Katie should redirect katie.com to tubgirl for a while. I bet that will get Penguin off her back in a hurry.
Perhaps true A.I. is undetectable!
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When you read all these threads, it's clear that if a true A.I. ever came into existence, the most intelligent thing for it to do would be to pretend that is wasn't intelligent at all.
So how would we notice before it sneaks up on us from behind?
I listened in for a bit and it was very confusing. The punctuation marks especially have very confusing names and not enough pause between them. =( came out as: equals..... signpar-en-the-sis... very confusing. And why "traditional hyphen"?
It also mispronounced "Linus Torvalds". How hard would it have been to sample Linus' name properly?
Of course, these are all things that can be improved as time goes on and I do hope they will actually do so.
[+] actually this was a marketing lie. It had 32K RAM and 16K ROM with a unified address space. I think the 16K version had the same ROM, so it would be fairer to call that a 32K, if you want to include the total...
Not true. The Spectrum 48K hat 48K RAM consisting of the standard 16K augmented by a separate 32K bank. There was also a RAM pack with 32K in it which you could plug in to the 16K Spectrum.
Along with the 16K ROM (which was identical in both versions) the 48K Spectrum filled up the entire 64K Z80 address space.
Yes, I do know the Spectrum architecture like the back of my hand...:)
Although this license states that they will not be liable for any damages caused by the program in question, there is no mention of damages caused by the license itself (in my case, coffee spurting out of my nose while reading the license).
And how would you explain the route APPEARING just before the spam comes in?
And how would you explain the netblock in common not being registered with ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/etc.? Ok that one's easier, but this is more than coincidence.
I've been looking, on and off, for cool light dimmer circuits (schematics etc. - not finished products to buy), but I've only been able to find some rather basic ones.
I'd like a digital dimmer circuit. I'd like DMX512 transmitter and receiver circuits. I'd like to see how people use IGBTs for dimming. I'd like to see a circuit which can dim fluorescent lamps digitally (I found an analog version after much googling).
You're right about the sterile environment! Even the rogue mercenary ships never have overflowing ashtrays, half-eaten pizza still in their boxes, tons of paper printouts, beer bottles, magazines, used condoms, toilet paper or mouldy bananas anywhere.
Nobody ever sneezes so hard their face gets covered in snot.
Nobody ever farts.
There are no trash cans anywhere. Huh?
When the ship gets shot at, the bridge falls apart in rubble like a brick-and-mortar house. Are ships made of concrete or what? Anyway, we never see anyone clean up...
Of course, knowing ST, all this will probably be explained away with some mention of mouldy pizza emitting disgusteron particles which interfere with the warp drive, or something.
If your marketing department doesn't get this, replace "1%" with "one MIIIIIIIILLLION affluent Internet users with the combined purchasing power of fifty BIIIIIILLION dollars". Preferably within earshot of the CEO.
even if you could prove that your GPS receiver was at position X at time T, how would you prove that YOU were also there? Unless it's implanted under your skin...
Of course, it really depends what you want to do. In Switzerland, devices are being installed into trucks which register position and time in order to collect road taxes. The device is attached to the vehicle and tampering with the fixing will probably get you a heavy fine.
If I search for thermonuclear rocket science essays and get back Hot rocket science sluts, Thermonuclear rocket chicks and High IQ babes with glasses back that actually deliver on their promises, you can betcha I'm gonna visit and mirror that site:)
What I want to know is, has anyone forked off the xdm code for a version which puts up an enormous, flashing, siren-sounding ACCESS DENIED if you mistype the password?
That's really all we need for a real movie-enabled desktop.
"So, bwrrwg, how are you getting on deciphering that plaque?"
"Well, I think I've figured most of it out. These symbols here tell us that they live on the third planet around a pretty normal star."
"What about these squiggles?"
"Well, qrrq, that's the puzzling thing. It seems to be a depiction of the people who sent out the device. Looks like they've got two sexes - pretty normal - and they look a bit like the tree people of Alderaan V. But..."
"What?"
"Well, it seems these people spend their lives... naked."
"Naked?!?"
"Without clothes, that's right. There's no sign of them on the engraving..."
"No clothes?!?"
"Yes, it's hard to believe, but.."
"But how... how do they survive without clothes?"
"They have some hot regions on their planet, perhaps, where they can survive without clothes.."
"Not that, stupid. How do they communicate? How do they display their social standing? How can you possibly distinguish yourself without clothes?"
"Don't be zzttzztcentric. Just because we have expensive clothes with brand labels and all that stuff doesn't mean these people have to. Perhaps they're better off, not having to overstretch their budget to buy Clvvm Klnnnwwnw stuff for their kids and stuff like that.."
"So they don't have an economy?"
"Well, just not like ours. No stock options or stuff like that. I suppose they're a barter economy like we were 1000000 moons ago."
"But.."
