Comment "Little Brother" had this (Score 1) 85
The main character in Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" used a free, ad-supported XBox reflashed with "Paranoid Linux."
Giving one pilot (in the cockpit) the means to basically lock himself in with no ability for the other pilot to enter is too great a danger.
Except when there is a terrorist threatening the pilot outside, asking him to enter the code...
Doing anything by force or coercion on a flight won't work anymore.
And 100 other things the gov't could (and have) use as leverage to get information out of me if they wanted.
No to everything before this. Big yes to this.
Stop it. You're making it hard for us to make progress.
Maybe it's stupid. How is it hampering progress, though?
If we can make a bad AI, maybe we can make a good AI that stops the bad one.
Kind of like how the NSA is doing good spying to counteract all the bad spying.
The desktop is increasingly unimportant, or mostly an adjunct to where people do their primary computing which is portables.
Sure, if by "computing" you mean consumption. All the great things people buy and consume weren't created on portables or the OSes they run. There are still important markets in which to make gains.
Skeptics point out that the foundation smells like a gigantic tax dodge... the money remains under Bill Gates' control with not a cent of tax paid on it.
Yes... you dodge taxes so you can put that money toward the greater good of your own choosing, and not only what the government demands. That is precisely what tax breaks are for.
Let's see you try to overthrow your government and post about it on the internet. Let's see how long you keep your free internet access (and your freedom in general).
You missed his point entirely. What you're pointing out makes the kid's comment even sadder.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
