Why can't we simply monitor sexual predators better? This may sound silly, but it is an extremly well documented fact that sexual predators TYPICALLY(not always) will continue to prey after release from jail, after chemical castration, almost after anything. It is in there mind set to do this.. why not simply monitor there internet better? Require there internet traffic to block facebook/myspace. Require them to submit to use of internet blocking tech.
I fail to see how myspace/facebook can be held accountable for sicko's using there website to harm people. Its like blaiming the USPS for perverts sending little girls letters.
Man nothing would be worse then ad's targetting me on a website where I put my full name, school, work, a list of friends, a list of likes and fears, and pictures of myself.
Sir, I find your statement not only offensive but ignorant.
Of course BeerBot would take 45 seconds to get the lazy American his beer, because the technology required to perform more efficient beer-fetching isn't feasible
Without turning this into an American thing(which you are trying to do), every other country consumes beer. Every other country is just "as lazy" as Americans. If not lazier. We have no goverment granted vacation, we have to work 38+ hours to be considered "full time" at most jobs. On top of that, driving for 1.25hrs a day to and from work is not only normal, it is somewhat expected.
As for the actual argument, you are talking of indstruial progress. Progress that was actually aided by robotics several years ago. Cars, mail, "iron differential engines" are all now constructed, sorted, and replaced by robotics.
I find it interesting how you claim Americans are lazy(which somewhat implies you are NOT american) while you also complain that I am holding back the further level of automation that would require YOU to work even less.
Yes I am telling you that.
Dog walking People enjoy it. On top of that, you would not trust a "robot" to walk your living animal. Especially if your living animal cost you 1500$(pure bred).
Cooking (make me a BLT, lay the table, pack the kids' lunches for school the next day). I will concede, this particular use would be helpful. Yet again I must ask you if its worth 500$, plus upkeep.
Cleaning (clean the shower, do the vacuuming, do the dusting). Do the vacuuming? Such as where I said the only useful robot around is the robotic vacuum?
I can continue on this list.. but honestly your list is rather complete and has very good points with some serious issues. I thank you for these suggestions as I have been looking for a new fun project. Now, to disagree on some major points:
Answering the door (I'm expecting a delivery, but I'll be at work all day, there are Jehovah's Witnesses that need some company). You want your door to answer to whoever rings the door bell? Do you want to be robbed?
Decorating (I want this room in a different shade of blue).
The robot would be so astronomically large to do the painting it would be impractical. It would need to be able to move every object away from the wall, without damaging it. Even if you move it for the stuff, in order to reach the ceilings and walls it would be very tall.
Mailing (throw away all my junk mail, scan in my statements, archive and shred them). That already exists.
However..
The consumer robotics market is not going to explode. American consumers simply aren't mature enough. Instead, the future of robotics will, for the next decade or so, be a story of embedded technologies
The entire article focuses around this point. The idea that robots will some day become common place. That we will have "robot repair centers" and the like(Although he never mentioned that in the article, he hints at this kind of common place usage in other countries). The simple fact of the matter is that even the "best level" consumer robotics are horribly unuseful. The only useful one is the vacuum robot.
I work with robotics as a hobby, and consider myself a little above a "novice" in applied robotics. The issue at hand today is not a technological one, is it an inspiritional one. Try and think of a useful robot.
Go ahead, do it.
What did you come up with? If you're like most people the idea of a robotic butler("Bring me a beer robot jeeves"), perhaps a robotic lawn mower, maybe even a robotic gaurd who patrols your house.
The problem is that all of these already exist in various forms.
Take for example the robotic butler. Lets say you are watching football and you want a beer. You would simply hit "beer" on your remote and the little robot would wander off. Lets say it takes him 45 seconds to get it and bring it over. You can do it in 15. Also, you can go to the bathroom while you're up. So the only time it would be very useful is when you are being lazy and want to "veg".
So would you spend say 400$ on this robotic butler simply to be lazy? Is buying an ice chest and ice really that hard?
What of the gaurd robot? People buy dogs for this normally, or alarms. Both are easy to use, fufilling(dogs at least), and relatively wide used.
Robots are not popular in america because A. We don't need them for day to day activities. B. We already have conviences we enjoy, and most people do not want to be so lazy as to never move. C. The majority of America is only now becoming PC enabled.. try making them robot enabled. D. There are no good robot needs.
Suggested mods:
1. Troll
2. Flamebait.
Suggest responses:
1. Nub.
2. You're an idiot, your argument makes no sense and furthermore I would love robot that does
So basically, house and senate have done the following this year:
Said they would not give the war anymore money without a pull out date.
Decided to "investigate" steriods in baseball(May of been last year, don't remeber).
Burned a couple of hours trying to get approval to TALK about *maybe* impeaching the Vice President.
And what were the results?
The war is still going on, there is no pull out date.
A few key players got free publicity for there books.
Helped me waste 3 minutes writing a response on slashdot that will be modded to -35, for retard.
