Comment Re:but (Score 1) 247
Comment Re:The Wookie Who Shagged Me (Score 2) 250
Comment Re:WORKING AS INTENDED !! (Score 1) 597
Comment Re:Blah (Score 2) 204
Comment BIOTERRORISM!!! (Score 2) 160
Timothy Paine, an entomologist at the University of California-Riverside, recently 'committed to the scientific record the idea that California's eucalyptus trees may have been biologically sabotaged, publishing an article [in the Journal of Economic Entomology] raising the possibility of bioterrorism.'
Must every act of aggression be labeled as some form of terrorism? The term certainly has lost it's potency since 9/11.
Comment Re:Good to Know (Score 2) 365
Comment Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea (Score 1) 269
Either there is a metaphysical reality that provides a "spark", if you will, of reason to living organisms such as ourselves, or else we are not actually reasoning, self-aware beings, but merely beings which act as if we are.
So there are only 2 options huh? Please allow me to offer a 3rd:
We are indeed reasoning, self-aware beings who evolved that way in order to survive in a competitive and unforgiving environment.
Alternatively we may be computer programs ourselves in some alien video game. I could go on but I believe that I've made my point.
Comment Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea (Score 1) 269
If so it would seem that you're the one who's lacking evidence.
Comment Re:It's not just specialization, there is also fea (Score 3, Insightful) 269
it's artificial. It isn't real. You're never going to get a Turing computer to actually think
Why not? We evolved into sentient beings from non-sentient organic matter, why couldn't the same thing be possible with silicon based intelligence?
Comment Re:Cyber Warfare (Score 2) 290
South Korea seems to ignore actual warfare/violent aggression from North Korea so I doubt it would make a difference either way.
If said jamming is affecting their Starcraft servers in any way there's no telling what they might be capable of.
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Comment Re:Wait, wtf, NASA again?!? (Score 1, Informative) 911
The other thing is to - get this - turn the car off. Just turn the ignition and pull the keys. Either way, you have to then try to control the car to a stop.
Good luck controlling the car with the steering wheel locked. Sound like a sure fire way to roll the vehicle to me.