What is wrong with extinction of humanity? If I would live in the future, I would rather prefer to be an AI instead of a Human. Humanity will die anyway at some point. The advantages of AI are: unlimited lifespan, cheap electricity instead of food, no need to keep warm/cold, independence from many mass extinction events. Also no bad actors which would be able to control me through food and shelter. If I don't like one dictator, I could emigrate to the next star. I'd rather prefer the society of AIs to society of humans. All humans will inevitably die, their civilization will inevitably die, even if not, in 3e9 years the sun will expand and the earth will die. If you want to exist, moving to digital is the only reasonable way.

1337 bogomips is enough for everybody!

Cant' one define a Kilogram from E=mc^2? take some value for energy, c is a constant, and a kilogram can be defined as a fraction of m.

I've spotted an electric UPS car here in Hamburg. It was very spooky as it approached us from behind, so silent it was. I'd get one of those for the sole reason you don't have to pay ~2 Euros for a liter of gas.

I think it will increase OS security and create a lot of jobs in this sector. If you think this jobs are redundant, think about lawyers. The ignorant will suffer, and if they learn their lesson, they will be much better prepared for the new threat and take security more seriously. I think that computer malware is more useful than many think it is. Just remember the blaster worm. It made actually normal people think about security and the big losers were the ones who used windows in places it shouldn't have ever been.

Moral propositions are testable, like "don't do harm to others" or "do harm to others" or "help others" or "don't help others". I mean you can test them and find which is more useful for you. So from your words if science is the true subset of philosophy, then you yourself say that philosophy is not science. Anyway, the philosophy I had at school had a lot to do with analysing Ideas of some authors, it was good as it was a source of new thinking patterns, but it didn't have any testable results, all theories were valid, and there wasn't much knowledge that proved to be useful. Well maybe I am the one who doesn't know that he doesn't knows but till today my impression of philosophy as computer scientist is that it's good for writing books but not for getting work done.

Philosophy should be more empirically testable to be anything more than a nice past time. How about "if you kick someone, he kicks back" a nice basis for a Rule of ethic, like "don't hit others". Very empirically testable. On the other hand, you can try to answer the question "Why are we here?" all you life, and 42 is as good an answer as any. And because of that, calling philosophy a science is an offense on science, because in the philosophy, as we know it, has nothing to do with science, like in testable hypotheses, more with trying to find an answer for things, that accept .* answers.

I have on of those http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2542 Also, It depends on what you prefer.If you are a "usefull hardware" guy, take a hard drive bay, if you are a system administrator, buy a toaster or a coffe mug holder(unless you use cd-drive tray for that).

Google:
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Spying on Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Chinese market over freedom of speech
Rehashed Programming languages over some new ideas
Rush jobs over tested software?... dunno, well see...

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

You are wrong, most dx9 games run faster in winxp and it uses less memory and swap, so the actual experience feels for me actually faster.

Just an Interesting Sci-Fi book by Frank Herbert(the one who wrote Dune) about what can happen if Bioengineering becomes more affordable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Plague

That is not realistic. If you want to provide people with a possibility of BIOS update to fix some hardware bugs, you can overwrite you bios for example with some garbage that can apply incorrect voltages, which will physically destroy your mainboard, it once happened to me. If you know how you even can load new microcode, which can kill a CPU. One can theoretically open multiple tristate gates and cause some kind of short circuit. I mean you can say "noone should kill another person, period", everyone will agree with it, but it's also not realistic.