Sounds like it would be better to have everyone work one day a week, while everyone benefits from social welfare. Though it also sounds like severe taxes on having too many kids should be in order too.
It's not like it's locking them in, or even costing them anything. Most people just need a secure platform to run a web browser.
I think you're right to be scared of your government, and have been saying for a long time that the PATRIOT act was bad news. I actually don't have that much of a problem with governments trying to collect data, etc, but the PATRIOT act was very obviously unconstitutional, and therefore there should have been a HUGE shitstorm surrounding it, until it was rejected/repealed/whatever..
At some point of time, it will get hard to get devices for this to run on.
Considering that would mean a time when x86 emulation software such as DOSbox becomes hard to find.. I don't see it happening until geeks lose interest in the history of computing. Which may have to involve a global thermonuclear war or similar.
The more mass you have between the gravity source and your self the lower the gravitational pull is
That doesn't make any sense to me.. mass is your "gravity source". Though due to the inverse square nature of gravitational pull, putting yourself on top of a mountain would probably reduce the overall gravitational force exerted on your body much more than it adds to it (owing to you getting further from the centre of the Earth). Especially if the mountain was tall, thin, and had a low density.
As with most early vaccine candidates, the study revolves around SIV. SIV is much more aggressive than HIV: it replicates up to 100 times faster and when unchecked it can cause AIDS in only two years.
To me that sounds like it should actually be easier to clear HIV than SIV.
You can't really prove that something doesn't have a back door without putting in enough resources to find all the back doors there could possibly be.. so that doesn't make much sense either.
What makes you think that the idea of the singularity is from a single book? Presumably you're referring to Kurzweil's 2005 book. That's just one person's vision of a general concept that has been around since the 1950s:
The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a theoretical point in time when human technology (and, particularly, technological intelligence) will have so rapidly progressed that, ultimately, a greater-than-human intelligence will emerge
Machines don't need bodies at all. In fact, machines don't want or need anything. Humans are curious though, and like to do essentially pointless things just because we can. So we're going to have our biosphere in space.
Besides, the Singularity is just about AI. It doesn't follow that humans are immediately going to go extinct. We may have decent cyborg bodies before then anyway, and so could reduce our food/air/water requirements too.
We were only able to develop Golden Rice because the technology was patented. Thus it was publicly accessible for research. Without patents, the technology would have been secret.
They were granted free use of those patents because of the humanitarian usage. And I expect they'll do the same with the final patent on Golden Rice itself. This guy is looking to help the world, not make money. Read the interview, it's quite interesting.
Nobody's trying to make money from people's hunger. That would be evil! These guys are trying to make money from people's blindness. Big difference.
Tongue out of cheek.. everyone is "making money from people's hunger", or lack of clothing, or lack of computers, etc. Stop trying to make it sound wrong. Researchers need to eat too.
Unfortunately since tech companies overwhelmingly rely on young males as both developers and customers, it tends to amplify and support the worst qualities of that demographic.
If you're talking in terms of images, then you mean bitmaps. They're very simple, but they're also a complete waste of space in most situations. JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs are also pretty much "universally readable". GIF is about the only format that desperately needs a replacement right now.
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Sounds like it would be better to have everyone work one day a week, while everyone benefits from social welfare. Though it also sounds like severe taxes on having too many kids should be in order too.
It's not like it's locking them in, or even costing them anything. Most people just need a secure platform to run a web browser.
I think you're right to be scared of your government, and have been saying for a long time that the PATRIOT act was bad news. I actually don't have that much of a problem with governments trying to collect data, etc, but the PATRIOT act was very obviously unconstitutional, and therefore there should have been a HUGE shitstorm surrounding it, until it was rejected/repealed/whatever..
At some point of time, it will get hard to get devices for this to run on.
Considering that would mean a time when x86 emulation software such as DOSbox becomes hard to find.. I don't see it happening until geeks lose interest in the history of computing. Which may have to involve a global thermonuclear war or similar.
