If you're going to be Christian and don't want to be a retard, Catholicism is where it's at.
Anglican (Church of England) is better. Only a minority of self-described Anglicans believe in God. Even some of their priests openly doubt the existence of God, or Jesus as a literal truth.
This makes no sense when you can get a VoIP service to do the same for a fraction of the cost.
Or outside the US, a second mobile service. Here I can have a prepaid second mobile with all calls going to voicemail, which is sent as an MMS. I think I put $20 a year on it to keep it going. A pity you have to pay for incoming calls.
Only if you consider control over your purchase 'quaint'
Control? You'll have some control when AACS2 is broken, but it is DRM'ed up the wazoo. If I want control, I download a DRM-free version. I currently have no other way of transferring movies from my old blu-ray collection to my new media players.
engaged in a licensing battle with Lame Streaming, Inc. and they've pulled the licensing for all of their titles.
Ha! Almost as annoying as when my grandkids scratch the DVDs. You know they can deauthorise they key for you BD player? Or your TV.
There *are* alternatives, you know. Its not just live streaming or coasters.
While you were doing all that I was watching my Blu-ray movie.
While you were watching unskippable adverts and studio propaganda, I was watching my movie. And if Netflix or my ISP goes down, I have a couple of terrabytes library in the home server.
You get U.S. history, warts and all as a freshman in college.
Let me know when they teach that the aggressors of the war of independence or the civil war were not necessarily the good guys. When they compare Lincoln's treatment of the Confederacy (half a million dead) to Mikhail Gorbachev's allowing the Baltic states to secede. Or the annexation of Hawaii to the annexation of Crimea?
Chimps, dogs and gerbils are all vertebrates, with very similar brain structure. Also, they differ enormously so easy to rank.
But where would you rank an octupus compared to mammals? Already that is very difficult. But an octopus brain uses similar neurons, and result from a similar evolutionary process.
Now if a 19th C Apache had devised an intelligence test, chances are you or I would score retarded.
The validity of such a test is in its predictive ability. If the ability to follow such a set of directions is predictive of your ability to thrive in that society, it is a valid test. However, it is a combination of training/practive and aptitude, so not really an IQ test, any more than an algebra test is an IQ test.
When people talk of super-human intelligence, they mean one capable of self-awareness
These are two independent things.
That was meant to be implied in my statement. Ask any man on the street to describe a "super-human intelligence", and it will among other things be self aware.
They would not include a medical diagnotic AI.
And while different, it is a very bold claim to say they are "independent"! Prove it and you'll get a Nobel:-)
...Australia's government shows that they don't really get this whole "technology" thing...
Once again, a Slashdot user shows they cannot read past the inaccurate summary. While Dan Tehan is a pol-sci major, our current prime minister made his millions in the ISP business and sold out just before the dot-com bubble burst. This is not about web or email filtering.
NO! The article makes it clear: He said the plan did not amount to web filtering. and he claimed previous efforts to do so had been “ill-advised”.
While ISPs cannot filter your downloads, there is plenty that can and should be done at the network level, such as detecting outgoing spam and DOS attacks from infected users.
Because intelligence as a single-dimensioned parameter is a myth.
You seem to be confusing the concept of intelligence with *measuring* intelligence.
Our current measure, IQ, applies specifically to the cognitive strength of human intelligence, and our ability to solve problems creatively.
You cannot meaningfully talk about the IQ of a dolphin or dog, let alone an AI or alien intelligence. And the only reason anybody uses a single parameter for measuring human intelligence, is that the other measures and components of IQ are highly correlated, not because they don't exist.
super-human information processing capabilities
That is not intelligence, not even in thesense of current AI. When people talk of super-human intelligence, they mean one capable of self-awareness. Something even a toddler lacks.
Definitely not Homo Sapien. They only arrived in E Asia 40k years ago. Unless they managed to cross the Atlantic!
But it seems too long ago to be homo Erectus, as they disappeared from Asia long before this time. What makes them so sure the bones were broken by Homo? Any signs of fire being used? No, or they'd be able to date the coals.
