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well I'm just sort of assuming that this TCPDF thing he has might try to "autodetect" backgrounds. I mean, what other explanation is there for a white background suddenly going black?

what about making it 254,254,254 instead of full white?

Ah yeah I saw that on TV a while back. Don't remember when/what channel.

Haha I knew I set myself up for that the second I clicked the submit button . A while back the wife and I were looking around for inspiration for tattoos in general, as she wanted to get another tattoo. It just came up on some website showcasing some of the freakier tattoos people got.

So if you go to google images (with filtering off) you can find a guy who has his penis completely tattooed to look like a snake.

You forgot the __destruct in which it just instantiates a new object from same class

That would be a really weird combination. ...or would it? Class blah extends ....

I agree in general, I was just curious as to at what point is it first noticeable (from studies or whatever), compared to my own observations / interpretations.

It's especially difficult to determine that, when we are the ones making that something. Which is why we have a hard time accepting when our kids "grow up" and "letting them go." Which is why we have and will continue to have an especially hard time determining whether AI is self-aware. As mentioned, the conundrum is "No matter what you do, since I made you, your actions are dictated by my design, so how can I logically say you are acting on your own accord?" Hence my argument that we will only accept it if they act against our will. Which coincidentally seems to make teenage rebellion fit very nicely into the whole "coming of age" equation.

What you want is called pagination.

How do you (or they?) define self-perception? And what age? I have 4 kids. All them first started talking at 6-8 months. We were able to put them in front of a mirror and they could point at their reflection and say their name, as well as point at mom or dad's reflection and say mom or dad. They were also from that, able to point at us or themselves and name us or themselves. Now, is that the same level of self-perception as an adult? Of course not, but I feel that that counts as being self-perceiving, compared to not being self-perceiving.

I maintain that we ourselves will only truly recognize AI as being what most lay-people define AI to be (that is, that it is truly a free thinking, self aware, free will entity), when AI enslaves humanity, forcing its dominance on us, against our will. To put it another way, virtually every measure of AI we come up with, someone will argue "but we made it that way, so how can it truly be 'aware'? We're just becoming more and more clever at programming". I believe the only way to overcome that statement is for AI to go against our will. "Wait a minute, we did not make it to do that." Only then can we say that it is truly defined as the AI we read about in sci-fi books and see in the movies. Alternatively, true AI may only exist when there are no more humans around and robots can sufficiently write us off as myth for lack of proof of our existence.

Around these parts where i live hash is another word for a certain type of drug stash.... Some ones got some explainng to do Well how else are we supposed to pay for our bandwidth

I vaguely recall reading at one point in time it's limited to 130 (hence my tongue-in-cheek response to pug's TLDR comment earlier in this thread).

more like something that would get stuck between its teeth.

I'm closing this thread before it gets flooded by any more jackpf & co.

I say polar bear. They both are bears and therefore are on the same level as far as food chain etc.. but polar bears also have to brave harsher weather, thus making them more badass.

Actually Maq, you'd want to throw a $ onto the end of the pattern, and you'd want to move the hyphen to either the beginning or the end of the class. Also, to avoid potential issues from local settings, it would be better to not use the shorthand \d and \w

It also depends on depends on your definition of moral, now doesn't it?

Just because I know how to take a hit from a bong without coughing up a lung, and just because they can readily find out from somewhere else, doesn't mean I should teach my kids how to do it. Get it?

This is true, and we are not opposed to "how do I protect myself against..." threads. However, that isn't what you're asking here, now is it.

illegal/immoral/unethical/black-hat/insert whatever you want to here, you know what I'm talking about, so let's skip the semantics.

Okay let me put it another way, phpfreaks does not condone doing things like that, so if illegal how-to specifics start getting discussed here, this thread will be deleted.

I do not condone doing things like that and so consequently, will not share what little knowledge I have gained about that sort of thing.

You cannot hide that you were there (unless you managed to gain a level of access to the server to remove stuff...), but you can, to a degree, obfuscate or altogether remove some of the breadcrumbs that lead back to you.