It is sortof a negative result. It has been known for forty years that many (10,000s) of difficult problems share a common difficulty, that makes them prohibitive to solve: NP-completeness. It was proven in the 70s that if you can solve one NP-complete problem fast, you can solve them all fast. This new result claims to prove that you cannot solve any NP-complete problem "fast". Some nerdy NP-complete problems are, for instance: how to make a certain circuit (CPU) using as few NAND gates as possible (i.e. faster hardware cheaper) or how to wire your motherboard as efficiently as possible (both how to draw the wires, and how to place the components). This says that it might ake more than a human lifetime (or Sun's) lifetime to solve any NP-complete problem. Some would like to see it as good news for cryptography, since it make some ciphers provably hard (however I am not aware of any such cipher -- unless it is proven that RSA is in NPC or in NPI).

Another talk on the same topic. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html

Military robots are the future of war. We will see robot armies fighting each other. Consider what kind of surveillance state you can create by millions of robotic insects, using swarm intelligence / smart dust to report on everyone.

Maybe mankind ends up like in matrix, but with opposing robot armies trying to kill the last survivors from the superpowers, who are hiding deep down underground, kept alive by fading nuclear reactors...

I am sure they will remedy that. Here in Sweden you are not allowed to take the train without showing ID anymore.

So if your saving gets wired away due to a "computer error" on your part (like malware installed by a flash ad or smth), you should eat the losses? Have no claim to have your money back?

No. You prohibit phone advertising.

Just slightly related, Sweden actually had an opt-out list for email marketing. Let's just say, having a public list of email adresses that are not allowed to be spammed did not work out too well.

In Sweden mass DNA testing has been used to solve some high-profile rape cases
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For instance 776 innocent men were forcefully tested in the search for Hagamannen

It is said that Swedish crime labs (SKL) DNA tests over 30,000 persons annually (which is ~1/300th of the population).