Mayhaps you could use it to call one of those numbers for free, and then get titillating ads, sending the system into a meatspace recursive stack overflow.
They'll switch over to a
"Your free seconds have expired, please praise the product displayed on your screen to continue this call"
format soon enough.
Pop quiz, in the USofA are there:
#1. More terrorists?
#2. More crooked cops?
Now, which of these is this new surveillance technology supposed to protect you from and which ones will have it?
False dichotomy.
#1. More crooked cops?
#2. More good cops?
Can this surveillance tech provide more of an advantage to the crooked cops to do bad things, or to the good cops to catch the crooked cops doing bad things?
I hear he's keeping the gestation schedule, but to do so, he had to cut back on novel ideas like re-sequencing the genes from the ground up. The new kid will statistically be more than 50% identical to the last one.
You can turn off cube animations (in beryl, at least). I don't though, because I'm more of a 3D thinker. It's easier for me to remember "app FOO is on the back of the box" instead of "app FOO is on Desktop 3, and I'm on Desktop 1". Even though the animation slows down my desktop switching by a few milliseconds, it ends up helping me stay organized.
I've always found RMS to be completely reasonable and consistent in his lectures, speeches, essays, and other writings and communications.... He just tries to persuade and he does it rather eloquently if you ask me.... Also, what's the deal with everyone criticizing his personal appearance? What does that have to do with anything? When did "fair looks" become the be-all end-all of everything[?] Ask Abraham Lincoln's detractors.
I said nothing of the sort.
When the Sun eventually goes Red-giant and envelops Earth, Earth _will_ be destroyed. It's building blocks will become part of the Sun, but Voyager will still be space-junk beyond the solar system. That assumes God doesn't end things first, in which case Earth and Voyager might tie.;)
BTW, I'm undecided on whether Global Warming exists, whether it's man-made if it does, and whether having the earth warm up slightly would be a Bad Thing. Good thing I already agree with you, because your vinegar won't catch many flies.
Hypothetical: You are storing some mildly critical data on an MS server, and were to forgetful to back it up locally.
MS changes their privacy policy so that you would allow them to use your likeness/username/_stored_content_ in their new SPAM campaign.
You must select _Yes_ to log back in (use the service) to retrieve your hostage data (which if you logged in would no longer be confidential).
At the risk of being offensive, who here will admit that Stephen Hawking could take them in a fight?
With his chair? He could push me off a balcony if I wasn't looking.
Without his chair (but with a communication device or human translator)? He might be able to trick me into hurting myself before I realized he wished me harm.
A body or other physical avatar may not be a necessity for a greater than human intelligence. Without a way to act, the AI could be a teacher or slave at best. Only by tricking humans into building something innocuous could it interact with the world.
Translating for USians (in US English, the verb "post" means to write on a website or common public poster board; it took me a while to realize what you meant. I thought you first meant "have a link to a.iso on the redirect page" which didn't make sense):
For bonus points, you mail them a bootable CD through the postal system that will scan their machine and remove the infection, so the virus can't intercept the antivirus downloads and break them.
FYI, this isn't just about games. A lot of graphics researchers, render farms, and schools are making sure their video cards are NVidia only because of ATI's bumbling. When all the high-press research papers keep mentioning their nVidia hardware, and sometimes the fact that they were forced to switch from ATI, that's baaad press.
Eudora: My Thunderbird, you look particularly ravishing tonight.
Thunderbird: Oh Eudora, you're too good to me!
Outlook: What you doin' with my bitch, you Commie scum.
Eudora: Don't hurt Thunderbird! It's you I loved all along!
Pine: Might I trouble you kind gents for a bit of bread?!
Outlook I thought I told you never to come out of your hole again!
Mutt: (nips at Outlook's heel)
Outlook: I'll show you, you stupid mutt! *smacks Mutt*
Mutt: *yelps in pain* cat/var/mail/foo: [contents removed for brevity] Everyone: Would someone please shut that cat up? I'm trying to sleep(n_interval); here!
