I can kind of grasp how the amazing parallel computer that is the human brain can solve new problems for something like FoldIt, but I can't see how human gamers could improve upon brute force fuzzing and static code analysis of military software. Maybe I have a lack of imagination?
Anyone care to share a vague guess how something like this might work?
No thanks, I'm already playing lots of fun games in Visual Studio, like "Guess What this 3000 Line Function Does," "Find the Configuration Issue," and "Who Broke the Build?"
Considering my low esteem for their anti-virus products, I'm not surprised security is also of low caliber.
The breach makes me wonder if Symantec is even dogfooding their own security products. Wouldn't the drag on their systems from Norton cause such slow response times that hackers would lose interest and move on? Security through performance degradation!
New Rule: Mandatory IQ testing for all state and national-level politicians. Just think of the time, money, and frustration we could collectively avoid.
You didn't think that anyone was going to modify their standard of living as a result of tax policy, did you?
Yeah, of course. Although the rich will still have plenty of money to meet their needs, the middle class will buy less shit they don't absolutely need to survive when you raise their taxes. And, unlike the multi-millionaires, that's money that would go to American businesses and individuals --not potentially out of the country to tax havens, foreign businesses, or goods outside the country.
Now, as far as business goes... Hiring decisions are almost entirely based on whether adding an additional employee will create a marginal gain for the business --not the amount of tax on profit. If anything, you need more employees to do more work to create more profit so there's more left over to pocket (assuming the demand is there for your product/service). I'd really love it if all the goons claiming they'll close their business or stop working (and deprive us of their inestimable talents) if they're taxed more would show us that they're not all talk. Cry about the unfairness of taxes in some other country.
Oh... You've done it now. Mentioning anything Microsoft in a non-disparaging fashion is first-degree flamebait, on par with advocating pedophilia. On/. we take our religious hatred of Redmond very seriously.
1. Productivity 2. A six-figure salary, coding with MS products 3. Familiarity/Laziness 4. Time limitations 5. Assured compatibility with previous and current work (self and co-workers) 6. Ease of troubleshooting via Google 7. All MS software/OSes free through work MSDN license 8. Games 9. Drivers 10. Completely satisfied with system stability, speed, and security
I'm no zealot about MS products (love my Droid), just being practical.
I see you're not watching Fox News every day like you should citizen. Otherwise you'd remember Bush's high approval rating immediately after 9/11 (that happened on his watch) and how, like the OWS movement, the anti-war protesters that criticized him were just a tiny group of clueless, America-hating, smelly hippies.
Really? Getting rid of Ghadafi at very minimal cost and with 0 US lives lost didn't impress you?
Obviously you do not understand the rules of American political discourse. You see when a Republican makes up shit to invade a country that poses no threat to us, poses in a military costume, or uses a bullhorn at a disaster site he's a great American hero. When a Democrat orchestrates the killing of several of the world's most dangerous terrorist leaders or removes a much reviled terrorism-sponsoring dictator from power, he's still some "soft on defense" pussy. Our religious beliefs about which party is God's Party precludes thinking any other way.
I'm impressed. The first time in 3 years I've been impressed, so the bar is pretty low. But good going Obama.
You've got to admit his administration is doing a lousy job of PR, but please... In addition to removing insurability/wealth as a prerequisite to medical care, he's managed to do quite a bit with a (post-2010) hostile congress.
Take a look at this list (or one of the others turned up in a quick Googling).
Opps. Quite right. I was talking out of my ass. I should have said "reduced-tax" income since it's currently taxed at a lower rate than labor, although I'd imagine many of the big corporate players find ways to avoid much of their tax burden.
Agreed, Q.E.D. This is one more game strictly for the upper 0.01%. But beyond the technical impossibility, point is, it's a logical absurdity that mankind could prosper in a complete vacuum of productive activity (pre-Singularity/wall-E future, of course).
Very insightful; wish I had mod points today. All of us working class slags get smacked when we make money by doing something productive --why should jerks moving piles of imaginary money (while creating absolutely nothing) get a tax-free income? If that made any sense at all, we could all do the same thing and we'd all be rich, right?
I am a C programmer and do not need help from this "stack overflow" web site. My references are the C programming language standards and the single UNIX specification.
Dude... Was I supposed to imagine this read in the voice of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons?
Two years behind? More like two months. With megapixels, speed, and bandwidth running out of room for improvement, the intelligent assistant may be the next mobile arms race.
Health care is not a right. Food is not a right. Get over it.
