Great idea for pushing a plastic bottle a few hundred feet into the atmosphere.. but I wonder how much compressed air it would take to push a car 250 miles, or to produce a KWh of electricity, and how much energy it would take to create that much compressed air. I suppose one could find out from a SCUBA compression station.
Ah yes. 2 years of pchem comes rushing back.. Let's see if PV = nRT then.. oh.. it's gone again.
I'm not a mathematician, but if the Riemann Hypothesis has in fact been solved, I suppose that could be yet another nail in the current encryption coffin. Then again, quantum computers could yield even more secure cryptography solutions of its own, and it seems certain that a new solution will need to be found, regardless. Preferably one with plenty of back doors.
This does however still raise the question with what to do about the staggering amount of data archived with current encryption that could basically be made readily available.
Hawking gave the 1994 MacWorld Boston keynote from his chair. It lasted about an hour. The room had about 5000 people shuffling papers and coughing.. until about 30 min in, and then, for 30 min you could hear a pin drop. I have tried to get a copy (better still, a recording) of that address, even writing a few of his 6 assistants, Apple PR, and the organizers of MacWorld a bunch of different times. No joy.
He compared the genome and the information in the genome to the global library of knowledge and then 30 min in said it was inevitable that 1. We will mess with the genome and create a super-race of humans that will make current humanity puny and incapable in comparison (while he sat motionless in his chair) and 2. artificial intelligence will hasten this outcome. He said these were not inevitable because of human frailty, but because that is the whole nature of adaptation and evolution. We would do it because that would speed up adaptation to a rapidly changing world, and because we can. He ended with a statement along the lines of: Get Ready.
A pin drop. It was electric. I haven't read his book, but it sounds like something along the same lines. If anybody has a recording of the 1994 Macworld adress, please let me know! I know it was recorded. It was a top five memorable speech of my life. I'm 58.
It's heartwarming to consider how far we've come since Ivan Boesky had to assert that "You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." Thank god! At last, it is moral imperative. The question now is.. Can you NOT be greedy and still feel good about yourself.?
The solution to a systemically corrupt police force should be the reformation of the police force, not some multi-million dollar project to watch all activity in the city and beget from, dare I say it, corruption itself. Plus, where would that end?
I hope "the citizens" all declared their personal interests in such a project. As if.
Y'all. Darwin has been simplified to the phrase survival of the fittest. Anybody watching a lion take down that trailing gazelle believes this is Darwin in action. But evolutionary survival is a matter of adaptation and not fitness. The lion that needs a gazelle or two every week will be disadvantaged relative to the lion that only needs a couple a month, if gazelles are absent. (whether through anthropomoronism or not.)
When food times are hard, any creatures with slower metabolism will win out because they are well adapted to the no food environment. That's why some people are heavy and lumbering, like me, and some are lean and fit, like all of you. I sense that people like me will be coming into our own in short geological time, when food is harder to come by. Not because I'm fitter, but because I will be more adapted.
And don't even get me started about Social Darwinism Bullshit.
As a matter of national defense: the radio time sync is invaluable in the event that technology fails the nation or is compromised over a large area. Its kind of like the ham radio requirement (now gone) that anybody with a ham radio license be able to magyver a radio from a lot of wire and old bits of junk.
The more basic failsafe options we abandon, the more fragile our emergency response options become.
All these attempts to hasten the demise of the world as we know it in the name of... I don't really know what... are so utterly contemptuous that I sometimes wonder if they aren't just bold faced crimes against humanity. I believe history will regard them as such.
Never mind the environment, and the endangered species.. the last thing we need is more petrochemical production! Especially while we allow the rest of my world (abroad) to claim the control of alternative energy. It's time for Big Oil to realize that the party is over, and they need to stake a claim in the new world before they get hauled away for public disturbance. Or get a figurative ASBO.
I live in a different world. One that has a future, if the other world's inhabitants don't destroy it first. It's actually painful to watch.
I'm all for work life balance, but I believe that its established fact that any change brings improvement that decays over time.. turning the lights up works.. but turning them down also works to improve productivity and well-being.
