This can only be a useful alternative to existing tools like TeamViewer if and only if the Chrome browser itself becomes a truly ubiquitous browser, found on EVERY machine. Otherwise, what's the difference if one still has to install software on both systems to make it feasible? In this instance, it's actually two installations, given the need to install the extension as well as the browser itself.
Call me when this has been subjected to something resembling peer review and still holds up. As it is, the source of this report has suspect motivations given who paid for it. This could be 90% confirmation bias.
What is the realistic probability that a new ISP will roll out any type of broadband in California now, that isn't simply reselling the medium of one of the incumbents? That's right: zero.
Guess what? Even if we got the full Free Press et al version of so-called network neutrality, it STILL wouldn't change that state of affairs, because a few giant corps own all the wires. IIRC one of the differences with this new Aussie broadband plan is that it includes public buyback of the physical medium... so in Australia they will have TRUE network neutrality.
At some point the airbase itself becomes a target that needs to be defended. A drone can be launched or recovered from almost anywhere - depending on the drone.
Right... because a "drone control center" - and you KNOW they will centralize it - wouldn't be just as juicy a target as an airfield? It may be easier to hide now, but eventually techniques for backtracking the control signals or whatever will make it possible to locate them. Didn't you watch SG:U or the Star Wars prequel movies? They *always* go after the drone command!
Qualification: when your accent is a speech impediment for people not from your neck of the woods, then you have a problem.
I certainly wouldn't speak for any of my former classmates, but when I was in school and learning to write and speak English, ACCURACY was my goal, and I had a high expectation. The result is that anyone who reads or understands English will be able to fundamentally understand (if not comprehend) me. I paid a heavy price for it: slow cursive and block-letter handwriting speeds and the need to subvocalize everything I read or write. I doubt the expectations of my classmates were nearly so rigorous, and the result is that their handwriting is often illegible and people not from their 'hood may think they're speaking gibberish.
Just last week I wound up speaking with a tier-1 support specialist who was clearly in India, obvious not only because the VOIP connection was horrid but because her English pronunciation was so distorted by her accent carried over from her native tongue that I could understand only a third of what she said.
Anyone familiar with the Pioneer One indie series? If the RCMP happens to find a cosmonaut inside what's left of that satellite, it's time to be worried!
That doesn't even partially answer it. If the resources expended on wars in the last 50 years had instead been redirected to expanding the frontier (and enabling future homesteading for misfits and malcontents), we would have several colonies on the Moon and in orbit by now and be poised to make the jump to Mars.
I was eight years old when Neil Armstrong set boots on the Moon; I should have lived to see a thriving colony on Mars! I'm not dead yet, but these sickening roadmaps make it obvious that the chance of me living long enough to see ANY offworld colony is pretty slim. What the fuck happened?
I share Neil Armstrong's frustration, but I don't blame NASA; NASA isn't the problem. The problem is that the species is dominated by short-sighted, ignorant, isolationist fools... and that foolish majority is not only allowed to choose our leadership but is also the pool from which that leadership is chosen. WE collectively are the problem.
We've used NASA as a political football in a decades-long game of tug-of-war; how would you like to administer or work in an agency whose funding and priorities get temptingly dangled close enough to nibble one year but then yanked far out of reach the next, at the whim of Congressional purseholders beholden to public attitudes and corporate shareholders? NASA has been suffering from manic depression for decades because of it.
Neil needs to place the blame squarely where it belongs. How many more generations of visionaries will have their hopes and dreams crushed under the weight of an ignorant mob of billions?
Anyone care to place bets on whether that DataPlex software is locked to only work with OCZ SSD hardware? Anyone care to bet on how long it will take before an open source equivalent appears on SourceForge and negates OCZ's proprietary stunt?
We'll get to see these questions answered, because warfare will inexorably become more automated. Which SF author's dystopian prediction will prove accurate?
Massacres are most often caused by an emotional meltdown, a visceral animalistic thing. Machines would not behave like that unless we designed them to mimic even the limbic brain. Sure, they could perhaps be designed to be cold, calculating mass-murderers, but there's a middle ground. I find it curious that people are commonly SO afraid of the latter when it's really the former that have caused much more carnage over the centuries.
