It's not illegal to refill your printer in the US is it? Or hack it to run of bottled ink.
Since the inkjet sold at a loss and subsidised by the cost of ink cartridges for cheap printers though, it's not surprising that the manufacturers add chips to stop you doing it. But you can always by a more expensive one where they don't bother to do this and you can refill as much as you like. Or buy a cheap one and get a chip zapper. Which are legal too -
I write separately to emphasize that our holding should not be limited to the narrow facts surrounding either the Toner Loading Program or the Printer Engine Program. We should make clear that in the future companies like Lexmark cannot use the DMCA in conjunction with copyright law to create monopolies of manufacturer goods for themselves[...]
It reminds me of Stephen Hawking's wonderfully understated comment that 'Isaac Newton was not a pleasant man'
http://checfs2.ucsd.edu/~samcho/scientists.html As the row [over who invented Calculus - actually both Leibniz and Newton did independently] grew, Leibniz made the mistake of appealing to this Royal Society to resolve the dispute. Newton, as president, appointed an "impartial" committee to investigate, coincidentally consisting entirely of Newton's friends! But that was not all: Newton then wrote the committee's report himself and had the Royal Society publish it, officially accusing Leibniz of plagiarism. Still unsatisfied, he then wrote an anonymous review of the report in the Royal Society's own periodical. Following the death of Leibniz, Newton is reported to have declared that he had taken great satisfaction in "breaking Leibniz's heart."
During the period of these two disputes, Newton had already left Cambridge and academe. He had been active an anti-Catholic politics at Cambridge, and later in Parliament, and was rewarded eventually with the lucrative post of Warden of the Royal Mint. Here he used his talents for deviousness and vitriol in a more socially acceptable way, successfully conducting a major campaign against counterfeiting, even sending several men to their death on the gallows.
I've got a friend who grew up in Eastern Europe. If he sees people in Che T shirts he makes a point of quizzing them. 90% have no real idea who Che was or what he got up to. They just seem him as a counterculture icon. Which is kind of ironic. Someone who used to accuse his minions of being informers, spies and then murder them with his gun and sent death squads out to kill the ones that escaped doesn't seem too counter culture friendly to me. I wonder how they'd feel if they had a boss who behaved like him.
And the Cult of Che is anything but counter culture. As Paul Berman put it in slate in his review of the annoying, hagiographic The Motorcycle Diaries -
http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/
If you were to compare Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, with its pious tone, to the irreverent, humorous, ironic, libertarian films of Pedro Almodóvar, you could easily imagine that Salles' film comes from the long-ago past, perhaps from the dark reactionary times of Franco - and Almodóvar's movies come from the modern age that has rebelled against Franco. The odd thing is that bin Laden in pictures seems to be (consciously or unconsciously) aping the famous Korda picture of Che. Maybe he will eventually turn into an religious icon, worshipped by the terminally gullible and the historically illiterate too.
Why do people always complain about this? If things are so cheap people waste them it's a sign that the economy is working well. If you hit some sort of resource limit then prices will rise and people will use less. If things get really bad companies will start to mine the landfills and so on. But the economic goal should be that things are cheap. If it really bothers you, there are loads of places where the economy is gummed up and things are expensive. And there people don't waste them.
I've had 2 of 12 burn out over a year or so despite the 5 year promise on the box. One of my relatives rents out property. He wanted to fit CFBs in the lights so he could sell the property as cheap to run. He bought several batches and found some had a very high fail rate in the first year. Others are still going strong many years later. He took back the bad ones and the replacements are fine.
So I think you have to burn them in, like most electronics. A percentage will fail but those that survive should have the advertised life. In fact most that survive the burn in may have a much longer life than the advertised one. It's like the distribution is that 30% fail in a year and 70% fail in much more than 5 years years, so they claim a 5 year life and offer a money back guarantee. Though if you return the bad ones and get replacements the effective lifetime is quite a bit better. Since this must be expensive, presumably the companies that sell them will work out some way to not sell the ones that are going to fail in under a year.
