Of course! We already have languages - coming up with anything new would be stupid and a waste of time! Where we really went wrong was building anything more abstract then assembler... wait, no, dammit, everything they're doing is just 1s and 0s - I pity the fool programmer who uses any development kit more complex than a text editor and two buttons!
Aargh, now I can't think of the song... but one of the more well-known Beastie Boys songs samples the drum line from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise). Can someone recall the song?
The Institute for Creationism Research is a nice bunch of kooks that has a grad school which puts out some great thesis along stuff like this. Unfortunately I can't find any direct links to stuff there now, but I recall seeing somebody's reanalysis of 20-year-old NASA data, shich supposedly confirmed that there is a loayer of water around the earth. Presumably heaven is on the other side. The "scientific" response to a question like carbon dating is something like, "Well, it's not proven to be accurate," and hope no one in the audience bothers to challenge them.
Oh, here's a link to lots of people who spend just as much time refuting ridiculous creationist claims. All these links are kind of interesting if it's raining out and you have NOTHING at all better to do. Actually, I'd recommend the last link for sheer information density.
Ha! Looks like this was Taco's plan all along - tomorrow we'll see a story on the front page with the links to/. typo sites so they all get/.'ed into oblivion. Hee hee - gotta love guerrila web tactics.
we don't want people making profit from Olympic trademarks that does not get returned to the athletes in some way.
Dur... aren't the atheletes amatuers? Well, except for special cases such as basketball, 'cause the US donated enough money to the IOC.
Yes, I realize that what they want to mean here is that the money goes to facilities for the atheletes, but come on - using the word "Olympic" is not infringement in probably 75% of these cases, and certainly not taking profit away from the vast merchandising arm of the IOC.
No no no no... the plural of Nazi is really Nazies... or Nazises? Hoo boy. Should be a poll topic - "my favorite word to pluralize by putting 'ii' on the end."
Very strange... I guess Katz has finally come down from the podium to fight flame with flame. So now instead of sounding like a moron, he sounds like a bitter, whiny moron. Although it's all nice and stuff for him to respond to some of the Katz-baiting he gets constantly, I'd hoped it would be something more intelligent than, "You didn't read my article. Stop talking to me." But I guess that's the best way to respond to posts that start, "I read the first paragraph, and you suck so much that..." As I was reading his posts, though, they just looked so much like well-done trolls, and given the proliferation of imposters around here, I figured I'd be careful.
Well, I'm all sorts of confused now... I still don't think any of these are actually Jon Katz. Either way, I should have kept my mouth shut. The whole thing is just too entertaining, true or not. Although if it is actually Katz, someone must write his articles for him. Rather different style.
But either way, I decided to check out what I was shooting my mouth off about after doing so (of course), and am prepared to retract my "jonkatz != JonKatz" statement and replace it with another completely unsubstantiated equation:
This is obviously just a load of... hype, to put it politely. If there actually is a heuristic engine looking through these pictures, it's working just as well as a coin toss in Wired's test cases (numeric URLs containing images). If anything, this is just PR to make their blocking program look high tech and junk. I'd say it probably just works like all the others - a big list of blacklisted sites and maybe a simple string parser.
All the AI hot air is just that - the only new thing about this is how they run it: it reroutes your traffic through their own server (see Wired article), so I imagine instead of going out and purchasing a program, you could just pay for monthly access to their service. A little more convenient, if you don't have the time to talk to your kids about anything important and just want to keep them ignorant.
After reading this paper, I realized how lucky the world is that there are people around right now who are worrying about this and thinking about the ethical/biological/political/insert-your-favorite- 'al'-word-here implications. One of the best things about this period of history is that so much has happened so fast that a few visionaries are thinking about where we could be 10 or 20 years down the road and doing something about it.
If the Forsight Institute, stuffy and wierd as they are, weren't at least thinking about where we could be a few years down the road and bringing it into the light, we'd end up being stuck with a nanotech world run by corporations as soon as their researchers could scale it into production.
