It got out of control and they had to wait for it to run out of ammo to manually disable it. But that's just off the top of my head, no sources to quote
Sounds a bit too anecdotal. The Navy does have Phalanx anti-aircraft systems that are for close range defense. The Phalanx is radar guided and tracks its own bullet stream to correct its aim. It shoots something like 4,500 20mm rounds per minute. Even if it went nuts, you wouldn't have to wait long for it to run out of ammo, it only carries 1,500 rounds. here's a link to the site I got my info from.
So, your big solution to the question of hacking is to give the robots Artificial Intelligence? OK, seems practical and [sarcasm]ooooohhh sooooo simple, why hasn't anybody thought of this already?!?![/sarcasm]
I think a better solution would be to arm the robots with magic amulets that prevent hackers from taking control of them. In the short run, it seems like a more practical solution.
You know, I consider myself a geek and I feel at home at Slashdot until they go and post something like this. Shouldn't this be on a website dedicated to anime news?
Last I checked, Slashdot was "News for Nerds". Isn't this "News for Nerds"?
I wasn't advocating doing nothing - I was advocating trying something other than censorware.
What else could attempt to keep children out of porn sites? Supervising their access is the only option I can think of, and that's going to be more expensive than censorware. I suppose you could put up signs stating that children aren't allowed to access porn, but depending on local laws, that might not be good enough.
From the article: "Linux is out there and people are using it, but it is mostly because of the cool factor," he [Peter Firstbrook] says. "Having somebody who can screw around with my operating system would make me very, very nervous," he says.
I concur, letting Bill Gates and his crew of morons screw around with windows is a very bad thing and I wouldn't trust an OS like that, not for a second. Thank god you can read the source code of Linux to find out exactly what's going on. It's great having an OS where the question of whether or not can trust the manufacturer is not even an issue.
This hypothetical situation is of no signifcance whatsoever (other than proving ones self-righteousness in a condescending, sarcastic, ineffectual manner). There is no legal obligation for a proprietor to keep these words from being viewed by children. Porn is another story completely.
This whole question all falls back to one thing: Legal Liability. It's not about protecting the children, it's about showing a good faith effort to abide by the laws that exist in order to avoid lawsuits, plain and simple.
it has been quite adequately demonstrated that censorware can't and won't work.
I agree, but as a company that's providing public unsupervised internet access, you have to show that you're at least making an effort to protect underaged children from smut. That's why they put those plastic boards in front of the nudie mags at 7-11.
By not doing anything, you open yourself to a wide range of frivolous, sefl-serving lawsuits.
Yeah, I always by the machine with the most original name, because it says so much about it. It's not like the name is a marketing tool, completely irrelevant to all but the most foolish/ignorant consumers.
An original name says almost as much about a machine as the color and translucency of the plastic in the case.
Intel scheduled price reductions about every 4 months, before AMD became a real competitor. They were acting in a very non-monopolist manner. Unlike Microsoft, they weren't buying their competitors and dismantling them, and they weren't suing their potential competitors into submission. Being a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing monopoly power is.
When they did testing in the early 80's, it was found that people got confused, the more mouse buttons there were. Thus, the one button mouse.
Do you have an corroboration for this? It sounds anecdotal. I'm not saying you're lying, I'm just asking for a good source of Apple info from the early 80's.
... that dual processor G4 is all the news, baby. For the first time EVER I find myself licking my chops looking at a Macintosh. It's the end of a bitter era, friends. I swore I would never again swoon over an Apple product when Steve "I-put-the-capital-E-in-Egomania" Jobs killed the Newton, leaving so many of us high and dry. Apparently I was wrong. I was impressed with the G4's but this SMP model is what might actually get me to cough up the dough and buy one. Ego or no, good show Jobs.
(Of course the first thing I'd do is put Linux on it... MacOS just isnt' my thang)
...to give Apple a taste of it's own medicine. It'd crack me up if they came out with a cube-shaped computer and Cobalt sued using the very same justification that Apple uses to go after everyone who comes out with an all-in-one computer.
Morse code is posibly the least inuitive interface ever devised in the history of communication. People whine constantly about how hard Graffiti is to learn on the Palm and it's worlds easier to learn/use than Morse code. I think that putting morse on a cell wouldn't work for this very reason, although it would be cool to have a cell phone that had a big red button like those cheap walktie-talkies I used to play with when I was a kid (particularly if it made teh loud beeping noise on the phone like the walki-talkies did...).
RTFXS (Read the f*cking Xprize specs) They specify that the craft has to carry 3 people and has to repeat the trip within 2 weeks. The whole point of the Xprize is to spur competition to build a single stage to orbit craft that can be used to send tourists to space.
