DaFranker

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by DaFranker 2mo ago
Let me help answer that question by abstracting away the charged element and disambiguating the most common point of actual logical contention: Should doctors be forced to perform <P:procedure> they don't ~~condone~~[A:believe is
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Perhaps you'd like a rephrasing: A EULA can never bind you into a legal contract that has consequences beyond those already provided for by a law or the ability of the copyright holder of the software to deny use of the license. The EU
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by DaFranker 11y ago
EULAs are never legally binding, and especially not for someone who is 1) not currently a consenting user, and 2) invoking a right. So in the EU, if current legislation projects bear fruit, a case could probably be made for implementing thi
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by DaFranker 11y ago
> read access
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by DaFranker 11y ago
You're thinking on the level of decisional strategies across agents. Arguments earlier up the comment chain where thinking on the level of implementing decisions in a given context for one agent, where the context includes other agents
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by DaFranker 11y ago
There was a lot of that going around yesterday. For me the most amusing was Twitch.
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Heh. Gotta love how the default filter already blocks ||sourceforge.net^
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by DaFranker 11y ago
What we need is more pervasive control of discrimination, then, and of other things that could use biometric information. Simply "hiding" your biometrics or banning biometric identification altogether would be moving backwards in
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by DaFranker 11y ago
This brings up the point I'm most looking forward to if we can get this stuff widespread: massive carpooling. Forget Uber. Get a Google-AV subscription, find the nearest "unoccupied" AV (or call for one to come pick you up, p
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by DaFranker 11y ago
For Sourceforge specifically? Sure. In general, the way the comment was worded? No, suspicion does not equal hard fact. We were talking about the latter.
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Er, okay. Well, I don't agree¹ with your method of evaluating trustworthiness (which seems to me rather too quantized and "chastity"-minded), but at least you know exactly what you're doing and who you're trusting.
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Whoa what. Are you suggesting that suspicion of possibly maybe having put a trojan in someone else's files somewhere is grounds to make all one's efforts useless and poisons everything else you do? Geeze, I guess we should stop us
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by DaFranker 11y ago
> and who breaks into our offices to steal our tech? AFAIK: Shadowrun characters, and that's about it.
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by DaFranker 11y ago
> I would say that 99% of all spam I receive is written in English, whereas about 80% of my personal emails are in German. You're missing some important numbers here for this to be meaningful: Base rates. If you're getting 10
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Possible? Sure. Brute-force solution is to consider all possible arrangements of numbers 1-9 in a 9x9 grid, filter that down to those that match the conditions of a completed grid, then iterate over the list of possible completed grid, for
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Yes, but if you do so you become eligible for charges of Conspiracy for High Tech Fraud, and a Conspiracy charge opens up a whole other can of worms you really don't want to mess with.
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Oh, then that's simple. The $30,000 USD corporation pays a fine of $374, reparations for the officer's time to the tune of $41.75, and then is severely reprimanded with a warning not to do it again on threat of further monetary re
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Even if the money were sentient and capable of arguing for itself and defending its own case better than a good lawyer, here's what would happen: You can only authorize a legal person to use computer equipment. It is impossible to au
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by DaFranker 11y ago
> How many calculations did I just do? Probably not that many. Let's say you create a water-skipping robot with two different AI programs in it and a shaky, not very precise arm (but still as good as a human arm in terms of specs).
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by DaFranker 11y ago
No, we wouldn't need this. How we could come to figure out and understand "the brain"[1] without understanding its smaller components is worth several science classes mostly involving maths, most of which I haven't maste
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Arithmetic savants and trained arithmeticians can come a lot closer to the calculator, showing that the usual human brain layout and/or architecture is a really poor fit for performing this type of calculations. There's also some
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Only if the architecture itself is unsafe and does not enforce timeline consistency. It's relatively easy and simple (on the scale of programming a black-box automaton that runs our universe) to code a completely asymmetrical n-threade
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by DaFranker 11y ago
There are so many wrong assumptions in this OP, most of which the OP didn't state explicitly, that for once I don't even feel like breaking it down into chunks: > [quote of the whole thing] No. When you run Dwarf Fortress on a
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by DaFranker 11y ago
The White House responded to comments and inquiries with funny gifs. Now some random google employee can't put one measly harmless little easter egg somewhere in their product that says "Hah, take that, Competitor!"? We need
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by DaFranker 11y ago
180k$ USD, if I plan well, will last me ten years. By third-world standards, I live like a rich noble from Siliconvalleystan. If I didn't have a SO and knew where I could get a fake replacement identity quickly enough? Yep, the 180k so
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by DaFranker 11y ago
I'm glad you took the time to elaborate on this. It's impressive how quickly people came to conflate "AI" with either the general human-level form of intelligence or things they've seen in movies.
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by DaFranker 11y ago
I think the idea was to use a DDoS-like farm of hacked machined to constantly send random messages and packets meant to trip their detection systems to random other IPs, thereby increasing the sheer amount of noise surveillance authorities
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by DaFranker 11y ago
Easy options for this are plentiful. [1] http://www.sikuli.org/
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by DaFranker 11y ago
> By that metric, marketing and advertising must be cost centers! But they somehow always manage to take credit for revenue. I'm puzzled by this. Compared to customer support, marketing's benefit is _very_ easy to measure. You
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by DaFranker 11y ago
An adept representation of a limited sample of the issues surrounding customer support and similar departments. The problem is that it doesn't have to be like this. There are exceptional cases where customer support is not like this.

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