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Invasion of the wall climbing robots are here…

but the technology to make them do what we want might not be just yet. However SRI Internetional has developed a Wall Climbing Bot, which can be used in military and disaster recovery situations. Imagine these things crawling on walls spying on suspected drug-dealers, terrorists, used in surveillance this robot technology could be huge. The robots use a form of electroadhesive to stick to the walls. SRI explain some benefits:

• Wall-climbing robots for military and first responders: Real-time and/or longer-term reconnaissance of buildings

• Inspection Robots: For military or commercial applications such as inspection of bridges, containers, pipes and storage tanks, buildings, structural walls, ducts, aircraft and ship hulls and communications and transmission lines and towers

• Service Robots: For cleaning (windows, building walls etc.), painting (buildings, bridges, aircraft etc.) and other such needs

• Sensor positioning and re-positioning: For mobile sensors that can be repositioned in three dimensions (for example, in self-organizing networks)
• Toys/hobby robots

• Long-term perching of micro air vehicles (MAVs): In many cases, aerial mobility can be leveraged in conjunction with longer-term perching on a vertical wall

• In the future: human wall climbing: For uses ranging from Special Forces needs to exterior window-cleaning

• Other applications that require three-dimensional mobility

SRI 

YouTube has this really annoying bug when trying to login with a pointless error message that says simply “Invalid Parameters”.

I get this after trying to login when wanting to comment on a video. If I do manage to get it to work I can’t use the browsers back button to go back to the video I was just on as it will log me back out lol, you think their engineers would have noticed this lame bug.

I have a site which currently gets about 4000 page impressions a day, and this blog which gets about 20-60 yet this blog has a lower Alexa rank than the other site jajaja. Please take Alexa with a PINCH OF SALT.

I blogged before about how I had gotten some sort of penalty. This can be difficult to isolate if you did a bunch of things at once. In my case I bought some links and sold some links. Hehe, I didn’t sell the two links to pass on page rank, only to pay revenue, but the problem was that after selling the links and getting penalised my income on that site had fallen a lot, from about $5 a day to at its worst about .60c. This slowly recovered but the number of page impressions were drastically down. Using Google Webmaster Tools, only showed that I was ranking about 80 something for a couple of keyphrases, some meta tag problems ( still fixing these - and yes meta des does make a difference ) a couple 404s, and some empty redirects - missing links from a traffic exchange program. Most of these were fixed but I kept the 2 paid links up.

However I think Google was giving me a clue as to what the problem was. A couple of links I had sold to a site not particularly in my niche but in a similar niche, seemed to be the problem in the sense that when finding the keyphrase it had the text that the sponsored link site wanted under the search term, which not only looked stupid but made me take it down.

Here you can see where the punishment comes in:

That’s a huge drop in traffic, this came about after or around the reported Dewey update, this graph tends to lag by a few days and I’m confident that in a couple of weeks it will be back to a similar level as before.

Now don’t ask me how Google knows whether you have sold links or not, as it maybe a new algorithm update or human edited, it’s hard to say. The only thing I can say is after removing the paid links, the site has come out the penalty zone. For the $10 a month I got for the link, I lost more than 10 times that easy in lost traffic.

The UK is in the middle of a knife pandemic, kids and youths are running amock knifing anyone. To add to yob culture, booze drinking culture, and other good natured things you can add knife culture to the list of problems. The thing what baffles me in this country is, is why can you buy knives at all other than knives you need to chop an onion?

Now the (y)U.K. is stuck in a vicious circle of teens carrying knives. The problem is this has been going on for 10 years, but has got worse and worse.

eBay are not an ethical company - I’ve dealt with them in the past and they only care about profit, they say they care about fraud but do little to stop it. But back to the main point look at this and look at what exactly you can buy on eBay with no ID - no nothing!

Check this description:

“THIS AUCTION IS FOR THE ULTIMATE HUNTING KNIFE. IT LOOKS FANTASTIC AND IS EVERYTHING YOU EXPECT FROM A TOP QUALITY HUNTING KNIFE. GREAT FOR FISHING , HUNTING AND ALL OTHER OUTDOOR PURSUITS. ”

Makes me laugh this country. Fair enough if you do “hunt” you should have to produce a licence to buy one. If I owned this place I’d put an instant ban on eBay for selling knives.