See this is why we have no decent software! Our computers are going to be filled with pictures of naked women and you could have stopped it, I hope you can live with th... oo a popup!
No, it's talking about the facial expression that YOU pull, not the facial expression on the image;-) It uses an infrared webcam, and quickly hides images based on where your blood starts flowing to. Most of the time you won't even consciously see the image... subconsciously tho...
It doesn't have to be agreed by anybody but the person installing it. If it can filter what you want to filter, install it, if not, then you don't, which means it's the person installing it who makes the interpretation, not the software.
"In some point in the future will are goverment be able to make computeres see thier motrality and then tell them to go enforce it?"
I hate to repeat myself, but I feel it's worth mentioning here anyway (and I will add to it) - the filter is set up to filter based on the wishes of the person who installs/manages it, not legislature. It's not interpreting anything but the image, and it's not enforcing anything other than the wishes of the person who ownes the computer. This is not a big-brother issue! Sure it may be installed by government bodies in some cases, such as schools, but schools don't provide computers+bandwidth for the purpose of viewing porn, they should be allowed to automate the process of blocking it.
"But how many employees will come to their BOFH complaining that they couldn't look at their neighbours halloween photos?"
In the city I live in alone there are 3400 jobs in 8 different companies that specifically market selling pumpkins (unless I'm getting confused with something I just imagined), there's a lot of money in it and they wouldn't be happy having their images blocked.
"There are wing nuts who want the US government to censor the internet"
It's alright when it's done in the way they want it done, but I bet the same people would accuse china of being draconian for filtering.
It's funny how people's views of censorship change depending on what they're talking about censoring, and that sexuality ranks so high on so many people's kill list:-/
"can both read and understand the law and interpret it exactly as a real judge would"
Erm, surely the filter is set up to filter based on the wishes of the person who installs/manages it, not legislature. It's not interpreting anything but the image.
"I hope the kids aren't traumatized for life if they'd stumble over such things and the dirtiness of our anatomy"
Of cause they're not, it's their parents who are... so for maximum effect, this filter should be used to stop such sites/images from being added to the browser history/cache... the parents will never find out, and the kids just think it's funny, problem solved!!!
"I find particularly shortsighted to predict big advances in biology while at the same time recognizing the central role of computer sciences"
The two are hardly mutually exclusive, we have enough people in the world to move forwards in many fields. "The century of biology" doesn't mean that biology's going to be a/the dominate area science this century, it means this century's going to be a/the dominate century for major biological breakthroughs, which i can't see being too far from the truth.
It shouldn't be... you are EVERYTHING that makes you you. For example, take a publicly traded company. If all the people who own shares for that company close it down, and come together to form a new company, could even do it in the same building, that new company would have all the same componants as the previous, but the previous company no longer exists... it's dead.
In the same way, the molecules etc that make you up change around all the time... this is like people selling their shares of the company, and other people buying them. It's still the same company, even though it's components are changing allt the time. You are the unique way that everything that makes you is combined. The gas from one dying star could go towards making another, but it's still a different star; the first one has still died out.
That which makes you you, will die, but that which you are made from, will continue to exist.
As far as consciousness is concerned, this is an illusion. Zoom in or out, and you will see fundamentally the same thing. People will respond to you being infectious in fundamentally the same way as the cells in your body respond to the infection within your body. On a grand grand scale (which we'll have to jump forwards in time for), the planet's about to be hit and destroyed, so distant colonies send ships to evaquate people, the whole universe appears to be conscious. Consciousness is just one thing responding to another, it happens on every level, whilst our brains make it look like there's more to it, it's just the same fundamental thing occuring, in a more complex fasion.
If you stop and try and picture it in as much it's whole as you can, you'll realise it's a far more amazing concept than it originally appears:-)
Until I get to choose how I use the music I buy, instead of them telling me how, I wont purchase any
I don't have autorun enabled so cd's installing software's not something i have to worry about... but I've never heard of any DRMed CD where the music's actually worth listening to (yes this is a matter of taste, but it seems to be a growing consensus). My message to the RIAA: Wanna make money through music? Let's hear some good music! Come on, WOW ME:-)
Only, as with any study, to those already in the know. The people at the top with the "power" who are doing the suing, passing laws, and spreading the fud, are blatently not in the know (one hopes; if they're not in the know, they're impressionable and manipulated, if they are in the know, they're just bitter and corrupt).
