It's not even an early implementation. Messaging had been around for two decades before he came along, and the initial RFCS laying out the basic features of the Internet mail system we know today were written up and implemented four or five years before his program. That he wrote an email system isn't in dispute, that had any influence on other mail systems, in particular ARPANET email networks, is the issue, and the answer is no, he inspired nothing, and until his absurd claims were made public, no one had any even heard of his software.
At best he's a fantasist, at worst he's a shameless liar trying to take credit for things he had nothing to do with.
Part of the issue here is that there's the popular definition of "Artificial Intelligence", which seems to be what the marketers and technology journalist have latched on to, and then there's AI research. Obviously, as with any area of science or engineering, the researchers are going to be using a far more rigorous definition.
But really I think what's being talked about here, for instance, in replacing or augmenting articled clerks with AI searches is a bit more elaborate than regular expression searches. This makes this sort of search, whether you call it AI or pattern matching or something else, fairly ambitious. In the long run, I suspect the popular and technical definitions of AI will ultimately merge; you will have systems that have some degree of intelligence.
I doubt it. The whole "nuclear winter" scenario was based on the US and the Soviets launching a significant fraction of their nuclear arsenals. NK doesn't have more than a handful of devices, and I don't think the yields are that high. I would imagine at worst it would be similar to the cooler temperatures caused when the Iraqis lit the oil wells in Kuwait during their retreat in the First Gulf War. It might have some impact, but hardly the "nuclear winter" of dozens of megaton devices blowing up in Eurasia and North America.
Huh? That doesn't even make sense. The point isn't that the sun is producing more energy, the point is that increasing CO2 PPM in the atmosphere a significant amount means more of that radiation is absorbed and trapped in the lower atmosphere.
I suppose this goes under the pseudoscience category "I have no idea about thermodynamics and physics, but I need to respond, because by responding, somehow I've disproven the theory."
Ah, caught you. You call the amount of extra heat being trapped "trivial". It most certainly is not. The whole point of increasing CO2 causing trapping of energy is that it is fucking trapped, it doesn't dissipate quickly at all.
Then "cult" has no meaning at all. Religions may start as cults, but once you have a sufficient number of followers, and the cult is no longer bound to a charismatic leader, then I'd say it has become a religion. Not that religions aren't all bunk, but that's just my own assessment, and I can still twell the difference between a cult and a religion. For instance, Joseph Smith and his band of gullible idiots in 1830 were a cult. Mormonism in 2017 is a religion. It's still all concoction, absurdity, and of course, shameless ripoffs of Masonic rites, but when you have millions of followers world wide, you can't really be a cult.
It's still about 1,400 years old, as opposed to Christianity which is about 2,000 years old. Judaism as we know it is really a merger of the ancient Hebrew monotheistic faith and Aristotlean thought, so is maybe two or three hundred years older than Christianity.
Just how many nukes do you think NK has, and why would you think the US would even need to use nukes if it came to attacking NK? The US's conventional weapons are more than adequate to knock down pretty much every major structure in NK.
I'd say the people who need to worry are the South Koreans and Japanese.
Okay, mate, where is the extra energy that physical laws make inevitable going? Unless you're prepared to deny everything physicists and chemists have known about carbon dioxide since the 19th century, it's up to you explain how increased CO2 concentrations inevitably lead to more energy (heat) being trapped in the lower atmosphere. Go ahead, explain where it is.
The only question you need to ask the pseudoskeptics is "Where do you think all the extra energy is going?"
That CO2 absorbs solar radiation and traps it in the lower atmosphere is not debatable. These absorption patterns of CO2 have been known since the 19th century. So, increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, increase the amount of energy (heat) being trapped.
That CO2 interacts with ocean water and alters its pH has been known probably even longer. Increase the amount of CO2 in the lower atmosphere, increase the amount of absorption of CO2 in salt water.
So we can dicker about which storms are being made more powerful by climate change, we can dicker about whether a colder winter in one part of the world or a warmer winter in another part is caused by climate change, but the fact is that the steady increase in CO2 concentration inevitably, by the physical laws of nature, will increase the amount of energy trapped in the lower atmosphere (increase overall surface temperatures as a mean) and increase the acidity of the oceans. There is no questioning this, unless one wishes to throw out well over a century of physics and chemistry.
Now, if these folks have some magic heat sink that blasts all that energy off into space, then by all means, point to where it is, otherwise all we're doing in debating with these liars and idiots is dignifying their fraud and stupidity. They are the Creationists of the 21st century; not pseudoscientists, no pseudoskeptics, just plain old morons and liars.
No, that's not how it supposed to work. Some degree of partisanship is inevitable, but this political civil war is the exact opposite of how the Founding Fathers intended Congress to work.
Considering the inability of Republicans dominating two branches of government to get much done, I'm not sure it's fair to zero in just on Democrats.
The problem boils down to intense partisanship, and both parties' bases being so sold on the notion of some sort of all out political war between the two parties that they cannot tolerate the notion of reaching across the aisle. If there's one up side to the Trump Presidency, it's that it is so unbelievable awful and incompetent that it looks like Congress will have little choice, at least on some files (and DACA looks to be one of them) where bipartisan work will have to be done.
Yes, how dare there be regulations to prevent build up of plastics in ecosystems, and ultimately in human stomachs. What a crime. People should be free to pollute, because that's their Invisible Hand-given right, and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy Communist.
Now excuse me, there's a metric tonne of rotting fish guts I need to drop adjacent to a certain AC's property, because the Invisible Hand says it's fine to make other peoples' lives unhealthy, and there's nothing they should ever be allowed to do about it, except die quietly.
Absolutely. Even with scrubbing, coal is just simply a dirty fuel that has no business being used to produce enegery in a modern industrialized nation in the 21st century.
You're kidding right?.NET is a Windows ecosystem that marginally runs on Linux of late. There's a massive ecosystem of enterprise Java systems out there that Microsoft could only wish it would touch. And that's not counting Android.
You're living in a fantasy if you think C# is actually competing with Java where Java is dominant.
I have no idea what you mean by "no new projects". Java is massive in the enterprise world, and I've seen no indication that it is merely in maintenance mode. Being a decent Java programmer will keep you employed for many years to come. I realize it's very faddish to declare Java dead, or at least rotting, but it is an absurd claim not backed up by any actual evidence at all.
Not might be; is fully and completely retarded. Nosql has replaced SQL, seriously? That's the same level of stupidity that has people here declaring Java dead.
Christ, Telnet is completely unencrypted, so it is completely vulnerable to anyone who can intercept the packets. While it's true that you could transmit encrypted traffic over Telnet, one would presume you would be using the same encryption libraries that are being used by, say, SSH or a VPN host or client, and it is by and large in those libraries that the vulnerabilities lie.
I stopped using Telnet a long time ago, and it is disabled on any production machine, and the firewalls outright block the port, just in case I miss disabling it on some external-facing host.
All currencies are effectively made up out of thin air. Gold has no greater intrinsic value than, say, iron or salt. People have simply ascribed a great deal of value to it due to relative scarcity, but it isn't as if gold was historically so important that civilization would have fallen if it had been rarer. It would certainly make many modern processes and products more expensive, of course, but we extract one helluva lot of gold nowadays in comparison to what mining was able to do prior to the Industrial Revolution.
The value of currencies over time has largely been arbitrary at their root. The gold standard could just as easily been the salt standard. What counted wasn't the intrinsic value of gold, it was that large numbers of people throughout the known world essentially agreed at both the macro and micro economic levels that it was a good way to store and exchange value.
And really, what does a stockpile of gold really mean? A currency simply based on how many precious metals you have in a vault is pretty darned unrepresentative of the overall activity of an economy. A fiat currency isn't perfect, but by pegging the value of the currency in some way to actual economic activity, rather than simply to how much gold or silver or other precious metal a particular government can accumulate, seems far better.
Never the less, marijuana is hardly in the same category as methamphetamine or heroin. The whole "gateway drug" claim was debunked long ago. Pot isn't safer than alcohol, but it isn't that much worse.
I don't smoke pot, and really don't drink much, mainly because both make me feel shitty in any quantity, and I figure now that I'm in my mid-40s, I can't really afford to sacrifice any more neurons in the noble cause of feeling good, but still, treating marijuana like some highly dangerous substance is absurd. It has its risks, but then again, so does eating potato chips.
You see that outside of the technical fields as well. My area is in a construction boom, and I'm constantly seeing local job postings looking for journeyman carpenter, journeymen electrician, skilled concrete workers, and so forth, and while they don't usually post the wages, I hear through the grapevine that these companies are often paying totally shit wages, and what's more, so sustained is the building boom that anyone who is an actual tradesman is their goddamned competitor, and you only get the tradesmen who are washed up drunks willing to work for those wages and, well, you get what you pay for. Meanwhile there are people who are either apprentices or who would like to be, but the companies don't want to hire them, or if they do, just want them as minimum wage laborers and don't want to do anything to help them along.
We've entered this age where companies in all industries want people with huge amounts of skills and talent, but they don't want to pay them what they're worth, and worse, in a way, don't want to give entry-level people a leg up and into the industry. And then they bitch and whine and demand allowing foreign workers in because "worker shortage", a shortage, by and large, that the industries themselves have created, either intentionally to drive wages down, or unintentionally, because they want these magic employees with boatloads of skills who just love to work for peanuts.
