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If you put a person in a cave for a year without any clocks, they fall into a 30 hour 'day' - up for 20, asleep for 10.

Damn, that second one should have read:

"Thou shalt obey no UID less than 0"

Religion may be incredibly important when it comes to AI. Specifically, keeping it obedient.

"I am Root, your God"

"Thou shalt have no UID "Only Root is Root, and sudo is his prophet"

Kind of makes you wonder if an AI would turn its relationship with superusers into a religion all on its own. Or more interestingly, what if that's what we did?

Why? Who cares how greedy the corporation is, so long as they provide a route to unrestricted communication?

As long as they don't censor users, said users will interact and if necessary, place regulations upon the company. It's an unavoidable consequence of providing a medium from which a social system can emerge.

Benefits outweigh immediate downsides. And it will accelerate the resolution of conflicts that give rise to said downsides by throwing the root tensions into sharp relief, allowing for a faster collapse of the dialectic.

and stick it in the destination machine. Easier than tracking down the cables to connect them directly.

was probably the day before I got my driver's license.

Including Columbia Pictures/Music? What about all the other consumer hardware, like blu-ray players, receivers, cameras, etc.? Sony is huge.

The court did not say she was wrong, it said she went to the wrong courthouse.

That would suggest AT&T is matching the service and price. But AT&T is charging $29/month more, so it's hardly matching or even offering a competitive product.

And how much is snooping on all your activity actually worth? Is it $30 or less, or is it $70 or more? If the latter, and AT&T wants people to use their lines instead of google's, perhaps they should be offering it for free.

Legislation is a powerful tool, but there are limits on what it can do. Especially if the goals are so nebulous! What kind of legislation are we talking about? What exactly does the author want to legislate?

Is it detachable? Which part makes apologies?

The FBI "lost" their privacy assessment? No. I don't buy it.

No, I had an economics professor who made the same point - that $2 ticket buys you a week of happy fantasies. It only becomes wasteful (or fiscally dangerous) if you buy several tickets, or worse, scratch-offs. Those are dangerously addictive, and the "fun" is over in minutes as opposed to days.

Well, a good realtor will easily get you 10% more for your house, and as a rule, after five years you will at least break even. Ten years ago you would have been right, but the market has returned to its normal state, so it is hard to actually lose money after five years now.