Hey, I'm firmly in the Dennis Kucinich hippie anti-war camp, too, but let's face it... that's the altruistic ideal. The reality is that some people need killin' - to quote Bill Engvall - before they do the killin' or maimin' themselves. That reality needs some serious pre-scriptive checks and balances, but it's still the de-scriptive reality. People are murderous little beasts when they think it's necessary. People are murderous behind the wheels of vehicles, too. At least I'm consistent: I think both of those jobs, killin' and drivin', should be given to machines. Machines won't suffer from road rage or pull a My Lai massacre unless we actually program them to behave that much like us. Whether killin' or drivin' they'll still make mistakes, but they'll be truly honest mistakes.
So... program the machines to "feel remorse". That one should be easy,since remorse is (a) recognizing a possible mistake, (b) analyzing the causal decisions and events, and (c) altering the decision process to minimize repeating the same pattern. Sounds pretty straightforward to me, unlike some other emotions.
Yep, autonomous machines are certain to make mistakes and kill people who aren't the target, who are innocent, don't really deserve to die, etc.
So what?
Humans make those mistakes now, in abundance: friendly fire, massacres, genocide, innocent bystanders... you name it. What difference does it make whether it's a human or some artificial pseudo-intelligence that makes the mistakes?
I'll tell you what the difference is: one less human on the battlefield, and thus at the least one less human that can die from a mistake.
The fact that OnStar took pains to alter their ToS in this specific fashion means that they're clearly thinking about it and perhaps even planning to do it. The INTENT is clearly stated, and intent is all that matters. Since OnStar intends to make such a thing legally and technically feasible, they can't be trusted NOT to do it.
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It will probably be another perpetual beta, so what's the difference?
Don't use either Facebook or Google+, and wait just a wee bit longer for Diaspora to exit beta.
In other news, a study just published in Nature claims that studies aren't really very informative at all. Expect a retraction shortly, though.
He was a human being, and he had hopes, dreams, feelings and ambitions just like the rest of us.
Not necessarily in that order....
This can only be a useful alternative to existing tools like TeamViewer if and only if the Chrome browser itself becomes a truly ubiquitous browser, found on EVERY machine. Otherwise, what's the difference if one still has to install software on both systems to make it feasible? In this instance, it's actually two installations, given the need to install the extension as well as the browser itself.
Call me when this has been subjected to something resembling peer review and still holds up. As it is, the source of this report has suspect motivations given who paid for it. This could be 90% confirmation bias.
What is the realistic probability that a new ISP will roll out any type of broadband in California now, that isn't simply reselling the medium of one of the incumbents? That's right: zero.
Guess what? Even if we got the full Free Press et al version of so-called network neutrality, it STILL wouldn't change that state of affairs, because a few giant corps own all the wires. IIRC one of the differences with this new Aussie broadband plan is that it includes public buyback of the physical medium... so in Australia they will have TRUE network neutrality.
Just drop the drives into the water with the sharks, and... zzzzt!
At some point the airbase itself becomes a target that needs to be defended. A drone can be launched or recovered from almost anywhere - depending on the drone.
Right... because a "drone control center" - and you KNOW they will centralize it - wouldn't be just as juicy a target as an airfield? It may be easier to hide now, but eventually techniques for backtracking the control signals or whatever will make it possible to locate them. Didn't you watch SG:U or the Star Wars prequel movies? They *always* go after the drone command!
... and it's a record!
Qualification: when your accent is a speech impediment for people not from your neck of the woods, then you have a problem.
I certainly wouldn't speak for any of my former classmates, but when I was in school and learning to write and speak English, ACCURACY was my goal, and I had a high expectation. The result is that anyone who reads or understands English will be able to fundamentally understand (if not comprehend) me. I paid a heavy price for it: slow cursive and block-letter handwriting speeds and the need to subvocalize everything I read or write. I doubt the expectations of my classmates were nearly so rigorous, and the result is that their handwriting is often illegible and people not from their 'hood may think they're speaking gibberish.
Just last week I wound up speaking with a tier-1 support specialist who was clearly in India, obvious not only because the VOIP connection was horrid but because her English pronunciation was so distorted by her accent carried over from her native tongue that I could understand only a third of what she said.
