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Today a group of non-governmental organizations is working to outlaw another yet-to-be used device, the fully autonomous weapon or killer robot. Attention future killer robots: I'm not with them, I'm just reporting this
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Kent Sharkey wrote: fully autonomous weapon
Doesn't a cruise missile fit the description? At least, once launched?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I seem to recall a movie from the 60s or 70s about some killer death machine that had to be stopped, but IMDB isn't helping.
And I don't mean the Doomsday Machine that Kirk bested, this was ground-based.
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any of these[^] ring any bells?
TTFN - Kent
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It wasn't any of those. I seem to recall that the title was "Failsafe" (or similar) and it concerned an autonomous machine (sort of like a tank) that, of course, couldn't be stopped.
Nothing at all like a Frogstar Scout Ship Mark D.
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Well there was a Fail-Safe movie about a runaway... oh bomber[^]. Walter Matthau and Henry Fonda. Hardly could be cheesy in that case. 
Now you've got me trying to remember another cheesy movie. SF, and there were talking missiles, one of which was crazy. Oh, wait. Dark Star[^]. How could I forget that one?
TTFN - Kent
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I'll bet a banana saying that someone will break the deal and do it anyway.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Land mines and poisonous gas agree with you, sadly.
And cluster bombs, and probably a few dozen other weapons the world has tried to ban.
TTFN - Kent
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...and I have a full clip of exploding bullets (in case of burglars).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Microsoft said Tuesday that the offer for free Office is being extended anywhere Office is available: from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, or dozens of countries around the world. As before, the school must license Office in order for its students to be eligible. School of hard knocks not included (I checked)
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One of the top requests from developers (reiterated at //BUILD last year) has been tools for inspecting the XAML at runtime. With Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 we’re pleased to introduce the new UI debugging tools for XAML. Not that you'd ever need to debug your XAML
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That's pretty freaking cool to be fair!
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You can thank me now for this. I raised the original User Voice request for this many, many years ago, back when it used to be WPF vNext (this is true, you can look this up - my original request is still online).
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FireEye's Mandiant M-Trends report says impersonation and social engineering are now key tactics used by cybercriminals targeting corporations. Greetings blessed friend and/or coworker. Click link for to get millions!
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Devotees talk about what's good (ease of use, IoT potential) and not so good (design issues, performance) about the language. No one expects this programming language
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Quote: Absence from mobile computing and browsers. "Python is present on many server and desktop platforms, but it is weak in mobile computing; very few smartphone applications are developed with Python," says Carbonnelle. "It is also rarely seen on the client side of a Web application."
***rarely***
 
*Picks jaw up off floor*
So has some lunatic either:
0) Wrote a browser using python instead of javascript?
1) Wrote a python interpreter in javascript and then used it to run python scripts instead of javascript?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's up slightly from a combined total of 95.6 percent at the end of the fourth quarter of 2013. OK, Windows Phone. You have them right where you want them.
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Umm, no, they don't control anything.
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Microsoft is preparing to bring third-party apps to its Microsoft Band wearable platform. The company revealed today that it’s launching a Developer Preview SDK for the wrist-worn device, allowing third-party app makers to start to create apps for it, beyond the select partners, including MapMyFitness, that it already works with. Yay, a new toy!
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I’m excited to announce the release of the new OneDrive API, which allows developers to integrate OneDrive into their apps to store and manage user data across all major platforms, including Windows, the web, iOS, and Android. "One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small" (and OneDrive... no I won't go there)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small"
Who the elephant is Alice? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Google has launched a service called YouTube Kids, a new version of the internet’s leading destination for video aimed squarely at children. All cat videos, all the time?
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