I would say that for the average person it is a matter of perspective.
If they see it walk and manipulate things they will call it a robot. It appears autonomous. Put them behind the controls for a while and I would bet they would be less likely to call it a robot and more likely a remote controlled thing. It ceases to have the intelligence that gets the robot label.
So yes the public calls it a robot but only because of the amount of exposure they have to the device. So I just think it is a matter of perspective.
When does a wire connected device become a robot? When you hide the wires.
I did many years in grad school and discovered several cheaters. The lack of punishment for such was part of what caused me to abandon a career in academics. Part of the discovery that academics is a very very political space. A system that tolerates cheating perpetuates cheating and rots itself from within.
1) Crowded class writing mid-terms. There are 2 copies of the exam with minor but significant variances handed out in a checkerboard pattern. Am proctoring and see a student looking at another paper get another to proctor to witness it. Make a note on the exam when collecting it. Sure enough they guy has the right answers to the wrong questions. No way that would happen without copying. Have to write a formal description of what happened, it goes up the chain. Nothing but a "formal reprimand" on the record and zero for that exam.
2) Programming lab is scheduled 1/2 the class every other week. They are supposed to write code during the lab and have the help of the tutor to explain things. On second week I have people handing me a program "how does this work". I reply "didn't you just write this?" It takes me a couple of minutes to get them to admit they did not write it.
This is university, they are paying to learn. Yet they are unwilling to work at it. I wonder what they are looking at getting out it?
The number of taxi cab drivers with university degrees does not surprise me.
How did Sol rate even a minor station. A crummy little G2 minor league star. I suspect undue influence at the planning commission or city council for this station to even exist.
So does this show a lack of government IT ability. Or is it more representative of the general inertia of government. I would worry more about the former. Where the government is exposing itself to the wilds of the internet without the ability to protect itself.
The thorium fuel cycle mainly creates Uranium-233 which can be used for making nuclear weapons, and since there are no neutrons from spontaneous fission of U-233, U-233 can be used easily in a gun-type nuclear bomb.... some weapons proliferation risk due to production of 233U;....
Any proposed replacement must satisfy the following conditions showing it is a true improvement
a) be cheaper now and for the long term for customers b) be more reliable c) provide better 911 and other emergency services information
From the above a) there will not be an initial upfront customer cost over and above current costs.
If it is to be cheaper overall the provider is to eat the up front cost and just delay reducing costs to the customer. b) things like a touch tone charge are disallowed c) it must not depend on power available at the customers site d) digital features like allowing customers to add a digital description containing things like number of house occupants, ages, medial conditions to be sent along with a 911 call should be considered.
With the ISP's pushing to get us to pay for every bit of data there is no way I am going to let any page I visit load every element without me giving it permission.
Page text 2k. Page images 4 x 50k = 200k
Ad to text ratio 100:1. Sorry not a good idea.
Also page rendering time is a function of the size of the page elements. A snappy page usually has very few ad images.
If they can make the ads low bandwidth and not add a load to the page rendering and not annoying people might accept them. The odds of that are very low.
--- Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was sued for $6 billion (not $60 billion as initially reported) for commercial copyright infringement. The case was only filed and already, it is seemingly beyond the point of damage control for CRIA. The question is, can CRIA recover from what may be the biggest blunder in its history? --
Suppressing the exposure is not the solution. It just means any future such leaks will be distributed "below the radar". In the interests of national security the leaks should be made as public as possible so that reactions can done to the leaks if required. Ideally the policies should be secure enough that we are still safe with full disclosure. As we all know security through obscurity is not a good solution.
Better that we know the leak occurred than the leak occurs and we don't know it happened.
I went through two small companies working on pre-standard N devices. Both went under as a little company you can't pre-run a standard to market. We were ready for production 7 years ago.
So yes, drama that personally affected me as I went through two collapsing companies.
It should be funded by the ISPs. The ISPs should be free to charge end users rates based on the OS the end user is doing.
Like insurance rates for different drivers of different cars as end users present threats to the net based on their OS and experience the rates charged to support a malware elimination office should depend on what is being connected.
