Not that I don't enjoy a good bill reading but, do those of you who've perused this have any idea how this will affect offshoring? I assume it would increase the profit margin of those NY businesses that use it to do business in NY.
We would have absolutely no control over this, even the single UN rep we have isn't voted on by the people, he's installed by the president and confirmed by congress and he typically only stays about a year. Can we all say ineffectual? If this happens it can't be undone because nonbody would want to give us back control. This is an organization that has China on it's human rights committee. It's a one way
street...bad idea.
It's not like we invented air and now the rest of the world would like some. They can do their own thing all they want, all they've gotta do is do it and maybe put a gateway in if they want us on it.
I suspect that the reason the UN hasn't done something like this already is that they CAN'T. Just like they can't possibly govern the internet in any less than the bizarre, inefectual, and convoluted way they already take care of their current business. It would be like having an obfuscated internet contest that NEVER ENDS.
They can come pry my authoritative dns server from my cold dead fingers.
Ok I'm convinced. I'm going to take the tinfoil liners out of my tasteful hat collection. The aluminum foil underwear stays though. While it might not prevent the government from controlling my implulses it definitely gets chicks.
m
Did the mine field scene come to anbyodies mind besides me? Smacking some bristling alien baddy in the face with a gravity towed asteroid....WHACK!!
hehe
m
I've seen film footage of a bird manipulating a piece of wire to create a custom tool which the bird then used to solve a problem. Near as I can tell and from what I've seen some birds are smarter than Gorillas. But then I guess you don't see too many Gorillas smashing into plate glass windows at 30 MPH either.
m
Ok well, nows the time to do something helpful. I know some people there and I'm gonna call and have them reccomend a family to come live in my basement for a while. I understand it's gonna be months before the place is even dry, much less livable. Anybody else feel like chipping in somehow? By all means do it.
We don't necessarily have the market cornered on brains here, but I'm imagining theres more than enough to figure out a way to help the people (not their broadband connections) as individuals or as groups. I'm sure it's already being done, just thought it needed saying.
Well...having read the old testament a time or two, there are a lot of prophesies about this Jesus guy that seem to have worked out. But that could all just be Jewish conspiracy right? I mean, maybe hitler was right "old testament, new testament,or just the sayings of Jesus, it's all just the same old Jewish swindle". Personally I don't think so but I have to admit Hitler definitely had his say about it.
Now talk about your conspiracies. I suppose the jews must have been conspiring to get us to submit to government authority or maybe treat each other the way we would want to be treated or something crazy like that.
Ya know it's kind of funny that the jews of Jesus' time mostly thought that their religion was a conspiracy to create this super guy that was going to wipe out all the romans. A LOT of them were REALLY pissed off when Jesus actually showed up and said "No, the Roman occupation of Israel is fine, render unto cesars that which is cesars, don't worry, be happy." Turns out it was just a conspiracy to try to get people to treat each other less crappy, and to be willing to die for it, and even more perhaps...to live for it.
I'm curious how many people (I suppose more specifically you clockwork) reading this have had dreams that came true. I'm not talking about snow white dream come true or "deja vu" or any of that crap I mean like technicolor full length dreams about stuff that has then happened as described in the dream. I'm curious because I'd like to know if I'm the only one reading slashdot that this has happened to (and on multiple occasions).
In one instance I wrote it down and still have the record. I'd written it down and forgot about it then in recalling it after I'd proposed to my wife I realised I'd dreamed about my future wife in such detail that I couldn't deny that it was the case. Call it personal prophecy if you will.
Now granted dreaming about stuff thats going to happen a millenia or so from now, or even anything thats going to happen to anybody else for that matter, is something I haven't experienced, but it doesn't seem crazy or impossible to me, just an extroardinary extension of an ordinary incident. Kind of like how going to the moon was just an extroardinary extension of the very ordinary incident of setting off a bottle rocket.
A lot of people don't "get" shakespeare anymore because language and verbal memory aren't as important to our lives as they used to be when evidence in courtrooms was almost strictly "heard" and ones life and livelihood often depended greatly on remembered rambling details of conversations and being able to verbally relay and remember all kinds of things that we take for granted in written form. Funny how literacy seems to some extent have had some detrimental effect on our ability to appreciate what are considered to be some of the past masters of language.
