i thought just the opposite. the video footage of columbine itself was gripping, of course, but the interviews and other parts of the movie were haphazardly strung together. moore made no meaningful points about anything.
the tirade against k-mart was hypocritical; he forced an innocent company's hand by leveraging the wrath of the media, and in the same breath talked about how the media was always picking sides with its stories and creating an atmosphere of fear.
he gets a kick out of putting celebrities on the spot, making them want to end the interview, and then stands there looking meaningful as they drive away (dick clark) or shoo him out (heston). the scene of moore with his "won't somebody think of the CHILDREN?!" victim picture and leaving it on heston's doorstep was utterly without value. that sort of "poignancy" appeals only to bleeding-hearts who see the issues only as far as the tears in their eyes.
Crypto designs are often described as mathematical abstractions
that, while easy to work with mathematically, require a significant amount of
work to translate into an actual implementation.
i'm surprised by this, why can't the crypto whizzes put together a few lines of math.h and networking code to be a proof of concept? crypto is very much an applied field, so the theorists should include example source in their papers.
How many people have died trying to get into space? 14 from the challenger and columbia, shoot from the hip says no more than double that have died?
you obviously don't watch enough history channel.:) the russians lost over 90 in one accident and over 50 in another, for the biggest space vehicle accident in history look up Nedelin launch deaths on google.
Q: what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?
A: they are inversely proportional. just look at the current US administration.
from a societal or survival-of-the-fittest point of view, the most successful society is the one most capable of destroying the others. that could be achieved by subsuming the other through culture and trade, but when in doubt, it's easier to just blow the other one up.
Now if the phyisical body that my consciousness is tied to is destroyed, what happens to my awareness and consciousness?
the exact same thing happens to you that happens when you go to sleep and wake up the next day... nothing.
if the original is allowed to diverge from the copy; if there's some significant amount of time where the original knows s/he's the original and not the copy, then sure it's immoral to destroy that one since they're no longer the same person. but if it's instantaneous, then it's the exact same person.
It is interesting you bring up the idea of a "soul", because my argument depends on the fact that there isn't one (or at least, that there isn't some unique entity associated with both copies).
no, the parent was right. this argument will always turn into whether theres something more to "you" than your component atoms. if you think there is, you won't want to be teleported. if you think there isn't (i.e. no soul), you're fine with it.
since you're not fine with being teleported, you believe in the soul, you just don't realize it yet.:)
to put this another way, if the contest were to factor 20 digt numbers, no one woul dbe surprised if the machine beat a human. it would be a stupid test. Just like chess.
a better test would be a face recognition contest. Or if we need to make it a real game then how about soccer?
another interesting thing to note is that 50 years ago, people thought chess was a pretty damn good test of AI. now people think otherwise. when the computer recognizes faces better than you, plays soccer better than you, writes poetry better than you, steals your girlfriend, and passes the turing test, will you still think its just "following the rules"? your brain is just following the rules of physics too you know.
No it's not, unless they're just learning how to ride and staying in residential areas with no pedestrians, buildings well set back, and no shrubs or bushes near the street.
you just described 99% of suburbia. i avoid riding on the road at all costs and would recommend the same to everybody i know.
why is this insightful? first, its wrong, and second, the only free software advantage here is that its free. if youre running custom software on a render farm, the OS isnt providing anything anyway.
I say otherwise.
you go around saving the oil industry, your 4% GDP growth.
i.e. protecting our interests.
it amazes me how many people presuppose that its somehow immoral to fight a war where oil is a factor. well, its not. oil is as tangible a reason for war as anything else.
its disingenuous to bring up the fact that bill is selling stock -- hes been selling it forever! its called diversifying. "no coincidence", whatever.
how have shareholders been lied to? this has been common knowledge since the 80s. maybe YOU should dig your head out of the sand instead of listening to "recent news" on slashdot.
if a chess expert plays a flunky, the expert will make no errors (assuming he/she/it is putting effort into it) and the flunky will get destroyed. at that point its difficult to grade the expert because the determining factor in the game is that the flunky made so many mistakes, not that the expert played exceptionally well.
this applies to computer as well as human experts.
its highly likely that when you make an API, people will abuse it. for example you reserve some combinations of parameters for future use and then you develop that future use. then you find that somebody depends on behavior with those parameters already (like they pass stack garbage to a reserved DWORD or something, very easy with an uninitialized dummy variable). etc. etc.
keeping correct usage of an API working is easy. the incorrect usage is the hard part where youd have to debug wordperfect.
microsoft is hiring. they pay just fine. go see if you have the skills to get hired, go work, and then report back about how your design processes are so much better than those of the biggest software company in the world.
has anybody else noticed that the people who LOVE rez/frequency etc. are all potheads? and everybody else just sits and wonders "what the hell do they see in that game"?
hence the setting to allow you to turn it off. (which btw is a much easier setting to find than the registry key that you used to get into this state.)
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i thought just the opposite. the video footage of columbine itself was gripping, of course, but the interviews and other parts of the movie were haphazardly strung together. moore made no meaningful points about anything.
the tirade against k-mart was hypocritical; he forced an innocent company's hand by leveraging the wrath of the media, and in the same breath talked about how the media was always picking sides with its stories and creating an atmosphere of fear.
he gets a kick out of putting celebrities on the spot, making them want to end the interview, and then stands there looking meaningful as they drive away (dick clark) or shoo him out (heston). the scene of moore with his "won't somebody think of the CHILDREN?!" victim picture and leaving it on heston's doorstep was utterly without value. that sort of "poignancy" appeals only to bleeding-hearts who see the issues only as far as the tears in their eyes.
