They won't want to touch the other side of it either. If what Flock is doing is fine, so is the creeper snapping photos on a public playground and creating a giant database somewhere.

That seems...undesirable.

Agency is just it's ability to act upon it's conclusions. While there is a great argument that AI should not be given agency, it had it.

If you're trying to say it had no sentience, I'll agree with that.

In the same sense that a gerbil has agency but not sentience. It too might escape from a cage.

The whole bury it for 100,000 years seems to be FUD anyway. That figure leaves the waste less radioactive than the uranium rocks the fuel came from ever were. If we applied the same standard to natural sources we'd be up in arms about banana peel disposal.

Replacing garbage trucks burned by angry villagers can get expensive.

On the other hand, it is actually common to make the duress password VERY similar to the correct password so it looks about the same when you enter it. Especially on something like a phone where you can generally re-load the data later if you want. The consequences of an accidental wipe may be quite small.

Other posible explanations include the defendant remembering the wrong password under pressure. The defendant having any history of mis-typing is irrelevant.

He was definitely right when he said the iBook looked like a Hello Kitty purse.

Or Fat Fingers McSpellsbad typoed the correct password and landed on the duress password instead. We'll never know since in the process he destroyed any evidence of what the passwords might have been.

Fortunately for the defendant, it's up to the prosecutor to PROVE that that isn't how the data came to be wiped.

Except when the voters do try to nominate and elect different representatives more aligned with their needs, a nominee who has also refused to accept corporate PAC money, the DNC shows up with an obscene amount of donated corporate PAC money for their chosen candidate in an effort to keep the people's candidate from winning the primary.

That's why I'm sticking to a giant pile of floppy disks and my trusty C=64!

Since there is monetary value attached to the account, yes they are.

Z80 was also my first assembly language. Perhaps not super important for me, but it's nice to know the Z80 will continue to exist in some recognizable form.

IIRC, LANtastic cards (another relic of the past) had a Z-80 on them. It was socketed, no less.

While Paramount claims they cancelled Colbert as a cost cutting move, that makes no sense since other late night shows on other networks with smaller audiences continue. They must make some sort of financial sense.

It is widely understood, though not provable, that the move was a bribe to Trump in order to get the merger approved. Trump has had a longstanding dislike of Colbert because of his commentary on Trump as a person and as the President.

When is a hard question. Rationally it should never have blown up this much in the first place (some expansion would be rational, but not like we've seen). Clearly the minds driving this are not rational.

Insanity is notoriously hard to predict. That's why short selling is so risky. The market can clearly remain irrational longer than most people can remain solvent when betting against it.

Sweet! I've always wanted a Robert's Toot Tone!

Then there's Excel, which I'm stuck using because work just loves their spreadsheets.

Where opening a 90mb file with some semi-complex calculations takes several minutes to recalculate after even the most basic change, drastically slowing down the machine. Where checking the "Processes" tab in Task Manager to see if there's a hung task eating all the resources and seeing Excel using 90% of the CPU and ELEVEN GIGS!!!!??? It's a 90mb file, it's the only one open, why the hell are you using 11gb??!!!

Frakking Microslop.