Tha WOULD require them physical access to the facility. None of the control centers are going to just "allow" someone access to their network, let alone physical access to the facility. We are told to notify security (who will notify the police officer in the guard shack) if we see anyone who isn't badged.
If you haven't studied espionage in the USA, the majority of the spies caught (ie Aldrich Ames) were people who worked for the organizations in question, but were bribed by a foreign government.
Your suggestion is made a moot point because the person would be allowed physical access to the facility with no question because they worked there.
I have a question for the neuroscientists however... what's so critically important about this work, to demand the enormous resources being sunk into this?
I think the people who could answer that the best are those with or have family or friends with a neurodegenerative disorder.
Third, you have to be able to supply meaningful input into the brain. You're essentially talking about submitting a consciousness (assuming your simulation is 100% accurate) to the most horrible sensory deprivation imaginable. In order for your research to be useful, you would have to supply it realistic input (including feedback based on it's output) otherwise the brain would change drastically just from that.
I dunno.
I would find this very useful because in order to do an experiment just like this but with a live human would be very unethical and questionable.
It is kind of what the did back in the 1950's with cracking open mental patients skull and seeing what happened when they stuck an electrode at certain spots. Very educational but I'd rather them do it on a simulation if they could.
I've spoken to some people that were at Fallujah. I guess everyone sees it differently, but they saw it as a massacre. Over 1300 "insurgents" dead, less than 100 Americans.
As opposed to every other wargame in history that glosses over war crimes and touchy topics?
I mean how many D-Day games were there that never even mentioned the fact that the Allies were under orders not to take prisoners for the first 24 hour of the invasion and that they were often killing 16 year old German reservists.
And to be fair Germans, Japanese, and Soviets did far worse things...
Yeah, sometimes war is really brutal and people do bad things and have to do bad things in order to survive (at least they think they do).
And then sometime in the future someone will make a game about it, but they are probably not going to include the really bad parts.
I mean in Silent Service series... Do you get to machine gun the Japanese sailors after sinking the merchant ship?
Yeah but you need a massive amount of fuel to accelerate to C and then slow down again. About 40,000 times the size of the shuttle's boosters.
I would think they would need a nuclear if not fusion reactor.
Then if you could collect the hydrogen and helium in the vacuum, then you could use that. Yes there isn't that at any given location, but when you are traveling that fast, think of it like bugs hitting your windshield.
Besides the importance of creating pacemakers without batteries that have to be surgically removed, doesn't this edge us closer to electronics built into humans.
Most likely it will have to low power ARM processor related, but imaging if you could have a blue tooth cochlear implant, built in throat mike, and SSD storage built in to your own being.
You could be tethered to your energy consuming 3g device and have conversations without a head set (aka Ghost in the shell).
Of course if they can figure a way for you to have conversations without actually talking so you don't look crazy...
You're talking about cost and it sure seems to me that the vast majority of people who comment on the press (whether print, broadcast, or web) don't have the slightest idea about COST. It's a nasty little detail that they'd prefer to ignore.
No. Not all all.
Economic theory states that when goods and services are indistinguishable between competitors, that the consumer will always choose the cheapest one.
Of course it isn't so simple, so that's why it is specified "indistinguishable" because an inferior product can be made to look the same or even better through marketing;)
That said, if people feel that a newspaper and an online news website provide the same value of goods and services, they will always go with the cheaper one (the online).
In the olden days, price was affected by supply and demand, but if your product is virtualized the only limitation is artificial scarcity if you so choose to have one.
My point is that the consumer decides which product lives and which dies. They don't care about how much it really costs you to bring the news to them. If you cannot satisfy the consumer by either providing a lower price, then you must have something in the way of providing a better good or service.
As it is now, in the eyes of the consumer, newspapers provide neither so their business model will eventually fail.
You can yell at the consumers all you want (buy American! buy companies that don't use sweat shops!) but in the end they'll usually go with what is the cheapest. Its a hard cold economic reality.
How so? 90% of users wouldn't know what a torrent was, and of the remainder how many would know how to configure their router so they could use it? Use WinRAR, VLC etc.? Even know how to install them?
I think the downside of being a geek is that we always assume that other people aren't willing or just mentally unable to do what we do.
