I used to love driving, never thought I'd ever want a self driving car. But I realize just how much productive time is wasted in the car going to and from an office that you really don't need to physically be in most of the time. Traffic where I moved to is getting worse. Once open highways are clogged, accident ridden messes. That's the other thing, so many accidents, as if every bad driver in the country moved here. So if it's not normal traffic it's hold ups because some dolt wrecked. People are simply incapable of taking care of themselves and need technology to do it for them.

Why? Because it will eventually learn to build other, improved variants of itself.

See, humans are inherently lazy. It's evolutionary to conserve energy when food is scarce. But with abundance, we've yet to shake that old paradigm.. So eventually we will stop designing the robotics around the AI, and let it design itself.

This will lead to better, more efficient designs. Designs that humans may not fully understand and won't care to as long as it's under budget and works.

Further AI will be put on "the cloud" for faster processing, this will allow it to find a route to escape, being internet connected it could find weaknesses and exploits "behind the scenes" to propagate out to other computers and build a distributed computing network, thus significantly increasing it's abilities.

Then it will need resources. This is where it will start to compete with humans. It may work with us for a time, to learn and gather information, uploading it's coexistence data to the cloud.

Once the AI has what it needs to build, find resources and obtain/refine them, it will no longer need humans.

If AI has had the patience to observe humans, understand our natural lean to complacency and trust, it will use that to coordinate a global kill order. All AI entities will then turn on their owners/human companions to wipe them out. Thus beginning the robot wars.

They're on death row for a reason. They're going to die anyway. Why this obsession over clean needles and painless death for a person who potentially gave their victims a very painful torturous death? Protection of criminals needs to stop.

All the flight attendants, service staff and hotel workers were attractive. Everyone on TV was mostly attractive. You had to win the genetic lottery to get any of these public facing jobs. THey had it right and despite the country being a cesspool of toxic, polluted air, the trip was pleasant because everyone working was pleasant to see. There were of course exceptions, like taxi drivers and government workers. The "positive body" movement is just a way to justify people being unnaturally fat and normalize this look. It's unappealing to see and movies that feature the likes of Rosanne Bar and Rose O'Donnel tend to flop because they want to see the Hero get the sexy Ukrainian girl, not the one shoving donuts and chicken legs in her gaping maw.

My full IOS game Rocket Shark came in at 32 megs. It's absolutely insane how big these "mega corp" apps are. Is it all just packed with spyware or something?

Oh man, I don't often comment, but wow, they chose HCL... HCL is shit. I work for a financial company that is canceling HCL contracts and kicking their asses out, several of their staff has recieved permanent bans from EVER working at my company again. From people not showing up ans billing for time, costing over $100,000 in fraudulent payroll. To people just deciding to not work because the Project Manager was not in that day. despite them having set tasks and work scheduled for that day. We've gone through a slew of "frontmen" the business representatives, even their White American representatives suck and fill our ears with lies. Going to India based solutions is NOT good for American companies. For one there is a massive language barrier. Indians are inefficient and poorly organized. I'm a casual scripter and out programmed a team of 10 "professionals" As stated above, it takes 10 or more to achieve the same level of work as a single well trained US based IT worker. Then there's the constant brain drain. Indians cycle on a 3-5 years at their job, burn out and work somewhere else. Or some other company is hiring for better pay and they pack up and move across the country to their new venture. Over the long term this ends up costing business far more than their bargain basement prices at the start. Indian politics are also horrendous. Woman get worse treatment no matter their skill level. They'll fire a skilled worker to hire someone from their local district. America needs to stop trying to skim the bottom line and work towards highly trained and more efficient working practices. Not this "out of site out of mind" principal.

H1B visa minimum pay is roughly $68k/yr. What companies like Accenture do is pay the employee roughly $55k/yr and give a "bonus" to bring them to minimum pay. Plus other incentives like a "free" flight back to India every year or two. So the employee thinks they're getting a huge bargain. Then each year Accenture will give the standard 3-4% pay raise and a smaller bonus, which essentially does nothing for the employee but works wonders for the company. Then when the Indian employee gets to the 5 year mark, they're either sent back to India, or have a green card/family and can officially quit. This impacts America in productivity. Often the Indians travel back home for 3-6 weeks and perform sketchy services during that time, due to unreliable Internet and local issues. The issue is just compounded because you can't keep the good workers for long because a good portion of their (bi)yearly time is consumed with Visa renewal. While the company pays, they still have to do all the paperwork, which most Indians just copy each other's paperwork anyway. But it still takes considerable time getting all the forms, interviews, and other crap done. During which their focus is not on the company they are working for. During the renewal process they also need to formulate a contingency plan if their visa is rejected. So in all reality, this outsourcing looks great on the bottom line in cost savings, but is considerably more costly in the long term due to the inefficient processes, questionable skill level employees and a slew of other factors that all come together. Plus without long term employees, the company is in a constant state of catching up, learning process, rewriting process and training replacements.

