The whole movement "replace humans everywhere" is idiotic. Biocomputing centers getting rid of curators, oral exams replaced by idiotic choice tests, etc, etc.
Replace humans where no choice is involved. Once the choice is involved, programming becomes increasingly stupid and prone to errors.
"the Koran". What exactly in The Qur'an you would perceive as science fiction? I understand if you consider it "fiction" as a Kaafir, but what exactly in the text of the Qur'an makes you label it as "science fiction"?
For the right cause, people from 1st world come to 3rd world to fight for it. Mujahedeen, if somebody don't immediately understand whom I talking about.
This case is another good example how digital techonology creates unsolvable economical political problem. Encryption creates perfect safes. Digital content creates perfect oppurtunity for the content to escape all the barriers and freely multiply in the wild. In both cases powers (government and powerful lobby) are fully intending to solve this problem by severely tramping freedoms that were left untouched before.
Those two are perfect examples why people should stop voting and start revolting.
When I read the title: I couldn't help but add: "Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s"... in tree rings.
I would like to humbly introduce ".. in tree rings" as a catch phrase for research that goes into technological wonders of experimental advancement for a dubious cause. Think of it as a marriage of "..that's what she said" and IgNoble prize.
As a Muslim, in as much I would like to represent this as yet another example of anti-Muslim profiling (which does exist), in this case we see the tip of particular law enforcement unit idocy of the iceberg of "antiterrorism" hysteria:
Clearly the context of other messages would provide them with enough data to skip this message, but they chose to look stupid instead of risking to be sorry.
Nobody watches The passion of the Christ in the library and nobody complained about somebody reading erotic stories in the library, because (a) why (b) you can't tell from the distance of politeness what the other person is reading.
"The only way to stop these laws is going to be by us getting in the way of the corporate machinery "
For that to happen you need to find enough people who care enough about the issue to do that.
Good luck with that. The "people" are busy with streaming free content or slacking in some other way, and when an organized group that thinks that it loses serious money is going to shut down "streaming free content" activities, the slackers will switch to some other kind of slacking.
Seriously, it's like watching 30 Rock couple of episodes ago. "Idiots" are offended.
It's amazing to see repeated appeals of/. to the community known for it's social passiveness.
It's like Einstein said: "Insanity is to expect different results from the same action".
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"She and her team wrote a program called aDesigner... to allow designers to experience a site as blind users "
You need a program to close your eyes to experience a site as blind users?
"People just don't care. " That wins the argument, doesn't it?
One sunny day I hope to see all the lamp posts decorated with demagogues on my way to work.
The morals ARE universal and unrelativistic and if some country of idiots doesn't care anymore, it does not mean that that's *good*. It just mean what you exactly said: "people just don't care". So didn't care the people of the town of Lot, so didn't care Germans in 1939.
You think the consumerist propaganda in the form of advertisement is better than communist propaganda or "creationist" propaganda, then you are blithering idiot.
"watching porn is a speech act ". I wanted to skip this bullshit silently as a non-native English speaker, but I was afraid that my silence would be also interpreted as a "speech act".
"I like their position " No doubt about it. And dozen other positions.
Jokes aside, I was prepared to see once again on/. liberalism celebrated over things common, like sense and decency, and the +5 first comment delivers.
Perceived word of mouth reputation of journals preceded impact factor. I do not know who decided to use impact factor as a main measure of a journal, but I take an insult in the fact that you called them "academics"
This is one of the most truly insightful comments I have read on/. in 10 years.
As usual with great insights and discoveries, it strikes you with triviality of a great thought that nevertheless never crossed your mind (that's the sign of greatness I learned from my scientific advisor).
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>an SF/fantasy element
Can't you read what I wrote? Read again, idiot:
> I understand if you consider it "fiction" as a Kaafir, but what exactly in the text of the Qur'an makes you label it as "science fiction"
May that's what IBM wants it for, to save humanity from stupid metrics...
The whole movement "replace humans everywhere" is idiotic. Biocomputing centers getting rid of curators, oral exams replaced by idiotic choice tests, etc, etc.
Replace humans where no choice is involved. Once the choice is involved, programming becomes increasingly stupid and prone to errors.
1. private/public
2. corporal punishment allowed yes/no
That's it.
"the Koran". What exactly in The Qur'an you would perceive as science fiction? I understand if you consider it "fiction" as a Kaafir, but what exactly in the text of the Qur'an makes you label it as "science fiction"?
