Wouldn't the second neuron goto a parallel universe and not THIS timeline?
This is EXACTLY what's happening. And it's been going on for quite some time. We've been sending our neurons to some parallel universe, because we're clearly not getty any smarter.
I just wish the universe two doors down would stop sending over all its fat cells.
Why not let people edit their posts afterwards? Yes, I know there is a "preview" button. If I don't see the error before I post, I most likely won't see it 30 seconds later. That's me. You might be different. Crackers`n`Soup
Now that I have health insurance, I am horrified by the realization that I could be subjected to actual medical care. Before the worst thing that could happen is that I'd die, which is going to happen eventually anyway. --
When I first saw the title, I saw "diagonal" chips, and in my mind, I imagined layers of
silicon wafers stacked in 3D like//// with interconnections between layers running \\\\.
Hey, I've already got this! Of course, my tower keeps tipping over. --
I've run (older versions of) KDE and Gnome. They were nice (KDE considerably more stable at that time). I'm glad that they're being developed. I'm glad that there is a choice. I don't use either one. Most of the time I'm punching commands in through some *term window because I just don't have time to futz around with menus and junk. --
Tell us again why your response isn't: "Get out of my office."
Asking to confirm your licensing is "intolerable", period. If they have a real case, they can arrange for a real judge to hear their arguments why a real search warrant should be issued. --
Our options at this moment are:
1) have our lawyer send a "go screw yourself" letter to M$'s hit squad.
2) put linux on all the machines, and let them come in (this is my favorite)
3) see if we can find more companies in the area and start a class action suit against them.
Clearly? Obviously not. M$ has demanded an audit, which means M$ DOESN'T know whether VA Beach has any unlicensed copies. If M$ did know that VA Beach clearly wasn't jusing legitimate software, the letter would demand licensing payments and (probably) penalties instead of an audit.
On the other hand, since VA Beach is 99% M$-dependent, VA Beach clearly is using bastardized software. --
Really? This is fascinating. How far does this go? Could I, under oath, tell a judge an obvious lie (say about a commonly known fact) and get away with it if opposing counsel fails to counter in some way what I said?
This might be mistaken for a flame because I'm exagerating the situation, but that not what I intend. I realize there are defined tasks in the court, but I wonder where the line is. Clearly we can't have judges performing their own intensive investigations, and I suspect that the MS lawyers could (also) protest that Judge Jackson is not a computer expert. --
What are you thinking? Sounds like you have some crazy idea that the purpose of childhood is for children to acquire the fundamental experience they'll need when they are adults. --
I used to care whether hacker was used correctly, but now I just use it as a litmus test. I don't try to educate anymore. It's the secret handshake. If you know what it means, you're in. --
Great point about filtering on logos. A logo is a very well defined image, and just a little bit of AI would handle different sizes, different perspectives, special effects like 3d versions and shadows, and Google holiday modifications.
As for actually detecting porn, even after the skin-tone question is answered (block any significant amount of any shade of brown?) and the human body's full range of motion, and with the comprehension of the latest fetishes is adequately digitized, your AI still needs to know, for example, the difference between:
a bunch of partially nude people engaged in a beach orgy
a bunch of partially clothed (shorts, no shirts) guys piling on in a beach rugby game
So, of all the people who need censorware to keep porn off their computers, how many find it just spontaneously appearing? I know that www.whitehouse.com (or is it.org?) can be quite the unexpected surprise, but I'd be interested to know how much of the porn that appears on our desktops is not the result of deliberiately selecting www.naughtybits.com. --
And this spec-less method better supports features of Microsoft such as Spontaneous Information Hiding, which happens after you've spent three or four hours carefully constructing a multi-page document with tables of data and it turns into multiple pages of perfectly-shaped squares.
I don't know if Spontaneous Information Hiding still exists in MS Word because I have since turned to using an Etch-o-Sketch for all of my important documents. --
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Interesting. I've programmed a similar set of CPUs and have come to exactly the opposite conclusion.
