Several if not all of the Amazon warehouses now use robots to move shelves to the pickers, instead of the pickers running to the shelves. The sad story of a hard-working Joe who wanted to feed his family & died on the job is becoming the sad story of even the crappy jobs disappearing.
And if I programmed the machines to not destroy the cells during the upload - what would happen?
You'd have forked yourself. "You" would be in one of the two places (meat or upload) and you'd be staring at a doppleganger who thought he was you. Over time, however, the two forks would drift as they always do and would no longer be indistinguishable. If you were planning that stunt, to avoid going nuts and having awkward scenes at the restaurant, you'd have to anticipate the trouble and deal with it somehow.
And who said anything about PCs? Who'd want to live out their lives in a cruddy Dell Whizbang laptop with crumbs and old Red Bull in the keyboard?
In Mind Children, Moravec described a fascinating scenario. A probe equipped with molecular-scale surgical tools, encloses a few brain cells and simulates them in software while you lie on a table. You have a switch in your hand; as you press it, you flip back and forth between the simulation and the working cells; when you can't tell the difference, the cells are removed. The probe continues to work its way through your brain until no real cells are left. You have been slowly, gradually uploaded into software. This is you, your continual awareness, not a copy of you that takes your place after you've died.
An alien race with only OUR level of intelligence/development, upon receiving broadcasts from Earth, would recognize them almost immediately as not being from natural phenomena and would have them decoded in a fairly short time. Maybe the signals would make sense, maybe not, but we would surely have their attention. The hard part would be a 2-way communication, as there might be significant cognitive/sensory/cultural differences to overcome.
Perhaps it means that the law says "no guns allowed, unless you're a criminal and don't care about the law".
Of all the rules at the university where I work, no-guns is among the most sensible. The campus has its own police force who have guns and are trained to use them. I wouldn't want to work where any yahoo could wander in packing and I'd have to worry about whether they had any screws loose. On the other hand, a prominent sticker on the door isn't much of a deterrent.
The alleged RipSec administrator's responses sound scripted and rehearsed. And he sounds overly cocky. The voice/appearance is heavily disguised, so the admin could actually be the narrator in a hoodie for all you know.
Apparently being a nerdy brown kid is now illegal in America. If this was a white Christian kid, he'd be a national fucking hero.
White kids've gotten nailed for this kind of thing in the past. The issue is he did something that confused the adults in power, who panicked in the name of "responsibility." Learning while brown/Muslim sure didn't help though.
Maybe there should be a legal defense org for kids like this along the lines of EFF, but for the makers and tinkerers out there...
Does Google Glass do anything like that? If the tech could be wearable (and sufficiently capable), someone with vision problems could use it to navigate a busy sidewalk.
AVs might make it a little easier to do terrorism, but I'm not seeing order-of-magnitude change. Islamist radicals already have AVs in the form of suicide drivers. They go where they want and ram the gates down. McVeigh and Nichols were nowhere near the truck when it went off; the FBI figured everything out from serial numbers on the truck parts in a few hours.
You're assuming commercial plants will be Tokamaks, but there's little evidence that approach will work. Even if you could get a tok to break even, the heavy neutron flux will rapidly degrade any metals in the equipment, so you'll have to trash and replace the works in less than a year. Several other, more compact designs such as Northrup-Grumman's machine, the Polywell, Tri-Alpha's effort, and so on, show more promise.
Duh. If you've got hyperspace, why bother with antimatter? Deliver a big enough chunk of regular matter to the core and the instantaneous displacement of matter should do the trick.
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Several if not all of the Amazon warehouses now use robots to move shelves to the pickers, instead of the pickers running to the shelves. The sad story of a hard-working Joe who wanted to feed his family & died on the job is becoming the sad story of even the crappy jobs disappearing.
"Some claim that the Pipe actually controls "Bob", but .. the Pipe no more controls "Bob" than we control the cars that carry us around."
And if I programmed the machines to not destroy the cells during the upload - what would happen?
