That shouldn't happen. Of course the system should allow unfettered connections to localhost, and the system's own public/LAN IP. Firewalls should wall off the outside.
I'm sure a simple update to add "if (connection.ip != INADDR_LOOPBACK)" to the firewall code. Frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't already in there.
Put a cap at the greater of $1 per service (land phone, cable, Internet, cell phone, etc.) and $1 per government area (city executive, state legislative, etc.) before surcharges must be implemented as taxes out of income tax.
There is not one city in the world capable of doing it without massive constructions (unless you want to have the Olympics in the same city over and over like in 776BC).
Can't you rotate cities every few years? I'm sure the Atlanta and Sydney city infrastructure and Olympic stadia would have worked as well this year, and will work at least for another decade. I can understand if a stadium is built, a city set up, etc. every few Olympics, but not for each one. Use about three cities, repeat them, and then switch to another three or so for the next couple of decades. Each city only has to ensure it will be able to host Olympics both now and in 12 years.
Yeah, I'm sure the poor - that is, those who can just afford basic phone service, not the truly impoverished - can't afford paying a single quarter every month.
The progressive argument works for significant amounts of money, or small percentages of a large amount (e.g., sales tax).
Then how would Freedom of Information act apply to it? It works like a privately-run bank, but is in position and job (keeping the economy apparently in check a federal agency. There's more than just the "federal" name; it's not completely private.
I know that was a troll, but no need to invoke the DMCA - they're the Federal Reserve, and you can go to prison for a very long time if you mess with them. The point is not to stop people who have messed with it, the point is to prevent them from being able to mess with it.
It's a federal agency that acts as if it were privately run. It's subject to laws (like FOIA) that the rest of the government is subject to, but it has no higher authority that can veto its decisions.
The Fed is a system including twelve regional banks throughout the country, which can issue stock, etc. but are not really privately run.
The main job of the Fed is to adjust interest rates as the governing board deems necessary to keep the economy stable.
The "Singularity" described in the article is some monumental change in human society that surpasses every other change, is rooted in technology, and may stretch the definition of "human".
It's like the invention of language or writing or the dawn of civilization, just...more. Like the ability to upload your brain onto a computer and let that be conscious.
Why exactly does providing a place for athletes around the world to come together and compete in sports cost six billion dollars?
The Olympics were cheap to run in 776 BC, they were cheap to run in 1896, and if people would not have built a new stadium and set up extravagant displays for the opening ceremonies, they should have been cheap to run in 2004.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it'd be three visible apps, not processes (malware would tend to run as a background process or service if it's smart); Windows NT and up (2K, XP) with no apps running has over two dozen processes active; just press Ctrl-Shift-Esc and count. "spoolsv", "svchost" a few times, "lsass", "services", "winlogon", "mdm", the necessary "explorer" and "System", etc.
IANACS, but I would guess that there can be some multitasking optimization done if you limit concurrent applications to a certain number. If you want to be able to run a theoretically infinite number of applications, like Windows today, you may have to forego some optimizations.
I doubt MS will use those optimizations, let alone figure out there may be some technical advantage in their crippleware....
The Singularity will probably occur near when scientists can pinpoint the human soul and consciousness. Much of the PopSci article involves creating an electronic copy of the human brain and possibly connecting a chip wired with one's mind to a human body less the brain. One fictional space traveler mentioned leaves behind a copy of herself on Earth and uploads her brain into a small virtual spaceship. This leads to questions such as: will the traveler on the spaceship be conscious, or will it be a mechanized human, emulating human qualities but not itself being human? Will the traveler as the one who planned the trip only be conscious of the copy on earth, or can she switch to only being conscious of the copy in space (leaving the Earth copy as an e-human or a separate soul)? At what point, both in evolution and in the womb, does one become conscious? If two people (successfully) switch brains in transplants, who is who?
If scientists can answer (or satisfactorily dismiss) these questions, we will be close to the fundamental change needed for the Singularity.
Which would possibly give a slight genetic drift to people who tend to be/get rich. Capitalism works amazingly well with natural selection. Too bad neither has (or can have) any respect for morals.
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It is, shall we say, not widely socially excepted.
Unless you're being an annoying wordplayer and describing humans as a species of animals or talking about other species of animals themselves.
That shouldn't happen. Of course the system should allow unfettered connections to localhost, and the system's own public/LAN IP. Firewalls should wall off the outside.
I'm sure a simple update to add "if (connection.ip != INADDR_LOOPBACK)" to the firewall code. Frankly, I'm surprised it wasn't already in there.
You wasted a GMail account registration on that username?
I'm a MAC user! My iBook has an Ethernet card and an AirPort card, both of which has MAC addresses.
Heh. The Mac's MACs.
"Verb" can be verbed when talking about verbing; it makes it clearer.
