he believes he has proved his point - "that by using off-the-shelf technology in a suburban garage a terrorist can create a weapon against which there is no effective defence.
One would think a simple hand-delivered bomb would suffice.
If anyone's interested in the philosophy behind this sort of "transfer of consciousness" idea and whether it means death for the original person, allow me to heartily recommend Derek Parfit's "Reasons and Persons", Part 3, which goes into all this stuff.
He concludes that physical continuity doesn't matter. He's got some good arguments (along the lines of some made in this thread) to back this up...
The real test of playing strength is results, of course. Although we have too small a sample size (for both chess computers) to be truly scientific, so far it looks like Deep Blue was stronger than Deep Fritz.
It's laughable to say that Deep Fritz is the strongest computer programme - Deep Blue (that defeated Kasparov) evaluated 200 million positions per second compared to Deep Fritz's 3-4 million. Deep Blue was running on an IBM-made supercomputer. Fritz isn't.
No. If DNA from the original crime scene is still available, then it should always be possible to check it against the DNA of an alleged suspect (or even a convicted suspect, in the case of an appeal). The database doesn't help in any way.
Your fingerprints don't tell tell people how likely you are to develop certain diseases (information that might end up in the hands of Insurance Companies). Worse, it's possible that in the future, DNA might be used to profile people to determine whether they're likely to commit a crime, ie if research shows that certain genes are linked to criminals.
There are all sorts of implications of DNA storage that don't apply to fingerprints.
For those who haven't read the article, and think that the author of the program has made some complex circumvention device, here's a haiku description of the program from the author's webpage:
The OS/2 chunk has a bit for embedding. Set it to zero.
Rather than just reading an ancient book and accepting what they see there, paleontologists actually go out and do *research* to find out how things used to be. Which method do you think is more likely to lead to truth?
In any event, nothing that's been said by paleontologists actually conflicts with the idea that God created the world, if you really must believe such a thing.
Global warming is not the same as ozone depletion. The two are more or less unrelated. Global warming is caused by CO2 trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. Ozone depletion is caused by CFCs destroying ozone, a chemical that absorbs some cancer-causing radiation from the sun.
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From the BBC site:
he believes he has proved his point - "that by using off-the-shelf technology in a suburban garage a terrorist can create a weapon against which there is no effective defence.
One would think a simple hand-delivered bomb would suffice.
Yes, but the article is from the POV of a Mac user.
Well, yes. But with Europa, there's some (perhaps miniscule) chance that there could actually be life there...
According to Nineplanets, Europa may be the only body besides Earth that has significan't quantities of water.
Cool! Thanks Linus. Can you get it here in time for Christmas? ;-)
He concludes that physical continuity doesn't matter. He's got some good arguments (along the lines of some made in this thread) to back this up...
Hmm, and why would the person who's about to play Deep Fritz want to claim that Deep Fritz is really strong? :)
The real test of playing strength is results, of course. Although we have too small a sample size (for both chess computers) to be truly scientific, so far it looks like Deep Blue was stronger than Deep Fritz.
The Deep Blue that Fritz beat was an earlier model than the one that took on Kasparov later, wasn't it? (not sure, so I'm asking)
It's laughable to say that Deep Fritz is the strongest computer programme - Deep Blue (that defeated Kasparov) evaluated 200 million positions per second compared to Deep Fritz's 3-4 million. Deep Blue was running on an IBM-made supercomputer. Fritz isn't.
There are all sorts of implications of DNA storage that don't apply to fingerprints.
For those who haven't read the article, and think that the author of the program has made some complex circumvention device, here's a haiku description of the program from the author's webpage:
The OS/2 chunk
has a bit for embedding.
Set it to zero.
Rather than just reading an ancient book and accepting what they see there, paleontologists actually go out and do *research* to find out how things used to be. Which method do you think is more likely to lead to truth?
In any event, nothing that's been said by paleontologists actually conflicts with the idea that God created the world, if you really must believe such a thing.
"Guns don't kill people. People kill people."
This is like:
"Toasters don't make toast. People make toast."
Global warming is not the same as ozone depletion. The two are more or less unrelated. Global warming is caused by CO2 trapping heat in the Earth's atmosphere. Ozone depletion is caused by CFCs destroying ozone, a chemical that absorbs some cancer-causing radiation from the sun.
See, for example: this or this.