And *I* would counter that my choice of living area shouldn't need to be influenced by something stupid like what's available on TV, nor what company provides the internet there. It *should* be commodity-level stuff, but I understand that sometimes you just have to deal with the reality of how things are.
It's not voluntary. If your ISP is subscribed, then you are paying whether or not you want to. And if your ISP isn't subscribed, then you can't get access even if you're willing to pay extra for it. And some people don't have multiple ISP choices. Personally, if I switched from cable to DSL, it'd cut my connection speed almost in half, with no difference in price. So, I'm happy that Time Warner doesn't seem to be a "subscribed ISP"....but I wouldn't have much of a feasible option to opt out if they were.
Circumcision isn't always a religious thing...once upon a time, they decided to "protect" people by doing it automatically at birth. Kinda sucks...I would've rather had the choice.
if your opinion's based on religion how do you determine which variation of the "truth" to base your belief on?
Because religion doesn't have to come from an institution. Why the hell do I need an organization to tell me what I believe? I'm strongly in favor of teaching children (around the beginning of middle school) sex ed classes about the biology, then contraception a couple years later (9th grade or so, I guess). I absolutely recognize the problem of young people not recognizing their options concerning reproduction.
I would prefer Gitmo was kept open, but carefully monitored. I would prefer Roe v. Wade to be overturned. I would prefer the ban on embryonic stem cells to stay in place. I most certainly would prefer different judge appointments. I'd say he hasn't been doing what I wish in any way.
Teaching math isn't about actually teaching arithmetic, it's about teaching logical thought, and conditioning the students' minds with the proper tools.
In my opinion, people need *more* problem-solving skills, not fewer. They need to be forced to think things through. Teaching someone to use a calculator is teaching them to pull answers from some magical place, instead of understanding how the answers are arrived at.
You *can* put the games on a disk, then put them back on the hard drive....it's just that you'd still need to sign in to Steam when you reinstalled. Anything in the Steamapps directory is game data. If the data file is in there, Steam doesn't re-download it.
I like it for a few reasons. One is its vision for the future. It looks grungy and plausible..."lived in". Then there's the cognitive dissonance in Ford's character, i.e. that he both recognizes the replicants as thinking, intelligent beings, but still feels that he has to take them out. And when he finds out what the girl is, as well....I guess I like seeing how people (even fictional characters) deal with moral ambiguity.
Start by eliminating keyboard and mouse? And replace them with what? There are few other input devices that are as comfortable to use, and that allow you to input data faster (by hand, that is). The next huge jump would have to be a brain-computer interface or something, and I don't know how much I need another hole in my head.
You have control over the way the application presents the email, can set up filters, can do your own spam filtering, and can access multiple accounts at once. At least, those are the reasons why *I* started using IMAP instead of actually going to their website.
You need to get the input into a form that the AI can understand. With Tic-Tac-Toe, that's simple. With vision/hearing/etc, it isn't so much. What does pixel (17x32) mean? So, the solution to that is to have some pattern-recognition that pre-processes the vision into some sort of symbols. In general, we've been programming those symbols in, but we could probably take it down to basic levels, similar to human vision processing. "What general color is this area? What guesses do I have as to current lighting conditions, and what color would that place be in bright white light? What shape does the area make up?" As time goes on, the AI's database of what those things *mean* to it would build up, but you've still got to find a way to get something besides raw data into its "consciousness".
So, while image recognition, natural language parsing/processing/comprehension, etc aren't necessarily necessary to "AI" itself, they're incredibly helpful as wrappers to allow an AI to interact in human-comfortable ways with the world.
Correction. It's only a practical concern if you steal Windows. I choose not to allow a company to accuse me of theft and run a mini-investigation every time I start my computer or want to install more of their software. If a company (or the police, or whatever) wanted to come in to my home looking for some sort of criminal evidence, they'd get either "hell no!" or a request for their warrant. I don't see why I should allow an electronic invasion of my privacy any more than I would a physical one.
Note: My laptop is running the Windows license it came with. My desktop is using the student Windows license that I got in college, and which the EULA states that I can continue using for personal use after graduation.
I'm not likely to use software from "some random bloke" (at least not kernel mode stuff), but I want the *option* to do so, if I deem it necessary. Vista/7 will actually refuse to install unsigned drivers (I would prefer a bunch of warnings or something).
XP only has WGA if you allow it to install itself. None of my XP machines have WGA on them. They want to block me from "optional downloads"? Fine. I go out, find alternative programs, and take down their market share by one user.
Writing files in NTFS is apparently somewhat complex. I don't know *that* much about it, except the it uses B+ trees to store some of it's information (which are a little difficult to write), and that it took a *long* time before Linux had NTFS write capability. They were stuck on read-only for a long while.
If I'm not mistaken, there are removable device, Plug N Play and disk management services that could be disabled in Windows services to prevent usb drives from being read. Then, give the user non-admin access, and you're set. It should only be the security guys and upper IT people that should have access to installing software on a military machine that might handle sensitive or confidential data.
This article wasn't about infection or transfer of system files, it was about discovery of mission and personnel data being found on a second-hand USB device. A non-Windows OS wouldn't have necessarily helped, in this case.
The only thing that sounds weird to me is "ceased" instead of "seized". Garnish has two definitions. In this case, it means "take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support".
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And *I* would counter that my choice of living area shouldn't need to be influenced by something stupid like what's available on TV, nor what company provides the internet there. It *should* be commodity-level stuff, but I understand that sometimes you just have to deal with the reality of how things are.
