Not exactly. In Switzerland, every citizen who completed military duty is considered being part of the military reserve force. They are allowed to buy their automatic weapon at the end of the duty and to keep it at home. It is however forbidden to use it without military orders to do so.
It is true that there is less gun violence than in US but from time to time, someone goes crazy and kill 10-20 people in a bloodbath with an automatic weapon. I think that the fact there is less violence and accidents goes along the fact that you have to have completed a military training before being given the right to a weapon.
About hate speech, I tend to agree with French laws which forbid a public call to murder against any group. "Kill all muslims" "Stone every adultere women" are forbidden when published or claimed in public.
Well the article says that as an importer, US now appears weaker. That looks quite logic. From a consumer point of view, it is more expensive to buy from aboard. Considering US a "powerful economy" is a matter of definitions I think. Just like considering Europe as a single market.
Do you realize that you will be there to guarantee the fairness of the vote and that you have to turn to a public forum because you have no idea about how you have to do that ?
Actually, if people ask you how to be sure of the fairness of the vote without a paper trail, the only honest answer is "you can't". There. With this you will have been doing your job.
the fact that it's a machine that cheaply and easily makes its own parts*, using inexpensive feedstock
*Aside from common stuff from a hardware store and an electronics store.
The problem being, of course, that this machine can easily be made out of stuff bought from a hardware store...
From a technical details point of view, I found "Takedown" (about Kevin Mitnick) to be quite believable on most parts. Some parts are slightly cheesed, but it is almost a documentary about social engineering.
I have believed for long that this was enough. I refused to install an antivirus background process on my PC and had sane practice of opening only trustworthy executables on my PC. And one day, I made a transfer with a USB key. And I discovered a new vector I didn't know : USB keys autoexecute transparently some types of autorun scripts. I got stuck with what looked like a troyan. Something I could not detect without an antivirus before it is too late. Apparently Windows consider that any autorun script on any USB key will be safe to execute. Another madness I suppose.
Now I need an antivirus updated just in order to make USB transfers. And I keep it updated in case the next XP patch brings some new marvelous ideas...
We have flying cars. They only are oddities that are not economically viable. Hell, we even have jetpacks and privately-funded space travels.
The difference with most of other predictions is that AI doesn't have to become economically viable. You only need one, somewhere, to make a technological disruption.
Because some people don't think consciousness exist. It looks like an illusion provoked by our own brain. The internal monologue will be the same on the two instances up to a certain point.
On a related note, how can you prove the continuity of your own consciousness ? It disappears when you fall asleep, it wakes up slightly different. You could consider you were destroyed and recreated. This is only a question of point of view.
Lets imagine you can upload your mind into a machine.
It will not be you. It will be a copy. You will still be the one that dies afterwards. That is, sir, a very hotly debated point:-)
When you copy a linux binary, it is a linux binary, as well as a copy of it. This whole thing touch at the essence of what "being" means. If you were to instantly copy yourself right now, you would have one instance of you thinking "Well, the copy is not me !" and another one thinking "Whee, I am the digital one, I am the one who get immortality, yay !"
Thinking of people as instanciable things require a little time to adapt to the idea.
Uncontacted means exactly what it is supposed to mean : never had a contact with civilization, never heard of it, never saw somewhere not living in their ways of life. Do you have an idea of how big Amazonia is ?
I don't see how contact and talks could be bad. Show them the "wonders of the world", grant them the rights to the land they live on, and then give them the choice.
Well, I still have on my kitchen table a spot that has about 15 LEDs (it DOES look like LEDs), cost me 3 euros, haven't tested it yet (the shape is a bit weird and doesn't fit in any of my lamps). It is 16 euros if you want to build one from parts at an expensive retailer. I think that the Chinese factory easily cut down that price by 3 or 4.
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Not exactly. In Switzerland, every citizen who completed military duty is considered being part of the military reserve force. They are allowed to buy their automatic weapon at the end of the duty and to keep it at home. It is however forbidden to use it without military orders to do so.
It is true that there is less gun violence than in US but from time to time, someone goes crazy and kill 10-20 people in a bloodbath with an automatic weapon. I think that the fact there is less violence and accidents goes along the fact that you have to have completed a military training before being given the right to a weapon.
