Comment Re:It's that time... (Score 1) 342
In case you're wondering, I know why you don't get invited to parties...
Yes, because you are an asshole. Assholes know everything.
In case you're wondering, I know why you don't get invited to parties...
Yes, because you are an asshole. Assholes know everything.
Right. Because the Macintosh was exactly like the Xerox Star, right down to the three-button Mouse and Smalltalk commands. Which Jobs licensed for a very agreeable amount
Apple didn't license anything from Xerox. In fact, Xerox sued Apple over the Lisa (and lost) for Apple's use of "their" technology, despite the fact that the mouse and windowing were created much earlier by Doug Engelbart.
Even if your whole narrative about Apple wasn't bunk, the fact that Douglas Engelbart's only relation with Xerox is that some co-workers basically took his work and moved over there is the icing on the dumb-cake that is your claim.
A better title would be "Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By Industrial Machinery."
Considering it was a worker from an outside company installing the robot, no, not really.
Germany is western?
Yes - I believe it's somewhere between Dodge City and the Sierra Madre.
The Western world, also known as the West and the Occident (from Latin: occidens "sunset, West"; as contrasted with the Orient
If the person in question bypassed the barrier system (eg put a shim in place of a sensor so he could work near the operating robot) then there is no way a lawsuit should be brought against the manufacturer. If the device/installation was missing basic safety precautions then there may be a case for a lawsuit against the manufacturer, installer of the robot, or auto manufacturer. Depending on who neglected the safety precautions. Regardless this has nothing to do with pseudo-"laws" of robotics or anything else remotely related to artificial intelligence.
The problem here is that the person killed was in the process of installing the robot.
That woman has absolutely zero sense of humour.
"Guys. I don't know what skynet is. And I wouldn't follow me - I tweet really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like."
"Ugh, this is a bit uncomfortable. A person has actually died."
You actually think "You report on a guy being killed by a robot, and your name is almost like that of a character in a movie about a killer robot" is funny? Let alone a couple of hundred times over?
Have they sent Dr. Susan Calvin to speak with the robot yet?
Well, he said: "I was just waking up, trying to rub my eyes, then there was this idiot in the way of my arm, and bamm, I hit him."
And this is how copyright caused thousands of deaths because the life saving checks could not be implemented.
I feel like a story coming to me...
No, they couldn't be implemented because they can only be implemented in a Positronic Brain. At least that's closer to the truth than your claim.
17 In late 2007, Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon”) introduced the Kindle, a portable
18 device that carries digital copies of books, known as “ebooks.” This innovation
19 had the potential to change the centuriesold process for producing books by
20 eliminating the need to print, bind, ship, and store them.
Amazon "innovated" ebooks? Really?
But it *is* 70% to Amazon for books between $0.99 and $2.98. Maybe that's justified by the fixed costs Amazon faces, which are a greater percent of a smaller price, but it still seems absurd to me. Of course my response is just to not price ebooks under $2.99, and then I can avoid it.
But it's proof Amazon is preventing authors from selling ebooks below $2,99. And thanks to their most-favourite-nation-clause, they also prevent that on all other places that sell ebooks.
Ohh, DOJ! We have a new victim for you!
Unless of course you want to prove your in cahoots with them. Who watches the watchers again?
Really, who needs Apple? I just watched a tear down of Beats Solo headphones and its no surprise they are made of crap.
Because it turned out to be a pair of knock-offs?
Not a lot of storage is necessary as long as electricity is never priced below market equilibrium
Those of us who have to run our air-conditioners 24/7 seven+ months of the year disagree. A lot of storage is necessary, or a lot of the energy producers have to be baseload. For which read "nuclear"....
Too bad nuclear power plants want cooling too - and have to be shut down when their cooling water supply either dries out or becomes to warm. And it takes weeks to get them running again, even when the cooling returns the next day. And coincidently those shut downs are happening more and more often, you know, because AGW.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson