I sat next to a couple on the subway last night. There was a pause in their conversation and she said to him, "Remember when we were talking about having kids?"
"Mmm hmm..."
"Well, I sort of stopped taking the pill a few weeks ago."
"<Stammer>"
Unfortunately the train arrived at my stop and I couldn't stay to hear whether she was messing with him or not.
As soon as someone gets DeCSS down to 160 bytes, I think we have a winner. Just put that on your speed-dial and start sending to RIAA members. Anyone have their phone numbers?
It's good that this will be a distributed, peer-to-peer system. That way soldiers' communication won't be vulnerable to some dopey kid accidentally flying into the control center and blowing it up.
Real computers don't just perform finite computations, doing one or a few things, and then halt.... "Many computer applications are designed to produce an infinite amount of output," Becher says. Examples include... operating systems such as Windows 2000.
Oh, come now. I think we all know the answer to the halting problem for Windows.
There's no way you could
monitor all those people checking you out.
Maybe. Again, this is quite hypothetical. We're talking fifty years from now, as I recall. Who's to say we won't have "intelligent" filtering for such information.
A sort of simple example of this already exists now in caller-id and the various offshoots. People can block their number from the caller-id system, but then again, people with caller-id can automatically refuse calls from people who have blocked their number from appearing.
That's a good point - it's not clear that crime would go down (or up.) As much as I strongly tend to your side of the privacy argument, it's an interesting hypothetical situation. I can't help but wonder if just as the stalkers' ability to snoop on people increased, so would the ability of people to know who's snooping on them.
As a simple example, a friend of mine once wrote a program that would alert him whenever someone fingered his account.
Then there's the Webcrawler search voyeur, which lets you see all search requests made to Webcrawler. In this hypothetical future, it is conceivable that any search engine would be required to provide such an interface, and people could set up programs to monitor these streams for their own names, for example.
I'll be interested to see if the manufacturer reacts like Lego did, and encourages hackers, or like CueCat did, and attacks them. I suspect they've got a vested interest in attacking hackers, from the liability standpoint. If someone soups up their toy car and gets hurt, that's bad publicity, if not a potential lawsuit. (This being the USA, every injury, real or imagined, is a potential lawsuit.)
Forgive me if this is all addressed on their page - I couldn't get to it.
Social psychology studies have shown that when you describe your former associates, people attribute the same characteristics to you.
Then why is it that when I'm out with a woman and I talk about what great lovers my ex-girlfriends are, I never get anywhere? Birds of a feather, my ass.
Don't forget - when you're young it's easy to fool yourself into thinking you know more than you do and to overestimate your abilities.
You're learning more things, faster than when you were in school, and you're all full of energy. So you may think you know it all, and you may indeed know lots of things, but when things get tough, your age may betray you. An older person, who may not have the same up-to-date information that you do, may bring some perspective to a situation, through related experience. In other words, it's hard to have breadth of knowledge when you're young.
Apparently LXR can be used to index Java source, with html output. (See Grendel for example.)
I would then try to browse the source with a hyperbolic web visualization tool, such as Inxight or Webviz from the Geometry Center (RIP). Apparently there are many such visualization tools. Perhaps one will work well with LXR output.
"What do you need, Coach?" "Touchdowns. Lots of touchdowns."
What really sucks about this is that now I'm tempted to actually watch the game. And it's not like it's some cool half-time stunt - this could happen at any time during the game. There goes my afternoon.
I got the feeling that Professor Chirikjian needs better computer games when I read him say, "You could create the sensation of bumping into a wall in a maze game, or even the feeling of a ball hitting a racket in a game of computer Pong."
... philosophy professors were impressed enough with it to mention it on their courses.
It's not just philosophy professors. I met an Episcopal Priest at a bar the other day who told me that the other priests on her priest mailing list talked about it all the time.
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There is an ongoing dispute between male and female researchers at the NIST over the exact size of six inches.
It's been ported to Lisp and is an Emacs package. Just type M-x big-! and start your own universe.
"Mmm hmm..."
"Well, I sort of stopped taking the pill a few weeks ago."
"<Stammer>"
Unfortunately the train arrived at my stop and I couldn't stay to hear whether she was messing with him or not.
So is this what people are talking about when they say "Read the Fucking Manual"?
Mea culpa. Remembering things like that is apparently beyond mine.
All your bytes are belong to us!
Duh. Of course I meant MPAA, not RIAA. I can't keep my evil empires straight today.
As soon as someone gets DeCSS down to 160 bytes, I think we have a winner. Just put that on your speed-dial and start sending to RIAA members. Anyone have their phone numbers?
It's good that this will be a distributed, peer-to-peer system. That way soldiers' communication won't be vulnerable to some dopey kid accidentally flying into the control center and blowing it up.
I find it disturbing that you went from talking about sheep to talking about Viagra. If I had kids (or sheep) I'd tell you to stay away from them.
Oh, come now. I think we all know the answer to the halting problem for Windows.
Maybe. Again, this is quite hypothetical. We're talking fifty years from now, as I recall. Who's to say we won't have "intelligent" filtering for such information.
A sort of simple example of this already exists now in caller-id and the various offshoots. People can block their number from the caller-id system, but then again, people with caller-id can automatically refuse calls from people who have blocked their number from appearing.
As a simple example, a friend of mine once wrote a program that would alert him whenever someone fingered his account.
Then there's the Webcrawler search voyeur, which lets you see all search requests made to Webcrawler. In this hypothetical future, it is conceivable that any search engine would be required to provide such an interface, and people could set up programs to monitor these streams for their own names, for example.
Forgive me if this is all addressed on their page - I couldn't get to it.
That sneaky bastard Lars came out with a song called *. Now Napster has blocked *.mp3. Damn.
Then why is it that when I'm out with a woman and I talk about what great lovers my ex-girlfriends are, I never get anywhere? Birds of a feather, my ass.
You're learning more things, faster than when you were in school, and you're all full of energy. So you may think you know it all, and you may indeed know lots of things, but when things get tough, your age may betray you. An older person, who may not have the same up-to-date information that you do, may bring some perspective to a situation, through related experience. In other words, it's hard to have breadth of knowledge when you're young.
I can't believe nobody's posted that yet (at my threshold.)
I would then try to browse the source with a hyperbolic web visualization tool, such as Inxight or Webviz from the Geometry Center (RIP). Apparently there are many such visualization tools. Perhaps one will work well with LXR output.
Yeah, these companies are getting like all those '80's metal bands that had random umlauts all over the place.
Damn site doesn't work on Lynx. What good is an ASCII-cam that won't work on Lynx?
"Touchdowns. Lots of touchdowns."
What really sucks about this is that now I'm tempted to actually watch the game. And it's not like it's some cool half-time stunt - this could happen at any time during the game. There goes my afternoon.
Somebody get this guy a PlayStation!
Hochrechnugen: N. The act of spitting that last bit of puke out of your VW window.
It's not just philosophy professors. I met an Episcopal Priest at a bar the other day who told me that the other priests on her priest mailing list talked about it all the time.