I agree about RealID. They only know my real name so I can pay them, and they want to show it to the entire internet?! Hopefully now that they've backed down about the forum thing, they'll rethink the whole concept. I'd like a global unique identifier over the whole internet, but it should NOT have any impact on my real life.
That said...
OMG a beta is far less polished than an expansion to an already released game that has been patched up over years! SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!
Your argument kind of makes sense until you look at their respective track record. Of course they've had some bad models, but for all intents and purposes, that's within the error margin in this discussion.
Yeah, it's not like they had hundreds of models on the market over decades, most of which without signal issues! Who the hell are they to talk about phones?!
I'm not sure how you got from "Machines automatically creating and ranking indexed entities" to "Destroy all humans" but I'm sure it involved an illegal substance.
However the danger with taking that approach only is that it encourages rampant expansion as software engineers hear stuff like "we can do twice as much per watt now" and think "goody, I can save several man hours by not compiling out the debug code and re-testing the optimized code."
Make it run, make it correct, make it fast. As long as developer time is extremely more expensive than CPU time, there won't be time for step 3.
Businesses only optimize for power usage when it's the most expensive factor in the equation. I think we'll have to run out of oil before that happens.
In related news, following the announcement that South Korea would soon be deploying robotic turrets, North Korea announced that the army would double their production of zerglings and mutalisks.
I'd mod you funny, but you don't announce zerglings. You unburrow them.
Could you imagine the damage done if said company makes headlines for losing tons of sensitive customer data, and then has a follow-up headline showing their security practices?
Interesting link, but that article is more communist than smart. If I work my whole life to gather stuff for my family and am successful at it, what gives "Us, The People" the right to take those away when I die?
This proposal, as implemented, would only leave boredom as a motivator to do anything. Profit would certainly not be involved.
If only there were people with PhDs on the subject to do tedious and costly research over decades, publishing papers in important psychology journals and conferring with one another to develop a scientific understanding of how the mind works.
Would you trust a field that thinks the electric chair is good for unhappiness?
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I have full control over what I do.
And I'm Santa Claus.
DNA evidence is the new fingerprint. News at 11.
Damn right it is. Debian is the distro you install on your mom's computer when you're moving 2000+ miles and don't want to fly home for tech support.
Over the course of two years, I've had exactly one problem with that box, and all it needed was a phone call + ssh.
I would very much mind, IE9 on any platforms is asking for insanity.
Why should I care about the scuttlebutt of the internet.
Don't know about you, but a lot of my friends use it, and guess who gets to clean up the mess every time they fall for something like this.
Does it sound like beating someone to death with something large and heavy?
Imagine having your phone bricked because you viewed the wrong PDF on some website.
Imagine a world where you don't have to break into your own device.
Tell her to take it off.
Step 2 would be "Not die until step 3", I think.
Oh, they had that for centuries.
I agree about RealID. They only know my real name so I can pay them, and they want to show it to the entire internet?! Hopefully now that they've backed down about the forum thing, they'll rethink the whole concept. I'd like a global unique identifier over the whole internet, but it should NOT have any impact on my real life.
That said...
OMG a beta is far less polished than an expansion to an already released game that has been patched up over years! SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE!
Your argument kind of makes sense until you look at their respective track record. Of course they've had some bad models, but for all intents and purposes, that's within the error margin in this discussion.
This is like Santa Claus mocking their logistics.
Yeah, it's not like they had hundreds of models on the market over decades, most of which without signal issues! Who the hell are they to talk about phones?!
"You're telling us about antennas?"
I'm not sure how you got from "Machines automatically creating and ranking indexed entities" to "Destroy all humans" but I'm sure it involved an illegal substance.
It's the AI that was supposed to index 4chan.
It's rude to spoil a good argument with facts.
However the danger with taking that approach only is that it encourages rampant expansion as software engineers hear stuff like "we can do twice as much per watt now" and think "goody, I can save several man hours by not compiling out the debug code and re-testing the optimized code."
Make it run, make it correct, make it fast. As long as developer time is extremely more expensive than CPU time, there won't be time for step 3.
Businesses only optimize for power usage when it's the most expensive factor in the equation. I think we'll have to run out of oil before that happens.
In related news, following the announcement that South Korea would soon be deploying robotic turrets, North Korea announced that the army would double their production of zerglings and mutalisks.
I'd mod you funny, but you don't announce zerglings. You unburrow them.
Apple is 100% within its rights to censor people posting on its forum. Doesn't mean it isn't unfair in some way, but still within it's rights.
That's not censorship, that's deciding what content you want to have on your website. Did they promise to leave every post as is, like Slashdot does?
The main difference between a criminal and a business genius is that one got caught.
Could you imagine the damage done if said company makes headlines for losing tons of sensitive customer data, and then has a follow-up headline showing their security practices?
Like this?
Now how the fuck does this deserve Score:5 Interesting?
It doesn't. It's just that there's no correlation between the mods' actions and common sense.
Interesting link, but that article is more communist than smart. If I work my whole life to gather stuff for my family and am successful at it, what gives "Us, The People" the right to take those away when I die?
This proposal, as implemented, would only leave boredom as a motivator to do anything. Profit would certainly not be involved.
With unemployment as high as it is, you want to replace all remaining human occupied jobs with robots? What is wrong with you.
Maybe we could rethink society so we don't have to do things machines could, and still not starve.
If only there were people with PhDs on the subject to do tedious and costly research over decades, publishing papers in important psychology journals and conferring with one another to develop a scientific understanding of how the mind works.
Would you trust a field that thinks the electric chair is good for unhappiness?