Secondly, TFA is a PRESS RELEASE from Business Wire.
The only real news here seems to be the bumbling apathy of the Cochise County police department.
It might have been a funny story, but they never caught the thieves.
Drive behind a 72 year old for awhile and see if you think you want them at the wheel of the country.
I'm sorry if that's harsh. We certainly do a lousy job honoring our senior citizens in this country. They should be much more respected and valued for what they've been through and what they have to offer. But they should also be less entitled than they are. Bad reflexes, an often fuzzy mind, a full pharmacy in their cupboard w/ all the side effects of that. And often a set of values that doesn't reasonably translate to the world of today. We could certainly find better ways to value and honor our most senior population, like making them an important part of the community, spending more time with them, not sticking them away in a home, etc. Blindly handing them the keys to cars or the White House, regardless of age, isn't respect, it's irresponsible appeasement.
If they want those things it's only sensible that they regularly pass the same tests a 30 year-old would have to pass for the same privileges. Being old doesn't give you the right to be dangerous. Proving your driving ability every 5 years starting at 65 or 70 is not the least bit unreasonable.
How about a 200 question *timed* multiple-choice test at a surprise time like 4am for eligibility for public office? However it's done, testing a candidate's mental capacity and stamina would be quite helpful. The last 8 years would have been completely different.
It would be interesting to make it so only one color team, say blue, could always see splash porn on a bunch of servers, but red never could see it.
My wild bet is a trend to a "physical type" skill increase concurrent with a decrease in "teamwork" seen on the blue porn-viewing side. More vigilantism and lone-wolfism in blue. Red would trend toward the "Poindexters", dodging more and advancing with teamwork. A total conjecture on my part.
I wonder what differences we would see in brain wave activity?
-Sex is easy to get and everybody's doing everybody else. Everybody but you. -It's not uncommon for 2 or 3 incredibly hot young girls to seduce some lame looking dude. Just not you. -There are literally thousands of hot young people gathering together around the globe to have orgies. You're not invited.
and of course... -A shaved pubic area is beautiful. When the red bumps are airbrushed out.
You people who oppose a fat tax like this in the U.S. obviously are not from the mid-west or Appalachian areas, where it would be an "Eyesore Tax" of blissful proportions. I think it might even help our property values start climbing again.
As an added benefit, those of us who do live in these regions might soon be able to find veggie burgers and salads that come without french fries and ranch dressing on them, without getting on an airplane first.
In my experience the major tasks involved with "time accounting" can and maybe should be delegated.
Counting beans (time or money) isn't that hard. It's the people skills or lack thereof that seem to make or break most projects. Thus "Wheel Greaser" is the way I've come to think of the good project managers I've worked with. "Keeping It Smooth" shouldn't be a chapter. It's a fundamental aspect of every part of a well run project. Projects are just that, projects, it's the people that need management, they're usually from many departments, don't get paid based on the project, and are usually putting up with the project manager as a "second boss".
It's unfortunate, but the accountant types usually run miserable projects while the diplomat types actually get people to come together and get real work done.
our consciousness GROWS for a reason within an environment.
Hmmm... I think mine might have gone over your head? I'm advocating exactly that.
Start with a baby consciousness and grow it in an environment. Limbs and nerve endings don't need a frame of reference in which to develop thoughts. They don't need the ability of "self". In order to have "self" you have to have "other". I don't believe there will ever be a way of bootstrapping self awareness, other than making an exact copy of something that is already self aware. If somehow we do find away to "bootstrap" self awareness, the result would be pathetically insane by any reasonable definition of insanity. I don't believe you can have sentience completely outside of any context, which is what bootstrapping implies.
Again, grow it for a reason in an environment and it just might work.
Put another way, sentience is not a recipe, it's a process. A cascading self-referential imperfectly closed (or perfectly slightly open) loop if I may crudely bastardize Douglas Hofstadter.
