The only upside from a manned mission is that we feel all warm and fuzzy when our heroes return from the voyage. Big deal. Sounds odd to say, but I'm with Congress on this one. I just wish they'd taken it farther.
Don't you think we should try to ensure our survival?
What if we never went to the Moon? What if we had never sent anyone into orbit? I don't know about you, but that'd be horribly depressing. The only futures for humanity would be, we all die on this rock, or we struggle endlessly to keep ourselves and our Earth out of the toilet. And what would our legacy be? A few probes?
Just think of all that science fiction (and science fact) that has enhanced all of our lives for so many decades. What would have been the point of making it, if there was no hope for it to ever become reality?
Manned space exploration is ponderous, risky and expensive. But let's not get discouraged. There is a very deep and meaningful reason we should keep plugging along.
A laptop like this provides a nearly inexhaustible portable resource. A resource to write, a resource to create art, a resource to find information, a resource to do math, a resource to code, a resource to play games, a resource to communicate. That's a heck of a bargain for $200. How much do 2 years worth of texts cost? And, it's cool. I'm positive that children will be drawn to it.
Yea, you need basic skills. You also need a means to practice those skills, and expand on them.
It boggles my mind when I hear this argument. I can't imagine 50% of the careers around me without computers. Try being a leader of the modern world when you can't touch type or use the Internet efficiently.
Passenger Pigeon, look it up. Extinct by the hands of humans in 1/100th of the time this took, and there were 5 BILLION of them.
Scientists come in all political alignments. Most of them agree, that this is a very sound theory. The impact of humans upon this Earth is undeniable and factual. I don't care how you feel about it.
This theory is best illustrated by the species of giant ground sloths that inhabited north America.
There were large populations of 4 species of giant ground sloth in North America before humans arrived. They were large powerful creatures with big claws and could easily fend off predators.
However, they were probabbly slow, and easy pickins' for a pack of humans with spears or large rocks.
Eliminating one or two of these species, probabbly interrupted enough of the food chain dependency to accelerate the extinction of other large predators and herbivores.
NASA did not spend a dime on the damn space pen. Both space programs initially used grease pencils (and a few other things), then starting using pens, because yes, it was safer.
Educate.
The hardware is getting cheaper rapidly. In fact, they may be dumping it. Playstation3's cost more to manufacture, advertise and distribute, then they cost. Standalone Blueray players are getting cheaper also. There are more and more deals on HD-DVD players, I've seen them as cheap as $99. Remember, also, you're not just getting a HD-DVD player, but a progressive scan DVD player. If you are upgrading from an interlaced DVD, I think it's even more worth it. The movies are kinda pricey, but not always. And you can rent them.
to DRM shens ( Explain to your mom why the new movie she just bought for 30 bucks doesn't work in her 600 dollar player ).
I'm no fan of restrictive DRM, but I've also no desire to pirate my rented HD-DVD's. I have bought and rented about a 30 HD-DVD's. They've all played perfectly fine.
Maybe you mean confusion? One has a blue case (blue ray) and one has a red case (hd-dvd). If you have a Blue ray player, buy the movies with the Blue case. How freakin' hard is that? Mom and Grandma are not even the target demographic here. Grandma will always be confused by consumer electronics.
Maybe a singular standard would have been better. Or, maybe it would have been worse, because the potential for innovation and competitive pricing/marketing would have been stymied. I guess I'm not seeing how consumers get screwed with how it is now.
I already had an HDTV. I spent a little over $200 for a Toshiba HD-A2 player. Besides playing HD-DVDs it makes all my old DVDs look great because it's a nice progressive scan DVD player. I spent a few bucks at newegg.com on some reasonably priced HD-DVDs and got 5 free HD-DVDs with Toshiba's promotion. I've rented a few through netflix for 4.99/month. Just seeing this in HD on a 42" LCD made it worth every red-cent. I look forward to renting movies more then ever because they are just spectacular to watch.
Whine all you want about consumers getting screwed. But I read reviews from those that actually have the players and I don't see it.
Remember "Man on the Moon by the end of this decade?"
Nothing motivates like a deadline.
It may seem arbitrary, but NASA is doing lots of good, hard work on the ISS these days, and I think maybe that's because the pressure's on.
Yeah, but video on demand isn't going to happen for another 10 or more years.
