What I don't understand is why (FTFA) they arrested him with weapons drawn like he's a dangerous thug. What, might he at any moment whip out some freaky pirate-fu and delete them, their kittens and their backups using his bluetooth remote? And this in the same country where any suspected white-collar criminal will be escorted out of his plush penthouse office with a mere "Sir, please come with us."
This might have an opposite effect. Suppose they/did/ blur out all these sensitive structures. Isn't that kind of like waving a flag, pointing and saying "OMG, please blow up anywhere but here - oh no, please not RIGHT HERE."
I can't speak for the US, but in Australia to use the defense that an otherwise libelous statement is true it must also be shown to be in the public interest to disseminate. For example, if you have evidence to say that a public figure takes drugs, you could argue that it's important to bring to the attention of the general public. If you had evidence to say that a private citizen is a bastard, while true, it isn't clearly in the public interest and it could be held to be libelous.
I do something very similiar online by swapping in and out of a Slashdot or Gizmodo page every 15 minutes or so. It gives my brain a rest from one task and keeps it stimulated with another. I'm much less attentive and productive when I don't have a terminal in front of me to provide context switching every so often.
Don't forget that crappy third season where they temporarily establish 'New Washington' on an island in the South Pacific, before being taken over by the Chinese.
I should point out that one does not have to die in order to be 'affected'. I chose that word quite purposefully. I do not care substantially that someone, somewhere, whom I do not know, was killed. I do care that every time I fly, somebody in a uniform is compelled to peer into my belongings, wave a wand over me and decide I'm sufficiently not suspicious. Millions of people have been inconvenienced by the actions of a few vile people - no, we're not dead, but now we live in the sort of quasi-police states we used to sneer at the communists for. Don't take my comments to detract from the horror of those who have been killed either in nuclear attacks or by terrorists, but remember that the goals of terrorism are political, not military. We are seeing the political consequences of their success.
The pictured robot is designed to lift and transport elderly patients. And you're right - it IS a doll, because nobody in their right mind would trust a robot to handle an actual human until it has been very very thoroughly tested.
I have never read such utter drivel in all my life. There was a problem with the code and a researcher got trapped - this doesn't mean the robot is lovesick, it means their OH&S has a serious problem. Really, she should not have been working alone with potentially dangerous hardware like that - powerful robots (capable of lifting humans, like this one) can be deadly.
YIAARTYVM (Yes, I Am A Roboticist, Thank You Very Much) and I've worked with potentially lethal automated systems in the past - we had very stringent safety protocols in place to protect students and researchers in the case of unintended activation of the hardware.
To say that the robot is 'love stricken' or any other anthropomorphised nonsense simply detracts from the reality that their safety measures failed and someone could have been killed.
because making a rocket go a few extra thousand miles is such a challenge compared to developing a nuclear bomb.
Quite so. There are plenty of horrible, horrible non-nuclear weapons out there that can be delivered by ICBM that aren't nearly as difficult to develop. A good solid hit on downtown Washington and you've made as much as a political statement as a mushroom cloud. Nukes are only 'The Bomb' because of their emotional impact. Consider: people turned aircraft into weapons and now every airline passenger is treated like a criminal. Arguably more people have been effected by the World Trade Centre attacks than nuclear weapons. The sad truth is that you can kill people with a cricket bat if you try hard enough. Disposing of nukes, or guns or cricket bats won't stop violence. The only way to ensure lasting peace is through diplomacy and not engaging in international dipshittery.
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Exactly. It should have included a car, somewhere.
Why do kid's vitamins ads feature amplified dog mastication? I'd like to have been sitting in on that board meeting...
"Gentlemen, the data is clear. Our boys have been through it twice and it's no mistake: canine mastication sells vitamins. And the louder the better. We're going to take this ad campaign coast-to-coast. Dogs chewing on every television set across the country, high-volume broadcasts on tv, radio and cinemas. Gentlemen of the board, this is truly a new era in the marketing of nutritional supplement products."
The problem here is that it's not that the plastic is 'unclean' but that the material has chemically reacted with UV and fire retardants to fade the plastic itself. It's the MacBeth of stains - you scrub and it never comes out.
Your argument might be valid if A. you had an impressively low uid to backup your differing opinion, and B. they weren't absolutely correct. That said, a low user id doesn't mean you actually/know/ anything, just that you've been around longer; age does not necessarily correlate with sense.
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Tut tut. Copyright violators are dangerous criminals who might, at any moment, delete your kittens. Prison is the only safe place for them.
