People who boast about their I.Q. are losers. - Stephen Hawking

Underlying dangers: the user?

What we should do is research safe alternatives for languages (http://www.rust-lang.org/), more sandboxing of who can access what (SELinux, AppArmor), and better and simpler libraries (LibreSSL). No plugin Auto-run for untrusted sites.

Antivirus is cool and all, but its not as good as fixing the bugs. Unfortunately it is more profitable.

Also programmers would start getting paid like doctors, so costs would rise. (doctors who's patients were undergoing targeted attacks)

They probably will use a big version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...

Attempt no landing there.

But seriously, cool stuff.

How do they plan to send communications back to earth from under the ice? I assume they will have a rover on the surface that will communicate with the diver and possibly a satellite, that will communicate with us.

This is good. We should not pay to have our products secretly weakened.

This is why distributed version control is important (git/mercurial), even if you think SVN is easier. Sometimes your remote server will disappear, whether its hackers, fires, or someone forgot to pay the bill.

What if someone cuts the water or power to the hospitol and mixes suger in the gas of the generator? There is no reason this should specifically include computers and not other attacks.

Of course, the whole point of a Cyber Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret. Why didn't you tell the world, eh?

The advantage is that Google does not have to give them anything that will decrypt your messages if they get subpoena, they have to get the key from the message receiver. Which means the person who got the message either gets tipped off, or they have to hack your computer.

Also, you will have less latency than if they were in geosynchronous orbit because they are closer. Which is a significant factor if people want to use them for real time communication.

+1 Sad But True.

You can't copyright or patent math, but it seems you can trademark it!

only one of every 100 million attempts succeeded

I can beat that in software.

bool getMessage() {
return rand() % 2 == 1;
}

I don't know if printing is the right word. I think making test tube babies that are then raised by some kind of AI to be more or less human might be the closest we get. There is still a lot of technology that we need for that (artificial womb, an AI that would simulate some kind of social interaction) .

Most people would not go on a journey if they knew they had to spend the rest of their lives and next 500 generations' lives on that same journey.

I have posted this before: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...