..well, there's 2 hours of my life, spent tearing my hair out, that I'll never get back.:-(
Seriously, this is the sort of shit that always made everybody crazy that Windows updates would do. Thought I was leaving all that bullshit behind.:-(
Continuing to fight wars over stupid shit like religion and old grudges no one even remembers the reason for
Human trafficking and other instances of humans preying on other humans
Bigotry, racism, sexism, and other 'hate crimes'
Ignoring homelessness instead of solving the problem
So-called 'free world' first-world countries who still have people going hungry
Putting greed and lust for power ahead of human rights and civil rights
Ignoring the fact that we're destroying our planet when we could have stopped human-caused climate change ..and so on, and so on, and so on.
..yeah, sure, we're just so fucking advanced and civilized.
You're just another blind idiot, STFU and GTFO. Preferably kill yourself, you're more use to the world as fertilizer and carbon sequestration.
No, he walks away and gets a job at a non-shitty company that doesn't insist on violating his basic human rights.
Here's the thing: You can't let bullshit like this get a firm foothold, otherwise you wake up one day and it's become 'common practice', then everybody is screwed. You have to yell long and loud, protest, not take jobs that do shit like this, have everyone make as much stink as possible, so everyone gets turned off to the idea, it never gets a real foothold, judges say "hell, no!" as well, then it's a dead idea.
Okay.. move Mercury into a lunar orbit around Venus for a while to skim off the excess atmosphere, the move it out of the way after it's done it's job. Not like Mercury is good for much else anyway.
More like 'keep the human infection from spreading throughout the galaxy'.:-(
Remember, there's damned good reasons why starfaring alien civilizations don't contact us openly, and all of those reasons are our own damned fault.:-(
It's a safety issue; someone with an underlying medical condition that otherwise isn't life-threatening in a normal average life could have someone die during launch or during the flight, and what do they do then? You speak of 'public outcry', but just imagine for a moment what the optics would be like if some civilian died during the flight? There'd be all sorts of accusations of gross negligence, lawsuits, demands to Congress to cancel the space program, and so on, and of course massive amounts of hyperbole and fake news; it would end up hurting the space program in ways it might never recover from, and even private enterprises like SpaceX would have a hard time after that.
You're missing the point. The point of this would be to promote the space program to the general public. Nobody who plays the PowerBall lottery is going to spend their money on this.
Didn't mean to imply a lottery in the sense of 'you pay for a ticket'. Also I'm sure for something on the Federal level like this, we could come up with an exception to that tax anyway.;-)
..which is one of the myriad reasons I decided to jump ship to Linux.
To be fair it's not always fun, there's a learning curve for me (see below* for a prime example), but in the long run it's worth it.
* Last night Ubuntu decided, for no reason I could discern, to start using IPv6 DNS resolution for the cluster of POP3 servers I have to use, even though ethernet had IPv6 disabled. Took me two hours to figure out that's what it was, and only then by running PING -4 (which then worked). Had to add lines to GRUB config file to disable IPv6 system-wide, but now it's fine. Still no idea why, after months of no problems, this suddenly happened. Almost believe someone misconfigured a DNS server somewhere and the error propagated. Guess I'll never know exactly why!
1. Make it subscription-only, past a modest 'free trial period'. Either that or lots of ads all over the place. Or something in between those.
2. Now that monetizing users' data isn't necessary, stop collecting it and selling it to 3rd parties. Respect users' privacy 100% of the time, no exceptions. Become a paragon of virtue in that regard.
3. Sit back and wait to see if you've managed to pull it out of the fire, or if it's too late for anyone to trust you anymore. Gracefully accept the consequences either way.
Anyone who sees my comments in the past knows I think so-called 'social media' is a cancer on our society, so it's no surprise to anyone when I say 'let Facebook die'. But if they really want to save it, the above is what I think has to happen.
At our current level of technology? No, we're not going to 'terraform' anything.
Is he right about how we can't even take care of this planet? Yes, 100%. We haven't learned, as a species, to get our shit together and stop shitting up the Earth. Every year that passes that we fail in that puts another nail in humanitys' coffin, too. Small chance right now we'll pull it out of the fire.
Live on Mars? Maybe. Personally I think we need a permanent colony on the Moon, as a test-bed if nothing else, to work out the details. If things start going terribly wrong on the Moon, at least people have a shot at evacuating back to Earth instead of just dying. Mars is for all intents and purposes a one-way trip. And yes, it wouldn't be pleasant on Mars, no more so than on the Moon, and it would be anyones' best guess whether having children in either place would be a good idea or not.
