Reminds me of Isaac Asimov's (very) short story of how computers won a major fictional battle. First, bad data was input. Then, the results were fudged. Then, the output was ignored by management. In the story, things turned out well. In real life, apparently, not so much. Text:
http://drop.io/hidden/oyoyld5o6xkjlu/asset/bWJhNTgwLXRoZW1hY2hpbm
Even that would be pretty weird, because the optical nerve doesn't really send all the information you think you "see". So there's a part of your brain that "decompresses" this data into a full-fidelity image?
Nope, it's anarchy vs. fascism as political forms, capitalism vs. communism for economic models. Socialism is a little fascist and a little communist, since the government forces companies to play by the rules.
If you're looking for in-depth tech, you can't beat the video archives of technical conferences. Sure, there are some boring presentations, but you can usually tell the boring ones in the first few minutes and go try another. My favorite site is the ChaosCommunicationCongress, which has everything from presentations from the Mifare hackers, to technical improvements to nmap, to geek culture presentations. Great stuff in there.
Citizen Engineer only has one episode out so far, and looks like it's going to be mostly hardhacking, but it's definitely not dumbed-down.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a serious discussion on the future of tech with a stronger grip on reality than Popular Science, try MIT's LabCast videos, with footage of working prototypes.
Any really cool technique will be patented by Microsoft and doomed to obscurity by their poor implementation of same; and
From the license: "(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software."
If they really can't get "permission" from the RIAA (I know they're big, but I bet they still don't want to go up against Wal-Mart!), someone from the inside should leak the DRM authentication key.
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Open Firefox. Check memory usage. Open a lot of tabs. Close them. Check memory usage.
Open Chrome. Check memory usage. Open a lot of tabs. Close them. Check memory usage.
The memory usage at first may be larger, but at the end will be a lot smaller!
Things you will need: at least one day off work money for fines a destructive device (something small, like a ball-peen hammer, is recommended)
1. Go to the polls as early as possible. Try to be one the the first voters. 2. Ensure that the polling place has enough reserve paper ballots on hand, or can easily obtain them in time. 3. Disable the polling machines. One or two well-placed hits from a hammer should do.
Act quickly to get them all before you are stopped. 4. Cooperate with any police officers who arrive. You may be treated roughly. Do not put up a fight at this point.
You will almost certainly go to jail for some time, from hours to days, depending on circumstances. 5. If there is any media present, let them know what you did and *why* you did it.
Try not to come off as a raving loony. Practice in front of a mirror is recommended.
True, I remember a set of excellent speakers they used to have, the LX-4 model. I heard sound engineers claim they were better than studio monitors. They were also cheap. I think they were discontinued after just 2 or 3 years.
It's a redistribution license, not an end-user license. Under US law, he automatically has "all rights reserved" in terms of distribution, remixing, commercial use, etc etc. The license is not there to restrict viewers of the page, but he's actually relinquishing some of his rights to the readers of the page.
So, no, the page is not "protected" under the license, it's actually even less protected than it would be with no license at all.
The electoral college would fix this- I'm not sure why people and politicians keep trying to gut it. The idea is, people (who don't necessarily know much about the candidates, or who don't trust what they've been told) elect local people, people they trust will represent their interests, to go and do some real digging to see who would make the best president. The president is the guy with the most votes from these well-informed and more-trusted electors.
Um, I think these many projects would LOVE to have someone do this for them, and would be very willing to implement any solid suggestions you might have. Firefox, for example, has this sort of thing going on already:
The mythical AI where machines "learn" how to "think" is a long way away or possibly impossible with current technology.
Somehow, I think Google's compute clusters have more power than whatever AI lab you were looking at.
Also, it is not a machine simply learning how to think on its own - it relies on millions of people to sort, filter, and connect the data. Basically harvesting both data and semantic connections from humans.
