I've always been amazed that until recently, most work on AI has been focused as a preconstructed system that fits data into pathways while having some variation in thought abilities to let it expand it's model slightly.
They'd write the rules for the system and try to include most of the work on it, and then let see how good it does, with limited learning capabilities and still based on the original model.

I'm glad a lot of research is finally gearing more towards the path of having a small initial program, then feeding it data and letting it grow into it's own intelligence.
If you give it the ability to learn, then it'll learn itself the rest, rather than giving it functions that let it pretend to learn while fitting into a model.

And i know there have been research into this in the past, but it didn't really take off till the last decade or so, and i'm glad it has.
True, or at least somewhat competent AI, here we come.

I'm going to burn some karma for this, but there was a children's book i read ages ago that i thought was really witty.

It was about an octopus that made pizza, and then got the wrong oven shipped, that ended up puffing his pizzas into 3d pizzas.
It had a detective who i believe was a cat.
Anyway it was a really cool little book that helped kids visualize the 2d->3d transformation.

I was gonna post a link saying THAT's what 3d pizzas lookedlike, but i can't find it, so anyone have a clue?

Ok, so maybe someone can help me out here, but how exactly do you anonymize travel data?

I mean sure, psuedo anonymized could be fairly easily done, just take the raw data, match with topographical data, and output the combined result devoid of geographic representations.
But even that wouldn't be anonymized to anyone who's looking for info on a specific area, since the data would all be similar and it wouldn't be hard to detect a route that goes through a given set of terrain, especially if the start or stop points (someone's house/parking garage) is known.

So someone who's more in-the-know with anonymizing data sets of this or similar nature able to shed some light on this?

Offhand, i'd say any prominent high-class hotel that might be used by foreign businessmen on a trip.

I mean, you do have a point, bob the middle manager isn't that important. However there are quite a few business people who this really would be that important to. Corporate espionage is high, and you know china has been doing focused attacks over the network.

Sneakernet is always faster, so if they can train up a few pretty women, pay them a decent programmers wage to have them steal stuff that is the work of 10 engineers or even hundreds, that's a pretty sound economic payoff don't you think?

I think stuff like this has it's purpose, and those who really are at risk need to be educated about it. For the other 95% of us, i think it's useful info to be aware about, just like don't leave your purse out visible in your car. Sure it probably won't happen, but there are always people who would.

For example, if you are a nazi, then you probably think 90% of video games are horrible, slanderous, libelous, and a gross distortion of history.

If you're not, you probably find them fun.

Chainsaws and stakes work well

and me without my mod points. darnit!

I am really saddened that it's taken people this long to realize this was a KICK ASS Idea.

Disclaimer: Everything said below this runs under the assumption the game is made correctly. There are LOTS of ways they could mess this up, interface, command structure, how to reward playstyles, how the teaming is done, etc etc .

But IF they get this right, it will be a fantastic game. Some people love strategy, others love killing shit. Some people like both, but more often some people like one and hate the other. Lots of people love having some voice in the sky doing the thinking for them so they can focus on killing shit, as long as that voice helps them kill shit better.

This is demonstrated on a LOT of big multiplayer games with voice enabled, you end up getting 1-5 guys out of dozens who are barking out useful info, the rest feeding off them without much complaint. I think there are better system sthan the everyone can talk to everyone method, but it hink it's a good start.

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/08/25/the-myth-of-poor-mans-copyright/

The mailing things to yourself doesn't work pretty much ever.

I told Anubis Markets("Food so good, you can eat it") not to advertise with them! Relaxovision decreased their sales!

And they laughed at my research, well who's laughing now?

So what you're saying is that since the state provides a service, if you could use that service you should pay for it?

How is this different from, oh, say EVERY OTHER STATE SPONSORED SYSTEM IN EXISTENCE for broadcasting.

Yes, you may not use it, but most people don't use all the roads either.

I applaud them for making the technological leap to being able to provide it online and REALIZE that online is the same effective use.

Now, i do have two questions.

Is the cost to distribute online around the same as the TV cost? If so, sure go nuts with it.

Is the license per household like a lot of other state TV licenses. If it's not, i see an issue with it.

IF it's per household and it reflects the cost to run it, i say more power to them.

We should be applauding efforts like this to adapt technologically and that are put forth by people who apparently have a grip on the actual issue.

Not just getting mad because it's a tax. Taxes have purposes. I return to my earlier car analogy of driving on all roads.

How do you figure?

The patent specifically mentions kW*H in reference to the 52.220 number.

I assume you were just trying to be smart and correct the summary thinking it was a typo. However, a kW*H is a valid unit of measurement.

In fact you could use them interchangably but it would give the very wrong idea as they measure different things.

A watt is one joule of energy flow over a second. so a KW would be 1000 joules of energy flow over 1 second.
A KW*H is a flow of a kilowatt continuously over an hour, therefore it would be a flow of 1000 joules over 3600 seconds.

So to recap:
1 kw = 1000 joules/sec
1 kw*h = 1000 joules/sec * 3600 seconds

If you were just going to measure the total energy usage, you'd have to keep it just in joules, in which case 52.220 KWH would be 187,992,000.

So yeah, big difference caused by little changes in notation. Of course i haven't done electricity in ages so i probably oversimplified somewhere and fubar'd up.

Ok no offense but you're full of it.

That's like saying newsweek, the new york times, or a manga isn't a form of literature.
Sure it's not traditional, but it is.

And you will find VERY VERY few people who would back you up saying that Zork wasn't a video game.

You are using the age old trick of "Oh it's on the internet, therefore it's something else". No, it's not. Just because multiple people can play it and it doesn't have graphics does NOT mean it's not a video game.

Also, if you're going to get that technical, at least use the right terminal. Don't capitalize MUDs and not capitalize MUXs, MOOs, and MUSHs. They all stand for something.

as the sharks bludgeon themselves on the sides of the tunnel, being unable to plug their ears as scientists incessently torture them with 90s remakes that completely lack christmas spirit.