In Florida they need a system where people can turn them in no questions asked
Sort of a "python amnesty"?
And BTW, I'm currently in NZ and am wearing socks that include a mix of opossum wool. I get the occasional urge to climb a tree but no other side-effects. (And in my time here I've also eaten opossum stir-fry. Them's good eating... )
I keep the mounting screws out of my laptop hard drive's carrier, so I can easily swap in multiple drives. If I ever visit China, I'll make sure to carry the drive with me at all times in my coat pocket unless I'm actually using my laptop! (Plus, I encrypt the entire drive with TrueCrypt.)
(intercepted, decrypted message follows)
Voice 1: Comrade - we must steal the coat of stewartwb!
Voice 2: Indeed Comrade. And I will break into his hotel room and steal one of his socks
Voice 1: And don't forget the biro, comrade. We must always take a biro
I was investigated repeatedly by the NSA and they couldn't produce more than half a sheet of paper about me. They got a 20 page thick tome when they were done, made up entirely of things I admitted to under polygraph, and denied my clearance. 80% of my life was unaccountable to them. It frightened the shit out of them.
The NSA are using a polygraph? A lie-detector? Why didn't they just use a horoscope or tea-leaf reading, or something equally reliable?
Wife to self: "Hun, buy some sugar before you come home"
Cops to self: "This is obviously code for methyl-p"
Self to cops: "No it's not - she's making some icing for a carrot cake"
Cops to self: "Ho ho, merry christmas and save me a slice"
I firmly believe there are two groups of people: those who want information to "feed" them (passive learners) and those who want to drive the learning experience (active learners.)
Isn't passive learning a contradiction in terms?
I remember when you could buy a tape that would teach you French/Algebra/Brain surgery while you slept. You played it on a cassette under your pillow. If it worked (it didn't) that would be passive learning.
BTW I also look askance at people who say that there are types of people. There are many types of people. The ones who generalize and a whole lot of others.
I have an English degree. I had 10 years of IT experience under my belt before I got it however. Strangely enough, my boss made the comment that she picked me over the other folks because I had an English degree. It was kooky enough to make her take a look and take notice of me.
Did your boss actually use the word 'kooky'? Sorry, someone had to ask and the rest of slashdot asked me to front up...
Smart companies can hire effectively by bypassing the resume filters that large companies make mandatory. Smart candidates can get hired effectively by talking directly to hiring managers rather than going through resume filters.
So can the hiring managers relatives, countrymen, college buddies, etc etc. Someone here got appointed to a manager position without any ads or internal interviews. We read the small print in the HR "vacancies" section. They're perfectly entitled to bypass the normal process and appoint who they want. Or (more likely) who they're told to.
I suspect this is the case in most places. And sometimes it works for the good. And sometimes it doesn't.
it's a medical record, entitled to the appropriate legal protections and the property of the person to whom it refers.
End of discussion.
Not so. When I emigrated from the UK, I asked my doctor for a copy of my records for myself, so that I could pass them onto my new doctor in NZ. Sorry, I can't do that, he replied.
He might have been yanking my chain, but he offered to give me a summary of my medical history for the new guy - which was more work.
Why "threats posed by technology"? Why not benefits provided by technology? There's been billions - with a b - fed by GM crops, for a start. Vaccinations, robust engineering, surgery....
Steam forums had comments to say that people had paid for it, had it delivered and it didn't start, didn't work, no refunds, murdered their dog, impregnated their daughter, etc. I'm behind a filter here so can't check, but...?
What they're talking about here, though, isn't really programming morality into machines in some kind of sentient, Isaac-Asimov sense, but just programming decision policies into machines, which have ethical implications. The ethical questions come at the programming stage, when deciding what policies the automatic car should follow in various situations.
Totally agree. Computers can no more have morals than they can have intelligence.
I work in an insurance company. I could have written code that denies insurance to a person who is eligible for it. Is the computer that executed my code at fault, the user, or myself? (Warning - rhetoric question...)
And he was a third time offender. Three strikes law, and all.
That's it. He didn't get 15 years without the option for selling pirated whatever. He got 15 years for being in trouble with the law - sufficiently - three times.
He might have got picked up for shoplifting a twinkie, or something, and still got 15 years. But then it wouldn't be here on slashdot...
I for one would love to see Quentin Tarantino write and direct a Star Wars movie.
Scene: C3PO and R2D2 on a hover
C3PO: So I just got back from New Holland
R2D2: Poo-wheep - puta putta pitta bit-bop
C3PO: Yes, you can use leaded oil over there. It's quite legal. And you know what they call a Pan-galactic oil-and-lube?
R2D2: Whup! Seee-wee. Bip-bip-bip
C3PO: That's right ....
Slashdot Mirror
Military version of the shuttle, etc etc... conspiracy, etc etc ...
"Lightning makes for a shocking experience"
Is that the quote you were referring to?
Or was it "Where the hell did I put that key?"
It involves Barry White.
In Florida they need a system where people can turn them in no questions asked
Sort of a "python amnesty"?
And BTW, I'm currently in NZ and am wearing socks that include a mix of opossum wool. I get the occasional urge to climb a tree but no other side-effects. (And in my time here I've also eaten opossum stir-fry. Them's good eating... )
It's the economy, stupid.
