Which, of course, everyone in LA will ignore until one or more of the local faults cooks off and levels an apartment building.
Then the entire city will go nuts and Phoenix will have another building boom.
Which means I can't just invest in real estate now, because it won't be worth anything until the day the quake happens. And then, I won't be able to find any for cheap.
If Californians weren't so stupid, I could be spending the next year getting rich.
If the software system is safety critical, the law will mandate that it be validated to the appropriate standard.
Everything else about "software engineering" is less complicated than flipping burgers.
Re:You mean what would they do if they were sapien
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No. Common sci-fi misunderstanding.
Sentience is the ability to sense. Some plants are sentient. Sapience is the ability to reason. Most mammals have limited sapience.
Self-awareness is a specialized skill in the scale of sapience.
Defining self-awareness is a circular and fuzzy propostion. My CPU knows how warm it is and can change its operating speed to protect itself, but does it really know? Converseley, many humans don't have any understanding of how they behaving.
This makes it good for skiffy writers. They don't have to worry that someone will call them on their central conceit. It's ineffable.
You mean what would they do if they were sapient?
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We really mean sapience, not sentience, in this entire thread. Interactive machines can already sense and act, with programming and circuit behavior acting as instinct. Sapience is understanding.
What would humans do if they acheived sentience?
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Machines would act like they're sentient.
Humans would act sentient, but modulated emotionally by hormonal drives.
Of course, then we'd ask what would machines do if they were hormonal...
One Time Pad is the only fully secure communications encryption method, and it's still not necessarily physically secure. And when it is used in any non one-time-use protocol, e.g. VENONA, it is no longer perfectly cryptic, either.
All other forms of encryption are less secure, such that the economics of the subjective or objective value of decrypting the message and the cost of doing so dictate whether it remains secure.
Slashdot Mirror
If you can read this, you are breaking the law.
-BSA
> A nice piece of important work
Which, of course, everyone in LA will ignore until one or more of the local faults cooks off and levels an apartment building.
Then the entire city will go nuts and Phoenix will have another building boom.
Which means I can't just invest in real estate now, because it won't be worth anything until the day the quake happens. And then, I won't be able to find any for cheap.
If Californians weren't so stupid, I could be spending the next year getting rich.
Instead of block the sites, how about we
enforce the goddamned law and shutting them down
Anyone who thinks Ender's game has nothing to do with religion and other goals of propaganda doesn't know who John Locke was.
I didn't elect this guy
Did you elect this guy?
You over there, did you--
So then who elected this guy?
No wonder the military is into it.
Well, stop the fucking presses.
Altering a picture alters the meaning of the picture, not just its visual qualities.
The LA Times is 100% correct to ban this sort of manipulation in news photos. Front pages of newspapers are history, not entertainment.
Someone's not really believing this.
This one fell off within seconds after the first time it was posted.
The Onion has taken all the good ideas.
The mistake here was mentioning another holiday. Gave it away immediately.
That, and you don't use USB for cooking. You use Firewire.
Right. Having a keyboard makes a computer sentient. Any communication from the outside implies sentience.
It's one sense in one dictionary if taken to an extreme.
Sentience is about sensation, not intelligence.
If the software system is safety critical, the law will mandate that it be validated to the appropriate standard.
Everything else about "software engineering" is less complicated than flipping burgers.
No. Common sci-fi misunderstanding.
Sentience is the ability to sense. Some plants are sentient. Sapience is the ability to reason. Most mammals have limited sapience.
Self-awareness is a specialized skill in the scale of sapience.
Defining self-awareness is a circular and fuzzy propostion. My CPU knows how warm it is and can change its operating speed to protect itself, but does it really know? Converseley, many humans don't have any understanding of how they behaving.
This makes it good for skiffy writers. They don't have to worry that someone will call them on their central conceit. It's ineffable.
We really mean sapience, not sentience, in this entire thread. Interactive machines can already sense and act, with programming and circuit behavior acting as instinct. Sapience is understanding.
Machines would act like they're sentient.
Humans would act sentient, but modulated emotionally by hormonal drives.
Of course, then we'd ask what would machines do if they were hormonal...
The quest for perpetual motion has been going on since at least the 11th century
Without ever stopping!
They've put up a picture of the thing they're trying to build from the DNA.
99% of schedule overruns are because project teams depend on this sort of serendipity instead of designing the software.
1. Design the software.
2a. Code the software as designed.
2b. Test the software against the design.
3. Profit!
No naps or showers are necessary. If you lose your train of thought, you look at the design and regain it.
One Time Pad is the only fully secure communications encryption method, and it's still not necessarily physically secure. And when it is used in any non one-time-use protocol, e.g. VENONA, it is no longer perfectly cryptic, either.
All other forms of encryption are less secure, such that the economics of the subjective or objective value of decrypting the message and the cost of doing so dictate whether it remains secure.
Crime always pays if the perpetrator is never hunted or caught.
All human interactions have the opportunity for criminal (i.e., harmfully antisocial) behavioral events.
Prevention is only rarely feasible, and enforcement of morality (i.e., the law) is very effective at keeping society from looking like the Internet.
Now we can just give every person a cell-phone number at birth, and they can keep it for their whole lives, and use it like a permanent, worldwide ID.
Isn't that nifty?
So the underclocking was a symptom of faulty hardware.
Only you liked being sick for a while.
Yep.
And maybe the first, when we found out about the Ferengi and their attitudes toward women.