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Mayhaps you could use it to call one of those numbers for free, and then get titillating ads, sending the system into a meatspace recursive stack overflow.
They'll switch over to a
"Your free seconds have expired, please praise the product displayed on your screen to continue this call"
format soon enough.
To be legal, they _must_.
Just make certain the other person's grandma doesn't make the world's best sausage.
#1. More terrorists?
#2. More crooked cops?
Now, which of these is this new surveillance technology supposed to protect you from and which ones will have it?
False dichotomy.
#1. More crooked cops?
#2. More good cops?
Can this surveillance tech provide more of an advantage to the crooked cops to do bad things, or to the good cops to catch the crooked cops doing bad things?
I hear he's keeping the gestation schedule, but to do so, he had to cut back on novel ideas like re-sequencing the genes from the ground up. The new kid will statistically be more than 50% identical to the last one.
Don't cross the streams.
I'd suggest they not use it on an NRA meeting.
Their future.
Lynx
You can turn off cube animations (in beryl, at least). I don't though, because I'm more of a 3D thinker. It's easier for me to remember "app FOO is on the back of the box" instead of "app FOO is on Desktop 3, and I'm on Desktop 1". Even though the animation slows down my desktop switching by a few milliseconds, it ends up helping me stay organized.
Doesn't that mean "poison" too? ;)
I said nothing of the sort. ;)
When the Sun eventually goes Red-giant and envelops Earth, Earth _will_ be destroyed. It's building blocks will become part of the Sun, but Voyager will still be space-junk beyond the solar system. That assumes God doesn't end things first, in which case Earth and Voyager might tie.
BTW, I'm undecided on whether Global Warming exists, whether it's man-made if it does, and whether having the earth warm up slightly would be a Bad Thing. Good thing I already agree with you, because your vinegar won't catch many flies.
Hypothetical: You are storing some mildly critical data on an MS server, and were to forgetful to back it up locally.
MS changes their privacy policy so that you would allow them to use your likeness/username/_stored_content_ in their new SPAM campaign.
You must select _Yes_ to log back in (use the service) to retrieve your hostage data (which if you logged in would no longer be confidential).
Why, does this space station have long range laser-eye surgery capability? Because that would be so awesome.
Plant your Blue White and Red flag and we'll talk.
It might outlast Earth.
With his chair? He could push me off a balcony if I wasn't looking.
Without his chair (but with a communication device or human translator)? He might be able to trick me into hurting myself before I realized he wished me harm.
A body or other physical avatar may not be a necessity for a greater than human intelligence. Without a way to act, the AI could be a teacher or slave at best. Only by tricking humans into building something innocuous could it interact with the world.
Believe it or not, smell is very important to the emotions, and how you relate with someone.
For bonus points, you mail them a bootable CD through the postal system that will scan their machine and remove the infection, so the virus can't intercept the antivirus downloads and break them.
"You all" is contracted Y'all, not Yawl. "Must have" is verbally contracted as Must've, not Must of.
FYI, this isn't just about games. A lot of graphics researchers, render farms, and schools are making sure their video cards are NVidia only because of ATI's bumbling. When all the high-press research papers keep mentioning their nVidia hardware, and sometimes the fact that they were forced to switch from ATI, that's baaad press.
Thunderbird: Oh Eudora, you're too good to me!
Outlook: What you doin' with my bitch, you Commie scum.
Eudora: Don't hurt Thunderbird! It's you I loved all along!
Pine: Might I trouble you kind gents for a bit of bread?! Outlook I thought I told you never to come out of your hole again!
Mutt: (nips at Outlook's heel)
Outlook: I'll show you, you stupid mutt! *smacks Mutt*
Mutt: *yelps in pain*
cat
Everyone: Would someone please shut that cat up? I'm trying to sleep(n_interval); here!