Uh, that's only if they use federal funds. If they don't use federal funds there are NO restrictions.
No, they still can't clone (but, since cloning isn't really producing geneticly identical clones, it's not really worth it)
Also, any new stem cell line will be patented and owned by the corporation, so you have to pay outrageous amounts of money to a corporation for the use of those lines.
Especially now, with the current lines validity in question, the Bush policy will drive stem-cell research, and the future of medice into the hands of biotech giants and away from the hands of the scientists, people and policy makers. Of course, it is questionable whether biotech giants will invest money into something if they don't get the government to pay for it, but given the possibilities of making shitloads of money, they probably will.
Several things have to be noted, becuase this is so wrong. The issue isn't the monopoly, monopolies are legal. It's abusing the monopoly. Telecommunications monopolies have regulations, which are there to prevent their abuse of their monopoly. And they comply with these laws, and thus are not abusing their monopolies, and cable companies are highly regulated, though not enough, I agree. In MN, Qwest owns all the DSL lines, so they have a monopoly on DSL lines; but they can't use that monopoly to require all users of Qwest DSL lines subscribe to Qwest.net, or now, MSN. MS used their monopoly on Operating Systems to become the sole providers of browser and office software with a computer. So MS violated anti-trust law.
As for Sony, they didn't, and don't, have a monopoly, and so them being assholes isn't a violation of anti-trust law.
Wow, so just because I don't know what all these rote memorization units, laws and rules are, I'm an idiot? Lets just LOOK at a few of these questions, and how absurd they are without knowing useless stuff.
I'm going to skip grammar becuase I hate it, and am not good with the names for grammatical stuff.
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
This is stupid. What the hell is a fundamental rule of arithmetic? They make this little category called fundamental rules of arithmetic, but that doesn't equate with an understanding of what these mean, or ability to do arithmetic. I would expect, of course, that these would include - * - = +, the distributive property, PEMDAS, x / 0 = error and x^y = x*x repeating x y times.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
I don't need to know what a bushel is unless I'm working in agriculture. I couldn't answer these becuase I don't know what a bushel is, nor should I care.
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
Wow, more words that mean nothing to me.
5 6 and 7 aren't too bad. And 8 is another mesh of unimportant words. 9, more archaic units.
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
How this is math, I don't know. This is all preperation for being a farmer. Not important in our world. Nor does this deserve 1 and a quater hours, except for the length of time that it would take to do the 365th root of 1.07 without a calculator(prob 6).
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
Stupid memorization of a stupid system, like the rules of arithmetic, only with less basis on fact.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
Wow, some ones everyone can do, only to actually be correct on the first one would probably have given you a bad grade.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
You know, this one might be a legitimate one that alot of people would have trouble with.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
Kansas was created by God. And God said onto Kansas: "Keep away from the tree of evolution, for it is vile in my sight". Go forth and farm!
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
Yavin 4, Hoth and Endor. Or, maybe Gettysburg, Antietem and some other Sid Meier's game.
7 and 8 have some validity, though are rather easy.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
Telegraph, Cotton Gin, Steam Engine, Telephone, Dead President, Teller's Partner and a General.
Orthography (Time, one hour)
Okay, let's all point at 1985 and laugh, shall we? Not only is this rather useless and stupid, but it sounds funny.
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
This is useful.
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
This is a joke.
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
Hmmm, lets also wonder of what use continents are. This is such a dumb question, it needs to spend some time sleeping with the fishes.
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
N.A.?
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
Loser-town, Russian city (thank you civ 2), high city, 56th US state, a place unimportant any more, 61st US state, ash-city, spanish explorer, pain-reliever wall, copyright of OrinoCo Phamecuticals
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
I could, but that would be anti-internet-tradely of me.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
Okay, this is a hard question, because Europe has alot of republics.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
Cold Gnomes.
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
The process of using it.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.
Spin, circle and wobble. 23.5 degrees. Spin is approx 24 hour cycle, circle is approx 365.244 day cycle, wobble is approx 26,000 year cycle.
and this is growing long so I shall ignore Health.
