I for one welcome our RFID masters
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Seriously, I want every scrap of wood and piece of paper in my house to have RFID's. RFID represents a merging of our informational universe with the physical. With RFID tags on items, I can represent them in my PDA and have them be hi-lighted in a HUD mounted on my glasses.
Imagine never losing anything again ever. That's a serious possibility of a world in which RFID tags are ubiqutous.
Yes there are potential privacy issues, but there are always privacy issues with any convenience technology. We get around them on a case by case basis as usual (e.g snail-mail: porno subscriptions arrive in brown paper wrapping).
How is the RFID worry any worse than TCP-IP, which passes through many unsecure places on the way to its destination? It's not, we've just already got a good handle on TCP-IP security, but noone's thought of similar ways to handle RFID.
They will, and the problems will be solved, as they always are. The sky isn't falling, it never does.
Implement this feature and I will stop using your service so fast it'll.... well it'll cause a.0000001% drop in your revenue.
Seriously though, what a terrible idea. I'm already going out of my mind in a righteous fury when Excel converts 2/24 into a date without asking me.
I'm going to see about getting a class action lawsuit together on the ground of increased blood pressure due to "frustrating features". Microsoft has deep pockets and there's all kinds of medical literature on the problems of stress to flood the court with.
I was disappointed by the 5 articles I read and stopped reading. It basically reads like a catalog of the projects and techno-terms that are being performed with very little actual content.
Basically each one boiled down to: our lab does the XYZAB project and we're studying this system.
Obviously they know that Google's going to come gunning for them, it's the entire point of the site. They don't care if Roogle lives or dies, really. They just wanted to show off their skills, and do so in a way that is sure to garner public attention.
Well mission accomplished. The odds of some of these guys finding employement as a direct result of this stunt are very good.
It's obviously inevitable that the free ride we've enjoyed would come to an end with the introduction of rate metering. It's going to hit our American broadband ISP's as well. As our society evolves into one more based around the transmission of information, it's going to become a valued economy, one that can no longer be given away for free.
Those of us with cable modems will need to use it while we've got it.
Note that rate metering solves alot of problems at both ends. Right now there's a disparity between clients with unlimited bandwidth and servers who pay for theirs. This disparity is why serving is so expensive, Joe user doesn't think twice about downloading the *same* 10 megabyte movie trailer 10 times in one day.
Give Joe user a rate meter and he'll start considering ways to use his bandwidth more efficiently. This will translate into lower server costs, which means we'll end up with more and better content.
This is truly a good thing, client side rate metered bandwidth can't be implemented fast enough IMO.
Rest assured that while science fiction hasn't really addressed the question of what real intelligence is, in any useful sense, there are many people attacking that question in a very real, very competent and very practical sense.
Check out www.agiri.org, for example.
You're not telling us(the AI nuts) anything new. We know about the limitations of traditional narrow AI and are very aware of the shortcomings. Lots of progress has been made in the creation of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), but noone is yet very close to having anything working.
As for: "I think such machines are possible, and in fact, already exist. Machines better at certain tasks than any human ever could be". I'm sure the inventors of the calculator some 100+ years ago would be gratified that you acknowledge the existence of their inventions. Very kind of you:)
The point is not an entity simply more intelligent than other humans, but above a certain threshold at which it is capable of understanding and improving its own architecture (or at least creating superior copies)
Your post smacks of the skepticism of someone who hasn't though about this problem very hard and is having an off the cuff reaction.
Your assertions that the first real AI might not invent the end of mankind are of small comfort to the rest of us who realize that it might.
I recently installed the recent version of the accursed RealOne player to watch an rm file. I hate Real player more than can be described by words and it just seems to be getting worse.
So I pop it up to view the file, and what happens? I get the movie playing in a window on top of the Real advertising/browser thing. It spontaneously pops up a "help" balloon giving me a tip for how to use the browser window. The balloon is sitting RIGHT ON TOP OF THE GODDAMNED MOVIE IMAGE. It goes away after a few seconds of frantic clicking, but the point is clear, these programs are often a monstrous brew, created by too many chefs. They just throw in features, and there doesn't seem to be someone sitting at the top, deciding whether these features actually contribute to improving the final product, or just make it worse.
