When it comes to technological issues, the Slashdot community is for the most part in agreement about the reality of things. But if the nature of the posts to this story indicate a truth, it seems that the Slashdot community is very bipartisan politically, and that technology is not strongly coupled with politics. Hell yah!
People who are repeatedly amazed by this sort of thing are by definition nerds.
No nightlife in SF? What are you talking about?
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First off, this isn't flaimbait. I've baited before, and I'm being honest now.
SF has one of the best nightlife scenes in the US, if not the world. Only a _hacker_ who spends his time coding would not see it! I've been to many somewhat underground trance parties that have blown my mind. San Fransisco has a seething underground, and it's been there since the 60's, maybe before. The black clothing crowd may see a dwindling of nightlife, but it's still there people.
Like the space war "simulation" in Ender's game, minesweeper is really just a distributed decryption tool... it makes all the unproductive workers productive!
Wait, how is this post moderated to 4 Insightful, where the post above, "Part of Microsoft's plan to destroy Linux", says essentially the same thing in less eloquent words, and gets a 3 Troll?
Why doesn't someone write a C++ compiler that writes out to Java bytecode? That would be a much more useful solution. It's already been done with Ada and Eiffel. Or has someone done it already?
If you believe Alan Turing, then humans really are complex computers. Some of us happen to be "computers" that have a feedback loop which attenuates our performance in apparently dangerous circumstances.
But you could flip things around: Program the computer for a wider margin of error in dangerous circumstances, and find a good human driver who doesn't fear death.
Of course, you can get into philosophical arguments about what a "real" world is, and how to determine the "root" world from where all others spawn is really the real one, and not spawned itself.
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When I took the SAT many years ago (1991), I took in a calculator watch. I didn't use it, but I thought it was great that I got it in. Why? It was a touch screen calculator watch that had no buttons, and the calculator display was only visible while using it. Very special back in dem dar days!
Not only are the "new" technologies Slashdot is now reporting on really only smaller and faster (not new), but they have been around for a while. I used to come to slashdot to see gadgets, but now I've already heard about everything that is posted.
Firstly, if you think you'll escape the government and corps by moving to mars, you are probably very wrong. They are the only two entities funding space research right now.
As for escaping flies... I wouldn't count on that also. Humans have a long history of bringing vermin stowaways and other creatures along with them on their explorations.
a. Code is written which actually manipulates the physical world (monitor blows up)
b. Code is written which actually manipulates the physical world (Hacker put in a Coma)
a. FBI agents investigate
b. A cool ass cyber-skateboarding pizza delivery boy investigates.
What you say is correct - the point of the article is that this robot is cheap and easy. You can also wrap your own motors and mold your own wheels, but that's not the point.
I don't think the initial spirit was to patriate those who offered value to the country. What does the plaque on the statue of liberty, one of the greatest American symbols, say? "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
It may actually be a GOOD thing that AOL is keeping their protocol closed. If they open up now, they may become the internet standard (I guess they are now, but one company isn't really a standard). If they don't open up, then the IETF standard for Instant Messaging will finally be settled on, which was openly designed, and better than AOL's protocol. Most major players have commited to using the IETF's standard when it is out.
The Ass-watch tool helps you measure the cleanliness of your ass after wiping:
One peanut: You're wearing underwear. At least your pants will be clean.
Two peanuts: Perhaps a bidet is in order?
Three peanuts: Dude, so you're the one stinking up the hallways!
Oh shit! Sorry, I guess Slashdot doesn't have a mood-watch.
LS
Some look at cyberspace as a subset of meatspace, and others look at it as a parallel space. However you look at it, cyberspace is a place where humans have much more control, which is why many geeks/nerds are so lost in it - they can control it, whereas their success in meatspace is limited. Some hackers don't wish to give up and limit their mastery to cyberspace, so they attempt to manipulate meatspace with magic and other mystical trappings.
"Will there be a point where corporate sponsorship hangs an ad in space? Already appearing "as the third brightest star in the nighttime sky", it will eventually be second only to Venus. Will we look up and see a Nike swoosh some day?"
Give me a break. What's with Slashdot's obsession with advertising? I'd understand predictions of commercialization of the sky in a story about the Pizza Hut ad on a rocket, but what does the brightness of the space station have to do with ads in space (besides the obvious, which any dummy could figure out)?
Next Slashdot story: "Scientists discover anti-gravity. What next, hovering ads that follow you around???"
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When it comes to technological issues, the Slashdot community is for the most part in agreement about the reality of things. But if the nature of the posts to this story indicate a truth, it seems that the Slashdot community is very bipartisan politically, and that technology is not strongly coupled with politics. Hell yah!
One difference: Woman were always human.