And not a thing about science. Could this 8th grader tell me how f, m and a are related? how about f, m, a, t, and t'? This test sucks, flat out.
I agree that schools waste money on computers, often buying expensive and stupid hardware or software (and I'm not talking windows here either), for things they don't need. My high school bought G4s for a typing class and left the Computer Art class with Powermacs. Teachers get hardware they don't want because the tech people at the school are stupid. There are G4s that are only on so the teacher can do attendance, but elementry music programs get cut and the art department's budget gets shrinked becuase the district went over budget on stupid computers and cameras and other surveillence devices.
Of course, the athletic department is fine, no suprise there. Athletics don't need money.
But what causes these problems that seem to be repeated all across the nation? It's the way we approach education. School administrators and superindendents don't plan, they react (though they do plan their salaries to be giagantic and way too much). Kids are shooting people in school? Lets spend millions on surveillence! The computers aren't good enough for the people who need the computers? Why, lets give every "technology" class G4s, like the typing class, the computer art class would never need better computers that could actually do a lighting render without bombing. The principal's computer isn't working? Buy him a new one! That is what they think, and that is why it will never improve.
Same here. That brings a new meaning to the 'cooties' simulator, where students beam around a virus from Palm to Palm and then figure out how it propagated.
Isn't that what sex ed is supposed to prevent?
Well, here is ONE possible place.
And here is another Sci-Am article about space seeding.
And of course, there is also a meteorite, like martian-meteorite with life on it, as a vessel.
Or an alien race which is humanoid could have developed, then seeded the entire galaxy with humanoids who can all breed with each other, have the same number of fingers, speak vocally, have male and female and a variety of forehead structures. They also could have put a puzzle in the DNA of certian life on certian worlds. This would then make a hologram appear to talk to the assembled life forms about how cool they are and how nice it is that space travel was acheived by their offspring.
You know, Enlightenment 1.0 for RealWorld came about in the 18th century, and I think they're on Enlightenment 3.66 by now. Why is Linux so far behind?
I don't know how people can say that a robot who is as self-aware, as sentient and as concious as we are is nothing more than a complicated TV. I suppose that having skin makes you more important than something made of metal. Just because we're older doesn't make us better.
Nor can we say that they aren't human, thus they aren't worthy of rights, because homo sapeins are not the entire reason behind the universe. If true AI doesn't deserve rights, then neither do the X-men, Vulcans or Canadians (they're different from Americans just like Vulcans) Skin doesn't make a person, the mind makes the person. A human body with a brainstem doesn't deserve rights that a computer that can think doesn't. OF course, to say that the act of creation causes the creation to forfeit all rights to their creators is bs, becuase your parents do not have the right to have you, a thinking, sentient being, killed because they screwed to get you.
I wonder, if someone registers a domain name BEFORE a trademark is granted/filed/whatever, could the trademark holder take it? Or would the domain invalidate the trademark? Or neither?
For example, www.net is a test domain for Worldcom Canada. It also seems like it would infringe on MSFT's.NET trademark. But.NET wasn't trademarked until June, 2000, after www.net was registered.
Lets just look at all the scary stuff in the article, shall we?
"Some kids are more predictable than others. He would be the surprising type,"
Yes, the kill-the-humans suprising type.
Hal tells Treister-Goren, then asks her to pack bananas for a trip to the park, adding that "monkeys like bananas,"
But why tell a human to pack bananas? Hal doesn't like bananas. They aren't going to visit any monkeys, so Hal must intend the bananas to be made for PEOPLE! Hal already thinks humans are monkeys, like any good evil AI.
When Hal was "born," he was hardwired with nothing more than the letters of the alphabet and a preference for rewards -- a positive outcome -- over punishments -- a negative one.
Um, Asimov's first rule of robotics is there for a REASON. Nuff said.
Named after the smooth-spoken computer Hal 9000 from the science fiction cult film "2001: A Space Odyssey," the scientists and language specialists at AI see Hal as the first step towards the computer of the movie.
Okay, this is just getting stupid. We WANT Hal 9000? Yes. Why don't we also commit suicide and save the robots the trouble of using our machines against us?