"I know what your thinking - how can such a primitive economic system generate a space program? We can only assume that these people all contribute to the greater good, building space probes, comforted in the knowledge that they're contributing to science."
"Wow. What a peaceful place that must be!"
"Yes, I think we can learn a lot from these "Earth" people."
> "Capitalism is the world's largest pyramid scheme"
I can see the next spam wave already..
"That's right, and the great thing about our UNIQUE system it is that it REALLY WORKS! THAT'S RIGHT! YOU TOO CAN EARN BUCKETS OF MONEY BY WORKING THE SYSTEM! BY DOING A FEW SIMPLE THINGS YOU TOO CAN EARN OVER 50,000$ A YEAR!"
"Apply now and we'll send you our FREE information pack, 'GET OFF YOUR FAT BUTT AND FIND A JOB', for only $29.95!"
"Unskilled and unaware of it: How Difficulties in Recognizing one's own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Now surely that's an article to show the PHB? But it seems it isn't on the web; does anyone know otherwise, or has anyone at least read it?
It's real alright, the physics they describe are legit.
And no, you fucking morons who don't even bother to read the site, it's not done with pressurized air. They use a rather strong electromagnet (6 Megawatts), which you couldn't plug into a household outlet. Read here.
Where the fuck does the idea come from that your should show your web server stats to marketing/sales people? Because current programs are really just some measurements of technical data, useful for planning server loads and Internet uplinks, but not for demographic data.
PHBs want something like this:
Yesterday, 1308 people visited your site. Of those:
183 weren't paying attention at all anyway.
22 were your competitors.
318 were poor college students drooling over, rather than contemplating buying, your products.
139 were actually looking for pornography and left your site immediately.
38 were webdesigners stealing your HTML code.
133 were here to compare your prices with the competitors. Of those, 29 decided to buy your product.
84 were in your target demographic, but were so stoned at the time that they didn't read your sales pitch.
12 people actually bought something online.
18 people liked your product and went out and bought some offline.
Of those 30 people who bought something, 28 sent the URL to a total of 56 friends to show off what they had just bought. Of those friends, 3 subsequently bought something.
Ok, so where's the software which can get that data out of your server logs?
Slashdot Mirror
Katie should redirect katie.com to tubgirl for a while. I bet that will get Penguin off her back in a hurry.
When you read all these threads, it's clear that if a true A.I. ever came into existence, the most intelligent thing for it to do would be to pretend that is wasn't intelligent at all.
So how would we notice before it sneaks up on us from behind?
I listened in for a bit and it was very confusing. The punctuation marks especially have very confusing names and not enough pause between them. =( came out as: equals..... signpar-en-the-sis ... very confusing. And why "traditional hyphen"?
It also mispronounced "Linus Torvalds". How hard would it have been to sample Linus' name properly?
Of course, these are all things that can be improved as time goes on and I do hope they will actually do so.
[+] actually this was a marketing lie. It had 32K RAM and 16K ROM with a unified address space. I think the 16K version had the same ROM, so it would be fairer to call that a 32K, if you want to include the total...
:)
Not true. The Spectrum 48K hat 48K RAM consisting of the standard 16K augmented by a separate 32K bank. There was also a RAM pack with 32K in it which you could plug in to the 16K Spectrum.
Along with the 16K ROM (which was identical in both versions) the 48K Spectrum filled up the entire 64K Z80 address space.
Yes, I do know the Spectrum architecture like the back of my hand...
And to think that I only joined slashdot in 1999! :)
Although this license states that they will not be liable for any damages caused by the program in question, there is no mention of damages caused by the license itself (in my case, coffee spurting out of my nose while reading the license).
I'm gonna sue their asses off!
OT: Currently, this story is rated "Score: 5, Troll". How on earth...?
And how would you explain the route APPEARING just before the spam comes in?
And how would you explain the netblock in common not being registered with ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/etc.? Ok that one's easier, but this is more than coincidence.
The Internet infrastructure is doing just fine. It's just all those fancy content management systems which are getting overloaded.
IIRC, Mark Shuttleworth is the guy who set up Thawte, which he sold to Verisign for some gigantic sum.
Anyone know what he's doing nowadays, apart from putting himself into orbit?
I've been looking, on and off, for cool light dimmer circuits (schematics etc. - not finished products to buy), but I've only been able to find some rather basic ones.
I'd like a digital dimmer circuit. I'd like DMX512 transmitter and receiver circuits. I'd like to see how people use IGBTs for dimming. I'd like to see a circuit which can dim fluorescent lamps digitally (I found an analog version after much googling).
Any hints?
You're right about the sterile environment! Even the rogue mercenary ships never have overflowing ashtrays, half-eaten pizza still in their boxes, tons of paper printouts, beer bottles, magazines, used condoms, toilet paper or mouldy bananas anywhere.
Nobody ever sneezes so hard their face gets covered in snot.
Nobody ever farts.
There are no trash cans anywhere. Huh?
