2M sounds high? You sound really knowledgeable about flight control systems, let's check component by component:
How many lines of code to track airplanes using the FAA's satellite network?
How many lines of code to generate flight courses?
How many lines of code to generate flight progress strips as airplanes approach a control area?
etc.

Whoosh!

Look, I know a guy who's brother has a pretty close friend that really knows the ins and outs of this stuff, I swear he could get you setup in just a matter of hours...all you need to do is probably mail your device to him (I would include insurance just in case), mention my name (well probably my brother's name, he doesn't really know who I am), then boom! he'll get your device setup.

I would probably allow for a couple weeks because this guy is so good he's getting lots of requests like this (I may have mentioned something on facebook), but once you drop my brother's name, your device should pop to the top of his list. Also, you'll want to include a prepaid return label, you know, so he doesn't have to foot the bill the get you setup.

"If something shows up on your bill in AWS, it is running somewhere and you most certainly set it up." - You seem to be stating that there is zero possibility that AWS could have a billing problem, ever. Just because you haven't encountered one doesn't mean it's not possible. It's possible the other poster made an error, but it's also possible there was an error on Amazon's part - I don't think there is enough information to determine one way or another.

It's the job of the market. If there is demand he will succeed, if there is no demand he won't. Your opinion that it's a "lame argument" is simply not relevant.

"We ship [boxes] to an address that's has nothing to do with the customer,"

I know some other companies that seem to do this for about half my orders.

Or maybe a special password that enters the system into a state that only reveals items that are allowed to be viewed. Anything protected by the more secure password would simply not appear (e.g. files).

I commonly read slashdot (SD) using my computer (MC) at my desk (MD) at work (WK). I wonder (IW) if a smart watch (SW) would improve (WI) my communications (MC).

If the network was trained to always return a "best match" then it's working correctly. To return "no image", it would need to be trained to be able to return that, just like humans are given feedback when there is no image.

The shelves are stocked the same way they are picked, by having the robot travel to a station where a human places the items on the shelves. One way to organize the warehouse would be to put the replenishment/put away stations near the incoming goods (e.g. receiving area) with the picking stations on the opposite side. not sure if this is how Amazon is configured or not.

URGENT: pls stop posting

Ok, I'll get on that right away.

Just one example of many of the need to properly model the dendritic computation is the hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons performing 2 different computations depending on the spatial distribution of the incoming signal (and level of synchrony). Either it performs input strength encoding or feature detection. You can't ignore this and end up computing the same thing, your end result will be different.

Well, if we consider the example of object recognition happening in dendrites of human visual system, that requires a neural network all by itself to emulate. It's absolutely doable, but there is a huge difference between integrate and fire and a non-linear NN style mapping of input to output. There are other examples of dendritic signal processing which all point to neural computation really being a level below the neuron, each neuron is a network in it's own right. So, instead of 302 neurons, to properly emulate, we may need 302 * 10,000 computing nodes ("neurons").

Don't get me wrong, I like it, my point was just a word of caution about what has been accomplished with this. The neuron is constantly getting more complex as they learn more and the older assumptions about being able to emulate at that level are pretty much gone by neuroscientists.