User: ddbsa

The human inside the machine.

On: Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form

> If Robert is 700 part Ultimate Brain and 1 part Robert; and
> Ray is 700 parts SuperiorBrain and 1 part Ray ... i.e.,
> if the human portions of the post-Singularity cyborg beings
> are minimal and relatively un-utilized ... then, in what sense
> will these creatures really be human?
> In what sense will they really be Robert and Ray?

IMO, as long as there are enough cycles to run the 'ego subroutines' from the original bioform then the same sense of self will be maintained.

It's when these original 'ego subroutines' (which will be a line item in process accounting) are altered will be see a fundamental changing of the human that was.

There will be add-ons to the 'ego subroutines' just like there are add-ons to firefox.

You will cure your fear of spiders or have access to pleasure centers with a simple mod.

Used AVG for 4+ years

On: AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet

And never had any virus, privacy, stability issues...

Not a single issue in 4 years...

Hopefully, they will stop whatever shait they are doing now so I can keep them in high regard.

Says much about the politician

On: University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally

Yeah, I've always said that politicians are ALL in the pocket of the companies that donate to them...
and don't give two shits about regular people...
but to actually watch some college kid speaking out get dogpiled and tased...
while Kerry simply tries to talk over the whole thing ...
(distracting from the brutality and wrongness instead of trying to correct it...
really brings it home how fucked up things have gotten.

Nothing 'alleged' about Microsoft's monopoly

On: China Plans Domestic Software Quotas

WASHINGTON--A federal judge has determined that Microsoft holds a monopoly in computer operating systems, strongly criticizing the company in a decisive statement that could signal the outcome of the landmark antitrust case.

Re:One word...

On: 17" Monitor Case Modding -- The "iMike"

I agree, especially if it were manufactured for ease of parts access / upgrade.

The sleekness of the original form imac/emac all-in-one, with the power and versitility of commodity hardware.

If people pay 2-3k for alienware machines that could be parted out for less than half the retail cost... im sure there is a niche market for something like this.

GPL violation - mplayer

On: Xbox Media Player Contest

See here for a post in the dicussion. I haven't kept up with more (such as if they have fullfilled the terms of the gpl by releaseing source).

Interesting power to the states granted...

On: Microsoft Antitrust Judgement

To determine and enforce compliance with this Final Judgment, duly authorized representatives of the plaintiff States, on reasonable notice to Microsoft and subject to any lawful privilege, shall be permitted the following: a. Access during normal office hours to inspect any and all source code, books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other documents and records in the possession, custody, or control of Microsoft, which may have counsel present, regarding any matters contained in this Final Judgment.

This kind of perpetual discovery will have MS screaming...

I like it.

BS loophole

On: Xandros 1.0

Someone break this bs loophole by posting the sources that they are required to receive with the binaries.