This sort of thing only seems to happen at the political conferences, not the technical ones.
-- Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.
"Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes," the approach to hotels says.
Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk. --
> A faithful application of the law here would shock the conscience.
As to the movie it is going to depend on the legal definition of excerpt and context. Otherwise every photograph with a TV image would be a violation.
As to the performance of happy birthday I think they are clearly guilty. The key will be to appeal to the jury on reasonableness and the fact that the performance while public was not to the public and thus not technically a public performance.
Track Hardware age. Present at least a 2 year out management plan for hardware upgrades with likely costs. Do the same for software. But you also need to watch for potential compatibility issues. Do you have spares?
Watch for potential migration opportunities of software and hardware platforms for efficiency and cost. These would not be indepth studies as management would have to approve those. Just keep you eyes open and report when something looks interesting. Especially with future scaling issues.
People told stories, wrote books, created music and designed things for thousands of years before copyright's and patents were invented. If you look at the time scale then it is only copyright protection that is new.
I say we go turn the clocks back and remove copyright protection and patents. The lack of copyrights did not stop the creation of Mickey Mouse. Also I would like to be able to sing Happy Birthday in public without having to pay performance fees to someone.
Correction copyright originates from the British Statuate of Ann 1710. So 300 years for copyright, except it was repealed in 1842. So when do we start counting? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
As worded we see "by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes" Which would imply that a few seconds gap of less than 70% traffic every 15 minutes would allow you to go at 100% for the rest of the time.
I bet it is actually done as "using more than 70 percent bandwidth averaged over 15 minutes". In which case 12 minutes of 100% followed by 3 minutes of silence is 12/15 -> 80% usage.
And also they don't mean a short burst that uses 100% of the load 5 sec out of every minute for 15 minutes.
So they are talking average bandwidth load vs short term load.
Typical non-technical notice not able to conceive the difference between throughput usage and bandwidth capacity. But then they want to sell you the capacity but not the usage.
I would guess the simplest solution would be a sharp point in the middle of the steering wheel.
There is nothing like the threat of death to keep one focused.
What we have done is made driving so easy and effortless that people feel free to do other tasks. All this stability and traction control have just added to the feeling of control. Adding even more safeguards is just going to let people do more other activities.
Reminder of the story of the person in the motor home who set the speed control then made a sandwich. Urban legend or not it is human nature to self distract if a task does not require attention.
I don't know who to root for here. If apple wins then all CD/downloadable music is then by the nature of the distribution system given a derivative allowed copyright license when sold. As the only way to play it is to make several derivative copies of the material. Where the base structure is rearranged and then finally processed Digital to Analog.
1) CD/base store 2) CD buffer, linked associated chain 3) dram copy of data, another linked associated chain with OS and application page tracking 4) audio card input buffer, another linked associated chain 5) audio card processor, digital to analog conversion and final digital encoded analog value, then analog sound
The RIAA and MPAA are going to want to weigh in on this if it goes anywhere.
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I would say that for the average person it is a matter of perspective.
If they see it walk and manipulate things they will call it a robot. It appears autonomous. Put them behind the controls for a while and I would bet they would be less likely to call it a robot and more likely a remote controlled thing. It ceases to have the intelligence that gets the robot label.
So yes the public calls it a robot but only because of the amount of exposure they have to the device. So I just think it is a matter of perspective.
When does a wire connected device become a robot? When you hide the wires.
Of course I expect it is not actually robots but rather remote controlled vehicles.
While the article does not state it the graphics clearly shows ROV. Remote Operated Vehicle.
No robots here. Please move on.
I did many years in grad school and discovered several cheaters. The lack of punishment for such was part of what caused me to abandon a career in academics. Part of the discovery that academics is a very very political space. A system that tolerates cheating perpetuates cheating and rots itself from within.
1) Crowded class writing mid-terms. There are 2 copies of the exam with minor but significant variances handed out in a checkerboard pattern. Am proctoring and see a student looking at another paper get another to proctor to witness it. Make a note on the exam when collecting it. Sure enough they guy has the right answers to the wrong questions. No way that would happen without copying. Have to write a formal description of what happened, it goes up the chain. Nothing but a "formal reprimand" on the record and zero for that exam.
