i find it interesting that our country is really only recently thinking about ethical and social issues revolving around artificial intelligence in science and pop culture. battlestar galactica and the upcoming caprica are recent examples of america coming to terms with realistic artificial intelligence scenarios. before that, what, the terminator? japan has been thinking about… Continue reading robot ethics
Category: asides
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House – NYTimes.com
Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House – NYTimes.com.
fix the broken music industry, revisited
Upstart Blogger restates some ideas I’ve been blogging about for a while. The question is, will anyone listen? Now is the time to force the music industry to change.
packaging…fail…
aargh!
the sincere idiocy of some people truly astounds me sometimes.
wifi encryption lifehack
random thought: if i had a wifi router but disabled dhcp, theoretically you could almost disable any kind of encryption or wireless security with the theory that most people wouldn’t be smart enough to know how to hard-code their ip address to connect to your unsecure network to connect to the internet.
cancel that
nope, that didn’t work :/
network troubleshooting
got a brilliant idea from this post on dslreports that may solve my network lag issues…
asides
being able to post asides, and do so directly from the dashboard is going to seriously influence how i keep my blog updated and how often i post…
wp-o-matic trick
discovered a trick about wp-o-matic as i was building the new site. for wp-o-matic to work and not lag, you need to set up a cron job. but said cron job doesn’t *necessarily* need to happen on the host server. so, if you have a server that allows cron jobs (which i do, at home)… Continue reading wp-o-matic trick