Bugs in space, a telepresence android, the Extremely Large Telescope…
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Does what it says on the tin. Maybe be America-centric, though, not actually roadtested this yet.
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It sure is…the artists and entertainment companies have to actually innovate in the face of changing business models! What a crazy idea…call my lawyer.
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Ken MacLeod argues against the sophistry of the ‘Just War Theory’, with his usual eloquence. There is no justification for the slaughter of innocence, whatever the provocation. End of story. Go read.
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“Songs we hear as teenagers tend to remain lifelong favourites because they become hardwired into our memory during a critical time, a memory conference has heard.” B*llocks; it’s because the music when I was a teenager was just much better than the rubbi
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Der Gubernator takes a different stance to Dubya…maybe he can sense when to disassociate from a failing project. That still leaves Terminator 3 unexplained, though…
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Ladies and gentlemen, we present you…Panspermia 2.0. Eyethangyow.
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3D prototyping takes off… (rimshot!)
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Watch videos of a body-double android controlled via telepresence by the Japanese scientist it resembles…finally, we’re getting near to the robots they promised us in the 70s. Even if they are a bit sinister…
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Imagine a world of fingerprint activated locks. Then think how many surfaces your hands must leave good copies of your fingerprints every single day. Worried yet? Link via Slashdot.
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Playing computer games during operations dulls your sense of pain…I’ve played some pretty dull games in my time, but I never realised they could have *that* level of effect.
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The name says it all…it will be called the ‘Extremely Large Telescope’. Are there awards for prosaic technology names?
Thanks for the link, but that ‘the slaughter of innocence is never justified’ is not what I said and not what I meant. It was not an argument for pacifism at all, though a pacifist conclusion could be drawn from it. My argument is that in war there is no place for morality, and that the attempt to apply morality to war is pernicious. The sole judgement to applied in war is efficacy. In fact it is the only judgement really applied because ‘just war theory’ can in fact justify anything as ‘self-defence’, as we are seeing now every day. All the moral cant is mystification.
Thanks for the clarification, and my apologies for the misinterpretation – there we have a demonstration of the truism that people will read something and always find the subtext they want to find hidden within it, regardless of whether it’s actually there or not!