Being a former dev and pro for SuSE, going to Debian for years and since 3 years switched to Arch I have to say, there is no documentation better in linux land than the one you can find at the Arch Wiki. It really is an example of how great docs should be. Nothing wrong with mint, ubuntu, slack, redhat and by all means, pick one that you like. I would not have picked arch as the best, since it's geared towards to technical crowd that knows where and how to fix things, but they are right when they say that the Arch documentation stands out alone. Openbsd's might just be better. Might.

We all know the Chinese special but the asians as a whole make chips. EU and US don't... so just as we know that the NSA doens't hunt for terrorist but for economic and political espionage (terrorisme as you will) this isn't different. The US can call it what is want, but we, the academic world know what you are up too... And the US is with al those things no longer a serieus academic partner and soon it won't be a economic nor political partner.

We will have hundreds. In your street, in your town. I wasn't talking about clientside, I was talking ISP-side and Exchange-side.

These 'things' add up. I have no need for a expresso machine that is internet-contected, but I'm sure some marketing boy can sell it to my significant other. And I'm sure it will use most of it's packets to send data back to the marketing boy.

But to anwser your question. I am not in favour of Hamas. I am against the slaughter and displacement of innocent people. I don't even ask if those people are jews, muslims, atheists or whatever. And it's hard to keep an open eye with all the propaganda the IDF and Israel-friendly media are feeding us.

Actually, we haven't seen the slightest proof of Hamas doing that. We do however know that Israel does precisely that. Not only do they force their teenagers to take up arms in the army and frontlines, they also force them to kill babies. But sometimes they just do it for real like here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... And there is lot more of those videos where there is zero evidence of Hamas doing this, except from the word of professional liar (ak, spokesperson) for the IDF. Keep thinking critical people. Hamas might do this, but there is zero proof. Israel does do it and there is proof enough. Most of their IDF are teens who are forced to take service. Talk about human shields.

The situation in Palestina (gaza+israel) is much more complex than that. But not complex enough to not understand that murdering innocent unarmed babies and women by Israel is morally wrong and frankly, a really big warcrime.

Yeah they changed that after the outrage.... Here is a screenie from before because I had a feeling that the word army would be gone soon when I noticed it. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pi... Needless to say that the first version was correct and this is just really bad damage control.

The research is (partly at least) army funded. That does explain why every academic ethic rule is ignored. Cornell has co-authored this research, so they can know. Check the last couples of lines to see for yourself. That part makes this even more disturbing. The media should include this 'small' detail. http://www.news.cornell.edu/st...

I guess we have different social environments.

You don't get it. Humans can have mercy, can see that this guy in the wrong uniform just was helping a buddy of you etc... AI can't. And won't be able to do that in the near future. They do can recognize uniforms though and faces :)

The biggest difference lies in mercy and for the shorter term, recognition. But on the longer term, mercy, At the end of WW2 germany had mosty kids left. You could shoot them or just threaten them and they would give up. That is something technology won;t be able to do for the foreseeable future.

Hi, this is 2014, ai, agents, selfteaching systems, neural networks - have made great progress.

And because someone is using them. But yes. We probably agree on this.

I tried, honestly, but it's all bullshit. Assumptions. Without caring for reality. We now have robots that can decide to kill. Do we really want those? See what happened when you had drones shoot missiles at people? A lot of weddings got bombed. That is what happens when you take emotion out by relinking b&w video to an 'operator ' that pulls the trigger. Now imagine to take emotion out completely, because that is the direction we are heading. Especially, but not alone, the US. And the all other nations will have to follow. And as of now these systems exist and are being used in the field, as tests. Robots that decide who gets shot. Great fucking idea. Not.