Per her source, the deletion of data while she was using it was a warning. Warnings don't work that well when they're less obvious to the user. (I think Tom Clancy actually invented that move originally).

The reference I remember was in Doctor Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, when it's revealed that the Soviets have a doomsday weapon that'll destroy the world if a nuke goes off in their territory, and the Americans comment how a deterrent weapon is only good if it's known.

Hey, it worked for Sigfried and Roy!

Or should that be, "Hay! it worked for Sigfried and Roy!"?

Agnostics that believe that it's unlikely that there's a diety?
Agnostics that don't know if there's a diety?
Agnostics that don't really engage in the discussion?

I'd dub the last group Apathiests. They're not in the debate because they simply don't care. They're probably also the majority. Good luck appealing to them. Until the dissolution of the separation of Church and State goes too far they don't have a stake in this.

It'll be a lot worse than that. The door is open to LaVeyan Satanists and all of the offshoots of Satanism too. There's already a fight brewing over a Satanic statue being carved with the intention of placing it on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol, given the presence of a Ten Commandments statue there already opening the argument. If this conference has religious ceremonies at it, then that opens the way for Satanists to have their own religious ceremonies, which could include live animal sacrifice or sexual rituals.

The university should not have booked the event.

Like the Ferengi captain of a ship?

Ah. I guess what I should have asked then, is what an article about an exercise product is doing on Slashdot...

Only if you're the last vestiges of the Holy Roman Empire, that's not holy, not Roman, and certainly not an empire...

Isn't burnt reserved for use as an adjective, as in, "burnt offering", while burned would be the verb form?

Out on the motorway it gave ample warning of a police car approaching on the opposite carriageway. The LEDs slowly went from green to yellow to red. In theory this gave plenty of time to check the speedometer or stash any mobile phones that shouldn’t be in use.

Last time I was pulled over, the speed limit dropped from 65 MPH to 45 MPH in a couple-hundred feet, and the officer was parked 100 feet past the 45MPH sign. Relying on an approximate range to the officer wouldn't have helped in those circumstances.

Because Canada is apparently filled with horny adolescent fantasies.

La Femme Nikita
LEXX
Andromeda

Can confirm.

Fact of the matter is, we can't really draw an analogy to predict how an AI, especially a learning AI with the ability to self-edit, would behave.

I think that AIs that can self-edit need to be limited to no network connectivity outside of the building which they work, and that they need to be limited to research. Either special-field research, or AI research.

That's daemons. And it's still pronounced "demon", as Caesar is pronounced "cesar"

This isn't the sort of thing that "the market" can decide. I expect that it'll end up in court.

I wouldn't be surprised if patents come into it too, and since retailers aren't technology companies, they probably won't have the patents to even develop what they want without licensing, and tech companies with those patents are under no obligation to license them.

"First they came for the Tea Party, but I did not speak out because I wasn't a fiscal conservative."

Hint, neither are they.

Flynn, an ardent libertarian, thought that as early as the turn of the millennium, private industry would be ready to offer all kinds of spaceflight services that the general public would rush to buy, such as FedEx delivery anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes.

Right now, there's simply no market for that kind of delivery, and launches are not able to be set-up and made in that short of a duration either.

There's literally almost nothing on this world that is both so unique as to exist singularly and so instantly-needed potentially anywhere to justify the expense of launching that one thing into a suborbital flight on a rocket for delivery. Between warehousing of goods and relatively rapid transport of things by-air, just about anything the size and mass of a car can be transported to anywhere in the world in about a day.

If there were a market for delivery faster than that, I would expect surplus military supersonic jets would take up that market. Get something the size of a human being anywhere in the world in under twelve hours.

Unfortunately we can see how supersonic really isn't in demand; the Concorde never saw its fleet expand beyond its initial, tiny order, and when it was retired from age and design flaws rearing their ugly heads there was nothing to replace it. If anything would justify instant transportation it would be passengers, not cargo, and if there simply aren't enough passengers to keep a fleet of fourteen flying, then I don't see how Flynn's dreams were in any way close to reality.