The classic arcade games are more of an issue of attention, than skill or thinking ahead.
Once the AI figured out how the play the game, I bet it can focus and pay attention to the detail, more than a human can.

The point with the style is to reduce extra attention to the limb. If you try to make it look too human like, it fails, if you make it too robotic it fail... There is a middle ground, where they don't try to mimic the look of the limb, but they also don't look too much out of place to draw attention either.

That works too... However depending on the quality of their market research. They may just think that their content is driving people away. If you let them know that you like the site, except for the fact that they are too many add and you choose not to use them. Then you make sure they get the message.

There was a site, that I was visiting for a long time. Then they had an audio add. I complained to the site owner, they quickly fixed the problem.

I like seeing real progress in technology. Although, I think the idea of giving an artificial limb a skin color just adds to the uncanny valley. If I were to ever need such an implement, I would ask for a version that would look stylish, however not colored like a hand. It doesn't really fool anyone, and it actually would make someone stare more, vs. a Sliver or Black model. As their brain will not try to figure out why this dead hand is moving.

For the 40 mile trip, I expect he lived in an area which was mostly flat as well. I live most of my life in more hilly areas, and normally can average a speed about 10 MPH. Going up hill, takes a lot out of you, and for safety reasons you can't go down hill too fast either, you need to break yourself to a good speed.

My thoughts exactly. Being geeky and techy is what you do, but not necessarily who you are. And asking slashdot where most of us has some sort of personality quirk, that in general makes us bad around people, wouldn't make the best advice.

I wouldn't bother with geeky advice (as it will get out of date quickly. "Remember when swapping drives to bend with the knees so you don't pull your back" just doesn't cut it anymore.) just general advice about life, Things like relationships, life expectations, stating things she doesn't need to feel compelled to do after you die.

I expect there may be a little more to this. I think FedEx and Defense Distributed was trying to come up with some contract. And because the long term legality of such actions were questionable, FedEx probably didn't want to commit to such a contract, and probably just refused so if something did happen, they would be on record of being on the same page.
I don't see this as a political statement from FedEx, but just making sure they don't get caught in the middle of something hard to get out of.

Well it would be came from. Get your tenses right.

This might work... But not because astrology works, but because enough people believe in it.
If someone believes in their horoscope and says today should be a good day to be adventurous, they may use that day to take more risks, and injure themselves in the process. Or the fact that particular stars are visible during different seasons. So while Orion is visible, then there is a higher chance to get the flu.
Astrology isn't science, but it is just a bunch of data loosely correlated with results. These data correlations could be used to predict higher health care activity.

The ethical conundrum about robots serving alcoholic drinks. This is a very American issue.
1. Having a robot serve drinks seems to be a superficial luxury. Just so they don't have to get off their Asses and get a beer out of the fridge? Or will they be used to save money at a big expensive party where the robots will be more then mobile tables. However will it save money? Probably not, as people would probably like the interaction with the hostesses. Or would it just be a robotic bartender programed to mix a wide selection of drinks, this is the only practical use of a drink robot. But this is near the equivalent to a vending machine that happens to have drinks in them.

2. The ethics of drinking. I don't drink that much myself. (a drink every couple of months) but there isn't really a big ethical issue about drinking. It is mostly due to religions who try to discourage it. If a robot can more accurately verify someone's inebriation, it may be more helpful, to reduce drunk driving, or alcohol poisoning, better then a busy bar tender who can loose track of how much each person is drinking.

I think it may be an issue of overactive parents too. The child may have peanut allergy, when it it found out, they get a rash... They go to the doctor, they get diagnosed, and they never have a peanut for the rest of their life. Where kids back in the old day, may have gotten the same rash, then the next time, they may have not, as their body realized how to handle that protein. However the Old way of thinking, is if it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger.

Well Michael Rogers is doing his job.
His job a NSA is to find threats... The best way for him to do his job is to ask for more access to data.
Now don't fault him on asking. The issue comes down to if we as a society are brave enough to say we value our freedom more than our security.

But his job is to try to maximize security, so to do his job, he will request permission to hinder our freedom.

If he was going, oh I don't want access to this data. He should be fired for not doing his job. It isn't up to the NSA to set the balance, the NSA job is to push the balance one way.

By famous you mean having some name recognition in a subset of of a subset of a group.

What appears to be an armey trying to get you, are actually the normal recruiters who ping anyone with the buzzwords. If you are the creator of a popular framework, then you are probably one of the few people that seems to get past the badly written recycled job requirements, and get past HR, who just filter on keywords.

You know those jobs.
Web Developer
5 years experience with Windows Server 2012.
10 years experience in PHP, C#, .NET, ASP, COBOL, FoxPro, JavaScript, HTML, XML, RPG
BS in Computer Science Degree, Masters Prefered.
Salary 45k.

The jobs are just recycled from previous requests, they may update a couple of things, but in general, they just take the requirements of the guy who just left, and tried to replace him, with the same salary, they he decided to leave for.

Now a good recruiter, will push around the HR filtering, and bring you directly with the hiring manager, who is able to say offer double or triple the salary, give a you a better title, and realize that they are a Linux shop and only use Windows 2012 for Exchange, which isn't your job to manage.

Yea, they should have made alcohol consumption illegal 95 years ago. But I guess there wasn't idea on the danger of alcohol consumption.

While pot may be safer then alcohol it doesn't mean that it is good for you. Alcohol consumption has a wide cultural background for good or for bad. Pot and tobacco much less so. We want to get people to stop smoking tobacco too. Why should we just green light pot just because it is less bad, but still bad.

Now for legit medical use, it makes sence and it should be legal for medical. But for recreational use it should fall under the same category as pain killers.

However in war, most of the time, you are trying to claim that that spot of land is your territory. So depending on the outcome, you are either the the aggressor or defendor.