I thought that one of the "recent" insights was that we probably weren't going to have an "it's alive!" moment, but more of an evolutionary path to singularity. It doesn't seem to me that the ultimate form of AI will be created in any real sense by a human being.
but I fail to see the "next level shit" distinction in case of children.
You obviously aren't familiar with the ongoing paedophile hysteria in Britain. They're fucking insane about it. It's actually kind of a sick hangup they have... paging Dr. Freud indeed.
The lowest-intelligence portions of our society increasingly sit as dependent breeding stock, suckling at the teat of government social programs generationally whilst producing an overabundance of mentally deficient young who then perpetuate the cycle.
and
In the name of "diversity", all children are instead randomly tossed into classrooms that move at the pace of the slowest idiot, causing the education of the truly intelligent to be stunted.[emphasis mine]
..sort of ruin an otherwise well written post. You want to watch that hard-on for the Untermenschen you seem to be developing.
You're just distracting from the essence of the debate by discussing what people said and not what they obviously meant.
I don't think it's a good practice to assume that people who say one thing mean another. When I hear someone talk about "theft" in the context of copyright infringement, I don't think they mean "copyright infringement". I don't think it's obvious at all that the distinction between the two concepts is understood to be an accepted truth, and need no more discussion.
The point of copyright is to blur the line between information and physical property, economically, to provide a market in which the fruits of intellectual labor can be traded
See, from my perspective you're the one who's hoping to just hand-wave away a difficult situation. Yes, this is the point of copyright. It also has no bearing on a discussion of whether or not infringement == theft since it doesn't address the value of a given "property".
In my opinion, by blurring the line between infringement and theft you're really trying to blur the line between value and control. You would have to say that the value of a particular piece of intellectual property is inherent in your ability to control it's dissemination and use, and the problem that I and many many other people have with that concept is that it is an attempt to turn a commercial transaction into a form of governance.
Now, you may not agree with that point of view, but I would beg you to try and understand why I hold it and why it would be a large concern.
The part I've never understood is how one determines damages from what is in essence a victimless crime. What's the metric the court has accepted on this?
better than they where during the Cultural Revolution
Anything would be though, wouldn't it? Actually for the average "man on the ground" this is probably the best time in China's thousands year history. Doesn't mean it still doesn't suck ass.
The majority of/.ers are now young republicans (sorry, libertarians)in their first year of college, studying debate/rhetoric 101 and javascript. They've also just discovered ayn raynynnd. Still fat and greasy though, so at least we're keeping to some of our roots.
base cost is the the coderss hourly wage. if a coder earning $50/hour codes 10 lines in an hour, cost is $5/line.
Doesn't this seem like a useless metric, though? You can't measure functionality by lines of code in a program (although, at some point, you could probably draw an inverse relationship). What purpose does this data serve?
I jailbroke my iphone on ATT to use tethering. The process is very simple, you just have to hope they don't stick you with a mammoth bill a year from now. You're looking for a piece of software called blackrain.
ATT service sucks ass, btw. I don't know if Tmobile is any better.
which is a lot more than I feel there ought to be in a civilised society
Well keep in mind that the majority of our homeless population is not on the street every day, but either in school if they're under 18 or working some shit job. I think in San Francisco the statistic a few years ago was that you only saw 10% of the homeless population on the street. It's a national embarrassment.
I'm not really worried. I'm sure we'll hear about some 'bot wiping out it's own platoon in the next decade, and that will be the end of semi-autonomous killbots.
In fact, I'd be very surprised if this didn't happen in the next ten years. Armed robots are a great idea in that they'd cost less than a fully trained human and are more easily repairable. It's a natural way to go for the military. I also know enough about software development to see that a catastrophic failure is fairly likely, and that the idiot-proof failsafe they'll set up will turn out not to be and won't, respectively.
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I thought that one of the "recent" insights was that we probably weren't going to have an "it's alive!" moment, but more of an evolutionary path to singularity. It doesn't seem to me that the ultimate form of AI will be created in any real sense by a human being.
We're too weak as a species to successfully implement Anarchy as a form of governance.
Sorry =(
No, it's usually when someone like this comes along. Your basic unstoppable force of nature.
Ok, where does Lord Sutch fit into the picture?
I'm too old for this shit.
but I fail to see the "next level shit" distinction in case of children.
You obviously aren't familiar with the ongoing paedophile hysteria in Britain. They're fucking insane about it. It's actually kind of a sick hangup they have... paging Dr. Freud indeed.