Otherwise it's just p2peers denying damaging sales, which the RIAAsses can respond "of cause they're say that, they don't wanna get in trouble", which can sound pretty convincing.
Proof (even statistical) of what you know is always better than just knowing it when there are people shouting that you're wrong.
-- Ever notice the less someone knows, the louder they know it?
One of the worst things about Slashdot is dealing with the subset of people who have no sense of humor
It's not always the fault of the recipient for a 'joke' not being got, before you get carried away with the insults. Play nicely. (Condescending's not nice either, huh)
The beginning does not imply the creation of. For example, the big bang occured at the beginning of time, ie, at one end of the dimension known as 'time', but this does not mean that creation occured then; it's mearly an edge to existance, that appears 'creation'like because of the way we perceive time.
Nothing really gets created/destroyed (except combination/concepts), think about it, when was the last time you actually saw something being created (not transformed from other things that already existed)? Yes it's a play on words, a car is created, by putting things together in a certain way, but then in a certain way, a car is only the way things are put together - the parts exist before and after the creation of the car, so are kind of irrelevant... (I apologise for my low articulation score here! I know what I mean in an aroundabout kind of way!)
So for anyone who did misread the headline and thought you finally had complete triumph over all the creationist wackos, I hate to burst your bubble.:)
Misread headline or not, we don't take the "creationist wackos" seriously anyway, so I really wouldn't worry about bursting bubbles!
I believe this is all evidence that supports and reinforces theories, as the universe probably has more dimensions than what we see and can easily measure in, it's unlikely we'll ever know fully what happened 100% (at least for a long-long-long time, but quite possible ever), but we can get closer and closer.
Slashdot Mirror
...because there's so much crap on tv these days, it's difficult to not throw it away! ;-)
tiny little display in my contact lenses would be cool! Could be powered by tears...
"While Nike provides the content (via its army of sponsored athletes, among others,..." ...and entered at $0.02/hour by kids in Vietnam
See this is why we have no decent software! Our computers are going to be filled with pictures of naked women and you could have stopped it, I hope you can live with th... oo a popup!
yeah but if you leave the 10^5 monkeys in the room for long enough, they'll write the complete automatic software filtering solution!
No, it's talking about the facial expression that YOU pull, not the facial expression on the image ;-) It uses an infrared webcam, and quickly hides images based on where your blood starts flowing to. Most of the time you won't even consciously see the image... subconsciously tho...
"able to distinguish between images that show women how to examine their breats for possibly cancerous lumps and images that show boob?"
;-)
Who cares, I'll use either!
It doesn't have to be agreed by anybody but the person installing it. If it can filter what you want to filter, install it, if not, then you don't, which means it's the person installing it who makes the interpretation, not the software.
Making it an inline macro/define would probably be more efficient ;-)
"In some point in the future will are goverment be able to make computeres see thier motrality and then tell them to go enforce it?"
I hate to repeat myself, but I feel it's worth mentioning here anyway (and I will add to it) - the filter is set up to filter based on the wishes of the person who installs/manages it, not legislature. It's not interpreting anything but the image, and it's not enforcing anything other than the wishes of the person who ownes the computer. This is not a big-brother issue! Sure it may be installed by government bodies in some cases, such as schools, but schools don't provide computers+bandwidth for the purpose of viewing porn, they should be allowed to automate the process of blocking it.
"But how many employees will come to their BOFH complaining that they couldn't look at their neighbours halloween photos?"
In the city I live in alone there are 3400 jobs in 8 different companies that specifically market selling pumpkins (unless I'm getting confused with something I just imagined), there's a lot of money in it and they wouldn't be happy having their images blocked.
(Off-topic slightly)
:-/
"There are wing nuts who want the US government to censor the internet"
It's alright when it's done in the way they want it done, but I bet the same people would accuse china of being draconian for filtering.
It's funny how people's views of censorship change depending on what they're talking about censoring, and that sexuality ranks so high on so many people's kill list
"can both read and understand the law and interpret it exactly as a real judge would"
Erm, surely the filter is set up to filter based on the wishes of the person who installs/manages it, not legislature. It's not interpreting anything but the image.
"I hope the kids aren't traumatized for life if they'd stumble over such things and the dirtiness of our anatomy"
Of cause they're not, it's their parents who are... so for maximum effect, this filter should be used to stop such sites/images from being added to the browser history/cache... the parents will never find out, and the kids just think it's funny, problem solved!!!
