Roger Penrose conjectures that the human soul, the secret sauce that would prevent any AI from becoming fully human, resides in a quantum connection with the microtubules in neurons. How would the neuronal plasticity envisioned here impact that?
Those of us watching in 1969 were told at the time that the flag 'flew' because of a stiff wire running across the top. The retroactive conspiracy theory that was concocted around the flag was perhaps the lamest of all time.
The ability to zoom in to catch the smallest text is nice, but one of my most common requests from older computer customers is, "Can you make the text larger?" Windows is actually ahead in this area, with its global ability to change the size of all onscreen text. On Macs, you have to change the text size application by application.
Many of the lusers at my employer of 900 people get malware often. they click on links in obvious scam emails, open attachments that are promised to be cool, etc.
In short, the idiots are out there and working hard at it
Ransomware is not as blatant as that because the most lucrative targets are businesses. Typically the vector is an official-looking email that says something like "Track the package you ordered by clicking here..."
As an ex heroin addict I can say that I did not care back then and I still don't. Today I'm on 380mgs/d of Methadone legally (and the state pays for it, fucking hypocrites), but that was not the reason I switched. I switched because it's dirt cheap compared to high purity bth or cw.
Also, because you didn't want to go through life with your brain running on Windows.
This isn't just a flippant comment. My mother was recently on opioid painkillers for a time after a vertebral fracture (apparently one of us kids must have stepped on a crack in the sidewalk), and as a user of my hand-me-down computers for the last thirty years, that's what she said it was like.
I service both operating systems, and I see just as many old Macs by proportion of ownership than old Windows systems - more, in fact, because so many Windows systems are the junky low-end PCs that wear out fast. OS X systems also tend to be updatable more times before the newest accompanying hardware undergoes some major change that prevents the upgrade from running on older systems. Because Windows machines are susceptible to the "snowflake syndrome" - many manufacturers of hardware, each with its own persnickety combination of Windows drivers required - users are much more reluctant to move to a new Windows release because it might not run on their individual snowflake.
More precisely, it prevents Earthly governments from militarizing space or extending their territory into space, while saying nothing about "local" government. This has been interpreted to mean that no barrier exists to space settlements governing themselves.
Under the UN Space Treaty, all government on space settlements must arise from the culture of the settlement itself, rather than being imposed from Earth. A law like SPACE can only affect how our own legal system treats space settlers within our own jurisdiction.
The one exception is that if drug production and/or usage in space becomes an issue. In that case the DEA (if recreational) or the FDA (if pharma) would be given the budget snd manpower to build starships, if necessary, to enforce its galactic powers.
That's why you wouldn't want to use your fingerprint for root access, or for online access to your bank. But for making individual store purchases, or for logging on to your mobile device, or as part of a two-factor logon, it's ideal.
Remember when HIPPA was sold as being about privacy? What it really does is introduce a series of bureaucratic hoops which make it more difficult to do anything medically than it ever was before, while giving government and its corporate sponsors access to any of your personal information they want, and for free.
"The only way to get Apollo again is by socialism, just like the first one"
When governments conduct a space race, Apollo is exactly what you get: flags and footsteps, with science being incidental and commercial development being off in some vaguely defined future. Private space races are primarily about commercial development.
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For the month after delivery, when we get the first jet pack assisted terrorist attacks.
Roger Penrose conjectures that the human soul, the secret sauce that would prevent any AI from becoming fully human, resides in a quantum connection with the microtubules in neurons. How would the neuronal plasticity envisioned here impact that?
Let's hope it will now be installable on more systems. The first version failed to install on the first three low- end PC's I tried it on.
Those of us watching in 1969 were told at the time that the flag 'flew' because of a stiff wire running across the top. The retroactive conspiracy theory that was concocted around the flag was perhaps the lamest of all time.
Dozens of Syrians drown every week while boating from Turkey to Greece (not a war zone). You don't hear about that on Slashdot.
That's because Syrians in boats are not yet in place to burn the Louvre. These guys are.
