Comment Re:tc-play is a reimplementation of Truecrypt (Score 1) 475
The binary on Windows is compiled from a Microsoft complier which most likely has NSA code which creates a backdoor in the TrueCrypt binary.
The binary on Windows is compiled from a Microsoft complier which most likely has NSA code which creates a backdoor in the TrueCrypt binary.
1. Knifes are used primarily for cutting food.
2. Cars primary usage is transportation.
3. Guns are primarily used to kill people.
Which one does not belong?
I told you so 5 years ago, but of course no one listened to me.
So you actually know you have a consciousness.
Well since I am talking about it, I believe I have a consciousness, I think therefore I am.
Do you not even find that experience remarkable?
Not really no, I think it is just a side effect of our intelligence.
You said: "To me consciousness is just memory and the ability to make decisions based on old memories" but assuming a universe with just our current known laws of physics, couldn't you/something have memory and the ability to make decisions WITHOUT having this consciousness that you know you experience? There is no need for it to "magically" be there right? Something could do 1+1=10 without requiring consciousness. Matter and molecules arranged in a certain way could do all the same things our bodies do without it too right?
I think your problem with all this is that you think your consciousness is something special and is somehow like a "soul" or something magical, but it isn't because we are just biological creatures.
There's no difference for you? Are you're saying that you personally can't tell the difference between you having consciousness or not? You're not a conscious creature and merely behave like one?
I know that I have a consciousness, but I really can't tell if other people have consciousness or just behave like they do. But even so this distinction is just silly and has no value.
Well I'm doubtful about that, but hey perhaps everything in this universe has consciousness.
You have to realize we are just biological machines. We are made of matter and molecules arranged in a certain way. If you could clone yourself by just replicating how your molecules are arranged then your clone would have a consciousness too.
What do you mean by complex enough? And which laws of physics in this universe apply for that?
There is no specific line that says this creature is conscious and this creature is not. Consciousness is just a world we like to use to describe a state. Just like when a creature on an evolution path from a specific kind to another kind does not have one specific time when the actual change takes place. Let's say we have a simple bacterial life form. Does that have a consciousness? No I think we can agree on that. Let's say we can evolve that creature to be bigger and bigger and more complex until at some point that creature has a brain and a memory and communications skills and has a consciousness. At what point did that creature evolve "consciousness"? There is no specific point when that happened.
Remember I'm not talking about _behaving_ as if you have consciousness. As I already said previously it's "the actual subjective experience itself".
But if there is no difference between behaving as if you have consciousness and actually having consciousness, then how could you tell the difference? You couldn't, so that means that there is actually no difference, if something behaves as having consciousness then that something actually has consciousness.
Someone could make a puppet behave as if it experienced consciousness, does that act of doing so magically generate a new consciousness in the puppet?
Yes.
Really? A trivially simple program could do that- have memory and make decisions based on old memories. Are you so sure such a program would experience consciousness?
If it is complex enough yes. For example if you could make a program with as many neural connections as our brain then yes I think you could define it as having a consciousness. In fact I think if we could duplicate our brain in software then that software would have a consciousness.
If Google can handle millions of DMCA requests, then they can handle these request. Of course the bigger questions is why should Google have to handle DMCA or these request at all?
To me consciousness is just memory and the ability to make decisions based on old memories. "Couldn't the whole universe work like it does without it existing". Yes sure it could, for simple lifeforms you really don't need consciousness, just look at plants they don't have consciousness and are just programmed with specific reactions to specific circumstances. But for complex lifeforms that need to adapt and survive in complex environments I think consciousness is a necessary trait to have to be able to react to unknown circumstances correctly.
Yes every species that is alive today survied, but that doesnt mean they will survive another glacial retreat. In fact many species that are currently not here have died out.
Yes the mistake was using Microsoft software, which has these major bugs. You don't have the encryption connected to the domain...period.
The correct answer is not to swerve either left or right but apply maximum breaks going forward.
No I am sure they will succeed. I mean they managed to add hidden markings that are printed in almost all paper printers to track you and with some scanners you can't copy images of money.
The backdoor is not in the source it is in the MVC++ compiler. NSA is not stupid, putting the backdoor in the source itself would be risky, it would be much wiser to put the backdoor in the MVC++ compiler itself.
On the included SD card? On the manufacturer website?
"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch
