Some day we will have artificial sentient beings among us. And should they be capable of feeling, thinking, and motivating themselves as human beings are (which is the DEFINITION of an artificial sentience), I WILL support the rights of humans and AS or AS and AS to marry.
The key will be algorithms that implement emotional feedback that affects the very thoughts and actions of the AS, not the mere capability to mimic emotions by performing a "human" response to something that "should" trigger an emotional response. It's going to be a fine line for people to realize when it's been crossed, because synthetic responses will seem very human long before we can implement emotional feedback.
You think "gay marriage rights" upset the religious?
Wait until aliens or artificial sentients walk amongst us and shake the definition of "Human" to the foundations.
Your opening title showed promise, but then you dived into the bigotry behind it. Sad.
I do agree with the religious groups that a civil union or ceremony providing all the benefits of marriage should be sufficient, but the simple fact of the matter is even those who've lived common law for 20 years and legally "married" as a result in the eyes of the law do NOT receive the same respect and courtesy as those who have been through a ceremony.
It took me 3 years to realize that and support gay MARRIAGE, not just the legal status they should be accorded.
It's nice to see some action on insider trading scams and valuation fraud, but how about nailing the big fish instead of tossing us minnows and thinking we'll be satisfied. I want to see the sharks hanging on a hook: the Wall Street traders and bankers who've cost the US and global economy literal BILLIONS.
When I worked for J. P. Morgan before the Chase merger and for a year afterwards, security was so tight I can't think of any way I COULD have stolen code if I wanted to. I don't think my PC even had a floppy drive or a USB port, and everything was on servers, not local machines. Even the MS Access '98 code I wrote resided on servers, though I did have edit copies on my local hard drive.
I went through the usual security checks -- fingerprint submissions to police, FBI, and CIA, etc. Those checks are pretty thorough, so even on that basis I'm surprised a thief was able to sneak through the security protocols.
I've no idea. I've been using JDBC for the past 15 years, or ODBC for.Net, and it's been 3-4 years since I last touched Oracle. The tuning tricks I was taught 20 years ago still seem to work though, and for most databases, not just Oracle.
I have 30+ years of RDBMS experience, having cut my teeth on the very earliest releases of Oracle, Sybase, and Ingres back when I was working for NorTel in around '89. I was on a project tasked to write real life applications with each of them so the company could compare performance. So three of us each developed our approaches independently, focusing on one database, but working together to make sure we were implementing the same business solution in each case.
While my database assignment was Ingres 1.0, I learned a lot about the differences from our design meetings, and went from there to Florida, where I soon became an Oracle DBA-level resource, brought on as a query tuning expert by Orange County's GIS department, AT&T's Payroll Processing department, and a couple others. I tuned a 27 hour GIS department query to run in 2-3 hours, and took AT&T's payroll processing down to around 20% of the run time.
When it comes to databases, I know my schite, but that doesn't mean I know ALL the tricks by any means. The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
For example, I've never used Oracle's C/C++ OCI APIs.
No matter how good you think the latest and greatest algorithm is, there is usually someone who can come up with a way to improve on it.
For example, I DO know how to structure the probes done by MSS Code Factory such that you could stuff the rule base in Oracle and use some very Oracle-specific syntax to do the probes in one query, taking the first record from a sorted result set as your "answer" to the probe. I've written similar queries for other databases, but they're constrained by how many levels deep you want to write the query for. As there is no telling how deep the query would be for MSS Code Factory, and I don't want to tie myself to an expensive product like Oracle, what I have now is pretty much the best I can do at the moment. Maybe some day I'll come up with more tuning ideas, but not right now.
Kudos to the FFT team. I look forward to reading the details, though my memory of FFT math is pretty old, fuzzy, and shaky nowadays.
I used to be heavily into computer graphics and audio processing in the university days, but I've spent decades focusing on business programming instead. Unless you really LOVE graphics and sound, and want a job in a very narrow field (including video games), I think it's inevitable that you put away the toys and pick up the tools of industry that will earn you a pay cheque.
A "not responsible for user's content" clause will only take you so far, the same as this standard software license cluase. This clause does NOT stop a company from suing you if they want to recover money they've lost on a failed project:
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Some variant on that text is in every license I've ever used, whether proprietary or GPL, including the stuff IBM develops internally.
Megaupload HOSTS the content the users make available for download, so it's not able to use the same escape clauses that.torrent search sites use.
I've never had a problem with path name limits under Windows XP, but I've OFTEN run out of PATH space and had it truncated. Sybase ASE is notorious for assuming it's the only thing running on the box, for example.
Maybe it's finally been implemented properly in 7. I haven't done any 7 coding yet, just used.Net, and I had to stick with 3.5 APIs to maintain compatability with Mono.
One of these days that will be corrected. Good to hear they finally did implement such a basic feature. BSD had it in what -- '83-'84? Way to go Microsoft -- it only took you since Windows was first created to implement a feature that's almost 30 years old. *LOL*
Ah, the ever insightful "wisdom" of the anonymous coward.
