Good lord, I didn't see that in the new feature list. Thank you, good sir, for bringing this to our attention. I've spent many frustrating hours trying (and often failing) to track this information down.
Indeed. I also like how he claims he's backing off because of a "strength of feeling", as if that were somehow different than people really not wanting this law.
...the EATR robot's inherent advantage is its ability to engage in long-endurance, tedious, and hazardous tasks, such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition under difficult conditions, without fatigue or stress...
So we've got omnivorous assassin bots that consume their "target" after "acquisition" to remove evidence of the mission. That's just great.
Quote: "In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit."
Congress is part of the government and is exempt from this immunity, but they haven't done anything yet about this, and this whistleblower doesn't seem to be the kind of source they jump on.
I would say this is another potential blow to young-Earth creationists, but I think most of them aren't going to give this particular experiment much credit. It's unfortunate that we can't just look at the results of scientific experiments at face value without requiring a religious interpretation tacked on to the end. We'd all get along much better that way. Theists could do generally accepted scientific study without getting discredited for their beliefs. On the other hand, enough science already goes on with predetermined goals in mind, so maybe it's a moot point.
Disclaimer: I am a creationist, although not a young-Earth creationist, and I don't disagree with most of the tenets of evolution. I won't engage in debate over the merits of evolutionist vs. creationist perspectives, because there's little to no meaningful debate to be had. At this point, both sides of the debate are taking whatever evidence comes up and claiming it supports their perspective.
In other words, don't expect me to argue over the existence of God in this thread. Interesting findings, though!
I have yet to meet someone that says, "I just left company X, no I don't have anything from my old job..." or " I cant fix that, I fixed that at company Y and they own the IP to that fix."
All of you rape and pillage IP when you leave. Accidentally or on purpose, you do it.
Now hold on a second. I think you're including too much under the intellectual property / trade secrets umbrella. There are plenty of concepts and methods in most tech fields that are far too general to be considered a competetive threat if other people get their hands on them. If I learned to write SQL at my current company, that doesn't mean I can't write queries for anyone else, ever, nor would showing someone else a query I wrote for the company necessarily be a breach of IP, assuming I changed table/column names sufficiently to hide proprietary business models.
And no, I haven't shown other companies code I've written in my current or previous jobs. There's almost always an alternative way to demonstrate your abilities.
It seems like it would belong to you at that point, but I doubt that would hold up in court; if you did anything with it, an accusation of impeding a police investigation would probably trump your claim of ownership. Then again, doing anything other than what a police officer arbitrarily wants you to do could be construed as impeding an investigation.
Hey, maybe I can file a derivative work patent that allows for a third option, "plastic, except for on the occasions that I need a paper bag for something."
During his Apollo 14 flight to the moon, he secretly conducted ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.
I'm not saying I disagree, but it's this kind of discrediting statement that needs a source of information to go along with it. So here's a friendly [citation needed].
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Indeed. I'm just glad I was here to see it.
You mean once they get used to the visage of a child with blood pouring out of their face?
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Fixed that for you, article summary.
Good lord, I didn't see that in the new feature list. Thank you, good sir, for bringing this to our attention. I've spent many frustrating hours trying (and often failing) to track this information down.
I'm very glad this was the first (significant) post. Thank you, good sir.
You can teach an old dog new tricks, but you can't teach a dog new integration methods.
If these guys were programmers, in 6 months we'd have a baby chick Turing machine up and running.
So say we all!
When they opened the lab every morning, they told the robot to kill. But secretly they were just afraid to tell it to love.
Seems like there are some other practical interface options for the iPod.
* Snoring: stop playing music
* Gagging: remove song from playlist
* Startled jump, clenched jaw and frantic grasping at earbuds: reduce volume
Indeed. I also like how he claims he's backing off because of a "strength of feeling", as if that were somehow different than people really not wanting this law.
Do a barrel roll!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
At first glance, I read the title as "Snakelike Robot To Eat Soldiers During Battle". Gah!
Quote from article, emphasis added:
...the EATR robot's inherent advantage is its ability to engage in long-endurance, tedious, and hazardous tasks, such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and target acquisition under difficult conditions, without fatigue or stress...
So we've got omnivorous assassin bots that consume their "target" after "acquisition" to remove evidence of the mission. That's just great.
I direct you to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#In_the_United_States
Quote: "In the United States, the federal government has sovereign immunity and may not be sued unless it has waived its immunity or consented to suit."
Congress is part of the government and is exempt from this immunity, but they haven't done anything yet about this, and this whistleblower doesn't seem to be the kind of source they jump on.
Congress will not follow his suggestions. That would be the shocking news story.
Response from messenger cell: "not ur personal army"
I think it would be easier to explain this concept with a car analogy.
I would say this is another potential blow to young-Earth creationists, but I think most of them aren't going to give this particular experiment much credit. It's unfortunate that we can't just look at the results of scientific experiments at face value without requiring a religious interpretation tacked on to the end. We'd all get along much better that way. Theists could do generally accepted scientific study without getting discredited for their beliefs. On the other hand, enough science already goes on with predetermined goals in mind, so maybe it's a moot point.
Disclaimer: I am a creationist, although not a young-Earth creationist, and I don't disagree with most of the tenets of evolution. I won't engage in debate over the merits of evolutionist vs. creationist perspectives, because there's little to no meaningful debate to be had. At this point, both sides of the debate are taking whatever evidence comes up and claiming it supports their perspective.
In other words, don't expect me to argue over the existence of God in this thread. Interesting findings, though!
Thanks - I was hoping someone would start this thread. Now I can ponder causality and a cat that belonged to Schrodinger.
I have yet to meet someone that says, "I just left company X, no I don't have anything from my old job..." or " I cant fix that, I fixed that at company Y and they own the IP to that fix."
All of you rape and pillage IP when you leave. Accidentally or on purpose, you do it.
Now hold on a second. I think you're including too much under the intellectual property / trade secrets umbrella. There are plenty of concepts and methods in most tech fields that are far too general to be considered a competetive threat if other people get their hands on them. If I learned to write SQL at my current company, that doesn't mean I can't write queries for anyone else, ever, nor would showing someone else a query I wrote for the company necessarily be a breach of IP, assuming I changed table/column names sufficiently to hide proprietary business models.
And no, I haven't shown other companies code I've written in my current or previous jobs. There's almost always an alternative way to demonstrate your abilities.
It seems like it would belong to you at that point, but I doubt that would hold up in court; if you did anything with it, an accusation of impeding a police investigation would probably trump your claim of ownership. Then again, doing anything other than what a police officer arbitrarily wants you to do could be construed as impeding an investigation.
Hey, maybe I can file a derivative work patent that allows for a third option, "plastic, except for on the occasions that I need a paper bag for something."
During his Apollo 14 flight to the moon, he secretly conducted ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.
I'm not saying I disagree, but it's this kind of discrediting statement that needs a source of information to go along with it. So here's a friendly [citation needed].