In terms of cores shipped Arm is a clear winner over x86. A typical phone has 1 or 2 ARM cores and a billion phones are shipped a year. A typical PC has the same number but they only sell ~239 million.
http://www.news.com/Intel-has-ARM-in-its-crosshairs/2100-1006_3-6210033.html
PC sales growth is slowing in the U.S. and Western Europe (PC vendors shipped 239 million units during 2006, according to Gartner, up 9.5 percent from 2005), and while PCs are still hot in emerging markets, it's only a matter of time before growth there settles in at a respectable 10 percent clip.
Smart phones, on the other hand, are taking off. Mobile phones as a whole already sell more than a billion units a year, and Gartner thinks smart-phone shipments (defined as phones that can run sophisticated operating systems and access the Internet) are set to grow 52 percent from 2007 to 2008, from 102 million units in 2007 to 156 million by the end of next year.
Happy Days had an episode where Fonzie jumped over a shark in a tank of water for no apparent reason. It was so completely ridiculous that the phrase 'Jump the shark' has come to be shorthand for the point where a TV series is basically dead because the writers have run out of ideas.
Yeah I always wondered about that they have a plan thing The problem with Sci Fi series is that they always hint that there is some overarching plot arc. But most of time there isn't. They add hooks in episodes when they get a chance and hang more stuff on those hooks when they get a chance. Some episodes are pure filler with neither.
Because all the episodes are written by different people and they never know how many shows they will get to make or even what order they will air in, there probably isn't an arc. At best they can do arcs that span a season, because that's the longest they can rely on the show running for. Quite possibly the "They have a plan" was written by some marketing guy who's never seen an episode.
Sorry and all, but the Cylons don't have a plan, just like The Truth was never really Out There.
Where's the 9-11 connection? I don't see it. Cylon suicide bombers because they have no fear of death due to their fanatical belief in an alien religion? Cylons making a dramatic surprise attack that causes a liberal democracy to become markedly less liberal and start torturing its opponents?
Once Generation Y has been running things for a while civilisation will break down. Here (from) TFA is the proof
The average timespan that a Gen Y employee will spend at any single job is about 18 months, notes Ryan Healy, founder of Brazen Careerist, an online career site aimed at Gen Y.
To keep a Millennial interested, companies will have to create an atmosphere for them that replicates the first six months on a job, over and over. "Most jobs provide you with a learning curve that's steep at first, then all of the sudden you're doing the same thing every day," says Healy. "It gets boring, so you leave."
"Everybody in my generation wants to be a leader," says Healy. "There are 22 year-olds who already say they want a leadership position, and they're ready for that. I think it's a pretty cool thing."
"All the technology-driven people I encounter are really interested in the business side of an enterprise," says Healy. "They actually go into IT because they want to be entrepreneurial, not because they they're especially technical.""All the technology-driven people I encounter are really interested in the business side of an enterprise," says Healy. "They actually go into IT because they want to be entrepreneurial, not because they they're especially technical." Actually, they sound like they have too much testosterone to me. If you get one put next to you, slip a birth control pill into his coffee when he's not paying attention. Theoretically he should quieten down quite a bit and start to gain weight.
Co designer of the what is probably the most popular Instruction Set Architecture in the world the ARM. She also designed the Acorn Atom microcomputer, forerunner of the BBC Micro and wrote the improved version of Basic which caused the BBC to sign the contract
In March 1996, however, a group of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported that they had serendipitously produced, for about a microsecond and at temperatures of thousands of kelvin and pressures of over a million atmospheres (>100 GPa), the first identifiably metallic hydrogen.[3]... The scientists were surprised to find that, as pressure rose to 1.4 million atmospheres (142 GPa), the electronic energy band gap, a measure of electrical resistance, fell to almost zero. The band-gap of hydrogen in its uncompressed state is about 15 eV, making it an insulator but, as the pressure increases significantly, the band-gap gradually falls to 0.3 eV and because the 0.3 eV is provided by the thermal energy of the fluid (the temperature became about 3000 K due to compression of the sample), the hydrogen may, at this point, effectively be considered metallic.
Even stranger it might be possible to make Metastable Metallic Hydrogen
It may be possible to produce substantial quantities of metallic hydrogen for practical purposes. The existence has been theorized of a form called 'Metastable Metallic Hydrogen', (abbreviated MSMH) which would not immediately revert to ordinary hydrogen upon the release of pressure.
