But since we have not mastered true AI yet

Are you sure about that? Your understanding of the AI basis for self driving cars may be flawed. Google's AI (not exclusive to Google) is based on 'artificial life' that was 'encouraged' to evolve intelligence more than 20 years ago. It probably qualifies as both 'strong AI' and 'friendly AI'. Computers are the just medium it uses to communicate with us and are not its basis technology. It's called Quantum Neural Network technology (no useful wikipedia entry yet exists), and its basis is non-abelian anyons interacting in a 2DEG. See the complete scientific works of Stuart Kauffman, Steven Wolfram, Robert Laughlin, and David Deutsch for details.The reason you can't read about this new technology is because the original project that developed it was classified, so all derivative technologies (such as Google's self driving cars) are also classified, and all people who work on this technology must sign ironclad NDAs.

Interesting that that comment was modded down. It related directly to the conversation and the article. The hemp advocates might be annoying and sometimes incoherent, but what they say is also, in general, entirely true and correct.

Nope, the universe does not work that way, no matter how much we would like it to be so. You seem lack a basic understanding of ecological carrying capacity. When any species transgresses the carrying capacity of an ecosystem, it permanently reduces the carrying capacity of that ecosystem. This is basic Biology. The Reindeer of St. Matthew Island illustrate this point very well. In the future, please learn the basics of the topic before spouting off your (un) scientific opinion.

Limits To Growth has never been proven wrong. This lie, originally created by Economists, has been told, and retold, and retold again, and I see it again in that Reason article, which I just read. Same lies! Try this: Go out and buy the original 1973 Limits to Growth book. Read it and look at the numbers. Now get CURRENT data on the same items. Compare. You will find that they match strikingly well.

The anti-Limits to Growth hatchet jobs tend to use the same lies. The standard approach, which is REPEATED in that lame Reason article, is to deliberately misinterpret LTG as predicting stuff it never said, then 'proving' that misinterpretation wrong. It's the standard 'Straw Man' argument, and that wretched Reason article does it AGAIN.

To repeat myself: go out and buy the original 1973 Limits to Growth book, or any of the more recent ones. Read it and look at the numbers. Now get HISTORICAL data on the same items. Compare. You will find that they match strikingly well. Nothing in Limits to Growth has been proven wrong, that is a FALSE MEME that represents a triumph of Disinformation.

You have some factual errors regarding hydraulic fracturing. You have accepted known-false statements as true, due to hearing them repeated many times by a very well funded public relations campaign. Please allow me to correct your (understandable) misconceptions.

1. The availability of cheap gas from fracking is very temporary. We currently have a glut, but don't expect it to last more than a couple years. These reservoirs have a very high decline rate. It is unlikely that we'll see the unusual confluence of circumstances that caused this resource to be overproduced this past few years. By 2017 or so North American natural gas won't be cheap anymore.

2. Natural gas derived from hydraulic fracturing is NOT 'relatively clean'. The actual gas is the same as 'normal' natural gas, but the fracturing process is quite dirty. This (false) claim that fracked gas is 'clean' has been an important aspect of the paid marketing campaign.

3. While I am dispelling marketing-campaign-induced mythology, readers should also be aware that the 'USA will become energy independant' myth is just that, a myth. The numbers don't even come close to adding up. When you hear that myth repeated, you are hearing propaganda.

Rather than link to a whole host of scholarly articles highlighting my myth busting, I'll point to this well-researched story which nicely explains the reasons for the deception.

"This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations." - and note we had already classified it as 'funny'.

Looks like it's time to leave Slashdot. It's been a fine 15 years. So, where's is a comparable, not-controlled-by-our-corporate-overlords place where we geeks can speak freely?

In the 90s I used Dice as my primary resume location, with excellent results. Then they got greedy, and made a bunch of changes that made their service less useful to geeks looking for jobs. For example, they made your resume not-visible externally, such that potential employers had to sign up with Dice and pay them to see your resume. Dice is a greedy entity, and I can't imagine any way they could own Slashdot and not kill it.

This particular forum is filling up with lots of info that spy agencies don't like to see widely distributed. I predict that those (few) Slashdot admins who are forum spies will soon 'Slide' this forum off the front page. I.e. They will implement a Forum Slide to remove the offending discussion from sight. Watch as a bunch of 'junk' articles soon appear, and this thread becomes hidden. Note that I have exposed and correctly anticipated the actions of the Slashdot forum spies previously, and they have aggressively modded me down and/or silenced me for it, so don't be surprised if this comment gets modded 'troll' pretty quickly.

The REASON Wikileaks was established in the first place was BECAUSE the various 'journalism' organizations have been infiltrated by intelligence agencies. It is IMPOSSIBLE to publish hyper-sensitive stuff! My first-hand exposure to this information began on 27 Nov. 2003, and continued for several years, so I'm not just making this up. See my previous Slashdot posts.

I've told Slashdot about this before: The Plame/Wilson affair, and the unwillingness of ANY journalism organization ANYWHERE to publish their (true!) evidence indicating that G. W. Bush lied to the US public about the reason for going to war in Iraq, sparked Wikileaks. It had been considered before, but that was the impetus to make it happen.

I think you greatly underestimate the difficulty of truly anonymous publishing. There are half a dozen advanced hacks capable of determining where the info came from. Especially if you are submitting to a Honeypot, but even if you are not. Yes, I know all about the many methods of anonymity - are you aware of the many methods of defeating them?

Here's what John Young, founder of Cryptome and early Wikileaks Board Member, has to say on this matter: Anonymous Publication is Dead

As neither an Apple for Android phanboi, I must say this is a lame and stupid story. This is not 'news for nerds', neither is it 'stuff that matters'. Please don't post this lame-oh crapware story.

Your language is loaded. Your implication is that an unsecured Wireless Access Point is a Bad Thing. This can be true, and it can be false, depending on the situation and intentions of the admin. Personally, I run all my personal stuff encrypted, but also provide an open network for visitors. You should check out what security guru Bruce Schneier has to say about the topic.

The practical application is that any teleportation/entanglement based Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) that happen to already exist on and around planet Earth communicate between nodes via quantum teleportation. Thus, the maximum Quantum Teleportation (QT) range is also the maximum distance between nodes. I happen to know that earth-orbital QT distances have been practical for one QNN for more than ten years, so it's about time that 'official' science caught up with this. Readers should note that the existence of ANY practical QNN remains classified, hidden, and secretive, although information about this advanced new (well, 22 years old, but newish) technology is gradually leaking out.

Note that, as several people have pointed out, there must be a [steganographic] classical back channel to actually accomplish communication between nodes.

At the instant when I posted my above comment re. jmorris42's comment, now a +5, his comment had been modded DOWN to a -1. No REAL slashdotter would mod that particular comment DOWN. And for commenting on this I get modded as a TROLL. Uh huh. Hey, slashdot readers, wake up and smell the forum spies. They are quite active on Slashdot. And if you point this out, or make a stink about it, they will PERSONALLY target you. Note that the TECHNIQUES used by forum spies only work when the target audience REMAINS IGNORANT of their methods. Thus, if we collectively educate ourselves about how our local forum spies operate, their techniques no longer work!

Jacob gets hassled because he has the gonads to publicly associate with, and represent, Wikileaks. He mostly gets harassed at the US border.

Gosh, I thought most people understood this by now. Phones in the OFF state still 'wake up' every now and then and phone home to the cell towers. Which allows your movements to be tracked. 'Off' is NOT really OFF. The only way to make a phone truly OFF is to pull out the battery.