Eventually the concept of money will be superseded by a new method of acquiring items people want. I propose we call the new exchange medium "sex".
that will lead to two new wealthy classes:
machines, who can engineer themselves to be attractive to anyone and who have no compunctions about performing acts most people would consider degrading or disgusting;
and people with no self-respect, who don't mind living in that barrel with the hole in the side.
There were effectively two wars going on, one against the bugs, which were a threat that was completely incommunicado with the Terran Federation until the capture of a brain bug, and the other with the Skinnies, who went from allies of the Bugs to allies of humanity. There was no explanation as to why in the novel.
perhaps it was an allegory for the Spanish Civil War. Terrans = Fascists, Bugs = Anarchists and Skinnies = Communists.
Enough with this "innocent" sales bullshit. I am far more concerned about how this tool can and will be used against me, in a court of law, forcing me to hire enough expertise to defend against shit I never said.
the solution would be to say nothing. give them nothing to work with. suddenly sign language seems more important than it was yesterday.
The research isn't to determine how bad smoking is for humans. With the Singularity just around the corner (as it has been ever since Vernor Vinge coined the phrase), we need to determine how bad smoking is for robots.
Those calls were fun. I used to respond by being so insulting, abusive, and profane that the last "IRS" call ended with the "agent" shouting, "I'm coming to your house to shoot you in your face."
i did that, once. the guy was absolutely furious, but in the end all he could do was forward my number to half a dozen other scammers, which meant instead of one or two calls a week i got a call every night, around 6:00 PM, for about two months. when they called, i'd play the infamous Dog Pound Found Sound CD for them (https://archive.org/details/BadDogRadioMassacre-DogPoundFoundSound).
the novelty here is that it could be TCP/IP enabled, which means unless it's properly secured it could be used as part of a botnet. no, that's not tachycardia you're feeling, it's very large PINGs.
Do you ever wonder what the world will look like when everyone has their own personal quantum computer?
It will happen around the same time I can run an economical fusion reactor
... mediated by an AI, through virtual reality.
i wonder what the world will look like when people stop masturabting to diegetic prototypes like they were the real thing.
Citizenship is allowed for those who live on Earth? For a 'space nation'?
This is in line with the current trend towards making youtube videos and blog entries about things, rather than actually DOING them. If they can create a fictional "space nation", sign up a bunch of members and sew the patches to their space jackets and stare into the sky where they imagine their space station would be orbiting if they could build one.. wow, that's better than actually GOING into space. Well, perhaps not "better", but it's certainly more affordable.
> According to the project website, "Any human living on Earth can become a citizen of Asgardia.."
If they can get there. It's probably a good way of ensuring that only very rich people become citizens. I mean the citizens who will actually live in orbit, rather than the dues-paying plebeian scum living on the ground. Unless people think that being a "citizen of Asgardia" gives them diplomatic immunity on Earth, in which case it's just Sovereign Nation garbage again.
because i'm familiar with the way americans mangle words, i understand "overage" to be a fee charged when someone goes over their bandwidth allocation. is that right? or is it a fee charged for being over the age of 18?
perhaps they will eventually penalize users for NOT using their entire allocation each month. someone notify Chris Hansen, we've got underage criminals here.
If there's an award for the most misleading title on a Slashdot post, this one has to be in the running. It could have at least said HOW MANY users' lives would be enhanced to the tune of 2.83 million years. I suppose people won't read articles unless they contain a ridiculous amount of exaggeration.
I thought the "internet of things" was a.. "diegetic prototype", ie a fantasy. how many net-addressable refrigerators and automatic light switches are there, that they can mount a DDOS of this scale?
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Eventually the concept of money will be superseded by a new method of acquiring items people want. I propose we call the new exchange medium "sex".
that will lead to two new wealthy classes:
machines, who can engineer themselves to be attractive to anyone and who have no compunctions about performing acts most people would consider degrading or disgusting;
and people with no self-respect, who don't mind living in that barrel with the hole in the side.