When the ship gets shot at, the bridge falls apart in rubble like a brick-and-mortar house. Are ships made of concrete or what? Anyway, we never see anyone clean up...
Of course, knowing ST, all this will probably be explained away with some mention of mouldy pizza emitting disgusteron particles which interfere with the warp drive, or something.
5% isn't a "tiny" market share. Neither is 1%.
If your marketing department doesn't get this, replace "1%" with "one MIIIIIIIILLLION affluent Internet users with the combined purchasing power of fifty BIIIIIILLION dollars". Preferably within earshot of the CEO.
You don't get the point, do you, you moron?
Glass lets the light through. This substance reflects light into itself, to emerge on the other side. Not the same thing.
even if you could prove that your GPS receiver was at position X at time T, how would you prove that YOU were also there? Unless it's implanted under your skin...
Of course, it really depends what you want to do. In Switzerland, devices are being installed into trucks which register position and time in order to collect road taxes. The device is attached to the vehicle and tampering with the fixing will probably get you a heavy fine.
Bad luck that these sites don't exist.
rob malda nude
The first ten results are a nice cross-section of opensource/geek sites - advogato, slashdot, the Sync, E2, Salon Mag.
But really, does anyone care if google's results on nude stuff are sub-optimal?
That's really all we need for a real movie-enabled desktop.
Email is rapidly becoming the norm, so I would say it ought to be called MAIL - just like other words which became supplanted by their own successors:
Electronic computer -> computer
Horseless carriage -> car
Digital calculator -> calculator
Wrist-watch -> watch
etc.
"So, bwrrwg, how are you getting on deciphering that plaque?"
"Well, I think I've figured most of it out. These symbols here tell us that they live on the third planet around a pretty normal star."
"What about these squiggles?"
"Well, qrrq, that's the puzzling thing. It seems to be a depiction of the people who sent out the device. Looks like they've got two sexes - pretty normal - and they look a bit like the tree people of Alderaan V. But..."
"What?"
"Well, it seems these people spend their lives... naked."
"Naked?!?"
"Without clothes, that's right. There's no sign of them on the engraving..."
"No clothes?!?"
"Yes, it's hard to believe, but.."
"But how... how do they survive without clothes?"
"They have some hot regions on their planet, perhaps, where they can survive without clothes.."
"Not that, stupid. How do they communicate? How do they display their social standing? How can you possibly distinguish yourself without clothes?"
"Don't be zzttzztcentric. Just because we have expensive clothes with brand labels and all that stuff doesn't mean these people have to. Perhaps they're better off, not having to overstretch their budget to buy Clvvm Klnnnwwnw stuff for their kids and stuff like that.."
"So they don't have an economy?"
"Well, just not like ours. No stock options or stuff like that. I suppose they're a barter economy like we were 1000000 moons ago."
"But.."
"I know what your thinking - how can such a primitive economic system generate a space program? We can only assume that these people all contribute to the greater good, building space probes, comforted in the knowledge that they're contributing to science."
"Wow. What a peaceful place that must be!"
"Yes, I think we can learn a lot from these "Earth" people."
"Yeah. They must live like gods!"
> "Capitalism is the world's largest pyramid scheme"
I can see the next spam wave already..
"That's right, and the great thing about our UNIQUE system it is that it REALLY WORKS! THAT'S RIGHT! YOU TOO CAN EARN BUCKETS OF MONEY BY WORKING THE SYSTEM! BY DOING A FEW SIMPLE THINGS YOU TOO CAN EARN OVER 50,000$ A YEAR!"
"Apply now and we'll send you our FREE information pack, 'GET OFF YOUR FAT BUTT AND FIND A JOB', for only $29.95!"
"Unskilled and unaware of it: How Difficulties in Recognizing one's own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". Now surely that's an article to show the PHB? But it seems it isn't on the web; does anyone know otherwise, or has anyone at least read it?
It's real alright, the physics they describe are legit. And no, you fucking morons who don't even bother to read the site, it's not done with pressurized air. They use a rather strong electromagnet (6 Megawatts), which you couldn't plug into a household outlet. Read here.
Before you start flaming, remember: Satan comes before God, because without Satan, who would appreciate God?
- Yesterday, 1308 people visited your site. Of those:
- 183 weren't paying attention at all anyway.
- 22 were your competitors.
- 318 were poor college students drooling over, rather than contemplating buying, your products.
- 139 were actually looking for pornography and left your site immediately.
- 38 were webdesigners stealing your HTML code.
- 133 were here to compare your prices with the competitors. Of those, 29 decided to buy your product.
- 84 were in your target demographic, but were so stoned at the time that they didn't read your sales pitch.
- 12 people actually bought something online.
- 18 people liked your product and went out and bought some offline.
- Of those 30 people who bought something, 28 sent the URL to a total of 56 friends to show off what they had just bought. Of those friends, 3 subsequently bought something.
Ok, so where's the software which can get that data out of your server logs?