Besides which, sound exchange is supposed to be non-profit. The revenue should only cover operating costs. The more stations to administrate over, the more operating costs.
I've often wondered something like this. If we ever have a computer powerful enough to fully simulate a human brain, would, would the simulation qualify as human?
Star Trek has no fundamental problems with physics, because every law they "break" they do it with a workaround. Inertial dampaners, Heisenberg compensator, warp drive, the list goes on and on. How those workarounds work - that's not important.
As we get better with fuzzy AI type stuff, even games like Poker, Texas Hold 'em and others will even fall from our human hands.
Not only Poker, but Texas Hold'em as well???? Oh the hu^H^Hrobotics!
Seriously, I don't see this happening with pure AI. Add some bio-sensing mechanism to help determine whether or not the opponent is bluffing, the strength of a semi-bluff, and then you're talking. A pro player should be able to change his game enough to keep the AI from confirming a pattern. The only advantage the AI would have over the human would be the ability to calculate pure odds to many decimal places, and that won't be enough.
No, Google should be providing a DRM-free version of those downloads so that people can retain what they purchased. Then, the whole issue of how they checked out is moot, because they paid for the content and it is theirs to watch in perpetuity.
But can Google legally do it? I'm assuming that the video rights owners only let Google sell the videos because of the DRM.
Don't worry, the Lawyers will be rounded up and sent
hurtling into the sun in 2017 during the Great Awakening. Microsoft will be able to keep a few hidden away though.
CIGNA is my company's health care provider. Three months ago they did a neat little promotion - complete a Health Risk Appraisal survey about your health (diet, exercise, etc) and get a Starbucks gift card ($5 IIRC) and be entered in a drawing to win $50 Amex card. Paranoid as I am, I decided it wasn't worth it.
I'm a bit skeptical, does a 400 megaton impact really signify an "extinction-level event"? Catastrophic, sure. But wipe out the human race? Does the Earth have an exhaust port or something?
Of course they do, in "the world is not big for two worldwide dictatorships" kind of way. It's funny how going far enough right and going far enough left get you to the same point.
from the article: In many ways, it is a subcontracted police force with Del and Fang even deputized by local cops for one Dateline sting. But because its members are private citizens, their actions are impervious to charges of entrapment.
So it's not entrapment, unless you have something against technicality-based justice system of ours.
I don't want to get into a minority report/pre-crime thing, but he was clearly close to crossing the line from chat to meet.
Exactly how clearly? For all we know they guy got his kicks from cybersex with minors, leading them on, but with never any intention of following through. Obviously it's still wrong and illegal, but not nearly on the same level as molestation.
Imagine you are a marine. You have a report that some house somewhere might have some insurgents merrily making bombs to go blow up in crowds of Shiites trying to go shopping. You come to a house in a residential neighborhood. You now have two options.
You forgot about the option that we've been relying on so far - flatten the house and half the surrounding neighborhood with an airstrike and if the intelligence turns out to be wrong say "oops, regrettable, we'll do better next time."
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Besides which, sound exchange is supposed to be non-profit. The revenue should only cover operating costs. The more stations to administrate over, the more operating costs.
I'm leaning towards "Sentient meat" myself.
I've often wondered something like this. If we ever have a computer powerful enough to fully simulate a human brain, would, would the simulation qualify as human?
Hell, I could do that in an hour, if I can define the following terms:
distributed
transaction
reliable
multicast messaging
Star Trek has no fundamental problems with physics, because every law they "break" they do it with a workaround. Inertial dampaners, Heisenberg compensator, warp drive, the list goes on and on. How those workarounds work - that's not important.
As we get better with fuzzy AI type stuff, even games like Poker, Texas Hold 'em and others will even fall from our human hands.
Not only Poker, but Texas Hold'em as well???? Oh the hu^H^Hrobotics!
Seriously, I don't see this happening with pure AI. Add some bio-sensing mechanism to help determine whether or not the opponent is bluffing, the strength of a semi-bluff, and then you're talking. A pro player should be able to change his game enough to keep the AI from confirming a pattern. The only advantage the AI would have over the human would be the ability to calculate pure odds to many decimal places, and that won't be enough.
No, Google should be providing a DRM-free version of those downloads so that people can retain what they purchased. Then, the whole issue of how they checked out is moot, because they paid for the content and it is theirs to watch in perpetuity.
But can Google legally do it? I'm assuming that the video rights owners only let Google sell the videos because of the DRM.
Don't worry, the Lawyers will be rounded up and sent hurtling into the sun in 2017 during the Great Awakening. Microsoft will be able to keep a few hidden away though.
Privacy is actually being pushed forward by Corporate Greed in this case.
CIGNA is my company's health care provider. Three months ago they did a neat little promotion - complete a Health Risk Appraisal survey about your health (diet, exercise, etc) and get a Starbucks gift card ($5 IIRC) and be entered in a drawing to win $50 Amex card. Paranoid as I am, I decided it wasn't worth it.
So if a study shows that [insert minority] get sick more often, it would be fine to charge them higher premiums on health insurance?
Yes, and in 50 years, they'll calculate more information than is contained in the universe in less than Planck time.
;)
Why not, all we need is a computer that can sit and calculate outside of time. Nothing a little singularity can't provide
I'm a bit skeptical, does a 400 megaton impact really signify an "extinction-level event"? Catastrophic, sure. But wipe out the human race? Does the Earth have an exhaust port or something?
And unless sis signed a NDA with regards to the issue, she could talk about it all she wants.
Who'd listen to her in Syria?
Of course they do, in "the world is not big for two worldwide dictatorships" kind of way. It's funny how going far enough right and going far enough left get you to the same point.
I think he meant "transmit", as in to Uzbekistan.
Shouldn't that be "One of the biggest in the known Universe"?
Maybe they meant 6 Billion userIds?
from the article:
In many ways, it is a subcontracted police force with Del and Fang even deputized by local cops for one Dateline sting. But because its members are private citizens, their actions are impervious to charges of entrapment.
So it's not entrapment, unless you have something against technicality-based justice system of ours.
I don't want to get into a minority report/pre-crime thing, but he was clearly close to crossing the line from chat to meet.
Exactly how clearly? For all we know they guy got his kicks from cybersex with minors, leading them on, but with never any intention of following through. Obviously it's still wrong and illegal, but not nearly on the same level as molestation.
Blackbriar
Anyone else read the headline and thought that someone decided to give a $200Mil computer to IBM for free?
And every decade technology would advance enough to make a new probe that would relatively quickly overtake the previous one. So when do we launch?
Lets just hope that Zap Brannigan-type commanders are directing our enemies forces.
Imagine you are a marine. You have a report that some house somewhere might have some insurgents merrily making bombs to go blow up in crowds of Shiites trying to go shopping. You come to a house in a residential neighborhood. You now have two options.
You forgot about the option that we've been relying on so far - flatten the house and half the surrounding neighborhood with an airstrike and if the intelligence turns out to be wrong say "oops, regrettable, we'll do better next time."