"1. Robots must never harm human beings or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
What constitutes harm?"
I think this can be rewritten thusly:
1. Roomba must never harm human beings or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Harm being defined as a dirty floor. Since practicality means that the laws would have to be within the confines of the abilities of the robot. In this case I don't think we can expect Roomba to tackle a burglar threatening you in your home, though that sure would be friggin' cool!
Absofrigginlutely! Everyone's going to jump on this but the truth is that there is no comparison because there is no one with such visibility as M$FT. (And for those that mention Apache, what kicks would anyone get from that?) I hate MS but it ain't hard to figure out that it's safe, easy and Slashdot approved to kick sand in their products face through malicious behaviour. Of course I guess it's Bill Gate's fault that there are 20 billion geek assholes out there......
Yeah, it's a little unfair to characterize everything that happens under a specific administration to the prez. After all a lot of this crap gets there through the Senate and the Congress. Now those chumps are evil. What party was holding power in the Senate and the House when the DMCA was passed? Who sponsored it? Who are the chumps who backed such B.S.?
A:Because they are too busy soundbiting to bother.
To take the anecdotal situation with your SO and blow it up into a diatribe against windows is inane. Perhaps he should compile a larger data set before making such overarching pronouncements. Take a look out there on the web and you will find tons of sites with Mac users lamenting the hellishly complicated chaos that results when something does go wrong with their machines. I have a Mac and have friends with Macs and everyone I know has problems. I don't use my Mac anymore since Apple dumps support for anything over a year or two old forcing you into an expensive upgrade pattern with their overpriced crappy machines and half-assed pretty software. I run a Windows box with no anti-virus and a cable-modem and have had no problems of the kind mentioned. I hate Microsoft as a company and am not fan of their products but this story is just plain bullshit hype with no content. Of course anyone who things that the iPod, bringing us back to the sound quality of the 8-Track, is that great probably mistakes fads and hype for content.
I would say he's lucky that he has a lazy editor but the truth of the matter is that journalism in this country sucks beyond belief. Just hype and bullshit.
Way to be on the team adding to the media sewer.
Disclaimer, I use M$FT products only because my job requires it. In my spare time I surf the net on an Ultra 10 through Hotjava......
Man I wish I had some mod points to bestow on this baby! I love that movie and only wish that I had documented that slashdot first post that I made cowardly (of course) as "anonymous coward". Oh I am thimply all a tizzy oveth thith!
I am also glad that someone has finally revealed to me the only good use that I have ever heard of for an iPod!
I imagine that what google was thinking was that anybody using a name with 'oogle' in it after they became the search engine du jour was probably influenced by their name. That's the way a lot of these things go. I am not a big fan of google and use teoma more these days (to dodge so much ad site stuff) but it doesn't take a genius to see how even a variant might be construed as infringing. The courts saw it as not close enough (unlike the other cases which were more exact in their variations) but the real question would of been, would this guy have named it as he did if google had not existed?
Of course many of us were using the name google numerically for years prior to their business venture but so goes the name wars......
Right on! The first thing I did when I saw this post was do a find on "Tarkovsky" to see if someone had written about that. The thing about the Tarkovsky movie is that there are myths about wishes granted, ghosts and knowledge to be gained. However, Chernobyl and Stalker both have the sense of adventure at hand. Especially now, wouldn't it be exciting and eerie to go to a place that used to be inhabited? It would give a sense of reality to those end of the world scenarios that we like so much in movies and books. When that woman's pictorial log of motorcycling through there was linked to on Slashdot, I couldn't stop looking at it. It was like a direct link to that sense of eerieness and was fascinating beyond belief. As for knowledge gained, don't we always feel that passing a frontier somehow gives us knowledge, if not about tangible things, then about ourselves and our relation to the world. I don't think in this case I would take a guide but if I lived over there I would go.....
The last thing I want is for us to send robots to space and use that technology to build robots here on earth. Uhh, dumb-ass, some people need tedious jobs so they can get a paycheck. And I don't want any possible space jobs to go to robots either! Maybe you want to give it away but I am sure there are plenty of people who want those resources. Not to mention that the whole point of sending people into space is because we want to travel there and colonize it! What a short-sighted individual. That's what we want and that's our money well-spent. The only way to figger that out is to send PEOPLE there. Sheesh, eggheads. No wonder we slap the shit out of those pocket-protector wearing geeks in bars.....
