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Submission + - #metalgate explodes as SJWs attack heavy metal (deathmetal.org)

Submitted by hessian
hessian writes: It is easy to see however why someone might want to — as writers have in the past — call heavy metal conservative. Metal avoids “social issues” and other internal questions of a society and instead looks at the health of a society as a whole, or in other words, how sane it is. We see a world gone insane through a refusal to pay attention to reality. The methods of that are beyond an artistic genre and should be injected into it, but since 2006 at least trying to reform metal has been a pet project of SJWs.

Submission + - Denmark claims North Pole via Greenland ridge link (yahoo.com)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Scientific data shows Greenland's continental shelf is connected to a ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean, giving Danes a claim to the North Pole and any potential energy resources beneath it, Denmark's foreign minister said.

Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said Denmark will deliver a claim on Monday to a United Nations panel in New York that will eventually decide control of the area, which Russia and Canada are also coveting.

Submission + - Brain-Like Circuits Can Mimic Pavlov's Dogs (insidescience.org)

Submitted by benonemusic
benonemusic writes: A materials scientist at Harvard University and his colleagues have invented a new type of transistor-based electronic system that can mimic the plasticity of the brain by learning, unlearning and storing memories.The researchers constructed their device using films of samarium nickel oxide (SNO). When placed in contact with an ion-based liquid, SNO's electrical conductivity can be affected over the long term. The researchers used their electronic system to conduct versions of Pavlov's experiments with dogs, in which dogs associated food rewards with a bell ringing. The electronic system detect that two electrical stimuli are linked if they repeatedly came at the same time, and unlearned this connection if these two stimuli stopped coming at the same time. The circuits could also store patterns of electrical signals they experienced, mimicking how the brain stores memories. These devices can serve as "an electronic platform to probe fundamental problems in neuroscience," said lead researcher Shriram Ramanathan, a materials scientist at Harvard University.

Comment Re:Hack it? (Score 2) 129

They should repeal it completely. But that will not happen as every one of those congress-critters are bought and paid for.

Congress wants a more strict DMCA. Hell I bet some of those on capitol hill would support a death penalty for copyright violations.

I don't think all of it should be abolished it completely, for example as a freenet node opporator appreciate the safe harbor clause.

Comment Re:No, it's not even possible (Score 3, Insightful) 181

by lister king of smeg (#48523289) Attached to: Do you worry about the singularity?

the chip has no concept of what a lambda calculus is. the chip doesn't know, doesn't care. what causes the chip to be what it is, is the human coding it.

And your neurons don't know they are executing the program of sentience that is you, in both situations the underlying hardware does no need to "know" anything about the program it just has to execute instructions given with the input provided.

Comment Re:No, it's not even possible (Score 1) 181

by lister king of smeg (#48519383) Attached to: Do you worry about the singularity?

Why? You create real intelligence when you procreate [.....]

You don't create anything when you procreate - you're just part of a process that started a long time before you were born.

Brains and chips are both equally able to perform lambda calculus so they a computationally equivalent so there is nothing fundemental to preclude one from implementing the other.

Maybe. But it took billions of years to evolve human intelligence - you're dreaming if you think machine intelligence can be created in a few decades, or even a few centuries. And computers won't exist in a few centuries anyway - our civilization will collapse long before artificial intelligence gets even close to existing.

It may have taken a long time for natural selection and random chance to do so, but we are not using a dice to program, we are intelligently designing it with goal in mind. Secondly we can cut out the tens of billions+ years of trying to develop a biological support system devoted to building proteins, copying DNA and everything else that would only be needed by a biological system to build up to supporting the brain we are strictly speak only concerned with the software of a mind not everything else that was implemented to get us ours.

Comment Re:No, it's not even possible (Score 3, Interesting) 181

by lister king of smeg (#48514935) Attached to: Do you worry about the singularity?

Computers are simply adding machines. Software is simply a tool. An actual AI is beyond the possibility of humans to create, regardless of how cool it would be.

Why? You create real intelligence when you procreate so why does it matter if the hardware is silicon or carbon? Brains and chips are both equally able to perform lambda calculus so they a computationally equivalent so there is nothing fundemental to preclude one from implementing the other. The only reason to say that is if you think that biological systems are somehow made of special matter and that was disproved in the 1700's.

Comment Re:Yahoo Search? (Score 3, Insightful) 237

by lister king of smeg (#48503481) Attached to: Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default

Speaking of what everyone wants, hoo-ray for the built-in video chat! They finally relented, after years of users clamoring for this necessary feature, to bundle it into their flagship product *even though* it meant they would have to postpone fixing some of the regressions that have come up recently.

Thanks Firefox. Thirefox.

A lot.

This (web video chat) is something that really should have been put in Thunderbird not Firefox, but unfortunately the powers that be at Mozilla seems to have decided that it should join SeaMonkey in being their neglected redhead step child, while they continue to throw shit into Firefox (which was meant to be the striped down powerful simple browser), or try to compete outside of their core competency focusing on projects like FirefoxOS, or Mozilla Marketplace, all the while trying to ape chromes interface.

Submission + - BT Starts Blocking Private Torrent Sites (torrentfreak.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This weekend both BT and Sky implemented the new changes, making it harder for their subscribers to reach these sites. Interestingly, however, BT appears to have gone above and beyond the court order, limiting access to various other sites as well.

Over the past several days TorrentFreak has received reports from several users of private torrent sites who get an “error blocked” message instead of their favorite sites. These include the popular IPTorrents.com and TorrentDay.com trackers, as well as scene release site Scnsrc.me.

IPTorrents and Torrentday are significant targets. Although both sites require prospective users to obtain an invite from a current member (or from the site itself in exchange for cash), they have over a hundred thousand active users.

The error displayed when BT subscribers try to access the above URLs is similar to that returned when users to try access sites covered by High Court injunctions.

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