Hey! I didn't invent uucp! (rubs thumb and forefinger together)
There were effectively two wars going on, one against the bugs, which were a threat that was completely incommunicado with the Terran Federation until the capture of a brain bug, and the other with the Skinnies, who went from allies of the Bugs to allies of humanity. There was no explanation as to why in the novel.
perhaps it was an allegory for the Spanish Civil War. Terrans = Fascists, Bugs = Anarchists and Skinnies = Communists.
So how the fsck do you make a movie of a book you haven't read, and have -any credibility-?
Jodorowsky said he hadn't read "Dune" when he decided to make a film of it. Perhaps you should ask him.
haha, Jodorowsky's "Starship Troopers". god knows what he'd make of it.
Enough with this "innocent" sales bullshit. I am far more concerned about how this tool can and will be used against me, in a court of law, forcing me to hire enough expertise to defend against shit I never said.
the solution would be to say nothing. give them nothing to work with. suddenly sign language seems more important than it was yesterday.
"Never mind, we'll fix it in Pro Tools, baby." - Dick Nubbler
AC, why are you posting on slashdot instead of solving the problems of world hunger or global warming? Hypocrite.
The research isn't to determine how bad smoking is for humans. With the Singularity just around the corner (as it has been ever since Vernor Vinge coined the phrase), we need to determine how bad smoking is for robots.
Those calls were fun. I used to respond by being so insulting, abusive, and profane that the last "IRS" call ended with the "agent" shouting, "I'm coming to your house to shoot you in your face."
i did that, once. the guy was absolutely furious, but in the end all he could do was forward my number to half a dozen other scammers, which meant instead of one or two calls a week i got a call every night, around 6:00 PM, for about two months. when they called, i'd play the infamous Dog Pound Found Sound CD for them (https://archive.org/details/BadDogRadioMassacre-DogPoundFoundSound).
the novelty here is that it could be TCP/IP enabled, which means unless it's properly secured it could be used as part of a botnet. no, that's not tachycardia you're feeling, it's very large PINGs.
These are details, and will be solved with more CGI of 3D printers and press releases.
i fixed your post for you.
or more like the Time magazine of tech.
any more fairy-tales about quantum computing, AI, cold fusion or virtual reality and it'll be more like the Time Cube of tech.
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this
IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER
BULLETIN BOARDS.
Do you ever wonder what the world will look like when everyone has their own personal quantum computer? It will happen around the same time I can run an economical fusion reactor
... mediated by an AI, through virtual reality. i wonder what the world will look like when people stop masturabting to diegetic prototypes like they were the real thing.
Testing for jobs? WHAT JOBS?
.. tachycardia?
Citizenship is allowed for those who live on Earth? For a 'space nation'?
This is in line with the current trend towards making youtube videos and blog entries about things, rather than actually DOING them. If they can create a fictional "space nation", sign up a bunch of members and sew the patches to their space jackets and stare into the sky where they imagine their space station would be orbiting if they could build one.. wow, that's better than actually GOING into space. Well, perhaps not "better", but it's certainly more affordable.
> According to the project website, "Any human living on Earth can become a citizen of Asgardia.." If they can get there. It's probably a good way of ensuring that only very rich people become citizens. I mean the citizens who will actually live in orbit, rather than the dues-paying plebeian scum living on the ground. Unless people think that being a "citizen of Asgardia" gives them diplomatic immunity on Earth, in which case it's just Sovereign Nation garbage again.
because i'm familiar with the way americans mangle words, i understand "overage" to be a fee charged when someone goes over their bandwidth allocation. is that right? or is it a fee charged for being over the age of 18? perhaps they will eventually penalize users for NOT using their entire allocation each month. someone notify Chris Hansen, we've got underage criminals here.
If there's an award for the most misleading title on a Slashdot post, this one has to be in the running. It could have at least said HOW MANY users' lives would be enhanced to the tune of 2.83 million years. I suppose people won't read articles unless they contain a ridiculous amount of exaggeration.
I thought the "internet of things" was a .. "diegetic prototype", ie a fantasy. how many net-addressable refrigerators and automatic light switches are there, that they can mount a DDOS of this scale?
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if all you have is a bow, every problem looks like a skeleton