Another analogy...let's use plants this time. If we can assume sentience=>Life, then any lifeform ought to do for this analogy. Plants.. even if we can splice branches and synthesize DNA, and create a wholly man-made plant from scratch, we still have to grow the plant. Nobody is going to create an adult rose bush, complete with roots and stems and flowers already abloom. Even if we were able to "nano-assemble" one from scratch in just that way.. it would be a copy of one that did grow. In order to create a new unique plant that isn't a clone, even if we synthesized every strand of DNA, it would have to be grown. Same with sentience.
You remind me of what I always thought was silly about AI...
It seems like the folks pursuing the holy grail of machine sentience have always looked to birth a fully adult machine sentience.
Even the "pretend" AI looks to mimic adult intelligence.
The glaring problem there is that living intelligence doesn't start that way. A new "sentient" being in the natural world starts out almost at ground zero and develops over infancy and childhood to "adult sentience". An adult bird or a mouse has far more testable qualities of sentience than a newborn human. But I've never heard of anybody trying to create an "AI baby". I imagine it would begin with a machine "intelligence" that can do nothing more than ignorantly try to categorize an endless slew of sensory input and wail through it's speakers to have it's "physical" desires satiated. From there it would have to be raised like a child.
Trying to straight code an adult human intelligence is just silly. Think of trying to code any chaotic (non-random) system. The best analogy I think of right now is weather... nobody codes a weather simulation with the specific height of the ocean waves and speed of the wind in the middle of the storm. You start from initial parameters (a "weather fetus" if you will) and every time you run the simulation you get a different result.
Real AI will start with an AI fetus. For how obvious this seems it surprises me that the first attempts of this nature (that I can find) began in 2000 for the RoboCup competition.
I'm not condoning the Google bombing, but maybe instead of a "vote of no confidence" it's just that he believes that most "red-staters", fundies, and the types of people forwarding spam about Obama being a Muslim, or calls to vote against "a Hussein" have their fingers in their ears regarding things like who's economic and tax policies are actually best for them? And this is his (spurious) way of trying to fight that.
Hanging toilet paper over the top has no benefit except to make the foldy triangle look nice in hotel rooms.
It's actually a pain because when you go to tear some off with one hand you have to be quick and nimble to keep the paper from spooling out all over the place.
Hanging it under is far more practical. You can tear if it off with one hand very easily without having the paper unspool 7 yards of itself onto the floor.
DIA spokeswoman Linnea Walsh confirmed Fiola "was terminated," but declined to say if any internal discipline has been meted out as a result of his name being cleared in court.
"We stand by our decision," she said.
So now the DIA is trying cover it's own ass for giving him "a ticking time bomb" and then firing him for it and ruining any social life he had.
The worst part is that the assholes at DIA responsible for the horrible "roll-out" of a replacement laptop, and the PHB's responsible for firing him w/o doing proper research into the issue will not be punished in any way. THEIR lives won't be ruined. Even if he wins a lawsuit. It'll be money from the DIA, but no real punishment to the people involved.
Somebody find all their names and contact info (I'm too lazy) and post it. Let's send the info to Russia with requests for Viagra and child porn.
Seriously though, The Office is funny on TV, but tragic in real life. These people should be arrested for harassment and criminal negligence at the least.
What kind of laws can we enforce (and/or pass) to truly punish the individuals responsible for shit like this? Lawsuit money from the organization isn't even close to justice.
If they want to boost their numbers, they should hurry up with the darn release. They aren't going to attract new buyers with hype like last time. Most people who really want one have one. Their biggest untapped market are the people who are holding out for v2. I'm one of them. The iPhone would serve me very well. But I generally don't buy version 1 of anything. Especially when it's so crippled. Jail breaking stuff like pseudo-GPS, lack of Cut & Paste, printing, file transfer, heck it's on the network but it's almost a dumb terminal. We version 2 holdouts are Apple's biggest iPhone 2 market. Let's go Apple, what are you waiting for?
> Oh, so you don't really understand Darwinism. Unless you get heart disease or have a stroke before you hit sexual maturity, this is irrelevant. For almost everyone--even the obese--health complications don't get extreme enough to kill you with a high statistical probability until you're well past your sexual prime, and getting there is all that Darwinism cares about.
Even ants and aardvardks raise their young.
With humans these days that means we have to live until our kids are at least 30.
