I wonder who invests in Weatherbug, the notorious spyware company that spams message boards saying "we are not spyware" ? (They have yet to install spyware that says "we do not spam").
You will know when bandwidth has been maximized when you can place a raw hotdog in a bun, walk two blocks down the street in a wifi-laden neighborhood, and eat the cooked hotdog at the end of your walk.
"Perhaps have a Karma system for companies:
Every time a positve or negative story appears add or subtract 1 point."
Great idea. The business news could give daily "Slashdaq" index reports:
"In today's Slashdaq, Microsoft fell to a record low -11,454 points. Apple's rating is still at a steady 323 despite a loss of 13 points after reports of them sueing "ThinkSecret"."
"But the robots dont make ethical decisions. The robots programmers, like the person weilding a hammer, makes the ethical decision"
If the robots were programmed to, they could. Or at a minimum, you have to admit, they can be programmed to look like they make ethical decisions. You can't do that with a hammer. A hammer does not sense its environment and make any sort of decisions on it, no matter how rudimentary.
"A robot is a tool. Asking if a robot should have ethics is like asking if a hammer should have ethics."
There's a big difference here between something which is being designed specifically to act somewhat like a human, and a lump of metal with no decision-making abilities of any kind (let alone moving parts!)
Don't forget Dan Rather's new TV show on G4 after he leaves CBS. His first show is an expose on Bill Gates' monopolistic tendencies. He uses as evidence Microsoft Office 97 files which Gates filled out with incriminating information in 1977.
In the real world, what is done with your safe deposit box, or your post office box if you die and no-one can find the key? I really don't know the answer to this, but am wondering if the precedence/situation might apply here at all.
The orange banner logo is sure to please Ukrainian democracy activists. And unionist marchers in Northern Ireland.
However, they did miss an opportunity to stick it to the trolls by making a new logo that showed an open and empty tomb (An "on the third day he rose from the dead" kind of thing).
With all the device convergence, not only is there the danger of radiation, there is the danger of being killed by a Koopa turtle, the danger of hearing naughty rap lyrics, and the danger of receiving really ugly photos.
"Point well taken but I bet I can burn a CD with a 1.44mb file on it, take it to the other computer and copy it off in the time it takes one of those 3.5" POS to write the damn file"
Not me. However, I'm using that kludgey Roxio for PC package. You have to wait about a 30 seconds it to format the entire CD, then you copy the file, and you have wait likely more than 30 seconds for it to make the CD so another machine can read it. The floppy-copy would have been done by the time the first CD step was completed.
(Don't make the mistake of using the "Easy CD" package of theirs. The "Direct CD" is the easy one!).
I've done what you describe, however, in a situation that required repeated copies to test a file. I set the CD not to close the session each time. It often works less than 10 cycles before the CD fries (making it a little worse than a floppy for re-usability).
" 'This call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes.' But has it ever occurred to you that people actually DO listen in? "
Not only do they have people listen, but the same people are also employed to say in identical tones every 90 seconds for hours on end "Your call is important to us...". It's a thankless job. I also feel sorry for James Earl Jones. No matter where he is, or if it is o-dark-30 in the morning, the poor sap has to call up the CNN headquarters every 30 minutes and say "This is CNN" into the phone, at which point it goes out over the air. It's enough to make anyone turn to the dark side.
"OSS seems to have it's own brand of censorship. People who have legitimate grievances OSS usability and with how damn hard OSS is to used are attacked by the OSS community and are called whiners and their posts are often removed from forums"
Whining is one thing. Filing frivolous lawsuits (as Apple has done) is another.
With the NHL surviving for at least another year ONLY in EA's virtual rink, look for the hockey league to negotiate with EA for the rights to play if the strike ever ends.
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I wonder who invests in Weatherbug, the notorious spyware company that spams message boards saying "we are not spyware" ? (They have yet to install spyware that says "we do not spam").
If the FBI had released its information encrypted as Metallica MP3 files, it would have been a resounding success.
You will know when bandwidth has been maximized when you can place a raw hotdog in a bun, walk two blocks down the street in a wifi-laden neighborhood, and eat the cooked hotdog at the end of your walk.
Great idea. The business news could give daily "Slashdaq" index reports:
"In today's Slashdaq, Microsoft fell to a record low -11,454 points. Apple's rating is still at a steady 323 despite a loss of 13 points after reports of them sueing "ThinkSecret"."
My friend Mr. Funny Modpoint says you are wrong, buster.
There's nothing stopping them from playing. It's a strike.
If the robots were programmed to, they could. Or at a minimum, you have to admit, they can be programmed to look like they make ethical decisions. You can't do that with a hammer. A hammer does not sense its environment and make any sort of decisions on it, no matter how rudimentary.
What happens in Soviet Korea?
There's a big difference here between something which is being designed specifically to act somewhat like a human, and a lump of metal with no decision-making abilities of any kind (let alone moving parts!)
We could instead design tribble-bots. The kind that eat and end up excreting new tribble-bots.
That does it. I'm off to Godaddy to register all the robot-diaper related domain names I can think of. It's going to be a gold mine.
Or that one.
Don't forget Dan Rather's new TV show on G4 after he leaves CBS. His first show is an expose on Bill Gates' monopolistic tendencies. He uses as evidence Microsoft Office 97 files which Gates filled out with incriminating information in 1977.
In the real world, what is done with your safe deposit box, or your post office box if you die and no-one can find the key? I really don't know the answer to this, but am wondering if the precedence/situation might apply here at all.
The orange banner logo is sure to please Ukrainian democracy activists. And unionist marchers in Northern Ireland. However, they did miss an opportunity to stick it to the trolls by making a new logo that showed an open and empty tomb (An "on the third day he rose from the dead" kind of thing).
With all the device convergence, not only is there the danger of radiation, there is the danger of being killed by a Koopa turtle, the danger of hearing naughty rap lyrics, and the danger of receiving really ugly photos.
Not me. However, I'm using that kludgey Roxio for PC package. You have to wait about a 30 seconds it to format the entire CD, then you copy the file, and you have wait likely more than 30 seconds for it to make the CD so another machine can read it. The floppy-copy would have been done by the time the first CD step was completed.
(Don't make the mistake of using the "Easy CD" package of theirs. The "Direct CD" is the easy one!).
I've done what you describe, however, in a situation that required repeated copies to test a file. I set the CD not to close the session each time. It often works less than 10 cycles before the CD fries (making it a little worse than a floppy for re-usability).
Not only do they have people listen, but the same people are also employed to say in identical tones every 90 seconds for hours on end "Your call is important to us...". It's a thankless job. I also feel sorry for James Earl Jones. No matter where he is, or if it is o-dark-30 in the morning, the poor sap has to call up the CNN headquarters every 30 minutes and say "This is CNN" into the phone, at which point it goes out over the air. It's enough to make anyone turn to the dark side.
It just takes a handful iterations to drain the sun's output down to 1% of its energy. It is pretty much spent at this point, agree?
See bold text for contradiction.
"An entire corporation is too big and too financially strong of an entity to own a patent."
The overwhelming majority of corporations are very small, and many are weak and failing.
Thanks. I was going to say "let me know if I'm wrong". You did anyway. heh.
See parent.
M-rated football game? No thanks. I don't want to see a reenactment of the recent playoff game, but with Randy Moss goatse'ing the audience.
Whining is one thing. Filing frivolous lawsuits (as Apple has done) is another.
With the NHL surviving for at least another year ONLY in EA's virtual rink, look for the hockey league to negotiate with EA for the rights to play if the strike ever ends.