Grats, i said 'base'. You have gotten over part of it using logic and processing in your fore-brain. That said, I bet you still listen and remember bits of it even if you find it abhorrent. I'm sure I can list other flaws in your brain if you'd like. I'll go with... procrastination, you don't do things as quickly as you could which is clearly inefficient, were you to design a life you'd likely not have it procrastinate. Unless you were trying to approximate a human.
Exactly. The human brain is like a computer program that has constantly been patched for millions of years. The original intent of the program is completely different from how we use it now. And we have never had a version change or rewrite. Oh and we were programmed by inputting code semi-randomly.
When you think of it from that point of the it isn't at all surprising we have a few hundred stupid flaws.
I'll let someone else come up with a car analogy if they like.
O.o... this is the same problem I see with many 'anti-socialist pro-freemarket' people. Many of you have this confused notion that no government intervention will make things better, more efficient, more free. NOT AT ALL TRUE.
Free-market requires a vigilant government passing laws to keep it free. The same is true for the internet. If we had no laws at all then whoever owns the wires can rape everyone. Hell they could quietly tweak the internet to their advantage. Or act like thugs and go to small companies and threaten to drop them from significant portions of the internet if they don't pay up. If we dropped merger laws too we'd end up with one ISP that controls all information and content on the internet. That isn't better, its worse. God, some of you 'free-market' crazies are as bad as the religious, even as bad as the apple freaks, or the security tinfoil hatters. (I figured I might as well insult a whole bunch of groups if I'm going down anyways.)
I think his point was more along the lines of: The ToS of many ISPs is a violation of the proposed net neutrality laws. It doesn't matter if they had you sign an agreement... you CANNOT sign an agreement allowing someone else to violate federal law. Unless your name starts with O and ends in bama. If that were the case we'd see all kinds of fun ToS agreements.
"By checking this box you knowingly allow me to rob any bank in California without repercussion."
In case you were actually curious which I'm sure you are...
Humans are naturally curious, and we have a love for information. These are great things, clearly evolving to strive for greater knowledge and understanding is a good thing. And a certain level of curiousity is also good. So there are mechanisms in our brain that reward us for gaining knowledge... generally you feel good learning something.
That said, the implementation is terrible. We get rewarded (chemically) for ANY information we learn. There is no natural mechanism that filters out useless information. So at our base we feel equally rewarded learning about britney spears' baby as we do about our political system. This results in you feeling good learning the tidbits of information though they may not be very pertinent to your life. If you are good at trivial pursuit you are likely more of an addict and so on.
The computer could be external, ie attached through the nose. But more likely it will be permanent and the functionality fixed. The Parkinson application example would flip the switch a few minutes an hour at a constant rate. No need for an external computer. If we need something more complicated then you could have feedback to the device as well (but here fiber optics would likely be needed). Completely without external changes. I do think the cooler setup would be a port in the side of the head. This would allow you to use a wired, module or wireless solution. And give you more flexibility. Something akin to a usb port.
Well before that there is an almost limitless amount of knowledge we can garner from the study of how animal brains work. We could throw 10billion dollars at this today and it would be worth every cent. It tells us as much about ourselves as genetics does. Exciting stuff.
520days... check Here to mars.. check Near the speed of light...???
Holy shit you'd think they'd use google maps or a gps or some shit even my mom doesn't get that lost. Turning a 6.1 minute round trip into a year and a half.
Copyright wouldn't exist but hellish drm would. Also you could argue it is capitalism that is making copyright evil. You could argue that copyright exists because money made it happen in a capitalist society......... that's all I got.
One thing... with regular electro-stimulation than you have to have your skull popped open. With this you only need a hole drilled into your skull. That is when the device is made by lab techs. I believe we can shrink this device (for emitting the light) to something similar to an rfid chip. If the light is intense enough it could be injected. Making it much much less invasive. Some wireless power system would be necessary that's about it. Hell inject it trough the nose and have a plug dangling out for charging.
An interview on the piece above... interviewer is a bit daft but the researched speaks volumes. http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200910161
The/. conversation in that topic is even more pitiful, most of them complaining about perceived faults, things that were WELL addressed in the article. Pretty embarrassing. I guess once we leave networking or coding/. can be just as bad as any other site... ok, maybe not as bad as digg or youtube.
It appears much of it was exaggerated. Kind of sucks, the book was a great read. So much for trusting books though. I've always been very good at verifying and fact checking things online just not in books. My apologies.
In any case my point still stands the Chinese did lots of amazing things. Even if they only sailed across a good chunk of the world rather than the whole thing.
Though that might not mean much it is certainly better than nothing. I believe obama has stated support for net neutrality as well.... but it hasn't so cleanly happened.
