The brain is also influenced by the chemicals in the blood stream. Extra testosterone == roid rage. Low glycemic index == risk of passing out often. Adrenalin == heightened fight or flight reaction. So while "who" you are won't change, how you'll interact with the world might be different.
It looks like some of the other bugs have been fixed as well - comments were not always full-width, which made it a PITA on large screens. Much appreciated. The message links still work for me (they were an off-and-on thing for quite a while) so it's not harder to follow a discussion or replies to posts... (shrug).
If you read the article, they make the cut using a nanometer-sized blade (silicon), which requires only 1/2600 the force of a normal cut to the spinal cord. They use a chemical solution to promote regrowth, and anti-rejection drugs BTW - the dog head transplant videos are gross!
The only problem I'm seeing (or not seeing, pardon the pun) is the hidden "Post" and "Load all comments" buttons.
Comments are full-screen (they weren't at some point yesterday, but I guess they fixed that, at least on some portions of the site), and the "Reply to this", "Parent", and "Share" links are laid out properly.
That alone isn't going to help the poster. See the horizontal green bar between the article and the first post? Hover your mouse just inside the left side to see the "Post" button. If you continue to the right a bit, you'll see the "Load All Comments" button. Welcome to "Find Waldo, Slashdot Edition".
Yep. v3 is slick. It did the job, had a simple user interface, easy configuration, and if you had a 16450 or 16550 uart in your serial port, supported 112,000 bps (which was amazing when dial-up was 2400 bps).
I guess you didn't read the question. Linux is out of the question.
The availability of telix also isn't a problem - I gave a link to it. Also, telix supports the xmodem, ymodem, and zmodem transfer protocols. The user interface is easy to understand, and it will work both on the old machine and in a dos box on the new(er) machine (or he could also download the windows version, or use (ugh) windows hyperterminal on the receiving end.
How many people actually look for bugs? ShellShock has been around since September 1989. Or Heartbleed, since the end of 2011? Or the multipe security holes in pgp and gpg?
A programmer who isn't familiar with the codebase and tries to do a quick fix will probably introduce as many bugs as they fix.
For the vast majority of users, it doesn't matter if it's open or closed - they can't fix it.
Not really that much different. Many companies bought annual subscriptions to Lovell's upside down phone books. The poll lists were public - just go and pick them up at the central polling office. And normal phone books were dropped off at the door yearly. Ditto with yellow pages for lists of business.
partly because there are lots of people who want you to be secure against everyone but them. And that includes all of the major computer manufacturers who, roughly speaking, want to manage your computer for you
...Open Source software, FTW!
You mean like the OpenSSL heartblead bug? Or the bash ShellShock bug?
No solution yet has withstood the test of time. Enigma fell. DVD encryption was broken. Various pay tv's "unbreakable" nagra encryption was broken. Various password hashing techniques have been broken. Various implementations of RSA have been broken, and RSA-1024 is probably breakable now by the NSA. What the NSA can do today, you'll be doing on your home computer in 20 years.
And then there are the leaks, the bad choices of implementations, random number generators that are not so random after all, social engineering hacks, keyloggers, you name it... there is no such thing as 100% security and there never will be.
Sure, you can take precautions, but expect them not to last forever. Look how many people still think that encrypting zip archives with a password is secure.
The professional paranoia peddlers don't like reality very much. It cuts into their schtick.
A generation ago, there was this thing called a phone book - it had everyone's name, address, and phone number - and nobody went nuts about "OMG they have my address!" You could go to the public library and use the Lovell's "upside-down phone book" to look up any address and get the names and phone numbers of the people living there. And it would also tell what economic quintile that area fell into. the Again, no big deal. Electoral lists were sent out before the election giving every voter living in your polling areas' name, address, and profession - and nobody thought "aaAGGHH!"
Now it's like people have gone nuts. As in stupidly paranoid drama queens.
My view is a bit different - put everything out there in the open and there's nothing to be afraid of people finding out. No lever to be used against you. No threats of inopportune disclosure. Problem solved.
We'll never solve these security problems as long as we're our own worst enemy.
We'll never solve these security problems.
FTFY
Welcome to the real world, where the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. And even that's not a 100% guarantee. Not much has changed over the centuries.
As more and more jobs are automated, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available, and more and more people trying to get them.
Let's just look at ATM machines. They made it possible for people to get cash out at any time, so banks needed fewer tellers. Now what happens when all money goes digital - you pay for stuff using a smart card or smart phone? No more ATM machines. Which means those jobs designing and making them, and those jobs servicing them, and those armored car jobs filling them up with money, disappear.
And so do the cash registers. No more taking cash payments and giving change to anyone. Smart shopping carts bill everything in your cart as you go through the exit, so no self-serve checkouts with a supervisor for every x machines. So, no cash money, no need to print it or mint coins - those jobs are gone, as are all the jobs transporting and handling money. No more counterfeiting currency. No more need for safes to hold cash overnight in the store. No more nightly bank deposits.
We're beyond the point where automating jobs creates more opportunities. Once a robot is designed, you don't need more human labor to make 1 or a million. Those million employees at Foxconn who are going to be displaced by robots won't be moving up the food chain.