The lowest-intelligence portions of our society increasingly sit as dependent breeding stock, suckling at the teat of government social programs generationally whilst producing an overabundance of mentally deficient young who then perpetuate the cycle.
..sort of ruin an otherwise well written post. You want to watch that hard-on for the Untermenschen you seem to be developing.
and In the name of "diversity", all children are instead randomly tossed into classrooms that move at the pace of the slowest idiot, causing the education of the truly intelligent to be stunted.[emphasis mine]
And, if you want to introduce a child to pathos and introspection, Peanuts is a good way to sneak it in.
You're just distracting from the essence of the debate by discussing what people said and not what they obviously meant.
I don't think it's a good practice to assume that people who say one thing mean another. When I hear someone talk about "theft" in the context of copyright infringement, I don't think they mean "copyright infringement". I don't think it's obvious at all that the distinction between the two concepts is understood to be an accepted truth, and need no more discussion.
The point of copyright is to blur the line between information and physical property, economically, to provide a market in which the fruits of intellectual labor can be traded
See, from my perspective you're the one who's hoping to just hand-wave away a difficult situation. Yes, this is the point of copyright. It also has no bearing on a discussion of whether or not infringement == theft since it doesn't address the value of a given "property".
In my opinion, by blurring the line between infringement and theft you're really trying to blur the line between value and control. You would have to say that the value of a particular piece of intellectual property is inherent in your ability to control it's dissemination and use, and the problem that I and many many other people have with that concept is that it is an attempt to turn a commercial transaction into a form of governance.
Now, you may not agree with that point of view, but I would beg you to try and understand why I hold it and why it would be a large concern.
Pirates are, by definition, people who take something without paying for it.
I think you'll find that they copy something without paying for it. That's not a trivial distinction, no matter what some people want you to believe.
5) Is it possible to just make shit up and have a Supreme Court judge go along with it?
Those were zombies or something else freaky.
Agree on Bunnicula though. "Pounding a steak" still cracks me up.
The part I've never understood is how one determines damages from what is in essence a victimless crime. What's the metric the court has accepted on this?
better than they where during the Cultural Revolution
Anything would be though, wouldn't it? Actually for the average "man on the ground" this is probably the best time in China's thousands year history. Doesn't mean it still doesn't suck ass.
Does anyone on /. Work in networking any more?
/.ers are now young republicans (sorry, libertarians)in their first year of college, studying debate/rhetoric 101 and javascript. They've also just discovered ayn raynynnd. Still fat and greasy though, so at least we're keeping to some of our roots.
The majority of
And this would explain hits from every country in the world at the same time on the same day?
IMO looks like botnet activity.
base cost is the the coderss hourly wage. if a coder earning $50/hour codes 10 lines in an hour, cost is $5/line.
Doesn't this seem like a useless metric, though? You can't measure functionality by lines of code in a program (although, at some point, you could probably draw an inverse relationship). What purpose does this data serve?
Ever read the Book of French Military Successes? Both pages?
You mean this one?
Or maybe this one?
tl;dr = you idiot.
On behalf of everyone you've infected as you dribble mucus from your house to the break room, just die already.
You are NOT that important.
Sadly, you're the stereotype for our country even though we've produced Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel, and Jared Diamond.
I jailbroke my iphone on ATT to use tethering. The process is very simple, you just have to hope they don't stick you with a mammoth bill a year from now. You're looking for a piece of software called blackrain.
ATT service sucks ass, btw. I don't know if Tmobile is any better.
which is a lot more than I feel there ought to be in a civilised society
Well keep in mind that the majority of our homeless population is not on the street every day, but either in school if they're under 18 or working some shit job. I think in San Francisco the statistic a few years ago was that you only saw 10% of the homeless population on the street. It's a national embarrassment.
*Technically, my ancestors were either eeking out a living in the slums around Manchester
Technically, you make it sound like your ancestors made a living by being surprised a lot. Eke, ekes, eked, eking...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=for+profit+jails
I'm not really worried. I'm sure we'll hear about some 'bot wiping out it's own platoon in the next decade, and that will be the end of semi-autonomous killbots.
In fact, I'd be very surprised if this didn't happen in the next ten years. Armed robots are a great idea in that they'd cost less than a fully trained human and are more easily repairable. It's a natural way to go for the military. I also know enough about software development to see that a catastrophic failure is fairly likely, and that the idiot-proof failsafe they'll set up will turn out not to be and won't, respectively.