My understanding is that more than one head exploded upon contact with a fast moving robot arm.
No doubt, but non-robotic power tools have similar problems. Especially if you count cars and guns as power tools, but even with a stationary circular saw people will inevitably cut their limbs off on it.
Everyone who knew anything about the subject knew that cancer has a strong environmental component. What the previous study had done was merely verify something lots of people already expected, namely that cell division (and especially stem cell division) gave you a risk of cancer due to inherent mutation rates.
Adblock has been blocking malvertising and all kinds of zero day exploits for ages already. It does this by blocking advertisers that don't thoroughly vet the ads they serve against fraud and malware, and also advertisers that don't accept responsibility for any damages caused by malicious ads.
In Minority Report people were arrested* for crimes that they wouldn't necessarily commit (the precogs weren't perfect), there was no defense from the accusation, and if you got falsely accused you were screwed. This is the same in all respects except instead of being arrested you might get denied an important service (I'm fine with the "keep on eye on" option).
* Incidentally, anyone else wonder why in Minority Report people got arrested for predicted crimes of passion instead of being gently reminded not to do something they'll regret the rest of their life then allowed to remain a productive member of society?
You missed out the last part... "... by preventing people from being able to buy a life-saving drug". Yaaaaay. Not really the Robin Hood type.
Now just to be clear, who is it that is preventing you from buying Daraprim from Canada at $1.09 per pill? Who's the big evil preventing people from buying a life-saving drug?
Bring the nation's attention upon a thoroughly broken system that has been quietly abused for years? (see: people getting their medicine from Canada, guess why)
Now, it's not always the case that the price of something corresponds to its resource use. But things that use a lot of resources tend to be more expensive. Food for thought.
No, he's right some websites are dangerous and need to be banned for the people's own good. We should start with banning any website that promotes authoritarian ideas, those are the most dangerous to a free society, it should be terrorism so that they get no trial and a felony so that they can't vote. And we should ban all lawyer's websites, those incite people to cause financial harm to others. Anyone who calls a lawyer over the phone needs to be put on a watchlist.
Yes, but it won't make sense to you if you don't bother to read the summary. Point being that by allowing HIV patients to date each other means they won't be dating you so this site's existence means you're less likely to get infected.
Personally, I think they are being silly. Real human-level AI is still a ways off
How long is a ways off? You don't think they'll make an AI in the next 1000 years? 100? 10? When you're talking about a possible human extinction event likely happening in such a short timeframe, it's something you have to take seriously. Really, the only things that might come first are nuclear war or bioweapons. Supervolcanoes and meteors might also happen first, but we know the odds of those and they're very low.
Fortunately, the human-level intelligences that already exist aren't clever enough to be self-improving, but that could change at any time.
Besides, AI is not something you can keep bottled up. Anyone with a GPU can do it.
That's the big problem. You can't legislate away reality, and reality is that someone is going to try to make AI, there's too much potential for power, fame, or money to be made. It's inevitable, and the only way it doesn't end in disaster is if someone with ethics does it first.
If those morons think that a small increase in temperature is worse than living on a barren empty planet with no air, water, or infrastructure... maybe we should send them there first so they can see what it's like. I hope they enjoy the many months traveling there eating rehydrated space food in a tiny room.
Christianity as we know it today may well have been deliberately created by the Romans as a way of manipulating the Jews,
How can you say that?!? Most of the New Testament was written by a Roman Pharisee who had persecuted the church before miraculously converting, and the official Bible is composed of books selected at the request of a Roman Emperor, and later made the official state religion under the leadership of the Roman church... Ok, maybe I can see where that might lead to some suspicion.
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My understanding is that more than one head exploded upon contact with a fast moving robot arm.
No doubt, but non-robotic power tools have similar problems. Especially if you count cars and guns as power tools, but even with a stationary circular saw people will inevitably cut their limbs off on it.
Everyone who knew anything about the subject knew that cancer has a strong environmental component. What the previous study had done was merely verify something lots of people already expected, namely that cell division (and especially stem cell division) gave you a risk of cancer due to inherent mutation rates.
