The non-completely-dumb evildoers will have plenty of ways to avoid it. So with such thing you will get the few completely-dumb ones, and, of course, most of the innocent bystanders. Antivirus have pretty hard work figuring when executables could be harmful, wonder what will happen with random data files searching for something not very clear, and of course, needing full access for that, so forget private data for any reason.
So far CAPTCHAs are being defeated by bot's Artificial Intelligence. Why not change target to the other direction, and go in the search of human's Natural Stupidity? We humans have a talent in that area that still wasnt surpassed by dumb machines
Would be a nice precedent. As judge you do what religious people asks, bans everything that shows child nudity and things like that, and then closes most churches. Maybe that they get a sip of their own soup will make them consider where the problem really is.
Some of those events will happen but in very long time (afaik for sun expanding enough will take some millons of years) or have very low odds to happen or even could be impossible according with our current knowledge (alien invasion? had to be the suggestion of the sci-fi writer).
Sometimes a chain of events is more possible than a single event, specially if those single events counts on rogue black holes getting very close to us. Global warming (something with a bit higher probabilities to happen) maybe wont end us alone, but it could trigger more things (mass emigration, spreading of diseases, extintions of some key species, war, etc) that eventually could finish the work.
Is not the same a printed book than an ebook, a full quality cd than a mp3 rip.
But even taking away the different/better quality(?) medium, is a way to paying back to the author that gave you something you enjoyed.
Is keeping that ecosystem alive. In the world you want, idiocy will be to work in anything that anyway, will be taken for free. I prefer that authors still get reward from satisfied readers, even if they didnt got their work from "official" channels.
What if they did 2-way links there? Visiting Amazon you get the torrents link, and visiting thepiratebay you get the buy links. That way you do what you choose to do, and probably all will have something to win with it.
Vulnerable? Yes Vulnerable to virus? Maybe, but with low odds.
Trojans, backdoors, application vulnerabilities, social engineering are more a threat than at least "traditional" virus (code running in user access that requires modifying system files?), for Linux and i suppose that for Mac too.
But even for windows the biggest threat by now are not so much virus but trojans too, programs disguised as i.e. video codecs that are in fact keyloggers or botnet nodes.
Not sure how is for mac, but for windows installing programs usually goes going to the web, getting an exe and running it. In linux is a bit more complicated, as you can install things that comes with your distribution (most that you will ever need, and are authenticated), or do things that requires root access (like installing a.deb/.rpm or adding new repositories) or install something under your user only (there could be a binary directly). Its possible, but much harder than in windows.
Maybe a better approach is to take the engines they use (ie/webkit/gecko/opera/khtml) and show what makes different from the best known browser using them.
The interface gives bells and whistles mainly, but the engine in the end is what makes a site you need work or not.
This food is tasty, that girl is beautiful, the orion constellation have a belt, the cars have personalities... all phrases where the described object is in fact the observer.
I think is another kind of thing. Territoriality goes around physical presence, and is a base instinct that should come from far enough in the evolutionary chain (from before mammals?). It fits in the "stay out of my room", anything related to some kind of personal space, but not in "dont watch" even if you are 3 km away.
Is a social behaviour or instinctive, we are wired for it? Personal privacy have meaning for all cultures?
If is just "the right thing to do", but we aren't wired, the environment/society/culture could decide that is the other way around. You know, like when in the name of public security the government decides that there are other things that matters more.
Vaporware is when some software is promised and is not programmed/available yet. In this case, the programming is already all over there, is available for all major platforms and probably involved hardware too, you just need the world to actually use it.
Exist a migration roadmap for it? or there are still showstoppers?
Is not the only money pit around. And if well the military money pit pays back sometimes, the investment there is several orders of magnitude over what is spent on NASA.
I agree that things must be rationalized all across the field, and even in nasa some projects have more future or cost than others. But postponing the essential because the urgent is sometimes a mistake (like when, i.e. the essential becomes urgent and you run out of time to solve it)
PKDick got a lot of adaptations in movies, maybe he is more "visual" than Asimov in his writting or his concepts more extreme.
But with a bit of luck, more and more Asimov books and tales end adapted by hollywood. Cant wait to see The Feeling of Power and The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline as movies. Cant be worse than most produced now.
I remember when reading End of Eternity, after reading a lot of sci-fi that worked a bit with time travel and paradoxes that were the Asimov's ultimate word on the topic.
Adding a bit of education to the movies arena on how that topic is treated in a coherent and unified way maybe is the minimal necessary change to obtain the maximum desired response from the movie industry.
Is a pending accident waiting to happen. Maybe because the change adding the Easter Egg the application have a problem (security, speed, space, whatever), maybe people find or know about your easter egg, do every possible misuse of the application to try to find another, and something breaks somewhere. And adding something not requested/approved by your company is a bad precedent, another way to put an "i was here" message is called "backdoor".
