Topic: Monkeys, implants, and computers
started by: Jynx
Posted by Jynx on Mar. 15 2002,22:26
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21153-2002Mar13.htmlCyborg Monkeys. Cooooooool
On a more serious note, think about what this means we really may have in five or ten years - sci-fi writers really ARE prophets, apparently. Should we let this technology evolve by itself? Do you think it requires some sort of oversight, or even intercession?
Discuss - the possibilities of this technology that is right here, right now, are staggering, exhilirating.....and frightening.
Posted by Vigilante on Mar. 15 2002,22:34
Controlling computers with our minds is a good thing. Hopefully I'll avoid an RSI until I can get implanted.
Posted by editor on Mar. 16 2002,00:10
Oh there's all sorts of things;Gamers who can play faster than anyone else with their implants;
Who go through metal detectors and get killed...
Or step down 110 volts and become addicted to pleasure...
People who don't think *enough* before they OOPS!...
The FBI learning how to bug implants...
on and on
Posted by Uberkommando on Mar. 16 2002,00:47
Ooh, a new weapon. Monkies that are controlled by a joystick in a command vehicle... He he he... Now I have this great mental image of monkey with antennae coming out of its ears, wearing fatigues, throwing hand grenades and feces... He he he...
Posted by ic0n0 on Mar. 16 2002,00:58
| Quote (Vigilante @ 15 Mar. 2002,08:34) |
| Controlling computers with our minds is a good thing. Hopefully I'll avoid an RSI until I can get implanted. |
So long as it is not using a windows operating system, blue screen of death!
Posted by editor on Mar. 16 2002,02:45
YES!Ic0n0 I should have thought of that! BSD takes on a whole new meaning!
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 16 2002,03:07
BSOD'ing would suck ass. You're in the middle of fucking, you're bodies at full load, and boom: System Crash. Be like a old guy getting a heart attack from it.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 16 2002,07:59
which is why you don't run windows. you should run a special embedded kernel, doing just what the implants need. do DSL modems crash? Do sound cards? no. because they are purpose built.or, you should just run Linux.
I AM TEH R337! I GET 1415326.53 BOOGOMPIS! LUNIX OWNS YUO!
Posted by BlackFlag on Mar. 16 2002,15:09
Scariest prospects of the future of neural implants:Free implants that you pay for by letting apps run in the background of your conciousness.
Imaging porn popups that won't go away when you close your eyes.
Computer viruses that can infect your mind.
Intell or AMD patenting the human mind.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 16 2002,19:54
| Quote (BlackFlag @ 16 Mar. 2002,07:09) |
| Scariest prospects of the future of neural implants: Free implants that you pay for by letting apps run in the background of your conciousness. Imaging porn popups that won't go away when you close your eyes. Computer viruses that can infect your mind. Intell or AMD patenting the human mind. |
easy solution: Linux. no popups, because you can just go root and delete the popup engine, kill -9 the bg processes, viri won't infect you, because there are no *nix viri, and the brain is Prior Art.
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 16 2002,21:37
there are such thing as linux virii, but they're extremely rare you and you have to be a idiot to be infected by it. Like you, cannibal.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 17 2002,00:54
Now die, SpyDir!*gets out lightsaber*
Woarown... Kshhhhhhzzzt... Woanrownroowrow... Ptooo! Kshhhhhhkawow.. Rownoarorrrr!
Posted by editor on Mar. 17 2002,01:19
Ed. was going to defend Mr Bob from the Spydir, but I like both these guys, and I figured Bob could take care of himself. 
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 17 2002,04:23
why do you keep putting a capital d in it? Where do you see a D? I don't see a D in my name. I see a d, but not a D.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 17 2002,05:48
() / \ ()[ ] [ ]
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^--- you
^---- me -- "now it is time for you to die, young jedi."
*Woarown... Kshhhhhhzzzt... Woanrownroowrow... Ptooo! Kshhhhhhkawow.. Rownoarorrrr!*
() \()/
[ ] --=
|| ||
() /
[ ] _
|| || |=O <-- you: AAGH! I'm dead! not only Cannibal is better than I, but he has a bigger peen too!
^------ me: you are no mach for the force, young one. Thank you, don't come again.
