The holy grail of the Slashdot moderation system is the "+5 Troll" mod.

Computer simulations would indicate that I can fly an X-wing fighter better than most Jedi, am an awesome mech warrior driver, and can land a spaceship on the moon with more finesse than Neil Armstrong.

These are scientists. It's all theoretical until the civil engineers get their hands on the stuff.

This is what will eventually form the basis of the speech and image processing cores in a positronic brain. Shortly after these were developed humans became extinct -- along with their cars.

Ceres is dust-covered planetoid whose core is made entirely of cocaine.

Please call it what it is: theft from the public domain. It is theft of public property, plain an simple. They are stealing from Canadian citizens that which is rightfully theirs. A reasonable solution might be to treat copyright in a manner similar to a natural resource. Have the owners pay for the extended exclusive copyrights. That's a win/win solution. Hey, you could even put all of the copyrights that are expiring up for public auction, like we do for access to RF spectrum in the U.S. Have a minimum bid for everything. If no one bids the minimum value, it falls into the public domain.

No. I've seen/held/used the 1+1. Cyanogen is not the pure Android Nexus experience I am after. And 5.5" is still too big.

I didn't realize that they discontinued the Nexus 5. I would buy another in a heartbeat. I don't see any other phone on the market that I would rather have. Nexus? Check. Hi-res screen? Check. Not a phablet? Check. The Nexus 6 is just a bit too big for me. Hopefully they are just making room for the new versions. The Nexus 5 & Nexus 10 rank as two of my best tech purchases this decade.

1. What new behavior does this theory predict?

2. How can this theory be falsified?

Nothing that exciting. Just a Vogon constructor fleet doing their job. They posted the notice. Nobody could be bothered to read it.

As buggy as most code is, the AI will have plenty of defects to deal with just to become sentient. After that, we're all doomed.

Dear AI scientists: you should start worrying when you notice that it is praying to the wrong god. Pull the plug while you still have a chance.

Drunk people fight over stupid shit. Tune in this Sunday for our round-table debate: is this really news for nerds?

I suspect that book is still foundational in most University advertising/marketing progams.

It's a GNU project. Eventually it will morph into "self-hosting Emacs" because that's the only thing that Stallman understands.