Maybe I didn't understand you correctly, or you should read this page on why we have secret ballots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There was also a good thing about Silk Road: no violence:

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/s...

Many people that have seen that video have commented the same thing.

Yes, I'm sure the DARPA challenge is hard work, but I was much more impressed by how well they were able to apply deep learning for use with robots:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu...

The fastest robot on the DARPA challenge took 45 minutes, look at how fast the robot is in the above video. It's much more close to how a human would do it.

5 years ago from the same lab they took hours to do things and they were still using very little machine learning in comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

And more importantly how close they are to using demonstrations (how about YouTube videos or from other people or robots doing similar tasks) to get robots to learn faster and many more tasks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I was also very much impressed the first time I saw what Deepmind had done:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Librarians where also among the first to fight the National Security Letters:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/con...

> Why the hell does the internet run on 2 of the shittiest languages ever half-assed designed??

What design ?

Really, Javascript was created in 10 days by 1 man without talking to anybody else.

He had been thinking about how to go about creating a programming language so he had a lot of ideas, but Netscape wanted him to create a different kind of language so basically in 10 days he did what he was asked to do but included some the ideas he had about creating a language inspired by Scheme- and Self.

The question is:

are they concerned about backdoors and such or are they just concerned about getting a better licensing deal ?

Not only that a lot of source code isn't even reproducible, you can't just check the hash of the resulting file:

http://stackoverflow.com/quest...

"The European governments are laughing as Greece falls over the edge."

Not really:
The fair with European leaders is that if Greece needs to do something like leaving the Euro or something else drastic this could pave the way for other countries like Spain, Italy and Ireland. Supposedly this could harm the Euro.

Rationally I would think if Greece leaves the Euro this would be good for the Euro and for Greece. But markets like stock, currency or gold market really aren't rational.

The problem is that if Italy would leave the Euro, supposedly this would be bad because it's economy is much larger.

Super-intelligent general-AI is still far away.

I would fear human-level intelligent general-AI with stupid goals more.

But on the short-term I fear humans the most.

The predictions about how radical the job market is going to change and how the gap between the rich and the poor is widening could lead to the humans rising up much much earlier than the machines would.

"Matrix style learning is a lot more difficult, because it has to be integrated in what the person already knows."

This is exactly why I worded it that way. ;-)

Actually found a talk by the people working on this project, here he talks about where/how to get data:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

One thing I wonder about is: will machine learning systems being to transmit their experiences over the Internet to have other machine learning systems learn from that.

They can't now, but how long will until they can ?

An other is: can they take snapshots of what one system learned and transmit that to an other ?

You remember how they learned new skills in the Matrix ?

People just fix the things that have been reported, they don't actually look at what they mean. Because most people don't really know what all the crypto really means.

Paying a hitman with a cryptocurrency on SilkRoad 3.0 ? ;-)

If you read on WIkipedia it says it wouldn't be impossible:

"In December 2013 computer scientists Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz released a paper to the Journal of Communication demonstrating the possibility of an acoustic mesh networking at a slow 20 bits per second using a set of speakers and microphones for ultrasonic communication in a fashion similar to BadBIOS's described abilities."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...