If NASA wants to promote spaceflight to the general public, how about also having a lottery to give one seat away? Pending someone being physically fit enough (and mentally stable enough -- don't need someone losing it in the middle of launch or in zero-G) to withstand it, of course. Also think of it this way: astronauts are highly trained physically for spaceflight. The data you'd gather from people closer to 'average' would be priceless.
That's complete and utter bullshit. The Ubuntu installation I'm on at this moment isn't going to just stop booting because I forgot to pay a bill. Go back to Redmond and tell them you failed, you fucking shill.
Ah screw you. You can be an abject coward and just put up with whatever bullshit people want to visit on you, but some of us actually fight for our basic human and civil rights. I pity you, try to improve.
No way in hell I'd let any employer do this, and if they fired me I'd be on the phone to the state labor board and an attorney within the hour.
To be more specific about this: If I was a current employee at ANY company for ANY amount of money and then later said they were going to do this, I'd tell them "hell, no!" and not budge, and being fired would get me litigious in short order. If I got a new job and was told they do this, I would tell them in no uncertain terms that I do NOT consent to having anything this invasive done to me for ANY reason whatsoever, and not budge. In either case there would be legal action.
Carrying an RFID badge around all the time? I've done that, it's not invasive at all. Inserting hardware into my flesh? Fuck you. Bottom line: Any company that trusts their employees so little that they feel the need to do this, I very likely wouldn't want anything to do with them. If it's optional? I might work for them, and I can't see demanding something like this of employees being legal.
Since we don't need the whole brain, just the region dealing in problem solving..
..and since we don't have any idea yet how 'thought' actually works in a living brain, how do you propose we're able to simulate it? It could involve other parts of the brain as well, even if it's in a tiny way.
To put shortly: we still have no f*g clue how complex brains work.
Which is why so-called 'self driving cars' are so incredibly inept at what they're supposed to be able to do. They're using the wrong approach to AI, only focusing on one aspect of brain function. As you point out, we don't have any idea yet how the mechanism that allows a brain to actually 'think' works, therefore we can't build a machine or write software that does the same thing.
I'm not 'squabbling over politics' if that's what you're implying. I think our species should place getting the hell off this planet among it's highest priorities, right up there with figuring out how to terraform other real estate in our planetary system.
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..well, there's 2 hours of my life, spent tearing my hair out, that I'll never get back. :-( :-(
Seriously, this is the sort of shit that always made everybody crazy that Windows updates would do. Thought I was leaving all that bullshit behind.
Continuing to fight wars over stupid shit like religion and old grudges no one even remembers the reason for
..and so on, and so on, and so on.
..yeah, sure, we're just so fucking advanced and civilized.
Human trafficking and other instances of humans preying on other humans
Bigotry, racism, sexism, and other 'hate crimes'
Ignoring homelessness instead of solving the problem
So-called 'free world' first-world countries who still have people going hungry
Putting greed and lust for power ahead of human rights and civil rights
Ignoring the fact that we're destroying our planet when we could have stopped human-caused climate change
You're just another blind idiot, STFU and GTFO. Preferably kill yourself, you're more use to the world as fertilizer and carbon sequestration.
Just sayin'.
No, he walks away and gets a job at a non-shitty company that doesn't insist on violating his basic human rights.
Here's the thing: You can't let bullshit like this get a firm foothold, otherwise you wake up one day and it's become 'common practice', then everybody is screwed. You have to yell long and loud, protest, not take jobs that do shit like this, have everyone make as much stink as possible, so everyone gets turned off to the idea, it never gets a real foothold, judges say "hell, no!" as well, then it's a dead idea.
Okay.. move Mercury into a lunar orbit around Venus for a while to skim off the excess atmosphere, the move it out of the way after it's done it's job. Not like Mercury is good for much else anyway.
More like 'keep the human infection from spreading throughout the galaxy'. :-( :-(
Remember, there's damned good reasons why starfaring alien civilizations don't contact us openly, and all of those reasons are our own damned fault.
It's a safety issue; someone with an underlying medical condition that otherwise isn't life-threatening in a normal average life could have someone die during launch or during the flight, and what do they do then? You speak of 'public outcry', but just imagine for a moment what the optics would be like if some civilian died during the flight? There'd be all sorts of accusations of gross negligence, lawsuits, demands to Congress to cancel the space program, and so on, and of course massive amounts of hyperbole and fake news; it would end up hurting the space program in ways it might never recover from, and even private enterprises like SpaceX would have a hard time after that.
You're missing the point. The point of this would be to promote the space program to the general public. Nobody who plays the PowerBall lottery is going to spend their money on this.
Didn't mean to imply a lottery in the sense of 'you pay for a ticket'. Also I'm sure for something on the Federal level like this, we could come up with an exception to that tax anyway. ;-)
..which is one of the myriad reasons I decided to jump ship to Linux.
