What is being worked on is cloning a Neanderthal human
Really? I would love to see the ethical justification for that. Imagine setting out to create a disabled human being, just to see what they look like...
Judges interpret the law. Going by some other US posters here the US may be ahead of Australia in this area. I hear sometimes about US Judges being strongly identified with their political background. While this can happen in Australia I don't believe it is as widespread.
I suppose google are now free to feed the yellow and white pages through the google books scanner. They can have my copy. I'm not using it. And I will be glad not to have to use the Sensis's own White Pages web interface
Its not allowed to take photographs in courts here in Victoria, Australia so newspapers employ sketch artists to sit in the court and draw portraits of the accused, witnesses, etc.
(you think I'm kidding, don't you?)
That may be dumb, but it's not as dumb as blurring or pixelating the sketches when they're shown on TV in Australia. (No, I'm not kidding either).
Its not allowed to take photographs in courts here in Victoria, Australia so newspapers employ sketch artists to sit in the court and draw portraits of the accused, witnesses, etc.
(you think I'm kidding, don't you?)
Anyway I wonder if you could take this machine into court and claim that it is only doing what an artist would do.
Incidently some of the artists used recently seem to have been influenced by the impressionist school of drawing because the drawings they make don't always resemble the subject.
at the Kinetica2010 art fair in London...the system drew faces non-stop, its creator having to take the role of an automata to repeatedly change the paper.
The robot does fine art but the human changes the paper. Something is wrong here.
I have to do that for the office photocopier too. Its been that way for years.
But this article is really about IT. Its a blue collar occupation. My brother does it. He trained as a cook. He earns more than me too. The CS people are off working for CSIRO, DSTO and the BOM or contractors.
I work for one of those contractors and frankly, 70% of the CS graduates who work for us are glad to be given a safe little windows box with a copy of outlook to organise their meetings, while the rest of us either put up with the corporate linux install or overwrite it with something more inspiring.
I worked for Vic Roads all the way through their experiment with OS/2. They back end was AIX and department level servers were OS/2 as were the workstations. The rumour going around was that IBM had spent a lot of money making a few senior managers in that organisation very happy to get that deal through. Around about the time I left staff were pushing for Windows98 to be deployed in place of OS/2. I came back to do some contracting and people were betting on how many hours it would run without crashing.
To get anything different in I think you have to have a lot of money behind it. I can see the same thing going on where I work but the product being pushed is clear case.
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Of course, humans have a density of about 1gm/cm^3, so we wouldn't be charged extra, should we decide to be shipped airfreight.
Hey don't give the airlines ideas!
(Loved your book BTW)
It could be a bit like the frame they use to assess carry on baggage. If they can't fit through this narrow doorway they can't get on the plane.
"Please sit on your computers pressure sensor to complete the transaction"
What is being worked on is cloning a Neanderthal human
Really? I would love to see the ethical justification for that. Imagine setting out to create a disabled human being, just to see what they look like...
Judges interpret the law. Going by some other US posters here the US may be ahead of Australia in this area. I hear sometimes about US Judges being strongly identified with their political background. While this can happen in Australia I don't believe it is as widespread.
I suppose google are now free to feed the yellow and white pages through the google books scanner. They can have my copy. I'm not using it. And I will be glad not to have to use the Sensis's own White Pages web interface
Its not allowed to take photographs in courts here in Victoria, Australia so newspapers employ sketch artists to sit in the court and draw portraits of the accused, witnesses, etc.
(you think I'm kidding, don't you?)
That may be dumb, but it's not as dumb as blurring or pixelating the sketches when they're shown on TV in Australia. (No, I'm not kidding either).
Only really bad artists need apply.
Its not allowed to take photographs in courts here in Victoria, Australia so newspapers employ sketch artists to sit in the court and draw portraits of the accused, witnesses, etc.
(you think I'm kidding, don't you?)
Anyway I wonder if you could take this machine into court and claim that it is only doing what an artist would do.
Incidently some of the artists used recently seem to have been influenced by the impressionist school of drawing because the drawings they make don't always resemble the subject.
The robot does fine art but the human changes the paper. Something is wrong here.
I have to do that for the office photocopier too. Its been that way for years.
Well, if we're talking about things we throw, I believe my spear trumps your boomerang.
But my boomerang comes back, and it flies a lot better then a discus or a spear. More like a Frisbee in fact.
Not that book.
Yeah but ten years ago we were younger and not as sentimental.
And the boomerang which was used in Australia before the Greeks existed.
In the book you could leave them standing up without a stand.
As a fan of the Stainless Steel Rat I want to see flywheel powered motorbikes.
I have been cycling for 40 years and I have absolutely no idea how it is done.
Maybe the gyroscope is free to rotate within the car.
So, this means no manual transmissions?
And no compression, come to think of it.
It was more the bit about him being bashed up in jail. I know, worse for his wife but it is sad all the same.
Still too soon. His wiki page makes sad reading BTW.
But this article is really about IT. Its a blue collar occupation. My brother does it. He trained as a cook. He earns more than me too. The CS people are off working for CSIRO, DSTO and the BOM or contractors.
I work for one of those contractors and frankly, 70% of the CS graduates who work for us are glad to be given a safe little windows box with a copy of outlook to organise their meetings, while the rest of us either put up with the corporate linux install or overwrite it with something more inspiring.
I worked for Vic Roads all the way through their experiment with OS/2. They back end was AIX and department level servers were OS/2 as were the workstations. The rumour going around was that IBM had spent a lot of money making a few senior managers in that organisation very happy to get that deal through. Around about the time I left staff were pushing for Windows98 to be deployed in place of OS/2. I came back to do some contracting and people were betting on how many hours it would run without crashing.
To get anything different in I think you have to have a lot of money behind it. I can see the same thing going on where I work but the product being pushed is clear case.
Oh yeah. Got it the wrong way around.
You have to consider the matter in the long term to see the advantages, and long-term thinking is seldom seen in modern politics ;-))
Four years at the Federal level. Three years in most states and territories.
Still no investigation, but maybe the drone can measure how cars are parked and issue some tickets.
It will Stun^h^h^h^hDeafen everybody within a 100 metres radius on the assumption they were involved in the crime. Lucky you!