PEBCAC

Below is a picture of my niece, Grace Conner. My sister is expecting in June and we can’t wait.

 

If a wearer wants to move a limb, its motor, reading signals from the brain, will go into action, and the hands and legs will move together with the suit. Its special feature is that the suit’s hands and legs do not move on their own, but the person can move them at will

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Google threw a new product called Goog-411 into Google Labs today - a free telephone based information service that could replace toll 411 calls. About 2.6 billion 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and it is a $7 billion/year market.

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From Engadget:

by Darren Murph
Suggestions in regard to robotic rights seem to be flying off the shelves these days, but an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre has concocted an interesting set of guidelines catering to autonomous killbots of the future. Most likely, it’s just a matter of time before machine-on-machine violence becomes commonplace, and John Canning’s “Concept of Operations for Armed Autonomous Systems” outlines just how lethal robots should handle themselves when faced with potentially deadly conflicts. Interestingly, the document suggests the the bots should be allowed to make their own decisions when it comes to blasting or forgiving fellow robots, but before they pull the trigger on a human, it should request guidance from a flesh ‘n blood friendly. Still, a definite loophole exists in the fact that these simple-minded killers could aim for a “human’s weapon” without asking permission, and when his awful auto-aim programming leads to a costly casualty, it’ll simply be deemed “collateral damage.” Can’t say we like the sound of that. [Warning: PDF read link]

[Via El Reg]

Okay, updates… I refused a job in Key Largo Florida?!?! Going to keep working in SW Pa… moving out of Washington though…asap. Increasing production on www.garyspetsupplies.com… RSA audit, OVR end of qtr, next year plan, staff evaluations, 70 CAP meetings and 180 polling places to go.

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Apple has sold it’s 100 millionth iPod today!

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A top Constitutional scholar from Princeton who gave a speech that slammed Bush’s executive overreach has been added to the TSA’s terrorist watch list. “I was denied a boarding pass because I was on the Terrorist Watch list,” he said. When he asked why, the clerk asked if he had been at any peace marches. We ban a lot of those people.

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I was trying to tweak my icam for an ADAPT project…. and ended up with the best self-portrait I’ve had in awhile…and this is saying alot…
So…below, is me: