At 09:43 AM 11-03-04 +0000, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
The Symbiot whitepaper on their service describes a process with a little more imagination
Like hooking it up to DARPA Grand Challenge winners?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/WorldNewsTonight/robot_race_darpa_040...
They recently revised the rules downward: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62608,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
I applaud the idea of a outsourced department that will manage the denial of service, and "hordes of script kiddie"
trouble with sending a droid round to kick ass is you've just made Skynet V0.1
But: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/robot.html ...which has the classic Battlebots line of "Can you drive over a competitor's vehicle? "I wouldn't describe running over another vehicle as incidental contact," says Negron. "What if it is a carefully navigated maneuver?" the guy asks. Negron shakes his head. "No."" :-) -Hank
brandon