These comments would be a bit easier to read if I didn't get a Javascript Runtime Error whenever I scroll the page in IE - "Line 396, Error: Object Required", when using IE 6, 6.0.2900.2810.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519. Works on FireFox though.
This is the sort of thing that discourages people from relying on Web Based applications.
IANAL but I've done this too. If you must make any change like this to a contract, both parties should sign the changes, but as a minimum, make sure you: (a) Initial, or sign, your changes (b) Keep a 'photocopy
Otherwise, how are you going to demonstrate what you changed?
"There are plenty of reasonable ways to defend yourself against an RIAA lawsuit over file sharing. For example, you can show how your IP address is shared by many others and it's impossible for the RIAA to know who was actually responsible. However, one thing you should absolutely not do is erase your hard drive -- especially when there's a court order demanding you produce the hard drive as evidence. Yes, that's what one guy did, and the judge (not surprisingly) has sided with the RIAA and ruled in their favor."
...just not within their heads. They remember stuff by reading and writing scent trails on the ground - using the world as their personal hard drive. Lots of little creatures do this, even e.g. slugs.
There is nothing stopping terrorists from taking out all the people standing around waiting to get through security.
Exactly. Of course they'd use poison gas instead of high explosives. That's what the alleged chemical bomb plot was all about. It turned out to be a false alarm this time, but plausible.
Chess isn't a good measure either. A COMPUTER can play chess. The rules and strategies are almost all worked out, so it takes only practice to learn them. A better field for this discussion is music - four lifetimes would not suffice to learn all of music theory.
Music isn't a good measure either. A COMPUTER can play music.
There are many studies showing trainers taking average joes and getting them into the charts in closer to four weeks than four lifetimes.
Huh, I thought you were going to be more profound than that. My take is that the game in question is the player against the environment. Ie, you don't have a second player to anticipate you. And adding randomness does thwart this limited form of competition.
I guess I'm flattered. I think randomness also helps in player-vs-environment games btw, because it introduces an element of experimentation and feedback. If an AI always make an allegedly perfect decision (as a Hutter AI will do), there's little opportunity to learn. But if it keeps varying its decisions, it gets additional information as to what works better. Thus by making slightly random decisions now, it can make better decisions in future.
The basic theory, for which Hutter provides a proof, is that after any set of observations the optimal move by an AI is find the smallest program that predicts those observations and then assume its environment is controlled by that program. Think of it as Ockham's Razor on steroids.
A "Hutter AI" will be at a disadvantage when competing against an opponent which knows it's acting as above and can do the same calculations. Under these circumstances, the opponent will be one step ahead. The Hutter AI is predictable and so can be outmanoeuvered. Hence the Hutter AI's moves are not optimal.
Human poker players address this issue by deliberately introducing slight randomness into their play. I think a "Hutter AI" will make better real-world decisions if it does the same (see Game Theory).
Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity in scientific theories. Occam's razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible - Wikepedia
Occam's razor is also highly suspect. There's the issue of cultural bias when counting assumptions. And all programmers will be aware of how they fixed "the bug" that caused all the problems in an application, only to find there were other bugs that caused identical symptoms.
If he made that computer, and required that his end users download a kernel.org kernel signed by Linus in order for his computer to operate, he would be in the clear, as would his end users (since they aren't copying any GPLed work, the provisions don't have to apply).
Let's take your example a little further. Suppose the computer uses standard Linux but includes DRM in hardware and uses a custom device driver. Are you also saying the manufacturer would be in the clear if he requires end users to download a device driver signed by the DRM manufacturer to play recorded tv programs? NB: signed by the DRM manufacturer, NOT the computer manufacturer. Is this a plausible way to achieve "Tivo-style DRMization of GPLed works"?
<sarcasm>Of course, terrorists don't drink unhealthy substances in the last hours before a suicide attack.</sarcasm>
Proof: "Suicide bomber Hasib Hussain ate a last meal at McDonald's before blowing up the No. 30 bus on 7 July, killing 13 people." - Bus bomber stopped for a Big Mac
This happened on Deputy PMJohn Prescott's watch. "Tony Blair is beginning his delayed holiday to the Caribbean... While Mr Blair is away, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is expected to take control of the day-to-day running of the country." - BBC 8/8/6
So I'm waiting for further evidence before deciding whether this is a real threat or just "security theater".
But we better hope the ban on hand luggage works, because the next step for John Prescott could be really scary:
"Naked... On a Plane".
Parent's experience is becoming more common. "Following a succesful trial in Westminster earlier this year, around 20 cameras will monitor and automatically fine vehicle owners who park in restricted areas or obstruct other road users. Some of central London's busiest streets will be covered, and the hope is that congestion will be eased and that video footage will both provide hard evidence against illegal parkers and reduce the volume of challenged tickets."
pocket-lint (07 August 2006)
Supporters of ID cards please note: they're fining motorists who park on the pavement rather than e.g. people who walk on the grass because they can automatically identify the former, not the latter. Do you really think it will stop there when we're all RFID-chipped?.
... Nobody stops up anymore and questions anything. It is now considered a fact carved in stone that global warming occurs...
"People are getting the idea from the rabid anti-smoke movement that the slightest whiff of tobacco smoke will kill them dead on the spot. People who don't like tobacco smoke swallow the rhetoric wholesale. Yet, oddly, the wheezing-hand-dancers don't seem to pay any notice to the cloud of black smoke belching from the passing bus... I think people need to get a little perspective. Things have really been blown way out of proportion."
Greg Pease of G. L. Pease Tobacco
I mean my post was boring, not your post. If everyone started labelling other people's boring posts on Slashdot then we'd have re-invented fark and nobody wants that.
Betcha that tree is there long after the kids are dead. Like I said, they're hardy buggers.
Betcha it's not, because cherries are prone to disease and quite short lived. If you want a hardy bugger that's similarly ornamental, choose a rowan instead. BTW I regularly see tree branches on public land that have been broken by lawn-mower tractors getting too close. I wonder if the police would react similarly if I reported this?
Our ancestors wouldn't have evolved if it hadn't been for natural disasters. We're the proof that those guys survived them all - we carry the genes of the winners - so don't underestimate us.
Not all Americans have such a narrow vision of the world. A few of us have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel (as opposed to vacation in tourist areas) -- Sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
To bad there is no text version. Don't have sound so this video is kinda useless for me.
Don't worry, they are "better able to respond to user request and bugs than traditional software companies" so there is sure to be a transcript online soon. Just keep checking back every day
PS: I can't see the transcripts of the earlier talks either. Do I need a different Firefox release or something?
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These comments would be a bit easier to read if I didn't get a Javascript Runtime Error whenever I scroll the page in IE - "Line 396, Error: Object Required", when using IE 6, 6.0.2900.2810.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519. Works on FireFox though.
This is the sort of thing that discourages people from relying on Web Based applications.
IANAA and tax rules vary.
IANAL but I've done this too. If you must make any change like this to a contract, both
parties should sign the changes, but as a minimum, make sure you:
(a) Initial, or sign, your changes
(b) Keep a 'photocopy
Otherwise, how are you going to demonstrate what you changed?
TFA just links the site, so here's the original story.
"There are plenty of reasonable ways to defend yourself against an RIAA lawsuit over file sharing. For example, you can show how your IP address is shared by many others and it's impossible for the RIAA to know who was actually responsible. However, one thing you should absolutely not do is erase your hard drive -- especially when there's a court order demanding you produce the hard drive as evidence. Yes, that's what one guy did, and the judge (not surprisingly) has sided with the RIAA and ruled in their favor."
There are even several breeds of dogs called pointers which specialise in this.
...just not within their heads. They remember stuff by reading and writing scent trails on the ground - using the world as their personal hard drive. Lots of little creatures do this, even e.g. slugs.
BTW don't you just love Google - even helpful to people researching bombs. Restores my faith in humanity.
There are many studies showing trainers taking average joes and getting them into the charts in closer to four weeks than four lifetimes.
Human poker players address this issue by deliberately introducing slight randomness into their play. I think a "Hutter AI" will make better real-world decisions if it does the same (see Game Theory).
Occam's razor is also highly suspect. There's the issue of cultural bias when counting assumptions. And all programmers will be aware of how they fixed "the bug" that caused all the problems in an application, only to find there were other bugs that caused identical symptoms.
This happened on Deputy PM John Prescott's watch. "Tony Blair is beginning his delayed holiday to the Caribbean ... While Mr Blair is away, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is expected to take control of the day-to-day running of the country." - BBC 8/8/6
... On a Plane".
So I'm waiting for further evidence before deciding whether this is a real threat or just "security theater".
But we better hope the ban on hand luggage works, because the next step for John Prescott could be really scary: "Naked
Hangs head in shame.
Contest Report, 2006 SubjuGator Team Members, full fledged Windows XP Professional on a Pentium M.
Parent's experience is becoming more common. "Following a succesful trial in Westminster earlier this year, around 20 cameras will monitor and automatically fine vehicle owners who park in restricted areas or obstruct other road users. Some of central London's busiest streets will be covered, and the hope is that congestion will be eased and that video footage will both provide hard evidence against illegal parkers and reduce the volume of challenged tickets." pocket-lint (07 August 2006)
Supporters of ID cards please note: they're fining motorists who park on the pavement rather than e.g. people who walk on the grass because they can automatically identify the former, not the latter. Do you really think it will stop there when we're all RFID-chipped?.
Flash: Gaudy or ostentatious display.
A lot of user's comments should be stuck in their own RSS feeds.
World to end unless you buy stuff from the authors
Just predicting next week's USA Today exclusive.
I mean my post was boring, not your post. If everyone started labelling other people's boring posts on Slashdot then we'd have re-invented fark and nobody wants that.
Happens about every million years
That would be the ancestor of algae. Wiped out almost everything back in the day, but led to green plants and us.
Those magnatars sound pretty scary, but life would survive them too.
Finally I know what to call those irritating loops of so-called music.
PS: I can't see the transcripts of the earlier talks either. Do I need a different Firefox release or something?