2) Programming lab is scheduled 1/2 the class every other week. They are supposed to write code during the lab and have the help of the tutor to explain things. On second week I have people handing me a program "how does this work". I reply "didn't you just write this?" It takes me a couple of minutes to get them to admit they did not write it.
This is university, they are paying to learn. Yet they are unwilling to work at it. I wonder what they are looking at getting out it?
The number of taxi cab drivers with university degrees does not surprise me.
How did Sol rate even a minor station. A crummy little G2 minor league star.
I suspect undue influence at the planning commission or city council for this station to even exist.
Just turn the sound off.
You have to love and clauses that allow one simple variance to void the whole thing.
So does this show a lack of government IT ability. Or is it more representative of the general inertia of government. I would worry more about the former. Where the government is exposing itself to the wilds of the internet without the ability to protect itself.
How about making some of the guilty in the FBI do the perp walk?
Deliberate illegal acts should lead to jail time. Law enforcement officers are not above the law.
Checkout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti
And a few of the external links.
This has been a man made disaster for 200 years. We should also respond to the man made act as well.
Nope the thorium reaction path produces weapons grade fissibles.
So still no explanation as to why no common use of Thorium reactors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
The thorium fuel cycle mainly creates Uranium-233 which can be used for making nuclear weapons, and since there are no neutrons from spontaneous fission of U-233, U-233 can be used easily in a gun-type nuclear bomb. ... some weapons proliferation risk due to production of 233U; ....
Any proposed replacement must satisfy the following conditions showing it is a true improvement
a) be cheaper now and for the long term for customers
b) be more reliable
c) provide better 911 and other emergency services information
From the above
a) there will not be an initial upfront customer cost over and above current costs.
If it is to be cheaper overall the provider is to eat the up front cost and just delay reducing costs to the customer.
b) things like a touch tone charge are disallowed
c) it must not depend on power available at the customers site
d) digital features like allowing customers to add a digital description containing things like number of house occupants, ages, medial conditions to be sent along with a 911 call should be considered.
With the ISP's pushing to get us to pay for every bit of data there is no way I am going to let any page I visit load every element without me giving it permission.
Page text 2k.
Page images 4 x 50k = 200k
Ad to text ratio 100:1. Sorry not a good idea.
Also page rendering time is a function of the size of the page elements. A snappy page usually has very few ad images.
If they can make the ads low bandwidth and not add a load to the page rendering and not annoying people might accept them. The odds of that are very low.
CRIA is a huge violator. I suspect the RIAA is a similar violator. These organizations should be made to pay in full.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/87347/can-cria-recover-from-the-largest-copyright-infringment-case-in-canadian-history/
---
Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) was sued for $6 billion (not $60 billion as initially reported) for commercial copyright infringement. The case was only filed and already, it is seemingly beyond the point of damage control for CRIA. The question is, can CRIA recover from what may be the biggest blunder in its history?
--
Suppressing the exposure is not the solution. It just means any future such leaks will be distributed "below the radar". In the interests of national security the leaks should be made as public as possible so that reactions can done to the leaks if required. Ideally the policies should be secure enough that we are still safe with full disclosure. As we all know security through obscurity is not a good solution.
Better that we know the leak occurred than the leak occurs and we don't know it happened.
I went through two small companies working on pre-standard N devices. Both went under as a little company you can't pre-run a standard to market. We were ready for production 7 years ago.
So yes, drama that personally affected me as I went through two collapsing companies.
It should be funded by the ISPs. The ISPs should be free to charge end users rates based on the OS the end user is doing.
Like insurance rates for different drivers of different cars as end users present threats to the net based on their OS and experience the rates charged to support a malware elimination office should depend on what is being connected.
This sort of thing only seems to happen at the political conferences, not the technical ones.
--
Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests and delegates to 'Be sustainable - don't buy sex'.
"Dear hotel owner, we would like to urge you not to arrange contacts between hotel guests and prostitutes," the approach to hotels says.
