If this is real, it was really social engineering.
Agreed. But, in case there's any question of it, the word 'engineering' here is used sarcastically. This is unlike, say, how software engineering uses the term. I, for one, don't also want human resouces co-opting a perfectly meaningful word, ultimately serving to dilute the meaning of the word. Though I am not an engineer, I have a great respect for them, so I don't go around referring to myself as, say, an efficient mid-career operator in the ever-shrinking field of not-engineering.
Languages are fluid, and you can't prevent it from happening. You've already lost this battle.
Our ability as speakers of this language to effectively communicate with each other and the future speakers of this language is under siege by malapropisms. "Hacker," and words, are not been redefined by misuse or use in overbroad applications.
Hopefully the same options will be available for us when our government gets around to implementing our own kill switch.
Because every ridiculous bill proposed is passed into law, right? OP 4phun you must be new here, but here we reserve the kneejerks and sarcam and government bashing for the sake of government bashing for the commentators. The summaries are supposed to at least have the appearance of objectivity and should have no political agenda. Also, the redundency of this "news" is annoying, but understood as par for the slashdot course. FYI Congress us never going to "get around" to that one. The rest of the world would be pissed because an US Internet killswitch is in reality a rest-of-the-world internet killswitch... you could pound that switch over and over and never notice it was working... because internally to the US, it would pretty much be business as usual, while the rest of the planet went dark.
Actually, there can be no such thing, logically, as artificial sentience. Sentience is sentience, if it exists it is always the genuine article, synthetic or not.
I believe Searle would respond to your counter-example that what you are saying only makes sense if dualism is correct; that what you are saying, in effect, is that where the mind is concerned, the brain doesn't matter... and this is a dualist notion.
I tend to agree with Searle, that whatever the mind is, it is non-computational, thus not reducible to mere computations, therefore, in a nutshell, a program can never be sentient.
YMMV
It is possible the OP meant strong AI, or artificial mind. When anyone who doesn't really understand all AI is and its limits considers it, seems to me they really mean artificial mind, a computer or hw/sw combonation that has consciousness, especially self-awareness and other human-like brain states.
Artificial, computer mind/consciousness is not really possible, but that doesn't stop laymen from believing it is, nor does it matter (nor should it) to true AI researchers and computer and cognitive scientists, nor writers and readers of science fiction.
I think a lot of people would be surprised to know that he's been on something of an anti-vaccination crusade, especially when it comes to flu shots. He basically is of the position that the whole campaign to inoculate people against H1N1 is in and of itself a conspiracy. He's adamant that you don't need vaccines if you eat right.
I believe you are overstating his position. If your immune system is weakened, get a flu shot. If you're a hypochondriac munchausens case, we'll, if it will shut you up, go ahead, get a shot. But I believe his point (speculating) is the vast majority of the healthy population doesn't need a flu vaccine. He certainly isn't boasting he's found the cause of autism.
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And it's precisely because I am a Darwinist that I fear the overuse of antibiotics, since that is what has allowed nasty killer bugs like MRSA to adapt so effectively that they are often resistant to any antibiotic we can throw at it. There are consequences to vaccines and antibiotics. Some people want to study that, and some, it seems, want to call off the debate.
I wouldn't stick Bill in with the pseudoscientists... he's a comedian and a talk show host... he wants a debate, not a paradigm shift.
Rumor is, once they realized just how deadly space is, they began development on a space gun. It's not a gun that shoots in space, but a weapon that actually *shoots space* as a projectile, exposing the target to the deadly cosmic rays, freezing temperatures, burning solar radiation and near-perfect vacuum of space. I could never pass a background check (I'm nuts), but I bought a prototype at a gun show.
Department of Defense outlines concerns like protection from space junk and system security
The People's Liberation Army is not amused. They released this in response to the Pentagon's announcement:
The attack of subtext which is in accordance with these words of the Chinese government space plan does not stand! We militarize the space already, that is not the junk, we grasp and as for thing that we do not want obtaining the copy are excellent protection on West, vis-a-vis the old and honorable satellite. We answer this clear hostility hostilitaly.
Aha! Then by your own citation, it isn't 28% Google specific! It's only ~71-72% Google specific.
Microsoft is used to swamping the little guy. Historically since the dawn of personal computing, Microsoft's standard operating proceedure is find a new product they don't sell that someone else does, copy it shamelessly, creating a vastly inferior product in the same space, and flood the market with their inferior product, usually at a loss, in order to drown the little guy out of business, creating their own near monopoly when they can then recoup their investment and make profit. Trouble is... Google is not some tiny startup without the capital needed to defend against Microsoft's anti-competitve pactices. Google likely saw it coming the day Bing was announced.
