Dakhaas literally means roofrabbit and refers to the fact that if you cut the legs, you can pass cat for rabbit. Not in practice anymore but we did have the hungerwinter here thanks to the Americans being to scared to advance and leave the British and Polish forces without backup.
So, you go tell the student that, the guy is unstable in the extreem! Wiped out an entire planet just because people wouldn't listen to him. Imagine what he do with a professor that gives him a C. Would be a sight to see. Preferably from another universe.
What IBM? They are now almost entirely a consultancy company. The OLD IBM is gone. Atari also still exists, you can buy PC games from them. The name continues, the company dies.
MS revenue is anything but safe and Vista proved this. Windows 8 could be a complete and utter dud or even worse, people could decide Windows 7 suits them just fine even if Windows 9 reverses all the mistakes in 8. Hell, lots of people are still on XP.
There is also the recent ruling that software licenses can be sold on. Some company does go Windows 8? Lots of very cheap Windows 7 licenses available.
Same with office. An old version might just continue to be all you need. Buy an old license, it is not like software wears down or worse, go free after you realized that those employees that can't learn a new package are not employees worth having. Any case, if people can't move from office to libre, how will they handle a MS upgrade without the same amount of hassle? It is not like MS keeps its interfaces consistent over versions or anything.
Apple has shown just how volatile the tech market really is. iPhone destroyed two tech giants (Nokia and RIM) overnight and thanks to OSX and McBooks, all of sudden all MS offices are no longer what the boss with his shiny new iPenis insists on."Hey, you use linux right, maybe you can help me get my Apple laptop working on our infrastructure?" And another nail in MS coffin as now the Linux guy with all his free software and zero license cost and zero compliance cost is the one making sure the boss can use the tools he wants.
With a down economy, company owners, especially small companies are very open to save costs and very down on employees that refuge to change.
MS did well, so did Sun when the sky was blue and budgets were meant to be spent. Sun is dead, can Micro "Just add another server" Soft survive? Sure... they got lots of cash, they can afford to give things away. But not Office and Windows as they already use this to finance their other loss making projects.
That is MS biggest problem, it got a lot of revenue and profit but it is using it to fund to many things that never have and never will make a profit on their own.
Meanwhile Apple has got a shitload of income and nothing to spend it on. It has virtually no loss leaders. So even if the next project by Apple ends up a dud, they can take it. For MS it would be just another drain when they already got so many.
It is not impossible when you got lots of income to go bankrupt still if you just spend it even faster.
Are these the same soldiers who refused to torture civilians? Hold suspects without trial in de-humanizing conditions? Shoot at unarmed civilians from a gunship? Protect nazi war criminals from facing justice for killing their fellow soldiers? From mass rape and child murder in countless wars? From shooting at American citizens protesting segregation? From using forbidden chemical weapons on civilians? From refusing point blank to accept any plan to invite an allied nation should they be brought before a tribunal on war crimes?
What has a GPS to do with privacy. So I know exactly where I am with a GPS, well, I think I have a right to know and since I am using a GPS, possibly even a need!
What you are probably meaning to say is that OTHERS don't have to know where I am and they can't with NAVSOP or GPS. Unless I tell them.
Now put on your tinfoil hat making sure it covers the nose and mouth.
The beauty of MeeGo is that it is Linux, you already got a ton of software, real software not fart apps and they are FREE! Developed by developers who have a heart for their application, not a desire to charge big bucks for inferior software people have gotten for free for decades. Reall, 1,59 for for a video player that doesn't even support basic formats? No thanks.
HP/Compaq, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Dell, Samsung, Sony, Fujitsu... who among these would you call small players? A small player in my mind is a store chain that sells rebranded or white label computers, not an asian mega giant.
Just because YOU don't shop around, doesn't mean nobody else does.
Grid based combat, then you can match units up, especially in a multiplayer game. With free movement just doesn't allow proper martial arts. The Sims 3 shows this to an astonishing degree, its martial art combat is the most realistically animated because the characters are precisely placed so the animators can completely put them in sync.
Anything else, and it just don't work. Age of Conan showed this with its kill moves, lots of sidestepping to get the "actors" in position, large humans even shrinking on cue to fit the animation.
Far far easier to go the Korean route and just have swords hurling wind or whatever and never bothering about things making sense let alone matching up animations.
A lot of/. readers are emotionally stunted young men, I wouldn't expect most of them to have any morals beyond their own immediate instinctive needs. It is not how things work.
A decision as to how to live and die only comes when dead becomes a reality. Like people who decide to stop treatment of a fatal disease because they want to live the remainder of their live with some dignity rather then have a tiny hope with misery of dangerous medication. But you cannot judge this, until you have faced death.
