Yeah, with maybe credit history and an history of their subway travels. Plus, the computer system managing this will be linked with a face-recognition camera system in order to know that citizen #433512 is meeting citizen #6651090 at the MacDonald and that they should better not talk about reproduction because they both already have a baby.
I double dog dare you to complain about the US court system now. I told you if you would just be patient, I had confidence in the system's ability to sort this out in the end. The fact that it could have been worse doesn't make this a particular success. SCO managed to use the US legal system to their benefit, to use the FUD as a stock manipulation tool and to spread FUD into IT upper management for at least two years. SCO loses ? they still exist and they don't have to pay anything consequent yet !
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
The goal of HTML is to be a rich text format, not a semantically meaningful language. Various markup languages are implemented on top of xml to do just that. But they still need a way to translate from semantics to display and layout instructions. That was the use of HTML.
That was a good idea when many places of the USA were difficult to get to and didn't have reliable communications. It is no longer valid in a world where you can put video camera in every voting office and transmit their signal in less than a second across the whole country. There are no need for representatives to come from the Wild West to Washington to cast their votes.
I am a male worker in a small (~40) IT company. We have three female developers for approximately 30 male devs. I know some female engineers from my school who are in the same situation. All of them said it was very enjoyable to work in these conditions. Granted, sometimes some locker-room jokes fly around, but in their opinion, it is far more enjoyable than the backstabbing rumor culture they have experienced in feminine environments.
I don't think that the environment scares women enough to chose a different career path. I think the answer lies in a more cultural factor. Studies have proved that parents are unconsciously biased in the way they explained something to their kids. They emphasize the emotional aspect when talking to girls "Isn't it beautiful ? Wouldn't you like to have one ?" and the rational aspect when talking to boys "Isn't it beautiful ? Do you understand how it works ?". Making boys more technically inclined. In fact, when you study tastes of secondary school students, girls feel more uncomfortable with science than boys. I am sure most of us remember this trend. Girls are supposed to be more into literature.
You can not act as a colleague, you can act as a parent. Girls aren't naturally repelled by technology, they mainly are because their parents think this is how a normal girl behaves.
This may sound similar, but the Casimir effect has no electrical cause. I agree that some works of Tesla don't get the attention they should, but the zero point energy is something that was completely unknown in Tesla's time and unrelated to all of his works I am aware of.
That's what encryption is for. Even with physical access, your files are secure as long as the key lives inside your brain.
Of course they can then be deleted, but someone who would have access to my computer could only "damage" my most precious data, not read it. A computer does not work like a safe, it can be much more efficient.
I don't see anything sacred in death. The whole point of medicine is to fight it. We respect it only because we know that this is an unavoidable end for our existence, but most of us would be happy to see it eradicated. If that goes against human dignity, register me as posthuman.
What I find really interesting in such stories is that it helps fight the idea that the brain is a monolithic black box that is either on or off. This story is already a few days old and I have found sources when it says that the guy was brought back from coma thanks to electrodes. The fact is, that he never were in coma, he had a minimal set of brain function activated, occasionally he would say "yes" or "no" to simple questions but was not autonomous at all, his conscious "drive" completely gone. Now an electrodes pulses in the zone of the brain associated to consciousness but he still is not the same person as he was. Some memories are back, he can talk again, move again (I suppose in a wheelchair, I read somewhere he won't be able to walk again before several years) and has some desires again.
But having reading headlines about this story shows how uncomfortable people are with the notion that some part of your brain can be switched off without living you dead, just... different.
And what do you base your opinion on ? Surely the squad will be delighted to go into battle while the robot lieutenant stays in the armored vehicle.
Why are humans needed in the battlefield after all ? These robots can send pictures and sound, handle a gun, snipe with a machine gun, stay 7 days underwater and they can be repaired only for a fraction of the cost of a surgical operation. Right now they can do things humans can't. There are prototypes that can fly. I really don't see why humans would risk their life in the battlefield anymore.
Plus, having the same password on several website is an issue. I do this also but I keep wondering what will happen the day that one of the maintainers of the forum where I registered decides to impersonate me on other forums or even -gasp- on slashdot. Hopefully, my email password is unique and I can recover some stuff from there...
But recently his postings were all about Canada turning less and less appealing to his kind. So, where is he going to move, if a Republican wins again next year? Or, if he is a Canadian, where will he go, if Canada continues to align its laws with America's?
I guess that is due to the sudden flux of American immigrants following Bush election. I think that if Canadians want to preserve their identity, they should act. By building a wall on the border for instance...
I think that it may take a lot of efforts to make a game run smoothly under Linux (and to distribute it), but that it takes only one or two early and well informed design decision to make it run smoothly inside wine.
