Trayvon Martin Case

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Originally Posted by RedskinRat

OK, so your answer should have been "no". Thanks.

My answer was just as I stated it. And yes, I know what a qubit is.

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

You said "A computer only does what the programmer and or end user tells it to do. This is fact. A computer cannot think for itself. It must follow a list of commands." which logically means that means that you mistrust programmers or computer operators to do their job or you want computers to think for themselves (which is where things are heading). Say hello to Skynet!

It means exactly the way I stated it. It doesn't need further interpretation by you.

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

I am trying to create an infallible system.

You might want to learn how to write programs first. Might I suggest starting off with Visual Basic?<tic>

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Because you say not? We already have kids at home creating viruses that self correct, why not apply the same efforts to a judicial system that corrects its decisions?

Again, you're not understanding my simple statement that a computer follows a list of commands that a programmer gives it. If the computer decided "I'm not going to listen to that program anymore, I'm going to do my own thing" then the computer doing it's own thing is going to come from somebody, somewhere giving it a list of commands to do just that.

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

The programming and database work could become self-correcting. A Judicial committee would be useful.

Yeah but the judicial committee is going to be made up of humans so there goes that theory.

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Is that because you say so or because that's what you think? Doesn't matter. Computers can be programmed to do more than you are apparently aware of.

Re-read what I have in bold. "Computers can be programmed". You just said it yourself. Which is what I have been trying to tell you for the past couple of hours when I should be doing my work. Computers are told what to do at all times by the programs that programmers have created. You have just now agreed with me. Thank God! Oh, sorry, I mean, thank Science!