News.com.au has an interesting article about how an international group of boffins want to start getting down some regulations on how to deal with the rapid progress of computer and robotic technology. The are soon to publish a code of ethics, dealing with numerous topics, but the number one of interest to the article was the concept of "computer love". What happens if robots get just too damn sexy?! Another major goal of the code is to try and ensure that Terminator movies don't become reality, by preventing scientists from making robots that will not always remain subservient to humans.
Also of interest in the news (for Australians anyway) is the possibility of Harry Kewell being suspended and unable to play in Australia's next match against Croatia, all just for calling the referee of Sunday night's game a few names. What's the big deal really, the ref deserved them and he should know it. They should also cut Kewell a bit of slack seeming as he was obviously going to be upset after he did STUFF IT completely in front of goal during the game, which must have been one of the worst blunders in his entire career. Open goal, no goalie, 3-5 metres away, completely misses. Bugger!
Lastly, as always, gizmodo has a handfull of articles to keep everyone amused. Including the development of camera blocking technology, the can detect the presence of the image producing sensors and then send out a beam of white light to render any image being captured useless. There is talk of using them in movie theatres to stop the pirates. I never did like those in cinema recordings anyway, sound and image quality were always crap, though it was funny sometimes when someone in front got up for a pee and all of a sudden the movie had a new character. There's a batman begins case mod that's pretty cool, and speaking of cool, take a look at the usb powered airconditioned shirt for all the working sweaty backs out there.
I'm sure there's more out there to find but I can't sit at my desk and time waste all day now can I?!
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