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While I agree that it does seem kind of lame that a show titled "BattleBots" featured no actual robots, I highly doubt that a show featuring autonomous bots would actually be interesting to watch.

To borrow a quote from bash.org, all you'd end up watching are robots that "collect data about the surrounding environment, then discard it and drive into walls."

But even assuming that the AI could match the human-controlled bots, it wouldn't make it any more interesting. Instead of watching a bunch of human-controlled wedges attempt to flip each other over, you'd be watching a bunch of computer-controlled wedges attempting to flip each other over. Intellectually more interesting, I suppose, but really no more fun.

The real problem with BattleBots is that it's just boring. I don't want to watch a bunch of robots attempt to score points on each other and then watch the judges declare one the winner, I want to watch robots destroy each other. In BattleBots, the destruction was generally limited to "something's bent and it no longer moves."

I doubt BattleBots will ever really be all that interesting. Ultimately it's going to remain a bunch of bots hitting each other until one craps out or time runs out.

Hopefully I'm wrong and ESPN will surprise me, but BattleBots strikes me as one of those concepts that sounds like fun to watch but proves not to be, regardless of what actually controls the bots.

No, actually, it's hunter2.

http://bash.org/?244321

Is this the appropriate time for a certain bash quote:

<ColdRage687> i used to think the brain was the most fascinating part of the body
<ColdRage687> but then i realized
<ColdRage687> pssssh
<ColdRage687> look whats telling me that

At least you didn't have this guy's experience. I guess in some cases you literally 'sign your soul away' in those EULA's.

Although someone replied to you that I was Zonk's sock puppet, I have no link to any of the Slashdot editors as far as I know.

Yeah, but only in the metaphorical.

Reminds me of a joke at bash.org. Preemptive action against the "enemy" really.

That idea always tickled me, as did the idea of taping the prepaid envelopes to bricks and posting them.

http://www.bash.org/?127039 for another good one.

Our hearts go out to the 2,472 victims of the internet fraud.

(http://www.bash.org/?434593)

it's called 360 because of the trip it takes
from microsoft, to you, back to microsoft, to you again

http://bash.org/?806949

What could possibly be more black than #000000?

Yeah, disproven. There is no God. Religion is full of shit.

Great! Where's your counter-argument? If it's so thoroughly "disproven", this should be easy...

See, the problem is that there is no one definition of God. There are plenty I can disprove out of hand as internally inconsistent, but most people do not have a clearly defined God that they believe in.

Life is itself a problem-solving system, you'd think that we'd have abandoned a tool that's become as useless as religion, using Science instead!

You must be very lonely.

Science absolutely does not solve everything.

Of course, having fun and falling in love don't require religion, or any particular belief.

"Teaches us great MORALS..." ... just like Lot and his daughters. Or Noah who expels one of his sons who's seen him drunk. Two of the most evident...

That's all you've got?

Just look up the Laws, in particular what it says about rape. I'll admit there are a lot of morons out there who claim to believe the entire Bible, yet obviously have not read it.

Or Allah uh-akbar, let's go kill them all, God's with us, Blut und Ehre, and shit. Religion includes memes of the sort that gets the warriors jumping up and down, screaming "KILL! KILL!", when resources go down and people need to die to make room in the ecological niche.

You know, the Koran goes on for pages and pages about how merciful Allah is. Jesus says "love your neighbor as yourself". At a certain point, it is hard to say whether the Jihadist or the pacifist is a perversion of their religion, but both are founded in Scripture.

There are some religious people who do horrible things because of their religion -- the Crusades, terrorism, etc. And there are some good people who do good things because of their religion -- Martin Luther King, Gandhi, etc. And there are atheists who do horrible things anyway -- Stalin, China, etc.

All of which makes it very hard to argue for or against religion based on what the religious do.

Add to the above the fact that religion is generally useful to control people and that explains why we haven't waked up yet.

Science can control people just as easily.

You could say that's bad science, sure. And I can say that anyone using God to tell other people what to do is practicing bad religion. The only difference is that science is defined clearly enough that your claim is actually true.

So, creation of the world - check. The origin of war and the link to religion - check.

Haven't seen either of those. There's your possibly-accurate description of the origin of war, but no mention of how that's at all relevant to religion.

