They weren't sharing thoughts. They were sharing a signal. Specifically, an LED which, they were told before the experiment, represents a move in Tetris. They aren't communicating anything of great depth, the government can't use this to read your thoughts and find out that you ran a red light on the way home last night. The whole thing could literally have been replaced with two wires. Typical web jabber that sometimes pretends to be "journalism".
How the hell is it the DEA's responsibility to monitor driving speeds? If someone's driving 2 miles per hour over the posted limit do they take this as evidence the driver is hopped up on methamphetamines and they have the right to pull them over? Or if they're driving 3 miles per hour UNDER the posted limit, they claim the driver is stoned and shoot the tires out?
I'm still... evaluating, yeah, that's it... i'm evaluating the free version. It plays ads in between filenames when you're browsing files to play, which is insanely annoying - one slip of the finger and suddenly you're installing some stupid casino cash-vacuum-cleaner, which is why i only use it with wifi, bluetooth and mobile data turned off, inside a faraday cage. The ads don't show up then.
It does play any media file I've thrown at it so far, and handles subtitles well; I'm wondering how badly it would rape my phone if I paid for it and let it loose on a network-enabled device. I'm a little wary of media player apps that say they need to access your phone's camera.
Did your CS degree cover locating, interviewing, documenting, and protecting sources?
I studied journalism, a long time ago, under a veteran named Barry Watts. One of the other students once asked him about journalistic integrity, and Mr Watts gave one cynical, barking laugh, adding "You poor, naive bastards."
Only once, when I was a fido point, with a fairly unique point number. Someone sent an email to one of the other points and mis-typed one of the digits. I got the mail, rather than the woman he was trying to talk into leaving her husband.
Ugh This PC Correctness just makes me shake my head.
I've found a lot of it comes from cloistered online communities that have the power to kick participants out. In order to demonstrate their overwhelming goodness, a participant often has to go overboard, and this sort of silliness is the result.
Most of the time it evaporates on contact with the real world... seriously, you're going to push for a design where one aspect of the hardware doesn't control any other, to promote "fairness"? As Franz Pokler said, “Try to design anything that way and have it work.”
Sometimes it doesn't, and we get to consider the desperation of people who come up with such tomfoolery in order to be seen as morally superior.
I'm sure the robots would strictly abide by such a ban. Just in the same way machinery with safety equipment that's been bypassed chooses not to mangle the operators.
Does anyone remember a Robert Sheckley story where an explorer left his robot guarding the ship and went off to explore an uncharted planet? When he came back, the robot malfunctioned, refused to recognise him as human and wouldn't let him in.
They can make as many regulations banning things, but it won't stop people who want to use them.
I suspect it was intended to include the blue-ribbon word "innocuous" without actually understanding its correct use, and should have been "far less innocuous, and potentially damaging".
Notice no tech company want to use this quantum bullshit? Could it be that anyone with a tech background knows it fucking sucks?
I don't think this particular grade of bullshit is aimed at people with a tech background. It's aimed at investors who have money to toss into the wishing well and who are dazzled by technobabble.
The description could have worked in the phrases "blockchain", "AI", "nanotech" and, oh, why not, "artisinal" and "homeopathic". They could possibly even have squeezed in a couple of Goop's jade vaginal eggs. Why not?
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They weren't sharing thoughts. They were sharing a signal. Specifically, an LED which, they were told before the experiment, represents a move in Tetris. They aren't communicating anything of great depth, the government can't use this to read your thoughts and find out that you ran a red light on the way home last night. The whole thing could literally have been replaced with two wires. Typical web jabber that sometimes pretends to be "journalism".
Talk is cheap, guys. I'd be interested to see, in ten years' time, how many, if any, of these fantasies get carried out.
These days? Only these days?
Perhaps he meant "fundamentally re-define". Refining a run-down waterfront might turn it into a less run-down waterfront.
How the hell is it the DEA's responsibility to monitor driving speeds? If someone's driving 2 miles per hour over the posted limit do they take this as evidence the driver is hopped up on methamphetamines and they have the right to pull them over? Or if they're driving 3 miles per hour UNDER the posted limit, they claim the driver is stoned and shoot the tires out?
