Depending on your definition of "via internet device" all someone has to do is beat someone to death with a cell phone, or a laptop, or even run them down with a reasonably modern car. There's a good chance this has already happened.
If the definition is that the act of murder is committed remotely via the internet (a more reasonable definition), then I'm sure some bright spark will arm a civilian drone and do their deed that way. Already been done by the military, obviously, but I don't think that falls under the formal definition of "murder" if it was done during wartime, FWIW to the victim.
Another possibility is an industrial targeted virus (eg stuxnet-like) causing equipment to blow up and causing death to anyone nearby.
They'd have to give a discount on food as well. At least in the US popcorn and a drink run you as much as the ticket.
We hardly ever buy movie food, we just bring our own. The local (Australia) cinema won't let you bring a backpack or other large bag in (tripping hazard) but they haven't batted an eyelid when we've put the backpack in their lockers and taken in our own popcorn etc. Three of my kids and my wife can't have gluten so buying the food there isn't really an option - too much risk of contamination (who knows what they put in that 'butter'!).
I prefer not to have food at all in the cinema, but when you have young kids it's a great way to keep them still while they get interested in the movie.
Actually, it isn't. I explained before, according to Michael v First Chicago Corp. Illinois, 1985, "A finder of property acquires no rights in mislaid property, is entitled to possession of lost property against everyone except the true owner, and is entitled to keep abandoned property.". Therefore, unless the true owner comes to claim it from you after having tracked you down, and you refuse to return the wallet, it becomes theft. If you return it, or the owner doesn't turn up, it's nothing, since you're entitled to possession of the lost wallet against everyone but the original owner.
That common law finding on "lost" property has since been superseded in some jurisdictions by laws requiring lost property to be turned over to the authorities, then it only becomes possible for the finder to take possession after it has remained unclaimed for a reasonable time. A much more sensible way of doing things IMHO - how would the person who lost their wallet going to know that you have it? (A wallet is probably a poor example here though as it likely contains contact details for the owner so finding them wouldn't be difficult.)
You're judging a group (drug users) by individual's actions, implying they are all the same and are collectively guilty of crimes before they even commit them. You reduce human beings to robots, denying them any personal responsibility. It's not the government's business what a person puts in their body. It's their business if they hurt others directly, and the motive for such action, whether chemical or otherwise is utterly and completely and totally irrelevant. Drugs do not make people do things. The may provide some motive, but they cannot force a person.
I think we're talking here about cases where the person has done things (assault, murder, robbery) and blamed the addiction and where nothing else has worked to try and 'cure' them. I didn't mean to make the assertion that "you're on drugs therefore you are going to kill someone so we'd better start removing pieces of your brain", although I guess I should have clarified that better. Slashdot needs an append function.
Having a tantrum in your own home is hardly a private place, given that anyone can come and knock on your door or listen.
Maybe they could, but once the fight is over it is then 'inaccessible' to anyone else (unless it was recorded, but there are laws covering such things).
This tantrum was made in a public forum though, with the intention that it would be available to the entire internet.
Losing a friend because he made bad decisions is tragic, and cause for grief. Having a friend lobotomized because the government has decided youre making bad decisions is horrifying, and cause for outrage.
There is a big difference between making bad decisions freely, and having the government decide that you are no longer fit to make your own decisions.
There is a grey area here Mr Black'n'White, and that's when your bad decisions hurt and kill other people. And I mean directly, not just like 'you shouldn't smoke because someone else will have to take care of you later on' and 'the hospital couldn't save your mother because they were busy dealing with an overdose', I mean because ice addicts are killing people in their violent rampages and other addicts are robbing people to feed their next hit. That's when it becomes the governments problem.
And the whole definition of addition is that you are no longer fit to make your own decisions because your addiction is making them for you.
I'm not quite sure lobotomy is the answer here, but it may turn out to be the best of the available options.
I wonder if it's possible to just turn off that part of brain for a bit instead of destroying it...
If you watch enough of these videos like I have on youtube, it's a free-for-all driving over there. Signs and traffic lights are pretty much optional
It's probably unfair to judge russian driving by video's uploaded to youtube. I mean if you record your driving 365 days a year and come across an idiot doing something really stupid on one day of that year, which days video is going to get put up on youtube? "driving to work. everyone behaving themselves. nothing eventful happened" is hardly going to get a lot of hits.
