Re:The next generation of military robots
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Singer deals with these and a lot of other stuff that is pretty far out there - he does not only deal with current and past tech. Maybe I wasn't clear about that. He does a pretty good job discussing the whole swarm idea and what it could mean. And he very much deals with what this means in terms of China and India.
There are robot sentries deployed along the DMZ in Korea. It's pretty simple - humans that come into the areas they guard will get killed. I think we'll see more of this, in exactly the scenario you describe. An area will be declared a free fire zone - and then automated systems will be sent in to operate autonomously.
And I'm sure you meant this - but if robots had gone into Fallujah and been effective - the casualty outcome would have been very different for the U.S. just not for their adversaries.
Re:rock or a UAV
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That's how the taboo comes into existence. Once a type of weapons system is developed it only becomes a question of time before it is deployed.
Singer deals with this to some extent and discusses that it is highly likely that we will see govt/corporations of the future using robots to enforce control in urban settings. It's a disturbing book in a few ways - but it is stuff that needs to be brought to light and examined.
Right now the primary resistance to American military involvement in foreign theatres has come as a result of American casualties. What happens when we just fly a bunch of machines in and no lives are lost on our side? This is stuff people need to be thinking about now.
I would say yes. There are issues that arise with more complicated killing machines that don't exist in the rock equation. Though I would say even with the rock, there are many complicated questions because human activity never happens in a vacuum. But as the chain of events and number of people involved in the taking of a life grows then new considerations come into the mix. For example with the rock - there is no programmer back home with some level of complicity in the use of the rock.
I thought this was a great article - though I thought there assumption that this is a brand new thing outside China is mistaken because of what's been going on at reddit or with/b for some time now. The stuff you mention is a perfect example of how this kind of stuff can be great, or terrible depending upon your point of view.
According to wikipedia it's a new anime that is staying closer to the manga. Lot of the same voice talent as the first anime and the same look. I'm enjoying it so far.
MS is pouring a ton of money into advertising bing. I was watching a few episodes of the new Full Metal Alchemist on hulu yesterday and every episode had nothing but adds for a big bing promotional that is going to be live on hulu. They are calling it Bingathon
It's hard to see how someone wrote this post today - when the same site shows that Bing surpassing Yahoo! only lasted for a day. TechCrunch already pointed this out yesterday. Bing may or may not have a big impact - but I think it will take some more time before we know whether it will or not. There is certainly a very long way to go before it even begins to approach google.
As I doubt I'll ever have an opportunity to go. PAX on the other hand - I haven't made it yet but I will eventually. So e3? meh. PAX? yes- absolutely I am stoked it is doing well as I look forward to being a part of it in the future.
I was discussing this with a current commercial pilot - he's the one who brought up the concerns. He mentioned that they were told cockpit voice data would always be private when it first was recorded, but as you know - now it's pretty much always made available. Now others would have real time access to all discussions on all flights. I think that is what would be problematic for flight crews.
Sure there are more witnesses in an operating room - and all of them have strong motivations to not always give all the facts in certain situations. Same thing with hospital rooms. A nurse almost killed my father once - in the middle of the night. There was no one else around but that nurse and a couple other co-workers. If they had done him in would we have ever received a full and accurate disclosure of what happened? I don't know.
You raise good points - I can see it both ways and am not sure what would be best. But I do find it a powerful argument that if the primary concern is saving lives - there is a lot more low hanging fruit out there that is ignored purely due to the emotional and psychological reactions to air disasters.
I have to repeat first that I think all guesses are just blind guesses - so that's all I'm doing. I'm no expert, pilot, etc.
Exerting enough force, though the amount may indeed not be huge, would need to be done with speed a human does not have. I've linked to a chart of the levels of protection that can be turned off in an airbus somewhere else here in the thread.
Then, in an environment that is dynamic enough, moving at all can become extremely difficult.
But really -- I don't know and I wouldn't argue that I'm an not an idiot. Just throwing junk out there like everyone else and hoping we can get those black boxes or some other definitive information that will help us to understand what happened.
A ton of data is already constantly sent out and recorded, but the amount the black box records is pretty immense and would be pretty expensive. If cockpit voice data was to be included in this I think there would be resistance from pilot unions.
Tack on the fact that very few people die this way compared to many other ways - it would make more sense to put cameras and microphones in operating and hospital rooms than beam everything live from a cockpit to ground. (The hospital thing is one example- there are many others. Say cameras and microphones in every automobile.)
Look at the bottom of this chart - as I understand it there is a last level of control that is manual. I really don't know - I'm just making a wag that's as good as any, which I point out up front.
So any guess is equally likely/unlikely until there is more information. I think even a lot of the 'debris' they've found is probably not from the jet.
They disengaged the main flight control system because they thought it was flying too fast in the turbulence, or was causing too much passenger discomfort.
