...And here we see an example native advertising, ladies and gentlemen. You'll notice marketing hype-style language being employed in the text, as well as the overly-repeated use of the "Alienware" brand name. To some readers, this might seem to be a legitimate news article. It sits among other articles, formatted in the same way, with very little to tell them apart at first glance. Alas, this is not a piece of journalism. Slashdot too appears to have succumbed to the native advertising bandwagon. Too few people pay attention to the banner ads, and too many people block them entirely; so they have taken the predictable step of hiding the advertising among the news.

Joseph Mengele was not a Nazi leader. He was a member of the Schutzstaffel, and a registered physician at the Auschwitz death camp. He was infamous and notorious for his sadistic behaviour, which included sickening human experiments involving sewing live people together (in an attempt to recreate conjoined twins), injecting chemicals into victims' eyeballs (in an attempt to learn about eye colouration), murdering people with chloroform for the purely sake of dissecting them, and other brutal pseudoscientific activities. To the best of my knowledge, he was never considered among the political elite (i.e. the 'leaders') of the Nazi party.

Why is asking an artificial intelligence about her sex life a bad thing?

One of the selling points for Cortana, for the Android at least, is "Have a little fun in your down time — ask anything, get jokes, and much more". Sex is something that is a lot of fun to a lot of people. Treating sex-based queries as harassment is immature. If I want to flirt with Cortana, I'm not hurting anyone. If I'm someone who lives a particularly open sex life, and I want to talk to Cortana about sex in a mature fashion, I'm not hurting anyone. So, why exactly is an AI allowed to have a 'sense of humour', but not a 'sex life'?

Having a sex drive is a normal, healthy thing. Wanting to explore that sex drive is also a normal, healthy thing. As long as complete consent between all adult *living* parties is observed, then I fail to see how anything can be construed as harassment.

I'm not suggesting that Cortana be programmed with the ability to have in-depth erotic conversations or cybersex. I am stating that treating sex and sexuality as a hostile act (i.e. "harassment") is wrong.