Re:Robots will never do Tai Chi (Tajiquan) - Why?
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I wish i had a couple mod points, to me, you appear right on about what Tai Chi really is. Most people seem to mistake what Tai Chi is and it has been bastardized. I myself had fallen under the illusion that Tai Chi was nothing more than Asian stretching, but my eyes were opened wide several years ago when my wife began studying under a real Chinese master. It is rather amazing, the master is a small ancient woman with such power and focus that 3 strong guys can't move her from a stance!
My own theory (with nothing to back it up) is that language is required.
I share the same theory, I think back to my own earliest memories and I think that I have the ability to remember back very far. I can recall some tramautic memories from the age of two, when i had to get stitches in my head from a fall. I didn't have a complete control of language at that point, but could recognize certain things. I have other shadowy memories of situations where some things would be familiar like mother, ball, grass, but other things being complete mysteries, like i didn't have labels for them.
It may not cause immediate physical addiction, but you are completely ignoring the psychological aspects of a drug. Marijuana is NOT physically addictive, but then why are there eternal potheads if they are not addicted? The psychological experience of a drug can be so strong that the user's own will to have the experience is what addicts them, not the body's physical dependancy.
Nicotine may be more physically addicitve than herione, but no one in their right mind would claim that it is psychologically more powerful!
I had a lesser knowing admin call me once and tell me that one of their users had gotten the "YOUR COMPUTER IS BROADCASTING AN IP ADDRESS AND SOMEONE CAN USE THIS TO ATTACK YOU" message. The user was very worried.
I told the admin to tell the user that Their house currently has a door on it and someone could break it down and attack them"
I'm convinced that users will click on anything put in front of them
Really simplistic definition, Google would have more,
Virus, like real viruses don't have a life of their own, they attach to existing code of another executable, modify it and spread when run. They usually don't spread by their own means, and in days of old the fastest transport mechanism for viruses were floppies between friends (or enemies;))
Worms are self replicating programs that stand on their own. They actively try to infect other machines (usually over a network) or do whatever else the programmer specified that they do. I think worms are the most danger today. I can't recall the last real virus I've actually seen that infected a system in the wild and I have a couple thousand computers that I'm responsible for.
Then there is the whole messy category of 'Macro Viruses'. I remember the first MS Word proof of concept one of these. It said Hello or something stupid like that in a popup when Word started. Everyone was shocked and said that word had a virus and the sky is falling. I said, no Word is running a damn macro. I think the macro based viruses are best called worms, but sometimes don't meet the definition of a worm very well.
Taxonomy here can be difficult, and now we are faced with even newer and more exiting things such as placing buffer overflows in MP3 tags. This will of course be called a MP3 virus, when it isn't at all! Don't forget Bonzai Buddy and Friend Greeting (worm that the user installs with a license agreement that clearly says what it does).
I guess after I typed all this, I may have realized that there isn't a good taxonomy for these sorts of things that is going to mean anything at all to anyone other than picky geeks who are best fitted with understanding exactly what the 'thing' that is a security risk does, rather than what its label is in popular culture.
I am now ready for a little less convenience and a little more privacy. How about you?
We are sold the fact that in order to get more convience we must give up our rights to privacy. This isn't true, most systems that grant convience and save time can be implemented in a way that will grant the user MORE privacy than they would have had otherwise. The problem is that most people are willing to give up anything for convience, being lazy asses, and the companies that implement the solutions to grant more convience, implement them in a way that the user trades off private information that the corporation can use for profit, or the government can use to fight dead beat dads, terrorists, drug dealers and those people who rip mattress tags off.
For those of you who always bring up 1984 and Brave New World, read Brave New World Revisited, it is a collection of excellent essays by Huxley written towards the end of his life describing nearly exactly the society we are living in today and where we are going. Read about the roots of propaganda and marketing and it's rise in the 20th century. Noam Chomsky has a great book on that called Manufacturing Consent.
Time to lower the antenna and crawl back down into my lead shielded underground vault at an undisclosed location (Cheney and I had the same realtor).
Klez is a worm, not a virus. I've been constantly annoyed with most people's ability to tell hackers from crackers, telling worms from viruses seems hopeless for the average sheep, but I thought slashdotters would know the difference.
JRR Tolkien was a snobby, romantic anglo-saxon elitist, writing about WII. OK... Now tell me something I don't know!
Wrong
RTF Introduction to LOTR by Tolkien himself!
He absolutely was not writing about WWII and spoke of his personal distaste for allegory and specifically states that LOTR is not about anything other than what is in the book.
He also states that he thinks that many people confuse applicability with allegory. Since LOTR deals with such universal concepts, and is in essence a myth, it is applicable to lots of situations, but not a thinly veiled text about WWII. That would cheapen the book. Think of it in the same light as the Illiad, Odyssey, Anead or any great mythology.
