The EU has done no such thing. Yes, it banned the sale of classic lightbulbs (effective September 2012). But what you replace them with is your own choice, you are not forced into buying fluorescent tubes.
This must be genetic - I've never experienced this myself and I wear the same kind of clothing like everyone else. Actually, I have, but usually it's my feet eating my socks. Never my innie.
whereas the other is hosted on a corporate server, with no provision that the data of interest is solely under the author's control.
If that's the case, don't blame Google but fix your laws on personality rights.
Here in the Netherlands, when a company collects or processes personal information on you in the broadest sense of the word, you are at all times entitled to see the data, amend it with corrections and have it removed from their system.
I'm almost sure that something similar exists in the US, so you could easily sue Google if you feel they violate your personality rights. I realise it's hard for John Doe to sue Megacorp these days, but that's a completely different problem.
It seems harmless enough now, but the moment the rulers are actually fearful (e.g. if there was a large enough depression, people out of work started rioting in sufficient numbers or with arms), you can bet that there will be unmarked vans going around the city in the night picking up people with their "SubversiveRank (TM)" above an arbitrary threshold with a one-way ticket to either a slave labor camp or an unmarked grave.
By introducing a depression, rioting society and fearful rulers to an argument you can make almost anything look bad. Yes, under such circumstances this technology could be abused by government or other enemies.
But people have been succesfully identified by malicious parties for ever. If you want true individual privacy we should go back to pre-Sovjet, no, pre-Nazi, no, pre-Napoleon times. And even in those times, without a surname, just one friend, co-worker, acquaintance or shop keeper would be sufficient to rat you out to the authorities.
The problem is that nothing disappears. If you admitted back in 1999, while you were an idiot college student, that you "experimented" with marijuana, do you really want that Slashdot post to reappear in a year 2020 Google search when you're trying to run for the State Legislature or Congress?
Yes, because hopefully by 2020
a) the electorate will put more trust in candidates being open about past mistakes than those being most capable in cover-ups or spin doctor tactics
b) the electorate will realise we all have lived twenty to thirty immature years before reaching true adulthood
c) the electorate will not be so uptight about marijuana in the first place
Especially considering Opera is a Norwegian company, I was expecting them to give thumbs up to their homebrewed web browser.
No, they do the right thing. There's no benefit in turning all this into a political "my browser is best" debate, the primary message is and shouldn't be more than "your browser is eight years old and outdated for today's applications, please get something more recent". The whole point is not to pick, promote or prefer a specific browser. Any modern and more standards compliant one will do.
Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) is an economical way of delivering power to remote locations or areas isolated by war.
I'd say forget about generating the power in space, for now. The real challenge here is the development of an effective and efficient Geostationary Energy Transportation network. If we can do that, where we get that energy from wouldn't be very significant anymore.
NASA probably has a good idea. Published estimates were likely wrong on purpose from the start to give them the opportunity for more media coverage and subsequently budget opportunities.
Kirk: âoeHow long to re-fit?â Scotty: âoeEight weeks. But you donâ(TM)t have eight weeks, so Iâ(TM)ll do it for you in two.â Kirk: âoeDo you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?â Scotty: âoeHow else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?â
What your saying is that McCain has an outside shot?
I'd love to see that. Not because I think McCain is such a great candidate, but just to see the reaction of the Democrats. Kodak moment, anyone?
And it doesn't really matter anyway who won or will be elected by the College, considering how Obama's change and freshness brings us people like Clinton, Kerry, Gore and all those other "new" faces.
At some point, though, we *are* likely to end up with self-aware machines, and the discussion of what that entitles them to will become relevant.
Kurzweil actually predicts that we will end up as self-aware machines. His focus is not on machines that are self-aware on their own, but on humans increasingly merging with more advanced performance-improving technology. To the point where it will be impossible to clearly distinguish between human, cyborg and (mostly) machine.
It's not about adding a soul to a machine, it's about removing biological components from mankind. Kurzweil seeks immortality, not a robot companion.
