I found the article to be annoyingly "Fear Robotic Death Machines, I Saw Them In A Movie".
I mean come on, using Terminator as a source? Sheesh, trash journalism with very few interesting facts.
We won't deploy an offensive robot that picks targets and fires, for at least 20 years. There just isn't enough information for a computer to process and pick targets accurately. Contrary to tin-foil hat skeptics, the Military has a huuuuuuge priority in protecting innocents, even more so since they've entered Iraq.
Defensive platforms however are different. We already have automated pillbox robots that can takeout trespassers, but that's just a much more humane mine field.
Our future is going to be robot platforms that are controlled by operators. Sure they might be automated in nearly every aspect required, but the target choosing will be decided by humans, for a very long time.
A sad side effect of this robotic warfare is going to be the loss of consequence to congress for beginning a war, however I believe it's an inevitable step we'll have to conquer, just as building the first wheel was.
Most parenting techniques these days are stupid. It's about spineless parents who can't say no to a child.
My Dad used to spank me with a belt if I acted up too much. But situations like studying, I'd just start losing all privileges until I was bored out of my mind. Give that a few months and you'll study just to be entertained.
When he did spank us, he'd send us to our rooms until he could calm down and think about it. Usually 1/2 hourish later he'd have us come in and talk about what we'd done. Then he'd have us pick a belt. His belts were arranged by thickness and hardness. If you picked too pansy of a belt then he'd make you get this thick huge rhine-stone covered cowboy belt that hurt like crazy. If you picked a heavier belt, you'd usually get off with less punishment.
Man, I didn't realize my dad was doing psychological warfare until I was twenty.
Oddly enough, I think he did the best he could, and the fact that he's never hit us while angry or unfairly made me really respect that form of punishment.
It wouldn't work for every kid, and I hope I'll never need any kind of punishment for my future kids like that, but for me it was probably the only punishment they could do. (ADD incarnate)
I wonder how much Craigs has made off allowing those postings compared to how much they've lost from people no longer using Craigs due to said content?
I don't see any correlation between smoking and violent video games. Where are there studies that conclude violent games cause an increase in burden on our health system.
Google desktop searches through your computer's files to find keywords inside the files themselves. If he saves all his documents he finds online to there, he should be able to do keyword searches in those documents.
Also, if the pdfs are ocr'd then he could search via that as well.
Google barely scratches a profit from youtube currently. That $7 billion profit your crying about is from other aspects of the company, not form advertising on youtube.
Google negotiates after the fact because they are big enough that other companies can't exploit them. It's not murder, it's user generated content. It's not Google throwing up those videos. Google if anything, is inadvertently acting as a wall currently, between users and corporations trying to squash the information paradigm shift.
Sure they're making billions in return, that's what companies do. If they weren't making it, someone else would be.
I've started purchasing all my music through amazon. After the purchase, I get a DRM free mp3.
I used to pirate like crazy, and when I heard a good song that I played often, I'd go and buy the cd. Now I just purchase the individual songs. Slowly I've shifted all my pirated items off my systems and replaced them with open source, or outright purchased them.
Windows 7 is fantastic actually.
Having beta tested it for a while, I prefer it to my XP rig now.
I love using Ubuntu, but I don't cringe when I think my extended family will be using it on their new purchases eventually. At least they'll be getting decent software.
Does this remind anyone else of the book, "Moving Mars"?
In that book the user has a small pouch of nanobots. A sniper fires a bullet, the pouch detects it and instantly spreads around the VIP's body, then moves itself in a motion that causes the wearer to dodge the bullet and hardens itself in the direction of the incoming bullet.
Basically matrix style dodging caused by nanobots shoving you around.
Great book btw.
No, make all contributions to federal candidates go into a common political fund that is distributed to all runners in a fair spread. Constant revision of income is based on popularity voting run by federal independent program.
All contributions to state candidates go into the same system except on a state level and are spread to all parties involved.
All contributions must go through the federal organization are are available to view online at anytime.
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I found the article to be annoyingly "Fear Robotic Death Machines, I Saw Them In A Movie".
I mean come on, using Terminator as a source? Sheesh, trash journalism with very few interesting facts.
We won't deploy an offensive robot that picks targets and fires, for at least 20 years. There just isn't enough information for a computer to process and pick targets accurately. Contrary to tin-foil hat skeptics, the Military has a huuuuuuge priority in protecting innocents, even more so since they've entered Iraq.
