If you really don't like the idea, then fight back: wear a Borg-style headset that scans anyone wearing Google Glasses with a bright (but not damaging, obviously) laser, then makes a loud robotic pronouncement like "you have been assimilated", "convicted pedophile" or "person of no interest".

I can't be the only one who thought: "yes, that's because they've killed most of the human troops".

What chance would a normal soldier stand against a faster, more heavily armoured and armed machine with a much larger sensorium? The only hopes are that humans have retired from the battlefield entirely to leave it to the robots or are having second thoughts about the whole war-thing in the first place...

I think the key part that's missing in this latest round of aspirant technology is personal AI. What you really need is a "v-assistant", "e-butler" or whatever the name might be that is capable of independently replying to *and* initiating communications (by text, email, voice, video, etc.) with other people or systems. It could prioritise what needs your personal interaction, depending on what you were doing at the time.

The level of input to us has been ramping up fast but our brains still have the same bandwidth they had a million years ago. Until we get an upgrade, we need help to deal with this increasing flood of information, that is mostly unimportant. Who knows, a call to someone in the near future on their "iWatch" might get answered by Siri...

...goes Alderaan.

... the Megapixel Wars have.

You're going to have to pry my X-ray gun out of my cold, dead... Hey! One's fallen off!

78,000 * 0.4 = 31,200m / 31.2km.

Long Island coasts, it seems. I hope they use better math when designing the spacecraft...

I suppose being Slashdot, everyone is immediately thinking of technical workarounds but the main issue for those wanting to filter "porn" is defining what "porn" actually is, such that it can be recognised by an autonomous system. No two humans can agree on a definition other than "I know it when *I* see it", so how a computer is meant to cope I don't know.

Yes, you can blacklist/whitelist sites but you'd end up with the British Library, the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the British Medical Association blocked while hotbabesinswimwear.com gets allowed because there's just enough covered.

For those overseas readers who are not well versed in British politics, this is not really a serious suggestion - we're approaching the "silly season" and things like this are run up the flagpole to impress the gullible and distract attention from other matters.

I think all there is is circus magic. It just gets more convincing with scale.

Consciousness is most likely an illusion brought on by a certain amount of processing power and connectivity (and I count myself in there too). In a quantised, deterministic universe, "minds" and "souls" are as likely as gods...

This mud is no ordinary mud. There are significant deposits of Ganjonium, Tokalite and Reeferine alongside the rare earths...

It would be amusing if the only ultrabook you could buy *without* a touch screen was a MacBook Air...

...should be just about enough to run one instance of Crysis 4. If you've got an OC-192 internet connection, you might be able to play it in HD as well!

"Long involved biochemical reason why. Basically, the easiest way to kick in the apotosis chain is to heat the internal cell temp by approx 1 F. Heating to 1 F kills circa 98 pct cancer cells and impacts 2 pct non-cancer cells. Heating to 4 F kills 100 pct but kills 20 pct non-cancer cells, which causes organ failure and terminal death for person."

That is interesting but seems to be contrary to experience. A 1F change in body temperature is close to the normal diurnal variation. If a 4F rise "kills 100% cancer and 20% non-cancer cells", then a) you could cure cancer by giving people a good dose of the 'flu and b) I and many others I know shouldn't be here, having had sustained body temperatures in the order of 103F when ill at some point in their lives...

As a FTSE100 company, we're just rolling out 5,000+ of the latest iPads to frontline staff. We were told this was a relatively small deployment in the general scheme of things. I think Apple have reached critical mass in the corporate arena and are seeing substantial growth, possibly more than people thought possible...

Or security by economy of effort. As it is, it takes 2 minutes to access the port to reprogram keys. If that port and its wires were buried in the engine so that you had to put the car on a lift and take it half apart to access, they'd move on to easier targets.

I think some of these issues have come about in the EU because of a) competition directives and b) enforced standards.

BMW and other manufacturers are forbidden from operating a 'closed shop' for spares, technical details or anything that a 3rd party would need to service/repair their cars. This is generally good for the consumer but in the edge case of car security rather bad, in that a non-OEM agency can demand access to key programmers etc. then sell them on and/or hand them over to criminals.

The diagnostics port in the car has (AFAIK) to be in the passenger compartment and readily accessible, by regulation, so that nixes the idea of siting it somewhere unusual or protected. Some people I know have re-wired their ports to need a custom adapter, so someone trying to attack the car from that direction would fail...