In some games and lots of movies and books, this is explored, from sophies choice, to Lawrence Oates self-sacrifice. What would YOU do? The current zombie game "The walking dead" gives you such choices, who do you save? There is a site that shows all the choices people made in the first episode. Of course, such a game is not real. But I wonder if the choices made are influenced by the players history. Will a person from a civil war, a parent, someone who lost someone dear, a young man, a woman who had an abortion for convenience, etc etc, make different choices NOT for gameplay reasons but because the choice fits with their world view?
Hard research because there is a LOT of prejudice at work in just the previous sentence. Not just the abortion one, even presuming a young man is a different type then the rest says a LOT. Not sure what it says, it is just a lot.
But when you are young you tend to think in "Me, me me" terms. It is as you experience more (and that happens as you age) that you develop a more rounded view of life. Including perhaps one day, the choice as to how the end of your life should be. But statements as "It is better to die a free man then to live as a slave" are only truly understood by people who had to make the choice. Do you take every option to survive or do you say "no, this line, I will not cross". Ultimately, if you are faced with such a choice, it defines you. Just not for very long. But often moral choices such as that come down to, "could I live with myself if I did this?". For some the answer will be yes, for some the answer will be no.
But I wouldn't expect to find a many non- "me me me" responses on a site aimed at emotionally stunted young men. Or one aimed at young women either for that matter. And that is good. No reason for the young to think about how they are going to die, clutching at every straw, taking your own life or refusing to extend it at all costs. That is something for the old and terminally ill, let the rest believe they are going to live forever and that hanging on as long as possible is the only thing that matters.
So you are saying that it is okay to use human babies as fertilizer for your lawn and skin them to make lamp shades? After all, they are already dead.
Morality isn't about efficiency, it is about saying "I won't do this because I think it is wrong". And yes, for some this includes making use of research obained through immoral means. Most human beings just get this and don't need to have it explained. That you do, says a lot about you.
For most, "everyone else is doing it" is thankfully not good enough or we all be living in a world like Somalia and other hell holes where individual morals have disappeared. The daily proof is that we don't eat our dead. It is often perfectly fine meat, why throw it away? Even vegan's couldn't protest. Just try suggesting it however as a efficient and perfectly sensible course of action. I predict you will be shunned. Well, more so then you are already.
There are things you do and things you don't do. Amazing as it may appear to you, some people would indeed refuse such a treatment. It is what makes them human. Being human is not about walking upright or having opposable thumbs, it is about being able to make decisions beyond instinct for survival. That you can't means you are an animal. No less then an animal, most animals don't eat their own.
You see no problem with pumping a human being full of a non-blood liqued at a rapid rate?
The human in question would either explode OR the blood will become ever more diluted until all you got is the new liqued which isn't blood. And you need blood to survive, even if you are not a vampire.
The article makes this pretty damn clear, it is not for surgery, it is for emergencies. There already exist perfectly fine methods for putting oxygen into blood, they are used routinely during surgery. But they are bulky and slow, so they can't be used on the scene of an accident or in an emergency room.
This method is for keeping a patient alive until surgeons can save him. It is to stretch the window between incident and surgery to give emergency services more time. You would be suprised how advanced medicine is in saving people and how hard it is to get that advanced care available fast enough to work in an accident that could happen anywhere EVEN outside a hospital! Amazing I know but people do insist on getting accidents more then a minute away from a emergency room.
If it could be allowed legally, it might become possible for ambulance crew to give patients a shot of this stuff and make sure their brain has oxygen enough to survive until proper life support systems can take over.
But you CANNOT just pump a human being full of non-blood and expect them to survive.
YOU downloaded those apps, the phone just executed the command YOU gave it. Should your phone override your commands? Decide on its own what is best for you?
The entire article is insane. You should NEVER take a fictional book and use it as fact. Asimov was not a programmer or OS designer, he was a writer and he used artistic license to suggest a theory, a point from which to start discussion perhaps but not an accurete blueprint for a certain future.
There is no place in a modern OS for Asimov rules of robotics.
First off, our computers have no self determination whatsoever. The idea behind Asimov's robots is that they are "born" and then guide themselves with at most human like instructions to give them direction. How they are programmed, patched etc etc, doesn't become clear in those stories, because it doesn't matter for the story. But it does matter in real life.
How would getting root on a Asimov robot work? What if you as the owner insisted to install a utility/app that would perhaps cause it to violate its rule sets? What if an update removed those rules?