Yesterday, Foxconn announced (at an employee dance party of all places) that they're planning on buying some robots to replace their human workforce. And by some robots, they mean one million robots over the next three years. So for every one robot Foxconn currently has working at their manufacturing plants, they're going to buy a hundred more.
Sure there is - but as we go into the jobless future, working and building up a pension won't be an option for many - and it won't matter how much education they have or how qualified they are.
Example - something as simple as baby sitting. A robot won't be inattentive, won't lose it and shake the kid when it gets fussy, won't get stoned and put the baby in the oven and the turkey in the crib... and at a lower cost to boot.
Once people get used to the concept, they'll insist their kids be watched by bots because it's both safer and cheaper.
Once almost every job goes this way, what is the difference between the 19-year-old and the 67-year-old? Nothing. Neither one of them could get a job.
which makes for higher consumption which creates more jobs
... but now even those jobs will be automated. Foxconn is buying enough robots to automate their assembly work, throwing a million people out of work, because robots are now cheaper than slave labor wage humans.
The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, showing a dramatic shift as many illegal workers are moving back to Mexico from the U.S. because there are so few job opportunities.
The new analysis comes amid renewed debate over U.S. immigration policy as the Supreme Court hears arguments this week on Arizona's tough immigration law.
Mexican immigrants make account for nearly 60 per cent of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. and last year there were 6.1million in America. That number was down from its peak in 2007 when there were 7million confirmed in the U.S.
That drop was the biggest one in modern history, with the Pew Hispanic Center noting it was believed to only be surpassed in scale by losses in the Mexican-born U.S. population during the Great Depression
Actually, they would be free to sit in a sunny park selling food to passerbys, and thereby make money for themselves. In our current system, any attempts to do this without first paying off the state are met with extreme violence.
So you have hundreds of people in the park, all trying to sell food to people passing by. Where are those people passing by going? Not to a "real job" - they don't have one because the robots took them over. No, they're going to their own spot in the park to try to sell food to some other passer-by because they figured that if so many people are doing it, it must be a good way to make money. Sort of like the stampede into app development.
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The brain is also influenced by the chemicals in the blood stream. Extra testosterone == roid rage. Low glycemic index == risk of passing out often. Adrenalin == heightened fight or flight reaction. So while "who" you are won't change, how you'll interact with the world might be different.
What if a body is not available yet?
"Sorry, the only donor body available was of the opposite gender. Enjoy your new parts!"
I can assure you that there are plenty of volunteers who would have no problem with that.
And where do you (legitimately) find a "healthy body" without a head?
Suicides, drug overdoses, co2 poisoning, accidents, back alleys :-)
Has there been even one instance of a spinal cord severed by trauma being reconnected?
Try this article. Or you could have answered the question yourself by searching for "severed spinal chord repaired."
There are also similar cases where the spinal chord has been cut cleanly and with time, partial mobility has been regained.
It looks like some of the other bugs have been fixed as well - comments were not always full-width, which made it a PITA on large screens. Much appreciated. The message links still work for me (they were an off-and-on thing for quite a while) so it's not harder to follow a discussion or replies to posts ... (shrug).
If you read the article, they make the cut using a nanometer-sized blade (silicon), which requires only 1/2600 the force of a normal cut to the spinal cord. They use a chemical solution to promote regrowth, and anti-rejection drugs BTW - the dog head transplant videos are gross!
The only problem I'm seeing (or not seeing, pardon the pun) is the hidden "Post" and "Load all comments" buttons.
Comments are full-screen (they weren't at some point yesterday, but I guess they fixed that, at least on some portions of the site), and the "Reply to this", "Parent", and "Share" links are laid out properly.
That alone isn't going to help the poster. See the horizontal green bar between the article and the first post? Hover your mouse just inside the left side to see the "Post" button. If you continue to the right a bit, you'll see the "Load All Comments" button. Welcome to "Find Waldo, Slashdot Edition".
Yep. v3 is slick. It did the job, had a simple user interface, easy configuration, and if you had a 16450 or 16550 uart in your serial port, supported 112,000 bps (which was amazing when dial-up was 2400 bps).
I guess you didn't read the question. Linux is out of the question.
The availability of telix also isn't a problem - I gave a link to it. Also, telix supports the xmodem, ymodem, and zmodem transfer protocols. The user interface is easy to understand, and it will work both on the old machine and in a dos box on the new(er) machine (or he could also download the windows version, or use (ugh) windows hyperterminal on the receiving end.
Kermit isn't as easy as telix.
In this case, please inform me what the fuck that useless manager is here for? If I have to do his job, he's essentially a waste of precious oxygen.
And this is a surprise?
How many people actually look for bugs? ShellShock has been around since September 1989. Or Heartbleed, since the end of 2011? Or the multipe security holes in pgp and gpg?
A programmer who isn't familiar with the codebase and tries to do a quick fix will probably introduce as many bugs as they fix.
For the vast majority of users, it doesn't matter if it's open or closed - they can't fix it.
