Honestly, not many of us were alive during our ancestors' time, so I'm guessing we've got squat on what they were actually doing for as a daily routine (save some fantastical 'reconstructions').
"I.T. outside of nuclear power plants and healthcare: if you ignore a call, people might not be able to use the latest fart app for two hours."
Lol, yeah, no. See, there's this thing called feature creep. And IT has it. So the people who are only supposed to be in charge of the computers end up running the elevators, electrical systems, plumbing, etc.
Consider the people we work for, who, if prompted several dozen times, can almost remember *one* password. And don't understand the necessity of having multiple, difficult passwords. It's a war of attrition, brought on by laziness.
"Vaccines are beneficial, GMO has yet to offer any significant benefit."
Except the removal of various pests from destroying our crops? Avoiding famine is a fairly significant benefit.
"Vaccines are peer-reviewed, GMO is not."
Yes, and no. If you are speaking in a strictly academic sense, then yes, I concede that vaccines may be more closely reviewed than GMO crops. However, GMO crops are still closely watched, by the producer of that seed, the farmers who grow it, and the government.
"Vaccines are not made with the sort of GMO that is of concern."
Oh, I think it is of some concern. Fear of GMO leads to fear of Vaccines -> I imagine there is a wonderful diagram that shows a beautiful convergence between people who fear GMO, and Anti-Vaxxers.
"Only a moron links unassociated issues. Don't be a moron."
Ad hominem.
"Oh, and get off my lawn."
You seem to be associating my high uid with age; this is not the first account I've made on/. (lost the password to the original).
Indeed. But now we have to contend with mismanaged funds (always a problem), and idiot savants using AI algorithms to scour newsfeeds for good / bad information (and automatically engage in buying / selling).
And they really went SEO over this one. The Asus forums I frequent all had interesting "posts" about this problem, typically followed by a single post stating that one must acquire admin rights before anything can be exploited (and if they already have admin rights, they don't exactly need an exploit at that point...).
Tried it, hated it. What I wanted was a RSS reader that was smart enough to use regular expressions / follow the damn links to the content, but instead got something which was half-email / half-webbrowser.
For instance, there are, perhaps, several dozen webcomics that use RSS; Dilbert might publish the actual image inside the RSS feed, while Slightly Damned might include a link to their latest webcomic; in either case, it's annoying -> I want to be able to tell the RSS reader to grab ONLY the images (from wherever), and to display it all like on the cartoon pages of a newspaper (back when we had those; use a grid layout or something).
Same things with major stories: I want paragraphs...the reader I was using would give it to you in a line, like email -> I want the headline + a customizable amount of text following that, ala a newspaper.
Instead it just became unnecessary work. Reuter's homepage had things more properly organized than I could make them in the reader. As for the comics, I hate having to read a post, to find a link, that says that you have the latest up on your website (so take me there)...it's an unnecessary amount of clicking.
I keep a small cache of enticing files in several places, including Dropbox. Things with names that the curious will want to know more about, or run to their superiors with. The content itself is banal, but it does make for some quiet entertainment, to think of which idiots think they have a winner by snooping on my sh*t.
You assume there is anything to fix. From all appearances, the subway system is working as intended: delivering daily punishment to those who ride it; for it is the suffering of the souls within that counts, not whether they actually get to their destinations in a suitable condition and appropriate time.
1.) Until Sentient AI gets here, we won't know what we are dealing with. As such, preparing for a war seems premature.
2.) Please don't put the very people likely to build SkyNet in charge of overseeing the development of AIs. This will almost certainly get us a malicious one.
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Why are people downvoting the truth?
Honestly, not many of us were alive during our ancestors' time, so I'm guessing we've got squat on what they were actually doing for as a daily routine (save some fantastical 'reconstructions').
"I.T. outside of nuclear power plants and healthcare: if you ignore a call, people might not be able to use the latest fart app for two hours."
Lol, yeah, no. See, there's this thing called feature creep. And IT has it. So the people who are only supposed to be in charge of the computers end up running the elevators, electrical systems, plumbing, etc.