Any day now, the IRS will be raiding nurseries to arrest tax evading mothers who despicably have been nursing their children and not paying the tax for mother's milk, which is taxable interstate commerce, as it impacts the baby formula industry quite substantially. Now that I think about it, natural child-birth is impacting the healthcare (c-section surgeries) and fertility industries (test tube solutions and what not)... so fertile women are pretty much dead beat tax evaders, too... that is, according to the rules of interstate commerce. Crap... I just picked my nose... nasty habit... but I myself now owe tax for the action because I just flicked it at the IRS instead of using a tissue (thus impacting the tissue industry). Tell me more of this magical land of Alaska where I can pick my nose without the crushing yoke of interstate commerce tax!
Tethering charges are a scam for any user paying for limited data. Unlimited data users that want tethering *should* be charged, but only if they go over some reasonable cap. There are some iPhone AT&T users here that boast using over 90GB a month (numnuts torrenting over cell data). Those users mess up the bills of reasonable users (most users never get close to 2GB/month, yet suffer for what the data hogs use).
Also in Microsoft's court, Exchange has no true equal and Active-Directory still rules, and, by reverse proxy I guess, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is amazing. On the otherhand, their flagship OS is still a rotting, broken piece of shit and a security nightmare, and their rabid fanbois equal mac zealots in the uninformed denial of this. (Sure... any OS can be broken or insecure... it's just infinitely easier with Windows.)
It's time for big business to realize that capitalism does not require anyone to give you money for your offerings.
Unless we're talking about a capitalist republic, and it affects interstate commerce, in which case, even if free and doesn't cross state lines, it IS interstate commerce and therefore taxable, thus requiring someone to give everyone else some money.
Because the shareholders -- THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY OWN THE COMPANY
What company lets shareholders RUN the company?
Why are there more here chiming in that obviously could care less than those that actually have interesting and inciteful things to say? C'mon Slashdot posters... I come here for the comments, (and to troll) and lately, you've really been sucking. Please stop sucking.
It's my figure, based on working 22 years in the printing and publishing industry. Books are heavy, and gas is no longer cheap, thus distribution is the most expensive factor. Printing, itself, is far less costly.
Slashdot Mirror
If this is real, it was really social engineering.
Agreed. But, in case there's any question of it, the word 'engineering' here is used sarcastically. This is unlike, say, how software engineering uses the term. I, for one, don't also want human resouces co-opting a perfectly meaningful word, ultimately serving to dilute the meaning of the word. Though I am not an engineer, I have a great respect for them, so I don't go around referring to myself as, say, an efficient mid-career operator in the ever-shrinking field of not-engineering.
everyone knows they just leave it in there to generate meaningless discussions. That's the point of slashdot.
edit. better or worse?
And by true hacking, we mean true cracking.
Languages are fluid, and you can't prevent it from happening. You've already lost this battle.
Our ability as speakers of this language to effectively communicate with each other and the future speakers of this language is under siege by malapropisms. "Hacker," and words, are not been redefined by misuse or use in overbroad applications.
Hopefully the same options will be available for us when our government gets around to implementing our own kill switch.
Because every ridiculous bill proposed is passed into law, right? OP 4phun you must be new here, but here we reserve the kneejerks and sarcam and government bashing for the sake of government bashing for the commentators. The summaries are supposed to at least have the appearance of objectivity and should have no political agenda. Also, the redundency of this "news" is annoying, but understood as par for the slashdot course. FYI Congress us never going to "get around" to that one. The rest of the world would be pissed because an US Internet killswitch is in reality a rest-of-the-world internet killswitch... you could pound that switch over and over and never notice it was working... because internally to the US, it would pretty much be business as usual, while the rest of the planet went dark.
Actually, there can be no such thing, logically, as artificial sentience. Sentience is sentience, if it exists it is always the genuine article, synthetic or not.
I believe Searle would respond to your counter-example that what you are saying only makes sense if dualism is correct; that what you are saying, in effect, is that where the mind is concerned, the brain doesn't matter... and this is a dualist notion.
I tend to agree with Searle, that whatever the mind is, it is non-computational, thus not reducible to mere computations, therefore, in a nutshell, a program can never be sentient. YMMV
It is possible the OP meant strong AI, or artificial mind. When anyone who doesn't really understand all AI is and its limits considers it, seems to me they really mean artificial mind, a computer or hw/sw combonation that has consciousness, especially self-awareness and other human-like brain states.
Artificial, computer mind/consciousness is not really possible, but that doesn't stop laymen from believing it is, nor does it matter (nor should it) to true AI researchers and computer and cognitive scientists, nor writers and readers of science fiction.
I think a lot of people would be surprised to know that he's been on something of an anti-vaccination crusade, especially when it comes to flu shots. He basically is of the position that the whole campaign to inoculate people against H1N1 is in and of itself a conspiracy. He's adamant that you don't need vaccines if you eat right.
I believe you are overstating his position. If your immune system is weakened, get a flu shot. If you're a hypochondriac munchausens case, we'll, if it will shut you up, go ahead, get a shot. But I believe his point (speculating) is the vast majority of the healthy population doesn't need a flu vaccine. He certainly isn't boasting he's found the cause of autism.
snipped:
And it's precisely because I am a Darwinist that I fear the overuse of antibiotics, since that is what has allowed nasty killer bugs like MRSA to adapt so effectively that they are often resistant to any antibiotic we can throw at it. There are consequences to vaccines and antibiotics. Some people want to study that, and some, it seems, want to call off the debate.
I wouldn't stick Bill in with the pseudoscientists... he's a comedian and a talk show host... he wants a debate, not a paradigm shift.
Rumor is, once they realized just how deadly space is, they began development on a space gun. It's not a gun that shoots in space, but a weapon that actually *shoots space* as a projectile, exposing the target to the deadly cosmic rays, freezing temperatures, burning solar radiation and near-perfect vacuum of space. I could never pass a background check (I'm nuts), but I bought a prototype at a gun show.
Manifest Destiny... we we're getting to the rest of the Solar System eventually.
Department of Defense outlines concerns like protection from space junk and system security
The People's Liberation Army is not amused. They released this in response to the Pentagon's announcement:
The attack of subtext which is in accordance with these words of the Chinese government space plan does not stand! We militarize the space already, that is not the junk, we grasp and as for thing that we do not want obtaining the copy are excellent protection on West, vis-a-vis the old and honorable satellite. We answer this clear hostility hostilitaly.
He should just hire women... they'll do the same work, often better, for less pay. Can you see the ethical delimma now?
To claim that it is not google specific is at best naive. In the US there are really only 2 players, Google and Microsoft.
There are tons of breakdowns of search size, I kinda picked this one at random. http://www.seoconsultants.com/search-engines/
Aha! Then by your own citation, it isn't 28% Google specific! It's only ~71-72% Google specific.
Microsoft is used to swamping the little guy. Historically since the dawn of personal computing, Microsoft's standard operating proceedure is find a new product they don't sell that someone else does, copy it shamelessly, creating a vastly inferior product in the same space, and flood the market with their inferior product, usually at a loss, in order to drown the little guy out of business, creating their own near monopoly when they can then recoup their investment and make profit. Trouble is... Google is not some tiny startup without the capital needed to defend against Microsoft's anti-competitve pactices. Google likely saw it coming the day Bing was announced.
This response is bush league.
Fixed.
ah, don't feel guilty... T-Mobile is long on bandwidth because it's short on customers. Tether away!
It's a great honor for Zoroaster, then, to have astrology declared science. Poor Pythagoras... for not even mathematics has achieved that distinction.
Any day now, the IRS will be raiding nurseries to arrest tax evading mothers who despicably have been nursing their children and not paying the tax for mother's milk, which is taxable interstate commerce, as it impacts the baby formula industry quite substantially. Now that I think about it, natural child-birth is impacting the healthcare (c-section surgeries) and fertility industries (test tube solutions and what not)... so fertile women are pretty much dead beat tax evaders, too... that is, according to the rules of interstate commerce. Crap... I just picked my nose... nasty habit... but I myself now owe tax for the action because I just flicked it at the IRS instead of using a tissue (thus impacting the tissue industry). Tell me more of this magical land of Alaska where I can pick my nose without the crushing yoke of interstate commerce tax!
Tethering charges are a scam for any user paying for limited data. Unlimited data users that want tethering *should* be charged, but only if they go over some reasonable cap. There are some iPhone AT&T users here that boast using over 90GB a month (numnuts torrenting over cell data). Those users mess up the bills of reasonable users (most users never get close to 2GB/month, yet suffer for what the data hogs use).
Ha! I do that all the time (post AC, then mod parent up... doesn't work if you mod before you post).
;-)
Also in Microsoft's court, Exchange has no true equal and Active-Directory still rules, and, by reverse proxy I guess, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is amazing. On the otherhand, their flagship OS is still a rotting, broken piece of shit and a security nightmare, and their rabid fanbois equal mac zealots in the uninformed denial of this. (Sure... any OS can be broken or insecure... it's just infinitely easier with Windows.)
bah... no mod points... loaning you my karma is all,
thx for posting
It's time for big business to realize that capitalism does not require anyone to give you money for your offerings.
Unless we're talking about a capitalist republic, and it affects interstate commerce, in which case, even if free and doesn't cross state lines, it IS interstate commerce and therefore taxable, thus requiring someone to give everyone else some money.
this is a troll, YMMV
Because the shareholders -- THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY OWN THE COMPANY
What company lets shareholders RUN the company?
Why are there more here chiming in that obviously could care less than those that actually have interesting and inciteful things to say? C'mon Slashdot posters... I come here for the comments, (and to troll) and lately, you've really been sucking. Please stop sucking.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
no... wait, that's not the one...
No good deed goes unpunished.
that's the one.
It's my figure, based on working 22 years in the printing and publishing industry. Books are heavy, and gas is no longer cheap, thus distribution is the most expensive factor. Printing, itself, is far less costly.
ah, of course... gps kept working, just couldn't transmit. Thx.