I don't think copyright is a big hindrance in most of the countries where XO laptops are expected to be popular.
Microsoft is just thinking "Instead of letting 1/3 of these run Windows for free, let's collect 3 dollars from ALL of them, further our brand, and look doing it."
It's sort of a no-brainer when you're only accountable for the short-term bottom line.
Teaching your son a trade or profession at a young age is something that is time honored and good and well, have you heard the saying that a cynic is just an idealist with a broken heart?
Teaching by example is the most important way to teach your children. How else do you show them a good work ethic; persistence and determination and also the ability to take joy in labor and it's fruits. You can't just read that out of a book. (Chores are not the same thing. Chore is just another word for all the good habits that aren't much fun.) So yes, I'd say if at some capacity you can bring your children into your profession then you're teaching them valuable skills and also a lot more than that. When you teach children you're doing the opposite of limiting them.
You state perfectly why a new source of energy is critical for space travel. But doesn't finding a new source of energy sound familiar?
What we need is some sexy way to get everybody on board. Beating the Russians to the moon is sexy. Heck pioneering the "Information Age" was sexy for awhile because it was so enabling. How can we make "new sources of energy" into something sexy?
Hey space is pretty sexy. As a species I honestly think most of us are much likelier to get a nice cart if somebody first sells us a sexy horse. What about "better sources of energy" can inspire us, most especially our youth?
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It's funny, but these things ARE computers.
Just look at it: http://www.rainmaster.com/eagle_description.htm
Anything that looks like that ought to have internet, GPS, and a tractor beam.
Secondly, TFA is a PRESS RELEASE from Business Wire.
The only real news here seems to be the bumbling apathy of the Cochise County police department.
It might have been a funny story, but they never caught the thieves.
Drive behind a 72 year old for awhile and see if you think you want them at the wheel of the country.
I'm sorry if that's harsh. We certainly do a lousy job honoring our senior citizens in this country. They should be much more respected and valued for what they've been through and what they have to offer. But they should also be less entitled than they are. Bad reflexes, an often fuzzy mind, a full pharmacy in their cupboard w/ all the side effects of that. And often a set of values that doesn't reasonably translate to the world of today. We could certainly find better ways to value and honor our most senior population, like making them an important part of the community, spending more time with them, not sticking them away in a home, etc. Blindly handing them the keys to cars or the White House, regardless of age, isn't respect, it's irresponsible appeasement.
If they want those things it's only sensible that they regularly pass the same tests a 30 year-old would have to pass for the same privileges. Being old doesn't give you the right to be dangerous. Proving your driving ability every 5 years starting at 65 or 70 is not the least bit unreasonable.
How about a 200 question *timed* multiple-choice test at a surprise time like 4am for eligibility for public office?
However it's done, testing a candidate's mental capacity and stamina would be quite helpful. The last 8 years would have been completely different.
I'm a 17 year old Caucasian law student and Olympic trainee for Tantric Beach Volleyball.
Will you go out with me?
It would be interesting to make it so only one color team, say blue, could always see splash porn on a bunch of servers, but red never could see it.
My wild bet is a trend to a "physical type" skill increase concurrent with a decrease in "teamwork" seen on the blue porn-viewing side. More vigilantism and lone-wolfism in blue.
Red would trend toward the "Poindexters", dodging more and advancing with teamwork. A total conjecture on my part.
I wonder what differences we would see in brain wave activity?
Gaming seems to have a lot to offer for research.
I don't like what porn teaches either:
-Sex is easy to get and everybody's doing everybody else.
Everybody but you.
-It's not uncommon for 2 or 3 incredibly hot young girls to seduce some lame looking dude.
Just not you.
-There are literally thousands of hot young people gathering together around the globe to have orgies.
You're not invited.
and of course...
-A shaved pubic area is beautiful.
When the red bumps are airbrushed out.
You people who oppose a fat tax like this in the U.S. obviously are not from the mid-west or Appalachian areas, where it would be an "Eyesore Tax" of blissful proportions. I think it might even help our property values start climbing again.
;)
As an added benefit, those of us who do live in these regions might soon be able to find veggie burgers and salads that come without french fries and ranch dressing on them, without getting on an airplane first.
