Comment Re:Help Consumers? (Score 1) 126
... says Mr holophrastic.
... says Mr holophrastic.
Oh? Scientists are taking longer and longer to get Nobel Prizes, meanwhile our President got one just for being elected!
The Nobel Peace Prize isn't awarded for scientific work, so it's a bit incorrect to include that.
Also, unlike the scientific Nobel prizes which are awarded by Swedes, the peace prize is in fact awarded by Norwegians for some historic reason.
Sweden and Norway was in an union at the time the Nobel price was created. They split up in 1918. As Nobel's will specified that a Norwegian committee* would select the peace price winner they still do.
(* had to correct this 3 times to get it right - not a common word I say as an excuse)
How about breakthroughs in understanding how consciousness emerges
How about breakthroughs in understanding IF consciousness emerges?
Exactly. The mind is still a field of unknowns, even the working of the basic elements aren't known fully.
or the achievement of strong AI/the singularity?
Pure religious fantasy. It's not the 1970's anymore. That silly belief cannot be defended.
I'll agree with the religiosity of "the singularity" but strong AI could be possible. Perhaps. We still are a long way from even approaching the complexities of fruit fly brains.
Cheese.
Your understanding of this is flawed. There are no reason to compare this with religion as it is something determined experimentally using the scientific method and validated in several ways. There's a reason why the "dark" stuff are divided into matter and energy too.
As opposed to a language with polymorphism, where it's impossible at compile time to know which function will actually get called at runtime? Maybe every secure situation should require C.
First there are several types of polymorphism, most of which can be checked statically given a good programming language. The rest can be avoided.
Except for familiarity and legacy codebases there isn't really a good reason to use C.
AlanObject says:
the same approach that I would have taken given their mission statement
What "mission statement"? This?
Collect (including through clandestine means), process, analyze, produce, and disseminate signals intelligence information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes to support national and departmental missions;
GP is right. They can't process and analyze as much data as they collect, so they don't produce useful intelligence.
They want to collect everything then go through it later when a need arises
That's forensics, not intelligence.
So NSA is on a track where they are sound technically, but way off legally and ethically.
Just curious - if they are way off ethically and morally, why would you take that same approach?
Because that ensure ethical and moral rights isn't a part of their work description? Really, this applies to a number of government and private run corporations - the workers have legally to follow the rules of the trade even if those are morally wrong. The only situation where a worker have the right to refuse to follow those rules are when they are illegal.
If you want ethics and morals to make a difference you'll have to elect people that think it is important. Good luck.
Multicopter pilot here.
You seriously call yourself that?
If he is why wouldn't he?
the multicopter that was involved in the accident was using a very outmoded form of technology to control the multicopter (wifi) rather than the far more reliable multichannel failsafe 2.4GHz DSMX systems that are in common use with bigger multicopters.
It's all wi-fi. Fancy wi-fi may more reliable than crap wi-fi, but it's still all wi-fi, and it all has a range which when you go past, you still lose control.
No it's not all Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is the wireless equivalent to Ethernet (simplified) while other wireless protocols are designed for other tasks, a protocol designed for remote control purposes can be much more reliable.
There are a number of advantages of doing this, non-technical people are likely to be familiar with QR-codes, most people have access to digital cameras and resources to convert the QR code to a link and using this works as long as the screen can be written to. Storage system failure or network system failures wouldn't be a hinder to provide a thorough failure analysis.
The sole disadvantage IMHO is that one have to have a QR encoder resident and functional at the time of a panic. Not a big problem.
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