GP I'm responding to is literally asking the real patriots to fight for him you knob.

I took the field personally as a young man during OEF. I've already had my war- I'm a crusty old combat vet and I wont be much help unless younger people start asking very uncomfortable questions... and the best time for those questions was the Snowden leaks.

The second best time is now- but I'm watching a flaccid resistance to tyranny turn on itself in the comments instead. Keep insulting strangers on the internet, genius- really helps the cause.

That ship sailed with Snowden.

Yes, passing out in the back of a taxi is definitely the equivalent of grabbing for a cop's gun. I'm glad you spotted that.

Revoke corporate personhood.

No, human-controlled robots have much better response time. This kind of incompetence can only be created with AI.

The lips are too big, the expression is slack, the skin flaps like it's dead, it moves robotically, it lacks the movement to make the sounds, and it's very stiff. That thing is horrifying.

When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal, but an authoritarian government can enforce laws against anyone it likes. This isn't about stopping companion bots, it's about creating an excuse to stomp down on anyone They want who is using the latest tool.

There's no reason Slashdot would suddenly come down hard on "infringement" by AIs except misguided general anti-AI sentiment and consensus cracking. Some people don't like AI and have seized on this as a way to stop it. Some other people are paid to say these things, to create the illusion that there is consensus for strong copyright laws. But strong copyright laws hurt almost everyone and have gone far, far beyond their original justifications. Rent seeking owners of publishers are holding our culture hostage, and it's evil.

No. It is not copyright infringement, and there's no reason to hold copyright so sacred anyway. Are you seriously wanting to protect hundred year old fairy tails from being retold? Information wants to be free.

Since when are trade secrets something that can be violated? You either get a patent and enjoy 20 years of patent protection, or you lock your secrets in a vault and hope nobody else comes up with the same novel idea.

We're really leaning all the way into the whole corpo dystopia now huh?

Everything old is new again!

Linux is starting to eat our lunch and gamers are leaving our product for SteamOS in droves

It sounds kind of like private equity, but even more cut throat. Why would I want anything to do with any of that?

That's not the least bit misogynistic. And your warning these days reads as "warning: offends delicate sensibilities"