Why robots are scary--and cool

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Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links!

Jeff's Robots- toy robots & tons of
robotics links! 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
§¨§¨€Œ¨§Š€Œ‡§ ˆ …„‡§ŠŠ ¨‡ ƒ„ ˆ¨§ͺ .. An uber-nerd's robot collection .. Jeff's Robots .. robots .. +

jeffbots.com
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Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan

Research And Markets: Will Personal
Robots Become The Norm? Take A Look At
The Market For Personal Robots In Japan 12/17/2004 06:40 PM
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Next-Generation Personal Robot Market 2004 to their offering. [PRWEB Oct 18, 2004]

You've got a scary ex

You've got a scary ex 05/03/2004 08:06 AM
USA Today May 3 2004 12:27PM GMT

Scary!

Scary! 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
On Wednesday night, I got to ride in the Munster Koach. To a Big Hollywood screening. With Leonard Stone, Marilyn Monroe, George Barris and Screech.

Scary

Scary 07/11/2004 01:36 PM
Transparent grab for power or genuine threat?

Scary Hind.

Scary Hind. 07/04/2004 12:54 AM
Cust om paint job on Afghan Hind attack chopper. Impressive, but why? (Via Gizmodo)

Scary Movie

Scary Movie 05/21/2004 05:29 AM
A Canadian documentary asserts that the modern-day corporation meets the criteria of a psychopath.

Scary article about the flu

Scary article about the flu 12/10/2003 06:41 PM
There isn't enough flu vaccine medicine to go around this year, but that might not matter, because the vaccine might not be effective against the "Fujian" flu that's going around.

Bad as they are, the difficulties in coping with this year's influenza epidemic are like the tiny tremors in California that remind you of the looming Big One. In the world of influenza, the Big One is a pandemicβ€”a strain of influenza so different from what has circulated before that people have no immunity. That's what happened in 1918 when the flu killed between 20 million and 40 million people worldwide. Pandemics that killed well over half a million also struck in both 1957 and 1968.

Link(thanks, Scott!)

War? Terrorists? No, Here's What's
Really Scary

War? Terrorists? No, Here's What's
Really Scary 06/29/2004 12:23 PM
Jane Jacobs, author of a seminal book that reshaped urban planning, has produced a quirky and typically iconoclastic new book.

Dell's Scary Efficiency

Dell's Scary Efficiency 01/05/2005 11:16 AM
Even when companies get huge, they can keep growing quickly.

pictures from when the subway was scary

pictures from when the subway was scary 01/09/2004 09:58 PM
i like to give people the impression that mass transit in the city hasn't changed since the 80s

Why Is Agile Development So Scary?

Why Is Agile Development So Scary? 06/17/2005 04:54 PM

 

Pres ton Smith has written a pragmatic overview from of why Agile works. I particularly liked the reference to Donald Reinertsen?s research that showed:

* Out of hundreds of projects, there is no case in which requirements remained stable throughout design.

* Of more than 200 product developers, fewer than 5% had complete requirements before beginning design.

* On average, design commenced with only 58% of requirements specified.

If requirements are going to change, wouldn't we be better off acknowledging this and building our processes to accommodate it.

Related...

[Andy Pols' Blog]

Nightmarish, genuinely scary
photoshopping

Nightmarish, genuinely scary
photoshopping 08/27/2004 01:46 PM
Cory Doctorow: Worth 1000's nightmare-themed photoshopping contest has yielded some genuinely scary images. Link (via ftrain)

Scooby Doo: The Scary Stone Dragon

Scooby Doo: The Scary Stone Dragon 09/16/2004 11:31 AM
vnunet.com Sep 16 2004 3:53PM GMT

"this scary Evening Standard article"

"this scary Evening Standard article" 04/24/2004 03:37 PM

It's impressive, scary to see what a
Zaba search can do

It's impressive, scary to see what a
Zaba search can do 04/16/2005 10:02 AM

Online to reality - the leap is scary

Online to reality - the leap is scary 06/28/2004 05:25 AM
Canada.com - Mon Jun 28, 09:37 am GMT

Scary-Crayon: Stupid Internet Ads!

Scary-Crayon: Stupid Internet Ads! 06/20/2004 02:12 AM
Scary-Crayon: Stupid Internet Ads! .. kill yourself

scary-crayon.com/misc/netads
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A Scary Bedtime Fable for the Future

A Scary Bedtime Fable for the Future 06/22/2005 01:49 AM
Dayana Yochim tells a bedtime retirement story for kids and their freaked-out parents.

Daily Gallery image: "Scary?"

Daily Gallery image: "Scary?" 06/05/2005 11:20 PM
adbmice has posted this image of three PowerBooks.

Scary news for Bush: We're not afraid
anymore

Scary news for Bush: We're not afraid
anymore 06/22/2005 02:04 AM
Americans' fear of a terrorist attack is at its lowest since 9/11.

Coop Linux: scary kernel hack

Coop Linux: scary kernel hack 01/26/2004 10:15 AM
Wes "Kernel Hacker" Felter describes Cooperative Linux as, "a scary hack that loads the Linux kernel into the NT kernel as a driver so that they can both run in ring 0 at the same time, allowing Linux apps to run full speed on Windows without porting." Link (via Hack the Planet)

"another video with a scary view from
the ground floor"

"another video with a scary view from
the ground floor" 12/30/2004 04:30 AM

Scary Monsters Roam Catwalk (Reuters)

Scary Monsters Roam Catwalk (Reuters) 02/18/2004 09:19 AM
Reuters - Models stomped down the catwalk in Frankenstein's monster masks and headless horse skirts as British designers Antoni and Alison brought a touch of horror to London Fashion Week Tuesday.

