How does anyone of the caliber required for MIT even get this far without having done this before?
I believe that MIT looks for evidence of high intelligence and high energy in their applicants. Although building your own circuits in high school or before may certainly serve as this evidence, it is not really required.
There is a Friends episode in which Phoebe's twin sister Ursula is working as a porn star (under Phoebe's name) in such movies as "Buffay the Vampire Layer." There is even a scene from the movie.
Because clauses like that are "exculpatory" (if I remember the term from my "legal environment" class correctly). They have no meaning, other than to scare the uninformed.
I've also heard these signs referred to as "dust in the eye" (I can't find a link, though). Signs such as "management not responsible for theft or damage" are not binding but at the same time posting such a message is not illegal, either.
...is the title of a book of these. I think it may have been compiled from the bits Jay Leno did on the Tonight Show.
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some predict this will be a bigger ethical issue than genetics
That makes sense. I expect that your brain is much more likely than your DNA to determine your behavior. However, DNA can be fully sequenced right now. I would bet we're a long way off from being able to fully map a human brain.
Also, I think that much of the expectation of the privacy of one's thoughts is founded on the fact that today nobody else can be sure what those thoughts are. The examples in the article are fairly crude tools related to activity in a certain area of the brain. Care certainly will need to be taken with any potential use of these tools. Taking it to the extreme of real-time mind-reading will be a different thing entirely.
Actually, I think chances are good that liberal arts majors especially (writers and graphical designers, for example) would be using Macs in the "real world."
Something I found interesting from the Bill Gates sidebar: 2002 salary and bonus: $753,310
That's a lot of money, but still nothing like the stories you read about executives getting $3,000,000 in salary and bonus (while their company tanks). Sure, Bill isn't CEO anymore and will make plenty in dividends, but this amount is more reasonable than I would have expected.
As a privacy advocate, I would like everyone to note how full of BS the guys who put up these cameras were when they said the CC cameras would only be used to prevent crime.
Well, it all depends on the definition of "crime."
Rumor has it that he split things up due to his divorce agreement. His ex-wife was entitled to half of his profits from "making movies" for about 10 years. Thus he spent that time on ILM and other technically-non-movie-making pursuits. 10 years pass, and then he starts work on Episode 1...
If I had to guess all the nerds at CIA-Langley with all their cool equipment will not contribute even half as much to catching Osam Bin Landen or determining his fate as simple traitors within Al Quaeda will do.
So you're saying that to catch bin laden we need a donkey laden?
From the full article (not sure how to get there from the link; I read it a few hours ago after linking from CNN.com), it was actually Xilinx that 'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6 percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'
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Not that this stinks, but this stinks of automated "liquid bravery/no-doze/morphine" delivery. It seems almost tailor-made to be part of an automated battlefield drug delivery system. It could fit into a small beltpack containing a pda sized circuit board, a few vials of specific drugs and a small motorized needle.
Like the Stimpack ability in Starcraft. "Eeeyaaaagh!"
Wonder which branch of the military Vanderbilt has been receiving its recent grants from:) ?
The Space Marines, of course.
I think I'm stealing somebody's sig...
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...but it has to be said:
"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
-Steven Wright
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I believe that MIT looks for evidence of high intelligence and high energy in their applicants. Although building your own circuits in high school or before may certainly serve as this evidence, it is not really required.
Yes, they move quickly from building circuits to "networking!"
There is a Friends episode in which Phoebe's twin sister Ursula is working as a porn star (under Phoebe's name) in such movies as "Buffay the Vampire Layer." There is even a scene from the movie.
I've also heard these signs referred to as "dust in the eye" (I can't find a link, though). Signs such as "management not responsible for theft or damage" are not binding but at the same time posting such a message is not illegal, either.
...is the title of a book of these. I think it may have been compiled from the bits Jay Leno did on the Tonight Show.
That makes sense. I expect that your brain is much more likely than your DNA to determine your behavior. However, DNA can be fully sequenced right now. I would bet we're a long way off from being able to fully map a human brain.
Also, I think that much of the expectation of the privacy of one's thoughts is founded on the fact that today nobody else can be sure what those thoughts are. The examples in the article are fairly crude tools related to activity in a certain area of the brain. Care certainly will need to be taken with any potential use of these tools. Taking it to the extreme of real-time mind-reading will be a different thing entirely.
The movie was not so great but the opening credits and much of the soundtrack were amazing.
Now, it's not a good idea to piss off your investors, because they'll just turn and sell your stock, and you have to pay that capital back.
I don't think that's correct. If a current investor sells your stock, a new investor (the buyer of that stock) is the one that is "paying capital."
Whoa. Could this be the solution to email spam as well? Calling, emailing (spam the spammer), DDOS-ing the link back to spamming client?
It was interesting to me that question #5 made it through final editing, and the "straight" answer was definitely worth a chuckle.
Usul: "Stilgar, do we have worm sign?"
Stilgar: "Usul, we have worm sign the likes of which even God has never seen!"
Actually, I think chances are good that liberal arts majors especially (writers and graphical designers, for example) would be using Macs in the "real world."
Dictionary.com suggests it as a form of "deltaic" pertaining to a Greek letter or an alluvial deposit.
...people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Something I found interesting from the Bill Gates sidebar: 2002 salary and bonus: $753,310
That's a lot of money, but still nothing like the stories you read about executives getting $3,000,000 in salary and bonus (while their company tanks). Sure, Bill isn't CEO anymore and will make plenty in dividends, but this amount is more reasonable than I would have expected.
Ha ha. Excellent idea! The TV rights might bring in more revenue than the game does.
like superman 3
I thought Office Space was the preferred example on Slashdot.
As a privacy advocate, I would like everyone to note how full of BS the guys who put up these cameras were when they said the CC cameras would only be used to prevent crime.
Well, it all depends on the definition of "crime."Rumor has it that he split things up due to his divorce agreement. His ex-wife was entitled to half of his profits from "making movies" for about 10 years. Thus he spent that time on ILM and other technically-non-movie-making pursuits. 10 years pass, and then he starts work on Episode 1...
I think Mrs. Rosen should write a fat check to Columbia right now.
You mean "to Colombia," right? I think Columbia writes checks to Mrs. Rosen...
If I had to guess all the nerds at CIA-Langley with all their cool equipment will not contribute even half as much to catching Osam Bin Landen or determining his fate as simple traitors within Al Quaeda will do.
So you're saying that to catch bin laden we need a donkey laden?
From the full article (not sure how to get there from the link; I read it a few hours ago after linking from CNN.com), it was actually Xilinx that
'protected its employees from a nasty downturn in the industry by refusing to abandon a no-layoff policy. Workers took a 6 percent pay cut, but the CEO led the way with a 20 percent cut.'
... this looks like a derivative work to me.
Not that this stinks, but this stinks of automated "liquid bravery/no-doze/morphine" delivery. It seems almost tailor-made to be part of an automated battlefield drug delivery system. It could fit into a small beltpack containing a pda sized circuit board, a few vials of specific drugs and a small motorized needle.
:) ?
Like the Stimpack ability in Starcraft. "Eeeyaaaagh!"
Wonder which branch of the military Vanderbilt has been receiving its recent grants from
The Space Marines, of course.
...but it has to be said:
"If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?"
-Steven Wright