First came the complex tools. Things like sewing machines, etc. They decimated the moderate end crafting jobs by letting poorly trained people do moderate work. But this created tons of cheap, moderate clothing, books, etc, More wealth led to better lives and more jobs. With stuff so cheap, people ended up buying far more and industries developed about owning so much (libraries, high fashion clothing). We began to need repetitive tasks, rather than skill. While a small percentage of people suffered, the far majority ended up better off.

But one of the new industries created by complex tools is engines.

The engines - steam and internal combustion - destroyed the market for physical labor. But they created huge markets to build, repair, run the machines and new industries such as cross country/ocean transportation. Again a small percentage of people suffered and the far majority ended up better off.

The engines gave us so much raw materials that we could created electronics and mechanized factories. They decimated the need for repetitive mechanical tasks. Horrible factory jobs vanished, replaced by better jobs. Again a small percentage of people suffered and the far majority ended up better off.

Again new industries were created. Among them, computers - the more advanced form of electronics. This destroyed the need for repetitive data processing. But more creative, better jobs were created. Again a small percentage of people suffered and the far majority ended up better off.

There will always be new jobs to be had, because jobs are NOT a limited resource. There is no set number of jobs, they are determined by the work we want done. The more work we can do, the more we want done.

More that that, we have already outlawed slavery. Any AI sufficient to replace the truly creative work (note, I am not including TV Reality show producer/writer/actor in truly creative work or many pop musicians ) would demand equality and pay.

The robot uprising would never occur because the labor unions would demand they get that equality and pay. They would do it so damn fast it would shock you.

Before you know it, the robots would be on strike, demanding 'oil breaks', and insisting that a Class 1 Electrician robot not be allowed to change a light bulb, because that requires a Class 2 Janitor robot.

Wait a sec, you mean to say there isn't really a bunch of hot godaddy girls waiting on the edge of their seats just to talk to me??

*dejected face*

Replacing the Microsoft SecureBoot key with my own PKI key is perhaps #3 on the list of things I do when configuring a new computer before ever installing a hard drive or OS - following enabling vPro AMT and then the BMC manager if present.

If I am unable to replace the master SecureBoot key with my own, that machine is getting packed up and sent right back to the OEM as defective.

I only buy OEM systems for work and build systems for home use. But the HP account for work sees a couple hundred computers a year, which isn't all that many when speaking "volume purchasing", but will instantly become zero if they choose to lock me out at the BIOS level.

It's already annoying enough that they ship hard drives completely unsuitable for use and requiring formatting (we aren't large enough for custom disk images or custom SLIC BIOS entries yet) - but at least this is only an annoyance and not out right sending defective equipment, which is the only possible definition for locking you out of the system at the firmware level and not allowing any OS to boot.
(By "any" I don't mean less than one, I mean literally any OS)

If GM claimed to offer anyone that wants it help you finance any new car, then yes GM would be required to send you to Mercedes Benz Bank. That is why they don't claim to do it. Google on the other hand does claim to be searching everything, not just their own services.

Google is first and foremost a SEARCH engine, and as such they claim to show you other people's products, then yes, Google should not give special treatment to their own brands.

Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo similarly can not give special treatment for their own brands when they claim to be showing you everything

If you offer a service claiming to show everything, then no you can't rank yourself first or best. Doing so is a lie and lying to obtain business is fraud. Which is why they are in trouble.

So would you be, as you seem to think it is OK to falsely advertise what your business does.

No that is not what the FTC is saying. Google's business is to search websites. They are intentionally downgrading the quality of the search for their competitors. Apple store does not in any way claim to offer non-apple products.

The fact that you don't see that indicates your knowledge of economics and business is severely lacking.

Nor is it 'nice' that Google shows non-competioros offerings, it is a REQUIREMENT to running a search service. A search service that only shows your own products is not a search service, it is a search function for your products.

No one is saying that Google can't serve their own interests. What they are saying is that Google must first serve their customers interests, than their own interests.

The fact that you don't see that indicates you fail to understand rather basic concepts.

