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Comment The human inside the machine. (Score 2, Interesting) 366

by ddbsa on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @04:17PM (#27850647) Attached to: Ray Kurzweil's Vision of the Singularity, In Movie Form

> If Robert is 700 part Ultimate Brain and 1 part Robert; and
> Ray is 700 parts SuperiorBrain and 1 part Ray ... i.e.,
> if the human portions of the post-Singularity cyborg beings
> are minimal and relatively un-utilized ... then, in what sense
> will these creatures really be human?
> In what sense will they really be Robert and Ray?

IMO, as long as there are enough cycles to run the 'ego subroutines' from the original bioform then the same sense of self will be maintained.

It's when these original 'ego subroutines' (which will be a line item in process accounting) are altered will be see a fundamental changing of the human that was.

There will be add-ons to the 'ego subroutines' just like there are add-ons to firefox.

You will cure your fear of spiders or have access to pleasure centers with a simple mod.

Comment Used AVG for 4+ years (Score 1) 928

by ddbsa on Thursday July 03, 2008 @11:42AM (#24045139) Attached to: AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet

And never had any virus, privacy, stability issues...

Not a single issue in 4 years...

Hopefully, they will stop whatever shait they are doing now so I can keep them in high regard.

Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting? 329

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 05, 2007 @02:03PM from the lots-of-polishing-to-do dept.

ICA writes "It appears after years of criticism, Diebold may be ready to withdraw from electronic voting entirely. The company is concerned that this relatively small and marginally profitable unit is hurting the company's overall image."

'No Alternative' To Microsoft Fine 394

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 16, 2006 @02:26PM from the pay-up dept.

An anonymous reader writes "News.com is running an interview with Neelie Kroes, the competition commissioner for the EU. She confirms that the massive fines to Microsoft are absolutely necessary, and goes into some of the commissions reasons for slapping the giant down." From the article: "Microsoft has claimed that its obligations in the decision are not clear, or that the obligations have changed. I cannot accept this characterization--Microsoft's obligations are clearly outlined in the 2004 decision and have remained constant since then. Indeed, the monitoring trustee appointed in October 2005, from a shortlist put forward by Microsoft, believes that the decision clearly outlines what Microsoft is required to do. I must say that I find it difficult to imagine that a company like Microsoft does not understand the principles of how to document protocols in order to achieve interoperability. "

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