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Full site (as far as I can tell): http://web.archive.org/web/20071118120426/www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Reminds me of Isaac Asimov's (very) short story of how computers won a major fictional battle. First, bad data was input. Then, the results were fudged. Then, the output was ignored by management. In the story, things turned out well. In real life, apparently, not so much. Text: http://drop.io/hidden/oyoyld5o6xkjlu/asset/bWJhNTgwLXRoZW1hY2hpbm
Even that would be pretty weird, because the optical nerve doesn't really send all the information you think you "see". So there's a part of your brain that "decompresses" this data into a full-fidelity image?
> âoeIf we canâ(TM)t keep todayâ(TM)s information alive for future generations,â McDonough said, âoewe will lose a lot of our culture.â
haha, that was perfect! we lost your data in 3 seconds because of lack of standards compliance.
Nope, it's anarchy vs. fascism as political forms, capitalism vs. communism for economic models. Socialism is a little fascist and a little communist, since the government forces companies to play by the rules.
Citizen Engineer only has one episode out so far, and looks like it's going to be mostly hardhacking, but it's definitely not dumbed-down.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a serious discussion on the future of tech with a stronger grip on reality than Popular Science, try MIT's LabCast videos, with footage of working prototypes.
From the license:
"(B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software."
Um, how will it transmit images back to earth, with the entire moon blocking radio transmissions?
I've seen plenty of old, crappy computer equipment at Goodwill.
If they really can't get "permission" from the RIAA (I know they're big, but I bet they still don't want to go up against Wal-Mart!), someone from the inside should leak the DRM authentication key.
Open Firefox. Check memory usage. Open a lot of tabs. Close them. Check memory usage.
Open Chrome. Check memory usage. Open a lot of tabs. Close them. Check memory usage.
The memory usage at first may be larger, but at the end will be a lot smaller!
So, Libertarian then.
Dude, all the member levels are artificial.
"What prevents this from becoming a more systemic, detrimental problem? Our trust of the system administrators?"
Um, yes?
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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Things you will need:
at least one day off work
money for fines
a destructive device (something small, like a ball-peen hammer, is recommended)
1. Go to the polls as early as possible. Try to be one the the first voters.
2. Ensure that the polling place has enough reserve paper ballots on hand, or can easily obtain them in time.
3. Disable the polling machines. One or two well-placed hits from a hammer should do.
Act quickly to get them all before you are stopped.
4. Cooperate with any police officers who arrive. You may be treated roughly. Do not put up a fight at this point.
You will almost certainly go to jail for some time, from hours to days, depending on circumstances.
5. If there is any media present, let them know what you did and *why* you did it.
Try not to come off as a raving loony. Practice in front of a mirror is recommended.
Your ideas intrigue me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
True, I remember a set of excellent speakers they used to have, the LX-4 model. I heard sound engineers claim they were better than studio monitors. They were also cheap. I think they were discontinued after just 2 or 3 years.
It's a redistribution license, not an end-user license. Under US law, he automatically has "all rights reserved" in terms of distribution, remixing, commercial use, etc etc. The license is not there to restrict viewers of the page, but he's actually relinquishing some of his rights to the readers of the page.
So, no, the page is not "protected" under the license, it's actually even less protected than it would be with no license at all.
The electoral college would fix this- I'm not sure why people and politicians keep trying to gut it. The idea is, people (who don't necessarily know much about the candidates, or who don't trust what they've been told) elect local people, people they trust will represent their interests, to go and do some real digging to see who would make the best president. The president is the guy with the most votes from these well-informed and more-trusted electors.
Why not? It worked for Dr. Strangelove.
WE CANNOT ALLOW...
A BANDWIDTH GAP!!!
Satire is not protected in the US. Parody is, but I don't think this counts...
*And* a nine-stone head start!
Um, I think these many projects would LOVE to have someone do this for them, and would be very willing to implement any solid suggestions you might have. Firefox, for example, has this sort of thing going on already:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:Add-ons_Manager_UI
The mythical AI where machines "learn" how to "think" is a long way away or possibly impossible with current technology.
Somehow, I think Google's compute clusters have more power than whatever AI lab you were looking at.
Also, it is not a machine simply learning how to think on its own - it relies on millions of people to sort, filter, and connect the data. Basically harvesting both data and semantic connections from humans.
Not quite good enough.
http://wondermark.com/d/416.html
...Here...you...go...!