Get out and Vote......out the incumbents!!! ON BOTH SIDES. It's time for us to reset and get back on track with people who want to actually do their job.
We already use robots (or drones if you will) to kill people. It doesn't take much AI to have a program target a group of people as enemies and eradicate them. Just look at the AI of current video games. This is something that is affecting humanity today and that we need to discuss openly now.
Americans already pay for Police, Firemen, the Government and a whole lot more with their taxes. All this means is that Americans will have 6.2 Billion dollars back in their pockets where it belongs. The really huge bonus is one that this article doesn't even touch on. Police will now be able to stop wasting time and money trying to control traffic and can start doing their real job, fighting crime. There will be enough officers to finally go after every petty thief, criminal and crook.
"I am sorry your cellphone with all your personal information was stolen sir, I will have an officer track it down immediately and punish the criminal" will be more then words in every theft victims fantasy world.
Our courts, now free of the burden of countless traffic court hearings could start processing violent criminals in a timely and efficient manner.
Give me my self driving, electric car with solar panel accessory for free charging and I'll be a happy man. Especially because after the sales tax and licencing the government has no reason to try to stick it's hands in my pockets anymore.
SpaceX tries to prevent the US from buying rockets from Russia and unfortunately looses. After that the US goes to Russia to buy rockets and gets refused. It looks to me like SpaceX has all the cards now, I wonder how much the price just went up to buy one of their rockets?
That is where you are wrong, there is no cushion. If and when this happens we will have some serious socio-economic dilemmas we will need to address.
Lets assume there is an Alien group that wishes to contact us, you need to put in to perspective just how advanced they would need to be. To travel space effectively there are three things they need. A way to travel to a location in a reasonable amount of time, a way to communicate and a life support system. Traditional space travel as we know it is relatively useless in the big scheme of things. The Aliens would need to have developed a way to move across the universe in short periods of time ie. wormhole technology. To do this you would need to bend space time so that two points that don't normally touch, touch. Then you could pass through. It would look like you traveled faster then light but in reality you just shortened the distance for yourself. The same is true with communication. You need a way to communicate with other ships as well as home. Light just doesn't travel fast enough to be effective. Personally I think that quantum entanglement will one day show that you can communicate FTL, even though we have shown that information is not passed through entanglement. I think that the physics that allows quantum entanglement will show some sort of tunneling/wormhole exists. It would look like FTL measuring through traditional physics, but really be very slow measured though a tunnel/wormhole. Life support is obvious but if you are able to travel across the universe in the blink of an eye, it becomes less of a burden.
If such a group were to contact us we would have all sorts of questions answered but we would also have huge amounts of fear, which is pretty natural. Just look at any movie with aliens to see our underlying fears. They would have fears as well. Once you develop the technology I outlined, you would then realize that the universe is abundant with material and space, traditional supply and demand would change as supply moves to infinite. A culture that is space-faring would have a very different value system then what we have here.
I love thinking about this stuff because its just our imaginations tempered with the future we see with our current technology. The reality is that we may be one of the most advanced life forms in the universe and just don't want to be alone.
and maybe back up if we call enough friends and neighbors. We also have something else...an expectation that the law will be carried out by the people hired to do so. Andrew Smith should be embarrassed that civilians have to do his and his coworkers jobs for them. If they can't do their job then maybe it's time they found someone who can.
It seems like this could the kind of market where anyone who wanted to avoid regulators could exchange goods. I could see people using this for way more then drugs.
Considering they had 6 years to get their act together I find this appalling. That is 11.6 million dollars that could have been left in tax payer pockets or put towards something actually useful.
You cannot mitigate an individuals responsibility just because we know the factors that can affect someones actions.
Here is a great podcast that discusses the topic - http://www.radiolab.org/story/...
I also want to add that there is a HUGE opportunity for some news groups from other countries to live stream events and offer it online. I know I would pay a few bucks just to stream the olympics.
I want my lawyer, NOW. - Say it out loud three times right now.
Learn to say this if no matter what is going on, it forces law enforcement to provide us our rights. Never be afraid to speak up for yourself, especially these words.
BTW This is sometimes preceded by, "Am I under arrest". If the answer is yes the next words out of your mouth should be "I want my lawyer". If the answer is no ask for your property and leave, they have no right to detain you.
It feels like we have been coasting a bit with technology the past few years so this doesn't surprise me. Everything is just a smaller/faster version of the year before.
"Wearing Glass separates you. It sets you apart from everyone else. It says you not only had $1,500 to plunk down to be part of the “explorer” program, but that Google deemed you special enough to warrant inclusion (not everyone who wanted Glass got it; you had to be selected)."
You think this reaction is because people are all jelly about your glasses? REALLY??? YOU REALLY THINK THIS??? REALLLYYYY????? REAAAAALLLLLLLYYYYY????????