As alarmist, or strange, or wanky, as you may think this group is, we'll probably all be appreciative a few years from now that someone thought to come up with a code of ethics for nanotech.
If I recall my sci fi correctly, the main worry about nanotech is that it's by definition accessible to all - only a few very dedicated terrorist organizations can make nuclear weapons;), but it's impossible to keep tabs on all carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen molecules. Books like Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age talk a lot about nano, and the main thing seems to be that you need to be rich enough to be part of a large group, one that develops its own anti-nano nano. Any angry group or person, if versed enough in low-level physics, can design a malicious, self-replicating bug and set it free.
In the meantime, I've just realized how much fun it is to say "nano" over and over again...
I saw this story on Yahoo(!) News this afternoon and thought it looked like/. material, but as I was copy-and-pasting the URL I noticed it was 20000616.... double doh! Just now I realize that this month is 06. I though it was from 30 days ago! Poo on me! There goes my last chance at a submission;).
Anyhoo, RadioShack is most definately involved in this just for the PR that it will create, and their expected profit - they plan on selling games based on the mission for $35 a pop, sez Yahoo. It's the same marketing philosophy that put Pizza Hut's logo on the side of a Russian rocket less than a year ago. At least now they've gotten a business plan that's worth more than just mindshare - imagine every child under 13 years old bugging their parents for the Moon Mission Game or some crap... mad dough to be made.
At least this time, if they actually do got to the moon, I'll feel it's been worthwhile.
As in, if you're really fat, can you not fit through/get stuck in doors? It'd be a blast playing multiplayer in a fat arena - everybody gets skins from here and goes crazy. Imagine all the gibs...
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How long was that bug in PGP that didn't generate random keys? Almost a year?
And how long would it be in a closed source piece of software? Until someone reverse engineered the whole shebang, or else never. No software company would come out and admit that they left a big ol' bug in their code that makes their encryption insecure, in fact it would probably go undiscovered indefinately. You could go in for "security by obscurity" there, but eventually someone might notice the behaviour, and not necissarily someone who'll report it.
At least with open source, it was discovered, documented, and fixed - but if this happened in a piece of commercial software, we'd never hear about it, nor would it be corrected in as short a time span.
It's easy to take code for granted thinking that someone else will have reviewed it, but things like the PGP hole should just serve to remind people that they can never be too confident in code they or someone they trust hasn't taken the time to fully understand.
That caught me up for a minute too, but I believe what it means is that the deposition is only concerned with events taking place during January 00, not before the start or after the end.
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Of course! We already have languages - coming up with anything new would be stupid and a waste of time! Where we really went wrong was building anything more abstract then assembler... wait, no, dammit, everything they're doing is just 1s and 0s - I pity the fool programmer who uses any development kit more complex than a text editor and two buttons!
Aargh, now I can't think of the song... but one of the more well-known Beastie Boys songs samples the drum line from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise). Can someone recall the song?
Oh, here's a link to lots of people who spend just as much time refuting ridiculous creationist claims. All these links are kind of interesting if it's raining out and you have NOTHING at all better to do. Actually, I'd recommend the last link for sheer information density.
OK, maybe I'm too bored at work right now...
Ha! Looks like this was Taco's plan all along - tomorrow we'll see a story on the front page with the links to /. typo sites so they all get /.'ed into oblivion. Hee hee - gotta love guerrila web tactics.
Do you have the Asbestos Armor of Light (flameproof and causes wearer's posts to automatically pop out in a thread) and 2-handed TrollSlayer sword?
OK, I'm going to shut up now and stop playing Diablo 2 for a few days...
Ha - I always suspected I could make my computer run faster by replacing all my fuses with pennies! Now what smells like smoke in here...?
Or is it Itaniii? I've been so confused ever since the viruses/virii debates...
Talk about slicing up your palms :) - grabbing a sharp aluminum wire moving at a 15,000 km/h... And I thought tug-of-war tore up my hands!
Dur... aren't the atheletes amatuers? Well, except for special cases such as basketball, 'cause the US donated enough money to the IOC.
Yes, I realize that what they want to mean here is that the money goes to facilities for the atheletes, but come on - using the word "Olympic" is not infringement in probably 75% of these cases, and certainly not taking profit away from the vast merchandising arm of the IOC.
What we need is (-1, Stupid). There's a lot of stuff that fits in that category better than Troll or OT.
No no no no... the plural of Nazi is really Nazies... or Nazises? Hoo boy. Should be a poll topic - "my favorite word to pluralize by putting 'ii' on the end."
Very strange... I guess Katz has finally come down from the podium to fight flame with flame. So now instead of sounding like a moron, he sounds like a bitter, whiny moron. Although it's all nice and stuff for him to respond to some of the Katz-baiting he gets constantly, I'd hoped it would be something more intelligent than, "You didn't read my article. Stop talking to me." But I guess that's the best way to respond to posts that start, "I read the first paragraph, and you suck so much that..." As I was reading his posts, though, they just looked so much like well-done trolls, and given the proliferation of imposters around here, I figured I'd be careful.
But either way, I decided to check out what I was shooting my mouth off about after doing so (of course), and am prepared to retract my "jonkatz != JonKatz" statement and replace it with another completely unsubstantiated equation:
JonKatz the author != jonkatz the poster
Thank you.
jonkatz != JonKatz
All the AI hot air is just that - the only new thing about this is how they run it: it reroutes your traffic through their own server (see Wired article), so I imagine instead of going out and purchasing a program, you could just pay for monthly access to their service. A little more convenient, if you don't have the time to talk to your kids about anything important and just want to keep them ignorant.
Eh... guess I should stop posting drunk. No matter how many times I learn that, it never sinks in... :)
If the Forsight Institute, stuffy and wierd as they are, weren't at least thinking about where we could be a few years down the road and bringing it into the light, we'd end up being stuck with a nanotech world run by corporations as soon as their researchers could scale it into production.
As alarmist, or strange, or wanky, as you may think this group is, we'll probably all be appreciative a few years from now that someone thought to come up with a code of ethics for nanotech.
In the meantime, I've just realized how much fun it is to say "nano" over and over again...
nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano nano... thanks, all done.
definately has no a in it...
it's definitely.
Now you can abuse my comment.
Anyhoo, RadioShack is most definately involved in this just for the PR that it will create, and their expected profit - they plan on selling games based on the mission for $35 a pop, sez Yahoo. It's the same marketing philosophy that put Pizza Hut's logo on the side of a Russian rocket less than a year ago. At least now they've gotten a business plan that's worth more than just mindshare - imagine every child under 13 years old bugging their parents for the Moon Mission Game or some crap... mad dough to be made.
At least this time, if they actually do got to the moon, I'll feel it's been worthwhile.
As in, if you're really fat, can you not fit through/get stuck in doors? It'd be a blast playing multiplayer in a fat arena - everybody gets skins from here and goes crazy. Imagine all the gibs...
And how long would it be in a closed source piece of software? Until someone reverse engineered the whole shebang, or else never. No software company would come out and admit that they left a big ol' bug in their code that makes their encryption insecure, in fact it would probably go undiscovered indefinately. You could go in for "security by obscurity" there, but eventually someone might notice the behaviour, and not necissarily someone who'll report it.
At least with open source, it was discovered, documented, and fixed - but if this happened in a piece of commercial software, we'd never hear about it, nor would it be corrected in as short a time span.
It's easy to take code for granted thinking that someone else will have reviewed it, but things like the PGP hole should just serve to remind people that they can never be too confident in code they or someone they trust hasn't taken the time to fully understand.
That caught me up for a minute too, but I believe what it means is that the deposition is only concerned with events taking place during January 00, not before the start or after the end.
Sweet! Sounds like New Jersey!