Why dig a ditch at all if there are no humans around to receive the benefits of it? I REALLY don't think anyone fully thought this through. Let's say that I and a few others receive the full benefits of AI. I don't even like those others, I prefer different types of people... and yet they no longer exist. They had no money for food and shelter and just died off. So I go down to the dance club to meet new people, but there is nobody there. They all died from exposure and starvation.

So I go home and turn on the TV... but all I see is static. There is nobody to make new shows or provide the news. There are no more sports teams to watch. It is just me, 20 thousand other people like me, and none of us like each other and none of want to or are capable of creating music, fine art, etc.

I have spent my entire life thinking other people are Hell... but I found out, too late, that other people make heaven possible.

Meanwhile, MIPS still plods along.

Think of all the traffic lights and other embedded systems that will stop working had they not chosen MIPS for them.

I had 3dfx Voodoo cards and S3 ViRGE along with other commercial video card failures back then, heheh.

The K6-2+ and K6-3+ with their huge caches really changed the landscape of Super Socket 7.

It was ever so slightly too little, too late. Super Socket 7 lived about three years longer than it should have, but I saved a ton of money building computers on that platform.

The first processor maker to print "Fan/Heatsink Required" on their processors.

Cyrix chips (including original Cyrix, Centaur, and VIA) were an amazing value and bargain.

Welp, time to go over to NetBSD.

Dude. Give it up. The money was stolen and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it (FSLIC anyone?). Stop whining and start stealing. Everyone else is.

I used to believe like you do and I still behave that way; however, is 'ethics' really a thing anymore? All day, every day, I see unethical actions that nobody addresses. Look at how Bin Laden was captured. Nary a peep out of anyone. Look at how Supreme Court justices are somehow fortunate enough to be able to have 'friends' who gift them things a common person could only dream of. I will not even mention 'he who should not be named'. Congress is a mess of unethical actions that they can not even be investigated for anymore. ABSCAM anyone? What about the straight up looting of the Social Security fund. Yeah, yeah, I know, it is all safe in government bonds... and yet somehow or another, even just 10 years after the law passed that allowed it, there were cries about how the Social Security fund would be insolvent. When that law was passed, the Social Security fund had 300 billion dollars in excess funds. Once that money became part of the General Fund (through Bonds), it all evaporated.

No, there is nothing ethical about this world. I feel like a sucker for trying to be ethical within it.

What does 'awake' mean in relation to a thermostat? It is clear what it means in relation to a human or animal, not so clear with plants or microorganisms, but an inanimate object?

Because M$ is THE EXPERT on vulnerabilities.

Only if it's presented in a high pitched, grating voice.

Frankly, I'd rather just eat babies.

Not one will be built.

Not one.

I remember the early days of whitehouse.com.
Such a funny and ironic mistake on the part of the White House.

Even today the White House still doesn't own whitehouse.com.

The McDonald's app also polls your GPS but more frequently when you place an order.

How do you think they can say that they "start prepping your order when you're close?"