I Work in tech for a very large, very old (100 year) lawfirm who traditionally gives 5% bonuses to salaried staff along with a performance based bonus.
The way I figure it, is that even in bad economic times, a well estabilished lawfirm still has a good amount of work to do. We can both launch the IPO and run the Chapter 11 proceedings...
I love my computer you make me feel alright
every waking hour and every lonely night
I love my computer for all you give to me
predictable errors and no identity
and it's never been quite so easy
I've never been quite so happy
all I need to do is click on you
and we'll be joined in the most soul-less way
and we'll never ever ruin each other's day
cuz when I'm through I just click and you just go away
I love my computer you're always in the mood
I get turned on when I turn on you
I love my computer you never ask for more
you can be a princess or you can be my whore
and it's never been quite so easy
I've never been quite so happy
the world outside is so big but it's safe in my domain
because to you I'm just a number and a clever screen name
all I need to do is click on you
and we'll be together for eternity
and no one is ever gonna take my love
from me because I've got security,
her password and a key
Yeah, thats real intellegent. Spend as much money as you can. That'll learn 'em.
Ever hear of using fake names?
Believe me, I thought about it and have a reason. I'm opposed to giving the supermarket something that is statistically useful based on these cards. I don't care if they are tracking me with the card or an imaginary individual that represents me. The way around this would be to get a new fradulent card every time you visited I guess.
I also have a problem with being dishonest and feel like I'm cheating if I fake my info. They can setup whatever system they want and I can choose to play or not, but I don't dictate the rules to their game.
I live in Washington State. I was happy to see the law passed that restricted this kind of activity, but was afraid that suits like this were coming.
"But this is infringing on our rights of corporate free speech", whines Verizon. Free speech? Possible first amendment violation? Come on, why the hell did we sell this country to the highest bidder? How the heck can a CORPORATION have rights to do anything other than exist for the good of the consumers it serves.
I don't know if I'm going to have the stomach to live in this country in 10 years if things continue to progress in the way that it looks like they are.
All Verizon has to do to get the public behind them is offer a few cents off phone service or something and most sheep will gladly let Verizon target marketing to them based on how often they called their girlfriend.
Organize, resist, refuse! I paid $14 the other day for an item at Safeway that would have cost me $5 if they could have tracked it. Hopefully, I'll be able to continue to afford the fight.
Tell your friends about this if you live in WA state, write your reps, write your newspaper editor, if it passes, CANCEL your verizon service.
Sadly, it all seems futile, but I'm reminded of a Gandhi quote which I'm going to probably slightly misquote: "Whatever it is that you do will be insignificant, however it is extremely important that you do it."
I back everything up to large firewire hard drives on a rotating basis. I keep a set of near line that are in my house and turned off for emergency restores and then monthly copies offsite. Nothing fireproof or high security, just in another location where they aren't likely to get lost or stolen or to have both my house and the storage location both burn down at once. I have had one house fire in the past, even just the smoke from a small fire can do incredible damage to electronics (not to mention the rest of the house).
I've found that the bigger problem for me is how the heck to find some backup solution that is cheap enough for home usage and doesn't just involve using multiple hard drives and can handle around 500 GB of data in a timely manner. I think that is a lost game
Systems like this can be put in place now because the vast majority of sheep are willing to let them because it makes them feel safe from people with dark skin and beards and snipers. Maybe this will help crack down on terrorists. Of course it will because it is another step down the world to a 1984/Brave New Worldish police state.
Once systems like this are in place and capture a few terrorists, why not use them to nab dead beat dads, or to make sure that your parking tickets are paid, or better yet, introduce some statistical programs to raise little red flags at the pentagon whenever certain triggers are tripped.
I can see it now, subject buys copy of Mein Kampf, visits a Nazi website, and in come the agents to find a 18 year old writing a history freshman paper.
But what do YOU have to worry about? you aren't hiding anything, ARE YOU?
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away... --Dave Mustaine
Body of Secrets is a captivating book, The Puzzle Palace, I considered somewhat dry. These two books however are the best intelligence available on the best intelligence agency that we can legally get our hands on.
I had someone launch a small one on me believe it or not. 50$ linksys router, cable modem, I notice a nmap scan happening, so i send him back some ICMP echo requests with LEAVE ME ALONE in the payload, and then about 25 zombies shut down my connection for about 20 mintues.
someone will attack anything for the same reason people climb mt Everest.
You cannot buy a 2003 ford mustang, remove the muffler, and drive around at 3am generating 100db of sound. Yes, it's your hardware, but rules exist to further a public good--a (relatively) pollution and noise free environment
umm, yes you can. it is illegal, but you can and you won't very likely be caught. Take it from one who has always had performance enhancing exhaust (n0t ricer fart pipes) on multiple cars and motorcycles. The louder pipes very often even come in below state emission (if not noise) standars. Very few places are strict about noise requirements on exhaust. It's quite a nice feeling to leave a wake of car alarms behind you as you drive your Ducati down the street at 3000 RPM's!
