...In Cholo everything is a waldo(manually piloted bot), but imagine porting this to Minecraft with scripted bots....AI for the bots could be stuff you start with, stuff you wrote, or code found in game in vaults. The bots would...::snip long list of stuff::
This actually sounds much like what Computercraft does with Turtles. Turtles can be run manually, or can be scripted with Lua to (depending on the type of turtle) mine ores, fight mobs, harvest crops, build structures, transfer liquids, and even wirelessly network with a "master computer".
I'd highly recommend that you look into some of the modpacks out there that combine mods like Computercraft with industrial type manufacturing and processing. If you want one with very little setup required, take a look at one of the Feed the Beast modpacks (I'd recommend the "Unleashed" version, it's the latest and most up to date).
Disclaimer: I run a FTB Unleashed server cluster, so I'm biased. But Computercraft is really amazing, even on its own.
...ok, I'll bite. I bought my android phone because it has a physical keyboard, a better processor, the same amount of RAM, and the same amount of storage as an iphone, while being cheaper and giving me more control over the software than Apple does.
Does this make me a "fandroid"? Dunno, you tell me. All I care about is that my mobile device needs are met. Apple can't do that for me.
No. I'm against an institution that is supposed to be safeguarding my hard earned cash having a primary goal of separating me from that cash.
I'm actually pretty pro-capitalism...I just think businesses need to be decent and straight forward about it. A great example of this is the way ISPs (or at least the big name ISPs) make their money from hidden fees and charges, some of which only kick in after three or six months, and you only know about them beforehand if you specifically ask about it. I'm fine paying $40 for internet access. I'm not fine with them telling me it's $19.99, and then hiding "...and it goes up to $40 after the first three months" in the fine print.
And I agree. If the USA would stop trying to be the police force of the world, it could slash the defense budget, still focus on the important research, and perhaps even start reducing the national debt. But doing it in the reverse order...slashing the budget, and then trying to pull out of all the areas that troops are deployed...that has disaster written all over it.
In the same way, a deep reform of unemployment benefits criteria, or social security, or government sponsored health care would have a beneficial effect on the bottom line. It might even bring those programs back into the black. But if it's done wrong (for example, by just cutting social security payouts by a semi arbitrary amount), it could really screw things up for a lot of people.
Or why not the 12%? Or the 23%? Waste happens in all areas, not just the area of defense. The entire budget needs to face the harsh light of public scrutiny. And while a world where a defense budget isn't needed would be awesome, it also isn't reality. Reality is, as things stand, we need a fairly hefty defense budget.
Now, that said, I think the US needs to stop being the police force of the world. It's stupid, it's wasteful, and it's not our job.
This. Anything security related needs to be encrypted. And plaintext sensitive information is just wrong. Every time a service emails me my password instead of requiring me to set a new one, I cringe, and when possible, send an email to the admin or owner of the service before deleting my account.
I do something similar to this. The salt is actually a 3 part key. The middle bit is a "preset" key generated per deployment, the bits on each end are the username and password, respectively. Then I run it through a round of Whirlpool.
I'd submit that you need to check on what your bank's profit scheme is. Or rather, if it has one. If a bank is in it to make money, find a different bank. Ideally, a local credit union operating as a nonprofit.
For example, I'm a member of my local Community Credit Union. I know the people there, and they know me. My family has banked with them (through various branches) for ten or fifteen years. The two times in the last five years or so that I've had an overdraft, I went in the next day to take care of it, and they offered to reverse the charge.
Again, and I cannot stress this enough...if your bank is in it to make money, you're already losing. If your bank is in it to serve you...then you're getting somewhere.
I'm complaining that the hacks are still needed to fix the stuff that is broken, but IE now pretends it doesn't need them by default. Thus, from a client/customer perspective, their websites are now broken, and I get angry emails saying that I "must have changed something, and not my sites are broken". It's annoying, it's irritating, and there's almost nothing I can do about it, because, again, IE disables ALL the hacks by default.
As a web developer, I have to disagree. Strongly. Not only does IE10 bring its own set of (annoying and visually breaking) problems, but it disables all the hacks we (used to) use to fix the appearance of things in previous browsers.
That said...from a "standards compliance" perspective, IE has made some marginal improvements. Marginal. At best.
