You really are a monumentally stupid cunt, aren't you?

If you're talking about Moore no. He's shilling pro-capitalism when greenpeace when communist, and dove onto the crazy train.

Legislature would mean from the congress of the people. That isn't this, this is the courts engaging in a judicial decision. Some may consider that judicial activism.

Will work that OS's do change much in future you think?

Will their core work still be interfacing filesystems, networking, processes and accounts to the underlying tin?

Will some UI-type tasks typically carried out by applications shift the OS? (UI: voice/video/gaze/gesture recognition... user information management: social feeds, messages... environment management: ... malware detection) Will there be real-time requirements?

Its is a peculiar computer science conceit - that people, with their biases and foibles, can be replaced by sufficiently sophisticated computing resources.

The conceit shows up everywhere - from users with 'system says no' responses, to Google's algorithmic approach to everything, to OLPC talking of heli-dropping laptops into remote villages, to apps for everything: no matter how unimportant.

Unfortunately, instead of augmenting humans tech tries to supplant them

Adobe just did this for mcafee so yeah, it seems to me that all the companies seem to think this is just an awesome idea. I know, we'll change shit for people then laugh when this backfires or something! Though I'm pretty sure that this stuff is illegal here in Canada now.

Yep and you've swallowed a line of bullshit so tasty, you don't even realize it's shit. There's plenty of historical evidence along with scientific evidence that particular area also experiences wildfires and they've been disrupted by humans. Meaning you're sitting on a tinderbox.

Not surprised at the 40MB scsi drive still working, I had an old quantum 40MB drive that was working up until a few years ago in a old 386, it had been running for 18 odd years straight. I figured that when I shut it down, that would be the end of it since the bearings would be completely worn out. I was right.

Oh it gets better. Since the last release, they now force mcafee on you.

Didn't Allstate show up yesterday with a silly patent?
                                  http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

First an overly broad patent (wait until a toilet seat manufacturer patents 'diagnosing- while-enthroned'). Now this.

Thought I don't think there's anything wrong with using a drone for this, as long as inhabitants (i.e. owners and renters) of a covered property have a choice in the matter. But its likely someone in Allstate is already dreams of a fleet of cheap unmanned drones in every Allstate building, sent off on frequent 'combat missions' to increase premiums and reduce claims.

Looks like someone's funded Allstate's Technology department a bit too well.

Another crossover? God dammit, DC!

Sounds about right. I've had two crashes, one was back in 2006 and it was a raid night in WoW, the drive head of my main drive crashed. The other was a SSD failure, when I was writing a term paper. Luckily in both cases I used a triple redundancy solution for my backups and was up and running again in a few hours. I learned way, way back in '91 that if you don't have a backup you're up shits creek.

Oh please. We've been doing this in Canada for 80 years and have figured out how to make profitable treefarms with a 10 year harvesting rotation. This is even more so true since we have a serious problem with pine beetles in parts of our western forests, just like in the US. The difference is here in Canada we'll cut it down and make something out of it, in the US you're too busy worrying about xyz something, and then wondering why you have massive forest fires.

Uh no. You know the deployment kit can do this across all the machines in about 15 seconds right?

You should really look at that anonymous reply, they already did all the hard legwork for me.