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- Roger Clarke's Asimov's Laws of Robotics This article examines Asimov's stories not as literature but as a gedankenexperiment - an exercise in thinking through the ramifications of a design. Asimov's intent was to devise a set of rules that would provide reliable control over semi-autonomous machines. My goal is to determine whether such an achievement is likely or even possible in the real world. In the process, I focus on practical, legal, and ethical matters that may have short- or medium-term implications for practicing information technologists. |
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- Mark B. over at Yakface.com has posted a scan from the latest Diamond Comics Preview Magazine which shows the upcoming Master Replicas "Medal of Yavin" as well as Darth Maul's "Battel worn / severed lightsaber". Click here to check out the image! |
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IDS Evasion (Oct 29 2003 23:44 GMT) - simon (Oct 29 2003) |
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Re: TinyURL (Oct 29 2003 23:44 GMT) - Joel R. Helgeson (Oct 29 2003) |
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Re: TinyURL (Oct 29 2003 23:44 GMT) - Troy (Oct 29 2003) |
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- Vendo questo bellissimo Pre valvolare con 4 ecc83, 3 canali, footswitch, ingresso MIDI. Pulito cristallino, distorsioni calde - dal classico crunch blues al metal piu' devastante, passando dai Led Zeppelin. |
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- Totgesagte leben länger, vielleicht und hoffentlich We've also made major progress on bringing a new management team on bo... |
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- Oct. 29 - Ohio State football player Louis Irizarry has been charged with assault after an alleged fight in a dorm room. Irizarry has been suspended from the team. |
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- Oct. 29 - Columbus police are looking for a man they say raped a 12-year-old girl. |
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- A small group of liberal House Democrats announced a resolution Wednesday condemning remarks by a U.S. Army general that they believe were "religiously intolerant." The group is demanding that President Bush censure the frequently decorated special operations veteran and reassign... |
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- Swagbelly: A Novel for Today's Gentleman by David Levin: a tale of a pornographer and the events and memories that... |
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- Social marketing has become an important means to deliver healthproducts and services to low income people and to motivate their use. |
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- GOVERNMENT has set aside K200 million to start the construction ofschools on the Copperbelt under a project targeting high density residentialareas. |
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- THE Zambia Higher Institutions Sports Association (ZHISA) has expelledNorthern Technical College (NORTEC) of Ndola from its activities forallegedly assaulting a referee at last weekend's Independence sportschampionships. |
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- THE Chipolopolo Soccer Fans Association (CSFA) has commended PresidentLevy Mwanawasa for honouring the late Amayenge band leader Chris Chali whowas also a member of the association. |
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- BARBARA Keith-Wright has retained the individual classificationInternational Federation of Equestrian (FEI) dressage challenge for thethird year running in Lusaka at the weekend. |
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- THE Zambia Investment Centre (ZIC) says the new Investment Act should bemore attractive to both local and foreign investors so that the generalinvestment environment in Zambia can improve. |
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- LUSAKA District Business Association (LDBA) will next week train 50entrepreneurs in capacity building to help enhance their entrepreneurialskills. |
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- THE Zambia Association of Chambers and Commerce (ZACCI) has recommendedfor regular Budget performance review to be able to identify problems earlyenough and employ suitable remedial measures. |
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- FIRST Lady Maureen Mwanawasa has hailed the Iranian government for thecontinued support it has been rendering to African countries. |
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- SENIOR Heritage Party member Dante Saunders has challenged AgricultureMinister Mundia Sikatana to publish the names of senior Government leaderswho have defaulted on settling their Food Reserve Agency (FRA) loans. |
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- THE Copperlink Programme has said economic diversification of theCopperbelt will only succeed once entrepreneurs were given support. |
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- FINANCE Minister Ng'andu Magande has challenged the pension andinsurance industry to propose amendments that will strengthen the PensionScheme Regulation Act. |
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- AN Angolan refugee has been arrested in Kaoma in Western Province forallegedly axing Chief Kabinga Mwandi to death in a suspected ritual murderat the weekend. |
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- But while Green Buffaloes and a number of affiliates outside Lusaka andthe Copperbelt provinces claimed they had not received notices of themeeting, FAZ said the meeting was definitely on and urged affiliates toattend. |
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- PROTESTING university of Zambia students yesterday disrupted a senatemeetingconvened to consider a 100 per cent hike in tuition fees. |
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- THE HEAVENS WATCH OVER US... |
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- I've been using Panther on my PowerBook since the early developers distributions. Everything I needed was working fine so today I decided to upgrade my other Macs. Bad idea. There is one application which I had not tested with Panther and is quite important for my job: Vicomsoft InterGate. |
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- A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley released a new study... |
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- Politics gets interesting again. |
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- It had to happen sometime. I knew that as soon as I heard about Atom that someone would inevitably get round to styling the bloody thing, forcing every alpha geek from here to xanadu to do the same ("but better"). It finally happened: Sam Ruby is styling Atom.Not that it's any harder than styling RSS. |
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Wow (Oct 29 2003 23:39 GMT) - I just found out from Mac (thanks babe!) that there is a Pez museum right near the Crayola Factory!! That... |
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- Chess and poker are perfect analogies for the competing interests in deciding how and where to be transparent. In chess, the state of the game is transparent. Each player can see the current state of the game and plan their strategy, and try to deduce their opponents strategy, from that state and the actions taken to get there. In poker, the current state is a secret, or at least mostly secret. You can't bluff in chess the way you can in poker. |
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- A new vision for providing access to heritage data in Northumberland and Durham has been launched by Northumberland and Durham County Councils, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Over 24000 records from the two County Sites and Monuments Records have been re-written and made accessible through the Keys to the Past website, providing a complete record of the archaeology of the area from the smallest prehistoric flint to the largest medieval castle. |
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- WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE The Wold Newton Family is a group of heroic and villainous literary figures that science fiction author Philip JosГ© Farmer postulated belonged to the same genetic family. Some of these characters are adventurers, some are detecti |
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Two dollars (Oct 29 2003 23:38 GMT) - Too lazy to walk home, so I took the bus. That means two dollars in the cookie jar for Magen David Adom instead of one. Tomorrow I'll walk home because it's the end of the week and I'll need the... |
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- A vicious beating in a high school sends some students to the hospital and others to jail. The beatings at Newark's Central High School were so bad one student was knocked unconcious and others were bruised and bloodied. |
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