How would your phone even know this? It should be able to somehow analyse any code presented to it, to see if it doesn't override something or a setting has a consequence that would violate the rules? There is no way to do this. How would you update a robot that has a bug causing it to faultily see an update as a violation while in fact its current code is in violation?
The sentient robot is a nice gimmick but it is nowhere in sight in our lives.
Androids install warnings tell you exactly what an app needs. If you don't want to give those permissions, don't install it.
No need for magic code, just consumer beware. Any sentient should be able to do that. That you are not... are you sure you are human? Or are you just a bot dreaming he is human?
At the bottom of the article/summary, it notes that just encryption is not good enough against a real enemy (and not the made up ones by the tin foil hat crowd in the west) who will just beat your encryption key out of you. For a WW2 reference, you can have the most fancy code for your radio message but if the nazi's found you is possession of a radio, whether the message was encrypted or not, harmless or not, did not matter. No broadcasting!
Same in North Korea, hard to send any message out if you don't have a computer and the few computers that do have access are completely monitored. In Iran, all ISP's are state owned and controlled and so any signal that doesn't signal 100% innocent WILL be investigated and they won't take your word for it that you lost your key for PGP either.
It is what makes "darknet" programs such silly little kiddy toys. They only work in the west where your ISP doesn't give a shit what traffic goes over which port. But if a government wants to monitor all traffic, all they got to do is filter out any traffic that doesn't fit pre-determined patterns. How would you disguise encrypted traffic to non-standard destinations? Back to radio, the fact that you are sending a signal is what alert the authorities, not the signal being received. Connect to some Tor node and that itself will be cause for investigation. And no, they don't need to have a list for all Tor node, they just need a list of "legit" destinations and then notice that yours isn't on that list.
No freedom sucks, it isn't that visiting "154.32.55.32" is illegal, it is that visiting anything but yahoo.com is illegal.
That is why ordinary film rolls are still used to get information out of North Korea with flesh and blood messengers. Sure, it is possible to use a cellphone near the border... but just the receiving of such a cellphone, just having an adapter to charge it, is a crime. And they don't need evidence.
Thank [insert object of worship] that 99% of us never have to deal with true repression. Real repression is your finger nails being torn out because someone near you at one point might have done something someone didn't like and you don't even have a clue and nobody cares.
Fiddle around with your PGP and Tor all you want, it only works because in the west, because the state operates under rules which don't allow them to simply let you disappear because they thought you might have done something someone didn't like.
It is naive to think the government has no influence over the BBC, well, some governments at least. It is foolish to think the BBC is unbiased. True unbiased reporting is unheard of in the world, it would require every story to consume more storage resources then fit in the physical universe. What am I talking about? The Israel/Palestine conflict is a prime example, since it has been decades, no centuries, no millenia of tit-for-tat, if you want to report the full story, you need to include all of human history, each time. Would make the morning paper a bit thick.
Cut bits out? Then your bias is in the bits you cut out. The BBC always cuts so that Israel is the aggressor and never reports a story until Israel has retaliated. Check their reporting.
Fox does the opposite. Both are lying scumbags, just because you like the lies of one the scumbags does not make that scumbag unbiased.
The 3DS sadly showed Nintendo did not quite get their own market.
The DSi XL was brilliant. Going to a tiny low res 3d screen after that felt insane. It is not just that 3D wasn;t as big a thing as some thought, the screen itself was pants especially compared to the DSi XL screen.
And right now, the new 3DS XL just seems very very low rez. The phone and tablet markets are in a pixel race and nintendo ain't even competing at the bottom. 400 x 240 is the resolution for the top (3D) screen. Back when Nokia still rules the phone market, they already considered this low. Very low. With retina displays and full HD phones out, this just looks BAD. REALLY REALLY bad. If anyone dared to launch a phone with such a screen they would be laughed out of the market even if they offered to pay you to use it.
And Nintendo not only expects you to pay but pay through the nose. The gap between other platforms and the Nintendo handheld has just kept on increasing, partly because the competition has leaped ahead while Nintendo has sat still.
The same issue is true with the Wii, when it launched, HD screens were not that widespread yet, but nowadays, they are and boy do the Wii graphics look bad. Some of the games are good but the graphics really hurt your eyes if they are played on a larger screen.
And the 3DS XL is just that, a bigger screen, the original 3DS games were already pixelated to hell and back, now they just increased the size of the pixels when everyone else has been making them smaller.
There is a limit to how low budget you can make your hardware and software look and still charge premium prices for it. See the mockups people made for the 3DS and how the final product turned out. Gosh, people sure were wrong weren't they... or maybe it was Nintendo who was wrong.
