Is an audiophile, ever searching for the best sound possible going to find it in a pocket sized device? Maybe I'm just too far behind the times but I would expect them to use a desktop computer with quiet fans and a super expensive soundcard hooked to a modular stereo system for that.
As for portable devices... well.. carrying one device is better than carrying two. You aren't going to hear the difference while traveling anyway, background noise will see to that.
Ok, I get it that this is an improvement over what they could do before but it doesn't sound ready for human use to me. What happens after "months" are up? Does it then cause the tissue damage that the old implants caused sooner? Does this mean the spinal cord is even further damaged, preventing the surgery being repeated? Or can they then just go in and replace it with a new implant and everything is like it was the first time?
Since human trials were mentioned I would expect the article to answer these kinds of questions!
No, those two things are nothing the same. Hitting the door button does not make the door button unavailable to the next person who actually needs it. Filling up a parking space does.
I hit those buttons (with my knee or elbow) all the time. I especially like to do that when entering/exiting a public restroom. Do you have any idea how many people use the toilet and don't wash their hands? The first thing they touch after wiping their ass is that door handle!
Maybe it's because I haven't had my morning caffeine but I can't follow your train of thought at all. Again, maybe it's just me but I think those tracks must have been laid on now-melting permafrost.
Are you really talking about punishing people for not having formal religious training? What are you, some kind of monk?
"Do you really know anyone that believes the Earth is 6,000 years old?"
YES! Too Many! And... some of them have only recently come to believe that. It's getting worse!
The nice thing about SpaceX's approach is that a Rocket launches, flies and lands like a rocket. The shuttle, spaceplane aproach attempts to build something that is both a rocket and an airplane. The result may be both rocket and plane but it is neither a very good rocket nor a very good plane.
Space shuttle pilots use to refer to the lander as a "flying brick". That was not a compliment!
Let's move backwards!...because you can't use any kind of digital medium without posting the result on the internet. There is no way you could take a video on a digital recorder and store it on some local medium such as a hard disc, flash drive or even a DVD and not simultaneously share it with all your buddies on Facebook and Youtube. Similarly there is no way you can keep your collection of scandalous digital photos anywhere except in your email box protected with a password of "password".
"Certainly the age of the code that caused these bugs is reason for concern."
But.. if those bugs were so obvious and easy to exploit then why didn't "the world end" a long time ago? I'm pretty sure there are an awfull lot of important systems out there that have Bash on them!
So there were a few high-profile security flaws found in important open source software recently. So what? People are talking almost as though this somehow proved that open source is not superior or maybe even inferior to closed source software.
It isn't like there has never been a high-profile security problem in important closed source software. Nor is it likely there will not be others in the future.
Here is an awfully safe prediction... in the future there will be more high-profile security bugs found in open source software AND in closed source software too.
Certainly the age of the code that caused these bugs is reason for concern. Hopefully lessons are being learned and improvements being made. But to even try to make a comparison between open and closed source software regarding security? Good luck with that.
How can you possibly count the number of zero day exploits in either? By definition you don't know that they are there! At least with open source if you really care you can do something about it.
No, probably not you. You do realize that Autism is a spectrum disorder right? I have a couple very close friends who are diagnosed with a mild form and a few who are not diagnosed but probably could be. They surely do NOT need "cured". I also have friends who have worked as caretakers for people who had it so bad they were unable to communicate, dress themselves, etc.. and will never know a day of independance.
"For all anyone knows, we're the next step on the evolutionary ladder"
I hope so but not without another mutation or two to help take the edge off of the side-effects or at least something that causes future generations to only include the higher-functioning end of the spectrum.
But what are you doing talking about evolution? I thought you were a young Earth creationist!
"the only cost is a little special attention when we're children"
I can assure you that for the families of the people on the lower functioning end of the spectrum the cost in terms of emotional stress, money and work is WAY more than just a "little special attention".
It's great that there are organizations like the Arbor Day Foundation that will give you trees to plant. But.. why is that even necessary?