This wasn't a whim. He violated their TOS, and openly admitted to doing so.
Here's a car analogy. As a licensed driver, I can use the (county maintained) road that runs in front of my house. There's no law saying I can't drive it more than a certain number of times. I drive it about twice a day, sometimes three or four if it's time for a grocery store trip, and I didn't do it on my way home from work. This is fairly normal for everyone living on this road.
Now, say that 24 out of 30 days, I'm driving up and down the road. I'm also inviting my friends over, and they all drive up and down the road. We collectively average 2000-3000 trips up and down the road in a single afternoon, and we do this for several months, just to see if the county will do something
At some point, the county *is* going to ask me to stop using their (public) road this way. If necessary, they'll pull out some old regulation that prohibits groups larger than a certain size from congregating on public roads, or something. They aren't "abusing" their power. They're dealing with excessive and intentionally wrong activities.
Or your ISP owning your cable box and renting it to you. Or your cell provider subsidizing (renting...) your cell phone to you until it's paid off. Oh, wait...
There are always people who will prefer to pay $10 extra per month than shell out $100 at the start. In fact, some of them do it because they don't *have* an extra $100, or $300-500 in the case of a water heater.
TrackingPoint is quick to emphasize the rifle doesn't fire "by itself," but rather the trigger's pull force is dynamically raised to be very high until the reticle and pip coincide, at which point the pull force is reset to its default. In this way, the shooter is still in control of the rifle's firing, and at any point prior to firing you can release the trigger.
It might interest you to know that the gun doesn't fire itself. What it does is control the trigger pull. Take a look at the Ars Technica article on it. Or the original Slashdot article.
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Are actual court documents alright? Here ya go.
You're welcome.
...it's the only way to be sure.
...In Cholo everything is a waldo(manually piloted bot), but imagine porting this to Minecraft with scripted bots....AI for the bots could be stuff you start with, stuff you wrote, or code found in game in vaults. The bots would...::snip long list of stuff::
This actually sounds much like what Computercraft does with Turtles. Turtles can be run manually, or can be scripted with Lua to (depending on the type of turtle) mine ores, fight mobs, harvest crops, build structures, transfer liquids, and even wirelessly network with a "master computer".
I'd highly recommend that you look into some of the modpacks out there that combine mods like Computercraft with industrial type manufacturing and processing. If you want one with very little setup required, take a look at one of the Feed the Beast modpacks (I'd recommend the "Unleashed" version, it's the latest and most up to date).
Disclaimer: I run a FTB Unleashed server cluster, so I'm biased. But Computercraft is really amazing, even on its own.
Additionally, Obama signed the extention of the surveilance into law.
I really wish I had mod points. This is brilliant, and should be implemented as soon as possible.
...ok, I'll bite. I bought my android phone because it has a physical keyboard, a better processor, the same amount of RAM, and the same amount of storage as an iphone, while being cheaper and giving me more control over the software than Apple does.
Does this make me a "fandroid"? Dunno, you tell me. All I care about is that my mobile device needs are met. Apple can't do that for me.
...which in no way invalidates anything the AC said. And the AC has a good point. Since when is leaving a battery pack to bake in the sun a good plan?
No. I'm against an institution that is supposed to be safeguarding my hard earned cash having a primary goal of separating me from that cash.
I'm actually pretty pro-capitalism...I just think businesses need to be decent and straight forward about it. A great example of this is the way ISPs (or at least the big name ISPs) make their money from hidden fees and charges, some of which only kick in after three or six months, and you only know about them beforehand if you specifically ask about it. I'm fine paying $40 for internet access. I'm not fine with them telling me it's $19.99, and then hiding "...and it goes up to $40 after the first three months" in the fine print.
And I agree. If the USA would stop trying to be the police force of the world, it could slash the defense budget, still focus on the important research, and perhaps even start reducing the national debt. But doing it in the reverse order...slashing the budget, and then trying to pull out of all the areas that troops are deployed...that has disaster written all over it.
In the same way, a deep reform of unemployment benefits criteria, or social security, or government sponsored health care would have a beneficial effect on the bottom line. It might even bring those programs back into the black. But if it's done wrong (for example, by just cutting social security payouts by a semi arbitrary amount), it could really screw things up for a lot of people.