They slowed down to a very narrow margin above stall speed.
They hit a 100 mph updraft, causing the AOA to go beyond the stall angle.
They went into a high-speed dive.
Because they were on manual backup control they could not exert enough force on the controls to recover before Vne or the flutter speed of something was attained.
The resulting asymmetric forces caused a violent departure from normal flight.
At a speed probably above Vne, that resulted in the aircraft structure being instantly destroyed.
This accounts for the fact that there was a an elapsed time of approximately a minute between the first failure messages and the last.
If it had been a bomb, or simple explosive decompression from another source, that time would have been at most a few seconds, and more likely zero.
The crew was struggling, all three physically, to pull the aircraft out of a high-speed dive and nobody had a chance to radio what the hell was happening.
Over the years I've offered help staying secure to friends, co-workers, etc. and I've learned that they just don't care. Most people only want help in one situation- when they have a virus that interferes with their computer working properly. Then they want it removed so they can go back to doing all the stuff that got it on their machine.
If you don't believe me - tell someone who isn't a tech person to go read this blog post. A week or two later ask them if they read it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say over 90% wont.
Or talk to someone like that about security. Watch as their eyes glaze over and they look for a way to escape.
This was my initial reaction also, at least about buying discs. I quit buying cds a while ago. But then I realized I still buy books - and people are always asking me why.
It's a matter of personal preference and obviously there are still a number of people who want to buy discs. I don't get it - but more power to them.
Then finally, one can't ignore the Amazon part of the equation. Just being visible there could mean a huge boost in visibility for a band and more visitors to sites like the one you envision.
At the very worst a musician could buy their own cd at retail and sell that at the show. They'll get a discount when they get 'payed' for the sale. But I'd be surprised if the service doesn't offer some way to order cd's directly - much like Hulu does for authors. This is pretty much the exact same model - except for whatever reason it's much cheaper. (I'm comparing this to the cost of selling a book on Amazon via hulu with an isbn, etc.)
I didn't know people were still buying games for pcs.
Re:the return of jon katz!
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that hurts. i had katz blocked.
Re:Interesting misspelling
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yes - we've pretty well established this multiple times in the thread. but thank you - I will try to do better in the future. Think about it this way - I made numerous fixes before I submitted it. It could have been a lot worse.
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Singer deals with these and a lot of other stuff that is pretty far out there - he does not only deal with current and past tech. Maybe I wasn't clear about that. He does a pretty good job discussing the whole swarm idea and what it could mean. And he very much deals with what this means in terms of China and India.
There are robot sentries deployed along the DMZ in Korea. It's pretty simple - humans that come into the areas they guard will get killed. I think we'll see more of this, in exactly the scenario you describe. An area will be declared a free fire zone - and then automated systems will be sent in to operate autonomously.
And I'm sure you meant this - but if robots had gone into Fallujah and been effective - the casualty outcome would have been very different for the U.S. just not for their adversaries.
That's how the taboo comes into existence. Once a type of weapons system is developed it only becomes a question of time before it is deployed.
Singer deals with this to some extent and discusses that it is highly likely that we will see govt/corporations of the future using robots to enforce control in urban settings. It's a disturbing book in a few ways - but it is stuff that needs to be brought to light and examined.
Right now the primary resistance to American military involvement in foreign theatres has come as a result of American casualties. What happens when we just fly a bunch of machines in and no lives are lost on our side? This is stuff people need to be thinking about now.
I would say yes. There are issues that arise with more complicated killing machines that don't exist in the rock equation. Though I would say even with the rock, there are many complicated questions because human activity never happens in a vacuum. But as the chain of events and number of people involved in the taking of a life grows then new considerations come into the mix. For example with the rock - there is no programmer back home with some level of complicity in the use of the rock.
I thought this was a great article - though I thought there assumption that this is a brand new thing outside China is mistaken because of what's been going on at reddit or with /b for some time now. The stuff you mention is a perfect example of how this kind of stuff can be great, or terrible depending upon your point of view.
According to wikipedia it's a new anime that is staying closer to the manga. Lot of the same voice talent as the first anime and the same look. I'm enjoying it so far.
23 words to tell me I shouldn't have used 5. Funniest part of my day so far.
It's not what happened in this case - tfa is dated today.
MS is pouring a ton of money into advertising bing. I was watching a few episodes of the new Full Metal Alchemist on hulu yesterday and every episode had nothing but adds for a big bing promotional that is going to be live on hulu. They are calling it Bingathon
It's hard to see how someone wrote this post today - when the same site shows that Bing surpassing Yahoo! only lasted for a day. TechCrunch already pointed this out yesterday. Bing may or may not have a big impact - but I think it will take some more time before we know whether it will or not. There is certainly a very long way to go before it even begins to approach google.