Take a look at this screen grab. I've circled the left turn control signals. They're clearly red as the car is coming into the intersection.
Can such a device offer any proof that the resulting image (and in particular screen grabs) have not been tampered with? Changing that light from green to red would be a few minutes work with any decent image manipulation software.
I think the point is, Linus would rather the guy not do any work than to continue to produce such garbage code. He would rather make every change himself, than to rely on fellow-programmers who will only make things worse.
There's a term for people with attitudes like this; who express them by public tantrums: A Prima Donna.
Ok, I'll bite: How is an email in a private mailing list a "public tantrum"?
LKML is hardly a "private mailing list", given that anyone can read it, and anyone can subscribe to it. There's even a link to a public archive in TFS.
Marijuana/Cannabis is not for everyone, alcohol is not for everyone, we all have personal preferences.
I know cannabis has helped keep me sane. I've found it far more beneficial than the concoction of of man-made, side-effect heavy, possibly lethal pharmaceuticals that the doctor would prefer I took daily.
I know next to nothing about marijuana... is it still consumed primarily through smoking?
<quote> Russel Crowe throwing phones at people may be closer to reality than you think.</p></quote>
MMmm... now there is a horrifying picture, Russel Crowe and phones...in 3D!
Speaking of 3D, here's a free idea...albeit I think something similar has been done with a normal screen:
1) Get yourself one of those transparent OLED displays. 2) Put it on a spinning motor (clocked and timed and synched) 3) Calculate where the pixels should be in 3D space when the screen is spinning. Voila. Real 3D, now you can look anywhere you want.
That'd work!
I've had a similar idea before. I had some concerns about the balance of a 20kg CRT spinning at 1500RPM (to achieve an overall 25 frames per second), as well as trying to achieve a high enough frame rate. With LED displays the mass reduces somewhat, and you could use 2 back to back to lower the RPM requirement, but it's still a lot of mass spinning very fast.
And you still only end up with a projection into a (roughly) cubic area of space, not like the current cinematic 3D.
if it was real 3D rendering data (eg. rendering in real-time) you'd be limiting this technology to animated movies only
That might just match up with the actor-free movies that i'm sure will be along soon enough. There's still a small gap to cross in the uncanny valley before people feel really comfortable with simulated people vs "cartoon" people... think motion capture like Beowulf vs Shrek. Beowulf didn't quite feel right to me. But they'll get that right soon enough without motion capture and real actors will be a novelty... maybe in a future genre called 'fleshpunk' or something.
I'm sure studio's are sick and tired of the likes of Russel Crowe throwing phones at people and Lindsay Lohan getting up to her antics. S1m0ne may be closer to reality than you think.
Seconded. I *always* go see the 2D version of any movie I want to see.
And even those suffer, because of the scenes that are so obviously a gimmick for the 3D version. Very distracting and annoying, even in 2D.
Like so many other applications of technology, we need a better reason than "because we can".
Me too. Mainly because when I went to the movies it was with the whole family and I was quite aware of how easily I get motion sickness and it would really suck to have to leave in the middle of a film. Then I went and saw the latest Resident Evil in 3D (can't knock it until you tried it, right? I only took the oldest child so having to leave during the film wouldn't suck so much) and it was awesome. I went in with pretty low expectations of 3D but I was blown away. It really looked like Alice was standing there and if I reached out I could touch her, not just projected onto a flat screen. I take back all the uninformed negative speculation I had about 3D movies.
I get how some movies might be like "lets do this scene this way because it will be really great in 3D" at the expense of other aspects of the movie, and until the novelty wears off that might be a good reason to hate it, but for me 3D really enhanced the whole movie.
I dont give a flying crap how much juice it sucks just give me 75 gigahertz CPU and a damn drive that can keep up. Oh and make it AMD prices not intel.
