Not sure what all this means when you put it together, but it seems like government policies are out of touch with reality of grooming candidates in the US, even to meet their own needs.
"Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him (Qu’on me donne six lignes de la main du plus honnête homme, j’y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre)."
Whether in make-believe settings, or the distorted scene-setting of media coverage, robots are strong, because anything less would be a buzzkill.
Speaking of buzzkills, could a robot driver deploy a sawstop-style mechanism, possibly dropping an anchor of sorts into the road surface, when presented with an imminent otherwise-unpreventable collision?
This assumes airbags can be designed to sufficiently mitigate the g-forces on the occupants to prevent internal 'shaken-baby-syndrome'-style brain injuries.
* Schroedinbug: Sometimes, you look into the code, and find that it has a bug or a problem that should never have allowed it to work in the first place
Any robot that can help a wounded person could easily be re-purposed to fire weaponry instead of administer first aid -- Especially if they can do injections.
And it's pretty much guaranteed that they will be coerced as demands dictate.
Country B's killer robot, now with new and improved No-Moral(TM): Oooooh, an embargo. I'm sooooo scared. Guess I'd better not kill anyone anymore, the big bad embargo might tell me to talk to the hand at the border, or even worse, write me an angry letter.
I have trouble suspending my disbelief with your scenario. You left out the banner advertisements for body armor, life insurance, and the new, improved enemy detection app, now available on the Samsung Galaxy X12.
Politicians will be among the first to leverage this law. How convenient that selected statements were to just...disappear....from the Internet. More so prior to an election season.
Mr/s. Politician:
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For your protection to prevent this problem from recurring, re-indexing of web sites containing references to your person will begin not earlier than six months after the date of this notice, and newly indexed content will be subject to rigorous manual review before addition to search results.
Thank you for promptly notifying us of this issue, and good luck in your reelection campaign.
Have you seen what has happened because of the Google Fiber rollout? Here in Austin, you have AT&T scrambling to match the offer after the mere ANNOUNCEMENT by Google that they intended to offer service,
Scrambling to match the offer? By my recollection, AT&T was scrambling to match the announcement.
That probably helped, considering you didn't have all those pesky short-term memories from the night before getting in the way of what you're hearing at the moment.
Goog is the latter. but I feel bad beating up on them lately, especially after the moto thing and their last quarterly report. desktop revenue down 9% even though clicks are up 26%...
For Google's case in particular, I also have to look at the services they've provided:
High-quality email with the holy grail of spam filtering
Basic office software in a browser
A standards-compatible browser under constant development
A phone operating system
Mapping, search, and everything else
Since these are provided free to everybody, isn't this a tangible public service? Sure, Google's users are the product, but if one considers these as analogous to services provided under a government's mandate to use their taxes to provide for the general welfare, why shouldn't Google get a special tax break? It sure beats the return on the multiple $1E9's spent beating the crap out of some foreign country.
Perhaps we could take the lead from government departments already tasked with maintaining security, hold on, let me google this... I'm finding 'Transportation Security Agency' and 'National Security Agency'. That should be a good start.
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Not sure what all this means when you put it together, but it seems like government policies are out of touch with reality of grooming candidates in the US, even to meet their own needs.
Addition is a gateway skill -- it tends to lead to multiplication.
"Show me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough therein to hang him (Qu’on me donne six lignes de la main du plus honnête homme, j’y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre)."
Whether in make-believe settings, or the distorted scene-setting of media coverage, robots are strong, because anything less would be a buzzkill.
Speaking of buzzkills, could a robot driver deploy a sawstop-style mechanism, possibly dropping an anchor of sorts into the road surface, when presented with an imminent otherwise-unpreventable collision?
This assumes airbags can be designed to sufficiently mitigate the g-forces on the occupants to prevent internal 'shaken-baby-syndrome'-style brain injuries.
People think Japan is basically 90% uninhabitable because of nuclear holocaust. I want to move out of the US to escape the stupidity.
