TECHNOLOGY: toy-like but gun-wielding robot designed to replace human soldiers

Saturday, December 8, 2007

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/12/new-killer-bot.html

Newbies Build Killer Robot; Fortune Fawns
By Noah Shachtman
December 05, 2007 | 12:33:01 PM

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Killer robots might have just had their dot-com bubble moment, in this fawning Fortune article. The stars: “a 25-year-old self-taught engineer named Adam Gettings” and his “toy-like but gun-wielding robot designed to replace human soldiers on the battlefield.”

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I’m not so sure that I think it will match the video, but the video gives one a vivid idea of their intent.

Will it use windoze?

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XPfails – luggable – weird lockup

Saturday, December 8, 2007

At 20071208 0747, LUGGABLE went nuts. I was working with Word and Outlook and Outlook pegged at 95%. The DYNDNS went red indicating a network problem. Eventually, at 0811, I became exasperated and did a power cycle. Now let’s see if there’s any damage. And poke around for a reason other than the usual suspects Comcast and MICROSOFT OUTLOOK. DYNDNS shows a network burp at 0850!?

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The adventure continues. The box wouldn’t reboot. An XP Repair luckily resuscitated it. (As I sat computing how royally screwed was I?) This time the Intelligent Designer decided that he had heard enough Irish prayers and permit the lesson to end with only 90 minutes wasted on this particular “productivity tool”.

Argh!!

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[003] – 07:50:23 – 12/08/2007 – IP changes (69.248.143.184 > 5.44.68.254 [automatic])
[005] – 07:50:24 – 12/08/2007 – Update process starts
[004] – 07:56:13 – 12/08/2007 – reiinkefj [dyndns.org]: 10091 (Network subsystem is unavailable)
[005] – 07:56:14 – 12/08/2007 – Update process finished
[004] – 07:56:16 – 12/08/2007 – Update result: winsock error
[002] – 07:56:24 – 12/08/2007 – Will try to check again within 1 minutes
[002] – 07:56:25 – 12/08/2007 – Next force update: 01/01/2008 17:22:44
[002] – 07:56:25 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater ready…
[001] – 08:07:52 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater started…
[002] – 08:08:42 – 12/08/2007 – Total group(s): 1 group
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Total host(s): 1 host
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Connected from: lug
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Connected using: Local Area Network
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Automatic update: Enable
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Checking interval: 5 minutes
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – IP address is detected automatically
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Current IP: 5.44.68.254
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Updated IP: 69.248.143.184
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Last updated: 14 hours 45 minutes ago
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – Next force update: 01/01/2008 17:22:44
[002] – 08:08:43 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater ready…
[003] – 08:09:09 – 12/08/2007 – IP changes (69.248.143.184 > 5.44.68.254 [automatic])
[005] – 08:09:10 – 12/08/2007 – Update process starts
[004] – 08:09:22 – 12/08/2007 – reiinkefj [dyndns.org]: 11001 (Host not found)
[005] – 08:09:26 – 12/08/2007 – Update process finished
[004] – 08:09:26 – 12/08/2007 – Update result: winsock error
[002] – 08:09:26 – 12/08/2007 – Will try to check again within 1 minutes
[002] – 08:09:27 – 12/08/2007 – Next force update: 01/01/2008 17:22:44
[002] – 08:09:28 – 12/08/2007 – DynDNS Updater ready…

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MONEY: serious mistakes with their 401(k) plans

Saturday, December 8, 2007

http://www.dolans.com/video/DOEL_avoid_these_401k_mistakes_091207.html?sid=9AG316&cp=IPIE&ct=20071204&cc=eletter&en=3452901

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Avoid These 401(k) Mistakes!

We’ll be straight with you: In our many years of talking to people about their money concerns, we’ve heard from far too many folks who are making serious mistakes with their 401(k) plans. It breaks our hearts to think about how often we come across these mistakes — and how costly they are as well.

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Good folks with good advice!

