I find people getting scared about a robot uprising silly at this point. The mind is incredibly complex. The closest that can be done to reproducing it is limited in a lot of ways. I'm a lot more worried about a bug popping up in something like an airplane causing a crash then AI overlords. https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ illustrates how silly the idea is. It's a lot more unlikely because a lot of the devices shown aren't connected to the internet. In the end my biggest worry would be society having problems because of how reliant we are on computers. Even then it would be fairly challenging completely compromise the whole internet just because of how much of a patchwork the internet is set up. Different hardware setups with different software versions. The simplest way of course is through tricking people but that wouldn't do it for everyone. Basically it would be possible but fairly challenging because of everything involved.
It all really depends on the sensors you get. A cheap toy like that would hardly have anything going for it. For a full head sensor, there's a lot more potential. If it's able to accurately match patterns in the brain with certain thoughts and clear out the noise then it could work. It would require fairly expensive sensors and some good algorithms tracking brain activity. Not true mind reading, but in some ways, this is fairly close in that regard. I wouldn't be surprised if it requires some training as well.
I suppose that if you get down to it, everything that you can load from the internet is downloaded. However, when referring to something downloaded, it's usually a file of some sort that's referred to. I double checked and saw that yes, torrent files are hosted and thus can be downloaded. My main point is that magnetic links aren't really files. They're just links can be used to reconstruct a torrent file. So in effect, when you load a webpage with a magnetic link on it, you've already downloaded it.
tldr; magnetic links don't really count as a download. Your point on the torrent is true however.
Maybe by the time that we've lived in space for a while, we might also learn how to not trash everything. Considering that space isn't very forgiving. Learning how to work with what you have becomes increasingly important especially during the times when we wouldn't have a planet to work with.
Hmm, tell that to my upgraded Macbook. I have 16gb of ram in mine. On the other hand, you're probably right that it will take a long time for the upgrades to show up in apple's store.
I'm not talking about electricity exactly. After all, it's not like electricity is a natural resource that we can just mine beyond the natural lightning storm. The electricity has to come from somewhere.
That's going to double the demand for electricity.
While technically that's true in the sense of the demand for the power to propel vehicles being shifted from a liquid source to a pure electrical equivalent. I suppose that if you think of it, depending on how efficient a car engine vs the electric generators and the transporting and storing electricity, electric cars may or may not add to the problem.
While 2 years is pretty ridiculous, I haven't yet heard of a proper 3D printer that can create parts at the quality that they'd need. 3D printing isn't the best for some of the more vital science apparatuses on the bleeding edge of science.
Don't worry, just skim the article again because the claim isn't making temperatures go below absolute 0. Negative temperatures mean something completely different. My understanding is with negative temps, reverse what happens to water when you add energy. In other words, it's like heating up water but then the water starts to freeze. As you add energy to a negative energy system, it becomes more organized.
There's a difference between programing an AI for a computer game and one for interpreting real world data. With in game, you're not dealing with sensors which can be very difficult in converting to useful info.
I very much doubt that someone being able to track you down using an ip will ever change with how the internet is structured. I will agree though that, that is one of the small dangers of the internet. It's IPv4 btw.
I'm not so sure about that. Politicians have gotten to be pretty effective at distracting the general populace with issues that don't have a very big impact as far as governance is concerned. Wether or not stuff like marijuana or gay marriage is allowed won't directly impact the government in any way that will matter for how this country is ran but they seem to be some of the bigger issues discussed. Personally I don't care too much for those issues but no matter my opinion I think that stuff like the internet is a far more important issue.
tldr; People getting involved isn't enough, it's people getting involved in the right issues that will truly make a difference.
I'd say mother nature might be one. There isn't much practicality behind moving to antartica. If there was then people would already be living there on more than a temporary basis.
ANy attempts to read it would disrupt the quantum entanglement. This has nothing to do with matter in fact, it's mostly light. Now if you were trying for sarcasm, sorry I missed it.
The idea behind this is that the information is stored in a quantum state and any attempt to read (observe) the data breaks the quantum state. If someone were trying to do any intercepting then they would end up garbling the data on the other end thus tripping an alarm that something is wrong. In other words, this is really exciting because right now, there's no way to secretly intercept a quantum communication.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happened. The other side of the story is maybe it's google's doing? Google Maps is not Apple's sole property. Granted, I feel more like Apple doing it is correct.
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Maybe if this were to carry to radiation.
