Sprout a brain. The US "warns" the world about China, Russia, Iran, and pretty much EVERY nation who dares to try to achieve anything unless they're a member of the "Five Eyes." The US is so fucking paranoid it is disgusting, and every single excuse that there is to post a "warning" about the achievements of other nations, Slashdot's "editors" do so.

I don't worry about China's space efforts. I worry about those of the U.S. Which nation has invaded countries and been at war for the vast majority of it's history?

Such a search only "works" in the minds of a few people because they have a navel-gazing mindset that presumes all data is managed by a select group of companies they know about, and which are hosted by one country (usually the US in these narrow-minded viewpoints.)

In reality there are hundreds of thousands of service providers around the world, and you'd have to scan them all. Even Google mail is a drop in the bucket compared to the oceans of emails floating around the world.

No, this is in the US. It is fueled by one thing and one thing only: GREED.

As with all synthetic cannabis, side-effects may include death... :(

Oh? What terminology did I get pedantic about? :P

But, hey, there is always some smart ass too cowardly to sign in to an account but willing to put in their $0.00 cents worth... :P

The number of pedantists who have nothing better to do than nit-pick about terminology without actually contributing anything useful to Slashdot just blows my mind.

The question is not whether we'll ever be able to "upload" a map of a neocortex, but rather whether we'll be able to transfer the will and sense of self that makes us who we are.

Perhaps at the time technology is able to upload a map, we'll discover that we really are nothing but meat machines. But I believe there is an extra "something" in the specific timings of how your particular neurons fire and interact with each other that makes you you. Not really a soul, per se, but a "something" bound in the chemistry and biology that we haven't even begun to measure or analyse. An essential "spark", shall we say.

Fat lips, fat ass, fat jugs, and a fat head at her side. :P

If it's some script-kiddie, you have the little bastard locked up.

If it's a "professional" foreign intelligence agency, you sigh a heavy sigh and realize there is bugger all you can do about it.

You don't need to go off-grid to turn off your internet and TV.

By all means, take your anonymous ass offline.

If nothing else, spelling and grammar checking will be done.

Flawless AI in 5 years to drive those "intelligent" agents?

Yeah, right.

They've been predicting "hard" AI within 20 years for about 35 years now...