In my experience the major tasks involved with "time accounting" can and maybe should be delegated.
Counting beans (time or money) isn't that hard. It's the people skills or lack thereof that seem to make or break most projects. Thus "Wheel Greaser" is the way I've come to think of the good project managers I've worked with. "Keeping It Smooth" shouldn't be a chapter. It's a fundamental aspect of every part of a well run project. Projects are just that, projects, it's the people that need management, they're usually from many departments, don't get paid based on the project, and are usually putting up with the project manager as a "second boss".
It's unfortunate, but the accountant types usually run miserable projects while the diplomat types actually get people to come together and get real work done.
And you felt the need for posturing rather than the need to further the discussion.
Good job.
our consciousness GROWS for a reason within an environment.
Hmmm... I think mine might have gone over your head? I'm advocating exactly that.
Start with a baby consciousness and grow it in an environment. Limbs and nerve endings don't need a frame of reference in which to develop thoughts.
They don't need the ability of "self". In order to have "self" you have to have "other". I don't believe there will ever be a way of bootstrapping self awareness,
other than making an exact copy of something that is already self aware. If somehow we do find away to "bootstrap" self awareness, the result would be
pathetically insane by any reasonable definition of insanity. I don't believe you can have sentience completely outside of any context, which is what bootstrapping implies.
Again, grow it for a reason in an environment and it just might work.
Put another way, sentience is not a recipe, it's a process. A cascading self-referential imperfectly closed (or perfectly slightly open) loop if I may crudely bastardize Douglas Hofstadter.
Another analogy...let's use plants this time. If we can assume sentience=>Life, then any lifeform ought to do for this analogy. Plants.. even if we can splice branches and synthesize DNA, and create a wholly man-made plant from scratch, we still have to grow the plant. Nobody is going to create an adult rose bush, complete with roots and stems and flowers already abloom. Even if we were able to "nano-assemble" one from scratch in just that way.. it would be a copy of one that did grow. In order to create a new unique plant that isn't a clone, even if we synthesized every strand of DNA, it would have to be grown. Same with sentience.
You remind me of what I always thought was silly about AI...
It seems like the folks pursuing the holy grail of machine sentience have always looked to birth a fully adult machine sentience.
Even the "pretend" AI looks to mimic adult intelligence.
The glaring problem there is that living intelligence doesn't start that way.
A new "sentient" being in the natural world starts out almost at ground zero and develops over infancy and childhood to "adult sentience". An adult bird or a mouse has far more testable qualities of sentience than a newborn human. But I've never heard of anybody trying to create an "AI baby". I imagine it would begin with a machine "intelligence" that can do nothing more than ignorantly try to categorize an endless slew of sensory input and wail through it's speakers to have it's "physical" desires satiated. From there it would have to be raised like a child.
Trying to straight code an adult human intelligence is just silly. Think of trying to code any chaotic (non-random) system. The best analogy I think of right now is weather... nobody codes a weather simulation with the specific height of the ocean waves and speed of the wind in the middle of the storm. You start from initial parameters (a "weather fetus" if you will) and every time you run the simulation you get a different result.
Real AI will start with an AI fetus. For how obvious this seems it surprises me that the first attempts of this nature (that I can find) began in 2000 for the RoboCup competition.
I'm not condoning the Google bombing, but maybe instead of a "vote of no confidence" it's just that he believes
that most "red-staters", fundies, and the types of people forwarding spam about Obama being a Muslim, or calls
to vote against "a Hussein" have their fingers in their ears regarding things like who's economic
and tax policies are actually best for them? And this is his (spurious) way of trying to fight that.
Hanging toilet paper over the top has no benefit except to make the foldy triangle look nice in hotel rooms.
It's actually a pain because when you go to tear some off with one hand you have to be quick and nimble to keep the paper from spooling out all over the place.
Hanging it under is far more practical. You can tear if it off with one hand very easily without having the paper unspool 7 yards of itself onto the floor.
Hang it under.