It's awfully hard to guess 10 years out, but I say we have HD VoD sooner then that. Here's why:
Comcast currently tops of at around 6mbps. Just imagine the bandwidth comcast would need for even 20% of it's customers all streaming 40mbps on a Friday night for 2 hours. They would also need a multitude of servers that could handle streaming all that data out.
1080i (good enough) with mpeg4 compression is not 40Mb/s. It's less then 10mb/s and you're forgetting that VoD servers will be much more local to the customer then say Google video. The bottlenecks in a cable system are usually A.) on the upstream of each node B.) from the backbone and C.) the downstream bandwidth per mac domain (usually a 256QAM downstream modulation profile, which is around 40Mb/s.) Getting rid of B makes streaming > 6Mb to customers from right behind the CMTS much much more feasible very soon. Although right now you might only have 40Mb for each mac domain. Comcast provisions at 6Mb likely because they don't have enough from their localized Internet connection, less likely they have serious bottlenecks in the downstream part of their network. Further, you are forgetting about the rest of the spectrum and I am only speaking what I know better, DOCSIS Internet. One DOCSIS QAM is a tiny fraction of what's available.
The per-user cost of the routers, servers, and set-top boxes has got to be well over twice as much as a blu-ray or HD-DVD player is now. I'm not saying it won't happen, it's just not there yet and I don't see cable companies as smart enough to figure it out.
Unless I'm missing something, Comcast already has HD VoD in some areas. I work for a smaller Cable company. VoD, Never bet against the Internet, broadband is the only true future product, and movies on your PC come up pretty much every tech meeting.
There are DOCSIS enabled set tops right now. You already have 300GB hard drives in DVRs. They'll be some significant cost for the Cable Co, but consumer equipment won't be any more expensive.
All this being said, it's still not true VoD as I think you see it. It's VoD that the Cable Co. lets you have not whatever you can find on the Internet, but still more choice and flexibility then DVDs. I even think that HD "whatever you can find on the Internet" will happen for a good percentage of people in less then 10 years. You can already watch SD TV and movies over a good broadband connection.
That said, essentially, what we have is an issue of upkeep. This world does not run itself and requires input to prevent things from running down, so it been said before, but amateurs discuss things such as strategy, but the experts discuss logistics. And it is logistics that need to be organized in times of planning and scenarios run to discover where the logistical chain breaks down. These weak links in the chain are those areas that need attention and typically those are the links that rely upon people to maintain the flow of information/goods/support.
Maybe this is a little OT, but there is an extensively researched book I'm currently reading that deals with things sort of like this:
It goes without saying, but so many things we take for granted would collapse, without the humans to run them.
Manhattan, for example, would flood in a short 4 days, if not for people to run the drainage pumps.
The book is awesome, I just have to plug it.
I wonder where is the public outcry then?
We certainly have the resources, and for the most part, NASA does what the government (for the people right) tells it.
I think they have done a reasonable job with their ever dwindling resources, their not perfect but their not to blame either.
I try to elect a scientist who cares about these issues to congress, but none of them seem to want to get into politics. Why?
The whole point of the 6502 as well as the 8080 chip was to create a device that could serve the emerging calculator market. Several large contracts landed for the Intel hardware (aka the 8080 chip and the sister 8008 chip) and Motorola was left hanging in the wind trying to figure out how to dump a supply of 6502 chips.
The reason why Woz and presumably Peddle choose the 6502 chip was cost.... it was incredibly cheap (at the time) and could get the job done. In fact, that seems to be virtually the only reason reason it was selected, perhaps besides the fact it could also be purchased in comparatively large quantities.
Where are you getting this? Peddle and his team of engineers left Motorola in disgust because they would not build HIS economical processor, the 6502. He sold the idea to MOS technology, and engineered the 6502, a capable CPU 10 times cheaper then the rest. Yes, it was actually faster and better then the 6800 from Motorola also. It sold like bloody hot-cakes. Motorola never made a single 6502. The 6502 was built by Chuck Peddle at MOS technology.
Peddle used his chip in the PET. Commodore owned MOS at that point even so the deal was golden.
Peddle designed an early kit computer around the 6502 even, the KIM-I. He sold the idea of building computers to Jack Trameil of Commodore. I think the bureaucracy of such a large company delayed the PET by a few months compared to two guys in a garage working together a prototype.
