I guess its just unforuneate that most firearm incidents are unintended. Considering that the chances that a 'good guy' gun owner has to successfully defend himself against intrusion or theft are infinitesimally small, add to the mix that any gun owner is far more likely to injure or kill himself or someone they love than prevent any crime... and, yeah, I see some cause for concern.
Sorry... If what you say is correct, then countries that have roads without speed limits are immoral countries. Speeding itself... and nearly anything having to do with your car (short of vehicular assassination or theft, etc) is amoral, ie there is no moral applicability (except where one breaks the societal cotract to obey the rules, not keeping one's word, blah blah blah but not necessarily including civil disobedience-- yes, sometimes its even immoral to follow the rules!!). Law and morality are altogether different animals.
'Right and wrong' has to do with morality. While many laws have roots in morality, law isn't morality. When you break the speed limit, the actual breaking the speed limit part has little, if anything to do with right or wrong (morality). Its the unspoken agreement with society that you break when you exceed the speed limit (and break the law) that is the moral issue.
Even though its against the EULA, Apple has shown by their lack of doing anything to stop it (and they pretty much go ape shit about the stuff they do care about, like secrets and NDAs), no one is stopping you from running OS X on your new box. Welcome to Hackent0sh!
so... any predictions on how long its going to take to artificially create 'mind' is meaningless and empty because, no matter how technically advanced we become, until science figures out what the hell it is and how it works, we just may never know. For all we know dualism, or even epiphenomenalism, is correct.
That is disturbing. I also find it disturbing that it took 7+ years before scotus heard and ruled on the case. I'm not sure how 7 years of imprisonment, prior to trial/sentencing etc., can even remotely be considered due process. Where is the due process case? Will that follow? Maybe we need more Supreme Courts for a decade or so until they get caught up on their work.
Agreed. Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XMLhttpRequest) was given a name because it was a growing trend; many decided to use it independently, and naming it something made sense. ARAX, or whatever, is just an idea a few people have. I see no trend.
How can you possibly know that? Its one of the tenets of Philosophy of Mind, brain states do not correspond to mind states... meaning identical brain states do not necessarily produce the same state of mind and vise versa.
Now you're just asserting things. Really, I'm just regurgitating Daniel Dennett.
Seriously. In order for extortion to work, money has to change hands. Whether or not money changes hands, extortion is extortion. It still "works" if the element of intimidation is intact, and I'm pretty sure its a far more serious crime than developing malware.
Even considering that most of what we know about brain came in the last 30 years, and from bicycle accident head trauma, we may never reverse engineer brain, but its not as if its impossible, just unlikely. I can imagine a reasonable future where "brain-prosthetics" may allow some cybernetic implants to increase memory or have coprocessors give the ability of super-human math feats... but what is missing from all neurological advancements is *mind.* No matter how you slice it, or how close you look, any philosopher is happy to point out, all you end up with is brain... mind is increasingly and frustratingly elusive. Humans may very well someday reverse engineer the brain and be able to duplicate brain states, but this does not correspond to states of mind... so even if computer scientists create some super advanced AI, all it will be able to do is trick us into thinking the AI is mind, but it never will be, and no artificial hardware/software will ever be able to produce mind, nor will we ever find mind by digging through brain, either physically or by non-invasive scanning, even if we know that brain is the seat of mind. In neurology and AI, mind is the holy grail.
Nice reply, thanks. AVI seems to be a weird choice across the board. Its ancient, so maybe the excuse is its compatible with the majority of installed platforms... But, again, I'm not aware of any platform that can't handle mp4 wrappers. And I suppose the avi files I'm whining about are mostly XviD or DivX, these can't be incompatible with mp4 wrappers, can they? I thought XviD was an mp4 standard, capable of 264 and other compression schema.
wow, you're simplifying. 1) Early in their partnership, Microsoft abandoned development with IBM, but they weren't ever really working together on the same stuff... OS/2 is IBMs baby. And by changing the planned API, which would have given OS/2 the compatibility desired, Microsoft effectively killed OS/2 (though, admitedly, it hung around for a long time... And technically its still around, support only stopped in 2006... but it never achieved the popularity deserved because of Microsofts ruthless business practices)
2) you got me there... IBM never licensed Windows, which is why you could never get an IBM with Windows preinstalled./sarcasm
Thanks for playing, young coward. C'mon back when you get hungry.
Not to be an ass, because I'm aware that MKV is a good project and as good a container format as any other (or better), but MKV, opensource or not, is non-standard, and hasn't been around forever. Isn't the real culprit, or at least the one anime fans should be up in arms about, is whomevers is ripping the most anime is ripping it to MKV? If you were purchasing anime on DVD, there wouldn't be an issue. (and I can sympathize because periodically I rant about the popularity of avi wrappers... Why wrap mp4s in avi... When an mp4 wrapper would seem to make more sense?)
What brought down OS/2 was a broken promise... the promise of compatibility that was never realized because Microsoft bought the NT dev team lock stock and barrel and refused to license it.
Microsoft's ruthlessness jockied their OS products into pivital roles in history, not the other way around.
Take away the IBM licensing, and Win95 wouldn't 'literally change the world of personal computing.' Or better, pretend Apple went belly-up in the 70's and Windows never would have been developed. Or consider if IBM had chosen OS/2... then it would have been OS/2 that would have 'literally changed the world of personal computing.' Bill is shrewd, but without the luck of landing the IBM licensing deal... twice... and Windows, and Microsoft, really sinks into perspective, i.e. nothing to see here.
I'm pretty sure it went the other way... After conquering much of northern Europe the Vikings interbred with the locals, 'diluting' their gene pool by coming down from the North, not by southerners conquering north and doing the same thing. Have European ancestry? Chances are you've got Viking in there somewhere.
I wonder how much of the subtitling issues are VLC's fault, and how much it is bad or poorly coded or corrupt subtitle files. In my experience its not always screwed up... sometimes it works fine with some files, sometimes its a little wacky with others. Ironically, while aware of the problem, VLC is the only app I've been able to find that allows me to transcode from one video format to another with subtitling included in the transcode, letting me choose subtitle location and point size (cli of course).
Not theft, fraud. And if you saw The Firm you'd remember that each count of mail fraud alone is punishable by a $5000 fine and 2 years in jail. So, for 58,000 counts that's, uh, $290 Million, and 116,000 years in jail. The bank fraud and wire fraud charges likely carry even heavier sentences.
I agree. The new vt100.app supports virtual terminals, and is very powerful. The system is tight and truly allows remote administration from your phone. The lack of physical keyboard, which I see as merely convenience, might get old during really long sessions, but a Bluetooth keyboard is coming with 2.0, and with that anything a fast typist can do with a desktop terminal will be just as comfortable on your phone. Regardless of how one feels about Apple hardware, the iPhone is a Mac. Until you can call a competitor a tiny desktop, there just aren't any.
Transportation is an important government gauruntee. The hope is that the market will do its part to sustain the airlines, but if it fails, having no air travel is not an option. Government must step in to protect our way of life. (yes, a weak argument, but all I got for now)
Ayn Rand is a moron... an aweful philosopher and an even worse writer. Her philosophy was debunked almost as soon as she published. No one working in philosophy studies her other than for historical purposes.
What I propose is only slightly different from breaking up monopolies, in that once its acknowledged that Big Oil continues to conspire to artificially inflate consumer costs, their profits are considered ill gotten and should be forfeit. We are in an energy crises, and the market is not solving it... time for government to step in an protect its constituents.
