Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting.

[seafoid]

The wages map of Britain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/nov/22/wages-map-britain

Statistical proof that the North of England continues to get shafted

[Hardy]

This I gotta have!
http://hackable-devices.org/shop/product/tv-b-gone-kit

[Billys Boots]

This I gotta have!
http://hackable-devices.org/shop/product/tv-b-gone-kit

Brilliant - let me know how it goes.   

[el_cuervo_fc]

Robot uprising risk to be studied

Cambridge researchers are to assess whether technology could end up destroying human civilisation.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and climate change.

The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous".

Fears that machines may take over have been central to the plot of some of the most popular science fiction films.

Perhaps most famous is Skynet, a rogue computer system depicted in the Terminator films.

Skynet gained self-awareness and fought back after first being developed by the US military.

'Reasonable prediction'

But despite being the subject of far-fetched fantasy, researchers said the concept of machines outsmarting us demanded mature attention.

"The seriousness of these risks is difficult to assess, but that in itself seems a cause for concern, given how much is at stake," the researchers wrote on a website set up for the centre.

The CSER project has been co-founded by Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price, cosmology and astrophysics professor Martin Rees and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn.

"It seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology," Prof Price told the AFP news agency.

"What we're trying to do is to push it forward in the respectable scientific community."

He added that as robots and computers become smarter than humans, we could find ourselves at the mercy of "machines that are not malicious, but machines whose interests don't include us".

Survival of the human race permitting, the centre will launch next year.

[Hardy]

This was uploaded just an hour ago. It will be interesting to follow the comments on reddit.com (search for "Kids film themselves jumping a "special ed" kid") to see how long it will take before they're picked up by the cops.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

think that belongs more in the 'what the fcuk' thread. wains can be right horrible bastids

[Hardy]

You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.

[NAG1]

think that belongs more in the 'what the fcuk' thread. wains can be right horrible bastids

You would like to think that if there is any natural justice in the world that the little fat hard man would get exactly what he deserves.

Problem will be that it will probably blamed on society or the parents or the school 

[trileacman]

You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.

Is that not a bit fucked up?

[Hardy]

What?

[trileacman]

Entertaining yourself by waiting on the impending arrest of several American adolescents.

[Hardy]

Entertaining myself? Where did you get the idea to make that up?

[trileacman]

You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.

[eoinbeag]

I have a child with special needs and I would hope his brother and a few of his mates would get to them before the courts did. 

Hardy, I see where you are coming from with the filming - sometimes you have to ask who are the ones with the disability.

[Hardy]

You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.


Is that not a bit fucked up?

What?

Entertaining yourself by waiting on the impending arrest of several American adolescents.

Entertaining myself? Where did you get the idea to make that up?

You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.

I hope you know where you're going with this.