It will be interesting to see how to sustain this were it to become the norm, and not not viewed as a real benefit (almost a gift) from the employer; especially the paid day off every week. I think the interpretation of what that benefit really means could change..
This is a crucial question because shorter workweeks are one of the common suggestions floating around in reference to what to do about the impending need to deal with the ramifications of AI, automation, and the industrial revolution currently underway.
unrealistic?
It's not like there is a...?
You would literally have to trick a moronic populous into entering their own information into a database of sorts.?
I laughed so hard that ROFLMAO doesn't even begin to capture it.
But I appreciate your earnest sarcasm. Well played!
I wonder if he was Mirandized properly? I somehow doubt it.
He should have an appeal option, but I agree with the cynical view (put forward by others here) that US Constitutional Rights are only upheld in this country when proffered by expensive attorneys. If you declare them for yourself, its merely more Probable Cause. That's why we need to fight harder for them now, before they are gone in theory as well as practice.
The idea that our country cares about freedom, liberty, and justice for all is just completely ridiculous!
Any of you who lived in communist Poland or Ukraine will agree: A population that informs on itself to the police stops being a civilization and becomes simply a population, living in a culture of suspicion and fear, or passive aggressive seething anger.
Its starts with reporting bad behavior on the road.. it ends with people who express out loud in a pub their empathy for the peaceful majority of Muslims being dragged from their families in the middle of the night, and never seen again.
Who'se actually "safe" in that world? And please don't say the honest law abiding people with nothing to hide. That is naive and not supported by fact.
Yes, but there would have been 469.188 days per year, unless the earth's rotation around the sun has also been slowing in which case there would have been fewer. Regardless, that would suck because employers still only gave 15-20 days off and required 8 hour workdays. Maybe the extra ~104 days were all weekend days?
When they say stopped, I think they mean stopped for good, once it glides to a resting stop. Hopefully its not a drive by wire kinda car. Or going down hill. etc.
A promise to end a war that began in 1950 would be huge for the North Koreans, even if they did start it. Ending an expensive development program that they can't really afford would also be huge. So I can see that Crazy Kim sees brethren in our own leadership and would do the deal, with as much honesty as anyone can expect in today's world. He's even offering press and other officials complete access to his [known] facilities to verify the dismantling. No nukes with verification for us seems like a good deal for Trump. It would of course need to be signed by China as well. And I think it's not surprising to apparent mad men can come to terms. It takes on to know one, and they are both one.
Of course it does leave open cyber warfare where they seem to be doing better and to which South Korea is very susceptible. Good thing they only have a single block of 1,024 for the whole nation! (175.45.176.0 – 175.45.179.255.) Oh wait.. maybe that's not a problem.
What's worse for human beings.. No Regulation -OR- Biased crappy enforcement of industry-friendly regulations that institutionalize the ability to rape the environment without regards to its effect on people? What Protection does the EPA actually provide? None to people.
That fact that a button is easily pushed does not in any way exonerate the button pushers. The President has a button, and, "gosh, who knew it would screw things up" for people won't fly if it were ever to be pushed. Neither would "gosh, I didn't build the nukes" won't either. Even if they're open source at the time.
250 Million bucks worth!. That's a lot of fraud going on. She must be quite some woman that she could find time to advise Pai on how best to rip off the American public as well. Maybe that's why she stepped down. Ain't nobody got time for all that.
Why is everybody acting so surprised? The relentless collection and analysis, or pillage, of personal data has been obvious from day one. I never had a facebook account because I don't have to have one to participate in the world (Unlike young people) , But, gmail is just as bad, and I do have a google account because I need email to participate.
"Use our system -or- have no life" seems like a bogus choice.
Although not here. I think we should expect a very heavy dose of that trolling right here in the comments on this one, as usual! ... But the campaign across America through the mid-terms.
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Great idea for pushing a plastic bottle a few hundred feet into the atmosphere.. but I wonder how much compressed air it would take to push a car 250 miles, or to produce a KWh of electricity, and how much energy it would take to create that much compressed air. I suppose one could find out from a SCUBA compression station.
