well, the real question is whether or not machines are sentient, or will they ever be. the large consensus seems to be that no, they arent.
while that seems to be the easier position to take, i think if you do take that position you have to justify it by explaining what the physical difference between a human and a machine is, and i dont think anyone ever has.
i'm not sure what i believe, but to me it would make more sense if machines were in fact sentient.
i definitely think the many worlds theory is a possiblity, but i dont think it quite answers everything.
specifically: who or what determines which branch i take when the universe splits? and what is actually happending to one consciousness when the split happens: it the consciousness splitting into many, or is it being duplicated, or were there actually many different identitical consciousnesses since the begining, which are now splitting into different paths?
until quantum physics is either discredited or modified, there's a definite place for "free will" in science.
at the very base of quantum physics is the measurement problem: when a measurement is made, the many quantum possiblities of particles collapse into one actuality. so far, no one has any explanation of what determines which possibility becomes the actuality, and some physicists believe the choice is made by the conscious observer.
i dont remember the specifics of it, but i ran into this problem last year trying to set height=100% on a table. when it didnt work, i hunted down the reason: apparently, proper HTML has never had height=100% as a valid value for a table. the w3c explained that tables were never meant to be used for layout, but only for displaying tabular data.
yup, that's true. and as someone else pointed out, if you and the victim were both behind the same NAT, you could have the same public IP address anyway. so it obviously isnt perfect, but it's better than nothing.
and, other than forcing SSL for the entire site, i cant think of anything better.
yeah, i knew that was going to happen going forward, but it's a small price to pay to eliminate a rather large vulnerability. and i have yet to hear any complaints.
Second, cookies are passed as plaintext unless there is an encrypted session. As a result, anyone with a sniffer can capture the cookies contents and use them as their own.
bingo. that's why i store the IP address along with the session ID in the database.
both alice and bob are doing the same thing: sending a UDP packet to the other. for both, once they send out a UDP packet, that allows a UDP packet from the other side to come in.
so whoever sends the first packet wont make it to the other side, but the other side's packet will make it across, because both holes would then be open.
well, we could start taking a guerilla approach, and produce strictly-standards-compliant content, regards of how it functions in MS products.
for example, use XHTML rather than HTML, and have your website use the application/xhtml+xml content type. when your customer complains that your website is broken, explain to them that the bug is with their browser.
yeah, it probably wont work, but it's certainly worth a shot. and it will bring more mainstream attention to the issue.
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well, the real question is whether or not machines are sentient, or will they ever be. the large consensus seems to be that no, they arent.
while that seems to be the easier position to take, i think if you do take that position you have to justify it by explaining what the physical difference between a human and a machine is, and i dont think anyone ever has.
i'm not sure what i believe, but to me it would make more sense if machines were in fact sentient.
i definitely think the many worlds theory is a possiblity, but i dont think it quite answers everything.
specifically: who or what determines which branch i take when the universe splits? and what is actually happending to one consciousness when the split happens: it the consciousness splitting into many, or is it being duplicated, or were there actually many different identitical consciousnesses since the begining, which are now splitting into different paths?
until quantum physics is either discredited or modified, there's a definite place for "free will" in science.
at the very base of quantum physics is the measurement problem: when a measurement is made, the many quantum possiblities of particles collapse into one actuality. so far, no one has any explanation of what determines which possibility becomes the actuality, and some physicists believe the choice is made by the conscious observer.
excellent show.
they dropped bait attached to a rope, and also on the rope was a camera pointed at the bait taking pictures at regular intervals.
the photos weren't great quality, but it was pretty obvious that it was a giant squid.
that's what they're talking about.
i dont remember the specifics of it, but i ran into this problem last year trying to set height=100% on a table. when it didnt work, i hunted down the reason: apparently, proper HTML has never had height=100% as a valid value for a table. the w3c explained that tables were never meant to be used for layout, but only for displaying tabular data.
yup, that's true. and as someone else pointed out, if you and the victim were both behind the same NAT, you could have the same public IP address anyway. so it obviously isnt perfect, but it's better than nothing.
and, other than forcing SSL for the entire site, i cant think of anything better.
yeah, i knew that was going to happen going forward, but it's a small price to pay to eliminate a rather large vulnerability. and i have yet to hear any complaints.
if it's been off for around 5+ hours, it can take a good 30 secs to load. but less than that: it takes only a couple seconds.
and yes, he meant 30 GB, not MB.
both alice and bob are doing the same thing: sending a UDP packet to the other. for both, once they send out a UDP packet, that allows a UDP packet from the other side to come in.
so whoever sends the first packet wont make it to the other side, but the other side's packet will make it across, because both holes would then be open.
well, then you're essentially buying two computers, when you could do all with just 1.
plus, as the guy above mentioned, there's the whole FPS genre...
well, we could start taking a guerilla approach, and produce strictly-standards-compliant content, regards of how it functions in MS products.
for example, use XHTML rather than HTML, and have your website use the application/xhtml+xml content type. when your customer complains that your website is broken, explain to them that the bug is with their browser.
yeah, it probably wont work, but it's certainly worth a shot. and it will bring more mainstream attention to the issue.
oh god i just creamed my pants.
if so, let's hope it's *nix based, for compatibility purposes.
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i asked this in another thread but havent gotten an answer:
wouldnt the Wii's lack of HD support mean an OS would be limited to 640x480? if so, that would render it nealy unusable.
i'm pretty sure the Wii doesnt have HD support, so wouldnt that limit the OS to a 640x480 resolution?
alright, you heard him, pool's over. who had 2 days?
the bloody hell?
am i the only one starting to suspect this is a psychological "experiment", rather than a technical one?
they are. Yellow Dog seems to be the only distro branding it as "linux for the PS3" but it sounds like you can use pretty much any PowerPC version.
going, going, SOLD to eyelyktoys for an astonishing $89 million.
congratulations, you stupid shit.
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isnt that only if you do a "quick format"? i thought a full format set everything to 0?