Posts by Arachnoid

You guys should know by now

In espionage and politics in particular, nothing is ever what it seems.Its akin being back the the cold war era using time tested spying and infiltration techniques to get a squint of the other players cards before he plays them.The use of puppet like pawns and feints to achieve a goal even when the poor sap doesn't know they are but a part of the bigger agenda.

As for Iraq I'm sure their were multiple scenarios discussed in regard to what would happen after the withdrawal of troops and what better way to deplete an enemies forces and reduce its effectiveness than to use internal politics and rivalry get it to fight itself

...I can get some of those completely safe chairs?

Didn't you get the memo in regard to the three hour training course this afternoon that everyone from the company is required to attend and be signed off on

Risk assessments in regard to mounting an office chair

The safe procedural ethics to be used with office equipment

The safest layout of office desk equipment an example images to be wall mounted locally

How to load an office photocopier or printer without getting paper cuts

Team ethics and responsibilities

Placebo effect

There will always be a minority who believe what you tell them over what actually occurs,hence the issue with eye witnesses but I digress.Its just a case of weighting the odds in your favour by slight of hand.

Take over the day-to-day maintenance of a handful of PCs.

They are Teachers not IT technicians of any sort,there job is to try and teach the youth of today and thats hard enough without adding other "voluntary" tasks on top of the fund raising etc they do at the moment.

As to withdrawing funds for IT that an abysmal action and saying the schools are able to handle their own money is just an attempt to get out of a tight corner they put themselves in.Both Government and Schools know they still need an "IT guy" yet they are poles apart on exactly how this is going to occur .In the end once the system collapses it`ll be one less teachers job to make funds available I kid you not.

Red flags

Jeez half you guys sound like the to do that went up in Victorian times about trains traveling over ten miles an hour.

Automated vehicles will save lives by driving more safely than humans, why because they will be programmed by the manufacturers to take no risks at all unlike humans and if there is an issue they will simply shut down and refuse to move.Any warranty as suggested will lean heavily on the owner to have services and part replacements done exactly at specified periods unlike most modern vehicles which miss servicing or don't replace parts i.e. tyres and brake pads as required.

All travel data will be recorded I suspect specifically so the manufacturer can cover his ass but this will be available in the event of an incident involving any vehicles manned or not to apportion the failure.

The right to own and drive a vehicle is just clogging up the roads to congestion and the "communal vehicle" may relieve at least some of this.

Limited spaces, book early

One bed apartment close to the sea with good views of the coastline

Footy overpaid madonas bah watch the other side

So is the Reg going to give one away for the best none footy related comment?

I know, Iknow.............

To get better than 33% just lower Eugenes age to 12,11 or even 10

In all seriousness the "AI" isn't actually thinking though, it looks more like Eugene is reacting to the word associations that are fed into it with predefined responses without emotional content.

Like "I hate you"........."But i want one!"........"You Shadup".........."It wasn't me"

Shall we play a game?

How about Global Thermonuclear War

Hardly secure coms

Given the laser cone overlap but a good start so a beam sent from Mars would probably be near as big as the Earth by the time it reached here

Sounds like a single machine was compromised

Which to me at least, suggests local access or compromise issues that could well return.

Insurance

Provided adequate insurance was in place and they are not flying in restricted space,likely to cause a danger i.e.high pedestrian areas or used to spy on individual people or cause harassment then I dont see an issue with anybody flying them.

If anything the insurance companys would automatically restrict usage much like they do for young drivers.

What,,,,,,,,,

No offers of consumer trials for field testing

Very intersting comments and much appreciated

Whilst Im clearly not as work wise as many commentards Ill add a few addendum's of my own

Learn from the past don't live in it

Failure isnt the end it just shows you not to take that path again

Having good people around you breeds success.

The "team work" ethos of [continually] helping others just breeds laziness in their work ethic and does nothing for your moral [see anchor above]

If your going to make changes for the betterment of the company don't keep on people who will drag the rest down.

Trust is not part of the wage plan its something to be earned by positive actions.

Don't mange like Sir Alan Sugar unless your prepared to pay the same rewards to your employees

how will the car hold out on something that irregular?

As with any other coded program it will be up to the programmer to patch the system with as many variables as practicable hence the trial runs just like any other system.The system will in my estimation, be able to learn by self teaching in such one off variables it will select the safest option in its arsenal and should sensor viability be compromised either internally or externally i/e/ by neferious means it will inevitably park up and await rescue by Google.

To be honest I think the military will be taking a keen interest in the outcome of these trials for their own self aware systems many of which will also travel off the grid so to speak.

If it takes 3 hours to dismantle a car

Then how long to do the same with a plane

On that note

If the drivers could actually be relied upon to offer a good,predictable and accurate fare price would the service not have an increase in customer base because of it

If I have a parcel delivered by for instance Royal Mail from A to B I dont get charged extra for road works etc so why as a passenger in a taxi is this any different?

Maybe there are two Godzillas

And this one is merely a generic representation of what seems to be the aspirations of the American audience to consume more calories than they burn.

So........

Another planets interstellar lander crashes in to Mars Spooky!

Microsoft gets things right by version number three of a new product

Hmmm XP Service pack 3 was the final edition before dumping it [just sayin]

Limited market appeal

Give there are many venues struggling under massive debts any investment like this is not going to make them much in revenue and only then will it be the bigger clubs [as usual] that make anything at all.If this were aimed at places like Football clubs they might be better off investing in back of the seat screens similar to airlines thus negating the usual lack of signal issues.

I think

He needs to meet the Mythbusters guys

Yahoo webcams

Didn't you know all the nefarious peeps use Yahoo for contacting each other as one time code pads,dead letter drops,restricted forums access and the use of gaming comms are all so old hat.

All his rich freinds have facebook accounts

Send link to join up - case resolved

it isn't a natural animal

Yes its an inbred mutation built either for maximal beef or milk production but it would still survive on a natural diet.