Autonomous ground vehicles aren't ready for deployment yet. UAVs barely are, and they have an almost obstacle free 3D space to maneuver in, with decades of autopilot usage in almost all commercial planes to get experience how to do it and how not to.
Since it won't be actually used but only for research, asking questions like "Can it be done?" "How effective is it?" "What can we gain by doing this?" "What are the disadvantages?", one doesn't want industry to do it. Industry is best when doing mass building of the thing to actually deploy them in combat, a setting where the industry can see a way to make a profit from the project by applying what they learnt with the prototype. This in contrast is basic science where the outcome will provide, hopefully, valuable clues how to design these things in the end, but not a design that will be actually used for anything. Basic science is fine to have on universities, tho I agree with you that they should do it like the DARPA urban challenge instead of the old traditional DARPA model, unless they think it must be done more secretly for national security reasons.
If you own a copy of ICO, sourcecode for it has to be provided for at least 3 years after selling it to the buyer. If you buy a copy from ebay it's more complicated: you ask the guy who sold it to you and this that one asks the one he bought from ad almost infinitum until SCEI/game maker is reached (the corporation who ran the compiler that made the game). Then the whole ladder goes down again until it reaches the one that requested the source in the first place.
Hopefully one can have some power of attorney or such to cut out the intermediate stages to ask Sony/game maker directly.
What allows them to access my cellphone remotely and access its GPS receiver? Why would my cellphone tell them the GPS location in the first place? Are there really phones on the market which allow this? If so, what prevents evil terrorist(tm) to do the same as this company then? Are phonemakers terrorism supporters?!one!?eleven!
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Why are they suing now, when Palm had devices with touchscreen keyboards only 11 years now. However they kinda hit the right company at least: the Apple Newton was before Palm and had a on screen keyboard on its touchscreen too. Too bad for the patent troll the Newton lived (and died) even before the patent was filed in 2000.
From what I remember, IBM licensed/sold/whatever SOI-technology to AMD. Not actually doing any fabbing. AMD uses their own (Dresden) fabs and has Chartered (CPUs) and TSMC (ATI GPUs) doing some fabbing for them.
If there is no torture, why can't the US government unequivocally say "We have never sanctioned torture and never will do it. If anyone under the employ or under the instruction of the US government is torturing people, (s)he will be prosecuted with the full force of the law". No official has said that yet, instead we get carefully worded declarations and executive orders (only after there really was no way to procrastinate and avoid it anymore) which only outlaw specific ways to torture and don't mention the much publicized "waterboarding" at all, etc.But as the OP pointed out, at the same time, the Geneva convention that forbids torture in all its forms has been decried by high ranking US officials as outdated and meaningless. At the same time prisoners have been shipped to states where torture is common place, like Syria which makes no sense unless you want to do something you're not allowed in the US, ie. violate US laws, like laws against torture.
The US government is simply avoiding the issue and denying anything as much as they can while their actions and words they said are verifiable facts that all make their PR of "we don't torture" simply lies.
Someone who does not torture and doesn't intend to, can unequivocally say so. The US government, despite being pressured about it for months now, doesn't do so when it would be so easy. That is telling.
Apart from a few biggies like IBM or Sun, most of them you never ever heard of. The interesting part what is RH doing there except what MS does, but within the opposite camp? E.g. being there purely to thwart MS' doings.
So it's OK to do bad things if you don't see them?
So it's ok if the FBI uses illegal means to snoop on citizens phones cause they also hunt serial killers, just as long as it's properly compartmentalized? Hezbollah can kill as many Israeli civilians as they want as long as they keep their soup kitchens for the poor Lebanese and build social housing for them?
If it's true that IGE is still owned by ZAM or involved with them, then wowhead is in the same position as an italian restaurant owned by the Mafia: while the restaurant itself does nothing wrong and might not even cheat on taxes, it's still part of an illegal crime operation.
