This. Microsoft should force corporations to ditch that shitty "technology".

The "best" (as in most effective) DRM ever, in fact.

Of the movies you listed, I've only watched Lucy and Transcendence. While I agree that Lucy is a really bad movie, I think that Transcendence was quite good. Except of the scenes following the "installing satelite drivers" scene, everything was possible to happen in the future. It doesn't give characters the "good" tag or the "bad" tag, breaking with the usual "humans good - skynet bad" principle. There are multiple characters changing sides during the movie. It shows how technology can advance humans, but also shows that it needs to be seen critically, as you don't know whether you really own the device (which can be your artificial limb), or there is a backdoor. Think of those people the AI "healed", they got power but gave up ultimate control over their bodies.
The central questions of the movie are: Can I trust this machine? Can human will be uploaded into a machine, and can it then still feel love?
I think the question "Can I trust this machine?" will be one of the central questions of the 21st century.

Don't critizise Matrix Legolas!

$ bash -c "compgen -c | grep ^[A-Z] | wc -l"
31
$ bash -c "compgen -c | grep ^[a-z] | wc -l"
5893

  1% is few for me.

One of the few unix command line tools whose command begins with a major letter.

firefox bloat? please explain.

You can see on the example of Uber that taxi companies rather try to forbid the app than sell off their cars and develop and offer competing apps, or focus on rich people who don't want to travel with unprofessionals. But I admit, in this example you may be right, as you don't have to fear competition.

New?! They controlled us all the time. At least since our ancestors arrived at this planet.

So, will the cosmetic companies let stupid progress destroy their revenue stream? Uh, I guess no. They will buy the researcher's startup for a shitload of money, and then suprise suprise it turns out the method wasn't so promising after all. And they will keep all patents on the technology so that nobody else can release a competing product.

http://science.slashdot.org/st...

they could steal stuff! better make rectal spyware control posts at the exit, so that nobody can smuggle something out.
Would be at least consistent with BBC's position towards EME. Not firefox should get the blame and the shitstorm.

U+1F4A9

Don't forget that when the code gets transmitted, it can be compressed down to 71 kb.

I guess very well. In fact, there is a project called peerCDN, which P2P based on WebRTC as a CDN. So Maelstrom can already be achieved by firefox and chrome.