About hate speech, I tend to agree with French laws which forbid a public call to murder against any group. "Kill all muslims" "Stone every adultere women" are forbidden when published or claimed in public.
... we are all richer as we get for free functionalities that would cost thousands of dollar without open source.
Call me when they have observations, not hints and when it is reported by something else than BBC that wouldn't recognize a star from a galaxy
We already have to stop eating whales ...
Well the article says that as an importer, US now appears weaker. That looks quite logic. From a consumer point of view, it is more expensive to buy from aboard. Considering US a "powerful economy" is a matter of definitions I think. Just like considering Europe as a single market.
Noooo! Just no...
If you are more interested in artistically pleasingness rather than exactness, a semi-automated content generator for missing data could work fine
It's supposed to be Semantic Web. One buzzword to fund all our AI research, and in the darkness, bind them.
Do you realize that you will be there to guarantee the fairness of the vote and that you have to turn to a public forum because you have no idea about how you have to do that ?
Actually, if people ask you how to be sure of the fairness of the vote without a paper trail, the only honest answer is "you can't". There. With this you will have been doing your job.
What ? Some people still expect something from it ?
*Aside from common stuff from a hardware store and an electronics store.
The problem being, of course, that this machine can easily be made out of stuff bought from a hardware store...
Bah, as long as strong cryptography is still authorized...
From a technical details point of view, I found "Takedown" (about Kevin Mitnick) to be quite believable on most parts. Some parts are slightly cheesed, but it is almost a documentary about social engineering.
I have believed for long that this was enough. I refused to install an antivirus background process on my PC and had sane practice of opening only trustworthy executables on my PC. And one day, I made a transfer with a USB key. And I discovered a new vector I didn't know : USB keys autoexecute transparently some types of autorun scripts. I got stuck with what looked like a troyan. Something I could not detect without an antivirus before it is too late. Apparently Windows consider that any autorun script on any USB key will be safe to execute. Another madness I suppose.
Now I need an antivirus updated just in order to make USB transfers. And I keep it updated in case the next XP patch brings some new marvelous ideas...
We have flying cars. They only are oddities that are not economically viable. Hell, we even have jetpacks and privately-funded space travels.
The difference with most of other predictions is that AI doesn't have to become economically viable. You only need one, somewhere, to make a technological disruption.
Seeing this modded as funny makes me confident that we will have an easy time taking over the world, friends...
Because some people don't think consciousness exist. It looks like an illusion provoked by our own brain. The internal monologue will be the same on the two instances up to a certain point.
On a related note, how can you prove the continuity of your own consciousness ? It disappears when you fall asleep, it wakes up slightly different. You could consider you were destroyed and recreated. This is only a question of point of view.
When you copy a linux binary, it is a linux binary, as well as a copy of it. This whole thing touch at the essence of what "being" means. If you were to instantly copy yourself right now, you would have one instance of you thinking "Well, the copy is not me !" and another one thinking "Whee, I am the digital one, I am the one who get immortality, yay !"
Thinking of people as instanciable things require a little time to adapt to the idea.
The men in black just took control of Slashdot and are wanting you to designate their next target !
...and China will finally be on the same level as some Western countries !
Jokes aside, it is good to have a handy counter-example of what "not to do" with privacy laws. Too bad it harbors 1/5th of the planet population...
There is a very good possibility that these data were stolen, not "lost". What is the black-market value of 4.5 million IDs ?
That's called Future Shock. What level would it be ? 3 ? 4 ?
Uncontacted means exactly what it is supposed to mean : never had a contact with civilization, never heard of it, never saw somewhere not living in their ways of life. Do you have an idea of how big Amazonia is ?
I don't see how contact and talks could be bad. Show them the "wonders of the world", grant them the rights to the land they live on, and then give them the choice.
Some of them may even grow a beard.
Well, I still have on my kitchen table a spot that has about 15 LEDs (it DOES look like LEDs), cost me 3 euros, haven't tested it yet (the shape is a bit weird and doesn't fit in any of my lamps). It is 16 euros if you want to build one from parts at an expensive retailer. I think that the Chinese factory easily cut down that price by 3 or 4.