I was surprised after overhearing a conversation about someone's elderly father wanted to get bit torrent setup even though he didn't completely understand the concept other than movies == free.
Personal printers are horribly unreliable and very expensive to maintain.
For as much as tuition costs these days, and for the fact that many schools assess a "Technology fee" on top of tuition, I think computer labs and printers on campus should absolutely be present.
Why can't the university have a printing lab then? Kind of like Kinko's but for students.
Either the students put their paper on a CDR or a Usb stick and run down to the lab to print or if you what to go whole hog just build a web interface so students can upload the documents directly to the print queue from the comfort of their dorm room.
Have the ex-computer lab tech be the person manning the station to make sure the printers aren't jammed and that people don't pick other people's papers 'by mistake'.
If the tax system was fair in the first place, no loopholes would be needed. Income tax is really unlawful. It punishes productivity and penalizes saving.
Umm... Arguably, without taxes and nothing backing the US dollar, inflation would spiral out of control and that would really punish savers.
Arguably, income tax is preferable over spending tax, because if you reward saving too much you end up with a deflationary death spiral which is what caused the great depression and would still punish people who saved their money because they'd probably be unemployed and have to spend those savings.
Indivuduals should be equal in the eyes of the law. No special groups, no nonprofits. The "churches" already scam this all way too much.
The constitution specifically was clearly written for tax exceptions for these matters.
In fact if you wanted to legally avoid taxes you could invest in state Municipal funds because the constitution specifically says the Federal government cannot tax state funds directly. Also, they had a big hoo-doo back in the 1790's over this matter and the consensus (with the founding fathers) was that religious organizations were not to be taxed and wrote that in.
Kinda funny that wacky survivalists might have the last laugh in an event like this.
Unless of course the space weather is so bad it kills off everything with radiation... Then those who have bunkers 100ft below the surface will have the last laugh.
Automated off and on systems to prime the systems before the employees get in would be best. but how much to develop that? cost/benefit analysis always interests me.
If you have OS X, its already built into system preferences.
I could lose $36 worth of productivity in a few days. My desktop and servers stay ON.
So why not set your computer to automatically boot 15 minutes before you get into the office?
I used to work at a company that required you to shut down your computer at night. It was mandatory unless you filled at the appropriate form etc etc.
I'm not so sure if this was for the power savings or more for the fact they got tired of people running bit torrent servers overnight.
In fact, the closing manager would go around and turn off everyone's computer if you forgot.
On the flipside, the opening manager was suppose to go around and turn everyone's computer on after he turned the alarm off so people wouldn't bitch about time lost during boot up.
There were a few computers we used they always forgot about so someone just went into bios and set an autoboot at 6:30am.
Since we haven't yet worked out the proper, safe, reliable, healthy way to raise our children, creating a human brain clone with potentially much more intelligence and almost certainly all the same flaws is not a good thing.
For us or the brain?
C'mon people. Its not like you can't build these things with an "off" switch.
And if doesn't have an internet connection, what is the worst it can do?
Just look at how many people have mental issues, be it emotional, learning, or developmental issues with "properly functioning" neurons but are lacking one of a hundred chemicals that make them all work together as a whole.
Well... Turns out that most of our creative and historically important people have mental health issues;)
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Tha WOULD require them physical access to the facility. None of the control centers are going to just "allow" someone access to their network, let alone physical access to the facility. We are told to notify security (who will notify the police officer in the guard shack) if we see anyone who isn't badged.
If you haven't studied espionage in the USA, the majority of the spies caught (ie Aldrich Ames) were people who worked for the organizations in question, but were bribed by a foreign government.
Your suggestion is made a moot point because the person would be allowed physical access to the facility with no question because they worked there.
I have a question for the neuroscientists however... what's so critically important about this work, to demand the enormous resources being sunk into this?
I think the people who could answer that the best are those with or have family or friends with a neurodegenerative disorder.
AKA Alzheimer's or Parkison's disease.
Third, you have to be able to supply meaningful input into the brain. You're essentially talking about submitting a consciousness (assuming your simulation is 100% accurate) to the most horrible sensory deprivation imaginable. In order for your research to be useful, you would have to supply it realistic input (including feedback based on it's output) otherwise the brain would change drastically just from that.
I dunno.
I would find this very useful because in order to do an experiment just like this but with a live human would be very unethical and questionable.
It is kind of what the did back in the 1950's with cracking open mental patients skull and seeing what happened when they stuck an electrode at certain spots. Very educational but I'd rather them do it on a simulation if they could.
And don't forget that Transnistria has official relations with the Kremlim much like South Ossetia does.
Igor Smirnov (the head of Transnistria) just recently had a cordial meeting with the Russian President.
I've spoken to some people that were at Fallujah. I guess everyone sees it differently, but they saw it as a massacre. Over 1300 "insurgents" dead, less than 100 Americans.
As opposed to every other wargame in history that glosses over war crimes and touchy topics?
I mean how many D-Day games were there that never even mentioned the fact that the Allies were under orders not to take prisoners for the first 24 hour of the invasion and that they were often killing 16 year old German reservists.
And to be fair Germans, Japanese, and Soviets did far worse things...
Yeah, sometimes war is really brutal and people do bad things and have to do bad things in order to survive (at least they think they do).
And then sometime in the future someone will make a game about it, but they are probably not going to include the really bad parts.
I mean in Silent Service series... Do you get to machine gun the Japanese sailors after sinking the merchant ship?
No.
But did it happen sometimes in the real war.
Yes.
Yeah but you need a massive amount of fuel to accelerate to C and then slow down again. About 40,000 times the size of the shuttle's boosters.
I would think they would need a nuclear if not fusion reactor.
Then if you could collect the hydrogen and helium in the vacuum, then you could use that. Yes there isn't that at any given location, but when you are traveling that fast, think of it like bugs hitting your windshield.
Care to tell us who JK Rowling stole from?
Actually I remember someone pointed out that the similarities of plot arc Harry Potter and Naruto.
Orochimaru... Vandervolt... The 3rd Hokage... Dumbledorf! It all made sense!
And Naruto is vaguely based off real Japanese mythos...
And notice how both Naruto the comic and Harry Potter came out both in 1997!
And then I realized that there is a strong possibility that HK Rowling stole from the Naruto creators!
Besides the importance of creating pacemakers without batteries that have to be surgically removed, doesn't this edge us closer to electronics built into humans.
Most likely it will have to low power ARM processor related, but imaging if you could have a blue tooth cochlear implant, built in throat mike, and SSD storage built in to your own being.
You could be tethered to your energy consuming 3g device and have conversations without a head set (aka Ghost in the shell).
Of course if they can figure a way for you to have conversations without actually talking so you don't look crazy...
You're talking about cost and it sure seems to me that the vast majority of people who comment on the press (whether print, broadcast, or web) don't have the slightest idea about COST. It's a nasty little detail that they'd prefer to ignore.
No. Not all all.
Economic theory states that when goods and services are indistinguishable between competitors, that the consumer will always choose the cheapest one.
Of course it isn't so simple, so that's why it is specified "indistinguishable" because an inferior product can be made to look the same or even better through marketing ;)
That said, if people feel that a newspaper and an online news website provide the same value of goods and services, they will always go with the cheaper one (the online).
In the olden days, price was affected by supply and demand, but if your product is virtualized the only limitation is artificial scarcity if you so choose to have one.
My point is that the consumer decides which product lives and which dies. They don't care about how much it really costs you to bring the news to them. If you cannot satisfy the consumer by either providing a lower price, then you must have something in the way of providing a better good or service.
As it is now, in the eyes of the consumer, newspapers provide neither so their business model will eventually fail.
You can yell at the consumers all you want (buy American! buy companies that don't use sweat shops!) but in the end they'll usually go with what is the cheapest. Its a hard cold economic reality.
How so? 90% of users wouldn't know what a torrent was, and of the remainder how many would know how to configure their router so they could use it? Use WinRAR, VLC etc.? Even know how to install them?
I think the downside of being a geek is that we always assume that other people aren't willing or just mentally unable to do what we do.
I was surprised after overhearing a conversation about someone's elderly father wanted to get bit torrent setup even though he didn't completely understand the concept other than movies == free.
Personal printers are horribly unreliable and very expensive to maintain.
For as much as tuition costs these days, and for the fact that many schools assess a "Technology fee" on top of tuition, I think computer labs and printers on campus should absolutely be present.