Perhaps in that same way we as a species have lost some of our ability to dream or believe in dreams because we rely so much on the "visions" that others entertain us with. Bread and circuses etc, Rambo, James Bond, XXX, porno whatever. Perhaps thereby losing some of our ability to appreciate prophecy.
I suggest this because I noticed (upon forcing myself away from commercial media entertainment for a while) I started dreaming again after a long hiatus from the same. Not necessarily the "prophecy" kind, which seem to have a specific "texture" if you will (at least in my case) but just dreams of any kind. I hadn't woke up and vividly remembered a dream in so long that is was sort of a shock to wake up one morning and do so.
Anyway, I suppose my point is that I can understand someone thinking that prophecy (generally in the form of recorded dreams or visions) is just not possible if they haven't experienced it at any level. Try it, maybe you'll like it. If you can. I couldn't really say if it's possible for you as (hence my question about others dreams) I don't know what percentage of the population this happens to
Bobby Fisher may be a bitter anti setmitic inhabitant of the lunatic fringer, but he's right about one thing. The reason computers beat humans isn't because they think better, it's because they don't forget stuff.
If fisher random or one of the other shuffle chess variants were used, computers would most likely only make mediocre opponents.
Deep blue cost how much? The price of a human chess player is only whatever it costs to raise her/him. Undoubtedly still a much more efficient use of resources, and (having children myself) a much better excercise in patience.
I wouldn't worry about it guys, apparently Kojo Anan has been put in charge of the shutdown and the EFF has made a deal to cut him a monthly check for the next few years "not to compete" with the internet. So...keep up those donations!
I've been in the customer service end of a large VISP for about 4 years. This product will definitely be helpful to a lot of the people I talk to. It's pretty frustrating both for my self and the customer to have to "talk" them through clicking an icon or button.
Unfortunately a lot of these people are on social security and a hundred bucks for a mouse just isn't in the cards. The people in the demographic for this product that would most beneifit from the internet (unable to afford or physically withstand a lot of travel) will unfortunatley also often be those least likely to be able to afford the price.
Hmmm...maybe they could charge it to their insurance. You can get around more on the internet than in one of those "Jazzy" electric wheel chairs.
I believe I've seen and read information on the dig for this. It's my understanding that the locals claimed to have recent historical memory of interaction with the apparent remnants of these. This apparently included leaving food for them. Can anyone verify this?
It's a fabulous way to build a great resume tailored for you dream job quick since employers don't expect contractors to stay at jobs for "career" time periods. My brother did this and got into a 75k web programmer/netadmin job in fairly short order without a degree. His wife was very willing to move around a lot to find the right contracts for his purposes though.
If you wanna stay in one place and you feel like this job is your destination, then it's still great on the resume because it's what you want, and people don't expect you to have a longetivity on your resume when you contract. So once it's on your resume....shop.
Moomba..I love it! Screw asimovs laws of robotics, lets get to the fun stuff. Build a DEFENSE SYSTEM into the thing! Fences and no trespassing signs are there for a reason. The last thing I want is for some 12 year old with technolust to run off with 200 man hours of labor.
I say pinchers of peril! Ok well, maybe a reasonably severe audible warning activated by the right sort of proximity sensor...but right after that definitely the pinchers of peril. I'd like to see my self propelled, electric powered, weed whacker armed, robotic mower chasing people around the yard.
Forget the dog, forget the owner, BEWARE OF MOWER!
Exactly how "smart" would computers have to be before they could be considered personnel? If the legal definition were low enough the General officers could just order someone into the whitehouse....waha!
Officer: Private Cray I want a republican senate this year!!
Cray: Sir yes sir!!
m
Slashdot Mirror
Dear Moderators,
Please delete the utter shitbag F_Scentura's repugnant account. Hopefully the moderators can GIT R DUNN in this instance.
m
Not that I don't enjoy a good bill reading but, do those of you who've perused this have any idea how this will affect offshoring? I assume it would increase the profit margin of those NY businesses that use it to do business in NY.
m
Did they catch anybody?
m
Q: What the hell do the beatles and science have in common? A: Entymology. m
We would have absolutely no control over this, even the single UN rep we have isn't voted on by the people, he's installed by the president and confirmed by congress and he typically only stays about a year. Can we all say ineffectual? If this happens it can't be undone because nonbody would want to give us back control. This is an organization that has China on it's human rights committee. It's a one way street...bad idea.