Sure, going to the local nursery and buying some really pretty ornamental can be expensive. You are purchasing something that has probably been imported from some far away land, bred through many generations and carefully nursed in a greenhouse for the first few years of it's life already. Is that where carbon eating forests come from?
Just pick up a tree seed for free and plant it. It isn't that hard! Where I live maples are native and common. Every other year they drop seeds like mad and those seeds are really easy to grow. In the city these pretty little imported Japanese Maples are popular. They are expensive to buy. People plant them by the sidewalk. Just grab a few seeds as you walk by. Evergreens are common here too. The seeds don't litter the ground like the Maples do. Just grab a pinecone. There will be hundreds of seeds inside, pull down on the petals to find them.
LOL, just because people are capable of building a "nuclear something" does not make them a threat! The only nuclear reactor anyone has ever made in their workshop is a Farnsworth Fusor. Granted, there is some potential for harming oneself when using such a device if one doesn't know what they are doing but it is about as dangerous to the world as just another garage power tool.
The only device capable of being an existential threat to humanity is a thermonuclear bomb. Making one of those requires concentrations of specific rare isotopes. It takes the resources of a nation state to produce that. Not your geeky neighbor! There are not 10s of thousands of people with access to those resources, only a handful with access to nuclear weapons and of those maybe 3, the US, China and Russia with the ability to actually kill the whole planet. Those three may not like each other much but they are not crazy enough to kill themselves.
"but we're the same petty beings we were 6,000 years ago"
Of course our species has not changed in a mere blink of the evolutionary timescale.
Yes, we could blow ourselves up today. But.. our species has survived an ice age as well as many other major climate shifts. We have survived population bottlenecks where we WERE a small, conveniently tiny target. We interbred a little and took on some useful genes from a few related species shortly before they went extinct. We outlasted them all.
If testimony proves anything then a lot of contradictory religions, stories that outright say each other are not true are somehow all true. Likewise are alien abductions, bigfoot, the loch ness monster and a nearly unlimited number of other things.
Wow! Really? So you have invented a senario that completely discounts the suffering of a whole lot of innocents just because it fits better with your worldview? Do you have any idea how offensive that is? Would you tell that to those children's parents?
"Don't worry, your kid didn't really suffer cause my god would not allow that. Everything is just A O K!:-D"
If you see someone suffering and dying then the safest guess as to what is happening is somebody is actually suffering and dying. Maybe if someone came back from the dead and said.. "don't worry, it didn't really hurt" or maybe if someone attached an EKG machine and determined nothing was going on in the brain then you might have a point. Until then you are just denying the reality that is plainly before your face. There is no way you can ever know truth that way.
That would be Pascal's wager. The problem with it is that an all-knowing God would know the difference between you telling yourself that you believe in him in order to secure your salvation vs you actually believing. So... you go through the motions all your life just to burn in hell anyway.
I don't know about you but for me belief is a conclusion I come to based on the evidence I know about, not a decision that I make. Anything else would just be lying to myself. The evidence I see and know about overwellmingly supports evolution. If the reality around me is just an illusion planted by Satan to test me or a corruption resulting from the fall or planted by God to test me then I guess I am just screwed because what I see does not match up with any supernatural creation myth I have ever heard of.
By the way, evolution has nothing to do with purpose, progress or meaning. You have to make that for yourself. Evolution is just change and an explanation of why the change hapens the way it does.
After you blow yourself up killing them the new 1%, who rise from and to dominate the rest of the old 99%, will imortalize you as the hero who liberated them. That's just how humans work as a species.
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These are portable devices.
Is an audiophile, ever searching for the best sound possible going to find it in a pocket sized device? Maybe I'm just too far behind the times but I would expect them to use a desktop computer with quiet fans and a super expensive soundcard hooked to a modular stereo system for that.
As for portable devices... well.. carrying one device is better than carrying two. You aren't going to hear the difference while traveling anyway, background noise will see to that.
