In a normal economy, making robots smart enough to do a job that drives many people to suicide would be good news. But in the current economy, this would just look bad on the unemployment report and possibly move business away from low-cost markets.

Playing Unreal Tournament back in the day, I would should everything to the last fuel barrels if it exploded. In RL I think twice before killing a cockroach. QED

What are you talking about? Can you name any Microsoft data format not covered in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd208104(PROT.10).aspx? Hell, even the DOC, XLS and PPT formats are documented to the last bit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313118.aspx Not to mention Office 2013 opens Office 97 documents... Ups, I forgot, this is Slashdot :)