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Server and channel, please?
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A proper Q/A session will be held tomorrow on irc to clear all questions. I will give here notice of the starting time.
So you've posted a notice about an upcoming post where you will give a future date for a possible IRC chat. Enough of this. Stay and answer questions TRUTHFULLY. My $26k is at least worth 20 minutes of your time. I do confirm my identity as Samuel Noi, the team structure has changed since when the project started. Howard Wang left the project in August and left for the U.S. to complete his studies and work there. Michael Sparmann has consulted for us and developed software for the 65nm interface and currently is in touch with me, awaiting for a chat with the new technical team. The ownership of the company will be passed from Mr. Tatti to me during the next month. Could you please give us your qualifications? It is the impression of your investors that Howard Wang was the 'brains' and he is now gone. Now that you have admitted to outsourcing the troubleshooting of your current hardware problems is it safe to assume that at this point the problems are unknown and we don't know if they will be resolved? Also, you've claimed to order 100k additional chips. This would imply that the problem isn't with the chips, rather with the boards. However, your initial estimates were 5GH/chip but subsequent updates mentioned 1.7GH/chip. Could you please give us technical details of the problems you are having and the steps you are taking to resolve them? I am not qualified in hardware development, i do have a general IT background and have managed several software development projects. We will try our best to reply all questions during the session tomorrow. Bye bye now.  |
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Just listen, thanks for sharing. |
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Haha, this is so funny, I'm going to buy some more shares just for the thrill.
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My government already does this for free, and provides a shooting gallery with nurses so they don't OD, and they prescribe heroin to the worst cases instead of methadone which doesn't work.
It eliminated millions of dollars in police/ambulance calls, cut HIV infections in half, and got 12,000 people off heroin permanenlty and now my streets aren't covered in used discarded needles because they go to Insite to shoot up. ~7 years ago you couldn't walk a block without navigating past piles of bloody needles it was pretty nasty.
Are you from the northern europe? |
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Thank you. |
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Yeah, you write too much, but I agree, when I wrote "male dominated" was not in the misogynistic way, because we are very pleased in seeing more women entering this field, they just don't get so attracted to it as men.
Before computer engineering I was in mechanical engineering, few women also.
Sorry  I'm an over-thinker. FTFY. |
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So if there is no consciousness or intelligence in the universe anywhere, circles don't exist? or the properties of them are different? That's very similar to the "if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?" Circles exist regardless of our intelligence or if there is an observer, its just a label and description that we have given them to quantify them to some degree. The proof of a circle still exists regardless, thus, no intelligence was needed to design it. If you draw a perfect circle, then measure its diameter, measure its circumference, divide circumference by diameter, you get PI, always.
There's no intelligent design there, it just IS, it's fact, it's math, a circle is defined as an 2d object where the diameter is the same measured from any edge to another passing through the center, no intelligence, no magic, just math.
Just as 1+1 = 2, no intelligence, it just is.
If these facts are true, and there are other facts that ring true regardless of circumstance, then you have solid building blocks for a complex system without design.
Whoa, slow down people! We take "1+1=2" for granted, but it's easy to forget the learning process that every child (or civilisation) goes through, that they start off in a world without numbers. It takes intelligence to imagine that there exists a "1" of something, and if that 1 exists "again", we can create the idea of "2" to represent "1 and 1", and so on. If nature somehow worked differently, presumably the maths deduced from it would also be different. So when you say "it just is" you skip the point that "1+1=2" is true because we made it that way. To me it seems that what we normally think of as maths, is deduced from whatever nature provides us with. Things are divisible? OK, so we have numbers. Things can be arranged in space? OK, so we have dimensions. Trouble is, that would make maths a subset of nature, and therefore it cannot fully describe everything about its superset. Hence the whole god / intelligent design / whatever she-bang. It could be said that our "inner being" that witnesses 1000s of different smells and sensations that simply can't be explained in terms of "microscopic Lego particles configured into Von Neumann machines", is the living embodiment of mathematical axioms: the things that are set to 'true' but can't be proven. Yap, that falls into solipsism, and that is the only thing I reject on faith. |
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It's all about computers and interwebs and programming and that stuff, this still is a male dominated sector, I studied computer/software engineering, something like 100 guys and less than 10 girls entered per year, I don't suppose that has changed...
