At some point this will play out in the courts when an AI start to approach human levels of intelligence. Will we use the chimpanzee case as a precedent?

So why is nobody investigating this company. Or is this just the way business is done?

I didn't think it was known yet if it was the same attack vector.

Before I joined my current company their equipment disposal policy was to have their old equipment picked up as General Purpose electronic scrap. It didn't take long for me to find a local charity that was re-purposing PCs by loading them with Linux Mint and giving them back to people who couldn't afford one in our local community. In the UK we follow the EU law Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... so recycling locally actually kills a few birds at the same time. We follow the law, the charity are happy to confirm that they have receive the equipment for recycling. Which also keeps our accounts people happy as they can track the write offs. Our machines are wiped down as they put a fresh Mint install in place. And we're giving something back into the community. I really don't know why more companies don't put the little bit of extra effort into putting the same kind of relationship in place.

Cue every airport getting a paid for recharging kiosk. I'm sure that there is a good business idea in here somewhere.

The USSR didn't have Hollywood. Just look at the amount of positive propaganda that gets consumed as entertainment. It's almost like there's some sort of plot.

It would be interesting to see a comparison of the number of steps needed to change the search provider in Android as opposed to a Windows phone.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/parliament_heads_for_ms/ I sometimes just don't believe how jaw droppingly stupid my government is. Unless of course they're just trying to cut out the middleman (GCHQ) and give everything streight to the NSA.

I would love Google retaliating by releasing the search requests for the the relavent MPs.