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It's not even an early implementation. Messaging had been around for two decades before he came along, and the initial RFCS laying out the basic features of the Internet mail system we know today were written up and implemented four or five years before his program. That he wrote an email system isn't in dispute, that had any influence on other mail systems, in particular ARPANET email networks, is the issue, and the answer is no, he inspired nothing, and until his absurd claims were made public, no one had any even heard of his software.
At best he's a fantasist, at worst he's a shameless liar trying to take credit for things he had nothing to do with.
By cheated you mean "played hard ball" and "Super Delegates voted for her", like every Democratic Primary for the last thirty years.
That's certainly an important function of the central nervous system of all animals, but our brains do a lot more than just sift data.
Part of the issue here is that there's the popular definition of "Artificial Intelligence", which seems to be what the marketers and technology journalist have latched on to, and then there's AI research. Obviously, as with any area of science or engineering, the researchers are going to be using a far more rigorous definition.
But really I think what's being talked about here, for instance, in replacing or augmenting articled clerks with AI searches is a bit more elaborate than regular expression searches. This makes this sort of search, whether you call it AI or pattern matching or something else, fairly ambitious. In the long run, I suspect the popular and technical definitions of AI will ultimately merge; you will have systems that have some degree of intelligence.
I doubt it. The whole "nuclear winter" scenario was based on the US and the Soviets launching a significant fraction of their nuclear arsenals. NK doesn't have more than a handful of devices, and I don't think the yields are that high. I would imagine at worst it would be similar to the cooler temperatures caused when the Iraqis lit the oil wells in Kuwait during their retreat in the First Gulf War. It might have some impact, but hardly the "nuclear winter" of dozens of megaton devices blowing up in Eurasia and North America.
Huh? That doesn't even make sense. The point isn't that the sun is producing more energy, the point is that increasing CO2 PPM in the atmosphere a significant amount means more of that radiation is absorbed and trapped in the lower atmosphere.
I suppose this goes under the pseudoscience category "I have no idea about thermodynamics and physics, but I need to respond, because by responding, somehow I've disproven the theory."
Ah, caught you. You call the amount of extra heat being trapped "trivial". It most certainly is not. The whole point of increasing CO2 causing trapping of energy is that it is fucking trapped, it doesn't dissipate quickly at all.
Then "cult" has no meaning at all. Religions may start as cults, but once you have a sufficient number of followers, and the cult is no longer bound to a charismatic leader, then I'd say it has become a religion. Not that religions aren't all bunk, but that's just my own assessment, and I can still twell the difference between a cult and a religion. For instance, Joseph Smith and his band of gullible idiots in 1830 were a cult. Mormonism in 2017 is a religion. It's still all concoction, absurdity, and of course, shameless ripoffs of Masonic rites, but when you have millions of followers world wide, you can't really be a cult.
It's still about 1,400 years old, as opposed to Christianity which is about 2,000 years old. Judaism as we know it is really a merger of the ancient Hebrew monotheistic faith and Aristotlean thought, so is maybe two or three hundred years older than Christianity.
Just how many nukes do you think NK has, and why would you think the US would even need to use nukes if it came to attacking NK? The US's conventional weapons are more than adequate to knock down pretty much every major structure in NK.
I'd say the people who need to worry are the South Koreans and Japanese.
Okay, mate, where is the extra energy that physical laws make inevitable going? Unless you're prepared to deny everything physicists and chemists have known about carbon dioxide since the 19th century, it's up to you explain how increased CO2 concentrations inevitably lead to more energy (heat) being trapped in the lower atmosphere. Go ahead, explain where it is.
The only question you need to ask the pseudoskeptics is "Where do you think all the extra energy is going?"
That CO2 absorbs solar radiation and traps it in the lower atmosphere is not debatable. These absorption patterns of CO2 have been known since the 19th century. So, increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, increase the amount of energy (heat) being trapped.
That CO2 interacts with ocean water and alters its pH has been known probably even longer. Increase the amount of CO2 in the lower atmosphere, increase the amount of absorption of CO2 in salt water.
So we can dicker about which storms are being made more powerful by climate change, we can dicker about whether a colder winter in one part of the world or a warmer winter in another part is caused by climate change, but the fact is that the steady increase in CO2 concentration inevitably, by the physical laws of nature, will increase the amount of energy trapped in the lower atmosphere (increase overall surface temperatures as a mean) and increase the acidity of the oceans. There is no questioning this, unless one wishes to throw out well over a century of physics and chemistry.
Now, if these folks have some magic heat sink that blasts all that energy off into space, then by all means, point to where it is, otherwise all we're doing in debating with these liars and idiots is dignifying their fraud and stupidity. They are the Creationists of the 21st century; not pseudoscientists, no pseudoskeptics, just plain old morons and liars.
Wake me up when your understanding of AGW isn't just a series of strawmen.
No, that's not how it supposed to work. Some degree of partisanship is inevitable, but this political civil war is the exact opposite of how the Founding Fathers intended Congress to work.