In one of Peter Lynch's books he noted that the pilgrims had a clause in their contracts that they could not be fed lobster more than 3 times a week.
Pilgrims have a contract?
I keep the mounting screws out of my laptop hard drive's carrier, so I can easily swap in multiple drives. If I ever visit China, I'll make sure to carry the drive with me at all times in my coat pocket unless I'm actually using my laptop! (Plus, I encrypt the entire drive with TrueCrypt.)
(intercepted, decrypted message follows)
Voice 1: Comrade - we must steal the coat of stewartwb!
Voice 2: Indeed Comrade. And I will break into his hotel room and steal one of his socks
Voice 1: And don't forget the biro, comrade. We must always take a biro
I was investigated repeatedly by the NSA and they couldn't produce more than half a sheet of paper about me. They got a 20 page thick tome when they were done, made up entirely of things I admitted to under polygraph, and denied my clearance. 80% of my life was unaccountable to them. It frightened the shit out of them.
The NSA are using a polygraph? A lie-detector? Why didn't they just use a horoscope or tea-leaf reading, or something equally reliable?
Wife to self: "Hun, buy some sugar before you come home"
Cops to self: "This is obviously code for methyl-p"
Self to cops: "No it's not - she's making some icing for a carrot cake"
Cops to self: "Ho ho, merry christmas and save me a slice"
Code need not be complex.
Yahoo is more than just a search engine.
Yahoo is less than just a search engine
FTFY.
I firmly believe there are two groups of people: those who want information to "feed" them (passive learners) and those who want to drive the learning experience (active learners.)
Isn't passive learning a contradiction in terms?
I remember when you could buy a tape that would teach you French/Algebra/Brain surgery while you slept. You played it on a cassette under your pillow. If it worked (it didn't) that would be passive learning.
BTW I also look askance at people who say that there are types of people. There are many types of people. The ones who generalize and a whole lot of others.
I have an English degree. I had 10 years of IT experience under my belt before I got it however. Strangely enough, my boss made the comment that she picked me over the other folks because I had an English degree. It was kooky enough to make her take a look and take notice of me.
Did your boss actually use the word 'kooky'? Sorry, someone had to ask and the rest of slashdot asked me to front up...
Smart companies can hire effectively by bypassing the resume filters that large companies make mandatory. Smart candidates can get hired effectively by talking directly to hiring managers rather than going through resume filters.
So can the hiring managers relatives, countrymen, college buddies, etc etc. Someone here got appointed to a manager position without any ads or internal interviews. We read the small print in the HR "vacancies" section. They're perfectly entitled to bypass the normal process and appoint who they want. Or (more likely) who they're told to.
I suspect this is the case in most places. And sometimes it works for the good. And sometimes it doesn't.
it's a medical record, entitled to the appropriate legal protections and the property of the person to whom it refers.
End of discussion.
Not so. When I emigrated from the UK, I asked my doctor for a copy of my records for myself, so that I could pass them onto my new doctor in NZ. Sorry, I can't do that, he replied.
He might have been yanking my chain, but he offered to give me a summary of my medical history for the new guy - which was more work.
Why "threats posed by technology"? Why not benefits provided by technology? There's been billions - with a b - fed by GM crops, for a start. Vaccinations, robust engineering, surgery ....
Steam forums had comments to say that people had paid for it, had it delivered and it didn't start, didn't work, no refunds, murdered their dog, impregnated their daughter, etc. I'm behind a filter here so can't check, but ...?
Gaygirlie may well be right...
I mean heck, it's only a game, eh?
What they're talking about here, though, isn't really programming morality into machines in some kind of sentient, Isaac-Asimov sense, but just programming decision policies into machines, which have ethical implications. The ethical questions come at the programming stage, when deciding what policies the automatic car should follow in various situations.
Totally agree. Computers can no more have morals than they can have intelligence.
I work in an insurance company. I could have written code that denies insurance to a person who is eligible for it. Is the computer that executed my code at fault, the user, or myself? (Warning - rhetoric question...)
Our local junk-chain sells T-fal pots and pans...
Or Kli Morg, or Kli Dreen - or even Sug Farn. A great bunch of guys. And excellent chess players.
Details at 11.
That defense only has a chance of working *IF* one actually has a documented twin.
Or even an undocumented one. :)
as long as you are talking peanut butter..... you got it...
And when I grew up, Jif was a type of lemon juice that came in a squirty plastic lemon. Great for water fights!
And he was a third time offender. Three strikes law, and all.
That's it. He didn't get 15 years without the option for selling pirated whatever. He got 15 years for being in trouble with the law - sufficiently - three times.
He might have got picked up for shoplifting a twinkie, or something, and still got 15 years. But then it wouldn't be here on slashdot...
I for one would love to see Quentin Tarantino write and direct a Star Wars movie.
Scene: C3PO and R2D2 on a hover
....
C3PO: So I just got back from New Holland
R2D2: Poo-wheep - puta putta pitta bit-bop
C3PO: Yes, you can use leaded oil over there. It's quite legal. And you know what they call a Pan-galactic oil-and-lube?
R2D2: Whup! Seee-wee. Bip-bip-bip
C3PO: That's right