Ah yes. 2 years of pchem comes rushing back.. Let's see if PV = nRT then.. oh.. it's gone again.
I'm not a mathematician, but if the Riemann Hypothesis has in fact been solved, I suppose that could be yet another nail in the current encryption coffin. Then again, quantum computers could yield even more secure cryptography solutions of its own, and it seems certain that a new solution will need to be found, regardless. Preferably one with plenty of back doors.
This does however still raise the question with what to do about the staggering amount of data archived with current encryption that could basically be made readily available.
Hawking gave the 1994 MacWorld Boston keynote from his chair. It lasted about an hour. The room had about 5000 people shuffling papers and coughing.. until about 30 min in, and then, for 30 min you could hear a pin drop. I have tried to get a copy (better still, a recording) of that address, even writing a few of his 6 assistants, Apple PR, and the organizers of MacWorld a bunch of different times. No joy.
He compared the genome and the information in the genome to the global library of knowledge and then 30 min in said it was inevitable that 1. We will mess with the genome and create a super-race of humans that will make current humanity puny and incapable in comparison (while he sat motionless in his chair) and 2. artificial intelligence will hasten this outcome. He said these were not inevitable because of human frailty, but because that is the whole nature of adaptation and evolution. We would do it because that would speed up adaptation to a rapidly changing world, and because we can. He ended with a statement along the lines of: Get Ready.
A pin drop. It was electric. I haven't read his book, but it sounds like something along the same lines. If anybody has a recording of the 1994 Macworld adress, please let me know! I know it was recorded. It was a top five memorable speech of my life. I'm 58.
I think a ban could extend to a lot of people, pretending to be real people.
Oh, the humanity.
It's heartwarming to consider how far we've come since Ivan Boesky had to assert that "You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself." Thank god! At last, it is moral imperative. The question now is.. Can you NOT be greedy and still feel good about yourself.?
It's a tougher question than people might think.
The solution to a systemically corrupt police force should be the reformation of the police force, not some multi-million dollar project to watch all activity in the city and beget from, dare I say it, corruption itself. Plus, where would that end?
I hope "the citizens" all declared their personal interests in such a project. As if.
Y'all. Darwin has been simplified to the phrase survival of the fittest. Anybody watching a lion take down that trailing gazelle believes this is Darwin in action. But evolutionary survival is a matter of adaptation and not fitness. The lion that needs a gazelle or two every week will be disadvantaged relative to the lion that only needs a couple a month, if gazelles are absent. (whether through anthropomoronism or not.)
When food times are hard, any creatures with slower metabolism will win out because they are well adapted to the no food environment. That's why some people are heavy and lumbering, like me, and some are lean and fit, like all of you. I sense that people like me will be coming into our own in short geological time, when food is harder to come by. Not because I'm fitter, but because I will be more adapted.
And don't even get me started about Social Darwinism Bullshit.
As a matter of national defense: the radio time sync is invaluable in the event that technology fails the nation or is compromised over a large area. Its kind of like the ham radio requirement (now gone) that anybody with a ham radio license be able to magyver a radio from a lot of wire and old bits of junk.
The more basic failsafe options we abandon, the more fragile our emergency response options become.
All these attempts to hasten the demise of the world as we know it in the name of... I don't really know what... are so utterly contemptuous that I sometimes wonder if they aren't just bold faced crimes against humanity. I believe history will regard them as such.
Never mind the environment, and the endangered species.. the last thing we need is more petrochemical production! Especially while we allow the rest of my world (abroad) to claim the control of alternative energy. It's time for Big Oil to realize that the party is over, and they need to stake a claim in the new world before they get hauled away for public disturbance. Or get a figurative ASBO.
I live in a different world. One that has a future, if the other world's inhabitants don't destroy it first. It's actually painful to watch.
I'm all for work life balance, but I believe that its established fact that any change brings improvement that decays over time.. turning the lights up works.. but turning them down also works to improve productivity and well-being.