Now, as to why there should be dialog with religious figures?

Because as long as the scientists don't put an asshat like you up there, we should be able to show, calmly and rationally, why science deserves to be taken seriously, and why the Pope does not (if, indeed, he does not).

I'm not gonna kill them, but I'm also not a fan of safety labels on everything. I will laugh at people who die of their own stupidity, and hope other people learn to not be as stupid. I think despair.com said it best.

Two oblig python links:

Python @ xkcd

and

Python @ Bash.org

HHSSSHSHSSS

Give him a break - he was probably reading bash ;)

i think the parent was refferring to this: http://bash.org/?5775

You can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2

[for those that have no idea what we're talking about: http://bash.org/?244321]

The agreement will allow rentals of Fox's latest DVD releases by downloading a copy from the online iTunes store for a limited time, the Financial Times said.

One can't rent digital data because an integral part of renting something is returning it at the end of the rental period. Some people get this, and some people don't: http://www.bash.org/?104052 (warning: language).

Yes, I know they mean DRM. This is slashdot, so nobody has to be reminded that DRM is impossible.

Maybe he was referencing this.

Meh. It's been done.

Meh. It's been done.

Well, it may be a typo, but the keys are like right next to each other.

http://bash.org/?3936

Okay then. "that's no moon... that's a BATTLESTATION!!!"

view a series of inkblots and write down the first and last letters of whatever word they associate with each inkblot. Then they combine the letters to form a password.

I got ********.

It could be worse...

Our nicks on IRC provide a level of anonymity, and we know that actual people do keep logs of us. Many of our quotes even end up on http://www.bash.org./ I go onto IRC knowing that my conversation is not necessarily private, and if I ever wanted to discuss private details of myself to someone on IRC, I could simple private message him. I could even set up a private room if I have to discuss private matters to a group of people. I don't know why I'd discuss private issues with those on IRC, but some people may for whatever reasons. It's silly to expect privacy on IRC. Never say anything in public that you don't want to come back at you. If anything, just set up a passworded channel if you're planning a violent revolution.

http://bash.org/?902

psxfaQ: -- eating spam
e l i t e m r p: id do that but it wastes too much printer paper

For the uninitiated, teh funny parent referenced: http://www.bash.org/?104383

The password was hunter2?

I read this years ago and still find it hilarious:
http://bash.org/?4281

http://bash.org/?813975

I'm not the only one that thinks vista is terrible.

I prefer http://bash.org/?35955

I prefer http://bash.org/?5300

Obligatory.

why would people be required to train it? Surely http://bash.org/?latest is all the filter needs as input?

I used to get in trouble at work for playing multiplayer notepad.

Known more commonly as IRC.

http://bash.org/?7565

Brian Laptop: myspace is like the vegas of the internet.... a lot of people want to go but no one wants to admit what happens when they're there
from bash

Why do you think it's called a ... trojan?

http://www.bash.org/?5489

<AgentSmith> It seems you have been leading two lives, Mr. Anderson. In one life, you are Robert Anderson, assistant cook at a Jack in the Box in Mesquite....in the other...you go by the chat alias "Randerson"...spreading homosexual propoganda, lying, and being a generally immature pest...
<AgentSmith> One of these...has a future.
<Randerson> LMAO OMFG where's the phone, I have to tell Dean about this
<AgentSmith> How can you use the phone when you cannot...speak?
*** AgentSmith sets mode: +m

Couldn't resist...

AgentSmith: It seems you have been leading two lives, Mr. Anderson. In one life, you are Robert Anderson, assistant cook at a Jack in the Box in Mesquite....in the other...you go by the chat alias "Randerson"...spreading homosexual propoganda, lying, and being a generally immature pest...
AgentSmith: One of these...has a future.
Randerson: LMAO OMFG where's the phone, I have to tell Dean about this
AgentSmith: How can you use the phone when you cannot...speak?
*** AgentSmith sets mode: +m

Maybe this is the same guy?

YOU ALL SUCK DICK
<tatclass> er.
<tatclass> hi.
<andy\code> A common typo.
<tatclass> the keys are like right next to each other.

http://bash.org/?5300

No, I'm not the parent poster.