Most people don't like speeding laws, but they are there for a reason. I'm sure most people don't like piracy laws either, but they are there to keep the society flowing as smoothly as possible.
The weapon is a physical thing, it can't get trolls. Slashdot trolls arn't actually "walking it the garden of slashdot", they are posting from their home, the weapon will not hurt them. Maybe their computer will malfunction and shock them though.
Every college student knows that to keep your roommates from your food, you just poisen some of it, after the first couple of them die, the rest learn pretty quick. It may not be high tech but it gets the job done.
But it is a sad state of affairs when people deserve kudos for NOT doing things.
I think its getting really old, that comments like that still get through. The poll I want to see is:
What category are you in...
a) I blindly hate Microsoft and love Linux b) I'm an intelligent person who looks at each issue by itself and makes a judgment, holding no long term grudges or prejudices.
I see a lot of intelligent people on here who don't just blindly hate MS and I swear that they outnumber all the linux loving drones that I see. I'm not going to post this as AC because I really believe in what I'm saying, unfortunately the "trolls" can't moderate so I don't expect anyone to see this for long. Please remember, this isn't a "linux lovers fan club", its supposed to be news and forums about technology and I hate to see it getting corrupted.
Welcome to America kids! If you're lucky, you'll get permission to publish your paper too!
Free speech dosn't mean you can say anything you want. For example if a companies work is protected by a confidentiality agreement that you signed then they can sue you for talking about their stuff. I'm sure somewhere in the X-box EULA it says that you arn't allowed to hack for security flaws and then tell the world about it. Its their product, you "signed" the agreement when you bought that X-box. If you don't buy and X-box, I guess you can say anything you want about it, if you do, you have to follow their terms.
I will give kudos to Microsoft for overlooking the law (which is on their side) in this case in the interest of legitimate research because I can simpathize with someone from MIT.
If Microsoft had sued, it would have been within the law, and they would have won. The DMCA is a law, you don't like that particular law but it is a law.
I personally think the whole murder law is a load of shit, if somebody pisses me off I should have the right to blow there head off. How come no one ever joins my protests against that?
This is equivalent to storing the contents of 7,800 DVDs in one square inch of material
What are you doing? We're the slashdot crowd! If you mean 46.8 Terabytes, don't say 7800 DVDs.
I don't know, Europa is really far away from Earth and Mars, and it has that icy shell. But what do I know, maybe all life in the solar system is related, maybe all life in the galaxy.
Life on Earth probably came from Mars anyway (or visa-versa) via meteors, so if this discovery is for real, the types of life should be pretty similar. Finding life on mars dosn't prove anything about things working a certain way, we'd need an isolated system, like Europa or something to see a really unique evolution of life.
Its 4:24 in the morning and this article has been up for about 10 minutes, but already the demo link dosn't work. The site must have new what was coming and killed itself before anything happened.
It's interesting that they'd choose USB 2.0 over firewire. the iPod (being apple's) most certainly has fireware as the obvious choice because apple supports that, so to compete with it you'd think they use firewire as well. USB 2.0 seems too PC-centric, but perhaps this has been released as the PCs answer to the iPOD.
"The New York Times reports that two researchers at IBM have come up with a way to persuade people to give correct answers to survey questions: randomize the results."
Maybe I'm crazy, but isn't this exactly the same as the random response stuff that I (and presumably everyone else) learned in high school finite? The way it worked in finite is you ask someone 2 questions, like "have you ever killed?" and "have you ever been on a plane?", then you tell them to answer one of those based on some random event, like "answer the first question only if its Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, otherwise the other question", then you calculate the probability that they answered each question using finite. This protects the privacy since there is no way of knowing whether they said "true" to killing of being on a plane, and people know this so they will be more likly to be honest. I don't see how this "new" system that IBM has created is much different than a slightly modified version of what I have just described.
Now I hate them and I have pirated war 3 and distributed it too all my friends and everyone I know. This will teach blizzard to mess with open source. (Actually it probably won't but at least I got the game for free)
But remember what the article said, hand eye things (driving) don't require that kind of short term memory. This would tell us that people can drive and talk on a cell phone successfully because they use different parts of the brain. You are partially right though, whereas people can drive and talk on the phone normally without a problem, if an anomolous situation occurs (cat/old lady/child runs out into the street) the person will not have an automatic response for that and may end up thinking about the situation too slowly because of the phone and hitting the obstruction.
Did you read the article? It isn't saying that HAL won't be achieved technically, its saying that speaking to a computer is not a practical way to control it.
I choose not to view linux stories because as a software developer, i see open source as a threat to my well being. They are giving away for free what I am supposed to be getting paid to write, its a scary business model from my perspective.
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Yes but most poor students like me get their software off IRC or Kazaa. I have not gotten software of a warez website since 1998. As far as I'm concerned, if this group wants warez off the net, that's fine with me.
I disabled linux stories for a reason and then I see something like this. What is the point of allowing to customize our homepages if you categorize things incorrectly like this. Please call this a "linux" topic next time so i don't have to see it.
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That is actually an amazing idea, even if i could get $1 per site i reported i would still do it all day. I'm sure a lot of people who are desperate for cash would, and I'm sure Microsoft would be glad to pay the bill. I wonder if that would be legal though...
to keep from being monitered is to turn off the history logging, I know you can do this in ICQ, AIM and MSN. I know that when I'm at work I keep the ICQ history on but delete a lot of the offensive messages (about my boss) just in case.
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Most people don't like speeding laws, but they are there for a reason. I'm sure most people don't like piracy laws either, but they are there to keep the society flowing as smoothly as possible.