Is a command that even worked with the Borgs, a lot more advanced that that puny srizbi botnet.
A bit more in the real world, some years ago got so tired of getting notifications of the firewall of machines sharing their disks on internet that in a moment put in all those ones desktops a text explaining what they had wrong, and how to fix it. But was wrong, you don't fix harm doing even more harm. If their PCs are misbehaving in internet, is their ISP (or someone else they already know) responsability to warn/block/teach them.
There are a lot of games and educational toys for PC, some that could be good for that age. Now, should he have a special pc for him?
If so, maybe something very resistant, maybe portable, and with touchscreen (a pc/notebook keyboard probably will be too random for him, and a mouse/touchpad could have problems too) could be good. Maybe isnt exactly a desktop computer/notebook what you are looking for, a psp or an iphone with the right content could do the trick.
There are a lot of just toys that could be fine for him, things that he can operate, make sounds, ligts, music, whatever, but something programable could be flexible enough for tuning what he likes better or evolving what he plays.
In fact, are good news. Now the people behind McColo could be judged as at least responsible in part of Srizbi botnet, and that could be read as hacking into millons of PCs. With a bit of luck by the time they get out of jail the sun will be red.
I hear a lot of complaints about the 4k US soldiers that died after Iraq war started, but nothing about the 1+M iraqui civilians that died there, a war that had nothing to do with the reason the government gave for it, and the worst part? the president behind all of it got reelected. That count for 50%+ of the americans, maybe not you in particular, but that "self-righteous implication" could be right.
I remember reading a lot of "judgement day" style books where someone/something decides that those that don't born or are dead don't suffer anymore, and in that ground take the ethical choice of wipe mankind or a good part of it.
With that definition, anything that kills (as opposed to be badly injured or disabled) can be called ethical.
How much smart/sentient/etc are meant to be those robots?
If they will be not, they could be as ethical as any tool or weapon. A gun is ethical? a poisoned needle? a knife? You should check ethics on who handles/orders it, not in the robots itself.
Unless they got creative with meaningless weapon names like when calling Colts Pacifiers, or "smart" bombs and things like that.
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The non-completely-dumb evildoers will have plenty of ways to avoid it. So with such thing you will get the few completely-dumb ones, and, of course, most of the innocent bystanders. Antivirus have pretty hard work figuring when executables could be harmful, wonder what will happen with random data files searching for something not very clear, and of course, needing full access for that, so forget private data for any reason.
I bet in 2015 environmentalists will blame global warming for the extintion of the last ice telescope in the wild.
So far CAPTCHAs are being defeated by bot's Artificial Intelligence. Why not change target to the other direction, and go in the search of human's Natural Stupidity? We humans have a talent in that area that still wasnt surpassed by dumb machines
Would be a nice precedent. As judge you do what religious people asks, bans everything that shows child nudity and things like that, and then closes most churches. Maybe that they get a sip of their own soup will make them consider where the problem really is.
Some of those events will happen but in very long time (afaik for sun expanding enough will take some millons of years) or have very low odds to happen or even could be impossible according with our current knowledge (alien invasion? had to be the suggestion of the sci-fi writer).
Sometimes a chain of events is more possible than a single event, specially if those single events counts on rogue black holes getting very close to us. Global warming (something with a bit higher probabilities to happen) maybe wont end us alone, but it could trigger more things (mass emigration, spreading of diseases, extintions of some key species, war, etc) that eventually could finish the work.
Is not the same a printed book than an ebook, a full quality cd than a mp3 rip.
But even taking away the different/better quality(?) medium, is a way to paying back to the author that gave you something you enjoyed.
Is keeping that ecosystem alive. In the world you want, idiocy will be to work in anything that anyway, will be taken for free. I prefer that authors still get reward from satisfied readers, even if they didnt got their work from "official" channels.
What if they did 2-way links there? Visiting Amazon you get the torrents link, and visiting thepiratebay you get the buy links. That way you do what you choose to do, and probably all will have something to win with it.
Thats the definition of "scream and run in circles"?
Vulnerable? Yes
.deb/.rpm or adding new repositories) or install something under your user only (there could be a binary directly). Its possible, but much harder than in windows.
Vulnerable to virus? Maybe, but with low odds.
Trojans, backdoors, application vulnerabilities, social engineering are more a threat than at least "traditional" virus (code running in user access that requires modifying system files?), for Linux and i suppose that for Mac too.
But even for windows the biggest threat by now are not so much virus but trojans too, programs disguised as i.e. video codecs that are in fact keyloggers or botnet nodes.
