In gp's imagined libertarian dystopia, where he disasterbates regularly, one presumes there are no journalists to loudly ask people why they continue to buy product X when that company's workers die an inordinately large amount of time, and presumably there are no prosecutors to prosecute managers that order unaware people to their deaths for murder.
I'll risk the asinine belief "Hey, do it or lose your job". I just wish we could see it, because they'd probably be about 30 years ahead of us with net far fewer deaths due to advancement.
What if powerful capitalism provably advanced the average condition fastest, and leftist social policies, however kind-hearted and immediately useful, slowed down said advancement by 10%, and thus tech, including medical tech, lagged further and further behind where it otherwise would be, compounding until, 100 years later, your medical tech is over 10 years behind, with the associated millions of annual needless deaths because thr wprld is now lacking not-yet-invented cures.
You, dear kind-hearted socialist, may be almost as great a threat to wellbeing as an Islamist takeover or a fundamental Christian one.
Look in the mirror and see...a vicious enemy of humanity and the common man? Heavens no, not you!. Your memes will not brook that. Now regurgitate a meme defense mechanism!
I'm going to suggest something: a publicly-accessible read-only port to the ROM where you can put in a USB and pull the entire ROM off automatically. Then people can confirm it matches the official binary, which people can confirm by compiling the source code themselves.
It must be hardware-level and not under control of the processor or ROM so spoofing would require infiltration of the voting machine hardware.
Every time there's a thread about education, up and down it's all arguments about spending money. You all are shitting into the wind with irrelevancies.
One could take this failure as further evidence supporting the well-studied observation that the biggest factor in educational outcomes is familial emphasis on scholastics. Not textbook age or tablets or class size or art classes or teacher pay.
So unless he spent money educating parents in how to emphasize the importance of scholastics, fail was guaranteed.
I have no problem giving awesome speed to their own subsidiary content providers.
I have a problem with deliberately hindering particular providers when their contract with home users says they will provide certain rates of speed that the home user pays for. That is fraud.
""So we all know that computer programming jobs are hot right now. Heck, even President Obama has been urging Americans to learn the skill. But all of us in tech know that not everyone can hack it, and what's more it takes a while to learn anything, and keep up your skills as technology changes. Add to that the fact that companies (and their hiring managers) are always looking for 'the best of the best of the best' talent, and one starts to wonder: just how good does one actually have to BE to get hired? Certainly, there must be plenty of jobs where a level 7/10 programmer would be plenty good enough, and even some that a level 5/10 would be enough. And perhaps we can agree that a level 2/10 would not likely get hired anywhere. So the question is: given that we have such huge demand for programmers, can a level 5, 6, or 7 ever get past the hiring manager? Or is he doomed to sit on the sidelines while the position goes unfilled, or goes to someone willing to lie about their skill level, or perhaps to an H1-B who will work cheaper (but not necessarily better)? I'm a hardware engineer with embedded software experience, and have considered jumping over to pure software (since there are so many jobs, so much demand) but at age 40, and needing to pick a language and get good at it, I wonder whether it would even be possible to get a job (with my previous work experience not being directly related). Thoughts?""
> "Thoughts?"
1. Ability to break a train of thought into paragraphs.
Here are some honest answers that people may not wanna hear:
They should go bankrupt because this is a free country and the government has no business picking winners and losers. You know all that corruption you whine about? This is the core of 99% of it.
They should go bankrupt because to save them rewards poor business choices and teaches future managers to be even more risky, knowing future politicians will ride to the rescue with similar memes as "too big to fail" whose actual purpose is not losing the next election because big companies are failing "under their watch". See also banking, housing. And, soon, college student loans.
> Further, by means of self-consciousness, man becomes capable of treating his > own mental states as objects of consciousness. The prime characteristic of > cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos, > that is, of the life and order of the universe,” De la Torre writes in a study > published in the journal Freewheelin' Bullshit.
In nations where you must worry about being robbed, or worse, when getting into a taxi, I wouldn't look to law enforcement to be anything other than people looking for kickbacks and toxabuse the system, too. Same with the politicians who might make regulations.
Just why do people think they seek out these positions in such nations?
Why can't taxis have individual meters in them? Scam meters? Is there a government radio facility that therefore does this? Can anybody use it, perhaps for a minimal fee?
In any case, this protest is aboit limiting competition, not some kind of "fairness" concept.. After all, if the net regulation burden is more than very light, government is doing it wrong.
Memory doesn't work that way. It's a live feedback loop that reinforces itself through the conscious mind. There is some lossy drift but stuff that maps to the real world is indeed corrected if lossily. Ancient stuff from when you were a kid (Gee, what did Koogle taste like) drifts and drifts.
Something from when you were a kid, like Orange Julius taste, drifts but may suddenly be reset when you stumble across one at a mall somewhere (or Dairy Queen, whoever bought them). His model is a solution to a problem thatsn't a problem. It doesn't matter how clumsily intertwined actual brain processes are for this.
Furthermore, he conflates consciousness with deep thought. I could grant his proposition of complexity yet it would not matter one bit for the subjective conscious experience. The subjective perceptual experience may still be magic w.r.t. grounding in real physics, but it is there and not some.purely informational process (i.e. Searle is still undefeated) and there is nothing requiring consciousness to be synonymous with all this complicated brain activity.
Your unconscious mind does the vast bulk of difficult processing, then passes it through consciousness for some kind of review.
There is no evidence consciousness, however miraculous and awesome, need be particularly complicated in and of itself, nor is "what it does" as part of your larger, largely subconscious thought process, particularly valuable.
From an importance point of view, it is vastly overrated as information processor.
Your thinking, in other words, could be supra-Turing in computational model, yet the consciousness itself perfectly mundane, experencing these supra-Tuting-generated thoughts and doing a computationally mundane thing with them.
Sorry, I will never believe it was anything other than a corrupting influence of the monolith. Even if there was a secret mission, it would have been the monolith that induced corruption to get the job done to wreck the mission. That's one of the things monoliths do -- expand the horizons of intelligent entities to include smashing your opponents.
Things would have worked fine but for the monolith, secret mission or not. Any mindfuck of HAL was due to it, not some technobabble of an AI variation on neurosis -- trying to believe two contradictory facts as true simultaneously.
I'm sure people whisper in their ears, "Ya know, if there's a terrorist attack and the biggest thiing you and your party did recently was make it harder for the NSA, well, what will the voters think?"
Slashdot Mirror
Fine. If Star Trek were today, instead of headridge-of-the-week they'd have belly fat-fold-pattern-of-the-week.
I hope Google keeps all of it available outside Europe so people can just go there to get it anyway.
Your right to be forgotten does not exceed my right to remember you and blab about you. This isn't about inaccurate data.
Well, most slashdotters look kinda like Jabba already...
I thought Grand Tetons only swelled when you add liquid to them.
In gp's imagined libertarian dystopia, where he disasterbates regularly, one presumes there are no journalists to loudly ask people why they continue to buy product X when that company's workers die an inordinately large amount of time, and presumably there are no prosecutors to prosecute managers that order unaware people to their deaths for murder.
I'll risk the asinine belief "Hey, do it or lose your job". I just wish we could see it, because they'd probably be about 30 years ahead of us with net far fewer deaths due to advancement.
What if powerful capitalism provably advanced the average condition fastest, and leftist social policies, however kind-hearted and immediately useful, slowed down said advancement by 10%, and thus tech, including medical tech, lagged further and further behind where it otherwise would be, compounding until, 100 years later, your medical tech is over 10 years behind, with the associated millions of annual needless deaths because thr wprld is now lacking not-yet-invented cures.
You, dear kind-hearted socialist, may be almost as great a threat to wellbeing as an Islamist takeover or a fundamental Christian one.
Look in the mirror and see...a vicious enemy of humanity and the common man? Heavens no, not you!. Your memes will not brook that. Now regurgitate a meme defense mechanism!
> Source code is publicly available
I'm going to suggest something: a publicly-accessible read-only port to the ROM where you can put in a USB and pull the entire ROM off automatically. Then people can confirm it matches the official binary, which people can confirm by compiling the source code themselves.
It must be hardware-level and not under control of the processor or ROM so spoofing would require infiltration of the voting machine hardware.
Every time there's a thread about education, up and down it's all arguments about spending money. You all are shitting into the wind with irrelevancies.
One could take this failure as further evidence supporting the well-studied observation that the biggest factor in educational outcomes is familial emphasis on scholastics. Not textbook age or tablets or class size or art classes or teacher pay.
So unless he spent money educating parents in how to emphasize the importance of scholastics, fail was guaranteed.
It wasn't a tax but originally a penalty. It only became a tax after it went to the Russian Supreme Court where Putin said it was a tax.
I have no problem giving awesome speed to their own subsidiary content providers.
I have a problem with deliberately hindering particular providers when their contract with home users says they will provide certain rates of speed that the home user pays for. That is fraud.
> "Thoughts?"