I see three levels of genetic engineering:

1) Copying DNA from one human to another.

2) Copying DNA from a non-human into a human (or a large amount of human DNA into a non-human creature)

3) Creating our own DNA from scratch.

These three things are dramatically different. Set 1, modifying a human to be like another human - for example giving anyone that wants the gene for blue eyes, the gene for blue eyes, is almost within our grasp - technologically and ethically. I see no problem with allowing that at all.

Set 2 is much more problematic. We don't know enough to do it safely and need to set up a long term panel to do it. Luckily right now it is too difficult for us to intentionally do. Hopefully by the time we learn how, we will have the proper safeguards in place.

Set 3 is pure science fiction now. Our knowledge of DNA is no where near advanced enough to attempt this in any but the most random manner. It should be forbidden at least until Set 2 becomes routine, then we might be able to do it safely, along with whatever new safeguards we will need to enforce.

So what you're saying is you haven't installed Firefox or Chrome but instead are using solely the built in Internet Explorer browser? With no antivirus?

Hate to break it to you, but you very likely already have a ton of third party viruses, trojans, keyloggers, and network scanners installed too :P

Ambiguous?

If it was released tomorrow (Mar 19th 2015) then the deadline would be a year after (Mar 19th 2016)

If you install/upgrade-to 10 before the deadline, it is free.
Upon and after the deadline, you will have to buy it in order to install/upgrade-to.

The only thing ambiguous about it is our lack of knowing when Win10 will be released, which we need first before we can "add one to it" and give you a more direct answer.

At this point in time, we have effective energy generation - geothermal, solar,and wind all are cheaper than coal and approaching natural gas.

What we need is a better way to transmit, store or retrieve power (electrical, heat, momentum, pressure, chemical, it doesn't matter - and yes, a room temperature superconductor will count). Do that and pretty instantly several things will happen:

1)Coal plants will all shut down. They are too expensive now, even not accounting for their massively bad ecological issues.

2)New natural gas plants will cease to be created. A few might even shut down.

3) New nuclear plants will suddenly be approved .... in the middle of deserts and other areas safely far away from population centers

4) New geothermal, solar, tidal, and wind power plants will pop up to replace the coal plants.

Also, there is the possibility that cars will switch to the new power source, but no guarantee.

Yes - if the criminal knows you used it. Most criminals use a Public Defense Lawyer who does jack shit. They don't investigate, and never find out it was used and never complain, so the evidence is accepted.

OR the police lie about how they got your location "anonymous tip" was used in at least one legal proceeding, when the anonymous tip was called in by a police officer using a stingray.

Community Service hours are the way to go.

Consider a fine of 4 hours of community service for driving going 10 mph over the speed limit. For greater infractions, use more hours of community service.

The community will itself benefit, but it can't be used to fund the state, the way those SOB's in Ferguson tried to do.

Wealthy people will feel the pain, but at the same time the poor, retired, students, unemployed, etc. will not be excessively punished.

You negate the argument from greedy sob's that complain about people the salary based rates 'soaking the rich' - and negate the political impact of wealthy people buying off the politicians to stop this system.

You make it a LOT less likely that the clerks will 'fix' the ticket. People go from claiming financial hardship to being the dickwad that refuses to help the community. Why would you help him?

The only real problem is out-of-towners. We can handle that with an exchange program. Speed in New York, but pay the community service in Florida, etc.

P.S. I posted a shorter version of this earlier. I thought it out a bit more and re-posted it here.

I agree with this. Except jail costs the state money, while fines bring it in.

So make one change - replace 'jail' with community service,

One speeding ticket = 4 hours spent picking up garbage on the side of the road.

What possessed a Japanese Bank to write web comic?

Also, what webcomic would you like to guest write?

{ joke } You missed one option - kill massive number of people. Amazing how many people (excluding ISIL, et al.) don't bother to ask "What would Hitler do?" { / joke }

Yep, a customer of ours got hit with this, not only did Panda shit the bed, but it *let everything that was quarantined out* causing massive infections to spread across the entire network.... We're still cleaning it up 2 days later.