Someone needs to stop this research!
The first study of violent video games was never completed because the researchers ended up killing each other after being exposed to just one minute of play.
Think of the researchers!
Charter cable in Michigan does this if your bill is overdue.
Dicks. Oops, I mean Cocks.
ATF Declares "Chore Boy" pot scrubber as supressor.
It was probably this watch:
"Did you see our new stealth fighter?"
"No?"
"Damn we're good!"
Slashdot has a "Principal Software Engineer"?
Who knew?
Plot summary
In the future, the United States has converted to an "electronic democracy" where the computer Multivac selects a single person to answer a number of questions. Multivac will then use the answers and other data to determine what the results of an election would be, avoiding the need for an actual election to be held.
The story centers around Norman Muller, the man chosen as "Voter of the Year" in 2008. Although the law requires him to accept the dubious honour, he is not sure that he wants the responsibility of representing the entire electorate, worrying that the result will be unfavorable and he will be blamed.
However, after 'voting', he is very proud that the citizens of the United States had, through him, "exercised once again their free, untrammeled franchise" - a statement that is somewhat ironic as the citizens didn't actually get to vote.
The idea of a computer predicting whom the electorate would vote for instead of actually holding an election was probably inspired by the UNIVAC I's correct prediction of the result of the 1952 election.
If we can pull this off, (persuade society to bond to the "robots" more like pets or children), perhaps we can put an end to serial killers.
Just manufacture and put in a likely spot for the killers to take advantage of.
Western Digital has been using this tech for years...
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=100
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Isn't this a physical model like the San Francisco Bay model? Like the kind of models that computers have made obsolete?
I read an article on Slashdot the other day that there was some debate about their usefulness.
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I feel more like I do now than I did before.
Instead of a camera, pretend this is an IPhone.
WTF!!
How about we demand to know?
Ah well, too late to work within the system and too late to shoot the bastards.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
