Mostly because it was a regular game at the wcg for more then a decade. Having professional players, leagues and channels devoted to it for longer than that. And about 10 years ago, it got hacked so a software could read the user variables and move the units, so the bot developing began before the machine defeated human on go, this is just the next natural step.

I use linux as the day-to-day desktop at work since ubuntu 9.10.

In thoose days I used to let the laptop on for the entire week.. and was not a problem. But then.... well we all have an idea, I needed two or three reboots per week because the sistem thrashed a lot of memory.. tried alternatives, kubuntu, xubuntu, but they all lack stability.

MATE is a simple, neat destop that ... "just works". I'm just old fashoined and don't need a fancy UI.

You sure have not used MATE for desktop.

The encription is end to end. That's not the same as "keep encripted record of your interaccion with google services".

This way you are safe of NSA or some other 3 party who is sniffing your data, but not from goverment requesting legally this information to google.

This just help google.

Google will still have your internet/search/click usage information and will profit from it. It just makes harder for the goverment or another evesdroper to see what you are doing. But a every goverment is a subpoena away from it.

If you want anonimity, don't use google or their software/services. period.

Sorry about the sour post, but I don't see how this will change anything.

Server can force you to https, by redirecting your browser.

It would be nice to see a kernel in java

All that is true, but in real world, knowing you will get ill can (and probably will) make a difference in how you can live your life.

Besides medical related issues, most insurance companies (in my country at least.. but if some tecnology like that pops out, surelly will start to pop out everywhere) require you state all medical conditions prior to the purchase of the insurance. And this insurance are mandatory for all kind of credit.

In the case of my country what they ask is for Known/Diagnosed medical conditions. So, knowing will give them legal basis to... basicaly abuse you. Making you some kind of type B, gattaca style, human being.

Can you explain it again, but using a car analogy?

Easy, make a torrent and name it as porn. Soon enought you will get some hundred of seed, an will be a distributed backup easy to download.

repeat that to ./ four digits uid number

Now you will have to pay extra to SEE the band.

I think Computer science it's a lot bigger that just programming. You can all take a huge project like customizing a Starctaft bot https://code.google.com/p/skynetbot/ and give ever person a role in thar play... Some would be good organizers, some could have skills in programming, and... other could be beta tester playing against the bot and takin notes about bad behaivour. Thar game runs on a pentium MMX, so your old hardware shouldn't be a problem. Making them all fell like a part of something, contributing to the proyect shoud motivate them... Your role it's to identify their capabilities and give them a proper task.

That sounds fantastic, but will it blend?

I think the problem is that we all forget what it all this about:Trading should be about investment. Not especulation.
A company that need to grow needs money, so it go public to look for investors, that put their money in the company.
What good makes a company a "trader" that buys a stock and sells it 1 microsecond later for a profit. A speculator is *NOT* interested in supporting a bussines.

So the focus should be in that. atract more investors and punish the speculator:
1) No tax for trades kept for 1 month.
2) 100% tax for trades bought & sold the same day (so you should sell it twice the buying price to don't lose money).
3) Some nice tax curve in between (1-e^(t) it's my candidate ).

That way, you should commit to your investments (like real men do)... but give a real movility (after a month) in case you want to capitalize quickly. Current system just feed the greed of some, and don't help the economy.