No argument on that.
For the right cause, people from 1st world come to 3rd world to fight for it. Mujahedeen, if somebody don't immediately understand whom I talking about.
People who will revolt, won't say that to people like me, which makes your rhetorics irrelevant.
*I* am irrelevant.
Don't blame politicians. It's all human fault. There is a 37 year old song on this subject saying "cold comfort for change".
The history of humanity is trading independence for comfort. If you look at all the revolutions, vast majority of them is about this trade went wrong.
>No it does not.
Can you decrypt a document without a key?
So, yes, it does.
"The only reason every video ever made is not available on demand is idiotic IP laws and greed. That is what we all want, not this piecemeal idiocy"
No. That's not the only, not even the main reason.
The reason is that the cost of production making it digital won't be covered by the return.
This case is another good example how digital techonology creates unsolvable economical political problem. Encryption creates perfect safes. Digital content creates perfect oppurtunity for the content to escape all the barriers and freely multiply in the wild. In both cases powers (government and powerful lobby) are fully intending to solve this problem by severely tramping freedoms that were left untouched before.
Those two are perfect examples why people should stop voting and start revolting.
When I read the title: I couldn't help but add: "Finding Lost Recording From the 1880s"... in tree rings.
I would like to humbly introduce ".. in tree rings" as a catch phrase for research that goes into technological wonders of experimental advancement for a dubious cause. Think of it as a marriage of "..that's what she said" and IgNoble prize.
As a Muslim, in as much I would like to represent this as yet another example of anti-Muslim profiling (which does exist), in this case we see the tip of particular law enforcement unit idocy of the iceberg of "antiterrorism" hysteria:
Clearly the context of other messages would provide them with enough data to skip this message, but they chose to look stupid instead of risking to be sorry.
Nobody watches The passion of the Christ in the library and nobody complained about somebody reading erotic stories in the library, because (a) why (b) you can't tell from the distance of politeness what the other person is reading.
"The only way to stop these laws is going to be by us getting in the way of the corporate machinery "
For that to happen you need to find enough people who care enough about the issue to do that.
Good luck with that. The "people" are busy with streaming free content or slacking in some other way, and when an organized group that thinks that it loses serious money is going to shut down "streaming free content" activities, the slackers will switch to some other kind of slacking.
Seriously, it's like watching 30 Rock couple of episodes ago. "Idiots" are offended.
It's amazing to see repeated appeals of /. to the community known for it's social passiveness.
It's like Einstein said: "Insanity is to expect different results from the same action".
"She and her team wrote a program called aDesigner ... to allow designers to experience a site as blind users "
You need a program to close your eyes to experience a site as blind users?
What part of reading religious material involves moving images of body parts attracting attention by mere fact of such movement from a distance?
It's not about content it's about behavior that affects others.
I miss the time, when library was derived from "libre", not from "porn".
I wish people on the bus stop slowly kill you and nobody around cared.
"People just don't care. " That wins the argument, doesn't it?
One sunny day I hope to see all the lamp posts decorated with demagogues on my way to work.
The morals ARE universal and unrelativistic and if some country of idiots doesn't care anymore, it does not mean that that's *good*. It just mean what you exactly said: "people just don't care". So didn't care the people of the town of Lot, so didn't care Germans in 1939.
You think the consumerist propaganda in the form of advertisement is better than communist propaganda or "creationist" propaganda, then you are blithering idiot.
You are either a troll, or a stinking piece of human waste.
"watching porn is a speech act ". I wanted to skip this bullshit silently as a non-native English speaker, but I was afraid that my silence would be also interpreted as a "speech act".
"I like their position " No doubt about it. And dozen other positions.
Jokes aside, I was prepared to see once again on /. liberalism celebrated over things common, like sense and decency, and the +5 first comment delivers.
"their own system" nope.
Perceived word of mouth reputation of journals preceded impact factor. I do not know who decided to use impact factor as a main measure of a journal, but I take an insult in the fact that you called them "academics"
This is one of the most truly insightful comments I have read on /. in 10 years.
As usual with great insights and discoveries, it strikes you with triviality of a great thought that nevertheless never crossed your mind (that's the sign of greatness I learned from my scientific advisor).
10 years of war, and that's what you are worrying about?
People kill each other in dozens and hundreds at one moment, in tens of thousands over time.
Good work, /.