Boycott is a bit more difficult in this situation. I'm with teksavvy which is completely pro netneutrality and very open, has high caps and no traffic shaping. No desire to hurt them at all.... Unfortunately since Bell owns the lines they have to pay bell for access. As well I don't know how reasonable it is to give up the internet completely in Canada... we don't have some shining alternative except for resellers.
Abusing their search monopoly to push into other areas could be. But given that often google services aren't the first link from google searches for them I would be a bit surprised.
Most amazing piece I've read on science in a long time. This makes the genome projects look like stepping stones. If you read the whole thing and can't see the amazing power of this field you will hopefully be one of the early benefactors because you need it.
God I hope you guys get your healthcare shit together before that happens. In a modern country the data could be used to save lives... In the US I can only see it saving money and costing many thousands of lives.
At least get your racist history right. China had circled the globe in 1300s created the great wall of China, the still current largest man made channel, and the forbidden city, while they mapped the sky. At this time they didn't bother even trading with the Europeans because they were so much more advanced that they seemed like dirty savages. The largest fleet that Europe had at the time were Venician longboats armed with bows. Would have been easy for China to conquer them and the anchors of their ships weighed more than the European ships and the fact that they had bombs at the time.
Oh and if you go back further. Africans built great civilizations and had lots of math that the europeans stole from them. Some cities were very well educated. Timbuktu rivaling Alexandria in some respects.
Or further forwards, the inuit haven't fared nearly as well as america. Even though they are an offshoot of americans. I'm sure you made a mistake in your calculations somewhere.
Wrong. Have companies fix it sure but with a few hundred thousand extra eyes on the code than problems intentional or accidental are much more likely to get picked up.
The US is spread across multiple time zones so it matters even less. Plus even if it was an hour faster God keep your pants on people. This is a big deal, I'd be fine with a day of wait if the results are accurate.
My bad. I just grabbed the first google hit. Lots of other studies show similarly horrifying numbers. And none show numbers under 5% which is the level I could be comfortable with.
Slashdot Mirror
Grats, i said 'base'. You have gotten over part of it using logic and processing in your fore-brain. That said, I bet you still listen and remember bits of it even if you find it abhorrent. I'm sure I can list other flaws in your brain if you'd like. I'll go with... procrastination, you don't do things as quickly as you could which is clearly inefficient, were you to design a life you'd likely not have it procrastinate. Unless you were trying to approximate a human.
Exactly. The human brain is like a computer program that has constantly been patched for millions of years. The original intent of the program is completely different from how we use it now. And we have never had a version change or rewrite. Oh and we were programmed by inputting code semi-randomly.
When you think of it from that point of the it isn't at all surprising we have a few hundred stupid flaws.
I'll let someone else come up with a car analogy if they like.
O.o ... this is the same problem I see with many 'anti-socialist pro-freemarket' people. Many of you have this confused notion that no government intervention will make things better, more efficient, more free. NOT AT ALL TRUE.
Free-market requires a vigilant government passing laws to keep it free. The same is true for the internet. If we had no laws at all then whoever owns the wires can rape everyone. Hell they could quietly tweak the internet to their advantage. Or act like thugs and go to small companies and threaten to drop them from significant portions of the internet if they don't pay up. If we dropped merger laws too we'd end up with one ISP that controls all information and content on the internet. That isn't better, its worse. God, some of you 'free-market' crazies are as bad as the religious, even as bad as the apple freaks, or the security tinfoil hatters.
(I figured I might as well insult a whole bunch of groups if I'm going down anyways.)
I think his point was more along the lines of: The ToS of many ISPs is a violation of the proposed net neutrality laws. It doesn't matter if they had you sign an agreement... you CANNOT sign an agreement allowing someone else to violate federal law. Unless your name starts with O and ends in bama. If that were the case we'd see all kinds of fun ToS agreements.
"By checking this box you knowingly allow me to rob any bank in California without repercussion."
In case you were actually curious which I'm sure you are...
Humans are naturally curious, and we have a love for information. These are great things, clearly evolving to strive for greater knowledge and understanding is a good thing. And a certain level of curiousity is also good. So there are mechanisms in our brain that reward us for gaining knowledge... generally you feel good learning something.
That said, the implementation is terrible. We get rewarded (chemically) for ANY information we learn. There is no natural mechanism that filters out useless information. So at our base we feel equally rewarded learning about britney spears' baby as we do about our political system. This results in you feeling good learning the tidbits of information though they may not be very pertinent to your life. If you are good at trivial pursuit you are likely more of an addict and so on.
Thats not dishonest though, thats just an ad. Messing with search results might be a bit more problematic.
