Moffett Field is...home to a significant population of burrowing owls, which are an endangered species.
Before this military airfield was leased to Google, how did your burrowing owls like the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, operating the MC-130P Combat Shadow and HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft?
What you mean is 'narrow AI', which is AI applied to specific tasks, like driving and personal assistance - and of course, specific games. All those commentators who sneered about AI never coming to fruition badly underestimated how these narrow AI applications are transforming the way we live.
"Real estate rights are forever, then why not copyright?"
Because intellectual property should NOT be like real estate!
I would like to see IP be treated as a personal right of the creator of work - inalienable, like free speech, rather than as a detachable right that can be sold off and then traded independently of the creator. It would mean that all arrangements for commercial use of IP would have to include and be by assent of the creator. If you hired someone for her inventions, you would no longer be able to toss that person aside at implementation and replace her with outsourced minions
But IP rights would exist only for the life of the creator. Your lazy-ass children would have to go out and get real jobs of their own.
"The article itself is garbage. It contains no useful information whatsoever, other that that lead is "detectable". Well, no shit. Lead is detectable in seawater, and even in the atmosphere"
The native 'trees you speak of were scrub butch, useless for any kind of construction, so they were rapidly cleared for sheep pasture and used as fire fuel. Lumber trees were then brought in and established in a few sheltered spots; in most of Iceland it's too windy. Even today, forestation projects look like Christmas tree farms, little stands of conifers all the same age.
For centuries, the only building materials were stone, sod, driftwood and whalebone.
It's not really an adventure if you are dead within 1-3 months.
Going to Mars is not like going to the "Frontier" of old, where conditions may have been harsh, but ultimately survivable because the environment was fundamentally compatible with your biology.
When you consider the levels of technology involved in the two cases, actually it is. I'm just back from Iceland, a place where in 871 CE the first Norsemen landed to find no trees, and the Arctic fox as the only animal. Everything else had to be brought in. And not on the high-tech ships Columbus used centuries in their future, but more like rowboats with sails. Once there, they had to build everything they needed out of stone and driftwood. That gave them the toehold it took to advance their hunting skills so that whale meat and whale bone could be added to their usable resources.
Today we have robot emissaries already crawling around on potential new worlds, pre-experiencing what humans will have to face. Knowing what awaits us on Mars, including being able to test manufacturing essentials, beats lack of atmosphere. In any given era, it is human nature to take any frontier we can take.
Municipal night court judge Munroe Slemp of Snakebit, NV has already responded to a petition from COBOL programmers by blocking Trump's order, citing his lack of IT expertise. The Ninth Circuit is expected to review the decision by sometime in November.
A 1949 cellphone would have had to be implemented as a wheeled suitcase. Unfortunately, wheeled luggage was still far in the future, so each cellphone user would have had to be accompanied by a grinning redcap to carry his phone around just like the railroad passengers of the day., search for a 220V outlet before making a call, and give the tubes time to warm up. Hollywood and Broadway people would pride themselves on hiring white redcaps.
Verizon's plan is to locate a stable granite formation containing old mine tunnels, in which AOL assets can be permanently isolated from the biosphere under a concrete backfill.
" Bitcoin itself may be limited in total number of coins that can be created but the supply of crypto-currencies in general is absolutely limitless. A new one can be started every day (or more often than that)."
This is a key point. The last stage in any investment bubble is the appearance of me-too investments that are marketed as being available for people who missed out on buying South Sea tulip farm mortgages over the Internet on margin when the bubble started.
Those investments have a history of crashing first because they are the newest, least tested and most subject to unforeseen flaws. This breaks investor confidence, causing a bailout run on the original investment - the Bitcoin in this case. And down it comes.
Looks like somebody is salty they didn't buy any bitcoin back when it was worth $1. If it helps you get over your rage neither did I. I sure did buy a lot of Ethereum at $1 though;-)
Or they DID buy Bitcoin back when it was $1, but subsequently had their exchange hacked and drained.
You can't contradict facts that are produced by the scientific method, but any sort of social policy informed by these facts is politics, and as such should be as freely debatable as policy based on the usual made-up axioms ("college girls should remain chaste") that come from non-scientific sources.
What we need to know about the Wisconsin bill is whether it actually permits students to contradict scientific facts, or whether this headline is more Slashbolshevik scaremongering.
That newbie going the wrong way on a copy operation could even more easily have been a disk error or a ransomware infection. The problems was not having backups. I'm with the Register readers on this one.
It's too bad the conventional union system has nearly all the rot and inefficiency of government. It gives it such a bad name that it's easy to see why so many IT workers see it as a turn for the worse.
Union management got its culture from the nature of the businesses whose workers it organized in its days of growth and greatness: steelmakers, cab drivers, longshoremen, and mostly in large Eastern cities where graft is a way of life. Today's tech workers see this as old-fashioned and irrelevant.
A Silicon Valley union would have to arise from its own culture and be run in a way that appeals to local workers. Give it some California name like Bargaining Coop, and you're off and running.
No, you're the one hopelessly mired in the twentieth century. When we stream a show, we have not switched a TV dial to a specified channel before watching it, so unless the show is new enough that you have to steam it from the network's own site, knowing what network the show is from is information you get from paying attention to the credits. In today's online world, knowing the originating network is specialized fan knowledge, like knowing who the director is.
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Moffett Field is...home to a significant population of burrowing owls, which are an endangered species.
Before this military airfield was leased to Google, how did your burrowing owls like the 129th Rescue Wing of the California Air National Guard, operating the MC-130P Combat Shadow and HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft?
I think you have Kasparov confused with Bobby Fischer. Kasparov was the sane one.
What you mean is 'narrow AI', which is AI applied to specific tasks, like driving and personal assistance - and of course, specific games. All those commentators who sneered about AI never coming to fruition badly underestimated how these narrow AI applications are transforming the way we live.
"Real estate rights are forever, then why not copyright?"
Because intellectual property should NOT be like real estate!
I would like to see IP be treated as a personal right of the creator of work - inalienable, like free speech, rather than as a detachable right that can be sold off and then traded independently of the creator. It would mean that all arrangements for commercial use of IP would have to include and be by assent of the creator. If you hired someone for her inventions, you would no longer be able to toss that person aside at implementation and replace her with outsourced minions
But IP rights would exist only for the life of the creator. Your lazy-ass children would have to go out and get real jobs of their own.
"The article itself is garbage. It contains no useful information whatsoever, other that that lead is "detectable". Well, no shit. Lead is detectable in seawater, and even in the atmosphere"
The article was a classic BeauHD find.
Did they get the consent of the Tibetans before emplacing their receivers on Tibet's mountains?
They didn't have to, which is why that should be where we put the Thirty Meter Telescope. The seeing is better at 17,000 ft anyway.
Edit: Scrub birch
Not to say that it is unhackable, but denying physical access is a good first step.
But then it runs Windows. Now your uncrackable hardware will let in every virus there is.
The native 'trees you speak of were scrub butch, useless for any kind of construction, so they were rapidly cleared for sheep pasture and used as fire fuel. Lumber trees were then brought in and established in a few sheltered spots; in most of Iceland it's too windy. Even today, forestation projects look like Christmas tree farms, little stands of conifers all the same age.
For centuries, the only building materials were stone, sod, driftwood and whalebone.
Bird eggs.
It's not really an adventure if you are dead within 1-3 months.
Going to Mars is not like going to the "Frontier" of old, where conditions may have been harsh, but ultimately survivable because the environment was fundamentally compatible with your biology.
When you consider the levels of technology involved in the two cases, actually it is. I'm just back from Iceland, a place where in 871 CE the first Norsemen landed to find no trees, and the Arctic fox as the only animal. Everything else had to be brought in. And not on the high-tech ships Columbus used centuries in their future, but more like rowboats with sails. Once there, they had to build everything they needed out of stone and driftwood. That gave them the toehold it took to advance their hunting skills so that whale meat and whale bone could be added to their usable resources.
