Instead of sliding to the side, you slide straight up and down. Further, the slider bar is the width of the entire screen, so it is huge. Now, this is stupid beyond belief...
And yet, at 8am in the morning, I am still incapable of either:-
a) sliding it in the right direction
b) hitting it at all!
Can someone please invent a slide-to-unlock that is both bigger (dinner-plate size should do) and requires zero hand eye coordination.
Although I have no reason to doubt the validity of your point your post highlights a more worrying trend - the inability to differentiate between how a word is spoken and how it is spelt - "Southern bell" is in fact "Southern belle". It comes from the French word for beauty and has nothing to do with the things you find in churches.
"Obviously that bastard couldn't care less about all the bankers who will lose their livelihoods as a result of this information being made public. He's nothing but a traitor to the free market--and probably a communist, socialist, fascist, muslim, Nazi, child molesting rapist too!"
If the treaty was only became part of US law in 2006 and UK law in 2004 how can it be considered relevant in a case that started in 2001? When the first formal request for extradition was made late 2002 / early 2003 the law did not exist in either country and the case did not involve an extraditable offence anyway.
"The UK's Virgin Media could start suspending persistent file sharers"
Surely once should be enough! The police don't wait until you have persistently commited a crime before arresting you. In order to establish that you were a persistent file sharer wouldn't they lose the right to claim they were acting as a 'mere conduit' in order to avoid civil liability themsleves?
On a secondary note - if they warned a customer ahead of time about their alleged persistent *illegal* file sharing (as distinct from sharing, say, open source software) would they be allowed to "promote" their new service at the same time (and would this amount to a "get out of jail not-so-free card" or alternatively "demanding money with manaces")?
Say what you like, but downloading music and movies for free is still theft, no matter how you look at it.
Maybe where you come from. Here in the UK theft is theft and copyright infringment is copyright infringement - Theft is covered by criminal law and results in a prison sentence, copyright infringement is covered by civil law and results in damages being awarded.
Regardless - Here in the UK downloading music and movies is neither theft or copyright infringement - however uploading music and movies would be the latter....but its still not theft!
Numenta's goal is to build a software model of the human brain capable of face recognition, object identification, driving, and other tasks currently best undertaken by humans.
Surely we have plenty of humans available to do tasks 'curently best undertaken by humans':)
Seriously though... while it might be useful to develop AI systems in this area as timesaving devices, the examples given above aren't really in that category - IMO AI research could be better applied to tasks humans can't achieve so easily (and maybe provide an insight into why that is the case) - I guess I just don't buy into the whole 'we can make something just like a human - but that isn't one' view of AI.
There's no such thing as 'settled science' - thats the whole point of the scientific method - nothing is sacred. If a new theory fits all the available evidence better than the current theory then it doesn't matter if a million scientists don't like it - they either have to accept it or prove its wrong.
"I felt a steadily widening range of unpleasant effects whenever I was in the classroom," he said. "First came a thick headache, then pains throughout the body, sudden flushes, pressure behind the eyes, sudden skin pains and burning sensations, along with bouts of nausea. Over the weekend, away from the classroom, I felt completely normal."
Sounds like the effects of teaching in any UK classroom to me....where does the WiFi come into it?:)
...because neurologically, there is no separable unit that represents "square" or "circle"
While your example is (most probably) correct there is evidence to show that humans do have some elements of a 'representation' - for example they possess the ability to quickly recognise a familiar face even when the different elements (eyes, nose, mouth etc) are moved out of normal position - so there seems to be some 'fuzzy template' of a face.
I would say the analysis stage of human cognition does exist in humans - its just very early in the process of perception and is concerned mainly with filtering 'unnescessary' information (which is what a researcher would be trying to achieve with their 'perfect representation'). The auditory cocktail party effect and visual saccadic eye motion can be seen as elements of this form of conscious/subconscious filtering.
