I want this to happen just so I can start seeing job openings with OS2/Warp as a pre-requisite...

Except that then nothing can be accurately measured. It might fool the humans, but if you need a timer to go off with precision it's hard to make that happen if you are adding microseconds to the time just so fix the time relative to a rock slimming around a ball of hot gas. Sometimes 60 seconds really needs to be sixty seconds.

It is self limiting, but the context is important. If humanity were to stop playing silly nationalistic games and start focusing on science and space development, we would have access to the matter and energy the whole solar system provides. Then, 20 billion is nothing, so it depends on how and which resources we choose to make available to ourselves.

You use the word need as if you feel a society should target the quality of life for its poorest citizens based on what is required to not die of starvation or exposure. The benefit of all the advancements we've made belong to everyone in some proportion, you should as if a poor person having air condition and an XBox is some travesty while the richest people owning while towns and more boats and homes than they can count is somehow just fine. It would be, if the rich weren't rigging the system and not paying their fair share. Technological unemployment is going to dictate that we start simply giving people money to live, because their labor is no longer of value, so you might want to get used to the idea that 20th century capitalism is on its last legs. We need a new hybrid system to deal with the realities of the 21st century.

It's almost 2016, I don't think we can link a 486 anecdote to today. Plus, we are talking enterprise here - I don't upgrade systems after purchase, I buy new ones and excess pallets of "old" ones. Dell's UEFI and iDRAC support are quite nice now, if they buy EMC and start baking that into their products then NetApp and others are going to be in deep trouble.

I'm glad you guys have something to talk about other than Benghazi, the broken record repetition was getting really old on that one. I don't like Hillary, but the server was within state department rules at the time, and the information sent was classified retroactivity after it was sent. There's no fire here, just a smoke bomb.

That's like saying there are too many books to read just because there is no longer time for one person to read them all before they die. The sooner the studios open their content to the world at large and stop their silly region blocking games they might find their audiences are actually much larger and willing to pay regionally appropriate rates if you let them seamlessly stream things on demand. Piracy is a response to the crappy implementation of getting content to consumers, and it will go away once the studios allow it to go away by making it more of a hassle to steal than pay. $1000 is the same weather you get it from 100 people paying ten dollars or 10000 people paying ten cents, minimal costs of bandwidth excluded obviously. China and India have a lot more than 10000 people last I checked. Netflix exists, and is kicking the other studios collective assess because they are doing exactly this, I wonder how long it will take them to stare a working model implementation in the face and still fail to grasp the concept. Sad part is, it still might not work, because who wants logins to each site? They should just hire the popcorn time developers and let all media companies from books to music have their content available on one portal and let each view, listen, or read go straight to the content creators and let it all compete fairly, globally.

If you can demonstrate a problematic diversity gap in the Olympic 100 meter dash then I'll be totes OK with the suggestion that there is an issue in other areas.

Any other subjects where you trust corporations instead of all the scientists? Are you a big proponent of praying the cancer away? Does it bother you that since some things take decades to happen, and that the whole point of forecasting is to model the future so we can determine if that is a reality we wish to live in, that we have to employ intelligent people to that purpose?

China is a regime? Just trying to update my axis of evil chart...

I think the difference is the utilization of the scraped data for profit which is a violation of the license.

While you have a point, there is an issue of company proprietary information leaking here. This type of behavior can easily lead to source code being divulged to third parties, so the companies assumption that you are a trusted internal person who had likely signed an NDA is being violated.

The question is, do you feel that we have a sufficient amount of judges who are qualified to understand and rule intelligently on technical matters? They study legal precedence, and most issues they cover have been the same for thousands of year, including theft, murder, and those types of law. Technical matters on the other hand, are vastly more complicated - and judges by and large are not qualified to rule over them. I believe we need judges certified to preside over technical cases, because a 70 year old man who can't even use Google should not be vested with the power and authority to rule over things he does not understand. He can also not trust the law enforcement agencies to steer him in the right direction, because they are also clueless. He should not be able to turn of MY access because someone else made a baseless claim and he is unable to understand why it is baseless. I feel similarly about politicians making legislation that covers the Internet. They are the blind leading the keenly aware, and they are so uninformed that they can't even imagine the scope of their ignorance on these issues.

It's a good thing that the Singularity is near.

Sounds like the same crap that Wikipedia spouts about citations from news sources. I'm an expert in my field, and I know things because I've been doing it for 25 years - so when I make an edit, it gets undone because I don't have a puff piece written by a journalist to cite. It's as if they think the sum of human knowledge comes from the evening news, when it is quite clear most "news" is chum. IT moves to fast to disallow non-traditional sources to be used. It's ok though, the non-techies who don't "get" the modern world we live in are slowly dying off. This pleases me.