What, just because we have super advanced bio-nanotechnological self-reproducing solar powered aeromining technology to retrieve carbon from the atmosphere, you think it is easy?
I can remember reading several articles which stated that cryonics doesn't work because the freezing process is not perfect - it does not stop decomposition, which older frozen specimens were starting to show. Why do people still spend money on this?
Why is this modded up? A thing does not have to be perfect to be good enough. Vinyl records, CDs, flash memory, magnetic memory, none of these is perfect and all decompose over time, yet they work well enough. The question is merely whether the brain's important data is preserved long enough for technology to advance to the point the person can be recovered. You ask why people would spend money on the best chance anyone has ever gotten of living? Perhaps a better question would be why people spend so much effort and resources on things like diet, exercise, end-of-life medicine, or religion, all with a guaranteed mortality rate of 100%.
Cryonics works, it is survivable. It works for sperm, eggs, embryos, small mammalian organs, all of which can be thawed and remain undamaged. Things are more complicated for large, recently deceased organs like a dead brain -- but your odds of surviving are immeasurably higher with cryonics than as compost. Perhaps it will be necessary to scan the frozen brain molecule by molecule, and 3D print a new body (like they are now beginning to print organs), or perhaps upload as a simulation.
I think the odds are pretty good that we can acquire the necessary technology before cryogenically slowed decomposition destroys the vital information. Perhaps a better question is not whether you can be revived, but rather whether anyone will want to. It probably depends on whether the world's population is still growing like in developing countries, or whether it is declining like in developed countries.
Those other religions don't systematically build up a file on you through the guise of off-brand psychoanalysis while a member, and use it to ruin your life when you leave.
Other religions recommend as a punishment for apostasy destroying the entire town, slaughtering men, women, children, and even animal and burning the city to the ground.
12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[b] both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt, 17 and none of the condemned things[c] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. -- Deuteronomy 13
I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of insiders rigging lotteries.
Maybe that's because most insiders clever enough to rig the lottery, are also clever enough to have someone not immediately suspect collect the winnings. If someone p0wned the random number generator and then gave the occasional seemingly unrelated unknown person the number in exchange for some of the money, how would you know? Sure, eventually someone might figure out that people are doing better than chance, but that would take a long time for the statistics to accumulate.
So, just take any science fiction story, and if the storyline itself could play out just as well in medieval Europe, Middle Earth or some spell casting land (swap guns and gadgets for wands, staves and magic items) then it's really just fantasy.
I call it pseudoscience fiction. I'd call it fantasy, but then people are all "But they use sciency terminology?!?"
Clearly Mr Booker's plan was to gain the trust of evil people planning nefarious activities by publicly pretending to be such himself. Then he could thwart their schemes and report them to the FBI...
There really really needs to be some more direct enforcement of the Constitution. We do, after all, already have a rule (as the highest law of the land) forbidding cruel and unusual punishment.
The world would be a much better place if assholes who unconstitutionally try to ruin a child's life forever for changing a desktop background, could be punished for their crime.
No, the crime was annoying his teacher by promoting gays. Hacking into the computer is merely the legal justification for arresting him. If the crime was actually hacking into the computer via the teacher's incredibly insecure password, then every other kid that got caught doing anything which required admin privileges would have likewise been arrested.
I thought Uber's business strategy was to blame the driver for anything that went wrong, eg legal or insurance issues. But how will they blame the driver when the driver is their own AI?
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” -- Matthew 22:37-40
Also (though not said by Jesus) For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” -- Galatians 5:14
Well, they obviously chose the wrong profession. Had they been Wall Street hedge fund bankers, they would have got an invite to the next country estate deer hunt.
And it's true too -- a common definition of intelligence is "the capability to solve problems", and the ability to look things up on the internet greatly enhances one's ability to solve problems. Now, some people might say that access to the internet is cheating, that it is using other people's knowledge and experience -- but then, some people are whiny losers. Borrowing knowledge from the internet may be slower than retrieving memorized information, but there is so much more of it, and generally life doesn't care where you got your knowledge from.
Of course, some people think they're some sort of genius or expert cause they looked up a thing, but then that's not unique to people who have used the internet.
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What, just because we have super advanced bio-nanotechnological self-reproducing solar powered aeromining technology to retrieve carbon from the atmosphere, you think it is easy?
Seems like a whole bunch of hand-waving to me.
Wood is a renewable resource. Metals is not.
Carbon atoms are no more nor less renewable than metal atoms.
I can remember reading several articles which stated that cryonics doesn't work because the freezing process is not perfect - it does not stop decomposition, which older frozen specimens were starting to show. Why do people still spend money on this?
Why is this modded up? A thing does not have to be perfect to be good enough. Vinyl records, CDs, flash memory, magnetic memory, none of these is perfect and all decompose over time, yet they work well enough. The question is merely whether the brain's important data is preserved long enough for technology to advance to the point the person can be recovered. You ask why people would spend money on the best chance anyone has ever gotten of living? Perhaps a better question would be why people spend so much effort and resources on things like diet, exercise, end-of-life medicine, or religion, all with a guaranteed mortality rate of 100%.