I wouldn't agree that its overlooked by AI researchers. I think its more a mixture of:
Computer based sensor/motor units are quite coarse (in comparison to biological equivalents anyway)
Even given the above - processing environmental input is still pretty intensive/difficult work. There's also the problem of how to represent that input in a way that allows the AI to most effectively use it - and no single 'right way' across different domains of application.
As there are also many areas of AI that don't require a link to the real world (in the sense of a 'hard' link) its not always a problem that AI researchers encounter. Similarly the idea of simulating human intelligence is largely ignored by many people in the field (i.e. they don't care if its based on human intelligence as long as it works).
Because it never was news. IMO "Something didn't happen" is never news. 21 people arrested! - more than that get arrested in the city I live in a day - people being arrested doesn't prove anything. So far all I've seen has been 99% media conjecture and 1% possibility - 24hr news broadcasting at its finest.
Have you become so inured to the whole terrorism thing
Yes - probably because it's a card that's played at every opportunity.
that you can't see an important piece of news when it's right in front of you?
I wonder what's happening in Lebanon today...didn't Isreal just mention that their war will take another month?...last time it was 10 days...and the time before that it was a week. I wonder what has been decided by the UN on the US/UK brokered 'peace plan'.
Not being a US citizen I have only a passing understanding of the US legal process so can someone answer a couple of questions about this for me...
1. If the judge in the EFF case ruled against the 'national security' argument how has this judge been able to justify his decision?
2. What (if any) repercussions does this decision have for the EFF case? I'd hate to see the EFFs case shot down before their 'day in court' - is that still possible? (other than for what might be termed 'proper' legal reasons:P)
On a side note - this (or these) cases have (AFAIK) had zero coverage here in the UK - which I find a bit odd as usually the UK media are fairly good at pointing out the faults of the current administration:)
I've always found it somewhat surprising that the US invaded Iraq because they would not comply with a UN request to independently inspect and verify their stockpile of WMD, after all, successive US administrations have themselves refused to allow UN inspectors to do precisely the same thing with their own biological weapons programme..."in the interest of national security" of course....no double standard there then:/
More on topic though - I saw this reported in the UK today (I think via CNN). It was described as "not involving transactions between you and I" (by which I presume they mean between US citizens) - "just suspect transactions crossing international borders" (which could be read as "between a US citizen and...err...just about anyone else")....It makes me wonder exactly how isolationist the US can get - it also covers a pretty broad spectrum of transactions - but is specifically targeted at person to person rather than corporate transactions from what I gather.
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Instead of sliding to the side, you slide straight up and down. Further, the slider bar is the width of the entire screen, so it is huge. Now, this is stupid beyond belief...
:-
And yet, at 8am in the morning, I am still incapable of either
a) sliding it in the right direction
b) hitting it at all!
Can someone please invent a slide-to-unlock that is both bigger (dinner-plate size should do) and requires zero hand eye coordination.
Although I have no reason to doubt the validity of your point your post highlights a more worrying trend - the inability to differentiate between how a word is spoken and how it is spelt - "Southern bell" is in fact "Southern belle". It comes from the French word for beauty and has nothing to do with the things you find in churches.
"Obviously that bastard couldn't care less about all the bankers who will lose their livelihoods as a result of this information being made public. He's nothing but a traitor to the free market--and probably a communist, socialist, fascist, muslim, Nazi, child molesting rapist too!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Unfortunately not here in the UK
If the treaty was only became part of US law in 2006 and UK law in 2004 how can it be considered relevant in a case that started in 2001? When the first formal request for extradition was made late 2002 / early 2003 the law did not exist in either country and the case did not involve an extraditable offence anyway.
"The UK's Virgin Media could start suspending persistent file sharers"
Surely once should be enough! The police don't wait until you have persistently commited a crime before arresting you. In order to establish that you were a persistent file sharer wouldn't they lose the right to claim they were acting as a 'mere conduit' in order to avoid civil liability themsleves?
On a secondary note - if they warned a customer ahead of time about their alleged persistent *illegal* file sharing (as distinct from sharing, say, open source software) would they be allowed to "promote" their new service at the same time (and would this amount to a "get out of jail not-so-free card" or alternatively "demanding money with manaces")?
Say what you like, but downloading music and movies for free is still theft, no matter how you look at it.
Maybe where you come from. Here in the UK theft is theft and copyright infringment is copyright infringement - Theft is covered by criminal law and results in a prison sentence, copyright infringement is covered by civil law and results in damages being awarded.
Regardless - Here in the UK downloading music and movies is neither theft or copyright infringement - however uploading music and movies would be the latter....but its still not theft!
Surely we have plenty of humans available to do tasks 'curently best undertaken by humans'
Seriously though... while it might be useful to develop AI systems in this area as timesaving devices, the examples given above aren't really in that category - IMO AI research could be better applied to tasks humans can't achieve so easily (and maybe provide an insight into why that is the case) - I guess I just don't buy into the whole 'we can make something just like a human - but that isn't one' view of AI.
It seems they already do.
Thats just a law suit waiting to happen :)
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While your example is (most probably) correct there is evidence to show that humans do have some elements of a 'representation' - for example they possess the ability to quickly recognise a familiar face even when the different elements (eyes, nose, mouth etc) are moved out of normal position - so there seems to be some 'fuzzy template' of a face.
I would say the analysis stage of human cognition does exist in humans - its just very early in the process of perception and is concerned mainly with filtering 'unnescessary' information (which is what a researcher would be trying to achieve with their 'perfect representation'). The auditory cocktail party effect and visual saccadic eye motion can be seen as elements of this form of conscious/subconscious filtering.
- Computer based sensor/motor units are quite coarse (in comparison to biological equivalents anyway)
- Even given the above - processing environmental input is still pretty intensive/difficult work. There's also the problem of how to represent that input in a way that allows the AI to most effectively use it - and no single 'right way' across different domains of application.
As there are also many areas of AI that don't require a link to the real world (in the sense of a 'hard' link) its not always a problem that AI researchers encounter. Similarly the idea of simulating human intelligence is largely ignored by many people in the field (i.e. they don't care if its based on human intelligence as long as it works).If you own a building that doesn't provide adequate disabled access its you that gets blamed not the contractors who built it.
I guess you could try to pass on the blame...but if you had asked for it in the first place then they would have provided it.
Yes - probably because it's a card that's played at every opportunity.
I wonder what's happening in Lebanon today...didn't Isreal just mention that their war will take another month?...last time it was 10 days...and the time before that it was a week. I wonder what has been decided by the UN on the US/UK brokered 'peace plan'.
Not being a US citizen I have only a passing understanding of the US legal process so can someone answer a couple of questions about this for me... 1. If the judge in the EFF case ruled against the 'national security' argument how has this judge been able to justify his decision? 2. What (if any) repercussions does this decision have for the EFF case? I'd hate to see the EFFs case shot down before their 'day in court' - is that still possible? (other than for what might be termed 'proper' legal reasons:P) On a side note - this (or these) cases have (AFAIK) had zero coverage here in the UK - which I find a bit odd as usually the UK media are fairly good at pointing out the faults of the current administration :)
I've always found it somewhat surprising that the US invaded Iraq because they would not comply with a UN request to independently inspect and verify their stockpile of WMD, after all, successive US administrations have themselves refused to allow UN inspectors to do precisely the same thing with their own biological weapons programme..."in the interest of national security" of course....no double standard there then :/
More on topic though - I saw this reported in the UK today (I think via CNN). It was described as "not involving transactions between you and I" (by which I presume they mean between US citizens) - "just suspect transactions crossing international borders" (which could be read as "between a US citizen and...err...just about anyone else")....It makes me wonder exactly how isolationist the US can get - it also covers a pretty broad spectrum of transactions - but is specifically targeted at person to person rather than corporate transactions from what I gather.
It's not the stray ones you have to watch out for - it's the ones that are meant for you.