[Carlhole]

The Next Hacking Frontier

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Wired', 'S')ome might question why anyone would want to hack into someone else’s brain, but the researchers say there’s a precedent for using computers to cause neurological harm. In November 2007 and March 2008, malicious programmers vandalized epilepsy support websites by putting up flashing animations, which caused seizures in some photo-sensitive patients.

“It happened on two separate occasions,” said computer science graduate student Tamara Denning, a co-author on the paper. “It’s evidence that people will be malicious and try to compromise peoples’ health using computers, especially if neural devices become more widespread.”

In some cases, patients might even want to hack into their own neural device. Unlike devices to control prosthetic limbs, which still use wires, many deep brain stimulators already rely on wireless signals. Hacking into these devices could enable patients to “self-prescribe” elevated moods or pain relief by increasing the activity of the brain’s reward centers.

[ian807]

Anyone hacking my brain is going be sadly disappointed.

[mrobert]

Hacking into people's brain, would revolutionize the porn industry.

[vision-master]

People brains are already hacked into, it called TV.

[lowem]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'P')eople brains are already hacked into, it called TV.

[bodigami]

my mind is unhackable, it has walls of the 5 elements (including emptyness... lol, that one confuse my enemies most of da time)... that could be 8 (star of lakshmi + dharma shakra)

[paimei01]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... =dumb+down
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hile parents, schools, provinces and states across North America bicker about the democratic process of running public schools, forces are manipulating education from behind the scenes. Major international players are reshaping public education to suit their own self-serving agendas, without regard for the wants of parents and the welfare of their children. This video lecture documents how today's educational system dumb down kids deliberately, making zombie-like people who don't ask any questions but just follow orders

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('paimei01', '(')...)

Wouldn't it be better to somehow condition people from childhood to accept, and even to desire, work that was partial, trivial, mechanical, dull, repetitive, and unchallenging to thought or creativity?

Is this description already reminding you of school? Where learning arises not from curiosity but from authority's agenda; where achievement is adjudged by external standards; where human beings, like so many objects, are numbered, "class"ified, and "graded"; where knowledge is reduced to answers, right and wrong; where children are confined to a classroom or desk except when authority allows them "recess" or a pass; where problems are solved by following teacher's instructions; where free speech and free assembly are suspended—where, indeed, there are no freedoms at all but only privileges; where bells condition us to follow a regular external schedule; where fraternization is surreptitious (as my teacher once said, "You are not here to socialize!"); where none outside the hierarchical structure of authority have the power to make or change rules; where we must accept the tasks given us; where work is arbitrary and meaningless except for what external reward it brings; where resistance is proved futile in the face of a near-omniscient, omnipotent central authority. . . what better preparation for adult confinement to offices and factories could there be?

[AgentR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') find I can only access early 19th century literature with a great effort at concentration. My attention wanders, I lose the train of the argument, and soon find myself passing my eyeballs over the page, uncomprehendingly..

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') find I can only access early 19th century literature with a great effort at concentration. My attention wanders, I lose the train of the argument, and soon find myself passing my eyeballs over the page, uncomprehendingly..

[lowem]

Actually, a lot of this brain-hacking stuff has been looked at in anime such as Ghost in the Shell, they've got about 2 movies and 2 seasons of TV series going over the years. Of course that's assuming that we do reach such a level of technological sophistication.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lowem', 'A')ctually, a lot of this brain-hacking stuff has been looked at in anime such as Ghost in the Shell, they've got about 2 movies and 2 seasons of TV series going over the years. Of course that's assuming that we do reach such a level of technological sophistication.

[vision-master]

Fibonacci Numbers and Computer Algorithms

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')The Fibonacci Sequence describes a vast array of phenomena from nature. Computer scientists have discovered and used many algorithms which can be classified as applications of Fibonacci's sequence. In this article, several of these applications are considered. (PK)