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MONEY: Milk is an excellent example of US fascism

Friday, December 7, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/katz-j/katz-j26.html

Knowledge Through Ignorance
by Joshua Katz

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Now, the state of Pennsylvania has outlawed the labels. This is quite harmful to producers who built organic farms, which are much harder to build and maintain, on the expectation of being able to obtain a higher milk price. Now that the milk is not labeled, there will be no price differential, and soon enough there will be no untreated milk available for sale in the state, I’d wager.

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Milk is an excellent example of the fascism that pervades this country. Milk is highly regulated and highly taxed.

(Regulated for your “protection”. Like you couldn’t tell that the milk you were buying wasn’t pastuerized or homogenized. You used to be able to buy a BRAND of milk for it’s assurances. Now milk is a commodity!)

(Taxed because … well they can. When you see a gallon of milk, think of a gallon of gasoline. And, all the taxes on the gasoline that went to produce and deliver it to you are all hidden in the price of the milk that you buy!)

And, to ensure that the gooferment properly protects the fascist milk producers, there are milk price support laws! So you can pay more. And, that makes work for the lobbyists employed by milk fascist.

So where are your lobbyists?

How does this relate to money recognize that you are paying more? And, ask you congress critter why!

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GUNS: Bill Of Rights guarantees the people, not the states, rights!

Friday, December 7, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese418.html

The Ideal Self-Defense Weapon
by Charley Reese

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The Supreme Court is about to decide an issue based on the Second Amendment. God only knows how the court will rule, but the Bill of Rights is crystal-clear. It guarantees the people, not the states or the militias, the right to keep and bear arms. Let’s hope the Supreme Court justices understand plain English.

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Let’s hope the old tank driver is right and common sense returns to gooferment.

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JOBSEARCH: Job-Hunt.Org’s mission is to provide links

Friday, December 7, 2007

http://www.job-hunt.org/linkexchanges.shtml

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Job-Hunt.Org’s mission is to provide links to the best Web sites for our visitors (job seekers and employers/recruiters), on a site that is clearly organized and easily navigated. Job-Hunt.Org is not a exhaustive list of all job- and career-related sites. We prefer quality over quantity, and try to add only the sites that are the most useful to job seekers and employers/recruiters.

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Useful to jump into the pool?

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FUN: Christmas card from Europe’s Railroad

Friday, December 7, 2007

FROM LUDDITE’S WIFE:

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Merry Christmas – Ireland is the best of course

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A Christmas card from Europe’s Railroad – click all the destinations…

Enjoy!!!!

http://downloads.raileurope.com/holidayCard/06_christmas_card.html

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Some one, some where, has too much time on their hands!

But, it was funny.

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MONEY: If you did it, they’d lock you up as a “counterfeiter”!

Thursday, December 6, 2007

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-466210540567002553

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

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Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood …. But to most Americans today, Federal Reserve is just a …

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But when they do it, it’s “inflation”, “expanding the money supply”, or some other drivel.

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TECHNOLOGY: open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report

Thursday, December 6, 2007

http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9829759-38.html?tag=nefd.top

December 5, 2007 5:47 PM PST
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites
Posted by Declan McCullagh

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The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including “obscene” cartoons and drawings–or face fines of up to $300,000.

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No hearings, no committees, no “controversy” here.

Argh!

Fire up the old inet and put a blow torch on the congress critters.

No you see why we need a “read the bills act” and “one subject at a time”.

What a bunch of bozos!

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INTERESTING: the War on Drugs has “little discernible impact on the drug trade”

Thursday, December 6, 2007

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/17438347/how_america_lost_the_war_on_drugs/6

How America Lost the War on Drugs
After Thirty-Five Years and $500 Billion, Drugs Are as Cheap and Plentiful as Ever: An Anatomy of a Failure.
Ben Wallace-Wells
Posted Nov 27, 2007

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Even by conservative estimates, the War on Drugs now costs the United States $50 billion each year and has overcrowded prisons to the breaking point – all with little discernible impact on the drug trade.

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Isn’t insanity defined as doing more of the same and expecting different results?

Don’t need a long article to say you can NOT stop someone from using drugs. All you can do is minimize the harm to others.

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