http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071007/230742.shtml#c260 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:21:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071007/230742.shtml#c260 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c529 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:21:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c529 Richard Jennings]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c51 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:16:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c51 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c507 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:15:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c507 Robots are used on assembly lines, yet there's no drastic net loss of jobs.

been to Detroit recently ??]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c42 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:11:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c42 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c31 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:11:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c31
Thank you for all your excellent coverage on the copyright troll front SJD!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c19 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:11:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c19 http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130518/00045923138/awesome-stuff-cool-product-designs.shtml#c32 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:01:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20130518/00045923138/awesome-stuff-cool-product-designs.shtml#c32
Is this honestly the calibre of the things people want investment money for from Kickstarter ??

Are they the best examples you can find ?

Must be time for another Aaron Swartz article, or have you realised that no one cares about him either ?

Oh well, I guess it's just Masnick doing his best.....

I don't understand the mechanism behind it,

Don't worry Masnick, we understand, you do not have much of an understanding of most things. Cant expect you to understand. We know "things" confuse you.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1337 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:46:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130510/13023123037/lots-people-dont-turn-off-their-devices-when-they-fly.shtml#c1337
Your home air oscillation device using rapidly spinning polyethylene blades in order to rapidly displace the local breathable gasses. This displacement can lower the local oxygen level as well as cause rapid evaporation of body moisture and lowered body temperature. A similar effect in nature is the primary cause of deadly cyclonic activity. In fact, the Korea Consumer Protection Board released a consumer safety alert is 2006 warning of such devices causing asphyxiation or hypothermia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

This and other issues, like the unregulated use of dihydrogen oxide in common food products, must be corrected immediately!]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c9 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:39:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/22104223137/sophisticatedjanedoe-fightcopyrighttrolls-favorite-techdirt-posts-week.shtml#c9 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c503 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:51:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c503 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/15401423065/doj-unconcerned-about-constitution-obtained-ap-reporters-phone-records.shtml#c538 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:33:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/15401423065/doj-unconcerned-about-constitution-obtained-ap-reporters-phone-records.shtml#c538
the court did not pursue to break the law here, the doj did.

now it is still a matter for the court system.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c492 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:09:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c492 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1648 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:59:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15445423110/framework-copyright-reform.shtml#c1648 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c487 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:50:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c487 http://www.amazon.com/Robots-Will-Steal-Thats-ebook/dp/B009R93JR6/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16365623113/court-dumps-prendas-subpoena.shtml#c319 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:40:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/16365623113/court-dumps-prendas-subpoena.shtml#c319 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2249 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:01:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2249 ______

I can't stress enough that complaining about government having access to info while encouraging private companies to have unlimited access to info is essentially the same thing.

If the data is being collected and saved by private companies, it is ultimately available to everyone. It's a fake barrier to suggest that info can be kept out of government hands while simultaneously being available to private companies and hackers/criminals/terrorists.

If you want private companies to be free to collect whatever they want to collect and to monitor whomever they want to monitor and to make their privacy opt-ins and opt-outs so vague that most people don't understand what they are sharing, then you have to recognize that government is part of that eco-system. It doesn't have to directly monitor people and collect data. It doesn't even have to order private companies to turn it over. It just has to set up the right commercial system to obtain the data in a way that these private companies approve and profit from.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2231 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:59:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130516/15583223111/congress-grandstanding-over-google-glass-privacy-concerns-next-up-privacy-concerns-over-your-eyes.shtml#c2231
If the data is being collected and saved by private companies, it is ultimately available to everyone. It's a fake barrier to suggest that info can be kept out of government hands while simultaneously being available to private companies and hackers/criminals/terrorists.

If you want private companies to be free to collect whatever they want to collect and to monitor whomever they want to monitor and to make their privacy opt-ins and opt-outs so vague that most people don't understand what they are sharing, then you have to recognize that government is part of that eco-system. It doesn't have to directly monitor people and collect data. It doesn't even have to order private companies to turn it over. It just has to set up the right commercial system to obtain the data in a way that these private companies approve and profit from.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c468 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:58:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c468
A robot uprising comes in one of two forms:

~ A small bug, that is discovered and corrected before it becomes a problematically big bug, or

~ Willfully plated malicious code, in which case Ms. Scarlett killed Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory using the Robot.

These days, we still use slavery, we just keep our slaves in other nations where we don't have to look at how bad we treat them. But whenever we have an abolitionist movement to free a workforce from abuses, we always have a surge in industrial automation.

A robot is nothing more than a versatile cotton gin.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c459 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:52:40 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/06185923116/rice-university-professor-skynets-gonna-take-ur-jerbs.shtml#c459 My observation is that everything that we thought required "intelligence", e.g. chess, has turned out in practice to be susceptible to a brute force approach of one kind or another.

"My observation is that everything that we thought required intelligence, e.g. chess, has turned out in practice to be susceptible to a reductionist approach of one kind or another."

I think talking about real intelligence is like talking about true Scotsmen, since in robotics we are getting closer and closer to dissecting the individual components of human mental processing, and are well on our way towards empathetic robots.

The difference is, we can actually omit the programming in the maidbot to be annoyed at cleaning latrines.]]>