Maybe some prehistoric monkeys had a taste for marrow.
Backups are good. For anyone using google, they make it very easy to download a copy of *all* your data. If you use Android, that's probably your email, photos, calendar, location history, search history, contacts, medical records, DNA sequence, and sexual deviations,...
They will bundle your whole life up into one little insignificant tar file.
> A single person could receive up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earns.
Will they be paying tax on top as well? For a person on minimum wage (which is very low in Canada) that might mean only $5/hr net. Not much incentive to do legitimate taxable work! Instead they will be pushed to cash-in-hand work, or be better off out of the economy and spending time doing their own cooking, repairs, hunting for used goods, etc. Either way, it will show up on the books as a reduction in employment, no matter how hard they are really working.
Such a high effective tax rate is dooming the trial before it begins. Its almost like they want it to fail.
I was just in the UK and did not see a lot of laundry hanging outside,
Too cold and damp for that now. They'd be hanging them indoors, possibly in the closet with the central-heating furnace. I'm in Australia, where we all use a Hills Hoist in the back yard, and keep a cheap tumble dryer for rare wet spells. Hardly used, so efficiency is unimportant.
Only the poor people in high-rise blocks of flats use dryers, so kind of the opposite to the US. Laundromats have dryers of course, but are almost as extinct as video libraries now.
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If you're going to be Christian and don't want to be a retard, Catholicism is where it's at.
Anglican (Church of England) is better. Only a minority of self-described Anglicans believe in God.
Even some of their priests openly doubt the existence of God, or Jesus as a literal truth.
538 - hahahahaha
It like the old meta-joke where people know all the jokes so well, they give them numbers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes...
http://www.realnothings.com/fa...
This makes no sense when you can get a VoIP service to do the same for a fraction of the cost.
Or outside the US, a second mobile service. Here I can have a prepaid second mobile with all calls going to voicemail, which is sent as an MMS.
I think I put $20 a year on it to keep it going. A pity you have to pay for incoming calls.
Only if you consider control over your purchase 'quaint'
Control? You'll have some control when AACS2 is broken, but it is DRM'ed up the wazoo.
If I want control, I download a DRM-free version. I currently have no other way of transferring movies from my old blu-ray collection to my new media players.
What trailers?
engaged in a licensing battle with Lame Streaming, Inc. and they've pulled the licensing for all of their titles.
Ha! Almost as annoying as when my grandkids scratch the DVDs.
You know they can deauthorise they key for you BD player? Or your TV.
There *are* alternatives, you know. Its not just live streaming or coasters.
While you were doing all that I was watching my Blu-ray movie.
While you were watching unskippable adverts and studio propaganda, I was watching my movie. And if Netflix or my ISP goes down, I have a couple of terrabytes library in the home server.
Your movie has plot holes the size of the grand canyon, and you are worried about minuscule defects in the presentation?
How quaint.
You get U.S. history, warts and all as a freshman in college.
Let me know when they teach that the aggressors of the war of independence or the civil war were not necessarily the good guys.
When they compare Lincoln's treatment of the Confederacy (half a million dead) to Mikhail Gorbachev's allowing the Baltic states to secede.
Or the annexation of Hawaii to the annexation of Crimea?
Chimps, dogs and gerbils are all vertebrates, with very similar brain structure. Also, they differ enormously so easy to rank.
But where would you rank an octupus compared to mammals? Already that is very difficult. But an octopus brain uses similar neurons, and result from a similar evolutionary process.
Now if a 19th C Apache had devised an intelligence test, chances are you or I would score retarded.
The validity of such a test is in its predictive ability. If the ability to follow such a set of directions is predictive of your ability to thrive in that society, it is a valid test.
However, it is a combination of training/practive and aptitude, so not really an IQ test, any more than an algebra test is an IQ test.
When people talk of super-human intelligence, they mean one capable of self-awareness
These are two independent things.
That was meant to be implied in my statement. Ask any man on the street to describe a "super-human intelligence", and it will among other things be self aware.
They would not include a medical diagnotic AI.