You'd have forked yourself. "You" would be in one of the two places (meat or upload) and you'd be staring at a doppleganger who thought he was you. Over time, however, the two forks would drift as they always do and would no longer be indistinguishable. If you were planning that stunt, to avoid going nuts and having awkward scenes at the restaurant, you'd have to anticipate the trouble and deal with it somehow.
And who said anything about PCs? Who'd want to live out their lives in a cruddy Dell Whizbang laptop with crumbs and old Red Bull in the keyboard?
In Mind Children, Moravec described a fascinating scenario. A probe equipped with molecular-scale surgical tools, encloses a few brain cells and simulates them in software while you lie on a table. You have a switch in your hand; as you press it, you flip back and forth between the simulation and the working cells; when you can't tell the difference, the cells are removed. The probe continues to work its way through your brain until no real cells are left. You have been slowly, gradually uploaded into software. This is you, your continual awareness, not a copy of you that takes your place after you've died.
Chicago has an app too. http://www.chicagoworksapp.com... Their 311 dial-a-problem service will also send you updates via SMS.
You first.
An alien race with only OUR level of intelligence/development, upon receiving broadcasts from Earth, would recognize them almost immediately as not being from natural phenomena and would have them decoded in a fairly short time. Maybe the signals would make sense, maybe not, but we would surely have their attention. The hard part would be a 2-way communication, as there might be significant cognitive/sensory/cultural differences to overcome.
Perhaps it means that the law says "no guns allowed, unless you're a criminal and don't care about the law".
Of all the rules at the university where I work, no-guns is among the most sensible. The campus has its own police force who have guns and are trained to use them. I wouldn't want to work where any yahoo could wander in packing and I'd have to worry about whether they had any screws loose. On the other hand, a prominent sticker on the door isn't much of a deterrent.
There's obviously more effort towards creating cyberwar, the "struggle" to prevent it isn't much more than hand-wringing. What do you expect?
Not a problem with the encryption, but sounds like a way to elevate user privileges on the sly.
The alleged RipSec administrator's responses sound scripted and rehearsed. And he sounds overly cocky. The voice/appearance is heavily disguised, so the admin could actually be the narrator in a hoodie for all you know.
Or wi-fi
As in birthday cake..
They have pills for that now, y'know...
All these worlds are yours, except Euro^H^H^Hnceladus.
Attempt no landings there.
Asking the millions of elderly, ugly, disfigured, disabled, etc to live without in the name of empathy is ironic.
Apparently being a nerdy brown kid is now illegal in America. If this was a white Christian kid, he'd be a national fucking hero.
White kids've gotten nailed for this kind of thing in the past. The issue is he did something that confused the adults in power, who panicked in the name of "responsibility." Learning while brown/Muslim sure didn't help though.
Maybe there should be a legal defense org for kids like this along the lines of EFF, but for the makers and tinkerers out there...
Clicking it gets you nowhere.
Does Google Glass do anything like that? If the tech could be wearable (and sufficiently capable), someone with vision problems could use it to navigate a busy sidewalk.
AVs might make it a little easier to do terrorism, but I'm not seeing order-of-magnitude change. Islamist radicals already have AVs in the form of suicide drivers. They go where they want and ram the gates down. McVeigh and Nichols were nowhere near the truck when it went off; the FBI figured everything out from serial numbers on the truck parts in a few hours.
You're assuming commercial plants will be Tokamaks, but there's little evidence that approach will work. Even if you could get a tok to break even, the heavy neutron flux will rapidly degrade any metals in the equipment, so you'll have to trash and replace the works in less than a year. Several other, more compact designs such as Northrup-Grumman's machine, the Polywell, Tri-Alpha's effort, and so on, show more promise.
What happens when the FTC's caught with sloppy security?
Jeb Bush is not against encryption, just encryption for you.
This screws any selling of copiers between regions too....
Duh. If you've got hyperspace, why bother with antimatter? Deliver a big enough chunk of regular matter to the core and the instantaneous displacement of matter should do the trick.