What use is a human soldier if you shoot him in the eyes with a paintball?
Not much, but you can bet that in quick time everyone will be wearing eye protection, it will take much more time to send a batch of robots back to the manufacturer for modification.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" doesnt apply to robots.
everything is going to be directed by human commanders
If its directed by human commanders its not fully autonomous.
autonomous/tnms/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [aw-ton-uh-muhs] Show IPA -adjective 1. Government. a. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only. b. pertaining to an autonomy. 2. having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent: a subsidiary that functioned as an autonomous unit. 3. Biology. a. existing and functioning as an independent organism. b. spontaneous.
You can't have concentrated (or dispersed) information (or entropy), you can only have concentrated or dispersed "Stuff" that information or entropy describes.
There are a lot of smart physicists, its a shame more of them dont study philosophy so they have a grounding for their ideas.
Some points,
Information and entropy are abstract, they are only useful when applied to something.
Information and entropy are different words and have different meanings, they may be the same a narrow context, but that does not mean they are the same.
You can have concentrated (or dispersed) information (or entropy), you can only have concentrated or dispersed "Stuff" that information or entropy describes.
Failing to keep track of context like this is an easy way to discover pseudoscience.
Group A loses respect for group B because they dont conform to the social norms of their group, so group B is excluded from group A and the cultural differences stay the same or get worse.
How do you bring two separate cultures together and still maintain them as seperate cultures (so one cultures identity isnt weakend or lost) ?
Maybe everyone should just accept there are two different cultures and not expect people to live upto the values of the other culture.
Copyrights exist so that creators of creative works can be given an incentive to create. Their creations, on the whole, enrich society. That's the basic copyright bargain
That might be the way it works on paper, but how do copyrights on computer software enrich society, i can keep my work excluded from society until 50 (to 100) years after i die, by which time the only hardware that will be capable of running it will be in a museum.
The media cartels need to be broken beyond repair so a new system can emerge, it is very unfortunate that societies leaders are more interested in promoting or preserving corporations than they are in human cultural.
I think they have stated that their bottleneck is the database (microsoft btw), everthing in the are has to be tracked and eve does most of the work on the server, its a very light client.
Any criticism of Israel must be bias, after all, if Israel had ever done anything bad then surely the UN "Security" Council would have criticized them, and not veto'ed anything negative portrayal of Israel.
Compilation copyright is a somewhat ridiculous concept that has gained popularity recently. It's akin to saying that you own the copyright to the particular selection of packages and programs on a particular Linux distro or install CD, for instance.
Its valid copyright law.
So if you have have a collective (or compilation if you want to call it that) copyright on a selection of separately licensed copyrighted works, someone can take your collection and add, remove, or modify something (say, add there logo) and it becomes a seperate collection not covered by the original collective copyright.
Derivative works doent effect collective copyright, its a different type of copyright to copyrighted "works".
Oh, the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses? When? What industry?
FATI (Freeloaders And Takers International) made public anouncements that no longer will they stand by and take software that demands they do more than stand by and take software !
FATI have declared they will setup a protest webpage at becomeafati.com where freeloaders and takers from all over the globe can declare their intent to idly stand and waiting for other people to give them what they want when they want it.
LATE NEWS: FATI are demanding somebody else setup their webpage NOW and place it under an anything goes style license.
Time doesnt "exist", its an abstract concept that humans use to represent how stuff changes.
Nobody can change time (or anything else that doesnt exist), but we can change the stuff that time measures.
Make an analogy to a car, velocity is similarly an abstract concept, its a measure of how far stuff moves within a certain time, for simplicity we talk about changing the velocity of our car, but really we are changing the cars location within a certain time.
To say it more clearly, the allegation is that NSA put the back door in, microsoft didnt deny it. They are using political speak to make is sound like nobody put back doors in.
An think about it, what self respecting intelligence agency wouldnt want a back door in windows. Their job is to collect intelligence, and windows is almost everywhere and handles lots of information.
It might sound paranoid to say windows is bugged by the NSA, but it totally ignorance to suggest they wouldnt want to bug it.
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It's not clear from the article why anyone should perceive a contradiction between having high ideals and getting paid to do something you enjoy.
One day a situation will arise when you will be expected to do something you dont enjoy.
You will choose between love and money, you will begin to discover how much your high ideals are worth.
What use is a human soldier if you shoot him in the eyes with a paintball?
Not much, but you can bet that in quick time everyone will be wearing eye protection, it will take much more time to send a batch of robots back to the manufacturer for modification.
"Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" doesnt apply to robots.
If you find the weakness to kill one robot it will work on everyone of them.
What use is a robot if you shoot one in the camera with a paintball ?
And how can a fully autonomous killing machine discriminate between soldiers and civilians.
A weapon is only as good as the intelligence controlling it, thats how armies are run, accept it.
everything is going to be directed by human commanders
If its directed by human commanders its not fully autonomous.
autonomous /tnms/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [aw-ton-uh-muhs] Show IPA
-adjective
1. Government.
a. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.
b. pertaining to an autonomy.
2. having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent: a subsidiary that functioned as an autonomous unit.
3. Biology.
a. existing and functioning as an independent organism.
b. spontaneous.
Autonomous untill they run out of power or ammo.
Its all about the AI, humans can learn and adapt to machine behavior faster than robots can adapt to human behavior.