Pathetic. Anyone who in this day and age of genetics believe we humans evolved from ape's (sic) need to wake up.
Caroline Carter, London, UK
That is of course true. Humans did not evolve from apes but from a common ancestor.
If you think I'm nitpicking, I find this common misunderstanding to be one of the best ways to tell whether I'm going to have a useful discussion with someone or whether I shouldn't bother in the first place.
This guy wasn't after 45,000 minutes of phone sex. Don't be surprised if soon a follow-up article appears explaining he actually operated some of those lines himself, or is in another way affiliated.
D. It shouldn't matter. The US has already legalised the murder of human life forms for the purpose of self-defense (don't think death row, think tresspassing in Texas). Just kill it.
If you feel that politics, law and economics are easier to grasp than quantum mechanics, fine, but I am not convinced.
Good for you that you have first hand info on most issues, but what I'm trying to get across: 90% of the population doesn't know what the DMCA or net neutrality are, or why it might affect them. But that doesn't make the issues irrelevant, nor their choices informed.
Oh, and I didn't mean to claim I'm part of the 10% that does know it all, for most issues I'm probably just as clueless as the rest and will be voting on instinct as well.
Who cares about election theft when the average voter isn't capable of making an informed choice in the first place? And no, I don't mean the 50% picking the other party, I do mean that 90% of the people voting hardly have a clue about the issues at stake.
I hate to sound like an elitist but when most other people so clearly demonstrate they are not, it leaves one little choice but to think that way..
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Pussy. Real men don't repeat jokes endlessly and actually get some.
The EU has done no such thing. Yes, it banned the sale of classic lightbulbs (effective September 2012). But what you replace them with is your own choice, you are not forced into buying fluorescent tubes.
This must be genetic - I've never experienced this myself and I wear the same kind of clothing like everyone else. Actually, I have, but usually it's my feet eating my socks. Never my innie.
whereas the other is hosted on a corporate server, with no provision that the data of interest is solely under the author's control.
If that's the case, don't blame Google but fix your laws on personality rights.
Here in the Netherlands, when a company collects or processes personal information on you in the broadest sense of the word, you are at all times entitled to see the data, amend it with corrections and have it removed from their system.
I'm almost sure that something similar exists in the US, so you could easily sue Google if you feel they violate your personality rights. I realise it's hard for John Doe to sue Megacorp these days, but that's a completely different problem.
It seems harmless enough now, but the moment the rulers are actually fearful (e.g. if there was a large enough depression, people out of work started rioting in sufficient numbers or with arms), you can bet that there will be unmarked vans going around the city in the night picking up people with their "SubversiveRank (TM)" above an arbitrary threshold with a one-way ticket to either a slave labor camp or an unmarked grave.
By introducing a depression, rioting society and fearful rulers to an argument you can make almost anything look bad. Yes, under such circumstances this technology could be abused by government or other enemies.
But people have been succesfully identified by malicious parties for ever. If you want true individual privacy we should go back to pre-Sovjet, no, pre-Nazi, no, pre-Napoleon times. And even in those times, without a surname, just one friend, co-worker, acquaintance or shop keeper would be sufficient to rat you out to the authorities.
The problem is that nothing disappears. If you admitted back in 1999, while you were an idiot college student, that you "experimented" with marijuana, do you really want that Slashdot post to reappear in a year 2020 Google search when you're trying to run for the State Legislature or Congress?
Yes, because hopefully by 2020
a) the electorate will put more trust in candidates being open about past mistakes than those being most capable in cover-ups or spin doctor tactics
b) the electorate will realise we all have lived twenty to thirty immature years before reaching true adulthood
c) the electorate will not be so uptight about marijuana in the first place
Because that wouldn't show the device running the software, just that you've been able to configure your display to use a lower resolution.
Especially considering Opera is a Norwegian company, I was expecting them to give thumbs up to their homebrewed web browser.
No, they do the right thing. There's no benefit in turning all this into a political "my browser is best" debate, the primary message is and shouldn't be more than "your browser is eight years old and outdated for today's applications, please get something more recent". The whole point is not to pick, promote or prefer a specific browser. Any modern and more standards compliant one will do.
Space Based Solar Power (SBSP) is an economical way of delivering power to remote locations or areas isolated by war.
I'd say forget about generating the power in space, for now. The real challenge here is the development of an effective and efficient Geostationary Energy Transportation network. If we can do that, where we get that energy from wouldn't be very significant anymore.
NASA probably has a good idea. Published estimates were likely wrong on purpose from the start to give them the opportunity for more media coverage and subsequently budget opportunities.
Kirk: âoeHow long to re-fit?â
Scotty: âoeEight weeks. But you donâ(TM)t have eight weeks, so Iâ(TM)ll do it for you in two.â
Kirk: âoeDo you always multiply your repair estimates by a factor of four?â
Scotty: âoeHow else to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?â
What your saying is that McCain has an outside shot?
I'd love to see that. Not because I think McCain is such a great candidate, but just to see the reaction of the Democrats. Kodak moment, anyone?
And it doesn't really matter anyway who won or will be elected by the College, considering how Obama's change and freshness brings us people like Clinton, Kerry, Gore and all those other "new" faces.
At some point, though, we *are* likely to end up with self-aware machines, and the discussion of what that entitles them to will become relevant.
Kurzweil actually predicts that we will end up as self-aware machines. His focus is not on machines that are self-aware on their own, but on humans increasingly merging with more advanced performance-improving technology. To the point where it will be impossible to clearly distinguish between human, cyborg and (mostly) machine.
It's not about adding a soul to a machine, it's about removing biological components from mankind. Kurzweil seeks immortality, not a robot companion.
And you do. And so does the tech guy at the other end. And so on.
End result: not just one, but at least two people in ICT with job security!
Indeed, I didn't even know they were still trying to make a buck from this franchise. :D
Read some of the comments.
That is of course true. Humans did not evolve from apes but from a common ancestor.
If you think I'm nitpicking, I find this common misunderstanding to be one of the best ways to tell whether I'm going to have a useful discussion with someone or whether I shouldn't bother in the first place.
Alanis Morisette is either very stupid (not a single line in her song is about irony) or very clever (for calling a song about sarcasm Ironic).
Simple: put that line before your network cards are initialised. That's rc.inet1 in Slackware, YMMV elsewhere.
Uh... The programmer abbreviated Capacitor Unit --> CUnit --> A very mean thing to call a woman.
Mean? Way off-topic but can someone explain to me how cunt is any worse than, for example, dick or ass?
This guy wasn't after 45,000 minutes of phone sex. Don't be surprised if soon a follow-up article appears explaining he actually operated some of those lines himself, or is in another way affiliated.
(1) When does human life begin?
A. Conception
B. some time later
C. I don't know.
D. It shouldn't matter. The US has already legalised the murder of human life forms for the purpose of self-defense (don't think death row, think tresspassing in Texas). Just kill it.
If you feel that politics, law and economics are easier to grasp than quantum mechanics, fine, but I am not convinced.
Good for you that you have first hand info on most issues, but what I'm trying to get across: 90% of the population doesn't know what the DMCA or net neutrality are, or why it might affect them. But that doesn't make the issues irrelevant, nor their choices informed.
Oh, and I didn't mean to claim I'm part of the 10% that does know it all, for most issues I'm probably just as clueless as the rest and will be voting on instinct as well.
"Look at those Republican assholes, our superhero is guaranteed to win, no matter what!"
Polls suggest a close race. Past decade voting trends suggest a close race. Your optimism just isn't aligned with reality.
Who cares about election theft when the average voter isn't capable of making an informed choice in the first place? And no, I don't mean the 50% picking the other party, I do mean that 90% of the people voting hardly have a clue about the issues at stake.
I hate to sound like an elitist but when most other people so clearly demonstrate they are not, it leaves one little choice but to think that way..
I aimed for funny. :(
A lot of people think that.. and then they are off to buy a house and/or car.
But seriously, obviously it's a lot of money. But if I ever get my own island off the coast of Dubai, count me in.