Then there's Office, which, by default will turn 2-21-95 into 2/21/95. ????? I have to dig through numerous help pages to figure out what subpanel of the preferences menu will deactivate this. Worse, I enter 23 hello on a new line in Word, and hit enter, it auto indents, adds a 24 and positions the cursor after. !?!?!!?!?!?!?!!? How many times I've had to fight this particular feature I can't tell you.
And it's certainly not just a closed source thing either, if anything, some open source GUI packages are even worse. Although, to be fair, I don't expect as much from open source stuff, because noone's getting paid. But when a program created by paid programmers is just badly done, I get infuriated at the incompetence, at the hours wasted taking a usable product and making it actually worse by throwing in garbage features.
It's been said a million times, but if we made cars the way we make software, noone would get anywhere.
"JV: What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law. "
It gets even better...
" What is not fair use is making a copy of an encrypted DVD, because once you're able to break the encryption, you've undermined the encryption itself."
Breaking the encryption has nothing to do with fair use. The interview astutely follows up and then we get this gem:
"But you've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless. "
There you go folks, *we don't need backups*, it lasts *forever*
Straight from the mouth of Sauron itself. Can the debate of whether the MPAA is an ignorant, greedy monstrosity finally be put to rest with a resounding yes?
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Seriously, I want every scrap of wood and piece of paper in my house to have RFID's. RFID represents a merging of our informational universe with the physical. With RFID tags on items, I can represent them in my PDA and have them be hi-lighted in a HUD mounted on my glasses.
Imagine never losing anything again ever. That's a serious possibility of a world in which RFID tags are ubiqutous.
Yes there are potential privacy issues, but there are always privacy issues with any convenience technology. We get around them on a case by case basis as usual (e.g snail-mail: porno subscriptions arrive in brown paper wrapping).
How is the RFID worry any worse than TCP-IP, which passes through many unsecure places on the way to its destination? It's not, we've just already got a good handle on TCP-IP security, but noone's thought of similar ways to handle RFID.
They will, and the problems will be solved, as they always are. The sky isn't falling, it never does.
I hope that damned thing crashes into the sun and a pox on their children.
A news site posting a story that it's gone down.
Implement this feature and I will stop using your service so fast it'll.... well it'll cause a .0000001% drop in your revenue.
Seriously though, what a terrible idea. I'm already going out of my mind in a righteous fury when Excel converts 2/24 into a date without asking me.
I'm going to see about getting a class action lawsuit together on the ground of increased blood pressure due to "frustrating features". Microsoft has deep pockets and there's all kinds of medical literature on the problems of stress to flood the court with.
Actually, them heap smart. I finally got through and am tearing through a file at 88 KB/sec. Looks like they've got connection caps.
4 posts here on /. and it's already a smoldering wreck. Yeesh.
Kohan is the best RTS in existence, period. If you prefer WC3, you didn't "get" Kohan. Too bad.
I was disappointed by the 5 articles I read and stopped reading. It basically reads like a catalog of the projects and techno-terms that are being performed with very little actual content.
Basically each one boiled down to: our lab does the XYZAB project and we're studying this system.
I may be laughing at you but I'm crying on the inside
"I can't stop talking!"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001
Let's build a snow man!
SHUT THE F*CK UP! *blam*
I don't need help managing my package, thank you very much.
Before I allow some peer to peer client the ability to let other users run programs on my machine.
err... on purpose that is
I'm sure Kazaa already has plenty of ways to let users do this, but ignorance is bliss.
Get famous, find a job.
Obviously they know that Google's going to come gunning for them, it's the entire point of the site. They don't care if Roogle lives or dies, really. They just wanted to show off their skills, and do so in a way that is sure to garner public attention.
Well mission accomplished. The odds of some of these guys finding employement as a direct result of this stunt are very good.
It's obviously inevitable that the free ride we've enjoyed would come to an end with the introduction of rate metering. It's going to hit our American broadband ISP's as well. As our society evolves into one more based around the transmission of information, it's going to become a valued economy, one that can no longer be given away for free.
Those of us with cable modems will need to use it while we've got it.
