Comment Re:!cyborg (Score 1) 101
You + tractor is not an ox, but a biomechanical entity used for plowing.
So a 'robox'?
You + tractor is not an ox, but a biomechanical entity used for plowing.
So a 'robox'?
So someone with a pacemaker can be seen as a cyborg by that part of humanity that is currently dying from heart disease, but since a normal healthy human isn't dying from heart disease at the moment someone with a pacemaker is not a cyborg.
However, if Oscar Pistorius replaces his prosthetic legs by some jet engines and has one of his hands replaced by an incorporated pistol, he can become the first cyborg drone in history and not be arrested for murder
People who properly capitalise brand names whenever they use them.
You did it wrong everywhere except for Emacs and the scotmen. yoU sucK
Why bother with a living creature?
Use an industrial robot, or even better, a simple reposting script written by the company in the article.
I bet Slashdot will instantly get much more interesting newsposts!
Have these people never heard of microphones?
It also sounds like a really great way to obtain a lot of extremely interesting metadata for nefarious purposes. Personal information that may be also used for things like bank accounts + travel dates? Yay, break in + plundering of all the victim's money!
And then the bank will say "You did this yourself, only you know all this sensitive information. Say bye bye to your money."
On the other hand, Life has killed more than a few people. In fact, it ends up killing everyone and their little dog!
Conclusion: Life must be BANNINATED!
Why would it die to Android?
What has Android got, that can kill Microsoft?
I'm pretty sure it can't win the malware race, one way or another.
Nor can it win the horrible user interface race. Both are already at ex-aequo positions there.
Both are backed by people who think they can force their badly thought-out long-term strategies down people's throats Deep-Throat-style. And someone always end up unexpectedly spunked in the eye, with both of them.
Besides, Microsoft already overcame a very dangerous threat to its continued existence: It has managed to survive Steve Ballmer and his deadly finishing move, the flying chair, just fine.
Going to arbitrary websites to download and subsequently execute binaries is extremely dangerous, and significantly disadvantages small vendors... How is a random user supposed to know that the website they've been to and the file they just downloaded is trustworthy and not some piece of malware?
Considering some of the crap that is included in apps available on the various official app stores (malware, hidden Bitcoin generators that use the users' CPU cycles to generate Bitcoins for the company making the app, shit programming, dubious app subjects such as rape, etc.), I'm not sure there is a difference...
"Let's move from one monopolist to another!"
A somewhat better explanation:
"Schaft" is the European Labor (giant robot) manufacturer that provides most of the antagonist mecha in the anime/manga "Mobile Police Patlabor". The "Patlabor" (from "Patrol Labor") are police robots, made by fictional Japanese company Shinohara Heavy Industries, that help maintain the peace in Tokyo in said franchise. Although "help maintain the peace" is somewhat of an euphemism, considering their tendencies to cause massive property damage... Schaft's most impressive product is the Griffin Labor, a quasi-military model that can fly.
So the Japanese team being named "Schaft" is a reference to Mobile Police Patlabor, and not a African-American. The anime in question, by the way, is rather realistic and has some good character development.
Unfortunately, it is clear that these robots are not using the Shinohara Hyper-Operating System or the experimental Asura OS (the OSes that drive the Labors life-like movements in the anime), considering their clumsiness.
On the other hand, if you want random unrelated contents blocked, these filters are excellent and deserve a broader deployment. For example, as we all know plastic modelling (as in 'building styrene scale models') is a horrible subversive passtime that is looked upon by government officials and search companies as unacceptably original and therefore obscene. As such, it is completely acceptable that doing a Google image search for '[scale] [machinery name]' removes half the results because they supposedly are child pron, despite A) not having any shades of flesh color in them and B) representing a whole world of pain as they tear up your insides when you try to insert them into, well, anyone.
Now, however, if I Google plant part names at work and specify the plant name, invariably Google turns up some pron. Including child pron. So something is tremendously wrong with their search filter if Googling '1/87 garbage truck' removes 50% of actual garbage truck images, but Googling 'stamen Rosa' results in pron.
Conclusion: Anti-pron filters are a great way of obtaining porn by removing non-porn related results!
With your bare hands?!?