Sorry, you are right, I misremembered. It had to use the buzzer like a human but did not have to âoereadâ the screen. https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2011/01/how-watson-sees-hears-and-speaks-to-play-jeopardy/

It did have to read the clue off the board and press the buzzer.

I have considerably lower standards and do not care to spend my time worrying over produce or meat selection. Even when I go to the store, I just grab something thatâ(TM)s not obviously damaged and throw it in.

Not everyone is like you or has the same preferences. I wholeheartedly support your preference to personally pick out your produce, but I donâ(TM)t share it and Iâ(TM)m not an idiot for not sharing it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Q_Experience

Welcome, windmill investors/promoters/enthusiasts, to what nuclear power has been dealing with for many decades.

People who vote against energy production should be free to do so, but should pay more for power, or do without.

I know the difference between a certificate installation and an accept button.

I think many of the people who are worried about this know just enough about security to worry, and not enough to actually evaluate the risk. Iâ(TM)ve evaluated the risk, and given the protections in place, I think itâ(TM)s acceptable. Of course, some may understand the risk and deem it unacceptable, which is fine, but I donâ(TM)t really see much of that here.

Are you just as worried about BGP hijacking, and what are you doing about that?

Yes, they called it âoeWindows NT 3.5â and it was a microkernel OS. There are performance implications to having everything run in userspace.

And you think that's the way the present has turned out? Lots of bells and whistles but no real improvement over the past?

There's nothing wrong with the Amish philosophy but I didn't expect to find Amish on slashdot. :)

Hah, okay. I don't think you're a geezer, I just don't think you're using enough imagination. Imagine embedding sensors in every square meter of roadway for precise detection of potholes/stopped cars/accidents. You mentioned wearables -- which I think are going to be huge, despite they naysayers. Imagine using your magic decoder ring in place of passwords for anything where you're not worried about the gun-to-your-head or cut-off-your-finger attacks, and having all of the connected devices around you such as lighting or color scheme retrieve your preferences over the network and conform to your preferences.

In terms of jumping in -- sure, I'm not going to pay money for anything unless I really think it will provide value to me. (Value might be just in playing with it and seeing what it can do even if it's not perfect -- I did lay down $300 for an Oculus Rift DK2 just to be able to play with it, even though I know VR has a ways to go. But in general, I wait until technologies mature before buying them).

Speaking of monitoring of body functions, I would absolutely love to have automated monitoring of pulse rate and O2 saturation so that 911 could be contacted and people around you could be alerted if your heart stopped or if you were choking/drowning/etc. Sure, it might only help in 10% of the cases, but hey, if so, that's still a lot of tragedies averted. There are absolutely privacy concerns that have to be dealt with.

You seem fairly privacy oriented. How about window shades or smart glass that automatically close when someone reports a peeping Tom in the neighborhood? The interesting applications are out there, we are just waiting for the components to become cheap enough. Some of them haven't been thought of yet. Look at lots of the really popular smartphone apps -- they were difficult to conceive of before smartphones. My post wasn't only aimed at you, by the way, but you seem to be one of the more strenuous objectors.

Wow, it just amazes me that so many people have no vision of the future at all.

Shockingly, I'm actually aware of the fact that satellites are closer to the Earth than the moon. It turns out that you actually have to launch both satellites AND moon shots out of the Earth's atmosphere. That's "space".

> For example, no one needs perfect ball bearings made in free-fall, the ones we make here are all good enough for all the jet engines in the world,
> and I thought 3D printing was going to be the next big thing, why do you need free-fall when you can position matter atom by atom?

And communications satellites! Talk about WORTHLESS!

I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but this describes the iOS security mechanisms in excruciating detail, including the full-disk encryption, etc. etc. Note that it does vary by hardware platform (3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S) and iOS version, so this is the "new hotness". There's a lot of incorrect information in the comments.

http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.pdf

Here is the fart you requested.

http://images.apple.com/ipad/business/docs/iOS_Security_Feb14.pdf