It will be interesting to see how to sustain this were it to become the norm, and not not viewed as a real benefit (almost a gift) from the employer; especially the paid day off every week. I think the interpretation of what that benefit really means could change..
This is a crucial question because shorter workweeks are one of the common suggestions floating around in reference to what to do about the impending need to deal with the ramifications of AI, automation, and the industrial revolution currently underway.
unrealistic?
It's not like there is a...?
You would literally have to trick a moronic populous into entering their own information into a database of sorts.?
I laughed so hard that ROFLMAO doesn't even begin to capture it.
But I appreciate your earnest sarcasm. Well played!
I wonder if he was Mirandized properly? I somehow doubt it.
He should have an appeal option, but I agree with the cynical view (put forward by others here) that US Constitutional Rights are only upheld in this country when proffered by expensive attorneys. If you declare them for yourself, its merely more Probable Cause. That's why we need to fight harder for them now, before they are gone in theory as well as practice.
The idea that our country cares about freedom, liberty, and justice for all is just completely ridiculous!
Any of you who lived in communist Poland or Ukraine will agree: A population that informs on itself to the police stops being a civilization and becomes simply a population, living in a culture of suspicion and fear, or passive aggressive seething anger.
Its starts with reporting bad behavior on the road.. it ends with people who express out loud in a pub their empathy for the peaceful majority of Muslims being dragged from their families in the middle of the night, and never seen again.
Who'se actually "safe" in that world? And please don't say the honest law abiding people with nothing to hide. That is naive and not supported by fact.
I wonder why they left off "identify me" ??
Yes, but there would have been 469.188 days per year, unless the earth's rotation around the sun has also been slowing in which case there would have been fewer. Regardless, that would suck because employers still only gave 15-20 days off and required 8 hour workdays. Maybe the extra ~104 days were all weekend days?
It is but to do or die!
More human THAN human. And by 2019, they won't have longevity expiration dates.
Perhaps this could lead to a proof for the somewhat similar four color theorem? Also deceptively simple, and maybe obvious, but unproven.
When they say stopped, I think they mean stopped for good, once it glides to a resting stop. Hopefully its not a drive by wire kinda car. Or going down hill. etc.
A promise to end a war that began in 1950 would be huge for the North Koreans, even if they did start it. Ending an expensive development program that they can't really afford would also be huge. So I can see that Crazy Kim sees brethren in our own leadership and would do the deal, with as much honesty as anyone can expect in today's world. He's even offering press and other officials complete access to his [known] facilities to verify the dismantling. No nukes with verification for us seems like a good deal for Trump. It would of course need to be signed by China as well. And I think it's not surprising to apparent mad men can come to terms. It takes on to know one, and they are both one.
Of course it does leave open cyber warfare where they seem to be doing better and to which South Korea is very susceptible. Good thing they only have a single block of 1,024 for the whole nation! (175.45.176.0 – 175.45.179.255.) Oh wait.. maybe that's not a problem.
What's worse for human beings.. No Regulation -OR- Biased crappy enforcement of industry-friendly regulations that institutionalize the ability to rape the environment without regards to its effect on people? What Protection does the EPA actually provide? None to people.
That fact that a button is easily pushed does not in any way exonerate the button pushers. The President has a button, and, "gosh, who knew it would screw things up" for people won't fly if it were ever to be pushed. Neither would "gosh, I didn't build the nukes" won't either. Even if they're open source at the time.
250 Million bucks worth!. That's a lot of fraud going on. She must be quite some woman that she could find time to advise Pai on how best to rip off the American public as well. Maybe that's why she stepped down. Ain't nobody got time for all that.
Why is everybody acting so surprised? The relentless collection and analysis, or pillage, of personal data has been obvious from day one. I never had a facebook account because I don't have to have one to participate in the world (Unlike young people) , But, gmail is just as bad, and I do have a google account because I need email to participate.
"Use our system -or- have no life" seems like a bogus choice.
Although not here. I think we should expect a very heavy dose of that trolling right here in the comments on this one, as usual!
... But the campaign across America through the mid-terms.