Cats are nocturnal. They're sedentary during the16 hours a day you watch them, then stalk to house all night looking for bugs to torture. I'm pretty sure a computer can figure out the difference between diurnal and nocturnal.

Well, not everyone was running their own company at 17 like you.

I guess you missed the /. article a few days ago about how good North Korea's cyber unit is. They're one of the top countries, after US, Russia and China. They're Chinese trained, and work in China where the infrastructure is a little better. Say what you want about the rest of the country, their cyber capability is significant.

Neoligism is a neologism!

...if you're a toddler or senior citizen.

It's fortunate that nothing else changed during the same period of time, and that, with the invention of time machines and alternate realities, we can re-run the universe with multiple variables. Otherwise, it would be easy to confuse correlation with causation.

And the Apple store.

What, and not be able to post on Slashdot? No thanks.

Dumbass. When they talk about increasing productivity, they're not talking about you controlling your toaster with your remote. They're talking about an army of connected sensors on the production floor, delivery trucks, planes, etc and all talking to each other. They're talking about more accurate weather forecasting from distributed barometers in smartphones and other sensors. Thing bigger. Yes, this is going to be big, but not technically bigger than the internet, since it's part of the internet.

And it seems they're still using those first computers sometimes.

Praying to God this is just a troll.

Hardly. I'm saying we need to do a million times as much.

Imagine pushing a boulder down a hill. Buying more efficient light bulbs is akin to pushing the boulder less. Or imagine charging money to your child's credit card and amassing a large debt. Buying more efficient light bulbs would be aking to spending less on the card, but still spending. We need to stop pushing altogether, get out in front, slow it down, stop it, then push it back up the hill. We need to stop charging money to our children's credit cards, start sending money to it, pay it off completely, and start putting money in savings.

Buying more efficient light bulbs isn't even in the same ball park with what we have to do save the planet. I'm not advocating giving up, I'm advocating changing the focus and doing a million times more to save ourselves.

What about brick production, which emits massive amounts of CO2? What about declining rain forest and other ecosystems that store CO2? What about undoing the damage that's already been done? What about the positive feedback loops like methane being released from the tundra as it melts? The global climate is way more complex than this, and buying a Prius and high efficiency light bulbs aren't going to cut it by a long shot.

Do I really have to point out that a rock that left Mars 4.4 billion years ago will potentially have different things in it than a rock from today?

Yeah, the first country to develop one. If Japan, Germany, or Russia had developed it first, does anything think they would hesitate to use it?