This is actually a good way to get doctors to stop using the service.
Nice to see the sysadmin role will be coming back into vogue soon.
Consider the people we work for, who, if prompted several dozen times, can almost remember *one* password. And don't understand the necessity of having multiple, difficult passwords. It's a war of attrition, brought on by laziness.
I approve of this plan.
Perhaps, but tampering with a sufficiently advanced system with an insufficient amount of information normally does not lead to good things.
This kills the human race.
Sounds like fun, but remember, it's the females who get pregnant, not the males. Why leave things up to chance?
That can be achieved without Nerds. All you need is a big enough war...
"Vaccines are beneficial, GMO has yet to offer any significant benefit."
Except the removal of various pests from destroying our crops? Avoiding famine is a fairly significant benefit.
"Vaccines are peer-reviewed, GMO is not."
Yes, and no. If you are speaking in a strictly academic sense, then yes, I concede that vaccines may be more closely reviewed than GMO crops. However, GMO crops are still closely watched, by the producer of that seed, the farmers who grow it, and the government.
"Vaccines are not made with the sort of GMO that is of concern."
Oh, I think it is of some concern. Fear of GMO leads to fear of Vaccines -> I imagine there is a wonderful diagram that shows a beautiful convergence between people who fear GMO, and Anti-Vaxxers.
"Only a moron links unassociated issues. Don't be a moron."
Ad hominem.
"Oh, and get off my lawn."
You seem to be associating my high uid with age; this is not the first account I've made on /. (lost the password to the original).
And Vaccines! A lot of them are made with genetically modified organisms as well. /s
Indeed. But now we have to contend with mismanaged funds (always a problem), and idiot savants using AI algorithms to scour newsfeeds for good / bad information (and automatically engage in buying / selling).
And they really went SEO over this one. The Asus forums I frequent all had interesting "posts" about this problem, typically followed by a single post stating that one must acquire admin rights before anything can be exploited (and if they already have admin rights, they don't exactly need an exploit at that point...).
Tried it, hated it. What I wanted was a RSS reader that was smart enough to use regular expressions / follow the damn links to the content, but instead got something which was half-email / half-webbrowser.
For instance, there are, perhaps, several dozen webcomics that use RSS; Dilbert might publish the actual image inside the RSS feed, while Slightly Damned might include a link to their latest webcomic; in either case, it's annoying -> I want to be able to tell the RSS reader to grab ONLY the images (from wherever), and to display it all like on the cartoon pages of a newspaper (back when we had those; use a grid layout or something).
Same things with major stories: I want paragraphs...the reader I was using would give it to you in a line, like email -> I want the headline + a customizable amount of text following that, ala a newspaper.
Instead it just became unnecessary work. Reuter's homepage had things more properly organized than I could make them in the reader. As for the comics, I hate having to read a post, to find a link, that says that you have the latest up on your website (so take me there)...it's an unnecessary amount of clicking.
I keep a small cache of enticing files in several places, including Dropbox. Things with names that the curious will want to know more about, or run to their superiors with. The content itself is banal, but it does make for some quiet entertainment, to think of which idiots think they have a winner by snooping on my sh*t.
The goals of the people in charge of upgrading and maintaining the subway system may be orthogonal to those who ride it.
You assume there is anything to fix. From all appearances, the subway system is working as intended: delivering daily punishment to those who ride it; for it is the suffering of the souls within that counts, not whether they actually get to their destinations in a suitable condition and appropriate time.
It says that even the least members of human race are still human.
A photo of one of the survivors of Auschwitz (day of liberation).
1.) Until Sentient AI gets here, we won't know what we are dealing with. As such, preparing for a war seems premature.
2.) Please don't put the very people likely to build SkyNet in charge of overseeing the development of AIs. This will almost certainly get us a malicious one.
Agreed. And the previous posting had more information.
They are having enough problems with their current line of motherboards...basically, if your RAM is Hynix-based, you're SOL.
Half Life 2 is as far as I am willing to push it.
Yeah, I'm not buying it.