i guess because all dependencies are inherently a trade off, it's up to anyone to find adecuate balance depending on the situation, and publicly stating that one is systematically way unblanced on either side isn't interesting info at all. particularly, if this anonymous poster had to be coherent, he would have to be coding on cpus built with his own hands, not to mention having written his own compiler and os from scratch. that would be quite a rave party in house!

i don't hink the comment is justifying anything, it just draws a comparison. (n.b.: only saw the quote, smart folks at beta seem convinced that i can't mentally handle posts below -1)

so gitmo is still run by that former, entirely different administration.
and this other entirely different current administration has absolutely nothing to do with the power shift in ukraine.
high five!

... a qualitatively signifficant (although maybe not quantitatively) part of protesters were indeed self declared fascist extremists, most of them openly nazi-sympathetic, so that's not a comparison at all, and it has nothing to do with godwin's rule. however unfortunate, it just reflects facts. check your sources.

Aren't chicken nuggets artificial enough already ?

free or not free, that's not a "licensing issue". it's all or nothing.

YOU miss the point.

while the idea of such an "easily usable knowledge repository" is interesting, the issue of who governs this repository is determinant. if open and transparent such a system would be revolutionary. since it is not, it is just another product to avoid like pest. inspirational? sure! anyone?

sadly, i'm afraid (near) future humans will indeed be very dependent on asking such AIs for much of their lives, and that those will not be accountable. but no hurry at all to get to that, seriously.

Exactly, that's why the answer to the question is mu.

it might be a good way of prototyping and get an early set of working, testable specs. i don't like the approach, though, seems awkward, but that's maybe just me ...

been around for nearly 2 decades now: look up os/400 and os/2, two very fine and different implementations of what you just asked for.

both got trampled into oblivion so, ok, you could argue about the "popular" thing. i'd say you really are asking to much.

... aliases are not new. you must come up with something newish to hit the headlines.

Slashdot Beta actually is malware from the GCHQ.