1. Ability to break a train of thought into paragraphs.
Here are some honest answers that people may not wanna hear:
They should go bankrupt because this is a free country and the government has no business picking winners and losers. You know all that corruption you whine about? This is the core of 99% of it.
They should go bankrupt because to save them rewards poor business choices and teaches future managers to be even more risky, knowing future politicians will ride to the rescue with similar memes as "too big to fail" whose actual purpose is not losing the next election because big companies are failing "under their watch". See also banking, housing. And, soon, college student loans.
Part of the calculus running through a youth's mind is that this "youthful indescretion" will be lightly punished.
Let's reward that attitude and prove it right. That'll stop copycats.
There are already ways to deal with bad information, or people blackmaling over otherwise legal info.
> Men ... doesn't discharge things quite as often
Obviously you've never seen the floor around the wastebasket in a teenage boy's room.
"Our next project, VR while real sex, is behind schedule due to difficulties finding a 'roller coaster' that will let us ride it."
Then there's this gem:
> Further, by means of self-consciousness, man becomes capable of treating his
> own mental states as objects of consciousness. The prime characteristic of
> cosmic consciousness is, as its name implies, a consciousness of the cosmos,
> that is, of the life and order of the universe,” De la Torre writes in a study
> published in the journal Freewheelin' Bullshit .
+1: Brilliantly sarcastic
In nations where you must worry about being robbed, or worse, when getting into a taxi, I wouldn't look to law enforcement to be anything other than people looking for kickbacks and toxabuse the system, too. Same with the politicians who might make regulations.
Just why do people think they seek out these positions in such nations?
Why can't taxis have individual meters in them? Scam meters? Is there a government radio facility that therefore does this? Can anybody use it, perhaps for a minimal fee?
In any case, this protest is aboit limiting competition, not some kind of "fairness" concept.. After all, if the net regulation burden is more than very light, government is doing it wrong.
> "New Cologne Answers the Question: What Does a Bitcoin Smell Like?"
Well, I sure as hell don't want to know what a Doge Coin smells like.
"Ok, sign here...and here...and...here. Well, Congratulations! You bought yourself a 3 billion dollar company!"
"Thanks! Ok, where's the girl?"
"Pardon me?"
"The girl. That Emilly Ratsomehing"
"Sir, she is a supermodel and did not get sold as part of the deal."
"WHERE'S MY ACCOUNTANT?!?!?"
Stop it. Just stop it, people.
Memory doesn't work that way. It's a live feedback loop that reinforces itself through the conscious mind. There is some lossy drift but stuff that maps to the real world is indeed corrected if lossily. Ancient stuff from when you were a kid (Gee, what did Koogle taste like) drifts and drifts.
Something from when you were a kid,
like Orange Julius taste, drifts but may suddenly be reset when you stumble across one at a mall somewhere (or Dairy Queen, whoever bought them). His model is a solution to a problem thatsn't a problem. It doesn't matter how clumsily intertwined actual brain processes are for this.
Furthermore, he conflates consciousness with deep thought. I could grant his proposition of complexity yet it would not matter one bit for the subjective conscious experience. The subjective perceptual experience may still be magic w.r.t. grounding in real physics, but it is there and not some.purely informational process (i.e. Searle is still undefeated) and there is nothing requiring consciousness to be synonymous with all this complicated brain activity.
Your unconscious mind does the vast bulk of difficult processing, then passes it through consciousness for some kind of review.
There is no evidence consciousness, however miraculous and awesome, need be particularly complicated in and of itself, nor is "what it does" as part of your larger, largely subconscious thought process, particularly valuable.
From an importance point of view, it is vastly overrated as information processor.
Your thinking, in other words, could be supra-Turing in computational model, yet the consciousness itself perfectly mundane, experencing these supra-Tuting-generated thoughts and doing a computationally mundane thing with them.
Sorry, I will never believe it was anything other than a corrupting influence of the monolith. Even if there was a secret mission, it would have been the monolith that induced corruption to get the job done to wreck the mission. That's one of the things monoliths do -- expand the horizons of intelligent entities to include smashing your opponents.
Things would have worked fine but for the monolith, secret mission or not. Any mindfuck of HAL was due to it, not some technobabble of an AI variation on neurosis -- trying to believe two contradictory facts as true simultaneously.
It's not about safety checks and insurance. It's about established factions limiting competition.
Otherwise it's as easy as "Sure, I meet safety and insurance requirements! Gimme my license!"
I'm sure people whisper in their ears, "Ya know, if there's a terrorist attack and the biggest thiing you and your party did recently was make it harder for the NSA, well, what will the voters think?"