People who are repeatedly amazed by this sort of thing are by definition nerds.
First off, this isn't flaimbait. I've baited before, and I'm being honest now.
SF has one of the best nightlife scenes in the US, if not the world. Only a _hacker_ who spends his time coding would not see it! I've been to many somewhat underground trance parties that have blown my mind. San Fransisco has a seething underground, and it's been there since the 60's, maybe before. The black clothing crowd may see a dwindling of nightlife, but it's still there people.
LS
Wow! Are other countries as strict as this? anyone?
Like the space war "simulation" in Ender's game, minesweeper is really just a distributed decryption tool... it makes all the unproductive workers productive!
As Hemos said before, conceptually this is fine!
Wait, how is this post moderated to 4 Insightful, where the post above, "Part of Microsoft's plan to destroy Linux", says essentially the same thing in less eloquent words, and gets a 3 Troll?
Why doesn't someone write a C++ compiler that writes out to Java bytecode? That would be a much more useful solution. It's already been done with Ada and Eiffel. Or has someone done it already?
LS
I'm surprised that nobody's made a comment about your unawareness that someone has to make the first joke.
If you believe Alan Turing, then humans really are complex computers. Some of us happen to be "computers" that have a feedback loop which attenuates our performance in apparently dangerous circumstances.
But you could flip things around: Program the computer for a wider margin of error in dangerous circumstances, and find a good human driver who doesn't fear death.
LS
Of course, you can get into philosophical arguments about what a "real" world is, and how to determine the "root" world from where all others spawn is really the real one, and not spawned itself.
When I took the SAT many years ago (1991), I took in a calculator watch. I didn't use it, but I thought it was great that I got it in. Why? It was a touch screen calculator watch that had no buttons, and the calculator display was only visible while using it. Very special back in dem dar days!
Not only are the "new" technologies Slashdot is now reporting on really only smaller and faster (not new), but they have been around for a while. I used to come to slashdot to see gadgets, but now I've already heard about everything that is posted.
Firstly, if you think you'll escape the government and corps by moving to mars, you are probably very wrong. They are the only two entities funding space research right now.
As for escaping flies... I wouldn't count on that also. Humans have a long history of bringing vermin stowaways and other creatures along with them on their explorations.
LS
Hmmmmm
a. Satori Effect
b. Snow Crash
a. Code is written which actually manipulates the physical world (monitor blows up)
b. Code is written which actually manipulates the physical world (Hacker put in a Coma)
a. FBI agents investigate
b. A cool ass cyber-skateboarding pizza delivery boy investigates.
What you say is correct - the point of the article is that this robot is cheap and easy. You can also wrap your own motors and mold your own wheels, but that's not the point.
LS
Hey people, the Slashdot crew is not that clueless. Showing the same company name repeatedly is called "BRANDING".
LS
I think we need to shut off his pod in the Matrix and show him what's up...
I don't think the initial spirit was to patriate those who offered value to the country. What does the plaque on the statue of liberty, one of the greatest American symbols, say? "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
NOT added-value.
It may actually be a GOOD thing that AOL is keeping their protocol closed. If they open up now, they may become the internet standard (I guess they are now, but one company isn't really a standard). If they don't open up, then the IETF standard for Instant Messaging will finally be settled on, which was openly designed, and better than AOL's protocol. Most major players have commited to using the IETF's standard when it is out.
LS
The Ass-watch tool helps you measure the cleanliness of your ass after wiping: One peanut: You're wearing underwear. At least your pants will be clean. Two peanuts: Perhaps a bidet is in order? Three peanuts: Dude, so you're the one stinking up the hallways! Oh shit! Sorry, I guess Slashdot doesn't have a mood-watch. LS
Some look at cyberspace as a subset of meatspace, and others look at it as a parallel space. However you look at it, cyberspace is a place where humans have much more control, which is why many geeks/nerds are so lost in it - they can control it, whereas their success in meatspace is limited. Some hackers don't wish to give up and limit their mastery to cyberspace, so they attempt to manipulate meatspace with magic and other mystical trappings.
"Will there be a point where corporate sponsorship hangs an ad in space? Already appearing "as the third brightest star in the nighttime sky", it will eventually be second only to Venus. Will we look up and see a Nike swoosh some day?"
Give me a break. What's with Slashdot's obsession with advertising? I'd understand predictions of commercialization of the sky in a story about the Pizza Hut ad on a rocket, but what does the brightness of the space station have to do with ads in space (besides the obvious, which any dummy could figure out)?
Next Slashdot story: "Scientists discover anti-gravity. What next, hovering ads that follow you around???"
LS
They are really celebrating over at Napster. Tomorrow the sysadmins will get the day off!
LS