He has said that one of his motivations for making the 6502 was that he wanted to make a PC. He did indeed.. and others with him.
Like I said, read that book. It'll clear things up.
Wozniak was the "first out of the gate" and also came up with the idea that a microcomputer should have something more than a cassette tape mass storage device. There were several innovations in the Apple II that Commodore in fact "copied" from Apple, including the graphics capabilities and disc controllers.
This, I think was his biggest engineering accomplishment. He was good enough to design a cheap, elegant floppy interface. He in fact beat Commodore to it despite Commodore having much more financial resource. Both were working very hard on a floppy controller for CES 1977.
There is an interesting antidote in this book about Peddle's relationship with Woz and their personal interactions. It's evident that Woz owes a great deal to the man.
I highly recommend that book. It gives you much perspective beyond the Apple I&II centric history of PC's.
I would not say there was stealing. Peddle knew very well what the Apple gang was doing, and he saw the development of a PC as inevitable. These were smart visionary people, and it was no secret that the PC would happen. The whole point of making the 6502 was to put microprocessor power into the hands of the masses, and Peddle envisioned a PC as one of the first applications, perhaps years before the two Steve's.
If Woz did steal a few things from Peddle, I would never blame him anyway. Business is ruthless, nice guys finish last, and if this is the only stealing Woz did, he's much better then the rest of them.
I entirely agree. What he did was huge. He practically created the desktop computer as we know it
The HP 9100A, which hit the market long before the Apple, the Commodore PET, which was spearheaded a few years in advance by Commodore / MOS / Motorola engineer Chuck Peddle (who, BTW invented the chip that Steve used to build his Apple and a gazillion other devices) and the Datapoint 2200, would kindly like to disagree with that glowing statement.
Dozens of people created the PC as we know it.
Steve Wozniac stood on Chuck Peddle's shoulders. The 6502 was cheap enough to make a cheap enough PC.
Although I think the GP was a little critical, I can see where someone might get annoyed enough to post like that. The PC arrived through a large complex evolution of many peoples innovations, and I don't even think Steve, engineering wise, was the most important one of that bunch.
Many seem to sing the praises of Woz and his genius with nary a mention of Chuck Peddle and Commodore, which was a much bigger juggernaut early on than Apple. I think Mr. Peddle contributed far more to the foundation of personal computing then did Steve Wozniak.
History is written by the winners, and marketers, I guess.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to diminish Woz, he was definitely in a class all his own, with that brilliant floppy drive and all the early software he wrote, but it's important not to forget who's processor he used.
Like the television, no single person or company invented the PC.
Whenever there is a space story on slashdot, we get comments pining for the privatization of spaceflight. I wish for that also, but I'm pretty pessimistic about it. The financial reward for exploring space is nill. There is no sustainable business model for sending people into space, yet. The viability of commercial communication satellites has given birth to an industry there, but don't expect LEO cruises from United Airlines anytime soon.
So, stuff like this that touches the private sector is always good. Government contracts can keep a small private R&D company in business. Enabling technological competition is a good idea as long as it's done without prejudice. All the problems that were proposed are specific concise things, which is good in that it eliminates the bureaucracy of a large complex project. NASA may have it's problems, but I feel fine spending my tax dollars on this.
What's the point of learning about the planets if we are never going to leave this one?
Don't get me wrong, I see the benefits of unmanned missions, planetary science, meteorology, geology, physics and general technical advancement.. But I also see our steady progress in manned missions as necessary for any kind of permanent human presence in space. We can't stay on this rock forever. We just can't.
You definitely have it backwards. The A1000 had no Kickstart ROM, you had to load it from disk. This changed with every model afterwards.
I will say that it took some time to load Workbench, with that drive churning away.
If you just wanted a shell and bypassed your startup sequence it was faster still. Even with the full blown GUI, it was still much quicker then it's PC counterparts.
Now, an Amiga with a flash drive, that's a sight to see. My A1200, which once had a 44 pin IDE-Flash adapter booted all of OS 3.9 (A pretty robust OS) silently in about 10 seconds.
The Atari ST was the same way early on, you had to load the OS from disk. The kernel went from disk right to memory when it booted up, which reduced the addressable memory by about 160KB. Thankfully, Atari did away with that.
Atari ST with the GEM-DOS ROMS booted much faster then the Amiga!
