Anyway, isn't the idea that a good AI is indistinguishable from a female just a little bit.... sexist?
You could also say that saying it's indistinguishable from a male is sexist too. But you can't take BOTH people away from the interview. Not everyone tries to be so vendor neutral that they put in a whole lot of redundant information in order not to appear sexist.
Shall I tell you a story which explains this perfectly? This year, my high school got a new principal. So she feels the need to give some speech, part of it going like this:
Now this is a secondary school, I'd be stupid to think that there are no drugs here. However I urge you to stay away from them, because we should all live up to our own standards rather than just do what other people tell us. Because of that, you should do what you believe you should do, and not be pressured into something you don't want to do. I like to think that I'm a fair person, and as a result I will only punish you if you decide not to live up to all of my standards and follow my rules.
This is how a lot of people seem to think...as you said, "drugs are bad, m'kay" is very common sentiment. People who take drugs are evil and are trying to pressure us into destroying ourselves!
Look at what we have now:
Drugs are bad, m'kay
Communism is bad, m'kay
Standing up for yourself rather than taking it up the ass from $AUTHORITY_FIGURE is bad, m'kay
Look at the opposition...what do think the chances are that people are going to grow up to try to stand up for the rights to decide what to do to their bodies when this is what they get taught in school?
For drugs no matter what your age, you are not responsible enough to control what goes into your body
Why? If I decide to partake in an activity which may be bad for my body then why shouldn't that be my own choice? The government shouldn't be there to make me be "responsible", because everyone has a different definition of what responsible is. Why should an adult have have other people decide what is best for them, when doing something bad is only dangerous the the person who made the choice themselves?
In some cases you can even buy telephony from one company and buy Internet access from another company on the same physical wire, but I do not think this is government-mandated.
Wait you mean this is different to what's normal? In Australia I haven't had any trouble getting it...
Isn't this basically the same as me agreeing to the terms of the GPL when I download GPLed source for a library or app that manipulates some open source document format?
No. The schema is more of a form of documentation that a library.
The scheme says what each tag does...GPL doesn't prevent you from reading the schema and using that to make your own reader. But you can bet that Microsoft's license will.
However, those systems are able to be fixed (to my knowledge, don't use windows). A rooted box with a kernel module installed to hide itself, has to be completely restored.
IIRC, there was an article on slashdot a while back about a Windows kernel-level rootkit. And this is a nice piece of writing about how to make one for Solaris. As for Linux, I'm not so sure how easy it is, but I could probably work it out if I had the time.
He said they may also be able to set loose a worm to take down command-and-control systems so the enemy is unable to communicate and direct ground forces, or fire surface-to-air missiles, for example.
In the meantime, competitors who live a bit on the edge will be able to make some progress, but not much, since quite honestly, the cutting edge market is probably only a fraction the size of the play it safe business market.
And IBM and Sun don't make up part of that market?
18-year olds can be very good at killing people, but that doesn't mean they can hold their liquor or stay awake through a whole episode of "Frontline.
The idea is that if they're old enough to make a choice that can result in getting killed for their country that they should be able to make choices regarding their own bodies.
Let them sit in a small cell, and never leave, with no human interaction and nothing to do for the entriety of their stay and see how they feel about being a repeat offender when they are released.
You'll be paying the price in the extra staffing it takes to keep the prisoners inside the jail and not killing the guards. Not to mention that after that kind of treatment they won't go back into society too well...meaning that all they *CAN* do is go to crime.
Make them pay for their own meals, if they don't have the money, they don't eat. If they die of starvation or commit suicide, then society doesn't need more trash anyway.
That's right...take away all their money when they try to defend themselves, and then deny them food because they aren't millionares. Just fucking great. You realise that your country's constitution says that you can't torture prisoners? Or kill them without due process? What a fucking retard, even I (Australian) know your country's laws better than you. Not to mention the innocent people who you're going to kill. Doesn't that worry you at all?
...society's trash...
Society's trash? Yeah sure...I deserve those kind of living conditions, and possible death if i'm not rich enough, all because I downloaded some movies from bittorrent. Maybe you think all prisoners are sick maniacs, but I you seem to forget that a significant proportion of them are in there for drug offences. In other words, doing things to their own body that the government seems to think is wrong. If my country had a law that said I had to kill all Aboriginal people on sight, do you think that it is reasonable to send people to the jail you describe because I don't kill people?
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Oops...that should be gender-neutral. Vendor-neutrality isn't generally considered to be a well known human quality ;)
Anyway, isn't the idea that a good AI is indistinguishable from a female just a little bit.... sexist?