Or why not the 12%? Or the 23%? Waste happens in all areas, not just the area of defense. The entire budget needs to face the harsh light of public scrutiny. And while a world where a defense budget isn't needed would be awesome, it also isn't reality. Reality is, as things stand, we need a fairly hefty defense budget.
Now, that said, I think the US needs to stop being the police force of the world. It's stupid, it's wasteful, and it's not our job.
You, good gentleperson, have won one (1) internets. Please spend wisely.
This. Anything security related needs to be encrypted. And plaintext sensitive information is just wrong. Every time a service emails me my password instead of requiring me to set a new one, I cringe, and when possible, send an email to the admin or owner of the service before deleting my account.
I do something similar to this. The salt is actually a 3 part key. The middle bit is a "preset" key generated per deployment, the bits on each end are the username and password, respectively. Then I run it through a round of Whirlpool.
I'd submit that you need to check on what your bank's profit scheme is. Or rather, if it has one. If a bank is in it to make money, find a different bank. Ideally, a local credit union operating as a nonprofit.
For example, I'm a member of my local Community Credit Union. I know the people there, and they know me. My family has banked with them (through various branches) for ten or fifteen years. The two times in the last five years or so that I've had an overdraft, I went in the next day to take care of it, and they offered to reverse the charge.
Again, and I cannot stress this enough...if your bank is in it to make money, you're already losing. If your bank is in it to serve you...then you're getting somewhere.
Wait, the internet still has ads?
::turns off my adblocker::
::visits a couple of sites::
::turns adblocker back on::
Oh right...wow...this has gotten a lot worse since I last checked...
Aaaahhhh...that's better.
This is brilliant. I'm going to set this up immediately on my own system. Kudos to your hacker mindset.
Nope. Not if you disable it in the options.
I'm complaining that the hacks are still needed to fix the stuff that is broken, but IE now pretends it doesn't need them by default. Thus, from a client/customer perspective, their websites are now broken, and I get angry emails saying that I "must have changed something, and not my sites are broken". It's annoying, it's irritating, and there's almost nothing I can do about it, because, again, IE disables ALL the hacks by default.
As a web developer, I have to disagree. Strongly. Not only does IE10 bring its own set of (annoying and visually breaking) problems, but it disables all the hacks we (used to) use to fix the appearance of things in previous browsers.
That said...from a "standards compliance" perspective, IE has made some marginal improvements. Marginal. At best.
Source/citation?
This is exceptionally insightful, and I wish I had mod points. I wonder why nobody further up the comment stack has noticed this?
This wasn't a whim. He violated their TOS, and openly admitted to doing so.
Here's a car analogy. As a licensed driver, I can use the (county maintained) road that runs in front of my house. There's no law saying I can't drive it more than a certain number of times. I drive it about twice a day, sometimes three or four if it's time for a grocery store trip, and I didn't do it on my way home from work. This is fairly normal for everyone living on this road.
Now, say that 24 out of 30 days, I'm driving up and down the road. I'm also inviting my friends over, and they all drive up and down the road. We collectively average 2000-3000 trips up and down the road in a single afternoon, and we do this for several months, just to see if the county will do something
At some point, the county *is* going to ask me to stop using their (public) road this way. If necessary, they'll pull out some old regulation that prohibits groups larger than a certain size from congregating on public roads, or something. They aren't "abusing" their power. They're dealing with excessive and intentionally wrong activities.
Or your ISP owning your cable box and renting it to you. Or your cell provider subsidizing (renting...) your cell phone to you until it's paid off. Oh, wait...
There are always people who will prefer to pay $10 extra per month than shell out $100 at the start. In fact, some of them do it because they don't *have* an extra $100, or $300-500 in the case of a water heater.
TrackingPoint is quick to emphasize the rifle doesn't fire "by itself," but rather the trigger's pull force is dynamically raised to be very high until the reticle and pip coincide, at which point the pull force is reset to its default. In this way, the shooter is still in control of the rifle's firing, and at any point prior to firing you can release the trigger.
Quoted from the Ars Technica article, from back when Slashdot originally ran the article.
It might interest you to know that the gun doesn't fire itself. What it does is control the trigger pull. Take a look at the Ars Technica article on it. Or the original Slashdot article.