Barings Bank (1762 to 1995) was the oldest merchant bank in London[1] until its collapse in 1995 after one of the bank's employees, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) speculatingâ"primarily on futures contracts.
After that, many banks implemented rules to prevent that. Some were cheap, "Make sure every employee takes at least 2 weeks vacation at a time". Some were expensive like making dozen of people sign off on every decision.
There are cheap ways to achieve the most benefit from your security dollars. There's also a lot of expensive security theater.
By the time of the Civil war, cannon were mostly cast iron. (at least by the end) The article says that it was made of iron and steel. It's possible to build a backyard forge and melt old auto parts into a cannon, I know several blacksmiths who are capable of it. (although the guys I know mostly do decorative stuff)
Oh, come on now. Most 11 year olds have access to much more dangerous stuff. The Stove, the Parent's Prescription Pills, the Family Car. I know a girl, who at around 10 or 11, stole her parent's car. They even called the cops on her and she was arrested.
A cannon just seems dangerous, but mostly it's just a heavy piece of cast iron that sits there.
Arms are weapons that one man can carry by himself. Cannon are arms that need a wagon or ship. Thus, he has no *constitutional* right to own this weapon, it's so unlikely he'll hurt someone with it, the authorities allow him to have it.
Cannons don't kill people. (Unless they run them over). Gunpowder and cannonballs kill people. Just don't let the son get ahold of the gunpowder and he'll be safe. The article doesn't say that he built any cannonballs at all, and you can't just buy them at your local Walmart.
The article didn't say it cost $6000, but that it would be worth that. It would be hard to spend $6000 in materials for a Civil war era cannon that you build yourself.
When Jay Leno shoves a microphone in your face, you know that the only way you're going to get on the air with an outrageous answer. Is it an wonder there are so many outrageous answers?
Has Jay ever shown a segment where everyone shown got the right answer?
Given that moon rock cost billions of dollars to bring back a few hundred pounds, you'd think NASA would have detailed measurements on every piece that's out there.
As long as the gotos only go down, i.e. like a return or break, there is no spaghetti code. It's when the gotos go up, down and sideways that the code gets bad.
The moon spins, albeit slowly. Imagine a starfish like thing at the moon's pole with hundreds of arms, miles long. You could get insane amounts of energy from it.
NASA is years away from building, lofting and installing anything that requires miles of tubing.
The Moon's "Day" is 28 days long. Unless you are on the poles, you have to have enough battery power for around 14 days of darkness. That said, a giant rotating mirror at one of the poles could provide a lot of power, and you could use a Stirling engine to convert the heat to electricity.
Clearly, you are not an apple grower that's paying a PR firm and then finds out they are using your money to get the message out about oranges.
The private Universities can do what they want, but the public taxpayer funded organizations shouldn't be saying "Hire people who pay less tax", they should be saying "Congress, change the laws to make it a level playing field"
The other company had no document retention policy, no archived emails and could not produce anything the prosecution wanted. They were scolded and fined $20 million.
And if they had a document retention policy that said "We don't keep anything, we burn it before we read it", they would have escaped the $20 million fine. (:-)
Barings Bank (1762 to 1995) was the oldest merchant bank in London[1] until its collapse in 1995 after one of the bank's employees, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) speculating - primarily on futures contracts.
And nobody's walking down the street passing up shopping at TJ Maxx because of the credit card leak.
Of course not, your liability is limited by law to $50, and most CC companies waive that. When this happens again to TJ Maxx, the CC companies are going to have a come-to-Jesus talk with the execs of TJ Maxx and if they don't shape up, they won't be able to process credit cards anymore. *That* will put them out of business, not singular Joes and Janes Q. Public not shopping there.
It's first place is on that older computer that you built from parts that you are going to put in your parent's home or kid's desk. It's an excellent OS for a machine that's locked down so the user doesn't install something bad, but needs basic access to the Internet.
Once all the parents and children are using the machine, they'll want newer machines with ChromeOS preinstalled instead of paying the Microsoft or Apple tax.
Simple devices offer ways to tell if a package has been dropped or turned upside down, but how do they prove that the event didn't happen before the device was in the hands of the customer. If they tell people to check them when the receive the device, then people are more likely to try to defeat them.
I'd settle for a tunable brain that can have errors removed.
If you make the brain too big, will it naturally develop multiple personality disorder? If the two sides can't communicate fast enough, they might go off independently. MPD or epilepsy might result.
My point is that most people don't understand justice, charity, hope, and creativity. When you've created an AI that can at least talk reasonably about these concepts, it will be better than most humans I know.
When robot jumps in front of a bus to save a human, is it any less of a self sacrifice because it was programmed to do so?
How many trillion synapsis will it take before the computer achieves consciousness?
I don't know. (neither does anyone else) How many trillion synapsis does it take before a human embryo achieves consciousness? No-one knows.
Now for a terrifying thought. Imagine we do create AIs that have intelligence and a profound sense of justice and they decide that humanity doesn't have souls. What then?
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Does this apply to non-humans as well?
The Japanese have been known to take out 100 year mortgages, so electing a politician with a 50 year plan is not out of the question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barings_Bank
Barings Bank (1762 to 1995) was the oldest merchant bank in London[1] until its collapse in 1995 after one of the bank's employees, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) speculatingâ"primarily on futures contracts.