I think this is a very responsible use of "human monitoring". Its voluntary, its in there CLOTHES, and its only useful at school. Something like this I can understand. Now I did not RTFA, but I hope this is only used at exits/entrances to the school grounds. Just as a way of telling if they are there or not. Could be very useful in fire drills, bomb threaths, and lock downs. To tell who is at the school still, or left.
games with the robot, hugging it, and covering it up with a blanket and replace robot with dog.
Would that be news worthy? No. Why? Because its in the nature of most children to play games and take cares of others(because that is what people do to them.) This does not mean they see it as a peer. They see it as a pet.
Anyone know if the real ID was going to have an internet branch?
I could certainly use that when purchasing uh... "goods" on wow. I hate the idea of buying "goods" from a man whos only pretending to be your normal wow player. Ya know, 19, blond, 38c, and wanting a real "man".
"I don't know if I trust a robot to perform surgery on me.. i mean what if it crashes?"
To them I will simply remind you that whenever you go under any type of surgery if the "system crashes" you're dead or at least in big trouble. Having heart surgery? If the pumping machine dies, you go with it. Having tonsils removed? What if the thermal blade(or laser) they are using suddenly goes ape shit and burns you too hot, or misfires? You're screwed.
Point is, its more complex so more things can go wrong. HOWEVER, medical equipment is some of the most reliable and well backedup stuff around.
P.S. What the hell, robots performing surgery but still no sex slaves? god damned capitalism..
the second people stop reinventing the wheel the world wilL END!
Eventually it will become so complex that learning both the higher levels of engineering(See robots, networks, etc) and the lower levels(EE, Circuit desgins, etc etc) will not be possible.
No need to learn electronics, let other people do it for you. Just snap together the components.
EXACTLY RIGHT. Stop working about electronics, concentrate on making impressives designs.
It sounds to me like someone got an EE degree, and now wish they had simply major'd in robotics.
These patents sure are coming in nice this year pa..
You're damned right they are boy! I bought them from some very smart people!
Pa, why don't we license them out then?
Because boy, its easier to just hold them in waiting until we think we can rob enough companies! If we license, we have to manage it! If we just sue, its a one time deal..
ACTUALLY. You sir, are the reason all of the above cited reasons occur. Its a democracy, you might of heard of them.
If enough people voted for canidate A, and B won.. people would then search and see the popular vote was indeed for A. If the margin was high enough, all hell would break loose as we claimed the system to of collasped. B would be impeached asap, and A enstated.
If that didn't happen, I myself would loose faith in goverment. As would many others. And then every punk whoever said guns should be illegal would regret saying that. As every american walks out with there guns and starts demanding changes.
Fact of the matter:
military + police is LESS than Registered Gun Owners.
Man.. they got this thing that has vampries/werewolves/zombies right? And you can "bite" all your friends and such.
It sounds great! But EVERYTIME they fight eachother you get a notice of it. So I log in every morning(at work of course) to find out theres about 35 fights to go through.
Slashdot Mirror
BUT
Why can't we simply monitor sexual predators better? This may sound silly, but it is an extremly well documented fact that sexual predators TYPICALLY(not always) will continue to prey after release from jail, after chemical castration, almost after anything. It is in there mind set to do this.. why not simply monitor there internet better? Require there internet traffic to block facebook/myspace. Require them to submit to use of internet blocking tech.
I fail to see how myspace/facebook can be held accountable for sicko's using there website to harm people. Its like blaiming the USPS for perverts sending little girls letters.
*wink wink*
Its cool baby, i'm not a cop.
Those bastards.
The first person to believe they have lost momentum is often the loser.
Without turning this into an American thing(which you are trying to do), every other country consumes beer. Every other country is just "as lazy" as Americans. If not lazier. We have no goverment granted vacation, we have to work 38+ hours to be considered "full time" at most jobs. On top of that, driving for 1.25hrs a day to and from work is not only normal, it is somewhat expected.
As for the actual argument, you are talking of indstruial progress. Progress that was actually aided by robotics several years ago. Cars, mail, "iron differential engines" are all now constructed, sorted, and replaced by robotics.
I find it interesting how you claim Americans are lazy(which somewhat implies you are NOT american) while you also complain that I am holding back the further level of automation that would require YOU to work even less.
I can continue on this list.. but honestly your list is rather complete and has very good points with some serious issues. I thank you for these suggestions as I have been looking for a new fun project. Now, to disagree on some major points:
Answering the door (I'm expecting a delivery, but I'll be at work all day, there are Jehovah's Witnesses that need some company). You want your door to answer to whoever rings the door bell? Do you want to be robbed? Decorating (I want this room in a different shade of blue).The robot would be so astronomically large to do the painting it would be impractical. It would need to be able to move every object away from the wall, without damaging it. Even if you move it for the stuff, in order to reach the ceilings and walls it would be very tall.
Mailing (throw away all my junk mail, scan in my statements, archive and shred them). That already exists.The entire article focuses around this point. The idea that robots will some day become common place. That we will have "robot repair centers" and the like(Although he never mentioned that in the article, he hints at this kind of common place usage in other countries). The simple fact of the matter is that even the "best level" consumer robotics are horribly unuseful. The only useful one is the vacuum robot.
