Would it cost too much extra computing power to have end-to-end encryption for electronic data? I'm talking about even to the point of encrypted communication between devices in the computer. Of course we still have the analog output holes, but at least this would address outside hacking.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but as David Icke puts it, people have out-sheeped sheep. You know sheep, those mindless, braying, follow-the-leader stupid animals? They need a dog to keep them from wandering off. But people don't even need a dog to keep them in line -- they worry about what the other people will think.
Because it is risky behavior that has no physical repercussions. Teenage girls care about competing with each other on looks. If you injure yourself on a motorcycle, you aren't going to get to wear the latest fashions with a leg cast. However, a criminal record does not prevent you from wearing make-up or buying clothes. If you get caught shoplifting on vacation, word doesn't get back to school to ruin your reputation. If you are successful in your shoplifting attempt, you probably gain something that will win you even more cred amongst your peers, such as an ipod.
In short, the risks -- physical, social, legal -- are minimal, and the reward -- excitement, free stuff -- is great.
It sounds to me like the same problem with the physics card. You still have to code default behavior for objects if they don't have a physics card. You don't get default behavior for free, only errors and crashes.
So if the player doesn't have an AI card, you turn off some of the 'mind candy', and have stupider enemies.
The *only* thing we can know about the brain these days is where stuff happens. AFAICT, we dont' have any theory* about how exactly the brain works or what 'thought' ( or even memory ) is. We do have some hypotheses, but nothing that even remotely explains behavior, or has created a model that has anywhere near the ability of a cockroach.
Until we have such a theory, *all* headlines should read "Scientists discover *where* $mental_phenomenon takes place."
* 'Theory' in the scientific sense -- a hypothesis tested through falsifiable experiment.
"The people who were stealing (or at least who we caught stealing) were almost always the teenage daughters of the rich guys that came to the town for vacations... what gives? Any psychologists reading?"
Boredom. Sheer boredom. Shoplifting is exhilirating because it is wrong. If you are successful, you get an item for free. If you fail, the punishment isn't too bad. Either way, you are guaranteed to have some excitement.
I'm suspicious that I'm saving anything with my shopper cards. I think all that's happened is that the normal sales that would be available to anyone who wanted to buy the item are now only available now to card holders -- that you aren't saving any money over and above that you would have saved before the shopper cards.
I think Grandparent's point is that if you are concerned about reducing your carbon footprint, don't show a guy driving around in a single person car -- show him on the bus. Although, commercial flights are a kind of public transportation. However, I think it would look odd if it showed Gore on the subway. Everyone knows that he doesn't ride the subway.
Well, if there were a shot of Gore on a crowded bus, or waiting for a subway train, my pandering meter would have been pegged. I am a liberal, I voted for Gore, and I support his current work, but we all know that he is a wealthy politician and gets driven around in limos. Might as well put him in sweatpants and a wife-beater for some of his monologue shots. He's a regular guy, oh sure.
"The problem is that there is no recourse. Oncce the USSC decides something, you're done. Period. "
That is not true. In American government, congress holds ultimate power. They can pass new law and invalidate old law. They can pass new law that clarifies conflicts. If the Supreme Court declares something unconstitutional, the Congress can amend the constitution.
No, I don't think so. There's no way it can surpass the unheralded failure of Windows ME.
Mom and Pop User will continue to buy generic PCs because of the cost, and because that's what they know. Come November or December, you won't be able to find a PC that doesn't have Vista on it. It will be a smashing success, just because it will be on 90% of the computers sold. It's called a monopoly. Even if techies and columnists say it's not worth the upgrade, people won't care. They got used to an underperforming OS with Win98. Soon, upgrading to Vista will be the path of least resistance.
Apple couldn't produce enough Macs even if they wanted to cause Vista to flop.
You can get a copy of your credit reports for free, once a year, I believe. I went to freecreditreport.com, where they have links to the 3 major credit agencies. My reports checked out, AFAIK. The site does have links for what to do if you are a victim of identity theft, but I don't know how good they are.
If I were you, I would wait a while (for the theif to set up bogus accounts), then check out your credit reports, see if there are fraudulent accounts, and then follow up.
The FBI doesn't have carte blanche to request data from any federal agency whatsoever. There are limits to their power. They have to get warrants to request certain types of data.
If they can ring up the Student Aid department and ask them to "Go ahead and send on over data X" then why couldn't they call up a state government agency, or a corporation, or even the IRS and request the same thing? Hopefully the Bureaucrats at the student aid place have enough training and common sense to know that you don't give data to just anyone who calls, even if they are the FBI. Federal Agencies aren't a good old boys' network.
While this is a serious problem, I think the proposed solution that the politicians cook up will be much worse than the cure. I have the gnawing feeling that 'solution' for identity theft is going to be a national ID card, with biometric ids. And the public, not understanding electronic issues, will buy it. Then you will need crack only one system.
