Well... There are fewer people killed by ambulances than there are people saved by ambulances.
Applying your strict utilitarian logic elsewhere, firetrucks and police cars shouldn't have the right to disobey traffic rules if the fire endangers fewer people than disobeying traffic rules does.
Did you not see the middle sentence? "They should not be exempted from any law, unless there is a compelling argument that exempting them from the law is in the public interest."
And yes, firetrucks or ambulances should not be exempt if they are not responding to an emergency, which was the original poster's point. A police car should not be exempt if its driver is getting more donuts, but should be exempt if it's responding to a call.
Possibly because it would have been somewhat more difficult to film, because lighting levels would have been greatly reduced? Or else he wanted to showcase the robot's speed, which would not have been as effective inside a small cardboard box. He could have built a shallow cardboard border around the table, though.
Perhaps he wanted to demonstrate that it did not have any edge detection capabilities?
Without video acceleration, games can't floor the graphic chip's throttle. There's no audio or ethernet support either, making the box useless for its original purpose as a media hub.
Over the past week, however, enthusiasts worked to solve these problems
This story is really an addendum to the original, which we saw on Slashdot earlier this week.
Although I don't support Diebold either, please keep personal opinion out of the summaries. Quotes like "diebold executives appeared confused when encountering election officials who made an intelligent choice" don't belong in objective news reporting.
But it has a reputation for taking an excessive cryptic nature which gives it an image especially among Perl novices as a language which is complex and hard to master.
So wrong! Just look at the following example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
length q caller vec and print chr oct ord q qx eq and print chr ord q ref or and print chr ord q or no and print chr ord q else and print chr ord qq q q and print chr ord q tie gt and print chr ord qw q sin q and print chr ord q q eq and print chr ord qw q sin q and print chr ord q sin s and print chr ord q cmp lc and print chr ord q split s and print chr ord qw q lc q and print chr ord q ne sin and print chr hex length q q bless localtime ref q
attempted suicide is an offense, and you will be charged
Not so in the United States, and most other industrialized countries. The last state to decriminalize attempted suicide did so in 1994. In a few U.S. states, however, suicide is still considered a common law crime.
Unfortunately, there are other countries in the world that still have such laws, however.
American intelligence agencies are now looking to Wiki solutions for sharing intelligence, and it's far superior to any previous databases. Although it hasn't existed long enough to draw final conclusions, many say it works well. Perhaps UK intelligence agencies will follow America's lead and do the same?
The concept behind this drug seems akin to that behind painkillers: Eliminate the symptoms, not the problem. Sure, with a sufficient dose of painkillers, I could run while my foot is broken without feeling any ill effects, but that doesn't nullify the damage that would be caused by doing this.
...by that logic, we ought to outlaw SMTP servers, since one can falsify email headers there more easily than this system allows the falsification of caller-id data...
It supposedly can determine which home pages make the greatest impression on users. I agree with you, though, that this should have been included in the summary, which is meaningless.
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I see that the person who moderated me as "troll" must be insecure about his own linguistic skills.:)
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Heh... I think the entirety of the Internet is illiterate. Compared to YouTube, Slashdot is actually rather good. If usage patterns on the Internet are indicative of a larger trend, we, as a species, are screwed.
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Well... There are fewer people killed by ambulances than there are people saved by ambulances.
Applying your strict utilitarian logic elsewhere, firetrucks and police cars shouldn't have the right to disobey traffic rules if the fire endangers fewer people than disobeying traffic rules does.
Because relatively few lights are equipped to change in response to stimuli? Most are simply set on timers.
Did you not see the middle sentence? "They should not be exempted from any law, unless there is a compelling argument that exempting them from the law is in the public interest."
And yes, firetrucks or ambulances should not be exempt if they are not responding to an emergency, which was the original poster's point. A police car should not be exempt if its driver is getting more donuts, but should be exempt if it's responding to a call.
Possibly because it would have been somewhat more difficult to film, because lighting levels would have been greatly reduced? Or else he wanted to showcase the robot's speed, which would not have been as effective inside a small cardboard box. He could have built a shallow cardboard border around the table, though.
Perhaps he wanted to demonstrate that it did not have any edge detection capabilities?
From the article:
This story is really an addendum to the original, which we saw on Slashdot earlier this week.
Although I don't support Diebold either, please keep personal opinion out of the summaries. Quotes like "diebold executives appeared confused when encountering election officials who made an intelligent choice" don't belong in objective news reporting.
So wrong! Just look at the following example:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
length q caller vec and print chr oct ord q qx eq and print chr ord q ref or and print chr ord q or no and print chr ord q else and print chr ord qq q q and print chr ord q tie gt and print chr ord qw q sin q and print chr ord q q eq and print chr ord qw q sin q and print chr ord q sin s and print chr ord q cmp lc and print chr ord q split s and print chr ord qw q lc q and print chr ord q ne sin and print chr hex length q q bless localtime ref q
Run that. Nothing cryptic or complex at all.
(BTW, it prints "Perl is simple!")
attempted suicide is an offense, and you will be charged
Not so in the United States, and most other industrialized countries. The last state to decriminalize attempted suicide did so in 1994. In a few U.S. states, however, suicide is still considered a common law crime.
Unfortunately, there are other countries in the world that still have such laws, however.
Already been done. Ah, those game theorists!
Which is why I tagged this article with "njkewjdkewd."
American intelligence agencies are now looking to Wiki solutions for sharing intelligence, and it's far superior to any previous databases. Although it hasn't existed long enough to draw final conclusions, many say it works well. Perhaps UK intelligence agencies will follow America's lead and do the same?
"Work offline" modes always retrieve copies of the document stored in cache, regardless of the status of the document on the Internet.
Not "hacking democracy," per se, merely concealing the fact that democracy can be hacked...
Have a camera facing backwards. The buses move around the van.
Yes, but these are contained within eyeglasses. All other head-mounted displays are opaque; these are transparent.
I think many /. readers weigh >300lbs, period.
The concept behind this drug seems akin to that behind painkillers: Eliminate the symptoms, not the problem. Sure, with a sufficient dose of painkillers, I could run while my foot is broken without feeling any ill effects, but that doesn't nullify the damage that would be caused by doing this.
...by that logic, we ought to outlaw SMTP servers, since one can falsify email headers there more easily than this system allows the falsification of caller-id data...
...as a phone! :-)
Yes, but Vista ought to be backwards-compatible with documents readable on legacy devices. I agree, though, that this article is flamebait.
Now that would be a truly distressing designation!
It's irrelevant, and it's not funny. I've been tagging similarly mistagged articles with "shutupwithitsatrap," and "!itsatrap."
The tag was already overused when it was remotely relevant, but today's usage is idiotic.
And yes, I acknowledge that this will be modded off-topic. I have some karma to spare.
It supposedly can determine which home pages make the greatest impression on users. I agree with you, though, that this should have been included in the summary, which is meaningless.
I see that the person who moderated me as "troll" must be insecure about his own linguistic skills. :)
Heh... I think the entirety of the Internet is illiterate. Compared to YouTube, Slashdot is actually rather good. If usage patterns on the Internet are indicative of a larger trend, we, as a species, are screwed.