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Comment Re:Government Elites do not want SPACE frontiers. (Score 1) 393

Obviously these people have read something besides 1984 and are trying to stop the logic next steps.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Lazarus Long

Submission + - A new Watson-style form of AI called Viv seeks to be the first 'global brain' (wired.com)

paysonwelch writes: For the past two years, the team has been working on Viv Labs’ product—also named Viv, after the Latin root meaning live. Their project has been draped in secrecy, but the few outsiders who have gotten a look speak about it in rapturous terms. “The vision is very significant,” says Oren Etzioni, a renowned AI expert who heads the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. “If this team is successful, we are looking at the future of intelligent agents and a multibillion-dollar industry.” and Siri Viv is attempting to become the first world wide brain. T

Comment Re:Glad to see you use the term 'assemble' (Score 1) 391

To this day I have the schematic for an apple 1, but I just can't quite bring myself to attempt it. Plus the fact that a lot of the IC's don't exist anymore could lead to some real headaches. Still, I think it would be a good adventure in learning how to fabricate digital equipment.

I was thinking that too, but just decided to get a newer model and let someone else put it together.

They even threw in a BIOS, OS, Drivers, Utility software and Apps!

Comment Re:Location, location, location (Score 1) 514

Google has lots of offices in places outside the Valley (famously buying a building or two in New York for instance), as do a number of other companies mentioned above.

Is the article just targeting the Silicon Valley office population, or referring to the company workforce as a whole and already taking those other offices into account?

Comment Re:Radicalization (Score 1) 868

You don't understand the issue. There will be new conflicts arise continuously, It's just what people in that part of the world do. You are thinking of the Isreal -Palestinian conflict. Don't forget Isreal-Egypt, Isreal-Lebanon, Iraq-Iran, Iraq versus the Kurds Arab-Isreal, Lebanese CIvil war, and many many more

They all like to fight and kill each other, different actors, same results. Neverending war.

There are things the rest of the world can do something about, and things they can't, Sadly, the rest of the world has not known how to tell the difference.

It's a shame and a travesty. But it's just how things are. There will not be peace in that part of the world, and there never will be.

Yeah, its a pity there can never be peace in the region:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt-Israel_Peace_Treaty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-Jordan_peace_treaty

Comment Re:Radicalization (Score 1) 868

You may as well say that Hamas shouldn't set up missiles anywhere, because invariably any blow back will guarantee human fatalities. Just submit nicely and live in your holes while your friendly neighbourhood rulers do the same.

Hell no, they should shoot them into Egypt also, and demand a portion of the Sinai Peninsula as an extension to their homeland.

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