It's not like we invented air and now the rest of the world would like some. They can do their own thing all they want, all they've gotta do is do it and maybe put a gateway in if they want us on it.
I suspect that the reason the UN hasn't done something like this already is that they CAN'T. Just like they can't possibly govern the internet in any less than the bizarre, inefectual, and convoluted way they already take care of their current business. It would be like having an obfuscated internet contest that NEVER ENDS.
They can come pry my authoritative dns server from my cold dead fingers.
m
Hey...why not? They're already on the Human Rights commision for the UN, and as we all know they've done a stellar job in that department.
m
Ok I'm convinced. I'm going to take the tinfoil liners out of my tasteful hat collection. The aluminum foil underwear stays though. While it might not prevent the government from controlling my implulses it definitely gets chicks. m
Did the mine field scene come to anbyodies mind besides me? Smacking some bristling alien baddy in the face with a gravity towed asteroid....WHACK!! hehe m
I would suggest that if you would like your commentary to be more "relivant", you should spell it correctly. relevant m
...I'm on the brute squad m
I'm a US citizen and think thats a fine idea. It seems like a great waste of our time and resources to me.
I've seen film footage of a bird manipulating a piece of wire to create a custom tool which the bird then used to solve a problem. Near as I can tell and from what I've seen some birds are smarter than Gorillas. But then I guess you don't see too many Gorillas smashing into plate glass windows at 30 MPH either. m
Ok well, nows the time to do something helpful. I know some people there and I'm gonna call and have them reccomend a family to come live in my basement for a while. I understand it's gonna be months before the place is even dry, much less livable. Anybody else feel like chipping in somehow? By all means do it.
We don't necessarily have the market cornered on brains here, but I'm imagining theres more than enough to figure out a way to help the people (not their broadband connections) as individuals or as groups. I'm sure it's already being done, just thought it needed saying.
Enjoy your opportunity to serve,
m
Well...having read the old testament a time or two, there are a lot of prophesies about this Jesus guy that seem to have worked out. But that could all just be Jewish conspiracy right? I mean, maybe hitler was right "old testament, new testament,or just the sayings of Jesus, it's all just the same old Jewish swindle". Personally I don't think so but I have to admit Hitler definitely had his say about it.
Now talk about your conspiracies. I suppose the jews must have been conspiring to get us to submit to government authority or maybe treat each other the way we would want to be treated or something crazy like that.
Ya know it's kind of funny that the jews of Jesus' time mostly thought that their religion was a conspiracy to create this super guy that was going to wipe out all the romans. A LOT of them were REALLY pissed off when Jesus actually showed up and said "No, the Roman occupation of Israel is fine, render unto cesars that which is cesars, don't worry, be happy." Turns out it was just a conspiracy to try to get people to treat each other less crappy, and to be willing to die for it, and even more perhaps...to live for it.
I'm curious how many people (I suppose more specifically you clockwork) reading this have had dreams that came true. I'm not talking about snow white dream come true or "deja vu" or any of that crap I mean like technicolor full length dreams about stuff that has then happened as described in the dream. I'm curious because I'd like to know if I'm the only one reading slashdot that this has happened to (and on multiple occasions).
In one instance I wrote it down and still have the record. I'd written it down and forgot about it then in recalling it after I'd proposed to my wife I realised I'd dreamed about my future wife in such detail that I couldn't deny that it was the case. Call it personal prophecy if you will.
Now granted dreaming about stuff thats going to happen a millenia or so from now, or even anything thats going to happen to anybody else for that matter, is something I haven't experienced, but it doesn't seem crazy or impossible to me, just an extroardinary extension of an ordinary incident.
Kind of like how going to the moon was just an extroardinary extension of the very ordinary incident of setting off a bottle rocket.