That's uninformed and ridiculous; the area affected by that is only about 5%. The other 85% is accounted for by the recurring giant monster attacks.
* Schroedinbug: Sometimes, you look into the code, and find that it has a bug or a problem that should never have allowed it to work in the first place
http://www.opensourceforu.com/...
My own Schroedinbugs have specifically been along the lines of, 'How has this managed to work so long, with this dead cat in here all this time?'
Any robot that can help a wounded person could easily be re-purposed to fire weaponry instead of administer first aid -- Especially if they can do injections.
And it's pretty much guaranteed that they will be coerced as demands dictate.
Country B's killer robot, now with new and improved No-Moral(TM): Oooooh, an embargo. I'm sooooo scared. Guess I'd better not kill anyone anymore, the big bad embargo might tell me to talk to the hand at the border, or even worse, write me an angry letter.
I have trouble suspending my disbelief with your scenario. You left out the banner advertisements for body armor, life insurance, and the new, improved enemy detection app, now available on the Samsung Galaxy X12.
Most recently, check out the May 15 Colbert Report. He skewers the concept of military morality pretty well.
The individual video segment is available to watch directly -- it's relevant, funny, and even oddly poignant.
Politicians will be among the first to leverage this law. How convenient that selected statements were to just...disappear....from the Internet. More so prior to an election season.
Mr/s. Politician:
We have received your request to remove links to websites disparaging your character. To properly and accurately comply with your request, all content regarding your person has been removed from our search results.
For your protection to prevent this problem from recurring, re-indexing of web sites containing references to your person will begin not earlier than six months after the date of this notice, and newly indexed content will be subject to rigorous manual review before addition to search results.
Thank you for promptly notifying us of this issue, and good luck in your reelection campaign.
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Have you seen what has happened because of the Google Fiber rollout? Here in Austin, you have AT&T scrambling to match the offer after the mere ANNOUNCEMENT by Google that they intended to offer service,
Scrambling to match the offer? By my recollection, AT&T was scrambling to match the announcement.
I found going to class every day, even hung over
That probably helped, considering you didn't have all those pesky short-term memories from the night before getting in the way of what you're hearing at the moment.
Coverity has a blog post describing the problem and why their static analysis methods currently can't detect it.
If a person sentenced to life does not wish to continue the sentence, then they should have the option to request an end to it.
They don't need anyone's permission to do that now -- prisoners have the means to hang or otherwise kill themselves in prison fairly universally.
Friend: "...and people are even 3D printing houses!"
Me: Let me know when they start 3D printing Location, Location, and Location.
They should try that with economics. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, for one, they could end up classifying it as a humanities subject.
Maybe not clone, but if you act quickly enough, you might be able to get him to a place where he can meet someone to reproduce with.
the Chronicle says 49 pounds, the Montgomery County Police Reporter says 29 pounds — either way, it's too heavy
Shouldn't they deserve a special exception from the FAA's weight limit? After all, everything's bigger in Texas.
They're actually more evil than Mr. Burns.
Goog is the latter. but I feel bad beating up on them lately, especially after the moto thing and their last quarterly report. desktop revenue down 9% even though clicks are up 26%...
For Google's case in particular, I also have to look at the services they've provided:
Since these are provided free to everybody, isn't this a tangible public service? Sure, Google's users are the product, but if one considers these as analogous to services provided under a government's mandate to use their taxes to provide for the general welfare, why shouldn't Google get a special tax break? It sure beats the return on the multiple $1E9's spent beating the crap out of some foreign country.
The US may not be prepared, but they can take a note from Australia's efforts when they needed to clean oil spills off penguins.
Well, now that you have the dog, at least you have someone to keep you company in the water as you paddle along.
Perhaps we could take the lead from government departments already tasked with maintaining security, hold on, let me google this ... I'm finding 'Transportation Security Agency' and 'National Security Agency'. That should be a good start.