Technically, the space shuttle is re-usable, but it costs a buttload to launch each time because of the high costs of the expendable elements. The point of the Xprize is to make a vehicle that can be re-fuelled and sent back up with minor maintenance. Such a vehicle could be made into a profitable enterprise the week after someone wins the contest (theoretically).
RTFXS and you'll see that this guy doesn't really stand much of a chance with his multi-stage, one seater rocket.
The X prize is pretty specific about the vehicle needing to be reusable as well. This design doesn't seen to meet the criteria. That contest is to promote sapce tourism, mostly.
20% of the comments here express concern that the rocket is going to veer off course and land in either the guy's neighborhood, Kansas or some third world country.
Obviously, ya'll have never been to Steens Mountain. That part of Oregon has a population density about half of what the Gobi Desert has.
Even with an MP 2100's 2.5 megs there isn't enough storage space. Apples genius in using a non standard format for its memory cards makes finding compatible cards large enough for even a tiny disto impossible.
"The BBC is reporting that GRO has reentered the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean, as predicted." So just what is the space equivalent of Davy Jones' Locker?
We are all made of material that pre-dates the formation of the Solar System. (most) All the heavy particles every made were ejected from a Super Nova. That's how heavy elements are made. Everything on our planet (other than a small amount of Reactor Ort and some bits created in particle accelerators) is made of Star Dust.
Just like the stank hippy said," We are Stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon".
How would moving to South Africa solve the problems associated with copyright infringement? South Africa has agreements to protect the copyrights of American companies, otherwise ya'll wouldn't be able to buy your Brittney Spears albums or go see _Battlefield_Earth_ at the theater (when it's released there, that is).
It seems like you'd be banking on teh fact that they'd never get around to prosecuting. Well, in my experience, money changes everything. I think that if MS were sufficiently pissed, a few well placed "political" contributions and the South African Justice system would get its ducks in a row enough to prosecute an enemy of Dollar Bill's. It's not like they'd be asking the government to do anything illegal.
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It got out of control and they had to wait for it to run out of ammo to manually disable it. But that's just off the top of my head, no sources to quote
Sounds a bit too anecdotal. The Navy does have Phalanx anti-aircraft systems that are for close range defense. The Phalanx is radar guided and tracks its own bullet stream to correct its aim. It shoots something like 4,500 20mm rounds per minute. Even if it went nuts, you wouldn't have to wait long for it to run out of ammo, it only carries 1,500 rounds. here's a link to the site I got my info from.
So, your big solution to the question of hacking is to give the robots Artificial Intelligence? OK, seems practical and [sarcasm]ooooohhh sooooo simple, why hasn't anybody thought of this already?!?![/sarcasm]
I think a better solution would be to arm the robots with magic amulets that prevent hackers from taking control of them. In the short run, it seems like a more practical solution.
You know, I consider myself a geek and I feel at home at Slashdot until they go and post something like this. Shouldn't this be on a website dedicated to anime news?
Last I checked, Slashdot was "News for Nerds". Isn't this "News for Nerds"?
I wasn't advocating doing nothing - I was advocating trying something other than censorware.
What else could attempt to keep children out of porn sites? Supervising their access is the only option I can think of, and that's going to be more expensive than censorware. I suppose you could put up signs stating that children aren't allowed to access porn, but depending on local laws, that might not be good enough.
From the article:
"Linux is out there and people are using it, but it is mostly because of the cool factor," he [Peter Firstbrook] says. "Having somebody who can screw around with my operating system would make me very, very nervous," he says.
I concur, letting Bill Gates and his crew of morons screw around with windows is a very bad thing and I wouldn't trust an OS like that, not for a second. Thank god you can read the source code of Linux to find out exactly what's going on. It's great having an OS where the question of whether or not can trust the manufacturer is not even an issue.
GOD DOES NOT EXIST
Or worse,
SANTA CLAUS DOES NOT EXIST
This hypothetical situation is of no signifcance whatsoever (other than proving ones self-righteousness in a condescending, sarcastic, ineffectual manner). There is no legal obligation for a proprietor to keep these words from being viewed by children. Porn is another story completely.
This whole question all falls back to one thing: Legal Liability. It's not about protecting the children, it's about showing a good faith effort to abide by the laws that exist in order to avoid lawsuits, plain and simple.
it has been quite adequately demonstrated that censorware can't and won't work.
I agree, but as a company that's providing public unsupervised internet access, you have to show that you're at least making an effort to protect underaged children from smut. That's why they put those plastic boards in front of the nudie mags at 7-11.
By not doing anything, you open yourself to a wide range of frivolous, sefl-serving lawsuits.
Nothing would be worse then having to stare at a 500$ doorstop a few days after buying it..
