I think the interesting part is going to be the confusion the researchers have in trying develop this technology when no matter how exact and precise they (transport the particles/replicate the particles), the living creature, once reassembled, hits the floor dead everytime.
If you transport the molecules in a "disassembled" format, you are killing the living creature, moving the molecular constituents to another location, and reassembling them. The meat gets there, but the life doesn't ; it is a dead construct.
If you replicate the particles then things get interesting. In the idea of scanning some living creature, recording the position of all the particles, and replicating that creature in another location, the original creature need not be disassembled. In effect, you are making a copy of the original, but the original is still alive. The problem is that the replication and the new location has no "life", the spirit isn't made of physical particles so as it can't be "scanned" and duplicated. The creature is constructed into a dead state.
This stuff would work just fine with a computer, but not living creatures, IMHO.
Kind of to your point, if anyone hasn't read "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, you should if your interested in the 'hacker' topic and explorations into its definitions. It goes into great depth about not only what comprises a good 'hacker', but also how society in general could greatly benefit from employing this "hacker ethic" that contrasts greatly from the 'Protestant ethic' of which almost all corporations currently have as their modus operandi.
??? You seem to be arguing with some other post, yet you quoted mine. I don't understand where you get these ideas, because you didn't get them from me. Perhaps you are just frustrated. Well, I hope your day gets better.
If two guys can't make a creative political satire using a parody of a classic American song with out getting sued, then what the hell is First Amendment for?
Why not call "Free Speech" for what it really is: "Expensive Speech" because it's only "Free" if you have a Free Lawyer.
This is a sister site to this project. It takes a little while to load, but the global map allows you to move your mouse over tiny thumbnails and then a small pop-up of the location, well, pops up.
I liked your retort, and thought this would help answer previous parent's comment that had asked "how is this project any more interesting..."
The US government released rights recently to allow for satellite imaging of the earth down to 1/2 meter resolution. At that resolution, they'll be able to take photos of every (legal) spot on earth at a resolution that will show objects up to the size of medium shrubs and even animals. Small buildings, and cars will be recognizable on these photos. It's more comprehensive, more up-to-date than this time-consuming and incomplete method of physically getting people to all 12000+ locations. Although it isn't "the same" as having a person take a few photos of the area, it gives you a very good idea of what the terrain is like, anywhere, not just at confluence.
Although this confluence project seems pretty cool, their execution of it doesn't seem very complete in the photo category. They go through all the trouble of getting to each location and just snap a couple pictures? They need a standard requirement of photos at each location in the same order so people can compare/contrast various locations. At least 8 photos taken to really "see" what the area looks like. Standard info about the temperature, time of year, possible changes to the environment at that point that might occur (construction, rivers, erosion...).
A system where by my thoughts would be controlled by a computer. That would be the dream of many a politician right now.
I think that's a topic the new Manchurian Candidate movie is going to involve. Politicians using implants to control human beings...so far they are using the older forms: language, conditioning (through repetitiveness of talking points), fear tactics, etc.
I think that the ethics encompassing these implants are going to be issues for at least a few centuries, so the masses won't get to do it for many generations...
I think it's not so much that the American flag was placed on the moon as a show of "one-up-manship". I think it was done, because, hey, what the hell else are you going to do after landing on the friggin' moon? Twiddle your thumbs, and whistle dixie? Nope.
Your going to plant your flag so you can take memorable pictures, afterall....it's a big deal!
Look at the reflection in the helmet. If you look at the shadow of the head, there is a halo in the dust around it. That's because the light is shining brightest right back towards where it came from: behind the astronaut's head - the sun.
That's why the full Moon is so bright - both the fact that it's reflecting more light than the rest of the month, but also because the sun is almost directly behind us - all that dust is that much brighter. This is especially true before and after a lunar eclipse.
That explains it! I was sitting here thinking...."if the moon always faces the Earth the same way, how the hell could there be a picture of the Earth rising?"
So the Earth rise photo sequence was taken from orbit around the moon on Apollo 8. Someone mod the parent up +1 Informative!!