So, you have TWO different accouts of Muslim criminals refusing to speak English in public who openly acknowledge planning to violate US export restrictions but take their word for it that when they spoke in Farsi, they weren't saying X despite someone else claiming they did. Gosh, I am odd, I do not take the word of a self-confessed would be criminal at face value. You do?
Anyway, why can't these Iranians buy some Muslim build technology instead? Protest a countries laws while fleeing there, to send gifts to the country you fled against the rules of your supposed new home country.
Considering this woman has friendly relations with a country that hangs people for drinking, I cannot really feel much sympathy when she feels the repression of another country's system when she is refused an iPad. Fix your own race/religion many troubles first before you start bitching about someone else.
So, first she acknowledges on camera that she was planning to violate US law by supplying an Iranian national with banned equipment but you think she tells the truth when she wasn't talking about this in the store, presuming that nobody else would be able to understand her since she was speaking in Farsi?
MS ALWAYS does this, they can't help themselves, they ALWAYS cripple their products in some idiotic way that makes zero business sense.
Like Windows Phone, 7 and 7.5 support just 1 core and just 1 resolution. Why? God knows, surely a company that has made software for devices with non-standard displays for decades can handle scaling a UI and even MS has had (less then anyone else) experience with multi-core OS support.
But no, Windows 7 and 7.5 LAUNCHED with max specs that were already made obsolete by competitors phones already in consumer hands.
Windows Phone 8 is the same, its resolution is still maxed at a spec that is now considered mandatory with existing phones out right now with higher resolutions while the first MS phone with WP8 still has to launch.
It is almost as if the dev's at MS take a long hard look at what everyone else is doing, then lock themselves away for 5 years, come out and act all suprised that their new product isn't beating the tech their competitors had 5 years ago. It is not just late to the party, it arrives when everyone else has already left.
And it is a pity because IF MS got it right, their products might actually be desirable. The Surface IF it had been better specced, might actually be okay. But the one spec that worries me most is the one that is missing. Memory. Not storage, working memory. The Pro is like tablet desktop. Now I don't know about your desktop but for me, I have used OSX, Windows and mostly Linux and they ALL love their main memory. More they cry, feed me more sticks! I cannot give you any more captain, I am all sticked out! But they want more. Gamer mainboards exist now with 8 slots, just to to feed the appetite of windows programs for more memory.
Now... how much will the Surface Pro have? If MS was on the ball, with the times, had business smarts and understood their customers, an ABSOLUTE minimum of 4 and preferable 8 GB... if I am optimistic? It will be 2. Hopefully at least 1 although 512mb wouldn't suprise me a bit.
Anyone know the answer? It will tell you what MS is like as a company.
8gb+ MS is on the ball, they understand their market and their customers and how people use their OS.
4gb+ MS understands the market but is a bit cheap.
2gb+ MS thinks people run one app at a time because frankly that is all Ballmer can handle.
1gb MS can't even start up task manager to see how much its OS gobbles up.
512mb MS engineers have no idea how much memory is needed because they do all their work and entertainment on Apple gear.
360 is second a LONG way behind Nintendo and PS3 is close behind PLUS 360 still fails in Japan so Sony is far from out of the picture meaning there will be a new round. Also, MS has no presence in mobile gaming at all. As for profit on hardware, is that before or after the losses on the original platform have been accounted for and does it include the countless units that had to be replaced under warranty?
Anyway, MS can do hardware. They have done keyboards and mouses for a long time and they are "okay". No, I wouldn't touch them but some people do.
Not as many as buy Logitech...
Oh and for the final nail in the coffin, the 360 had a rather important thing that MS hoped to launch,HD-DVD. Boy, did that bomb. Blu-ray won instead. Who was behind that again?
No, the 360 did alright but MS is barely breaking even on games and that is only after some creative accounting.
I predict the surface will be another dud. Why?
The one spec that is conspicious by its absence. MEMORY. Not storage, main memory.
Tablets typically come with 1gb nowadays. Do you want to run Windows Desktop with 1gb of memory? You can't even buy netbooks that underpowered anymore. All the memory guzzling of Windows software, all the memory restrictions of a tablet, 10.6 inches (note how well these sell, NOT) and lower resolutiuon then the leader of the pack.
MS only did okay with the 360 because Sony screwed up really badly with the PS3. MS Office only beat Word Perfect because Corell dropped the ball and the IBM PC Compatable only made it because Apple, Commodore and Atari complety screwed themselves over.
MS only wins a race if everyone else trips up. Is Apple likely to do that?
The RIAA should go after people with crappy headsets for broadcasting music in public without a license. I would personally help them in taking these people out with maximum prejudice and cruel and unusual punishment.
