That's all you've seen, but have you been hanging out in REAL pedophile forums? Obviously pedobear started as a joke, but I'll fully admit I have no knowledge of whether the real pedophile community has adopted the image to communicate with each other. If (and its a big if) the police have real (i.e. not hypothetical) knowledge that real pedophiles use the image to communicate with each other, then the warning is appropriate (maybe they have undercovers in pedophile forums?).

I looked at the actual bulletin and it seemed to be a downright reasonable explanation of pedobear, minus the reference to "pedophiles and sexual deviants," which again I can't really dispute because I have no idea what those guys are doing!

That may work for data it stores, but what about data it sends? Of course, an elite hacker can make a remote computer blow up by sending a few choice lines of code over the network.

I'm not saying I agree with these rulings, but privacy rights and sales licenses sound more like law than technology to me.

At some point, I believe the CMU robotics motto was "building robots today... to fight aliens tomorrow."

Well, if what he says is true (25 years old and living on SSI) then yes, he is either (1) totally or partially blind; or (2) has a medical condition that keeps him from working and is expected to last at least one year or result in death.

I guess (3) has faked one ore more of the above -- could also be true.

I think he meant "convergence." I think you knew what he meant too.

You'll put your eye out!

I agree with the sentiment, but it's not unreasonable for him to have zero marginal cost (if he already runs a terabyte server for other purposes)

That's what happens when you get Gary Larson to design your plane.

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/5318/wingsye5.jpg

Except it'll exonerate the pilots once we prove it was a gremlin that jumped in the window and set the autopilot to "crash"

Seriously though, what is easier to design? (1) A helicopter modified to include wheels and automated flight or (2) a Humvee modified to fly with automated flight

I'd vote for modified helicopters.

No, it's more like a big truck that you just dump stuff on.

Seriously, though, this is less about a "backlog" and more about collecting sweet, sweet fees. I don't have mod points, but this guy explains it well.

Of course I can hear a difference! If admitted I couldn't hear the difference between a $700 and a $2000 audio cable, then my reputation as an elite audiophile would be ruinated!

This is exactly my thought. As far as I know, nobody is saying you CAN'T post photos of these homes. Google is just being nice and recognizing that some people may not like it. And the homeowners are reasonably taking Google up on the offer to remove photos. This guy is being a dick to those homeowners for the sake of what... documentary completeness?

Lisa, I'd like to buy your pile.