Try living in a country which has actually been subjected to repeated terrorist attacks for decades, and see what the people there do. Hint: they carry on with their lives regardless of threats. You really do sound scared.
Exactly: if people had panicked like this in Britain, our major cities would have been ghost towns during the 1980s and 1990s with no one going to work.
How precisely would your gun stop a car bomb or suicide bomber?
The Sydney siege sounded more like a lone maniac. If you were a serious terrorist in a country where people carried concealed weapons, you'd just go in mob handed with automatic weapons anyway.
Yes, I'd go to the mall. I have a better chance of being killed in an accident driving to the mall.
I will bet your chances of being killed in a mall go way up if there are specific threats against that mall.
I would bet that the decision to not show this movie was made entirely by whoever provides insurance to the theater chain. It must be killing the theater owners not to show a movie that has gotten this much publicity at opening. But if your insurance provider says "No", you do what they say.
Yes, but the threats surely have to be plausible?
When the PIRA were bombing England, they would (depending on their mood) give coded warnings to the police/newspapers. As they had in fact set off previous bombs, such threats were credible.
There is no evidence that this group of hackers have any physical terrorist capability whatsoever.
I have never understood how someone can go to the (small) effort of posting to an internet forum about how they don't know something, when in the same amount of time they could have googled it.
If we were all communicating by hand-written letters two hundred years ago, you would still loook it up in a dictionary first.
The illusion is that you think we need to make a leap to get from here to there. There's never a leap. It's lots of small simple steps that get you there.
That is true if the ultimate goal is not impossible.
No number of small simple steps is going to lead to time travel.
The only way to prove that true AI (General AI or whatever you want to call it) is possible is to make something with true AI.
You must read a different version of slashdot than me.
I thought the consensus here was that AI is "just an engineering problem" (like terraforming Mars) and will probably be here by next Tuesday.
What is odd is that people here seem to think that computer programming will be exempt from the effects of real AI. I'd think it would be one of the first things to go.
The reason they're running into problems is they haven't fully embraced the synergy in B2B ROI cloud possibilities. If they utilize agile scrum development, they will be able to be on the bleeding edge of viral blog immersion while reaching convergence with real-time content management crowdsourcing.
The first ten words made sense and were in actual English. You're doing it wrong.
If only it was a bit easier to put 1g into orbit...
The best option seems to be to build magnetic nano-satellites and disperse them as a dust cloud over NASA rockets about to be launched. Some are bound to reach orbit.
Yeah, anyone with even basic DIY skills can knock up a cloud of magnetic nano-satellites in their kitchen over breakfast.
Stuff like this happens with most wars. Cuban revolution is no different in that regard. Citizens who flea into the arms of the enemy very often lose a lot of sympathy from back home. Perhaps there are still some people in England patiently waiting to regain the land that was taken away from their ancestors by those upstart American yahoos.
Funny how it's always different when it's the US who does the "liberation".
Isn't this the same crowd that says there ARE no differences between boys and girls and therefore girls should be in represented equally in STEM careers?
Yet the way they intended to remedy the imbalance is to create curriculum specifically for girls, who are no different than boys.
The last fifty years or so of social history appears to have passed you by.
By eliminating the return trip this could be far more effective and efficient. Permanent settlers would not need a return vehicle so all that energy and material could be used to take more materials and people.
People like you are why the term "space nutter" exists.
You aren't going to permanently settle anywhere in a 100m long airship, and the surface is basically uninhabitable.
There is absolutely no point sending humans to Venus, unless as a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
As soon as they said "manned", it was obvious that this isn't serious. There's no purpose to sending people to sit forever in a closed capsule.
You say that, but there are plenty of mentally ill people on slashdot who would happily live in a tin can for a couple of years, and die on Mars living in a small tin hut.
We have at least a cultural instinct, possibly a genetic instinct, to think that people who work a lot deserve to have a lot of possessions and status, while people who work a little or don't work at all deserve nothing.
Well, that varies by culture. People from the US and Japan, for instance, seem to worship work as a good thing in itself.
As an Englishman, I would rather that everybody was able to live like Eighteenth Century aristocrats.
Such a waste of money.
This will not make it onto the roads: overly complex.
The money would be better spent on actual transparent material.
If we could manufacture a material as transparent as glass or plastic, with similar properties as steel, they would make excellent pillars.
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Yeah, and if we could just find a way of getting cold fusion to work we'd have almost unlimited power.
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RIM has been dogfooding so long that they're institutionally blind.
That "word" needs to die a quick and painful death... If you want to use that saying as a verb, just write "have been eating their own dog food".
It's a stupid fucking phrase in the first place. How can anyone find the idea of eating dog food a good metaphor?
Humans are hanged, horses are hung.
Try living in a country which has actually been subjected to repeated terrorist attacks for decades, and see what the people there do. Hint: they carry on with their lives regardless of threats. You really do sound scared.
Exactly: if people had panicked like this in Britain, our major cities would have been ghost towns during the 1980s and 1990s with no one going to work.
The Sydney siege sounded more like a lone maniac. If you were a serious terrorist in a country where people carried concealed weapons, you'd just go in mob handed with automatic weapons anyway.
I will bet your chances of being killed in a mall go way up if there are specific threats against that mall.