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Dakhaas literally means roofrabbit and refers to the fact that if you cut the legs, you can pass cat for rabbit. Not in practice anymore but we did have the hungerwinter here thanks to the Americans being to scared to advance and leave the British and Polish forces without backup.
So, you go tell the student that, the guy is unstable in the extreem! Wiped out an entire planet just because people wouldn't listen to him. Imagine what he do with a professor that gives him a C. Would be a sight to see. Preferably from another universe.
What IBM? They are now almost entirely a consultancy company. The OLD IBM is gone. Atari also still exists, you can buy PC games from them. The name continues, the company dies.
MS revenue is anything but safe and Vista proved this. Windows 8 could be a complete and utter dud or even worse, people could decide Windows 7 suits them just fine even if Windows 9 reverses all the mistakes in 8. Hell, lots of people are still on XP.
There is also the recent ruling that software licenses can be sold on. Some company does go Windows 8? Lots of very cheap Windows 7 licenses available.
Same with office. An old version might just continue to be all you need. Buy an old license, it is not like software wears down or worse, go free after you realized that those employees that can't learn a new package are not employees worth having. Any case, if people can't move from office to libre, how will they handle a MS upgrade without the same amount of hassle? It is not like MS keeps its interfaces consistent over versions or anything.
Apple has shown just how volatile the tech market really is. iPhone destroyed two tech giants (Nokia and RIM) overnight and thanks to OSX and McBooks, all of sudden all MS offices are no longer what the boss with his shiny new iPenis insists on."Hey, you use linux right, maybe you can help me get my Apple laptop working on our infrastructure?" And another nail in MS coffin as now the Linux guy with all his free software and zero license cost and zero compliance cost is the one making sure the boss can use the tools he wants.
With a down economy, company owners, especially small companies are very open to save costs and very down on employees that refuge to change.
MS did well, so did Sun when the sky was blue and budgets were meant to be spent. Sun is dead, can Micro "Just add another server" Soft survive? Sure... they got lots of cash, they can afford to give things away. But not Office and Windows as they already use this to finance their other loss making projects.
That is MS biggest problem, it got a lot of revenue and profit but it is using it to fund to many things that never have and never will make a profit on their own.
Meanwhile Apple has got a shitload of income and nothing to spend it on. It has virtually no loss leaders. So even if the next project by Apple ends up a dud, they can take it. For MS it would be just another drain when they already got so many.
It is not impossible when you got lots of income to go bankrupt still if you just spend it even faster.
Are these the same soldiers who refused to torture civilians? Hold suspects without trial in de-humanizing conditions? Shoot at unarmed civilians from a gunship? Protect nazi war criminals from facing justice for killing their fellow soldiers? From mass rape and child murder in countless wars? From shooting at American citizens protesting segregation? From using forbidden chemical weapons on civilians? From refusing point blank to accept any plan to invite an allied nation should they be brought before a tribunal on war crimes?
These soldiers?
Good luck.
So does a soldier who blindly obeys orders.
So does a whore.
What is your point?
Lawyers are trash? Point made!
What has a GPS to do with privacy. So I know exactly where I am with a GPS, well, I think I have a right to know and since I am using a GPS, possibly even a need!
What you are probably meaning to say is that OTHERS don't have to know where I am and they can't with NAVSOP or GPS. Unless I tell them.
Now put on your tinfoil hat making sure it covers the nose and mouth.
The beauty of MeeGo is that it is Linux, you already got a ton of software, real software not fart apps and they are FREE! Developed by developers who have a heart for their application, not a desire to charge big bucks for inferior software people have gotten for free for decades. Reall, 1,59 for for a video player that doesn't even support basic formats? No thanks.
HP/Compaq, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Dell, Samsung, Sony, Fujitsu... who among these would you call small players? A small player in my mind is a store chain that sells rebranded or white label computers, not an asian mega giant.
Just because YOU don't shop around, doesn't mean nobody else does.
Grid based combat, then you can match units up, especially in a multiplayer game. With free movement just doesn't allow proper martial arts. The Sims 3 shows this to an astonishing degree, its martial art combat is the most realistically animated because the characters are precisely placed so the animators can completely put them in sync.
Anything else, and it just don't work. Age of Conan showed this with its kill moves, lots of sidestepping to get the "actors" in position, large humans even shrinking on cue to fit the animation.
Far far easier to go the Korean route and just have swords hurling wind or whatever and never bothering about things making sense let alone matching up animations.
A lot of /. readers are emotionally stunted young men, I wouldn't expect most of them to have any morals beyond their own immediate instinctive needs. It is not how things work.
