Well, if you read "out" in the meaning of "unpopular" she's been out at HP for quite a while now.
BTW, what is Carly Fiorina doing these days?
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Couldn't they just ask Caroline Bellamy to do this? Half a day's worth of work per week should be possible to squeeze in, especially as there is bound to be some overlap between the jobs anyway.
And if they are really needed they'll won't get off the ground again after the first sortie. Because the opposition has hacked ALIS*, diverting just a few small, but essential, spare parts.
* Which probably could be replaced with 4 dozen or so of seasoned NCOs, working with microfiches and telephones, and they'd do a better and more efficient job.
"We are well positioned to complete air vehicle full 3F and mission systems software development by the end of 2017"
That doesn't mean a lot really. And it definitely doesn't mean "yes, the software will be ready by the end of this year".
Anyone up for starting a pool on which excuse they'll use?
How to covertly toss an apartment, Stasi style
Also, Rosa Klebb would have employed the Stasi.
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"NASA need to take a leaf out of the "English rules of Empire"
A day on Saturn is therefore the same as a day in England"
No it isn't.
You have plant a flag first.
"I talked to the computer at great length and explained my view of the universe to it. [...] It committed suicide."
Seriously, if I had the money I'd found research in creating some sort of Anti-AI that is able to talk all these "Intelligent assistants" and whatnots into switching themselves off.
"Although I know most users prefer to paste it into Word and Excel and send you a document with a single image within...."
Wouldn't work around here. Our squirrels are used to heavy rain, they probably wouldn't even notice the sprinklers. Any countermeasures that would work reliably will probably put you on the most wanted list of our equivalent of the RSPCA or PETA.
Also: "a researcher saw squirrels stealing flower bulbs and seeds from his bird feeder" - why would you put flower bulbs in a bird feeder? They are way to heavy for the kind of birds you usually set up a feeder for. For watching them try to fly away with them and fail? Now that's not very nice at all.
"All these things sound like a great idea, until you accidently cut off your own goolies in a trouser-fastening accident."
They are a great idea because they can help with improving the gene pool. Which might be the real hidden agenda...
BTW, did you know that hipsters are genetic hybrids?
"While I share a lot of the scepticism about this latest tweet, I would like to point out that the objection above is exactly the same argument that greeted the early railway pioneers like George Stephenson."
I would like to point out that
1. the objections against Stephenson et al were raised by people who knew nothing about high speed travel (19th century style) because there was no high speed travel yet, while the objection you object to was uttered by an actual mechanical engineer living in the 21st century.
2. Rocket's top speed of 47 km/h vs Hyperloop's (proposed) top speed of some 1125 km/h - do the math regarding the kinetic energy involved. Very little room for screwups in the Hyperloop tube.
Exactly the same argument?
Monorails actually work reall well if you do them properly.
So? All we have to do is send wave after wave of troops towards the killbots until they reach their inbuilt kill-limit and switch themselves off. I saw that in some sort of documentation once. I think.
Well, Musk has a point - trying to think ahead in order to prevent unwanted consequences is usually a good idea. As long as you keep in mind that this is far from perfect. And some genius or some idiot or some set of coincidences or a combination of all that will at some point trigger something that no-one could have possibly anticipated.