If you could see that the hammer was thrown by someone wearing a uniform of a construction company, and the company has told the employees to throw hammers around randomly, then I think it would not be difficult to hold that company responsible.
The point of my argument was that bots are like hammers: if you use tools, you can't just say "it's the tool's fault so I'm off the hook". Especially if anyone with a minimum of common sense should be able to see beforehand that this sort of thing will happen.
If I randomly throw a hammer away and it ends up smashing someone's window, it will be difficult to pin responsibility on the hammer. So nothing can be done to me. Make sense?
OK, so we've established the name of the guy's girlfriend, now let's see what other things we can figure out. With all slashdotters working together, based on the article summary, we'll have this case closed in no time!
Three digits on the lock on the left, and three on the lock on the right, makes 6 digits on my luggage. I had been trying to open it for years, unsuccessfully, and guess what!
This would not be useful for sending any type of communication.
Yes it would: it would be very useful for encrypting communication. The message itself still travels at the speed of light, but the encryption key can be chosen using quantum teleportation. So if A wants to send an encrypted message to B, they use entanged particles to choose an encryption key. Nobody else can snoop on the key, since it is not "sent" from one to the other. Two identical keys just "appear" at A and B, A uses it to encrypt his message before sending it (classically, for example using a homing pigeon) to B who then uses the same key to decrypt it.
Being able to create a shared key instantaneously (if the setup has already been done before) and without anyone being able to snoop on it, is very useful indeed. And in theory, you can make the key as long as the message so there's absolutely no chance at all of anyone breaking the "code".
Larger vehicles with more mass, all other things being equal, would be safer when you crash into almost anything—trees, guard rails, etc.—because more mass = more inertia, which means it can more easily overcome the resting inertia of whatever it hits. Mind you, none of this helps if you hit a bridge abutment, but most of the things you might hit are not nearly that solid.
I agree. Pedestrians, for example, are really quite soft. And smaller cars, bikes, houses, animals, they too are not nearly that solid so you needn't worry about hitting them. You'll walk away just fine, and the rest is someone else's problem.
And increasing the odds for the disease to develop resistance against vaccination. Sick people spread millions of little bits of virus around, some of those have mutations, and some of those mutations will make them resistant against current vaccines. A mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people is probably the best possible breeding ground for resistant strains.
It would be completely irrational and contradictory to the very meaning of the term to call humans "artificial life", since we were not created by human art.
You mean sex is not human art? You haven't been doing it right, then.
You can't open the door in flight. The doors are constructed in such a way that air pressure from inside the plane pushes the door closed. Even at low altitudes, there's more than enough differential pressure to make it impossible for someone to open the door. Some pressurisation failures can even result in the crew not being able to open the door on the ground (if just a small amount of differential pressure remains), requiring a special procedure to depressurize the plane before the doors can be opened.
Well, you're a geek so you might have access to geek tools like Torx screwdrivers. The people they are trying to thwart, however, don't have access to anything fancier than... say... custom arduino devices to hack electronic locks. Sure, anyone can wire boards together to create electronic gizmos. But Torx screwdrivers, that's a whole different ball game, they're much less likely to get their hands on those.
Yeah, it's funny how they think that someone who can build or buy a custom arduino device to hack a particular type of lock, will not be able to get his hands on a torx screwdriver. Those are soooo much harder to find!
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If you could see that the hammer was thrown by someone wearing a uniform of a construction company, and the company has told the employees to throw hammers around randomly, then I think it would not be difficult to hold that company responsible.
The point of my argument was that bots are like hammers: if you use tools, you can't just say "it's the tool's fault so I'm off the hook". Especially if anyone with a minimum of common sense should be able to see beforehand that this sort of thing will happen.
If I randomly throw a hammer away and it ends up smashing someone's window, it will be difficult to pin responsibility on the hammer. So nothing can be done to me. Make sense?
Except if they shoot you out of a cannon horizontally.
OK, so we've established the name of the guy's girlfriend, now let's see what other things we can figure out. With all slashdotters working together, based on the article summary, we'll have this case closed in no time!
Fortunately they still have the immigrants.
The people of Iran will be extremely glad with this good news.
Three digits on the lock on the left, and three on the lock on the right, makes 6 digits on my luggage. I had been trying to open it for years, unsuccessfully, and guess what!
This study just shows what happens when you try to perform a study while doing other, unrelated things at the same time.
That's exactly what it will be used for, though.
You seem to know more about this... hmmm...
Yes, by then Mars will have warmed up as well, removing the last remaining obstacle for it to sustain human life.
This would not be useful for sending any type of communication.
Yes it would: it would be very useful for encrypting communication. The message itself still travels at the speed of light, but the encryption key can be chosen using quantum teleportation. So if A wants to send an encrypted message to B, they use entanged particles to choose an encryption key. Nobody else can snoop on the key, since it is not "sent" from one to the other. Two identical keys just "appear" at A and B, A uses it to encrypt his message before sending it (classically, for example using a homing pigeon) to B who then uses the same key to decrypt it.
Being able to create a shared key instantaneously (if the setup has already been done before) and without anyone being able to snoop on it, is very useful indeed. And in theory, you can make the key as long as the message so there's absolutely no chance at all of anyone breaking the "code".
"If you guys have any thoughts or ideas or brilliant schemes on what we can do, let us know."
They're asking Slashdot?!
Actually, they were posted in the correct order but then the sun messed up space-time so that they arrived out of order.
in these "cultures"
FTFY
For me, the first association that comes to mind when I hear "Steamroller" is "slow". Sure, it can do one task really well, but come on...
Larger vehicles with more mass, all other things being equal, would be safer when you crash into almost anything—trees, guard rails, etc.—because more mass = more inertia, which means it can more easily overcome the resting inertia of whatever it hits. Mind you, none of this helps if you hit a bridge abutment, but most of the things you might hit are not nearly that solid.
I agree. Pedestrians, for example, are really quite soft. And smaller cars, bikes, houses, animals, they too are not nearly that solid so you needn't worry about hitting them. You'll walk away just fine, and the rest is someone else's problem.
and stole your reactor designs...
Too bad they're going to take his moon landing away from him after the doping scandal.
And increasing the odds for the disease to develop resistance against vaccination. Sick people spread millions of little bits of virus around, some of those have mutations, and some of those mutations will make them resistant against current vaccines. A mix of vaccinated and unvaccinated people is probably the best possible breeding ground for resistant strains.
For the same reason, vaccination should actually NOT be mandatory. Let natural selection sort out the nutcases' offspring.
It would be completely irrational and contradictory to the very meaning of the term to call humans "artificial life", since we were not created by human art.
You mean sex is not human art? You haven't been doing it right, then.
You can't open the door in flight. The doors are constructed in such a way that air pressure from inside the plane pushes the door closed. Even at low altitudes, there's more than enough differential pressure to make it impossible for someone to open the door. Some pressurisation failures can even result in the crew not being able to open the door on the ground (if just a small amount of differential pressure remains), requiring a special procedure to depressurize the plane before the doors can be opened.
Well, you're a geek so you might have access to geek tools like Torx screwdrivers. The people they are trying to thwart, however, don't have access to anything fancier than... say... custom arduino devices to hack electronic locks. Sure, anyone can wire boards together to create electronic gizmos. But Torx screwdrivers, that's a whole different ball game, they're much less likely to get their hands on those.
Yeah, it's funny how they think that someone who can build or buy a custom arduino device to hack a particular type of lock, will not be able to get his hands on a torx screwdriver. Those are soooo much harder to find!