I am the exact same way regarding Real Networks. It sucks, right now I have a interview with Hunter S Thompson (one of my personal heroes) that I REALLY want to hear, but it is only in RM and I don't know how to convert it to anything useful w/o installing Real Media. Maybe the 'open source' release will allow someone to write a decoder for RM so that I can listen to the one piece of RM that I really want to, but my principles won't allow me to.
I have to say, I was incredibly impressed with Windows Media 9 encoding at low bit rates. I was attempting to get Jello's Hack the Planet speech (about an hour) down to the smallest file size I still could and have it be audible. Tried multiple LAME/MP3 and Ogg vorbis encoding options and could not get good results. With WMA, i got a about a 2.5 MB file at 4 kbs 8 khz mono that sounded AM radio quality. It was awesome, nothing else even came close.
I hate MS as much as the next guy, they did a good job with WMA9 at least on voice.
Slashdot Mirror
show me that you stupid robot!
nuff said...
I share the same theory, I think back to my own earliest memories and I think that I have the ability to remember back very far. I can recall some tramautic memories from the age of two, when i had to get stitches in my head from a fall. I didn't have a complete control of language at that point, but could recognize certain things. I have other shadowy memories of situations where some things would be familiar like mother, ball, grass, but other things being complete mysteries, like i didn't have labels for them.
The memory is a fascinating thing.
It may not cause immediate physical addiction, but you are completely ignoring the psychological aspects of a drug. Marijuana is NOT physically addictive, but then why are there eternal potheads if they are not addicted? The psychological experience of a drug can be so strong that the user's own will to have the experience is what addicts them, not the body's physical dependancy.
Nicotine may be more physically addicitve than herione, but no one in their right mind would claim that it is psychologically more powerful!
Wish i had some mod points right now.
All my CD's ripped to OGG quality 10.
Take the OGG listening challenge and come back later with an opinion.
I told the admin to tell the user that Their house currently has a door on it and someone could break it down and attack them"
I'm convinced that users will click on anything put in front of them
Really simplistic definition, Google would have more, Virus, like real viruses don't have a life of their own, they attach to existing code of another executable, modify it and spread when run. They usually don't spread by their own means, and in days of old the fastest transport mechanism for viruses were floppies between friends (or enemies ;))
Worms are self replicating programs that stand on their own. They actively try to infect other machines (usually over a network) or do whatever else the programmer specified that they do. I think worms are the most danger today. I can't recall the last real virus I've actually seen that infected a system in the wild and I have a couple thousand computers that I'm responsible for.
Then there is the whole messy category of 'Macro Viruses'. I remember the first MS Word proof of concept one of these. It said Hello or something stupid like that in a popup when Word started. Everyone was shocked and said that word had a virus and the sky is falling. I said, no Word is running a damn macro. I think the macro based viruses are best called worms, but sometimes don't meet the definition of a worm very well.
Taxonomy here can be difficult, and now we are faced with even newer and more exiting things such as placing buffer overflows in MP3 tags. This will of course be called a MP3 virus, when it isn't at all! Don't forget Bonzai Buddy and Friend Greeting (worm that the user installs with a license agreement that clearly says what it does).
I guess after I typed all this, I may have realized that there isn't a good taxonomy for these sorts of things that is going to mean anything at all to anyone other than picky geeks who are best fitted with understanding exactly what the 'thing' that is a security risk does, rather than what its label is in popular culture.
We are sold the fact that in order to get more convience we must give up our rights to privacy. This isn't true, most systems that grant convience and save time can be implemented in a way that will grant the user MORE privacy than they would have had otherwise. The problem is that most people are willing to give up anything for convience, being lazy asses, and the companies that implement the solutions to grant more convience, implement them in a way that the user trades off private information that the corporation can use for profit, or the government can use to fight dead beat dads, terrorists, drug dealers and those people who rip mattress tags off.
For those of you who always bring up 1984 and Brave New World, read Brave New World Revisited, it is a collection of excellent essays by Huxley written towards the end of his life describing nearly exactly the society we are living in today and where we are going. Read about the roots of propaganda and marketing and it's rise in the 20th century. Noam Chomsky has a great book on that called Manufacturing Consent.
Time to lower the antenna and crawl back down into my lead shielded underground vault at an undisclosed location (Cheney and I had the same realtor).
Klez is a worm, not a virus. I've been constantly annoyed with most people's ability to tell hackers from crackers, telling worms from viruses seems hopeless for the average sheep, but I thought slashdotters would know the difference.