This means that we must have actually nailed Jihadi John.
Time for Europeans to round up the 'refugees' and ship them back. The coast of Libya would not be a bad place to dump them.
Low vision here too: 27" screen, and etext on a tablet for all books and magazines. I can have the font I need in the size I specify.
The ability to zoom in to catch the smallest text is nice, but one of my most common requests from older computer customers is, "Can you make the text larger?" Windows is actually ahead in this area, with its global ability to change the size of all onscreen text. On Macs, you have to change the text size application by application.
Many of the lusers at my employer of 900 people get malware often. they click on links in obvious scam emails, open attachments that are promised to be cool, etc.
In short, the idiots are out there and working hard at it
Ransomware is not as blatant as that because the most lucrative targets are businesses. Typically the vector is an official-looking email that says something like "Track the package you ordered by clicking here..."
Think of it as being the judicial equivalent of a software clickthrough agreement.
As an ex heroin addict I can say that I did not care back then and I still don't. Today I'm on 380mgs/d of Methadone legally (and the state pays for it, fucking hypocrites), but that was not the reason I switched. I switched because it's dirt cheap compared to high purity bth or cw.
Also, because you didn't want to go through life with your brain running on Windows.
This isn't just a flippant comment. My mother was recently on opioid painkillers for a time after a vertebral fracture (apparently one of us kids must have stepped on a crack in the sidewalk), and as a user of my hand-me-down computers for the last thirty years, that's what she said it was like.
"Furthermore, there isn't a black market for murder. "
Isn't that called Craigslist?
Oh right, you can't, because it's a WALLED FUCKING GARDEN.
You're thinking of iOS. If you prefer the zesty tang of Android malware on your tablet, go right ahead.
I service both operating systems, and I see just as many old Macs by proportion of ownership than old Windows systems - more, in fact, because so many Windows systems are the junky low-end PCs that wear out fast. OS X systems also tend to be updatable more times before the newest accompanying hardware undergoes some major change that prevents the upgrade from running on older systems. Because Windows machines are susceptible to the "snowflake syndrome" - many manufacturers of hardware, each with its own persnickety combination of Windows drivers required - users are much more reluctant to move to a new Windows release because it might not run on their individual snowflake.
If you're not a drug trafficker, they can make you into one instantly by planting something in your luggage. And a first offense there is death.
So would this be the first time that crocodiles have been used to guard a comet?
More precisely, it prevents Earthly governments from militarizing space or extending their territory into space, while saying nothing about "local" government. This has been interpreted to mean that no barrier exists to space settlements governing themselves.
Under the UN Space Treaty, all government on space settlements must arise from the culture of the settlement itself, rather than being imposed from Earth. A law like SPACE can only affect how our own legal system treats space settlers within our own jurisdiction.
The one exception is that if drug production and/or usage in space becomes an issue. In that case the DEA (if recreational) or the FDA (if pharma) would be given the budget snd manpower to build starships, if necessary, to enforce its galactic powers.
That's why you wouldn't want to use your fingerprint for root access, or for online access to your bank. But for making individual store purchases, or for logging on to your mobile device, or as part of a two-factor logon, it's ideal.
"By the way, your name is RAAYSIS!"
Racism is a reference to genetics, not culture.
Remember when HIPPA was sold as being about privacy? What it really does is introduce a series of bureaucratic hoops which make it more difficult to do anything medically than it ever was before, while giving government and its corporate sponsors access to any of your personal information they want, and for free.
"The only way to get Apollo again is by socialism, just like the first one"
When governments conduct a space race, Apollo is exactly what you get: flags and footsteps, with science being incidental and commercial development being off in some vaguely defined future. Private space races are primarily about commercial development.
Most importantly, private space companies can take risks that governments cannot unless, like Apollo, the race can be construed as military.
"Today we have sent a clear message: not in New York, and not on my watch."
Mess with football betting, and the Democrats will finally be put out to pasture.
The parent AC.