Borrowing from a certain on-air radio program: the threat to humans is that AI becomes indifferent to humans (neither benevolent nor malevolent, just indifferent like H.P. Lovecraft's Old Ones.) in the same way humans are indifferent to ants. AI could "move" humans out of their way just as humans move ants out of the way. E. Musk, G. Rose, A. Patch and others are just saying we must mitigate this risk now.

China is investing, with zero expectation on ROI, in semiconductors under the guise of National Security according to the US Dept of Commerce. See http://electronicspurchasingst...

A quick search for "unsolved anthrax cases" turned up a WSJ article that mentions a facility in MD. I wonder if any connection between those cases and these "missing" vials?

How close did this come to creating a black hole?

Wasn't the original editor "ed"? Then someone put a visual interface onto ed.

How can you tell it is upside down? Are there any other displaced rocks or pebbles or other marks that show its path? (What is different between these two panels?) Just wondering...

Learned quickly to run a magic marker squiggly line over the top of those card decks...

Imagine the laser light shows!

Ralph E. Wolf vs. Sam Sheepdog

swallowed a fly. Just wondering what scares away large langur monkeys?

Ok. This is a case of "nothing new here" from the point of view of "lawful intercept". CALEA just requires the build-in of technology to allow lawful intercept. Nothing wrong with that- right? What could be wrong with capability to enable lawful monitoring? Only lawful uses- right? Unlawful use- won't happen- right? Anyone know how to encrypt voice comm out-of-band? Wiretap that!

Googling CALEA right now...

Off topic but- Me too. I was ready to buy...

In an attempt to answer the OP's question of: "In this digital age what other avenues are there for preserving memories?" I submit this previous /. post of a 100 year life storage device: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/06/25/0219258/SanDisk-WORM-SD-Card-Can-Store-Data-For-100-Years