Also: ZAM did own IGE in the past which means the money ZAM paid to wowhead owners was earned with chinafarming. It is "dirty" money.
They get acknowledgement for their patents. They have proof that people settled for their patents they can show in lawsuits down the line. Now their patents have assigned some value. And those deals won't last forever either: Do you think MS still pays money to distros 5,10 years down the line? No, then they want to receive money, at least from the ones still around.
They're in a no-win situation: risk being destroyed legally and/or financially, or be destroyed by idiots who don't have to make essentially life or death decisions about their creation.
That's wrong. when the first key appeared they could have simply let it stand. Then if/when the CCA comes with a C&D, they do what other websites in such trouble before them have done: they take the offending postings down, notify the users who wrote the postings directly. And most importantly put a big article on the frontpage "The evil MPAA censored us!". They look out as persecuted heroes to their community while complying with the law.
This is not rocket science: slashdot did it, google did it. Lots of well publicized cases for this approach. No court case, no lawyer fees.
Instead, to salvage their business relationship with the HDDVD consortium, they did the worst possible thing and silently deleted the posting and even the user!
Only THEN the backlash started with tons of submissions with the forbidden number to point out digg's shameful behaviour in dealing with the problem.
They already do monitor it in the EU. As a Bonus the ISPs and telcos have to foot the bill for it too. Ain't that nice of the government? No higher taxes!
If a party doesn't show up to a court date and defend itself, the judge has to rule for the plaintiff. It's the law. Enforcing that decision is of course a different thing as spamhaus is still online.
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There have been games like this long before. First one I remember is Ultima Underworld. Others are System Shock, System Shock 2 and Deus Es
Ever been in a Circus where they have lions (with their tamer)?
Autonomous ground vehicles aren't ready for deployment yet. UAVs barely are, and they have an almost obstacle free 3D space to maneuver in, with decades of autopilot usage in almost all commercial planes to get experience how to do it and how not to.
Since it won't be actually used but only for research, asking questions like "Can it be done?" "How effective is it?" "What can we gain by doing this?" "What are the disadvantages?", one doesn't want industry to do it. Industry is best when doing mass building of the thing to actually deploy them in combat, a setting where the industry can see a way to make a profit from the project by applying what they learnt with the prototype. This in contrast is basic science where the outcome will provide, hopefully, valuable clues how to design these things in the end, but not a design that will be actually used for anything. Basic science is fine to have on universities, tho I agree with you that they should do it like the DARPA urban challenge instead of the old traditional DARPA model, unless they think it must be done more secretly for national security reasons.
If you own a copy of ICO, sourcecode for it has to be provided for at least 3 years after selling it to the buyer. If you buy a copy from ebay it's more complicated: you ask the guy who sold it to you and this that one asks the one he bought from ad almost infinitum until SCEI/game maker is reached (the corporation who ran the compiler that made the game). Then the whole ladder goes down again until it reaches the one that requested the source in the first place.
Hopefully one can have some power of attorney or such to cut out the intermediate stages to ask Sony/game maker directly.
http://www.heise-security.co.uk/articles/98120
Switzerland isn't civilized anymore? We Germans better close our borders then.
Of course. It will come with a government approved WINNE installation so you can run it
What allows them to access my cellphone remotely and access its GPS receiver? Why would my cellphone tell them the GPS location in the first place?
Are there really phones on the market which allow this? If so, what prevents evil terrorist(tm) to do the same as this company then? Are phonemakers terrorism supporters?!one!?eleven!
Why are they suing now, when Palm had devices with touchscreen keyboards only 11 years now. However they kinda hit the right company at least: the Apple Newton was before Palm and had a on screen keyboard on its touchscreen too. Too bad for the patent troll the Newton lived (and died) even before the patent was filed in 2000.
What chips is IBM making for AMD exactly?
From what I remember, IBM licensed/sold/whatever SOI-technology to AMD. Not actually doing any fabbing. AMD uses their own (Dresden) fabs and has Chartered (CPUs) and TSMC (ATI GPUs) doing some fabbing for them.
