You could buy CENTURIES to work on the mortality problem if this technique worked.
And then you come up against another problem, that of the future peoples not wanting your ancient presence messing up their society. When there are millions of 'dead' people in storage and the world is overcrowded there will be no incentive to get them out. Nor if the world is sparsely populated.
Any effective longevity treatment will be for the 1%, make no mistake about that..
As an alternative, I'd suggest looking at big corporates that have marketing/web dev teams and apply for those jobs instead. You're less likely to be as harshly scrutinised by people as clued up as yourself and your salary is not dependent on how many clients you secure or websites you build as your job will be focused on your own company's website.
But, to get past big corporate HR you will generally have to have qualifications and certificates. The more the merrier.
A friend of mine recently registered a new user and the first thing Facebook asks is if she knew these people. A list of friends and family of her. How did Facebook get this information?
They deduce it. Similar names, similar locations, similar employment workplaces and similar school history. This provides possible links to several people in their database, and when several of those people have a network of interrelations, they can just ask if you know the most probable ones. As soon as she answers 'yes' or 'no' then facebook know stuff about her that is not deduction, but they can deduce more..
Show me the equivalent level of patronage today, then we can talk about recreating that model.
A singer and a band working in a nightclub who get paid a regular wage for their work. The music that they create and perform is part of the attraction of the nightclub and the owner pays them from the general profits.
Further to this, plenty of musicians work for television stations and movie studios on a work for hire basis.
That economic model wouldn't work today. Most new artists wouldn't be able to make much money from one public showing.
But you know.. I've seen articles about songwriters and phrases like "it came to me on a train" and "we sat down and wrote it in an afternoon" are not that unusual.. so if an artist had a regular gig at nightclub, and wrote a new song every week.. well, the nightclub owner would pay the artist a regular wage from the nightclub receipts.
What you mean by 'much money' is, an artist wouldn't be able to become a millionaire overnight based on an afternoons work and never need to work a day ever again.. well, sure.
I think you can make the argument to shorten copyright, but I think instead of setting a hard/fast length of years, a simpler solution would be an abandonware system.
That would be an unworkable nightmare. A strict limit is the simplest method: When you publish it, you put a date on it. After 10 years have passed, it is no longer covered.
That means that you can buy a copyrighted work and it is clear when exactly that work is redistributable. With your method, people would need to search the world looking for an obscure store in an obscure town that may still be selling the item, and as others note this leaves a set of loopholes to be exploited. Even the current method of life plus X years is exploitable because if an author decides to change their name and disappear from public life, who is to say when they are dead?
and for those who still don't, the reference is Eon, a pretty good novel by Greg Bear
and interestingly, while looking up the wikipedia page for that, I notice that Google says it is Edmund Halleys birthday today.. can it really be a coincidence that an asteroid flies past on this day? I think not..
Still, I agree that this isn't a very good test. One of the biggest factors on our sanity wasn't part of this test: fear. Even in low orbit, you know that a relatively thin layer of metal is all that protects you from death. If you have a major health issue, there are no ambulances to take you to the ER. Death literally surrounds you every moment you're out there, and living with that for nearly two years would likely take its toll.
Why do you think that? Do you yourself panic when you might be out of range of an ambulance in case you have a heart attack? I personally have spent 30 days crossing an ocean alone in a small boat, separated from the sea by 3mm of steel. If I had had a major medical emergency I would have likely died but I was not afraid during that time, and I would not be afraid to do it again..
The problem isn't that machines are going to do jobs people now do, it's that people have been misled to believe their function is to do jobs. Your "job" is to live. Go outside. Have fun. Play with your kids.
The problem with this, is that currently the only way we can have an inside to go out of, and the only way we can get food to eat.. is to have a job to earn money to buy that stuff. The job of "living" is a great one, but it does not pay..
So, something else has to change as well. Food and shelter and basic stuff needs to be free for anybody who needs it
Further to this, I only ever saw one manual drive car made in the USA and it would not even start the engine unless you put your foot on the clutch. I was told this was standard for manual drive (but I've lived most of my life in Europe and never heard of such a crazy thing) to stop you starting up in gear.
Have you ever seen a Hollywood movie shooting on location? Hundreds of crew, trucks, generators, lights, etc, etc.
Right, so its a National Park and that stuff isn't allowed, so they need a permit to get trucks, trailers and generators on site, and an exclusion zone set up because you can't have members of the public wandering across your set.. The permit then is not for the filming, but for the inconvenience they are creating to other park users, and to the costs they are incurring to the park wardens who need to coordinate such activity.
Yeah, if I remember right, at some point deep inside pi, there is a message primer. It establishes that there is a message to get your attention. Then you begin to decode it, like you said. The trippy part of that is that the message is embedded into the very fabric of the universe through math.
The sad fact is that just about all vendors in these market segments shaft their customers one way or another, Sony just got caught doing so in some slightly more spectacular cases than the rest have yet to experience.
The sad fact is that the majority of people just pirate music and movies these days anyway. The associations intent on stopping this try and pummel the ones they catch into the ground in order to deter the same behaviour in others. As Sony have been caught shafting their customers in a spectacular way, it would be a lesson to all the other corporations that thought that was ok if they took a public beating, much like Nestle did, 30 years ago (their image has improved somewhat of late, but I still won't buy their products)
Seriously its like suing an 80 year old homeless guy for stealing a half-eaten hamburger out of your trash-can.
Not to mention, this tramp is trying to sell that half-eaten hamburger and you just spent more money calling your lawyers than he could possibly get for it. If you really want it, offer to buy it back and save us all a penny!
Its cheaper to write software for a single platform than write cross platform software.
This software only needs to run on one platform, the server. I didn't read TFA but TFS says "just to be able to access their childrens' grades" which should be implementable with a static page. I'm reading slashdot with Firefox on NetBSD, here can you imagine how much effort they must have put in to support that incredible combo? I don't even enable javascript!
Computers listen passively to international phone calls looking for keywords and codewords. They score hits based on these usages and push it up for further analysis such as voice identification and stress pattern analysis
This is myth, not fact.
I believe the GP, since there was even a proof of concept trojan for Android that would listen to your calls and detect you speaking credit card information..
yeah, that fee will be buying a GPS that doesn't use that system. I am pretty sure that will become a selling point for some GPS.
How will that compete with an ad-supported GPS unit that is installed to your car completely free of charge?
If you think that people won't stand for free services being provided in exchange for advertising opportunity, I think you might be a bit out of date.. and I don't think AdBlockPlus will run on the provided device.
In fact the government should take a tip from open source and offer bounties for tax loopholes.. pay the discoverer a set fee (or percentage of estimated revenue!) then close it.
If only there was some way to turn that hydrogen back into freshwater after it's used to produce energy.
I wonder what the enviromental effects of moving to a hydrogen economy would be though? I mean, burning all that hyrdrogen would effectively dump water vapour into the atmosphere (and an updraught since most power generation is going to create heat in the area).. significantly more than before maybe? Perhaps people have already thought about this.
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Guess that one flew right by you, eh?
And then you come up against another problem, that of the future peoples not wanting your ancient presence messing up their society. When there are millions of 'dead' people in storage and the world is overcrowded there will be no incentive to get them out. Nor if the world is sparsely populated.
Any effective longevity treatment will be for the 1%, make no mistake about that..
But, to get past big corporate HR you will generally have to have qualifications and certificates. The more the merrier.
Standing Long Jump
They deduce it. Similar names, similar locations, similar employment workplaces and similar school history. This provides possible links to several people in their database, and when several of those people have a network of interrelations, they can just ask if you know the most probable ones. As soon as she answers 'yes' or 'no' then facebook know stuff about her that is not deduction, but they can deduce more..
They do. The expiry date is not for the water per se, but because the plastic bottle leaches molecules into the water, contaminating it.
A singer and a band working in a nightclub who get paid a regular wage for their work. The music that they create and perform is part of the attraction of the nightclub and the owner pays them from the general profits.
Further to this, plenty of musicians work for television stations and movie studios on a work for hire basis.