I work with robotics as a hobby, and consider myself a little above a "novice" in applied robotics. The issue at hand today is not a technological one, is it an inspiritional one. Try and think of a useful robot.
Go ahead, do it.
What did you come up with? If you're like most people the idea of a robotic butler("Bring me a beer robot jeeves"), perhaps a robotic lawn mower, maybe even a robotic gaurd who patrols your house.
The problem is that all of these already exist in various forms.
Take for example the robotic butler. Lets say you are watching football and you want a beer. You would simply hit "beer" on your remote and the little robot would wander off. Lets say it takes him 45 seconds to get it and bring it over. You can do it in 15. Also, you can go to the bathroom while you're up. So the only time it would be very useful is when you are being lazy and want to "veg".
So would you spend say 400$ on this robotic butler simply to be lazy? Is buying an ice chest and ice really that hard?
What of the gaurd robot? People buy dogs for this normally, or alarms. Both are easy to use, fufilling(dogs at least), and relatively wide used.
Robots are not popular in america because A. We don't need them for day to day activities. B. We already have conviences we enjoy, and most people do not want to be so lazy as to never move. C. The majority of America is only now becoming PC enabled.. try making them robot enabled. D. There are no good robot needs.
Suggested mods:
1. Troll
2. Flamebait.
Suggest responses:
1. Nub.
2. You're an idiot, your argument makes no sense and furthermore I would love robot that does
Said they would not give the war anymore money without a pull out date. Decided to "investigate" steriods in baseball(May of been last year, don't remeber). Burned a couple of hours trying to get approval to TALK about *maybe* impeaching the Vice President.
And what were the results?
The war is still going on, there is no pull out date.
A few key players got free publicity for there books. Helped me waste 3 minutes writing a response on slashdot that will be modded to -35, for retard.
God bless America.
I think the real question is whether or not LOS for 1.5km can be maintained on a constant basis..
I think this is a very responsible use of "human monitoring". Its voluntary, its in there CLOTHES, and its only useful at school. Something like this I can understand. Now I did not RTFA, but I hope this is only used at exits/entrances to the school grounds. Just as a way of telling if they are there or not. Could be very useful in fire drills, bomb threaths, and lock downs. To tell who is at the school still, or left.
For example.. take this sentence:
games with the robot, hugging it, and covering it up with a blanket and replace robot with dog.Would that be news worthy? No. Why? Because its in the nature of most children to play games and take cares of others(because that is what people do to them.) This does not mean they see it as a peer. They see it as a pet.
I could certainly use that when purchasing uh... "goods" on wow. I hate the idea of buying "goods" from a man whos only pretending to be your normal wow player. Ya know, 19, blond, 38c, and wanting a real "man".
"I don't know if I trust a robot to perform surgery on me.. i mean what if it crashes?"
To them I will simply remind you that whenever you go under any type of surgery if the "system crashes" you're dead or at least in big trouble. Having heart surgery? If the pumping machine dies, you go with it. Having tonsils removed? What if the thermal blade(or laser) they are using suddenly goes ape shit and burns you too hot, or misfires? You're screwed.
Point is, its more complex so more things can go wrong. HOWEVER, medical equipment is some of the most reliable and well backedup stuff around.
P.S. What the hell, robots performing surgery but still no sex slaves? god damned capitalism..
the second people stop reinventing the wheel the world wilL END!
Eventually it will become so complex that learning both the higher levels of engineering(See robots, networks, etc) and the lower levels(EE, Circuit desgins, etc etc) will not be possible.
No need to learn electronics, let other people do it for you. Just snap together the components.EXACTLY RIGHT. Stop working about electronics, concentrate on making impressives designs.
It sounds to me like someone got an EE degree, and now wish they had simply major'd in robotics.
You're damned right they are boy! I bought them from some very smart people!
Pa, why don't we license them out then?
Because boy, its easier to just hold them in waiting until we think we can rob enough companies! If we license, we have to manage it! If we just sue, its a one time deal..
Pa...
Why are you the anti-christ?
If enough people voted for canidate A, and B won.. people would then search and see the popular vote was indeed for A. If the margin was high enough, all hell would break loose as we claimed the system to of collasped. B would be impeached asap, and A enstated.
If that didn't happen, I myself would loose faith in goverment. As would many others. And then every punk whoever said guns should be illegal would regret saying that. As every american walks out with there guns and starts demanding changes.
Fact of the matter:
military + police is LESS than Registered Gun Owners.
Clearly a publicity move to get the name out.. The systems will not be as fast as everyone thinks. I am pretty sure fasters systems already exist..
It sounds great! But EVERYTIME they fight eachother you get a notice of it. So I log in every morning(at work of course) to find out theres about 35 fights to go through.
"Thats Hot." - Paris
(its very late friday, I did not RTFA. I am hoping this random joke = mad mod points)
Aren't they basically just correct a flaw in there patent system, outside of the patent system?
What of real pandemics? A shortage of grits?!
Wow nice Dupe slashdot. Christ, just because it was published somewhere else DOES not mean its not the same frigen article as this: http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/02/1631217 Nicely done guys.
My guess? Because its insanely popular and works really well. I.E. There is a huge community behind it.
"Made in Texas."