Almost Human [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ] nailed it for me, specifically the MX-43 droid cop. From what is shown, it's mostly a walking inference engine mixed with some kind of future Watson. No Strong AI whatsoever, just smart enough.

for some time i was using a Mindwave, the poor man's EPOC.
it measures at least two parameters (they call them 'attention' and 'meditation') or mindwave patterns, which you can get to control to some extent, depending on practice and... well, how your head works.
i think if it's possible to get a fine control of those two variables, it could be possible to develop some kind of brainwave controlled blinkboard, and spare your sister-in-law the effort of blinking again and again.
might be wort a shot.

yes, indeed, i'd risk to say that nowadays (except when very heavy calculus is required) 1970's tech works quite fine on the field nowadays.
in fact, the current mars rover runs quite fine on a couple rad-hard, PowerPC @ 110MHZ, and i guess that's as hostile as an environment can get. if i remember correctly, it gets far more harder with more modern processors.

can't wait to see what happens with a kernel module coded by a microsoft employee [1] when released in the wild.

[1] http://brandonlucia.com/ guy a the left in the picture.

if they build it, they will come. then they'll root it to hell and back. just like anything from any current vendor. easy guys. it's not like this is something we never saw before.

It's not so simple. I approached the FBI with a proposal to use the military's already proven laser guidance and tracking systems to detect and rapidly respond to these threats. They apparently filed it under "kook" and never responded. The FBI is not interested in actually solving these cases. They're interested in finding someone to make an example out of and hopes that'll provide enough deterrence.

It won't.

They should have synergized their market paradigms more to create a more linguistically diverse user experience. It's only gonna get worse though... once Beta consumes the site, all that'll be left is the outward appearance of a badly edited blog.with comments enabled.

Not at all. Traditions are long-standing things. If they're interrupted for awhile and then brought back, that's part of it's history, not to delineate to say "Oh, well, that was one tradition, and this is another". It's still the same tradition, it's just been resurrected.

Yeah, looks like the currency market is still in beta. /snark

It started in 776 BC. 776 + 2014 = 2790 ... Not so much of a stretch.

I suppose a 4000 year old tradition of having an open and international series of games to bring about peace and cultural tolerance/friendship might confuse some people into thinking that as a global event, the ability to view and participate in them would be something not controlled by a single group of greedy profit-oriented people who don't care to hear the clamours of said participants. Sorta like Slashdot beta....

No need. It's already approaching implosion... site traffic has been cut by a third.

Yup. falling like a rock.

I wonder if we'll have to use emergency generators and radio receivers to recover from Dicepocalypse...

This is an emergency public service announcement... a zombie infection has broken out and it eats the brains of those affected. So far, only about two dozen people, all middle and senior managers of content aggregation websites, have been infected. If you see one of these husks, contact authorities immediately and do not approach them... This is an emergency...