How difficult it is to port to, and support the different major distros, such as RHEL, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware? How about FreeBSD and NetBSD? Are there differences that would cause something developed for and ported to RHEL not to run on, say, Mint?
It's probably not difficult at all but it's just that our products are tested, delivered and supported on a small set of platforms. Can we run full system test on every distro?
Am I the only one here who likes porn? I would hate to have to make the call of shame.... "uh...isp...can you....uhh.....un block my pr0n?"
How many men share an internet connection with a woman who would wonder why the filter was turned off?
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).
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
