That is essentially what happens in part of Asimov's novel Foundation and Earth.

Robots on Solaria have been programmed to define "human" in a different way (more akin to the Solarians) and attack the main, human, characters.

Great series of novels IMHO.

Please stop making sense and being logical!

I gots to have my FUD!

/me heads off to read Sarah Palin's facebook page.

Oh, buzz off.

You *are* aware that the internet isn't just for facebook and youtube, right? In fact many people (heck, most people on Slashdot) use it as a *tool* to get work done. I just ssh'ed into the server at my lab so that I could check on a bioinformatics project that I have going on. For me, the internet is a tool that I use to be more productive, check Slashdot and to keep up on news without my TV

TV is pretty much only about entertainment and wasting time.

"If Europeans want a Unicode-friendly forum where they can use foreign currency symbols and letters with funny looking little hats overtop and whatnot, they can jolly well start their own site. We don't want it here.

It's funny that you would use a British-ish phrase to let them know that they're not welcome here.

Wilkommen! Get your kraut-ass back home. Is that how it works?

Since Windows 7 comes with "XP mode" for compatibility, I'd say that yes you can.

I'll stick with Ubuntu and run a virtual XP for all the "windows only" things I need to do thank-you-very-much.

Seriously, Vista and Windows 7 pricing are such a joke.