Not that I disagree with you, but since there is a very widespread ideal notion of what Star Trek was, it seems like someone would have the vision to try to make that ideal real.

But no, let's just take some generic Hollywood pablum, stick some names from a popular franchise on it so it will sell, and leave the thinking for someone else.

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Yeah, I thought the first one was a mildly entertaining adventure movie, but not Star Trek.

I'll only go see this one if I decide to shell out $20 for an evening of mild entertainment. More likely I'll stay home and watch the Harry Potter movies.

If you're concerned with chauvinism, you should have noticed that ToS was a parable about an international crew under the benevolent command of an American captain, who occasionally had to yank the Russian's chain to keep him under control.

pretend?

I thought the last story said we had 30 years before this happens.

The question that actually needs to be asked is, will the people who own the robots let the rest of us have any food?

lazy fare.

Actually he's one of the world's leading computational neuroscientists, and he's not proposing to just hook a lot of computers together.

He's proposing to simulate the brain from the neuron level up. And he just won a billion-euro award to pursue that.

If it's on the internet, maybe it will post to Slashdot as an A/C.

Except that this isn't unusual and won't have any long-reaching consequences.

A better explanation is that the GP hasn't noticed that Slashdot posts slow down around this time of day (GMT).

When the article says "The incident comes amid a new chill in Russian-U.S. relations sparked by the Syrian crisis and concern in Washington over what it sees as President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on human rights.", it should probably say that it comes because of the chill.

See also, 'game'.

Actually, psychiatry was created by people who wanted to explain everything as the consequence of feeling guilty about jacking off. The pharmaceuticals came along later.

And pace the whiners, drugs *do* help a lot of people. It's hit-and-miss, and not much more scientific than "let's try this and see if it works", but at least that's an approach based on evidence rather than theories about wanking off.

Also, we've made a *lot* of progress in finding effective drugs over the past decades. If you think our methods are sloppy now, turn back the clock 30, 40, or 50 years, and see how well we were treating mental problems then.

Hopefully someday we'll actually understand mental/brain disorders and know how (and whether) to treat them. But we're not there yet.

Is derp a verb now?

And is slashdot the direct object, or are you telling slashdot to derp?

If you wanted actual security, you wouldn't have it on a computer.