The next generation or two will come to consider self-driving cars and wide-spread surveillance and monitoring to be "normal." They won't have grown up knowing anything else.
They'll consider the elderly who rant about "freedom" to be just a bunch of pathetic old Alzheimer's-addled lunatics.:(
I think you misunderstand why people want to clone porn stars. There seems to be a general presumption that clones would have no human rights, so they could be used as slaves, whether sexual or otherwise. There are even those who envision growing clones for the sole purpose of killing them and harvesting their organs to save the original donor of the clone.
Until the question of human clone rights are addressed, cloning of humans can not be allowed to proceed.
No one will be held accountable, because everyone that should be holding people accountable is in on the game. Congress, Senate, courts, DEA, CIA, FBI, the whole shebang of three letter organizations and departments, right on up to your President.
In fact, it seems to be pretty much a global denial of personal rights -- Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Germany -- they're all complicit with the spying and trade information back and forth amongst each other.
The sad thing is that the fascists and corporations have won. The only "uprising" there has been so far is people bitching on the internet, myself included. Sure I emailed my Member of Parliament, and the Prime Minister's Office, but I know how much my opinion really counts for in the halls of power: fuck all. Just a nuisance, really, because some peon is forced to forward the emails to a "responsible department" that is likely deluged with similar complaints.
We're not going to see change this time without armed rebellions, I think. We're stuck with fucking clowns like Harper and Obama and their ilk, because they flat out refuse to acknowledge that they've done anything wrong. They're in such a circle-jerk of self-congratulations that they can't hear the public's opinions any more.
I do love to see a comment bouncing up and down from troll to insightful as the "-1 disagree" malcontents fight with the "+1 made me think" supporters.:)
I also enjoy reading the -1 posts that follow below, especially the vitriolic bile that spews from the true trolls who can't come up with an actual constructive statement or argument. When they "flame" me with their hatred, it means they can't argue with me -- I've won the debate.
But most of all, I enjoy reading the counterpoints that make me think. Especially if they actually manage to convince me I was wrong. Because that means I learned something, and there is nothing more valuable in life than to learn.
Someone said that I post under a pseudonym. I do not. "M" is for Mark. The last name is as spelled. I started programming way back in the late 70s and went to university in the early 80s. Before there was any more internet than UUCP. When the first mosaic browsers were created. When everything was based on teletypes and text mode terminals that could only go "beep" in response to a CTRL-G.
Back then people contributed to the discussion systems, such as they were. We emailed with our proper ids. We had no aliases nor pseudonyms save for the naming restrictions enforced by the system administrators of the machines we worked on and the organizations who owned them. Typically the signature for an email was one's real name, phone number, and address so one could discuss the work and the research.
The modern day kids are cowards. They're so afraid of being flamed that you'd think it was something more than impotent words from infantile minds.
But after reading through the responses to my post, I admit one thing: You have to really be willing to take criticism with a grain of salt if you're going to post under your real name.:P
If you are afraid to be known for your comments and insist on posting anonymously, then your credibility isn't worth shit and your comments are, for the most part, not worth consideration.
There are occasionally exceptions where people *need* to remain anonymous for fear of lawsuits or termination from their jobs, but that's about the only exception I can think of unless you're worried about getting arrested by the NSA/DEA/CSIS/government-agency-of-your-choice.
Timely releases of the Linux kernel don't hurt anything anyhow, because most of the packagers and distributors don't release the updates until they've had further testing. In fact, most distros lock in at a particular kernel release, and backport patches to *that* release rather than updating the whole kernel.
So there are really three levels: dev, stable, and production.
And all you have to sacrifice is your right to privacy and anonymity. To be watched 24/7 every time you leave your house. And if you have an XBox One, even while you're in your house.
I hope they don't force this on Windows 8 users. My folks would hate it. Currently they live most of their lives on the desktop, save for card games and starting applications with the Metro menu. But if they were forced to live in the single-application-full-screen "vision" of Metro for Firefox, they'd be *pissed*.
The streams from these "cop cameras" have to be restricted so that they can only be accessed by the officer's supervisors and with a subpoena. I strongly object to the proposals some have made that the footage be made public. I do not want my every interaction with the police made public, even if it's getting a jaywalking ticket.
"Innocent until proven guilty" can't be achieved when facing the court of public opinion.
I quoted "understand" because there are many levels of understanding from mapping the atomic meaning of words based on sentence structure through to contextual awareness and full scale sentience.
That's the whole point about "context", though. It's not just the context of the sentence at issue, but the context of the knowledge to be evaluated, the "memory" of the computer if you will. It's an exponential data store that's required, and then some, even when using pattern matching and analysis to identify relevant "thoughts" of memory.
People are irrational. They ask stupid questions that make no sense. They use slang that confuses the communication. They have horrible grammar and spelling. And overseeing it all is a language fraught with multiple meanings for words depending on the context, which may well include sentences and paragraphs leading up to the sentence being analyzed.
Is it any surprise that computers can't "understand" what we mean, given the minefield of language?
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The next generation or two will come to consider self-driving cars and wide-spread surveillance and monitoring to be "normal." They won't have grown up knowing anything else.
They'll consider the elderly who rant about "freedom" to be just a bunch of pathetic old Alzheimer's-addled lunatics. :(
I think you misunderstand why people want to clone porn stars. There seems to be a general presumption that clones would have no human rights, so they could be used as slaves, whether sexual or otherwise. There are even those who envision growing clones for the sole purpose of killing them and harvesting their organs to save the original donor of the clone.
Until the question of human clone rights are addressed, cloning of humans can not be allowed to proceed.
William Gibson's writing seems to be coming closer to reality every day. Unfortunately.