Ok, I get it that this is an improvement over what they could do before but it doesn't sound ready for human use to me. What happens after "months" are up? Does it then cause the tissue damage that the old implants caused sooner? Does this mean the spinal cord is even further damaged, preventing the surgery being repeated? Or can they then just go in and replace it with a new implant and everything is like it was the first time?
Since human trials were mentioned I would expect the article to answer these kinds of questions!
No, those two things are nothing the same. Hitting the door button does not make the door button unavailable to the next person who actually needs it. Filling up a parking space does.
I hit those buttons (with my knee or elbow) all the time. I especially like to do that when entering/exiting a public restroom. Do you have any idea how many people use the toilet and don't wash their hands? The first thing they touch after wiping their ass is that door handle!
That's how we knew that 3d printing is finally growing up...
back when it got it's first wood.
Why does anyone buy a music player anymore when there are smartphones?
Maybe it's because I haven't had my morning caffeine but I can't follow your train of thought at all. Again, maybe it's just me but I think those tracks must have been laid on now-melting permafrost.
Are you really talking about punishing people for not having formal religious training? What are you, some kind of monk?
"Do you really know anyone that believes the Earth is 6,000 years old?"
YES! Too Many! And... some of them have only recently come to believe that. It's getting worse!
The nice thing about SpaceX's approach is that a Rocket launches, flies and lands like a rocket. The shuttle, spaceplane aproach attempts to build something that is both a rocket and an airplane. The result may be both rocket and plane but it is neither a very good rocket nor a very good plane.
Space shuttle pilots use to refer to the lander as a "flying brick". That was not a compliment!
Don't worry corpse eating bottom-feeding fish...
uncle FAA will kill this!
He moved it into the new kernel... Systemd!
Sure..
Let's move backwards! ...because you can't use any kind of digital medium without posting the result on the internet. There is no way you could take a video on a digital recorder and store it on some local medium such as a hard disc, flash drive or even a DVD and not simultaneously share it with all your buddies on Facebook and Youtube. Similarly there is no way you can keep your collection of scandalous digital photos anywhere except in your email box protected with a password of "password".
"Certainly the age of the code that caused these bugs is reason for concern."
But.. if those bugs were so obvious and easy to exploit then why didn't "the world end" a long time ago? I'm pretty sure there are an awfull lot of important systems out there that have Bash on them!
So there were a few high-profile security flaws found in important open source software recently. So what? People are talking almost as though this somehow proved that open source is not superior or maybe even inferior to closed source software.
It isn't like there has never been a high-profile security problem in important closed source software. Nor is it likely there will not be others in the future.
Here is an awfully safe prediction... in the future there will be more high-profile security bugs found in open source software AND in closed source software too.
Certainly the age of the code that caused these bugs is reason for concern. Hopefully lessons are being learned and improvements being made. But to even try to make a comparison between open and closed source software regarding security? Good luck with that.
How can you possibly count the number of zero day exploits in either? By definition you don't know that they are there! At least with open source if you really care you can do something about it.
"WE'RE the ones that need to be cured?"
No, probably not you. You do realize that Autism is a spectrum disorder right? I have a couple very close friends who are diagnosed with a mild form and a few who are not diagnosed but probably could be. They surely do NOT need "cured". I also have friends who have worked as caretakers for people who had it so bad they were unable to communicate, dress themselves, etc.. and will never know a day of independance.
"For all anyone knows, we're the next step on the evolutionary ladder"
I hope so but not without another mutation or two to help take the edge off of the side-effects or at least something that causes future generations to only include the higher-functioning end of the spectrum.
But what are you doing talking about evolution? I thought you were a young Earth creationist!
"the only cost is a little special attention when we're children"
I can assure you that for the families of the people on the lower functioning end of the spectrum the cost in terms of emotional stress, money and work is WAY more than just a "little special attention".
I never got the "trees are expensive" argument.
It's great that there are organizations like the Arbor Day Foundation that will give you trees to plant. But.. why is that even necessary?
