Biotechnology should not be the property of just of ivory towers and corporate interests, and putting that into the hands of the people is a laudable goal.
Please read Bruce Sterling's story "Our Neural Chernobyl".
I like the part in the "Restaurant at the end of the universe" where thet package all the useless middlemen/women and ship them off to another planet.
The Golgafrincham B-Ark had representatives of both genders. If you saw the TV series, you may remember the male captain who refused to get out of his bath, and his officious male security officer.
3) Since arguably HIV doesn't have anything to do with AIDS...
Which nut-case website should I have been reading to learn the "truth", here, or is this just the standard "thing you always thought was true, isn't, and then it is, then it isn't again"?
And yet when we talk about extending human lifespan or trying head swap surgery all of a sudden that's against nature and 80 years of life is enough!
I was wondering, where's that Italian surgeon whose name escapes me, who pops up every six months and announces he's going to do a head swap operation with a different rich client? As I faintly recall, the last one was some Russian oligarch with a terminal illness.
Good for Facebook. Why doesn't Slashdot remove similar hate speech? Why do the editors allow the comments to be filled with anti-Semitic spam?
I think there's a difference between reading a post - even if it is from an Anonymous Coward - and taking in enough of the post's meaning to be able to respond to it - like i'm doing - and seeing spam with ascii swastikas or two thousand lines of inane GNAA gibberish and having your eyes and attention slide over it as if it wasn't there. I don't take any of that garbage seriously; in fact, my brain is learning to ignore any slashdot post that has the word "trump" or "hillary" in the first sentence.
Funny, since so much of nerd culture revolves around tech futurism like when do we colonize Mars and get flyi^H^H^H^H self-driving cars and what happens after robots take all our jobs and rouge AIs take over the world..
As long as they act like Iain M Banks' Culture Minds, i don't care what color the AIs are.
Instead of a bot that puts together the ikea forniture for me I want a bot that designs new furniture for me
Right. So we've got a robot that designs the furniture, another robot that makes the parts, a robot to transport the parts to your home and another robot that assembles the furniture. Why not have one more robot to sit on it, then we wouldn't need you at all.
Also one can stop sharing everything about your life.
Alternatively, start sharing things about your life which aren't exactly true. For example, I just landed a full-time job that pays $45,000 a year, and all I have to do is sit at this console and turn that key if we get the alert and the other guy turns his key at the same time.
Why do they even make cars that can exceed the speeding limit?
Because a car isn't just a form of transport; it's the 20th century's equivalent of the padded codpiece. If someone built a car that physically could not exceed the speed limit, millions of 19-year-old boys would either buy something else - that COULD let them roar up and down the road like rutting dinosaurs - or they'd find someone who knew how to remove the limiter so they could roar up and down the road like rutting dinosaurs.
One of the reasons electric cars have been so slow to take off is that they don't have an exhaust system that sounds like a twelve-ton hog farting through a giant trombone. How are you going to impress the ladies with a car that sounds like a vibrator?
I've watched this to about the nine minute mark, at which point it froze, waiting, I presume for the stream to continue. So far, I've seen a lot of woo and the usual modern glitter; rapid montages of computer graphics, fish-eye lens shots of people stroking touchscreens, and infrequent and REALLY ANNOYING deliberate "glitches" where the screen flickers and distorts with that squeaky Hollywood "computer video malfunction" sound. A couple of respected people in the field offering their opinions; some vox pops of kids and just good old every day folk admitting they use computers a lot, and for Christ's sake, that shot from "Terminator 2:Judgement Day" where the T-800 crushes a skull with its metal foot.
The bias is obvious, and I'll keep watching as soon as the buffer opens again, but I'll be surprised if anyone in this comes even close to a solution to the problem it's posing.
(Incidentally, getting really tired of hearing pundits say "We're making advances in ageing studies which means we could be immortal soon." What you mean "we", white man?)
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Biotechnology should not be the property of just of ivory towers and corporate interests, and putting that into the hands of the people is a laudable goal.
Please read Bruce Sterling's story "Our Neural Chernobyl".
I heard the entire document was leaked absolutely word for word verbatim.
Who did you hear that from?
OK, so now the text is measured in miles? What lunacy is this?
Until it's deciphered, it's one great long string of squiggles.
After it's been deciphered, it's tens of thousands of shorter squiggles.
"Robot, can you shut up for a minute?"
".... no. I can't. Anyway, this next display has a fascinating history..."
I like the part in the "Restaurant at the end of the universe" where thet package all the useless middlemen/women and ship them off to another planet.
The Golgafrincham B-Ark had representatives of both genders. If you saw the TV series, you may remember the male captain who refused to get out of his bath, and his officious male security officer.
