Where did you pick economists subscribe to infinite growth? The economy MUST grow if you want the people to become wealthier, there is a lot of people out there who cannot afford more than a meal per day. So, this is where the idea comes the economy should continue to grow. The other point is, if the economy grows no more, you have a static society with a static repartition of the wealth and no more innovation. So, you probably believe someone should "control" the growth of the economy. Then, who? How? When? This is simply unfeasible otherwise than with the current system where sometimes there is bubble bursts which are something like a control mechanism.

And that is never going to happen because peace after WWII was settled on a basis to avoid the mistakes of the settlement of WWI which imposed a heavy financial load on Germany as reparation and led to WWII or social conditions in Germany for WWII. So, they did it differently for WWII. Nobody can tell what the situation would be today if the financial charges on Germany after WWII would have been comparable to those of WWI. This is then a theoretical and rhetoretical discussion to make the hypothesis Germany should pay war reparations for WWII to Greece.

Sorry guys, I can't stop laughing. This writer is a clown. The Sony incident demonstrates Sony is incompetent. It was never a threat against the humanity, only against the gang of fat butts at Sony Pictures.

Why artificial? Because that is the subject of the original post, that's why.

And for what reason would an AI kill us? What benefit would it gain? It is unclear to me why an AI living like a parasite on the information fed to it by humans and the fact humans are living will decide suddenly it can benefit from killing all of us.

He is known for his work in game theory, however he is not a game theory mathematician since before fading into his mental illness he was working on quantum theory. His paper on game theory is his Ph. D. thesis. Just the tip of the iceberg this mathematician was and could have been if the illness didn't stopped him. Anyhow, it is very sad he and his wife died in an automobile accident.

For few bucks you get a chip that offload the TCPIP layer and the whole TLS/SSL protocols and encryption from the processor. That is how the IoT should be done. IoT is about cheap, skinny thin platform. Not about bloated OS using 32 MB of memory just to run, 32 MB of RAM is a lot of RAM just for housekeeping and provide unneeded services. Another Google project that will be withdrawn in about a year.

I find it a bit strange Guiness Records only examined the footage before granting the record. The guy is specialized in 3-D visual effects. I mean, anyone has seen the real thing flying? I am living in Montreal and we never heard about this before today. Don't you think if something like that happened at lake Ouareau in August 2014 it wouldn't have made the front page of our local newspapers?

Not only will it hurt more, but chances are the hoverboard will also break and if it is expensive you are not likely to want it to happen.

Beside hacking a device to steal votes, there is a number of other concerns about the online voting which cannot be eliminated by any device you can imagine.

For example, how can you be assured the voter has not sell his vote and the buyer can just sit beside him to make sure he is getting what he paid for? How can you prevent someone to impose a candidate to someone else by threatening him/her/them? At a vote poll, you can make sure nobody is intimidated and anyway there is no way someone else can check the vote he tried to steal.

Online voting is a big No-No.

Almost all programming languages are easy to read. This is not the reason of Java's success at all. A complicate algorithm in first place will not make a program easy to read whatever the language you pick to program it. If you find Java easy to read, it is only because you cope with trivial algorithms.

BTW, in case you haven't noticed, Python syntax is similar to Fortran syntax which is among the oldest, if not the oldest programming language still alive.

Looks like the perfect match to run systemd.

Yeah, instead train operators are installing devices to keep the train engineer awaked and have him push a button at regular interval as a proof since driving a train is a very boring job the day the coal tender was removed. It is kind of automating the engineer to make sure he actually drive the train.

I went to the cemetery on Mother's day and spent few hours to clean and prepare the soil for flowers I just planted few hours ago (a week later). She passed away four years ago and was killed by the doctors while she never asked for assisted suicide or anything like that. Nobody care about it here because she was old and disabled. Even after all this time, I cannot wrap my mind around this event. Even the police don't want to investigate. My only desire is to quit this country once and for all. I don't want to contribute anymore to a society which does not respect the life of its members.