I've been seeing a lot of these "AI research" topics lately. can't these people attack simpler problems first before trying to recreate human behavior? It is laughable that the state of the art of AI today can't even recreate the intelligence of a typical household pet. e.g. see if your dog can recognize faces better than a million dollar supercomputer face recognition machine. true AI will never arise out of preprogrammed machines, no matter how much computing power you have.
Ok, let's suppose the people at Pear. inc are crackpots. but how can you guys be so sure that telekinesis is impossible? I am no expert in physics. but one thing I can say for certain is we definitely DON'T know everything yet. yes, QM, relativity, Newtonian Physics are quite reliable so far. but they are not perfect. even if everyone doing research in fringe sciences are crackpots, that doesn't prove whether something is impossible. the equations in our physics textbooks says antigravity and cold fusion are impossible. well, if einstein and planck had relied on their textbooks back then, we would never have relativity and QM. my point here is that there can never be progress unless somebody comes up with a radical point of view. sadly, people in the scientific community rarely dares to deviate from the status quo. nobody likes to be called a crackpot and nobody likes his/her funding be cut off.
what are they doing to trace the perpetrators? traffic logs? suspicious daemons?
my question is: what if there wasn't a master host sending out a "go" command to all the slave clients? what if somebody compromised 100+ hosts several months ago and installed daemons that can self-activiate and autonomously coordinate with each other? assuming the attackers left no traces at the compromised hosts, is there anyway they can be traced? I understand that this is not a valid assumption. but what if the attackers carefully picked hosts on networks that were obviously poorly adminstered and secured? (ie. you should pick an insignificant 486PC hidden in some corner of a library rather than some E450 that serves 1000+ students. I have walked into a arts dept. computer lab before. I doubt that anyone would notice if I installed trojans there.)
The fortran bug didn't cause any crashed space probes. The bug appeared in the software for a different mission (mercury). It was an algorithm transcription error that caused mariner 1 to fail. the programmer followed the specifications correctly, but someone gave him the wrong formulas. one of the equations involved average velocity (R_bar), and someone missed the _bar and just put down R.
what if DNA is some sort of universal structure that exists in all living things, including aliens? do you think aliens are carbon-based organisms? do you think aliens breath oxygen? these are the things that we don't know about yet. so you can't say that it's inconceivable for aliens to be similar to us.
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I've been seeing a lot of these "AI research" topics lately. can't these people attack simpler problems first before trying to recreate human behavior? It is laughable that the state of the art of AI today can't even recreate the intelligence of a typical household pet. e.g. see if your dog can recognize faces better than a million dollar supercomputer face recognition machine. true AI will never arise out of preprogrammed machines, no matter how much computing power you have.
Ok, let's suppose the people at Pear. inc are crackpots. but how can you guys be so sure that telekinesis is impossible? I am no expert in physics. but one thing I can say for certain is we definitely DON'T know everything yet. yes, QM, relativity, Newtonian Physics are quite reliable so far. but they are not perfect. even if everyone doing research in fringe sciences are crackpots, that doesn't prove whether something is impossible. the equations in our physics textbooks says antigravity and cold fusion are impossible. well, if einstein and planck had relied on their textbooks back then, we would never have relativity and QM. my point here is that there can never be progress unless somebody comes up with a radical point of view. sadly, people in the scientific community rarely dares to deviate from the status quo. nobody likes to be called a crackpot and nobody likes his/her funding be cut off.
what are they doing to trace the perpetrators?
traffic logs? suspicious daemons?
my question is: what if there wasn't a master host sending out a "go" command to all the slave clients? what if somebody compromised 100+ hosts several months ago and installed daemons that can self-activiate and autonomously coordinate with each other? assuming the attackers left no traces at the compromised hosts, is there anyway they can be traced? I understand that this is not a valid assumption. but what if the attackers carefully picked hosts on networks that were obviously poorly adminstered and secured? (ie. you should pick an insignificant 486PC hidden in some corner of a library rather than some E450 that serves 1000+ students. I have walked into a arts dept. computer lab before. I doubt that anyone would notice if I installed trojans there.)
you can also use "dd of=/dev/hda1 ..." or even magnets :)
but personally, I like xfte and code crusader. I also like the DOS edit.com
...for his excellent unix programming books.
The fortran bug didn't cause any crashed space probes. The bug appeared in the software for a different mission (mercury). It was an algorithm transcription error that caused mariner 1 to fail. the programmer followed the specifications correctly, but someone gave him the wrong formulas. one of the equations involved average velocity (R_bar), and someone missed the _bar and just put down R.
source: expert C programming
you are alluding to FLT?
what if DNA is some sort of universal structure that exists in all living things, including aliens? do you think aliens are carbon-based organisms? do you think aliens breath oxygen? these are the things that we don't know about yet. so you can't say that it's inconceivable for aliens to be similar to us.
I posted tough questions and they won't let me post anymore.