There was an attempt to backdoor the kernel a few years back. I don't believe the perpetrators were ever revealed.

There's more than 2?

If you want to stop someone's heart there are much cheaper ways. However, this may be the first one that works over the internet.

You are neglecting the fact that it is patentable because they added the magic words "on the internet".

Did you know you can still get a sunburn on a cloudy day? Why do you think that is?

Did you perhaps miss that it is in Lunar orbit? Try 384,000 km.

"Computers and Thought" was published in 1963. It's a compendium of some of the most interesting papers on different topics in AI from earlier research. Now get off my lawn.

Actually, it's life of author + 70 years, so there is NO limit. I'm just waiting for publishers to start requiring tissue samples from authors so that they can keep them alive in a lab.

t has nothing to do with bribes, Koreans don't vote in US elections.

I would mod this "Funny" but my auto-correct substituted "F***ing genius"

Because it costs over $1M dollars per episode to produce it. So if you want something to watch that's better than Sharknado then somebody needs to be paying for it. That said, anything more than 28 years old is out of copyright according to the original Constitution, so I have a hard time understanding why it still has 70 years or so of restrictions.

I had no idea Blockbuster was still in business.

Because those TPS reports will make great reading?

Read the complaint. The business was shut down because it had a legal game promotion; it didn't run an internet gambling site.

The Patriot Act clearly refers to stopping terrorism. That doesn't change the fact that it is primarily used to go after drug crimes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9359763/Bee-stings-killed-as-many-in-UK-as-terrorists-says-watchdog.html

Also we need to set up cameras and secret courts to watch bees.