Sulphur-munching bacteria. Just what we need to seed Venus with. Convert some of sulphur and carbon in the atmosphere into piles of bacteria...odd soil, but better than what they've got now.
Okay, nice responses on water ice. But you're forgetting evaporation of frozen methane can make sea levels go down when the water warms. Of course, then we've got a bunch of methane in the air too. Got all that in your climate models?
The other life forms haven't gotten here yet because it was only 250 million years ago that the first generation stars near the galactic core stopped sterilizing all of us with radiation. The clock kept getting reset for all of us....and now we have to get out of the cradle before something blows up nearby.
But if we're able to emulate a neuronal web in silicon, we could "grow" a new one. If your DNA was analyzed, once we know which genes do what, we could combine that of you and your spouse, produce a mixture similar to what happens presently, and emulate the growth processes to produce a new brain (giving it womb-simulation stimulus until birth). Then you get to raise the child. (If full DNA details are not available, the brain growth process could be simulated using the characteristics of your two brains as the source...if both of you have a large hypothalamus in your brain then the child would also get extra growth of that structure)
Well, the viewpoint of your electronic version is "...in fact it's you that gets to live forever, but not your meat original"
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Oh, I agree. I have no "right" to use DVDs. I do have the right to pursue happiness, so I'm pointing out to DVD content makers that they're losing business by supporting this technological voodoo. I'm trying to get the right thing to happen so I can use DVD on Linux. Or else I'll just have to let the kids play Linux SimCity 3000 on the long trips instead of watching DVDs...
Oh, we know more about what neurons do than you think. Remember the pictures taken through the eye of a cat ? They tapped a few fibers of the optic nerve and read the signals. Those are neurons. The encoding of optical signals there is obviously understood.
No, you're confusing the storage and the processing. You're assuming a computer would be reading the memory neurons and thus would not react as the person would.
The actual intent is that all the information about the neurons would be copied. The most direct way of using the information is to simply emulate all the neurons in electronic form. Then the entire brain is running in electronic form, and the electronic person would behave the same as the original.
Of course, as a computer programmer, I'd be tempted to replace my respiration neurons with a faster computer subroutine which would be unrelated to the nonexistent meat lungs...but I know that then I'd be altering my behavior in some ways.
I'm pretty sure I read some time ago of the other use of "coredump":
If I want to extract information from you, I don't need to torture you. Just make an electronic copy of your brain and read the memory patterns from it to see what you know.
Disk repair is not recovering a deleted file. Disk repair is recovering files/directories after filesystem damage.
If you want to recover deleted files, you should ahead of time be using one of the methods which others have mentioned...or be using a filesystem/database which allows recovery of past contents (ie, store everything in something like CVS and decide how long to retain until permanent deletion).
If you don't want an electronic copy of yourself, you're not likely to have it done. If you do have it done, you (and your electronic copy) will have wanted it done...and both of you will know that the original meat model is temporary. The meat model will continue being "you" also, although acquiring different experiences during the rest of its lifetime. How to deal with this, and with updated copies, is an exercise for, well, you. [ The simplest solution is to wake up the backup only long enough to ensure it works, then shut off the backup until death of the meat model ]
The "Gateway" series of novels dealt with this briefly. Some vague references were made to the difficulties the lawyers would have with a legally dead person having property [when you make a backup, make the backup the executor of your estate (unless the backup killed your meat model)].
I think the best bet is to sell hardware. Let the software be free. Make a little server designed for Napster use (various good audio interfaces, network/firewall, admin interfaces) ready for plug and run, with everything tuned for optimum quality. Make money from the people willing to pay for the quality.
Consider the do-it-yourself crowd as future customers. There will also be a bunch of innovators coming up with new stuff which can keep your industry moving -- you'll just have to deal with the competition (oh, look, a Handspring pocket recorder IR links to an audio diary...).
Yes, this is what "sealing the record" means. Court records are public unless the judge seals them. That single judge then is the only authority who can unseal them (exceptions rare).
However, this sequence shows that the DVD clowns still don't understand what publication on the Internet means. Even with the example of hundreds of links to their former trade secret, they allowed this information to be placed in a public place.
An earlier DVD CSS discussion contained several comments that there already are DVD data extraction programs for MS-Windows. The existing licensed DVD drivers for MS are already being used to get the video data. DeCSS is not needed if one wants to extract the video data. DeCSS is only needed by Linux users who want to be able to buy DVDs.
Yeah, they just looked at the Samba source to see what it did in a certain situation.
But when MS-Windows got poor scores on their first test they had to get an answer from Microsoft...and they never were able to find out how the MS driver for their SCSI interface was behaving.
That's what I've been telling the movie companies. I've wanted to buy DVD for a year, but won't until I can watch on all my screens. Only two of my screens are analog TV, the others are computer monitors and most of those are Linux-only.
No, these companies have realized they're selling hardware. By making the interface definition public they let anyone create software..but to use any kind of software someone will have to buy the hardware.