Wrong
RTF Introduction to LOTR by Tolkien himself!
He absolutely was not writing about WWII and spoke of his personal distaste for allegory and specifically states that LOTR is not about anything other than what is in the book.
He also states that he thinks that many people confuse applicability with allegory. Since LOTR deals with such universal concepts, and is in essence a myth, it is applicable to lots of situations, but not a thinly veiled text about WWII. That would cheapen the book. Think of it in the same light as the Illiad, Odyssey, Anead or any great mythology.
The way I figure it, is that even in bad economic times, a well estabilished lawfirm still has a good amount of work to do. We can both launch the IPO and run the Chapter 11 proceedings...
Is the best SF author ever!
I love my computer you make me feel alright
every waking hour and every lonely night
I love my computer for all you give to me
predictable errors and no identity
and it's never been quite so easy
I've never been quite so happy
all I need to do is click on you
and we'll be joined in the most soul-less way
and we'll never ever ruin each other's day
cuz when I'm through I just click and you just go away
I love my computer you're always in the mood
I get turned on when I turn on you
I love my computer you never ask for more
you can be a princess or you can be my whore
and it's never been quite so easy
I've never been quite so happy
the world outside is so big but it's safe in my domain
because to you I'm just a number and a clever screen name
all I need to do is click on you
and we'll be together for eternity
and no one is ever gonna take my love
from me because I've got security,
her password and a key
I also have a problem with being dishonest and feel like I'm cheating if I fake my info. They can setup whatever system they want and I can choose to play or not, but I don't dictate the rules to their game.
"But this is infringing on our rights of corporate free speech", whines Verizon. Free speech? Possible first amendment violation? Come on, why the hell did we sell this country to the highest bidder? How the heck can a CORPORATION have rights to do anything other than exist for the good of the consumers it serves.
I don't know if I'm going to have the stomach to live in this country in 10 years if things continue to progress in the way that it looks like they are.
All Verizon has to do to get the public behind them is offer a few cents off phone service or something and most sheep will gladly let Verizon target marketing to them based on how often they called their girlfriend.
Organize, resist, refuse! I paid $14 the other day for an item at Safeway that would have cost me $5 if they could have tracked it. Hopefully, I'll be able to continue to afford the fight.
Tell your friends about this if you live in WA state, write your reps, write your newspaper editor, if it passes, CANCEL your verizon service.
Sadly, it all seems futile, but I'm reminded of a Gandhi quote which I'm going to probably slightly misquote: "Whatever it is that you do will be insignificant, however it is extremely important that you do it."
I back everything up to large firewire hard drives on a rotating basis. I keep a set of near line that are in my house and turned off for emergency restores and then monthly copies offsite. Nothing fireproof or high security, just in another location where they aren't likely to get lost or stolen or to have both my house and the storage location both burn down at once. I have had one house fire in the past, even just the smoke from a small fire can do incredible damage to electronics (not to mention the rest of the house).
I've found that the bigger problem for me is how the heck to find some backup solution that is cheap enough for home usage and doesn't just involve using multiple hard drives and can handle around 500 GB of data in a timely manner. I think that is a lost game
Once systems like this are in place and capture a few terrorists, why not use them to nab dead beat dads, or to make sure that your parking tickets are paid, or better yet, introduce some statistical programs to raise little red flags at the pentagon whenever certain triggers are tripped.
I can see it now, subject buys copy of Mein Kampf, visits a Nazi website, and in come the agents to find a 18 year old writing a history freshman paper.
But what do YOU have to worry about? you aren't hiding anything, ARE YOU?
Next thing you know, they'll take my thoughts away... --Dave Mustaine
Body of Secrets is a captivating book, The Puzzle Palace, I considered somewhat dry. These two books however are the best intelligence available on the best intelligence agency that we can legally get our hands on.
someone will attack anything for the same reason people climb mt Everest.
One time Pad is known to be impossible when used correctly. Quantum cryptography is supposed to.
umm, yes you can. it is illegal, but you can and you won't very likely be caught. Take it from one who has always had performance enhancing exhaust (n0t ricer fart pipes) on multiple cars and motorcycles. The louder pipes very often even come in below state emission (if not noise) standars. Very few places are strict about noise requirements on exhaust. It's quite a nice feeling to leave a wake of car alarms behind you as you drive your Ducati down the street at 3000 RPM's!
I am the exact same way regarding Real Networks. It sucks, right now I have a interview with Hunter S Thompson (one of my personal heroes) that I REALLY want to hear, but it is only in RM and I don't know how to convert it to anything useful w/o installing Real Media. Maybe the 'open source' release will allow someone to write a decoder for RM so that I can listen to the one piece of RM that I really want to, but my principles won't allow me to.
I hate MS as much as the next guy, they did a good job with WMA9 at least on voice.