I suspect you're in the minority here (as in wanting power regardless of power consumption). For me, desktop (and laptop) processors became fast enough about 5 years ago. Probably more. The laptop i'm using now is about 5 years old and any performance problems it has aren't CPU related. A hard drive that can keep up with my 1.8Ghz CPU would be nice - something that could keep your proposed 75GHz running without waiting would be just a little awesome:)
I've never had a Slashdot account, though I've been posting here for years. Your sort of bigotry is not nearly incentive enough. I've had several dozen +5 first posts over the years, and have made a positive contribution to many discussions. What does it matter what silly pseudonym is displayed above a good comment, or how many digits are in the number next to it? Even if the submission is completely made up, the discussion will still be meaningful.
Hooray for your +5 posts, but i've also seen you say some really really stupid things over the years.
And all those nigger comments are _not_ appreciated.
Most men arn't so vain and insecure... that they'd have a potent toxin injected in them just to make them look a few years younger. Female vanity apparently has no bounds. Or at least we haven't found them yet.
Today's man is apparently a little more concerned with his looks than back when I was in my 20's. I can't help but think today's idea of a good looking man is an effeminate looking man, but I guess that's what the women of today are going for (unless i'm wrong in my assumption that such men are out to impress women...)
From the article "[..] average annual temperatures in the center of the ice sheet that are nearly 50 degrees Fahrenheit below freezing." What is that, -50F or -18F?
"Celcius below freezing" I can understand, but not Fahrenheit or Kelvin. Well I suppose Kelvin could make sense, "Kelvin below freezing" would mean exactly the same as "Celcius below freezing".
When you say "degrees C below freezing" it would be reasonable to assume that by "freezing" you mean the freezing point of water, because that is what Celcius is calibrated to.
Fahrenheit is calibrated to the temperature of an salt + icy water solution (I think - or at least something like that), so if you said "degrees F below freezing" it could be a little ambiguous as to what you mean, at least to someone from a country that no longer uses the older measures. (My first guess would be "degrees F below the freezing point of goats blood"... based on what I know about the countries that still use Fahrenheit;)
If the popular media started using Kelvin for any form of such measurement I'd regard them as too pretentious and would stop reading.
I just looked at Antartica in Google Maps. According to Google, it's bigger than the rest of the continents combined! Forget about raising ocean level. That fucker's gonna extinguish the sun if it melts.
On the internet, nobody knows if you're stupid or actually making a joke about distortions in size due to mapping projections.
I'd rather lose that additional 3 people per 100,000 than lose the ability to kill anyone who breaks into my home.
I'm sorry, but that stance makes you a complete pile of shit.
I don't care what you have in your home, how valuable it is. It is NOT worth a human life to stop someone from taking it.
The valuable things in your home are your wife and kids. I'm all for gun control and will never own a gun, but anyone breaking into my home to hurt my family has waived their right to live.
His parents should be in prison. They are directly responsible because they didn't get their son the help that he needed.
Wasn't his mum trying to get him help? Or committed? It may be a long bow to draw, but if he was as mentally unstable as described then if he got wind of the help and perceived it as a threat it could have pushed him over the edge.
Some forms of mental illness can run in the family (whether inherited through nature or nuture) so it could be that the mum had her own problems to deal with.
An even better list would be "number of people who speak a language who don't also speak english"... but I'm guessing that Mandarin would top that list too.
To put it another way, if you knew English and Mandarin, you'd have a ~20% chance of being able to communicate with any random person from anywhere on earth (assuming that from the link I gave that the set of people who speak english significantly overlaps the set of people who speak mandarin)
I wish i'd learned some form of sign language. Being able to hold a conversation without any noise at all (not even the clatter of a keyboard) would be awesome, as well as being able to communicate in a noisy environment.
It almost certainly wouldn't help you with software development though, unless your projects centered on software for the hearing impaired... and even that's probably a bit of a stretch if your are at the code writing end of your project and not dealing with the end users.
The other problem is that sign language isn't universal either - wikipedia says there are around 200 different languages so which one would you choose?
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Depending on your definition of "via internet device" all someone has to do is beat someone to death with a cell phone, or a laptop, or even run them down with a reasonably modern car. There's a good chance this has already happened.