But the Amiga was better every other way I think.:-p
A great percentage of the complaints against Mandriva stem from their maze of homepages and subverted, hidden or missing download links. It's just not completely obvious where to get Mandriva. It should be.
I've been totally impressed with the 2007.1 (Spring)
It's a little more complete then Ubuntu, is closer to the Red-Hat we use where I work, and has a much improved package management system. Also, the ATI drivers are good and the hardware compatibility has been at least as good as Ubuntu in my experience. The media support and embedded player in firefox has been about flawless, something I did not have with Ubuntu. The updates also seem speedy and have worked flawlessly.
I think my biggest beef with Ubuntu is the RootSudu. I understand the whole disable root login notion, I just can't get used to it. I work faster when I'm really root. I'll just use a strong password.
All that being said, Ubuntu is still very good, and you're right, Mandriva is so damn hard to download. I usually end up cribbing the mirrors listed in the installer and poking around the the ftp/http directories when they release a new version.
I already personify many computers as "moody."
I don't need them to be really, actually, sensitive.
I like the fact that rm -r -f/ always does the same thing, no matter what mood I'm in.
Maybe I really am angry enough to destroy the mail server today.
Let's use this technology on the robot maids instead, and leave emotional discretion up to the humans, ok?
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That site has one of the best captcha's I've ever seen.
Please select all the cats. Pictures supplied (and sponsored) by petfinder.com. Brilliant. Even HAL-9000 might not be able to do that.
Don't you think we should try to ensure our survival?
What if we never went to the Moon? What if we had never sent anyone into orbit? I don't know about you, but that'd be horribly depressing.
The only futures for humanity would be, we all die on this rock, or we struggle endlessly to keep ourselves and our Earth out of the toilet. And what would our legacy be? A few probes?
Just think of all that science fiction (and science fact) that has enhanced all of our lives for so many decades. What would have been the point of making it, if there was no hope for it to ever become reality?
Manned space exploration is ponderous, risky and expensive. But let's not get discouraged. There is a very deep and meaningful reason we should keep plugging along.
A laptop like this provides a nearly inexhaustible portable resource. A resource to write, a resource to create art, a resource to find information, a resource to do math, a resource to code, a resource to play games, a resource to communicate. That's a heck of a bargain for $200. How much do 2 years worth of texts cost? And, it's cool. I'm positive that children will be drawn to it.
Yea, you need basic skills. You also need a means to practice those skills, and expand on them.
It boggles my mind when I hear this argument. I can't imagine 50% of the careers around me without computers. Try being a leader of the modern world when you can't touch type or use the Internet efficiently.
Passenger Pigeon, look it up. Extinct by the hands of humans in 1/100th of the time this took, and there were 5 BILLION of them. Scientists come in all political alignments. Most of them agree, that this is a very sound theory. The impact of humans upon this Earth is undeniable and factual. I don't care how you feel about it.
This theory is best illustrated by the species of giant ground sloths that inhabited north America.
There were large populations of 4 species of giant ground sloth in North America before humans arrived. They were large powerful creatures with big claws and could easily fend off predators.
However, they were probabbly slow, and easy pickins' for a pack of humans with spears or large rocks.
Eliminating one or two of these species, probabbly interrupted enough of the food chain dependency to accelerate the extinction of other large predators and herbivores.
NASA did not spend a dime on the damn space pen. Both space programs initially used grease pencils (and a few other things), then starting using pens, because yes, it was safer. Educate.
The hardware is getting cheaper rapidly. In fact, they may be dumping it. Playstation3's cost more to manufacture, advertise and distribute, then they cost. Standalone Blueray players are getting cheaper also. There are more and more deals on HD-DVD players, I've seen them as cheap as $99. Remember, also, you're not just getting a HD-DVD player, but a progressive scan DVD player. If you are upgrading from an interlaced DVD, I think it's even more worth it. The movies are kinda pricey, but not always. And you can rent them.
I'm no fan of restrictive DRM, but I've also no desire to pirate my rented HD-DVD's. I have bought and rented about a 30 HD-DVD's. They've all played perfectly fine.
Maybe you mean confusion? One has a blue case (blue ray) and one has a red case (hd-dvd). If you have a Blue ray player, buy the movies with the Blue case. How freakin' hard is that? Mom and Grandma are not even the target demographic here. Grandma will always be confused by consumer electronics.
