"Human" intelligence like childrens are "wetwired" in our monkey brains to be accepted, part of the "natural and know things" like trees and this shiny yellow thing on the sky. And AI is also "unknown", and all things that is unknown activates yet another irrational primate fear on humans. It's a very difficult situation.

I live in a country where the population acts as if he were still in the medieval Middle Age in cultural terms, and it is easy to find entire people on this planet still living as hunter/gatherers. try to explain in this environment that the fear of AIs is irrational. :-(

Humans are terrified of anything that they can not control, and a true artificial intelligence would be a good example. And things that cause such horror are perfect to be used as "evil things to be defeated by the good guy" in films. There are some rare and few movies that are exceptions of course, but as the focus of Hollywood is the "Joe six pack" then films that use logic rather than appeal to the irrational primate fear will remain rare exceptions.

My impression is that Microsoft UI team was stormed by the team responsible for the aberrations called "innovations" like Live Messenger / Skype. Perhaps the former team retired and the MSN idiots have taken over, and the result are things like the "Metro".

Well ... Right now your government is funding a bloodless coup in my country to overthrow the democratically elected president and put a front in place (we call this "testa-de-ferro"). The goal is to divert our newly discovered oil reserves (pré-sal) for your country at the price you country wants to pay and prevent any attempt at independent initiative by the rulers of my country. We only do not rebelled and tryed to burn your country because the average Brazilian was domesticated for a long time and is trained from childhood to always obey without question (maybe CIA, local traitors, who knows), especially if the "boss" speaks English. And my country is only one of many countries where your country does this kind of things. So I can understand perfectly why Iran has so angry at you, even though I do not agree with their methods.

Hi clueless guy how are you? :-)

Well, the definition of what is an alpha male of course depends on your local society. Here is usually those who have more money and are more violent and arrogant.

Note that the laws are made in the most complicated and absurd ways on purpose . There is no money for lawyers where one person can interpret a law by herself.

Urchins do not have sense of humor.

Whoa whoa, read carefully before shooting out in all directions. I made it clear that it is usually an imposition of the female relatives, and considering you did not catch the the rest then I must complement that society also tends to do so. However, having said that it is also true that many women want a position of power through marriage to a man of power, and not necessarily to have children I must say, but to have power. And they will hardly find it on a course of CS, so ... Just join the dots.

What females wants is alpha males, both they and their parents are trained for this. Parents early insist they seek careers where they can find men with more power (political, law), and by repeat the females end up believing it too. And it's pretty hard to find alpha males in computer science courses (we care about more important things than animal instincts of domination and territory), so consequently you will see fewer females in such courses.

If you really want to find good developers, find the time.

Here lying is as natural as breathing. It is extremely rare to find someone who speaks a truth the first time you ask something to him, here they lie even when it makes no sense to lie. A technology that could detect with 99% certainty when someone is lying would make the brains of people here to collapse, because they would not be able to withstand the urge to lie and having to tell the truth to avoid being caught by the machine.

Uhhh... Português (brasileiro) é a minha lingua nativa. E eu coloquei o acento no "mú" só por diversão. Vai saber se a vaca em questão está mugindo de tédio (sem acento) ou com raiva (com o acento para enfatizar)? hehehe