As I doubt I'll ever have an opportunity to go. PAX on the other hand - I haven't made it yet but I will eventually. So e3? meh. PAX? yes- absolutely I am stoked it is doing well as I look forward to being a part of it in the future.
I was discussing this with a current commercial pilot - he's the one who brought up the concerns. He mentioned that they were told cockpit voice data would always be private when it first was recorded, but as you know - now it's pretty much always made available. Now others would have real time access to all discussions on all flights. I think that is what would be problematic for flight crews.
Sure there are more witnesses in an operating room - and all of them have strong motivations to not always give all the facts in certain situations. Same thing with hospital rooms. A nurse almost killed my father once - in the middle of the night. There was no one else around but that nurse and a couple other co-workers. If they had done him in would we have ever received a full and accurate disclosure of what happened? I don't know.
You raise good points - I can see it both ways and am not sure what would be best. But I do find it a powerful argument that if the primary concern is saving lives - there is a lot more low hanging fruit out there that is ignored purely due to the emotional and psychological reactions to air disasters.
I have to repeat first that I think all guesses are just blind guesses - so that's all I'm doing. I'm no expert, pilot, etc.
Exerting enough force, though the amount may indeed not be huge, would need to be done with speed a human does not have. I've linked to a chart of the levels of protection that can be turned off in an airbus somewhere else here in the thread.
Then, in an environment that is dynamic enough, moving at all can become extremely difficult.
But really -- I don't know and I wouldn't argue that I'm an not an idiot. Just throwing junk out there like everyone else and hoping we can get those black boxes or some other definitive information that will help us to understand what happened.
A ton of data is already constantly sent out and recorded, but the amount the black box records is pretty immense and would be pretty expensive. If cockpit voice data was to be included in this I think there would be resistance from pilot unions.
Tack on the fact that very few people die this way compared to many other ways - it would make more sense to put cameras and microphones in operating and hospital rooms than beam everything live from a cockpit to ground. (The hospital thing is one example- there are many others. Say cameras and microphones in every automobile.)
Look at the bottom of this chart - as I understand it there is a last level of control that is manual. I really don't know - I'm just making a wag that's as good as any, which I point out up front.
I'm pretty sure that's what I said. Go take a sedative.
So any guess is equally likely/unlikely until there is more information. I think even a lot of the 'debris' they've found is probably not from the jet.
They disengaged the main flight control system because they thought it was flying too fast in the turbulence, or was causing too much passenger discomfort.
They slowed down to a very narrow margin above stall speed.
They hit a 100 mph updraft, causing the AOA to go beyond the stall angle.
They went into a high-speed dive.
Because they were on manual backup control they could not exert enough force on the controls to recover before Vne or the flutter speed of something was attained.
Something (wing, tail surface, aileron, spoiler... whatever) tore off.
The resulting asymmetric forces caused a violent departure from normal flight.
At a speed probably above Vne, that resulted in the aircraft structure being instantly destroyed.
This accounts for the fact that there was a an elapsed time of approximately a minute between the first failure messages and the last.
If it had been a bomb, or simple explosive decompression from another source, that time would have been at most a few seconds, and more likely zero.
The crew was struggling, all three physically, to pull the aircraft out of a high-speed dive and nobody had a chance to radio what the hell was happening.
That's my call.
Over the years I've offered help staying secure to friends, co-workers, etc. and I've learned that they just don't care. Most people only want help in one situation- when they have a virus that interferes with their computer working properly. Then they want it removed so they can go back to doing all the stuff that got it on their machine.
If you don't believe me - tell someone who isn't a tech person to go read this blog post. A week or two later ask them if they read it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say over 90% wont.
Or talk to someone like that about security. Watch as their eyes glaze over and they look for a way to escape.
Star Wars monopoly usually - regular monopoly some times.
This was my initial reaction also, at least about buying discs. I quit buying cds a while ago. But then I realized I still buy books - and people are always asking me why.
It's a matter of personal preference and obviously there are still a number of people who want to buy discs. I don't get it - but more power to them.
Then finally, one can't ignore the Amazon part of the equation. Just being visible there could mean a huge boost in visibility for a band and more visitors to sites like the one you envision.
At the very worst a musician could buy their own cd at retail and sell that at the show. They'll get a discount when they get 'payed' for the sale. But I'd be surprised if the service doesn't offer some way to order cd's directly - much like Hulu does for authors. This is pretty much the exact same model - except for whatever reason it's much cheaper. (I'm comparing this to the cost of selling a book on Amazon via hulu with an isbn, etc.)
I didn't know people were still buying games for pcs.
that hurts. i had katz blocked.
yes - we've pretty well established this multiple times in the thread. but thank you - I will try to do better in the future. Think about it this way - I made numerous fixes before I submitted it. It could have been a lot worse.