In an ideal world, we could build some kind of peer-to-peer GPG web of trust, where the person themself has full control of establishing their identity.
You know what? I agree with this. I have a liberal arts degree, and it's virtually impossible to have a conversation with anyone who is serious about it. They *always* have to best you with some more obscure ethnic group, societal problem, or scholar, and they have a more esoteric, subtle, and nuanced understanding of whatever subject. Your part of the conversation is to say "tsk, tsk". And it is a personal, moral failing on your part that you're not crying every night over whatever issue they just proved themself more nuanced that you.
Now, of course, I believe there are a lot of problems all around the world, but jeese, I like to feel good about something once in a while. And I like to go out and do something entertaining every so often. Now there are a lot of 'regular people' who are studying liberal arts, but the 'alpha geeks' or liberal arts are seriously mororse and dystopic.
On the other hand, college-age computer geeks are unabashedly enthusiastic about their nerdy interests. It's nice to see this group blossom;)
I guess the engineers cordon off because their study load is so difficult, they have to have study groups all the time.
As I asked the granparent, if it's just for saying "Some of us haven't made up our minds yet", then why does it have to be secret? What's the problem with publically saying "I/we need more time to review this matter"?
Others have said that the tradition of the senate is that putting something on hold is a promise to filibuster if it ever comes to the floor.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but you haven't convinced me enough to overcome my skepticism. If you really claim there is an objective criteria, come up with the numbers. What quality can we measure and turn into quantity? If you want to claim objectivity, we are talking about measurement and numbers.
As far as 'fitness' or 'superiorty', you're delving into teleology there. I'm very keen on hearing your argument as to why reproducing is 'better', in any objective, scientific sense, than going extinct. My first inclination is to think that it is a recapitulation of the Biblical commandment to "go forth and multiply", a value that has so permeated our culture.
I think if you are into the role-playing aspect of RPGs then having classes makes play-acting easier. "My character is a knight, and a knight would act like this..." Whereas with a skilled character, you have to make a personal story as to how/why they got those skills, what is the personality, who is the person *really*, etc. You can't rely on just a class stereotype.
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Would it cost too much extra computing power to have end-to-end encryption for electronic data? I'm talking about even to the point of encrypted communication between devices in the computer. Of course we still have the analog output holes, but at least this would address outside hacking.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but as David Icke puts it, people have out-sheeped sheep. You know sheep, those mindless, braying, follow-the-leader stupid animals? They need a dog to keep them from wandering off. But people don't even need a dog to keep them in line -- they worry about what the other people will think.
Here's me extrapolating even more:
Because it is risky behavior that has no physical repercussions. Teenage girls care about competing with each other on looks. If you injure yourself on a motorcycle, you aren't going to get to wear the latest fashions with a leg cast. However, a criminal record does not prevent you from wearing make-up or buying clothes. If you get caught shoplifting on vacation, word doesn't get back to school to ruin your reputation. If you are successful in your shoplifting attempt, you probably gain something that will win you even more cred amongst your peers, such as an ipod.
In short, the risks -- physical, social, legal -- are minimal, and the reward -- excitement, free stuff -- is great.
It sounds to me like the same problem with the physics card. You still have to code default behavior for objects if they don't have a physics card. You don't get default behavior for free, only errors and crashes.
So if the player doesn't have an AI card, you turn off some of the 'mind candy', and have stupider enemies.
How couldn't it?
The *only* thing we can know about the brain these days is where stuff happens. AFAICT, we dont' have any theory* about how exactly the brain works or what 'thought' ( or even memory ) is. We do have some hypotheses, but nothing that even remotely explains behavior, or has created a model that has anywhere near the ability of a cockroach.
Until we have such a theory, *all* headlines should read "Scientists discover *where* $mental_phenomenon takes place."
* 'Theory' in the scientific sense -- a hypothesis tested through falsifiable experiment.
"The people who were stealing (or at least who we caught stealing) were almost always the teenage daughters of the rich guys that came to the town for vacations... what gives? Any psychologists reading?"
Boredom. Sheer boredom. Shoplifting is exhilirating because it is wrong. If you are successful, you get an item for free. If you fail, the punishment isn't too bad. Either way, you are guaranteed to have some excitement.
I'm suspicious that I'm saving anything with my shopper cards. I think all that's happened is that the normal sales that would be available to anyone who wanted to buy the item are now only available now to card holders -- that you aren't saving any money over and above that you would have saved before the shopper cards.
I think Grandparent's point is that if you are concerned about reducing your carbon footprint, don't show a guy driving around in a single person car -- show him on the bus. Although, commercial flights are a kind of public transportation. However, I think it would look odd if it showed Gore on the subway. Everyone knows that he doesn't ride the subway.
