(Yes, I am aware that this isn't actually a matter of civil liberties, but it is undoubtably related and similar.)
I don't have a slightest bit of problem with this type of news being on/. The newest law permitting 'shoot on sight' for suspected terrorists is of considerably greater interest to me than the latest color of iMac.
Hello, hello...I'm one of the high school students who participated in this little forum. I created Nox with another student - it was a fairly simple nine-module robot with an IR sensor on each leg that had equal impetus to move away from light and toward darkness...anyway, point, point.
This area of development was very interesting indeed when seen from the inside; fallibility of the modules, and the necessity of primarily-software solutions, were issues, but the former at least is conceivably solvable by programming a highly complex robot to actually replace its modules. Ideally, the code for these robots would be as generalized and polymorphic as their forms...when that happens, we could see something very interesting indeed.
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And then we figure out zero-point energy, and start to change the fundamental constants of the universe...
Yep, quite a bit...1.21 jigawatts, if I recall correctly.
So, what, Nerds don't care about civil liberties?
/. The newest law permitting 'shoot on sight' for suspected terrorists is of considerably greater interest to me than the latest color of iMac.
(Yes, I am aware that this isn't actually a matter of civil liberties, but it is undoubtably related and similar.)
I don't have a slightest bit of problem with this type of news being on
Rainforests into trash dumps! Of -course!- Why didn't I think of it before?
Hello, hello...I'm one of the high school students who participated in this little forum. I created Nox with another student - it was a fairly simple nine-module robot with an IR sensor on each leg that had equal impetus to move away from light and toward darkness...anyway, point, point.
This area of development was very interesting indeed when seen from the inside; fallibility of the modules, and the necessity of primarily-software solutions, were issues, but the former at least is conceivably solvable by programming a highly complex robot to actually replace its modules. Ideally, the code for these robots would be as generalized and polymorphic as their forms...when that happens, we could see something very interesting indeed.