Comment Re:Can't write concurrent code? (Score 2) 509
+1
Comment Re:I would volounteer. (Score 1) 355
If I had no familiy or other people who depended on me, I too would be there in a heartbeat. In my mind something like this is the ultimate pioneering/patriot thing a person can do, for humanity. And a privilege. Of course, vastly better suited candidates would come before myself.
Comment Re:Saving everyone a few seconds on wiki (Score 1) 209
What precisely are those long-standing problems?
I ask because I actually know people who are starting to demonstrate the rudiments of intelligence using simulations of ~100,000 neurons.
Per upthread, that's a long way from a brain, and in fact we don't even know how all of the brain is wired, let alone how it works. But you might want to consider this and this and this.
If they're attempting the impossible, you should let them know not to waste their money.
autistic intelligence have been done for years with neural nets, the limitation is abstracting this basic equation estimation technique (which is all the neural construct really do.) and I guess the article describes a need way to overcome some obstacles.
IMHO the biggest challenge is really training data, you dont have enough of it, take a project like OpenCog, they've done simulations in secondlife, and this is problary the best route available for the moment. The best route would be to stuff the AI in an actual body, cause there is more training data in the real world than anywhere else.
Comment Re:I'm not saying it's aliens (Score 1) 99
That and
"God does not build in straight lines"
Defn. got an alien vibe going here ...
Comment Re:horse (Score 5, Interesting) 346
Indeed.
I had a conversation with a high ranking officer a few years back who boldy calimed that their systems was 100% secure, nothing i could do.. When i explained my attack vector would be to phone in and pretend to be from support and ask him to stick in the usb-dongle (wich he had in his mail) and plug it into the secure line .. well he (or she) pretty much had a revelation ... omg is it that simple. no it is not. and yes it is. It is that simple to someone as hardcore to the art of data theft as you are to the art of war.
I had a conversation with a high ranking officer a few years back who boldy calimed that their systems was 100% secure, nothing i could do.. When i explained my attack vector would be to phone in and pretend to be from support and ask him to stick in the usb-dongle (wich he had in his mail) and plug it into the secure line
Comment Re:.. and .. (Score 1) 374
I've been on that quest for years, ever since vmware introduced experimental d3d support even though only windows->windows. But surely this is the holy grail of virtualization, effectively making windows an game-wrapper and nothing else. It will add some load time and eat up some megs but surely that HAS to be worth it!
Comment Re:.. and .. (Score 1) 374
apparantly a very old bug too..
hxxp://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2914 whats puzzling is that it was working nicely in 2.0.6 but totally broken in 2.1.
Comment Re:.. and .. (Score 1) 374
I really like virtualbox, been using it since version 1.5.something.
But with version 2.1 they've introduced a USB bug that bluescreens my vista64 host. And that just sucks. I have a dongle(!) wich some vpn software uses through a virtual XP(only way i can connect to work), and while its somewhat working for about 3 minutes, everything will begin grinding to a halt and then closely followed by a vista bsod .. and thats just a sad sad sight.
Japanese Auto Makers Teaming Up To Create Standard OS 266
CNet is reporting that Japanese car manufacturers are teaming up to develop a standard automotive operating system. "Just as computer operating systems [...] allow multiple applications to communicate with one another, an automotive operating system enables different driving systems to work together. The standard automotive operating system from Japan will include everything from fuel injection, brakes and power steering to power windows. Currently, certain mechanical car parts are interchangeable from model to model. Smart car parts that operate off a common software standard would enable that kind of convenience to continue, while allowing them to communicate more easily with other smart components in a car."
Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux? 497
I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X. I am not a stranger to Linux, but I am a stranger to running Mac apps on Linux. On my PowerPC I can use SheepShaver to run Classic apps. The Mac-on-Linux project can run OS X apps, but it requires a PowerPC, not an x86. Virtualizing and emulating are inefficient, especially given the wonderful results the WINE project has had in getting Windows apps to run on Linux. What I would like is an equivalent: a software compatibility layer that will allow Linux to run Mac OS X apps at native performance. I believe there is some additional complexity in accomplishing this. Mac OS X apps aren't just Mac OS X apps. They are Carbon. They are Cocoa. They are universal binaries. They are PPC code with Altivec. Does such a project exist yet? If not, why not?
Submission + - Nerd Stigmata
lesset writes: What can I say, I always knew we would one day take over the world:
http://toddvanderlin.com/blog/2007/05/21/nerd-stig mata/
Submission + - Sysadmins advised to block Office docs
Kurtz'sKompund writes: "Microsoft is recommending IT administrators block users opening Office documents as a way to prevent attacks, tacitly acknowledging that Office cannot be completely secured.
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?n ewsid=8906"
Submission + - Hammerhead shark reproduces asexually
Silver Sloth writes: The New York Times has an interesting article about
A hammerhead shark that gave birth in a Nebraska aquarium reproduced without mating
Also from TFAAt the time of the birth, many scientists thought that the female had mated with another species, or that it had used sperm obtained years before. Female sharks are capable of storing sperm, although none have been known to store it as long as these sharks had been isolated.
But through the analysis "it was pretty clear that there was no male contribution," said Mahmood S. Shivji, director of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and author of a paper on the finding being published online today by the journal Biology Letters.
Looks like we boys are becoming unneccessary.
Journal Journal: Offshore outsourcing India
With the emergence of a number of countries in the field of offshore software development services, offshore outsourcing India has been gaining popularity. Worldwide, the business is growing at an increasing pace and India holds many advantages in terms of time zone, quality and cheap resources; and high English speaking population. Open source technologies like PHP are gaining importance and we have very good skilled resources available b