What's even funnier is that the .NET version of bytecode (ala Java) can be easily reverse-engineered.
only as easily as i386 assembly. from what i hear, it was designed with protection of IP in mind.
why is this article here? is this really "news" to anybody?
seems like the slashdot editors are easily impressed by decades-old technology.
the article says:
Crypto designs are often described as mathematical abstractions that, while easy to work with mathematically, require a significant amount of work to translate into an actual implementation.
i'm surprised by this, why can't the crypto whizzes put together a few lines of math.h and networking code to be a proof of concept? crypto is very much an applied field, so the theorists should include example source in their papers.
The destruction of the Columbia was considerably more expensive than the destruction of the World Trade Center.
no way. the only things comparing with the WTC are hurricanes, earthquakes and the like. we're talking about $83 billion.
How many people have died trying to get into space? 14 from the challenger and columbia, shoot from the hip says no more than double that have died?
:) the russians lost over 90 in one accident and over 50 in another, for the biggest space vehicle accident in history look up Nedelin launch deaths on google.
you obviously don't watch enough history channel.
Q: what is it about intelligence and the desire to blow things up?
A: they are inversely proportional. just look at the current US administration.
from a societal or survival-of-the-fittest point of view, the most successful society is the one most capable of destroying the others. that could be achieved by subsuming the other through culture and trade, but when in doubt, it's easier to just blow the other one up.
Now if the phyisical body that my consciousness is tied to is destroyed, what happens to my awareness and consciousness?
the exact same thing happens to you that happens when you go to sleep and wake up the next day... nothing.
if the original is allowed to diverge from the copy; if there's some significant amount of time where the original knows s/he's the original and not the copy, then sure it's immoral to destroy that one since they're no longer the same person. but if it's instantaneous, then it's the exact same person.
had a computer game like this. i definitely would play it if it existed.
It is interesting you bring up the idea of a "soul", because my argument depends on the fact that there isn't one (or at least, that there isn't some unique entity associated with both copies).
:)
no, the parent was right. this argument will always turn into whether theres something more to "you" than your component atoms. if you think there is, you won't want to be teleported. if you think there isn't (i.e. no soul), you're fine with it.
since you're not fine with being teleported, you believe in the soul, you just don't realize it yet.
to put this another way, if the contest were to factor 20 digt numbers, no one woul dbe surprised if the machine beat a human. it would be a stupid test. Just like chess.
a better test would be a face recognition contest. Or if we need to make it a real game then how about soccer?
another interesting thing to note is that 50 years ago, people thought chess was a pretty damn good test of AI. now people think otherwise. when the computer recognizes faces better than you, plays soccer better than you, writes poetry better than you, steals your girlfriend, and passes the turing test, will you still think its just "following the rules"? your brain is just following the rules of physics too you know.
No it's not, unless they're just learning how to ride and staying in residential areas with no pedestrians, buildings well set back, and no shrubs or bushes near the street.
you just described 99% of suburbia. i avoid riding on the road at all costs and would recommend the same to everybody i know.
Sidewalks are very dangerous places to ride unless you're at a granny pace.
theyre not dangerous places to ride if youre not in a city, either.
or the wu-tang clan. people would see a partial showing of them too.
why is this insightful? first, its wrong, and second, the only free software advantage here is that its free. if youre running custom software on a render farm, the OS isnt providing anything anyway.
with power consumption going up on these video cards, watch out for hot laptops: they might burn you.
btw the other guy contradicted himself with "destroying neighborhood" and "localized response" because he was trolling.
I say otherwise. you go around saving the oil industry, your 4% GDP growth.
i.e. protecting our interests.
it amazes me how many people presuppose that its somehow immoral to fight a war where oil is a factor. well, its not. oil is as tangible a reason for war as anything else.
why dont you put some more text in bold?
its disingenuous to bring up the fact that bill is selling stock -- hes been selling it forever! its called diversifying. "no coincidence", whatever.
how have shareholders been lied to? this has been common knowledge since the 80s. maybe YOU should dig your head out of the sand instead of listening to "recent news" on slashdot.
if a chess expert plays a flunky, the expert will make no errors (assuming he/she/it is putting effort into it) and the flunky will get destroyed. at that point its difficult to grade the expert because the determining factor in the game is that the flunky made so many mistakes, not that the expert played exceptionally well.
this applies to computer as well as human experts.
its highly likely that when you make an API, people will abuse it. for example you reserve some combinations of parameters for future use and then you develop that future use. then you find that somebody depends on behavior with those parameters already (like they pass stack garbage to a reserved DWORD or something, very easy with an uninitialized dummy variable). etc. etc.
keeping correct usage of an API working is easy. the incorrect usage is the hard part where youd have to debug wordperfect.
wrong.
microsoft is hiring. they pay just fine. go see if you have the skills to get hired, go work, and then report back about how your design processes are so much better than those of the biggest software company in the world.
has anybody else noticed that the people who LOVE rez/frequency etc. are all potheads? and everybody else just sits and wonders "what the hell do they see in that game"?
hence the setting to allow you to turn it off. (which btw is a much easier setting to find than the registry key that you used to get into this state.)