While cameras may be more cost effective than Lidar, they have problems that lidar doesn't. For example, what does the camera sensor do when it's under direct sunlight and can't make sense of what it's seeing? What about rain / fog? I have a feeling google is has the right idea here.
This is great news! I've almost finished building my MAME cabinet. I wonder how this will allow the Roms of those games to be released freely.
Kudos to Atari license holders for releasing this.
I'm handing out condoms (interspersed with candy).
The little shits are getting preggers at like 12 these days. Maybe if they find a condom in their bag, mommy and daddy will have to have a little talk about safe sex.
(I'm just kidding?)
Well, maybe not that much time.
The Piracy Deterrence and Education Act of 2004 was recently introduced in the Senate (09.29) and what I find so interesting about it is one of Congress' "findings" - (4) Many computer users simply believe that they will not be caught or prosecuted for their conduct. The interesting section - "SEC. 9. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS ON NEED TO TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT ILLEGAL ACTIVITY ON PEER-TO-PEER SERVICES." outlines Congress' sense about the illegal activity. The kicker is that the Supreme Court has held that as long as the central service is not hosting anything then the true p2p is not copyright infringement thus the whole need for RIAA to attack the general public and end-users.
For the text of the pending amendment to the Copyright Act, see the Lib of Cong website. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.
Just because a tool may potentially infringe copyright, does not make it an instrumentality of copyright infringement.
Programming is an unnatural act.
