Newsflash: Due to date errors, April Fools Day (The first of April) was confused with Captain Obvious Day (The fourth of January). Slashdot has risen to the challenge, howeever and you can expect to see posts about the sky being blue, the grass being green and admin not trusting Microsoft.
Want a laugh? Throw that into your TTS program of choice and kick the speed up to a bit above normal. Microsoft Mike was destined to be a rapper, I tell you!
I've seen little radio controlled cars that offer different frequencies to avoid this kind of problem. Surely if a product designed for kids has this feature it couldn't be too difficult to implement something better for wireless business technology.
A frequency switch wouldn't be practical, but perhaps something that measures signal on a certain frequency range and picks the frequency with the least interference might work.
Completely map a huge neural network operating on the atomic level, copy it, put it all down on a silicon chip and voila.
Wow, for a second I thought they were talking about something hard...
You know, it's not like transferring the entirity of human consciousness would be difficult, there's that pesky heisenburg thing, that'll take about 5 years to crack. Then there's the copying. As it is, we still can't seem to copy files with 100% integrity, even the human body messes it up in the form of mutations... so that might take us 7 years or so. Storing it all in a usable form might be a bit of trouble, as to actually retain the consciousness you'd need to not only have a viable system for providing power to the 'brain', but a method of decoding and executing all those huge command chains characterised by conscious thought. That'd take about another 5 years.
Would you look at that, 17 years total, that puts us at 2029, wouldn't you say?
It seems like every time a new trojan/worm/misc virus hits the scene, a thousand posts go up accusing that software of being horribly insecure and advocating some other software of the same type as being better.
It's quite simple... software can be infected by viruses, open source, closed source, any operating system or language. Just because today it's Sendmail that took a hit doesn't mean that it couldn't be qmail tomorrow.
If you got a virus, don't blame it on the software you downloaded, blame it on yourself for not validating it first.
If we're talking gaming applications, this could be a serious revelation for places like LazerZone or similar simulated combat situations... who knows? Eventually we could end up with games so realistic you actually die in them.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't worry about it. If AI take over we can always block out the sun, what could possibly go wrong with that plan?
What credibility? Are we both talking about the same company here?
That's nothing, Slashdot has the HREF gun and it can take out an entire webserver.
Ever noticed that neither beer nor speech are all that free nowadays?
I swear that looks like perl.
EULA
Newsflash: Due to date errors, April Fools Day (The first of April) was confused with Captain Obvious Day (The fourth of January). Slashdot has risen to the challenge, howeever and you can expect to see posts about the sky being blue, the grass being green and admin not trusting Microsoft.
Want a laugh? Throw that into your TTS program of choice and kick the speed up to a bit above normal. Microsoft Mike was destined to be a rapper, I tell you!
CPAN? Don't you mean Matt's Script Archive?
Shouldn't that be Agence Freedom-Presse?
...no-one can hear you leech.
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I've seen little radio controlled cars that offer different frequencies to avoid this kind of problem. Surely if a product designed for kids has this feature it couldn't be too difficult to implement something better for wireless business technology.
A frequency switch wouldn't be practical, but perhaps something that measures signal on a certain frequency range and picks the frequency with the least interference might work.
Beowulf: /. trying to cluster their posts in some kind of hideous plot against humanity? Could this be an alliance with Sharp?
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Is
or
Imagine getting a beowulf cluster of glass PCs!
Profit:
1. Post Story
2.
3. Goto 1
4. Profit!
or
1. Make glass PC
2. Work out use of having fragile, slow, highly heat-sensitive PC
3.
4. Profit!
Completely map a huge neural network operating on the atomic level, copy it, put it all down on a silicon chip and voila.
Wow, for a second I thought they were talking about something hard...
You know, it's not like transferring the entirity of human consciousness would be difficult, there's that pesky heisenburg thing, that'll take about 5 years to crack. Then there's the copying. As it is, we still can't seem to copy files with 100% integrity, even the human body messes it up in the form of mutations... so that might take us 7 years or so. Storing it all in a usable form might be a bit of trouble, as to actually retain the consciousness you'd need to not only have a viable system for providing power to the 'brain', but a method of decoding and executing all those huge command chains characterised by conscious thought. That'd take about another 5 years.
Would you look at that, 17 years total, that puts us at 2029, wouldn't you say?
It seems like every time a new trojan/worm/misc virus hits the scene, a thousand posts go up accusing that software of being horribly insecure and advocating some other software of the same type as being better.
It's quite simple... software can be infected by viruses, open source, closed source, any operating system or language. Just because today it's Sendmail that took a hit doesn't mean that it couldn't be qmail tomorrow.
If you got a virus, don't blame it on the software you downloaded, blame it on yourself for not validating it first.
If we're talking gaming applications, this could be a serious revelation for places like LazerZone or similar simulated combat situations... who knows? Eventually we could end up with games so realistic you actually die in them.
How long until RMS tells us we have to call it GNU/Dragon?