The flaw in your thinking is that the ability to detect creativity matters.
The flaw in your thinking is that you don't get to judge what constitutes creativity. Thus, you don't get to decide what is "the ability to detect creativity" either. So yeah, try again?
Who said I (or anyone) needs to judge what constitutes creativity?
So going 1000 fasters would have to mean some major changes in how processors work i guess? since having your signal only travel 0.1 mm per clock pulse makes it rather hard to get the data around...
It seems like it would just change the design optimization criteria, making spatial distance dramatically between components dramatically more important than it is now. 3D chip design would become crucial, since it enables shorter paths. Of course, moving from flat or shallowly-layered designs to spherical construction would make heat dissipation an even bigger challenge than it is now, and would require completely new fabrication approaches.
Still "We have lots of really complex engineering problems to solve to make this work" is a better place to be than "Damn, we need to change the laws of physics".
You mistakenly assumed my stance. I stated that it would take a very long time to read everything. I have a pack from my closing. It's more than 100 pages. Reading for comprehension of a set of contracts that long would likely not be under an hour.
Maybe I read slower than you do, but it takes me about two hours. I warn the title company in advance that I am going to read everything and ask questions about anything I don't understand, so they schedule a two-hour block for my closing.
The key criterion is creativity and expressive/emotional content, and wherever that comes from, that's the source of the art.
The flaw in this thinking is that it's not possible to actually detect creativity in a painting.
The flaw in your thinking is that the ability to detect creativity matters.
And the criteria for determining what is and is not art?
The key criterion is creativity and expressive/emotional content, and wherever that comes from, that's the source of the art.
In this case, some of the robot's paintings are quite artistic... but it's not the robot that selected the subject, captured the right feeling, chose a composition that accented it, etc. What happened here is that the robot reproduced some artistic images that were created by a human. Art? Sure. Robot art? Nope.
In the case of your hypothetical art Turing test, where only the end product is available, sure it's quite likely that we couldn't distinguish between the computer renderings and human work, and we'd call the computer renderings art... but the creator would be whoever provided the computer with the input -- code and/or data. Human-created art in the medium of computer-controlled paintbrush, for example.
He's not talking about root going away, he's talking about reducing the need for it, in order to have much of the freedom provided by a rooted phone without the associated security risks. Whether or not root is available is a separate, and orthogonal question, and he clearly never wants to lose the ability to root, just the need.
454 Casull operates at high pressures.
Yeah, probably not a good choice for a plastic gun.
How do you tell google analytics to buzz off if it's embedded into practically every website?
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
It's doubly odd because many contemporary phones and tablets can connect to TVs, though that isn't their primary use case.
I think you've got your answer right there.
From a technical perspective, of course, it's not an answer at all, but look at it from the perspective of big media companies: On general-purpose computing devices they have no real say other than deciding if they do or don't want to lock their content out of the devices. Making that choice lowers the value of the devices a little, but it's not like device makers will allow the media industry to drive all their decisions. With media devices, however, which have no value to consumers except to play media, the media companies can choose to render the device nearly useless which puts them in a much stronger bargaining position.
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, but I don't have any inside information on this issue and don't know anything more about it than any other random geek, and probably less than many. The above is just my idle speculation, and is probably completely wrong. Maybe Google really does want to lock down everything so they can obtain complete control over every computing device in the universe and collect all the data to auction off to the highest bidder while feeding a copy to the NSA in exchange for use of CIA wetwork teams to take out competitors' key employees who refused to be assimilated, as well as any users who complain too loudly about being monetized against their will, and they're just using TV devices as the thin edge of the Control The World wedge -- but suck at it so badly that all the protections can be blown past with a few minutes' tinkering. But I doubt it.)
Very good work of destroying the whole point of privacy. And who the fuck allowed him access to 70 million passwords? Yahoo? Shame on Yahoo then.
Fixed that for you.
Though, also, I disagree with your first sentence. The better we understand the use of passwords by larger numbers of real people, the better we can design systems that exploit the strengths of passwords which avoiding their weaknesses -- or perhaps it will motivate us to choose other approaches if it demonstrates that passwords simply do not provide sufficient security.
This is valuable information for people who want to build secure, privacy-preserving systems, which is the complete antithesis of "destroying the whole point of privacy."
IIRC, the 9x17mm (.380) was used in some earlier 3D printed pistol tests with limited success.
I'd say with good success, rather than "limited" success.
Also, it occurs to me that if you'd like a more powerful plastic gun, you should perhaps consider the
The length of the rifle barrel is what'll kill it. A pistol dumps its internal pressures quickly - the short muzzle doesn't have to hold the pressure for more than a millisecond or two at most. A rifle on the other hand? The longer the barrel, the longer that period of time which the barrel has to hold the higher pressures. Most rifle cartridges also contain a slower-burning powder (to keep pressures at least somewhat constant as the bullet travels down the barrel), which only exacerbates things from a design perspective.
I think the duration of the high pressures is a second-order issue, behind the fact that most rifle rounds generate much higher pressures, period. A few examples:
Handgun rounds:
.380 ACP: 21,500 PSI
9mm: 34,800 PSI
Rifle rounds:
5.56mm: 62,366 PSI
I'm not aware of a single handgun round that is designed for more than 40,000 PSI, while most modern rifle rounds are in the 60,000+ PSI range. The lowest-pressure rifle round I'm aware of is the old
It's worth pointing out the Defense Distributed's Liberator fires the
You couldn't know it, but my calculus includes a family home with teenagers (themselves a risk group IMO) as well as one adult diagnosed and medicated as a depressive (not me).
Unfortunately, mine includes the same (teenagers plus one suicidal person). It just means that I keep my guns locked up.
Note that I'm not criticizing your decision, and wasn't to begin with. I just wanted to make sure you weren't basing it on incorrect information.
The first car I ever registered, What my address was in 1992, when the last time I traveled internationally...
Meh.
The first two questions are based on public data, in fact it's the same stuff that many financial institutions use to verify your identity in certain cases. I've been asked those sorts of questions many times. The third item is something that the government obviously knows about you, since they scan your passport every time you enter the country, and if you fly out the airline is required to provide them with your passport information when you depart.
That's not to say they don't have a detailed file on you that includes your habits, politics, sexual fetishes and how often you wash your hands when you use the bathroom, but the sort of questions you mentioned don't imply any real surveillance, just pooling of public data (which is already collected and collated by others) and combining it with government data.
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