Knowing Wince, it'd probably be more useful as a doorstep... hehe...
Yeah, I always by the machine with the most original name, because it says so much about it. It's not like the name is a marketing tool, completely irrelevant to all but the most foolish/ignorant consumers.
An original name says almost as much about a machine as the color and translucency of the plastic in the case.
Intel scheduled price reductions about every 4 months, before AMD became a real competitor. They were acting in a very non-monopolist manner. Unlike Microsoft, they weren't buying their competitors and dismantling them, and they weren't suing their potential competitors into submission. Being a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing monopoly power is.
When they did testing in the early 80's, it was found that people got confused, the more mouse buttons there were. Thus, the one button mouse.
Do you have an corroboration for this? It sounds anecdotal. I'm not saying you're lying, I'm just asking for a good source of Apple info from the early 80's.
... that dual processor G4 is all the news, baby. For the first time EVER I find myself licking my chops looking at a Macintosh. It's the end of a bitter era, friends. I swore I would never again swoon over an Apple product when Steve "I-put-the-capital-E-in-Egomania" Jobs killed the Newton, leaving so many of us high and dry. Apparently I was wrong. I was impressed with the G4's but this SMP model is what might actually get me to cough up the dough and buy one. Ego or no, good show Jobs.
(Of course the first thing I'd do is put Linux on it... MacOS just isnt' my thang)
...to give Apple a taste of it's own medicine. It'd crack me up if they came out with a cube-shaped computer and Cobalt sued using the very same justification that Apple uses to go after everyone who comes out with an all-in-one computer.
Morse code is posibly the least inuitive interface ever devised in the history of communication. People whine constantly about how hard Graffiti is to learn on the Palm and it's worlds easier to learn/use than Morse code. I think that putting morse on a cell wouldn't work for this very reason, although it would be cool to have a cell phone that had a big red button like those cheap walktie-talkies I used to play with when I was a kid (particularly if it made teh loud beeping noise on the phone like the walki-talkies did...).
RTFXS (Read the f*cking Xprize specs) They specify that the craft has to carry 3 people and has to repeat the trip within 2 weeks. The whole point of the Xprize is to spur competition to build a single stage to orbit craft that can be used to send tourists to space.
Technically, the space shuttle is re-usable, but it costs a buttload to launch each time because of the high costs of the expendable elements. The point of the Xprize is to make a vehicle that can be re-fuelled and sent back up with minor maintenance. Such a vehicle could be made into a profitable enterprise the week after someone wins the contest (theoretically).
RTFXS and you'll see that this guy doesn't really stand much of a chance with his multi-stage, one seater rocket.
The X prize is pretty specific about the vehicle needing to be reusable as well. This design doesn't seen to meet the criteria. That contest is to promote sapce tourism, mostly.
20% of the comments here express concern that the rocket is going to veer off course and land in either the guy's neighborhood, Kansas or some third world country.
Obviously, ya'll have never been to Steens Mountain. That part of Oregon has a population density about half of what the Gobi Desert has.
Even with an MP 2100's 2.5 megs there isn't enough storage space. Apples genius in using a non standard format for its memory cards makes finding compatible cards large enough for even a tiny disto impossible.
"The BBC is reporting that GRO has reentered the atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean, as predicted." So just what is the space equivalent of Davy Jones' Locker?
Major Tom's Locker?
IF Program equals
OS or Driver use C
ELSE Java does fine!
Where can I buy a Solid Gold Shotgun?!?! I want it! I need it!
We are all made of material that pre-dates the formation of the Solar System. (most) All the heavy particles every made were ejected from a Super Nova. That's how heavy elements are made. Everything on our planet (other than a small amount of Reactor Ort and some bits created in particle accelerators) is made of Star Dust.
Just like the stank hippy said," We are Stardust, we are golden, we are billion year old carbon".
Yeah! We need a Bluetooth module so a group of nerds can set up a wireless Cluster just walking down the street.
How would moving to South Africa solve the problems associated with copyright infringement? South Africa has agreements to protect the copyrights of American companies, otherwise ya'll wouldn't be able to buy your Brittney Spears albums or go see _Battlefield_Earth_ at the theater (when it's released there, that is).
It seems like you'd be banking on teh fact that they'd never get around to prosecuting. Well, in my experience, money changes everything. I think that if MS were sufficiently pissed, a few well placed "political" contributions and the South African Justice system would get its ducks in a row enough to prosecute an enemy of Dollar Bill's. It's not like they'd be asking the government to do anything illegal.
Unless there is an MMU available, you can't run FreeBSD on it-- which excludes most PDAs right off the bat.
Is there a uFreeBSD project like uLinux? Maybe there should be...