am i the only one who finds these laws a bit simplistic? what's to prevent someone from convincing the robot that, say, jews are not human beings? or that, say, iraq has WMD's and poses an imminent threat to human beings and robots all over the world? and what about inter-robot behavior? if they're all trying to protect their own existence, will they be fighting with eachother for electricity? And how are these to be hard-coded into the machines to prevent hackers from modifying them for malicious intent?
Perhaps it has something to do with the rotating set of movies that stay available for a while. It would be easy to have a channel that just constantly transfers encrypted movies. Maybe store the most recent 3 days (72 hrs of compressed video = not too difficult to store prob. 30 movies) decrypt upon demand.
good idea- how about a constant stream of trucks whose trailers are basically giant solid-state high-speed RFID transmitters/EZ-TAG type things. The trucks don't even stop, they just drive through a "tollbooth"-type thing at 70 MPH. This is starting to sound like something for the halfbakery...
a good open source project should have its main points laid out pretty plainly. it should have an open "constitution" of sorts, for which people can see/modify project goals democratically. this means that the goals of the project are more likely to match the users' needs.
all this will lead to is the development of a sufficiently untraceable P2P system. Sure, right now you can figure out where the MP3's you are downloading are coming from, but what about when they're being relayed anonymously through other P2P users who aren't directly sharing anything illegal?
The direction where everything is inevitably headed is a distributed, anonymous filesharing system where search results are ordered by popularity to prevent intentional pollution.
The RIAA will have to come to the conclusion that they can only make money from the artists who want to produce free advertisements to get people to come to their show next time they're in town.
why did i get modified troll for this? i think that's rather unfair. I was serious, and I didn't mean some sort of fanciful second-law-of-thermodynamics-defying thing- i just meant a device to recoup some of the energy lost as heat via the processor. seems like an interesting and probably someday doable article to me, and relevant to the article.... whatever
tell me about it- i work at a company that does collections for more than 50 credit unions around the country, and almost all of them are stuck using archaic and poorly designed databases that date back to the 70's and 80's. weird 2-letter commands, uncontrolled input. nightmare. when will the world be completely free of this crap?
yes, they should, because they're also researching how to protect against them. better we find out now from a university that also mentions how to prevent these attacks than on some random day when al queda or some random hacker collective decide to take down the internet and bring a growing part of the world economy to a screeching halt.
according to their website they're the biggest selling record label with Ashanti, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Johnny Hallyday , Enrique Iglesias, Jay-Z, Elton John, Ronan Keating, Diana Krall, Limp Bizkit, Nelly, No Doubt, Florent Pagny, Luciano Pavarotti, Sandy & Junior, Shaggy, Sting, Texas, Shania Twain, U2 and Russell Watson. they also own pressplay
the Xbox isn't just a video game machine- it's MS's first step at having complete control over the hardware, something that they've envied about Apple for a long time. the Xbox may be just a video game console right now, but by version 3 (which seems to be when MS gets things right) my money says it'll be a complete OS where they have complete DRM and license all the software. It makes sense- video game manufacturers have had complete monopolies on hardware and software development all this time. why wouldn't MS want that? and why in hell would they hand the keys to that over to Linux?
and overpriced, but you can't find them anywhere. if you want to revolutionize the world with your product, you don't make it only available from amazon and a few other random places online- you sell it at wal-mart. if the segway were significantly cheaper and could be found in the bike section of wal-mart or target, people would probably be buying them...
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am i the only one who finds these laws a bit simplistic? what's to prevent someone from convincing the robot that, say, jews are not human beings? or that, say, iraq has WMD's and poses an imminent threat to human beings and robots all over the world? and what about inter-robot behavior? if they're all trying to protect their own existence, will they be fighting with eachother for electricity? And how are these to be hard-coded into the machines to prevent hackers from modifying them for malicious intent?