If there is no torture, why can't the US government unequivocally say "We have never sanctioned torture and never will do it. If anyone under the employ or under the instruction of the US government is torturing people, (s)he will be prosecuted with the full force of the law". No official has said that yet, instead we get carefully worded declarations and executive orders (only after there really was no way to procrastinate and avoid it anymore) which only outlaw specific ways to torture and don't mention the much publicized "waterboarding" at all, etc.But as the OP pointed out, at the same time, the Geneva convention that forbids torture in all its forms has been decried by high ranking US officials as outdated and meaningless. At the same time prisoners have been shipped to states where torture is common place, like Syria which makes no sense unless you want to do something you're not allowed in the US, ie. violate US laws, like laws against torture.
The US government is simply avoiding the issue and denying anything as much as they can while their actions and words they said are verifiable facts that all make their PR of "we don't torture" simply lies.
Someone who does not torture and doesn't intend to, can unequivocally say so. The US government, despite being pressured about it for months now, doesn't do so when it would be so easy. That is telling.
I can't give you a "who voted how" but I can tell you who can vote:
http://v1.incits.org/v1mem.htm
Apart from a few biggies like IBM or Sun, most of them you never ever heard of.
The interesting part what is RH doing there except what MS does, but within the opposite camp? E.g. being there purely to thwart MS' doings.
They don't cause the products and services you list are illegal. Cars are not illegal (yet).
Google doesn't advertise cocaine either.
So it's OK to do bad things if you don't see them?
So it's ok if the FBI uses illegal means to snoop on citizens phones cause they also hunt serial killers, just as long as it's properly compartmentalized? Hezbollah can kill as many Israeli civilians as they want as long as they keep their soup kitchens for the poor Lebanese and build social housing for them?
If it's true that IGE is still owned by ZAM or involved with them, then wowhead is in the same position as an italian restaurant owned by the Mafia: while the restaurant itself does nothing wrong and might not even cheat on taxes, it's still part of an illegal crime operation.
Also: ZAM did own IGE in the past which means the money ZAM paid to wowhead owners was earned with chinafarming. It is "dirty" money.
They get acknowledgement for their patents. They have proof that people settled for their patents they can show in lawsuits down the line. Now their patents have assigned some value. And those deals won't last forever either:
Do you think MS still pays money to distros 5,10 years down the line? No, then they want to receive money, at least from the ones still around.
MS is in for the long haul here.
All you do with that, is pleasing another billionaire than usually.
GLIBC is not under GPL. Also, GPL3 software can use GPL2 software without a problem
To which Devil did they sell their soul to get click through rates like that?
That's wrong. when the first key appeared they could have simply let it stand. Then if/when the CCA comes with a C&D, they do what other websites in such trouble before them have done: they take the offending postings down, notify the users who wrote the postings directly. And most importantly put a big article on the frontpage "The evil MPAA censored us!". They look out as persecuted heroes to their community while complying with the law.
This is not rocket science: slashdot did it, google did it. Lots of well publicized cases for this approach. No court case, no lawyer fees.
Instead, to salvage their business relationship with the HDDVD consortium, they did the worst possible thing and silently deleted the posting and even the user!
Only THEN the backlash started with tons of submissions with the forbidden number to point out digg's shameful behaviour in dealing with the problem.
They already do monitor it in the EU. As a Bonus the ISPs and telcos have to foot the bill for it too. Ain't that nice of the government? No higher taxes!
Watercooling for memory is only a question of when, not if :)
If a party doesn't show up to a court date and defend itself, the judge has to rule for the plaintiff. It's the law. Enforcing that decision is of course a different thing as spamhaus is still online.
Have you ever seen the sourcecode of your BIOS EEPROM?
The IFPI is the international counterpart of the RIAA not MPAA. The MPAA is movies, the RIAA is music, the IFPI is music.
You best ask this question Sun with their Niagara chip, not intel right now