Cryonics works, it is survivable. It works for sperm, eggs, embryos, small mammalian organs, all of which can be thawed and remain undamaged. Things are more complicated for large, recently deceased organs like a dead brain -- but your odds of surviving are immeasurably higher with cryonics than as compost. Perhaps it will be necessary to scan the frozen brain molecule by molecule, and 3D print a new body (like they are now beginning to print organs), or perhaps upload as a simulation.
I think the odds are pretty good that we can acquire the necessary technology before cryogenically slowed decomposition destroys the vital information. Perhaps a better question is not whether you can be revived, but rather whether anyone will want to. It probably depends on whether the world's population is still growing like in developing countries, or whether it is declining like in developed countries.
So... They didn't test the iPad / content combo to establish usability / feasibility / usefulness prior to dropping all this cash?
I blame poor education...
Kids these days can't write DNA code that won't suddenly freeze.
Those other religions don't systematically build up a file on you through the guise of off-brand psychoanalysis while a member, and use it to ruin your life when you leave.
Other religions recommend as a punishment for apostasy destroying the entire town, slaughtering men, women, children, and even animal and burning the city to the ground.
12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely,[b] both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt, 17 and none of the condemned things[c] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you.
-- Deuteronomy 13
I'm actually surprised there haven't been more cases of insiders rigging lotteries.
Maybe that's because most insiders clever enough to rig the lottery, are also clever enough to have someone not immediately suspect collect the winnings. If someone p0wned the random number generator and then gave the occasional seemingly unrelated unknown person the number in exchange for some of the money, how would you know? Sure, eventually someone might figure out that people are doing better than chance, but that would take a long time for the statistics to accumulate.
So, just take any science fiction story, and if the storyline itself could play out just as well in medieval Europe, Middle Earth or some spell casting land (swap guns and gadgets for wands, staves and magic items) then it's really just fantasy.
I call it pseudoscience fiction. I'd call it fantasy, but then people are all "But they use sciency terminology?!?"
I was with the group that originally developed this troll-detecting algorithm. The algorithm is:
if (content.location == slashdot.org)
isTroll = true;
It's 80% accurate!
I'm happy to know that Brian Fox is the author of bash, a nice addition to sh that I'm using every day, but why the need to specify he is a Black man?
Because someone was bashing black people's programming skills.
He posted it on Facebook?!
Clearly Mr Booker's plan was to gain the trust of evil people planning nefarious activities by publicly pretending to be such himself. Then he could thwart their schemes and report them to the FBI...
The problem with the grid tie system is the power companies will never allow you to earn any income from your sale of the electrical product.
How much do you earn from your sale of the electrical product with your off-the-grid solution?
Everyone involved in this charge should be hounded out of office and publicly shamed for being reprehensible humans.
No, they should face legal action. What's an appropriate punishment for violating the law against cruel and unusual punishment?
There really really needs to be some more direct enforcement of the Constitution. We do, after all, already have a rule (as the highest law of the land) forbidding cruel and unusual punishment.
The world would be a much better place if assholes who unconstitutionally try to ruin a child's life forever for changing a desktop background, could be punished for their crime.
The crime was hacking into the computer.
No, the crime was annoying his teacher by promoting gays. Hacking into the computer is merely the legal justification for arresting him. If the crime was actually hacking into the computer via the teacher's incredibly insecure password, then every other kid that got caught doing anything which required admin privileges would have likewise been arrested.
Basically, the lasts generations feel like they are special and everyone should be watching them do eveything.
You're just bitter because the NSA didn't pay any attention to you when you were a kid.
It's not classified. I'm sure they'll comply with his FOI request for exam questions... on exam day.
I thought Uber's business strategy was to blame the driver for anything that went wrong, eg legal or insurance issues. But how will they blame the driver when the driver is their own AI?
I'm quaking in my boots... no wait, that's the ground.
So... What did Jesus say about homosexuality?
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” -- Matthew 22:37-40
Also (though not said by Jesus)
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” -- Galatians 5:14
Well, they obviously chose the wrong profession. Had they been Wall Street hedge fund bankers, they would have got an invite to the next country estate deer hunt.
Send them hunting with Dick Cheney...
An audio book application that did not accommodate the deaf.
Just pass your audiobook through a speech-to-text...
And it's true too -- a common definition of intelligence is "the capability to solve problems", and the ability to look things up on the internet greatly enhances one's ability to solve problems. Now, some people might say that access to the internet is cheating, that it is using other people's knowledge and experience -- but then, some people are whiny losers. Borrowing knowledge from the internet may be slower than retrieving memorized information, but there is so much more of it, and generally life doesn't care where you got your knowledge from.
Of course, some people think they're some sort of genius or expert cause they looked up a thing, but then that's not unique to people who have used the internet.
...dongle.