Maybe a singular standard would have been better. Or, maybe it would have been worse, because the potential for innovation and competitive pricing/marketing would have been stymied. I guess I'm not seeing how consumers get screwed with how it is now.
I already had an HDTV. I spent a little over $200 for a Toshiba HD-A2 player. Besides playing HD-DVDs it makes all my old DVDs look great because it's a nice progressive scan DVD player. I spent a few bucks at newegg.com on some reasonably priced HD-DVDs and got 5 free HD-DVDs with Toshiba's promotion. I've rented a few through netflix for 4.99/month. Just seeing this in HD on a 42" LCD made it worth every red-cent. I look forward to renting movies more then ever because they are just spectacular to watch.
Whine all you want about consumers getting screwed. But I read reviews from those that actually have the players and I don't see it.
Remember "Man on the Moon by the end of this decade?"
Nothing motivates like a deadline. It may seem arbitrary, but NASA is doing lots of good, hard work on the ISS these days, and I think maybe that's because the pressure's on.
KHHHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN! Yea, that turned out badly.
It's awfully hard to guess 10 years out, but I say we have HD VoD sooner then that. Here's why:
1080i (good enough) with mpeg4 compression is not 40Mb/s. It's less then 10mb/s and you're forgetting that VoD servers will be much more local to the customer then say Google video. The bottlenecks in a cable system are usually A.) on the upstream of each node B.) from the backbone and C.) the downstream bandwidth per mac domain (usually a 256QAM downstream modulation profile, which is around 40Mb/s.) Getting rid of B makes streaming > 6Mb to customers from right behind the CMTS much much more feasible very soon. Although right now you might only have 40Mb for each mac domain. Comcast provisions at 6Mb likely because they don't have enough from their localized Internet connection, less likely they have serious bottlenecks in the downstream part of their network. Further, you are forgetting about the rest of the spectrum and I am only speaking what I know better, DOCSIS Internet. One DOCSIS QAM is a tiny fraction of what's available.
Unless I'm missing something, Comcast already has HD VoD in some areas. I work for a smaller Cable company. VoD, Never bet against the Internet, broadband is the only true future product, and movies on your PC come up pretty much every tech meeting.
There are DOCSIS enabled set tops right now. You already have 300GB hard drives in DVRs. They'll be some significant cost for the Cable Co, but consumer equipment won't be any more expensive.
All this being said, it's still not true VoD as I think you see it. It's VoD that the Cable Co. lets you have not whatever you can find on the Internet, but still more choice and flexibility then DVDs. I even think that HD "whatever you can find on the Internet" will happen for a good percentage of people in less then 10 years. You can already watch SD TV and movies over a good broadband connection.
So it's as fast as MS-Office. :=p
http://www.worldwithoutus.com/index2.html
It goes without saying, but so many things we take for granted would collapse, without the humans to run them. Manhattan, for example, would flood in a short 4 days, if not for people to run the drainage pumps. The book is awesome, I just have to plug it.
I wonder where is the public outcry then? We certainly have the resources, and for the most part, NASA does what the government (for the people right) tells it. I think they have done a reasonable job with their ever dwindling resources, their not perfect but their not to blame either.
I try to elect a scientist who cares about these issues to congress, but none of them seem to want to get into politics. Why?
Peddle used his chip in the PET. Commodore owned MOS at that point even so the deal was golden.
Peddle designed an early kit computer around the 6502 even, the KIM-I. He sold the idea of building computers to Jack Trameil of Commodore. I think the bureaucracy of such a large company delayed the PET by a few months compared to two guys in a garage working together a prototype.
He has said that one of his motivations for making the 6502 was that he wanted to make a PC. He did indeed.. and others with him. Like I said, read that book. It'll clear things up.
There is an interesting antidote in this book about Peddle's relationship with Woz and their personal interactions. It's evident that Woz owes a great deal to the man.
I highly recommend that book. It gives you much perspective beyond the Apple I&II centric history of PC's.
I would not say there was stealing. Peddle knew very well what the Apple gang was doing, and he saw the development of a PC as inevitable. These were smart visionary people, and it was no secret that the PC would happen. The whole point of making the 6502 was to put microprocessor power into the hands of the masses, and Peddle envisioned a PC as one of the first applications, perhaps years before the two Steve's. If Woz did steal a few things from Peddle, I would never blame him anyway. Business is ruthless, nice guys finish last, and if this is the only stealing Woz did, he's much better then the rest of them.