A decision as to how to live and die only comes when dead becomes a reality. Like people who decide to stop treatment of a fatal disease because they want to live the remainder of their live with some dignity rather then have a tiny hope with misery of dangerous medication. But you cannot judge this, until you have faced death.
In some games and lots of movies and books, this is explored, from sophies choice, to Lawrence Oates self-sacrifice. What would YOU do? The current zombie game "The walking dead" gives you such choices, who do you save? There is a site that shows all the choices people made in the first episode. Of course, such a game is not real. But I wonder if the choices made are influenced by the players history. Will a person from a civil war, a parent, someone who lost someone dear, a young man, a woman who had an abortion for convenience, etc etc, make different choices NOT for gameplay reasons but because the choice fits with their world view?
Hard research because there is a LOT of prejudice at work in just the previous sentence. Not just the abortion one, even presuming a young man is a different type then the rest says a LOT. Not sure what it says, it is just a lot.
But when you are young you tend to think in "Me, me me" terms. It is as you experience more (and that happens as you age) that you develop a more rounded view of life. Including perhaps one day, the choice as to how the end of your life should be. But statements as "It is better to die a free man then to live as a slave" are only truly understood by people who had to make the choice. Do you take every option to survive or do you say "no, this line, I will not cross". Ultimately, if you are faced with such a choice, it defines you. Just not for very long. But often moral choices such as that come down to, "could I live with myself if I did this?". For some the answer will be yes, for some the answer will be no.
But I wouldn't expect to find a many non- "me me me" responses on a site aimed at emotionally stunted young men. Or one aimed at young women either for that matter. And that is good. No reason for the young to think about how they are going to die, clutching at every straw, taking your own life or refusing to extend it at all costs. That is something for the old and terminally ill, let the rest believe they are going to live forever and that hanging on as long as possible is the only thing that matters.
So you are saying that it is okay to use human babies as fertilizer for your lawn and skin them to make lamp shades? After all, they are already dead.
Morality isn't about efficiency, it is about saying "I won't do this because I think it is wrong". And yes, for some this includes making use of research obained through immoral means. Most human beings just get this and don't need to have it explained. That you do, says a lot about you.
For most, "everyone else is doing it" is thankfully not good enough or we all be living in a world like Somalia and other hell holes where individual morals have disappeared. The daily proof is that we don't eat our dead. It is often perfectly fine meat, why throw it away? Even vegan's couldn't protest. Just try suggesting it however as a efficient and perfectly sensible course of action. I predict you will be shunned. Well, more so then you are already.
There are things you do and things you don't do. Amazing as it may appear to you, some people would indeed refuse such a treatment. It is what makes them human. Being human is not about walking upright or having opposable thumbs, it is about being able to make decisions beyond instinct for survival. That you can't means you are an animal. No less then an animal, most animals don't eat their own.
You see no problem with pumping a human being full of a non-blood liqued at a rapid rate?
The human in question would either explode OR the blood will become ever more diluted until all you got is the new liqued which isn't blood. And you need blood to survive, even if you are not a vampire.
The article makes this pretty damn clear, it is not for surgery, it is for emergencies. There already exist perfectly fine methods for putting oxygen into blood, they are used routinely during surgery. But they are bulky and slow, so they can't be used on the scene of an accident or in an emergency room.
This method is for keeping a patient alive until surgeons can save him. It is to stretch the window between incident and surgery to give emergency services more time. You would be suprised how advanced medicine is in saving people and how hard it is to get that advanced care available fast enough to work in an accident that could happen anywhere EVEN outside a hospital! Amazing I know but people do insist on getting accidents more then a minute away from a emergency room.
If it could be allowed legally, it might become possible for ambulance crew to give patients a shot of this stuff and make sure their brain has oxygen enough to survive until proper life support systems can take over.
But you CANNOT just pump a human being full of non-blood and expect them to survive.
Join the bee people!
Yeah. We can get rid of our religious fundamentalists again and our criminals can go down under. Brilliant!
YOU downloaded those apps, the phone just executed the command YOU gave it. Should your phone override your commands? Decide on its own what is best for you?
The entire article is insane. You should NEVER take a fictional book and use it as fact. Asimov was not a programmer or OS designer, he was a writer and he used artistic license to suggest a theory, a point from which to start discussion perhaps but not an accurete blueprint for a certain future.
There is no place in a modern OS for Asimov rules of robotics.
First off, our computers have no self determination whatsoever. The idea behind Asimov's robots is that they are "born" and then guide themselves with at most human like instructions to give them direction. How they are programmed, patched etc etc, doesn't become clear in those stories, because it doesn't matter for the story. But it does matter in real life.
How would getting root on a Asimov robot work? What if you as the owner insisted to install a utility/app that would perhaps cause it to violate its rule sets? What if an update removed those rules?
