robots as adversaries

From that marvel of science journalism, New Scientist, we present How To Escape a Humanoid Robot.

(To be fair, they basically took the article wholesale from a recently-released book.)

Personally, I think that if it gets to the point where robots should be considered to be adversaries, most of the strategies noted here will be no longer operative. But it's an amusing take on some current limitations of robotics, if you want to look at it that way.

woh-pa!

From an editorial in the Washington Post, a list of sample interview questions for Bush, provided by the author's readers:

Questions of Credibility

Some of them are just kind of "enh". But I'd love to hear Bush try to answer almost all of them. Preferably in the same news conference, in rapid succession.