Scary display settings are easy to
repair

Scary display settings are easy to
repair 08/30/2004 06:34 AM
SiliconValley.com Aug 30 2004 10:52AM GMT

Scary article about cell phone use and
brain damage

Scary article about cell phone use and
brain damage 11/18/2003 02:04 PM
The jury is still out on whether wireless phones can cause brain damage or cancer, but there are an increasing number of studies coming out that suggest it might not be smart to yack all day on your wireless phone.

Dr. Lief Salford, of Lund University in Sweden, who has called the evolution of wireless phones 'the largest biological experiment in the history of the world,' reported in June that cell phone radiation damaged neurons in the brains of young rats.

The study showed cells in the parts of rats' brains that control sensation, memory and movement died after being exposed to various cell phones at different levels of radiation for two hours.

'The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern, since biological and maturational processes are particularly vulnerable,' Salford said.

He cautioned that it is possible that after decades of daily use a whole generation of users may suffer negative effects as early as middle age. The paper was published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a U.S. National Institutes of Health journal.

Link (via Wi-Fi Networking News)

Here's a scary piece about a CIA spook
who is not sanguine about the success of
the War on Terror

Here's a scary piece about a CIA spook
who is not sanguine about the success of
the War on Terror 06/24/2004 06:51 AM
'Book by C.I.A. Officer Says U.S. Is Losing Fight Against Terror'

nytimes.com/2004/06/23/politics/23INTE.html
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A Ghost Story Turns Very Scary for
Malawi Journalists

A Ghost Story Turns Very Scary for
Malawi Journalists 03/29/2005 04:00 AM
Two reporters face possible criminal charges after using quotes that implied Malawi's president feared ghosts.

Fight Aging!: The Scary Future of
Pro-Death Bioethics

Fight Aging!: The Scary Future of
Pro-Death Bioethics 06/15/2004 06:59 AM
this is a disturbingly plausible future .. opposition to anti-aging research .. took a look .. [LINK]

fightaging.org/archives/000143.php
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Next News: Scary forecasts by
cybersecurity expert Bill Neugent

Next News: Scary forecasts by
cybersecurity expert Bill Neugent 08/04/2004 05:20 PM
US News Aug 4 2004 9:05PM GMT

Chat trap One teenager's scary
experience in an internet chatroom

Chat trap One teenager's scary
experience in an internet chatroom 02/10/2004 09:02 AM
BBC Feb 10 2004 1:42PM GMT

There's no place like law.cool.cool.fun.

There's no place like law.cool.cool.fun. 03/22/2005 11:38 PM
What's a namber? A namber is a word that acts as a mnemonic for a number. For example, 65 is drum, and 181 is push. A namber address uses an arbitrarily-chosen list of nambers to represent each of the numbers from 0 to 255 in order to assemble four words to represent any IP address. Metafilter.com's namber is earth .frog.brown.tooth, and mysteryrobot.com conveniently provides translation and forwarding to the real IP address.

Bruce Schneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware

Bruce Schneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware 06/08/2004 05:02 PM
Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Security explains why the Witty Worm is so awful.

Witty was very well written. It was less than 700 bytes long. It used a random-number generator to spread itself, avoiding many of the problems that plagued previous worms. It spread by sending itself to random IP addresses with random destination ports, a trick that made it easier to sneak through firewalls. It was -- and this is a very big deal -- bug-free. This strongly implies that the worm was tested before release.

Witty was exceptionally nasty. It was the first widespread worm that destroyed the hosts it infected. And it did so cleverly. Its malicious payload, erasing data on random accessible drives in random 64KB chunks, caused immediate damage without significantly slowing the worm's spread.

Link

Bruce Shneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware

Bruce Shneier explains why the Witty
Worm is a scary piece of malware 06/08/2004 03:21 PM
Bruce Shneier of Counterpane Security explains why the Witty Worm is so awful.

Witty was very well written. It was less than 700 bytes long. It used a random-number generator to spread itself, avoiding many of the problems that plagued previous worms. It spread by sending itself to random IP addresses with random destination ports, a trick that made it easier to sneak through firewalls. It was -- and this is a very big deal -- bug-free. This strongly implies that the worm was tested before release.

Witty was exceptionally nasty. It was the first widespread worm that destroyed the hosts it infected. And it did so cleverly. Its malicious payload, erasing data on random accessible drives in random 64KB chunks, caused immediate damage without significantly slowing the worm's spread.

Link

The legend of Bunny Man Bridge has
evolved in Northern Virginia over the
past 30 years the way most scary stories

The legend of Bunny Man Bridge has
evolved in Northern Virginia over the
past 30 years the way most scary stories 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
I've been there! .. (new window)

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44387-2003Oct30.html
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robots, welcome!

robots, welcome! 01/06/2004 05:35 AM
The Relaunch of Mr. Pants .. Mister Pants is BACK! .. Misterpants

misterpants.com/01/index.html
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Robots, robots, robots

Robots, robots, robots 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
The robots are here to stay. Here are some of the most recent advancements in robot technology

Better Looking Robots

Better Looking Robots 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
As robot technology continues to improve, it's becoming possible to give our robots much more interesting appearances. For some designers, like David Hanson this means exploring the uncanny valley where robots become androids that look almost (but not quite) human. For others designers, like White Box Robotics, this means the chance to make robots that look as good as any we've seen in Star Wars. David Hanson is making news again this week in the Deleware News Journal and Newsday.com. The White Box Robotics 912 HMV, meanwhile, was covered today by an ABC News SCI/Tech article.

FBI Robots.txt

FBI Robots.txt 09/09/2004 09:02 AM

Cryptome points us to this link: the robots.txt file at the FBI's site. I'll save you the click:


User-agent: *
Disallow: /


This isn't the first time the government has shown some nervousness about their Web site content: The White House Vs. Search Spiders.

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