"Some companies naively thought that privacy would not be an issue for consumers," said Mark Roberti, editor of RFID Journal, an RFID trade publication.
Rii-ght, I'm sure those companies were aware, they just didn't care, however the RFID guy tries to play it off legit by calling it naive instead of uncaring. And what you called fear is exactly where these guys want to go next.
You of the tinfoil hat need to realize that where there is collection of data the uses of it are necessarily evil. Anytime the possibility is there, a reason is there, and that means someone will use the information inappropriately......
I don't think there is enough wine on his ranch (or in the world for that matter) to make any of those recent (or future) movies "enjoyable". I think the best one could hope for is to be in the same state that one is in before painful surgery; unconscious. Since Lucas if off producing his next abomination, Star Wars III we can hope that he will get drunk enough to make a movie as bad as Godfather III which, terrible as it is, is better than those recent Star Wars flicks.
I guess it's really bad when you are hoping that Lucas can up the ante on his films to be merely terrible instead of embarassingly wretched. These guys should retire and stick to wine. Though that Cabarnet of Coppola's wasn't anything to get excited about but I am sure he will have a multimedia apologia on Amazon.com's food section to go with his pleading for his merely mediocre movie "One From the Heart".
Somebody needs to think these guys out into the cornfield and take the Rolling Stones and and all the rest of the has beens with them! Stop them before they create again!
Excuse me but we here at SCO wrote this. Back when. And we now want all of you here at Slashdot to pay for each individual laugh and or chuckle that you got out of it. It's ours, we own it. You'll be hearing from our lawyers. You and you and YOU!
However contacting Dell for anything out of warranty is annoying, they want the entire history of your laptop and all your credit card info and address before you can even ask them about a part....I just want to buy a BIOS battery and I feel like I'm taking out a mortgage on a house......they won't even tell you how much a part is or whether they have it till they have you locked in their sites.....
Yeah, those geniuses in Silicon Valley and Seattle who put up their stock options against their mortgages till the drop in 2000 and had to face foreclosure, or the slick characters who poured their hopes and dreams into the money making machine known as the internet only to come up with severance if they were lucky. Those guys are so smart, the ones who have downsized into tiny apartments from expensive condos and are playing 2-year old games while living off unemployment extensions. The ones with the "What Me Worry?" looks on their faces. Yeah, they'd never get scammed......
Way to go Sun, get in bed with Satan why don't you. I hope you like the stench of the slithering maggots covering Sam Walmart's rotting body. Too bad I don't believe in Hell because then I would feel better when scum like him die......
You'd think being in California Sun would be sensitive to the turmoil going on in California's retail sector as the stores there gear up for the Wal-Mart Night of the Living Dead invasion. I guess Sun doesn't care about American workers and products anyway. Oh, well, I used to surf the web using Hot Java on a Sun box and those days went belly-up with the turn of the millenium ecommerce fad. Guess I won't be mentioning that to anyone anymore.....
This is inane, productions costs have never been an obstacle to the independent musician. There have been great sounding records by independent musicians forever. There are plenty of people who produce great sounding records and have done it on their own labels. Demos of very high quality have been produced forever, if someone wants a big time producer it has more to do with their name in the industry than whether it makes them artist sound like mainstream radio schlok. The only obstacle is the game that those who want to sacrifice their independence for mainstream support and distribution in order to reach a larger audience have to play. That most important component in that game is to sound as close the shit that they are already peddling on the payola ridden scam known as radio. As long as your are willing to sacrifice your creativity for fame then you are on the road to success!!
I've heard records recorded on 8 tracks in someone's kitchen that sounds great and lots better than someone else who spent 50 grand at some cocaine and chrome mirror LA studio......
In a country this loaded with guns I can't believe the wimpiness that I am reading here. The answer to all these problems can be solved by taking out the parasite, the spammer, the stock frauder with our gift from Charleton Heston, the handgun. For chrissakes show some guts, be men! Oh right, you guys only shoot "virtual guns" in your little boy computer games. Lame geeks, no one wonder jocks will beat you up and take your lunch money in stock fraud, because they know that much like you went to mommy back in first grade, that you're just gonna whine to the SEC now.