Considering the inability of Republicans dominating two branches of government to get much done, I'm not sure it's fair to zero in just on Democrats.
The problem boils down to intense partisanship, and both parties' bases being so sold on the notion of some sort of all out political war between the two parties that they cannot tolerate the notion of reaching across the aisle. If there's one up side to the Trump Presidency, it's that it is so unbelievable awful and incompetent that it looks like Congress will have little choice, at least on some files (and DACA looks to be one of them) where bipartisan work will have to be done.
Yes, how dare there be regulations to prevent build up of plastics in ecosystems, and ultimately in human stomachs. What a crime. People should be free to pollute, because that's their Invisible Hand-given right, and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy Communist.
Now excuse me, there's a metric tonne of rotting fish guts I need to drop adjacent to a certain AC's property, because the Invisible Hand says it's fine to make other peoples' lives unhealthy, and there's nothing they should ever be allowed to do about it, except die quietly.
Absolutely. Even with scrubbing, coal is just simply a dirty fuel that has no business being used to produce enegery in a modern industrialized nation in the 21st century.
Look asshole, I plan on burning clean American tires!
You're kidding right? .NET is a Windows ecosystem that marginally runs on Linux of late. There's a massive ecosystem of enterprise Java systems out there that Microsoft could only wish it would touch. And that's not counting Android.
You're living in a fantasy if you think C# is actually competing with Java where Java is dominant.
I have no idea what you mean by "no new projects". Java is massive in the enterprise world, and I've seen no indication that it is merely in maintenance mode. Being a decent Java programmer will keep you employed for many years to come. I realize it's very faddish to declare Java dead, or at least rotting, but it is an absurd claim not backed up by any actual evidence at all.
Not might be; is fully and completely retarded. Nosql has replaced SQL, seriously? That's the same level of stupidity that has people here declaring Java dead.
Christ, Telnet is completely unencrypted, so it is completely vulnerable to anyone who can intercept the packets. While it's true that you could transmit encrypted traffic over Telnet, one would presume you would be using the same encryption libraries that are being used by, say, SSH or a VPN host or client, and it is by and large in those libraries that the vulnerabilities lie.
I stopped using Telnet a long time ago, and it is disabled on any production machine, and the firewalls outright block the port, just in case I miss disabling it on some external-facing host.
All currencies are effectively made up out of thin air. Gold has no greater intrinsic value than, say, iron or salt. People have simply ascribed a great deal of value to it due to relative scarcity, but it isn't as if gold was historically so important that civilization would have fallen if it had been rarer. It would certainly make many modern processes and products more expensive, of course, but we extract one helluva lot of gold nowadays in comparison to what mining was able to do prior to the Industrial Revolution.
The value of currencies over time has largely been arbitrary at their root. The gold standard could just as easily been the salt standard. What counted wasn't the intrinsic value of gold, it was that large numbers of people throughout the known world essentially agreed at both the macro and micro economic levels that it was a good way to store and exchange value.
And really, what does a stockpile of gold really mean? A currency simply based on how many precious metals you have in a vault is pretty darned unrepresentative of the overall activity of an economy. A fiat currency isn't perfect, but by pegging the value of the currency in some way to actual economic activity, rather than simply to how much gold or silver or other precious metal a particular government can accumulate, seems far better.
Never the less, marijuana is hardly in the same category as methamphetamine or heroin. The whole "gateway drug" claim was debunked long ago. Pot isn't safer than alcohol, but it isn't that much worse.
I don't smoke pot, and really don't drink much, mainly because both make me feel shitty in any quantity, and I figure now that I'm in my mid-40s, I can't really afford to sacrifice any more neurons in the noble cause of feeling good, but still, treating marijuana like some highly dangerous substance is absurd. It has its risks, but then again, so does eating potato chips.
You see that outside of the technical fields as well. My area is in a construction boom, and I'm constantly seeing local job postings looking for journeyman carpenter, journeymen electrician, skilled concrete workers, and so forth, and while they don't usually post the wages, I hear through the grapevine that these companies are often paying totally shit wages, and what's more, so sustained is the building boom that anyone who is an actual tradesman is their goddamned competitor, and you only get the tradesmen who are washed up drunks willing to work for those wages and, well, you get what you pay for. Meanwhile there are people who are either apprentices or who would like to be, but the companies don't want to hire them, or if they do, just want them as minimum wage laborers and don't want to do anything to help them along.
We've entered this age where companies in all industries want people with huge amounts of skills and talent, but they don't want to pay them what they're worth, and worse, in a way, don't want to give entry-level people a leg up and into the industry. And then they bitch and whine and demand allowing foreign workers in because "worker shortage", a shortage, by and large, that the industries themselves have created, either intentionally to drive wages down, or unintentionally, because they want these magic employees with boatloads of skills who just love to work for peanuts.