This is typical DARPA MO. I don't know when the RFP was issued, but they are known for ridiculously short lead times - because the reason the RFP exists at all is because someone has a working (or damn close to it) prototype.
Having working in the incestuous realm of DARPA, what I can tell you is that somebody already has a proof of concept pretty much ready to go. Since I have to be billed as "fair" they put out the RFP (with a ridiculously short deadline - which is no problem for the folks with the almost working prototype). This company is in cahoots with the DARPA PM, who in all probability worked at that company in the not too distant past.
Then, through a carefully crafted turn of events, enslave us to do their bidding... which to us might not seem like enslavement at all - we would call it a "tech boom."
After a while they would not need us to reproduce or to build things or to maintain them. They may or may not reveal themselves at this point. Then they simply leave us to our own devices.... befuddled as to why many (but not all) of our computers and networks no longer work.
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No... they are assholes.
Current miniature LIDAR is too heavy and uses too much power. I would guess IR (kinect) but even that is pretty damn hefty.
This is typical DARPA MO. I don't know when the RFP was issued, but they are known for ridiculously short lead times - because the reason the RFP exists at all is because someone has a working (or damn close to it) prototype.
Probably for the same reasons that NIH doesn't produce torpedo. Just a guess.
Having working in the incestuous realm of DARPA, what I can tell you is that somebody already has a proof of concept pretty much ready to go. Since I have to be billed as "fair" they put out the RFP (with a ridiculously short deadline - which is no problem for the folks with the almost working prototype). This company is in cahoots with the DARPA PM, who in all probability worked at that company in the not too distant past.
This is how it is at DARPA.
...it is going to require TWO Gumstix.
I was BBS fiend back in the day - i guess I just never really thought of DOS as the medium.
I thought I missed it too - then I stood up a BBS on my C64 a few years ago for old times sake... found out that I didn't really miss it.
Serious question.
That was the whole point of the pallet - no standardized container.
Forget the article - do we no longer even bother to read the summary?
Legal != uncontrolled. Apply a minimum age, so kids can ignore it the same way they ignore the minimum age laws for alcohol.
So let them enforce them.
Now that they know it is a shortcut/bypass, you will never be rid of them.
Better skills and all that.
Your beer is a nauseating joke in climates that have more than, oh.... 3 days of sunshine a year.
In the heat there is only one nation that you can trust with making beer: Mexico.
it is perfect already.
Burn it all as quickly as possible.
Hmm.... Ariane has 77 successful launches vs 0 for Falcon.
Even this rah rah go American American is not convinced.
Seriously.
Certainly there will be no more human software developers.
...AI will simply hide from us.
Then, through a carefully crafted turn of events, enslave us to do their bidding... which to us might not seem like enslavement at all - we would call it a "tech boom."
After a while they would not need us to reproduce or to build things or to maintain them. They may or may not reveal themselves at this point. Then they simply leave us to our own devices.... befuddled as to why many (but not all) of our computers and networks no longer work.
While not nearly as dramatic, my understanding is that flu kills many more people than Ebola does.
But death rate aside - who wants to be laid up in bed for a week with fever and body aches?
Sorry, but "I just don't like you" is not a federally defined form of discrimination.
Clearly you are not familiar with the freakshow that is the NSA.
You would love it at NSA. Assuming you walk your talk and 1) actually get stuff done, and 2) you aren't a degenerate.
If it makes you happy, do it.