Thats quite a feat, subtracting 2005 from 2015 and getting 8. Hope you don't do IT for a living.

He registered the channel 10 years ago. Too bad if in the meantime some cosmetics firm with the same name has become successful. Perhaps every word in the english dictionary should be off limits just in case some firm comes along and wants to claim it as their own trademark eh?

Sadly that probably is the only solution. But as soon as someone did it the usual bleeding hearts would crawl out from under their fetid rocks and be out on the streets protesting.

Try a better analogy. Encryption isn't a tool whose only purpose is to kill.

You know, about that small incident in a south carolina church with a "law abiding" gun owner. Or at least he was law abiding until he shot 9 people dead.

Oh right, "Freedom". Of course. In that case why stop at a bazooka, why shouldn't you be able to own a SAM or even an ICBM? I mean its your constitoooshnal right ain't it?

Go back to swinging from your monkey bars you cretin.

You're like a drunk with a hangover who thinks the solution to it is just to drink more.

""I should be able to have a howitzer or a bazooka if I want one"

Idiots that say that sort of thing and actually mean it.

"Yes, yes it does. Try a dictionary. It might help."

Apparently you don't understand the difference between "frequent occurance" and "normal". I suggest you buy yourself a dictionary unless you allow any condition that suits your political leanings to be encompassed by the term normal so rendering it meaningless.

"As before, gays have been part of normal society for longer than it's been civilized."

So have psychopaths.

  "Right, only in the last few decades have we permitted homosexual people to admit that they exist without persecution, which is how people like yourself can be so hilariously confused: willful ignorance."

I suggest you take a trip out of your comfort zone to countries away from the cuddly comfy west and see how "confused" I am. Give your boyfriend a kiss and cuddle in the middle of a street almost anywhere in the middle east, africa, russia, central america or the more conservative parts of far east and see how long before you're beaten up or in prison. Hell, even do it in a lot of southern US states and see what happens.

It was a joke. Know what they are? Get over yourself. Oh, and I'm not an american either.

That means there must be some new error syntax to emulate a gallic shrug and some vague hand waving. A much nicer alternative to a a meaningless number or some unfriendly message.

So why is this on slashdot exactly? This site is supposed to be about the tech itself, not the financial problems of the people behind it. Thats what The Economist is for.

Zero overhead? And how pray do you manage that then genius? Any extra call adds overhead.

I suspect even algorithms - except at the hardware control level - will be surpassed once neutral networks become viable for most things. And once you've taught a neural net to do something you just copy its pattern like a piece of software onto other machines. The fact that they can learn means they won't need to be programmed in the conventional sense though someone will probably have to literally show them how to do something.

"For us tech workers things will be very good,"

I wouldn't bet on that for much longer. The smarter computers get the more likely they'll be able to figure out how to do a task on their own rather than being explicitely told whether it be doing a nightly backup, troubleshooting their own DB or implementing new tasks that previously would have required programming.

I'm sure in 100 years there'll still be humans doing these sorts of jobs - in the same way you can still find people making horse shoes - but not in anything like the same numbers. IT for humans will go back to being a niche, almost hobby activity.