2005 - Wireless networking causes massive chaos in the government, allowing robotic overlords to storm the Democratic Convention. Scene is repeated three weeks later at the Republican Convention. Robots declare martial law, and institute an omnipotent supercomputer and the emperor of the world. Declares Sunday to be free ice cream day. Jaded citizens eat it up.
LMFAO - I honestly didn't see that coming. I was all "Oh, yeah, 1981, good point there...Oh, I forgot about that in 1989...That's right, wow, 1997 seems like yesterday..."
Then I got to your 2005 comment and I'm trying to figure out a way to wash the Mt.Dew out of my keyboard....
Yeah, but the cool part is that my nanobots are perfectly transparent. Once the code is decrypted, the intended recipient doesn't notice my bots on the surface of his computer monitor recording his secret message while he reads it.
Cryptography doesn't need to be broken, sooner or later, it breaks it's self. You just need to be there when it happens.
but what's with them "threatens"? I don't get it at all.
"Threatens" works. Them's fightin' words!
Vision this: Some evil P2P CD pirate is shaking in his pirate boots....if he distributes the CD illegally, then, why, U2 will release their album early!!! The threat is just to much for him to handle. Bono never bluffs. He backs down and tosses the CD in the trash. "That damn Bono! Always one step ahead of me. Curses! Foiled again!!
I'd like to see George W. Bush try and recite that quote some time...
"Ben Franklin had an ol' sayin', 'They who can give up essen-shacle liberties, nor safety....uh....temporarily deserve....yyyy and must obtain....more safety!!!'" Vote for Bush in 2004...thanky you very much!"
Even if only 1% of the American citizenry started an armed uprising against their own government, the US G would already have 2.5 million armed combatants to deal with. They could overwhelm the military in just days. They (CIA, NSA, PENT...) already know this, As do the Chinese, Russians, Cuba....
Back to the mod chip outlaw....That's total BS!!! Mod chippers of the World, Unite!
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I think the interesting part is going to be the confusion the researchers have in trying develop this technology when no matter how exact and precise they (transport the particles/replicate the particles), the living creature, once reassembled, hits the floor dead everytime.
If you transport the molecules in a "disassembled" format, you are killing the living creature, moving the molecular constituents to another location, and reassembling them. The meat gets there, but the life doesn't ; it is a dead construct.
If you replicate the particles then things get interesting. In the idea of scanning some living creature, recording the position of all the particles, and replicating that creature in another location, the original creature need not be disassembled. In effect, you are making a copy of the original, but the original is still alive. The problem is that the replication and the new location has no "life", the spirit isn't made of physical particles so as it can't be "scanned" and duplicated. The creature is constructed into a dead state.
This stuff would work just fine with a computer, but not living creatures, IMHO.
Kind of to your point, if anyone hasn't read "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, you should if your interested in the 'hacker' topic and explorations into its definitions.
It goes into great depth about not only what comprises a good 'hacker', but also how society in general could greatly benefit from employing this "hacker ethic" that contrasts greatly from the 'Protestant ethic' of which almost all corporations currently have as their modus operandi.
??? You seem to be arguing with some other post, yet you quoted mine. I don't understand where you get these ideas, because you didn't get them from me. Perhaps you are just frustrated. Well, I hope your day gets better.
Read the articles my friend, you decide!
Article 1
Article 2
If two guys can't make a creative political satire using a parody of a classic American song with out getting sued, then what the hell is First Amendment for?
Why not call "Free Speech" for what it really is: "Expensive Speech" because it's only "Free" if you have a Free Lawyer.
This is a sister site to this project. It takes a little while to load, but the global map allows you to move your mouse over tiny thumbnails and then a small pop-up of the location, well, pops up.
I liked your retort, and thought this would help answer previous parent's comment that had asked "how is this project any more interesting..."
The US government released rights recently to allow for satellite imaging of the earth down to 1/2 meter resolution. At that resolution, they'll be able to take photos of every (legal) spot on earth at a resolution that will show objects up to the size of medium shrubs and even animals. Small buildings, and cars will be recognizable on these photos. It's more comprehensive, more up-to-date than this time-consuming and incomplete method of physically getting people to all 12000+ locations. Although it isn't "the same" as having a person take a few photos of the area, it gives you a very good idea of what the terrain is like, anywhere, not just at confluence.