I really don't understand why we allow anonymous cowards in the first place. It should at least be an option to filter them out the same way you can filter posts based on ratings.
In all my slashdot years, I can only think of two AC posts that weren't flamebait, trolling, or worse.
That's NOT what I'm saying AT ALL. Married men are just as likely to have "real lives" instead of contributing to open source projects. But there is no denying there are a lot more single techno-geek men than women.
This is precisely why packages should only be sold as refurbished and/or repaired items, not full-price "new" items. You never know why a device was really returned -- it should ALWAYS be opened to inspect the contents and verify that there are no missing parts or pieces.
I blame the stores for a bad process designed to maximize profits.
Everyone knows my opinion on US interference with ANY nation's right to use the internet according to THEIR laws, and to require the US media conglomerates to pursue "pirates" and counterfeiters according to the laws of their home nations.
I just don't feel like repeating myself, so just hit up my Facebook "Wall" or my Slashdot user page and scroll through the history instead.
I'm TIRED of screaming at brain-dead US government policies that are CLEARLY dictated by special-interest lobbyists, not the will of the American PEOPLE.
"By the People, For The People" -- not "the Corporations." Corporations are NOT people until you can execute one or put it in jail.
An intelligent, educated woman is very unlikely to remain single for long. I suspect the root cause of the disparity between open source and proprietary participation of women on projects is due to the simple fact that once they go home from work, they have real lives to live, while many of "the guys" in the industry are techno-freaks with little or no social life and plenty of spare time to devote to OSS or Free projects.
If you're going to, as a nation, threaten your neighbours, arm yourself with nukes and the best military technology money can buy while oppressing and condemning a minority within your population (the Palestinians). If you're going to talk the talk about "peace" while continuing to invade and build on the occupied territories in dispute and supposedly under negotiation at peace talks. If you're going to take hundreds of millions in "Aid" dollars from someone your neighbours see as the "Great Oppressor".
Well, if you do these things, don't be surprised if cyber terrorism is the least of your worries.
Your own White House and Congress canned SOPA, yet you demand that Canada implement the same kind of draconian legislation that YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT REJECTED.
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Some day we will have artificial sentient beings among us. And should they be capable of feeling, thinking, and motivating themselves as human beings are (which is the DEFINITION of an artificial sentience), I WILL support the rights of humans and AS or AS and AS to marry.
The key will be algorithms that implement emotional feedback that affects the very thoughts and actions of the AS, not the mere capability to mimic emotions by performing a "human" response to something that "should" trigger an emotional response. It's going to be a fine line for people to realize when it's been crossed, because synthetic responses will seem very human long before we can implement emotional feedback.
You think "gay marriage rights" upset the religious?
Wait until aliens or artificial sentients walk amongst us and shake the definition of "Human" to the foundations.
As is oft quote:
Your opening title showed promise, but then you dived into the bigotry behind it. Sad.
I do agree with the religious groups that a civil union or ceremony providing all the benefits of marriage should be sufficient, but the simple fact of the matter is even those who've lived common law for 20 years and legally "married" as a result in the eyes of the law do NOT receive the same respect and courtesy as those who have been through a ceremony.
It took me 3 years to realize that and support gay MARRIAGE, not just the legal status they should be accorded.
Very well said. I tend to think of it not as "gay" rights, though, but as fundamental HUMAN rights.
It's nice to see some action on insider trading scams and valuation fraud, but how about nailing the big fish instead of tossing us minnows and thinking we'll be satisfied. I want to see the sharks hanging on a hook: the Wall Street traders and bankers who've cost the US and global economy literal BILLIONS.
When I worked for J. P. Morgan before the Chase merger and for a year afterwards, security was so tight I can't think of any way I COULD have stolen code if I wanted to. I don't think my PC even had a floppy drive or a USB port, and everything was on servers, not local machines. Even the MS Access '98 code I wrote resided on servers, though I did have edit copies on my local hard drive.
I went through the usual security checks -- fingerprint submissions to police, FBI, and CIA, etc. Those checks are pretty thorough, so even on that basis I'm surprised a thief was able to sneak through the security protocols.
I've no idea. I've been using JDBC for the past 15 years, or ODBC for .Net, and it's been 3-4 years since I last touched Oracle. The tuning tricks I was taught 20 years ago still seem to work though, and for most databases, not just Oracle.
I have 30+ years of RDBMS experience, having cut my teeth on the very earliest releases of Oracle, Sybase, and Ingres back when I was working for NorTel in around '89. I was on a project tasked to write real life applications with each of them so the company could compare performance. So three of us each developed our approaches independently, focusing on one database, but working together to make sure we were implementing the same business solution in each case.
While my database assignment was Ingres 1.0, I learned a lot about the differences from our design meetings, and went from there to Florida, where I soon became an Oracle DBA-level resource, brought on as a query tuning expert by Orange County's GIS department, AT&T's Payroll Processing department, and a couple others. I tuned a 27 hour GIS department query to run in 2-3 hours, and took AT&T's payroll processing down to around 20% of the run time.
When it comes to databases, I know my schite, but that doesn't mean I know ALL the tricks by any means. The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
For example, I've never used Oracle's C/C++ OCI APIs.