I would bet that the decision to not show this movie was made entirely by whoever provides insurance to the theater chain. It must be killing the theater owners not to show a movie that has gotten this much publicity at opening. But if your insurance provider says "No", you do what they say.
Yes, but the threats surely have to be plausible?
When the PIRA were bombing England, they would (depending on their mood) give coded warnings to the police/newspapers. As they had in fact set off previous bombs, such threats were credible.
There is no evidence that this group of hackers have any physical terrorist capability whatsoever.
The group behind it isn't well-known but has delivered on recent smaller threats.
The group here has not carried out any physical terrorist attacks.
And according to slashdot, anyone can hack into Sony because their security is so bad.
So, you're basically acting scared of what is probably a bunch of twelve year olds in their bedroom.
Truly pathetic.
The solution is easy: print in 3D using liquid magnets.
With an Arduino, in the Cloud, synergetically, with Bennett.
Delivered disruptively via Uber, of course.
If we were all communicating by hand-written letters two hundred years ago, you would still loook it up in a dictionary first.
The illusion is that you think we need to make a leap to get from here to there. There's never a leap. It's lots of small simple steps that get you there.
That is true if the ultimate goal is not impossible.
No number of small simple steps is going to lead to time travel.
The only way to prove that true AI (General AI or whatever you want to call it) is possible is to make something with true AI.
I thought the consensus here was that AI is "just an engineering problem" (like terraforming Mars) and will probably be here by next Tuesday.
What is odd is that people here seem to think that computer programming will be exempt from the effects of real AI. I'd think it would be one of the first things to go.
You must be new here.
Sometimes, I don't even read the summary. Or most of the comments.
You must not be new here.
The reason they're running into problems is they haven't fully embraced the synergy in B2B ROI cloud possibilities. If they utilize agile scrum development, they will be able to be on the bleeding edge of viral blog immersion while reaching convergence with real-time content management crowdsourcing.
The first ten words made sense and were in actual English. You're doing it wrong.
If only it was a bit easier to put 1g into orbit...
The best option seems to be to build magnetic nano-satellites and disperse them as a dust cloud over NASA rockets about to be launched. Some are bound to reach orbit.
Yeah, anyone with even basic DIY skills can knock up a cloud of magnetic nano-satellites in their kitchen over breakfast.
That's what I do.
"And that's why I no longer fly anywhere..."
Why not trousers+condoms all built-in...this has to be the more stupid informercial I have seen here for a while.
This is slashdot, advertising condoms here would be like targeting the Taliban with whisky ads.
Stuff like this happens with most wars. Cuban revolution is no different in that regard. Citizens who flea into the arms of the enemy very often lose a lot of sympathy from back home. Perhaps there are still some people in England patiently waiting to regain the land that was taken away from their ancestors by those upstart American yahoos.
Funny how it's always different when it's the US who does the "liberation".
Isn't this the same crowd that says there ARE no differences between boys and girls and therefore girls should be in represented equally in STEM careers?
Yet the way they intended to remedy the imbalance is to create curriculum specifically for girls, who are no different than boys.
The last fifty years or so of social history appears to have passed you by.
By eliminating the return trip this could be far more effective and efficient. Permanent settlers would not need a return vehicle so all that energy and material could be used to take more materials and people.
People like you are why the term "space nutter" exists.
You aren't going to permanently settle anywhere in a 100m long airship, and the surface is basically uninhabitable.
There is absolutely no point sending humans to Venus, unless as a form of cruel and unusual punishment.
As soon as they said "manned", it was obvious that this isn't serious. There's no purpose to sending people to sit forever in a closed capsule.
You say that, but there are plenty of mentally ill people on slashdot who would happily live in a tin can for a couple of years, and die on Mars living in a small tin hut.
It will have to support it, because history has shown time and time again that if things get too bad for the peasants they revolt.
History has also shown time and time again that those in power are very bad at remembering this.
We have at least a cultural instinct, possibly a genetic instinct, to think that people who work a lot deserve to have a lot of possessions and status, while people who work a little or don't work at all deserve nothing.
Well, that varies by culture. People from the US and Japan, for instance, seem to worship work as a good thing in itself.
As an Englishman, I would rather that everybody was able to live like Eighteenth Century aristocrats.
Name the logical fallacy you claim the grandparent to be using.
Where the set A is "impossible things" and B is "possible things":
Because a subset of A has become B does not imply that all A will become B.
Don't know what the name is, but it's basic logic.
Landing a man on the moon would have been considered impossible two hundred yeara ago. time travel is considered impossible now.
Just because we landed a man on the moon doesn't mean we will ever have time travel.
But our rights are endowed by our Creator, and apply to everyone, not just American citizens.
There is an obvious flaw in that argument, namely that there is no such thing as our Creator.
For idioms, you just use a lookup table. Even Google Translate gets almost all of them right
No, it doesn't.
You have clearly never tried the "translate from English to X, then X to English" game with anything more complicated than "the sky is blue".
Such a waste of money.
This will not make it onto the roads: overly complex.
The money would be better spent on actual transparent material.
If we could manufacture a material as transparent as glass or plastic, with similar properties as steel, they would make excellent pillars.
` Yeah, and if we could just find a way of getting cold fusion to work we'd have almost unlimited power.