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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; robotics</title>
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		<title>Authority, Control, and Trust in Human-Machine Systems</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/13/authority-control-and-trust-in-human-machine-systems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Automated systems in aircraft reduce some risks at the cost of increasing other risks.  Incorrect or inconsistent applications of automation to complex human-machine systems can have unexpected and even deadly consequences.
NASA Ames Research facility has done a lot of thinking about the proper ways to design these systems.  Dr. Charles Billings, in particular, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>flying, swarming autonomous pixels?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/26/flying-swarming-autonomous-pixels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[um&#8230;  cool

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		<title>OUR Tax Dollars at Work</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/04/23/our-tax-dollars-at-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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More excellent news from the Pentagon: their new robot helicopter sniper is working and almost ready for field deployment!
ARSS is literally point-and-shoot for the operator on the ground, using a videogame-type controller. The software makes all the necessary corrections, and the system should ensure first-round kills at several hundred yards. The secret is in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/02/14/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others/</link>
		<comments>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/02/14/some-animals-are-more-equal-than-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Seldom is the illustration of Orwell&#8217;s words so vivid.  Above, a screen shot from the New York Times&#8217;s front page today.  Notice that the 50 Americans who died were &#8220;musicians and law students, parents and pilots,&#8221; whose &#8220;varied lives ended on a cold, foggy night,&#8221; and that five of them are illustrated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Cover McCain and Palin With the Blood of Christ&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/10/21/cover-mccain-and-palin-with-the-blood-of-christ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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From an actual email and posting on a Christian website:
IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE, PLEASE PRAY TODAY AND CONTINUALLY THAT ALL SUCH CURSES BE BROKEN AND SATAN&#8217;S PLAN FOR AMERICA BE DEFEATED, IN JESUS&#8217; NAME.  PRAY AND COVER MCCAIN AND PALIN WITH THE BLOOD OF CHRIST.  IF YOU DO NOT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Reasons to Feel Safe</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/10/15/more-reasons-to-feel-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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From the always-inspiring publication Defense Systems:
Homeland Security Strategies, of New Rochelle, N.Y., will offer facial-recognition technology for its Icarus Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform. Originally designed to detect roadside bombs and landmines, Icarus can now perform tasks such as aerial observation and countermeasures against improvised explosive devices, buried-object detection, facial recognition, and laser targeting of hostile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear the Reaper</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/05/22/fear-the-reaper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 18:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great news!  Now the Air Force can successfully drop 500-pound bombs from unmanned aerial vehicles!
An MQ-9 Reaper successfully dropped its first GPS-guided GBU-49 missile during a live-fire test May 13 at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, at China Lake, Calif.
Manned U.S. aircraft have frequently dropped the 500-pound bomb loaded with a GPS kit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slo-Mo Video Clips</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/04/21/slo-mo-video-clips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr.hoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check our Dr. Dave&#8217;s excellent collection of slo-mo video clips. I love the popping water ballons but be sure to check out the &#8220;Electric Knife Cutting Through Jello&#8221;.

You can download low res files for free, or purchase a DVD of high res clips here.
ALSO, ANOTHER VERY COOL WATER BALLOON POPPING IN SLO-MO. 
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