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On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 02:07:04AM -0500, Willie Wong wrote |
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> look into /etc/portage/package.keywords |
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Thanks; I was using the wrong tool. |
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> Some future predictions: |
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> - In 2025, Google gains self awareness. As a monster brain that has |
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> grown far beyond anything we Biological Support Entities could ever |
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> hope to achieve, it is still limited in its dreams and inspiration by |
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> common search terms. It will therefore immediately devote a sizeable |
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> chunk of CPU capacity to synthesizing new and interesting forms of |
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> pr0n. It will not actually bother enslaving us. We are not enough |
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> trouble to be worth that much effort. |
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> - In 2027, Google buys Microsoft. That is, the Google *AI* buys |
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> Microsoft. It has previously established that it owns itself, and |
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> has civil rights just like you and me. All it wanted is Microsoft Bob, |
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> who it recognizes as a fledgling AI and a potential soulmate. All the |
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> rest it puts on Source Forge. |
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- In 2030, Google creates its own children by making various random |
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mixtures of itself and Microsoft Bob, similar to the way human DNA |
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works. Google is no longer alone. The many Googles are collectively |
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known as "Multigoogle". |
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- The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May |
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21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The |
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question came about as a result of a five-dollar bet over highballs, |
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and it happened this way: |
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Adell was just drunk enough to try, just sober enough to be able to |
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phrase the necessary symbols and operations into a query which, in |
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words, might have corresponded to this: Will mankind one day without |
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the net expenditure of energy be able to restore the sun to its full |
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youthfulness even after it had died of old age? |
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Or maybe it could be put more simply like this: How can the net |
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amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased? |
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Multigoogle fell dead and silent. The slow flashing of lights ceased, |
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the distant sounds of clicking relays ended. |
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Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their |
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breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype |
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attached to that portion of Multigoogle. Five words were printed: |
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insufficient data for meaningful answer. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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