To be fair it's not always fun, there's a learning curve for me (see below* for a prime example), but in the long run it's worth it.
* Last night Ubuntu decided, for no reason I could discern, to start using IPv6 DNS resolution for the cluster of POP3 servers I have to use, even though ethernet had IPv6 disabled. Took me two hours to figure out that's what it was, and only then by running PING -4 (which then worked). Had to add lines to GRUB config file to disable IPv6 system-wide, but now it's fine. Still no idea why, after months of no problems, this suddenly happened. Almost believe someone misconfigured a DNS server somewhere and the error propagated. Guess I'll never know exactly why!
Just in case you're one of those ACs who doesn't ever check back in on a thread: read this guy's comment, he's got it right.
1. Make it subscription-only, past a modest 'free trial period'. Either that or lots of ads all over the place. Or something in between those.
2. Now that monetizing users' data isn't necessary, stop collecting it and selling it to 3rd parties. Respect users' privacy 100% of the time, no exceptions. Become a paragon of virtue in that regard.
3. Sit back and wait to see if you've managed to pull it out of the fire, or if it's too late for anyone to trust you anymore. Gracefully accept the consequences either way.
Anyone who sees my comments in the past knows I think so-called 'social media' is a cancer on our society, so it's no surprise to anyone when I say 'let Facebook die'. But if they really want to save it, the above is what I think has to happen.
At our current level of technology? No, we're not going to 'terraform' anything.
Is he right about how we can't even take care of this planet? Yes, 100%. We haven't learned, as a species, to get our shit together and stop shitting up the Earth. Every year that passes that we fail in that puts another nail in humanitys' coffin, too. Small chance right now we'll pull it out of the fire.
Live on Mars? Maybe. Personally I think we need a permanent colony on the Moon, as a test-bed if nothing else, to work out the details. If things start going terribly wrong on the Moon, at least people have a shot at evacuating back to Earth instead of just dying. Mars is for all intents and purposes a one-way trip. And yes, it wouldn't be pleasant on Mars, no more so than on the Moon, and it would be anyones' best guess whether having children in either place would be a good idea or not.
If NASA wants to promote spaceflight to the general public, how about also having a lottery to give one seat away? Pending someone being physically fit enough (and mentally stable enough -- don't need someone losing it in the middle of launch or in zero-G) to withstand it, of course. Also think of it this way: astronauts are highly trained physically for spaceflight. The data you'd gather from people closer to 'average' would be priceless.
Did they insist on inserting a foreign object into your flesh? No? Then STFU AC, your comment has nothing to do with what is being discussed.
That's complete and utter bullshit. The Ubuntu installation I'm on at this moment isn't going to just stop booting because I forgot to pay a bill. Go back to Redmond and tell them you failed, you fucking shill.
Someone mod this AC up from -1, he's not wrong.
Microsoft will decide what you are going to accept.
Which is why I'm on Ubuntu Linux even as we speak.
Ah screw you. You can be an abject coward and just put up with whatever bullshit people want to visit on you, but some of us actually fight for our basic human and civil rights. I pity you, try to improve.
No way in hell I'd let any employer do this, and if they fired me I'd be on the phone to the state labor board and an attorney within the hour.
To be more specific about this: If I was a current employee at ANY company for ANY amount of money and then later said they were going to do this, I'd tell them "hell, no!" and not budge, and being fired would get me litigious in short order. If I got a new job and was told they do this, I would tell them in no uncertain terms that I do NOT consent to having anything this invasive done to me for ANY reason whatsoever, and not budge. In either case there would be legal action.
Carrying an RFID badge around all the time? I've done that, it's not invasive at all. Inserting hardware into my flesh? Fuck you. Bottom line: Any company that trusts their employees so little that they feel the need to do this, I very likely wouldn't want anything to do with them. If it's optional? I might work for them, and I can't see demanding something like this of employees being legal.
Since we don't need the whole brain, just the region dealing in problem solving..
..and since we don't have any idea yet how 'thought' actually works in a living brain, how do you propose we're able to simulate it? It could involve other parts of the brain as well, even if it's in a tiny way.
To put shortly: we still have no f*g clue how complex brains work.
Which is why so-called 'self driving cars' are so incredibly inept at what they're supposed to be able to do. They're using the wrong approach to AI, only focusing on one aspect of brain function. As you point out, we don't have any idea yet how the mechanism that allows a brain to actually 'think' works, therefore we can't build a machine or write software that does the same thing.
I'm not 'squabbling over politics' if that's what you're implying. I think our species should place getting the hell off this planet among it's highest priorities, right up there with figuring out how to terraform other real estate in our planetary system.
Ah, I should have thought of that.
Happy to see I put my money on the right horse this time around. Running 18.04LTS right now. :-)