Comment Re:Pictures or it didn't happen used to be a thing (Score 1) 93
You can be sure when the prosecutor put bags of drugs on the table in court.
Photos of evidence isn't evidence, evidence is evidence.
Gotta taste the evidence.
You can be sure when the prosecutor put bags of drugs on the table in court.
Photos of evidence isn't evidence, evidence is evidence.
Gotta taste the evidence.
Now who can be sure?
Reality is that he didn't do anything requiring any marketable talent. Anyone can go and smash up things.
And whilst I agree with you, most people will see him as some sort of elite.
This guy's record will follow him his entire life.That's pretty severe (and appropriate) punishment, in my opinion.
Nope, his notoriety will increase, the criminal record will be ignored and once he gets through the hard times of the hooplah he will be paid even more.
I say this because I have seen this *exact* situation before with a former colleague and it did wonders for his career. He basically did what everyone has thought about and paid for it - those types of experience carry value.
1. Work
2. A.I
3. ????
4. Profit!!!
In what way are these "robots"? They are not machines.
I was hoping we could call them SnotBots instead of NotBots.
"discovery" "confirmation" and "new" all have specific meanings. There is nothing wrong with the science reporting here.
All we really know at this point is there is a discovery about rings in space and it's not about Uranus.
and increase everyone else's sense of security
Nope, knowing someone else than intended can read my private messages does not make me feel more secure. The smart criminals already know how to obfuscate their communication and actions.
I was invited to talk on a panel with an audience of about 300 or so people discussing government proposals for new surveillance powers. From the back I heard someone yell at the person who invited me to speak "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear".
I gotta say I've always fucking hated this stupid argument. I answered for him by pointing out that fraud enabled by these legally mandated security holes is borne by citizens just like you, not the government. So the saying should be "If you've got nothing to lose, you've got nothing to fear".
It makes complete sense why it would make you feel that way. It's like the government chucking a tantrum and saying "We're going to make crime illegal", whilst exposing people to more cyber crime.
"We're sorry, your subscription to your phaser service has expired.".
Step 1) Pick something from a story that is fantastical.
Eon: Greg Bear.
Each citizen carries a marble size computer in their skull as a backup of their mind. You get 2 "reincarnations" (IIRC) and on the third you are committed to The Thistledown's public memory where you become known as a "Ghost" who can still interact with corporeal city residents. Everyone knows if someone's body dies, you simply cut open the back of their skull and retrieve the backup so their body can be restored.
Special Operatives of the city have additional devices where they can download their entire persona into a virtual world where time is accelerated and you can devote thousands of years to solving a single problem and then upload the solution to yourself.
Not a single thing here gives the story away, it's actually a rather insignificant part of the story. Well worth the read.
If I want to disassemble Windows and learn from the code, I'm 100% allowed to do that.
From the Windows T&C:
SCOPE OF LICENSE. The software is licensed, not sold. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you will not (and have no right to):
reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software, except and to the extent required by third party licensing terms governing use of certain open source components that may be included in the software;
Everyone has the same right to impose usage conditions on their works.
What rights would those be? The right to disallow someone to read their work?
The same ones programmers have to protect their copy and morals right to their code. Everyone fucks over Artists first because that set's the precedent to fuck over everyone else.
Have they assigned their right. No.
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"I couldn't remember things until I took that Sam Carnegie course." -- Bill Peterson, former Houston Oiler football coach