Robot destroyed in action means a life saved

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PackBot Destroyed in Action in Iraq

PackBot Destroyed in Action in Iraq 04/14/2004 10:32 AM
Jeff Slostad, Alexander Wold and others submitted this CNN story about the first iRobot PackBot to be destroyed in action in a war. The robot was doing a job that a live soldier would normally do so this is a definite case of a human life saved because robot was available to do the job. Exact details of what happened aren't being released because of concern that more robots would be targeted. Between 50 and 100 PackBots are in action in Iraq and Afghanistan doing jobs ranging from reconnaissance to ordnance disposal.

"A Stargate SG-1 fan has had his
computers destroyed and his life thrown
into turmoil because he ran a fansite"

"A Stargate SG-1 fan has had his
computers destroyed and his life thrown
into turmoil because he ran a fansite" 07/27/2004 04:11 AM

Choking Driver Says Crash Saved His Life
(AP)

Choking Driver Says Crash Saved His Life
(AP) 04/24/2004 02:28 PM
AP - A Georgia man credits a highway crash that totaled his truck with saving his life.

Farmer Says Sweden's Soccer Win Saved
His Life (Reuters)

Farmer Says Sweden's Soccer Win Saved
His Life (Reuters) 06/17/2004 10:10 AM
Reuters - An 85-year-old farmer says Sweden's 5-0 defeat of Bulgaria at the Euro 2004 soccer competition saved his life after he went missing in the remote far north.

CVS as a means of keeping track of your
life

CVS as a means of keeping track of your
life 11/12/2003 01:28 PM
This is a habit of the alpha-geeks if ever there was one: Joey Hess keeps all of his email, config files, and all of his work files in a CVS repository. CVS is a free software tool that programmers use to keep track of, and synchronize, changes to documents. It's optimized to keep groups of people spread out over time (multiple versions) and space (multiple contributors) in synch, but Joey's had the key realization that he, on his own, is separated from himself by time (the file he edited yesterday, last month, last year) and space (his laptop, his desktop, his work computer). Keeping everything in CVS means that he can keep all of his user-environments in synch, it means that he never loses data. This is the kind of thing that Passport is meant to solve, and the sort of thing that LifeLog was supposed to do, but Joey's solution has the signal advantage of using free software with a robust developer community that is completely, 100 percent under his control.

It only took a few more weeks before the advantage of having a history of everything I'd done began to show up. It wasn't a real surprise because having a history of past versions of a project is one of the reasons to use CVS in the first place, but it's very cool to have it suddenly apply to every file you own. When I broke my .zshrc or .procmailrc, I could roll back to the previous day's or look back and see when I made the change and why. It's very handy to be able to run cvs diff on your kernel config file and see how make xconfig changed it. It's great to be able to recover files you deleted or delete files because they're not relevant and still know you've not really lost them. For those amateur historians among us, it's very cool to be able to check out one's system as it looked one full year ago and poke around and discover how everything has evolved over time...

I'm told that the best backups are done without effort--so you actually do them--and are widely scattered among many machines and a lot of area so that a local disaster doesn't knock them out. They are tested on a regular basis to make sure the backup works. I was doing all of these things as a mere side effect of keeping it all in CVS. Then I sobered up and remembered that a dead CVS repository would be a really, really bad thing and kept those wimpy backups to CD going. But the automatic distributed backups are what keep me sleeping quietly at night. Later, when I left that job, the last thing I did on my work desktop machine was: cvs commit ; sudo rm -rf /. And I didn't worry a bit; my life was still there, secure in CVS.

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Internet can be a means to finding
balanced life

Internet can be a means to finding
balanced life 04/17/2004 03:39 AM
Seattle Times Apr 17 2004 8:22AM GMT

Briefly: Life-seeking robot to take a
test drive

Briefly: Life-seeking robot to take a
test drive 08/05/2004 07:22 PM
roundup Plus: Toshiba delays 1.8-inch hard drives...HP, Philips to license video protection tools...Nanosys yanks IPO.

"were 'accidentally' destroyed"

"were 'accidentally' destroyed" 07/09/2004 02:51 PM

were 'accidentally' destroyed

were 'accidentally' destroyed 07/09/2004 12:02 PM
New York Times .. a new meaning .. reports

nytimes.com/2004/07/09/politics/campaign/09records.html
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MP3.com archive is destroyed

MP3.com archive is destroyed 12/02/2003 10:12 PM
No joy for Robertson

MP3.com Archive Destroyed

MP3.com Archive Destroyed 12/03/2003 05:19 AM
Such an absolute waste of an amazing archive. Think of the 100's of thousands of man hours that it took...

How I destroyed the new economy

How I destroyed the new economy 12/02/2003 01:47 AM
Salon Dec 2 2003 0:17AM ET

Secret cabin to be destroyed

Secret cabin to be destroyed 07/26/2004 03:50 AM
Secret Cabin to Be Destroyed .. Paradise Lost .. E.L.M.O.T.M

vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_cabin 20040723
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could've destroyed their reputation

could've destroyed their reputation 12/29/2003 06:06 AM
Talking Points Memo .. the lucid take-down

talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2003_12_21.html#002350
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Shops destroyed in fire

Shops destroyed in fire 04/18/2004 04:39 AM
Businesses are destroyed as a Belfast shopping centre is extensively damaged in an overnight fire.