Because the technology will be abused. No doubt of it.
No one will be held accountable, because everyone that should be holding people accountable is in on the game. Congress, Senate, courts, DEA, CIA, FBI, the whole shebang of three letter organizations and departments, right on up to your President.
In fact, it seems to be pretty much a global denial of personal rights -- Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Germany -- they're all complicit with the spying and trade information back and forth amongst each other.
The sad thing is that the fascists and corporations have won. The only "uprising" there has been so far is people bitching on the internet, myself included. Sure I emailed my Member of Parliament, and the Prime Minister's Office, but I know how much my opinion really counts for in the halls of power: fuck all. Just a nuisance, really, because some peon is forced to forward the emails to a "responsible department" that is likely deluged with similar complaints.
We're not going to see change this time without armed rebellions, I think. We're stuck with fucking clowns like Harper and Obama and their ilk, because they flat out refuse to acknowledge that they've done anything wrong. They're in such a circle-jerk of self-congratulations that they can't hear the public's opinions any more.
Shrug.
Bothers me not.
If people can't come up with a better argument than to call me an "ass", I'm not too worried.
I do love to see a comment bouncing up and down from troll to insightful as the "-1 disagree" malcontents fight with the "+1 made me think" supporters. :)
I also enjoy reading the -1 posts that follow below, especially the vitriolic bile that spews from the true trolls who can't come up with an actual constructive statement or argument. When they "flame" me with their hatred, it means they can't argue with me -- I've won the debate.
But most of all, I enjoy reading the counterpoints that make me think. Especially if they actually manage to convince me I was wrong. Because that means I learned something, and there is nothing more valuable in life than to learn.
Someone said that I post under a pseudonym. I do not. "M" is for Mark. The last name is as spelled. I started programming way back in the late 70s and went to university in the early 80s. Before there was any more internet than UUCP. When the first mosaic browsers were created. When everything was based on teletypes and text mode terminals that could only go "beep" in response to a CTRL-G.
Back then people contributed to the discussion systems, such as they were. We emailed with our proper ids. We had no aliases nor pseudonyms save for the naming restrictions enforced by the system administrators of the machines we worked on and the organizations who owned them. Typically the signature for an email was one's real name, phone number, and address so one could discuss the work and the research.
The modern day kids are cowards. They're so afraid of being flamed that you'd think it was something more than impotent words from infantile minds.
But after reading through the responses to my post, I admit one thing: You have to really be willing to take criticism with a grain of salt if you're going to post under your real name. :P
I wouldn't have read the anonymous article.
Oh really? First name Mark. Last name as spelled. Always has been, always will be. :P
If you are afraid to be known for your comments and insist on posting anonymously, then your credibility isn't worth shit and your comments are, for the most part, not worth consideration.
There are occasionally exceptions where people *need* to remain anonymous for fear of lawsuits or termination from their jobs, but that's about the only exception I can think of unless you're worried about getting arrested by the NSA/DEA/CSIS/government-agency-of-your-choice.
Identify yourself or be laughed at and ridiculed.
If you are using a shell script to "generate" apps, then the bar has been set even lower than I first thought. :(
Timely releases of the Linux kernel don't hurt anything anyhow, because most of the packagers and distributors don't release the updates until they've had further testing. In fact, most distros lock in at a particular kernel release, and backport patches to *that* release rather than updating the whole kernel.
So there are really three levels: dev, stable, and production.
If a shell script is an "app", then the bar has been set too low.
The above, of course, is the kind of rabid response that the over-reaching actions of the government and it's agents are causing.
These morons are creating the next generation of terrorists with their stupidity.
With such bargain pricing it's no wonder Dell is in the shitter. :(
Duffy is still a senator and still being paid. The PMO's mouthpiece quit and was not fired as punishment.
Distract, deceive, distort.
Ever the Conservative mantra in Canada.
And all you have to sacrifice is your right to privacy and anonymity. To be watched 24/7 every time you leave your house. And if you have an XBox One, even while you're in your house.
Screw that.
Exactly. Cooling effectiveness can be empirically tested.
In fact there seem to be a lot of people in the "modding" market that do exactly that.
It's bad enough to hear people yelling at their phones in the cubes around. Now one can expect to hear someone yelling at the computer...
I hope they don't force this on Windows 8 users. My folks would hate it. Currently they live most of their lives on the desktop, save for card games and starting applications with the Metro menu. But if they were forced to live in the single-application-full-screen "vision" of Metro for Firefox, they'd be *pissed*.
The streams from these "cop cameras" have to be restricted so that they can only be accessed by the officer's supervisors and with a subpoena. I strongly object to the proposals some have made that the footage be made public. I do not want my every interaction with the police made public, even if it's getting a jaywalking ticket.
"Innocent until proven guilty" can't be achieved when facing the court of public opinion.
I quoted "understand" because there are many levels of understanding from mapping the atomic meaning of words based on sentence structure through to contextual awareness and full scale sentience.
That's the whole point about "context", though. It's not just the context of the sentence at issue, but the context of the knowledge to be evaluated, the "memory" of the computer if you will. It's an exponential data store that's required, and then some, even when using pattern matching and analysis to identify relevant "thoughts" of memory.
People are irrational. They ask stupid questions that make no sense. They use slang that confuses the communication. They have horrible grammar and spelling. And overseeing it all is a language fraught with multiple meanings for words depending on the context, which may well include sentences and paragraphs leading up to the sentence being analyzed.
Is it any surprise that computers can't "understand" what we mean, given the minefield of language?
Your approach has one big glaring gigantic behemoth flaw:
You can't submit the form data as a form any more when you inject a frame in such a fashion.