"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe."
-- Douglas Adams
I think that the problem is people having misconceptions about robots. They're not sentient. They don't think. They only do what we tell them to. Sure there are horror stories about robots coming to life, but there are also horror stories about dead people coming to life, or cars coming to life.
How gullible are you?
I bet a robot told you that.
A big one with glowing red eyes and blood dripping from his brushed-Titanium claws.
The accidental emptying of a container of ducks into the sea was 1992, as you reference above. But the deliberate release of plastic ducks around the world has also been done back in 2001 here: I Found A Duck.
Scientists: "We've made an invisibility cloak that will make your soldiers vanish!"
General: "That's amazing, let's try these out."
Scientists: "Right, Here is one you can try, but if you want more then we need money... a lot of money."
General: "Sorry, the deals off, the soldiers say they can't see out of it when they're inside it."
Scientists: "Give us a few minutes."
[Obligatory view of shed with hammering and sawing noises]
Scientists: "Okay, how about your troops just hide behind it?"
Scientist: "Here, mouse, have some cheese."
[Mouse eats cheese]
Scientist: "Right, now forget about it completely."
[Waits 5 minutes]
Scientist: "Say, mouse, how was that oak-smoked camembert with chive and onion?"
Mouse: "Chive?"
Scientist: "Wow, it works."
Instead, they aim to produce a scholarly evaluation of the current technologies that exist for data mining, their effectiveness, and how government agencies should use them to limit false positives--of the sort that can result in situations like heavily-armed SWAT teams raiding someone's home and shooting their dogs based on the false belief that they were part of a drug ring.
Maybe this was just part of the 'War on Terriers.'
Since Google doesn't own its own fleet of satellites, its only recourse in these cases of deliberate pixelation is to buy more imagery from other sources, which it sometimes does.
YET! Since Google doesn't own its own fleet of satellites YET.
I can confirm will absolute certainty that Schrodinger's cat is dead and, once we wire you up to the scanner, we'll soon be able to see that you clearly remember killing it.
Well it has always bugged me that they have retained the motto 'Faster, higher, stronger.'
Not even archery fits under that motto. Although seeing who could fire an arrow the fastest or the highest might add some new interesting angle... particularly when it comes back down.
"Yes I could just 'inconveniently' say 'paper' to you, but dammit I have a card to do that now... it's in here somewhere... nope, that's my 'dash of milk and two sugars please' card... Ah, here... oh no, that's my small 'good morning' sign that I can hold up to friends and colleagues... there's my 'Is this available in plaid?' card... damn, I think I left it at home with my 'leave the elephant on the trampoline for 5 more minutes and then let the giraffe have a go' card.
The article says that they built up a library using photos of faces downloaded from the internet. So that completely defeats the whole point.
They'll be protecting my privacy by sticking some Brazilian chap onto my face, but equally could end up protecting the same Brazilian chap by sticking my face on him.
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"Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe." -- Douglas Adams
I think that the problem is people having misconceptions about robots. They're not sentient. They don't think. They only do what we tell them to. Sure there are horror stories about robots coming to life, but there are also horror stories about dead people coming to life, or cars coming to life.
How gullible are you?
I bet a robot told you that.
A big one with glowing red eyes and blood dripping from his brushed-Titanium claws.
The accidental emptying of a container of ducks into the sea was 1992, as you reference above. But the deliberate release of plastic ducks around the world has also been done back in 2001 here: I Found A Duck.
Well he does have a beard and leaves strange packages all over the place. In the UK, that's enough to get you shot nowadays.
Scientists: "We've made an invisibility cloak that will make your soldiers vanish!"
General: "That's amazing, let's try these out."
Scientists: "Right, Here is one you can try, but if you want more then we need money... a lot of money."
General: "Sorry, the deals off, the soldiers say they can't see out of it when they're inside it."
Scientists: "Give us a few minutes."
[Obligatory view of shed with hammering and sawing noises]
Scientists: "Okay, how about your troops just hide behind it?"
Scientist: "Here, mouse, have some cheese."
[Mouse eats cheese]
Scientist: "Right, now forget about it completely."
[Waits 5 minutes]
Scientist: "Say, mouse, how was that oak-smoked camembert with chive and onion?"
Mouse: "Chive?"
Scientist: "Wow, it works."
The captain of the Alitalia airliner shouted "Look out" to his co-pilot at the sight of a brown missile-shaped object shooting past them overhead.
Sounds like a big piece of shit to me.
That won't really work on Facebook though, will it?
All the old classmates you try and hook up with will just be sat there thinking "That mad old Afghan woman is poking me again!"
Instead, they aim to produce a scholarly evaluation of the current technologies that exist for data mining, their effectiveness, and how government agencies should use them to limit false positives--of the sort that can result in situations like heavily-armed SWAT teams raiding someone's home and shooting their dogs based on the false belief that they were part of a drug ring.
Maybe this was just part of the 'War on Terriers.'
Anything to do with this?
1st diver: plant the flag over here, comrade.
*Plop... whoosh - bubble - bubble - bubble*
2nd diver: oops.
1st diver: Okay, try over here.
*Plop... whoosh - bubble - bubble - bubble*
Since Google doesn't own its own fleet of satellites, its only recourse in these cases of deliberate pixelation is to buy more imagery from other sources, which it sometimes does.
YET! Since Google doesn't own its own fleet of satellites YET.
A god way to find important buildings
Being able to spin the earth around with just a mouse and peer down on the world certainly is a very god way of finding important buildings.
And they have redefined 'no evil' too.
www.ifoundaduck.com
I just readed the summary and have just conclude that Taco is still up to his eyeses in the drinkses.
I can confirm will absolute certainty that Schrodinger's cat is dead and, once we wire you up to the scanner, we'll soon be able to see that you clearly remember killing it.
...is the fact that it is possible to sneak malicious code onto a user's PC by hiding the code in the airflow behind a flying chair.
If you can find any penguins at all in the Arctic then you have been following the black needle rather than the red one on your compass.
Well it has always bugged me that they have retained the motto 'Faster, higher, stronger.'
Not even archery fits under that motto. Although seeing who could fire an arrow the fastest or the highest might add some new interesting angle... particularly when it comes back down.
"Yes I could just 'inconveniently' say 'paper' to you, but dammit I have a card to do that now... it's in here somewhere... nope, that's my 'dash of milk and two sugars please' card... Ah, here... oh no, that's my small 'good morning' sign that I can hold up to friends and colleagues... there's my 'Is this available in plaid?' card... damn, I think I left it at home with my 'leave the elephant on the trampoline for 5 more minutes and then let the giraffe have a go' card.
The article says that they built up a library using photos of faces downloaded from the internet. So that completely defeats the whole point.
They'll be protecting my privacy by sticking some Brazilian chap onto my face, but equally could end up protecting the same Brazilian chap by sticking my face on him.
Did you mean to say Burma or did you just panic?
That's maybe because the eGold was purified and so had no irony deposits in it at all.
You think it's very irony on that planet?
If it's too irony then we probably won't find what we're expecting if we ever go there.
This won't hurt the poor thing's wrist will it?