...and then show up to class every day to leave the treats for the rat to eat.... make perfect sense.

You're over 18, aren't you?

Yeah, the whole 'powered by nuclear fusion' bit could put a bit of a damper on its R&D.

You're the center of the universe? And people say that I have a big head...

On an unrelated note, bicycle sales have recently skyrocketed in Brazil

Wow that is impressive... I don't know anyone that has come close to that. One of my former co-workers recently moved to take a job in another city. Despite the improvements he made on the house, the value had decreased drastically and he took a serious net loss. One of my other co-workers recently had to move because his kids were growing, but his house and yard were not. He bought a nicer house, but he still had a little bit of a net loss on his old house (although it was not near as bad as the other guy). From what I have observed, your story appears to be an exception to the norm.

I know it isn't going to happen like this, but I cannot help but think of the flooded salt mine on Lake Peigneur. Some drillers miscalculated their location and drilled down, through a lake bed, into a nearby salt mine shaft. The lake was drained and temporarily reversed the flow of nearby rivers. Look it up on youtube... its kind of interesting to hear how a relatively small 14 inch drill bit can cause a disaster large enough to sink multiple barges and reverse rivers.

An AI is only as good as its programmers. Programmers are human. They will make mistakes. They will get things wrong. They will fail to consider certain things that typically do not apply to the region in which they live. When these things happen, the only thing the precision sensor equipment will do is ensure the insurance companies and/or emergency response teams will be able to get precise information about what happened during the the crash.

Also, I doubt the auto-drive system will be COMPLETELY separate from the other computing devices. Think about it... bugs in the software will be found and they can either create a way for the updates to automatically happen through the internet or some wireless means, or they can force the drivers to inconvenience themselves by taking it to a shop for the update (which would also cost the company money because they would pay for at least some of the technicians labor). Also, self driving cars need to have some idea of how to get from point A to point B. This information changes frequently due to construction/detours, unexpected events, and the creation of new roads... without this information being updated, the self-drive feature will become useless.

People keep mentioning things like faster response time and the ability to monitor more things. Yes, a computer can respond much faster and can take in more data. But will it respond to the right data? How often do you think the driving system is going to say, 'Hey these roads are covered in ice, I am on a multi-lane road, and the guy behind me is driving like a moron. I am going to purposely drive slower so the other guy changes lanes and passes me.'? I have done this.... and it was a good idea because I saw the same car unable stop when he arrived at the ice-covered intersection (luckily there was very little traffic). Good driving comes from experience and predicting what the other drivers will do.... not just taking in real-time data and responding to it.

Yes there are some things that machine are better at than we are.... but driving is one of the things in which you constantly find exceptions to normal conditions and you cannot count on other drivers following the rules. If the rules are useless, then the abilities of the computer become much less effective.

It is free and easy to use. It also seems to be easier on the resources than some other tools. However I have had it miss things that other programs found (and they were NOT false positives). I know of other people that have experienced this problem as well. I recently looked through some antivirus comparisons and MSSE really fell short on a few of those tests. If I remember correctly, one of these tests had MSSE fail to detect about 14%. I would look for other software.

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So google is considered to be in the wrong because they don't promote their competition on their results. Tell me, do you typically see Burger King advertisements at McDonalds?

I think I read somewhere that they were going to improve the upon the original version's Xen chapter... which would explain why they are delaying it.

Doesn't anyone else remember playing games on the graphing calculators?

It makes GoDaddy appear incompetent to geeks and computer-savvy users. However, to the average person that does not know much about computers, they will accept it as a computer problem that 'just happens'.... just like all of the errors that they have on their home computers that supposedly have no cause. As long as GoDaddy makes the problem sound really technical while saying they know exactly what caused it and know how to quickly implement a solution that prevents future instances, they will appear competent to the average computer user. After all, to an average user, an admin's ability to solve a problem that sounds complex will make the admin's skill sound really impressive.

Remember many of GoDaddy's customers are individuals and small businesses that have mediocre computer skills that rely on a simplified WYSIWYG tool. To them, evil hackers that steal information are much worse than an annoying problem that just happens because computers all have problems (in their experience). As long as the customer doesn't realize that it was a problem that should not have occurred and it was only caused by incompetence, then they are less likely to lose those customers.

that people that wear lots of light sensors and goggles have trouble sleeping as well as they do without them.

Besides the obvious tin-foil hat, privacy, and security concerns that people are going to mention, the people that created this idea overlook something fairly important. In my area, if something was severe enough to knock out all of the cell phone towers within range of a cell phone, then the power grid and/or internet connections are almost certainly down in that area. Without power, the routers are not going to be on. The Internet connection may or may not be important, depending on how they want the communication to reach the headquarters.. if they intend on using voip over the Internet from the router, then it will fail. These concerns may or may not be an issue in other areas. In large cities, cellphone towers may be overworked in an emergency... but the likelihood of the towers in my area becoming overworked is quite small.

I think the better idea would be to either find a way to give first-responder/emergency workers a way to gain priority on the towers, instead forcing router manufacturers to waste time and money to incorporate something that will not only be fairly useless in most cases, but will also open a number of other concerns.