In addition, 'MSMH' would make an efficient fuel itself and also a clean one, with only water as an end product. Nine times as dense as standard hydrogen, it would give off considerable energy when reverting to standard hydrogen. Burned more quickly, it could be a propellant with five times the efficiency of liquid H2/O2, the current Space Shuttle fuel. Unfortunately, the 'Lawrence Livermore' experiments produced metallic hydrogen too briefly to determine whether or not metastability is possible.
Since it's ultradense hydrogen, I wonder if you could use it in a fusion reactor? The Wikipedia article says cautiously that 'increased understanding of the behavior of hydrogen in extreme conditions could help to increase [inertial confinement fusion] energy yields.'
Actually another more mad scientist idea that occurs to me is this. Suppose you want to build a self replicating Bussard Ramjet. It's a big fusion reactor running on interstellar hydrogen, which doesn't seem to be a promising material to build things from. But if you could make metallic hydrogen that helpfully super conducts, that does seem like something you could build from.
And over the reproductive life of a Bussard Ram jet it will encounter enormous amounts of it. They could harvest dust too and separate it into elements with something like a mass spectroscope. So they have the raw materials to reproduce with.
The idea is that you send out one jet and tell it head for likely wormholes On the way it will build more ramjets and they will head for likely wormholes, fly through them, deduce the rules for wormhole travel and head back to Earth. You'd tweak the program so that only a small percentage of the population try to fly through a wormhole, since the journey may destroy them.
If it all worked you should send out one jet and get lots back in return. Plus they have a map of wormholes and could have used their sensors to find alien civilisations anywhere (and anywhen) they visited. You can fly the ramjet to visit aliens in say ~100 years ship time. Someone worked out you could circumnavigate the universe in 50 years ship time at 0.999c. You need to accelerate and decelerate of course (the latter may require some clever engineering;-).
Terminator brains are superconducting at room temperature as I recall, IANASES ( I am not a SkyNet engineering subroutine ).
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But that was never a real success: The dogs got trained by the russians, only drawback: When it gets real they sent the the dogs out, but because the dogs was trained with russian equipment, they prefer to lay below the russian tanks and not the germans. That's propaganda from the capitalist reactionary press. The truth is that socialist hero dogs defeated the evil fascist invaders.
Maybe the combat versions come with a Lunge and Bite Service Pack that corrects the "Unexpected Response to Kick" bug.
The civillian versions will be all plush and lovable (though huge) until some glitch reenables the combat subroutine. Lone cop and beautiful female computer scientist will then need to fight their way to the Mans' Best Friend central computer to press the reset button. One of the dogs will stay loyal and help them, the rest (with glowing red eyes, to tell the slower audience members that they are Evil) will terrorise the population.
Joe Dante will direct "Mans' Best Friend" (working title "Pastiche 3") of course, from a novel by Steven King. The cast will all be scientologists and there will be a few references to engrams and so on in the script, or maybe just adlibbed in. The movie will start with Eisenhower's speech about the Military Industrial complex and then cut to something ironic, like a weapons factory stripping the weapons off a giant robot dog endoskeleton, wrapping it in plush fur and loading it into a box labelled "Mans' Best Friend".
I also think that Microsoft has done quite a bit to damage the computer industry. I found this site very Informative site about it!
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/
On the other hand, Linux is probably the best answer to the ecosystem problem. Have you read the Cathedral and the Bizarre? It's a very Insightful article about that!
Hopefully someone will find a way to make the Robot Dog swim and put a laser on its head, like Dr Good did with whales in the movie Wayne's World. Party on Austin Powers! was very Funny and Underrated catchphrase.
Really, karma is totally overrated, and I don't want to have anything to do with it. Yeah, things like this just show how much this country has dumbed down since Bush was [s]elected President, I'm seriously considering moving to North Korea. Did you know they have free health care there?
Who cares? Karma is just a number. I'd rather have crap karma and say what I want than parrot played out memes like a well trained monkey and get modded up for it.
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Did you ever see a BBC documentary on putting explosives inside animals? As you can probably expect, spooks experimented on it during the cold war. Partly it was because the Russians trained dogs to sleep under warm tanks, loaded them up with exposives and sent them toward the German lines in World War II. The US/UK were quite reasonably concerned that a "explosive dog gap" might open with the Communists, so they poured money into research.