It's 25 today, it's $25 tomorrow.
Put a cap at the greater of $1 per service (land phone, cable, Internet, cell phone, etc.) and $1 per government area (city executive, state legislative, etc.) before surcharges must be implemented as taxes out of income tax.
Precisely. You argue that it isn't, and that it should be.
25c would be absurd to make progressive.
they stole it from BSD
They didn't steal it! Copyright infringement isn't stealing!
(Especially when it's open sourced and not even infringement.)
No; they're still trying to figure out where to link the "Donate" screen. Apparently Microsoft didn't think anyone would be that trusting in them....
There is not one city in the world capable of doing it without massive constructions (unless you want to have the Olympics in the same city over and over like in 776BC).
Can't you rotate cities every few years? I'm sure the Atlanta and Sydney city infrastructure and Olympic stadia would have worked as well this year, and will work at least for another decade. I can understand if a stadium is built, a city set up, etc. every few Olympics, but not for each one. Use about three cities, repeat them, and then switch to another three or so for the next couple of decades. Each city only has to ensure it will be able to host Olympics both now and in 12 years.
Yeah, I'm sure the poor - that is, those who can just afford basic phone service, not the truly impoverished - can't afford paying a single quarter every month.
The progressive argument works for significant amounts of money, or small percentages of a large amount (e.g., sales tax).
Then how would Freedom of Information act apply to it? It works like a privately-run bank, but is in position and job (keeping the economy apparently in check a federal agency. There's more than just the "federal" name; it's not completely private.
> there is no need to do so
>> or satisfactorily dismiss these questions
So people will DOS DOS?
I know that was a troll, but no need to invoke the DMCA - they're the Federal Reserve, and you can go to prison for a very long time if you mess with them. The point is not to stop people who have messed with it, the point is to prevent them from being able to mess with it.
It's a federal agency that acts as if it were privately run. It's subject to laws (like FOIA) that the rest of the government is subject to, but it has no higher authority that can veto its decisions.
The Fed is a system including twelve regional banks throughout the country, which can issue stock, etc. but are not really privately run.
The main job of the Fed is to adjust interest rates as the governing board deems necessary to keep the economy stable.
See the Wikipedia articles about the Fed and central banks in general.
The "Singularity" described in the article is some monumental change in human society that surpasses every other change, is rooted in technology, and may stretch the definition of "human".
It's like the invention of language or writing or the dawn of civilization, just...more. Like the ability to upload your brain onto a computer and let that be conscious.
Why exactly does providing a place for athletes around the world to come together and compete in sports cost six billion dollars?
The Olympics were cheap to run in 776 BC, they were cheap to run in 1896, and if people would not have built a new stadium and set up extravagant displays for the opening ceremonies, they should have been cheap to run in 2004.
Good, there's nothing to spy on.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it'd be three visible apps, not processes (malware would tend to run as a background process or service if it's smart); Windows NT and up (2K, XP) with no apps running has over two dozen processes active; just press Ctrl-Shift-Esc and count. "spoolsv", "svchost" a few times, "lsass", "services", "winlogon", "mdm", the necessary "explorer" and "System", etc.
IANACS, but I would guess that there can be some multitasking optimization done if you limit concurrent applications to a certain number. If you want to be able to run a theoretically infinite number of applications, like Windows today, you may have to forego some optimizations.
I doubt MS will use those optimizations, let alone figure out there may be some technical advantage in their crippleware....
The Singularity will probably occur near when scientists can pinpoint the human soul and consciousness. Much of the PopSci article involves creating an electronic copy of the human brain and possibly connecting a chip wired with one's mind to a human body less the brain. One fictional space traveler mentioned leaves behind a copy of herself on Earth and uploads her brain into a small virtual spaceship. This leads to questions such as: will the traveler on the spaceship be conscious, or will it be a mechanized human, emulating human qualities but not itself being human? Will the traveler as the one who planned the trip only be conscious of the copy on earth, or can she switch to only being conscious of the copy in space (leaving the Earth copy as an e-human or a separate soul)? At what point, both in evolution and in the womb, does one become conscious? If two people (successfully) switch brains in transplants, who is who?
If scientists can answer (or satisfactorily dismiss) these questions, we will be close to the fundamental change needed for the Singularity.
Which would possibly give a slight genetic drift to people who tend to be/get rich. Capitalism works amazingly well with natural selection. Too bad neither has (or can have) any respect for morals.
It's now the BSAA, the Boy Scouts' Association of America, with "leadership skills" apparently "inspired" by the MPAA and RIAA.
Parent and grandparent both say "(now ex) girlfriend". I wonder if that's grounds for a lawsuit against the rightholders of Eyes Wide Shut?
I certainly hope you weren't making those calculations on the same machine....