Nationalize the Oil companies and raid their accounts. Make fuel free the way roads and bridges are "free," made a part of the Department of Interior, subsidized by new taxes. Use the windfall amounts of money (from siezed oil money) to bail out the airlines and R&D new fuel sources, & use whats left to pay down national debt.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess its just unforuneate that most firearm incidents are unintended. Considering that the chances that a 'good guy' gun owner has to successfully defend himself against intrusion or theft are infinitesimally small, add to the mix that any gun owner is far more likely to injure or kill himself or someone they love than prevent any crime... and, yeah, I see some cause for concern.
Sorry... If what you say is correct, then countries that have roads without speed limits are immoral countries. Speeding itself... and nearly anything having to do with your car (short of vehicular assassination or theft, etc) is amoral, ie there is no moral applicability (except where one breaks the societal cotract to obey the rules, not keeping one's word, blah blah blah but not necessarily including civil disobedience-- yes, sometimes its even immoral to follow the rules!!). Law and morality are altogether different animals.
'Right and wrong' has to do with morality. While many laws have roots in morality, law isn't morality. When you break the speed limit, the actual breaking the speed limit part has little, if anything to do with right or wrong (morality). Its the unspoken agreement with society that you break when you exceed the speed limit (and break the law) that is the moral issue.
Even though its against the EULA, Apple has shown by their lack of doing anything to stop it (and they pretty much go ape shit about the stuff they do care about, like secrets and NDAs), no one is stopping you from running OS X on your new box. Welcome to Hackent0sh!
so... any predictions on how long its going to take to artificially create 'mind' is meaningless and empty because, no matter how technically advanced we become, until science figures out what the hell it is and how it works, we just may never know. For all we know dualism, or even epiphenomenalism, is correct.
That is disturbing. I also find it disturbing that it took 7+ years before scotus heard and ruled on the case. I'm not sure how 7 years of imprisonment, prior to trial/sentencing etc., can even remotely be considered due process. Where is the due process case? Will that follow? Maybe we need more Supreme Courts for a decade or so until they get caught up on their work.
You're saying that there are arguments that states of mind correspond to brain states? OK, for the argument, but its never been observed.
Actually, it might, if it runs the same firmware as current. Zodttd ported vlc.
Agreed.
Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XMLhttpRequest) was given a name because it was a growing trend; many decided to use it independently, and naming it something made sense. ARAX, or whatever, is just an idea a few people have. I see no trend.
Now you're just asserting things. Really, I'm just regurgitating Daniel Dennett.
Even considering that most of what we know about brain came in the last 30 years, and from bicycle accident head trauma, we may never reverse engineer brain, but its not as if its impossible, just unlikely. I can imagine a reasonable future where "brain-prosthetics" may allow some cybernetic implants to increase memory or have coprocessors give the ability of super-human math feats... but what is missing from all neurological advancements is *mind.* No matter how you slice it, or how close you look, any philosopher is happy to point out, all you end up with is brain... mind is increasingly and frustratingly elusive. Humans may very well someday reverse engineer the brain and be able to duplicate brain states, but this does not correspond to states of mind... so even if computer scientists create some super advanced AI, all it will be able to do is trick us into thinking the AI is mind, but it never will be, and no artificial hardware/software will ever be able to produce mind, nor will we ever find mind by digging through brain, either physically or by non-invasive scanning, even if we know that brain is the seat of mind. In neurology and AI, mind is the holy grail.
Nice reply, thanks. AVI seems to be a weird choice across the board. Its ancient, so maybe the excuse is its compatible with the majority of installed platforms... But, again, I'm not aware of any platform that can't handle mp4 wrappers. And I suppose the avi files I'm whining about are mostly XviD or DivX, these can't be incompatible with mp4 wrappers, can they? I thought XviD was an mp4 standard, capable of 264 and other compression schema.
wow, you're simplifying.
/sarcasm
1) Early in their partnership, Microsoft abandoned development with IBM, but they weren't ever really working together on the same stuff... OS/2 is IBMs baby. And by changing the planned API, which would have given OS/2 the compatibility desired, Microsoft effectively killed OS/2 (though, admitedly, it hung around for a long time... And technically its still around, support only stopped in 2006... but it never achieved the popularity deserved because of Microsofts ruthless business practices)
2) you got me there... IBM never licensed Windows, which is why you could never get an IBM with Windows preinstalled.