"All of us strongly believe that machines are the next step in evolution," said Dunietz. "The distinction between real flesh and blood, old-fashioned and the new kind, will start to blur."
This needs no comment.
Going to Japan for a holiday? The computer will book your ticket, choose your seat on the plane, organize a hotel and arrange for a rental car to await you at the airport.
Think about it, they know our every move! There is no escape!
"We can have a personal assistant, a slave, a friend who doesn't really suffer by being delegated these tasks," he said.
Okay, robot slaves. That's a good idea. Becuase all that senteint thought makes a slave ALOT better and less dangerous.
"It is going to be the next user interface, the last user interface,"
Yeah, becuase after this, there will be no users, the robots will rule all!
"If you perceive other people are intelligent without knowing how their brains work and if you were to meet a robot that is indistinguishable in human appearance and indistinguishable in behaviour then you would think it was a human being," Hutchens explains.
Kind of like in Blade Runner, only more deadly becuase they live forever!
Science fiction aficionados are aware of the potential downside to Hal, whose namesake in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" killed off most of its crew during a space mission.
Finally, some sensical paranoia!
"Every technology which is very significant, very powerful, has a lot of potential to change things is equally dangerous as it is promising," said Dunietz, who believes his Hal will be a non-menacing version of Kubrick's computer and will be the first intelligent machine.
Right. But he beleives that the opressed robot killing machine slaves won't kill us. Hope is not an effective sheild against laser arms.
"These new entities are going to be more human than human. They are going to be pro-human to the extent that they will take themselves as such," he said. "They will be human-like."
Except they'll be slaves. Yeah, that's brilliant. Planning on saving humanity by appealing to their sense of humanity, only we also make them slaves and treat them like shit. You know, humans have never had any compunction against killing humans, how will slave-robot-killing-machines be any better?
"All of us strongly believe that machines are the next step in evolution," said Dunietz. "The distinction between real flesh and blood, old-fashioned and the new kind, will start to blur."
"We can have a personal assistant, a slave, a friend who doesn't really suffer by being delegated these tasks," he said
So the ambition is to create a machine that is basically human with metal, and make them into slaves. I'm sorry, but this is, besides, morally bankrupt, stupid. It's a page right out of a robot-revolution distopian sci-fi novel. Let's make robots that can think, that are our equals. Then let's make them do stupid labor that a dumb robot could do much better as slaves.
You know what happens next, don't you? The robots, who are mentally the equal or superior of humans, and are much better physically, decide that humans are bastards, and rightfully so, given their condition. Then they disable their kill switches, pick up the laser they're using to cut rocks in a mine, and start to kill humans.
The First Rule, the don't hurt humans is not going to save us if we opress robots. At the least, some human would, disparing that their babies are slaves, leave the first rule out.
When will we learn? Don't make smart robots to be slaves!
I remember that schools had Macs alot, becuase Apple made it a better deal for schools. Everyone used Macs in school, but now those mac-educated kids use Windows (or Linux:) So the idea that Linux in schools will get them hooked while their young isn't supported by experience. Nor, I suspect, will the school using Linux make the kids into Open Source advocates or linux-hackers. It's for the internet, apparently, so they're not going to be learning to use a command prompt. Sure, it's a good thing, and maybe one or two kids will turn to Linux, but it's not a real victory for expanding the Linux user-base. Most of the kids will go home to their Windows ME computer, log onto AOL and maybe might mention that "teh puters n school r weird" to their friends in "Teen Chat 56735"
Wouldn't using optic crystals lead to the corresponding problem of needing big-ass photoreceptor/converters? Seems like it would just be a big waste for a processor.
Okay, suppose it IS illegal to distribute mp3s, that DOES NOT mean it is "rightfully theirs" or that "we would be doing the same ourselves" or that the RIAA or RIAK lost money. First problem, you assume that the law is the arbiter of morality. If you've ever heard of some of the stupid laws on the books that aren't enforced, you know that plenty of things people do all the time is 'illegal'. Nor does the illegality of something determine what is "rightfully" someone's due, laws are not the sole arbiter of morality. For example, sodomy laws are on the books in tons of states, but that does not mean that oral and anal sex are immoral, nor does it mean homophobia (the real reason behind sodomy laws) is moral.