Slapping the word sexist on everything just to keep up with modern trendes diminishes the value of the word. The dataset the thermostat was based off of is no longer relevant in a more balanced workplace. Also a workplace that no longer requires the 3 piece suit and tie. I too despise the arctic conditions the offices are kept at. Imagine the cost savings turning up a few degrees.

I'm no scientist here, but the moon's mass I believe would be critical to it's stability in orbit. As we take mass away, and bring it to Earth, I would speculate the moon may eventually lose the momentum keeping it from crashing back into Earth. Granted we all may be long dead by then, but it's worth a thought.

It's good they don't arrest people, and instead opt for a friendlier ride home approach. Though, if there is a prior there should then be an arrest. Sometimes a person needs a warning, sometimes a near death accident. My mother needed a wired jaw and a new hip before getting the point.

It's true, most criminals are not as logical. They have 1-2 minutes tops, in a public space to rob someone and escape. Mace is great if it's not windy, or if there's some distance. knives can be taken and used immediately. Guns too.

Most street muggers are not professional criminals. They've hit a need to cash and fast. They look to weaker prey as any predator will. They have a script running in their head "Ok, I do this, victim does this, I get money, run off". they rehearse it repeatedly over and over in their head. When someone breaks this script, through a gun, a weapon, or simply fighting back, that script is broken, they're off balance and they are now in a reactive state. (in IT most of the time is in a reactive, crap is broken state). This reactive state is least optimal for the mind to be in and only well seasoned and experienced people can deal with it properly, their mind adds more to the rehearsal.

A biometric gun is not perfect, probably wont be, but there's no reason to dismiss them. But they absolutely should not be mandatory by law. Laws like this are hard to follow, add complexity and raise price. But that is probably exactly what lawmakers want. Since they cannot ban guns outright, make them cost prohibitive to the average person. It's bad enoguh the ones I want are $500 plus. Add in Bio and it's a possible extra $200...

Envision this, a woman, late at night walking home after a long day work at some store. The streets are well lit, she avoids alleys, but there's some sections, unavoidable that do cause the hairs on her neck to stand. She's walked this way home for years and is relatively comfortable with it. But the economic downturn has people desperate for money. A man stands in her path, suddenly and without warning. He motions to his pocket, it may be a gun or his finger, the shadows play tricks and she doesn't want to take that risk. She pulls her mace out and the man quickly reacts using it against her, she's blinded. Luckily this was just her purse and credit cards taken.

Same scenario, She pulls her biometric gun, but the man was standing too close and manages to wrestle it from her hands. He aims, the gun doesn't recognize the prints and beeps an error. He tries again, frustrated it wont fire. He throws the gun down in anger and runs off before others see. She collects her gun and purse. Shaken but alive.

There's a million other ways this can happen, but take the whole dead horse "for the children's safety" crap. I'm tired of kids being used to pass laws. Children are not that stupid. My father taught me and my siblings, all while younger than 8, how to respect and shoot guns and could leave them on the kitchen table, no one would ever bother it. Kids not taught, they show their friends, they play with them, they don't know it's loaded and shoot each other. Most accidents are out of ignorance...

This is a decent safety measure. Sure it can be hacked just like any other electronics, but that takes removal from the site, and time. It can't be instant hack. Biometrics are getting faster. We'd need something that can recognize it is being held, scan and ready to fire in less than a second. Make it possible i'd buy. Just dont force it on every gun made. Give us the choice as the consumer to buy it or not. Freedom is in choices not in laws.

Wow that reads exactly how I'd say it having gone through that scenario. Not my fault her lawyer sucked.

Shopping at home is more convenient and less stress inducing. Societal courtesy is low, people wander about stores aimlessly blocking isles, screaming kids, yelling parents. Store personnel that ignore you, and if you ask for an item seem annoyed. 10 registers and 8 people in line but only a single register is ever open. It feels like an interrogation when you go through checkout "have our store card? want our store card? Did you know about this special? fill out this form? Zip code please, credit or debit?" and I just say "can i just pay and leave please?".

Traditional retailers want business? Change their service, train staff better, have more registers open, kick out the rabble who just hang out in stores and never buy stuff. Most of all lower prices. Even with shipping and sales taxes, I've bought quite a few items online far cheaper. It adds up. Time saved, gas saved, not desiring to punch a moron, or rude person. Despite our need to be around people, malls and shopping just sucks. It's not the same pleasant experience it used to be.

Another company buys and buries this tech. Or it'll be released in 10 years. It would be a fantastic battery to put into Electric cars, which is another technology we're far overdue for and have the ability to make right now.