How would your phone even know this? It should be able to somehow analyse any code presented to it, to see if it doesn't override something or a setting has a consequence that would violate the rules? There is no way to do this. How would you update a robot that has a bug causing it to faultily see an update as a violation while in fact its current code is in violation?
The sentient robot is a nice gimmick but it is nowhere in sight in our lives.
Androids install warnings tell you exactly what an app needs. If you don't want to give those permissions, don't install it.
No need for magic code, just consumer beware. Any sentient should be able to do that. That you are not... are you sure you are human? Or are you just a bot dreaming he is human?
At the bottom of the article/summary, it notes that just encryption is not good enough against a real enemy (and not the made up ones by the tin foil hat crowd in the west) who will just beat your encryption key out of you. For a WW2 reference, you can have the most fancy code for your radio message but if the nazi's found you is possession of a radio, whether the message was encrypted or not, harmless or not, did not matter. No broadcasting!
Same in North Korea, hard to send any message out if you don't have a computer and the few computers that do have access are completely monitored. In Iran, all ISP's are state owned and controlled and so any signal that doesn't signal 100% innocent WILL be investigated and they won't take your word for it that you lost your key for PGP either.
It is what makes "darknet" programs such silly little kiddy toys. They only work in the west where your ISP doesn't give a shit what traffic goes over which port. But if a government wants to monitor all traffic, all they got to do is filter out any traffic that doesn't fit pre-determined patterns. How would you disguise encrypted traffic to non-standard destinations? Back to radio, the fact that you are sending a signal is what alert the authorities, not the signal being received. Connect to some Tor node and that itself will be cause for investigation. And no, they don't need to have a list for all Tor node, they just need a list of "legit" destinations and then notice that yours isn't on that list.
No freedom sucks, it isn't that visiting "154.32.55.32" is illegal, it is that visiting anything but yahoo.com is illegal.
That is why ordinary film rolls are still used to get information out of North Korea with flesh and blood messengers. Sure, it is possible to use a cellphone near the border... but just the receiving of such a cellphone, just having an adapter to charge it, is a crime. And they don't need evidence.
Thank [insert object of worship] that 99% of us never have to deal with true repression. Real repression is your finger nails being torn out because someone near you at one point might have done something someone didn't like and you don't even have a clue and nobody cares.
Fiddle around with your PGP and Tor all you want, it only works because in the west, because the state operates under rules which don't allow them to simply let you disappear because they thought you might have done something someone didn't like.
It is naive to think the government has no influence over the BBC, well, some governments at least. It is foolish to think the BBC is unbiased. True unbiased reporting is unheard of in the world, it would require every story to consume more storage resources then fit in the physical universe. What am I talking about? The Israel/Palestine conflict is a prime example, since it has been decades, no centuries, no millenia of tit-for-tat, if you want to report the full story, you need to include all of human history, each time. Would make the morning paper a bit thick.
Cut bits out? Then your bias is in the bits you cut out. The BBC always cuts so that Israel is the aggressor and never reports a story until Israel has retaliated. Check their reporting.
Fox does the opposite. Both are lying scumbags, just because you like the lies of one the scumbags does not make that scumbag unbiased.
What Final Fantasy 3DS game?
The 3DS sadly showed Nintendo did not quite get their own market.
The DSi XL was brilliant. Going to a tiny low res 3d screen after that felt insane. It is not just that 3D wasn;t as big a thing as some thought, the screen itself was pants especially compared to the DSi XL screen.
And right now, the new 3DS XL just seems very very low rez. The phone and tablet markets are in a pixel race and nintendo ain't even competing at the bottom. 400 x 240 is the resolution for the top (3D) screen. Back when Nokia still rules the phone market, they already considered this low. Very low. With retina displays and full HD phones out, this just looks BAD. REALLY REALLY bad. If anyone dared to launch a phone with such a screen they would be laughed out of the market even if they offered to pay you to use it.
And Nintendo not only expects you to pay but pay through the nose. The gap between other platforms and the Nintendo handheld has just kept on increasing, partly because the competition has leaped ahead while Nintendo has sat still.
The same issue is true with the Wii, when it launched, HD screens were not that widespread yet, but nowadays, they are and boy do the Wii graphics look bad. Some of the games are good but the graphics really hurt your eyes if they are played on a larger screen.
And the 3DS XL is just that, a bigger screen, the original 3DS games were already pixelated to hell and back, now they just increased the size of the pixels when everyone else has been making them smaller.