I think that with a simple cheap webcam and a modicum of digital storage that option 2 is actually possible. One way is to record some lectures, historical material, classes etc. However I think the best way to do it is to just train 2 cams, one on a programmer and another behind him so we can see his monitor. Then for 2 years record the day to day routine of some programming, lots of email answering, lots of net surfing and catching the muttering under his breath when he comes back from a meeting where 2 hours was spent watching a Powerpoint presentation by some pointy headed marketing guy talking about deliverables and click thrus.
Then edit this down ala Koyanisqaatsi with a really slow soundtrack (but in the spirit of Warhols Empire State and in keeping with the general workday make it 8 hours long)and voila, a representation of how droll it really can be to be a programmer.
Then make it required watching for those who think sitting around swilling wine in a fancy silk shirt walking around in front of a bank of terminals (notice how in Swordfish Hugh Jackman hardly sits down?) or getting recruited by the CIA is what is in store for you.
As for the Matrix, well, since Keanu doesn't even have his computer on in his cube, no wonder he is in trouble at work......
Thank you for pointing this out, not to mention that I would just as soon have the file for download and to listen on whatever player I choose without having to use up my interweb bandwidth. And Real Player Really Sucks! Besides the ads etc. it just isn't that robust a player, I have had constant problems and really don't use it anymore.....
Man it gets a lot worse, due to HIPPA's seeming ties to Oracle and Microsoft, they seem to see security only in Enterprise level solutions, so that anything that gets called a "database" is scary. At the hospital where I work I was creating a reporting tool based on Access that would import data, format it and then dump out a spreadsheet, not storing any data. But when it was seen that I was using Access I got lots of flak that our IS department is going to have to okay it, that there are lots of HIPPA rules concerning the use of Access for storage of patient data. Even though I told them that I wasn't storing data, and when I asked what the difference was with all the data that they all store on their computers using Excel and with what I was doing, I just got 'Homer-eyes' of non-comprehension. "Excel is just used more and therefore is more accepted", was the answer. They kept using the mantra that Access is a database and I couldn't get them to realize that I am not storing data there. It's scary the FUD that HIPPA generates and it gets worse with the technologically inept administrators that freak out over it. Not even realizing that they have tons of data in their emails to one another that is far less secure than what they imagine that I am doing.
It sucks but that's what happens with these corrupt bureaucratic orgs.....
I myself have always managed to assuage my luddite ways by kicking the shit out of those fuckers who think Legos are better than Lincoln Logs! Don't they realize that demon plastic is an unnatural material to dull us to the coming end of natural resources?
Also please read Roland Barthes essay in his book "Mythologies" concerning toys......
Though I have used Suse in the past, one thing that really starts to grate is the expense. If they would offer a stripped down cheaper version like RedHat, then I would be likely to give this a try but until that time.......I don't really need a jillion CD's worth of apps.
What a bunch of pussies using phones and GPS. If it was a real challenge they would just set out and then we'd just wait till someone arrived. Gutless simps.
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I think this can be rewritten thusly:
1. Roomba must never harm human beings or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Harm being defined as a dirty floor. Since practicality means that the laws would have to be within the confines of the abilities of the robot. In this case I don't think we can expect Roomba to tackle a burglar threatening you in your home, though that sure would be friggin' cool!
Absofrigginlutely! Everyone's going to jump on this but the truth is that there is no comparison because there is no one with such visibility as M$FT. (And for those that mention Apache, what kicks would anyone get from that?) I hate MS but it ain't hard to figure out that it's safe, easy and Slashdot approved to kick sand in their products face through malicious behaviour. Of course I guess it's Bill Gate's fault that there are 20 billion geek assholes out there......
Oh crap, all the politicos suck.....
A:Because they are too busy soundbiting to bother.
To take the anecdotal situation with your SO and blow it up into a diatribe against windows is inane. Perhaps he should compile a larger data set before making such overarching pronouncements. Take a look out there on the web and you will find tons of sites with Mac users lamenting the hellishly complicated chaos that results when something does go wrong with their machines. I have a Mac and have friends with Macs and everyone I know has problems. I don't use my Mac anymore since Apple dumps support for anything over a year or two old forcing you into an expensive upgrade pattern with their overpriced crappy machines and half-assed pretty software. I run a Windows box with no anti-virus and a cable-modem and have had no problems of the kind mentioned. I hate Microsoft as a company and am not fan of their products but this story is just plain bullshit hype with no content. Of course anyone who things that the iPod, bringing us back to the sound quality of the 8-Track, is that great probably mistakes fads and hype for content. I would say he's lucky that he has a lazy editor but the truth of the matter is that journalism in this country sucks beyond belief. Just hype and bullshit. Way to be on the team adding to the media sewer.
