since the PlayStation is an even larger turn

Are you saying the new playstation will be the PS 720?

He's not asking people to encrypt their messages with his public key and send him the encrypted text in base-64 format. He's asking for email providers to enable transport-layer security by default and possibly reject plain-text transmissions. An individual mail server can enforce this, but if the sender is using a mail relay, then the message might go unencrypted between the sender and the relay.

Do the people who took the time to play through the game carefully and precisely to create such videos for people to learn from not deserve a bit of compensation for that time? You got your cut when the game was sold. Stop sniveling about the ads, it's the only means the people making these vids have of getting compensation for their time and effort. It's not the end of the world.

Soylent green was 100% algae until Hollywood got hold of it.

So clearly, Hollywood is the enemy.

Read "Make Room, Make Room" to learn all about Soylent, and for that matter catch a great story that was muddled into unrecoverability by pinheaded filmmakers.

If robots are built from standard parts -- as surely they will be -- then a maintenance robot can fix either your household robot, or another maintenance robot. Just as a doctor can fix you, or another doctor, with equal competence (not saying it's high competence, but it is the same, nonetheless.)

There's absolutely no question that the advent of general purpose robotics would drastically shift our economy around. How well we manage that shift would be the fulcrum from which we tilt forward, or backward. Add AI to the equation, and things might go entirely another way, however. Clever functional programming is one thing; an intelligent, independent entity is another. I think it really comes down to AI, or no AI; the latter will work out well for us, the former... unknown.

Nationalized healthcare solves this problem. For-profit corporations have no business in health insurance.

What SDR software is that?

SdrDx

The s-meter in my SDR software has native Klingon support. It's one of the easter eggs. I'm imagining people finding it, then actually translating the s-meter readout by going to Bing. Having a little trouble with how they'll encode the input font, but I'm sure MS has it all figured out. Perhaps it's OCR.

I dunno if it's just me, because I'm wacky that way, but... lol.

Bestiality is soft porn? Those green alien women Kirk bangs aren't human, you know.

They're not beasts, either, though. Seems like "bestiality" isn't really a term developed with sexually compatible sentients in mind. What about sex with an artificially intelligent sexbot? Bestiality? I don't think so. Both would be consensual, informed... Seems like eventually, at least if these things arise in other than fictional venues, we'll have to expand our outlooks a bit. Even in fiction, you need a way to look at it that makes sense. Bestiality doesn't qualify.

The voters elect people to represent their interests in government. These representatives are accountable via the means of regular elections, by which unpopular actions on their part will result in their not being re-elected.

What you're missing here is that should representative Doe fail to be re-elected, then candidates Smith and Williams, one of whom will replace Doe as the new representative, will both have been pre-selected by the power brokers to have whatever characteristics they require at the moment. These may be exactly the same as rep. Doe. Depriving an individual of the job is not effective in altering the system when each replacement individual is pre-selected.

The basic problem is that the power brokers - political parties, driven by moneyed and powerful interests - are not accountable. But they are the ones actually controlling the precise selection of the representatives.

It's as if you go to the only store there is, intending to buy yogurt, because you don't like cheese. But they don't offer yogurt. They offer cheese. They offer you a choice of two types of cheese. You pick the cheese that seems least offensive to you. But it's not yogurt. It will never be yogurt. And you will keep buying cheese. Furthermore, it turns out that it's the same cheese either way. They just change the labels. You cannot resolve your preference for yogurt, because its a situation that only offers cheese. Suggestions that you switch to a new cheese don't really address the problem.

Put that way, maybe Windows isn't quite so bad after all . . .

hawk

Here's the thing. It happens quite a bit right here on slashdot. The rationale "most people want this, so we should have it" is constantly trotted out. That's because people have an extremely simplistic (and foolish) view of how things "ought" to go. We're not a democracy. We have tiny, diseased democratic process segments. No more than that. Everything else is managed in a decidedly non-majoritarian manner. Oligarchy. Say it, believe it. It's what we have today.

Your "issue" is that you presume other people have an obligation to be your unpaid servants. Or do you perhaps think that you owning the real estate you mentioned earlier means anything without the systems tracking and backing such ownership?

What the heck are you talking about? Did you even read the thread? The only mention I made of real estate is as an example of (just one of many) uses of forced takings by the government against the citizenry, I didn't say a flipping *word* about the systems for tracking same -- I was talking about things taken against the citizen's will to accomplish goals opposed to the citizen's principles. Nor do I think *anyone* has an obligation to be my servant, paid or not. I have no idea what you're actually trying to say, but I suggest you start over again, this time paying more attention to what you read.

Nope. Nobody force feeds me marketing now. There's no problem to solve there. No force is in play. The only force I experience comes from the government. All else is at my option. You're a bit bewildered here.

Hacking your computer to get your online banking password and subsequently emptying your account doesn't involve force or the threat of force

You're quite wrong. This is a forceful act, undertaken against my will. You're very confused. Violence is not the only form of force, you know.

Of course you have an option for paying taxes: don't live in a society that demands rent from you for the privilege.

No. This old canard incorrectly presumes that there is somewhere to go that resolves the issues you have with where you are; it also incorrectly presumes that such mobility is practical or even possible. All of these are disingenuous presumptions.