Comment Re:surpising (Score 2) 168
If it was Japan, China etc doing the same thing they'd be charged with "dumping": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If it was Japan, China etc doing the same thing they'd be charged with "dumping": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Uh, but how do you tell when you succeed? Are we even close to discovering what consciousness is?
Isn't it possible to build a computer that behaves as if it is conscious but isn't? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This is one of the big mysteries of the universe. There's no need for us to be conscious but we are. Or at least I am, I can't really be 100% sure about the rest of you...
It's kind of funny that scientists have difficulty explaining one of the very first observations they make.
I guess since it conducts heat well it won't go poof like this earlier material:
http://www.scientificamerican....
I don't see anything new or interesting in the articles to consider it a "discovery of a way" (e.g. http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Pag... )
In contrast this is a better article with more detail on how whales could _actually_ affect ecosystems significantly: http://www.newscientist.com/ar...
And that's a 4 year old article.
But that's why this "vulnerability" should be fixed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
Imagine if by default if you don't uncheck a checkbox a popular distro has full disk encryption enabled and/or creates an encrypted container.
Then they can't use the "wrench" on everyone that happens to have that distro, because it really is very plausible that the person doesn't have the keys to the container.
As for the arguments against it - if you're in a country where they are still willing to use the "wrench" on someone who is likely to not have the keys, you're screwed already. In such countries if they're not happy with you, you're in big trouble whether you use crypto or not.
That's why the "bug" I submitted should be fixed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubu...
Granted, it wouldn't work for the little moppets that run between parked SUVs, so it wouldn't be a perfect solution...
That's why I have been proposing that for robot cars they also have cameras/sensors/radars/lidars at bumper height. It's often easier to spot (from a distance) people/animals obscured by vehicles from bumper level than it is to spot them from driver or roof level. But I'm no car or robot car engineer, so someone else will have to actually do it.
You might be able to do something like this for "kiddie" sensors mounted on bicycles/motorcycles, but given the front wheel of those vehicles is movable it's probably a bit trickier
But as responsible consumers, people need to stop preordering games. All that does is make it easier for publishers to give you crap, since you already paid them up front. Make the companies earn your money!
Does that apply to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some of the prices here look kinda steep: https://robertsspaceindustries...
Somehow that reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/606/
BTW I'm still playing Guild Wars 1 - an old good but dying game...
To do nothing is to be nothing.