If the definition is that the act of murder is committed remotely via the internet (a more reasonable definition), then I'm sure some bright spark will arm a civilian drone and do their deed that way. Already been done by the military, obviously, but I don't think that falls under the formal definition of "murder" if it was done during wartime, FWIW to the victim.
Another possibility is an industrial targeted virus (eg stuxnet-like) causing equipment to blow up and causing death to anyone nearby.
They'd have to give a discount on food as well. At least in the US popcorn and a drink run you as much as the ticket.
We hardly ever buy movie food, we just bring our own. The local (Australia) cinema won't let you bring a backpack or other large bag in (tripping hazard) but they haven't batted an eyelid when we've put the backpack in their lockers and taken in our own popcorn etc. Three of my kids and my wife can't have gluten so buying the food there isn't really an option - too much risk of contamination (who knows what they put in that 'butter'!).
I prefer not to have food at all in the cinema, but when you have young kids it's a great way to keep them still while they get interested in the movie.
Actually, it isn't. I explained before, according to Michael v First Chicago Corp. Illinois, 1985, "A finder of property acquires no rights in mislaid property, is entitled to possession of lost property against everyone except the true owner, and is entitled to keep abandoned property.". Therefore, unless the true owner comes to claim it from you after having tracked you down, and you refuse to return the wallet, it becomes theft. If you return it, or the owner doesn't turn up, it's nothing, since you're entitled to possession of the lost wallet against everyone but the original owner.
That common law finding on "lost" property has since been superseded in some jurisdictions by laws requiring lost property to be turned over to the authorities, then it only becomes possible for the finder to take possession after it has remained unclaimed for a reasonable time. A much more sensible way of doing things IMHO - how would the person who lost their wallet going to know that you have it? (A wallet is probably a poor example here though as it likely contains contact details for the owner so finding them wouldn't be difficult.)
You're judging a group (drug users) by individual's actions, implying they are all the same and are collectively guilty of crimes before they even commit them. You reduce human beings to robots, denying them any personal responsibility. It's not the government's business what a person puts in their body. It's their business if they hurt others directly, and the motive for such action, whether chemical or otherwise is utterly and completely and totally irrelevant. Drugs do not make people do things. The may provide some motive, but they cannot force a person.
I think we're talking here about cases where the person has done things (assault, murder, robbery) and blamed the addiction and where nothing else has worked to try and 'cure' them. I didn't mean to make the assertion that "you're on drugs therefore you are going to kill someone so we'd better start removing pieces of your brain", although I guess I should have clarified that better. Slashdot needs an append function.
Having a tantrum in your own home is hardly a private place, given that anyone can come and knock on your door or listen.
Maybe they could, but once the fight is over it is then 'inaccessible' to anyone else (unless it was recorded, but there are laws covering such things).
This tantrum was made in a public forum though, with the intention that it would be available to the entire internet.
Losing a friend because he made bad decisions is tragic, and cause for grief. Having a friend lobotomized because the government has decided youre making bad decisions is horrifying, and cause for outrage.
There is a big difference between making bad decisions freely, and having the government decide that you are no longer fit to make your own decisions.
There is a grey area here Mr Black'n'White, and that's when your bad decisions hurt and kill other people. And I mean directly, not just like 'you shouldn't smoke because someone else will have to take care of you later on' and 'the hospital couldn't save your mother because they were busy dealing with an overdose', I mean because ice addicts are killing people in their violent rampages and other addicts are robbing people to feed their next hit. That's when it becomes the governments problem.
And the whole definition of addition is that you are no longer fit to make your own decisions because your addiction is making them for you.
I'm not quite sure lobotomy is the answer here, but it may turn out to be the best of the available options.
I wonder if it's possible to just turn off that part of brain for a bit instead of destroying it...
If you watch enough of these videos like I have on youtube, it's a free-for-all driving over there. Signs and traffic lights are pretty much optional
It's probably unfair to judge russian driving by video's uploaded to youtube. I mean if you record your driving 365 days a year and come across an idiot doing something really stupid on one day of that year, which days video is going to get put up on youtube? "driving to work. everyone behaving themselves. nothing eventful happened" is hardly going to get a lot of hits.
Take a look at this screen grab. I've circled the left turn control signals. They're clearly red as the car is coming into the intersection.
