"Mostly" is the key word in your post. Morality cannot be defined as a list of do's and dont's that are mechanically obeyed precisely because it has a myriad of "edge cases" that require human interpretation. Many situations don't even have a 'right' answer and what is morally correct will depend on the person(s) interpreting the rules.

Also notice that when the zeroth law was added it just made matters worse because more laws allow for more contradictions, loopholes, and paradoxes, exactly like the evolved tax code of any nation you care to name.

This would actually be true if all companies currently could evade taxes. Since most UK based companies simply cannot do that, all the anti tax evasion legislative will do is level the playing field.

Asimov's three laws are a metaphor that says you can't codify morality, AI is the vehicle he used to make that point.

Ahhh rightio, Carry on then, it was quite a satisfying read :-)

Thankyou for cherrypicking a result without any understanding.

I invite you to power-down an AVR some time and see exactly what they are capable of when drawing your mythical 1uA. Here's a hint, you can't get that power usage using a normal system clock, in fact you can't get that usage with the clock running at all, or anything else, in fact there's very few things that can wake and AVR when it's using that little power, not even the watchdog. An Internet of useless Paperweights is what you're going to have.

While you cherry pick your chips without actually figuring out if they'll do something practical I'll wait for someone to write a statement of requirements for their device first. That may show things like the only 3 IoT devices in my house being hard wired and thus no one could care less if they use 1uA or 320000 times more power.

But feel free to keep generalising.

That's the typically over generalized anti-Google crap we've come to expect.

Just like Chromium and Android varieties don't communicate with Google there's no reason to expect that every device like this will either.

Yes it's likely that many such devices will, but I'll reserve freaking out for facts and data rather than anti-corporate speculation.

Well, if that's going to be Cameron's legacy, he should consider himself lucky. I've heard the SI unit between two blunders is going to be called the Cameron.

Germany has shown it before, with a Fascist government growth is possible despite all odds. At a terrible price, but hey, growth!

They would try to raise the price (not likely possible because, as stated above, if they could get away with a higher asking price, they would have done so on their own, why not rake in more if you can?) but they might go out of business. With a 90% tax, it's actually likely.

The price depends on the sweet spot of making the highest profit. Not any cost outside the cost per unit. A higher fixed cost might lead to discontinued business because cost gets higher than what the possible asking price could pay for, but the price is mostly unaffected by it.

Taxing a company does not make prices go up. Why would it? If they could raise the price, they already would have done so a long time ago. Higher price means more revenue.

I thought your country had a no child left behind policy. Guess I was wrong.

Yep, interestingly the Raspberry PI fits a Dual core 32bit ARM and 512MB of RAM on the same surface area as an 8bit AVR or PIC. Power wise it all depends on the devices ability to enter low power states.

Neither of the features you mention are trade-offs that we need to have. Not at the scale we're talking about, and not with today's technology.

Not sure if I should write "no kidding", or simply go with the traditional "whoosh".

There were a few things (GDI handles and suchlike) that had very small limits. Once you exhausted them, the system was basically unusable. There was a little program you could run that would show the number allocated vs allowed. By the time you'd launched one program, they were normally 60-90% gone.

These two are related. OS/2 needed 16MB of RAM to be useable back when I had a 386 that couldn't take more than 5MB (1MB soldered onto the board, 4x1MB matched SIMMs). Windows NT had the same problem - NT4 needed 32MB as an absolute minimum when Windows 95 could happily run in 16 and unhappily run in 8 (and allegedly run in 4MB, but I tried that once and it really wasn't a good idea). The advantage that Windows NT had was that it used pretty much the same APIs as Windows 95 (except DirectX, until later), so the kinds of users who were willing to pay the extra costs could still run the same programs as the ones that weren't.