It's not voluntary. If your ISP is subscribed, then you are paying whether or not you want to. And if your ISP isn't subscribed, then you can't get access even if you're willing to pay extra for it. And some people don't have multiple ISP choices. Personally, if I switched from cable to DSL, it'd cut my connection speed almost in half, with no difference in price. So, I'm happy that Time Warner doesn't seem to be a "subscribed ISP"....but I wouldn't have much of a feasible option to opt out if they were.
Circumcision isn't always a religious thing...once upon a time, they decided to "protect" people by doing it automatically at birth. Kinda sucks...I would've rather had the choice.
if your opinion's based on religion how do you determine which variation of the "truth" to base your belief on?
Because religion doesn't have to come from an institution. Why the hell do I need an organization to tell me what I believe?
I'm strongly in favor of teaching children (around the beginning of middle school) sex ed classes about the biology, then contraception a couple years later (9th grade or so, I guess). I absolutely recognize the problem of young people not recognizing their options concerning reproduction.
I would prefer Gitmo was kept open, but carefully monitored. I would prefer Roe v. Wade to be overturned. I would prefer the ban on embryonic stem cells to stay in place. I most certainly would prefer different judge appointments. I'd say he hasn't been doing what I wish in any way.
Teaching math isn't about actually teaching arithmetic, it's about teaching logical thought, and conditioning the students' minds with the proper tools.
In my opinion, people need *more* problem-solving skills, not fewer. They need to be forced to think things through. Teaching someone to use a calculator is teaching them to pull answers from some magical place, instead of understanding how the answers are arrived at.
Serious gamers are. They're relatively few in number. The big sales tend to go to companies.
How odd...my car doesn't have a sticker like that. I think in California, they just provide a customized license plate holder instead.
It's hardly "pirating" if you already own a legitimate copy of a game....it probably is technically copyright infringement though.
You *can* put the games on a disk, then put them back on the hard drive....it's just that you'd still need to sign in to Steam when you reinstalled. Anything in the Steamapps directory is game data. If the data file is in there, Steam doesn't re-download it.
I like it for a few reasons. One is its vision for the future. It looks grungy and plausible..."lived in". Then there's the cognitive dissonance in Ford's character, i.e. that he both recognizes the replicants as thinking, intelligent beings, but still feels that he has to take them out. And when he finds out what the girl is, as well....I guess I like seeing how people (even fictional characters) deal with moral ambiguity.
Start by eliminating keyboard and mouse? And replace them with what? There are few other input devices that are as comfortable to use, and that allow you to input data faster (by hand, that is). The next huge jump would have to be a brain-computer interface or something, and I don't know how much I need another hole in my head.
You have control over the way the application presents the email, can set up filters, can do your own spam filtering, and can access multiple accounts at once. At least, those are the reasons why *I* started using IMAP instead of actually going to their website.
You need to get the input into a form that the AI can understand. With Tic-Tac-Toe, that's simple. With vision/hearing/etc, it isn't so much. What does pixel (17x32) mean? So, the solution to that is to have some pattern-recognition that pre-processes the vision into some sort of symbols. In general, we've been programming those symbols in, but we could probably take it down to basic levels, similar to human vision processing. "What general color is this area? What guesses do I have as to current lighting conditions, and what color would that place be in bright white light? What shape does the area make up?" As time goes on, the AI's database of what those things *mean* to it would build up, but you've still got to find a way to get something besides raw data into its "consciousness".
So, while image recognition, natural language parsing/processing/comprehension, etc aren't necessarily necessary to "AI" itself, they're incredibly helpful as wrappers to allow an AI to interact in human-comfortable ways with the world.
Some phones have micro SD card slots. 2GB of space is enough for a good, long video, even if the phone records in something like motion jpeg.
I have a good fwiend in Woooome named Biggus Dickus, You insensitive cwod!
Correction. It's only a practical concern if you steal Windows. I choose not to allow a company to accuse me of theft and run a mini-investigation every time I start my computer or want to install more of their software. If a company (or the police, or whatever) wanted to come in to my home looking for some sort of criminal evidence, they'd get either "hell no!" or a request for their warrant. I don't see why I should allow an electronic invasion of my privacy any more than I would a physical one.
Note: My laptop is running the Windows license it came with. My desktop is using the student Windows license that I got in college, and which the EULA states that I can continue using for personal use after graduation.
I'm not likely to use software from "some random bloke" (at least not kernel mode stuff), but I want the *option* to do so, if I deem it necessary. Vista/7 will actually refuse to install unsigned drivers (I would prefer a bunch of warnings or something).
XP only has WGA if you allow it to install itself. None of my XP machines have WGA on them. They want to block me from "optional downloads"? Fine. I go out, find alternative programs, and take down their market share by one user.
Writing files in NTFS is apparently somewhat complex. I don't know *that* much about it, except the it uses B+ trees to store some of it's information (which are a little difficult to write), and that it took a *long* time before Linux had NTFS write capability. They were stuck on read-only for a long while.
If I'm not mistaken, there are removable device, Plug N Play and disk management services that could be disabled in Windows services to prevent usb drives from being read. Then, give the user non-admin access, and you're set. It should only be the security guys and upper IT people that should have access to installing software on a military machine that might handle sensitive or confidential data.
There are pieces of military equipment, the details of which should remain secret. The army is more than M16's and HMMWV's after all.
This article wasn't about infection or transfer of system files, it was about discovery of mission and personnel data being found on a second-hand USB device. A non-Windows OS wouldn't have necessarily helped, in this case.
The only thing that sounds weird to me is "ceased" instead of "seized". Garnish has two definitions. In this case, it means "take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support".
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