I understand... his presentation at Colbert’s show in the title video was much more sedate than his other documentaries. Regardless, it’s good someone is presenting.

Yes, very true.

Yess!! He’s a million times better than Michio Kaku.

Dawkins is the biologist, right? Haven’t heard of Lewtonin. I’m assuming Dawkins has the same personality as Greene.

Definitely! her books are brilliant. I’ve attended a few talks by her and they’re really good - down to Earth and explains concepts that appeals to nerds & n00bs.

The LASER experiment was pretty neat. But I’m not a big fan of Prof. Greene. He’s a bit too much pomp & circumstance for my taste... his documentaries are peppered with hyperbole & “drama” and it works really well to appeal to a much larger audience but not so much if you really want to understand the science behind…

Yup, exactly... legality goes out the window when behind the facade of “national security”. IMO, that’s a very myopic & knee-jerk reaction,it might work very well when you’re on the battle-field with 10 zombies coming right at you :)

If I could, I would :)

Wow, that’s a heavy beast!! What’s the weight threshold for a HGV license? :)

Yeah, I thought about that and them moving certainly is an option. They’re also getting a lot of flak for taxes as well... but relocating their base is a massive operation. I’m sure they can register it outside the US but still maintain their Cupertino campus - that’ll make them, officially, a non-US company... I’m…

As much as I hate the Feds in this fight and I’m a strong proponent of privacy, Apple will most likely end up losing this. The best solution might be a compromise with a Congressional ruling and even then, the Feds will walk away victorious. It’s a question of Apple’s resilience and how much pain their arm can…

Even worse is that there are enough people deluded enough to think that the government is always right. And the Feds can always bank on them to get their way.

I just had a long, drawn out argument with my VP about this Apple fight. That argument gave me an insight into the mindset of the people who think Apple should assist the FBI in hacking Farook’s phone. The “discussion” ended with him saying this “I don’t care about privacy. I care about national security. I don’t want…

Very true... Evolution is pretty awesome!

Apple has failed to make the general public actually care.

Yup, I noticed that! Being a human, I’m mean (something the robots will have to learn quickly) and I wonder how the robot would’ve reacted if the door had slammed back on “him”. Would he have held out his arm or propped it against his shoulder or how long would it have taken him to realize it’s the door that hit him…

Wow! That walk in the snow really showed our(their) progress in robotics. Atlas slipped multiple times, especially on the small hillock in the end, and regained balance just as well as a human. Awesome!

Since this whole thing started, I’ve used the following analogy to explain this to people: The FBI/govt in this case, is like a kid whose mom has a cookie jar placed high up. The kid wants the cookie, mom gives him one and says sternly it’s the last one. An hour later, the kid is back groveling again. Mom says the…

You’re missing some information sir. The ones they’ve unlocked before were running on iOS 7. Apple started their encryption from iOS 8 and Farook’s phone was running iOS 9. Therefore, phones running iOS 7 or earlier don’t really need a backdoor. When the US Attorney revealed that Apple had unlocked 70 phones in the…

I believe the court order itself says that the tool will be used once and it can be customized to work only on Farook’s phone. As for the whole system of using the Writs act being used one, no, I don’t think they even implied that.