> shouldn't they be paying students for their development work?
They are. From TFA:
"Lieberman, who is a Hertz Fellow and also receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense"
You're confusing the fact that he's an employee, with the fact that he also happens to be a student. Of course, the original poster wants you to notice the latter, and not the former.
We are not talking about the government sharing data on individual citizens or on military secrets. We are talking about things involving government spending, contracts, loans, grants, etc. Things that citizens should have access to, but have trouble organizing.
Since the government spends, contracts, lends, and grants to individual citizens and to military contractors, we are in fact talking about sharing sensitive data. That's why it needs to be carefully reviewed before publishing it.
SSNs have already appeared on the web as a result of efforts to share government grant and contract data.
relative velocity is greater than the speed of light
From what I recall of physics this is not possible, since the speed of light is the limit regardless of your frame of reference. The fastest anything can move away from you is the speed of light, but in order to do that it would have to have infinite energy.
If someone can clarify I'd love to hear it, because I've never been able to quite wrap my brain around cosmic boundries either.
The rule "nothing can travel faster than light" from the Theory of Special Relativity has, in effect, a special exception in the General Theory of Relativity. Namely, "nothing can travel faster than light, except space itself".
In the grandparent's post, a photon is emitted from a point which is moving at 2*c (twice the speed of light) away from another. The moving space carries the photon's emitter with it. The photon then, is like a fish swimming at c upstream in a river travelling at 2*c - it never gets to its destination.
Your web browser deletes files from your computer all the time, and it doesn't need root access to do it.
My guess is that since the files are DRM protected in any case, the deletion we're talking about is little more than cleaning up a cache. They're not going to care if you do manage to keep a copy of a file longer than 7 days.
He didn't claim AI was impossible. He pointed out that many in the field claimed that AI must be possible (if only we were smart enough and had fast enough computers). Penrose pointed out that this might not be true. I.e. AI might be impossible.
When are lawmakers going to learn that it's the action that should be legislated, not the capability? You don't fine people who own sports cars because the are capable of speeding.
Don't let them hear you say that - you'll give them ideas.
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> shouldn't they be paying students for their development work?
They are. From TFA:
"Lieberman, who is a Hertz Fellow and also receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense"
You're confusing the fact that he's an employee, with the fact that he also happens to be a student. Of course, the original poster wants you to notice the latter, and not the former.
We are not talking about the government sharing data on individual citizens or on military secrets. We are talking about things involving government spending, contracts, loans, grants, etc. Things that citizens should have access to, but have trouble organizing.
Since the government spends, contracts, lends, and grants to individual citizens and to military contractors, we are in fact talking about sharing sensitive data. That's why it needs to be carefully reviewed before publishing it. SSNs have already appeared on the web as a result of efforts to share government grant and contract data.
You ask your legal department for advice, before you travel.
The rule "nothing can travel faster than light" from the Theory of Special Relativity has, in effect, a special exception in the General Theory of Relativity. Namely, "nothing can travel faster than light, except space itself".
In the grandparent's post, a photon is emitted from a point which is moving at 2*c (twice the speed of light) away from another. The moving space carries the photon's emitter with it. The photon then, is like a fish swimming at c upstream in a river travelling at 2*c - it never gets to its destination.
> Automatically deleted from user's computers?
Your web browser deletes files from your computer all the time, and it doesn't need root access to do it.
My guess is that since the files are DRM protected in any case, the deletion we're talking about is little more than cleaning up a cache. They're not going to care if you do manage to keep a copy of a file longer than 7 days.
Unless of course, somebody breaks the DRM.
He didn't claim AI was impossible. He pointed out that many in the field claimed that AI must be possible (if only we were smart enough and had fast enough computers). Penrose pointed out that this might not be true. I.e. AI might be impossible.
Big difference.
When are lawmakers going to learn that it's the action that should be legislated, not the capability? You don't fine people who own sports cars because the are capable of speeding.
Don't let them hear you say that - you'll give them ideas.