I thought the security argument is about the grid, no? And the efficiency argument is also about the grid. It really doesn't make a big difference when you switch to DC only locally.

surely you have a point here. But remember these reactors were designed like 40 years ago, and all the conversion you suggested requires extra structure that needs to be designed into the reactor.

The first use cases, I believe, can be better solved with kinect than voice recognition.

1. advise the leader to cut off Internet 2. youngling without porn goes to street 3. ??? 4. Profit!

Scientist: Fuck you! Reporter: Scientist rapes journalist. (from SMBC)

bad analogy destroys sarcasm. But since you get 5 funny, I have to admit that sometimes bad sarcasm can still be funny sarcasm.

Trolling? Window update is NOT mandatory. You can choose not to install a specific fix and then it will not prompt you for it in the future. It's not like PS3, where you have to update to play online.

you must have never heard of Janelia Farm, the home base of HHMI foundation, where they have a huge project of reconstructing fly brain http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/reverse-engineering-the-brain

I wouldn't call Watson pathetic. Also, how far have we already pushed the boundary of 'intelligence'? I mean, playing chess or basically anything easier than go is no longer considered intelligence, limited parsing of sentences is no longer considered intelligence. How long before we find out that nothing is left to be called 'intelligence'?

so we can soon see a real Orion spaceship up in the orbit, if only just to spite of all the hipsters. but seriously, how is an Orion continental destroyer more dangerous than the thousands of missile silos on the ground? while the development of the former will finally grant us large scale human existence outside earth and the technologies to fly to and colonize moon and even Mars.

And you are aware that finding the price of stock does cost money and a high temporal resolution and precision of the price is useful and may worth the additional cost?

yeah, because ARM is selling nothing and Google is giving away its product for free, and for some reason not so obvious to your level of IQ they are bringing home boatloads of money. They are apparently using magic to make money, which should be banned.

Wikileaks had it right? About what? Actively promoting its father's political view?

As far as I know, 1 or 2 keystrokes with broken finger joints are way slower than 3 or 4 normal keystrokes.

And who's fleet was sunken at last? And Yamamato's carriers have much more aircrafts than midway, guess you need Orion ultimate version to bombard a moonbase in that way.