But you know.. I've seen articles about songwriters and phrases like "it came to me on a train" and "we sat down and wrote it in an afternoon" are not that unusual.. so if an artist had a regular gig at nightclub, and wrote a new song every week.. well, the nightclub owner would pay the artist a regular wage from the nightclub receipts.
What you mean by 'much money' is, an artist wouldn't be able to become a millionaire overnight based on an afternoons work and never need to work a day ever again.. well, sure.
That would be an unworkable nightmare. A strict limit is the simplest method: When you publish it, you put a date on it. After 10 years have passed, it is no longer covered.
That means that you can buy a copyrighted work and it is clear when exactly that work is redistributable. With your method, people would need to search the world looking for an obscure store in an obscure town that may still be selling the item, and as others note this leaves a set of loopholes to be exploited. Even the current method of life plus X years is exploitable because if an author decides to change their name and disappear from public life, who is to say when they are dead?
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What are you using for a display/front panel?
and for those who still don't, the reference is Eon, a pretty good novel by Greg Bear
and interestingly, while looking up the wikipedia page for that, I notice that Google says it is Edmund Halleys birthday today.. can it really be a coincidence that an asteroid flies past on this day? I think not..
Why do you think that? Do you yourself panic when you might be out of range of an ambulance in case you have a heart attack? I personally have spent 30 days crossing an ocean alone in a small boat, separated from the sea by 3mm of steel. If I had had a major medical emergency I would have likely died but I was not afraid during that time, and I would not be afraid to do it again..
The problem with this, is that currently the only way we can have an inside to go out of, and the only way we can get food to eat .. is to have a job to earn money to buy that stuff. The job of "living" is a great one, but it does not pay..
So, something else has to change as well. Food and shelter and basic stuff needs to be free for anybody who needs it
Further to this, I only ever saw one manual drive car made in the USA and it would not even start the engine unless you put your foot on the clutch. I was told this was standard for manual drive (but I've lived most of my life in Europe and never heard of such a crazy thing) to stop you starting up in gear.
Right, so its a National Park and that stuff isn't allowed, so they need a permit to get trucks, trailers and generators on site, and an exclusion zone set up because you can't have members of the public wandering across your set.. The permit then is not for the filming, but for the inconvenience they are creating to other park users, and to the costs they are incurring to the park wardens who need to coordinate such activity.
Yeah but my circumference is larger because I rounded up
Can we have xkcd now?
The sad fact is that the majority of people just pirate music and movies these days anyway. The associations intent on stopping this try and pummel the ones they catch into the ground in order to deter the same behaviour in others. As Sony have been caught shafting their customers in a spectacular way, it would be a lesson to all the other corporations that thought that was ok if they took a public beating, much like Nestle did, 30 years ago (their image has improved somewhat of late, but I still won't buy their products)
Not to mention, this tramp is trying to sell that half-eaten hamburger and you just spent more money calling your lawyers than he could possibly get for it. If you really want it, offer to buy it back and save us all a penny!
This software only needs to run on one platform, the server. I didn't read TFA but TFS says "just to be able to access their childrens' grades" which should be implementable with a static page. I'm reading slashdot with Firefox on NetBSD, here can you imagine how much effort they must have put in to support that incredible combo? I don't even enable javascript!
Yeah, but then they will know.. you are the stig!
Ok, so if somebody has done that and later I join facebook... can you click on the name then, or does the photo have to be re-tagged?
I believe the GP, since there was even a proof of concept trojan for Android that would listen to your calls and detect you speaking credit card information..
Thats why I always wear a tinfoil hat
How will that compete with an ad-supported GPS unit that is installed to your car completely free of charge?
If you think that people won't stand for free services being provided in exchange for advertising opportunity, I think you might be a bit out of date.. and I don't think AdBlockPlus will run on the provided device.
In fact the government should take a tip from open source and offer bounties for tax loopholes.. pay the discoverer a set fee (or percentage of estimated revenue!) then close it.
I wonder what the enviromental effects of moving to a hydrogen economy would be though? I mean, burning all that hyrdrogen would effectively dump water vapour into the atmosphere (and an updraught since most power generation is going to create heat in the area).. significantly more than before maybe? Perhaps people have already thought about this.