Actually, worms are already spreading slower in order to survive longer. Even without a system like this, a worm that spreads fast gathers much more attention than one that spreads slow.
Tracking down and properly documenting a most probably intermittent and random bug in order to file a big report that is actually useful is not really the kind of task one feels like doing when one just wanted to draw a diagram.
Name me one network admin who will use XP Home on an ultra-portable. Remind me again why anybody would care what network admins do with their ultraportables?
This is what you said:
According to GR, gravity is the curvature of Space-Time. As the anti-matter moves through space it has to follow this curvature. If it does not, that means GR is wrong (which may be the case, but I doubt this experiment will disprove GR). Except that regular hydrogen falls up. Since the average velocity of its molecules is above the escape velocity of Earth, hydrogen tends to move away from Earth. If anti-hydrogen has similar velocities, it should also rise. That is not "bringing it up as a related issue".
the AC who posted that esacape velocity has nothing to do with hydrogen rising He did not say anything of the sort. You misunderstood that. He said:
bollocks. having a faster-than-escape velocity doesn't make things fall upwards. it merely means they don't come down fast enough to hit the earth He was essentially pointing out that you were confusing unrelated issues in your original post.
No, you did not. You just stumbled into an discussion you didn't understand, started yelling about unrelated things, called people retards when they pointed out that you are completely misunderstanding the topic, and now you're still going on about it.
Nobody said that hydrogen doesn't rise from the Earth. That is another misunderstanding on your part. Now slow down, take a deep breath, re-read the discussion and try to figure out how you are talking about something completely different than everyone else.
It should be noted that the assumptions it makes "without any real justification" are deliberately chosen because they're common assumptions made by a large segment of the transhumanist futurists. The fact that they lead to a seemingly bizarre conclusion forces everyone to take a good, hard, critical look at those assumptions in a way they might not otherwise. But the problem is that it doesn't force them to do this. The transhumanists are making absurd assumptions, and they are not challenging them in any way whatsoever because they like the bizarre conclusions. They think it's really cool that they have figured out the world is (or will be) so strange, and they're the only ones who have been smart enough to figure that out.
They are too caught up in their own fantasies of the nerd rapture to step back and question their flawed assumptions.
There is no such thing as a "CSS interpreter" separate from the browser. The rendering engine and the CSS handling code are almost entirely one and the same.
On the other hand, if we develop beings with an artificial intelligence equal to the smartest scientists, they could potentially develop a second generation that would be improved. That generation could operate more quickly and be smarter, and develop a third generation even more quickly. This is withing the realm of possibility, although it represents a very narrow and simplified view of what intelligence is.
Essentially, the limit to our rate of advancement would be removed, and that would cause technological advances to happen very quickly. In a short period of time, we could find ourselves surrounded by beings that seem like gods to us. However, this in no way follows from the earlier assumptions. This is the essential mistake made by all proponents of the "singularity".
You are assuming that each generation of intelligences can not only create an intelligence smarter than themselves, but one that is as much smarter than themselves as they are smarter than their predecessors. That is definitely not something which is guaranteed to be true, and I would go so far as to say it is most likely false.
It doesn't matter if your infinite series is always strictly increasing, it's not necessarily going to get to infinity.
For instance, say you manage to create an intelligence twice as intelligent as you. This one puts all its intelligence into creating another intelligence, and manages to create one which is 2.5 times as intelligent as you. That one manages 2.75. And so on, until you top out at three times. No runaway evolution happens, because intelligence turns out to be really hard.
Looking at my fellow countrymen... The point was that you are doing nothing of the kind. You are looking at strawmen that only exist in your own head, not real people.
Hollywood can't even handle a Phillip K. Dick story without slapping on a happy ending. Do you think for a second that they are going to spend tens of millions of $ on a movie and include ANYTHING that makes even one test screening audience the *slightest* bit uncomfortable? Well, yes. Yes, I do. I've watched my fair share of utterly upsetting Hollywood movies. They may be in a minority, but just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Well, I was mostly confused how, if the circuit breaker for the distribution lines really failed, they seemed to have no other way of cutting the power, at least not within the fairly long time this was going on.
As much as we all like a good explosion, that summary seems highly misleading. From the abstract:
Microscopic arcing was observed at voltages as low as -300 V. This arcing caused solder to explode off of the object. Insulating the object allowed the charge to remain on the object longer, while in the plasma, and also eliminated the arcing. However, this insulation does not allow a net charge to reside on the surface of the spacecraft. "Caused solder to explode off the object" hardly sounds like much of an explosion.
The site is setup well in that clicking a link redirects you to a page displaying the actual offsite link address and letting you know it is going offsite. It puts a level between the site and the linked content which likely reduces liability and adds to overall security of the user. Actually, no, that's mostly for advertising purposes. There's no way to hide a link on 2channel, so the URL was already in plain sight.
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Yeah, that has worked great so far, hasn't it?
Actually, worms are already spreading slower in order to survive longer. Even without a system like this, a worm that spreads fast gathers much more attention than one that spreads slow.
Tracking down and properly documenting a most probably intermittent and random bug in order to file a big report that is actually useful is not really the kind of task one feels like doing when one just wanted to draw a diagram.
No, you did not. You just stumbled into an discussion you didn't understand, started yelling about unrelated things, called people retards when they pointed out that you are completely misunderstanding the topic, and now you're still going on about it.
Nobody said that hydrogen doesn't rise from the Earth. That is another misunderstanding on your part. Now slow down, take a deep breath, re-read the discussion and try to figure out how you are talking about something completely different than everyone else.
That's nice. Now try reading the actual issue at hand instead, and try to comprehend why you are talking about something else entirely.
They are too caught up in their own fantasies of the nerd rapture to step back and question their flawed assumptions.
Before calling people retards, perhaps you should try to actually understand the topic being discussed, to avoid looking quite so foolish.
There is no such thing as a "CSS interpreter" separate from the browser. The rendering engine and the CSS handling code are almost entirely one and the same.
You are assuming that each generation of intelligences can not only create an intelligence smarter than themselves, but one that is as much smarter than themselves as they are smarter than their predecessors. That is definitely not something which is guaranteed to be true, and I would go so far as to say it is most likely false.
It doesn't matter if your infinite series is always strictly increasing, it's not necessarily going to get to infinity.
For instance, say you manage to create an intelligence twice as intelligent as you. This one puts all its intelligence into creating another intelligence, and manages to create one which is 2.5 times as intelligent as you. That one manages 2.75. And so on, until you top out at three times. No runaway evolution happens, because intelligence turns out to be really hard.
It makes sense, if you blindly accept the wild assumptions it makes without any real justification.
I agree 100%, and it's hilarious to see how worked up the fans get about it.
Man, it really is amazing how much better you are than all those other people!
Does this mean it is finally time for the long-awaited return of the Guru Meditation?
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=564973&cid=23555707
Haw haw! Yeah, that science thing sure is dumb!
Well, I was mostly confused how, if the circuit breaker for the distribution lines really failed, they seemed to have no other way of cutting the power, at least not within the fairly long time this was going on.
What in the hell is going on in that video? It makes no sense whatsoever! Don't these people have circuit breakers?
And here we go one more time. "Futaba Channel" and "2channel" are two completely different sites.