A lot of people don't "get" shakespeare anymore because language and verbal memory aren't as important to our lives as they used to be when evidence in courtrooms was almost strictly "heard" and ones life and livelihood often depended greatly on remembered rambling details of conversations and being able to verbally relay and remember all kinds of things that we take for granted in written form. Funny how literacy seems to some extent have had some detrimental effect on our ability to appreciate what are considered to be some of the past masters of language.
Perhaps in that same way we as a species have lost some of our ability to dream or believe in dreams because we rely so much on the "visions" that others entertain us with. Bread and circuses etc, Rambo, James Bond, XXX, porno whatever. Perhaps thereby losing some of our ability to appreciate prophecy.
I suggest this because I noticed (upon forcing myself away from commercial media entertainment for a while) I started dreaming again after a long hiatus from the same. Not necessarily the "prophecy" kind, which seem to have a specific "texture" if you will (at least in my case) but just dreams of any kind. I hadn't woke up and vividly remembered a dream in so long that is was sort of a shock to wake up one morning and do so.
Anyway, I suppose my point is that I can understand someone thinking that prophecy (generally in the form of recorded dreams or visions) is just not possible if they haven't experienced it at any level. Try it, maybe you'll like it. If you can. I couldn't really say if it's possible for you as (hence my question about others dreams) I don't know what percentage of the population this happens to
Bobby Fisher may be a bitter anti setmitic inhabitant of the lunatic fringer, but he's right about one thing. The reason computers beat humans isn't because they think better, it's because they don't forget stuff.
If fisher random or one of the other shuffle chess variants were used, computers would most likely only make mediocre opponents.
Deep blue cost how much? The price of a human chess player is only whatever it costs to raise her/him. Undoubtedly still a much more efficient use of resources, and (having children myself) a much better excercise in patience.
m
Now the big question is...why not seven?
m
I wouldn't worry about it guys, apparently Kojo Anan has been put in charge of the shutdown and the EFF has made a deal to cut him a monthly check for the next few years "not to compete" with the internet. So...keep up those donations!
m
So....how do they get the big spider to sing? I'll pay for a ticket just to see that. m
I've been in the customer service end of a large VISP for about 4 years. This product will definitely be helpful to a lot of the people I talk to. It's pretty frustrating both for my self and the customer to have to "talk" them through clicking an icon or button.
Unfortunately a lot of these people are on social security and a hundred bucks for a mouse just isn't in the cards. The people in the demographic for this product that would most beneifit from the internet (unable to afford or physically withstand a lot of travel) will unfortunatley also often be those least likely to be able to afford the price.
Hmmm...maybe they could charge it to their insurance. You can get around more on the internet than in one of those "Jazzy" electric wheel chairs.
m
I believe I've seen and read information on the dig for this. It's my understanding that the locals claimed to have recent historical memory of interaction with the apparent remnants of these. This apparently included leaving food for them. Can anyone verify this?
m
It's a fabulous way to build a great resume tailored for you dream job quick since employers don't expect contractors to stay at jobs for "career" time periods. My brother did this and got into a 75k web programmer/netadmin job in fairly short order without a degree. His wife was very willing to move around a lot to find the right contracts for his purposes though.
If you wanna stay in one place and you feel like this job is your destination, then it's still great on the resume because it's what you want, and people don't expect you to have a longetivity on your resume when you contract. So once it's on your resume....shop.
While I'm admittedly weak in this area, just reading this post has made me want to learn more about the two body problem. That can't be a bad thing.
....ultimately responsible for his downfall."
Like ummm...counterfeiting?
m
Moomba..I love it! Screw asimovs laws of robotics, lets get to the fun stuff. Build a DEFENSE SYSTEM into the thing! Fences and no trespassing signs are there for a reason. The last thing I want is for some 12 year old with technolust to run off with 200 man hours of labor.
I say pinchers of peril! Ok well, maybe a reasonably severe audible warning activated by the right sort of proximity sensor...but right after that definitely the pinchers of peril. I'd like to see my self propelled, electric powered, weed whacker armed, robotic mower chasing people around the yard.
Forget the dog, forget the owner,
BEWARE OF MOWER!
Exactly how "smart" would computers have to be before they could be considered personnel? If the legal definition were low enough the General officers could just order someone into the whitehouse....waha! Officer: Private Cray I want a republican senate this year!! Cray: Sir yes sir!! m