I would like my 2560x1600 display to update at more than 60hz if possible...

You sound like one of those conspiracy nuts. That said I have a hard time saying you're wrong necessarily. Especially with the black box stuff they're already doing and the rfid tagging of license plates.

Yeah I want a mechanical override too.

Sorry but the only way I would accept giving up the control to a computer is if they upped the speed limits for them too. Surely if a computer controlled car is safer than a human they can go faster right?

Yeah... but if those things drive too slow and your kid dies you're going to say "Oh it was worth it because I was not putting other drivers at risk..."

Elon Musk went on to say that Biofuels are cocksuckers, he did Clean Natural Gas's mother and compressed air vehicles lick donkey balls...

What really constitutes free will?

I think for something to have free will it would have to have it's own desires and the ability to act on them.

As humans we have many desires that ultimately boil down in some way to biology even if we don't realize it.

So I think to create a conscious AI you have to give it:

The ability to do things on it's own.

Hardcoded preferences for things to do as well as things it learns it likes to do as well as things it doesn't.

<quote>Bullying is a huge problem in society.</quote>

Hunger is a huge problem in society.  Disease, lack of sufficient health care, people dying in wars, substance abuse, domestic violence, crime are huge problems in society.  Bullying is on par with these?

Can we stop using the word bullying for teasing, verbal abuse, etc. already? Bullying implies physical abuse on a regular basis. This is harassment at most unless I've read all this wrong and there was some physical abuse. My god it blows my mind that the POLICE are being called in because on kid is teasing another... I really don't mean to make light of the tragedy of this poor girl's suicide, but that's not a failure of the harassers. Harassing others, being harassed is part of growing up and if we don't stop this nonsense we're going to end up with a generation of people who are so fragile they won't be able to deal with the hard problems. This tragedy cannot be blamed on them, the blame lies with the school and/or the parents' inability to deal with the situation.

Yeah, she deserves to go to prison for teasing another kid. "You smell funny!" 10 YEARS PRISON!

Just ATH was usually sufficient for me..

I think for them to actually stand a chance they'd have to first stop that with the locking out other devices. Next step - make deals with all the people Netflix did somehow and get at least their catalog. (Unlikely) And then get newer stuff or something better. THEN maybe they could compete...

I have a Google TV and it would not let me watch Hulu on it without paying for Hulu plus. Considering they have nowhere near the catalog that Netflix does, I really don't see them as a serious competitor. They might have been able to get me to watch a commercial or two considering their small catalog, but they didn't want that either.

I'm not a scientist, so my comment here is possibly worthless - but.. If they could reprogram them to be fresh stem cells - yes probably.

Maybe they want some of us to use a distributed computing approach to broach the key?

I have it on good sources (IE: I just made this up) that DirectX will be skipping directly to DirectX 13 like how Leisure Suit Larry 4 was skipped.