After that, many banks implemented rules to prevent that. Some were cheap, "Make sure every employee takes at least 2 weeks vacation at a time". Some were expensive like making dozen of people sign off on every decision.
There are cheap ways to achieve the most benefit from your security dollars. There's also a lot of expensive security theater.
By the time of the Civil war, cannon were mostly cast iron. (at least by the end) The article says that it was made of iron and steel. It's possible to build a backyard forge and melt old auto parts into a cannon, I know several blacksmiths who are capable of it. (although the guys I know mostly do decorative stuff)
Oh, come on now. Most 11 year olds have access to much more dangerous stuff. The Stove, the Parent's Prescription Pills, the Family Car. I know a girl, who at around 10 or 11, stole her parent's car. They even called the cops on her and she was arrested.
A cannon just seems dangerous, but mostly it's just a heavy piece of cast iron that sits there.
Arms are weapons that one man can carry by himself. Cannon are arms that need a wagon or ship. Thus, he has no *constitutional* right to own this weapon, it's so unlikely he'll hurt someone with it, the authorities allow him to have it.
Backpack nules -> arms
ICBMs -> cannon
If you can hunt deer with a 4" cannon, more power to you. Most deer in West Virginia are killed by SUVs.
Cannons don't kill people. (Unless they run them over). Gunpowder and cannonballs kill people. Just don't let the son get ahold of the gunpowder and he'll be safe. The article doesn't say that he built any cannonballs at all, and you can't just buy them at your local Walmart.
The article didn't say it cost $6000, but that it would be worth that. It would be hard to spend $6000 in materials for a Civil war era cannon that you build yourself.
When Jay Leno shoves a microphone in your face, you know that the only way you're going to get on the air with an outrageous answer. Is it an wonder there are so many outrageous answers?
Has Jay ever shown a segment where everyone shown got the right answer?
Given that moon rock cost billions of dollars to bring back a few hundred pounds, you'd think NASA would have detailed measurements on every piece that's out there.
I do this all the time.
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Endless loop in C, with no gotos. Anyway, as long as the gotos only go down, you're not going to get spaghetti code.
As long as the gotos only go down, i.e. like a return or break, there is no spaghetti code. It's when the gotos go up, down and sideways that the code gets bad.
The moon spins, albeit slowly. Imagine a starfish like thing at the moon's pole with hundreds of arms, miles long. You could get insane amounts of energy from it.
NASA is years away from building, lofting and installing anything that requires miles of tubing.
The Moon's "Day" is 28 days long. Unless you are on the poles, you have to have enough battery power for around 14 days of darkness. That said, a giant rotating mirror at one of the poles could provide a lot of power, and you could use a Stirling engine to convert the heat to electricity.
Clearly, you are not an apple grower that's paying a PR firm and then finds out they are using your money to get the message out about oranges.
The private Universities can do what they want, but the public taxpayer funded organizations shouldn't be saying "Hire people who pay less tax", they should be saying "Congress, change the laws to make it a level playing field"
The other company had no document retention policy, no archived emails and could not produce anything the prosecution wanted. They were scolded and fined $20 million.
And if they had a document retention policy that said "We don't keep anything, we burn it before we read it", they would have escaped the $20 million fine. (:-)
Barings Bank (1762 to 1995) was the oldest merchant bank in London[1] until its collapse in 1995 after one of the bank's employees, Nick Leeson, lost £827 million ($1.3 billion) speculating - primarily on futures contracts.
And nobody's walking down the street passing up shopping at TJ Maxx because of the credit card leak.
Of course not, your liability is limited by law to $50, and most CC companies waive that. When this happens again to TJ Maxx, the CC companies are going to have a come-to-Jesus talk with the execs of TJ Maxx and if they don't shape up, they won't be able to process credit cards anymore. *That* will put them out of business, not singular Joes and Janes Q. Public not shopping there.
It's first place is on that older computer that you built from parts that you are going to put in your parent's home or kid's desk. It's an excellent OS for a machine that's locked down so the user doesn't install something bad, but needs basic access to the Internet.
Once all the parents and children are using the machine, they'll want newer machines with ChromeOS preinstalled instead of paying the Microsoft or Apple tax.
Don't put down clown college by lumping it with this one. The acrobatics and personality entrance tests would be beyond most of us.
Simple devices offer ways to tell if a package has been dropped or turned upside down, but how do they prove that the event didn't happen before the device was in the hands of the customer. If they tell people to check them when the receive the device, then people are more likely to try to defeat them.
Even a child can beat the best Go playing algorithm, and I think the best poker players are still human.
Perhaps there is an "optimum" brain....
I'd settle for a tunable brain that can have errors removed.
If you make the brain too big, will it naturally develop multiple personality disorder? If the two sides can't communicate fast enough, they might go off independently. MPD or epilepsy might result.
When robot jumps in front of a bus to save a human, is it any less of a self sacrifice because it was programmed to do so?
How many trillion synapsis will it take before the computer achieves consciousness?
I don't know. (neither does anyone else) How many trillion synapsis does it take before a human embryo achieves consciousness? No-one knows.
Now for a terrifying thought. Imagine we do create AIs that have intelligence and a profound sense of justice and they decide that humanity doesn't have souls. What then?