Well, if there were a shot of Gore on a crowded bus, or waiting for a subway train, my pandering meter would have been pegged. I am a liberal, I voted for Gore, and I support his current work, but we all know that he is a wealthy politician and gets driven around in limos. Might as well put him in sweatpants and a wife-beater for some of his monologue shots. He's a regular guy, oh sure.
Yes there will be an uproar -- from the other side. If these machines are this easily hacked, then the other side can hack them also.
Personally, I don't care who fixes the system as long as the system is fixed.
"The problem is that there is no recourse. Oncce the USSC decides something, you're done. Period. "
That is not true. In American government, congress holds ultimate power. They can pass new law and invalidate old law. They can pass new law that clarifies conflicts. If the Supreme Court declares something unconstitutional, the Congress can amend the constitution.
No, I don't think so. There's no way it can surpass the unheralded failure of Windows ME.
Mom and Pop User will continue to buy generic PCs because of the cost, and because that's what they know. Come November or December, you won't be able to find a PC that doesn't have Vista on it. It will be a smashing success, just because it will be on 90% of the computers sold. It's called a monopoly. Even if techies and columnists say it's not worth the upgrade, people won't care. They got used to an underperforming OS with Win98. Soon, upgrading to Vista will be the path of least resistance.
Apple couldn't produce enough Macs even if they wanted to cause Vista to flop.
You can get a copy of your credit reports for free, once a year, I believe. I went to freecreditreport.com, where they have links to the 3 major credit agencies. My reports checked out, AFAIK. The site does have links for what to do if you are a victim of identity theft, but I don't know how good they are.
If I were you, I would wait a while (for the theif to set up bogus accounts), then check out your credit reports, see if there are fraudulent accounts, and then follow up.
Suprised in what sense? I, for one, am surprised.
The FBI doesn't have carte blanche to request data from any federal agency whatsoever. There are limits to their power. They have to get warrants to request certain types of data.
If they can ring up the Student Aid department and ask them to "Go ahead and send on over data X" then why couldn't they call up a state government agency, or a corporation, or even the IRS and request the same thing? Hopefully the Bureaucrats at the student aid place have enough training and common sense to know that you don't give data to just anyone who calls, even if they are the FBI. Federal Agencies aren't a good old boys' network.
While this is a serious problem, I think the proposed solution that the politicians cook up will be much worse than the cure. I have the gnawing feeling that 'solution' for identity theft is going to be a national ID card, with biometric ids. And the public, not understanding electronic issues, will buy it. Then you will need crack only one system.
In an ideal world, we could build some kind of peer-to-peer GPG web of trust, where the person themself has full control of establishing their identity.
It would probably be more like:
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But I do LAMP development. I guess that's like the fast food of IT
You know what? I agree with this. I have a liberal arts degree, and it's virtually impossible to have a conversation with anyone who is serious about it. They *always* have to best you with some more obscure ethnic group, societal problem, or scholar, and they have a more esoteric, subtle, and nuanced understanding of whatever subject. Your part of the conversation is to say "tsk, tsk". And it is a personal, moral failing on your part that you're not crying every night over whatever issue they just proved themself more nuanced that you.
;)
Now, of course, I believe there are a lot of problems all around the world, but jeese, I like to feel good about something once in a while. And I like to go out and do something entertaining every so often. Now there are a lot of 'regular people' who are studying liberal arts, but the 'alpha geeks' or liberal arts are seriously mororse and dystopic.
On the other hand, college-age computer geeks are unabashedly enthusiastic about their nerdy interests. It's nice to see this group blossom
I guess the engineers cordon off because their study load is so difficult, they have to have study groups all the time.
As I asked the granparent, if it's just for saying "Some of us haven't made up our minds yet", then why does it have to be secret? What's the problem with publically saying "I/we need more time to review this matter"?
Others have said that the tradition of the senate is that putting something on hold is a promise to filibuster if it ever comes to the floor.
"It's basically a way of saying "Some of us haven't made up our minds yet." "
Why does it have to be secret?
Just stick in in the microwave for about 10 seconds.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but you haven't convinced me enough to overcome my skepticism. If you really claim there is an objective criteria, come up with the numbers. What quality can we measure and turn into quantity? If you want to claim objectivity, we are talking about measurement and numbers.
As far as 'fitness' or 'superiorty', you're delving into teleology there. I'm very keen on hearing your argument as to why reproducing is 'better', in any objective, scientific sense, than going extinct. My first inclination is to think that it is a recapitulation of the Biblical commandment to "go forth and multiply", a value that has so permeated our culture.
Could we arrange an information exodus program -- sending in people with scanners to go in and copy all of the data possible in the next 15 days?
I think if you are into the role-playing aspect of RPGs then having classes makes play-acting easier. "My character is a knight, and a knight would act like this..." Whereas with a skilled character, you have to make a personal story as to how/why they got those skills, what is the personality, who is the person *really*, etc. You can't rely on just a class stereotype.
So how does your theory of justice deal with victimless crimes, such as drug use, speeding, or prostitution?