Humans will always be better than machines at killing humans (unfortunately), machines can only simulate our thinking...
If robots ever get an AI superior to human intelligence, then yes we are redundant on the battlefield and everywhere else.
Duoh...
You can't have concentrated (or dispersed) information (or entropy), you can only have concentrated or dispersed "Stuff" that information or entropy describes.
There are a lot of smart physicists, its a shame more of them dont study philosophy so they have a grounding for their ideas.
Some points,
Information and entropy are abstract, they are only useful when applied to something.
Information and entropy are different words and have different meanings, they may be the same a narrow context, but that does not mean they are the same.
You can have concentrated (or dispersed) information (or entropy), you can only have concentrated or dispersed "Stuff" that information or entropy describes.
Failing to keep track of context like this is an easy way to discover pseudoscience.
At the root of the matter is a lack of respect.
Group A loses respect for group B because they dont conform to the social norms of their group, so group B is excluded from group A and the cultural differences stay the same or get worse.
How do you bring two separate cultures together and still maintain them as seperate cultures (so one cultures identity isnt weakend or lost) ?
Maybe everyone should just accept there are two different cultures and not expect people to live upto the values of the other culture.
Copyrights exist so that creators of creative works can be given an incentive to create. Their creations, on the whole, enrich society. That's the basic copyright bargain
That might be the way it works on paper, but how do copyrights on computer software enrich society, i can keep my work excluded from society until 50 (to 100) years after i die, by which time the only hardware that will be capable of running it will be in a museum.
The media cartels need to be broken beyond repair so a new system can emerge, it is very unfortunate that societies leaders are more interested in promoting or preserving corporations than they are in human cultural.
I think they have stated that their bottleneck is the database (microsoft btw), everthing in the are has to be tracked and eve does most of the work on the server, its a very light client.
Props to CCP for contributing to the development of "stackless python", but maybe they should write their server code in a different language.
Hey! Guess what? Everything is finite.
Your begging for an argument arent you...
Real things are finite, ideas know no bounds.
So, now a question to you, are ideas things ?
Any criticism of Israel must be bias, after all, if Israel had ever done anything bad then surely the UN "Security" Council would have criticized them, and not veto'ed anything negative portrayal of Israel.
Compilation copyright is a somewhat ridiculous concept that has gained popularity recently. It's akin to saying that you own the copyright to the particular selection of packages and programs on a particular Linux distro or install CD, for instance.
Its valid copyright law.
So if you have have a collective (or compilation if you want to call it that) copyright on a selection of separately licensed copyrighted works, someone can take your collection and add, remove, or modify something (say, add there logo) and it becomes a seperate collection not covered by the original collective copyright.
Derivative works doent effect collective copyright, its a different type of copyright to copyrighted "works".
Anderson is claiming complete Copyright
Is he, where does he say that ?
What standing do the other developers have for getting a cut of any settlement?
None, the settlement is only with the those named in the action.
Other copyright holders can seek their own seperate settlement by taking separate action against the violators.
Make the patent examiner personally liable for the mistakes he/she makes.
If someone passes a patent that is overturned, then that person is directly responsible for the damage that invalid patent has caused to society.
Its probably difficult to sue government employees so maybe subcontract it all out under a contract with high penalties and reward for quality.
Oh, the industry is moving to BSD-style licenses? When? What industry?
FATI (Freeloaders And Takers International) made public anouncements that no longer will they stand by and take software that demands they do more than stand by and take software !
FATI have declared they will setup a protest webpage at becomeafati.com where freeloaders and takers from all over the globe can declare their intent to idly stand and waiting for other people to give them what they want when they want it.
LATE NEWS: FATI are demanding somebody else setup their webpage NOW and place it under an anything goes style license.
Time doesnt "exist", its an abstract concept that humans use to represent how stuff changes.
Nobody can change time (or anything else that doesnt exist), but we can change the stuff that time measures.
Make an analogy to a car, velocity is similarly an abstract concept, its a measure of how far stuff moves within a certain time, for simplicity we talk about changing the velocity of our car, but really we are changing the cars location within a certain time.
By what reason do physicists claim time exists ?
You call me a nut, but post the most extremist rant here...
Did you read the last bit ?
but its total ignorance to suggest they wouldnt want to bug it.
Trying to look at an issue from both sides helps to be objective, its a good thing, you should try it.
If Windows has a back door that the NSA can use, how would they prevent foreign intelligence agencies from using it?
The get microsoft to issue a patch.
To say it more clearly, the allegation is that NSA put the back door in, microsoft didnt deny it. They are using political speak to make is sound like nobody put back doors in.
An think about it, what self respecting intelligence agency wouldnt want a back door in windows. Their job is to collect intelligence, and windows is almost everywhere and handles lots of information.
It might sound paranoid to say windows is bugged by the NSA, but it totally ignorance to suggest they wouldnt want to bug it.
It seems to have worked quite well so far.
For who, apple or consumers ?
How about judging a company by the contribution it makes to society rather its profits (or are you a shareholder) ?
Flash was introduced here because it just works.
Nothing "just works", there always hidden complexity.
What you mean when you say "it just works" is that it allows you to be ignorant of how it works.
Just think, one day we might be so advanced that everybody can be ignorant about everything !
AFAIK most bittorent clients throttle connections already, some automatically like vuze, others like transmission only manually.
Or am i missing the point ?