Has there even been any significant advances in AI science in the last 50 years? Weren't we promised computers that think like people 30 years ago? Wasn't it all supposed to be a problem of CPU power? Now we have clouds, and there's still no artificial brain.

Isn't AI in fact a field with a pretty high suicide rate because of that? Questions over questions.

No, it's not PI, it's bullshit unless you offer data to back up your claim :)

A lot of you are ignoring one important fact: Google is not a person.

Does a company even have a right to free speech?

Also, Google claims it's simply repeating what others typed into the search box, so it can hardly count as Google exercising free speech rights, correct?

Now if it was a private person we're talking about and they typed that text by themselves, they'd be in for slander. And that even in the US. Case closed.

Strawman. You're not responsible for what happens with the data in transit to you, but you are responsible for a) what data you take from your customer (via app on the phone, for instance, reading out the phonebook) and you are responsible for what you do with the data once it has arrived at your end.

Actually, that's wrong. If you are sending the data from your application on the user's device to yourself, you're also responsible for what happens in transit: You could easily crypt the information.

This campaign was mentioned with great enthusiasm in a recent Project Eternity backer update email. Since both game projects target the same kind of audience, I wonder if this hasn't had some impact on the result...

I say we start with people that make this kind of suggestion. How about that? You volunteer? No? Thought so.

Expensive? Really? All you need is a small embedded device with WLAN and a modified WLAN driver that just bangs out frames unconditionally and without pause, ideally with 40 MHz bandwidth. (Tx99/Tx100). It's not exactly the same as a jammer but it works just as well.

Yes, but only if done right. Use EAP-PEAP with silly passwords or even something really stupid like LEAP, and you're not any more secure. Use something like EAP-TLS with proper certificates, and then you're set.

ALERT ALERT! Weak passwords decrease security! Whodathunk! News at 11!

I've got three monitors:

• - left: portrait mode
• - middle: landscape mode
• - right: portrait mode

I'm doing a lot of work with wireshark, analyzing logs from serial consoles and stuff like that, so that configuration suits me perfectly. I also get this mediaval castle feeling because I'm perfectly shielded from my coworkers!

It's just that the beer that you actually get for your five minutes of work is not what you're talking about. Then again, there's also cheap and very shitty German beer! If you ever come here, don't drink Warsteiner or Löwenbräu, you might confuse it with Miller's or some other American tasteless piss.

I guess the US and Germany have that in common: you have to know which beer is good and which isn't, then you're set. Here in Germany, you'll want beer from private breweries, much like your Microbreweries: Augustiner, Irrseer, Kloster Scheyern, Hirschbräu or the most tasty Ayinger.

It reminds me of those educational "laptops" for kids that have ten built in programs and an interface looking very very similar to this. I can tell with some certainty that, baring absolute necessity brought upon by business related pressure, I will not be installing this crap on any of my computers - I'm much too happy with Windows 7. And that's saying a lot for someone much preferring to work with Linux.