Disclaimer, I use M$FT products only because my job requires it. In my spare time I surf the net on an Ultra 10 through Hotjava......
I am also glad that someone has finally revealed to me the only good use that I have ever heard of for an iPod!
The last thing I want is for us to send robots to space and use that technology to build robots here on earth. Uhh, dumb-ass, some people need tedious jobs so they can get a paycheck. And I don't want any possible space jobs to go to robots either! Maybe you want to give it away but I am sure there are plenty of people who want those resources. Not to mention that the whole point of sending people into space is because we want to travel there and colonize it! What a short-sighted individual. That's what we want and that's our money well-spent. The only way to figger that out is to send PEOPLE there. Sheesh, eggheads. No wonder we slap the shit out of those pocket-protector wearing geeks in bars.....
"Some companies naively thought that privacy would not be an issue for consumers," said Mark Roberti, editor of RFID Journal, an RFID trade publication.
Rii-ght, I'm sure those companies were aware, they just didn't care, however the RFID guy tries to play it off legit by calling it naive instead of uncaring. And what you called fear is exactly where these guys want to go next.
You of the tinfoil hat need to realize that where there is collection of data the uses of it are necessarily evil. Anytime the possibility is there, a reason is there, and that means someone will use the information inappropriately......
I guess it's really bad when you are hoping that Lucas can up the ante on his films to be merely terrible instead of embarassingly wretched. These guys should retire and stick to wine. Though that Cabarnet of Coppola's wasn't anything to get excited about but I am sure he will have a multimedia apologia on Amazon.com's food section to go with his pleading for his merely mediocre movie "One From the Heart".
Somebody needs to think these guys out into the cornfield and take the Rolling Stones and and all the rest of the has beens with them! Stop them before they create again!
Yeah, those geniuses in Silicon Valley and Seattle who put up their stock options against their mortgages till the drop in 2000 and had to face foreclosure, or the slick characters who poured their hopes and dreams into the money making machine known as the internet only to come up with severance if they were lucky. Those guys are so smart, the ones who have downsized into tiny apartments from expensive condos and are playing 2-year old games while living off unemployment extensions. The ones with the "What Me Worry?" looks on their faces. Yeah, they'd never get scammed......
You'd think being in California Sun would be sensitive to the turmoil going on in California's retail sector as the stores there gear up for the Wal-Mart Night of the Living Dead invasion. I guess Sun doesn't care about American workers and products anyway. Oh, well, I used to surf the web using Hot Java on a Sun box and those days went belly-up with the turn of the millenium ecommerce fad. Guess I won't be mentioning that to anyone anymore.....
I've heard records recorded on 8 tracks in someone's kitchen that sounds great and lots better than someone else who spent 50 grand at some cocaine and chrome mirror LA studio......
Then edit this down ala Koyanisqaatsi with a really slow soundtrack (but in the spirit of Warhols Empire State and in keeping with the general workday make it 8 hours long)and voila, a representation of how droll it really can be to be a programmer.
Then make it required watching for those who think sitting around swilling wine in a fancy silk shirt walking around in front of a bank of terminals (notice how in Swordfish Hugh Jackman hardly sits down?) or getting recruited by the CIA is what is in store for you.
As for the Matrix, well, since Keanu doesn't even have his computer on in his cube, no wonder he is in trouble at work......
It sucks but that's what happens with these corrupt bureaucratic orgs.....
Also please read Roland Barthes essay in his book "Mythologies" concerning toys......
Though I have used Suse in the past, one thing that really starts to grate is the expense. If they would offer a stripped down cheaper version like RedHat, then I would be likely to give this a try but until that time.......I don't really need a jillion CD's worth of apps.
What a bunch of pussies using phones and GPS. If it was a real challenge they would just set out and then we'd just wait till someone arrived. Gutless simps.