"The article notes that simply using 1337 for example will get around it."
That'll work well.
"To all staff: this is to inform you that your boss has been 1337ing you in the ass, and 1337ing all the credit for your hard work. Please see http://1337/ for the evidence.
Kind of arrogant, don't you think? That we humans, who just happen to be a bit smarter than chimps and capable of speech and writing, have somehow made a great leap that no other known creature has ever made: from modelling the world around us according to our abilities, to truly comprehending its fundamental nature in an absolute sense?
Since they once represented the intellectual elite of the world's first great civilisations, that alone should tell you that they might have. If you had studied buddhist teachings at all, you might have discovered that, far from being fanciful accounts of Noahs and arks, much of their teachings are cold hard logic (including a lot of math), which is easily comparable to "modern" western science.
How about a government-sponsored plan or tax-incentive to put solar panels or shingles on all businesses and homes like they are doing for efficient windows and appliances?
Small local generators make little sense, since we can simply supply the power generated in specialist facilities over the power grid. Replacing or upgrading local generators and keeping them running efficiently would be a very costly operation. By contrast, upgrading or even replacing a few large facilities and supplying power to the same existing grid would be much simpler. You'd have to be losing a lot of efficiency on the grid itself to make a local solution worthwhile.
It's a bit like using money instead of barter. The alternative just isn't sensible these days.
It will take an economic MELTDOWN to trigger nuclear reactor production
With peak oil and no nuclear power to compensate, we might just see one. Algae as a biofuel might work, and solar might work if they improve the tech enough. Most of the other oft-touted other alternatives are a load of crap.
No offense to cyclists (I cycle too, but offroad), however I think, if anything, bikes on roads tend to cause MORE congestion than cars. Bicycles are very slow, and I'm always trying to be extra cautious around them, which means that I'm driving slower, and the people in front or behind me seem to act similarly as they pass. Motorbikes aren't so slow, but they tend to be really cocky and think they're invincible. In fact, they're largely surviving because more careful car drivers are going out of their way to keep them alive by making extra room etc.
Yes, being unable to unlearn seems like a major flaw. The article does say that they had to teach it that Klingons are not an ethnic group, so presumably it can learn simple clarifications like "X is true in the general case of As, but not for instance A22".
I guess they mean it can't backtrack and figure out that things need to have a more complex model. Say, that weather is a complex global system of wind, sun, mountains, etc., rather than just weather is when it's wet or dry?
Facebook was "good enough" and that is all that was needed.
The only thing "special" about facebook is that they decided it was OK to "steal" data from other organisations, such as when they ask for your gmail/hotmail details, go in there, collect all your contacts, and let you spam them. This is something the competition (and prior artists) could have easily done, but (if they're anything like me) quickly ruled out on ethical grounds.
A better analogy would be to say every citizen now has to have a personal overseer follow them 24/7 and observe all their movements and actions within public spaces - any law-abiding citizens have no grounds for complaint, therefore if you do complain you must be a criminal. That's tantamount what this law plus GGP post are saying. Most people don't mind being observed in public, but they would mind their entire day being observed by one set of people - this technology enables such observation and its justification is the sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut excuse of preventing illegal parking.
Well said.
deputise the public to report illegal parking and give them a percentage of the fee for every ticket issued based on their information
That, however, is worse than cameras (which does not diminish how bad cameras are). It's well known (from the examples of WWII Germany and so on) that states which encourage citizens to report each other become very nasty places to be.
Hmm. I'd never looked into the Atari Transputer much. I figured it was a lot like an Amiga 2000/3000, but overhyped, and with GEM:) Turns out it was quite a machine, with a lot of innovation that's only catching on in PCs now. If it wasn't for the lack of an MMU, I might have liked to see it replace both Amigas and PCs:) Also, a lot of the stuff here:
Sounds like a summary of the Cell's raison d'etre.
Couple of questions:
* Is there an emulator of this, so I can check out how usable it was?
* I've read that it was capable of ~260 megaflops, which does seem to be in the realtime raytracing ballpark. However, I think that was a fully-equipped or high-end version? How did the pricing/configs work?
* What's this about a stack-based architecture that made having no MMU less of a problem?
I've been running it since beta. Works well enough, but yes, it's a bit rushed, and all Ubuntus have been for a while, I agree. IIRC, I had to fix the sound (wasn't working at all, but it was probably just a problem for my pulse-as-a-daemon config), and the boot/shutdown screens still look awful on my gt8600. Also, they screwed up the GDM login screen by removing usernames in favor of full names. Otherwise, pretty solid.
If everyone voted in 100% of elections, cared enough to research every candidate
I've tried it. It doesn't work. Voting for changeable people when you mean to vote for particular solutions that you believe in simply isn't the same thing.
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"The article notes that simply using 1337 for example will get around it."
That'll work well.
"To all staff: this is to inform you that your boss has been 1337ing you in the ass, and 1337ing all the credit for your hard work. Please see http://1337/ for the evidence.
Yours faithfully,
Your 1337 Union Representative"
Oh, good: another life saved.
Electricity wants to sail the high seas, wenching and blowing the shit out of pitifully inferior wooden boats with its EMP-cannons.
Kind of arrogant, don't you think? That we humans, who just happen to be a bit smarter than chimps and capable of speech and writing, have somehow made a great leap that no other known creature has ever made: from modelling the world around us according to our abilities, to truly comprehending its fundamental nature in an absolute sense?
From the sound of this article, a university researcher is something akin to a hepatoscopist
Since they once represented the intellectual elite of the world's first great civilisations, that alone should tell you that they might have. If you had studied buddhist teachings at all, you might have discovered that, far from being fanciful accounts of Noahs and arks, much of their teachings are cold hard logic (including a lot of math), which is easily comparable to "modern" western science.
Spoken like someone who doesn't get Go at all.
I think not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
Small local generators make little sense, since we can simply supply the power generated in specialist facilities over the power grid. Replacing or upgrading local generators and keeping them running efficiently would be a very costly operation. By contrast, upgrading or even replacing a few large facilities and supplying power to the same existing grid would be much simpler. You'd have to be losing a lot of efficiency on the grid itself to make a local solution worthwhile.
It's a bit like using money instead of barter. The alternative just isn't sensible these days.
Mexican wave reactors would be way better.
With peak oil and no nuclear power to compensate, we might just see one. Algae as a biofuel might work, and solar might work if they improve the tech enough. Most of the other oft-touted other alternatives are a load of crap.
No offense to cyclists (I cycle too, but offroad), however I think, if anything, bikes on roads tend to cause MORE congestion than cars. Bicycles are very slow, and I'm always trying to be extra cautious around them, which means that I'm driving slower, and the people in front or behind me seem to act similarly as they pass. Motorbikes aren't so slow, but they tend to be really cocky and think they're invincible. In fact, they're largely surviving because more careful car drivers are going out of their way to keep them alive by making extra room etc.
Yes, being unable to unlearn seems like a major flaw. The article does say that they had to teach it that Klingons are not an ethnic group, so presumably it can learn simple clarifications like "X is true in the general case of As, but not for instance A22".
I guess they mean it can't backtrack and figure out that things need to have a more complex model. Say, that weather is a complex global system of wind, sun, mountains, etc., rather than just weather is when it's wet or dry?
I think Nell is scanning wikipedia for phrases like "X is Y".
Also, what's this contradiction in TFA about?
I don't think all means what you think it means.
The only thing "special" about facebook is that they decided it was OK to "steal" data from other organisations, such as when they ask for your gmail/hotmail details, go in there, collect all your contacts, and let you spam them. This is something the competition (and prior artists) could have easily done, but (if they're anything like me) quickly ruled out on ethical grounds.
Well said.
That, however, is worse than cameras (which does not diminish how bad cameras are). It's well known (from the examples of WWII Germany and so on) that states which encourage citizens to report each other become very nasty places to be.
Hmm. I'd never looked into the Atari Transputer much. I figured it was a lot like an Amiga 2000/3000, but overhyped, and with GEM :) Turns out it was quite a machine, with a lot of innovation that's only catching on in PCs now. If it wasn't for the lack of an MMU, I might have liked to see it replace both Amigas and PCs :) Also, a lot of the stuff here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transputer
Sounds like a summary of the Cell's raison d'etre.
Couple of questions:
* Is there an emulator of this, so I can check out how usable it was?
* I've read that it was capable of ~260 megaflops, which does seem to be in the realtime raytracing ballpark. However, I think that was a fully-equipped or high-end version? How did the pricing/configs work?
* What's this about a stack-based architecture that made having no MMU less of a problem?
What was that? A "Dell Minion"?
I've been running it since beta. Works well enough, but yes, it's a bit rushed, and all Ubuntus have been for a while, I agree. IIRC, I had to fix the sound (wasn't working at all, but it was probably just a problem for my pulse-as-a-daemon config), and the boot/shutdown screens still look awful on my gt8600. Also, they screwed up the GDM login screen by removing usernames in favor of full names. Otherwise, pretty solid.
True. When he sees Kubuntu, he'll likely be upset.
This isn't spying, this is interfering and undermining in key plans and personell. Probably what got Iran upset with the west in the first place.
Even if that's true**, having enough money to bring someone else's idea to market isn't much to brag about.
** which I doubt, if you factor in the difference in scale between the US and UK
No, you regurgitated the meme without any awareness that you're a memetic breeding ground.
I've tried it. It doesn't work. Voting for changeable people when you mean to vote for particular solutions that you believe in simply isn't the same thing.