I am sorry my friend but you have lost touch with reality and I must help you back to ground. The reason people respond the way they do is because the second you look at them they are feeling like they are being spied on by you. Nevermind the fact that they are spied upon everyday by the government, the government keeps that out of their face. You however are pointing a camera at them and announcing it to the world. People don't like their photo taken without their permission, again nevermind that happens all day every day in public by security cams. Even if Google glasses became google contacts (which I am sure they will one day), if people know that you are wearing them, people are going to be uncomfortable around you.
Consumers may just go fully off grid rather then supplement their electrical system. Now instead of getting some business from these consumers, the utility company will get nothing. This could actually speed up adoption.
OK from the little I understand about black holes. Time dilation increases as you get closer to the center of the black hole. As you get closer it will take you longer to get there. What is predicted to happen to timespace when two event horizons meet? The amount of gravity pulling on spacetime between the two is higher then man has ever witnessed but I'm sure some physicist has put some work into the idea. It is also an experiment that we are unable to create because we have yet to find a way to manipulate gravity in any significant way.
Will we just end up with an even larger black hole? If so I bet that we have more understood about physics then we realize.
Will a wormhole open up between the two or will we see a tear in the fabric of our space time, revealing a deeper dimension to our universe? I hope so because that means we have a whole lot more to learn about spacetime and gravity.
This is such fun stuff to think about. We really need to point our best telescopes at this area and get it on tape.
There is another solution if this comes to fruition. Netflix and similar content providers horizontally integrate and start selling internet service. Another option would be for content providers to team up together (possibly with google). Include one or two content services (ie netflix, hulu) with the price of the service and get Aereo onboard and it would be a juggernaut.
America is about allowing one to rise to their highest potential.
The problem is that we have a system that does not encourage individual as well as small to medium sized business growth. The dinosaurs we kept alive on life support were too big to survive, not too big to fail. Jobs and financial growth happens rapidly and in greater numbers with small to medium sized businesses. Give me 100 startups with growth of 20% or more a year for the next 10 years over one large company any day. Even with attrition being high in startups, they will bring more job growth then any one large company is able to. We require an environment where all sizes of business can grow, but the small to medium grow faster just like in nature.
Besides It's easy to circumvent for a large number of industries. Replace people with machines, remove the lower rank and file, make more money.
Slashdot Mirror
More like every internet users dreams come true!!
Not sure why this post doesn't even mention that HDMI 2.0 is already built into all but the lowest end of 4K monitors.
Get out and Vote......out the incumbents!!! ON BOTH SIDES. It's time for us to reset and get back on track with people who want to actually do their job.
We already use robots (or drones if you will) to kill people. It doesn't take much AI to have a program target a group of people as enemies and eradicate them. Just look at the AI of current video games. This is something that is affecting humanity today and that we need to discuss openly now.
Americans already pay for Police, Firemen, the Government and a whole lot more with their taxes. All this means is that Americans will have 6.2 Billion dollars back in their pockets where it belongs. The really huge bonus is one that this article doesn't even touch on. Police will now be able to stop wasting time and money trying to control traffic and can start doing their real job, fighting crime. There will be enough officers to finally go after every petty thief, criminal and crook. "I am sorry your cellphone with all your personal information was stolen sir, I will have an officer track it down immediately and punish the criminal" will be more then words in every theft victims fantasy world. Our courts, now free of the burden of countless traffic court hearings could start processing violent criminals in a timely and efficient manner. Give me my self driving, electric car with solar panel accessory for free charging and I'll be a happy man. Especially because after the sales tax and licencing the government has no reason to try to stick it's hands in my pockets anymore.
SpaceX tries to prevent the US from buying rockets from Russia and unfortunately looses. After that the US goes to Russia to buy rockets and gets refused. It looks to me like SpaceX has all the cards now, I wonder how much the price just went up to buy one of their rockets?
That is where you are wrong, there is no cushion. If and when this happens we will have some serious socio-economic dilemmas we will need to address. Lets assume there is an Alien group that wishes to contact us, you need to put in to perspective just how advanced they would need to be. To travel space effectively there are three things they need. A way to travel to a location in a reasonable amount of time, a way to communicate and a life support system. Traditional space travel as we know it is relatively useless in the big scheme of things. The Aliens would need to have developed a way to move across the universe in short periods of time ie. wormhole technology. To do this you would need to bend space time so that two points that don't normally touch, touch. Then you could pass through. It would look like you traveled faster then light but in reality you just shortened the distance for yourself. The same is true with communication. You need a way to communicate with other ships as well as home. Light just doesn't travel fast enough to be effective. Personally I think that quantum entanglement will one day show that you can communicate FTL, even though we have shown that information is not passed through entanglement. I think that the physics that allows quantum entanglement will show some sort of tunneling/wormhole exists. It would look like FTL measuring through traditional physics, but really be very slow measured though a tunnel/wormhole. Life support is obvious but if you are able to travel across the universe in the blink of an eye, it becomes less of a burden. If such a group were to contact us we would have all sorts of questions answered but we would also have huge amounts of fear, which is pretty natural. Just look at any movie with aliens to see our underlying fears. They would have fears as well. Once you develop the technology I outlined, you would then realize that the universe is abundant with material and space, traditional supply and demand would change as supply moves to infinite. A culture that is space-faring would have a very different value system then what we have here. I love thinking about this stuff because its just our imaginations tempered with the future we see with our current technology. The reality is that we may be one of the most advanced life forms in the universe and just don't want to be alone.
and maybe back up if we call enough friends and neighbors. We also have something else...an expectation that the law will be carried out by the people hired to do so. Andrew Smith should be embarrassed that civilians have to do his and his coworkers jobs for them. If they can't do their job then maybe it's time they found someone who can.