Why can't the university have a printing lab then? Kind of like Kinko's but for students.
Either the students put their paper on a CDR or a Usb stick and run down to the lab to print or if you what to go whole hog just build a web interface so students can upload the documents directly to the print queue from the comfort of their dorm room.
Have the ex-computer lab tech be the person manning the station to make sure the printers aren't jammed and that people don't pick other people's papers 'by mistake'.
The amount an animal feels pain is proportional to how tasty they are!
If the tax system was fair in the first place, no loopholes would be needed. Income tax is really unlawful. It punishes productivity and penalizes saving.
Umm... Arguably, without taxes and nothing backing the US dollar, inflation would spiral out of control and that would really punish savers.
Arguably, income tax is preferable over spending tax, because if you reward saving too much you end up with a deflationary death spiral which is what caused the great depression and would still punish people who saved their money because they'd probably be unemployed and have to spend those savings.
Indivuduals should be equal in the eyes of the law. No special groups, no nonprofits. The "churches" already scam this all way too much.
The constitution specifically was clearly written for tax exceptions for these matters.
In fact if you wanted to legally avoid taxes you could invest in state Municipal funds because the constitution specifically says the Federal government cannot tax state funds directly. Also, they had a big hoo-doo back in the 1790's over this matter and the consensus (with the founding fathers) was that religious organizations were not to be taxed and wrote that in.
It seems to me that what this law would do is give a competitive advantage to those newspapers that avoid endorsing candidates.
Currently, official religious organizations have tax except status in the USA.
Non-official or small religions ( or cults) often have problem with the IRS because they can't get official recognition (sometimes).
Though, I think Scientology has tax-except status so YMMV.
So with your logic, the government is giving advantages to major religions over minor religions because of tax reasons.
Would that make any capital gains on your shares in a newspaper tax exempt as well?
Or would any newspaper apply for non-profit status have to buy all their public shares and go private?
Either way, I don't think Murdoch would make his papers non-political.
But you'd still have hundreds of millions of people without power and the benefits of modern civilization for months.
You're saying that likes its a bad thing.
Kinda funny that wacky survivalists might have the last laugh in an event like this.
Unless of course the space weather is so bad it kills off everything with radiation... Then those who have bunkers 100ft below the surface will have the last laugh.
Best argument against "Save the whales" I heard to date.
Who knew Captain Ahab was trying to save the planet all along?
Automated off and on systems to prime the systems before the employees get in would be best. but how much to develop that? cost/benefit analysis always interests me.
If you have OS X, its already built into system preferences.
If you have a PC, its in the bios.
I could lose $36 worth of productivity in a few days. My desktop and servers stay ON.
So why not set your computer to automatically boot 15 minutes before you get into the office?
I used to work at a company that required you to shut down your computer at night. It was mandatory unless you filled at the appropriate form etc etc.
I'm not so sure if this was for the power savings or more for the fact they got tired of people running bit torrent servers overnight.
In fact, the closing manager would go around and turn off everyone's computer if you forgot.
On the flipside, the opening manager was suppose to go around and turn everyone's computer on after he turned the alarm off so people wouldn't bitch about time lost during boot up.
There were a few computers we used they always forgot about so someone just went into bios and set an autoboot at 6:30am.
Not that hard...
Since we haven't yet worked out the proper, safe, reliable, healthy way to raise our children, creating a human brain clone with potentially much more intelligence and almost certainly all the same flaws is not a good thing.
For us or the brain?
C'mon people. Its not like you can't build these things with an "off" switch.
And if doesn't have an internet connection, what is the worst it can do?
Talk you to death?
Just look at how many people have mental issues, be it emotional, learning, or developmental issues with "properly functioning" neurons but are lacking one of a hundred chemicals that make them all work together as a whole.
Well... Turns out that most of our creative and historically important people have mental health issues ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_depression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_with_mental_illness
And under the depression... It cites people like Churchill and Newton.
Perhaps mental abnormalities is a motivation for them to do great things or at least stick out from the normal crowd.
You know... Like Joan of Arc ;)
I wonder if the researchers will know when to STOP adding the together?
Simple.
When the AI starts adding it themselves without human intervention.
"Germany invaded France in 1941,"
GAAAAAH!
IT was 1940! What do they teach in history class these days?!
Russia was 1941!