All of the distributors of marijuana I've happenened to meet are about as well off as the rest of us working crappy day jobs (unless they're selling something either than pot).
Albeit, the growers make a fair living, and the cops have a great time going after them, but that's only a small number of individuals at the top of the hierarchy of things.
So what should we do: prohibit universities from teaching skills that might be put to bad use? What would that leave? Philosophy and creative writing?
I put both to bad use today in a washroom stall outside the CPSC labs at the University of Calgary, and let a spam engine sail upon a swirling tide thereafter.
See, there's this one part of my brain going "sweet! this could be great for a whole slew of things, like streaming software installation and tv shows!".
But then there's this little dark corner going "Oy! What about security?!?". If you can't verify the source of the data (like today's p2p's, it's coming from everywhere), and the data is being used as it comes in, how hard would it be to exploit security holes by doctoring up some hostile data to give a certain md5 sum and launching it out into the swarm?
Maybe it's not very possible, but it still seems like a spooky idea.
...if people actually did what the phone told them to do, all the time. Who would decide what these recommendations are based on? Someone's idea of what perfect people should do?
go_to_school();
get_married();
while (age < 65) { eat(); work(); sleep(); }
retire();
die();
// recommendation: a stiff drink()
(sounds like some kind of Orwellian society where everyone's actions are monitored and controlled by cellphones... more than they are already)
The idea of looking to design robotics based around a "simpler" life form than a human isn't really new. B.E.A.M robotics has been around for a number of years, a field of robotics generally finding it's inspiration in bugs and other simple creatures.
Hey, if we can understand an emulate simpler organisms through machines, we're a lot closer to tackling the "higher" organisms such as ourselves.
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You're confusing pot with hard, expensive drugs.
All of the distributors of marijuana I've happenened to meet are about as well off as the rest of us working crappy day jobs (unless they're selling something either than pot).
Albeit, the growers make a fair living, and the cops have a great time going after them, but that's only a small number of individuals at the top of the hierarchy of things.
So what should we do: prohibit universities from teaching skills that might be put to bad use? What would that leave? Philosophy and creative writing?
I put both to bad use today in a washroom stall outside the CPSC labs at the University of Calgary, and let a spam engine sail upon a swirling tide thereafter.
--deimors
I dunno what it is.
See, there's this one part of my brain going "sweet! this could be great for a whole slew of things, like streaming software installation and tv shows!".
But then there's this little dark corner going "Oy! What about security?!?". If you can't verify the source of the data (like today's p2p's, it's coming from everywhere), and the data is being used as it comes in, how hard would it be to exploit security holes by doctoring up some hostile data to give a certain md5 sum and launching it out into the swarm?
Maybe it's not very possible, but it still seems like a spooky idea.
(sounds like some kind of Orwellian society where everyone's actions are monitored and controlled by cellphones... more than they are already)
Solarbotics makes a pretty cool mini-sumo kit which can have a couple different brains slapped in.
At $120 canuck, how can you go wrong
The idea of looking to design robotics based around a "simpler" life form than a human isn't really new. B.E.A.M robotics has been around for a number of years, a field of robotics generally finding it's inspiration in bugs and other simple creatures. Hey, if we can understand an emulate simpler organisms through machines, we're a lot closer to tackling the "higher" organisms such as ourselves.