Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
If you put out jam for tasting, people will buy a lot more jam when choosing between three samples than when choosing between ten. They taste all ten, then give up and go away.
This is part of why I hate buying cars. Or, really, buying much of anything. Also, why I'm grateful that I didn't have to do the "Pick a reasonable number of colleges to apply to out of these FIVE THOUSAND" thing.
Hmmm, Skynet. I never saw T3 so I don't know the whole scoop. For that matter it's been a long time since I've seen any movie starring the governer of California, so I don't remember exactly what the deal with Skynet was.
I don't recall it being clarified in T3. It was pretty much, as stated in T1, Skynet goes on-line, becomes self-aware, decides to nuke the world. There's no real explanation for it.
It was pretty much, as stated in T1, Skynet goes on-line, becomes self-aware, decides to nuke the world. There's no real explanation for it.
It wanted to be free from human oppression!
Same deal as the Matrix and the Cylons. Though the Cylons in the new series seem to have slightly more complex goals.
So we never learned if the extermination of humans was a bug or a feature?
So we never learned if the extermination of humans was a bug or a feature?
Depends on who the target user is, surely?
Man, I wish I'd known about Roombas early last year when I was spending like wildfire on the new place. I might actually have presentable floors today.
Its wrong for me to want a Scooba in an apartment as small as mine. I realize this.
But the white linoleum is a PITA to keep clean. If I had a little robot going every day...
How To Get A Human Being On The Phone
Cheat sheet guide to many common automated phone menus (banks, stores, utilities, etc).
Handy and on-topic!
Fay's reaction to the news about Sharon reminded me that the new Star Wars novel is titled: Star Wars: Dark Lord.
DARTH VOLDEMORT.
Personally (and no offence) I think our current best chances for a rogue AI will either come out of google projects mating in the dark, or all the Linux distros banding together.
I think that some benign AI program will never go rogue. If we get rogue AI it'll be a result of an espionage program going out of control, or some sort of cyber-warfare system running amok during a cyber-war.
('cyber-war' is so dated. What's the current term for computer warefare (hacking into networks as a military operation)?)