Not really that much different. Many companies bought annual subscriptions to Lovell's upside down phone books. The poll lists were public - just go and pick them up at the central polling office. And normal phone books were dropped off at the door yearly. Ditto with yellow pages for lists of business.
You mean like the OpenSSL heartblead bug? Or the bash ShellShock bug?
No solution yet has withstood the test of time. Enigma fell. DVD encryption was broken. Various pay tv's "unbreakable" nagra encryption was broken. Various password hashing techniques have been broken. Various implementations of RSA have been broken, and RSA-1024 is probably breakable now by the NSA. What the NSA can do today, you'll be doing on your home computer in 20 years.
And then there are the leaks, the bad choices of implementations, random number generators that are not so random after all, social engineering hacks, keyloggers, you name it ... there is no such thing as 100% security and there never will be.
Sure, you can take precautions, but expect them not to last forever. Look how many people still think that encrypting zip archives with a password is secure.
The professional paranoia peddlers don't like reality very much. It cuts into their schtick.
A generation ago, there was this thing called a phone book - it had everyone's name, address, and phone number - and nobody went nuts about "OMG they have my address!" You could go to the public library and use the Lovell's "upside-down phone book" to look up any address and get the names and phone numbers of the people living there. And it would also tell what economic quintile that area fell into. the Again, no big deal. Electoral lists were sent out before the election giving every voter living in your polling areas' name, address, and profession - and nobody thought "aaAGGHH!"
Now it's like people have gone nuts. As in stupidly paranoid drama queens.
My view is a bit different - put everything out there in the open and there's nothing to be afraid of people finding out. No lever to be used against you. No threats of inopportune disclosure. Problem solved.
We'll never solve these security problems as long as we're our own worst enemy.
We'll never solve these security problems.
FTFY
Welcome to the real world, where the only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead. And even that's not a 100% guarantee. Not much has changed over the centuries.
The OP assumes religious beliefs is emotional and irrational. That's false. Discussion over.
You're letting your emotions lead you to irrational thinking again.
As more and more jobs are automated, there will be fewer and fewer jobs available, and more and more people trying to get them.
Let's just look at ATM machines. They made it possible for people to get cash out at any time, so banks needed fewer tellers. Now what happens when all money goes digital - you pay for stuff using a smart card or smart phone? No more ATM machines. Which means those jobs designing and making them, and those jobs servicing them, and those armored car jobs filling them up with money, disappear.
And so do the cash registers. No more taking cash payments and giving change to anyone. Smart shopping carts bill everything in your cart as you go through the exit, so no self-serve checkouts with a supervisor for every x machines. So, no cash money, no need to print it or mint coins - those jobs are gone, as are all the jobs transporting and handling money. No more counterfeiting currency. No more need for safes to hold cash overnight in the store. No more nightly bank deposits.
We're beyond the point where automating jobs creates more opportunities. Once a robot is designed, you don't need more human labor to make 1 or a million. Those million employees at Foxconn who are going to be displaced by robots won't be moving up the food chain.
Yesterday, Foxconn announced (at an employee dance party of all places) that they're planning on buying some robots to replace their human workforce. And by some robots, they mean one million robots over the next three years. So for every one robot Foxconn currently has working at their manufacturing plants, they're going to buy a hundred more.
No, programmer. But nice try.
Sure there is - but as we go into the jobless future, working and building up a pension won't be an option for many - and it won't matter how much education they have or how qualified they are.
Example - something as simple as baby sitting. A robot won't be inattentive, won't lose it and shake the kid when it gets fussy, won't get stoned and put the baby in the oven and the turkey in the crib ... and at a lower cost to boot.
Once people get used to the concept, they'll insist their kids be watched by bots because it's both safer and cheaper.
Once almost every job goes this way, what is the difference between the 19-year-old and the 67-year-old? Nothing. Neither one of them could get a job.
which makes for higher consumption which creates more jobs
It's amazing. Mexicans who can't legally work in this country have no problem finding jobs here but many citizens do.
Try this on for size
The number of Mexican immigrants living illegally in the U.S. has dropped significantly for the first time in decades, showing a dramatic shift as many illegal workers are moving back to Mexico from the U.S. because there are so few job opportunities.
The new analysis comes amid renewed debate over U.S. immigration policy as the Supreme Court hears arguments this week on Arizona's tough immigration law.
Mexican immigrants make account for nearly 60 per cent of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. and last year there were 6.1million in America. That number was down from its peak in 2007 when there were 7million confirmed in the U.S.
That drop was the biggest one in modern history, with the Pew Hispanic Center noting it was believed to only be surpassed in scale by losses in the Mexican-born U.S. population during the Great Depression
Actually, they would be free to sit in a sunny park selling food to passerbys, and thereby make money for themselves. In our current system, any attempts to do this without first paying off the state are met with extreme violence.
So you have hundreds of people in the park, all trying to sell food to people passing by. Where are those people passing by going? Not to a "real job" - they don't have one because the robots took them over. No, they're going to their own spot in the park to try to sell food to some other passer-by because they figured that if so many people are doing it, it must be a good way to make money. Sort of like the stampede into app development.