What I don't understand is why (FTFA) they arrested him with weapons drawn like he's a dangerous thug. What, might he at any moment whip out some freaky pirate-fu and delete them, their kittens and their backups using his bluetooth remote? And this in the same country where any suspected white-collar criminal will be escorted out of his plush penthouse office with a mere "Sir, please come with us."
Lest we forget 'lulz'
This might have an opposite effect. Suppose they /did/ blur out all these sensitive structures. Isn't that kind of like waving a flag, pointing and saying "OMG, please blow up anywhere but here - oh no, please not RIGHT HERE."
I can't speak for the US, but in Australia to use the defense that an otherwise libelous statement is true it must also be shown to be in the public interest to disseminate. For example, if you have evidence to say that a public figure takes drugs, you could argue that it's important to bring to the attention of the general public. If you had evidence to say that a private citizen is a bastard, while true, it isn't clearly in the public interest and it could be held to be libelous.
I do something very similiar online by swapping in and out of a Slashdot or Gizmodo page every 15 minutes or so. It gives my brain a rest from one task and keeps it stimulated with another. I'm much less attentive and productive when I don't have a terminal in front of me to provide context switching every so often.
Don't forget to reverse the polarity.
You maniacs - you blew it up!
Don't forget that crappy third season where they temporarily establish 'New Washington' on an island in the South Pacific, before being taken over by the Chinese.
I should point out that one does not have to die in order to be 'affected'. I chose that word quite purposefully. I do not care substantially that someone, somewhere, whom I do not know, was killed. I do care that every time I fly, somebody in a uniform is compelled to peer into my belongings, wave a wand over me and decide I'm sufficiently not suspicious. Millions of people have been inconvenienced by the actions of a few vile people - no, we're not dead, but now we live in the sort of quasi-police states we used to sneer at the communists for. Don't take my comments to detract from the horror of those who have been killed either in nuclear attacks or by terrorists, but remember that the goals of terrorism are political, not military. We are seeing the political consequences of their success.
The pictured robot is designed to lift and transport elderly patients. And you're right - it IS a doll, because nobody in their right mind would trust a robot to handle an actual human until it has been very very thoroughly tested.
YIAARTYVM (Yes, I Am A Roboticist, Thank You Very Much) and I've worked with potentially lethal automated systems in the past - we had very stringent safety protocols in place to protect students and researchers in the case of unintended activation of the hardware.
To say that the robot is 'love stricken' or any other anthropomorphised nonsense simply detracts from the reality that their safety measures failed and someone could have been killed.
It's got electrolytes.
Yes, but why would you want to cast shells for the large 16" guns on the Iowa class battleships? The last Iowa battleship was decommissioned in 1992.
because making a rocket go a few extra thousand miles is such a challenge compared to developing a nuclear bomb.
Quite so. There are plenty of horrible, horrible non-nuclear weapons out there that can be delivered by ICBM that aren't nearly as difficult to develop. A good solid hit on downtown Washington and you've made as much as a political statement as a mushroom cloud. Nukes are only 'The Bomb' because of their emotional impact. Consider: people turned aircraft into weapons and now every airline passenger is treated like a criminal. Arguably more people have been effected by the World Trade Centre attacks than nuclear weapons. The sad truth is that you can kill people with a cricket bat if you try hard enough. Disposing of nukes, or guns or cricket bats won't stop violence. The only way to ensure lasting peace is through diplomacy and not engaging in international dipshittery.
Exactly. It should have included a car, somewhere.
"Gentlemen, the data is clear. Our boys have been through it twice and it's no mistake: canine mastication sells vitamins. And the louder the better. We're going to take this ad campaign coast-to-coast. Dogs chewing on every television set across the country, high-volume broadcasts on tv, radio and cinemas. Gentlemen of the board, this is truly a new era in the marketing of nutritional supplement products."
You see a turtle on its back...
Braille porn where you can 'touch' the pictures? You sir, might be the greatest genius of our age.
The problem here is that it's not that the plastic is 'unclean' but that the material has chemically reacted with UV and fire retardants to fade the plastic itself. It's the MacBeth of stains - you scrub and it never comes out.
This was also what I immediately thought of - my poor old faded Millennium Falcon will ride again!
Just like that - which is why P2P traffic should be prioritised. It potentially services more people per packet.
And with the highest incarceration rate in the world, they are also "Land of the free".
"Stop piracy and stop child porn": there are no clearer codewords for economically motivated user rights infringement.
Your argument might be valid if A. you had an impressively low uid to backup your differing opinion, and B. they weren't absolutely correct. That said, a low user id doesn't mean you actually /know/ anything, just that you've been around longer; age does not necessarily correlate with sense.