Sprout a brain. The US "warns" the world about China, Russia, Iran, and pretty much EVERY nation who dares to try to achieve anything unless they're a member of the "Five Eyes." The US is so fucking paranoid it is disgusting, and every single excuse that there is to post a "warning" about the achievements of other nations, Slashdot's "editors" do so.
I don't worry about China's space efforts. I worry about those of the U.S. Which nation has invaded countries and been at war for the vast majority of it's history?
Such a search only "works" in the minds of a few people because they have a navel-gazing mindset that presumes all data is managed by a select group of companies they know about, and which are hosted by one country (usually the US in these narrow-minded viewpoints.)
In reality there are hundreds of thousands of service providers around the world, and you'd have to scan them all. Even Google mail is a drop in the bucket compared to the oceans of emails floating around the world.
No, this is in the US. It is fueled by one thing and one thing only: GREED.
As with all synthetic cannabis, side-effects may include death...
I've been on slashdot since the early days. I've seen meme after meme come and go from the trolls, I've seen the internet grow from 28.8 modems to multi-megabit pipes. During those years we moved from 386's measured in MHz to Core CPUs measures in GHz.
But along with all the other changes, the internet itself has changed. The quality of comments on Slashdot has changed. Even the quality of selected articles has changed.
And most of it has not changed for the better.
Oh? What terminology did I get pedantic about?
But, hey, there is always some smart ass too cowardly to sign in to an account but willing to put in their $0.00 cents worth...
The number of pedantists who have nothing better to do than nit-pick about terminology without actually contributing anything useful to Slashdot just blows my mind.
The question is not whether we'll ever be able to "upload" a map of a neocortex, but rather whether we'll be able to transfer the will and sense of self that makes us who we are.
Perhaps at the time technology is able to upload a map, we'll discover that we really are nothing but meat machines. But I believe there is an extra "something" in the specific timings of how your particular neurons fire and interact with each other that makes you you. Not really a soul, per se, but a "something" bound in the chemistry and biology that we haven't even begun to measure or analyse. An essential "spark", shall we say.
Fat lips, fat ass, fat jugs, and a fat head at her side.
If it's some script-kiddie, you have the little bastard locked up.
If it's a "professional" foreign intelligence agency, you sigh a heavy sigh and realize there is bugger all you can do about it.
You don't need to go off-grid to turn off your internet and TV.
By all means, take your anonymous ass offline.
If nothing else, spelling and grammar checking will be done.
Flawless AI in 5 years to drive those "intelligent" agents?
Yeah, right.
They've been predicting "hard" AI within 20 years for about 35 years now...
I've seen several cases of sexual harassment filed in various companies I worked for over the years, and not once was the guilty party fired. They were required to attend "sensitivity" courses. They lost their bonuses for the year. They were passed over for promotions. Sometimes they were reassigned to lesser roles in the business.
But they were not fired.
Why should academics be held to higher standards than those in industry?
Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