The weapon is a physical thing, it can't get trolls. Slashdot trolls arn't actually "walking it the garden of slashdot", they are posting from their home, the weapon will not hurt them. Maybe their computer will malfunction and shock them though.
Every college student knows that to keep your roommates from your food, you just poisen some of it, after the first couple of them die, the rest learn pretty quick. It may not be high tech but it gets the job done.
But it is a sad state of affairs when people deserve kudos for NOT doing things.
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I think its getting really old, that comments like that still get through. The poll I want to see is
What category are you in...
a) I blindly hate Microsoft and love Linux
b) I'm an intelligent person who looks at each issue by itself and makes a judgment, holding no long term grudges or prejudices.
I see a lot of intelligent people on here who don't just blindly hate MS and I swear that they outnumber all the linux loving drones that I see. I'm not going to post this as AC because I really believe in what I'm saying, unfortunately the "trolls" can't moderate so I don't expect anyone to see this for long. Please remember, this isn't a "linux lovers fan club", its supposed to be news and forums about technology and I hate to see it getting corrupted.
Welcome to America kids! If you're lucky, you'll get permission to publish your paper too!
Free speech dosn't mean you can say anything you want. For example if a companies work is protected by a confidentiality agreement that you signed then they can sue you for talking about their stuff. I'm sure somewhere in the X-box EULA it says that you arn't allowed to hack for security flaws and then tell the world about it. Its their product, you "signed" the agreement when you bought that X-box. If you don't buy and X-box, I guess you can say anything you want about it, if you do, you have to follow their terms.
I will give kudos to Microsoft for overlooking the law (which is on their side) in this case in the interest of legitimate research because I can simpathize with someone from MIT.
If Microsoft had sued, it would have been within the law, and they would have won. The DMCA is a law, you don't like that particular law but it is a law.
I personally think the whole murder law is a load of shit, if somebody pisses me off I should have the right to blow there head off. How come no one ever joins my protests against that?
This is equivalent to storing the contents of 7,800 DVDs in one square inch of material
What are you doing? We're the slashdot crowd! If you mean 46.8 Terabytes, don't say 7800 DVDs.
What's your point? Who doesn't own a warez copy of Doom 2?
After my last format, I got a copy of it from my grandma.
I don't know, Europa is really far away from Earth and Mars, and it has that icy shell.
But what do I know, maybe all life in the solar system is related, maybe all life in the galaxy.
Life on Earth probably came from Mars anyway (or visa-versa) via meteors, so if this discovery is for real, the types of life should be pretty similar. Finding life on mars dosn't prove anything about things working a certain way, we'd need an isolated system, like Europa or something to see a really unique evolution of life.
Its 4:24 in the morning and this article has been up for about 10 minutes, but already the demo link dosn't work. The site must have new what was coming and killed itself before anything happened.
uses USB 2.0
It's interesting that they'd choose USB 2.0 over firewire. the iPod (being apple's) most certainly has fireware as the obvious choice because apple supports that, so to compete with it you'd think they use firewire as well. USB 2.0 seems too PC-centric, but perhaps this has been released as the PCs answer to the iPOD.
"The New York Times reports that two researchers at IBM have come up with a way to persuade people to give correct answers to survey questions: randomize the results."
Maybe I'm crazy, but isn't this exactly the same as the random response stuff that I (and presumably everyone else) learned in high school finite? The way it worked in finite is you ask someone 2 questions, like "have you ever killed?" and "have you ever been on a plane?", then you tell them to answer one of those based on some random event, like "answer the first question only if its Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, otherwise the other question", then you calculate the probability that they answered each question using finite. This protects the privacy since there is no way of knowing whether they said "true" to killing of being on a plane, and people know this so they will be more likly to be honest. I don't see how this "new" system that IBM has created is much different than a slightly modified version of what I have just described.
Now I hate them and I have pirated war 3 and distributed it too all my friends and everyone I know. This will teach blizzard to mess with open source. (Actually it probably won't but at least I got the game for free)
But remember what the article said, hand eye things (driving) don't require that kind of short term memory. This would tell us that people can drive and talk on a cell phone successfully because they use different parts of the brain. You are partially right though, whereas people can drive and talk on the phone normally without a problem, if an anomolous situation occurs (cat/old lady/child runs out into the street) the person will not have an automatic response for that and may end up thinking about the situation too slowly because of the phone and hitting the obstruction.
The articles isn't talking about the insane aspect of HAL, I think is talking about the speech interface aspect. I could be wrong though.
Did you read the article? It isn't saying that HAL won't be achieved technically, its saying that speaking to a computer is not a practical way to control it.
I don't know anything about the industry, I'm just trying to get a degree. I work at McDonalds.
I'm not creative, I'm not even that smart.
I'm a CS major and I don't know what the difference is.
I choose not to view linux stories because as a software developer, i see open source as a threat to my well being. They are giving away for free what I am supposed to be getting paid to write, its a scary business model from my perspective.
Yes but most poor students like me get their software off IRC or Kazaa. I have not gotten software of a warez website since 1998. As far as I'm concerned, if this group wants warez off the net, that's fine with me.
I disabled linux stories for a reason and then I see something like this. What is the point of allowing to customize our homepages if you categorize things incorrectly like this. Please call this a "linux" topic next time so i don't have to see it.
That is actually an amazing idea, even if i could get $1 per site i reported i would still do it all day. I'm sure a lot of people who are desperate for cash would, and I'm sure Microsoft would be glad to pay the bill. I wonder if that would be legal though...
to keep from being monitered is to turn off the history logging, I know you can do this in ICQ, AIM and MSN. I know that when I'm at work I keep the ICQ history on but delete a lot of the offensive messages (about my boss) just in case.