AP: Chemist May Have Destroyed Evidence
(AP)

AP: Chemist May Have Destroyed Evidence
(AP) 04/20/2004 02:18 PM
AP - Disgraced Oklahoma City police chemist Joyce Gilchrist doctored trial evidence and may have destroyed hair samples that could have exonerated a man now on death row, according to a confidential police memo obtained by The Associated Press.

how craigslist destroyed newspaper
classifieds

how craigslist destroyed newspaper
classifieds 06/03/2004 06:44 AM
nobody in print journalism will talk about it, but craig's eating their lunch

"Arabs want Israeli barrier destroyed"

"Arabs want Israeli barrier destroyed" 07/11/2004 03:25 PM

Thousands of Roses Destroyed at Border
(AP)

Thousands of Roses Destroyed at Border
(AP) 02/13/2004 04:06 PM
AP - U.S. border officials destroyed about 10,000 roses that were imported illegally from South America in the pre-Valentine's Day surge.

Bush Military Records Destroyed

Bush Military Records Destroyed 07/10/2004 02:41 AM
Free Internet Press Jul 10 2004 7:19AM GMT

Stray dogs destroyed every hour

Stray dogs destroyed every hour 07/19/2004 10:13 PM
An animal welfare charity says that one stray dog is being put down every hour in the UK.

Lay Tells Newspaper Others Destroyed
Enron (AP)

Lay Tells Newspaper Others Destroyed
Enron (AP) 06/26/2004 07:17 PM
AP - Former Enron Corp. chairman Kenneth Lay took responsibility for the company's spectacular demise but blamed any criminal acts on underlings in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times.

A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot?

A Running Robot Or A Rolling Robot? 12/18/2003 12:58 PM
It took years for researchers to figure out how to make a robot be able to stand and walk on two legs. In fact, it's so complicated, that some researchers are giving up on that idea and using Segway balancing technology on their robots instead of legs. However, the folks at Sony seem to have taken the concept of the upright walking robot one step further: they've figured out how to make a robot run. That's right, it actually leaves the ground at points while jogging along. It apparently needs a bit of a walking start to get up to speed, and even at running speed, it's more of a slow jog - where it's feet barely leave the ground. Still, it's a start, and with some more work, they believe they can really make the robot run.

Pentagon Says Bush Records of Service
Were Destroyed

Pentagon Says Bush Records of Service
Were Destroyed 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
NYT is attacking the other side .. How fucking convenient .. happens

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Bush's service records were
"accidentally" destroyed

Bush's service records were
"accidentally" destroyed 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
directly from Kos .. aWol? .. dKos .. Kos

dailykos.com/story/2004/7/8/23589/81575
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Inspectors: Iraq weapons sites destroyed

Inspectors: Iraq weapons sites destroyed 06/07/2004 03:35 PM

Pentagon: Bush Military Records
Destroyed (AP)

Pentagon: Bush Military Records
Destroyed (AP) 07/09/2004 10:15 AM
AP - Military payroll records that could more fully document President Bush's whereabouts during his service in the Texas Air National Guard were inadvertently destroyed, according to the Pentagon.

Criticize Putin Online and Your Computer
Is Destroyed

Criticize Putin Online and Your Computer
Is Destroyed 12/25/2004 06:51 PM
MosNews.com Dec 25 2004 10:05PM GMT

Two-Thirds of Lethal Asian Flu Virus
Destroyed - WHO (Reuters)

Two-Thirds of Lethal Asian Flu Virus
Destroyed - WHO (Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:50 AM
Reuters - Some two-thirds of the 3,700 laboratories worldwide that received samples of a killer flu virus in test kits have destroyed them as instructed, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Bush Military Service Files Were
Destroyed - Report

Bush Military Service Files Were
Destroyed - Report 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
Bush millitary service records disappear

reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5627899
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Key Bush Military Service Files
Destroyed (Reuters)

Key Bush Military Service Files
Destroyed (Reuters) 07/09/2004 11:54 AM
Reuters - Microfilm records related to President Bush's service in the Air National Guard three decades ago were accidentally destroyed when the military tried to improve its files, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Book says Red Army destroyed Russia's
Amber Room (Reuters)

Book says Red Army destroyed Russia's
Amber Room (Reuters) 05/24/2004 01:20 AM
Reuters - Russia's lost Amber Room, which was looted by the Nazis during World War Two and has eluded treasure hunters for decades, was destroyed by the Red Army in 1945, according to excerpts from a new book on the mystery.

destroyed an artwork depicting a
Palestinian suicide bomber in a
Stockholm museum on Friday

destroyed an artwork depicting a
Palestinian suicide bomber in a
Stockholm museum on Friday 01/17/2004 11:09 PM
HA'ARETZ: Sweden summons envoy to explain damage to artwork .. "Snow White and the Madness of Truth" .. destroying a piece of "art" .. Haaretz

haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/383944.html
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"Saved!"

"Saved!" 05/28/2004 07:47 AM
Judgment bad! Acceptance good! This movie about religious hypocrisy not only thumps us over the head with its kumbaya message, but also gives us Macaulay Culkin as a sex symbol. And that's just wrong.

A Penney Saved

A Penney Saved 01/26/2004 04:06 PM
The department store retailer cuts jobs and restructures.

Our Ancestors Saved Us From an Ice Age

Our Ancestors Saved Us From an Ice Age 03/27/2005 03:48 PM
Technocrat.net Mar 27 2005 6:47PM GMT

Boy, five, saved from pig attack

Boy, five, saved from pig attack 09/01/2004 05:27 PM
A man rescues his nephew from an angry pig after the animal attacked the five-year-old in its pen.

Can this marriage be saved?

Can this marriage be saved? 04/22/2004 02:35 AM
USA Today Apr 22 2004 6:16AM GMT

The Man Who Saved The World

The Man Who Saved The World 03/31/2005 01:38 AM
Lots of times I say it doesn't matter if you get credit if your idea succeeds, because if you believe in it, you probably care more about the idea than your own recognition. And more specific to geeks and technology, it doesn't matter if you're first, especially if you have...
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