My favourite part was where some scientist enthused that "you can fit quite an arsenal inside a 500lb boar". What an awesome job. I reckon animals are quite redundantly engineered, so you could take quite a lot of guts out of them and still have them able to stagger a few miles to enemy lines. Boars are unclean animals for Muslims, so presumably be drenched with bits of exploding boar milliseconds before you die would stop you getting into paradise if you believe in that sort of thing.
That would be culturally insensitive of course, so we shouldn't do that. But you could turn a herd of goats into a living cluster bomb. Can I has DARPA funding now?
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Since the inkjet sold at a loss and subsidised by the cost of ink cartridges for cheap printers though, it's not surprising that the manufacturers add chips to stop you doing it. But you can always by a more expensive one where they don't bother to do this and you can refill as much as you like. Or buy a cheap one and get a chip zapper. Which are legal too -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexmark_Int'l_v._Static_Control_Components Judge Merritt agreed with Judge Sutton on the outcome of this particular case, but also indicated that he would go farther.
I write separately to emphasize that our holding should not be limited to the narrow facts surrounding either the Toner Loading Program or the Printer Engine Program. We should make clear that in the future companies like Lexmark cannot use the DMCA in conjunction with copyright law to create monopolies of manufacturer goods for themselves[...]
It reminds me of Stephen Hawking's wonderfully understated comment that 'Isaac Newton was not a pleasant man'
http://checfs2.ucsd.edu/~samcho/scientists.html
As the row [over who invented Calculus - actually both Leibniz and Newton did independently] grew, Leibniz made the mistake of appealing to this Royal Society to resolve the dispute. Newton, as president, appointed an "impartial" committee to investigate, coincidentally consisting entirely of Newton's friends! But that was not all: Newton then wrote the committee's report himself and had the Royal Society publish it, officially accusing Leibniz of plagiarism. Still unsatisfied, he then wrote an anonymous review of the report in the Royal Society's own periodical. Following the death of Leibniz, Newton is reported to have declared that he had taken great satisfaction in "breaking Leibniz's heart."
During the period of these two disputes, Newton had already left Cambridge and academe. He had been active an anti-Catholic politics at Cambridge, and later in Parliament, and was rewarded eventually with the lucrative post of Warden of the Royal Mint. Here he used his talents for deviousness and vitriol in a more socially acceptable way, successfully conducting a major campaign against counterfeiting, even sending several men to their death on the gallows.
And the Cult of Che is anything but counter culture. As Paul Berman put it in slate in his review of the annoying, hagiographic The Motorcycle Diaries -
http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/ If you were to compare Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries, with its pious tone, to the irreverent, humorous, ironic, libertarian films of Pedro Almodóvar, you could easily imagine that Salles' film comes from the long-ago past, perhaps from the dark reactionary times of Franco - and Almodóvar's movies come from the modern age that has rebelled against Franco. The odd thing is that bin Laden in pictures seems to be (consciously or unconsciously) aping the famous Korda picture of Che. Maybe he will eventually turn into an religious icon, worshipped by the terminally gullible and the historically illiterate too.
Actually DARPA are funding a project to regrow limbs in adult mammals too
http://www.uml.edu/media/eNews/DARPA%20Braunhut%20limb%20regeneration.html
Why do people always complain about this? If things are so cheap people waste them it's a sign that the economy is working well. If you hit some sort of resource limit then prices will rise and people will use less. If things get really bad companies will start to mine the landfills and so on. But the economic goal should be that things are cheap. If it really bothers you, there are loads of places where the economy is gummed up and things are expensive. And there people don't waste them.
I used an HP OfficeJet for a year and it never run out of ink. Even if it did there were quite cheap third party/refilled cartridges and refill kits.
In Taiwan I've seen inkjet printers in shops running off four 500ml bottles of ink, which must be cheap as hell.
So I think you have to burn them in, like most electronics. A percentage will fail but those that survive should have the advertised life. In fact most that survive the burn in may have a much longer life than the advertised one. It's like the distribution is that 30% fail in a year and 70% fail in much more than 5 years years, so they claim a 5 year life and offer a money back guarantee. Though if you return the bad ones and get replacements the effective lifetime is quite a bit better. Since this must be expensive, presumably the companies that sell them will work out some way to not sell the ones that are going to fail in under a year.
http://www.news.com/Intel-has-ARM-in-its-crosshairs/2100-1006_3-6210033.html PC sales growth is slowing in the U.S. and Western Europe (PC vendors shipped 239 million units during 2006, according to Gartner, up 9.5 percent from 2005), and while PCs are still hot in emerging markets, it's only a matter of time before growth there settles in at a respectable 10 percent clip.