Today we have robot emissaries already crawling around on potential new worlds, pre-experiencing what humans will have to face. Knowing what awaits us on Mars, including being able to test manufacturing essentials, beats lack of atmosphere. In any given era, it is human nature to take any frontier we can take.
This is really just the Germans getting even for WW2.
No, the bureaucrats are throwing a tantrum over Britain's exit, and are hoping to make back some of the money they were milking the U.K. for.
Municipal night court judge Munroe Slemp of Snakebit, NV has already responded to a petition from COBOL programmers by blocking Trump's order, citing his lack of IT expertise. The Ninth Circuit is expected to review the decision by sometime in November.
Pythagoras ban's on fava beans can be traced back to his having favism.
Farting in rich primary colors, shocking your fellow French artists.
A 1949 cellphone would have had to be implemented as a wheeled suitcase. Unfortunately, wheeled luggage was still far in the future, so each cellphone user would have had to be accompanied by a grinning redcap to carry his phone around just like the railroad passengers of the day., search for a 220V outlet before making a call, and give the tubes time to warm up. Hollywood and Broadway people would pride themselves on hiring white redcaps.
For me it's Amazon Prime and Netflix DVD (so I can get everything, unlike Netflix Streaming).
Own it.
Clearly, antifa tactics are moving to a new level.
But For the sake of the environment, Hodgkinson did use steel ammunition, rather than lead.
Verizon's plan is to locate a stable granite formation containing old mine tunnels, in which AOL assets can be permanently isolated from the biosphere under a concrete backfill.
Those secret Star Chamber campus tribunals that try people for maleness and paleness will lobby to get Title IX updated to include the death penalty.
" Bitcoin itself may be limited in total number of coins that can be created but the supply of crypto-currencies in general is absolutely limitless. A new one can be started every day (or more often than that)."
This is a key point. The last stage in any investment bubble is the appearance of me-too investments that are marketed as being available for people who missed out on buying South Sea tulip farm mortgages over the Internet on margin when the bubble started.
Those investments have a history of crashing first because they are the newest, least tested and most subject to unforeseen flaws. This breaks investor confidence, causing a bailout run on the original investment - the Bitcoin in this case. And down it comes.
Looks like somebody is salty they didn't buy any bitcoin back when it was worth $1. If it helps you get over your rage neither did I. I sure did buy a lot of Ethereum at $1 though ;-)
Or they DID buy Bitcoin back when it was $1, but subsequently had their exchange hacked and drained.
You can't contradict facts that are produced by the scientific method, but any sort of social policy informed by these facts is politics, and as such should be as freely debatable as policy based on the usual made-up axioms ("college girls should remain chaste") that come from non-scientific sources.
What we need to know about the Wisconsin bill is whether it actually permits students to contradict scientific facts, or whether this headline is more Slashbolshevik scaremongering.
That newbie going the wrong way on a copy operation could even more easily have been a disk error or a ransomware infection. The problems was not having backups. I'm with the Register readers on this one.
It's too bad the conventional union system has nearly all the rot and inefficiency of government. It gives it such a bad name that it's easy to see why so many IT workers see it as a turn for the worse.
Union management got its culture from the nature of the businesses whose workers it organized in its days of growth and greatness: steelmakers, cab drivers, longshoremen, and mostly in large Eastern cities where graft is a way of life. Today's tech workers see this as old-fashioned and irrelevant.
A Silicon Valley union would have to arise from its own culture and be run in a way that appeals to local workers. Give it some California name like Bargaining Coop, and you're off and running.
...dumb fucks.
No, you're the one hopelessly mired in the twentieth century. When we stream a show, we have not switched a TV dial to a specified channel before watching it, so unless the show is new enough that you have to steam it from the network's own site, knowing what network the show is from is information you get from paying attention to the credits. In today's online world, knowing the originating network is specialized fan knowledge, like knowing who the director is.