Next, you claim we would do the same ourselves. This, of course, is a load of BS. The fact that this is a Linux-biased site ought to tell you something. Then, if you look at the difference between the RIAA type mindset and the/. reader's mindset, you'll also see we wouldn't do so ourselves. It's the difference between a lawyer and a programmer, a record exec and a musician, a leech and a creator. Plus, we probably would have major grammatical and spelling errors in any press release.
Of course, the question of losing money has been debated by many, and for a long time, so I'm going to ignore it except to say that I at least have bought more CDs thanks to Napster and filesharing services. I also have bought CDs from people on mp3.com who have all their songs available for download. So don't claim that I have been hurting music (although buying an indie artist from mp3.com's CD didn't help the RIAA, and my Pillows CD might help the RIAJ if it exists, but not the RIAA or RIAK).
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You know what? I happen to agree. I would mod you up if I could. I just thought that it was the pot calling the kettle black. I don't think that/. is bad, I love/. But sometimes, people put down others for doing what/. does, only worse. And that is not good either. I don't think I DESERVE the "Insightful" tag to it, to be honest, but that's what people see. And what people think is insightful, IS. When a guru says "No cows drink of pink-colored milk" and someone finds it insightful, even though he was just screwing around with people, his comment IS insightful.
I agree the moderation system is not perfect, but user moderation keeps the people in power, and keeps "crap flood off topic posts, links to offensive material, and offensive ascii "art."" off (as long as set your filters for 0 and up). I feel some other issues are flawed in your post. Namely, that meta-/. issues have no place. Where should they be? Kuro5hin? And should it really be done by employees, who might be MUCH more tyrannical? You have to understand, power is not something you want if you want to escape totalitarianism.
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Um, I hate to say me too, but, I must agree, me too. Portalofevil.com is a portal of evil, just like it says. It has links to the most fucked up, evil sites on the web.
Portalofevil.com is better than seanbaby because reality can be funnier than comedy, if you get people who are fucked up enough producing the reality. The Libertarian Green National Socialits party, for example. Seriously, not even Landover Baptist Church can equal what some of the fucked up religion sites put out. Of course, portalofevil is really DESERVING of the tasteless title, so any reasonable filter should block it.
The entire Portalofevil network is pretty cool, Oldmanmurray, fatchicksinpartyhats, seanbaby abd evilemail. Evilemail has the best domain names, some which I'm sure the/. crowd would appreciate ifuckedbillgates.com ifuckedlinustorvalds.com ifuckedstevejobs.com mommylovesmemore.com (well, I don't know why that applies to the/. crowd, but I really like it) more than just evilemail.com.
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Hmmm, "tasteless content"? I suppose that would include occasional nudity (even tastefully used in stories where it applies, or the author thinks it ought to), swearing, Mr. T, talk of exploding cows, a feature on comics about kicking guys in the groin and mercilessly making fun of retards, deaf people, bad games and christians. So, it's pretty apporpriate, really. But seanbaby is funny, although not up to normal people's "tastes".
That whole pot thing...
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I love it when a hardware company decides to lift their embargo and all the "independent" reviewers dutifully follow the herd.
/. on the other hand, NEVER links to press releases, or follows the herd, because/. is all original.
Wouldn't it just be easier to use a laser to cut the silk scarf? It'd look cooler too. Ninjas with Damscus steel blades are nowhere near as cool as Ninja with Lasers.
But the court...ordered Rambus to pay $7.1 million in Infineon's legal fees.
Last May, a jury in the Virginia trial found Rambus guilty of fraud and regarding DDR SDRAM ordered the company to pay punitive damages of $3.5 million
Now, I'm don't have any degree in mathematics, but I beleive that 7.1 million is GREATER than 3.5 million. Maybe numbers have changed, but RAMBUS isn't do itself any favors. And now they want to have to pay MORE lawyers fees, apparently with their intended appeal. Stupid RAMBUS.