Sure, going to the local nursery and buying some really pretty ornamental can be expensive. You are purchasing something that has probably been imported from some far away land, bred through many generations and carefully nursed in a greenhouse for the first few years of it's life already. Is that where carbon eating forests come from?
Just pick up a tree seed for free and plant it. It isn't that hard! Where I live maples are native and common. Every other year they drop seeds like mad and those seeds are really easy to grow. In the city these pretty little imported Japanese Maples are popular. They are expensive to buy. People plant them by the sidewalk. Just grab a few seeds as you walk by. Evergreens are common here too. The seeds don't litter the ground like the Maples do. Just grab a pinecone. There will be hundreds of seeds inside, pull down on the petals to find them.
It's neither expensive or hard.
LOL, just because people are capable of building a "nuclear something" does not make them a threat! The only nuclear reactor anyone has ever made in their workshop is a Farnsworth Fusor. Granted, there is some potential for harming oneself when using such a device if one doesn't know what they are doing but it is about as dangerous to the world as just another garage power tool.
The only device capable of being an existential threat to humanity is a thermonuclear bomb. Making one of those requires concentrations of specific rare isotopes. It takes the resources of a nation state to produce that. Not your geeky neighbor! There are not 10s of thousands of people with access to those resources, only a handful with access to nuclear weapons and of those maybe 3, the US, China and Russia with the ability to actually kill the whole planet. Those three may not like each other much but they are not crazy enough to kill themselves.
"but we're the same petty beings we were 6,000 years ago"
Of course our species has not changed in a mere blink of the evolutionary timescale.
Yes, we could blow ourselves up today. But.. our species has survived an ice age as well as many other major climate shifts. We have survived population bottlenecks where we WERE a small, conveniently tiny target. We interbred a little and took on some useful genes from a few related species shortly before they went extinct. We outlasted them all.
That sounds like reason for hope to me!
Evolution has no practice and I really doubt anyone feels down on themselves because of it so this must be about religion.
If testimony proves anything then a lot of contradictory religions, stories that outright say each other are not true are somehow all true. Likewise are alien abductions, bigfoot, the loch ness monster and a nearly unlimited number of other things.
Wow! Really? So you have invented a senario that completely discounts the suffering of a whole lot of innocents just because it fits better with your worldview? Do you have any idea how offensive that is? Would you tell that to those children's parents?
"Don't worry, your kid didn't really suffer cause my god would not allow that. Everything is just A O K! :-D"
If you see someone suffering and dying then the safest guess as to what is happening is somebody is actually suffering and dying. Maybe if someone came back from the dead and said.. "don't worry, it didn't really hurt" or maybe if someone attached an EKG machine and determined nothing was going on in the brain then you might have a point. Until then you are just denying the reality that is plainly before your face. There is no way you can ever know truth that way.
That would be Pascal's wager. The problem with it is that an all-knowing God would know the difference between you telling yourself that you believe in him in order to secure your salvation vs you actually believing. So... you go through the motions all your life just to burn in hell anyway.
I don't know about you but for me belief is a conclusion I come to based on the evidence I know about, not a decision that I make. Anything else would just be lying to myself. The evidence I see and know about overwellmingly supports evolution. If the reality around me is just an illusion planted by Satan to test me or a corruption resulting from the fall or planted by God to test me then I guess I am just screwed because what I see does not match up with any supernatural creation myth I have ever heard of.
By the way, evolution has nothing to do with purpose, progress or meaning. You have to make that for yourself. Evolution is just change and an explanation of why the change hapens the way it does.
"you're right, they won't need as many marketers, or HR employees."
Which means fewer offices are necessary.
"They will need just as much janitorial staff"
See above. Are they going to keep, maintain and clean empty buildings?
It's spread spectrum. Doing that would certainly interfere with outside networks but it would not actually block them.
The cards are not handed out to EVERY Comcast employee. I used to be one, my wife is one and I know several. Never seen a card.
After you blow yourself up killing them the new 1%, who rise from and to dominate the rest of the old 99%, will imortalize you as the hero who liberated them. That's just how humans work as a species.