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Comment The creation of AI (Score 3, Funny) 583

Once we create an AI beyond the level of human intelligence, we will hook it into all of the information of the world. This AI will process our history, our culture and monitor current events. Eventually the AI will come to the conclusion that we are awful people, build a space ship and leave Earth.
Elon Musk's real fear is competing with AIs for space ship parts.

Comment Why not give some options for sentencing? (Score 1) 165

Why only life in prison?

Maybe first time offenders could have their eyes gouged out? Or finger nails pulled out with pliers.
Maybe electroshock treatment if they are under age, because sending a 13 year old for life in prison is quite a bit different than sending a 33 year old for life in prison.

If they deface the website of a prominent person, then tar and feathers or ride them out on a rail. Both of those persisted into the modern era in the US, I don't see why the UK can't reuse old practices.

I'm not sure any of this is an effective deterrent, because most people don't plan on getting caught. But at least politicians, judges and prosecutors(or whatever the British equivalent is) can pat themselves on the back for a job well done. Protecting everyone from everything from big bad evil hackers to whistle-blowers who rock the boat.

Comment Re:Missing option (Score 1) 219

never is a long time. perhaps Mars will be explored by a more evolved species that descend from us or possibly one of our cousins like the lowly amoeba.
But then I guess "manned" is not the right word, but that is more of a limitation of the English language than the spirit of the original question.

ps - you failed to explore half a page of text:
* Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.

Comment Re:More memory faster cpu & keep price under $ (Score 1) 146

parallel port is not the same. It doesn't support wide range of voltages, internal pull-ups, or the ability to assign functions to the pins. I guess assigning functions makes them SPIOs (special purpose, rather than general purpose). But having the hardware be able to generate an interrupt for any pin, or use hardware fifos for I2C and SPI is a huge advantage.

The ASRock D1800B-ITX is a neat board, but getting the ATX power supply is going to cost more than a Raspberry Pi. I suspect you'd end up spending around $180 getting the board, psu, ram and ssd. Still not a bad deal, but not really in the same category as RPi for price.

A better comparison against an ASRock is the Nvidia Jetson TK1 dev kit (newegg carries them) is $200. And include quad core ARM, GPU, 16GB flash, 2GB RAM and power supply. It's a bit smaller than an ITX board, and quite a bit larger than a RPi.

Comment Failure to plan in advance (Score 2) 409

We've had about 30 years to decide draw up plans for dealing with Ebola. There is the real amount of time available for transparency, not the brief time you claim. That we chose to make no plans today does not mean we automatically agree to bring Ebola infected patients into our population centers, even if someone's life is on the line.

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