Touchscreens have absolutely no place in cars with relatively untrained people driving. I'd love to see the studies and training for airline/fighter pilots on using the touchscreens vs having tactile controls you can just feel and learn to use without sight.
As a counter argument perhaps you don't want a fighter pilot firing a missile without actually looking at the control to do so
Can I play Angry Birds on my touch screen? It would idle away a long journey. Maybe I could just tape my tablet to the steering wheel.
There's a very old joke.
Hijacker: take this plane to a free country.
Pilot: this is a airliner, not a fucking spaceship.
The IRA put bombs in pubs and Burger Kings, with nothing resembling a "warning" issued and with there being little point in planting them unless the aim was to kill civilians, primarily or secondarily.
Frankly I'm tried of hearing people on this side of the Atlantic give them a pass simply because they were made up predominantly of Christians and because their cause is sympathetic. They were (and the remaining pockets who've continued to fight since the peace agreements of the 1990s still are) murderous thugs. At best, you can argue they weren't as lethal, with fewer people killed and with no attempt to drag in unrelated countries into their bitter dispute. But yes, as a Brit living in Britain for the first 25 years of my life, there was a target on my back - not as big as it was for soldiers, police, and everyone from construction workers to bankers considered by some arbitrary definition to be helping the British in Northern Ireland, but it was there.
The IRA did not appear out of a vacuum. They were a response to the systematic abuse of the native Irish by the British. They may have been nasty but they were in no sense religiously motivated. As usual, one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist.
As per ISO 3166, the correct two-character code for that country is GB, not UK. The TLD ought to match.
Unfortunately, changing *.uk to *.gb would be about as easy as the IPv6 switchover...
Oh, Christ. Don't get me started. It should never have been GB in the first place since GB is only a subset of UK. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles .
This led to clever people developing submachine guns.
Give it a couple decades and you'll be able to download plans for your own battlebot and then create it on your printer
Not true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_shotgun
I wasn't trying to distort anything. My point is that if you send in robots into an area with a mix of combatants and bystanders, you are removing morality from the equation. So why bother with the robots when aerial bombing is cheaper and equally immoral.
so, what's your point?
if someone is going to fight you, and you can afford to put out a robot to fight them instead of your own flesh and blood, are you saying we shouldn't do this?
So why not forget about all this morality bull and just nuke the hell out of the damn foreigners? Or at least just carpet bomb them back to the stone age. That would seem the logical, inhuman, robotic conclusion.
robots killing robots
wars settled in a clash of machinery without any humans for miles around
Most conflicts in the last 50 years have been asymmetric - big tech military vs AK47s and RPGs. And such conflicts usually involve insurgents (or whatever) hiding among non-combatants. So it's not robot vs robot - it's about deciding before every strike how much risk you are prepared to inflict on by-standers. Robots can't do that (and humans make a bad enough job of it too).
With mine I can transfer money. However, it's protected way beyond a simple password. I need a "random reader": a simple device that accepts my debet card, requires my PIN and gives me back the one-time key to even see my details. When signing a transaction I need to give the PIN, a one-time key from the webpage and the amount of money before the comma (probably to prevent hijacking).
I feel quite safe with that.
When setting up a new payee, my UK bank sends a one-time code to my mobile phone that I need to enter via the web. I sort of feel safe with that.
Unfortunately, the Mars Landing will never take off under the combined weight of tea baggers, so no reason to party yet.
I'm guessing you're taking a different meaning of teabagger than the one that comes to my mind.
Why do all soldiers have to have the same haircut? It's about reducing individuality and being assimilated into the squad.
Sticking to coding standards reduces the sin of code ownership.
I mean, seriously, why do you care if Earth becomes another Venus?
My twin nieces, Ruby and Winnie. My nephews Leo and Max.
Sorry to appeal to emotion, but I find your attitude a little cold, a little remote, a little shitty.
You know, every person on our overcrowded, polluted world was a sweet little child once and now there's over 250 born every minute. And more and more of us are moving up to the resource-intensive middle class economic orbit. Back in the 80s I used to say that we're all stuffed when the Chinese all aspire to motor cars. What's their car ownership rate now?
It might appear cold hearted but we're heading for either a population correction or a major resource crunch. BTW, I have great neices and nephews that I worry about but it doesn't change the broad course we're on.
Know what bothers me the most, is that there are democratic countries with "kill lists" , they even go public with it, and is fine, completely fine no one seems to bother !!
Every country has a list somewhere of people that they want dead. Every. Last. One. And what's wrong with them being public? Would it be more ethical and moral if they were private? What's really going on here is your idea of democracy is this utopian society where everyone is nice to each other and because it's so wonderful nobody would ever want to kill another person. The only place like that is North Korea. Everywhere else strives for balance between freedom and security. And even if a perfect utopia were to emerge in the world, it would be standing shoulder to shoulder with dystopias wanting nothing more than to pull it down to their level.
Non-violence is a virtue; It's something to strive for. It's not something that has ever, or likely will ever be, obtainable. Not by large groups of people. Not by governments.
This is so incorrect I don't know where to start. But I would guess the poster is a US-ian who thinks the whole world has the same violence-is-the-only-solution mindset as them. Well, they don't. Most of the world considers US foreign policy to be part of the problem.
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.