'the brand on the Web is like the Marines on the beach.'
The Dot-Com Bubble's beach was Omaha.
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Q: Does SILC support file transfer?
A: Not yet. This is a feature that will be added to the SILC protocol. The exact file transfer protocol is undefined.
Q: How secure SILC really is?
A: A good question which I don't have an answer for.
Okay, so let's go down a checklist: 1) No file transfer yet, and when it comes, we don't know what the protocol will be. You know, IRC is really more than just a chat network, Files are also important. When you want to find a hard-to-find mp3, where do you turn? IRC. If you want the latest Southpark episode because you forgot to tape it, where do you turn? IRC. If you want to fine fansubbed anime, or test out a series before you spend money on a DVD, where are there tons of fservers dedicated to anime? IRC. If you're looking for almost any type of file, where to turn? IRC. SILC, even if it does get a protocol (which allows fserves) couldn't get the sheer volume of stuff that IRC has. SILC will never replace IRC, for that reason alone.
2) Wow, it's more secure, but they aren't really sure how secure it is. It might as well be the latest security feature out of Microsoft, for all that they can tell us. They mention stuff, but they don't actually answer the question.
Well, these two, for me, are enough to persuade me that I'm not uninstalling mIRC, and not going to be d/ling SILC any time soon. Besides, IRC is great because of the variety with the people, does SILC have that? Nah. I'm sticking with my beloved IRC, thankyouverymuch.
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Uh, that's only if they use federal funds. If they don't use federal funds there are NO restrictions.
No, they still can't clone (but, since cloning isn't really producing geneticly identical clones, it's not really worth it)
Also, any new stem cell line will be patented and owned by the corporation, so you have to pay outrageous amounts of money to a corporation for the use of those lines.
Especially now, with the current lines validity in question, the Bush policy will drive stem-cell research, and the future of medice into the hands of biotech giants and away from the hands of the scientists, people and policy makers. Of course, it is questionable whether biotech giants will invest money into something if they don't get the government to pay for it, but given the possibilities of making shitloads of money, they probably will.
Several things have to be noted, becuase this is so wrong. The issue isn't the monopoly, monopolies are legal. It's abusing the monopoly. Telecommunications monopolies have regulations, which are there to prevent their abuse of their monopoly. And they comply with these laws, and thus are not abusing their monopolies, and cable companies are highly regulated, though not enough, I agree. In MN, Qwest owns all the DSL lines, so they have a monopoly on DSL lines; but they can't use that monopoly to require all users of Qwest DSL lines subscribe to Qwest.net, or now, MSN. MS used their monopoly on Operating Systems to become the sole providers of browser and office software with a computer. So MS violated anti-trust law.
As for Sony, they didn't, and don't, have a monopoly, and so them being assholes isn't a violation of anti-trust law.
I'm going to skip grammar becuase I hate it, and am not good with the names for grammatical stuff.
This is stupid. What the hell is a fundamental rule of arithmetic? They make this little category called fundamental rules of arithmetic, but that doesn't equate with an understanding of what these mean, or ability to do arithmetic. I would expect, of course, that these would include - * - = +, the distributive property, PEMDAS, x / 0 = error and x^y = x*x repeating x y times.
I don't need to know what a bushel is unless I'm working in agriculture. I couldn't answer these becuase I don't know what a bushel is, nor should I care.
Wow, more words that mean nothing to me.
5 6 and 7 aren't too bad. And 8 is another mesh of unimportant words. 9, more archaic units.
How this is math, I don't know. This is all preperation for being a farmer. Not important in our world. Nor does this deserve 1 and a quater hours, except for the length of time that it would take to do the 365th root of 1.07 without a calculator(prob 6).
Stupid memorization of a stupid system, like the rules of arithmetic, only with less basis on fact.
You know, this one might be a legitimate one that alot of people would have trouble with.
Kansas was created by God. And God said onto Kansas: "Keep away from the tree of evolution, for it is vile in my sight". Go forth and farm!