Defensive platforms however are different. We already have automated pillbox robots that can takeout trespassers, but that's just a much more humane mine field.
Our future is going to be robot platforms that are controlled by operators. Sure they might be automated in nearly every aspect required, but the target choosing will be decided by humans, for a very long time.
A sad side effect of this robotic warfare is going to be the loss of consequence to congress for beginning a war, however I believe it's an inevitable step we'll have to conquer, just as building the first wheel was.
Most parenting techniques these days are stupid. It's about spineless parents who can't say no to a child.
My Dad used to spank me with a belt if I acted up too much. But situations like studying, I'd just start losing all privileges until I was bored out of my mind. Give that a few months and you'll study just to be entertained.
When he did spank us, he'd send us to our rooms until he could calm down and think about it. Usually 1/2 hourish later he'd have us come in and talk about what we'd done. Then he'd have us pick a belt. His belts were arranged by thickness and hardness. If you picked too pansy of a belt then he'd make you get this thick huge rhine-stone covered cowboy belt that hurt like crazy. If you picked a heavier belt, you'd usually get off with less punishment.
Man, I didn't realize my dad was doing psychological warfare until I was twenty.
Oddly enough, I think he did the best he could, and the fact that he's never hit us while angry or unfairly made me really respect that form of punishment.
It wouldn't work for every kid, and I hope I'll never need any kind of punishment for my future kids like that, but for me it was probably the only punishment they could do. (ADD incarnate)
I'll be more excited when we finally come up with a good long lasting power supply and better software for running them.
Those two things are holding most of our robotics back.
I wonder how much Craigs has made off allowing those postings compared to how much they've lost from people no longer using Craigs due to said content?
I don't see any correlation between smoking and violent video games. Where are there studies that conclude violent games cause an increase in burden on our health system.
This is just stupidity.
Google desktop searches through your computer's files to find keywords inside the files themselves. If he saves all his documents he finds online to there, he should be able to do keyword searches in those documents.
Also, if the pdfs are ocr'd then he could search via that as well.
I talked with a few 3X0x2's while I was in. They all said they're jobs were being outsourced.
Even in tech school (2E2x1 here) they talked about the outsourcing problem that would eventually hit our career field as well.
(2E2x1 are basically the handymen of comm. If nobody else does it, they stick us on it)
Those were probably ammunition / bomb depots.
Very few bases across the world have nukes on them. And even if a base with nukes haa rent-a-cops, those cops won't be guarding the sensitive areas.
Let alone, even if cops fail and are killed, those nuke shelters take days *not an understatement* to break into.
Man, such an ignorant post.
Google barely scratches a profit from youtube currently. That $7 billion profit your crying about is from other aspects of the company, not form advertising on youtube.
Google negotiates after the fact because they are big enough that other companies can't exploit them. It's not murder, it's user generated content. It's not Google throwing up those videos. Google if anything, is inadvertently acting as a wall currently, between users and corporations trying to squash the information paradigm shift.
Sure they're making billions in return, that's what companies do. If they weren't making it, someone else would be.
I've started purchasing all my music through amazon. After the purchase, I get a DRM free mp3. I used to pirate like crazy, and when I heard a good song that I played often, I'd go and buy the cd. Now I just purchase the individual songs. Slowly I've shifted all my pirated items off my systems and replaced them with open source, or outright purchased them.
A picture is worth a thousand words... literally. Using screen shots helps a ton when creating documentation, just a tip.
Windows 7 is fantastic actually. Having beta tested it for a while, I prefer it to my XP rig now. I love using Ubuntu, but I don't cringe when I think my extended family will be using it on their new purchases eventually. At least they'll be getting decent software.
Does this remind anyone else of the book, "Moving Mars"? In that book the user has a small pouch of nanobots. A sniper fires a bullet, the pouch detects it and instantly spreads around the VIP's body, then moves itself in a motion that causes the wearer to dodge the bullet and hardens itself in the direction of the incoming bullet. Basically matrix style dodging caused by nanobots shoving you around. Great book btw.
No, make all contributions to federal candidates go into a common political fund that is distributed to all runners in a fair spread. Constant revision of income is based on popularity voting run by federal independent program. All contributions to state candidates go into the same system except on a state level and are spread to all parties involved. All contributions must go through the federal organization are are available to view online at anytime.