You can use telepresence to control the robots when necessary. You can also design stuff for maintainability.
I don't mind people risking their life - that's their choice. I do mind spending $0.5B every time a shuttle goes for a little trip, and other billions when one blows up. The high cost is attributable to the need to reduce the failure rate well below the 1-5% commercial launch failure rates, plus the reusability requirement. And with all that cost and effort, they still have a 1% failure rate.
The hubble cost $1.5 billion. It would be cheaper to send another one up rather than waste many more billions on the shuttle program.
With all the sexiness RAID and Beowolf, why not apply the same reasoning to spacecraft?
Manned spaceflight is too expensive (in dollars and in lives) with current technology. Perfect unmanned technology first. Make it cheap and plentiful, so that one failure (or ten) would just be a percentage increase in cost instead of a major setback.
And since it's to be cheap, private industry should take the lead. How about some tax incentives?
I would much rather see autonomic robots in space. It's way too expensive and dangerous to send up humans at this point of our technological progress. Not to mention the additional likelyhood of fuckups since these are government projects.
There are some basic system facilities that have to be secure. This includes SSH for example.
Because of pointers and lack of bounds-checking, C++ is not it. Java doesn't interface with low-level system facilities very well. If this newfangled D language does all that, this may be the security Holy Grail.
Biological humans need to take an entire pressurized environment with them. Very very inefficient.
I think we should stick to sending up economically efficient cybernetic devices. When humans graduate and are uploaded to computers, then we can zip around the solar system at a reasonable cost. Hopefully should happen within a few decades.
I, for one, would probably not contribute to a project with a random license agreement. I would feel that the project owner is trying to be too controlling...
I would recommend in this case to wait until you build enough infrastructure and documentation so that the future evolution of the project is more self-evident. Release only when you are comfortable you've met this goal.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could take a digital photo of your bookcase and have it be automatically converted into a list of books?
If such a database also had spine/cover info that let's a program do automated recognition, this would be possible. Then you could put them all up for sale. Or you could look up a book without having to keep your bookcase organized.
This seems to be a completely different bug than the previous article. That bug was about the virtual memory translation table. It's in the AMD processor revision guide as errata #16. It's a processor bug. That bug seems fixable with the mem=nopentium flag.
The bug mentioned in the latest article (Tracking Down, etc...) is about cache coherency semantics, which is a completely different beast.
I'm disappointed that it is so easy to hijack planes. I think airplane crew should be armed and the cockpit better protected. Airplanes are vulnerable targets with a large payoff for terrorists, and should be protected accordingly.
The original poster referred to *brainless* clones. Wouldn't you agree that an organism without a brain is non-human and can be viewed as an organ farm?
A clone with a brain, has the same rights as anybody, of course.
ODP should use a distributed storage system like Freenet. This way no one entity will have control/copyright over the project.
Also, you would be able to have different category trees, cryptographically owned by different (possibly anonymous) people, organizing the same leaf data.
This would require some extra programming on top of Freenet...
I doubt very much that biological humans will exist by the end of the century, given that computation capacity is growing at the current pace. We should reach human capacity in a computer in a couple of decades, and it's a short trip from there to everybody being uploaded. See Mind uploading home page
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You can use telepresence to control the robots when necessary. You can also design stuff for maintainability.
I don't mind people risking their life - that's their choice. I do mind spending $0.5B every time a shuttle goes for a little trip, and other billions when one blows up. The high cost is attributable to the need to reduce the failure rate well below the 1-5% commercial launch failure rates, plus the reusability requirement. And with all that cost and effort, they still have a 1% failure rate.
The hubble cost $1.5 billion. It would be cheaper to send another one up rather than waste many more billions on the shuttle program.
For reference, the annual shuttle cost is $3.8B.
Wrapping itself around the earth?? It's geosynchronous! Why would it suddenly acquire a sideways velocity?
Or we can recognize how amazingly foolish it is to fly these contraptions instead of sticking to unmanned ships.
It doesn't really have to be near a populated area. If it's far out at sea, there will be no appreciable damage on collapse.
I don't understand what's this about "destabilization of anything in orbit"?
With all the sexiness RAID and Beowolf, why not apply the same reasoning to spacecraft?
Manned spaceflight is too expensive (in dollars and in lives) with current technology. Perfect unmanned technology first. Make it cheap and plentiful, so that one failure (or ten) would just be a percentage increase in cost instead of a major setback.
And since it's to be cheap, private industry should take the lead. How about some tax incentives?
I would much rather see autonomic robots in space. It's way too expensive and dangerous to send up humans at this point of our technological progress. Not to mention the additional likelyhood of fuckups since these are government projects.
There are some basic system facilities that have to be secure. This includes SSH for example.
Because of pointers and lack of bounds-checking, C++ is not it. Java doesn't interface with low-level system facilities very well. If this newfangled D language does all that, this may be the security Holy Grail.
See here .
Biological humans need to take an entire pressurized environment with them. Very very inefficient.
I think we should stick to sending up economically efficient cybernetic devices. When humans graduate and are uploaded to computers, then we can zip around the solar system at a reasonable cost. Hopefully should happen within a few decades.
What stops an attacker with root privs from removing the attributes?
I, for one, would probably not contribute to a project with a random license agreement. I would feel that the project owner is trying to be too controlling...
I would recommend in this case to wait until you build enough infrastructure and documentation so that the future evolution of the project is more self-evident. Release only when you are comfortable you've met this goal.
You could make it searchable without making the text available. An indexed text document is not necessarily convertible to the original document.
See my other comment. Drop me a note to sdathyperdotto.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could take a digital photo of your bookcase and have it be automatically converted into a list of books?
If such a database also had spine/cover info that let's a program do automated recognition, this would be possible. Then you could put them all up for sale. Or you could look up a book without having to keep your bookcase organized.
This seems to be a completely different bug than the previous article. That bug was about the virtual memory translation table. It's in the AMD processor revision guide as errata #16. It's a processor bug. That bug seems fixable with the mem=nopentium flag. The bug mentioned in the latest article (Tracking Down, etc...) is about cache coherency semantics, which is a completely different beast.
I'm disappointed that it is so easy to hijack planes. I think airplane crew should be armed and the cockpit better protected. Airplanes are vulnerable targets with a large payoff for terrorists, and should be protected accordingly.
Was he frozen? Probably not. Failure to connect between ideas and science...
The original poster referred to *brainless* clones. Wouldn't you agree that an organism without a brain is non-human and can be viewed as an organ farm? A clone with a brain, has the same rights as anybody, of course.
Also, you would be able to have different category trees, cryptographically owned by different (possibly anonymous) people, organizing the same leaf data.
This would require some extra programming on top of Freenet...
I doubt very much that biological humans will exist by the end of the century, given that computation capacity is growing at the current pace. We should reach human capacity in a computer in a couple of decades, and it's a short trip from there to everybody being uploaded. See Mind uploading home page