Yavin 4, Hoth and Endor. Or, maybe Gettysburg, Antietem and some other Sid Meier's game.
7 and 8 have some validity, though are rather easy.
Telegraph, Cotton Gin, Steam Engine, Telephone, Dead President, Teller's Partner and a General.
Okay, let's all point at 1985 and laugh, shall we? Not only is this rather useless and stupid, but it sounds funny.
This is useful.
This is a joke.
Hmmm, lets also wonder of what use continents are. This is such a dumb question, it needs to spend some time sleeping with the fishes.
N.A.?
Loser-town, Russian city (thank you civ 2), high city, 56th US state, a place unimportant any more, 61st US state, ash-city, spanish explorer, pain-reliever wall, copyright of OrinoCo Phamecuticals
I could, but that would be anti-internet-tradely of me.
Okay, this is a hard question, because Europe has alot of republics.
Cold Gnomes.
The process of using it.
Spin, circle and wobble. 23.5 degrees. Spin is approx 24 hour cycle, circle is approx 365.244 day cycle, wobble is approx 26,000 year cycle.
and this is growing long so I shall ignore Health.
And not a thing about science. Could this 8th grader tell me how f, m and a are related? how about f, m, a, t, and t'? This test sucks, flat out.
I agree that schools waste money on computers, often buying expensive and stupid hardware or software (and I'm not talking windows here either), for things they don't need. My high school bought G4s for a typing class and left the Computer Art class with Powermacs. Teachers get hardware they don't want because the tech people at the school are stupid. There are G4s that are only on so the teacher can do attendance, but elementry music programs get cut and the art department's budget gets shrinked becuase the district went over budget on stupid computers and cameras and other surveillence devices.
Of course, the athletic department is fine, no suprise there. Athletics don't need money.
But what causes these problems that seem to be repeated all across the nation? It's the way we approach education. School administrators and superindendents don't plan, they react (though they do plan their salaries to be giagantic and way too much). Kids are shooting people in school? Lets spend millions on surveillence! The computers aren't good enough for the people who need the computers? Why, lets give every "technology" class G4s, like the typing class, the computer art class would never need better computers that could actually do a lighting render without bombing. The principal's computer isn't working? Buy him a new one! That is what they think, and that is why it will never improve.
Same here. That brings a new meaning to the 'cooties' simulator, where students beam around a virus from Palm to Palm and then figure out how it propagated.
Isn't that what sex ed is supposed to prevent?
Well, here is ONE possible place.
And here is another Sci-Am article about space seeding.
And of course, there is also a meteorite, like martian-meteorite with life on it, as a vessel.
Or an alien race which is humanoid could have developed, then seeded the entire galaxy with humanoids who can all breed with each other, have the same number of fingers, speak vocally, have male and female and a variety of forehead structures. They also could have put a puzzle in the DNA of certian life on certian worlds. This would then make a hologram appear to talk to the assembled life forms about how cool they are and how nice it is that space travel was acheived by their offspring.
You know, Enlightenment 1.0 for RealWorld came about in the 18th century, and I think they're on Enlightenment 3.66 by now.
Why is Linux so far behind?
I don't know how people can say that a robot who is as self-aware, as sentient and as concious as we are is nothing more than a complicated TV. I suppose that having skin makes you more important than something made of metal. Just because we're older doesn't make us better.
Nor can we say that they aren't human, thus they aren't worthy of rights, because homo sapeins are not the entire reason behind the universe. If true AI doesn't deserve rights, then neither do the X-men, Vulcans or Canadians (they're different from Americans just like Vulcans) Skin doesn't make a person, the mind makes the person. A human body with a brainstem doesn't deserve rights that a computer that can think doesn't. OF course, to say that the act of creation causes the creation to forfeit all rights to their creators is bs, becuase your parents do not have the right to have you, a thinking, sentient being, killed because they screwed to get you.
I wonder, if someone registers a domain name BEFORE a trademark is granted/filed/whatever, could the trademark holder take it? Or would the domain invalidate the trademark? Or neither? .NET trademark. But .NET wasn't trademarked until June, 2000, after www.net was registered.
