Since Halloween was yesterday:

Kriston, if there are no candies at the store, the store has no candies for sale. That's not to say there couldn't be any candies left in a drawer by accident, but, no one knows if they exist, hence the above still holds true: the store has no candies for sale. There is no need for an external audit, because, even if you found some candies in a drawer as a result of the audit, the store still had no candies for sale at the time when they claimed they didn't have candies for sale (unless the audit finds tons of candies not disclosed to the public, which is not the case here).

Your argument about the community doesn't hold either. Here's a counter-example: I'm part of an extremely small group of people dealing with a specialized web application. There are only about 20 people in the world using it. I've found at least 10 critical security holes in the default install, just by using it. I've patched about 20 minor bugs, and I'm just a user, I'm not on the developer/QA team. When a product has issues, the community (regardless of size) will still find a percentage of the total issues available. The fact that OpenBSD had 3 issues found in the default install in a decade is impressive, especially since they have _way more_ than 20 users in the entire world AND OpenBSD, as a package, is enormous, with hundreds of utilities and dozens of services waiting to be exploited. But, where are the exploits? That's right.

So, in that context, it's a hell of a lot more secure than other OSes. q.e.d.

"falling satellites from the sky" is the new thing to be afraid of. So long, "terrorism".

"not that great"? speak for yourself. I've been traveling, and I've hit their recognition software with different accents, high winds, loud intersections, you name it. It got 90% right, mostly. If that's not great, I don't know what is.

Generic statements are going to be generic. I've read a few in the past few days:

"it's a nation state, we're not going to tell you which" (or you're just bullshitting)
"the public is going to be amazed when they find out the secret interpretation of the amendment. It's so horrible. I know what the secret interpretation is, but when you'll find out, you will be in awe." (FUD)
"we killed Osama, but didn't take any pictures and dumped the body in the ocean" (ORLY?)

I shouldn't be surprised though, given the number of people that believe there's an invisible man in the sky. Compared to that, the statements above seem like facts.

the patent laws. If "storing a calendar on a PDA device" is patentable, then I don't care what Good Things (tm) patents bring to the table, the current patent system has to be sent to /dev/null.

No wonder. Want low-power? Look at ARM. CISC devices cannot consume as little power as RISC - they have to pay for the extra features.

"couch"

$400 per hour is insane. It's about time AI drove these prices down. I bet you're going to see a ton of complaining in the future: "how am I supposed to live with less than $400/hour? Who's going to pay for my Porsche?".

are obsolete now?

Hold on, I just need to wipe the dust off of this LHC I keep in my garage and then we can try to replicate their findings.

saying: "All your base are belong to us!" (in Simplified Chinese chars, which apparently got ignored by Slashdot) :/

So far, when all previous articles had "skynet" tags, I was thinking: "yeah, but it's not that close to being true". Now, this article, on the other hand, is getting CLOSE. I mean, holy crap close! I am hereby tagging this article with SKYNET and WHATCOULDPOSSIBLYGOWRONG.

Also, phantomfive, what the hell are you talking about? Do you really need examples of things people invented that were a proof-of-concept at first and then got perfected so much that they went far and beyond what the initial prototype was able to do? You do, huh? Ok, so, off the top of my head: airplanes, computers, weapons and ... let me think here.. yeah.. uhm, robots!
Now put airplanes+computers+weapons+robots together and you get: SKYNET.

I'm not panicking, I'm saying that as a software developer, I know the purpose of a proof of concept. It's to build the REAL thing. So, you know what, I won't have to wake you up when they find camouflaged tanks in the forest, because flying american drones will wake you up, saying: "!"