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Marc Clifton wrote: finding another habitable planet
Wait. What?
I believe scientists don't believe we have a habitable planet in our solar system, right? Well, maybe Mars...but it sounds like Hawking is saying "find" so we already know of Mars so...
How close is the next solar system?
Is it the alpha-centauri system?
And even within those systems scientists haven't found expected habitable ones and they are so far away we cannot travel to them. So, I'm really not getting Hawking's meaning on "finding a habitable planet".
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raddevus wrote: "finding a habitable planet".
Perhaps there is one hiding behind Neptune that we haven't found yet. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You mean, you didn't go for the entire joke...
...mabye Hawking will find one behind Uranus.
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One you stop hearing from me, you have 7 years left.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Preferably to a planet without an atmosphere.
what for?`to allow them to make a colony like in "total recall" (the old one of course)
But yes... I agree with you, the biggest problem / danger for mankind is the man itself.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Not quite 1000 thousand years, cuz they say three thousand zero zero party over, Oops out of time!
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I have every intention of living 1001 or more years yet. Just waiting for nanotechnology to catch up and the spiritual sciences to work their magick.
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We can shorten that time if we try harder.
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The team designed an algorithm that learns directly from human instructions, rather than an existing set of examples, and outperformed conventional methods of training neural networks by 160 per cent. Hopefully it will only use its hair detection skills for good
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Now all we need are good pair of scissors. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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As a living intelligence, I wasn't "detecting" her hair.
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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It has predicted humanity has 1000 years.
In other news, Stephen Hawking's voice generator has reportedly been hacked....
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The perils of leaving computers unattended just got worse, thanks to a newly released exploit tool that takes only 30 seconds to install a privacy-invading backdoor, even when the machine is locked with a strong password. Pass the epoxy, please
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Farsad built a chemical texting system that communicates through pulses of glass cleaner and vinegar. The chemical messages I give are, 'Leave my cubicle now'
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I'm sorry, but that is sooo stupid. Really? Using a pump to drive acid and base chemicals to a pH sensor? Wow, now that's ROCKET SCIENCE!
In his vodka messaging machine, the signal would build up to the point that the receiving end was too saturated with vodka to receive more messages.
In other words, his sensor passed out? 
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Smoke signals are kind of an established technology...
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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A new program called Shuffler tries to preempt attacks by allowing programs to continuously scramble their code as they run, effectively closing the window of opportunity for an attack. "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards"
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Microsoft’s announcement that it was bringing its flagship SQL Server database software to Linux came as a major surprise when the company first announced this in March. Until now, the preview was invite-only, but as Microsoft announced today, anybody who wants to give it a try can now download the bits. SELECT wit FROM sys_comments; 0 rows returned.
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I think I just realized what is going on. Microsoft is bailing on Windows by moving everything over to Linux. The truth of that statement will be verified when Microsoft announces, probably within a year or two at most, that it has ported the Windows desktop to Linux. And when you think about it, getting Visual Studio to run natively on a Mac is also probably one step closer to getting VS to run on Linux.
Conversely, Microsoft might be trying to consume Linux (sort of like the snake eating its tail) - there are signs of that too -- the Linux Bash Shell running on Windows, for example -- and porting its flagship product to Linux, along with C#/.NET, ASP.NET, etc., is an interesting way of getting Linux devs to start using Microsoft tech, but I prefer the former crystal ball prediction.
Marc
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Conversely, Microsoft might be trying to consume Linux (sort of like the snake eating its tail) - there are signs of that too -- the Linux Bash Shell running on Windows, for example -- and porting its flagship product to Linux, along with C#/.NET, ASP.NET, etc.,
I hope they get such a mess, that they stop being dumb and start concentrating in doing less but right.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't see them ceding the OS kernel to Torvald; it just doesn't sound feasible.
I'm more inclined to suspect that they see where server operations has been leaning for the last few years and want to get ahead of the market.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks. I blame the computers
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Thank goodness - as were the numbers otherwise, nobody would employ someone as scruffy, odd and obsequious as me.
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