The computer could be external, ie attached through the nose. But more likely it will be permanent and the functionality fixed. The Parkinson application example would flip the switch a few minutes an hour at a constant rate. No need for an external computer. If we need something more complicated then you could have feedback to the device as well (but here fiber optics would likely be needed). Completely without external changes. I do think the cooler setup would be a port in the side of the head. This would allow you to use a wired, module or wireless solution. And give you more flexibility. Something akin to a usb port.
Well before that there is an almost limitless amount of knowledge we can garner from the study of how animal brains work. We could throw 10billion dollars at this today and it would be worth every cent. It tells us as much about ourselves as genetics does. Exciting stuff.
You broke my brain.
520days... check
Here to mars.. check
Near the speed of light...???
Holy shit you'd think they'd use google maps or a gps or some shit even my mom doesn't get that lost. Turning a 6.1 minute round trip into a year and a half.
Copyright wouldn't exist but hellish drm would. Also you could argue it is capitalism that is making copyright evil. You could argue that copyright exists because money made it happen in a capitalist society. .... .... that's all I got.
Typo in tfa url and in the summary. Optigenetics?? wth is that supposed to mean? I must be blind I'll go see an optimitrist ~_~
One thing ... with regular electro-stimulation than you have to have your skull popped open. With this you only need a hole drilled into your skull. That is when the device is made by lab techs. I believe we can shrink this device (for emitting the light) to something similar to an rfid chip. If the light is intense enough it could be injected. Making it much much less invasive. Some wireless power system would be necessary that's about it. Hell inject it trough the nose and have a plug dangling out for charging.
You might also like an early /. article on optogenetics. It is quite amazing how new this science is. I mean look at the wikipedia article on it.
/. conversation in that topic is even more pitiful, most of them complaining about perceived faults, things that were WELL addressed in the article. Pretty embarrassing. I guess once we leave networking or coding /. can be just as bad as any other site... ok, maybe not as bad as digg or youtube.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/10/16/2345204
An interview on the piece above... interviewer is a bit daft but the researched speaks volumes.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200910161
The
Ooooo.... multiple sources needed. I read this book last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1421:_The_Year_China_Discovered_the_World
It appears much of it was exaggerated. Kind of sucks, the book was a great read. So much for trusting books though. I've always been very good at verifying and fact checking things online just not in books. My apologies.
In any case my point still stands the Chinese did lots of amazing things. Even if they only sailed across a good chunk of the world rather than the whole thing.
Though that might not mean much it is certainly better than nothing. I believe obama has stated support for net neutrality as well.... but it hasn't so cleanly happened.
Boycott is a bit more difficult in this situation. I'm with teksavvy which is completely pro netneutrality and very open, has high caps and no traffic shaping. No desire to hurt them at all.... Unfortunately since Bell owns the lines they have to pay bell for access. As well I don't know how reasonable it is to give up the internet completely in Canada ... we don't have some shining alternative except for resellers.
Here is a partial list: http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
ISPs that cripple torrents and sometimes how.
http://www.teksavvy.com/
You're welcome. Unfortunately... a crtc decision will soon doom these companies. Go here to complain: http://www.consumersforinternetcompetition.com/
Abusing their search monopoly to push into other areas could be. But given that often google services aren't the first link from google searches for them I would be a bit surprised.
Most amazing piece I've read on science in a long time. This makes the genome projects look like stepping stones. If you read the whole thing and can't see the amazing power of this field you will hopefully be one of the early benefactors because you need it.
God I hope you guys get your healthcare shit together before that happens. In a modern country the data could be used to save lives... In the US I can only see it saving money and costing many thousands of lives.
At least get your racist history right. China had circled the globe in 1300s created the great wall of China, the still current largest man made channel, and the forbidden city, while they mapped the sky. At this time they didn't bother even trading with the Europeans because they were so much more advanced that they seemed like dirty savages. The largest fleet that Europe had at the time were Venician longboats armed with bows. Would have been easy for China to conquer them and the anchors of their ships weighed more than the European ships and the fact that they had bombs at the time.
Oh and if you go back further. Africans built great civilizations and had lots of math that the europeans stole from them. Some cities were very well educated. Timbuktu rivaling Alexandria in some respects.
Or further forwards, the inuit haven't fared nearly as well as america. Even though they are an offshoot of americans. I'm sure you made a mistake in your calculations somewhere.
Wrong. Have companies fix it sure but with a few hundred thousand extra eyes on the code than problems intentional or accidental are much more likely to get picked up.
The US is spread across multiple time zones so it matters even less. Plus even if it was an hour faster God keep your pants on people. This is a big deal, I'd be fine with a day of wait if the results are accurate.
It wasn't my study... I assume people checked off the no god box? I'm more worried about the 51% than the other 2 groups. I just pasted it the same way the survey showed it. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml
My bad. I just grabbed the first google hit. Lots of other studies show similarly horrifying numbers. And none show numbers under 5% which is the level I could be comfortable with.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml