I've always felt that I was born a few decades (at least!) too soon. The human body is so frail and limited. I want to be part of a vast computer network. I want to communicate at the speed of light. I don't want to have to sleep or crap or get old and die.
Unfortunately, bionic technology, uploading, etc., will all be finalized too late for me. Those technologies that do make it in my lifetime will be expensive and supposedly have "moral" concerns to further slow their development.
End rant.:-)
Anyone else had the experience of not being able to read the captcha on a web site? Seriously... if a human brain can't read it, I really doubt a program (at least at today's levels) could do so. Of course, part of the problem is that English has too many letters that look alike. Lower case "l" and capital "I" for instance.
It's surprising that we don't copy nature more often. I mean, animals in existence today have had millions of years or more to adapt, producing incredibly elegant solutions to problems. Of course, reverse engineering these adaptations is difficult, because there's no manual, and no real designer to interrogate.
They had a successful run for awhile via subscriptions. High-quality writing was the main draw, as far as I know. Plus they had a teaser where they'd show the first part of the article to everyone.
One is, is this really relevant when most terrorist threats these days are so low tech?
Two, does anyone know what kind of funding the NSA gets these days? I remember a news report a couple years back that said they were deeply out of date with hardware and so forth.
This would be great for protecting VIPs. You could integrate GPS too, so the health and location of the VIP (e.g. president) are known at all times. Heck, you could even monitor stress levels when they're negotiating with a foreign leader or something.
Seems like this could also be integrated into those parole ankle braclets people where, i.e. no vital signs, prisoner tampered with braclet (or maybe is dying).
I remember people had Linux boot disks for changing the Windows NT admin password. But does this kind of thing still work for Windows XP and the server editions?
I wonder if Microsoft will take this info and use it in Windows Vista to counteract rooting.
I hope we don't send humans there, at least not until we're ready to inhabit other worlds. It's ridiculously expensive and NASA et al go hysterical when humans are at risk anyway. Machines can get plenty of data, even more than humans in fact! Sending humans is mostly just nationalism and something for the media to latch on to (because their audience can't/won't understand science).
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I've always felt that I was born a few decades (at least!) too soon. The human body is so frail and limited. I want to be part of a vast computer network. I want to communicate at the speed of light. I don't want to have to sleep or crap or get old and die. Unfortunately, bionic technology, uploading, etc., will all be finalized too late for me. Those technologies that do make it in my lifetime will be expensive and supposedly have "moral" concerns to further slow their development. End rant. :-)
#1 definition for "artificial": "Made by humans; produced rather than natural." http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=artificia l
El oh el!
Anyone else had the experience of not being able to read the captcha on a web site? Seriously... if a human brain can't read it, I really doubt a program (at least at today's levels) could do so. Of course, part of the problem is that English has too many letters that look alike. Lower case "l" and capital "I" for instance.
It's surprising that we don't copy nature more often. I mean, animals in existence today have had millions of years or more to adapt, producing incredibly elegant solutions to problems. Of course, reverse engineering these adaptations is difficult, because there's no manual, and no real designer to interrogate.
They had a successful run for awhile via subscriptions. High-quality writing was the main draw, as far as I know. Plus they had a teaser where they'd show the first part of the article to everyone.
...to scrub out their server after that Slashdotting. ;-)
One is, is this really relevant when most terrorist threats these days are so low tech? Two, does anyone know what kind of funding the NSA gets these days? I remember a news report a couple years back that said they were deeply out of date with hardware and so forth.
This would be great for protecting VIPs. You could integrate GPS too, so the health and location of the VIP (e.g. president) are known at all times. Heck, you could even monitor stress levels when they're negotiating with a foreign leader or something. Seems like this could also be integrated into those parole ankle braclets people where, i.e. no vital signs, prisoner tampered with braclet (or maybe is dying).
...Europe's soccer stampedes! Somehow it doesn't suprise me that it has to do with consumerism.
I remember people had Linux boot disks for changing the Windows NT admin password. But does this kind of thing still work for Windows XP and the server editions? I wonder if Microsoft will take this info and use it in Windows Vista to counteract rooting.
I hope we don't send humans there, at least not until we're ready to inhabit other worlds. It's ridiculously expensive and NASA et al go hysterical when humans are at risk anyway. Machines can get plenty of data, even more than humans in fact! Sending humans is mostly just nationalism and something for the media to latch on to (because their audience can't/won't understand science).