Re: Applications for...
Or two Boston Dynamics robots doing the horizontal fandango.
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"She was a gorgeous young blonde, really strikingly beautiful, and I immediately understood on entering that company that she deemed me beneath any effort to interact with."
With looks like that, possibly she had been forced into that attitude when nearly every male that she did interact with immediately assumed that she was interested in him and hit on her. So to avoid having to spend half her working day fighting off unwanted and persistent attention she had to keep away from them as much as possible.
"Also, there’s the problem of how to ship large quantities of the material to build settlements – aerogel is insanely light but also very bulky. "
Or you could, maybe, manufacture it in situ from locally available materials? Silicon is hardly rare.
But the big question on permanent settlement of Mars doesn't get mentioned much: Can humans grow from conception to adulthood in Martian gravity? What problems would there be?
There is no need to respond to people who post on the Internet their proof that Quantum Mechanics does not work.
Every component of the Internet depends crucially on Quantum Mechanics being by far the most accurate physical theory, most closely corresponding to reality, that we have ever created.
If Quantum Mechanics were not so incredibly accurate then the Internet could not possibly work. Not just a bit faulty, not a single part of it would function at all.
If the poster's theory is correct therefore the Internet does not work, therefore the posting does not exist, therefore there is no point in responding to it.
"The problem is that our technology is effectively useless at telling the difference between baddies and goodies.
When the people who take hundreds of small children away from their parents and jam them in crowded unsanitary cages in concentration camps are classed as 'goodies', it gets pretty difficult to tell the difference in the real world as well.
I'm sure that the software will thoroughly test every single possible fault.
That they already know about.
Of course in the ludicrously unlikely possibility that there's a problem that the people writing the software didn't think of then they - or rather the passengers - are buggered.
"If the website fails to put up the verification wall then the operator is liable under UK law (at least, if the UK.Gov know who they are and they ever come within UK jurisdiction)."
Is that how they are doing it? So if a national of a foreign country is running a website in that country, they are required to design it in accordance with UK law?
That seems rather prone to major problems if the government of that country dislikes the idea. And it would mean that operators of UK sites in the UK would be required to run their websites in accordance with the laws of all other countries. How about no photos of women with faces uncovered, or receiving an education?
"the unsettling implication in all of this is that some of the people who would be inclined to pay this extortion demand would be people that had in fact been viewing child abuse images."
The real nasty is that some of the people who receive this may assume that someone else in the same household such as their husband or son has been viewing child abuse images.