Thanks for playing, young coward. C'mon back when you get hungry.
Not to be an ass, because I'm aware that MKV is a good project and as good a container format as any other (or better), but MKV, opensource or not, is non-standard, and hasn't been around forever. Isn't the real culprit, or at least the one anime fans should be up in arms about, is whomevers is ripping the most anime is ripping it to MKV? If you were purchasing anime on DVD, there wouldn't be an issue. (and I can sympathize because periodically I rant about the popularity of avi wrappers... Why wrap mp4s in avi... When an mp4 wrapper would seem to make more sense?)
What brought down OS/2 was a broken promise... the promise of compatibility that was never realized because Microsoft bought the NT dev team lock stock and barrel and refused to license it.
Microsoft's ruthlessness jockied their OS products into pivital roles in history, not the other way around.
Take away the IBM licensing, and Win95 wouldn't 'literally change the world of personal computing.' Or better, pretend Apple went belly-up in the 70's and Windows never would have been developed. Or consider if IBM had chosen OS/2... then it would have been OS/2 that would have 'literally changed the world of personal computing.' Bill is shrewd, but without the luck of landing the IBM licensing deal... twice... and Windows, and Microsoft, really sinks into perspective, i.e. nothing to see here.
I'm pretty sure it went the other way... After conquering much of northern Europe the Vikings interbred with the locals, 'diluting' their gene pool by coming down from the North, not by southerners conquering north and doing the same thing. Have European ancestry? Chances are you've got Viking in there somewhere.
I wonder how much of the subtitling issues are VLC's fault, and how much it is bad or poorly coded or corrupt subtitle files. In my experience its not always screwed up... sometimes it works fine with some files, sometimes its a little wacky with others. Ironically, while aware of the problem, VLC is the only app I've been able to find that allows me to transcode from one video format to another with subtitling included in the transcode, letting me choose subtitle location and point size (cli of course).
Not theft, fraud. And if you saw The Firm you'd remember that each count of mail fraud alone is punishable by a $5000 fine and 2 years in jail. So, for 58,000 counts that's, uh, $290 Million, and 116,000 years in jail. The bank fraud and wire fraud charges likely carry even heavier sentences.
I agree. The new vt100.app supports virtual terminals, and is very powerful. The system is tight and truly allows remote administration from your phone. The lack of physical keyboard, which I see as merely convenience, might get old during really long sessions, but a Bluetooth keyboard is coming with 2.0, and with that anything a fast typist can do with a desktop terminal will be just as comfortable on your phone. Regardless of how one feels about Apple hardware, the iPhone is a Mac. Until you can call a competitor a tiny desktop, there just aren't any.
on iPhone here, no copy/paste, so google:
"chain letter" Scientific American
for the article "Chain Letters and Evolutionary Histories"
Transportation is an important government gauruntee. The hope is that the market will do its part to sustain the airlines, but if it fails, having no air travel is not an option. Government must step in to protect our way of life. (yes, a weak argument, but all I got for now)
Ayn Rand is a moron... an aweful philosopher and an even worse writer. Her philosophy was debunked almost as soon as she published. No one working in philosophy studies her other than for historical purposes.
What I propose is only slightly different from breaking up monopolies, in that once its acknowledged that Big Oil continues to conspire to artificially inflate consumer costs, their profits are considered ill gotten and should be forfeit. We are in an energy crises, and the market is not solving it... time for government to step in an protect its constituents.
Nationalize the Oil companies and raid their accounts. Make fuel free the way roads and bridges are "free," made a part of the Department of Interior, subsidized by new taxes. Use the windfall amounts of money (from siezed oil money) to bail out the airlines and R&D new fuel sources, & use whats left to pay down national debt.