Can such a device offer any proof that the resulting image (and in particular screen grabs) have not been tampered with? Changing that light from green to red would be a few minutes work with any decent image manipulation software.
I think the point is, Linus would rather the guy not do any work than to continue to produce such garbage code. He would rather make every change himself, than to rely on fellow-programmers who will only make things worse.
There's a term for people with attitudes like this; who express them by public tantrums: A Prima Donna.
Ok, I'll bite: How is an email in a private mailing list a "public tantrum"?
LKML is hardly a "private mailing list", given that anyone can read it, and anyone can subscribe to it. There's even a link to a public archive in TFS.
Marijuana/Cannabis is not for everyone, alcohol is not for everyone, we all have personal preferences.
I know cannabis has helped keep me sane. I've found it far more beneficial than the concoction of of man-made, side-effect heavy, possibly lethal pharmaceuticals that the doctor would prefer I took daily.
I know next to nothing about marijuana... is it still consumed primarily through smoking?
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Russel Crowe throwing phones at people may be closer to reality than you think.</p></quote>
MMmm... now there is a horrifying picture, Russel Crowe and phones...in 3D!
Speaking of 3D, here's a free idea...albeit I think something similar has been done with a normal screen:
1) Get yourself one of those transparent OLED displays.
2) Put it on a spinning motor (clocked and timed and synched)
3) Calculate where the pixels should be in 3D space when the screen is spinning. Voila. Real 3D, now you can look anywhere you want.
That'd work!
I've had a similar idea before. I had some concerns about the balance of a 20kg CRT spinning at 1500RPM (to achieve an overall 25 frames per second), as well as trying to achieve a high enough frame rate. With LED displays the mass reduces somewhat, and you could use 2 back to back to lower the RPM requirement, but it's still a lot of mass spinning very fast.
And you still only end up with a projection into a (roughly) cubic area of space, not like the current cinematic 3D.
if it was real 3D rendering data (eg. rendering in real-time) you'd be limiting this technology to animated movies only
That might just match up with the actor-free movies that i'm sure will be along soon enough. There's still a small gap to cross in the uncanny valley before people feel really comfortable with simulated people vs "cartoon" people... think motion capture like Beowulf vs Shrek. Beowulf didn't quite feel right to me. But they'll get that right soon enough without motion capture and real actors will be a novelty... maybe in a future genre called 'fleshpunk' or something.
I'm sure studio's are sick and tired of the likes of Russel Crowe throwing phones at people and Lindsay Lohan getting up to her antics. S1m0ne may be closer to reality than you think.
The sooner it goes away the better.
Seconded. I *always* go see the 2D version of any movie I want to see.
And even those suffer, because of the scenes that are so obviously a gimmick for the 3D version. Very distracting and annoying, even in 2D.
Like so many other applications of technology, we need a better reason than "because we can".
Me too. Mainly because when I went to the movies it was with the whole family and I was quite aware of how easily I get motion sickness and it would really suck to have to leave in the middle of a film. Then I went and saw the latest Resident Evil in 3D (can't knock it until you tried it, right? I only took the oldest child so having to leave during the film wouldn't suck so much) and it was awesome. I went in with pretty low expectations of 3D but I was blown away. It really looked like Alice was standing there and if I reached out I could touch her, not just projected onto a flat screen. I take back all the uninformed negative speculation I had about 3D movies.
I get how some movies might be like "lets do this scene this way because it will be really great in 3D" at the expense of other aspects of the movie, and until the novelty wears off that might be a good reason to hate it, but for me 3D really enhanced the whole movie.
I dont give a flying crap how much juice it sucks just give me 75 gigahertz CPU and a damn drive that can keep up.
Oh and make it AMD prices not intel.
I suspect you're in the minority here (as in wanting power regardless of power consumption). For me, desktop (and laptop) processors became fast enough about 5 years ago. Probably more. The laptop i'm using now is about 5 years old and any performance problems it has aren't CPU related. A hard drive that can keep up with my 1.8Ghz CPU would be nice - something that could keep your proposed 75GHz running without waiting would be just a little awesome :)
I've never had a Slashdot account, though I've been posting here for years. Your sort of bigotry is not nearly incentive enough.