Narrator: And thus, Spydir lost the fight, and all of the universe was made into cannibal's bitch. forever.
the end.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 17 2002,05:51
Damn, I love happy endings 
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 17 2002,17:15
that would hurt my feelings... but... this is the internet, and you're just another kid who's entire life revolves around their relationships on IRC and AIM chat room. You make yourself feel better by putting people on the internet down, by using something you call a "dildo cannon" (which speaks of your sexuality greatly), and there's no real point in retaliating. In 35-40 years you'll be living with your parents with posters of whatever new popstar is out there (to take over for spears), you'll have 3 computers, one for masturbating to pictures one for videos and another to hold all your kiddie porn, and you'll still be "beating up" on people you don't know over IRC, or whatever chat protocol takes over for it.so yeah. fuck off, fagboy
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 17 2002,23:15
Spy: usually I try'n ignore the bait, but you're not an op/moderator/admin here, so....1: You'll have to remember, I'm a year older than you are. you have no place calling me a kid. respect your elders damnit
2: I'm secure in my sexuality, I have no need to go around calling ppl fags. no, I am not gay, but no, I'm not homophobic, either. (hey, I mean, I talk to you, don't I?)
3: Are you sure you're not forecasting your own future? I don't like pop stars.
4: I'll have 5 computers, kthx, 1 for porn storage, (not kiddie porn, that's just sick) 1 webserver, and the others for misc tasks.
5: so you would rather I kicked you from IRC? okay...
--canni
<edit: spelling>
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 18 2002,01:02
see, the funny thing is, I don't have to be ops here to still know you're a sad child. And, in all respects, I can call you a child no matter how many months older then me you are. Why? You prove to be nothing more then a mere child. Your actions of childish antics, namely of using silly fake "light sabre" sounds and such things as your "YEAH! WEll <^>(0_o)<^> FUCK YOU TOO" just proves you are immature and unruly. Now, usually I wouldn't find it in my nature to stoop to your level, but...I'm gonna reprogram my /kcanni alias in if you don't shut your word hole, assclown
Posted by WillyPete on Mar. 18 2002,14:08
| Quote (Bob_the_Cannibal @ 17 Mar. 2002,15:15) |
| ...I have no need to go around calling ppl fags. no, I am not gay, but no, I'm not homophobic, either. (hey, I mean, I talk to you, don't I?)... |
Isn't it funny how closely Irony's scent resembles that of Bullshit.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 18 2002,23:51
| Quote (Spydir @ 17 Mar. 2002,17:02) |
| Your actions of childish antics, namely of using silly fake "light sabre" sounds and such things as your "YEAH! WEll <^>(0_o)<^> FUCK YOU TOO" |
...So you're calling kl1nk childish, too, eh... now, linky, I can understand, but I wouldn't go around calling the bot owner childish...
Besides, what's wrong with being lame sometimes? I mean, you have your moments...
Posted by editor on Mar. 18 2002,23:59
Lord knows I'm a l4m3r sometimes...OK, most of the time.
Posted by Bob_the_Cannibal on Mar. 19 2002,05:11
my, we're way offtopic today, aren't we.
Posted by editor on Mar. 19 2002,05:39
and your post was on-topic?There is some merit to staying on topic, but as long as the thread is alive and not being "excessively silly" or mean, I say, "go for it"!
It seems that most all threads start to devolve in short order!
I've taken to posting on another forum just so that you all don't get overly sick of my cat-avatar....
I'll let them get sick of it!
Posted by PersonGuy on Mar. 19 2002,06:09
My ass is remote controlled. The super compter AI that runs it has a cumulative learning engine.Is that on topic?
Posted by editor on Mar. 19 2002,07:23
If you really like to talk about your ass in public, be my guest. I pay a flat fee for hosting.
Posted by Jynx on Mar. 19 2002,19:20
I would like to personally thank Spydir and Bob for trashing what could've been a halfway interesting thread.Now I understand, I mean really understand, what the Senior Lounge was set up for.
Posted by Spydir on Mar. 19 2002,19:53
and understand what it truely is to be bitched at by someone who doesn't get it.Live with it. This is detnet. Name one thread that actually was on topic through it's entire existence, excluding the one where forum nazis came in and started bitching about. Like you're doing. Wow. What a shocker, not one...
that's life man. Learn to deal with it or quit chur bitchin'