Look at all the geek/nerd stuff out there, Linux, file-sharing, gaming, you don't see many girls.
Yes, it's all very male-dominant. I don't believe males are pushing women out of these circles either; most of them seem more than open to women. Of course you have the off bigot but for the most part they're more amazed a lady could be interested in such things than against it, so I think that can be ruled out. There are also scholarships open specifically to women by various organizations to get them into technology, so I don't think that's an issue either. My next guess would be societal norms; I can only speak for America, but it's a common (yet diminishing, especially if we look toward the younger generations) stereotype for ladies to be either subservient to men, or more interested in "womanly" work; fathers want to teach their sons leadership roles and such, but rather the mothers teach their daughters more subservient roles--after all, that's what they learned, and that's what they want to pass on. Most of the women I've known have had an incredible interest in nursing; this is strongly tied to empathetic responses to the injured and sick, where women are oft more empathetic toward animals and other people than men are. At the same time, jobs in technology are more "cold", and often not oriented in the pursuit to directly help people (at least, not in the same way being a nurse would; of course technology is helping us greatly, but it doesn't have that immediate response sensing personalities need to feel they're doing something well.) The biggest question I have here is whether or not this is something woven into female genetics, or something beaten out of males, or something nurtured in women--perhaps both. The existence of people who feel great empathetic responses to harming animals but give fuck-all when a person is killed seem to support this idea; if you can train a person to hate their own kind, is it possible to shape how empathetic a person can be while growing up? Is a person's personality set in stone the moment they are born, or is it something which is fashioned? Evidence seems to point to the former, unfortunately; a person who goes through great traumatic stress can still be a loving, caring person, and a person with a wonderful childhood can still be extremely ordered and authoritarian. Yeah, you write too much, but I agree, when I wrote "male dominated" was not in the misogynistic way, because we are very pleased in seeing more women entering this field, they just don't get so attracted to it as men. Before computer engineering I was in mechanical engineering, few women also. |
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Forget alex jones, but vpro is very real and potentially the mother of all rootkits. Undetectable by software, impossible to turn off. The Vpro controller has direct access to your hdd, keyboard, ram, and an attacker can indirectly gain access to all the rest, like camera and microphone. The possibilities are very scary.
But was the R&D financed by NSA or something like that, or are they spending millions for easy remote tech support? |
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I was discussing this some days ago with a guy that think we should work on understanding this. Femal adoption is a key to the road for mass adoption. It's not normal we cannot gain intrest of our wives to bitcoin topics  I'm going to try to get my female friends interested in Bitcoin. I think the biggest issue is that they don't see one of the major reasons why Bitcoin is great, being its freedom from centralized sources--they don't quite grasp why that matters, and any libertarian can tell you that liberty is a complete sausage fest. But this just presents one more mystery... My best guess is that it's due to INTPs and INTJs being male-dominated personalities, who just happen to find Bitcoin fascinating, while NFs see it more for its liberating properties, but NFs are all over the place in their beliefs--it's not until Bitcoin becomes much wider spread and usable in everyday life that the sensory personalities, which make up over half of all people, and slightly more women than men, will really consider Bitcoin at all. But who knows. It's a common stereotype that this forum is full of a bunch of nerds and nerdiness is another sausage fest  It's all about computers and interwebs and programming and that stuff, this still is a male dominated sector, I studied computer/software engineering, something like 100 guys and less than 10 girls entered per year, I don't suppose that has changed... Look at all the geek/nerd stuff out there, Linux, file-sharing, gaming, you don't see many girls. |
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It's not a secret chip, and it's not for spying. It's for remote administration and theft recovery. If you don't like it, just disable it, wrap it in tin foil, or don't buy it in the first place.
I'm also a little skeptic about its capabilities, haven't read a lot I confess, but the "even when the computer is off"... What kind of connectivity does it needs? What if I'm in the middle of the desert? I think they may be exaggerating, that seems really expensive tech, and in their market they need to be cheap... |
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C'mon, 99% of people here are guys...
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Oh, it was updated, nice! |
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