There's absolutely no doubt that one day us human's will shed our fragile shells; but the important part that makes us human will still live on through our "mind children." I've decided to name my 1,000th offspring, Babbage, my 2000th, Turing, and my 5000th, Moravec. No room for a Minsky in there.:-)
......That reminds me......for a laugh:
717
01:10:44,530 --> 01:10:46,521
I wish to merge with you.
718
01:10:46,599 --> 01:10:49,796
- Merge?
- A complete joining.
719
01:10:49,869 --> 01:10:55,205
We will both
be slightly changed,
but neither will lose anything.
720
01:10:55,274 --> 01:10:59,574
Afterwards, it should be
impossible to distinguish
one from the other.
If Nietzsche were alive today, in place of God, he would have said, "All of us are murderers.... Copyright is dead. Copyright remains dead. And we have killed it [with our righteous notion that 'information wants to be free' just because it costs nothing to reproduce]."
People are getting pissed, but the marketing geniuses don't seem to care, and they also don't seem to realize that the "opt-out s/w market" is growing. Thanks to software, the marketroids no longer have a guaranteed captive audience.
Increasing numbers of people now browse through localhost "junkbuster" web proxys in order to increase their signal to noise ratio.
For email, its been easy enough to trash the distict spam messages with simple filters, like: "subject contains "FREE", or two or more exclaimations, or contains 10+ consecutive spaces, or is longer than 80 chars," which takes care of 90% of my spam.
But, if ISP's actually started inserting inline ads -- and people couldn't vote down that (monopolistic) ISP with their dollars -- we'd need yet another proxy between the mail-client and junkmail-server to filter out the junk midstream.
I can't imagine this will fly with paid-for ISP's though...imagine the Post Office opening up your snailmail and placing post-it notes on your letter from grandma, or, stamping hotmail-esque ads on the envelope itself. Just not gunna happen (but it does, you can bet there's a huge demand for countermeasures.)
The NSA has already infiltrated Cisco, Lucent, and the rest of the network equipment-maker bunch. They have been secretly building hidden hardware authentication schemes into their routers for years.
I heard from a very good source that they'll soon be activated en masse, screwing all you invalids off the antiquated 'open network'. The checkpoint routers (GPS is now required) won't even allow your packets to pass over physical borders unless your digital passport can be validated, and the source and destination localities have agreed to let you communicate.
The French suddenly can't buy Nazi memorabilia, the Chinese are kept inside the virtual wall, New Yorkers can't log in to StripClub.com, and ALL connections to cryptome, 2600, and ILoveThePurpleDinosaur.com are denied on this new 'Good Citizen' FedNet.
The War on Drugs will turn out to be nothing compared to the War on AlterFreenet.
Such an effort on the moon would change life as we know it here on earth, and could eliminate fossil fuel needs by 2010...
Since no capitalist -- including Big Oil -- will have the nerve to try and insinuate themselves between the natural resource that is the Sun, and the people, 2010 is a bit optimistic. IIRC, the industry itself released a report that predicted their own "death" by 2020.
Cheap energy can't thrive until the vested interests in non-renewables have died a horrible death (which will be thanks in large part to molecular manufacturing)...
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There's absolutely no doubt that one day us human's will shed our fragile shells; but the important part that makes us human will still live on through our "mind children." I've decided to name my 1,000th offspring, Babbage, my 2000th, Turing, and my 5000th, Moravec. No room for a Minsky in there. :-)
717 01:10:44,530 --> 01:10:46,521 I wish to merge with you.
718 01:10:46,599 --> 01:10:49,796 - Merge? - A complete joining.
719 01:10:49,869 --> 01:10:55,205 We will both be slightly changed, but neither will lose anything.
720 01:10:55,274 --> 01:10:59,574 Afterwards, it should be impossible to distinguish one from the other.
Increasing numbers of people now browse through localhost "junkbuster" web proxys in order to increase their signal to noise ratio.
For email, its been easy enough to trash the distict spam messages with simple filters, like: "subject contains "FREE", or two or more exclaimations, or contains 10+ consecutive spaces, or is longer than 80 chars," which takes care of 90% of my spam.
But, if ISP's actually started inserting inline ads -- and people couldn't vote down that (monopolistic) ISP with their dollars -- we'd need yet another proxy between the mail-client and junkmail-server to filter out the junk midstream.
I can't imagine this will fly with paid-for ISP's though...imagine the Post Office opening up your snailmail and placing post-it notes on your letter from grandma, or, stamping hotmail-esque ads on the envelope itself. Just not gunna happen (but it does, you can bet there's a huge demand for countermeasures.)
It costs exactly the same amount to run the setup script for the cheapo account as it does for the "high-end" 1GB/day accounts.
Oh, and if you're paying more than $3 per GB in xfer, you're a sucker.
The NSA has already infiltrated Cisco, Lucent, and the rest of the network equipment-maker bunch. They have been secretly building hidden hardware authentication schemes into their routers for years.
I heard from a very good source that they'll soon be activated en masse, screwing all you invalids off the antiquated 'open network'. The checkpoint routers (GPS is now required) won't even allow your packets to pass over physical borders unless your digital passport can be validated, and the source and destination localities have agreed to let you communicate.
The French suddenly can't buy Nazi memorabilia, the Chinese are kept inside the virtual wall, New Yorkers can't log in to StripClub.com, and ALL connections to cryptome, 2600, and ILoveThePurpleDinosaur.com are denied on this new 'Good Citizen' FedNet.
The War on Drugs will turn out to be nothing compared to the War on AlterFreenet.
Or not. :-)
Since no capitalist -- including Big Oil -- will have the nerve to try and insinuate themselves between the natural resource that is the Sun, and the people, 2010 is a bit optimistic. IIRC, the industry itself released a report that predicted their own "death" by 2020.
Cheap energy can't thrive until the vested interests in non-renewables have died a horrible death (which will be thanks in large part to molecular manufacturing)...
Just my opinion.