And while different, it is a very bold claim to say they are "independent"! Prove it and you'll get a Nobel :-)
...Australia's government shows that they don't really get this whole "technology" thing...
Once again, a Slashdot user shows they cannot read past the inaccurate summary.
While Dan Tehan is a pol-sci major, our current prime minister made his millions in the ISP business and sold out just before the dot-com bubble burst.
This is not about web or email filtering.
In a world where ISPs filter viruses for you,
NO! The article makes it clear: He said the plan did not amount to web filtering . and he claimed previous efforts to do so had been “ill-advised”.
While ISPs cannot filter your downloads, there is plenty that can and should be done at the network level, such as detecting outgoing spam and DOS attacks from infected users.
Because intelligence as a single-dimensioned parameter is a myth.
You seem to be confusing the concept of intelligence with *measuring* intelligence.
Our current measure, IQ, applies specifically to the cognitive strength of human intelligence, and our ability to solve problems creatively.
You cannot meaningfully talk about the IQ of a dolphin or dog, let alone an AI or alien intelligence.
And the only reason anybody uses a single parameter for measuring human intelligence, is that the other measures and components of IQ are highly correlated, not because they don't exist.
super-human information processing capabilities
That is not intelligence, not even in thesense of current AI.
When people talk of super-human intelligence, they mean one capable of self-awareness. Something even a toddler lacks.
Not sci-fi. The US and Russia have built and tested nuclear thermal rockets.
That's a good point, too.......something picked up a rock and broke bones with it, but other than that, we don't know what something is.
I'm not saying it was aliens ...
Another person who hasn't read the fucking paper.
You must be new here. Welcome to slashdot.
Definitely not Homo Sapien. They only arrived in E Asia 40k years ago. Unless they managed to cross the Atlantic!
But it seems too long ago to be homo Erectus, as they disappeared from Asia long before this time.
What makes them so sure the bones were broken by Homo? Any signs of fire being used? No, or they'd be able to date the coals.
Maybe some prehistoric monkeys had a taste for marrow.
Backups are good. ...
For anyone using google, they make it very easy to download a copy of *all* your data.
If you use Android, that's probably your email, photos, calendar, location history, search history, contacts, medical records, DNA sequence, and sexual deviations,
They will bundle your whole life up into one little insignificant tar file.
Go here: https://takeout.google.com/set...
It basically has no impact on employment.
The 50% "tax" rate will have an effect, surely?
> A single person could receive up to about $17,000 a year, minus half of any income he or she earns.
Will they be paying tax on top as well?
For a person on minimum wage (which is very low in Canada) that might mean only $5/hr net. Not much incentive to do legitimate taxable work!
Instead they will be pushed to cash-in-hand work, or be better off out of the economy and spending time doing their own cooking, repairs, hunting for used goods, etc.
Either way, it will show up on the books as a reduction in employment, no matter how hard they are really working.
Such a high effective tax rate is dooming the trial before it begins. Its almost like they want it to fail.
Since the cane toad disaster, people have been more careful, and many biological control efforts have been extremely successful.
The prickly-pear moth, or rust fungus just don't generate the same headlines as the cane toad from 1935.
now that the first world has exhausted theirs and no longer needs it.
Most of the world's coal exports are from developed countries, notably Australia, USA and Russia.
You are twisting facts to your political agenda.
Maybe Britain would be less full of shit if they started contributing to building of the infrastructure of Africa,
Britain build a great deal of Africa's infrastructure. Unfortunately most of it has fallen into neglect and decay since independence.
I was just in the UK and did not see a lot of laundry hanging outside,
Too cold and damp for that now. They'd be hanging them indoors, possibly in the closet with the central-heating furnace.
I'm in Australia, where we all use a Hills Hoist in the back yard, and keep a cheap tumble dryer for rare wet spells. Hardly used, so efficiency is unimportant.
Only the poor people in high-rise blocks of flats use dryers, so kind of the opposite to the US. Laundromats have dryers of course, but are almost as extinct as video libraries now.
Here, here!