're saying cutting the F35 cuts even more than we think, so cutting it will save even more money for programs that already work for less, like unmanned vehicles
and the remotely piloted aircraft are doing those jobs already. seriously, why do we need billions of dollars worth of aircraft carriers full of overpriced defense-contract-airshow F-stuff when we are already taking out our enemies with cheap drones and no risk to pilots?
Ha ha! What I get for not RTFA. This is their argument. They could have used the words inversely correlated. However they also say too much genetic similarity is bad. It's too easy to just say stuff ...
It seems to me the argument is backwards. Genetic diversity should be, and is, larger in Africa because that population has been evolving longer. Japan? A study in cooperation among genetically similar people.
A genetic component does not make it moral. Brain damage that leads to you becoming an ax murderer doesn't give you the moral high ground. You're defective. Any concept of morality must depend on the values of others. Even among homosexuals, there is such a thing as intolerable behavior.