It seems like this could the kind of market where anyone who wanted to avoid regulators could exchange goods. I could see people using this for way more then drugs.
How far could you receive and transmit?
Considering they had 6 years to get their act together I find this appalling. That is 11.6 million dollars that could have been left in tax payer pockets or put towards something actually useful.
If you are on steam, which is the driving force behind this, you can download anything you purchased for any OS you have.
Linux, OSX or windows. A computer is useless to me without an OS.
You cannot mitigate an individuals responsibility just because we know the factors that can affect someones actions. Here is a great podcast that discusses the topic - http://www.radiolab.org/story/...
I also want to add that there is a HUGE opportunity for some news groups from other countries to live stream events and offer it online. I know I would pay a few bucks just to stream the olympics.
Am I missing something? Doesn't NBC broadcast OTA? Can't all these people being snubbed just use an antenna to watch the olympics?
I want my lawyer, NOW. - Say it out loud three times right now. Learn to say this if no matter what is going on, it forces law enforcement to provide us our rights. Never be afraid to speak up for yourself, especially these words. BTW This is sometimes preceded by, "Am I under arrest". If the answer is yes the next words out of your mouth should be "I want my lawyer". If the answer is no ask for your property and leave, they have no right to detain you.
So if they were to find a way to make such a "cell" reproduce autonomously would that make it a eukaryotic cell?
Can anyone recommend some other map sites that have this feature. I use this all the time. Honestly I am really starting to get fed up with google.
It feels like we have been coasting a bit with technology the past few years so this doesn't surprise me. Everything is just a smaller/faster version of the year before.
"Wearing Glass separates you. It sets you apart from everyone else. It says you not only had $1,500 to plunk down to be part of the “explorer” program, but that Google deemed you special enough to warrant inclusion (not everyone who wanted Glass got it; you had to be selected)." You think this reaction is because people are all jelly about your glasses? REALLY??? YOU REALLY THINK THIS??? REALLLYYYY????? REAAAAALLLLLLLYYYYY???????? I am sorry my friend but you have lost touch with reality and I must help you back to ground. The reason people respond the way they do is because the second you look at them they are feeling like they are being spied on by you. Nevermind the fact that they are spied upon everyday by the government, the government keeps that out of their face. You however are pointing a camera at them and announcing it to the world. People don't like their photo taken without their permission, again nevermind that happens all day every day in public by security cams. Even if Google glasses became google contacts (which I am sure they will one day), if people know that you are wearing them, people are going to be uncomfortable around you.
Consumers may just go fully off grid rather then supplement their electrical system. Now instead of getting some business from these consumers, the utility company will get nothing. This could actually speed up adoption.
OK from the little I understand about black holes. Time dilation increases as you get closer to the center of the black hole. As you get closer it will take you longer to get there. What is predicted to happen to timespace when two event horizons meet? The amount of gravity pulling on spacetime between the two is higher then man has ever witnessed but I'm sure some physicist has put some work into the idea. It is also an experiment that we are unable to create because we have yet to find a way to manipulate gravity in any significant way. Will we just end up with an even larger black hole? If so I bet that we have more understood about physics then we realize. Will a wormhole open up between the two or will we see a tear in the fabric of our space time, revealing a deeper dimension to our universe? I hope so because that means we have a whole lot more to learn about spacetime and gravity. This is such fun stuff to think about. We really need to point our best telescopes at this area and get it on tape.
There is another solution if this comes to fruition. Netflix and similar content providers horizontally integrate and start selling internet service. Another option would be for content providers to team up together (possibly with google). Include one or two content services (ie netflix, hulu) with the price of the service and get Aereo onboard and it would be a juggernaut.
America is about allowing one to rise to their highest potential. The problem is that we have a system that does not encourage individual as well as small to medium sized business growth. The dinosaurs we kept alive on life support were too big to survive, not too big to fail. Jobs and financial growth happens rapidly and in greater numbers with small to medium sized businesses. Give me 100 startups with growth of 20% or more a year for the next 10 years over one large company any day. Even with attrition being high in startups, they will bring more job growth then any one large company is able to. We require an environment where all sizes of business can grow, but the small to medium grow faster just like in nature. Besides It's easy to circumvent for a large number of industries. Replace people with machines, remove the lower rank and file, make more money.