DIA spokeswoman Linnea Walsh confirmed Fiola "was terminated," but declined to say if any internal discipline has been meted out as a result of his name being cleared in court.
"We stand by our decision," she said. So now the DIA is trying cover it's own ass for giving him "a ticking time bomb" and then firing him for it and ruining any social life he had.
The worst part is that the assholes at DIA responsible for the horrible "roll-out" of a replacement laptop, and the PHB's responsible for firing him w/o doing proper research into the issue will not be punished in any way. THEIR lives won't be ruined. Even if he wins a lawsuit. It'll be money from the DIA, but no real punishment to the people involved.
Somebody find all their names and contact info (I'm too lazy) and post it. Let's send the info to Russia with requests for Viagra and child porn.
Seriously though, The Office is funny on TV, but tragic in real life. These people should be arrested for harassment and criminal negligence at the least.
What kind of laws can we enforce (and/or pass) to truly punish the individuals responsible for shit like this? Lawsuit money from the organization isn't even close to justice.
iWould love to make iCalls on my iPhone.
Although iWaiting for iPhone 2's release.
iDon't pay high sums for year-old tech.
If they want to boost their numbers, they should hurry up with the darn release.
They aren't going to attract new buyers with hype like last time. Most people who really want one have one.
Their biggest untapped market are the people who are holding out for v2. I'm one of them.
The iPhone would serve me very well. But I generally don't buy version 1 of anything.
Especially when it's so crippled. Jail breaking stuff like pseudo-GPS, lack of Cut & Paste, printing, file transfer, heck it's on the network but it's almost a dumb terminal.
We version 2 holdouts are Apple's biggest iPhone 2 market. Let's go Apple, what are you waiting for?
Oh yeah, and it better be good.
I'd like to see QA on that software.
> Oh, so you don't really understand Darwinism. Unless you get heart disease or have a stroke before you hit sexual maturity, this is irrelevant. For almost everyone--even the obese--health complications don't get extreme enough to kill you with a high statistical probability until you're well past your sexual prime, and getting there is all that Darwinism cares about.
Even ants and aardvardks raise their young.
With humans these days that means we have to live until our kids are at least 30.
:)
Mod up. Perfectly said.
GPS outages that can be targeted to small geographic areas sure makes me reach for my tinfoil hat.
People not just in the U.S. but around the world have come to rely on it like it's public infrastructure.
I don't think copyright is a big hindrance in most of the countries where XO laptops are expected to be popular.
Microsoft is just thinking "Instead of letting 1/3 of these run Windows for free, let's collect 3 dollars from ALL of them, further our brand, and look doing it."
It's sort of a no-brainer when you're only accountable for the short-term bottom line.
> Not really enough mass to do good damage.
\\ > Supposedly the wings can hold like 200 lbs worth of gear in addition to the "pilot."
Tin foil hat or no, 200 pounds is a lot to work with.
http://www.google.com/search?q=smallest+nuclear+weapons&btnG=Search
Note to self ...Preview!
^Teaching your son or daughter..."
I have one of each and just think faster than I type.
Teaching your son a trade or profession at a young age is something that is time honored and good and well, have you heard the saying that a cynic is just an idealist with a broken heart?
Teaching by example is the most important way to teach your children. How else do you show them a good work ethic; persistence and determination and also the ability to take joy in labor and it's fruits. You can't just read that out of a book. (Chores are not the same thing. Chore is just another word for all the good habits that aren't much fun.) So yes, I'd say if at some capacity you can bring your children into your profession then you're teaching them valuable skills and also a lot more than that. When you teach children you're doing the opposite of limiting them.
Tell me about it.
and he's only 3.
:D
I had you modded insightful but ...
You state perfectly why a new source of energy is critical for space travel.
But doesn't finding a new source of energy sound familiar?
What we need is some sexy way to get everybody on board. Beating the Russians to the moon is sexy. Heck pioneering the "Information Age" was sexy for awhile because it was so enabling. How can we make "new sources of energy" into something sexy?
Hey space is pretty sexy. As a species I honestly think most of us are much likelier to get a nice cart if somebody first sells us a sexy horse.
What about "better sources of energy" can inspire us, most especially our youth?