Oh! oh! oh! Can I live in your post-apocalyptic hellscape too? I can't imagine how fun it would be to live in a dystopia where the only form of government is guns and money --and people without one or both get to die miserably in the street like dogs. Can we shoot the poor for sport too? It's not like they have any money to buy human "rights."
i wonder if any of the deniers will actually step forward and admit they were wrong? Every time i see a denier post on Slashdot that seems to come from someone who sincerely believes what they're saying i'm tempted to write their name down and ask them about it when that time comes, but i'm far too lazy to actually follow through on that.
I've got it covered. A while ago I decided to just add the more shrill deniers to my enemies list so their crank opinions could more easily be ignored. Not trying to be mean, just saving some time detecting and ignoring trolls (wouldn't an ignore list be nice?). I would assume their politically motivated positions on science can be safely ignored in the future as well.
My biggest concern with longer lifespans would be a slowing--or even stagnation--of social, and to a lesser degree, scientific/technological progress. One of the best things about people dying (I'm sure we could think of several) is that it often takes a fresh (or even naive) perspective to create real breakthroughs and that requires new blood. It's fairly established that creativity peaks when we're younger and if we stop making new models, the tendency to do things the way that's "always worked fine for us before" will only hold humanity back.
Another problem is no nation has more criminals than the USA.
Not to go off on a tangent, but --heck, why not? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Another problem is no nation has more citizens that it treats as criminals than the USA." Seriously... Is the world record for highest incarceration rate a distinction we want? Maybe if our collective of overzealous puritans stopped putting so many potentially productive members of society in prison for victimless crimes, we might even get a small uptick in GDP?
There's another free voice app that does much more Siri-esque magic than Google's default. It's a lot of fun to play with and I can't wait to see how much better these voice command apps get in the next decade. Seems like the most difficult challenge ahead is filtering out the aggravating background noises and conversations in most environments.
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I can kind of grasp how the amazing parallel computer that is the human brain can solve new problems for something like FoldIt, but I can't see how human gamers could improve upon brute force fuzzing and static code analysis of military software. Maybe I have a lack of imagination?
Anyone care to share a vague guess how something like this might work?
No thanks, I'm already playing lots of fun games in Visual Studio, like "Guess What this 3000 Line Function Does," "Find the Configuration Issue," and "Who Broke the Build?"
Considering my low esteem for their anti-virus products, I'm not surprised security is also of low caliber.
The breach makes me wonder if Symantec is even dogfooding their own security products. Wouldn't the drag on their systems from Norton cause such slow response times that hackers would lose interest and move on? Security through performance degradation!
New Rule: Mandatory IQ testing for all state and national-level politicians. Just think of the time, money, and frustration we could collectively avoid.
You didn't think that anyone was going to modify their standard of living as a result of tax policy, did you?
Yeah, of course. Although the rich will still have plenty of money to meet their needs, the middle class will buy less shit they don't absolutely need to survive when you raise their taxes. And, unlike the multi-millionaires, that's money that would go to American businesses and individuals --not potentially out of the country to tax havens, foreign businesses, or goods outside the country.
Now, as far as business goes... Hiring decisions are almost entirely based on whether adding an additional employee will create a marginal gain for the business --not the amount of tax on profit. If anything, you need more employees to do more work to create more profit so there's more left over to pocket (assuming the demand is there for your product/service). I'd really love it if all the goons claiming they'll close their business or stop working (and deprive us of their inestimable talents) if they're taxed more would show us that they're not all talk. Cry about the unfairness of taxes in some other country.
Oh... You've done it now. Mentioning anything Microsoft in a non-disparaging fashion is first-degree flamebait, on par with advocating pedophilia. On /. we take our religious hatred of Redmond very seriously.
Since you asked, in no particular order...
1. Productivity
2. A six-figure salary, coding with MS products
3. Familiarity/Laziness
4. Time limitations
5. Assured compatibility with previous and current work (self and co-workers)
6. Ease of troubleshooting via Google
7. All MS software/OSes free through work MSDN license
8. Games
9. Drivers
10. Completely satisfied with system stability, speed, and security
I'm no zealot about MS products (love my Droid), just being practical.
I believe this issue has already been unequivocally settled in Star Trek TNG season 2, episode 9.
If Skynet refuses a wipe/reinstall, just make sure you've changed the crypto on access to our military systems.
I see you're not watching Fox News every day like you should citizen. Otherwise you'd remember Bush's high approval rating immediately after 9/11 (that happened on his watch) and how, like the OWS movement, the anti-war protesters that criticized him were just a tiny group of clueless, America-hating, smelly hippies.