Dozens of people created the PC as we know it.
Steve Wozniac stood on Chuck Peddle's shoulders. The 6502 was cheap enough to make a cheap enough PC.
Although I think the GP was a little critical, I can see where someone might get annoyed enough to post like that. The PC arrived through a large complex evolution of many peoples innovations, and I don't even think Steve, engineering wise, was the most important one of that bunch.
Many seem to sing the praises of Woz and his genius with nary a mention of Chuck Peddle and Commodore, which was a much bigger juggernaut early on than Apple. I think Mr. Peddle contributed far more to the foundation of personal computing then did Steve Wozniak.
History is written by the winners, and marketers, I guess.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to diminish Woz, he was definitely in a class all his own, with that brilliant floppy drive and all the early software he wrote, but it's important not to forget who's processor he used.
Like the television, no single person or company invented the PC.
Try this link: http://danish.slashdot.org/
Whenever there is a space story on slashdot, we get comments pining for the privatization of spaceflight. I wish for that also, but I'm pretty pessimistic about it. The financial reward for exploring space is nill. There is no sustainable business model for sending people into space, yet. The viability of commercial communication satellites has given birth to an industry there, but don't expect LEO cruises from United Airlines anytime soon.
So, stuff like this that touches the private sector is always good. Government contracts can keep a small private R&D company in business. Enabling technological competition is a good idea as long as it's done without prejudice. All the problems that were proposed are specific concise things, which is good in that it eliminates the bureaucracy of a large complex project. NASA may have it's problems, but I feel fine spending my tax dollars on this.
Advances to what end?
What's the point of learning about the planets if we are never going to leave this one?
Don't get me wrong, I see the benefits of unmanned missions, planetary science, meteorology, geology, physics and general technical advancement.. But I also see our steady progress in manned missions as necessary for any kind of permanent human presence in space. We can't stay on this rock forever. We just can't.
You definitely have it backwards. The A1000 had no Kickstart ROM, you had to load it from disk. This changed with every model afterwards. I will say that it took some time to load Workbench, with that drive churning away.
:-p
If you just wanted a shell and bypassed your startup sequence it was faster still. Even with the full blown GUI, it was still much quicker then it's PC counterparts.
Now, an Amiga with a flash drive, that's a sight to see. My A1200, which once had a 44 pin IDE-Flash adapter booted all of OS 3.9 (A pretty robust OS) silently in about 10 seconds.
The Atari ST was the same way early on, you had to load the OS from disk. The kernel went from disk right to memory when it booted up, which reduced the addressable memory by about 160KB. Thankfully, Atari did away with that.
Atari ST with the GEM-DOS ROMS booted much faster then the Amiga!
But the Amiga was better every other way I think.
A great percentage of the complaints against Mandriva stem from their maze of homepages and subverted, hidden or missing download links. It's just not completely obvious where to get Mandriva. It should be.
I've been totally impressed with the 2007.1 (Spring)
It's a little more complete then Ubuntu, is closer to the Red-Hat we use where I work, and has a much improved package management system.
Also, the ATI drivers are good and the hardware compatibility has been at least as good as Ubuntu in my experience. The media support and embedded player in firefox has been about flawless, something I did not have with Ubuntu. The updates also seem speedy and have worked flawlessly.
I think my biggest beef with Ubuntu is the RootSudu. I understand the whole disable root login notion, I just can't get used to it. I work faster when I'm really root. I'll just use a strong password.
All that being said, Ubuntu is still very good, and you're right, Mandriva is so damn hard to download. I usually end up cribbing the mirrors listed in the installer and poking around the the ftp/http directories when they release a new version.
It's also good for "who farted."
Stephen Baxter rocks! I loved his novel Voyage. This one, unfortunately is mediocre, but still some of the best hard SciFi today.
I already personify many computers as "moody."
/ always does the same thing, no matter what mood I'm in.
I don't need them to be really, actually, sensitive.
I like the fact that rm -r -f
Maybe I really am angry enough to destroy the mail server today. Let's use this technology on the robot maids instead, and leave emotional discretion up to the humans, ok?