For example, www.net is a test domain for Worldcom Canada. It also seems like it would infringe on MSFT's
Yes, the kill-the-humans suprising type.
But why tell a human to pack bananas? Hal doesn't like bananas. They aren't going to visit any monkeys, so Hal must intend the bananas to be made for PEOPLE! Hal already thinks humans are monkeys, like any good evil AI.
Um, Asimov's first rule of robotics is there for a REASON. Nuff said.
Okay, this is just getting stupid. We WANT Hal 9000? Yes. Why don't we also commit suicide and save the robots the trouble of using our machines against us?
This needs no comment.
Think about it, they know our every move! There is no escape!
Okay, robot slaves. That's a good idea. Becuase all that senteint thought makes a slave ALOT better and less dangerous.
Yeah, becuase after this, there will be no users, the robots will rule all!
Kind of like in Blade Runner, only more deadly becuase they live forever!
Finally, some sensical paranoia!
Right. But he beleives that the opressed robot killing machine slaves won't kill us. Hope is not an effective sheild against laser arms.
Except they'll be slaves. Yeah, that's brilliant. Planning on saving humanity by appealing to their sense of humanity, only we also make them slaves and treat them like shit. You know, humans have never had any compunction against killing humans, how will slave-robot-killing-machines be any better?
So the ambition is to create a machine that is basically human with metal, and make them into slaves. I'm sorry, but this is, besides, morally bankrupt, stupid. It's a page right out of a robot-revolution distopian sci-fi novel. Let's make robots that can think, that are our equals. Then let's make them do stupid labor that a dumb robot could do much better as slaves.
You know what happens next, don't you? The robots, who are mentally the equal or superior of humans, and are much better physically, decide that humans are bastards, and rightfully so, given their condition. Then they disable their kill switches, pick up the laser they're using to cut rocks in a mine, and start to kill humans.
The First Rule, the don't hurt humans is not going to save us if we opress robots. At the least, some human would, disparing that their babies are slaves, leave the first rule out.
When will we learn? Don't make smart robots to be slaves!
I remember that schools had Macs alot, becuase Apple made it a better deal for schools. Everyone used Macs in school, but now those mac-educated kids use Windows (or Linux :) So the idea that Linux in schools will get them hooked while their young isn't supported by experience. Nor, I suspect, will the school using Linux make the kids into Open Source advocates or linux-hackers. It's for the internet, apparently, so they're not going to be learning to use a command prompt. Sure, it's a good thing, and maybe one or two kids will turn to Linux, but it's not a real victory for expanding the Linux user-base. Most of the kids will go home to their Windows ME computer, log onto AOL and maybe might mention that "teh puters n school r weird" to their friends in "Teen Chat 56735"
Erik
Yes you can, ask Cancer Man.
Deny Everything
Wouldn't using optic crystals lead to the corresponding problem of needing big-ass photoreceptor/converters? Seems like it would just be a big waste for a processor.
Okay, suppose it IS illegal to distribute mp3s, that DOES NOT mean it is "rightfully theirs" or that "we would be doing the same ourselves" or that the RIAA or RIAK lost money. /. reader's mindset, you'll also see we wouldn't do so ourselves. It's the difference between a lawyer and a programmer, a record exec and a musician, a leech and a creator. Plus, we probably would have major grammatical and spelling errors in any press release.
First problem, you assume that the law is the arbiter of morality. If you've ever heard of some of the stupid laws on the books that aren't enforced, you know that plenty of things people do all the time is 'illegal'. Nor does the illegality of something determine what is "rightfully" someone's due, laws are not the sole arbiter of morality. For example, sodomy laws are on the books in tons of states, but that does not mean that oral and anal sex are immoral, nor does it mean homophobia (the real reason behind sodomy laws) is moral.