Adblock has been blocking malvertising and all kinds of zero day exploits for ages already. It does this by blocking advertisers that don't thoroughly vet the ads they serve against fraud and malware, and also advertisers that don't accept responsibility for any damages caused by malicious ads.
In Minority Report people were arrested* for crimes that they wouldn't necessarily commit (the precogs weren't perfect), there was no defense from the accusation, and if you got falsely accused you were screwed. This is the same in all respects except instead of being arrested you might get denied an important service (I'm fine with the "keep on eye on" option).
* Incidentally, anyone else wonder why in Minority Report people got arrested for predicted crimes of passion instead of being gently reminded not to do something they'll regret the rest of their life then allowed to remain a productive member of society?
Waiting is how you get Skynet.
You missed out the last part... "... by preventing people from being able to buy a life-saving drug". Yaaaaay. Not really the Robin Hood type.
Now just to be clear, who is it that is preventing you from buying Daraprim from Canada at $1.09 per pill? Who's the big evil preventing people from buying a life-saving drug?
Post the full details, everything, on your Facebook account. That way if they don't like it they can just delete it.
Sure, but none of those sites have Beta.
after what he did with Daraprim.
Bring the nation's attention upon a thoroughly broken system that has been quietly abused for years? (see: people getting their medicine from Canada, guess why)
When did Trump change his name?
The fact they changed their decision shows it's not really such a small number of customers.
If only they had some sort of internet-connected device that could call home for updates and report what types of other devices it interacts with.
It's not actually obligatory.
Is "drop support for" a euphemism for "actively block"?
Maybe for "Drop trow, bend over, and be ready to accept our thing in your 'socket'."
No problem, they just need to buy too-big-to-fail insurance. $1 trillion per year ought to be enough.
Death Stars are an incredibly cost-effective project, so long as you build them for the IRS and not for the military.
Studies show that dead people use less fossil fuels than live people. And bacon is widely acknowledged as less healthy than lettuce.
Bacon is even better for the environment than the study suggests, because you getting a heart attack will cut your carbon emissions to zero.
Now, it's not always the case that the price of something corresponds to its resource use. But things that use a lot of resources tend to be more expensive. Food for thought.
Voters move to block Marco Rubio and Other Senators from being elected to public office.
^ That's what the title should read.
No, he's right some websites are dangerous and need to be banned for the people's own good. We should start with banning any website that promotes authoritarian ideas, those are the most dangerous to a free society, it should be terrorism so that they get no trial and a felony so that they can't vote. And we should ban all lawyer's websites, those incite people to cause financial harm to others. Anyone who calls a lawyer over the phone needs to be put on a watchlist.
Yeah, they might give you a virus.
Does the title even parse?
Yes, but it won't make sense to you if you don't bother to read the summary. Point being that by allowing HIV patients to date each other means they won't be dating you so this site's existence means you're less likely to get infected.
Personally, I think they are being silly. Real human-level AI is still a ways off
How long is a ways off? You don't think they'll make an AI in the next 1000 years? 100? 10? When you're talking about a possible human extinction event likely happening in such a short timeframe, it's something you have to take seriously. Really, the only things that might come first are nuclear war or bioweapons. Supervolcanoes and meteors might also happen first, but we know the odds of those and they're very low.
Fortunately, the human-level intelligences that already exist aren't clever enough to be self-improving, but that could change at any time.
Besides, AI is not something you can keep bottled up. Anyone with a GPU can do it.
That's the big problem. You can't legislate away reality, and reality is that someone is going to try to make AI, there's too much potential for power, fame, or money to be made. It's inevitable, and the only way it doesn't end in disaster is if someone with ethics does it first.
If those morons think that a small increase in temperature is worse than living on a barren empty planet with no air, water, or infrastructure... maybe we should send them there first so they can see what it's like. I hope they enjoy the many months traveling there eating rehydrated space food in a tiny room.
Christianity as we know it today may well have been deliberately created by the Romans as a way of manipulating the Jews,
How can you say that?!? Most of the New Testament was written by a Roman Pharisee who had persecuted the church before miraculously converting, and the official Bible is composed of books selected at the request of a Roman Emperor, and later made the official state religion under the leadership of the Roman church... Ok, maybe I can see where that might lead to some suspicion.