There is a limit to how low budget you can make your hardware and software look and still charge premium prices for it. See the mockups people made for the 3DS and how the final product turned out. Gosh, people sure were wrong weren't they... or maybe it was Nintendo who was wrong.
Markets move on. Nintendo hasn't.
So, you have TWO different accouts of Muslim criminals refusing to speak English in public who openly acknowledge planning to violate US export restrictions but take their word for it that when they spoke in Farsi, they weren't saying X despite someone else claiming they did. Gosh, I am odd, I do not take the word of a self-confessed would be criminal at face value. You do?
Anyway, why can't these Iranians buy some Muslim build technology instead? Protest a countries laws while fleeing there, to send gifts to the country you fled against the rules of your supposed new home country.
Considering this woman has friendly relations with a country that hangs people for drinking, I cannot really feel much sympathy when she feels the repression of another country's system when she is refused an iPad. Fix your own race/religion many troubles first before you start bitching about someone else.
So, first she acknowledges on camera that she was planning to violate US law by supplying an Iranian national with banned equipment but you think she tells the truth when she wasn't talking about this in the store, presuming that nobody else would be able to understand her since she was speaking in Farsi?
You take your evidence rather randomly don't you?
MS ALWAYS does this, they can't help themselves, they ALWAYS cripple their products in some idiotic way that makes zero business sense.
Like Windows Phone, 7 and 7.5 support just 1 core and just 1 resolution. Why? God knows, surely a company that has made software for devices with non-standard displays for decades can handle scaling a UI and even MS has had (less then anyone else) experience with multi-core OS support.
But no, Windows 7 and 7.5 LAUNCHED with max specs that were already made obsolete by competitors phones already in consumer hands.
Windows Phone 8 is the same, its resolution is still maxed at a spec that is now considered mandatory with existing phones out right now with higher resolutions while the first MS phone with WP8 still has to launch.
It is almost as if the dev's at MS take a long hard look at what everyone else is doing, then lock themselves away for 5 years, come out and act all suprised that their new product isn't beating the tech their competitors had 5 years ago. It is not just late to the party, it arrives when everyone else has already left.
And it is a pity because IF MS got it right, their products might actually be desirable. The Surface IF it had been better specced, might actually be okay. But the one spec that worries me most is the one that is missing. Memory. Not storage, working memory. The Pro is like tablet desktop. Now I don't know about your desktop but for me, I have used OSX, Windows and mostly Linux and they ALL love their main memory. More they cry, feed me more sticks! I cannot give you any more captain, I am all sticked out! But they want more. Gamer mainboards exist now with 8 slots, just to to feed the appetite of windows programs for more memory.
Now... how much will the Surface Pro have? If MS was on the ball, with the times, had business smarts and understood their customers, an ABSOLUTE minimum of 4 and preferable 8 GB... if I am optimistic? It will be 2. Hopefully at least 1 although 512mb wouldn't suprise me a bit.
Anyone know the answer? It will tell you what MS is like as a company.
360 is second a LONG way behind Nintendo and PS3 is close behind PLUS 360 still fails in Japan so Sony is far from out of the picture meaning there will be a new round. Also, MS has no presence in mobile gaming at all. As for profit on hardware, is that before or after the losses on the original platform have been accounted for and does it include the countless units that had to be replaced under warranty?
Anyway, MS can do hardware. They have done keyboards and mouses for a long time and they are "okay". No, I wouldn't touch them but some people do.
Not as many as buy Logitech...
Oh and for the final nail in the coffin, the 360 had a rather important thing that MS hoped to launch,HD-DVD. Boy, did that bomb. Blu-ray won instead. Who was behind that again?
No, the 360 did alright but MS is barely breaking even on games and that is only after some creative accounting.
I predict the surface will be another dud. Why?
The one spec that is conspicious by its absence. MEMORY. Not storage, main memory.
Tablets typically come with 1gb nowadays. Do you want to run Windows Desktop with 1gb of memory? You can't even buy netbooks that underpowered anymore. All the memory guzzling of Windows software, all the memory restrictions of a tablet, 10.6 inches (note how well these sell, NOT) and lower resolutiuon then the leader of the pack.
MS only did okay with the 360 because Sony screwed up really badly with the PS3. MS Office only beat Word Perfect because Corell dropped the ball and the IBM PC Compatable only made it because Apple, Commodore and Atari complety screwed themselves over.
MS only wins a race if everyone else trips up. Is Apple likely to do that?
The evil rotter, hang him from the highest mast, or a doorframe, whatever is closest. As long as he is hanged. The dirty pirate!
The RIAA should go after people with crappy headsets for broadcasting music in public without a license. I would personally help them in taking these people out with maximum prejudice and cruel and unusual punishment.