I agree. I've only gone to the metal on 68K and x86, so I can't talk about MIPS and the rest, but I was taught assembly level programming on 68K about 10 years ago, and when I took my new-found knowledge to the PC I had at home, the lack of any real general purpose registers on that architecture was truly stiffling. You want to complain about having to save a bunch of registers on a stack for a function call? That's a luxury. Torture is having to constantly shuffle the few available x86 registers in the same function.
The AX accumulator register is a hereditary link back to the 4004 calculator chip that the x86 line springs from. The fact that it works as well as it does for general computing reflects well on Intel (and AMD and anybody else who markets a usable x86-ish chip), but that ingenuity would certainly make better-designed chips that much more impressive instead. I do think that the x86 family will be around for a long time, and I do have some affection for it. It is what I can afford, and its weaknesses drive compensating technological advances in exactly the same way that bloated code from Microsoft has driven faster CPUs, more RAM and more storage. --
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How can you tell if they're doing this with Eminem, Britney and the others? I thought it was already the same gunk looping over and over again.
Shocking oversight. Here, I'll fix it:
You must read the ENTIRE jargon lexicon before reading Slashdot
I just wish the universe two doors down would stop sending over all its fat cells.
Yeah, but has anybody else noticed that you never see Bill Gates and Cthulu-Jr at the same time?
HTH
Legally, this has always been an issue, hasn't it?
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Now that I have health insurance, I am horrified by the realization that I could be subjected to actual medical care. Before the worst thing that could happen is that I'd die, which is going to happen eventually anyway.
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I've run (older versions of) KDE and Gnome. They were nice (KDE considerably more stable at that time). I'm glad that they're being developed. I'm glad that there is a choice. I don't use either one. Most of the time I'm punching commands in through some *term window because I just don't have time to futz around with menus and junk.
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If I couldn't count on Netscape to crash, I'd never get around to doing any work on my machine.
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Asking to confirm your licensing is "intolerable", period. If they have a real case, they can arrange for a real judge to hear their arguments why a real search warrant should be issued.
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On the other hand, since VA Beach is 99% M$-dependent, VA Beach clearly is using bastardized software.
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I'm in trouble then. That's apparently the only kind I have.
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Really? This is fascinating. How far does this go? Could I, under oath, tell a judge an obvious lie (say about a commonly known fact) and get away with it if opposing counsel fails to counter in some way what I said?
This might be mistaken for a flame because I'm exagerating the situation, but that not what I intend. I realize there are defined tasks in the court, but I wonder where the line is. Clearly we can't have judges performing their own intensive investigations, and I suspect that the MS lawyers could (also) protest that Judge Jackson is not a computer expert.
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What are you thinking? Sounds like you have some crazy idea that the purpose of childhood is for children to acquire the fundamental experience they'll need when they are adults.
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It's the same old story. Tell a woman you can't get her pregnant because she's barren, knock her up anyway, and then run out on her.
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I used to care whether hacker was used correctly, but now I just use it as a litmus test. I don't try to educate anymore. It's the secret handshake. If you know what it means, you're in.
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As for actually detecting porn, even after the skin-tone question is answered (block any significant amount of any shade of brown?) and the human body's full range of motion, and with the comprehension of the latest fetishes is adequately digitized, your AI still needs to know, for example, the difference between:
- a bunch of partially nude people engaged in a beach orgy
- a bunch of partially clothed (shorts, no shirts) guys piling on in a beach rugby game
So, of all the people who need censorware to keep porn off their computers, how many find it just spontaneously appearing? I know that www.whitehouse.com (or is it--
As for the caucasian filter, well at least it would block the khaki portion of www.gap.com.
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I don't know if Spontaneous Information Hiding still exists in MS Word because I have since turned to using an Etch-o-Sketch for all of my important documents.
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The AX accumulator register is a hereditary link back to the 4004 calculator chip that the x86 line springs from. The fact that it works as well as it does for general computing reflects well on Intel (and AMD and anybody else who markets a usable x86-ish chip), but that ingenuity would certainly make better-designed chips that much more impressive instead. I do think that the x86 family will be around for a long time, and I do have some affection for it. It is what I can afford, and its weaknesses drive compensating technological advances in exactly the same way that bloated code from Microsoft has driven faster CPUs, more RAM and more storage.
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