Now, Copenhagen prostitutes are up in arms, saying that the council has no business meddling in their affairs. They have now offered free sex to anyone who can produce one of the offending postcards and their COP15 identity card, according to the Web site avisen.dk.
--
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html
It looks like they are attempting to reinvent APL. (with the addition of regex operations).
I can imagine a single line of code will now require 10 to 100 lines of comments to describe the iterations and references going on.
> the Happy Birthday song has been in the public domain for over 100 years, it's unlikely that someone has any valid claim to it...
Uhhmm. No. The happy birthday copyright is in full force.
Ever wonder why those food places have the servers gather round and sing some really stupid non-happy birthday song to the birthday person.
The Happy Birthday copyright is vigorously defended.
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp
I don't know how it works exactly as the song predates current copyright limits.
> A faithful application of the law here would shock the conscience.
As to the movie it is going to depend on the legal definition of excerpt and context. Otherwise every photograph with a TV image would be a violation.
As to the performance of happy birthday I think they are clearly guilty. The key will be to appeal to the jury on reasonableness and the fact that the performance while public was not to the public and thus not technically a public performance.
Very important for management is future planning.
Track Hardware age.
Present at least a 2 year out management plan for hardware upgrades with likely costs.
Do the same for software. But you also need to watch for potential compatibility issues.
Do you have spares?
Watch for potential migration opportunities of software and hardware platforms for efficiency and cost. These would not be indepth studies as management would have to approve those. Just keep you eyes open and report when something looks interesting. Especially with future scaling issues.
People told stories, wrote books, created music and designed things for thousands of years before copyright's and patents were invented. If you look at the time scale then it is only copyright protection that is new.
I say we go turn the clocks back and remove copyright protection and patents. The lack of copyrights did not stop the creation of Mickey Mouse. Also I would like to be able to sing Happy Birthday in public without having to pay performance fees to someone.
Correction copyright originates from the British Statuate of Ann 1710. So 300 years for copyright, except it was repealed in 1842. So when do we start counting?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
As worded we see "by using more than 70 per cent of your maximum downstream or upstream bandwidth for more than 15 minutes"
Which would imply that a few seconds gap of less than 70% traffic every 15 minutes would allow you to go at 100% for the rest of the time.
I bet it is actually done as "using more than 70 percent bandwidth averaged over 15 minutes". In which case 12 minutes of 100% followed by 3 minutes of silence is 12/15 -> 80% usage.
And also they don't mean a short burst that uses 100% of the load 5 sec out of every minute for 15 minutes.
So they are talking average bandwidth load vs short term load.
Typical non-technical notice not able to conceive the difference between throughput usage and bandwidth capacity. But then they want to sell you the capacity but not the usage.
I would guess the simplest solution would be a sharp point in the middle of the steering wheel.
There is nothing like the threat of death to keep one focused.
What we have done is made driving so easy and effortless that people feel free to do other tasks. All this stability and traction control have just added to the feeling of control. Adding even more safeguards is just going to let people do more other activities.
Reminder of the story of the person in the motor home who set the speed control then made a sandwich. Urban legend or not it is human nature to self distract if a task does not require attention.
I don't know who to root for here. If apple wins then all CD/downloadable music is then by the nature of the distribution system given a derivative allowed copyright license when sold. As the only way to play it is to make several derivative copies of the material. Where the base structure is rearranged and then finally processed Digital to Analog.
1) CD/base store
2) CD buffer, linked associated chain
3) dram copy of data, another linked associated chain with OS and application page tracking
4) audio card input buffer, another linked associated chain
5) audio card processor, digital to analog conversion and final digital encoded analog value, then analog sound
The RIAA and MPAA are going to want to weigh in on this if it goes anywhere.
It was not a free market system. A faulty accounting system allowed the mines to extract profits without being responsible for the damages.
Now the tax paying public is cleaning up. So the "free market" now has tax payers paying while the company exits with its profits.
A proper market accounting system would have made the mining corporations pay for the cleanup.
So what happened here was a broken market system where the costs of the mines was not properly applied.