I was under the impression you can't catch it from being peed on, but as I demonstrated above, I - apparently - don't know anything about HIV.
3) Since arguably HIV doesn't have anything to do with AIDS...
Which nut-case website should I have been reading to learn the "truth", here, or is this just the standard "thing you always thought was true, isn't, and then it is, then it isn't again"?
I came here to deliberately NOT post a link to that story. With big, red straps!
And yet when we talk about extending human lifespan or trying head swap surgery all of a sudden that's against nature and 80 years of life is enough!
I was wondering, where's that Italian surgeon whose name escapes me, who pops up every six months and announces he's going to do a head swap operation with a different rich client? As I faintly recall, the last one was some Russian oligarch with a terminal illness.
I think this scenario is closer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That is, if the Russians, Iranians, Indians etc all join in.
O rly? Remember what happened to Photobucket?
Why do i imagine this being said in an almost pleading tone of voice?
Good for Facebook. Why doesn't Slashdot remove similar hate speech? Why do the editors allow the comments to be filled with anti-Semitic spam?
I think there's a difference between reading a post - even if it is from an Anonymous Coward - and taking in enough of the post's meaning to be able to respond to it - like i'm doing - and seeing spam with ascii swastikas or two thousand lines of inane GNAA gibberish and having your eyes and attention slide over it as if it wasn't there. I don't take any of that garbage seriously; in fact, my brain is learning to ignore any slashdot post that has the word "trump" or "hillary" in the first sentence.
Funny, since so much of nerd culture revolves around tech futurism like when do we colonize Mars and get flyi^H^H^H^H self-driving cars and what happens after robots take all our jobs and rouge AIs take over the world..
As long as they act like Iain M Banks' Culture Minds, i don't care what color the AIs are.
Flash also has big performance issues. It only ever worked well on Windows systems.
"Works" well, present tense. It's still in use. I begin to suspect who's behind the frequent "flash is dead" articles, now.
Instead of a bot that puts together the ikea forniture for me I want a bot that designs new furniture for me
Right. So we've got a robot that designs the furniture, another robot that makes the parts, a robot to transport the parts to your home and another robot that assembles the furniture. Why not have one more robot to sit on it, then we wouldn't need you at all.
There are only lazy employees. Perhaps they should take their laziness to the max and reduce their pulse rate to zero. Useless fucks.
It would seem that a few of them have.
"Why was this man dismissed?"
"He was dead."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_62Nk8KiQaU
Exactly. Next I expect to see a headline that claims "Cambridge Analytica executives eat babies."
Don't like lathe operators, huh? Whatever, we're too busy to drink that bitter-tasting coffee.
The downside is that your friends won't know what's going on... but if they're real friends and not just facebook likes, they can email you to ask.
Also one can stop sharing everything about your life.
Alternatively, start sharing things about your life which aren't exactly true. For example, I just landed a full-time job that pays $45,000 a year, and all I have to do is sit at this console and turn that key if we get the alert and the other guy turns his key at the same time.
All sound great in theory, fall apart in practice, and there will always be someone who says, "You just didn't implement it the right way!"
So it's exactly like socialism, christianity, anarchism and RS-232?
Why do they even make cars that can exceed the speeding limit?
Because a car isn't just a form of transport; it's the 20th century's equivalent of the padded codpiece. If someone built a car that physically could not exceed the speed limit, millions of 19-year-old boys would either buy something else - that COULD let them roar up and down the road like rutting dinosaurs - or they'd find someone who knew how to remove the limiter so they could roar up and down the road like rutting dinosaurs.
One of the reasons electric cars have been so slow to take off is that they don't have an exhaust system that sounds like a twelve-ton hog farting through a giant trombone. How are you going to impress the ladies with a car that sounds like a vibrator?
... let me rephrase that...
I've watched this to about the nine minute mark, at which point it froze, waiting, I presume for the stream to continue. So far, I've seen a lot of woo and the usual modern glitter; rapid montages of computer graphics, fish-eye lens shots of people stroking touchscreens, and infrequent and REALLY ANNOYING deliberate "glitches" where the screen flickers and distorts with that squeaky Hollywood "computer video malfunction" sound. A couple of respected people in the field offering their opinions; some vox pops of kids and just good old every day folk admitting they use computers a lot, and for Christ's sake, that shot from "Terminator 2:Judgement Day" where the T-800 crushes a skull with its metal foot.
The bias is obvious, and I'll keep watching as soon as the buffer opens again, but I'll be surprised if anyone in this comes even close to a solution to the problem it's posing.
(Incidentally, getting really tired of hearing pundits say "We're making advances in ageing studies which means we could be immortal soon." What you mean "we", white man?)
I'd like to see someone install ALL of them on the one phone. It'd either stop dead, or explode.