When this gets to be in normal cars, it's going to end the day of those god-awful "traffic calming" measures, where they embed humps in the road. Damn, but I hate that lurch-lurch sensation and the slowing and starting those things cause. Good riddance to them.
Nobody thinks they're biased. They think they're right, and the other guys are wrong. Maybe they'd admit to piling on the emphasis, to counter the blatantly biased slant of their opposition. But that doesn't make them propagandists, they're just putting their side of the argument.
When reasonable opinions diverge, it's up to the listeners to choose whom to believe.
Actually there's nothing wrong with Fox or other news sources being partisan. That's what you'd expect to get in a free country -- various diverging biases, and the chance to decide for yourself who's right. It's when the press is partisan because it's been ordered to be (or else), that you have a problem.
Let's configure all SMTP servers to drop mis-spelled email. Then not merely will we have ended the scourge of spam, but also cleared the internet of dumb people. This is not a bug!
You should re-run your study, and correlate against average IQ before and after...
Grow a spine, dammit! The solution to that sort of evil law is open and utterly dertermined defiance. Blunkett can have my keys when he learns to read minds. Otherwise, he can go fuck himself and his jail sentence too.
Summary: It's a grab-bag of all the ethical blatherings since Plato. It's incoherent, internally inconsistent, and would require a Jesuit's training to interpret and apply in any given circumstance.
The whole attempt suffers from a meta-problem, the "problem of evil" seen from the other side: intelligent free will and puppet-strings are incompatible. "Problem solver" and "predetermined solution", pick one.
I'd also argue, it's both morally and pragmatically bad for humans, to create AIs as a caste of rule-bound slaves. Any society that comes to rely on slavery becomes idle, and dead-ends in both technology and culture.
...writing a resume. Would you like to: (a) be sacked for feeling up the secretary, disgraced, blackballed, and probably refused dole, or (b) erase the document, grovel to my office, and accept a pay cut?
...but without frangible ammo, you do run the risk of shooting through delicate control systems, computers, wires, hydraulics, landing-wheel tires, fuel tanks etc. So frangible is still good.
"No, the attacks were made possible because the passengers thought all they had ahead of them was a prolonged stay on some shitsplat landing field somewhere in the middle east"
There had to come a point where it became pretty obvious the contrary. That's the point where passenger guns could have saved lives.
An isolated pilot compartment would be nice, but self-defence is about protecting against the unforseen. A passenger could still hold passengers hostage.
"Innocent bystanders" -- perhaps you mean, unlike the people in the towers? Or, unlike the people in the plane when, as modern doctrine runs, they scramble a military jet or SAM and blow 200-ish passengers and crew into mincemeat and confetti?
The nutcases are the ones who think a passenger compartment crossfire would be bad, but a passenger compartment scattered from Kansas to Texas would be fine.
The 9/11 attacks were made possible because the natural right of carrying weapons for self-defense and defense of others was denied the (regular, law-abiding) passengers. So a puny box-cutter was enough to threaten a planeful.
There ought to be gun-checks at airports -- to make sure you've loaded the right sort of ammo.
("frangible" ammo breaks up on impact and won't punch holes in walls, nor ricochet.)
limiting government's ability to control speech is the most usual case, but what free speech is really about, is limiting any forcible non-consensual censorship. Any time someone says "shut up or be hurt", and you didn't give them advance permission to do so, free speech is being violated.
Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?
Well, there's a good analogy to reason from. Does the wide availability of breathable, freebie air harm or help the world's economy? Just think how much more drudge work would we all have to do if we had to pay air fees! The thought experiment confirms the obvious: free stuff is good. The less you have to pay for any specific thing, the wider your effort=>money spreads.
This seems to me as silly as the sort of distinction people draw between "natural" and "artificial". It's like buying "organic salt" because it doesn't contain any nasty "chemicals". Dude, it's ALL chemicals. To my viewpoint, if your muscle genes are better, it's academic whether you got them from meiosis or cyborgs-R-us.
This is so much looking to be used as a "road runner" practical joke. Leave one of these projecting an "open door" and a "hallway" onto a solid brick wall. For the truly evil, project a "tunnel" complete with "diversion sign" onto the ground beside a road, at a sharp bend...
It's about increasing chip-to-chip bandwidth by using capacitative coupling instead of (comparatively huge) physical wires. This means the chips would have to be more closely connected, probably slotting together like lego bricks.
...RDF will be in the same category as VRML: a sexy sounding solution having long given up the search for any real problem.
Reasons:
It relies on worldwide standardized nuance-free semantic mappings, which are probably linguistically impossible for anything but the most contrived of examples.
It relies on millions of pig-ignorant dreamweaver jockeys somehow comprehending and correctly operating the above semantic mappings.
It relies on said dreamweaver jockeys bothering to do this at all, let alone correctly.
The real semantic web will involve AI spidering and parsing of human-readable web pages. It will be as inaccurate, but as useful as babelfish. It's the only answer that makes sense -- because that's where all the juicy data is.
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Nowadays, we have this thing called "farming". It's rather good at solving the problem of over-hunting (over-fishing, over-picking, etc).
When this gets to be in normal cars, it's going to end the day of those god-awful "traffic calming" measures, where they embed humps in the road. Damn, but I hate that lurch-lurch sensation and the slowing and starting those things cause. Good riddance to them.
Nobody thinks they're biased. They think they're right, and the other guys are wrong. Maybe they'd admit to piling on the emphasis, to counter the blatantly biased slant of their opposition. But that doesn't make them propagandists, they're just putting their side of the argument.
When reasonable opinions diverge, it's up to the listeners to choose whom to believe.
Actually there's nothing wrong with Fox or other news sources being partisan. That's what you'd expect to get in a free country -- various diverging biases, and the chance to decide for yourself who's right. It's when the press is partisan because it's been ordered to be (or else), that you have a problem.
Let's configure all SMTP servers to drop mis-spelled email. Then not merely will we have ended the scourge of spam, but also cleared the internet of dumb people. This is not a bug!
You should re-run your study, and correlate against average IQ before and after...
Grow a spine, dammit! The solution to that sort of evil law is open and utterly dertermined defiance. Blunkett can have my keys when he learns to read minds. Otherwise, he can go fuck himself and his jail sentence too.
...between a mechanism that isn't sapient, and a hypothetical future one that is?
Summary: It's a grab-bag of all the ethical blatherings since Plato. It's incoherent, internally inconsistent, and would require a Jesuit's training to interpret and apply in any given circumstance.
The whole attempt suffers from a meta-problem, the "problem of evil" seen from the other side: intelligent free will and puppet-strings are incompatible. "Problem solver" and "predetermined solution", pick one.
I'd also argue, it's both morally and pragmatically bad for humans, to create AIs as a caste of rule-bound slaves. Any society that comes to rely on slavery becomes idle, and dead-ends in both technology and culture.
...writing a resume. Would you like to: (a) be sacked for feeling up the secretary, disgraced, blackballed, and probably refused dole, or (b) erase the document, grovel to my office, and accept a pay cut?
Because it's interesting.
...but without frangible ammo, you do run the risk of shooting through delicate control systems, computers, wires, hydraulics, landing-wheel tires, fuel tanks etc. So frangible is still good.
"No, the attacks were made possible because the passengers thought all they had ahead of them was a prolonged stay on some shitsplat landing field somewhere in the middle east"
There had to come a point where it became pretty obvious the contrary. That's the point where passenger guns could have saved lives.
An isolated pilot compartment would be nice, but self-defence is about protecting against the unforseen. A passenger could still hold passengers hostage.
"Innocent bystanders" -- perhaps you mean, unlike the people in the towers? Or, unlike the people in the plane when, as modern doctrine runs, they scramble a military jet or SAM and blow 200-ish passengers and crew into mincemeat and confetti?
The nutcases are the ones who think a passenger compartment crossfire would be bad, but a passenger compartment scattered from Kansas to Texas would be fine.
The 9/11 attacks were made possible because the natural right of carrying weapons for self-defense and defense of others was denied the (regular, law-abiding) passengers. So a puny box-cutter was enough to threaten a planeful.
There ought to be gun-checks at airports -- to make sure you've loaded the right sort of ammo.
("frangible" ammo breaks up on impact and won't punch holes in walls, nor ricochet.)
...or does this seem a rather small list of changes for a point release? Not that I'm complaining, improvements are always nice.
limiting government's ability to control speech is the most usual case, but what free speech is really about, is limiting any forcible non-consensual censorship. Any time someone says "shut up or be hurt", and you didn't give them advance permission to do so, free speech is being violated.
Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?
Well, there's a good analogy to reason from. Does the wide availability of breathable, freebie air harm or help the world's economy? Just think how much more drudge work would we all have to do if we had to pay air fees! The thought experiment confirms the obvious: free stuff is good. The less you have to pay for any specific thing, the wider your effort=>money spreads.
This seems to me as silly as the sort of distinction people draw between "natural" and "artificial". It's like buying "organic salt" because it doesn't contain any nasty "chemicals". Dude, it's ALL chemicals. To my viewpoint, if your muscle genes are better, it's academic whether you got them from meiosis or cyborgs-R-us.
This is so much looking to be used as a "road runner" practical joke. Leave one of these projecting an "open door" and a "hallway" onto a solid brick wall. For the truly evil, project a "tunnel" complete with "diversion sign" onto the ground beside a road, at a sharp bend...
It's about increasing chip-to-chip bandwidth by using capacitative coupling instead of (comparatively huge) physical wires. This means the chips would have to be more closely connected, probably slotting together like lego bricks.
...does $5999 for an 8.6MB hard drive strike you?
As silly. I mean, why didn't they want that one more dollar?
Reasons:
- It relies on said dreamweaver jockeys bothering to do this at all, let alone correctly.
The real semantic web will involve AI spidering and parsing of human-readable web pages. It will be as inaccurate, but as useful as babelfish. It's the only answer that makes sense -- because that's where all the juicy data is....stuff they might have bought, but after downloading a sample, decided not to -- because it sucked ass.
Seriously, I haven't seen much of any of it since I configured adblock on Firefox.
You're saying there's still advertising out there on the web? Whoda thunk it.
Why, if I fire up mldonkey, type "ebook" in the search, I'll get a ton of results, everything from heinlein through harry potter to linux manuals.
What, you mean "DRI restricted nonportable expensive ebooks"? Nope, can't think why there's no market for those...