Not sure how is for mac, but for windows installing programs usually goes going to the web, getting an exe and running it. In linux is a bit more complicated, as you can install things that comes with your distribution (most that you will ever need, and are authenticated), or do things that requires root access (like installing a
Installing Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (Beta) ...
Processing...
Oops, an error was found, there is no C: drive anymore.
See? You install a beta, they remove for you Windows, you install Linux, problems ended. It worked!
Maybe a better approach is to take the engines they use (ie/webkit/gecko/opera/khtml) and show what makes different from the best known browser using them.
The interface gives bells and whistles mainly, but the engine in the end is what makes a site you need work or not.
This food is tasty, that girl is beautiful, the orion constellation have a belt, the cars have personalities... all phrases where the described object is in fact the observer.
I think is another kind of thing. Territoriality goes around physical presence, and is a base instinct that should come from far enough in the evolutionary chain (from before mammals?). It fits in the "stay out of my room", anything related to some kind of personal space, but not in "dont watch" even if you are 3 km away.
Is a social behaviour or instinctive, we are wired for it? Personal privacy have meaning for all cultures?
If is just "the right thing to do", but we aren't wired, the environment/society/culture could decide that is the other way around. You know, like when in the name of public security the government decides that there are other things that matters more.
Vaporware is when some software is promised and is not programmed/available yet. In this case, the programming is already all over there, is available for all major platforms and probably involved hardware too, you just need the world to actually use it.
Exist a migration roadmap for it? or there are still showstoppers?
Is not the only money pit around. And if well the military money pit pays back sometimes, the investment there is several orders of magnitude over what is spent on NASA.
I agree that things must be rationalized all across the field, and even in nasa some projects have more future or cost than others. But postponing the essential because the urgent is sometimes a mistake (like when, i.e. the essential becomes urgent and you run out of time to solve it)
PKDick got a lot of adaptations in movies, maybe he is more "visual" than Asimov in his writting or his concepts more extreme.
But with a bit of luck, more and more Asimov books and tales end adapted by hollywood. Cant wait to see The Feeling of Power and The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline as movies. Cant be worse than most produced now.
I remember when reading End of Eternity, after reading a lot of sci-fi that worked a bit with time travel and paradoxes that were the Asimov's ultimate word on the topic.
Adding a bit of education to the movies arena on how that topic is treated in a coherent and unified way maybe is the minimal necessary change to obtain the maximum desired response from the movie industry.
Is a pending accident waiting to happen. Maybe because the change adding the Easter Egg the application have a problem (security, speed, space, whatever), maybe people find or know about your easter egg, do every possible misuse of the application to try to find another, and something breaks somewhere. And adding something not requested/approved by your company is a bad precedent, another way to put an "i was here" message is called "backdoor".
Is a command that even worked with the Borgs, a lot more advanced that that puny srizbi botnet.
A bit more in the real world, some years ago got so tired of getting notifications of the firewall of machines sharing their disks on internet that in a moment put in all those ones desktops a text explaining what they had wrong, and how to fix it. But was wrong, you don't fix harm doing even more harm. If their PCs are misbehaving in internet, is their ISP (or someone else they already know) responsability to warn/block/teach them.
There are a lot of games and educational toys for PC, some that could be good for that age. Now, should he have a special pc for him?
If so, maybe something very resistant, maybe portable, and with touchscreen (a pc/notebook keyboard probably will be too random for him, and a mouse/touchpad could have problems too) could be good. Maybe isnt exactly a desktop computer/notebook what you are looking for, a psp or an iphone with the right content could do the trick.
There are a lot of just toys that could be fine for him, things that he can operate, make sounds, ligts, music, whatever, but something programable could be flexible enough for tuning what he likes better or evolving what he plays.
In fact, are good news. Now the people behind McColo could be judged as at least responsible in part of Srizbi botnet, and that could be read as hacking into millons of PCs. With a bit of luck by the time they get out of jail the sun will be red.
Wonder if it complains about having its brain the size of a plane.
I hear a lot of complaints about the 4k US soldiers that died after Iraq war started, but nothing about the 1+M iraqui civilians that died there, a war that had nothing to do with the reason the government gave for it, and the worst part? the president behind all of it got reelected. That count for 50%+ of the americans, maybe not you in particular, but that "self-righteous implication" could be right.
I remember reading a lot of "judgement day" style books where someone/something decides that those that don't born or are dead don't suffer anymore, and in that ground take the ethical choice of wipe mankind or a good part of it.
With that definition, anything that kills (as opposed to be badly injured or disabled) can be called ethical.
How much smart/sentient/etc are meant to be those robots?
If they will be not, they could be as ethical as any tool or weapon. A gun is ethical? a poisoned needle? a knife? You should check ethics on who handles/orders it, not in the robots itself.
Unless they got creative with meaningless weapon names like when calling Colts Pacifiers, or "smart" bombs and things like that.