You could also say that saying it's indistinguishable from a male is sexist too. But you can't take BOTH people away from the interview. Not everyone tries to be so vendor neutral that they put in a whole lot of redundant information in order not to appear sexist.
I still stick to my original point (didn't mean to post AC), but what I'd like to know is why does it matter if they know beforehand?
Heh, you should see what it's like near my amp :P
Look at what we have now:
Look at the opposition...what do think the chances are that people are going to grow up to try to stand up for the rights to decide what to do to their bodies when this is what they get taught in school?
For drugs no matter what your age, you are not responsible enough to control what goes into your body
Why? If I decide to partake in an activity which may be bad for my body then why shouldn't that be my own choice? The government shouldn't be there to make me be "responsible", because everyone has a different definition of what responsible is. Why should an adult have have other people decide what is best for them, when doing something bad is only dangerous the the person who made the choice themselves?
But then wouldn't the provider *LOWER* the TTL?
Goatse is more open than all the BSDs put together!
In some cases you can even buy telephony from one company and buy Internet access from another company on the same physical wire, but I do not think this is government-mandated.
Wait you mean this is different to what's normal? In Australia I haven't had any trouble getting it...
Isn't this basically the same as me agreeing to the terms of the GPL when I download GPLed source for a library or app that manipulates some open source document format?
No. The schema is more of a form of documentation that a library.
The scheme says what each tag does...GPL doesn't prevent you from reading the schema and using that to make your own reader. But you can bet that Microsoft's license will.
You're saying you should have to reboot to make major system changes? Good luck, your system will be used by none.
However, those systems are able to be fixed (to my knowledge, don't use windows). A rooted box with a kernel module installed to hide itself, has to be completely restored.
IIRC, there was an article on slashdot a while back about a Windows kernel-level rootkit. And this is a nice piece of writing about how to make one for Solaris. As for Linux, I'm not so sure how easy it is, but I could probably work it out if I had the time.
Once malware authors adjust their software to do away with the "running as admin" assumption, the problems will start all over again.
:-|
Well a user isn't gonna be running an open mail relay are they? Unless they decide to chmod 777 the kernel
He said they may also be able to set loose a worm to take down command-and-control systems so the enemy is unable to communicate and direct ground forces, or fire surface-to-air missiles, for example.
These things are connected to the internet?
In the meantime, competitors who live a bit on the edge will be able to make some progress, but not much, since quite honestly, the cutting edge market is probably only a fraction the size of the play it safe business market.
And IBM and Sun don't make up part of that market?
18-year olds can be very good at killing people, but that doesn't mean they can hold their liquor or stay awake through a whole episode of "Frontline.
The idea is that if they're old enough to make a choice that can result in getting killed for their country that they should be able to make choices regarding their own bodies.
Is your president considered to be a civilian?
That's not your word processor that lags...it's your whole computer.
Let them sit in a small cell, and never leave, with no human interaction and nothing to do for the entriety of their stay and see how they feel about being a repeat offender when they are released.
...society's trash...
You'll be paying the price in the extra staffing it takes to keep the prisoners inside the jail and not killing the guards. Not to mention that after that kind of treatment they won't go back into society too well...meaning that all they *CAN* do is go to crime.
Make them pay for their own meals, if they don't have the money, they don't eat. If they die of starvation or commit suicide, then society doesn't need more trash anyway.
That's right...take away all their money when they try to defend themselves, and then deny them food because they aren't millionares. Just fucking great. You realise that your country's constitution says that you can't torture prisoners? Or kill them without due process? What a fucking retard, even I (Australian) know your country's laws better than you. Not to mention the innocent people who you're going to kill. Doesn't that worry you at all?
Society's trash? Yeah sure...I deserve those kind of living conditions, and possible death if i'm not rich enough, all because I downloaded some movies from bittorrent. Maybe you think all prisoners are sick maniacs, but I you seem to forget that a significant proportion of them are in there for drug offences. In other words, doing things to their own body that the government seems to think is wrong. If my country had a law that said I had to kill all Aboriginal people on sight, do you think that it is reasonable to send people to the jail you describe because I don't kill people?
Work in a prison for awhile or have someone you know or love killed by someone and you won't be calling for inmates to get the things they want.
I would have said that having such an emotional bias is a firm reason NOT to be in any position to affect prison conditions.
But what if there are good terrorist anthrax manufacturing puppy killers out there?
Umm...if there's no disk drives, how do you plan on getting the essay onto the computer?
You call yourself a Gentoo user? Traitor...you disgust me!
:o)
No wonder my school uses the fluros which look like shit!