I knew a guy that used to write code for the defense (electronic) industry. He told me that it could cost up to about $75 million to trace someone's email or telnet sessions if they did it smart enough. The problem comes out trying to get so many companies and foriegn countries to cooperate with you enough to look at their logs. He said it was because there isn't much goodwill towards the US in many parts of the world.
As single cells once worked alone, then worked together into brainless simple multi-cellular organisms, and then developed nervous structures, we are doing the same. First we all worked individually. Then as civilization came, we split up into different specialties. Today we are specialists enough that there are critical parts of society without which we cannot do as a modern society such as doctors, road repair workers, policemen, etc. This is analogous to the simple brainless multicellular animals that developed early in this planet's history. They lacked a brain. So far, we too are pretty autonomous. With the wire-nerve connection one day we are all going to one day be parts of one or more giant organisms, just like cells are. There will certainly be individuals, but they will be to the 'magalife systems' (I can't think of a better term.) what bacteria are to us today. Just like the cells of our bodies perform to instructions from the brain, so will we 'humans' do so, listening to orders from our collective brains. Just like our cells do now, we will commit suicide when ordered to do so, to prevent that day's version of cancerous growth.
The idea of implants similar to 'the borg' is very unrefined. When the day comes, I forsee a computer many many times greater than anything today, in every one of my cells. It will be indistinguishable from biological matter as the line between bio and digital computers will blur until there is none.
The intelligence of such hybrid humans, if that term can be applied here, could increase with moore's law, and the intelligence of the 'megalives'would be even greater.
It's not the money I worry about being copied, it's ME I'm worried about someone copying. If there is another me that is made, that other knows all my secrets. Even DNA copying wouldn't compare.
The Heisenberg limit will come into play when we deal with objects the size of electrons. This nanoscale structure deals with objects the size of atoms, about a thousand times the larger than where you have to worry about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
The problems I have with this is that console
machines lack the games I like to play. I am
more of a civilizations or xcom (original),
turn-by-turn game. I haven't found anything similiar to them on any of the playstation,
nintendo, whatever types. If x-box changes
this I will probably buy it and wipe away my
windows partition.
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I knew a guy that used to write code for the defense (electronic) industry. He told me that it could cost up to about $75 million to trace someone's email or telnet sessions if they did it smart enough. The problem comes out trying to get so many companies and foriegn countries to cooperate with you enough to look at their logs. He said it was because there isn't much goodwill towards the US in many parts of the world.
Lawyers discover grep?
Ever seen what they did with the printer in Office Space? I used to have an old 4 Mhz system from the 80s till I saw that movie.
As single cells once worked alone, then worked together into brainless simple multi-cellular organisms, and then developed nervous structures, we are doing the same. First we all worked individually. Then as civilization came, we split up into different specialties. Today we are specialists enough that there are critical parts of society without which we cannot do as a modern society such as doctors, road repair workers, policemen, etc. This is analogous to the simple brainless multicellular animals that developed early in this planet's history. They lacked a brain. So far, we too are pretty autonomous. With the wire-nerve connection one day we are all going to one day be parts of one or more giant organisms, just like cells are. There will certainly be individuals, but they will be to the 'magalife systems' (I can't think of a better term.) what bacteria are to us today. Just like the cells of our bodies perform to instructions from the brain, so will we 'humans' do so, listening to orders from our collective brains. Just like our cells do now, we will commit suicide when ordered to do so, to prevent that day's version of cancerous growth.
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The idea of implants similar to 'the borg' is very unrefined. When the day comes, I forsee a computer many many times greater than anything today, in every one of my cells. It will be indistinguishable from biological matter as the line between bio and digital computers will blur until there is none.
The intelligence of such hybrid humans, if that term can be applied here, could increase with moore's law, and the intelligence of the 'megalives'would be even greater.
I can't wait.
It's not the money I worry about being copied, it's ME I'm worried about someone copying. If there is another me that is made, that other knows all my secrets. Even DNA copying wouldn't compare.
The Heisenberg limit will come into play when we deal with objects the size of electrons. This nanoscale structure deals with objects the size of atoms, about a thousand times the larger than where you have to worry about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle.
The problems I have with this is that console
machines lack the games I like to play. I am
more of a civilizations or xcom (original),
turn-by-turn game. I haven't found anything similiar to them on any of the playstation,
nintendo, whatever types. If x-box changes
this I will probably buy it and wipe away my
windows partition.