"I find particularly shortsighted to predict big advances in biology while at the same time recognizing the central role of computer sciences"
The two are hardly mutually exclusive, we have enough people in the world to move forwards in many fields. "The century of biology" doesn't mean that biology's going to be a/the dominate area science this century, it means this century's going to be a/the dominate century for major biological breakthroughs, which i can't see being too far from the truth.
didn't realise there was a difference, but seeing as you asked so nicely
but suffered some other short coming that lead to their extinction on Earth
like being blasted out into space *lol*
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is why I have trouble believing "Dead is dead"
:-)
It shouldn't be... you are EVERYTHING that makes you you. For example, take a publicly traded company. If all the people who own shares for that company close it down, and come together to form a new company, could even do it in the same building, that new company would have all the same componants as the previous, but the previous company no longer exists... it's dead.
In the same way, the molecules etc that make you up change around all the time... this is like people selling their shares of the company, and other people buying them. It's still the same company, even though it's components are changing allt the time. You are the unique way that everything that makes you is combined. The gas from one dying star could go towards making another, but it's still a different star; the first one has still died out.
That which makes you you, will die, but that which you are made from, will continue to exist.
As far as consciousness is concerned, this is an illusion. Zoom in or out, and you will see fundamentally the same thing. People will respond to you being infectious in fundamentally the same way as the cells in your body respond to the infection within your body. On a grand grand scale (which we'll have to jump forwards in time for), the planet's about to be hit and destroyed, so distant colonies send ships to evaquate people, the whole universe appears to be conscious. Consciousness is just one thing responding to another, it happens on every level, whilst our brains make it look like there's more to it, it's just the same fundamental thing occuring, in a more complex fasion.
If you stop and try and picture it in as much it's whole as you can, you'll realise it's a far more amazing concept than it originally appears
Given my two latest, disasterous experiences with major-label hyped artists -- Enya and Kate Bush
*pmsl* they suckered you good! *wipes tear from eye*
Until I get to choose how I use the music I buy, instead of them telling me how, I wont purchase any
:-)
I don't have autorun enabled so cd's installing software's not something i have to worry about... but I've never heard of any DRMed CD where the music's actually worth listening to (yes this is a matter of taste, but it seems to be a growing consensus). My message to the RIAA: Wanna make money through music? Let's hear some good music! Come on, WOW ME
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This study is pretty much redundant
Only, as with any study, to those already in the know. The people at the top with the "power" who are doing the suing, passing laws, and spreading the fud, are blatently not in the know (one hopes; if they're not in the know, they're impressionable and manipulated, if they are in the know, they're just bitter and corrupt).
Otherwise it's just p2peers denying damaging sales, which the RIAAsses can respond "of cause they're say that, they don't wanna get in trouble", which can sound pretty convincing.
Proof (even statistical) of what you know is always better than just knowing it when there are people shouting that you're wrong.
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Ever notice the less someone knows, the louder they know it?
LCD/TV/Monitors (UK)
One of the worst things about Slashdot is dealing with the subset of people who have no sense of humor
It's not always the fault of the recipient for a 'joke' not being got, before you get carried away with the insults. Play nicely. (Condescending's not nice either, huh)
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The beginning does not imply the creation of. For example, the big bang occured at the beginning of time, ie, at one end of the dimension known as 'time', but this does not mean that creation occured then; it's mearly an edge to existance, that appears 'creation'like because of the way we perceive time.
Nothing really gets created/destroyed (except combination/concepts), think about it, when was the last time you actually saw something being created (not transformed from other things that already existed)? Yes it's a play on words, a car is created, by putting things together in a certain way, but then in a certain way, a car is only the way things are put together - the parts exist before and after the creation of the car, so are kind of irrelevant... (I apologise for my low articulation score here! I know what I mean in an aroundabout kind of way!)
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So for anyone who did misread the headline and thought you finally had complete triumph over all the creationist wackos, I hate to burst your bubble. :)
Misread headline or not, we don't take the "creationist wackos" seriously anyway, so I really wouldn't worry about bursting bubbles!
I believe this is all evidence that supports and reinforces theories, as the universe probably has more dimensions than what we see and can easily measure in, it's unlikely we'll ever know fully what happened 100% (at least for a long-long-long time, but quite possible ever), but we can get closer and closer.
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It doesn't seem hugely different from me posting a story about how waterfalls can power 90% of a large city, occording to my last game of SimCity :-/
It's Computer Assisted Fantasy
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