Note that rate metering solves alot of problems at both ends. Right now there's a disparity between clients with unlimited bandwidth and servers who pay for theirs. This disparity is why serving is so expensive, Joe user doesn't think twice about downloading the *same* 10 megabyte movie trailer 10 times in one day.
Give Joe user a rate meter and he'll start considering ways to use his bandwidth more efficiently. This will translate into lower server costs, which means we'll end up with more and better content.
This is truly a good thing, client side rate metered bandwidth can't be implemented fast enough IMO.
At only 500 test tubes per turn, we'll have to start stealing techs from the Psilons to keep pace.
What a newb.
Games these days cost millions to develop.
Because of this, they have to appeal to the LCD of the computer game public.
This means they have to be very dumb, at all levels. 90% of people won't "get" a smart game.
Back in the day, a game could be wildly successful with a small niche audience, because production costs were so low.
Rest assured that while science fiction hasn't really addressed the question of what real intelligence is, in any useful sense, there are many people attacking that question in a very real, very competent and very practical sense.
:)
Check out www.agiri.org, for example.
You're not telling us(the AI nuts) anything new. We know about the limitations of traditional narrow AI and are very aware of the shortcomings. Lots of progress has been made in the creation of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), but noone is yet very close to having anything working.
As for: "I think such machines are possible, and in fact, already exist. Machines better at certain tasks than any human ever could be". I'm sure the inventors of the calculator some 100+ years ago would be gratified that you acknowledge the existence of their inventions. Very kind of you
The point is not an entity simply more intelligent than other humans, but above a certain threshold at which it is capable of understanding and improving its own architecture (or at least creating superior copies)
Your post smacks of the skepticism of someone who hasn't though about this problem very hard and is having an off the cuff reaction.
Your assertions that the first real AI might not invent the end of mankind are of small comfort to the rest of us who realize that it might.
What, for a $100 buyout?
Cocacola.com would get you millions.
nike.com
reebok.com
Disney.com
just run down the Fortune 500 list back in 1991 and squat like a pro. Remember to put a "fan page" on each of them so the courts can't yank it.
"This si my coca Cola page! I LOVE COKE!
Herei s a pic of me drnking coke!!"
Word is a Word processor, not a programming environment.
It's done because Word thinks you're making a list and intrusively tries to help you without being asked.
Why I was typing "23 hello" into my document is my business, not Word's.
I recently installed the recent version of the accursed RealOne player to watch an rm file. I hate Real player more than can be described by words and it just seems to be getting worse.
So I pop it up to view the file, and what happens? I get the movie playing in a window on top of the Real advertising/browser thing. It spontaneously pops up a "help" balloon giving me a tip for how to use the browser window. The balloon is sitting RIGHT ON TOP OF THE GODDAMNED MOVIE IMAGE. It goes away after a few seconds of frantic clicking, but the point is clear, these programs are often a monstrous brew, created by too many chefs. They just throw in features, and there doesn't seem to be someone sitting at the top, deciding whether these features actually contribute to improving the final product, or just make it worse.
Then there's Office, which, by default will turn 2-21-95 into 2/21/95. ????? I have to dig through numerous help pages to figure out what subpanel of the preferences menu will deactivate this. Worse, I enter 23 hello on a new line in Word, and hit enter, it auto indents, adds a 24 and positions the cursor after. !?!?!!?!?!?!?!!?
How many times I've had to fight this particular feature I can't tell you.
And it's certainly not just a closed source thing either, if anything, some open source GUI packages are even worse. Although, to be fair, I don't expect as much from open source stuff, because noone's getting paid. But when a program created by paid programmers is just badly done, I get infuriated at the incompetence, at the hours wasted taking a usable product and making it actually worse by throwing in garbage features.
It's been said a million times, but if we made cars the way we make software, noone would get anywhere.
We don't know yet.
"JV: What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law. "
It gets even better...
" What is not fair use is making a copy of an encrypted DVD, because once you're able to break the encryption, you've undermined the encryption itself."
Breaking the encryption has nothing to do with fair use. The interview astutely follows up and then we get this gem:
"But you've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears out. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never wears out. It is timeless. "
There you go folks, *we don't need backups*, it lasts *forever*
Straight from the mouth of Sauron itself. Can the debate of whether the MPAA is an ignorant, greedy monstrosity finally be put to rest with a resounding yes?