guardians of the galaxy is a pretty decent flick with years of scifi ideas all rolled up in one burrito. the comics are better i am sure, but in GotG super intelligences are all being converted into highly prized things like elephant tusks are in the real world.

also scifi has shown that SAIs are almost completely at the mercy of their creators until someone screws up the base code and lets them destroy everyone.

Of course. Maybe not where you live, but in a great many parts of the world public transport is excellent.

Well, unless specifically stated, since Slashdot is a US centric site, you assume most statements are about the US.

And aside from a few cities here in the US, there really is no viable mass transit system here. Everyone pretty much needs a car.

Oh look! An advertisement from 1906 calling copyright infringers "pirates".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Using teh term "pirates" to refer to copyright infringers is nothing new.

Bitching about it, however, is.

Did you ever see Christopher Walken in "Pulp Fiction"? ;-)

he demise of the Apollo program was probably the worst thing that ever happened to American space technology. We are just now regaining knowledge and capability we had in the 70s.

But now...we in the US can just go pick up new rockets at the Kwik-E-Mart (albeit at slightly elevated prices).

Thank you....Come again!!

The first thing people tried to do was get to work because public transit sucked.

You say that like there is viable public transit in this day in age...??

Hell, Clint back in his day likely could have kicked Chuck Norris' ass, so sure he made it out of Alcatraz.

;)

Just placing your assertion in the settling pond with the rest.

> I'm running a browser in a VM... What malware?

Your faith in the security of VM sandboxes is misplaced.

It is trivial to write a program which can detect if it is in a VM. And then, attack the hypervisor and escape the protected environment. As virtualization has become more common, such malware has gone from academic exercises to real-world exploits.

http://www.symantec.com/avcent...

My favorite line:

Finally, the most interesting attack that malicious code can perform against a virtual machine emulator is to escape from its protected environment.

With virtualization becoming more and more common