Robots Could Demand Legal Rights
The paper says a "monumental shift" could occur if robots develop to the point where they can reproduce, improve themselves or develop artificial intelligence.
The research suggests that at some point in the next 20 to 50 years robots could be granted rights.
If this happened, the report […]
What are you, dear readers lining up for your Christmas viewing?
I suspect that a lot of mine is going to be on DVD, but I’ve only got 3 things planned for the recorder:-
Royal Institution Lectures. Marcus du Sautoy on numbers.
New Years Day Concert from Vienna.
Harry Hill’s Christmas TV Burp. I normally avoid christmas specials, but […]
There’s an article by Carol Midgely in The Times about Christmas TV
I have here, you see, the Christmas TV schedules from 1976, exactly 30 years ago, … But the main, juicy film offering from the BBC is Oliver! with Ron Moody, which, fabulous though it is, even then was nine years old….
The thing is that […]
I was in the Waitrose in Marlborough collecting a few things, when I decided to get a few bottles of wine, completely forgetting the Thresher’s 40% off.
Most notably, I picked up a bottle of Chateau Musar, which comes from Lebanon. In a way, because I’ve never had wine from Lebanon before, but I wouldn’t buy […]
Channel Five were showing The Terminator on Friday night. I haven’t seen it in a while, and it’s a great perennial that I can’t resist watching, like Where Eagles Dare and Casablanca.
I decided to check what "trivia" there was for it. It’s got one I’ve never heard before:-
"O.J.Simpson was considered for the role of the […]
I was having a brief read of Ellee’s post about the Le Web 3 Conference, when I decided to see what was on the agenda.
There are talks about Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Ecommerce 2.0, Education 2.0, Young Generations 2.0, Love and Fashion 2.0 and Mobility 2.0.
Next thing will probably be Venture Capitalist Flight 2.0.
Please. All […]
According to Guido Van Rossum, most of the YouTube site is written in Python. I had no idea, but that’s quite an endorsement.
I guess that maybe the video encoding is done with something more low-level, but even so - that’s a large site.
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Who thought up the website "naming and shaming of non-payers" by the new CSA (CMEC)? Actually, I’ll rephrase that - who approved it?
This has to be one of the silliest ideas that I’ve heard for a long time. What are they thinking? That people will go to the CMEC website and spot people they know?
One […]
Smokers accidentally prescribed Viagra
Smokers trying to quit the habit were mistakenly prescribed anti-impotence drug Viagra by doctors. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the error was due to a computer glitch at two city GP practices.
Should at least help with that advice about finding something to do with your hands…
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I don’t tend to read the NME much. Mostly because I don’t think that most of the bands that they push forwards (Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Babyshambles, Killers, Kaiser Chiefs) have anything very interesting going on.
However, towards the top of their charts of album of the year (I went through the whole lot hoping for […]
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