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by aperrien 13y ago
What gets held up as an ideal gets followed, especially as children, when we're looking to establish our identities. I wonder if promoting a more diverse image of "hacking" to be included in other hobbies will help. While pro
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by aperrien 13y ago
A weapon for self defense as a last resort is fine, but I'd also want a good social net as well. The problem with self-reliance for security is that eventually, you must sleep.
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by aperrien 13y ago
I agree, for the most part. No right of privacy on duty, but they should have a reasonable expectation of discretion. For example, if there are two officers driving a beat somewhere, and they're wearing a recording device of some sort,
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by aperrien 13y ago
Core wars, anyone?
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by aperrien 13y ago
Looks like MIT, mostly: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/license/
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by aperrien 13y ago
I have the floppies for TaskMaker, I want to see if I can load them in this thing.
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by aperrien 13y ago
> $634M should be enough to build and run every government website in the US for more than a decade. And you know the requirements for the next ten years of computing technology how?
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by aperrien 13y ago
I agree. However, I'd like to see a postmortem of the events and infrastructure in a few months, when everything's hopefully calmed down.
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by aperrien 13y ago
> Most Africans have an IQ in the 80s, barely above mentally retarded. Most of them can barely be trained to even go through the motions of algebra, let alone use it to solve problems in new situations. What evidence do you have for this
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by aperrien 13y ago
That might be a good idea for the future, if we can insure the experiments are done ethically, and with the subject's full understanding.
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by aperrien 13y ago
This philosophical argument can be answered very simply. Which do you value more, animals or humans?
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by aperrien 13y ago
> Okay, maybe it should be their choice, I can't tell others what they need to be able to cope with. And my example is very bad, Your example is very bad. It should be a basic tenant of humanity that we control ourselves, and
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by aperrien 13y ago
I believe we need to take steps now to better get a handle on what we define as "sane". If this is a person who has been placed in a computer, it's unlikely that they'll be willing to wipe out all their friends and famil
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by aperrien 13y ago
The ethics of whether or not to allow independent, non-human originating agents to be built is highly debatable, for obvious reasons. However, as to whether or not to run an emulation of someone who has volunteered their brain to such an
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by aperrien 14y ago
I'm very impressed with what I've seen from this project, and I'm truly sorry I missed it's Kickstarter. However, I'd still like to contribute; is there a way to still donate? Folding money into paper airplanes and throwing it in your direc
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by aperrien 14y ago
What about using this on a crowd of people? You could get an idea of what impact your particular statements are having on them. It could be interesting to look over old films of riots to see how they may have been instigated...
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by aperrien 14y ago
I agree. I cannot see why he did not do this, as not doing it implies that he's really just a shadow of his former self... Sad, really.
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by aperrien 14y ago
I think it will be a wonderful boon for people with artificial limbs. A sense of touch may be all that is needed to reduce phantom limb pain, among other things.
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by aperrien 14y ago
I'm assuming that's only while actively projecting...
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by aperrien 14y ago
That's the premise of South Park, and why I accept it. They pick on everyone equally. That is the only "fair" way to express that sort of humor.
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by aperrien 14y ago
Not always true. People look guard and abuse their own first. "Exploitation begins at home"
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by aperrien 14y ago
I think that would be workable, and people would commit to solving those problems, if they knew that for the next X years their basic needs would be taken care of.
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by aperrien 15y ago
I agree with you. There are quite a few commercial webmail/imap/pop providers, though. I've been using one for years now. I refuse to do free email since I lost my yahoo mail over a decade ago, and I like the peace of mind of knowing I can
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by aperrien 15y ago
With paying customers? That will continue until they face their first lawsuit...
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by aperrien 15y ago
"have you ever known anyone around you starving to death?" No, I do not know anyone immediately around me starving to death. However, that is partly because my friends, family, community, and I will spend our resources preventing that. I do
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by aperrien 15y ago
Some people just fit the dictionary definition of "unmitigated gall"...
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High Altitude Wind Power Startup Soars In Test(earthtechling.com)
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Seattle's mad-scientist scene is booming(seattletimes.nwsource.com)
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by aperrien 15y ago
I have some definite concerns with this. If producing the key via government coercion is legal, where do we stop? Right now, we have (admittedly) very crude technology that lets us probe the brain and tell with a reasonable certainty if som
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by aperrien 15y ago
It isn't? I always used to think of compiler design and advanced algorithms as dark magic; however, I now understand that that was just based off of unfamiliarity with the concepts. I suspect that much of that is the same with C++ as well.

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