Considering that many cars already now log that last few seconds of your speed in a form that can be subpoenaed, this voluntary data logging and submission represents a step *forward* in users controlling their own risk information and more accurately generating actuary data.
It's too bad that the owner's in due course of the rights to a property can so pervert and damage the author's original vision of robots aspiring to humanity.
Except our local rural library in Humboldt County sucks hard. Nice physical plant. A lot of staff. Not so many books, though. Not bought. Stolen. Mishelved for years. Unknown fate.
Interlibrary loan? Costs $1.00 per book. Takes forever.
PLUS the Patriot Act nazis get to subpoena your library reading.
Yes, indeed. The library would be a good idea. Here it exists to extract money from state government and pay what are locally huge wages a select few. If I really want to read good books I go to IRC or Usenet and download them.
I live in a rural area of California. I did have a NYT subscription, but it almost always arrived a day late. Sometimes two or three at once would hit the mailbox.
I am now happy with my timely reading of the NYT, the BBC and happily clip to my Clie or Alphasmart when I travel.
(Plug for new reading device: the Alphasmart Neo due for sale in August, is a typing and editing machine that can hold 2MB of software and 512KB of text. It lasts 700 hours on a set of 3 AA's. Fill it up before you fly, read and discard, then fill it up on the trip with your notes. Instant on. Doesn't crash. IR xfer.)
The New York Times takes the time and trouble to build a world-class newspaper and then, rather than rewarding this gift (yes, gift) creating something equally useful and wonderful, an assistant professor complains that it isn't free.
There is no cry for the Turkmenistan archives because -- unlike the NYT -- not many people think much of the quality or usefulness of that apocryph.
My suggestion for this teacher is that treaching itself is a core civilization value and so he should be ashamed to accept money for it.
Nor of course should he be associated with such a craven organization such as New York University that accepts money from poor students after the decadent selfishness of feeding at the public trough.
We already know how to solve many of these safety, secrecy, and authentication problems: processor on-chip public key systems coupled with rigorous registration of processor IDs and approved application and communication stream SHA's.
Every effective packet on the internet is signed and registered. Every e-mail, mp3, mpeg and application is registered and authenticated by the Central Authority, which very well may be out-sourced to Turkmenistan.
This is what the ultrapatriots want.
This is what corporate america wants.
This is what *****tology wants.
This is the super convergence of thinking and identity, accountability and control.
A world without insanity or fear, where everything not forbidden is compulsory.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend!
When a severely brain-damaged friend of my son gets to free himself for a few hours with Counterstrike, where he can jump and twirl and join the general melee as any other kid, I know Alan Kay is decidedly wrong.
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Considering that many cars already now log that last few seconds of your speed in a form that can be subpoenaed, this voluntary data logging and submission represents a step *forward* in users controlling their own risk information and more accurately generating actuary data.
What happens as we evolve or GMO ourselves? Are we no longer humans, mark I, under the laws?
Or how about as our language changes. And the laws become something like what we call Old English?
Do the robots do a firmware flash? Who does the flashing? Microsoft? Uh-oh... remember the secret directive in Robocop...
q.v. "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson
It's too bad that the owner's in due course of the rights to a property can so pervert and damage the author's original vision of robots aspiring to humanity.
Interlibrary loan? Costs $1.00 per book. Takes forever.
PLUS the Patriot Act nazis get to subpoena your library reading.
Yes, indeed. The library would be a good idea. Here it exists to extract money from state government and pay what are locally huge wages a select few. If I really want to read good books I go to IRC or Usenet and download them.
I am now happy with my timely reading of the NYT, the BBC and happily clip to my Clie or Alphasmart when I travel.
(Plug for new reading device: the Alphasmart Neo due for sale in August, is a typing and editing machine that can hold 2MB of software and 512KB of text. It lasts 700 hours on a set of 3 AA's. Fill it up before you fly, read and discard, then fill it up on the trip with your notes. Instant on. Doesn't crash. IR xfer.)
There is no cry for the Turkmenistan archives because -- unlike the NYT -- not many people think much of the quality or usefulness of that apocryph.
My suggestion for this teacher is that treaching itself is a core civilization value and so he should be ashamed to accept money for it.
Nor of course should he be associated with such a craven organization such as New York University that accepts money from poor students after the decadent selfishness of feeding at the public trough.
Every effective packet on the internet is signed and registered. Every e-mail, mp3, mpeg and application is registered and authenticated by the Central Authority, which very well may be out-sourced to Turkmenistan.
This is what the ultrapatriots want.
This is what corporate america wants.
This is what *****tology wants.
This is the super convergence of thinking and identity, accountability and control.
A world without insanity or fear, where everything not forbidden is compulsory.
Let a thousand flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend!
When a severely brain-damaged friend of my son gets to free himself for a few hours with Counterstrike, where he can jump and twirl and join the general melee as any other kid, I know Alan Kay is decidedly wrong.