Perhaps it has something to do with the rotating set of movies that stay available for a while. It would be easy to have a channel that just constantly transfers encrypted movies. Maybe store the most recent 3 days (72 hrs of compressed video = not too difficult to store prob. 30 movies) decrypt upon demand.
good idea- how about a constant stream of trucks whose trailers are basically giant solid-state high-speed RFID transmitters/EZ-TAG type things. The trucks don't even stop, they just drive through a "tollbooth"-type thing at 70 MPH. This is starting to sound like something for the halfbakery...
what's to prevent these so-called "soft walls" from being modified to guide all aircraft INTO the city???
...is as bright as Bill says, why are he and Steve divesting a billion dollars in the past month?
it must've taken a lot of photoshop work to edit out the doobie and the smoke...
a good open source project should have its main points laid out pretty plainly. it should have an open "constitution" of sorts, for which people can see/modify project goals democratically. this means that the goals of the project are more likely to match the users' needs.
...and yet we keep reading them...
they must've been hosting their website on that intellivision...
all this will lead to is the development of a sufficiently untraceable P2P system. Sure, right now you can figure out where the MP3's you are downloading are coming from, but what about when they're being relayed anonymously through other P2P users who aren't directly sharing anything illegal?
The direction where everything is inevitably headed is a distributed, anonymous filesharing system where search results are ordered by popularity to prevent intentional pollution.
The RIAA will have to come to the conclusion that they can only make money from the artists who want to produce free advertisements to get people to come to their show next time they're in town.
why did i get modified troll for this? i think that's rather unfair. I was serious, and I didn't mean some sort of fanciful second-law-of-thermodynamics-defying thing- i just meant a device to recoup some of the energy lost as heat via the processor. seems like an interesting and probably someday doable article to me, and relevant to the article.... whatever
...so how long before we get micro sterling engines to power our notebooks off of the heat from their own processors? hmmm...
tell me about it- i work at a company that does collections for more than 50 credit unions around the country, and almost all of them are stuck using archaic and poorly designed databases that date back to the 70's and 80's. weird 2-letter commands, uncontrolled input. nightmare. when will the world be completely free of this crap?
Why don't you just keep on rubbing in how cool the classes that I'll never get to take are?
yes, they should, because they're also researching how to protect against them. better we find out now from a university that also mentions how to prevent these attacks than on some random day when al queda or some random hacker collective decide to take down the internet and bring a growing part of the world economy to a screeching halt.
yes, everyone knows the cure for cancer is baby oil... ba-dum-bum...
it's called kazaa lite. if you can't find it on kazaa lite, apple sure as hell isn't going to have it...
didn't any of you see the movie of "the time machine" directed by H.G. Wells' grandson?
hey- wouldn't it be cool if they built a network of microwave cannons and juggled passengers in rockets all over the world?
according to their website they're the biggest selling record label with Ashanti, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, Andrea Bocelli, Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Johnny Hallyday , Enrique Iglesias, Jay-Z, Elton John, Ronan Keating, Diana Krall, Limp Bizkit, Nelly, No Doubt, Florent Pagny, Luciano Pavarotti, Sandy & Junior, Shaggy, Sting, Texas, Shania Twain, U2 and Russell Watson. they also own pressplay
you made me smile. if i had mod points, you'd get 'em.
if one is going to criticize something as plagiarism, shouldn't THEY reference the original?
somebody mod parent up! it made me laugh
the Xbox isn't just a video game machine- it's MS's first step at having complete control over the hardware, something that they've envied about Apple for a long time. the Xbox may be just a video game console right now, but by version 3 (which seems to be when MS gets things right) my money says it'll be a complete OS where they have complete DRM and license all the software. It makes sense- video game manufacturers have had complete monopolies on hardware and software development all this time. why wouldn't MS want that? and why in hell would they hand the keys to that over to Linux?
and overpriced, but you can't find them anywhere. if you want to revolutionize the world with your product, you don't make it only available from amazon and a few other random places online- you sell it at wal-mart. if the segway were significantly cheaper and could be found in the bike section of wal-mart or target, people would probably be buying them...
:)
...but they're not.