I'm still hoping for an anti-gravity cloak
It could cause problems for you to not be attracted to the sun, or the centre of our galaxy, etc :D
The more mass you have between the gravity source and your self the lower the gravitational pull is
That doesn't make any sense to me.. mass is your "gravity source". Though due to the inverse square nature of gravitational pull, putting yourself on top of a mountain would probably reduce the overall gravitational force exerted on your body much more than it adds to it (owing to you getting further from the centre of the Earth). Especially if the mountain was tall, thin, and had a low density.
whatever music it is people who are only in their 20s grew up with
That would be the music that my parents liked listening to in the car.. I remember a lot of Dire Straits, Gerry Rafferty, Gipsy Kings..
According to TFA:
As with most early vaccine candidates, the study revolves around SIV. SIV is much more aggressive than HIV: it replicates up to 100 times faster and when unchecked it can cause AIDS in only two years.
To me that sounds like it should actually be easier to clear HIV than SIV.
Maybe someone could enlighten me to the history of this approach in the treatment of other diseases, or is it novel?
The Smallpox vaccine used this approach very succesfully :)
This sounds like a pretty damn good one already, even if it only has a 50% success rate so far.
I can't find any articles on Google about previous helium attempts, because all of the results are about this guy. Who's done it with helium before?
So, you were never taught about "Ice Ages" in school?
Hey, whatever happened to nuclear apocalypse--radiation/nuclear winter/etc.? Anyone remember that one back in the 80's?
Did you somehow miss the whole Fukushima thing?
It hasn't been shown to not be backdoored
You can't really prove that something doesn't have a back door without putting in enough resources to find all the back doors there could possibly be.. so that doesn't make much sense either.
What makes you think that the idea of the singularity is from a single book? Presumably you're referring to Kurzweil's 2005 book. That's just one person's vision of a general concept that has been around since the 1950s:
The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a theoretical point in time when human technology (and, particularly, technological intelligence) will have so rapidly progressed that, ultimately, a greater-than-human intelligence will emerge
Machines don't need bodies at all. In fact, machines don't want or need anything. Humans are curious though, and like to do essentially pointless things just because we can. So we're going to have our biosphere in space.
Besides, the Singularity is just about AI. It doesn't follow that humans are immediately going to go extinct. We may have decent cyborg bodies before then anyway, and so could reduce our food/air/water requirements too.
We were only able to develop Golden Rice because the technology was patented. Thus it was publicly accessible for research. Without patents, the technology would have been secret.
They were granted free use of those patents because of the humanitarian usage. And I expect they'll do the same with the final patent on Golden Rice itself. This guy is looking to help the world, not make money. Read the interview, it's quite interesting.
Nobody's trying to make money from people's hunger. That would be evil! These guys are trying to make money from people's blindness. Big difference.
Tongue out of cheek.. everyone is "making money from people's hunger", or lack of clothing, or lack of computers, etc. Stop trying to make it sound wrong. Researchers need to eat too.
Considering you'd already have to be showering naked with the girl, I'm faiiiiiiirly sure that you could get away with it by that point ;)
Unfortunately since tech companies overwhelmingly rely on young males as both developers and customers, it tends to amplify and support the worst qualities of that demographic.
A lot of girls stare at boobs too you know..
I'm guessing he was referring to this. Why he thinks the NSA needs access to his bank account.. I don't know.
Encryption is totally cracked
What the fuck are you talking about? All encryption, ever? Or just Bitcoin encryption? Do you know what "cracked" means in this context?
If you're talking in terms of images, then you mean bitmaps. They're very simple, but they're also a complete waste of space in most situations. JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs are also pretty much "universally readable". GIF is about the only format that desperately needs a replacement right now.
Fiduciary makes more sense than "feudatory"
I'm not American no. I've heard of the Unabomber, but if you'd asked me his name I'd probably have guessed Timothy McVeigh for some reason.
So things would have been less dystopian without the bailouts? I can't really imagine that..
They were quite interested, yes.