It's a sewing machine. Which is fine by me. If parts of me should need stitching again, I want them to use the best tools availiable for the job. But why does is has to be a 'robot' with a fancy acronym?
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Robot surgeon outperforms human doctor with porcine patients
ZX Printer's American cousin still in use, 34 years after purchase
Nerds make it rain in Nevada. The Las Vegas strip? No, cloud-seeding drones over the desert
This sort of thing
never really amounts to anything, because:
Sooner or later the nerds working on stuff like that will discover Wilhelm Reich and start spending more and more time in a cupboard, trying to charge up their sexual energy. After a while the governor (and let's face it, all the states who have an interest in making it rain are located in the Bible Belt) discovers that he has been funding a couple of perverts, cuts the funding and acts like it never happened.
AAaaahhhh! Chemtrails!!!
(If this doesn't bring out all the tinfoil hat brigades, I don't know what will.)
As it has already been posted, there is the question of what will happen somwhere else. At the scale they are working now, probably nothing much, but it seems they have bigger plans.
Anyone up for a round of unintended-consequences-bingo?
Cops deploy StingRay anti-terror tech against $50 chicken-wing thief
Questions over how Ian Livingston's peerage was granted
The Commission takes the view that in this context, propriety means:
i) the individual should be in good standing in the community in general and with the public regulatory authorities in particular; and
ii) the past conduct of the nominee would not reasonably be regarded as bringing the House of Lords into disrepute.
Well within parameters then.
UK govt admits it pulled 10-year file-sharing jail sentence out of its arse
FCC gives the nod to $17.7bn US cable mega-merger (no, not that one)
SpaceX blast-off delay
'Toxic' WIPO catches flak as US congressmen call for Gurry's head
How to evade the NSA: OpSec guide for journalists also used by terrorists
ICO fines NHS trust £185K for publicly airing personnel files
Flinging Slack at them won't get team talking – senior Etsy engineer
Gozi trojan mastermind sentenced by US court to time served
EU set to bin €500 note
Re: The usual bollocks from the Euros / post by Charlie Clark
The Germans also used to have DM 1000 notes*. As the exchange rate was 1 EUR = 1.96 DEM, the € 500 note did fit in quite nicely.
* Brownish thing. Portrait of a guy on the front side, based on a painting by Lucas Cranch sr showing either Johannes Scheyring (bigwig in Magdeburg at the time) or mathematician and astronomer Johannes Schöner. Picture of Limburg cathedral on the back side.
UK.gov wasted £20m telling you to 'be safe online, mmkay'
Skygazers: Brace yourselves for a kick in the Aquarids
Defence bankrolls Oz Govt's infosec threat sharing strategy
NIST readies 'post-quantum' crypto competition
But wouldn't the 'quantum resistant algorithms' be resistant and non-resistant at the same time?
Anyway, the point of one time pads is that that you use each and every one of them only once, ever. So if you can make as many one time pads as you'll ever need, based on a truely random generator, and don't ever re-use them, well...
Virty upstart PernixData spills beans after going cap in hand to investors
"We are in the final stages of closing an additional round of financing, which we cannot talk about until finalised. Any insinuation that we are running out of money in July is libelous."
Translation: we'll run out at August, at current rate.
"Last week we closed our quarter above target and we just passed the 800 customer mark, so things are trending in a nice direction."
Tranlsation: oh please oh please oh please... Hint: trending in a direction is not the same as moving in any particular direction.
"We recently added over a dozen new field personnel to handle future sales demand."
Translation: We have e-mailed a subcontractor claiming to have more than 12 bods on the payroll to get a quote.
"This is part of the growth plan being put in place by our new chief revenue officer,"
Seriously? Chief revenue officer? Anyway, scribbling graphs with all the arrows pointig up on a flip chart is sort of a growth plan, but...
"Mike Munoz, who is scaling the business as efficiently as possible.
No translation, because it doesn't mean anything at all.
"This plan also involves minor restructuring, to which we did make some small changes to the sales organization recently. In aggregate, though, the sales team has actually grown recently, not shrunk."
Translation: we fired a third or so of them. Which has transformed the remaining guys into stress eaters, big time.
Dell CTO for Enterprise legs it to pastures new
Revealed: How NASA saved the Kepler space telescope from suicide
"Waking up to a phone call in the wee small hours of the morning are never good. It’s usually a wrong number, a drunk ex wanting to talk, or the news that someone has died."
Well, I once got a phone call at 3am from a drunken ex (not mine) that wanted to talk about the recent death of his first(ex) wife. Took a few minutes to convince him that he got the wrong number and I wasn't his third (ex) wife. Having got that of my chest I'd like to say:
If this world we live in was even close to how it should be*, teams like that and the work they do would be celebrated in the way we celebrate guys kicking footballs or drive a fast car round and round.
* According to me, of course. YMMV.
Lost: One Scality CMO
IBM's quantum 'puter news proves Big Blue still doesn't get 'cloud'
White House to bring us up to speed on artificial intelligence hype latest
Well, I don't want to give the impression that I am setting myself up here as some sort of chairperson, but I think we're missing the big picture here. The real question to be answered first of all is: what acronym should the artificial intelligence and machine learning subcomittee at the National Science and Technology Council be using?
Ex-HP boss Carly Fiorina sacked one week into new job
Re: President... Trum...?
Go ahead and say it: President and Supreme Commander Donald Trump.*
As to the next ship to mars you might want to get in touch with SpaceX:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/02/spacex_adds_mars_haulage_to_its_price_list/
* Yes, the phrase "May you live in interesting times" is indeed a curse.
so, the creator of bitcoin is an Australian
Devs claim charger uses 'photosynthesis' power battery charger
Revealed: HMS Endeavour's ignominious fate
Extreme photo-bombing: Bad ImageMagick bug puts countless websites at risk of hijacking
Sat TV biz Dish: I'm not an authorized iPhone repairer ... but $20 is $20
IBM's FlashSystem looks flashy enough, but peek under the hood...
Facebook bungs 10-year-old kid $10k to not 'eliminate' Justin Bieber
Sour krauts ban Airbnb
Someone pass Airbnb a hankie... they had two years to prepare for this.
Also, the target are
1) owners that are de facto operating something very much like a hotel or hostel (without the licensing and taxation that goes with that, wink wink) and
2) owners who don't rent at all.
There is absolutely no problem in renting out your guest room, or your whole flat while you're away on holiday, etc etc. Besides, Berlin isn't London.
F-35s failed 'scramble test' because of buggy software
Re: This is how the US is preserving its air superiority
Ahem. The Sons of the Desert is the international Laurel & Hardy appreciation society.
Also, I think that suicide bombers classify as 'not-so-smart-bombs'.
Ultra-cool dwarf throws planetary party
Opower, my power: Oracle spends $532m to get some utilities cloud, er, power
Barclays.net Bank Holiday outage leaves firms unable to process payments
Do you know where your trade secrets are?
"Information security (infosec) is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a matter of corporate survival."
Information security has always been a matter of corporate survival.
Even in the days when information security meant locking up the ledgers in the safe before calling it a day. Or having someone guard the clay tablets after business hours.
Old, complex code could cause another UK banking TITSUP – study
I am Craig Wright, inventor of Craig Wright
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