I've had several dozen +5 first posts over the years, and have made a positive contribution to many discussions.
What does it matter what silly pseudonym is displayed above a good comment, or how many digits are in the number next to it?
Even if the submission is completely made up, the discussion will still be meaningful.
Hooray for your +5 posts, but i've also seen you say some really really stupid things over the years.
And all those nigger comments are _not_ appreciated.
On the internet, nobody knows if you're stupid or actually making a joke about distortions in size due to mapping projections.
Only God makes jokes about distortions in size due to mapping projections.
Hmm, come to think of it, I see your point.
Are you saying he transcribed the joke from a golden plate?
Most men arn't so vain and insecure... that they'd have a potent toxin injected in them just to make them look a few years younger. Female vanity apparently has no bounds. Or at least we haven't found them yet.
Today's man is apparently a little more concerned with his looks than back when I was in my 20's. I can't help but think today's idea of a good looking man is an effeminate looking man, but I guess that's what the women of today are going for (unless i'm wrong in my assumption that such men are out to impress women...)
How do you measure cellphone data by the gram?
It's difficult, because 1's weigh more than 0's.
From the article "[..] average annual temperatures in the center of the ice sheet that are nearly 50 degrees Fahrenheit below freezing." What is that, -50F or -18F?
"Celcius below freezing" I can understand, but not Fahrenheit or Kelvin. Well I suppose Kelvin could make sense, "Kelvin below freezing" would mean exactly the same as "Celcius below freezing".
When you say "degrees C below freezing" it would be reasonable to assume that by "freezing" you mean the freezing point of water, because that is what Celcius is calibrated to.
Fahrenheit is calibrated to the temperature of an salt + icy water solution (I think - or at least something like that), so if you said "degrees F below freezing" it could be a little ambiguous as to what you mean, at least to someone from a country that no longer uses the older measures. (My first guess would be "degrees F below the freezing point of goats blood"... based on what I know about the countries that still use Fahrenheit ;)
If the popular media started using Kelvin for any form of such measurement I'd regard them as too pretentious and would stop reading.
I just looked at Antartica in Google Maps. According to Google, it's bigger than the rest of the continents combined! Forget about raising ocean level. That fucker's gonna extinguish the sun if it melts.
On the internet, nobody knows if you're stupid or actually making a joke about distortions in size due to mapping projections.
Which way is west in antarctica?
It's in the greatest hemisphere on earth - the western hemisphere!
I'd rather lose that additional 3 people per 100,000 than lose the ability to kill anyone who breaks into my home.
I'm sorry, but that stance makes you a complete pile of shit.
I don't care what you have in your home, how valuable it is. It is NOT worth a human life to stop someone from taking it.
The valuable things in your home are your wife and kids. I'm all for gun control and will never own a gun, but anyone breaking into my home to hurt my family has waived their right to live.
His parents should be in prison. They are directly responsible because they didn't get their son the help that he needed.
Wasn't his mum trying to get him help? Or committed? It may be a long bow to draw, but if he was as mentally unstable as described then if he got wind of the help and perceived it as a threat it could have pushed him over the edge.
Some forms of mental illness can run in the family (whether inherited through nature or nuture) so it could be that the mum had her own problems to deal with.
This should answer your question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
This might be a more useful answer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
An even better list would be "number of people who speak a language who don't also speak english"... but I'm guessing that Mandarin would top that list too.
To put it another way, if you knew English and Mandarin, you'd have a ~20% chance of being able to communicate with any random person from anywhere on earth (assuming that from the link I gave that the set of people who speak english significantly overlaps the set of people who speak mandarin)
I wish i'd learned some form of sign language. Being able to hold a conversation without any noise at all (not even the clatter of a keyboard) would be awesome, as well as being able to communicate in a noisy environment.
It almost certainly wouldn't help you with software development though, unless your projects centered on software for the hearing impaired... and even that's probably a bit of a stretch if your are at the code writing end of your project and not dealing with the end users.
The other problem is that sign language isn't universal either - wikipedia says there are around 200 different languages so which one would you choose?