---All persons should aspire to live their lives ethically. Rather than have those who do be the exception, it ought to be that those that don't are the exception.
When the companies we work for dont act ethical, and are kept from acting ethical due to shareholder constraint, why should we care if we're not ethical?
If you want your job, you do what your manager says.
Slack's great for setting up tight servers in which you know every program running and where it's at. Its also go for when you know how to set up a speed-server in which you need it up in 20 minutes.
If you want to change anything past what's on the CD, go get the source for each program it requires. There's soo much time wasted on that... if you can find the sources for that specific module..
Have they forgot how Chinese invaded Tibet and displaced the Buddhists? Has anybody forgot Tiananmen Square? They hunted down amateur and professional footage alike so they could go and assassinate the dissidents. Or in recent times, have they forgot about the forced abortions that the Chinese government puts women through for violating "Birth Law"?
And now they wish to "clean up" the Internet. Awwww. It doesnt fit in their view of authoritarian communism.
Who I do feel sad for are the people who live there, as many of them did NOT bring this upon themselves, however, it IS up to them to free this country of an evil tyranny.
You aren't that smart, for a 27 year old. Though, I guess you are just average.
---Computers are great tools, but they're still just tools.
And humans are the only known animals that use tools to make more complex tools. It just so happens that high speed computation and high density memory allows a tremendous amount of newer tools and problems to be solved. One of those problems solved was storage, indexing, and retrieval.
---Where's the gd card catalog so I can find what I'm looking for.
Is this a statement or a question.
---Hell, I'm only 27, grew up with computers,
Congrats, as have I, and many other people. I suppose I should start waxing poetic about how I hacked the Commodore 64, or played with my Atari, but that is irrelevant.
---but the morons writing the Library Catalog systems have obviously never seen the inside of real library, let alone done research in one.
Morons, eh? I see. So, it takes a librarian to write comprehensive searching and filtering software to power an online catalog? I didn't realize that. Say... Are the founders of Google librarians, or are Altavista's, or is Yahoo?
---If you want tech based research, use Wikipedia to find your 1st or 2nd hand sources and go from there. If your going to the library, learn how the library works. It's been around for a VERY long time and works QUITE well, if you know what you're doing. Learn how to use the tool you're trying to use and, miracle of miracles, it'll be easier to use.
WHAT kind of TECH BASED research do you PLAN TO do? If you're looking at alternative computing platforms or theories of computer science, you will only find them in journals. They may be on the internet, but good luck affording them as an individual.
Also, news flash, but all libraries use some soft of computerized card catalog for easy tracking of loans. Many libraries even have regex searches. You might want to check them out.
If anybody knows about medical tech, they do NOT run "laptops" or desktops on critical equipment.
The life-maintaining equipment runs only secure hardware, with mathematically proven code, and fiber-optic links for isolation (to prevent electrocution hazards). There was even a heart monitor someone made and posted to/. , and it would have likely killed someone as it had them hooked up to a computer serial port.
SuSE will NOT run on the dangerous equipment. It will run on the network as a "online chart". Many people should be against that as well, for altogether different reasons. This is somewhat critical, as most med groups run paper charts just in case..
Would BUY a web browser? These things are commodity now in the terms of operating systems. We have IE and Mozilla for Windows, KHTML and Mozilla for Linux, and IE and Mozilla and KHTML for Mac, and we now have Safari for MSWindows... for free.
We have Mouse gestures for Moz by plugin, Tabbed bowsing for Moz and Konq, and any other feature deemed ok can easily be added in to Mozilla (either by source adds or plugins).
Can somebody answer me why someone would buy a web bowser these days?
---Hmm, I don't know about that. I could be a software copy right now, and I don't control the hardware directly under me as far as I can tell, and I'm surely not so melodramatic as to assert that existence is a sheer hell... television, maybe.
Too true, I was being overly dramatic, but at least we know we die in this life. I'd imagine that being imprisoned inside a computer with resources deprived would we worse than death.
---Which Egan universe are we talking, here? Because in at least one, destruction of the hardware platform is pretty irrelevant, as well as some forms of suicide (is it suicide to engineer your "final" memories into a tight, "self-perpetuating" loop of existence? or forsake your sequentiality and factor your memories and personality into a bunch of concurrent people?).
Take your pick (from the singularity based ones). For example, in Diaspora, Orlando's clone died. That meant only one thing, in that the clone chose suicide. Yes, that clone diverged at a point 50 years prior, but those independent thoughts are not recoverable unless they release them. When concerning sentient software, data integrity and security is more important than anything else, as it IS a basic human right (security of ones self).
To see what happens if these rights are not maintained, go read Permutation City (if you havent already done so). They lose control of the hardware, and nasty things happen.
---And like other rights, such as the right to self-termination in the first place, it was easily circumvented on the hardware/OS level if the need arose.
I'm not quite sure if that was the case in all of his books. Shaper does seem to require quantum computers, which would be "hard" to emulate;) One of his short stories does seem to use them also.
And if "suicide rights" were revoked, I cant see how they'd stop you from corrupting your own programming and crashing the Shaper.
---Maybe at first, but I tend to think software rights are pretty much inevitable, it's just a matter of how long/do we last that long. Not that I, or anyone else, can base that on anything other than wild conjecture. What I find much more troubling is that the debate will probably start far too late. If strong AI is your thing, then you probably think that when we start experimenting with higher-level reasoning systems (probably brain copies before anything truly artificial), we're basically experimenting on conscious entities. Now, with a 100% "flesher" population (remember, by definition we're only just beginning to experiment with the alternatives), how many people do you think are actually going to care what "happens to software in a computer"? I'm just glad I wasn't "born" one of the first few generations of AI, because that's probably going to be a pretty fucked up existence.
Then there's really only one way to get people to care, and that is to provide an end-term migration to durable substrates. When families migrate, people will care about the laws and ethics thereof, and I hope that will bring honorable means and ends. However, right now and the foreseeable future, there will be no AI ethics, which is sad as it teaches them the worst about us.
Yes, Strong AI does scare me somewhat, but I hope that a human is the first Strong AI. What terrifies me to no end is the gray goo.. If nanites are created to process carbon, they could literally liquidize the world within 90 minutes, according to Kurzweil. Rogue nanites could be the scourge to the earth worse than any asteroid could ever be. However, our manipulation of matter requires them, but can also unmake us.
Slashdot Mirror
So what are you paying for: a Disc or the Data rights for 1 copy?
Depending on your answer, that is my reason to "pirate".
So you think that non-free men cant intellectually think?
Or do you think contracted people, or political theorists in China, or people somehow indebted to another arent capable of intelligent thought?
In other words: Prove it.
Try a real-life saturation test: Bit Torrent.
Tell whatever client you're using to go all out.
If they block it, use Jidgo to download ALL of Debian (but that only tests download, not upload).
Try this place for the voice ;)
Here
Steal from the rich and give to MEEE!!!!
But I'd like to know what consists a measurement.
Quantum mechanics does weird stuff when you measure it (probability field of position/velocity).
When something is measured, it collapses it... What causes the collapse?
Perhaps consciousness?
Guess what.. I just walk by.
They've yelled at me before "We're callin the cops". I told them to review their security tapes and fuck off.
I now just dont shop there.
---All persons should aspire to live their lives ethically. Rather than have those who do be the exception, it ought to be that those that don't are the exception.
When the companies we work for dont act ethical, and are kept from acting ethical due to shareholder constraint, why should we care if we're not ethical?
If you want your job, you do what your manager says.
::My larger question to the /. crowd, How low do gas prices need to go before the american public will be satisfied?
1$/gallon
Thats because USA nickel-and-dime culture sucks.
Ill probably get the European model. Unlocked from any carrier, and supports better protocols.
I'm sorry, but I'm not a masochist.
apt-cache search ****
apt-get install ****
is much easier.
And I have access to many more archives, many more CPU/arch platforms, and 2 kernel structures to choose from.
Dont get me wrong. Slack for a barebones webserver in 20 minutes kicks ass. It just isnt great for most anything desktop oriented.
Slack is great for reasons other than this..
Slack's great for setting up tight servers in which you know every program running and where it's at.
Its also go for when you know how to set up a speed-server in which you need it up in 20 minutes.
If you want to change anything past what's on the CD, go get the source for each program it requires. There's soo much time wasted on that... if you can find the sources for that specific module..
Go Debian/Ubuntu. I like my package archives.
Do they not get what they deserve?
Have they forgot how Chinese invaded Tibet and displaced the Buddhists?
Has anybody forgot Tiananmen Square? They hunted down amateur and professional footage alike so they could go and assassinate the dissidents.
Or in recent times, have they forgot about the forced abortions that the Chinese government puts women through for violating "Birth Law"?
And now they wish to "clean up" the Internet. Awwww. It doesnt fit in their view of authoritarian communism.
Who I do feel sad for are the people who live there, as many of them did NOT bring this upon themselves, however, it IS up to them to free this country of an evil tyranny.
You aren't that smart, for a 27 year old. Though, I guess you are just average.
---Computers are great tools, but they're still just tools.
And humans are the only known animals that use tools to make more complex tools. It just so happens that high speed computation and high density memory allows a tremendous amount of newer tools and problems to be solved. One of those problems solved was storage, indexing, and retrieval.
---Where's the gd card catalog so I can find what I'm looking for.
Is this a statement or a question.
---Hell, I'm only 27, grew up with computers,
Congrats, as have I, and many other people. I suppose I should start waxing poetic about how I hacked the Commodore 64, or played with my Atari, but that is irrelevant.
---but the morons writing the Library Catalog systems have obviously never seen the inside of real library, let alone done research in one.
Morons, eh? I see. So, it takes a librarian to write comprehensive searching and filtering software to power an online catalog? I didn't realize that. Say... Are the founders of Google librarians, or are Altavista's, or is Yahoo?
---If you want tech based research, use Wikipedia to find your 1st or 2nd hand sources and go from there. If your going to the library, learn how the library works. It's been around for a VERY long time and works QUITE well, if you know what you're doing. Learn how to use the tool you're trying to use and, miracle of miracles, it'll be easier to use.