Growing trees to carbon-fixated fruition takes patience! Who has that? You? What, are you a ritalin-and-prozac junkie or something?
Space Liability Convention, which has provisions for fallen satellites, so if there's any actual damage from this, the US will need to pay Canada.
Great, so now we'll have a bunch of Canucks wearing neck braces walking with limps lining up in court hoping for a windfall?
Anyone familiar with the Pioneer One indie series? If the RCMP happens to find a cosmonaut inside what's left of that satellite, it's time to be worried!
That doesn't even partially answer it. If the resources expended on wars in the last 50 years had instead been redirected to expanding the frontier (and enabling future homesteading for misfits and malcontents), we would have several colonies on the Moon and in orbit by now and be poised to make the jump to Mars.
I was eight years old when Neil Armstrong set boots on the Moon; I should have lived to see a thriving colony on Mars! I'm not dead yet, but these sickening roadmaps make it obvious that the chance of me living long enough to see ANY offworld colony is pretty slim. What the fuck happened?
I share Neil Armstrong's frustration, but I don't blame NASA; NASA isn't the problem. The problem is that the species is dominated by short-sighted, ignorant, isolationist fools... and that foolish majority is not only allowed to choose our leadership but is also the pool from which that leadership is chosen. WE collectively are the problem.
We've used NASA as a political football in a decades-long game of tug-of-war; how would you like to administer or work in an agency whose funding and priorities get temptingly dangled close enough to nibble one year but then yanked far out of reach the next, at the whim of Congressional purseholders beholden to public attitudes and corporate shareholders? NASA has been suffering from manic depression for decades because of it.
Neil needs to place the blame squarely where it belongs. How many more generations of visionaries will have their hopes and dreams crushed under the weight of an ignorant mob of billions?
Anyone care to place bets on whether that DataPlex software is locked to only work with OCZ SSD hardware? Anyone care to bet on how long it will take before an open source equivalent appears on SourceForge and negates OCZ's proprietary stunt?
We'll get to see these questions answered, because warfare will inexorably become more automated. Which SF author's dystopian prediction will prove accurate?
Massacres are most often caused by an emotional meltdown, a visceral animalistic thing. Machines would not behave like that unless we designed them to mimic even the limbic brain. Sure, they could perhaps be designed to be cold, calculating mass-murderers, but there's a middle ground. I find it curious that people are commonly SO afraid of the latter when it's really the former that have caused much more carnage over the centuries.
Hey, I'm firmly in the Dennis Kucinich hippie anti-war camp, too, but let's face it... that's the altruistic ideal. The reality is that some people need killin' - to quote Bill Engvall - before they do the killin' or maimin' themselves. That reality needs some serious pre-scriptive checks and balances, but it's still the de-scriptive reality. People are murderous little beasts when they think it's necessary. People are murderous behind the wheels of vehicles, too. At least I'm consistent: I think both of those jobs, killin' and drivin', should be given to machines. Machines won't suffer from road rage or pull a My Lai massacre unless we actually program them to behave that much like us. Whether killin' or drivin' they'll still make mistakes, but they'll be truly honest mistakes.
So... program the machines to "feel remorse". That one should be easy,since remorse is (a) recognizing a possible mistake, (b) analyzing the causal decisions and events, and (c) altering the decision process to minimize repeating the same pattern. Sounds pretty straightforward to me, unlike some other emotions.
Does that hurt? I bet it would if you're one of those people with a pointy tongue. :-)
Your guess is right; that isn't what I thought you meant. I'm still glad I got to make the point I did, just perhaps not in reply to yours....
Yep, autonomous machines are certain to make mistakes and kill people who aren't the target, who are innocent, don't really deserve to die, etc.
So what?
Humans make those mistakes now, in abundance: friendly fire, massacres, genocide, innocent bystanders... you name it. What difference does it make whether it's a human or some artificial pseudo-intelligence that makes the mistakes?
I'll tell you what the difference is: one less human on the battlefield, and thus at the least one less human that can die from a mistake.
The fact that OnStar took pains to alter their ToS in this specific fashion means that they're clearly thinking about it and perhaps even planning to do it. The INTENT is clearly stated, and intent is all that matters. Since OnStar intends to make such a thing legally and technically feasible, they can't be trusted NOT to do it.