Really? Getting rid of Ghadafi at very minimal cost and with 0 US lives lost didn't impress you?
Obviously you do not understand the rules of American political discourse. You see when a Republican makes up shit to invade a country that poses no threat to us, poses in a military costume, or uses a bullhorn at a disaster site he's a great American hero. When a Democrat orchestrates the killing of several of the world's most dangerous terrorist leaders or removes a much reviled terrorism-sponsoring dictator from power, he's still some "soft on defense" pussy. Our religious beliefs about which party is God's Party precludes thinking any other way.
I'm impressed. The first time in 3 years I've been impressed, so the bar is pretty low. But good going Obama.
You've got to admit his administration is doing a lousy job of PR, but please... In addition to removing insurability/wealth as a prerequisite to medical care, he's managed to do quite a bit with a (post-2010) hostile congress.
Take a look at this list (or one of the others turned up in a quick Googling).
Opps. Quite right. I was talking out of my ass. I should have said "reduced-tax" income since it's currently taxed at a lower rate than labor, although I'd imagine many of the big corporate players find ways to avoid much of their tax burden.
Agreed, Q.E.D. This is one more game strictly for the upper 0.01%. But beyond the technical impossibility, point is, it's a logical absurdity that mankind could prosper in a complete vacuum of productive activity (pre-Singularity/wall-E future, of course).
I work in science, and this is something of a misconception.
Really? Do you have a degree in science? From an anonymous university perhaps?
Very insightful; wish I had mod points today. All of us working class slags get smacked when we make money by doing something productive --why should jerks moving piles of imaginary money (while creating absolutely nothing) get a tax-free income? If that made any sense at all, we could all do the same thing and we'd all be rich, right?
I am a C programmer and do not need help from this "stack overflow" web site.
My references are the C programming language standards and the single UNIX specification.
Dude... Was I supposed to imagine this read in the voice of Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons?
Siri is slick, but it's not like similar things haven't been developed on other platforms. Here are a few competitors on Android (definitely less slick, but not far from the mark):
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.voicesearch (Google standard issue)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.pannous.voice.actions.free
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlingo.client
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dexetra.iris
Two years behind? More like two months. With megapixels, speed, and bandwidth running out of room for improvement, the intelligent assistant may be the next mobile arms race.
The best opinions are those based on facts. An education
Health care is not a right. Food is not a right. Get over it.
Oh! oh! oh! Can I live in your post-apocalyptic hellscape too? I can't imagine how fun it would be to live in a dystopia where the only form of government is guns and money --and people without one or both get to die miserably in the street like dogs. Can we shoot the poor for sport too? It's not like they have any money to buy human "rights."
i wonder if any of the deniers will actually step forward and admit they were wrong? Every time i see a denier post on Slashdot that seems to come from someone who sincerely believes what they're saying i'm tempted to write their name down and ask them about it when that time comes, but i'm far too lazy to actually follow through on that.
I've got it covered. A while ago I decided to just add the more shrill deniers to my enemies list so their crank opinions could more easily be ignored. Not trying to be mean, just saving some time detecting and ignoring trolls (wouldn't an ignore list be nice?). I would assume their politically motivated positions on science can be safely ignored in the future as well.
My biggest concern with longer lifespans would be a slowing--or even stagnation--of social, and to a lesser degree, scientific/technological progress. One of the best things about people dying (I'm sure we could think of several) is that it often takes a fresh (or even naive) perspective to create real breakthroughs and that requires new blood. It's fairly established that creativity peaks when we're younger and if we stop making new models, the tendency to do things the way that's "always worked fine for us before" will only hold humanity back.
Another problem is no nation has more criminals than the USA.
Not to go off on a tangent, but --heck, why not? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say "Another problem is no nation has more citizens that it treats as criminals than the USA." Seriously... Is the world record for highest incarceration rate a distinction we want? Maybe if our collective of overzealous puritans stopped putting so many potentially productive members of society in prison for victimless crimes, we might even get a small uptick in GDP?
There's another free voice app that does much more Siri-esque magic than Google's default. It's a lot of fun to play with and I can't wait to see how much better these voice command apps get in the next decade. Seems like the most difficult challenge ahead is filtering out the aggravating background noises and conversations in most environments.
Hmmm... If you're artistic, how about a budget version of David Hockney's latest experimentation.
"According to former Republican representative Bob Inglis, being conservative means dealing in facts."
Wow. What a wacky way to self-destruct your political career. I guess his unorthodox opinion explains the "former" modification.