I find people getting scared about a robot uprising silly at this point. The mind is incredibly complex. The closest that can be done to reproducing it is limited in a lot of ways. I'm a lot more worried about a bug popping up in something like an airplane causing a crash then AI overlords. https://what-if.xkcd.com/5/ illustrates how silly the idea is. It's a lot more unlikely because a lot of the devices shown aren't connected to the internet. In the end my biggest worry would be society having problems because of how reliant we are on computers. Even then it would be fairly challenging completely compromise the whole internet just because of how much of a patchwork the internet is set up. Different hardware setups with different software versions. The simplest way of course is through tricking people but that wouldn't do it for everyone. Basically it would be possible but fairly challenging because of everything involved.
Won't work in outer space. Good start though.
It all really depends on the sensors you get. A cheap toy like that would hardly have anything going for it. For a full head sensor, there's a lot more potential. If it's able to accurately match patterns in the brain with certain thoughts and clear out the noise then it could work. It would require fairly expensive sensors and some good algorithms tracking brain activity. Not true mind reading, but in some ways, this is fairly close in that regard. I wouldn't be surprised if it requires some training as well.
I suppose that if you get down to it, everything that you can load from the internet is downloaded. However, when referring to something downloaded, it's usually a file of some sort that's referred to. I double checked and saw that yes, torrent files are hosted and thus can be downloaded. My main point is that magnetic links aren't really files. They're just links can be used to reconstruct a torrent file. So in effect, when you load a webpage with a magnetic link on it, you've already downloaded it. tldr; magnetic links don't really count as a download. Your point on the torrent is true however.
I think that's exactly the problem that they're having. They're erasing a signal from history instead of just cloaking it.
Maybe by the time that we've lived in space for a while, we might also learn how to not trash everything. Considering that space isn't very forgiving. Learning how to work with what you have becomes increasingly important especially during the times when we wouldn't have a planet to work with.
Hmm, tell that to my upgraded Macbook. I have 16gb of ram in mine. On the other hand, you're probably right that it will take a long time for the upgrades to show up in apple's store.
I'm not talking about electricity exactly. After all, it's not like electricity is a natural resource that we can just mine beyond the natural lightning storm. The electricity has to come from somewhere.
It's better than spewing it into the atmosphere like what coal does. Also, a relavant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
That's going to double the demand for electricity.
While technically that's true in the sense of the demand for the power to propel vehicles being shifted from a liquid source to a pure electrical equivalent. I suppose that if you think of it, depending on how efficient a car engine vs the electric generators and the transporting and storing electricity, electric cars may or may not add to the problem.
There is one if you really cared to look through the second link provided. There's a nice HD video demonstrating the technique.
While 2 years is pretty ridiculous, I haven't yet heard of a proper 3D printer that can create parts at the quality that they'd need. 3D printing isn't the best for some of the more vital science apparatuses on the bleeding edge of science.
I'm pretty sure that, that's what the carrier grade NAT will accomplish.
I think actually it's more of a problem with our current definition of temperature.
Don't worry, just skim the article again because the claim isn't making temperatures go below absolute 0. Negative temperatures mean something completely different. My understanding is with negative temps, reverse what happens to water when you add energy. In other words, it's like heating up water but then the water starts to freeze. As you add energy to a negative energy system, it becomes more organized.
There's a difference between programing an AI for a computer game and one for interpreting real world data. With in game, you're not dealing with sensors which can be very difficult in converting to useful info.
While I agree with you, that may not be 100% true anymore. I wouldn't be surprised about potential government backed organizations.
I very much doubt that someone being able to track you down using an ip will ever change with how the internet is structured. I will agree though that, that is one of the small dangers of the internet. It's IPv4 btw.
I'm not so sure about that. Politicians have gotten to be pretty effective at distracting the general populace with issues that don't have a very big impact as far as governance is concerned. Wether or not stuff like marijuana or gay marriage is allowed won't directly impact the government in any way that will matter for how this country is ran but they seem to be some of the bigger issues discussed. Personally I don't care too much for those issues but no matter my opinion I think that stuff like the internet is a far more important issue. tldr; People getting involved isn't enough, it's people getting involved in the right issues that will truly make a difference.
I'd say mother nature might be one. There isn't much practicality behind moving to antartica. If there was then people would already be living there on more than a temporary basis.
ANy attempts to read it would disrupt the quantum entanglement. This has nothing to do with matter in fact, it's mostly light. Now if you were trying for sarcasm, sorry I missed it.
The idea behind this is that the information is stored in a quantum state and any attempt to read (observe) the data breaks the quantum state. If someone were trying to do any intercepting then they would end up garbling the data on the other end thus tripping an alarm that something is wrong. In other words, this is really exciting because right now, there's no way to secretly intercept a quantum communication.
Not sure if being sarcastic but... this technology wouldn't be able to be applied to DRM at all. This is just for communication between two machines.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happened. The other side of the story is maybe it's google's doing? Google Maps is not Apple's sole property. Granted, I feel more like Apple doing it is correct.