WHAT kind of TECH BASED research do you PLAN TO do? If you're looking at alternative computing platforms or theories of computer science, you will only find them in journals. They may be on the internet, but good luck affording them as an individual.
Also, news flash, but all libraries use some soft of computerized card catalog for easy tracking of loans. Many libraries even have regex searches. You might want to check them out.
"The even bigger question here is whether or not any of them (or us) is a replicant, and even if we were, how would we be able to tell?"
Ask them this simple question: "Tell me about your mother..."
"Every point in space has a property: a measurable magnetic force and direction). We call this particular field the Higgs field."
That sounds like Aether to me.
So what makes an "observation"?
Can a ruler alone do it? Can bacteria do it? Or does it require a human level consciousness to collapse the wave function?
If anybody knows about medical tech, they do NOT run "laptops" or desktops on critical equipment.
/. , and it would have likely killed someone as it had them hooked up to a computer serial port.
The life-maintaining equipment runs only secure hardware, with mathematically proven code, and fiber-optic links for isolation (to prevent electrocution hazards). There was even a heart monitor someone made and posted to
SuSE will NOT run on the dangerous equipment. It will run on the network as a "online chart". Many people should be against that as well, for altogether different reasons. This is somewhat critical, as most med groups run paper charts just in case..
Would BUY a web browser? These things are commodity now in the terms of operating systems. We have IE and Mozilla for Windows, KHTML and Mozilla for Linux, and IE and Mozilla and KHTML for Mac, and we now have Safari for MSWindows... for free.
We have Mouse gestures for Moz by plugin, Tabbed bowsing for Moz and Konq, and any other feature deemed ok can easily be added in to Mozilla (either by source adds or plugins).
Can somebody answer me why someone would buy a web bowser these days?
Though... you all ought to check out goatshe.cx .... Its really funny (and what you expect, but she's hot).
i am NOT making that a link so if you do go there, its by your copy/pasting.
Well, Im on the information dirtroad.
Modem.
Woohoo! New Donkey Kong game! :-)
---Hmm, I don't know about that. I could be a software copy right now, and I don't control the hardware directly under me as far as I can tell, and I'm surely not so melodramatic as to assert that existence is a sheer hell... television, maybe.
;) One of his short stories does seem to use them also.
Too true, I was being overly dramatic, but at least we know we die in this life. I'd imagine that being imprisoned inside a computer with resources deprived would we worse than death.
---Which Egan universe are we talking, here? Because in at least one, destruction of the hardware platform is pretty irrelevant, as well as some forms of suicide (is it suicide to engineer your "final" memories into a tight, "self-perpetuating" loop of existence? or forsake your sequentiality and factor your memories and personality into a bunch of concurrent people?).
Take your pick (from the singularity based ones). For example, in Diaspora, Orlando's clone died. That meant only one thing, in that the clone chose suicide. Yes, that clone diverged at a point 50 years prior, but those independent thoughts are not recoverable unless they release them. When concerning sentient software, data integrity and security is more important than anything else, as it IS a basic human right (security of ones self).
To see what happens if these rights are not maintained, go read Permutation City (if you havent already done so). They lose control of the hardware, and nasty things happen.
---And like other rights, such as the right to self-termination in the first place, it was easily circumvented on the hardware/OS level if the need arose.
I'm not quite sure if that was the case in all of his books. Shaper does seem to require quantum computers, which would be "hard" to emulate
And if "suicide rights" were revoked, I cant see how they'd stop you from corrupting your own programming and crashing the Shaper.
---Maybe at first, but I tend to think software rights are pretty much inevitable, it's just a matter of how long/do we last that long. Not that I, or anyone else, can base that on anything other than wild conjecture. What I find much more troubling is that the debate will probably start far too late. If strong AI is your thing, then you probably think that when we start experimenting with higher-level reasoning systems (probably brain copies before anything truly artificial), we're basically experimenting on conscious entities. Now, with a 100% "flesher" population (remember, by definition we're only just beginning to experiment with the alternatives), how many people do you think are actually going to care what "happens to software in a computer"? I'm just glad I wasn't "born" one of the first few generations of AI, because that's probably going to be a pretty fucked up existence.
Then there's really only one way to get people to care, and that is to provide an end-term migration to durable substrates. When families migrate, people will care about the laws and ethics thereof, and I hope that will bring honorable means and ends. However, right now and the foreseeable future, there will be no AI ethics, which is sad as it teaches them the worst about us.
Yes, Strong AI does scare me somewhat, but I hope that a human is the first Strong AI. What terrifies me to no end is the gray goo.. If nanites are created to process carbon, they could literally liquidize the world within 90 minutes, according to Kurzweil. Rogue nanites could be the scourge to the earth worse than any asteroid could ever be. However, our manipulation of matter requires them, but can also unmake us.
Still, nice chatting with you.
Whats superstitious with science?
It hasnt happened yet, but it's not fictional like warp drives.
Nanotech breaks no rules of physics, nor does patterning human brains to software. We just dont have the tech for it currently.