Smart phones, on the other hand, are taking off. Mobile phones as a whole already sell more than a billion units a year, and Gartner thinks smart-phone shipments (defined as phones that can run sophisticated operating systems and access the Internet) are set to grow 52 percent from 2007 to 2008, from 102 million units in 2007 to 156 million by the end of next year.
Or people start posting them on slashdot. You know v&town would be a good name for a trolling group.
So you're saying that people try to put you down? Talking about your generation? Just because you get around?
Goatse isn't that bad. It's much less obnoxious than the Pain Series.
Happy Days had an episode where Fonzie jumped over a shark in a tank of water for no apparent reason. It was so completely ridiculous that the phrase 'Jump the shark' has come to be shorthand for the point where a TV series is basically dead because the writers have run out of ideas.
Because all the episodes are written by different people and they never know how many shows they will get to make or even what order they will air in, there probably isn't an arc. At best they can do arcs that span a season, because that's the longest they can rely on the show running for. Quite possibly the "They have a plan" was written by some marketing guy who's never seen an episode.
Sorry and all, but the Cylons don't have a plan, just like The Truth was never really Out There.
Naah, you're right, no 9/11 references at all.
To keep a Millennial interested, companies will have to create an atmosphere for them that replicates the first six months on a job, over and over. "Most jobs provide you with a learning curve that's steep at first, then all of the sudden you're doing the same thing every day," says Healy. "It gets boring, so you leave." "Everybody in my generation wants to be a leader," says Healy. "There are 22 year-olds who already say they want a leadership position, and they're ready for that. I think it's a pretty cool thing." "All the technology-driven people I encounter are really interested in the business side of an enterprise," says Healy. "They actually go into IT because they want to be entrepreneurial, not because they they're especially technical.""All the technology-driven people I encounter are really interested in the business side of an enterprise," says Healy. "They actually go into IT because they want to be entrepreneurial, not because they they're especially technical." Actually, they sound like they have too much testosterone to me. If you get one put next to you, slip a birth control pill into his coffee when he's not paying attention. Theoretically he should quieten down quite a bit and start to gain weight.
Co designer of the what is probably the most popular Instruction Set Architecture in the world the ARM. She also designed the Acorn Atom microcomputer, forerunner of the BBC Micro and wrote the improved version of Basic which caused the BBC to sign the contract
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson
Actually I found this article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Discovery
In March 1996, however, a group of scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported that they had serendipitously produced, for about a microsecond and at temperatures of thousands of kelvin and pressures of over a million atmospheres (>100 GPa), the first identifiably metallic hydrogen.[3] ...
The scientists were surprised to find that, as pressure rose to 1.4 million atmospheres (142 GPa), the electronic energy band gap, a measure of electrical resistance, fell to almost zero. The band-gap of hydrogen in its uncompressed state is about 15 eV, making it an insulator but, as the pressure increases significantly, the band-gap gradually falls to 0.3 eV and because the 0.3 eV is provided by the thermal energy of the fluid (the temperature became about 3000 K due to compression of the sample), the hydrogen may, at this point, effectively be considered metallic.
Even stranger it might be possible to make Metastable Metallic Hydrogen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallic_hydrogen#Fuel
It may be possible to produce substantial quantities of metallic hydrogen for practical purposes. The existence has been theorized of a form called 'Metastable Metallic Hydrogen', (abbreviated MSMH) which would not immediately revert to ordinary hydrogen upon the release of pressure.
In addition, 'MSMH' would make an efficient fuel itself and also a clean one, with only water as an end product. Nine times as dense as standard hydrogen, it would give off considerable energy when reverting to standard hydrogen. Burned more quickly, it could be a propellant with five times the efficiency of liquid H2/O2, the current Space Shuttle fuel. Unfortunately, the 'Lawrence Livermore' experiments produced metallic hydrogen too briefly to determine whether or not metastability is possible.
Since it's ultradense hydrogen, I wonder if you could use it in a fusion reactor? The Wikipedia article says cautiously that 'increased understanding of the behavior of hydrogen in extreme conditions could help to increase [inertial confinement fusion] energy yields.'
Actually another more mad scientist idea that occurs to me is this. Suppose you want to build a self replicating Bussard Ramjet. It's a big fusion reactor running on interstellar hydrogen, which doesn't seem to be a promising material to build things from. But if you could make metallic hydrogen that helpfully super conducts, that does seem like something you could build from.
And over the reproductive life of a Bussard Ram jet it will encounter enormous amounts of it. They could harvest dust too and separate it into elements with something like a mass spectroscope. So they have the raw materials to reproduce with.
The idea is that you send out one jet and tell it head for likely wormholes On the way it will build more ramjets and they will head for likely wormholes, fly through them, deduce the rules for wormhole travel and head back to Earth. You'd tweak the program so that only a small percentage of the population try to fly through a wormhole, since the journey may destroy them.
If it all worked you should send out one jet and get lots back in return. Plus they have a map of wormholes and could have used their sensors to find alien civilisations anywhere (and anywhen) they visited. You can fly the ramjet to visit aliens in say ~100 years ship time. Someone worked out you could circumnavigate the universe in 50 years ship time at 0.999c. You need to accelerate and decelerate of course (the latter may require some clever engineering;-).
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Terminator brains are superconducting at room temperature as I recall, IANASES ( I am not a SkyNet engineering subroutine ).
When it gets real they sent the the dogs out, but because the dogs was trained with russian equipment, they prefer to lay below the russian tanks and not the germans. That's propaganda from the capitalist reactionary press. The truth is that socialist hero dogs defeated the evil fascist invaders.
Maybe the combat versions come with a Lunge and Bite Service Pack that corrects the "Unexpected Response to Kick" bug.
The civillian versions will be all plush and lovable (though huge) until some glitch reenables the combat subroutine. Lone cop and beautiful female computer scientist will then need to fight their way to the Mans' Best Friend central computer to press the reset button. One of the dogs will stay loyal and help them, the rest (with glowing red eyes, to tell the slower audience members that they are Evil) will terrorise the population.
Joe Dante will direct "Mans' Best Friend" (working title "Pastiche 3") of course, from a novel by Steven King. The cast will all be scientologists and there will be a few references to engrams and so on in the script, or maybe just adlibbed in. The movie will start with Eisenhower's speech about the Military Industrial complex and then cut to something ironic, like a weapons factory stripping the weapons off a giant robot dog endoskeleton, wrapping it in plush fur and loading it into a box labelled "Mans' Best Friend".
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/ On the other hand, Linux is probably the best answer to the ecosystem problem. Have you read the Cathedral and the Bizarre? It's a very Insightful article about that!
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
I for one welcome our new Linux overlords.
Hopefully someone will find a way to make the Robot Dog swim and put a laser on its head, like Dr Good did with whales in the movie Wayne's World. Party on Austin Powers! was very Funny and Underrated catchphrase. Really, karma is totally overrated, and I don't want to have anything to do with it. Yeah, things like this just show how much this country has dumbed down since Bush was [s]elected President, I'm seriously considering moving to North Korea. Did you know they have free health care there?
Who cares? Karma is just a number. I'd rather have crap karma and say what I want than parrot played out memes like a well trained monkey and get modded up for it.
Did you ever see a BBC documentary on putting explosives inside animals? As you can probably expect, spooks experimented on it during the cold war. Partly it was because the Russians trained dogs to sleep under warm tanks, loaded them up with exposives and sent them toward the German lines in World War II. The US/UK were quite reasonably concerned that a "explosive dog gap" might open with the Communists, so they poured money into research.
My favourite part was where some scientist enthused that "you can fit quite an arsenal inside a 500lb boar". What an awesome job. I reckon animals are quite redundantly engineered, so you could take quite a lot of guts out of them and still have them able to stagger a few miles to enemy lines. Boars are unclean animals for Muslims, so presumably be drenched with bits of exploding boar milliseconds before you die would stop you getting into paradise if you believe in that sort of thing.
That would be culturally insensitive of course, so we shouldn't do that. But you could turn a herd of goats into a living cluster bomb. Can I has DARPA funding now?
Hmm username adolf, you defend Microsoft on slashdot and your sig is "I feel no pity". I like your style!