"nonprofit, open source alternative to Google"

We get it. Why repeat? Oh right, lemmings have short memory and attention spans...

Actually, I think the opposite is true: if it is indeed AI (actually thinking, and not only within predetermined boundaries), one of the first potential threats that would rise to its radar is human irrational behaviour.

Our worst enemy would be our own dishonesty and denial (of reality).

I'm wondering how they're going to 'patrol' the galaxy for 'incomings'. I suppose incoming-light imagery wouldn't be enough, and it would take a periodic certain-frequency multidirectional 'wave blast', to pick up its return reflecting from anything hiding out there... great way to announce our presence, too.

Or am I thinking too much again?

Well, it's a start. I'm waiting for the technology that allows us to 'pour' metal into 'nanoforms' - say, interlocking wire pyramids - which would allow for stronger, lighter, less-resource-consuming, and -flexible- forms.

The DNA 'change' in exercised muscles is probably an altering in (or activation of) cell-division behaviour.

You know that 'wife-like' is because of our tradition in training the female brain in 'wife things'. Maybe it's time to look towards forming a society where -wives- are more pc-friendly.

'Authorised devices' (with a certificate/token authentication), with a -backup- password or other method. Every device has its own MAC address, why not take advantage of that? Of course, that doesn't eliminate -stealing- the device... but at least you can't do that from a distance ; ).

IMHO, cars won't be (safely) automated until roads are. Yeah, I know, catch-22.

Hm, I don't quite agree. I think a 'use it or lose it' condition on patent claims would be both protective and productive. Oh, and I'd like to see that ideal applied to cybersquatters and their ilk, too.

...sounds like a 'Charlie's Angels' episode.

I hope he's not referring to schtupping.

But why are they calling it a 'printer'? The comparison to 'data-driven' (aka 'computer controlled') 3D printer is apples to oranges.

The missing "a" does make sense: aren't "man" and "mankind" synonymous? "A man" and "mankind" are obviously different, and if used would make a more meaningful (and humble) phrase meaning: "one l'il tippytoe for l'il old me, but what a mark of progress!".

Oh, much, much worse.

...a requirement in the manufacture of White House intern uniforms.