No matter how good you think the latest and greatest algorithm is, there is usually someone who can come up with a way to improve on it.
For example, I DO know how to structure the probes done by MSS Code Factory such that you could stuff the rule base in Oracle and use some very Oracle-specific syntax to do the probes in one query, taking the first record from a sorted result set as your "answer" to the probe. I've written similar queries for other databases, but they're constrained by how many levels deep you want to write the query for. As there is no telling how deep the query would be for MSS Code Factory, and I don't want to tie myself to an expensive product like Oracle, what I have now is pretty much the best I can do at the moment. Maybe some day I'll come up with more tuning ideas, but not right now.
Kudos to the FFT team. I look forward to reading the details, though my memory of FFT math is pretty old, fuzzy, and shaky nowadays.
I used to be heavily into computer graphics and audio processing in the university days, but I've spent decades focusing on business programming instead. Unless you really LOVE graphics and sound, and want a job in a very narrow field (including video games), I think it's inevitable that you put away the toys and pick up the tools of industry that will earn you a pay cheque.
A "not responsible for user's content" clause will only take you so far, the same as this standard software license cluase. This clause does NOT stop a company from suing you if they want to recover money they've lost on a failed project:
Some variant on that text is in every license I've ever used, whether proprietary or GPL, including the stuff IBM develops internally.
Megaupload HOSTS the content the users make available for download, so it's not able to use the same escape clauses that .torrent search sites use.
But what about the ENVIRONMENT variables?
I've never had a problem with path name limits under Windows XP, but I've OFTEN run out of PATH space and had it truncated. Sybase ASE is notorious for assuming it's the only thing running on the box, for example.
Maybe it's finally been implemented properly in 7. I haven't done any 7 coding yet, just used .Net, and I had to stick with 3.5 APIs to maintain compatability with Mono.
One of these days that will be corrected. Good to hear they finally did implement such a basic feature. BSD had it in what -- '83-'84? Way to go Microsoft -- it only took you since Windows was first created to implement a feature that's almost 30 years old. *LOL*
So if it's Israeli built it doesn't cost anything? Interesting concept. Free jets for everyone! *LOL*
Ah, the ever insightful "wisdom" of the anonymous coward.
I really don't understand why we allow anonymous cowards in the first place. It should at least be an option to filter them out the same way you can filter posts based on ratings.
In all my slashdot years, I can only think of two AC posts that weren't flamebait, trolling, or worse.
That's NOT what I'm saying AT ALL. Married men are just as likely to have "real lives" instead of contributing to open source projects. But there is no denying there are a lot more single techno-geek men than women.
This is precisely why packages should only be sold as refurbished and/or repaired items, not full-price "new" items. You never know why a device was really returned -- it should ALWAYS be opened to inspect the contents and verify that there are no missing parts or pieces.
I blame the stores for a bad process designed to maximize profits.
Regarding SOPA and PIPA:
Everyone knows my opinion on US interference with ANY nation's right to use the internet according to THEIR laws, and to require the US media conglomerates to pursue "pirates" and counterfeiters according to the laws of their home nations.
I just don't feel like repeating myself, so just hit up my Facebook "Wall" or my Slashdot user page and scroll through the history instead.
I'm TIRED of screaming at brain-dead US government policies that are CLEARLY dictated by special-interest lobbyists, not the will of the American PEOPLE.
"By the People, For The People" -- not "the Corporations." Corporations are NOT people until you can execute one or put it in jail.
Well, they might notice when an oncoming flood of traffic wakes them to the realization they're headed the wrong way on a one-way street. :)
Hey, I said I learned "The Queen's English" in elementary and high school here in Canada, I never said I was perfect at wielding the language. :)
An intelligent, educated woman is very unlikely to remain single for long. I suspect the root cause of the disparity between open source and proprietary participation of women on projects is due to the simple fact that once they go home from work, they have real lives to live, while many of "the guys" in the industry are techno-freaks with little or no social life and plenty of spare time to devote to OSS or Free projects.
Like myself. 47 and counting. *sigh*
"Flamebait" my ass. The truth hurts. Bend over and TAKE it.
If you're going to, as a nation, threaten your neighbours, arm yourself with nukes and the best military technology money can buy while oppressing and condemning a minority within your population (the Palestinians). If you're going to talk the talk about "peace" while continuing to invade and build on the occupied territories in dispute and supposedly under negotiation at peace talks. If you're going to take hundreds of millions in "Aid" dollars from someone your neighbours see as the "Great Oppressor".
Well, if you do these things, don't be surprised if cyber terrorism is the least of your worries.
Your own White House and Congress canned SOPA, yet you demand that Canada implement the same kind of draconian legislation that YOUR OWN PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENT REJECTED.
Can you see this pair of fingers waving on high?
The problem isn't CREATING links with mklink.
It's OPENING them from application code in the future.
As Apple has engaged in an all out abusive patent war on anyone who dares compete with their Dynabook ripoff technology, I say "Fuck Apple."
Typo: I meant "API", not "application".