They've realized that anyone who wants to make a hardware-compatible device will not have much trouble figuring out the interface with or without documentation...and in the case of a robot, the competing robot will have to have very similar dimensions or the computations in the controlling software will not work well.
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Sulphur-munching bacteria. Just what we need to seed Venus with. Convert some of sulphur and carbon in the atmosphere into piles of bacteria...odd soil, but better than what they've got now.
Okay, nice responses on water ice. But you're forgetting evaporation of frozen methane can make sea levels go down when the water warms. Of course, then we've got a bunch of methane in the air too. Got all that in your climate models?
Crash DTK and get root? Oh, yeah, due to the reserved port numbers. Not if you're remapping the incoming reserved ports to non-reserved ports.
Water vapor causes 98% of the Earth's greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide gets called "major" because environmentalists love water and can't do anything about it. Imagine what the next ice age will do to the present environment.
The other life forms haven't gotten here yet because it was only 250 million years ago that the first generation stars near the galactic core stopped sterilizing all of us with radiation. The clock kept getting reset for all of us. ...and now we have to get out of the cradle before something blows up nearby.
You don't know how to decode sensor signals, but some people do. Search for "cat eye". Optic nerve signals decoded to a GIF.
But if we're able to emulate a neuronal web in silicon, we could "grow" a new one. If your DNA was analyzed, once we know which genes do what, we could combine that of you and your spouse, produce a mixture similar to what happens presently, and emulate the growth processes to produce a new brain (giving it womb-simulation stimulus until birth). Then you get to raise the child. (If full DNA details are not available, the brain growth process could be simulated using the characteristics of your two brains as the source...if both of you have a large hypothalamus in your brain then the child would also get extra growth of that structure)
Well, the viewpoint of your electronic version is "...in fact it's you that gets to live forever, but not your meat original"
Oh, I agree. I have no "right" to use DVDs. I do have the right to pursue happiness, so I'm pointing out to DVD content makers that they're losing business by supporting this technological voodoo. I'm trying to get the right thing to happen so I can use DVD on Linux. Or else I'll just have to let the kids play Linux SimCity 3000 on the long trips instead of watching DVDs...
Oh, we know more about what neurons do than you think. Remember the pictures taken through the eye of a cat ? They tapped a few fibers of the optic nerve and read the signals. Those are neurons. The encoding of optical signals there is obviously understood.
The actual intent is that all the information about the neurons would be copied. The most direct way of using the information is to simply emulate all the neurons in electronic form. Then the entire brain is running in electronic form, and the electronic person would behave the same as the original.
Of course, as a computer programmer, I'd be tempted to replace my respiration neurons with a faster computer subroutine which would be unrelated to the nonexistent meat lungs...but I know that then I'd be altering my behavior in some ways.
If I want to extract information from you, I don't need to torture you. Just make an electronic copy of your brain and read the memory patterns from it to see what you know.
If you want to recover deleted files, you should ahead of time be using one of the methods which others have mentioned...or be using a filesystem/database which allows recovery of past contents (ie, store everything in something like CVS and decide how long to retain until permanent deletion).
The "Gateway" series of novels dealt with this briefly. Some vague references were made to the difficulties the lawyers would have with a legally dead person having property [when you make a backup, make the backup the executor of your estate (unless the backup killed your meat model)].
Consider the do-it-yourself crowd as future customers. There will also be a bunch of innovators coming up with new stuff which can keep your industry moving -- you'll just have to deal with the competition (oh, look, a Handspring pocket recorder IR links to an audio diary...).
However, this sequence shows that the DVD clowns still don't understand what publication on the Internet means. Even with the example of hundreds of links to their former trade secret, they allowed this information to be placed in a public place.
I believe Venus' L5 point is where Venus Equilateral was placed.
Norwegian law firm Simonsen & Musaeus said it had reported Johansen and his father to the police on behalf of the Motion Picture Association (MBA), a lobby group for seven major Hollywood studios.
Here's an old Livi d-dev article from Johansen which mentions that law firm.
An earlier DVD CSS discussion contained several comments that there already are DVD data extraction programs for MS-Windows. The existing licensed DVD drivers for MS are already being used to get the video data. DeCSS is not needed if one wants to extract the video data. DeCSS is only needed by Linux users who want to be able to buy DVDs.
But when MS-Windows got poor scores on their first test they had to get an answer from Microsoft...and they never were able to find out how the MS driver for their SCSI interface was behaving.
That's what I've been telling the movie companies. I've wanted to buy DVD for a year, but won't until I can watch on all my screens. Only two of my screens are analog TV, the others are computer monitors and most of those are Linux-only.
Hummingbir d just announced XML portal for Linux.
They've realized that anyone who wants to make a hardware-compatible device will not have much trouble figuring out the interface with or without documentation...and in the case of a robot, the competing robot will have to have very similar dimensions or the computations in the controlling software will not work well.