After actually visiting the Magna site, I've found that this "scientific" experiment is actually a modified "Robot Wars" meets Vegas.
They talk more about the "dramatic music and lighting" than the design of the supposed experiment. Furthermore, who builds a custom arena to run a true AI experiment? This is just a publicity/TV ratings ploy.
I don't think these guys took 7th grade Biology. There's supposed to be this "cycle" where everything dies and is used by the lowest members of the food chain.
But what really confuses me is that there are SO few predators. In nature, there are MUCH fewer predators than prey.
They should probably rename the "predators" to "parasites".
. . . you grant Google a worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, non-exclusive license to make, sell, or use . ..
Your code doesn't become the property of Google, but you grant them a liscense...non-exclusive...to do whatever they want with it. This is fully compatible with the GPL.
Another question that should be addressed, but can't be quantified, is how many times an individual bug has been exploited to compromise the security of a system.
The summation of the time a bug was exploitable, as well as the quantified exploitation would be revealing figures (heh heh...figuratively).
For each OS, the exploitation figures would have to be divided by the number of machines running the OS.
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After actually visiting the Magna site, I've found that this "scientific" experiment is actually a modified "Robot Wars" meets Vegas.
They talk more about the "dramatic music and lighting" than the design of the supposed experiment. Furthermore, who builds a custom arena to run a true AI experiment? This is just a publicity/TV ratings ploy.
I don't think these guys took 7th grade Biology. There's supposed to be this "cycle" where everything dies and is used by the lowest members of the food chain.
But what really confuses me is that there are SO few predators. In nature, there are MUCH fewer predators than prey.
They should probably rename the "predators" to "parasites".
. . . you grant Google a worldwide, perpetual, fully paid-up, non-exclusive license to make, sell, or use . . .
Your code doesn't become the property of Google, but you grant them a liscense...non-exclusive...to do whatever they want with it. This is fully compatible with the GPL.
Another question that should be addressed, but can't be quantified, is how many times an individual bug has been exploited to compromise the security of a system.
The summation of the time a bug was exploitable, as well as the quantified exploitation would be revealing figures (heh heh...figuratively).
For each OS, the exploitation figures would have to be divided by the number of machines running the OS.