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Plus, it is more difficult for a non native speaker to understand than a written text.
Yeah, with maybe credit history and an history of their subway travels. Plus, the computer system managing this will be linked with a face-recognition camera system in order to know that citizen #433512 is meeting citizen #6651090 at the MacDonald and that they should better not talk about reproduction because they both already have a baby.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence...
But it would only appear on the frontpage of /. after two or three days, once it has been fixed.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason."
H2G2 -- Douglas Adams
The goal of HTML is to be a rich text format, not a semantically meaningful language. Various markup languages are implemented on top of xml to do just that. But they still need a way to translate from semantics to display and layout instructions. That was the use of HTML.
That was a good idea when many places of the USA were difficult to get to and didn't have reliable communications. It is no longer valid in a world where you can put video camera in every voting office and transmit their signal in less than a second across the whole country. There are no need for representatives to come from the Wild West to Washington to cast their votes.
CAREBEARSTARE !
I am a male worker in a small (~40) IT company. We have three female developers for approximately 30 male devs. I know some female engineers from my school who are in the same situation. All of them said it was very enjoyable to work in these conditions. Granted, sometimes some locker-room jokes fly around, but in their opinion, it is far more enjoyable than the backstabbing rumor culture they have experienced in feminine environments.
I don't think that the environment scares women enough to chose a different career path. I think the answer lies in a more cultural factor. Studies have proved that parents are unconsciously biased in the way they explained something to their kids. They emphasize the emotional aspect when talking to girls "Isn't it beautiful ? Wouldn't you like to have one ?" and the rational aspect when talking to boys "Isn't it beautiful ? Do you understand how it works ?". Making boys more technically inclined. In fact, when you study tastes of secondary school students, girls feel more uncomfortable with science than boys. I am sure most of us remember this trend. Girls are supposed to be more into literature.
You can not act as a colleague, you can act as a parent. Girls aren't naturally repelled by technology, they mainly are because their parents think this is how a normal girl behaves.
This may sound similar, but the Casimir effect has no electrical cause. I agree that some works of Tesla don't get the attention they should, but the zero point energy is something that was completely unknown in Tesla's time and unrelated to all of his works I am aware of.
That's what encryption is for. Even with physical access, your files are secure as long as the key lives inside your brain.
Of course they can then be deleted, but someone who would have access to my computer could only "damage" my most precious data, not read it. A computer does not work like a safe, it can be much more efficient.
I don't see anything sacred in death. The whole point of medicine is to fight it. We respect it only because we know that this is an unavoidable end for our existence, but most of us would be happy to see it eradicated. If that goes against human dignity, register me as posthuman.
What I find really interesting in such stories is that it helps fight the idea that the brain is a monolithic black box that is either on or off. This story is already a few days old and I have found sources when it says that the guy was brought back from coma thanks to electrodes. The fact is, that he never were in coma, he had a minimal set of brain function activated, occasionally he would say "yes" or "no" to simple questions but was not autonomous at all, his conscious "drive" completely gone. Now an electrodes pulses in the zone of the brain associated to consciousness but he still is not the same person as he was. Some memories are back, he can talk again, move again (I suppose in a wheelchair, I read somewhere he won't be able to walk again before several years) and has some desires again.
But having reading headlines about this story shows how uncomfortable people are with the notion that some part of your brain can be switched off without living you dead, just... different.
See ?
Isn't it still a bit expensive ? What is the average income of a rural Chinese ?
It should also have a reliable mechanism to make the small arm weapon unusable if captured.
It didn't take more to the NERV to win the war.
And what do you base your opinion on ? Surely the squad will be delighted to go into battle while the robot lieutenant stays in the armored vehicle.
Why are humans needed in the battlefield after all ? These robots can send pictures and sound, handle a gun, snipe with a machine gun, stay 7 days underwater and they can be repaired only for a fraction of the cost of a surgical operation. Right now they can do things humans can't. There are prototypes that can fly. I really don't see why humans would risk their life in the battlefield anymore.
Plus, having the same password on several website is an issue. I do this also but I keep wondering what will happen the day that one of the maintainers of the forum where I registered decides to impersonate me on other forums or even -gasp- on slashdot. Hopefully, my email password is unique and I can recover some stuff from there...
I guess that is due to the sudden flux of American immigrants following Bush election. I think that if Canadians want to preserve their identity, they should act. By building a wall on the border for instance...
I think that it may take a lot of efforts to make a game run smoothly under Linux (and to distribute it), but that it takes only one or two early and well informed design decision to make it run smoothly inside wine.
It sounds like Soylent Green all over again...
How much secure ? I smell a new vector for adware / spyware / trojan infections here....
One can foul one billion persons one time... and apparently one billion persons 5 or 6 times when you are called Microsoft.