April 28, 2007

Nursing-care, rehab robots gaining practical use

Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes

"It would be naïve, even stupid, to think that we can go back to the idealized Churchillian battlefield."

April 24, 2007

Robot future poses hard questions

"Scientists have expressed concern about the use of autonomous decision-making robots, particularly for military use. "

Robot Wars

"WAR is expensive and it is bloody. That is why America’s Department of Defence wants to replace a third of its armed vehicles and weaponry with robots by 2015. " Plus, we must find Sarah Connor.

April 20, 2007

Botnets Battle Over Turf

"Aside from the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks they launch against one another to disrupt their operations (like the recent DDOS battles between the Storm and Stration botnets), they also are constantly trying to hijack bots from one another. "

April 16, 2007

New Taser Looks Like Cell Phone

I don't know if I'd want to wear it on my belt, or keep it in my pocket, for that matter.

Will TJ Maxx Lose 77 Percent of Its Customers Over Data Breach?

"It's easy to say you won't shop there, but when it comes time to buy the kids cheap clothes for the new school year, people will go right back to their old habits. Perhaps that's why companies don't seem to take these data breaches very seriously."

April 11, 2007

The Drobo storage array device

"The device can address an infinite amount of storage, limited only by file systems and drive capacities."