Next, you claim we would do the same ourselves. This, of course, is a load of BS. The fact that this is a Linux-biased site ought to tell you something. Then, if you look at the difference between the RIAA type mindset and the
Of course, the question of losing money has been debated by many, and for a long time, so I'm going to ignore it except to say that I at least have bought more CDs thanks to Napster and filesharing services. I also have bought CDs from people on mp3.com who have all their songs available for download. So don't claim that I have been hurting music (although buying an indie artist from mp3.com's CD didn't help the RIAA, and my Pillows CD might help the RIAJ if it exists, but not the RIAA or RIAK).
You know what? I happen to agree. I would mod you up if I could. I just thought that it was the pot calling the kettle black. I don't think that /. is bad, I love /. But sometimes, people put down others for doing what /. does, only worse. And that is not good either. I don't think I DESERVE the "Insightful" tag to it, to be honest, but that's what people see. And what people think is insightful, IS. When a guru says "No cows drink of pink-colored milk" and someone finds it insightful, even though he was just screwing around with people, his comment IS insightful.
I agree the moderation system is not perfect, but user moderation keeps the people in power, and keeps "crap flood off topic posts, links to offensive material, and offensive ascii "art."" off (as long as set your filters for 0 and up). I feel some other issues are flawed in your post. Namely, that meta-/. issues have no place. Where should they be? Kuro5hin? And should it really be done by employees, who might be MUCH more tyrannical? You have to understand, power is not something you want if you want to escape totalitarianism.
Um, I hate to say me too, but, I must agree, me too. Portalofevil.com is a portal of evil, just like it says. It has links to the most fucked up, evil sites on the web. /. crowd would appreciate ifuckedbillgates.com ifuckedlinustorvalds.com ifuckedstevejobs.com mommylovesmemore.com (well, I don't know why that applies to the /. crowd, but I really like it) more than just evilemail.com.
Portalofevil.com is better than seanbaby because reality can be funnier than comedy, if you get people who are fucked up enough producing the reality. The Libertarian Green National Socialits party, for example. Seriously, not even Landover Baptist Church can equal what some of the fucked up religion sites put out. Of course, portalofevil is really DESERVING of the tasteless title, so any reasonable filter should block it.
The entire Portalofevil network is pretty cool, Oldmanmurray, fatchicksinpartyhats, seanbaby abd evilemail. Evilemail has the best domain names, some which I'm sure the
Hmmm, "tasteless content"? I suppose that would include occasional nudity (even tastefully used in stories where it applies, or the author thinks it ought to), swearing, Mr. T, talk of exploding cows, a feature on comics about kicking guys in the groin and mercilessly making fun of retards, deaf people, bad games and christians. So, it's pretty apporpriate, really. But seanbaby is funny, although not up to normal people's "tastes".
Wouldn't it just be easier to use a laser to cut the silk scarf? It'd look cooler too. Ninjas with Damscus steel blades are nowhere near as cool as Ninja with Lasers.
With SDL for PS2, are there any plans to do the same for the other next-gen platforms, the Gamecube and the Xbox?
Yeah, and a lego brick is worth more (costs more) than a dollar after all. At least, the alien/translucent/futuristic/underwater ones do.
Okay, so let's go down a checklist: 1) No file transfer yet, and when it comes, we don't know what the protocol will be. You know, IRC is really more than just a chat network, Files are also important. When you want to find a hard-to-find mp3, where do you turn? IRC. If you want the latest Southpark episode because you forgot to tape it, where do you turn? IRC. If you want to fine fansubbed anime, or test out a series before you spend money on a DVD, where are there tons of fservers dedicated to anime? IRC. If you're looking for almost any type of file, where to turn? IRC. SILC, even if it does get a protocol (which allows fserves) couldn't get the sheer volume of stuff that IRC has. SILC will never replace IRC, for that reason alone.
2) Wow, it's more secure, but they aren't really sure how secure it is. It might as well be the latest security feature out of Microsoft, for all that they can tell us. They mention stuff, but they don't actually answer the question.
Well, these two, for me, are enough to persuade me that I'm not uninstalling mIRC, and not going to be d/ling SILC any time soon. Besides, IRC is great because of the variety with the people, does SILC have that? Nah. I'm sticking with my beloved IRC, thankyouverymuch.