Although this confluence project seems pretty cool, their execution of it doesn't seem very complete in the photo category. They go through all the trouble of getting to each location and just snap a couple pictures? They need a standard requirement of photos at each location in the same order so people can compare/contrast various locations. At least 8 photos taken to really "see" what the area looks like. Standard info about the temperature, time of year, possible changes to the environment at that point that might occur (construction, rivers, erosion...).
Good idea, none-the-less.
I think that the ethics encompassing these implants are going to be issues for at least a few centuries, so the masses won't get to do it for many generations...
I think now would be a good time to implement "Project Tinfoil TeePee".
Apparently the modder bounced his mod off the moon and it came back a little fuzzy...
Urban warfare? Great future - sounds like lots of fun.
Sometimes I really wonder how programmed we all are...
Ha! One of the albums Orin Hatch has, is titled "Put Your Arms Around the World". Perhaps a subliminable message to W?
I think it's not so much that the American flag was placed on the moon as a show of "one-up-manship". I think it was done, because, hey, what the hell else are you going to do after landing on the friggin' moon? Twiddle your thumbs, and whistle dixie? Nope.
Your going to plant your flag so you can take memorable pictures, afterall....it's a big deal!
Look at the reflection in the helmet. If you look at the shadow of the head, there is a halo in the dust around it. That's because the light is shining brightest right back towards where it came from: behind the astronaut's head - the sun.
That's why the full Moon is so bright - both the fact that it's reflecting more light than the rest of the month, but also because the sun is almost directly behind us - all that dust is that much brighter. This is especially true before and after a lunar eclipse.
That explains it! I was sitting here thinking...."if the moon always faces the Earth the same way, how the hell could there be a picture of the Earth rising?"
So the Earth rise photo sequence was taken from orbit around the moon on Apollo 8.
Someone mod the parent up +1 Informative!!
Is it too late to whip together a 6th HOPE in Boston on, oh, let's say.....July 26th-29th?
We'll all be meeting in the free speech zone....see you there!
Then I got to your 2005 comment and I'm trying to figure out a way to wash the Mt.Dew out of my keyboard....
(Apparently, there is a tax if you RTFA, at the time of reading, of course.)
Who the hell modded the parent Troll? The parent has a totally valid point.
I think we should tax retarded modders.
And in other news....tax revenues are up from Slashdot!
Yeah, but the cool part is that my nanobots are perfectly transparent. Once the code is decrypted, the intended recipient doesn't notice my bots on the surface of his computer monitor recording his secret message while he reads it.
Cryptography doesn't need to be broken, sooner or later, it breaks it's self. You just need to be there when it happens.
Orin Hatch is a nudist! Exclusive Photos!
Vision this:
Some evil P2P CD pirate is shaking in his pirate boots....if he distributes the CD illegally, then, why, U2 will release their album early!!! The threat is just to much for him to handle. Bono never bluffs. He backs down and tosses the CD in the trash. "That damn Bono! Always one step ahead of me. Curses! Foiled again!!
I agree, I don't get it either.
I absolutely dispise Orin Hatch. I'd rather have that bi-pedal monkey be Senator than this regressing primate of a Republican from Utah.
Michael Bolton and Samir Nayeenanajar from Initech were Professionals!
(but they were most definitely not pussies.)
I'd like to see George W. Bush try and recite that quote some time...
"Ben Franklin had an ol' sayin', 'They who can give up essen-shacle liberties, nor safety....uh....temporarily deserve....yyyy and must obtain....more safety!!!'"
Vote for Bush in 2004...thanky you very much!"
Even if only 1% of the American citizenry started an armed uprising against their own government, the US G would already have 2.5 million armed combatants to deal with. They could overwhelm the military in just days. They (CIA, NSA, PENT...) already know this, As do the Chinese, Russians, Cuba....
Back to the mod chip outlaw....That's total BS!!! Mod chippers of the World, Unite!