I'm still... evaluating, yeah, that's it... i'm evaluating the free version. It plays ads in between filenames when you're browsing files to play, which is insanely annoying - one slip of the finger and suddenly you're installing some stupid casino cash-vacuum-cleaner, which is why i only use it with wifi, bluetooth and mobile data turned off, inside a faraday cage. The ads don't show up then.
It does play any media file I've thrown at it so far, and handles subtitles well; I'm wondering how badly it would rape my phone if I paid for it and let it loose on a network-enabled device. I'm a little wary of media player apps that say they need to access your phone's camera.
The internet is badly broken.
The internet is working perfectly. It was never intended as a virtual domain to allow primates to pick nits off each other digitally.
Did your CS degree cover locating, interviewing, documenting, and protecting sources?
I studied journalism, a long time ago, under a veteran named Barry Watts. One of the other students once asked him about journalistic integrity, and Mr Watts gave one cynical, barking laugh, adding "You poor, naive bastards. "
And he was right.
I really hope this doesn't lead to A Colder War...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Colder_War
Or the manipulation of appetite by bacteria living in the gut?
Not you, Helicobacter Pylori. Nobody likes you.
"In the rest of this post, Iâ(TM)m going to talk about why this matters. "
What he actually posted was:
"In the rest of this post, I’m going to talk about why this matters."
Same as it works on a large asteroid. Or a small moon. Etc, u.s.w., i.t.d.
... and they can charge a royalty but it would depend whether their life is a dramatic work or not, apparently.
I would suppose that if you are worth wiretapping, your life is either dramatic or is about to become so.
The four personality types are: moist and warm, warm and dry, dry and cold, and cold and moist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism
The question, of course, is what the humans will do when there half as many jobs.
Traditionally, they become homeless, then they starve in an alleyway. Hopefully there will be a machine to dispose of the body.
... yeah, i know ALL the point numbers were unique. i was a snotty little so-and-so at the time, so mine ended in .666 .
Only once, when I was a fido point, with a fairly unique point number. Someone sent an email to one of the other points and mis-typed one of the digits. I got the mail, rather than the woman he was trying to talk into leaving her husband.
Maybe they were thinking of the early Hollywood biblical film epics. They cost a lot of money, at the time.
Anyway, to get back to the cynicism, what's the bet this company decides they own those genetic sequences once they've sorted them out?
Ugh This PC Correctness just makes me shake my head.
I've found a lot of it comes from cloistered online communities that have the power to kick participants out. In order to demonstrate their overwhelming goodness, a participant often has to go overboard, and this sort of silliness is the result.
Most of the time it evaporates on contact with the real world... seriously, you're going to push for a design where one aspect of the hardware doesn't control any other, to promote "fairness"? As Franz Pokler said, “Try to design anything that way and have it work.”
Sometimes it doesn't, and we get to consider the desperation of people who come up with such tomfoolery in order to be seen as morally superior.
I'm sure the robots would strictly abide by such a ban. Just in the same way machinery with safety equipment that's been bypassed chooses not to mangle the operators.
Does anyone remember a Robert Sheckley story where an explorer left his robot guarding the ship and went off to explore an uncharted planet? When he came back, the robot malfunctioned, refused to recognise him as human and wouldn't let him in.
They can make as many regulations banning things, but it won't stop people who want to use them.
I suspect it was intended to include the blue-ribbon word "innocuous" without actually understanding its correct use, and should have been "far less innocuous, and potentially damaging".
We choose to shit out more carbon than we use.
I don't choose to, but I can only hold my breath for so long.
... Judges could logo up their robes so we know who's paying for justice.
You don't pay for justice. You rent it.
As for becoming an astronaut... it seems the best thing to do is learn how to play guitar and practice those early Bowie tunes.
No you didn't. You found a person who has been using crypto for years, makes six figures, has had multiple successful businesses, and
- yet remains an anonymous coward with zero credibility.
Notice no tech company want to use this quantum bullshit? Could it be that anyone with a tech background knows it fucking sucks?
I don't think this particular grade of bullshit is aimed at people with a tech background. It's aimed at investors who have money to toss into the wishing well and who are dazzled by technobabble.
The description could have worked in the phrases "blockchain", "AI", "nanotech" and, oh, why not, "artisinal" and "homeopathic". They could possibly even have squeezed in a couple of Goop's jade vaginal eggs. Why not?